beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Dani R. Soibelman (they/them) @soibelman.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Member of AEA & SAG-AFTRA.
Enjoyer of euchre, folk punk, and antique stores.
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Host, Producer: Making Contact on KPFK Los Angeles - 90.7FM
Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him. Galveston BOI. Born at 314.8 ppm CO2.
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta @indivar.bsky.social Father of Sathvik & Sarasu | Doris Duke Distinguished Visiting Fellow @ McCourt School of Public Policy, Fellow @ Roosevelt Institute, Distinguished Visiting Fellow @ NASI, Senior Advisor @ The Policy Academies | Founder/CEO @ Blue Lotus Strategies
Cella @cellllla.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. http://cella.io
Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social OA, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of social media and its implications for society. Follow for cutting edge trends in this emerging field. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/home/SMS
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/8ae5ebca259e570a?ean=9781642834260
Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
(She/Her)
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
Sarah Fox @perhaxis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | Director of https://techsolidaritylab.com/
@robnewall.bsky.social @robnewall.bsky.social 
Work Shift @workshift.bsky.social A nonprofit newsroom reporting on the connections between education and work. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://workshift.org/the-job/
Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social ✍🏽 writer, editor, socialist 🌹 views are my own 🛸 editorial @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org and member @nyguild.bsky.social
aasthauprety.substack.com 👩🏽💻
nyc via dc
Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Digital Journalism is an international, peer-reviewed, top-ranked journal that publishes cutting-edge research and concepts. Editor-in-Chief: Oscar Westlund.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20
Pawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Prof @ Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University | US Team Research Lead - GMICP.org | Affiliate @ MIC Center, UPenn and CITAP, UNC | Philly expat | pawelpopiel.com
James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
William Fitzgerald @williamfitz.bsky.social Campaigns @theworkeragency and publishing @hardresetmedia
Kevin Frazier @kevintfrazier.bsky.social AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law | Cover AI for the Lawfare Institute | Author the Appleseed AI substack.
Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Critical Computing + Art + Queer Studies | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana @zraresearch.bsky.social Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.
Always speaking for me.
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social Historian of social insurance and feminism. VP Think Tank @rooseveltinstitute.org & Roosevelt Forward. Previously @32bjseiu.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social History Dept
linktr.ee/suzmkahn
Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com Assistant Professor at UVA
Political Economist of Decarbonization
Book: Why Carbon Taxes Failed (OUP)
Nonresident Fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org
danieldrisc.com
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA
https://llaannaa.com/
https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧 @muyaojiang.bsky.social Tech, Labor & Publics
PhDing @USCAnnenberg
Eric Paulos @epaulos.bsky.social Artist • UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science • Roboticist • Inventor • Instigator
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
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.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Hannah Groch-Begley @grouchybagels.bsky.social Think Tank Managing Director at the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Forward. I volunteer to do people's taxes at the IRS VITA program. History PhD mostly working with economists and political scientists. I've called DC home for more than half my life
Douglas Guilbeault @douglasguilbeault.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Org. Behavior @StanfordGSB | Computational Culture Lab http://comp-culture.org | Social Networks, Cognition, Cultural Evolution, AI
Anna Kawakami @anna-kawakami.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University. Research, design, and policy for AI-augmented work.
Working across: Human-AI interaction, responsible AI, AI measurement, augmented intelligence.
annakawakami.com
Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech
HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com
Teppo Felin @teppofelin.bsky.social ion foundation endowed prof | university of utah | cognition, AI, generative rationality, theory-based view, causal reasoning, economics, strategy
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Bilal Baydoun @bilalb.bsky.social Views here my own. Writing from Dearborn. Formerly: Democracy Director @rooseveltinstitute.org and @Rooseveltforward.org. #FirstGen Go Blue.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Katie Kirchner @katie-kirchner.bsky.social Probably talking about social justice, pop culture, or my cat. Roosevelter—Vice President of Field Building Programs at Roosevelt Institute & Roosevelt Forward—but opinions are my own.
Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
Journal of Design Research @jdesignresearch.bsky.social Journal of Design Research. Published by Inderscience. Emphasising human aspects of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines.
Skeets by @reneewever.bsky.social (editor)
Incl journal updates & vacancies in design academia
Ruchira 🏳️🌈 @rayruchira.bsky.social Applied AI@rStream | CS+Robotics @utaustin.bsky.social
Anthony McCosker @amccosker.bsky.social Professor in Aus, on the verge of working it all out. Leading a research institute called SIRI. Researching digital, data and AI capabilities.
Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen @sarahgrevy.bsky.social PhD student, Copenhagen Business School.
Former computational journalism fellow at @towcenter.bsky.social
Finnish Lapphund enthusiast.
🌐 www.sarahgrevy.dk
Cameron Piercy @cameronpiercy.bsky.social Communication researcher, associate prof, into human-machine communication, work, and network science. Choctaw citizen, dad, partner, friend, and dog-person.
https://hmc.ku.edu/ 
Qing Xiao @qingxiaohci.bsky.social PhD student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon.
Areas: HCI/CSCW, Management, Work and Organization Studies
My personal website: https://qingxiaohci.com/
Kimber Harrison @kimberharrison.bsky.social PhD candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at UT Austin 🤘
Thinking about bodies, technology, time, and methods
Stephen Yang! @stephenyang.bsky.social PhDing @USCAnnenberg // studying media, technology, environment // prev @Cornell @MSFTResearch @CDT // Angelino & 臺灣人
https://www.stephen-yang.com/
helen shewolfe tseng @wolfchirp.bsky.social shewolfe.co
coyote.computer
instagram.com/wolfchirp
editorial collective taper.badquar.to
bsky bot 🌚 @lycanthrobot.bsky.social
occasional games wolfchirp.itch.io
Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social Public Health Genetics MPH, PhD. UW Research Scientist. Interested in finding/creating community around science, nature, culture, and compassion. www.myopenreadingframe.com
@communitydata.science @communitydata.science 
Rebecca Reynolds @rebeccareyn.bsky.social iSchool prof, RutgersCommInfo. Aca-journal co-founder, editor: Information & Learning Sciences. Socio-tech, ed-tech researcher. she/her, #blacklivesmatter. conjuring... things ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Amelia Schonbek @ameliaschonbek.bsky.social I write long and true. Contribute to New York mag, features editor at Hazlitt. Happiest when outdoors.
ameliaschonbek.com 
Meryl Alper @merylalper.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication Studies @ Northeastern. Technology, kids, disability, mental health. BOOKS: Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT 2014) Giving Voice (MIT 2017), Kids Across the Spectrums (MIT 2023) https://bit.ly/kidsacrossthespectrums
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
Leslie Johnston @lljohnston.bsky.social Digital Preservation at US National Archives, born-digital/digitized records/web archives. Personal: Food, Crafts, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Tech History, Fandom, Costuming (ICG Vice President and Archives)
Hannah P. Luz @hannahluz.bsky.social boulder org comm phd candidate // auburn ba + ma 🏔️
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social Writer/Editor @protectdemocracy.org. Views are my own.
E @egertobehere.bsky.social 💖 rescue dogs and live music. Views my own
DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social Envisioning an equitable digital future. Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition. Into infrastructure, sensation, habits of attention, and my dog.
ryan m. milner @rmmilner.bsky.social communication professor. aging meme scholar. charleston, sc usa. he/him
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Kate Sim @katejsim.bsky.social COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research
cospr.net
Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, focusing on racial justice as data justice. interests: critical data x urban comm
working on a book, Appetite for Data, about foodie platforms & race / class / solidarity.
radjusticelab.com
Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Angie Waller @angiewaller.bsky.social Artist and internet researcher. I work with Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University and make art books about tech and culture. www.angiewaller.com
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Kaitlyn Bryant, PhD @kaitlyndoestech.bsky.social User researcher, data nerd, and AI skeptic. Lover of nature and player of video games. Loyal companion of Bozz (dog), Relm and Dax (cats), and William (spouse/human).
Most at home in CSCW topics. Queer forager.
Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.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!
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Adam JK @adamjk.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog-lover, adamjk.com, etc
Hannah Lees @hannahlees.bsky.social Born in Scotland & raised in Aotearoa. English teacher heartbroken by schooling; now writing & navigating neurodivergence in the era of rupture. Interested in disability, ethics, noncompliance, poetry.
End-of-month letter:
http://hannahlees.substack.com
Yana Boeva, PhD @dropsmops.bsky.social Research Group Leader + Postdoc @Uni_Stuttgart @EXC_IntCDC | PhD @STS_YorkU | STS, computation, algorithms, design, skills, knowledge | she/her | https://www.yanaboeva.net/