Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social Join us to fight against the tech corporation fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state at PurgePalantir.com. 🫡
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
🧨 matthewdeverna.com
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Nina Hahne @ninahahne.bsky.social 💻 Science manager @cais-research.bsky.social
📙 Deputy editor @policyr.bsky.social
PhD from @unihalle.bsky.social
✒️ #writing #digitaltransformation #openaccess #ruhrgebiet📍
Daryna Antoniuk @darynant.bsky.social Cybersecurity Reporter at Recorded Future News. Ex at The Kyiv Independent/Forbes/The Kyiv Post
📍Kyiv, Ukraine
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
The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Journalism from the heart of crises
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.- N Niccolò Tempini @n1c0.exeverse.net Associate Professor in Social Studies of Data & AI, University of Exeter. Co-lead at CHAI, the EPSRC Causality in Healthcare AI HUB.
Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social The official account of the UVA School of Data Science: Committed to teaching and practicing responsible data science for the common good.
datascience.virginia.edu
Derya Ozkul @deryaozkul.bsky.social Sociology, University of Warwick | previously @refugeestudies, University of Oxford | researching migration and digital technologies | working on Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees | Digitising Identity projects
Digital Sovereignty Observatory @digsovobs.bsky.social We examine how emerging technologies—from digital identity systems and digital public infrastructure (DPI) to blockchains and satellite networks—reshape social and political boundaries. https://www.digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org/
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Norman @noaasm.bsky.social 💼 Privacy Lawyer | ⚖️ LL.M Candidate in Corporate & Commercial Law @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪 | views my own
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social Updates from #TILT, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society at Tilburg Law School @tilburg-university.bsky.social | #Technology #Governance #Regulation #Innovation #FundamentalRights | www.tilt.nl
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.eurosky.social Privacy advocate. "Articulating your formless void of discontent" since 2006.
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech
Internet serial: fintechdystopia.com
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Malavika @teninthemorning.bsky.social Make Tech Governance Cool Again.
Recovering lawyer, lapsed policy wonk, currently reinventing via PhD @lselaw.bsky.social. Here for: Public law & tech policy, information systems, procrastination.
https://sites.google.com/view/malavika-raghavan
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Lane Rasberry @bluerasberry.bsky.social Wikipedia editor, data science, barista @ Chinchilla Café
💙🧪💊🐹☕️🏳️🌈🌀🧬🎶📘
Teague Henry @teaguerhenry.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UVA Psychology and School of Data Science. Networks, neurons, and complex systems models of psychopathology.
Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us Associate Professor and Research Dean at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own.
Web: https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/stephen-turner
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
Tom Hartvigsen @tomhartvigsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Data Science at UVA developing responsible machine learning and NLP methods for ever-changing environments. https://www.tomhartvigsen.com/
Claudia Scholz @claudiascholz.bsky.social employee: University of Virginia School of #DataScience
founder: #DataJustice Academy
member: United Campus Workers of Virginia
former employee: Spelman College, Trinity University
Mastodon: claudia@cville.online
Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
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.
Just angry @mkwong.bsky.social Angry as hell. Who isn’t right now?. Views my own - expect a little noise. (smoking girl by Yoshitomo Nara).
YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social Prof @ School of Data Science, University of Virginia. Formerly at IU. Networks, data science, and machine learning. https://yyahn.com
🚲🚲🚲
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to interrogating the central role of finance in contemporary life. cambridge.org/core/journals/finance-and-society
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space @societyandspace.bsky.social We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Jan Zilinsky @janzilinsky.bsky.social I study the role of technology and conspiracy theories in democratic politics. NYU PhD.
https://www.janzilinsky.com
Alyssa Brown @machinesentience.bsky.social Comms at UVA Data Science. MA in Media Studies student at UVA researching 1970s Pong clones. Regal Unlimited pass holder and sci-fi enthusiast. Boldness is All 🚀✨
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@arcadiaobscura-games?si=n-S3d-95yxOGIwew
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social
Fran Meissner @fmeissner.bsky.social Assistant Professor Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics | University of Twente
Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social Nationality, statelessness, identification, human rights; Africa & international. Affiliations: @globalcit.bsky.social @icws-sas.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social
https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
SCMR and JEMS @scmrjems.bsky.social The Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), a research centre of excellence at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Home of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS). www.sussex.ac.uk/migration
Marielle Debos @debos.bsky.social Prof. of Political Science. University of Paris Nanterre @uparisnanterre.bsky.social - ISP
Writing on war, tech, gender, postcolonialism
Completing a book on biometrics in Africa
She/her
https://www.marielledebos.com/en/about/
Jyo (she/her) @jyoiyer.bsky.social Researcher (RA) @The Alan Turing Institute / Digital Humanities et al
(new website in progress~)
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Katitza @katitza.bsky.social @EFF Policy Director for Global Privacy
Luca Belli @1lucabelli.bsky.social Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
Personal Views
Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social Global Policy is an interdisciplinary journal, website and blog bringing together world class academics and leading practitioners to analyse both public and private solutions to global problems and issues.
https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com
MERL Tech Initiative @merltech.bsky.social We care about responsible monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) in the development, humanitarian, peace building and social sectors. Join our natural language processing (NLP-CoP) community of practice: https://merltech.org/nlp-cop/
Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy.
Law professor at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro.
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
Jon Kropko @jonkropko.bsky.social Data Science @ University of Virginia, founder Code for Charlottesville
Zeve Sanderson @zevesanderson.com Executive Director @csmapnyu.org
Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
Muyao Jiang 姜沐尧 @muyaojiang.bsky.social Tech, Labor & Publics
PhDing @USCAnnenberg
United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies @unodet.bsky.social Official account / @un.org Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies. #ODET #DigitalCooperation #GlobalDigitalCompact
un.org/odet
Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social Journalist, MSE Applied Physics
Currently taking a break after covering tech, politics, EU budget negotiations in Brussels
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Hannah J Draper @hjdraper8.bsky.social Internet in the public interest |
Director PayneRoutledge.com | 🇵🇸
Mallory Knodel @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy Executive director and founder @swf, weekly newsletter @IX.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://techpolicy.social/@mallory, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Joan Lopez-Solano @joanuros.bsky.social PhD student on tech, migration and social justice @ALGOSOC.org @tilt-tilburgu | Prev. Researcher at Fundación Karisma & Global Data Justice |Data justice in social security, migration & identification
Sofi Chang @sofiachang.bsky.social privacy, data protection & internet governance • cts researcher, focusing on china tech regulations and privacy and data protection, global privacy program manager @ financial institution 〰️ 🌊✍🏻🛼📖📸🍃 〰️ she/her 🤸🏻♀️
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Giacomo Zampieri @giacomozampieri.bsky.social Cyber Policy - Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Joe Shaw @joeshaw.bsky.social Executive Director @urbanstudiesfoundation.org & Meatspace Press
> urbanstudiesfoundation.org
> meatspacepress.com
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social Professor, Stanford Law School.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Author, The Digital 4th Amendment:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
@ijoc-usc.bsky.social @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Aïda Solé-Auró @asoleauro.bsky.social Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Demographer studying POP health inequalities
***** LongHealth project *****
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan.bsky.social anthro & history in e. africa | book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009501385
Eric Kind @kind.ac Managing Director @awo.agency
Ian Reiley @ianreiley.bsky.social Writer/Investor/Producer (The Operator, Road 96, Crying Suns). Now working on Hard Rush, a book
Dad & American in France
Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Virginia.
Vice Chairman, Senate Intel Committee.
Joyce Groneschild @joycegroneschild.bsky.social Deputy Director, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC), Maastricht University, The Netherlands
@rgiordan.bsky.social @rgiordan.bsky.social
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Anupam Chander @anupamchander.bsky.social Dog dad and Georgetown law prof.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
Louis Ravn @louravn.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Critical AI Studies. @University of Amsterdam. deep-culture.org. He/him. All views are my own.
STS | critical AI | critical data studies | social theory
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385