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
Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social 🌍 Cities & social justice activist, creative technologist, designer, researcher, educator, learner @ UNESCO
💡 Communications officer @ecreaeu.bsky.social
🛜 Social media editor @ Nexus Network Journal
💬 Writing: PT, ENG, ES, FR, CN
🔗 https://dph22.github.io
Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social Researcher and writer on Wikipedia, AI, media and tech policy, and the political economy of knowledge. Communication and information Professor @ UIC. Nerd. Editor of communication +1.
Posts are mine, reposts are interesting.
Josh Scannell @frannyrecounts.bsky.social I teach Media Studies at The New School. I write about computational technologies, carceral power, and media philosophy.
New book, The Carceral Surround: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921255/the-carceral-surround/
Dr. Donna J. Drucker @histofsex.bsky.social Research development by day, history of sex, reproduction, & technology by night. Books at U of Pittsburgh Press, Springer, MIT Press, & Reaktion (future). Black cat, cold takes. NYC. No employer opinions. #histsex #histmed #histtech
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social Immigration and labor reporter @bloomberglaw.com. Covering the legal and policy landscape affecting immigrant workers in the US.
Member of @wbng.org
Email: akreighbaum@bloombergindustry.com
Signal: kreighbaum.85
More reporting: https://aboutblaw.com/bj21
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Jos Hoy @joeybean.bsky.social Light-Seeker. Conduit. Metal Mouth. Tender. Mama. [they/them]
PhD Candidate @hcde.uw.edu (into: radical care & epistemology, participatory infrastructuring). I don’t use GenAI.
Begin where you are. #LandBack
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
@ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social she/they • professor • person • MEDIEVAL ROBOTS & NECESSARY INVENTIONS (coming out soon)
Robots & AI • Roger Bacon • Medieval Science • Medievalisms • “Unbearably scholarly”
loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social Interdisciplinary hinterlands and library systems.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Claire Johnson Raba @claireraba.bsky.social Law prof @UICLaw. Civ Pro, access to justice, consumer law, state courts, big data, A2J & legal tech. Former consumer rights legal aid attorney & EJW fellow. Researcher at the Debt Collection Lab. Motorcycle rider (🏍️ & 🏞️).
Hilary Escajeda @hilaryescajeda.bsky.social Associate Professor MC School of Law. Research focus: AI, tax policy, future of work, and dinosaur fossil taxation. Articles: http://ssrn.com/author=1537904
Nick Proferes @profprof.bsky.social Studies tech, discourse, and how sometimes things mean other things. Opinions are my own. Grading while listening to death metal enthusiast.
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social Assistant professor of moving image archiving at University of Colorado Boulder working on non-institutional approaches to media preservation.
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social Knowledge based biomedical data science, artificial intelligence for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics, theory of mattering. University of Chicago / Big Island HI
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Beza Merid @beza.bsky.social Assistant professor at ASU SFIS. Director, Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab.
Digital Health Equity | Innovation Policy
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social Prof., Annenberg School for Communication @Upenn; focus on media & cultural change in postcolonial & diasporic contexts; Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/aswin-punathambekar-phd
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Anna Weichselbraun @annaw.bsky.social anthropologist of language, technology, knowledge, and governance @univienna
Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Will Deringer @calculatedvalues.bsky.social Scholar of sophisters, economists, and calculators. Program in STS + HASTS PhD Program at MIT. Author of CALCULATED VALUES (Harvard UP 2018). "TILT" (2005) fan account.
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Joe Calamia @joecalamia.bsky.social science and tech book editor
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan @bernarddionysius.bsky.social teacher, writer, curator
media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
Orit Halpern @ohalpern.bsky.social Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design.
https://againstcatastrophe.net
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Sophia Roosth @sophiaroosth.bsky.social three raccoons in a professorial trenchcoat, still writing a book about rocks.
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social
Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
Sandeep Mertia @sandeepmertia.bsky.social asst prof of tech & society • ICT engineer turned anthropologist of global computing, media, & the state • ed, ‘Lives of Data’ (2020) • I still use Twitter to “monitor the situation” 😌
https://www.stevens.edu/profile/smertia
Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Learning about moral economies, researching media histories, imagining post-platform futures. Also, helping with moderation on aoir.social and professoring in Media […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@kdriscoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social Political philosopher (they/them) working on critical theory, technology, and labour. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University. Genderfluid 🏳️⚧️
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net Assistant Professor of Data Governance at UVA
About me: https://sixfouronea.net/
Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Iskandar 'Izul' Zulkarnain @zhoel13.bsky.social Assistant professor, global digital media, Southeast Asian digital media cultures, Indonesian video games and animation cultures, co-founder of CNY's Global DH Working Group (he/him)
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Phillip H. Roth @preprintculture.bsky.social Postdoc @core-rwth.bsky.social / media sociology / science studies / interested in the socio-cultural history of communication infrastructures / currently writing a history of preprints in physics: https://preprint-culture.net / also: modular synthesis
chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social turnt tf up in the widening gyre
bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social wondering how humans and computers learn and use language 👶🧠🗣️🖥️💬
the work is mysterious and important, see bbunzeck.github.io
mentally still at @ucsandiego.bsky.social, phd @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
elena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social media historian.
mastodon: @erazlogo@assemblages.es
web: http://elenarazlogova.net/
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Bingxu Han @hanbingxu.bsky.social AI communication, phenomenology of perception @Stanford
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
ICYMI (Law) @icymilaw.org I’m a law-themed discovery bot built by @davidcolarusso.com. Follow me to add a dash of law talk to your timeline—roughly 60 posts/day. Approximate algo: follow law folks; share new & popular posts.
Daily digest: https://icymilaw.org (news & scholarship)
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
John P. DiMoia @jdimoia.bsky.social #SeoulNationalUniversity, #SNU, #KHistory, Seoul (1995-1996, 2004-2006, 2007-2008, 2018-present), #HistSci #STS, #SJKS, #ReconstructingBodies #ModernKorea, #EngineeringAsia #BioMed, #HistMed #HistTech #EASTM, #SKdevelopment #EA, #SEA, #Thailand #VietNam
christopher webb @christopherwebb.bsky.social Writer & critic, work in @theguardian.com, @1854.photography, @spikeart.bsky.social, @litreview.bsky.social, @thetls.bsky.social etc.
Author of Useless Activity, now out in paperback
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://tinyurl.com/livupwebb
𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘: https://christopher-webb.com
Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Tomás G. @tomasgna.bsky.social phd candidate @ stanford comm, currently thinking about “safety” and the politics of talking computers 📠🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Stanford Internet Observatory @stanfordio.bsky.social The Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program studying the abuse of the Internet and providing thoughtful policy and technical solutions.
Shan Kothari @shankothari.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Alberta. Forest ecology + tree physiology. he/il
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social focuses on #logic & #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky #HPS
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftist™
BTS_official tweets @btsofficialtweets.bsky.social !!!!NOT OFFICIAL!!!!
#방탄소년단 공식 BSKY입니다 This is the (not)Official Bsky for #BTS
BTS 'NORMAL' OUT NOW https://bts.lnk.to/NORMAL
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social
Casey Gollan @caseyagollan.com https://caseyagollan.com • https://cag.wiki • https://social.coop/@caseyg (formerly at https://twitter.com/caseyg before the implosion)
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics.
Hash tags: #NLProc #ACL2027NLP
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/