Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social Writer. Blogger. Truth-teller from Donbas🇺🇦
PayPal: angelica.shalagina@gmail.com
💛Friends, please beware of fakes - only these links mine👇
https://linktr.ee/angelica.shala
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Diana M @msrobotd.bsky.social 
Throneless Tech @throneless.tech A technology worker-cooperative based in Washington, DC. We specialize in building technology and providing digital security trainings for social justice oriented community organizations, activist groups, and non-profits.
https://throneless.tech
Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social freelance photojournalist reporting live from nyc! work featured in: NBC, NY Times, The Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Politico, The Cut, Reuters, The Gothamist, Huff Post, Democracy Now! they/she. work lives mainly on instagram: madisonswart
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social Straight Talk and Strategic Clarity on AI Ethics & Sustainability | Speaker · Consultant · Writer - dorotheabaur.ch
Ideal for people who appreciate both humor and ethical dilemmas, and can handle an occasional existential crisis.
HeiGIT @heigit.org Open-source geoinformation, methods and software for the benefit of the environment and society.
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This is the official account of HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) at Heidelberg University.
Check us out at https://heigit.org/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social Dean & Head of School, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. International law, legal theory, law & technology etc. Latest books: https://tinyurl.com/HelpBookOUP & https://tinyurl.com/2cv626hf
(Views expressed here are mine not those of my employer.)
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Texan. Feminist.
I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social Tech policy, human rights, trust & safety. Raised in Brooklyn, based in Boulder. @david_msullivan elsewhere. Posts auto delete.
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A1Y8CYx9TUtTxirjHuY_ibg6kbSF7BF5inQ7c-04zOPv#did:plc:sqd3wsj7e6w6do6i26nn62r2
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20 
Abir Ghattas @abirghattas.bsky.social CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist • @abirghattas@infosec.exchange •
Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca Executive Director @canadianpeacemuseum.ca, occasional writer, teaching humanitarianism @utoronto.ca, consulting at @humanitarianassociates.org
Ex @redcrosscanada.bsky.social 🇳🇵🇱🇧, @who.int 🇾🇪, @msf.org 🇨🇦🇵🇬🇳🇬🇪🇹🇹🇷🇵🇰, @gccanada.bsky.social
🌐 chrishouston.ca
Manuela Battaglini @manuelabat.bsky.social AI Geopolicy | Researcher on the Democratic Governance of Cyberspace | Jurist | Let’s break monopolies | Tax the oligarchs | The Force is with me | @SecuoyaGroup
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social 
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
ON A SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Lorena Jaume-Palasí @lopalasi.bsky.social Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I @lopalasi@dair-community.social on Mastodon
Jessica Dorsey @jessicadorsey.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Int’l Law, Utrecht University; Managing Editor, OpinioJuris; Exec. Board, Airwars; IHL, IHRL, Civilian Harm Mitigation, Military AI, Autonomous Weapons Systems, Military Drones; Stargazer/Aurora Chaser
Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk Structural engineer. Stadium design. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice.
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank.
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.fr
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Scoiattolo @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social Creative data & computational journalism. "Community Data" book eBook and pre-order available: http://communitydatabook.com
Steve Song @manypossibilities.net Local hands building local networks.
Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata
Day job: https://isoc.org
Views my own.
Heather Leson @heatherleson.bsky.social Imagine this world if we all lent a hand. Strategy, Engagement, Open Source, Open Organizations, Humanitarian. OSMF/HOTOSM. about.me/heather_leson
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
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Kumar Sambhav @kumarsambhav.bsky.social India Research Lead @ Digital Witness Lab | Founder & Director @ Land Conflict Watch | Former AI Fellow
@ Pulitzer Center | Cofounded The Reporters Collective
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist 
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Lisa Ann Richey @brandaid-world.bsky.social What can I do to 'help'? #Politics #Africa #Humanitarianism #Aid #Writer Professor of Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. http://lisaannrichey.com She/her
Rahul Chandran @rchandran.bsky.social Building a more equitable, sustainable future. Public sector innovation / global policy / ESG / peacebuilding / humanitarian & health (hey, the SDG's are broad!). More #poetry & #cricket than might normally be found in such areas.
Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010.
More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
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 •
Shannon Raj Singh @shannonrsingh.bsky.social Independent expert on tech & mass violence.
Athena Tech & Atrocities Advisory / Former Human Rights Counsel @ Twitter
meowtree @meowtree.bsky.social Responsible data, digital ethics, safeguarding, trust + safety, privacy. Human rights, global dev, humanitarian work. MERL Tech, NLP-CoP, NYC Tech Salon. CIPP-E/CIPM certified. Brooklyn, cats, gardening, biking. She/her. 
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Marie-Rose Romain Murphy @romainmurphy.bsky.social "Do not pay attention to me. I'm from another planet. I see horizons where you draw boundaries."- Frida Kahlo
Interests: #globaldev, #communityLed #Development #Philanthropy #humanitarian #geopolitics #GlobalSouth
https://romainmurphy.com/
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Elena Franklin @elenafra.bsky.social Campaigner | Digital Rights | Human rights
Views are my own
Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social researcher at Amnesty Tech's Security Lab | surveillance and gender justice | writer (London Writers Awards; A Writing Chance)
Emrys Schoemaker @emrys.eurosky.social digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement
X: @emrys_s
Gisella Lomax @gisellalomax.bsky.social Information Integrity and Digital Protection. I work for the UN Refugee Agency - UNHCR - leading our response to misinformation, disinformation, online hate speech. Currently based in London
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com Geospatial Communicator.
Data + Stories for @developmentseed.org
@osmus.bsky.social Board Member
Hiking shenanigans. Desert dweller.
Mohamad Najem @monajem.bsky.social Tech & human rights in the MENA region. Director of SMEX
Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social Threat researcher, rights supporter, obsessive reader, marathon runner, eternal traveler, serial migrant, music blogger, lapsed mathematician.
https://lapsedordinary.net/
Signal: martijngrooten.37
Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl Exposing the baddies - Here's how to contact me securely: https://gist.github.com/DrWhax/61978d4e7df5291d4cf308f10dc20d5a
Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world. 
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Luis Fernando García @tumbolian.bsky.social Abogado. Derechos Humanos y Tecnología.
Cofundador y exdirector de @r3d.mx | Opiniones a título personal
English account: @luisfgarcia.bsky.social
Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social Pesquisador e ativista (pleonasmo) por justiça racial e tecnologias do bem viver. Doutor pela UFABC e alumni Mozilla. Cofundador da desvelar.org e colaborador da Nanet/ABONG.
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social 🌩️INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD🌩️
Discover our new fellows now: thekill.cloud
Shell @risu.bsky.social edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
@isedua.bsky.social @isedua.bsky.social 
Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net Assistant Professor of Data Governance at UVA
About me: https://sixfouronea.net/
Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
Wayan Vota @wayanvota.bsky.social Digital development leader in #ICT4D - Publisher of ICTworks - Creator of Fail Festival.
Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social Founder, Center for Transformational Change.
Strategist, producer, writer, traveler.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/LinaSrivastava/
https://linasrivastava.com
https://transformationalchange.co
She/her.
Bo Schwartz Madsen @boschwartz.bsky.social Data scientist at the Danish Refugee Council drc.ngo
Used to write about basketball.
Tweets in English/Danish. He/him.
borderless @borderless.bsky.social The future is up for grabs. The world we live in is awful but the one we're building is worth it. Bringing my whole self to the apocalypse.
Director of Development @distributeaid.org
he/they, often a newcomer
views my own
trust + supplychains + tech
🚛💻🏴🖤
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
No Suma Cero @nosumacero.bsky.social Non-zero-sum games. @NSC
Tech policy. Internet & Digital Rights. AI Governance.
Who gains power when AI is deployed?
Information operations & digital authoritarianism.
Freedom of expression & Data protection.
Social media & Conflict. Networked movements.
Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
Marianne Díaz Hernández @mariannedh.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, digital rights activist, migrant. Cat person. PDF hoarder. Coffee addict. Swiftie. / she/ella / http://the-far-away.com
Wafa Ben-Hassine @wafa.bsky.social By becoming overly engrossed in the networks on our screens, we lose sight of the networks within us and within the living beings that surround us.
Chief of Digital Tech and Human Rights Section at UN Human Rights
Geneva-based
Katitza @katitza.bsky.social @EFF Policy Director for Global Privacy
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Camille Stewart Gloster @camillestewartgloster.com Strategist shaping the future of cybersecurity, emerging tech & democracy—where policy, power & people intersect.
Founder @ CAS Strategies|Writes @ Command Line w/ Camille |💕💚 #ShareTheMicInCyber
Frmr:WH (#46), Google, DHS (#44)|Views=mine, opinions=strong
Mario Felaco @mfelaco.bsky.social Derechos Humanos y seguridad digital organizacional, director ejecutivo de Conexo. Geekiness y fitness.
Carlos Guerra @cguerra.bsky.social Tech Advisor on digital security and circumvention | Venezuelan
Bruna Martins dos Santos @brums.bsky.social Personal opinions only! All things tech And Human Rights ✨Policy and Advocacy @WITNESS
German Chancellor Fellow @AvHStiftung 2021-2022 | Previously @DigitalActionCo, @WZB, @DataPrivacyBr, @direitosnarede| She/Her
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.