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Bri 💝 @breezybrik.bsky.social Books Editor & Rights Manager @ SciAm
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Damon Beres @damonberes.com Journalist focused on the effects of technology on people and the planet, senior editor at The Atlantic //
Writing EASY MODE, a book on tech, humanity, and the value of friction, for Scribner
SIGNAL: Damon.63
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Feminist Science @feministscience.bsky.social Combining Art & Science. Spilling the tea on STEM. PhD engineering.
https://substack.com/@feministscientist?utm_source=user-menu
Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦
Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w
•Gobernanza residual• https://bit.ly/488OkV7
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Amit Chandra, MD @amitchandramd.bsky.social Emergency Physician | Public Health Diplomat | ex-USAID
Health x Environment x Tech
Writing featured by: Science, BMJ, Ars Technica, STAT, & Salon
https://apothek.substack.com/
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
MikeLindgren @mikelindgren.bsky.social editor @melvillehouse.bsky.social. Lap steel guitarist
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Python Software Foundation @python.org The nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. For help with Python code: http://python.org/about/help/
On Mastodon: @ThePSF@fosstodon.org
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Hannah Redler-Hawes she / her🕷️ @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
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/
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Kimberly Mackoy @kimberlymackoy.bsky.social
John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social Apocalyptic shit disturber elephant trainer -
This is the only account . 👈 If I share something it doesn’t necessarily mean I agree
Founding board member
@Freedom.press please follow https://linktr.ee/freedomofpress
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social environmental humanities prof at U of Oregon | Environmental justice | Living with MBC (she/her)
@lauraeliasieh.bsky.social @lauraeliasieh.bsky.social
Wendy Perla Kurtz @wendythedh.bsky.social Faculty @UCLA_DH; PhD in Spanish Lit & grad cert in #DH
Interests: peninsular lit/film/culture, memory studies, maps, viz, dogs, fiber arts
she/her/ella
www.wendyperlakurtz.com
MotorCityMegs @motorcitymegs.bsky.social Detroit Documenter (and Docu-Mentor), Program Manager for Advancing Macomb, Rock Star and Queen of Detroit
Mario Klingemann @quasimondo.bsky.social Artist, Neurographer, AI Prompteur, Purveyor of Systems, Data Dumpster Diver, Information Recycler
@morehshin.bsky.social @morehshin.bsky.social
Cory Arcangel @coryarcangel.com Artist, dog-lover and avid reader 😇- B bitforms gallery @bitforms.bsky.social Founded in 2001, bitforms gallery represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies.
131 Allen Street, NYC
julia kaganskiy @juliaxgulia.bsky.social Curator / Editor / Cultural Producer
Former @newinc @newmuseum @vice
carlagannis @carlagannis.bsky.social art, teaching & cat person - TRANSFER Data Trust, NYU IDM, carlagannis.com
Regina Harsanyi @reginaharsanyi.bsky.social Cheerleader for mutable artwork on the soapbox of preventive conservation. I also curate art at MoMI. Bluesky is for being vulnerable and posting like a teenager.
Mark Klink @markaklink.bsky.social digital artist, 3d glitch, experimental cinema
Nora N. Khan @prometheanwatch.bsky.social I'm a writer, that's it
Auriea @auriea.bsky.social auriea.art
Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social Award-winning Los Angeles-based writer of video games, science articles, weird pop songs and books (in no particular order).
See also @blippo.plus & @teamyacht.com!
Website: https://clairelevans.com
Newsletter: https://clairelevans.substack.com/
Lorna Mills @lornamills.bsky.social teia.art/Lorna_Mills
https://objkt.com/profile/tz1hqXAC9Avj3jQtHD1Wh9WL7YF9mRSD3qsq/created
http://foundation.app/@lmnetwebs
https://exchange.art/lorna-mills/nfts
Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
Rosa Menkman @menkman.bsky.social Resolution theorist, licensed by the i.R.D.
Professional Cycl👁ps researcher & 🌈 Rainbow hunter
Thinking through resolutions, im/possible images, glitch… (she)
Furtherfield @furtherfield.bsky.social London’s longest-running (de)centre for art and tech
#CultureStake #peoplesparkplinth #furtherfield
Tina Rivers Ryan @tinariversryan.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Rick Prelinger W6XBE @footage.bsky.social Experimental archivist and librarian. Writes about useful radio. Makes archival events for noisy audiences. No film left unscanned. Lives and works in San Francisco, on Ohlone land.
Thays Pantuza @thayspantuza.bsky.social Struck me like a chord (ter pressa que seja tarde pr'eu conseguir adormecer).
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🎓 MA Game Studies, BA Film Studies
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camila freitas @xcafreitasx.bsky.social •Assistant Professor
•PhD
•Media and Game Studies researcher
Siwei Wang (She/Her) @siweiwang.bsky.social PhD candidate, Princeton CompLit. Working on the idea of “experiment” in global socialist literature and media (1950-1970s). Broader interests: Materialist Aesthetics, Social Realism, PoCo, Global Marx, Afro-Asia. https://princeton.academia.edu/SiweiWang
Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social Executive Director, Sam Gilliam Foundation; UCLA professor emeritus; and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Julie Beth Napolin @voicesbend.bsky.social Only the Void Stands Between Us out now on Silver Current Records | The Fact of Resonance @FordhamPress | co-editor at The Faulkner Journal | Former President of the New School AAUP https://linktr.ee/juliebethnapolin
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
Lyr 🦊 @lyrwar.bsky.social PC Gaymer, RPGs in all forms.
PhD Candidate (Media Studies). I think hard about the experience of existing in the virtual, by looking at games.
Interested in E-lit, (queer) bodies in media...
Insta: @lyrwar
Discord: lyrwar
he/him
AnwohnerIniSchanze @schanzenini.bsky.social AIS steht für unsere AnwohnerInitiative Schanzenviertel - kein Ballermann in der Schanze! #StreetArt 📸 #Photography #urbanspaces
Madeline Hunter (she/her) @madelineandraia.bsky.social Weird geeky broken chick.
Is 37, 🇨🇦, and v socialist + agnostic.
AuDHD, white, she/her, queer AF.
About 50% Angrily Queer Socialist Hissing by volume.
As seen on the Light Blue Hellsite.
robin manley @robinmanley.bsky.social phd candidate @ berkeley rhetoric // editor @ qui parle // cybernetics in intellectual history, philosophy of technology, & media theory
dan browne @danbrownefilm.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 💕
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Shanna Gilkeson @shannagilkeson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Jenny Chamarette @jennychambles.bsky.social Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Q IS FOR GARDEN out July 2026. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social Researching communication, brand and visibility in creative industries; queer representation in mainstream media | Lecturer Public Relations at RMIT
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Matt Hooley @citiless.bsky.social Asst Professor, Colonialism Studies and Environmental Humanities. Get *Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities* from DUP: https://www.dukeupress.edu/against-extraction
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social Media historian/dog/human dad/husband/flawed Christian/hiker/dancer; https://artsci.tamu.edu/comm-journalism/contact/profiles/will-mari.html
NonWayne @nonwayne.bsky.social Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one.
https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
Dave Paterson @dappydoo.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands.
Mercury Music Prize shortlist Producer/Engineer Isobel Campbell Mark Lanegan. BBC Sessions in Scotland.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/409074-Dave-Paterson
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Jeff Preston, PhD @jeffpreston.bsky.social Associate Professor, Disability Studies @ King’s University College. Combobulating students since 2014.
Interested in | 🎥 media representation | 💻 technoculture | ♿️ accessibility
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
Michael Allan @fauxneem.bsky.social comparative literature, film and visual culture, middle east studies / literary, cinematic, philosophical, and bibliographic voyeurism / cats, donkeys, dogs, bunny rabbits, fuzzy creatures
Sue Robinson @suerobinsonuw.bsky.social Journalism researcher, teacher at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Former journalist. Publisher of Madison Commons, a community-based, student-powered SJMC news site. Book author about …what else? Journalism
Nicholas Greco @itjustsaysm.bsky.social Prof & Provost, @ProvManitoba. Scholar: media, music, Barthes, Bowie, Morrissey & U2. Views are my own.
Kristine Kelly @kriskel.bsky.social postcolonialist/anglophonist, digital humanist, dog-walkist, and so on-ist // she/her // employed@cwru writing program
Ej @rhetorica.bsky.social I teach and research media and rhetoric and affect. Avid gardener. Chicken owner. Professor. Part time gamer
Soma Basu @somabasu.com Anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans.
somabasu.com
Asko Lehmuskallio @verlook.bsky.social Visual studies / photography / media anthropology
Co-author of Visual Studies (Routledge, 2025)
*Visual Studies Lab / **co-org Helsinki Photomedia
Katie @katiidoll.bsky.social 27 | vintage & lolita fashion | herbivore | eunos roadster owner~
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Kaarina Nikunen @kaarinan.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication Research
Tampere University
I write about datafication and social justice, emotions, affect & traces of humanity in the digital world. Also on migration, hate and the far-right.
Book: Media Solidarities (SAGE 2019)
Annette Markham @annettemarkham.bsky.social Social researcher focused on AI futures literacies, data/digital disruptions, algorithmic identity, human machine communication. Chair Professor at Utrecht University
A bit obsessed about methodology
More at https://annettemarkham.com