Matthew Ehrlich @hungryhistorian.bsky.social PhD candidate in Modern Spanish History @UCSD, Union Organizer, Cook, Anti-Fascist, Anthrophile. Easily excited, easily distracted.
Katherine D. Johnston @katherinejohnston.bsky.social Assistant Professor English, Writing, and Rhetoric at SUNY Stony Brook. Contemporary American Literature, Surveillance Studies
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines
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"
Patrick Horve @patrickhorve.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Guillemin Lab @ UOregon studying host-microbe interactions and the developing pancreas 🦠🧬🐟
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- T @tomknightsynbio.bsky.social @tomknightsynbio.bsky.social Engineer of stuff that is alive or computes.
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Charlie (In my unghost era) @dka.bsky.social Philosophy and Category Theory | he/him | All socials: @CharlesDKA
Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
ananth @ananth.blue I done got some crazy ass results from showing kindness
ananth.link
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social thinking about the work needed to make paper work as paperwork; histories of the passport and filing cabinet https://bit.ly/2RMo1Qa; from Aotearoa; part-time Chris Knox biographer
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar @pr-c.bsky.social 🇨🇴 Research Scientist @Robotics and AI Institute (RAI). Former MIT Media Lab. Ethics of Tech | Participatory Design | HCI | Ancestral Technology
Flurin Condrau @fcondrau.bsky.social Professor of the history of medicine @uzh_en in Switzerland; interested in #HistSTM, #histmed. Co-editor of Social History of Medicine; using BlueSky in personal capacity.
Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social PhD in history and philosophy of science (also JD and MLA), Stanford.
Biology, complexity, diagramming. Philosophy of history.
Curates these BlueSky feeds:
History and Philosophy of Biology
Complexity Science
Philosophy of History and Historiography
Haixin Dang @haicinnamon.bsky.social "hi-SIN"; Assistant Professor @ Case Western Reserve University; philosophy of science, social epistemology
Brian Krohne @apparentlyyes.com Radicalized San Diego computer programmer
Unitarian Universalist
https://social.tchncs.de/@krohne
Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD @akvbroek.bsky.social Anthropologist of Innovation (and all the hype that entails) | Asst Prof of Anthro, TXST | Director of InnoAnth Lab | CASTAC Web Producer | She/Her | ak.vbroek.org | All Opinions My Own
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
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
Dune @dunegrey.bsky.social i love uaw, i love dsa, i love estrogen
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social anthropologist. renewable substitution, green capitalism, sugarcane, biotech, STS, Brazil.
https://kathleenulrich.com- K @knishes.bsky.social @knishes.bsky.social I'm a reply guy because I have nothing to say and I am saying it
utku turk @utkuturk.com https://www.utkuturk.com
ling phd @ umd
stats and psycholinguistics janissary
Colin Simpson @gamerlearner.bsky.social Lecturer in Learning Futures and CRADLE Research Fellow, Deakin Uni, convenor of @TELedvisors SIG, He/Him Opinions are mine. Work stuff Newsletter http://bit.ly/edtechmustreads
Dr. Jennifer Henrichsen, PhD @drjennhenrichsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Washington State University's Murrow College of Communication. Affiliated Fellow: Yale’s Information Society Project, UPenn's Media, Inequality & Change Center. 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. PhD from UPenn Annenberg.
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.
Nica Siegel @nicasiegel.bsky.social political theorist @ amherst college / exhaustion and the psychopolitics of transformation.
recent pod on Fanon's clinical writings: https://shorturl.at/oCKCs
Anna Lauren Hoffmann @annalauren.bsky.social “listen up fives, a ten is speaking” / data, tech, discourse, critique / assoc prof @ UW iSchool
Work Stoppage @workstoppage.bsky.social Weekly labor news from a revolutionary perspective. Get our evergreen labor education episodes @ patreon.com/workstoppage. All other links @ workstoppagepod.com- I L @immanence.bsky.social
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
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
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.
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
allison.tar.gz @allisonturner.bsky.social digital artificer and security witch. PhDropout. everything for everyone. class traitor to silicon valley. anarchist. (she || they). fuck nazis, terfs, and those who defend them.
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Citizen Shane @shanesheehy.bsky.social It's a long way to Shanerary
Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social You're just in time for euphoria. New comics every Monday. buttercupfestival.com • patreon.com/buttercupfestival
Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social Postdoc studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. TF2 Medic main.
This account does not represent the positions or opinions of my employer or of my union.
he/him
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social Posting through the contradictions, now on this website
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
henry @hdevalence.bsky.social navigating the library of babel
Simin Mehdizadeh @simin.bsky.social Perfume Ambassador
Instagram.com/siminfashionbeauty
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.
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social “middle-brow theorist” aiming for low-brow. just a private citizen speaking on matters of public concern
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Richard Westerman @richardwesterman.bsky.social UAlberta prof
Social theory & philosophy: Lukács, Adorno, Benjamin, Frankfurt School, Western Marxism, phenomenology, philosophy of art.
Situated on Treaty 6 land.
He/him
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.
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
makam @makam.bsky.social Music studies / STS - audio engineering - oud - eurorack performances as makamqore and as 1/2 of manifestoon platoon. Fuck LLMs. They/them
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Sarah K Moir @smore.bsky.social Endlessly curious about docs, music, data, ethics in tech, inclusivity, borders on the web, and so much more. Can be spotted taking the bus to the club. Technical writer in SF. She/her.
nicolasnova @nicolasnova.bsky.social Anthropology of digital cultures/technologies and environmental changes, design research, design fiction. Professor at Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD) / Managing partner girardinnova.com / posts in English et en français
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
James J. A. Blair @jjablair.bsky.social Associate Professor, Geography & Anthropology | Author of *Salvaging Empire* | Views my own, not my employer’s | he/him/él | jamesjablair.com
jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social data justice, tech policy, cities & nighttime governance | asst prof of data science & public policy / writer | they•them 🏳️⚧️ | 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸
Jessica Scott @jessicascott.net Writer of spicy military romances, among other things. Writing again after a 5 year drought. Sociologist studying privacy, surveillance, and narrative warfare.
https://jessicascottbooks.com
neither wise nor unwise but a secret 3rd thing (otherwise) @lunarbaedeker.bsky.social rachel 鄭希汶 • duke lit phd student • interested in attention (studies) but not in that way • she/her
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
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
Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in Rhymes w Wasabi. Design & STS at YorkU. He/Him.
https://gabi.schaffz.in
Jeremy Keen Abbott @jkabbott.bsky.social librarian, lawyer, PhD student researching the "public" in public libraries
Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social Population Geographer | Spatial Demographer.
Partial to words like orthogonal + heterodox.
Also very partial to shoes.
rachelfranklin.org + rachelfranklin.substack.com
bestqualitycrab @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social cultural big data, #digitalhumanities, HuNI http://huni.net.au Has Anyone Seen A Woman? http://vimeo.com/144863312
#academicsky
#feministsky
Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social Habitual CS line-stepper.
Bull City, Gen X, and unserious as hell.
"I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of."-Rapsody
Kristen Collins @kristenrosec.bsky.social Political theorist thinking about surveillance. Senior Fellow, FA Hayek program at the Mercatus Center, GMU. Host of Virtual Sentiments, a podcast on the today’s pressing problems in political economy with an eye to the past
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.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
katie @focusfronting.bsky.social opinions are not my own and represent those of your sainted mother. she/her.
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
drumm, colin @drumm-colin.bsky.social monetary history (etc)
trialofthepyx.substack.com
Organizer at the Mimbres School: https://mimbres.study.garden
discord: ColinDrumm
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Michael McQuarrie @mgmcquarrie.bsky.social Sociologist at Arizona State University. Director of the Center for Work and Democracy: cwd.asu.edu. Writing on cities, politics, governance, labor, and liberation movements.
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Yelena Gluzman @gluzmania.bsky.social * theater meets brain science & goes on a bender * research-creation * research-as-theater (RaT!) * feminist STS * making & doing * compelled to collaborate || Univ of Alberta || Ugly Duckling Presse || https://ualberta.academia.edu/YelenaGluzman
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social I’m me ✌️
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
dr greg is historicising ✍️💫 @thewastedworld.bsky.social Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Thomas Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • Blog: thewastedworld.com
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com