👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social We are 50+ grassroots orgs who represent 1M+ members across the US, building democratic power to end Amazon's abuse of our communities / #WeAreAthena
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
jewishcurrents.org/subscribe
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social reporting on culture & post-Roe abortion policy at Slate, The Nation, NPR, The New Republic, Axios. helping out at The WSJ. girl about town at Burbank Industries. previously Crosscut, Seattle Times, Portland Mercury, The Stranger.
meganburbank.substack.com
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Teamsters @teamsters.bsky.social The International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice @amzn4climate.bsky.social Amazon employees demanding climate leadership. Views ≠ Amazon. Reach out if you’re an employee! Dm or aecj.info/get-involved?ms=bb
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov Congresswoman, lifelong organizer, mom. Proudly serving WA-7. Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Member of Judiciary Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Budget Committee. She/her.
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social researcher @ Data & Society
anthropologist, etc.
she/her
https://datasociety.net/people/garofalo-livia/
views, at least those, my own
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
sucheta @suchetaghoshal.bsky.social
UW News @uwnews.uw.edu Experts, research and administration news from the University of Washington. Media assistance: uwnews@uw.edu.
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
Austin Toombs @altoombs.bsky.social 🎮🎲🧶🏳️🌈🏃♂️📚💻
I play video and board games. I knit, crochet, and sew. I’m gay. I run marathons. I’m an Associate Professor at IU. I study technology-mediated relationships and communities through HCI, CSCW, and Social Computing approaches.
F. Ria Khan @friak.bsky.social They/He 🏳️⚧️ | PhD Student at UMich
School of Information
HCI | Multi-Marginalization | Socio-Techno Cultures | Critical Design | Embodied Play
✨✋🏽💿👾💻✨
Past: MS from CU Boulder
https://linktr.ee/iamFRiaK
Sociotechnical Equity & Agency Lab @ Northeastern University @nusealab.bsky.social CS research lab at Northeastern focusing on projects which aim to empower at-risk users and communities to better understand, adapt to, and resist computational systems. Directed by @michaelann.bsky.social - sealab.sites.northeastern.edu
Michael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social Online Communities, Social Tech, Folk Theories, Epistemic Justice, Queer/Trans HCI. Assistant Prof of Comp Sci & Comm Studies @ Northeastern University. @nusealab.bsky.social director. Neurodivergent, trans woman, wife girl, femme lesbian, dork. (she/her)
Samuel Reiji Mayworm @mayworms.info 🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | online communities + trans tech | librarian sometimes | mayworms.info- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social Alt-Account of @cripdyke.bsky.social
Tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025.
Sean O'Brady @sobrady.bsky.social Assistant Professor, McMaster University | Interested in helping workers boost their wages, obtain data rights, and build collective power
Linda Huber @puellaludens.bsky.social Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.
Olu Niyi-Awosusi @olu.online web developer, writer, video maker, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
Emma Weil @eiweil.bsky.social they/them
senior policy analyst @ upturn.org
logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Linh Phuong @linhphuongtl.bsky.social PhD Student @ University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Interested in Human Mobility, Traffic & Transport Science, Infrastructure, and Climate.
Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social Political scientist. Author of 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (http://tinyurl.com/RePwr). Tech, labor politics, curiosities of capitalism.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar @pr-c.bsky.social 🇨🇴 Research Scientist @Robotics and AI Institute (RAI). Former MIT Media Lab. Ethics of Tech | Participatory Design | HCI | Ancestral Technology
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social Lead research engineer @dairinstitute.bsky.social, social dancer, aspirational post-apocalyptic gardener 🏳️🌈😷
I run workshops @dairfutures.bsky.social. Always imagining otherwise.
they/he
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
https://linktr.ee/premthakker
Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington educates tomorrow's innovators while developing solutions to humanity's greatest challenges.
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.- T Dr. Brock Craft @thatbrock.bsky.social
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Anoolia/Anny Gakhokidze @agakh.bsky.social she/they, currently a UW PhD student at HCDE interested in data centers, labor, tech and power.
prev: eng at @mozilla
EunJeong Cheon @echeon.bsky.social Asst Prof in the iSchool & Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at Syracuse University | social/power dynamics around robots | HCI, CSCW, HRI, STS researcher | previously, TT Asst Prof@CompSciAAU
DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social Seattle's community police watchdog. Got a good tip on a bad cop? DM us!
Substack: www.divestspd.com
Donate: ko-fi.com/divestspd and venmo.com/divestspd
Stop Surveillance City @stopsurveillance.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/stopsurveillancecityseattle
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
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social writing a book about the politics of pop psychology
Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social phd student at university of michigan school of information - she/her - data, public interest technology, social justice
kevin zheng 🍯 @ze.vin phd student in information @umich.edu • political economy of social platforms • computational social science, sts, hci • @geo3550.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @mediacloud.bsky.social
ze.vin • he/they • prev umass amherst, cfpb
Ridley LeDoux @ridleyal.bsky.social With great power comes great respronsitrilitrance
Sireesh Gururaja @siree.sh PhD student @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. Working on NLP that centers worker agency. Otherwise: coffee, fly fishing, and keeping peach pits around, for...some reason
https://siree.sh
Queer in AI @queerinai.com Our mission is to raise awareness of queer issues in AI, foster a community of queer researchers and celebrate the work of queer scientists. More about us: queerinai.com- A Arjun (they_them) @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social Perspectives my own, not those of my employer
🌶 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
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.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Ben Zhang @bzfzhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UMSI study data, AI infrastructure, labor, mobility and identity | he/him
http://benzhang.info
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
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism
Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻
www.jphilll.com
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Kwaneta Harris @kwanetaharris.bsky.social Incarcerated Journalist, Writer, and Activist. Exposing the abuses and conditions suffered by incarcerated women daily. Account managed by assistant.
kwanetaharris.com
kwanetaharris.substack.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
Henry W. @discountdimsum.bsky.social Ph.D Student @ University of Washington
Cybersecurity & Molecular Biology
I dabble in AML sometimes
henrycwong.com
mckane @mckaneandrus.bsky.social politics of measurement and datafied knowing/action, grassroots responses to datafication. UW HCDE PhD student, formerly at Partnership on AI. 🇵🇸
UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu UW HCDE: We build possibility.
We advance systems and technologies for people and communities to create accessible, sustainable, and prosperous futures. Offering undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Human Centered Design & Engineering.
hcde.uw.edu
Heesoo Jang @heesoojang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media Law and Ethics, UMass-Amherst
Proud UNC J-school PhD alumna
heesoojang.com
Katta Spiel (they/them) @katta.bsky.social queer crip in tech research, hearing sign language enthusiast
suhauna hussain @suhauna.bsky.social reporter @ LA Times covering breaking news. send me tips on labor, tech, immigration
tips to: suhauna.hussain@latimes.com
https://www.latimes.com/la-bio-suhauna-hussain-staff.html
@vishnurad.bsky.social @vishnurad.bsky.social
Sayan Bhattacharjee @shayeown.bsky.social PhD candidate @hcde.uw.edu investigating the intersection of AI fairness and biomedical reform w.r.t technoscience of skin tone | STS, Social Computing, HCI
https://sayanbe.com/
@renecapella.bsky.social @renecapella.bsky.social
Jiawen Stefanie Zhu @stef-zjw.bsky.social PhD Student @ UW CSE | UG @ Waterloo Math
https://stef-zjw.github.io/
@alanmarks.bsky.social @alanmarks.bsky.social
Shengzhi Wang @shengzhiw.com PhD candidate @ UW Human Centered Design & Engineering
shengzhiw.com
Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD. @dylantdoyle.bsky.social Director and Podcast Host @AI for All Tomorrows. Post-Doctoral Researcher @CU Boulder. TEDx Speaker. Researcher of AI safety, mental health, and end-of-life care. Former Co-Host @Radical AI Podcast