Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
APPG on Diversity & Inclusion in STEM @stemdandiappg.bsky.social We promote the inclusion and progression of people from diverse backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Posts by secretariat @britsciassoc.bsky.social
Online Safety Network @osnetwork.bsky.social Building a better online world for all
Visit our website for all the latest analysis, commentary, research and resources relating to online safety, OSA enforcement, AI and emerging harms: www.onlinesafetynetwork.uk
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
Carine Roos @carineroos.bsky.social 🌍 Researcher on Democracy, Power & AI Governance
📚 Doctoral Researcher @sheffielduni, MSc in Gender @lsegender
http://carineroos.com
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium @pairs.site A space to share research and practice that puts affected communities at the heart of AI development and governance. More at https://pairs.site
Civic and Responsible AI Lab (CRAIL) @civicandresponsibleai.com A research lab working towards Responsible AI (and Robotics), and the use of AI for civil society and empowerment. Based at King's College London, UK.
Led by Martim Brandao (@martimbrandao.bsky.social).
Website: https://www.civicandresponsibleai.com/
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social The University of Sheffield Player - the UK’s biggest research streaming platform enabling anyone, anywhere to discover and explore our pioneering research.
🌐 https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/
Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social Building open models @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
Mon Rodriguez-Amat @monrodriguez.bsky.social Videogames.
Researcher, Analyst.
Governance, Policy, and Industry.
European Audiovisual Observatory.
Council of Europe.
My posts, my opinion.
Academia. PhD.
Communication- Space-Time-Tech, Culture. Politics & Follies.
Resistance against Empires.
Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk Bristolian. Snr Lecturer Digital Geographies, Exeter. RGS-IBG Deputy Chair Digital Geographies Research Group. See also @geocritbot.uk
Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.ifow.org/newsletter
Jeanette Hofmann @jeah.bsky.social Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität
Luca Bertuzzi @lucabertuzzi.bsky.social Senior AI Correspondent at MLex. Award-winning reporter focused on digital policy & EU affairs. Ex Euractiv. Bylines at la Repubblica & Tagesspiegel.
AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few!
🇪🇺 We’re the EU/German part
🇨🇭 For Switzerland: @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
🌐 https://algorithmwatch.org/
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
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 ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Francesca Palmiotto @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social AI, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor at @ielawschool
Editor and co-founder @The_Digi_Con
Sharing resources and abstract art
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute/UoB Law School.
Tech law geek. Genre fic nerd. Proud Scot-kiwi-Bristolian.
CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, University of Glasgow
Emerald de Leeuw-Goggin 🇮🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸 @emeralddeleeuw.bsky.social 🤖Global Expert in Privacy & AI Governance | Shaping executive strategies for privacy and responsible AI and 💖 advancing women in AI governance.
All views expressed here are my own - when I share, it is not an endorsement
Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social Professor of Law, Northumbria University. Interested in law, technology, #AI policing, law enforcement & national security (& art, detective fiction). Chair, West Midlands PCC/Police data ethics committee, Hon FRSS #academicsky
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)
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK campaigning charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fight for rights and justice.
https://linktr.ee/migrantsrightsnetwork
The People Speak @thepeoplespeak.bsky.social Tools for the world to takeover itself
#Talkaoke talk show & other formats
An international art collective based in London
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Dr Pam McKinney @pammckinney.bsky.social MA Librarianship @ University of Sheffield programme director, information literacy researcher
loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social Progressive Institutionalist. Blue highways + 🐶
Anna Colom @annacolom.eurosky.social Co-Director @TheDataTank | Former Public Participation & Research Lead @AdaLovelaceInstitute
Visiting scholar @OpenUniversity | PhD in POLIS
Research #democracy #delibdem #climate #intersectionality #data #AI #media
Former journo & docu filmmaker
Pierre Noro @pierrenoro.bsky.social Blockchain & digital ethics
Social entrepreneur
I research, teach and try to build cool stuff
Prof Henry WW Potts @hwwpotts.bsky.social UCL professor of digital health (+ COVID stuff). Lead author of the GOV.UK website on how to evaluate digital health https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/evaluating-digital-health-products
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
Danny Lämmerhirt @danlammerhirt.bsky.social Digital Sociologist. Leading the Future Internet Lab @Waag; Member @PublicDataLab
Using public participation, design-based research, and valuation studies to build useful digital technology for society.
Current focus: open social web & public AI
Ruth Hogarth @hogarthruth.bsky.social Editor @artsprofessional.co.uk | Honorary Research Fellow QMUL | former BBC World Service
Tracy Brabin @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social Mayor of West Yorkshire
Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social Psychologist interested in community, health, & wellbeing (esp. among gay & bi men) and social justice for all.
Lecturer at University of Galway.
Board member for the National LGBT Federation. Views my own.
He/Him.
Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire @mayorofwy.bsky.social First elected Mayor of West Yorkshire.
First woman to hold a Metro Mayor role in England.
Building a brighter West Yorkshire that works for all.
Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social Based in London, social historian now working on photographs of early-20thC shopkeepers in Britain & France, interested in difference arts and culture make, on boards in higher education and cultural sector, passionate about Tottenham Hotspur.
Lyn Gardner @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social Journalist thinking out loud about theatre. Often at The Stage and Stagedoor. Author of novels for children. Contact@lyngardner.com
Prof. Rebecca Finkel @rfinkel.bsky.social Events Researcher: festival accessibility & inclusion, inequalities in leisure landscapes, cultural identity, (auto)ethnography
Mark Robinson @thinkingpractice.bsky.social Writer, researcher, adviser, coach etc. cultural sector and intersections. Thinking Practice. / www.thinkingpractice.co.uk
Abi Gilmore @abigilmore.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Manchester.
Still naively optimistic.
Rebecca Blackman @rebeccablackman.bsky.social National Director Engagement and Communities - and the Midlands at Arts Council England. Lover of art, museums, libraries, heritage, science, nature and all that stuff. Personal views expressed here.
Ben Walmsley @benwalmsley.bsky.social Dean of Cultural Engagement at University of Leeds; Associate Director Policy, Centre for Cultural Value; Advisor, DCMS. Interested in all things arts & cultural sector related
Leila Jancovich @leilajancovich.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Policy and Participation at University of Leeds. Currently researching how we can better identify, acknowledge and learn from failure https://failspaceproject.co.uk. Also keen gardener as antidote to despair at our political system!
Heidi Stavrum @heidista.bsky.social Professor, USN, Bø. Cultural policy research, musicology and qualitative methods. Co-owner of Tyri Skrivestove.
Trønder i Telemark, prøver å finne ut av dette nye medium.
Dave Cameron @dscameron.bsky.social Dave is a Lecturer in HCI at the Information School Sheffield & Social Psychologist at Sheffield Robotics
He writes about Social Robotics, Trust, & Parasocial Interaction.
Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Women Leaders Network for Development- Africa @rfldorg.bsky.social RFLD is registered in Ghana, Benin, and The Gambia. The Ghana office acts as a regional hub, engaging with the African Union and UN organs. The Benin office serves as a regional hub for Francophone countries
--- Visit https://RFLGD.ORG
Doris Allhutter @allhutter.bsky.social SeniorScientist@ÖAW, automation of welfare, inequality in tech infrastructures, feminist materialisms (old & new)
resieber @resieber.bsky.social geoAI, ethics, citsci, GIScience, prof @ McGill
Equality Now @equalitynow.bsky.social International human rights organization using the power of the law to end discrimination & violence against all women & girls around the world
https://equalitynow.org/ #GenderEquality #WomensRights
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Anthony Hughes @antjhughes.bsky.social PhD Student at University of Sheffield. Researching privacy in M/LMs.
Emma Thwaites @emmathwaites.bsky.social I'm interested in tech and data. I'm - still - a journalist, public affairs and policy person, and single mother of two adult children. Armchair historian and lover of London although Yorkshire born-and-bred
Merlin Linehan @merlinlinehan.bsky.social Geopolitics | Climate Risks | Resilience
Writer at: https://climatefrontiers.substack.com/
Alex McLean @slab.org Researcher + musician based in Sheffield UK https://slab.org/
Co founder of algorave, toplap, algomech, pattern club, strudel, tidalcycles
Part of Then Try This https://thentrythis.org/
Exploring algorithmic patterns https://algorithmicpattern.org/
Sheffield Robotics @shefrobotics.bsky.social Bringing together industry and academics from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University to make Sheffield a leading hub for robotics research
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sheffieldrobotics
The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social We're a QS World Ranking Top 100 University changing lives through education and research since 1905.
linktr.ee/sheffield
Centre for Machine Intelligence @shefcmi.bsky.social Creating a better future through AI-driven research, innovation and education at the University of Sheffield.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/machine-intelligence
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social Professor in Digital Media @Lancaster University. Affect, intuition, habit, digital media, AI, culture, politics; Affect Theory Reader 2: http://tinyurl.com/36zdbeak; Revolutionary Routines: http://tinyurl.com/mtkehm62
Tara Steele @tarasteele.bsky.social AI safety for children | Founder, The Safe AI for Children Alliance | Exploring AI’s potential for both harm and good!
(Please note that my BlueSky direct messages are not always checked regularly)
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
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. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com // Artist (of sorts)
// Exploring Britain’s cultural & political landscape since 2005
// Monographs inc Motherland, We English, Pierdom & Merrie Albion
http://linktr.ee/simoncroberts
Tom Montgomery @tom-montgomery.bsky.social Lecturer in Work and Organisations at University of Stirling. Research on labour markets, policy, politics, and what to have for lunch...
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Qualitative Data Repository @qdr.bsky.social Storing and sharing qualitative research data: https://qdr.syr.edu
Mastodon: @qdr@mstdn.science
Amber R. Crowell, PhD @acrowell.bsky.social Professor @ Fresno State | she/her | Co-director of Center for Community Voices | Director and PI @ http://themarkfossettlab.com | Sociologist, advocate, mom x 2
The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social The Sociological Quarterly is the official journal of the Midwest Sociological Society. Editor: Jonathan S. Coley. Publisher: Taylor & Francis.
Sociological Research Online @socresonline.bsky.social Sociological Research Online is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality applied sociology.
Prof Michaela Benson @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @thesociologicalreview.org
Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK
Brexitbritsabroad.org
migzen.net
#Podcast producer and host https://whodowethinkweare.org
@drjamiecoates.bsky.social @drjamiecoates.bsky.social
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social Sociologist of leisure and consumption; alcohol, drinking culture & pubs; men and masculinity (wellbeing, identity & relationships).
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/social-policy-studies/staff/thomas-thurnell-read/
Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social Drama for #Communication #Creativity #Confidence #Oracy
www.speechbubbles.org.uk
UKRI CDT in Safe & Trusted AI @ King's & Imperial @safetrustedai.bsky.social Collaborative UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training between King's College London and Imperial College London pioneering next gen safe & trusted AI.
https://safeandtrustedai.org/
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️
www.felipegsantos.com
Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social Prof of Accounting & Society; Assoc Dean of Research & Innovation @ Sheffield Uni Mgt School, Director of CRAFiC & The Audit Reform Lab; veteran soulboy.