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CoquiNegra @coquinegra.bsky.social Ph.D. Microbiologist, MLS(ASCP), Old Maid School Marm, UMB, VCU, vaccine enthusiast, ex-clinical lab policy wonk, Director of MDD #BlackAndSTEM @WCK
Barbie aficionado & salsa fiend
867-5309 / 777-9311
Pray for my mother
available to community groups
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism
umich.edu/~motorres
Anhong Guo @anhongguo.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMich.
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.
Wanda Pratt (she/they) @profwanda.bsky.social Professor. Health informatics and HCI researcher. Patient power advocate. Promoter of Health Equity and Justice. Feminist. Mom. Contra dancer.
Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io She/her.
📚 A/Prof of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
🎮 Anti-AI; researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
🌟 STA Superstar of STEM
🐉 Ancient D&D nerd
🎶 Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
Carla Griggio @carlagriggio.bsky.social TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University, Denmark. Wants more #customization and #interoperability in communication apps. Life is better with cats 🐈 and good coffee ☕
Jenny Waycott @jwaycott.bsky.social Human-Computer Interaction professor at the University of Melbourne, researching social technologies for well-being in later life.
Mutale Nkonde (she/her) @mutalenkonde.bsky.social Phd Student University of Cambridge I Columbia alum
Studies how AI systems impact Black people
Founded non profit AI for the People
Compassionate I Respectful l Seeks online civility
Proud British - American
#Blacksky
Simone Sessolo @simsess.bsky.social Writer, teacher, globetrotter
Joon Sung Park @joon-s-pk.bsky.social CS Ph.D. student at Stanford. Oil painter. HCI, NLP, generative agents, human-centered AI
Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social Faculty at Stanford | HCI+ Cognition| Learning Sciences | Artist | Canned seafood enthusiast.
Mina Lee @mnlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS/DSI (NLP & HCI) | Writing with AI ✍️
https://minalee-research.github.io/
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Gillian R Hayes @gillianrh.bsky.social professor, mother, daughter, wife, sister, teacher, volunteer, lover of all things music, theatre, and musical theatre, little league watcher, and dog chaser. living a wonderful life here in beautiful southern california. gillianhayes.com
Guo Freeman @guofreeman.bsky.social Dean’s Associate Prof. of Human-Centered Computing, Clemson University. CUGAME Lab Director. HCI, CSCW, Games, Social VR, Human-Centered AI. I mainly post about my research and gaming experience. https://guof.people.clemson.edu
Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social #academicsky HCI: boardgames & hybrids, interaction, evaluation, distanced play. Play. IGA Jury. OMG. Spiel. Shoes. Handbags. Random rants. This is all me, not work official. Dr. She. 
Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankaur.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
Sean Munson @smunson.com Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
Tiago Guerreiro @tjvguerreiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at ULisboa. Vice-director and HCI Researcher at LASIGE. Group leader at @TechPeopleLab. Editor-in-Chief at ACM TACCESS
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones @mapq.bsky.social Boricua PhD in Computer Science, love salsa, sports, diversity, scifi, and comics. Opinions are only mine. He/him/his.
Alexandra Papoutsaki @alexpap.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College. HCI, eye tracking, personal informatics
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Maria Wolters @mariawolters.bsky.social She/her. Digital inclusion, accessibility, HCI, communication, eHealth, citizen empowerment. Cats, reading, yoga, lifting. Views own.
Kathryn Peters @katyetc.bsky.social Building more civic futures through daily small actions. Carrboro, NC.
Interests:📚🗳️🐶🍝🏔️
http://kpete.rs
https://civicfutures.substack.com
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social Partner & daddy living in wonderful Edinburgh.
Muddling through with ideas from #FeministTechnoscience #STS #MultiSpeciesRelations #HCI #ReparativeAI
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Jessica Pater @jesspater.bsky.social HCI+health and social computing researcher at Parkview Health. Knitter, dog lover, travel enthusiast.
Elena Agapie @eagapie.bsky.social 
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Alexandra T. @alexandrato.bsky.social Associate Prof @Northeastern | CMU HCII, Stanford SymSys alum | Racial Justice, Transformational Game Design, Identity, Critical Design, and Human-Computer Interaction | she/her | mixed | 🩷💜💙
Katie Seaborn (Aspire Lab) @aspirelab.bsky.social Dr. Katie Seaborn directs the Aspirational Computing Lab @ Science Tokyo. Incoming Associate Professor, University of Cambridge (from February 2026). #hci #criticalcomputing #intersectionaldesign #dpsky #ダークパターン #voiceux #theideanetwork #igniteus
Elaine Czech @elaineczech.bsky.social Research Associate in HCI at Bristol
Topics of research interest: healthcare, accessibility, AI applications, older adults
Norman Makoto Su @normsu.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computational Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
he/him
https://aux.engineering.ucsc.edu/
Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social These days I read & write haiku with the amazing BlueSky community. I also do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI.
Richmond Wong @richmondywong.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Georgia Tech in Digital Media. Research at the intersection of tech ethics, human-computer interaction, and science & technology studies. Lover of design, trains, Star Trek 🖖and curling 🥌. (he/him)
Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Dr. Kate Ringland @kateringland.bsky.social Assistant Prof at University of California Santa Cruz in Computational Media. PhD. HCI & Accessibility. I study the intersection of people, play, & tech. she/they, opinions own
https://kateringland.com
Kristen Shinohara @kristenshino.bsky.social Associate Professor. Accessibility and HCI Researcher.
CAIR Lab | RIT
ASSETS 2025 General Co-Chair: https://assets25.sigaccess.org/
Krzysztof Gajos @kgajos.bsky.social Professor of computer science at Harvard. I focus on human-AI interaction, #HCI, and accessible computing.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Nadir Weibel @nadirweibel.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego; HCI, Design, Ubiquitous Computing, Health Informatics
Laura Dabbish @dabbish.bsky.social Professor - HCI at Carnegie Mellon University
Sauvik Das @sauvik.me I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social
Niki Kittur @nkittur.bsky.social Professor of HCI @ Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Accelerating knowledge and creativity with AI.
https://kittur.org/
Sarah Fox @perhaxis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | Director of https://techsolidaritylab.com/
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
June Ahn @ahnjune.bsky.social Learning Sciences, HCI, design, technology, research practice partnerships, improvement science, practical measures, analytics, data use. Director of https://www.daplab.education.uci.edu
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
@gregwalsh.com @gregwalsh.com I'm Greg Walsh and I'm from #baltimore. I teach at #ubalt and focus on interaction design (#ixd), human centered design (#hcd) and some #fashion
https://www.gregwalsh.com
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro Prof @ University of Washington
Diego Gomez-Zara @dgomezara.bsky.social Assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame. Researcher at FCOM UC. PhD from Northwestern U. 
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
Personal account
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
etienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social proud husband + dad of 3 boys | Law Professor writing at the intersection of academia, justice, and the pursuit of purpose
www.thetenuretrack.com | freedompapers.substack.com
Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app Young Adult Author | Multimedia Artist | Professor | Editor @ midnight & indigo | Former Peanut Fest Queen
Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉
Aaryn L. Green @drgfromec.bsky.social Hood academic. Sociologist of race and popular culture. Community-builder. #SociologyofCardiB co-author. Unapologetic. Views are mine.
Mónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social Writer, baker, and prof. Caribbean history, race, law & empire. Puerto Rico, poetry & pilates. Reluctant soccer mom and lover of plants. Author of Making Never-Never Land @UNC Press.
Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social Virologist. Assistant Prof. at UMich. DEI Advocate. Detroit Girly. #BlackInMicro
Dr. Kat_SP @drstephenspeace.bsky.social Asst. Prof HESA @Ball State University - creative intellectual. #Highered #DisabilityStudies #neurodivergence #Race #Gender #IslandBrilliance #Caribbean #Immigrants #NewYorker 🇬🇾 🇮🇳 pepperpot & phuri 😉
Dr. Chloé J @drchloejwalker.bsky.social She/her/hers | Racial equity researcher in industry | Views - my own. 👸🏾
Chantal Hailey @chantalahailey.bsky.social Assistant Professor
@UTAustinSoc
shining light on inequities to bring justice. 💕💚
2024 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow
Casey’s Bookshelf @iamcaseyrkelley.bsky.social Amplifying Black stories, authors and readers.
Monica D. Styles @monicadstyles.bsky.social I read for a living. It’s fun! Latin America, Afro-Latin America, Black feminism, Black perspectives
Yolanda Pierce, PhD @ynpierce.bsky.social Professor, Dean, womanist theologian, Black Church historian, activist, displaced New Yorker, Alpha Kappa Alpha, writer, lover of words.
Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
Subscribe and tell your friends!
Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC ✨
AccessibleHigherEd.com
DisabilityDaily.podbean.com
https://ko-fi.com/disabilitydaily
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Tricia Rose @proftriciarose.bsky.social Professor at Brown University, Director of the Systemic Racism and Resilience Project, Joy and Justice believer. www.triciarose.com
Visit Way Outta No Way: https://bit.ly/WayOuttaNoWaytrbky
Kianna Alexander aka Audre Lorde Havmercy @kiannawrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Author, 50+ titles. WIFE. Womanist. ADR Spiritual Baddie. Lesbian. Mama. Fun Auntie. Educator. Speaker, Scholar, Historian. Literary Rep: Sarah E. Younger, NYLA. BA in Eng Lang & Lit, FSU. Bronco Pride 💙🤍💙🤍
Lnk.bio/KiannaWrites
Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social Electrical Engineering Professor, Robotics Engineer, Author, Speaker, Researcher, Mentor, Advocate. Here to promote, normalize and diversify STEM. #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #Forbes50Over50
CarlottaArdell.com, NoireSTEMinist.com
Ari @ari-holtzman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS & DSI UChicao
Leading Conceptualization Lab http://conceptualization.ai
Minting new vocabulary to conceptualize generative models.
Markel Vigo @markelvigo.bsky.social Usable decision-making on data-intensive user interfaces: physical activity tracking and interactive dashboards.
HCI, AI, digital health and accessibility.
Reader in Computer Science @ The University of Manchester (UK)
http://www.markelvigo.info
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Abigail Jacobs @azjacobs.bsky.social Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
Florian Schaub @fschaub.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Information & CSE, University of Michigan
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
💭 people, platforms, power.
they/she. 🧋 🍑 🧑🏾💻
https://psampson.net