ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social The human, budgetary, environmental, and social costs of U.S. wars and military operations, at home and abroad. Housed at Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs at costsofwar.org.
Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
Nino Scherrer @ninoscherrer.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google | Interested in rigorous evaluations, cognitive science, multi-agent systems and causality | Prev: Vector Institute, Mila, Max Planck Institute, ETH Zurich
https://ninodimontalcino.github.io/
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
britt paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | assoc prof Rutgers | RU AAUP AFT | views mine
New Book, Radical Infrastructure: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper#reviews
Chair, AAUP cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4lkuKu1
Carmen Thong @carmenthong.bsky.social PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies
carmenthong.com
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We are the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies & practitioners in social science & the founder of the Campaign for Social Science. We exist to promote social sciences in the UK for public benefit: www.acss.org.uk
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Council for Global Anthropological Linguistics @theglocal.bsky.social This is the official profile of The GLOCAL,The global council for Anthropological Linguistics
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
Words: @nytimes.com @harpers.bsky.social @latimes.com @rollingstone.com @yahoonews.com @teenvogue.com @vicenews.bsky.social
Leak documents to me at: nick.turse@theintercept.com
Or on Signal: nickturse.01
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Daniel Stanford @danielstanford.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Award-winning learning experience designer, first-gen college grad, inclusive-learning fan, and artsy MFA degree holder with a weird affinity for spreadsheets. Adjunct prof, freelance instructional tech consultant, and faculty developer.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
@uoftdsi.bsky.social @uoftdsi.bsky.social
ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Lance Eaton @leaton01.bsky.social Educator? Writer? PhD! Learner! Runner! Bi! #OpenAccess #EdTech #OpenPedagogy #AcademicPiracy #AIEducation posts=my own. Follow me at https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
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
Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @hcde.uw.edu. I study how to govern public knowledge institutions under attack.
zarine.net
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social 🎓 Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin Uni (Boorloo/Perth West Australia);
🔎 @digitalchildau.bsky.social (GenAI & Datafication);
🐘 @tama@aoir.social; he/him.
[Views mine; RT/❤️/etc ≠ endorsement]
Julián Posada @posada.website 💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu & Just Tech Fellow @SSRC.org
📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026)
🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms
🌐 https://posada.website/
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | Critical Data Studies @ EFI | https://workersobservatory.org
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
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.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
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
Tiffany Knearem @tknearem.bsky.social Head of TK Research, a UX and HCI research consultancy 💻 Research interests in human-AI alignment, UI design, and community informatics. Prior: Google Design, GoogleAI, Meta. PhD in Informatics from Penn State University
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Devansh Saxena @devsaxena.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW-Madison
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).
w: https://www.ivir.nl/profile/quintais/
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
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
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
emily lynell edwards @emilylynell.bsky.social currently in publishing. Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon, & Scorpio Rising. she/her
fan of feminisms, cyberspace, iced-americanos.
http://www.emilylynelledwards.com
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Nari Johnson @narijohnson.bsky.social researching AI’s impacts on society 🔍
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Lars E.F. Johannessen @larsjohannessen.bsky.social Sociologist and Prof. in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University • Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University • Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
STREET Lab @streetlab-uoft.bsky.social STREET Lab is focused on understanding and supporting the sociotechnical practices of marginalized communities around the world, with an emphasis in resistance, informality, and social justice.
Priyank @prch.bsky.social HCI | CSCW | Researcher | University of Toronto | STREET Lab
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
Patrick Keilty @patrickkeilty.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. 🏳️🌈 📚 🎥 🖥️ 🐈 http://patrickkeilty.com/
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Greg Leppert @leppert.me Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
Jonathan Bellack @bellack.com Author of the Platformocracy newsletter, 30-year Internet veteran, Xoogler, grilling/smoking, an old house, and many, many comic books.
David Weinberger @davidweinberger.bsky.social Writer about how our encounters with tech are changing our ideas and understanding. Long-time affiliation with Harvard Berkman Klein Center. Researcher at Harvard metaLab. Grandpa flush with dopamine.
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/
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social FacAssoc @BKCHarvard @Harvard_Law | Researcher @metaLABharvard | Prof @EmersonCollege | Assoc @EuropeAtHarvard @DCRES_Harvard @MHCHarvard | Exec @TheTheatreTimes
Dario Rodighiero @dariorodighiero.bsky.social Dario Rodighiero is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Groningen, where he serves the multidisciplinary Campus Fryslân faculty within the Knowledge Infrastructure department.
Kim Albrecht @kimay.bsky.social Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts
Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin
kimalbrecht.com
Dara Conduit @daraconduit.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Melbourne | Digital Authoritarianism | Syria | Iran | Author of The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria | She/Her
ME Luka @meluka01.bsky.social Associate Prof, U of Toronto. Techno culture, research creation & methods geek. Be kind
Jonas Parnow @jonasparnow.com Information design and data visualisation. Cares about the climate crisis, post-digital media and technological justice. I like code and smoothies.
https://links.jonasparnow.com
📍Berlin
Kara Oehler @karaoehler.bsky.social sound, art, science, data and journalism. Copenhagen-based
Executive Director - Institute for Climate Sound & Society
Senior Researcher - AIR Lab, ITU Copenhagen and metaLAB (at) Harvard
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.
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhD students Fall'26 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
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.
Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
Maha Bali, PhD @mahabali.bsky.social Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha 🐦. Mahabali@mastodon.social
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Adrian Petterson @adripetter.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Toronto, researching abortion access technologies.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Jeffrey Schnapp @jaytiesse.bsky.social founder@metaLABharvard, co-director@BKCHarvard, CVO@P_F_F, cultural historian, curator, knowledge designer, biker & scooterologist - https://jeffreyschnapp.com/