Academic Bullying @academicbullying.bsky.social I'm Baha Abu-Shaqra, PhD (DTI uOttawa), a Canadian‑Egyptian. I blog about how I was mobbed by my PhD thesis committee, how uOttawa is trying to silence me & about academic woes. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dti-techs | https://academicbullying.wordpress.com
Денис @denys46.bsky.social Будь готовий. Будь сильним. Захищай те, що має значення. 🎖️
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Jooyeol Kim @jooyeolkim1990.bsky.social Independent researcher on AI-era selection, visibility, responsibility & repair. Selected 2026 accepted work: 4S · AoIR · ILERA Asia · MCCT. jooyeolkim.com/cv.html
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
Gigi @gigi-2005.bsky.social Pan-Europeanism is not larp I swear. Student at the University of Maribor
https://amzn.eu/d/0b16e9Bj
https://substack.com/@gigi2005eu
https://x.com/Gigi_2005_
Raquel Recuero @raquelrecuero.bsky.social Professor/Researcher at UFPEL/UFRGS. MIDIARS Lab director.
Also @raquelrecuero@aoir.social
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/midiars/
https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/raquelrecuero/about-me/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. ❤️ 🐕 🍩 🍨 ☀️ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
Anna Rönsch @anmarn.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Leuphana University Lüneburg | Media Studies | Disability Studies | Critical AI Studies
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
@philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social ATHEIST / ARDENT FEMINIST / Put Women In Charge Now / I voted for her / Vaxxed / Secular Humanist / Progressive Liberal Dem / Blue Crew /Eat the Rich / Pro Union / Pro choice /Far Left / Woke AF / Ally / Tax Religion / 8647 /Antifa/ Resister
Mathilde Sanders @mathildes.bsky.social Researcher | Decentralized platform governance | Media ownership | Public social media
Maksim Rudnev 🇺🇦 @maksimrudnev.com Values, wisdom, SEM, and dread. Formerly https://twitter.com/MaksimRudnev
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Symbiosky @symbiosky.bsky.social Make Decisions Through Conviction,
Fund Public Good like Journalism, Academic Content, Education
https://www.symbiosky.com/
Samuel Salovaara @samuelsalovaara.bsky.social Senior researcher (PhD) from University of Lapland. Studies how information technology integrates into various processes of knowledge formation and multidisciplinary collaboration in social work.
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
Cheyenne @pistachio-pesto.bsky.social I’ll have a butterscotch sundae, I guess.
dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social postdoc VU Brussel news & politics 🦋 views are unfortunately my own even though they should be everyone’s 🦋 out of office until 12/31/9999
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
@simranagarwal.bsky.social @simranagarwal.bsky.social
@carolinagilbert8.bsky.social @carolinagilbert8.bsky.social
bruna paroni @brupar.bsky.social phding @ uniurb.it | team @ mine.uniurb.it | visiting @qutdmrc.bsky.social + @zemki.bsky.social
[social media] platforms x politics
@vngrk.bsky.social @vngrk.bsky.social
Marília Gehrke, Ph.D. @gehrke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Interested in gendered disinformation, transparency, fact-checking and data journalism
Luca Rehse-Knauf @againstphony.bsky.social science journalist interested in social media, polarization & musicology
Hendrik Heuer @hheuer.bsky.social CS Prof Center for Advanced Internet Studies and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence. He/him.
Elena Maris @elenamaris.bsky.social Asst. Professor: Politics of Platforms & AI at University of Illinois at Chicago | Views mine
Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | professing @ nyu | views my own
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🏳️🌈 she/her
Ting @lalaland0920.bsky.social
Tomás G. @tomasgna.bsky.social phd candidate @ stanford comm, currently thinking about “safety” and the politics of talking computers 📠🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Saba @paulmanneh333.bsky.social Growth is always a wonderful miracle manifested by time. It’s what represent the past and shape the future.✨🙏❤️
Lia Amancio @liaamancio.com.br Pesquiso comunicação institucional no Fediverso, danço agarrada com postes, sou mãe da D. e rodo bambolê muito bem. Movida a cafeína. Obviamente de esquerda. Obviamente de Niterói/RJ.
https://liaamancio.com.br/links para o LiaVerso
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social - A @alanbato.bsky.social @alanbato.bsky.social
@saalaaq.bsky.social @saalaaq.bsky.social
Kelley Cotter @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Penn State | Digital and algorithmic literacies and inequalities, technocultural discourses and imaginaries, tech ethics and governance.
Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social YUFE Postdoc & MSCA fellow at Carlos III University of Madrid | Research fellow at SDU's Digital Democracy Center. Media psychologist, currently working on news, emotion, & social media. I love all things methods.
Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social Researcher. Reader. Mom. 🇧🇷🇩🇪
Legal scholar into many things democracy, media and digital technologies. Leading the research group "Technology, Power and Domination" at the Weizenbaum Institute | WZB .
claraigk.com
@digipolicy.bsky.social
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social Thinking about information, technology, policy, and society.
@HUJI: Communication, Public Policy and Governance, Cybersecurity
www.thinkmacro.org | www.comparativeprivacy.org
Also at: @thinkmacro@fediscience.org
Friederike Quint @friederikeq.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Chair of Digital Governance at Technical University of Munich & Content Moderation Lab at the TUM Think Tank
Political Science & Social Media | Speech Legislation & Content Moderation in Democracies
🔗 friederikequint.github.io
@protechthem.bsky.social @protechthem.bsky.social ESRC researchers | University of Southampton.
Researching parents’ disclosures about their children on social media (sharenting) | Exploring how to secure the online safety & rights of affected children. Views = ours.
www.protechthem.org
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
Former Prez of @aoir.bsky.social
Pessimist
Digital Democracy Centre @ddc-sdu.bsky.social The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark
https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc
• #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
Inga Luchs @lynxlynxly.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Editor at meson press | Digital Culture, Machine Learning, Big Tech Critique
Daniela Zetti @dzetti.bsky.social historian of media and technology; ETH archives of contemporary history, Zurich
Centre for Digital Cultures @cdcleuphana.bsky.social The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) at #Leuphana University of #Lüneburg is dedicated to central questions of digital culture and the effects of the current polycrisis on social life. We rethink #technology, #media, and #culturalstudies.
Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social Research Associate | PhD Candidate | Hamburg University
Political & Climate (Protest) Communication
Website: https://www.hendrik-meyer.com
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j3fDB9oAAAAJ&hl=en
Vasilisa Kuznetsova @vasilisak.bsky.social PhD candidate at @zemki.bsky.social researching platform governance, content moderation, climate misinformation at @pgmt.bsky.social
*MACHT*Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2025 @machtgfm.bsky.social 16.-19. September 2025@Universität Paderborn
https://blogs.uni-paderborn.de/gfm2025/
Bram Abramson @bramabramson.bsky.social Mastodon: @bram@mstdn.ca
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bramabramson
Brad McNeil @bradmcneil.bsky.social PhD candidate in Comm, New Media and cultural studies at McMaster University. Studying content moderation and digital platform governance
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.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Kevin Pauliks @pauliks.bsky.social Postdoc in the project "Capturing Movable Images" | interested in games, memes, and other digital media | meme investigator | Dr. phil.
François Mouillot @fmouillot.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University • DIY Cultures • Infrastructures & Platforms • Minority & Marginalized Cultures • Disabled Traveller🇫🇷🇨🇦🇭🇰
ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social ❤️ 'Building an Inclusive European Community in Communication'
🌍 ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, focused on the intersections of media and communications with cities and spatiality.
🔗 https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
Alexis-Carlota Cochrane @alexiscarlota.bsky.social (she/they) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇵🇪
⁘ PhD(c) and Sessional Instructor @ McMaster
⁘ Coordinating Digital Scholarship @ scds.ca
⁘ Researching power and precarity on platforms
⁘ Digital Harms, Queer Theory, Platform Studies, Critical Data, Digital Scholarship
⁘ alexiscarlota.ca
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 📚 Author, Platforms (Polity) · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social Anthropologist. Gaeilge|Fr|日本語 |Wolof.
She/they. Bijî Rojava. BLM. Free Palestine.
Ashwin Nagappa @ashwinnag.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
Queensland University of Technology
ashwinnag.com
Martijn Arets @martijnarets.bsky.social Professional outsider | Platform expert | Photography | Driven by curiosity | Research | Philosophy | Founder GigCV | WageIndicator Foundation | Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
X-POD™ @xpodtech.com “A global technology leader developing advanced occupant‑safety solutions, including the Safety‑X‑Pod®—an ejectable, crash‑proof passenger cocoon with an integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System.” https://xpodtech.com/
Blue Miaoran Dong @bluemiaoran.bsky.social Contract Instructor for Global Internet Policy and Governance; Data management @ https://gmicp.org/; RA for Ghost Management
📚PEC | STS | platform economy | public policy | telecom history | ghost management | Online News Act, ICA Law &Policy,PhD candidate
ICA Communication Law and Policy Division @ica-clp.bsky.social Official account of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association.
Facundo Suenzo @facusuenzo.bsky.social Doctor en cosas. Sexualities, digital culture, technology.
www.facundosuenzo.com
Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and UMich • Incoming Professor at TCNJ • Interdisciplinary researcher studying what kids think about AI • Science Communicator • R Stats nerd • Passionate about Pedagogy • FirstGen 🏳️🌈
Ira Solomatina @irasolomatina.bsky.social postdoctoral researcher at LMU
PhD at UvA
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he