Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social Building an economy that works for all of us. #WeAreTheEconomy
Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social Editor and reporter at Novara Media. Formerly Vice. Send stories and tips to simon@novaramedia.com for Novara or simonchildsjournalism@gmail.com for freelance. Nominated: Amnesty Media Awards 2025
Martin Krzywdzinski @martinkrz.bsky.social Professor of sociology of work, researching new technologies in the workplace
Governance of Emerging Technologies @govtechoii.bsky.social The GET programme at @oiioxford.bsky.social investigates the legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/governance-of-emerging-technologies/
Anthea Milnes @antheamilnes.bsky.social Head of communications and external relations at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - collectively shaping the development of our digital world for public good.
Cailean Osborne @c-osborne.bsky.social ๐ ๐จ๐ด / ๐ฉ๐ช
Senior Researcher @linuxfoundation.org
PhD on open source AI @oii.ox.ac.uk
Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
@ilawnetwork.bsky.social @ilawnetwork.bsky.social
Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) @pcc-global.bsky.social Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) at The New School:
Cooperative principles in the digital solidarity economy-- education, research, and community organizing. ๐ฒ๐ฒ
beacons.ai/platformcoop
platform.coop
platform.coop/events
platform.coop/voices/blog
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social An international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal founded in 2006 by Ursula Huws who still edits it. It is now published open access by Pluto Journals. Articles are available on Science Open and on Jstor. See https://wolg.wordpress.com
maddy varner @regret.bsky.social reporter @wired.com โจ prev the markup, FTC โจ signal: mvarner.01
Dizzy Zaba @dizzy.gay organizer, strategist, writer. fellow at future currents & democracy revival center. labor movement forever
Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social Director, NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. Workersโ rights lawyer. Sometimes writer. Policy wonk. Former NY labor law enforcer. Mom of 2 ppl taller/smarter than me. Brooklynite.
Justice Speaks @justicespeaks.us We support unions, progressive campaigns, and organizations in telling stories and changing narratives to mobilize communities and build a better world.
www.justicespeaks.us
Lauren Kaori Gurley @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social Labor Reporter @washingtonpost also covering immigration & the economy, formerly @vice
Tips? Signal: laurengurley.35 / lauren.gurley@washpost.com
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
๐ฉ notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
๐ฌ Google or Amazon worker? Join us โก๏ธ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
๐ notechforapartheid.com
Athena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social We are 50+ grassroots orgs who represent 1M+ members across the US, building democratic power to end Amazon's abuse of our communities / #WeAreAthena
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social Prof at Georgetown Law. Labor law, political economy, technology, other things. I no longer have a twitter account.
Author, Data & Democracy at Work, The MIT Press. Open Access version at https://tinyurl.com/btv74buj
Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social Iโm me โ๏ธ
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
alexandra @aliemalie.bsky.social things i care about: fair courts and judicial noms, cats, abortion, protecting our LGBTQ+ youth, immigrants, unions, gardening, knowing iโm on the right side of history (she/her)
tx | mn | dc | hn
UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social Uniting 7 million service workers across Europe. Fighting for social justice, quality jobs & equality as part of UNI Global Union.
ETUI @etui.bsky.social Independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation. We support, stimulate and reinforce the European trade union movement.
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
Unions 21 @unions21.org The leading voice for union best practice and innovation.
We help unions build for tomorrow.
Chuck Westover @chuckwestover.bsky.social Obsessed @UWBadgers & Detroit sports fan. Progressive, fmr @JenGranholm, @GovHowardDean, @ChrisVanHollen, @AFSCME, @LinkedIn & now @TheDemCoalition & on my own.
Mรฉl Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐๏ธ thedatafix.net
๐ heliotropejournal.net
copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society https://www.horrific-terrific.tech/
I also produce Computer Says Maybe: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
georgiaiacovou.com
Ahmet Alphan Sabancฤฑ @ahmetasabanci.com Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio
Posts in ENG and TUR
ahmetasabanci.com
tuhafgelecek.com
tuhaf.studio
newslabturkey.org
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
jenn schiffer ๐ฎโ๐จ @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
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.
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social ๐ Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Laine Nooney @ ๐ฅ๐๏ธ๐ฅ @lainenooney.bsky.social ๐พ associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
๐น๏ธ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
๐ The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io [โฆ]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European ๐ช๐บ Fellow at Stanford ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป column in FT ๐๏ธMember of European Parliament 2009-2019 ๐Author: The Tech Coup
Sam @smithsam.bsky.social Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog ๐งโโ๏ธ #FILDI
Cambridge
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social ๐ โMigrants in the Digital Peripheryโ for Uni. Of California Press, โResisting Borders+Techโ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Sarah Gold ๐ต๐ธ โ๐ผ ๐๏ธ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, โrebel with the right causeโ, expecting more from computersโฆ
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.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
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, ๐ช๐บ.
โข tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
โข DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
โข ex W3C, NYT
โข Signal robin.77
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ๐ @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me๐๐ฝ
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
JJ Reeder @jjs.business (she/they) I post a lot about remote work & org psychology. I happen to believe that a good job can make your life better, and that workplaces can be fulfilling & inclusive places. Director of Remote Org Effectiveness at Upwork, and obviously, an idealist
Dorothy Howard @hexjelica.bsky.social ๐จ ๐๐โ๐๐ฑ
Writer, artist, researcher, historian, Wikipedian, communications strategist
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social
Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Critical Internet Studies Institute (@criticalinternet.bsky.social, criticalinternet.org). He/him. Views my own; shares, likes, etc. =\= endorsements.
Trying to devote my time to matters of concern to others or to no one in particular.
Anne Jonas ๐ป @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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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.
xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
cass @cassiusa.bsky.social boy
writer
tired
VB โ> MPLS (southside all day)
Christo Sims @cs1msy.bsky.social Assoc. Prof UCSD Comm, Affiliate: Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies. Author of Disruptive Fixation (PUP). Working on a book about housing, labor, and urban development in Silicon Valley. 2020-21 member of the IAS.
Yana Boeva, PhD @dropsmops.bsky.social Research Group Leader + Postdoc @Uni_Stuttgart @EXC_IntCDC | PhD @STS_YorkU | STS, computation, algorithms, design, skills, knowledge | she/her | https://www.yanaboeva.net/
Sergio Torrejรณn @sergiotorrejon.com research scientist at the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research โข labour, inequality, health & demography, but here for the small chats too โข I also make dream rock / power pop songs as ๐ฅ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ง๐ ๐ฃ๐ค๐๐ง ๐ธ and do photography ๐ท
https://www.sergiotorrejon.com
Reka Patricia Gal @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social Fire extinguisher on fire. Feminist STS & media theory. Environmental justice. Social Studies of Outer Space. Social Studies of Chemistry. Postdoctoral Researcher @TUM STS. Landโฐ๏ธBack.
Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social Prof. Georgetown University, Tech and Welfare, ICTD, Critical AI, author: Patching Development.
ex - Microsoft developer, UC Berkeley(Ph.D)
interested in Real Utopias
Tech and social change #sociotechnical, #labortech, #welfare, #AI
www.rajeshveera.org
Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a book on labor & environment in the history of the computer industry.
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
Shreeharsh Kelkar @shreeharsh.bsky.social Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise.
Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net
Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
Aditya Vashistha @imadityav.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Cornell. Research in HCI4D, Social Computing, Responsible AI, and Accessibility. https://www.adityavashistha.com/
Myrna Moretti @myrnamoretti.bsky.social Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker ๐น๐พ
๐Toronto
Kate Miltner @katemiltner.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst. Prof) in Data, AI & Society @ The University of Sheffield Information School. Member of the UK Young Academy.
katemiltner.com
@winifredposter.bsky.social @winifredposter.bsky.social
julie chen @julieychen.bsky.social Assistant Prof., ICCIT & iSchool, UofT
Editor, Platforms and Society
Study digital labor, platforms, and data work for AI
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC โก๏ธ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de Mรฉxico.
Emily Mazo @emilymazo.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Columbia Sociology. Former software engineer. Studying tech work and labor organizing in the tech industry ๐จ UAW 2710
Mob Front @rooob.bsky.social Personality test failer
Arne Maibaum @arnemaibaum.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology @TUBerlin / Sociology of technology / STS / HRI / he
https://linktr.ee/arnemaibaum
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. ๐น๐ผ
crystaljjlee.com
Barbora Cernusakova @bcernusa.bsky.social Labour disciplining & racialised debt | Digital rights of workers | Written: 'Surplused Lives. Roma under Czech racial capitalism.' MUP | Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester. past: researcher @amnesty
https://vimeo.com/842892762/c58992
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social Professor ILR School - Global Labor and Work. Unions & AI in telecoms, game development, ICT industry. Co-Editor ILR Review.
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
Charitha @ckommalapati.bsky.social PhD fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University | interested in labor, information technology, gender, and society
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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๐ธ @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep๐ @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Vageesh Vishnoi @vageesh.bsky.social Sociology PhD @ Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Research interests include intersection of labour, technology and informality.
Sebastian Randerath @sebastianranderath.bsky.social PhD Research Associate and Lecturer, Digital Media Culture, University of Bonn | Researching Media and Labour, Focus on Resistance, Surveillance and Planning | he/him
Siobhan O'Flynn @sioflynn.bsky.social Canadian Studies UofT. ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies.
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