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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com Writer. He/him. Too boring for social media. Incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights. There is no going back.
The Forged is back in May! Batwoman monthly!
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, Saucer Country, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy your #1 source for absurdist true crime
I toot as I please
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social Director of Science Policy and Advocacy, Stand Up for Science Foundation. Former White House OSTP, Federation of American Scientists, NOAA Office of Space Commerce, National Academies, State Department.
Science advocate. Geeky painter. Views own.
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
@empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social Posting through it, antifa-supporter
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social Real-world data and clinical trials. Future epidemiologist. Biomedical & (ex-)chemical scientist.
Not an instant internet expert, a real one.
Mad like Byron, lefty like reality. Abject failure. Can be serious, often not. There will be jokes & swearing.
Mark Hertsgaard @markhertsgaard.bsky.social Co-founder of @coveringclimatenow.org, helping newsrooms produce more and better climate journalism. Author of books on The Beatles, race in America, the news media, the global environmental future, and more.
Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social Content manager, editor, writer, ex-radio DJ. Former editor of io9 @ Gizmodo and The Mary Sue.
The one and only "The Nerdy Bird!" She/her ♿💙💜💖
https://linktr.ee/jillpantozzi
https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3198999435673600315&created=1757447108
katie @supermathskid.bsky.social still not a real question
whatever my latest is: www.iflscience.com/dr-katie-spalding
Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social Lib Dem based in Oxfordshire
County Cllr for Kidlington North & Otmoor; Cabinet Member for Economy and Environment
Elected Member of Federal Policy Committee
Promoted by Oxon Lib Dems at Unit C5 Grange Court Business Park, OX14 3NB
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social Disabled, northerner, book hoarder, foreign language enthusiast, trade unionist, Green, and unabashed cat lady.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
av by @extinctinks.net
Xenia 🔍💎 @xenia.bsky.social BEEP, THIS.
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
zeu @zeu.dev software engineer, developer educator @ twilio.com 🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️🌈
http://zeu.dev - tangled.org/zeu.dev - http://github.com/zeucapua
stream: https://twitch.tv/zeu_dev - https://stream.place/zeu.dev
Kevin Jones @vcsjones.dev Alexandria, VA.
He / they
Product Security and Cryptography at GitHub. .NET maintainer. Not speaking for my employer.
https://vcsjones.dev ⚫️ https://gh.io/vcsjones
Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social Computer knower. Urbanism advocater. Hobbyist law nerd. Accused fiat shill.
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT
Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
Jenna Park @jennapark.bsky.social Recovering UX/product designer. Artist, writer, mom, Gen X New Yorker. Mostly here for politics. Blogging since 2000, I now write a weekly newsletter at jennapark.substack.com
Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social Information integrity | Exploring AI Risk Mitigation
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social I research and create educational videos about misinformation, propaganda, climate change, and sometimes (unfortunately) AI
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
Medium blog: https://erin-gallagher.medium.com/
Cecilie Traberg, PhD @cecilietraberg.bsky.social Cambridge-trained psychologist
AI, influence & digital threats
Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School
Mum x 3, advocating for a parent-friendly academia
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social researcher studying digital threats; society and tech.
www.ngamita.xyz
Katherine Denkinson @kdenkwrites.com UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod.
Author of Incel:The Weaponisation of Misogyny (out now with Aurora Metro Books)
Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com
Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
Anna Fahey @trufahey.bsky.social Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy
Opinions—all mine. Or yours, recycled—as also mine. Zero endorsements here.
#Housing #affordability talking points galore
🏘️🎯➡️ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/
#Parking feed ⬇️
Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 2 rescue 🐈⬛ •🇸🇪
dr roger cremades @rogercre.bsky.social Climate Change, Complexity Economics, Systemic Risks, Cities, Cascades and Ecology @ University of Leeds.
Complex systems insights for sustainable futures.
Assoc Prof FRSA https://is.gd/1alYNP + https://is.gd/PfiCiI
Towards regional systemic risks.
Anuradha Mukherji @anuradhamukherji.bsky.social Social scientist. Working at the intersection of coastal climate adaptation, disaster recovery, land & housing, policy & governance.
Associate Professor|Community & Regional Planning @ ECU|www.anuradha.net
Pirate Name - Pearl
Alum, UC Berkeley & Texas A&M
Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social All things energy transition, climate justice and safe streets in the EU.
Formerly at Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and Global Witness. Now working at @beyondfossilfuels.
Irish immigrant in Brussels.
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity science, risk, resilience, Earth-repairing societal/planetary futures. Prof U Washington; RA African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, SEI Oxford, OU Nature Recovery.
Petra Verdonk she/her @petraverdonk.bsky.social Psychologist, PhD | Intersectionality | Public health | Climate justice | Extinction Rebellion | www.BeyondBoundary.nl | Coloring book for health researchers 'Coloring connections' https://zenodo.org/records/14258538 | GroenLinks-PvdA fractie in Helmond
Haiko Meelis @handle.invalid Societal collapse is happening | Save your tech while it is still possible | deSHITtify now!
Also @haikomeelis@mastodon.nl
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social Europe-based climate science and policy reporter with Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/profile/bob-berwyn/
Timlagor @timlagor.bsky.social The ice has been melting for *decades*.
Ice doesn't stop melting when you stop raising the thermostat.
(he/him)
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville, co-host of The Story of Money and author of Trillions and A Fabulous Debt. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Ben Bradford @jbenbradford.bsky.social Audio journalist covering where we've been and where we're going. Creator/host of Are We Doomed?, Landslide (NPR Network) and Of The People (Audible).
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social 🌍 Climate Scientist & Palaeoclimatologist | Marine Geologist | Professor @ Cardiff University | Ageing marathon runner | #FirstGen | He/Him | 🏴 🇪🇺
The climate has changed before. Earth’s past can tell us a lot about what happens next.
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social "The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty."
I'm a huge problem to a sane world
she/her
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Olivia Lazard @olazard.bsky.social Canvassing data & stories about the tensions between international & planetary security. Trying to see if we can reconcile them.
Let's talk about planetary ecology, critical minerals, mining, geopolitics, the technosphere & the future of humanity.
Dr. Soumaya Majdoub @soumayamajdoub.bsky.social Critical Demographer | Political Ecologist | Neo-Khaldunian Scholar
Socio-ecological Transformation ~ Just Transitions ~ Critical Futures
www.soumayamajdoub.me
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social Your weekly fix of progressive economic analysis
🎙️ New episodes every Wednesday, wherever you listen
📩 Subscribe to THE FIX, our biweekly Substack
A podcast by Planet B.
linktr.ee/macrodosepodcast
Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social Energy, emissions, & climate
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
https://cicero.oslo.no/en/employees/glen-peters
Olivia Rudgard @oliviarudgard.bsky.social Bloomberg Green reporter in the UK. How do we live now?
Writing about people, money, climate.
Mostly reporting, but any stray opinions are my own.
Stories: https://t.co/eIuIZiReQn
Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
NB Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
Ben Cooke @ben-cooke.bsky.social Environment correspondent at the Times. Always on the lookout for stories about the mess we're in and how to get out of it. DMs open or drop me a line at benjamin.cooke(at)thetimes.co.uk or on signal at Ben_Cooke.40
James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social How do we navigate uncharted climate territory? Lead: www.scri.org.uk
Researcher at Chatham House, IPPR, University of Exeter
Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell @gazzalw63.bsky.social Historian, Mitcham's greatest Satirist, West Northumbrian, Centre left, Woke, Pro-EU, Nazi Hater. NUFC fan since 1969. Wargamer, YouTube creator, Tolkien fan, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, comedian and father of 2. Bit silly but don't care. Gemini.
Michael Woods @woodszzp.bsky.social Geography professor at Aberystwyth University. PI, Rural Spatial Justice project @ruralspatialj.bsky.social Director, Cymru Wledig LPIP Rural Wales.
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
nemo @nemo20000.bsky.social Senior software engineer – graphics, print and font technologies; PIA/GATF award winner.
RISC OS bore: https://20000.org