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Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture Goldsmiths, UoL
PSLF Defense @pslfdefense.bsky.social We are a group of public servants including lawyers, educators, healthcare workers, first responders, government employees, military, and nonprofit workers relying on and seeking to defend Public Service Loan Forgiveness. https://discord.gg/Jm2Nzkum.
Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist - Anthropology of AI and Computing
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social How could she breathe in that house so crowded with Norma Desmond?
Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University
ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10–14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/. Follow our community using our Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/SPumuMT
Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social hci+ai co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻‍🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻‍💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Jed Brubaker @whatknows.bsky.social Information Science professor at CU, @whatknows on most platforms. Director of the Identity Lab and Digital Legacy Clinic.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Claudia Müller-Birn @clmb.bsky.social Professor «Human-Centered Computing» | Institute of Computer Science | Freie Universität Berlin Research on Human-AI Collaboration, Value-informed participatory design | Critical Reflective Practice in Computing Education https://hci.social/@clmb
Airi Lampinen @airilampinen.bsky.social Associate Professor in Human–Computer Interaction at Stockholm University. Docent in Social Psychology at University of Helsinki. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Shared Uses of Technology. Intimate Technology.
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her https://citizensandtech.org/
Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social Communication and media professor researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. Brisbane/Sunshine Coast hinterland.🏳️‍🌈🏞🌄
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Anna Jobin @annajobin.bsky.social what if i'm underthinking
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024) Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U eszter.com
Kat Lo @lolkat.bsky.social Internet Researcher, Producer for hbomberguy Research: online moderation/abuse, misinfo, Trust & Safety, mental health, social media reporting/escalation channels. Prev: @Instagram @Intel @MSFTResearch
Jofish @jofish.bsky.social I do human-computer interaction, mainly, and play music for fun. Well, and a lot of other stuff. But HCI is useful as a way to find me.
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.
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Ricarose Roque @ricarose.bsky.social Director creativecommunities.group | Assoc Prof at @cuinfoscience.bsky.social ricarose.com
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist. https://andrealguzman.net Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
Bárbara Tauffner @barbaratauffner.bsky.social 🇧🇷 they/them. PhD Student in Communication & Science Studies at @UCSD | @labmidiars member | MA in Science Education & Communication| #platforms, #environmentaljustice & #discourse inter de porto alegre 🇲🇨 tauffner.ucsd.edu blueets in pt & en
Nima @boscarino.bsky.social UCSD Comm and STS PhD student. Studying SRHR and involuntary care policy in BC. (Nima/he/they)
T.L. Taylor @tltaylor.bsky.social Not sure I'm ready for another platform but let's see. Theme park play research these days (yup, Disney). tltaylor.com (links to most of my work, inc books) & instagram.com/ybikapix (for the fun stuff!)
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately. Website: http://dair-institute.org Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA https://llaannaa.com/ https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️‍🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net Former refugee. Abolitionist. Old-school net.person. UW MA Cultural Studies. UCSD PhD (in progress) Comm/STS. Surveillance, unbelonging & mediation of displacement. Unprecedentedness and crisis. Critical Data, AI, DH, maps, archives. She/They/Any
Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social Prof @ UCSD Wrote 'Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art museum’ 2020 Co-edited, Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair, 2025 Working on a new book "The Promise of Facts"
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her more: casey.prof
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26 High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2. 🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net 🧪 https://inertial.science
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️‍🌈
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
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ Executive Director @cordlabs
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488 NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
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.
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI. Senior Editor at Lawfare. https://klonick.substack.com/ www.kateklonick.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social Research Scientist at GDM. Statistician. Mostly work on Responsible AI. Academia-industry flip-flopper.
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree 💗💜💙
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about Views are mine alone.
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science | Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/ https://expertvoicestogether.org/ https://independenttechresearch.org/
web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com tracking only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, defi, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects since 2021 • created by @molly.wiki web3isgoinggreat.com
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
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + upstate wordsinspace.net
kate metcalf @technophobos.bsky.social science studies phd candidate @ ucsd | hermeneutics of postgenomic suspicion | surveillance & sociality | genetic data, research infrastructure, privacy
Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social Assistant professor at https://si.umich.edu/ working in computational social science, machine learning, and NLP | https://dallascard.github.io
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Z @zeynep.bsky.social @zeynep.bsky.social
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
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.
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.
BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own. https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social “How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Jevan Hutson @jevan.bsky.social data privacy/cybersecurity attorney by day, tech law professor/clinic director by night. into data rights, not into data wrongs.
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 🏳️‍🌈
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Sarah Brown @brownsarahm.com Assistant Professor in CS: researching ML/AI in sociotechnical systems & teaching Data Science and Dev tools with an emphasis responsible computing New Englander, NSBE lifetime member profile pic: me in a purplish sweater with math vaguely on the w
Andrea @akthom.bsky.social associate professor, information science. knowledge infrastructures! natural history collections! curated scientific databases!
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet she/her
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.
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/ ]
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ www.tamarakneese.com
Jen King @kingjen.bsky.social Expert of data privacy, algo manipulation (dark patterns), & artificial intelligence. Privacy & Data Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI. Outdoors fanatic and nuts enough to swim in the SF bay. I bleed blue & gold (Berkeley I-School). Former trust & safety Yahoo!
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
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, focusing on racial justice as data justice. interests: critical data x urban comm working on a book, Appetite for Data, about foodie platforms & race / class / solidarity. radjusticelab.com
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
Amber Sinha @ambersinha07.bsky.social Executive Director at EDRi | Author of “The Networked Public” | Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press | he/him/his
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.