Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "Enshittifcation." Next book "Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI." Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
ecological design strategy geek
co-founder + ceo, spherical
spherical.studio
livinginfrastructure.org
A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer digital environments. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
MISI investigates how media systems, stories, and algorithms influence what people see, believe, and trust—and how those dynamics shape democratic participation.
scribbler and teacher of scribblers
late stage ethical humanist
Anthropology. Community. Governance. Policy. Tron.
Also: Hockey. Disney. Cross stitch. Embroidery. Cats.
Views expressed are mine and mine alone.
Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Analog Astronaut; Alum - MIT Media Lab; Emmy Award winning VFX Technical Supervisor; Instructor of SciFi & Magic; Immersive DataViz; Machine Learning tools; Deep-Ocean Exploration
Dabble in law, politics, family, music, education, genealogy, and women’s basketball — rarely in that order.
All opinions mine and do not represent any institution I might be affiliated with.
EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet (ht APF). Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.bsky.social https://josephhall.org/ (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
information•society•cats
Opinions my own
Digital media lecturer at Anglo-American University, translator, social media expert, DJ. US expat in Prague since 1992.
Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric #Commsky politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Vlach/Aromanian #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
As part of New Mexico's largest Land-Grant University, we serve the Cooperative Extension Service by producing educational media. We have created hundreds of animations, videos, games, apps, interactive modules, and web tools, including Math Snacks.
Professor, Fordham Law School; Sr. Policy Research Fellow, Knight First Amendment Institute.
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1084259
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/
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
UMass Amherst CICS PhD Student
Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
I like cats & cars • formerly: data reporter @propublica.org for 8 years • Pew Research & MIT media lab • maternal mortality, reproductive health & more • ➡️currently open to interesting opportunities with good people⬅️
Prof at UChicago computer science dept working in HCI and usable privacy and security
Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
A field-defining intellectual hub for data science and AI research, education, and outreach at the University of Chicago
https://datascience.uchicago.edu
Asst Prof, UC Berkeley, Political Science. Study protests, stats & race: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of
grad student at umass amherst ♥️ Using computers for conservation and ecology 🌿 cyclist and runner 🚴♀️grad student at umass amherst ♥️
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
#EveryoneGetsHome
#AllAgesAndAbilitiesCycling
#CompleteCommunities
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Public interest copyright & information policy lawyer & librarian. Anti-fascist, queer, tree-hugger. No gods, no masters. SF fannish wanna-be crafty catlady. Southern ex-pat in Western MA. Mom.
wikipedia User:Lquilter, UMass Library, https://lquilter.net/
UMass Amherst, Public Interest Technology Initiative.
“We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.”
― Cheryl Strayed
Tech in service of humanity. Fintech, AI, Entrepreneurship, Transformational Leadership
Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
#BlindNewWorld: empowering the #blind and #VisuallyImpaired community while demystifying #blindness and breaking down barriers to #inclusion.
Powered by Perkins School for the Blind. Learn more at BlindNewWorld.org.
Innovation and Inspiration...Mission-Driven Tech Pioneer, Exited Entrepreneur, Impact Investor, AI Expert, Lover, Fighter, Mother
Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
turnt tf up in the widening gyre
CTO at apella.io, trying to make surgery smarter with AI. Just relocated to Boulder, CO
Associate Professor @ UMass Amherst | Political economy of the low-carbon transition, energy and resources in economic growth and development, inequality | Views are my own
CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social, writing in @columjournreview.bsky.social
📍 on the amtrak between philly and nyc
klaudiajazwinska.com
scitech journalist, editor @theconversation.com
Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
We combine public programs and journalism to examine essential questions in a broad-minded and accessible spirit.
A unit of ASU Media Enterprise.
Cs @UMass
NLP researcher
Currently working on LLM safety and factuality and hate speech moderation
Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political econony of AI, energy and digital critical infrastructures • Espírito Santo / Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Promoting and elevating the standards of journalism since 1938. Home of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard.
https://nieman.harvard.edu/
Veteran journalist. Former VP, Journalism at Knight Foundation. Started NewsMatch. First social media editor @nytimes - and loving that BlueSky reminds me of early Twitter days when journalists first learned how to inform and engage people and communities.
Agnostic about Yet Another One.
Director @harvardash@bsky.social. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. All views expressed here are my own.
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
Ass. Professor of Societal Computing @TU_Munich
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PI of the Civic Machines Lab @TUMThinkTank
he/him
Musician / Writer
Dada Drummer Almanach https://dadadrummer.substack.com/
Damon & Naomi https://damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/
and yeah I was in Galaxie 500
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Assoc. Prof. of CS at UMass. Assoc. Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Interested in IR, NLP & ML.
SHARIAsource @ Harvard Law School is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools.
Assistant Professor at UMass Amherst CICS, Research Scientist at Google Research. https://people.cs.umass.edu/~eugene/
Engaging scholars, practitioners, and leaders to improve philanthropy and strengthen civil society. Publisher of @ssir.org. Repost ≠ endorsement.
pacscenter.stanford.edu
Tired trans nurse who studies A.I. & power
AAAS Invention Ambassador
They/them, probably a 🐉
#NurseSky #STS #cat enthusiast
Views always my own as a private citizen & not my employer’s (wild that I have to state this)
Associate Professor of English. Director of American Studies. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). Writer of creative nonfiction. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
Tkaronto-based documentarian, researcher, author. Artistic Director and Research Scientist at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab.
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture ✨💻📚🏳️🌈
*Letterpress+zine+#DHmakes
*ProLuddite & bookish code/data
*Experimental/DH & library futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️ They/Them
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
AmandaVisconti.com | WolfproofPress.com
🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
carto geek & library cormorant, trekkie & time optimist, always drumming (sorry), learning from transformative justice, working toward abolition, living in Mni Sota, he/him/his, another world is possible
Welcome to Office Hours.
Each episode, I will talk to a professor with a different perspective on important topics.
You can find my podcast here: https://linktr.ee/officehourspodcast
Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI & Culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute, Rome). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
"Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right" - Robert Hunter
Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it
investigative reporter, professor of data journalism, co-founder, justice media co-lab at boston university.
priors at nytimes, center for public integrity, sd union-trib, inewsource & intercept
we’re all here together, and the weather’s fine ♬ (~);}
Senior Staff Attorney, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Research Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Right now we're inside a computer program?
