Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
linktr.ee/jenfalkner
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social Anti-capitalist, environmentalist, nerd content from Saanich, BC on unceded land within the territories of the lək ̓ ʷəŋən, Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the W̱ SÁNEĆ peoples
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
Maureen Nicholson 🇨🇦 @maureennicholson.bsky.social X refugee. Writer and editor. Former Bowen Island councillor. Live for now at SFU UniverCity. Douglas College faculty. Canadian. Elbows up. Gloves off.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Anisota @anisota.net A peaceful social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky & the Atmosphere. Made by @dame.is in Appalachia.
Enter the forest: anisota.net
First Quarter, 51% Lit 🌓
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
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🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
@avlawson.bsky.social @avlawson.bsky.social Author Rural Reading https://tworiverspress.com/shop/rural-reading/amp/
And the Shady side of town
https://tworiverspress.com/shop/the-shady-side-of-town/amp/
Malahat Drive @malahatdrive.bsky.social 
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
James Opp @jamesopp.bsky.social History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees.
Carleton University
jamesopp.com
Marcus Olang' @marcusolang.substack.com Multi-hyphenate.
Writing: marcusolang.substack.com
Photography: stillsbymarcus.com
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
B.C. Green Caucus @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social Representing elected Green MLAs in British Columbia.
ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social Technology, education, and other random thoughts.
Ken Wilson @therealkenwilson.bsky.social Writer, walker, lover of native grassland.
My book, Walking the Bypass: Notes On Place From the Side of the Road, is available now from University of Regina Press in Canada and New York University Press in the US.
readingandwalking.ca
kenwilsonwriter.ca
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies.
https://dustinwedwards.com/
Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social Professor/Canada Research Chair in seismology in Victoria BC 🇨🇦. Earthquakes, active tectonics, remote sensing. Proud cat dad. Views my own
Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social Posting about climate justice and energy policy. Associate Director, National Climate @ Environmental Defence Canada. Views my own. She/her. Settler on stolen land.
📍Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People / Ottawa
Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social Leader of the @bcgreens.bsky.social ⚡
Authorized by Farrukh Chishtie, financial agent, 1-888-473-3686
linktr.ee/EmilyLowanBCGreens
James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Professor & Press Director ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful And since I have more room here […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mas.to/@GiffordJames, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
By @joesondow.bsky.social
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social Award-winning journalist covering the Vancouver Canucks. http://passittobulis.com
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social Author of HOW TO BE A CLIMATE OPTIMIST. Writer & talker about the energy transition. Baseball (in season). Nova Scotia resident.
@lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social 
The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social CrAIC is an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Exeter, UK.
👤 @gildersleve.uk
👤 @andreamedrado.bsky.social
👤 Brett Zehner
🌐 https://cdf.exeter.ac.uk/communications/research/centres/craic/
✉️ craic@exeter.ac.uk
Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca Library and Archives Canada preserves your documentary heritage.
Terms and conditions: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/terms-conditions.html
En français : @bibliotheque-archives.canada.ca
Weasel Woman @weaselwoman.bsky.social MAYUK MANUEL Secwepemc Title & Rights Defender/Secwepemc storyteller/performance artist/Tiny House Warriors/Activist/ ❤️Secwepemcstsin immersion on the land. I’m criminally persecuted for my Secwepemc belief in our Right to Self-determination.
What's that, Hawaiian noises? @caseyabrams.bsky.social songwriter and musicologist, ghost story collector, amateur folklorist, music teacher.
Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com Earthling, she/her, educator, reader, tabletop gamer, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts.
If you want my views and zines on AI, check out padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UVictoria.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
Stelliform Press @stelliform.press Award-winning SFFH & literary books engaging with environmental justice. Now: THE OTHER SHORE, THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. www.stelliform.press.- R Rebecca Campbell @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social I write weird stories. Find me at whereishere.ca.
Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
S. Sommers @printculture.bsky.social Contingent Academic | #C19AmLit | @UCLA English PhD | rank-and-file @uconnaaup | she/her | 🏳️🌈 | I speak for myself | #unionstrong
Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
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
Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me Professor of Environmental History at University of Stavanger, Norway. Co-director of the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. Photographer, author, boardgamer. More at finnarne.net. Portrait photo: Kristin Aafløy Opdan.
Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE)
Find out more about us here: https://www.easlce.eu
Account managed by @manonraffard.bsky.social (primarily) and @tiaglova.bsky.social
Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social Newly minted maths ed lecturer, PhD student, fledgling left-wing standup. Co-author ‘teaching statistics’ http://tinyurl.com/ya6afzcc he/his
Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
David Barker @nouspique.bsky.social Toronto based writer / photographer. Took up distance running at 60. Every decade deserves a new challenge. 🇨🇦
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social Researching, mathing, designing, writing, queering, drawing, talking, comedying, teaching, board gaming. Homerton College, Cambridge. Currently researching and talking about #AI and #education.
Harbour Publishing @harbourpublishing.bsky.social Books of the Pacific Northwest (and beyond). It's our 50th Anniversary and we published a collector's edition of Raincoast Chronicles - Fifth Five to celebrate. Distributor of Nightwood Editions.
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social Passionate about books, engineering leadership and helping others grow.
Check out my website https://sergiovisinoni.com or my newsletter https://makemeacto.cc
Also on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@piffio
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Enigma Stationery @enigmastationery.com Enigma Stationery offers unique items made from in-house designs along with top brands and hard-to-find imports.
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO
Accessibility, tool-making, visualization 📊
PhD from @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Move slo and repair things.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
Or on Prime Video in US and UK
Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social Experienced community college administrator. Writer. Dad of two. Pursuing justice, wisdom, and good pizza.
Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
glenn mcdonald @glennmcdonald.bsky.social Music, furia.com, everynoise.com, books, soccer, food, civilization, pickleball, technology, music. Bridges.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
@dpacni.bsky.social @dpacni.bsky.social 
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
→→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←←
You deserve a better world.
Naomi Devine @naomidevine.bsky.social Visual storyteller. Campaign Mgr for Dean Murdock, Saanich Mayor and Will Greaves, Victoria MP. UVic. @evicsomm grad @ROMtoronto. MA candidate @royalroads - Solo Female Wildness discourse.
Oak Bay Gazette @oakbaygazette.bsky.social Fearless voice of the people (sorry, people). Your insightful Oak Bay parody newspaper.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social My cat probably won’t like you.
MLIS candidate • studying origins of research culture, academic publishing infrastructure, and document design • really into metadata and type semiotics • Parsons MFADT grad • Formerly: PLOS.
Tess Bernhard @tessbern.bsky.social Postdoc @ Penn GSE | 2024 NAEd/Spencer diss fellow | science teacher educator | thinking/worrying about how edtech is reshaping classroom teaching www.tessbernhard.com
Rochelle Baker @rochellebaker1.bsky.social Rochelle Baker
Freelance journalist / comms specialist
My turf: where the ocean meets trees. #climate #nature #politics #oceanscience #fisheries #socialjustice #ruralhinterland
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social #EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Will Smith @likewinterblue.bsky.social Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer. 
Category 12 @c12beer.bsky.social 
Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy Science - Photography - Woodturning - Climate - Weather - Curious - Running - Cycling - Computing - Sense - Nonsense
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Derek Larson, Ph.D. 🇨🇦 @dlarson.bsky.social Collection Manager and Researcher at the Royal BC Museum. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D. studying lizards, dinosaur teeth, and fossil turtles. MtG, TTRPG, and boardgame enthusiast. He/him
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴
crimethinc.com
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.
Tracey Potts @traceyjpotts.bsky.social Lecturer in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Books: Neither Use Nor Ornament: A Cultural Biography of Clutter and Procrastination (MUP) and Kitsch! Cultural Politics and Taste, with Ruth Holliday (MUP)🦩🪩MD ANT 🏅
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Will Greaves @wgreaves.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Victoria.
Poli sci prof, local dad, lucky guy. Global and Canadian politics, Arctic, climate, people, jokes. https://willgreaves.ca/
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign