Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social From Forres. Live in Edinburgh. Finished the Munros in 2021. Care about cycling and other stuff.
https://medium.com/@edward.tissiman
Howard Stevenson @howardstevenson.bsky.social Independent trade union research, education and consultancy. Professor Emeritus, School of Education, University of Nottingham.
Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about teachers. https://schoolmarmadvisors.com/ Luddite. Braver Angels. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social this one's personal: governance wonk; rural regional public u prof; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-pitcher/point guard/union goon (still HELU/CAHE); newly empty nester; mostly harmless Hawthornist; #PublicGoodU
Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
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 🏳️🌈
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Cyrenians Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution @sccrcentre.bsky.social Established by @cyrenians.bsky.social, the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution supports young people, families & professionals in working to resolve conflict. Find free digital resources on our website: https://www.scottishconflictresolution.org.uk/
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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.
Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I write books, buy them!
https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
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)
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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.
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
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.
François Jarraud @fjarraud.bsky.social Journaliste engagé pour l'Ecole. Fondateur, développeur et rédacteur en chef du Café pédagogique 2001-2023. France.
Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social #LectionaryPrayers guy. Church of Scotland minister.
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk
https://about.me/peterwnimmo
https://mastodon.scot/@Peternimmo
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No DMs- use peterwnimmo.co.uk/contact-me/
Signal: PeterNimmo.01
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
Jaunty Art @jaunty.art Draws stuff. Scottish person in Englandshire.
Does @caveatfrogs.bsky.social
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Email me mailto:info@jaunty.art on enquires for commissions / big prints
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
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
Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow of Digital Rights. Editor of book series on all aspects of digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism. Free typo with every post.
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social Professor in Sociology of Markets, Edinburgh| sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, data centres and BIG SHEDS|
EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics
🎥 @ https://youtube.com/@areweawed8955?si=VuE3d8hM5DJOadhE
Luc Rocher @rocher.lc associate professor at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
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.
@carloper.bsky.social @carloper.bsky.social
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
@lucykentish.bsky.social @lucykentish.bsky.social PhD student, University of Bristol. Peace Education in divided societies
Jemma Sherwood @jemmaths.bsky.social Director of curriculum for a MAT, MA Council, PhD student, writing for teachers and pupils. Also: music and language.
jemmasherwood.com
David Absalom @britishpictures.bsky.social Trying to stick to posting about British cinema, and not get into moaning about politics.
And I'll fail.
Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social tech/data/gender research, writing, and advocacy; organizational strengthening; gardening in TN | ex @Engnroom @takebackthetech @apc.bsky.social | she/her
banner photo: purple graffiti on a white wall reading NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS
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
Oli Frost @olifro.st Co-creator of the climate campaign group, Serious People. I also make novelty songs, films and websites about the climate crisis.
https://olifro.st
SGSSS @sgsss.bsky.social Scottish Graduate School of Social Science and Doctoral Training Partnership. Funded by the ESRC and SFC.
Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social Journalism, media, politics, culture, technology…and other stuff.
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
National Centre for Resilience @nationalresilience.bsky.social Working with universities, researchers, policy makers, emergency responders, volunteers & communities to build Scotland's resilience to natural hazards.
Find out more: https://ncr.glasgow.ac.uk/
Never Post @neverpo.st A podcast about and for the internet
https://neverpo.st and wherever you listen to podcasts
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social Education Professor, Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling. Mountain and prog rock enthusiast. European. Blog at http://mrpriestley.wordpress.com
Publications at https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Rebecca Chambers @metismamamb.bsky.social Columnist & project lead for the @WinnipegFreePress.com media literacy platform at www.winnipegfreepress.com/education, high school teacher, grad student @UManitoba.bsky.social, lifelong learner, Autism mom, love warrior.
The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social We provide over 700 services to Scotland’s capital city. Follow for news and information on life in Edinburgh.
If you have a service question, please contact us: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/contact
Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social Digital Ecologies is an interdisciplinary, international research group broadly examining the digitisation of more-than-human worlds.
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Website: http://www.digicologies.com/
Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social Collecting and sharing data on community-level health and well-being. Personal account: Posts here do not represent the views of my employer. #NHV resident.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social She/her. Li'l EdTech; big mouth. Settler. Feminist. Reader, writer, teacher, scholar, doozer.
Podcasts too much: creator of Community of Praxis; co-host of @hkhspod.bsky.social.
Opinions yours.
https://sabbaticast.brennaclarkegray.ca
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.
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
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.
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
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
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
Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social Professor of Human-Data Interaction, University of Edinburgh; Codirector @braiduk.bsky.social; & https://www.responsiblenlp.org Researches AI/HCI
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
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Charlotte Morris @cbocomms.bsky.social Comms Manager for the University of Glasgow's College of Social Sciences. Fuelled by ☕️
Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com No DMs!
Formerly exploited cybersecurity professor at OPIT. Previously AT&T, BlackBerry, Hack The Box.
Founder of StopGenAI.com
Ultimate Cybersecurity Careers Guide
Hacker Culture: A to Z, O'Reilly
https://kimcrawley.com
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Aileen Kennedy @profaileenk.bsky.social Professor of Teacher Education & Joint Director of the Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS), University of Glasgow. Activist teaching | transformative learning | teacher education for social justice.
Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social Academic Librarian Lit&Theatre. Opinions mine. Philly based. Early modern drama nerd, embroiderer of strange beasts, lady of cats and spooky things, nerd. (she/her)🌈
https://linktr.ee/sgwingo
Ruth Unsworth @ruthunsworth.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Glasgow. Interested in new materialisms and (shh!) a smidge of Lacan on the side.
Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association @sstatradeunion.bsky.social The union for Scotland’s secondary teachers. Professional support, organising, campaigning and standing together to shape the future of secondary education for all.
All our links: https://beacons.ai/sstatradeunion
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
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
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Rob Farrow @rfarrow.bsky.social Professor of Critical Educational Technology
The Open University (UK)
Editor, https://jime.open.ac.uk/
Co-Director, http://go-gn.net/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j3-x3WwAAAAJ&hl=en
(No DMs)
Children in Scotland @childreninscotland.bsky.social Scotland's national charity working to improve children's lives.
Services: Enquire | Resolve | Reach | My Rights, My Say
childreninscotland.org.uk
Alison Mitchell @alisonjmitchell.bsky.social Educator | Professional Learning and Policy Officer: School Leaders Scotland (SLS) https://www.sls-scotland.org.uk | #CenTCS Fellow | European 🇪🇺 | She/Her | #AntiRacist | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-mitchell
Dennis A Francis @dennisafrancis.bsky.social | migrant | queer and racial justice activist | yogi wannabe | french bulldog whisperer | kurta aficionado | professor |
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social English teaching, pop culture, comics, politics, and plants. FL ➡️ ROC. He, him, his.
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social I am a high school teacher. Earnest posting (at the moment it’s mostly grief-posting) until the end. Profile pic is my mom. (she/they)
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social Technician/artist. Googly-eye enthusiast. Several kinds of nerd. Unusual skill set. Toronto, Ontario. he/him.
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/