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Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social Historian-Artist. Assistant professor UCLA, Information Studies, Digital Humanities, Southeast Asia, libraries. cindyanguyen.com Author of Bibliotactics https://bibliotactics.com
DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com Independent online privacy company with browser, search engine, and optional AI.
Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter. Looking for TPM roles supporting cybersecurity teams. 💕
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Stephen Wittek @swittek.bsky.social I'm an Associate Professor and Director of the Literary and Cultural Studies program in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. I work on Shakespeare, early modern drama, wit, news, publics, conversion, computational humanities, and VR.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Book: thecon.ai
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Sebastian Haas 🇪🇺 @seb.haas.partners data, policy | impact entrepreneur | covering soil and landscape‑scale agrobiodiversity
1st 🇪🇺 EU's data altruism organisation dedicated to land use policy and climate journalism.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianoskarhaas/
Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO VANQUISH YOUR ENEMIES. I WILL HELP. (by @nora.zone, icon by Delapouite at https://game-icons.net)
Nilo Pedrazzini @npedrazzini.bsky.social Postdoc @ QMUL (Text Machine project).
Previously Turing Research Fellow @ The Alan Turing Institute.
Computational humanities, historical linguistics, language typology. Or anything language-related.
npedrazzini.github.io
Christmas Vacation @xmasvacation.bsky.social Posting all of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," one clip at a time, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Posts auto-delete after 36 hours to avoid angering the movie studio.
Operated by @waldo.net.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Sean Keenan @craftytechwiz.bsky.social Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. Crocheter. Forager. Cat Dad. Fabric artist in training.
Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social Data Artist!
Lecturer at Christopher Newport University
Digital Humanities and #DHMakes // Dance Studies // Spanish Literature// Edad de Plata // Social Network analysis
PhD in Spanish and Visual studies at PSU
Between Spain and USA
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com KILL CURRENT (writing as Oliver Lowe) coming May 2027 from Zando.
Pre-order: https://zandoprojects.com/books/kill-current-hardcover
Halle Burns @halle-burns.bsky.social Data management and data governance, metadata, data modeling, accessibility, organizer @ datarescueproject.org. Carpentries Instructor and Instructor Trainer. Dogs, comics, crafts, theater, video games, chronic illness. Views are my own.
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Information and Culture @informationculture.bsky.social Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. We publish original, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural impact of information. https://infoculturejournal.org/
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
UC Research & Public Service Professionals @rpsp-uaw.bsky.social We’re over 7,500 Research & Public Service Professionals across the 10 UC campuses who are organizing for fair working conditions to maintain the world’s #1 public research institution. Learn more about us at: https://rpsp-uaw.org/
DHTech @dhtech-community.bsky.social The DHTech grassroot community for research software engineers and technologists working in the digital humanities. Join us at https://dh-tech.github.io/
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies @cimethods.bsky.social CIM - interdisciplinary research centre at Uni. of Warwick - innovative & experimental knowledge production, methodology focus, expanding roles of interdisciplinary methods, new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries.
https://warwick.ac.uk/cim
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member.
https://stuartdunn.blog
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Professor Chuixiang (Tree) Yi at City University of New York @cyi12.bsky.social Earth resilience, tipping behavior, nonlinear thinking, stability analysis, climate change, photosynthesis, soil respiration, tree mortality, Fulbright Scholar
@federicodipasqua.bsky.social @federicodipasqua.bsky.social
Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @isawlibrary.bsky.social The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social Old world. New vision.
https://linktr.ee/isawnyu
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social New Yorker living in Florida
Father and grandfather
Photos are mine
Unitarian Universalist
I live near the beautiful Gulf of Mexico in the USA
Democracy will survive this shitshow.
https://sites.google.com/view/rob-townsend/home
UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social Driving world-class research, groundbreaking discoveries and innovation across twelve UCLA campus locations or 24/7 online 📚🌐📜 library.ucla.edu
Kristen Mapes @kmapesy.bsky.social Director of Digital Humanities at Michigan State University, Chair of the ADHO Exec Board (@adho-org), Chair of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium (@globaldhsymposium) #MSUGlobalDH, and cycling fan
https://kristenmapes.com/
CCL @christianlamb.bsky.social archivist/archives professor studying memory, ethical documentation, archives & justice. she/her.
Leigh Bonds @leighbonds.bsky.social Associate Professor and Digital Humanities Librarian at The Ohio State University with interests in C18-19 British women writers and the celebrated author, actress, socialite Mary Robinson
John Russell @johnruss28.bsky.social Associate librarian at Penn State, associate director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies
Molly @m011y.bsky.social digital strategies librarian // former museum prof // she/hers // GLAM, digital humanities, female rage, dis/misinformation, pop music, cats, “missing jewels, kidnapped princesses, cults, that sort of thing”
Colleen Robledo Greene @colleengreene.bsky.social Academic librarian, college educator, digital historian, professional genealogist, and tech nerd. Digital Scholarship Librarian @ Cal State Fullerton and Lecturer @ San Jose State University's iSchool. She / Ella. #T1D, #Keto, #WeightLifting, #Outdoors
Sarah Reiff Conell @sarah-rc.bsky.social Data Management Specialist, Illustrator, Sailor, PhD in Art History, Dog mom, Bird enthusiast
Cynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com She/her. Public historian, data & digital humanist, would-be skee ball champion. Public Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. Views do not reflect those of my employer.
cynthiaheider.com
Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social
Carrie Pirmann @librariancarrie.bsky.social Book/data geek with too many degrees. Social Sciences Librarian @ Bucknell - Info lit, research + data services, digital scholarship, DEIA. Herder of cats 🐈⬛ 🐈 she/her 🏳️🌈
Jim McGrath @jimmcgrath.bsky.social Instructional Designer and college teacher in Greater Boston. yes i am a doctor. Hope everyone’s having a good day.
https://linktr.ee/jimmc_grath
Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Smith College. a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
Digital History at Clemson @clemsondh.bsky.social Department of History and Geography. Digital History Ph.D. Contact dhphd@clemson.edu with questions about the program.
Jewon Woo @jewonwoo.bsky.social Black print culture, Black newspapers, DH, pedagogy for underrepresented students, esp. at community college, community-based teaching, cat, UU, and kimchi. 한국사람. jewonwoo.com
@sharonmleon.bsky.social @sharonmleon.bsky.social
Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com Copyright lawyer at Jaszi Butler PLLC, Exec Director @recreatecoalition.bsky.social, dad. Press inquiries: press@recreatecoalition.com.
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Shawna Ross @shawnaross.bsky.social British modernism, Victorian literature, digital humanities, Anthropocene theory, Texas A&M. My specialty is turning play into work.
IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social The IRIS Center at SIUE is a place for students, faculty, staff, and community members to collaborate on research, teaching, and community engagement in the digital humanities.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.
Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
Hugh Cayless @hcayless.bsky.social DH Dev at Duke University Libraries.
Likes: Ancient / multilingual DH, Digital Preservation, TEI, Libraries, my brilliant colleagues, MUFC, UNC basketball, running.
Dislikes: talking to computers (does swear at them a *lot* though), mean people.
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social Applied Data Science Librarian+Multilingual Digital Humanist+Computational Community Building+++
Takes classes for fun. Gushes about cool papers. Views my own.
Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University.
Cyborg writer and creative coder. Made in 🇵🇷. He/him.
Learn more about me at https://leonardoflores.net/
Abby Mullen @abbymullen.bsky.social Naval historian, professor at USNA (views are my own), digital historian sometimes.
Anne Ladyem McDivitt, PhD @anneladyem.bsky.social Historian of video games.
Digital Humanities/Digital History.
Co-host sac.cool podcast.
I fish on Twitch http://twitch.tv/meydalenna
I also post gremlin stuff and cats.
Opinions are mine. She/her
M. Brett @mebrett.bsky.social Historian (public, digital, Early United States), now in Libraries/Archives. You might have known me as magpie on the birdsite. All views expressed/re-posted here are solely mine & do not reflect any employer past, present, or future.
Amanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social
Riva Quiroga @rivaquiroga.bsky.social Research Fellow at OLS | Editor at Programming Historian | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | R-Ladies Global Team | PyLadies Valparaíso co-organizer | Corpus Linguist | Data viz | Open Science | etc.
https://rivaquiroga.cl
Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social Librarian, toddler mom, living in Gainesville, FL. Digital humanities, grants, copyright, library publishing, reproductive health, paper and fiber crafts.
José Eduardo González @jose-eduardo.bsky.social Latin American Literary History and Digital Humanities. _Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges_ (2025) https://tinyurl.com/2nj7dfkn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8899-3021
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social founder @ designbeku.org. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy.
➕ ESRC Digital Good Fellow.
Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
Alexis Lothian @alothian.bsky.social Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
UMD BookLab and the Plaintxt Press @umdbooklab.bsky.social Founded in 2018, BookLab is the University of Maryland English Department’s letterpress workshop, book arts studio, and bibliographic makerspace; and the Plaintxt Press is our imprint. Come visit in Tawes Hall 3248.
We make small language models.
Fitz (Jonathan D. Fitzgerald) @jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social Associate prof of English. Author of "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists". Teaching and writing nonfiction, mostly. Bylines: NYT, Boston Globe, Atlantic, etc. Let’s talk about restoring local journalism. jonathandfitzgerald.com
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
Matt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social Software and data engineering leader; art historian; Victoria's Secret Model and Part-Time Parachute 🏳️🌈 he/him
Alex Wermer-Colan @alexwermercolan.bsky.social writer, editor, dramaturg, translator | academic director of @tudigitalscholars.bsky.social, executive director @phillywireless.bsky.social, managing editor @proghist.bsky.social
Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social Early modern British historian of science, digital humanist, first book, By The Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England, now out from OUP
Nat McGartland @natmcgartland.bsky.social PhDing @ UMD English
HBIC @UMDBookLab
book history, STS, digital studies
linktr.ee/natmcgartland
The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
R. Coleman @rcoleman.bsky.social Librarian. Pro-housing, noodle loving, coffee slurping person of Charlottesville. Not a fan of cake. Big fan of cats and trying to make things suck less.
Martha Nell Smith @marthanellsmith.bsky.social Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social Archivist for shiftcollective.us & archivingtheblackweb.org
Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at University of North Dakota. Comics Studies, Digital Humanities, 20th/21st century US literature.
New Book: ATTACK OF THE NEW B MOVIES, McFarland 2023. He/him/his.
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social Music librarian, historian, digital humanist. SUCHO co-founder. First-gen Polish-American immigrant. Pronouns: she series
Online: annakijas.com / sucho.org
Chris Forster @cforster.bsky.social Associate English Prof., Syracuse University.
Interested in modernism, history of media, obscenity, and computational approaches to literary studies (uh, fine *digital humanities*).
https://cforster.com
Anne Cong-Huyen @anitaconchita.bsky.social she/her | writer, librarian, sporadic poster, digital scholarship, brood mama
https://anitaconchita.org
Schuyler Esprit @schuyleresprit.bsky.social Caribbean studies. Literature. Postcolonial theory. Digital Humanities.
Founder of createcaribbean.org
Sarah Potvin @spotvin.bsky.social Testing the skywaters
Kalani Craig, PhD @kalanicraig.bsky.social Digital historian, medieval & late antique historian, educational researcher, occasional coder, nerd of many flavors. Views my own.
becca @beccaquon.bsky.social exploring gardens, gaming, mental health, history + culture. supporting research and education at the metro ny library council.
posting about 📚ny + 🌲pdx
Dene Grigar @dgrigar.bsky.social A lover of born-digital art, literature, and games spending an inordinate amount of time in her lab keeping it all accessible to the public.
fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social Computational Literary Studies and Computational Narratology #DH #DigitalHumanities
Directed by @evelyngius.bsky.social, TU Darmstadt
More information about our lab: https://fortext.org
Annotation software CATMA: https://catma.de | @catma.bsky.social
HuMetricsHSS @humetricshss.bsky.social Empowering values-enacted changemaking in the academy
#AcademicSky
humetricshss.org
Peter Organisciak @porg.dev prof. creativity, education and tecnology. spreadsheet person
https://porg.dev
Zach Whalen @zachwhalen.bsky.social Associate Professor teaching Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
↪ zachwhalen.net
Natalia Estrada @stradadoes.bsky.social Library worker. Californian. Colombian-American. Too online for my own good.