https://danmcquillan.org/
Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
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Writer at CAW https://www.cawshinythings.com/
Pre-order The Extended Universe
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once described as "our own cunty Gramsci"
shitposting through the years of lead paint
War, Defense, Military Creativity/Innovation.
Senior Lecturer at the department of Systems Science for Security and Defence, Assoc Prof, War Studies, Swedish Defence Uni. @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social
Big believer in obscure military theory. Views own.
PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com
I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://www.the-end.news
academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
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pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Founder & CEO at Techworker Community Africa | TIME100 AI 2024 | Ai & Human Rights Activist | Former Content Moderator-ChatGPT | Union Organizer | AI Safety | Machine Learning | AI Ethics | AI Advocate | AI Researcher | Responsible AI | LLM
The latest technology news and analysis from the world's leading engineering magazine.
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
Law & Tech
Slowly warming up to having my heart in it, here @bluesky
Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212
Cringe, and woke Australian who works in the technology and product space with a media speciality.
Ex-law student and reformed student politician.
Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media.
Writer in Melbourne, Australia
Author of 4 books on media, politics, technology and work
Advocate for bottom-up democracy beyond the two-party system
https://tdunlop.substack.com/
Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group
assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
PhD Candidate in International Relations @UofGSPS
📚Researching #VisualPolitics and #Migration | BISA EPIR Convenor
Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.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.
Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla (some climate tech startups). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Professor of English Saint Louis University | Rhetoric, Media, Environment | After the Post.Human | he/him | Banner image by Will Rivers
sophist.monster
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
philosopher in the peach state. research in ethics of war, bioethics, ethics of tech/AI, ethics of travel, etc. my own views. I pronounce the name of this website so it rhymes with “brewski”.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*
AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Labour and technology researcher. PhD on supermarkets, labour platforms, and on-demand grocery delivery. Union researcher with United Workers Union. Opinions expressed are my own.
Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
https://go.unimelb.edu.au/vj8s
Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Author: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | Writing: BREATHING IN THE BROWN QUEER COMMONS | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟. Personal account.
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
PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Lecturer in Education at University of Sheffield.
Critical autism studies, queer/trans studies, music and (disability) arts, and early childhood (& Dr Who). Former primary/special ed. teacher/SENCO. he/him
www.DavidBenShannon.co.uk
STS + Anthropology @ Te Herenga Waka's School of Science in Society | Editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values
@sthv.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Research Fellow (sociology, health, migration, care) at The Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies (@healthy-societies.bsky.social) at The University of Sydney. Lover of books, Londoner at ❤️
Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Medical Humanities researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW | she/her
environmental anthropology & STS ~ interested in environmental management/knowledges/values ~ research fellow at @admscentre.org.au working on ADM, ecosystems & multispecies relationships
Postdoc Research Fellow
Deakin University // ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child digitalchild.org.au
Robot personalities & relationships | cute and conversational AI | energy demand at home | everyday futures | digital sociologist & professor @Monash Emerging Technologies Research Lab in Faculty of IT | Director Research @Monash Energy Institute
Anthropology lecturer at Monash University. Research on social dynamics of climate change and transition
A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
Social Justice and Technology Postdoc at Swarthmore College; freshly minted PhD from University of Michigan School of Info. Educating, agitating, organizing in tech-ademia.
Researcher @AIForensics.org | Research Lead of Esoteric AI
@aixdesign.bsky.social | PhD Candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam |
digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Lecturer in Political Geography at Newcastle University. Interested in war, aesthetics, 'the Middle East'
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
AI, art, and speculative fiction
I don't have a college degree.
imdb.com/name/nm1488849/ | frydawolff.com
that person with the peaches
national magazine award-winning culture critic & writer for hire 🖋️ in bitch, the nation, the verge, rolling stone, &c
🌿@theflytrapmedia.com cofounder
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✉️ sesmith at realsesmith.com
Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
Philosophy of AI and Mind, but with a historical bent. Baruch College.
My dog is better than your dog.
https://www.jacob-browning.com/
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Sydney Innerwestie. Author of Invocational Media: Reconceptualising the Computer. Digital Cultures Academic at Uni of Sydney
Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. A hub for transformative research initiatives on the relationship between humans and technology. utm.utoronto.ca/iccit
Executive Director http://witness.org : video + tech + human rights; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes https://gen-ai.witness.org, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster.
Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.
should be writing a second novel
timmaughanbooks.com
altho I smoke a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
anthropologist | research fellow at Monash @_CEVAW | STS | gender, tech & society | new book on feminism & witchcraft coming out October
https://www.emmaquilty.com/
Fellow, Center for Security and Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit und Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History @ Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Critical visual studies / Military technocultures / Surveillance / A.I. / Art that thinks
Also an avid roller derby mom.
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Senior researcher and lecturer @ Uni St. Gallen | hacking/journalism, leaks, surveillance, black boxes | journalist | DIG Festival board | previously Media LSE, IMeG USI | views my own | Zürich
i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Professor, Media Law, UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Journalism and Media. Former AP exec. Speaking for myself & not UNC. "Take up space. Pitch it faster. Run harder. Put another plate on the bar. And NEVER tone it down." - Ilona Maher. #academicfreedom
Friendly reminders about spooky technologies.
Words in Wired, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. Author of “Eyes in the Sky”
Managing Editor for Tech Policy Press. Opinions are my own.
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
Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
International law & theory & digital tech (he/him)
Would rather talk about music
Assistant Professor, Universiteit Leiden
Amsterdam & Berlin
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/henning-lahmann
Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
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Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com - Award-Winning Tech PR
phd in movies and puns. please ask me about my mastiff.
Science and Technology Studies | Biolegality | Postcolonial Science Studies | Southeast Asia -- and wannabe skateboarder ...
associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
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 🇨🇦
Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
