Jens Hälterlein @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social STS scholar interested in Military AI, Swarming, Autonomous Weapons, Surveillance Technologies,Governmentality; he/him
else: Cycling, Jazz, Dogs
Alain Mueller @muellerculanth.bsky.social
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | 🔗 https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social what if i'm underthinking
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
https://provokedeconomy.net/
Tanja Schneider @taschn.bsky.social Head of Science and Technology Studies #STS Section @DTU 🇩🇰
Research Affiliate at InSIS @ox.ac.uk | @sydney.edu.au PhD | still writing a book about #Food #Finance #Futures | also sharing thoughts and photos on 📚🌷
Loïc Riom @loicriom.bsky.social Researcher interested in Music, Tech and Finance.
https://cv.hal.science/loicriom
Paula Bialski @bialski.bsky.social digital sociologist, ethnographer, STS scholar, musician. New book out now http://tinyurl.com/4f29px33
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.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Internal Tech Emails @techemails.bsky.social Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records. 🔍 https://techemails.com
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com Our in depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s happening now to help you know what’s coming next.
Find our journalists on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/technologyreview.com/3lar7fofuwl2n
Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social Sociologist. Interested in (digital) capitalism, work, authoritarianism and social conflicts. Book: „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“, Berlin: Suhrkamp.
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Libération @liberation.fr ▪️ Le compte Bluesky de Libération, avec une sélection de nos articles, enquêtes, billets et chroniques
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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
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
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
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Le Monde @lemonde.fr « Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science from @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/bjpols
BJPolS is now an open access journal and from 2025 has published continuously with no issues, just one volume per year.
Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science・Political sociology of class, morality, political divides・🔗 linuswestheuser.com
Just out: "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization" (BUP) 🔗 tinyurl.com/yn42x79t
Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social Director, The Immigration Lab; & The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles. Public scholar.
Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com Political sociologist @uni-kiel.de
Non-Resident Fellow @gppi.bsky.social
Private account
Author, THE POLITICS OF MILITARY FORCE (2020)
Co-editor, POPULISM AND WORLD POLITICS (2nd ed. 2026)
🏠 https://www.frankstengel.com
https://linktr.ee/frankstengel
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
hyoyoonkang.com
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social Sociologist and literary scholar unibas.ch
Books: Schreiben (2021), Gekränkte Freiheit/Offended Freedom (2022/2024), Zerstörungslust (2025)
Suhrkamp.de l Politybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦
Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w
•Gobernanza residual• https://bit.ly/488OkV7
•Residual Governance• http://bit.ly/41wDJzD
proud parent🏳️⚧️♾️🧠
Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social Biologist, gender/sex expert, feminist. In the works: a book on gender identity. In retirement: lots of bird photography.
Substack: Sterlinga.substack.com
Mastodon: @faustosterling@mastodon.world
Website: annefaustosterling.com
Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social Sociologist, focus on gender, care, biopolitics / embodiment, family, popular culture, STS
prof & chair LMU Munich
Former president of German Sociological Association (DGS)
Privately here
🥾 / ☕️ / 🥘/ 🍷/ 🪴 🌺
Trying to be a Mensh
🇦🇷 🌈 ✡️
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
CNRS @cnrs.fr Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social Sociologist | MPI for Political and Social Science, Göttingen https://www.ips.mpg.de | HU Berlin https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/Prof_Mau l social change, inequality, conflict, borders (pic Gesine Born), personal views
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
Prof Esther Turnhout🦄🌎🌼💚 @estherturnhout.bsky.social Chair of Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente. Explores ways to transform science & create better knowledge. Posts about #Nature #Conservation #STS #Politics of Knowledge #IPBES #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #Justice
Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, Durham UCU. Writing a book on non-reciprocity.
janabacevic.net
Aadita Chaudhury @aadita.bsky.social Ecological materialist with animist characteristics. Researcher on multispecies worlds, folklore, arts, eco-technosocial imaginaries/futures. Co-travelling with poetry, sound, science, ceremony and embodied knowledges.
She/her
aadita.substack.com
Dr. Aunchalee (ดร. อัญชลี) @anthrolactology.bsky.social Medical anthropologist. Biocultural lactation, human rights, bioethics, global health equity. Climate & Reproductive Justice. Novice Thai herbalist. she/they. Personal account.
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/
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.
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology VUB/replacement lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social Latest issue:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/current
BJPS Review of Books:
https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/
BJPS Short Reads:
https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/
Podcast:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bjps
E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social Taínofuturism nerd 🐚🪶🛖🤖; Award Winning Author of SORDIDEZ; ✍🏼 Science Fiction, CliFi, Fantasy, Horror 📚; SFWA; Cloud Anthropologist; RPG Connossieur 🎮; Cuir Boricua migrant in Europe | He/Him/Él 🏳️🌈🇵🇷👊🏼
www.egconde.com
Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social Philosopher of science, University of Edinburgh.
More about me here https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing about voice analysis AI and the labor of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare | bethmsemel.com
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social Sociology, UBC. Theorist of Emotions, Suicide, Institutions, Evolution. Unrepentant DeadHead and Mets Fan.
www.sethabrutyn.com
Check out our new book on youth suicide: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/life-under-pressure-9780190847
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.)
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social “How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social Acta Sociologica is the international general interest journal of the Nordic Sociological Association and has published research from all areas of sociology since 1955.
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/asj
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health
Personal Website: https://www.jonathanshaffer.net
David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social Philosopher of science, mostly busy with transdisciplinary action research on environment/food/society. Assoc prof at Wageningen University, Netherlands. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCzGlYMAAAAJ&hl=en
Evan Selinger @evanselinger.bsky.social Prof. Philosophy at RIT. Contributing writer at Boston Globe Ideas. Tech (yes, AI), ethics, privacy, policy, and power. http://www.eselinger.org/
Marcus Mann @drmann.bsky.social Purdue University assistant professor of sociology. Science, knowledge, and politics.
daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social Social and Political Philosophy
danielloick.net
New book: Die Überlegenheit der Unterlegenen
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/daniel-loick-die-ueberlegenheit-der-unterlegenen-t-9783518300398
SHOT, Society for the History of Technology @shothisttech.bsky.social The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social I work on social and political theory, history of ideas, & historical sociology. Postdoc and ext. lecturer at RUC/incoming assistant professor at CBS. He/him. Skeets=personal opinion/objective truth≠employer. Danish Marxism. 🇵🇸 Homepage: mikkelflohr.com
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social Writer, researcher • STS, economic sociology, political economy of deep tech • University of Glasgow & Edinburgh • Author of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’