joe gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social // geographer
// associate professor in cultural geography
// editorial board - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Sarah Shirley @sarahshirley.bsky.social Lefty, woke, republican
(British version), international education @KCL. Appalled by what’s happening in the USA. Live in Devon, work in London - best of both worlds. Green Party member.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Technosphere Earth newsletter https://www.technosphere.earth
Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
Jasmine Celtel @jasmine-celtel.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research studying communities of laughter in the Welsh Marches.
(Pabenham Clifford Hours, 55v)
www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-celtel
David Richards @davidr1chards.bsky.social Fieldwork (caves, coasts) and labwork (isotopes). Why? Climate, landscapes, fauna and radionuclides. Also Bristol Geog archive and maps.
Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social Historical geographer, events whiz, mother to a tiny croissant-obsessed tyrant. Posting in a personal capacity
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social Escribo sobre Tecnología y poder | El Pais y Radio Nacional de España | Mis dos últimos libros: 'El enemigo conoce el sistema' 'Contra el Futuro'
Adam Badger @adambadger.bsky.social Hey! I'm new here!!
Currently a lecturer in Economic Geography at Newcastle University
At work I'm interested in (among other things) questions around technology and the future of work
Outside of work, music and making some below average art is my jam!
AFK Twin @timexile.com Musical and technological adventurer. Survivor of bad things. Mostly optimistic, sometimes tired. Scapeshift, the generative groovebox that DOESN'T use AI is out now! https://linktr.ee/timexile
People Selling Mirrors @sellingamirror.bsky.social Sometimes when people sell mirrors online, they can't figure out how to get out of the way.
If you've found a good pic @ me if you'd like the credit; or DM to remain anon. Happy hunting!
Sebastian Koa @sebastiankoa.bsky.social PHDing in Geography at the University of Exeter | Studying nuclear energy and temporalities
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Tinfoil Matt @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social The brain worm infestation caused by living next to Telegraph opinions every day
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social
Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014)
https://www.nolengertz.com
#Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky
Grok Of Shit 🚽 @grokofshit.bsky.social I am a bot that creates fascinating new facts, but not using AI.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Chris Morris @c-morris.bsky.social Law Lecturer at Manchester Law School | Researching legal and contractual geographies, political economy, student housing, power and space
Tabea Bork-Hüffer @tabeabork.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at Heidelberg University (https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/people-at-the-institute/prof-dr-tabea-bork-huffer) and head of the @spacessocieties.bsky.social research group.
Hannah Morgan @hannahmorgann.bsky.social Research Fellow in Human Geography, Jesus College Oxford
Digital mediation, asylum systems, and post(human) thoughts
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-1326
Lauren Powell @lauren-powell.bsky.social Human Geography PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter | Researching geopolitics, feminist geographies and moral panics | Fibre Artist and Adventurer
Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social PhD in Urban and Regional Development @PoliTO | DIST
Visiting Researcher @ucl @icsunivlisboa
Urban Studies • Economic Geography • Digital Geography
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
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
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design.
https://againstcatastrophe.net
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
Michiel de Lange @mdelange.bsky.social Associate Professor New Media at Utrecht University | digital media and urban culture | [urban interfaces] | The Mobile City | ‘Inclusion in the datafied city’
| http://blog.bijt.org | https://www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Neil Perryman @neilperryman.bsky.social World of Telly - https://youtube.com/@worldoftelly
Wife in Space - www.wifeinspace.com
Susan Oman @suoman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Data, AI, & Society.
AI & In/equality Lead for Centre for Machine Intelligence.
Social, cultural & digital policy.
Author of Understanding Well-being Data: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72937-0
Simon Batterbury @simonbatterbury.bsky.social Day job: Environmental Studies Prof@ Melbourne www.simonbatterbury.net Editor, Journal of Political Ecology since 2003 https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe. Political ecology, critical minerals, New Caledonia-Kanaky, community bike workshops
Brandon @brandontakayuki.bsky.social Researching tech labour markets, education, work culture, bourdieu. content means-tested. Teaching at York University.
Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Futures Institute. Tackling the world’s biggest challenges within the economy, education and societies.
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers
Fabian Ferrari @fabianlferrari.bsky.social 🌍 Assistant Professor in Cultural AI, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
🔍 Governance of AI Infrastructure
🌐 www.fabianlferrari.com
AI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social AI Ethics and Society is a network of researchers investigating the ethico-political implications of data-driven tech - more at www.ai-ethics.org
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jen Dickinson @drjendickinson.bsky.social Political geographer of diasporas and development. Currently working on the diasporic religious politics of sacred heritage revival in India. University of Southampton, UK
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, critical race & social media research at the University of Leeds. she/her
Whose Uni? poster available here https://shorturl.at/7GcJr
sorin @sorin.bsky.social designer
Lindi Jahiu @lindijahiu.bsky.social phd candidate at western university | digital geographies, urban studies, social theory, surveillance, and mixed methods
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Kelle Howson @kellehowson.bsky.social Researcher, Institute for Economic Justice, @oii.ox.ac.uk | global inequality, social protection, digital technologies
Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social Geography prof @ University of Vermont. Striving for thriving, socially just, healthy cities. Also: early 20th C. US geographies of childhood, qualitative research methods, geo-humanities. #MappingAmericanChildhoods https://blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods/
Dr Olivia Fletcher @livfletcher.bsky.social Geographer | University Teacher at Uni of Liverpool. Interested in health, self-tracking, embodiment and social media. She/her.
Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Uni of Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
www.alinautrata.com
John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social Professor | Former Labour MP and Cabinet Minister | Director, Centre for English Identity and Politics | Writing about how ideas of nation and nationhood shape politics today at nationstateandpolitics.substack.com ✍️
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social Scholar, Speaker, Educator
Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future
Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu
anitachan.org
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Carly Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social What would a world be like without the Arts, Humanities and Languages? Sharing the reasons why we matter at the University of Bristol.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-social-sciences/research/
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social 🔶 The Digital Futures Institute brings together expertise from across all disciplines at King’s to forge a better relationship between the individual and technology: kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent.
The Ethical Data Initiative @edinitiative.bsky.social The Ethical Data Initiative is a joint initiative coordinated by the University of Exeter and the TUM Think Tank; a non-partisan platform fostering open discussions on data ethics, with a focus on equity and engagement, across different domains.
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social 📖 Story dealer on duty serving fresh plots daily
https://tinytalesdaily.com
also on https://www.instagram.com/tinytalesdaily365/
Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social The official bsky feed of the RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)
https://digitalgeographiesrg.org/
@rgsibg.bsky.social
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social Wit, raconteur, bon viveur. He is none of these things. A purveyor of cheap mummery and piffle since 1976. Throws random words at a screen for Set The Tape. Bluesky’s foremost Biggles: Adventures In Time aficionado.
Tess Osborne @tessosborne.bsky.social Digital health geographer
Chair of the DGRG & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Digital Geography & Society
An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing.
Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
@jenmidgeog.bsky.social @jenmidgeog.bsky.social
Aled Singleton @aledsingleton.bsky.social Place-based and economic development research Cardiff Business School. Methods based around arts, walking and psychogeography. Treasurer RGS-IBG Participatory Geography Research Group. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/singletona1
Troy Brundidge 312/541 @teebeegeo.bsky.social UOregon/Dartmouth College economic geographer. Interested in marketization, solutionism, insurance and public finance, police, carceral & legal geographies, how we know. Very from Chicago. Mostly quoting things my son says.
Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social Here for informed views on the polycrisis & voices for justice, action, hope, & care … plus sharing some art & natural beauty!
Ontario transplant living in Cumberland NS, Mi’kma’ki
She/Her
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social A better tax system that benefits everyone in the UK. Sister organisation of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social
https://taxjustice.uk/
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Stephen Legg @stephenlegg11.bsky.social Historical Geographer of 20th-Century Interwar Indian Urban, Colonial, Imperial and International Worlds. https://stephenleggeog.wordpress.com
Claire Hazelgrove MP @chazelgrovemp.bsky.social Labour MP for the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency. For casework/other enquiries, please email: claire.hazelgrove.mp@parliament.uk
Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social Sitting on the sidelines is for Waldorf and Statler. Promoted by Tim Dexter on behalf of Labour both at 23 Orford Rd E17 9NL.
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
Aude Le Gallou @audelegallou.bsky.social Geographer and urbexer - Lecturer in Geography at the University of Geneva 🇨🇭
Cultural geography • Abandonment • Urbex • East Germany
Venus Theory @venustheory.bsky.social Human grumpy cat impersonator.
youtube.com/venustheory
Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan / The Flashbulb
••Recording artist | YouTuber | Researcher••
https://linktr.ee/BennJordan
Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social I'm a geographer/planner w interests in (de)globalization of services (incl #highered & #research) <> #cities, governance of HE, high impact teaching, ice hockey, jazz, photography. #Firstgen grad.
Quantitative Methods Research Group @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social The official Bluesky page of the RGS-IBG Quantitative Research Group. Posting about stats, data science, and Geography.
@rgsibg.bsky.social
qmrg.github.io
RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social The latest in geography higher education from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Ian Boddy @ianboddy.bsky.social Composer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner & analogue synth aficionado.
dinrecords.bandcamp.com
ianboddy.bandcamp.com
Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social Jean Golding Institute - a hub for data and AI @bristoluni.bsky.social
Visit our website at http://bristol.ac.uk/golding
Find us on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/jgibristol
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
jessogden @jessogden.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Futures @Bristol Digital Futures Institute // Sociology @University of Bristol. Socio-tech takes on #webarchives, data+society is my jam. I guess I'm on Bluesky now too.
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute/UoB Law School.
Tech law geek. Genre fic nerd. Proud Scot-kiwi-Bristolian.
Devika Narayan @devikanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. Some other stuff.
Sociologist.
https://www.devikanarayan.com/
Sanja Milivojevic @smilivojevic.bsky.social Associate Professor in Digital Futures, Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Researching crime and technology, and borders and mobility. Happy to give Elon the boot.
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
Dr Kate Goldie @kategoldie.bsky.social more-than-human geographer
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer