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David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social Author The Great University Gamble.
University funding & financing.
But also chess, shogi and tai chi.
andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
No Context DΛTΛSSSSSETTE @datassette.bsky.social ░░░░ Music: https://datassette.bandcamp.com
░░░░ Podcast: https://musicforprogramming.net
░░░░ Links: https://datassette.net/
'(] • ___ • [)' @megaheadphoneboy.bsky.social Resonant electronic music since 2002
https://linktr.ee/megaheadphoneboy
Freelance design, retouch and artwork.
https://graphicalfuzzball.co.uk/
Will Stronge @wstronge.bsky.social Director of @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
Website: autonomy.work
Co-author, with Helen Hester, of Post-work (2025) and, with Kyle Lewis, of Overtime (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postwork-9781350089976/
Liam Mullally @liammullally.bsky.social Researcher @ autonomy.work | PhD in Cultural Studies | materialist media theory & information infrastructures
alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social Alleged geographer at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. A reluctant polygon enthusiast, I occasionally work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social #histSTM studying scientific publishing, funding, and peer review. Associate prof @ UMD College Park. All opinions mine!
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Russell Prince @russellprince14.bsky.social Geographer at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand
🌶️👼🏻😈 dubdobdee 😈👼🏻🌶️ @dubdobdee.bsky.social i deciphered the voynich manuscript it says you suck
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Mark J. Hill @mrak.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural Computation and Digital Humanities at King's College London.
Evan Calder Williams @nightsmove.bsky.social
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Daniel Chávez Heras @dchavezheras.bsky.social https://movingpixel.net/
Digital Culture and Creative Computing @kingsdh.bsky.social, King’s College London.
@kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude
- most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry: https://au.linkedin.com/in/cameron-tonkinwise-80a5987
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
iniva @iniva-arts.bsky.social Institute of International Visual Arts is an evolving visual arts organisation. Est. 1994.
Stuart Hall Library
16 John Islip St, London
Open Tuesdays to Fridays, 10am to 5pm.
www.iniva.org
https://linktr.ee/iniva_arts
R. Trebor Scholz @trebors2025.bsky.social Prof at The New School | Founder, Platform Cooperativism Consortium + Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Author, OWN THIS! (2023) + UBER-WORKED & UNDERPAID (2016) | Faculty Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center | Advocate for Digital Labor Rights |
Agon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social Teaches philosophy, Co-editor of "Crisis & Critique journal.
Co-host of "Crisis and Critique" podcast.
"Reading Hegel" (2021).
Writing a book on Hegel.
Robert Tally @roberttally.bsky.social Professor
Matt Charles @mattcharles.bsky.social Critical theorist, philosopher of education, lecturer in London
Sapphire Goss @sapphiregoss.bsky.social Light Sensitive Materials
sapphiregoss.com
Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at University of Amsterdam
Studying the intersection of AI, social media, and politics.
Polarization, misinformation, radicalization, digital platforms, social complexity.
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Brodie Conley @brodieconley.bsky.social love to learn✌🏻music (industries) person and researcher // 🎵: fine form // board: debaser.ca + @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social // https://brodieconley.carrd.co/
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
Tom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social Philosophy and critical theory | Professor and head of Critical Studies at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam | Working on catastrophe, pessimism and utopian imagination | Books-in-progress: Benjamin, Anders, Weil
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
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.
Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social Philosophy of Science, History of Physics; Postdoc University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social Novelist, journalist, lecturer, esotericist. Author of Hinton and I'm Jack. Editor of J.G. Ballard's Nonfiction. markblacklock.com / offaloffaloffal.com
Stine Engen @stistien.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate, TIK Centre @uio.no, writing about finance and climate change
sv.uio.no/tik/english/people/aca/stien/
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. We meet 3-4 times a term on Fridays at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Peter Knight @beetroot.bsky.social Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. Research on conspiracy theories, and economic humanities. https://t.co/tAAlyS4zD6
hunchback from sardinia @dogfromsinope.bsky.social free range, cage free, organic intellectual
Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)- G Toby Miller @greencitizen.bsky.social Toby Miller writes books that bring down capitalism, pacifically. You may have noticed their impact
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
INDEP @lndep.bsky.social The International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP) is an international network of workers, students, researchers, and activists, who share the common goal of advancing a post-capitalist economic system based on democratic economic planning.
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Music and AI Research Programme @musaiproject.bsky.social Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies (MusAI) is a five-year research program investigating the cultural implications of AI, led by Prof Georgina Born (UCL). https://musicairesearch.wordpress.com/
Global Theory Forum @globaltheoryldn.bsky.social London-based, LISS-DTP funded student-led group fostering an academic community for PhD students and ECRs working on political theory and philosophy with global dimensions.
globaltheoryforum@gmail.com
The Deutscher Prize @deutscherprize.bsky.social The Deutscher Prize is awarded annually to a book which exemplifies the most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition.
lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net academic and aspiring person who likes winter.
contemporary lit, digital stuff.
i’ve written about sci fi, national security and fiction, the humanities, bunkers, and chatbots. now writing about novels and how long they are.
https://lindsaythomas.net
Matthew Wilkens @mattwilkens.bsky.social Associate professor of Information Science at Cornell.
Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Visiting Assistant Professor of History @urochester.bsky.social | PhD from Princeton | Edit @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
K2S0'Hara (hypernarcoleptic) @oharawe.bsky.social Music theory prof interested in too many things, and too many sports teams. Currently writing about Amy Beach and video game music (not at same time). Midwesterner stranded in the Mid-Atlantic. Swim dad, happiest in/on water.
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.- R Adam Harper @rougesfoam.bsky.social Musicology, music lecturer at University of Oxford etc (more soon...)
This is Fine(ance Capital) @thisisfincap.bsky.social An occasional newsletter on the intersection of labor & finance from Samir Sonti and @kanejim.bsky.social.
Posts are available at thisisfincap.leaflet.pub and thisisfincap.substack.com.
Max Tundra @maxtundra.com https://linktr.ee/maxtundra innit
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
https://disjunctionsmag.com/
Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University.
S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
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
Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
London Social Media Observatory @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social We are a multidisciplinary research centre based @royalholloway.bsky.social. We use computational methods and big data to investigate the role of social media platforms in politics, in partnership with key stakeholders and policymakers.
Paul Wilks @pwilks.bsky.social #Sociology PhD researcher (sociology of work & productivity) at University of Westminster | Sociology Course Leader & Lecturer at UCP | Broader academic focus on: #SocialTheory #SociologyofWork, #IndustrialRelations, tech & neuroinclusive pedagogy.
Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Heritage. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. Norwegian forest cat 😂 and newly diagnosed coeliac posts 😭
Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social Librarian, Liaison Program Lead & Qualitative Research Specialist. LIS adjunct faculty. Library liaison programs, info lit instruction, higher education policy studies, valuation of library labor, qualitative methods.
🌱🐈⬛🚲☕️
https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
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
Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma
lenorepalladino.me
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves @imaginaries.bsky.social Researching on sociotechnical fictions, hype, financialisation and cyberlibertarianism
Working on a video essay on venture capital and religion
Co-founder of hypestudies.org
andreubelsunces.net
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social academic. i think about cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social Sociologist studying frivolous things and their serious consequences
Work: KU Leuven(BE)
Home: Utrecht(NL)
If you don't understand what I write it's probably Dutch.
More on my ERC project: sociologyofbeauty.eu
Meer over Lelijke Mooie Wereld: dasmag.nl
Mafalda Dâmaso @mafalda.bsky.social EU cultural/audiovisual policy & cultural diplomacy scholar | Part-time Prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social | Co-chair @forumukeu.bsky.social | Assembleia @partidolivre.pt | PT/UK | 📍London | https://mafalda-damaso.com | Views my own
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
Critical Data Lab @criticaldatalab.bsky.social The Critical Data Lab is a space for critical reflection on the current state of technopolitics and the data economy at Humboldt University, Berlin and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg www.criticaldatalab.org
Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social history keeps me awake at night
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️🌈
Dominik Želinský @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social sociologist @ViedAkademia | phd @EdinburghUni | názory pre @denniksme
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/