Understanding Capital @ucapital.bsky.social An Occasionally Illustrated Read-Along Podcast for Capital Volume 1
https://understandingcapital.github.io/
SUPERRR Lab @superrrnetwork.bsky.social A lab for feminist digital futures | https://superrr.net | non-profit organization | Berlin
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
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Aparna Sharma @aparna29.bsky.social Bangalore, India. Dog Mom. Currently working on Intimacy & Internet Studies in the Global South.
Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social PhD student in Informatics: AIAI: Automated Reasoning, Agents, Data Intensive Research, Knowledge Management. No, I don't know why the title is so long. Also Affiliate of the Center for Technomoral Futures. Views are my own.
Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful
Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
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
Rainforest Scully-Blaker (he/him) @rainforestsb.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Digital Media 👾🧑🏫
Northeastern University Vancouver 🇨🇦
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
New book out Spring 2027: https://dukeupress.edu/gaming-exhaustion
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
olivia doggett @o-doggett.bsky.social PhD candidate | Faculty of Information & School of Environment | University of Toronto
Priyank @prch.bsky.social HCI | CSCW | Researcher | University of Toronto | STREET Lab
Shreeharsh Kelkar @shreeharsh.bsky.social Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise.
Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net
Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
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/
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business asst prof at penn state, workers/AI/surveillance. she/her 🏳️⚧️
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Matt Scherer @matthewus.bsky.social Advocate and researcher focused on fighting corporate power and building workers’ technology rights. Fellow at OMI. Posts reflect my own views.
Hera Hyeonseo Lee @hera-lee.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Sociology, Binghamton University | Political economy of AI infrastructure | https://herahlee.com
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
John Chadfield @joxn.bsky.social Unionising tech workers in the UK. National Officer for Tech at Communication Workers Union.
Co-founder of @utaw.tech
Join a union. Get organised.
United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech United Tech & Allied Workers, organising across UK & NI | The first union for tech workers, by tech workers | A branch of CWU | 📧 contact@utaw.tech
Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social Historian-Artist. Assistant professor UCLA, Information Studies, Digital Humanities, Southeast Asia, libraries. cindyanguyen.com Author of Bibliotactics https://bibliotactics.com
Rob Gallagher @gealga.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, King's College London. Co-director MA Digital Futures. Author of Videogames, Identity & Digital Subjectivity (Routledge 2017) and Artgames after Gamergate (Palgrave 2025): https://link.springer.com/book/9783032044341
Usha Raman @usharaman.bsky.social Writer and academic; study and teach media, dabble in fiction and poetry. Just published my first novel.
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Sarah Fox @perhaxis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | Director of https://techsolidaritylab.com/
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft @hiigberlin.bsky.social Digitalisierung und Gesellschaft durch interdisziplinäre Forschung verstehen // Exploring digitalisation and society through interdisciplinary research
www.hiig.de
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Hitesh Potdar @hiteshforsocialism.bsky.social ESRC PhD King's College London| Labour Geography | Social Reproduction | Platform Economy | Tech & Dev | Political Economy |
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
britt paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | Rutgers 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
Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social STS-er • political ecologist • organizer
currently:
postdoc @ penn state
formerly:
phd, university of michigan | swammer, carthage college
Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social Smile Scotland ... you're on camera
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.
Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Trained as an anthropologist, former tech worker, now... who knows?
I like climate stuff, justice, permaculture, ecosystem nerding, and a good cat or fungi pic […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@dawnnafus, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social Trained as an anthropologist, former tech worker, now... who knows?
Oregon Data Center Defiance enthusiast www.ordcd.org
Books--Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World, Quantified, & Self-Tracking.
PDX, Permaculture, fungi, climate justice
Vaishnav Kameswaran @vaikam.bsky.social HCI, AI and Accessibility Researcher at Values-Centered AI, University of Maryland College Park.
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.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of algorithmic life. Transforming how we understand the relationships between human life and machine learning & AI algorithms
Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social anthropologist currently a postdoc at @datasociety.bsky.social & co-chair at @castac.bsky.social | professing @ nyu | views my own
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🏳️🌈 she/her
Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Tara Tarakiyee @tarakiyee.bsky.social Public interest technologist. Open source, digital autonomy, internet
governance. Berlin. another internet is possible. tarakiyee.com
Likhita @lipstickkrantikari.bsky.social Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty Tech | Works on Tech, Justice, and Rights| Views, mine
Michael Dieter @michael-dieter.bsky.social 
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies @cimethods.bsky.social CIM - interdisciplinary research centre at Uni. of Warwick - innovative & experimental knowledge production, methodology focus, expanding roles of interdisciplinary methods, new lines of inquiry across disciplinary boundaries.
https://warwick.ac.uk/cim
Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social phd student at university of michigan school of information - she/her - data, public interest technology, social justice
nathan kim @nathanckim.bsky.social phd candidate Umich School of Information | tech, race/empire, capital, logistics | socialist with GEO3550. Ann Arbor tenants union
For a ruthless criticism of all that exists, towards a Marxism without guarantees, etc.
https://nathan-kim.org
Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍
https://creativecommons.start.page
Protocols for Publishers @protocolsforpublishers.com Bringing together publishers and developers for a sustainable agentic web
https://protocolsforpublishers.com
(account run by @chadkoh.com)
OddSocksCas @oddsockscas.bsky.social Very Marxist
I think I'm a cognitive anthropologist? Also engaged in informatics, geography, medical humanities and social sciences.
Artist; jazz, jungle, abstract and surrealist.
disabled (AuDHD)
Foxglove Legal @foxglovelegal.bsky.social www.foxglove.org.uk
Foxglove is a non-profit that exists to make the use of technology fair for everyone.
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
BANZAI - Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative @banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social #Community level action, campaigning & activism for a better future. 'Wider Bruntsfield area' of #Edinburgh.- A Adam Lopez @adamlopez.bsky.social
James Galbraith @gulbruth.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Luddite, coffee addict. Postdoc at University of Edinburgh researching the evolution of weird chromosomes and sex determination in insects, opinions my own, he/him.
World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) @wrpe.bsky.social WRPE promotes innovative research into Marxist economic theories, their practical applications to world economy, developed & undeveloped economies, capitalist & socialist economies
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
Søren Bøgh Sørensen @machinemarx.bsky.social Machine learning, digital technologies, Marx, value form theory, critical theory, IPE- S @sedyst.bsky.social @sedyst.bsky.social
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Better Deal for Data @bd4d.bsky.social Better Deal for Data is practical data governance for the social sector. The BD4D Standard & Playbook bring trust & transparency to nonprofit organizations working with sensitive data. Join us in this movement for responsible data sharing! www.bd4d.org
Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social ✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨Tenure-Track Assistant Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
mozilla.ai @mozilla.ai Open, transparent AI for real world impact. Built for developers, creators, and teams shaping what’s next.
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.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper @zgtcooper.bsky.social I write, talk, and make media about the environmental impacts of data centers, chip manufacturing, energy, rare earth mining, and digital infrastructure in the Arctic. Stay tuned for some new film projects! https://youtube.com/@zanegtcooper
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
CHIPS Communites United @chipscommunities.bsky.social We are a coalition organizing for the responsible and equitable implementation of the #CHIPSAct, uniting communities with new and expanding #semiconductor facilities.
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
transmediale/ @transmediale.bsky.social festival for art & digital culture berlin
RFC 40
transmediale 40th anniversary
27 Jan – 7 Mar 2027
Festival: groundstates
28 Jan – 31 Jan 2027
Exhibition: fragile currents
27 Jan – 7 Mar 2027
https://transmediale.de/en
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies 
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Joan Kinyua @joan1k.bsky.social 
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) @digitcentre.bsky.social The ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit) aims to advance our understanding of how digital technologies are reshaping work.
Suchitra Vijayan @suchitrav.bsky.social I write books. Founder & Publisher The Polis Project. Teach @NYUgallatin & @columbia. Barrister. Chair, International Human Rights Committee, New York City Bar
TULE Network @tulenetwork.bsky.social Trade Unions and Labor Environmentalism (TULE) is a network of early-career researchers exploring how trade unions can advance working-class environmentalism. We organize regular events: https://tulelabour.org/get-updates/
https://tulelabour.org/about
@easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social 
Nadia Jude @nadiajude.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social Prof at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Eat the rich
James Muldoon @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social Associate Professor Essex Business School, Research Associate Oxford Internet Institute. Author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI (2024)
jamesmuldoon.org
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Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social Socialist since 1937. 🌹