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unCivil @uncivilcollective.bsky.social Exposing the Civility Industrial Complex. https://www.uncivilcollective.org/
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social Land, Carbon, and Capitalism. Professor @ Temple. Founding Strategic co-director @cplusc.bsky.social. Pre-order my new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" here: https://linktr.ee/billyfleming
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥 🎙️ @techwontsave.us 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Lukas Moe @lukasmoe.bsky.social Organizing with AAUP Scholarship on poetry and poetics https://substack.com/@lukasmoe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7x8n5k https://independent.academia.edu/MoeLukas
Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social College professor, cognitive psychologist, textbook author. Also interested in science writing, social justice, politics and anti-racism. Proud member of AAUP & AFT Local 6741. Personal account. Views are my own and do not represent RMC, AAAS or SCHEV
United Academics @local6741.bsky.social United Academics Local 6741 is an @aaup.org & @AFT.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter members and at-large members of AAUP. Visit us at https://local6741.org/ & become a member at https://www.aaup.org/membership/join
Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social
Armond Towns @townsarmond.bsky.social Williams College
Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com We are fighting to stop the ICE warehouse from opening in Washington County, Maryland. ⬛️🟨⬜️🟥 You’ve seen the news about Frederick. Now here’s your chance to make a difference —> https://linktr.ee/westernmdirc
Jörg Sternagel @joergsternagel.bsky.social Media Studies | Privatdozent | Co-Founder #PDprekär | Author of Ethics of Alterity (Rowman & Littlefield) https://linktr.ee/joergsternagel
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman. Here for the books. And dogs. GBR. Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
Allison Pugh @allisonpugh.bsky.social Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
Alexandra Mateescu @cariatida.bsky.social RIP Social Media. Researcher @ Data & Society, living in Boston | labor, technology, care | tetrapyloctomy | Labor & Tech newsletter: http://bit.ly/2Fv5xfX | https://acmateescu.com/
NW Labor Press @nwlaborpress.org NW Labor Press is an independent union-supported newspaper, in print since 1900.
Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. We work in solidarity with existing movements towards social justice, workers' rights, and economic inclusion.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX. 🎧 http://revealnews.org 📧 http://revealnews.org/newsletter 💲 http://bit.ly/reveal-join
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence. Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
Burc Kostem @bkostem.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Interested in ecology, affect, theories of value, infrastructure, technology and media. Dungeon Master. He/him
Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info 📣 Speaking for the trees, and: 🌲 600 million forest acres 💚 193 million acres public land 🥾 164,000 miles of trails 🎣 400,000 miles of streams 🪵 Billions of board feet timber 🚰 Trillions of gallons clean water 🚫Not affiliated with USDA Forest Service
Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social Housing reporter @calmatters.org. Occasional dad tweets. Tell me things: Ben@calmatters.org / signal: BenC.2017
LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social LaborLab empowers workers to organize, win strong contracts, and build lasting collective power through education, strategic research, and mobilizing public support in the face of union-busting. LaborLab.us
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts. https://www.projectsaltbox.com/ Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️ Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope. "A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Stefan Novakovic @novakovicto.bsky.social Writer + Editor | Architecture + Cities | Toronto + Elsewhere
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Baltimore Brew @baltimorebrew.bsky.social Independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore. News tips editors@baltimorebrew.com
Wendy Zhou @wwwendyz502.bsky.social East Asia Postdoc@U of Virginia. China, Global Comm, Diaspora Media, and Political discourse. Open to jobs. https://eastasiacenter.as.virginia.edu/wendy-weile-zhou
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free. dropsitenews.com
Dr Grant Corbishley @matamau.bsky.social Artist•Researcher•GIS•VR•environmental person hood•100 yr vision•multispecies agency•soil & water sovereignty•situated stories www.haewaihoughtonvalley.org
Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social Enriched macaroni product. Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning. SAFC https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Valentin Goujon @vgoujon.bsky.social ⦁ PhD Candidate at @medialab-scpo.bsky.social ⦁ Shaping AI project | Social studies of deep learning ⦁ FlashLab Seminar | "Digital Materialities" Workgroup at CIS/CNRS | Editor at @journal-reset.bsky.social
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Zizi Li, Ph.D. @zizilizizi.bsky.social ✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher 👩🏻‍🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies ✍🏼 Digital Cultures, Media Arts, Labor, Technologies https://www.zizili.net
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Colette Perold @cperold.bsky.social Asst Prof @cumediastudies. Research: labor, computer history, U.S. empire in Latin America. PhD @mccNYU. Member @ucwcolorado.
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies. https://dustinwedwards.com/
Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social digital media + education | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, tech bans, public interest ed-tech | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🌐 milamiceli.com
GamblingHarm.org @gamblingharm.org An educational platform to reduce gambling-related harm for people globally. gamblingharm.org
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social tylershoemaker.info
Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social Lecturer Geography // political ecology, green transition // From the Bog to the Cloud. Dependency and Eco-modernity in Ireland (2025)
Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social Author: Pipeline Populism (2022). also into subsurface protection, climate politics, affect, infrastructure, marxism. Geographer, International Studies, VCU.
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Hannah Tollefson @hnnht.bsky.social 🔸 logistical media, infrastructure, climate politics, critique of political economy 📕 Banting Postdoc U of T Geography
Future Ecologies podcast @futureecologies.bsky.social A podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Listen on your podcast app: https://future-ecologies.captivate.fm/listen
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications. mediatheoryjournal.org
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Jenna Burrell @jburrell.bsky.social Currently: visiting researcher, University of Tokyo, based in Yokohama (GMT+9) Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley, Director of Research, Data & Society.
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
Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
Sadie Couture @sadiecouture.bsky.social media history, sound, digital cultures and so on.
Eduardo Romero Dianderas @sunqasapa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, @mcgill.ca Anthropologist. Peruano 🇵🇪 Learning and writing about environmental governance, green energy transitions, tropical rainforests, history of science, public policy and political theory. Website: eduardoromerodianderas.com
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️‍🌈
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu Mission-driven nonprofit publisher committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good, serving intellectually curious readers for over 100 years. uwapress.uw.edu
Chloe Ahmann @chloeahmann.bsky.social anthropologist studying industrial pasts and environmental futures // author of futures after progress: hope and doubt in late industrial baltimore // bingo enthusiast https://anthropology.cornell.edu/chloe-ahmann
ziya kaya @ziyakaya.bsky.social Asst Prof. Anthropology/UTRGV
Tariq Adely @tadely.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate @ GWU | AI language models, Arabic, labor | Ontario-based | he/him
Oslo Center for Environmental Humanities @uio-oceh.bsky.social OCEH 🌿 A space for thinking with the Earth - through art, stories and the humanities. Based at the University of Oslo. hf.uio.no/oceh
CSTMS - Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society @cstms.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of science, technology, medicine & society through interdisciplinary research at UC Berkeley. Community for STS, the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and Medical Humanities. https://cstms.berkeley.edu/
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany. Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/ Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/ Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly. (We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.) https://aoir.org/ https://aoir.social/@aoir https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Forschung für die vernetzte Gesellschaft \\ Research for the networked society https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social @letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale 2020) / Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff (MIT 2017) / Scams / Associate Professor UVA https://llaannaa.com/ https://digitalculturesandeconomies.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social energy & climate policy, writer, analyst
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social 🏭 Transnational partnership project examining the politics, historical roots and lived experiences of deindustrialization. Based at COHDS: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/ Website: https://deindustrialization.org/
Armin Beverungen @arminb.bsky.social prof at Leuphana Uni, https://logistical.city, http://smartnesswealth.net, organization studies, STS, media studies, formerly @arminbev T/X,
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
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social Research Director @cplusc.bsky.social // co-director @transitionsec.bsky.social Political economy in the climate+ecological crisis. Terrible taste in music. climateandcommunity.org // transitionsecurity.org // https://bit.ly/pb_pubs
DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social Envisioning an equitable digital future. Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social. PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social A political ecology network that unites multiple voices in environmental justice and resource struggles. 🔗 https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/
Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social Geographers supporting academic boycott of Israel / in solidarity with the liberation of Palestine. We are a campaign in support of BDS in AAG. https://linktr.ee/geog4pal
David O'Connell @daviduk.bsky.social 🍞⚘️ तत्त्वमसि PhD | Trade Unionist | Global Labour University Alum | Occasional Jacobin Contributor | Writing on Employee Ownership, Supply Chain Industrial Relations, Philosophy 📍Germany based https://global-labour-university.org/
CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture @ccaconversations.bsky.social Le CCA est une institution internationale de recherche et un musée fondé sur l'idée que l'architecture est une préoccupation publique. The CCA is an international research institution and museum premised on the idea that architecture is a public concern.
Roya Pakzad @royapak.bsky.social Technology and Human Rights researcher and advocate. 👩🏻‍💻 Founder of Taraaz: taraazresearch.org 👩🏻‍💻 Builder-in-Residence at @mozilla.ai Ex: @mozilla.org‬, @uvadatascience, @stanfordcddrl, AMD ✍🏼 writing https://royapakzad.substack.com/
Nick Caverly @nickcav.bsky.social Professor person. Environments, technologies, and racial capitalism. I wrote a book: DEMOLISHING DETROIT: HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM ENDURES (Stanford UP, 2026). My words, not my employer’s. For more: nickcaverly.com
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social architecture | media | spatial politics | feminism education worker by day, writer by night, and feminist 24/7 Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (UMN, 2024) https://tinyurl.com/ycxbedpm F A A C https://faacweb.wordpress.com/
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social Official bluesky account for the Research Associates and Postdocs United at Penn (RAPUP-UAW), the union of postdoctoral scholars and research associates at the University of Pennsylvania.
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.