John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
PERVADE Team @pervade-ethics.bsky.social PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research
Advancing ethics for research with public, large-scale, and pervasive data—through studies, tools, education, and outreach. NSF-funded
Joel Chan @joelchan86.bsky.social (Associately??) Professing #hci #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD INFO and HCIL
#immigrant (🇲🇾 ➡️ 🇺🇸 ) #firstgen academic
Building @discoursegraphs.bsky.social #atproto 🤝 #openscience
https://joelchan.me
Florence Chee @cheeflo.bsky.social Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, and attachment. Wrote: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." Blog/essays here: jgcarpenter.com
Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social Building ventures. Educating leaders. Creating new technology. All at #CornellTech
ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social Helping promote ethics in computing & related professions. Re/posts ≠ endorsement - intended to inspire discussion.
ethics.acm.org is where you can find the Code and other supporting resources #ACMCodeofEthics #IReadTheCode
Eric Null @nullset.bsky.social Public policy (tech/privacy) by day, everything else by night
Director Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology, @cendemtech.bsky.social.
Views expressed here are mine: hastily adopted, uninformed, and deeply held.
He/him!
Philip Mai @philipmai.com Executive Director of SocialMediaLab.ca | M.S., J.D. | Media interviews PhilipMai.com/Press/ | Researcher & Developer of social media analysis tools for research in the public interest: SocialMediaLab.ca/apps/
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
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Sarah Rajtmajer @srajtmajer.bsky.social Associate Prof @PennState Tech, Data, Ethics
https://www.rajtmajerlab.net
Thinking about AI, people & information ecosystems.
Also: maths, music, books, ballet, nature & assorted rabbit holes
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social Professor, University of Georgia.
Director, Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE). https://www.ugavr.com
#VR #AR #research #behaviorchange #communication #technology #metaverse
Doug Zytko @dougzytko.bsky.social Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies @ University of Michigan-Flint, College of Innovation & Technology. I use consent as a lens to study and design solutions for computer-mediated harm.
Ammari @tawfiq.bsky.social Assistant Prof @RutgersCommInfo
| PhD @UMSI
| My research focuses on the interplay between technological and social role change.
Casey Randazzo @caseyrandazzo.bsky.social Investigating AI-human organizing
Asst. Professor at UCSB
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Sarita @saritas.bsky.social
Michelle O'Keeffe @michelleokeeffe25.bsky.social Researcher @ the Munster Technological Univeristy Cork, Ireland.
Anne Jonas 🌻 @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 🏳️🌈
Evan Peck @peck.phd 🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof
Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public.
📊❤️ PI: https://infovisions.github.io/
Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD
🔗 https://peck.phd/
Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social Thinking about information, technology, policy, and society.
@HUJI: Communication, Public Policy and Governance, Cybersecurity
www.thinkmacro.org | www.comparativeprivacy.org
Also at: @thinkmacro@fediscience.org
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com Media Psychology & Communication | Privacy & Well-Being | Open Science & Slow Science | IKMZ & University of Zurich | https://tobiasdienlin.com
Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam | digital communication, privacy, social influence & media literacy | Director of the Digital Media and Behavior Lab - www.dmb-lab.nl | More on: www.philippmasur.de
Wentao Guo @wentaoguo.bsky.social Postdoc at Tufts researching human-centered security and privacy for professionals. Excited to join the University of Georgia as a new assistant professor starting Fall 2027!
Also climate advocate, swimmer, and musician.
wentaoguo.com
Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social Senior Policy Analyst at @futureofprivacy, PhD student researching school shootings. www.sheaswauger.com
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
The Cake Resistance @cakeresistance.bsky.social An anti-MAHA movement. Because every person deserves not only cake but also a life full of the things that cake represents, including joy, creativity, and care.
Our motto: Let US eat cake!
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
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
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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social Official account for the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association, @katypearce
& @commfox & @anneohirsch at the wheel
Michael Beam @mabeam.bsky.social Media, tech & politics research, music enthusiast, #Crew96 fan. Prof. & Director of the School of Emerging Media & Technology at Kent State University in Ohio, USA. Producer of the Beat Oracle.
https://mabeam.net/
Kelley Cotter @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Penn State | Digital and algorithmic literacies and inequalities, technocultural discourses and imaginaries, tech ethics and governance.
Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social Kentuckian | Adventurist | Learning Addict | Communicologist | Amateur zoologist |Professor at Ohio State
Computational Methods Division of ICA @icacm.bsky.social Official account for the Computational Methods Division of @icahdq.bsky.social. Posts by @shugars.bsky.social.
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
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#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Carla Griggio @carlagriggio.bsky.social TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University, Denmark. Wants more #customization and #interoperability in communication apps. Life is better with cats 🐈 and good coffee ☕
Kelly Hills, MPH @rocza.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood bioethicist.
I had a marvelous time ruining everything.
♿️🚺🕉️
Public & global health ethics; syn & DIY bio, biosafety & biosecurity; tech ethics; animal & research ethics; health comms. In MA.
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
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Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social still a professional internet person
Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social Communication Professor studying opinion leaders, motivated reasoning, watching others online, meta-analysis, etc.
Co-author of “Critical Questions in Persuasion Research” as well as “The Science of Gaining Compliance” both from Cognella
he/him
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
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ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
@teknoreba.bsky.social @teknoreba.bsky.social
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Cristiano Lima-Strong @viacristiano.bsky.social Senior AI & Government Reporter @bgov.com. Former WaPo, Politico. 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Tips/Signal: Cristiano.01
America L. Edwards, Ph.D. @americaedwards.bsky.social Relationships Researcher
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Manny Moss @emoss.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist - Anthropology of AI and Computing
Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Maryland
vanhollen.senate.gov
Florian Schaub @fschaub.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Information & CSE, University of Michigan
Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social Security therapist. Deputy director of digital security @freedom.press.
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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
JEMc @jasminemcnealy.com Future somebody | Data, Tech, Law, Power | Wake up, oh sleeper...
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Journal of Communication @journal-of-comm.bsky.social The Journal of Communication (JoC) is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Sabine Trepte @sabinetrepte.bsky.social Professor | Communication & Media Psychology | University of Hohenheim, Germany | social media, identity, privacy, knowledge, diversity in science | mother of 3 | she/her
Del Harvey @delbius.bsky.social Still optimistic about people. Trust & Safety believer. Community theater enthusiast.
More about me at delbius.com!
Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
Nicole Wong @nicolewong.bsky.social Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Surveillance tech & AI reporting in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. Creator of AITrustControl.com podcast. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher NY Mets fan. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
World Privacy Forum @worldprivacyforum.bsky.social The World Privacy Forum is dedicated to reimagining data governance and data protection in a digital era through groundbreaking, in-depth research, analysis, & consumer education of the highest quality focused on AI, health, biometrics, identity and more.
Ed Felten @edfelten.bsky.social Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs. Emeritus Professor of Computer Science & Public Affairs at Princeton. Formerly: Deputy US CTO at White House. Currently: husband, dad, concerned American.
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
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
PhDyed @phdyed.bsky.social Dyer | Stitcher | Educator
colin gray @graydesign.bsky.social designer, researcher, ux; dark patterns, ethics, and technology (https://uxp2.com); associate professor and HCI/d director at IU Bloomington; they/them 🏳️🌈
Alexis Shore Ingber @shoreingber.bsky.social Trying to help privacy happen. Media law prof @ Syracuse U
More on me here: www.alexisshoreingber.com
@gva-1.bsky.social @gva-1.bsky.social Professional pinecone.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist.
https://andrealguzman.net
Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
Austin Toombs @altoombs.bsky.social 🎮🎲🧶🏳️🌈🏃♂️📚💻
I play video and board games. I knit, crochet, and sew. I’m gay. I run marathons. I’m an Associate Professor at IU. I study technology-mediated relationships and communities through HCI, CSCW, and Social Computing approaches.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
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buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social Petrone Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
EunJeong Cheon @echeon.bsky.social Asst Prof in the iSchool & Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at Syracuse University | social/power dynamics around robots | HCI, CSCW, HRI, STS researcher | previously, TT Asst Prof@CompSciAAU
Yunan Chen @yunanc.bsky.social HCI, CSCW, health scholar at UCI
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social flâneur, bricoleur, professor of wisdom, master of none, seeker of autonomy
Alice Robison Daer @daersay.bsky.social Recovered academic and indie rock snob now retired and doing nonprofit work for chamber music organizations.