Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Following Jesus, husbanding and dadding, supporting #bcafc. Displaced Yorkshireman in Croydon. Governor @minsterinfants.bsky.social. Doing digital things for DWP and NHS. Formerly product at GDS and policy at OECD.
https://bm.wel.by/
A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Trying to make things better with digital. Always hopeful.
🌈💪🌊🦆🌱🏴
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
sh.se/mkv
Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism
Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica. I write speculative fiction and think about the future of news and technology at https://werd.io.
Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
Cohost of Maintenance Phase. Author of two books. In a documentary called Your Fat Friend. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen.
Journalist & astrophysicist. New book out now: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about horrifying & broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Quanta, Fortune, &c. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects, jack of all trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français
🐘 ellyzoe@mas.to
🌩️👀 9MDQTEGZfpxH
Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://oddthisday.substack.com/
Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
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
Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
https://olivia.science
assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
I am into #openaccess, #openresearch, #openGLAM. Currently #ScholComm Lead at the British Library and involved in several community works such as Open Repositories, Creative Commons's Open Culture Platform, CHOSN, ORCC, LIBER OAWG 🐾
Researcher on the civil service team at the Institute for Government, formerly worked in public sector digital delivery and strategy. Views my own.
Civil servant on DWP's Pensions Commission, from December 2025 until its final report in 2027. Tweets will be infrequent and objective.
Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
Oakland, Maps, Bikes, etc. Also @migurski@mastodon.social and formerly @migurski on the birdsite.
Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic.
"Needlessly polemical"
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
Putting the Rowan in Rowan, Rook and Decard since 2017. Green Party in Sheffield. They/them.
Lead research engineer @dairinstitute.bsky.social, social dancer, aspirational post-apocalyptic gardener 🏳️🌈😷
I run workshops @dairfutures.bsky.social. Always imagining otherwise.
dylanbaker.com
they/he
design director at propublica
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Born out of #SaveTheInternet. IFF advances democratic freedoms in a digital society.
• political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering the politics behind social media, tech & health
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
She/her. Aka Miss IG Geek on other socials. Humanity in data, digitech-ethics, and misanthropology, occasional puffins. #ActuallyAutistic 🏳️🌈
Everything you know is actually way more complicated than you think
Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
making art beyond good and evil
shardcore.org
Senior business editor @WIRED. I like news
visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Historian of extinction and empire. Vanished shortlisted for Royal Society Trivedi Prize, and a 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History Extra, Smithsonian Mag and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Propaganda scholar; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow Bard College; Associate Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk & signal: Emmalbriant.44
Official account for the Flickr Foundation. We help cultural heritage organizations preserve, share, and sustain their digital images. We make cool toys to help other folks interact with this awesome digital legacy. 🎉
https://flickr.org/
Transport technology, Birmingham and some other stuff.
Occasional photos of Travel Basil to promote St Basils homeless charity that works with young people in Birmingham.
A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise?
Run by @dylnbkr.bsky.social and @paulinewee.bsky.social from @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Sign up for workshops:
>>> https://linktr.ee/dair.futures <<<
Biog: https://dgen.net/biog
All social media connections: https://dgen.net/0/connect/
The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
These are not the skeets you are looking for
Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
🛠️ We're a coalition advocating to remove barriers to repair our products, so they can last for longer and we can reduce waste. Join us! 🔗 repair.eu
#RighttoRepair #Repair
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Innovation in the streets. Life, the universe and everything in the skeets.
Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Editor in Chief of the New Statesman
Journalist at the Financial Times, ex London Centric. Not the chancellor. Email me on rachel.rees@ft.com
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
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/
Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Sussex-based socio-legal researcher / Reader in Digital Society & Justice. media and information access and governance / public interest journalism / access to justice / social justice / sanctuary and migration rights
Technologist @shedcode - Data Engineer @RewildingB - @jamesjefferies (he/him) - #IrisMurdoch, #TheWeddingPresent, #LFC, #Railways #TheArchers #Canals […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.me.uk/@jamesjefferies on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men :: Te Whakatōhea, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi :: Mai i te awa ki te moana 🇵🇸 :: Ka ora tonu mātou ake ake ake
Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Helping people do their best work despite the ravages of capitalism at everythingchanges.us.
Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/. I log in about once a week.
Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian. Staggeringly conventional social democrat.
Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out now from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
Policy at Power to Change. Talking about communities, social connection, high streets, politics and policy.
https://sycamore-collective.org
Research and engagement @wearenewlocal.bsky.social
Community Innovation.
https://luclalande.medium.com/community-based-innovation-4cef83bf1199
Director of Policy and Engagement @locality.bsky.social
Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
The Ecological Design Collective is a non-profit project founded by researchers and community organizations in Baltimore and a growing community around the world. A collaborative initiative focused on addressing ecological crises through design
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Leading the content over form revolution with Docs. An open source Notion alternative (w/out the dbs)
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Twitter escapee (@eseesea). Social change leadership, connect, collaborate @ywccommunity @socialleadersne @theRSAorg fellow. Feminist. Gone not forgotten Sharing Learning Doing, Good Space/Broadacre House [UK]
WSJ tech columnist. Author of How to AI, a bullshit-free guide to how to get actual utility from AI, aimed at the skeptics who are tired of the hype surrounding it.
normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
Fixing our relationship with electronics. Pro #RighttoRepair. Founding member of @r2reurope.bsky.social
https://therestartproject.org/
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Folk devil ¦ wonkish agitator for climate @Transition-Network and trans lib @TransActualUK/TMW ¦ probably touching grass instead of being here ¦ does other things but don't worry about it ¦ views not mine either ¦ pronounced like cane ¦ they/them
designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
electrical native - prof #sociology & #sts - director of the center for the sociology of innovation (mines paris)
New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press)
Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Feminist atheist pelagic-brained handwaver
It depends / context matters / look for the helpers / find my simple / trust the process
Current state: fucking hell, tho
Chief economist @ Centre for European Reform. Eurozone macroeconomic policies | Role of 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 in EU. Formerly @ECB, @IMF, @Worldbank.
Friendly reminders about spooky technologies.
Words in Wired, The Economist, The Atlantic, and others. Author of “Eyes in the Sky”
Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
