a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
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.
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
anthropologist: www.donnalanclos.com aka Donna Fucking Lanclos
Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Assistant Professor of Digital Media & Film at St. Lawrence University | Affiliate @datasociety.bsky.social (Climate, Technology, and Justice group). Internet infrastructure and sustainability researcher. www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com
We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
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Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Chicago's neighborhood news source.
Technology, education, and other random thoughts.
An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing.
Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/
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Assistant Editor, Duke University Press | Ethnomusicology PhD | Popular music and community archives | Information studies | Eyes emoji enthusiast 👀 | she/her
Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal that centers the experience of people with disability in LIS. Book reviews, academic and professional articles, interviews, and more.
CC BY 4.0
Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/them 🏳️⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
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Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Supporting users of REAPER DAW at https://reaper.blog
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“listen up fives, a ten is speaking” / data, tech, discourse, critique / assoc prof @ UW iSchool
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
Communication and Labour Studies prof at SFU. Forza Roma, ovunque e comunque.
a historian who resists definitions
chicago
the foia bakery, disability leads, n4ej
www.refusedetention.com
disability justice, immigration, anti-colonial lawsuits: linktr.ee/miriamcb
Yes, you have seen me at the library (currently Duke University).
Here to learn and share about GLAM, Black studies, literature, comics, literacy, and whatever is floating through my mind.
Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Director of AI Futures Lab // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // First Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Rogue librarian.
Horror, food, politics and gardens.
And just in case work is spying on me: All opinions are mine and do not reflect those of my employer (thank god).
FOD, Flopper, ‘bino
*not a doctor.
Modernism, DH, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com
Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
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.
The Muppet Movie is the greatest movie of all time. Academic Librarian, scholcomm, crabby for good. U of Minnesota
MLIS. Reference Services Coordinator. Let’s overthink this.
"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
Weekly newsletter on AI and teaching and more(nl/en): www.felienne.nl
articles editor @motherjones.com
community for BIPOC library workers first. 🌿 community school + community study + we here press + we reads + we together.
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
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
she/they • university of virginia • working in libraries/archives + public humanities • researching histories of empire + formations of police power
Professor @ Temple. Founding Strategic co-director @cplusc.bsky.social.
Pre-order "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" here: https://linktr.ee/billyfleming
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
Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Northwestern University Press is dedicated to publishing books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, from philosophy, to poetry, to lit crit, to translations, and beyond.
We are home to TriQuarterly and Curbstone Books.
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
librarian, book critic, cat caretaker, chicagoan. fan of tea and pop culture.
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libraries • leftism • spectacle
NY & London • her!
We hold events for librarians/archivists/information workers of all kinds
Events arm of the Library Juice team (Library Juice Academy and Library Juice Press)
reporter/researcher, just hanging out | sophiehurwitz@gmail.com, Signal @shurwitz.18
Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the Cook County court system. https://linktr.ee/injusticewatch
Educator? Writer? PhD! Learner! Runner! Bi! #OpenAccess #EdTech #OpenPedagogy #AcademicPiracy #AIEducation posts=my own. Follow me at https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of Nazis & USA @ Yale
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (CUP, coming 2026)
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Ọkọ Kóbìtán. PhDing @UAlberta. Gateman @Brown Bamboo. Editor @OlongoAfrica. Newsletter @flaminghydra.com
A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more.
author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. contributing writer at businessweek. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. Contact me: DM, Signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues.
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Interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, curator, arts writer, educator who can sometimes be persuaded to perform. Day job: Professor, SFSU.
Public Citizen has been standing up to corporate power and holding government accountable for 50 years. We're people-powered and accept no corporate money.
Writer, lawyer, and artist exploring the internet. Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com, Teaching @Pratt.edu.
Signal: rebecca.411
Everything else: rebeccawilliams.info
web dev, writer, "content" creator, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
assistant prof in philosophy @ maastricht university. thinking about ethics and politics (human factors) of new tech. critical of the hype and critical of the critics.
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
andrecarringtonphd.com
insta: audio.futurism
Social media expert & prof
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
❧ Newberry Library Instruction and Outreach Librarian
❧ PhD in History, interested in material bibliography, book history, woodcuts, & doodles
❧ she/her
❧ all opinions my own
Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
hi, i write about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing.
Professor in philosophy of science
Ca' Foscari University Venice
matteopasquinelli.com
ERC project → unive.it/aimodels
Symposium → unive.it/chat-token-vector
Book → The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)
Winner Deutscher Prize 2024
Sr. Writer at Inc Magazine. Tech, startups, billionaires, outsiders, investigations. Dad on the loose. Currently on parental leave.
Proton: Sam_Blum1905@proton.me
Signal: Sammblum.89
Graduanda em Biblioteconomia pela UFAL
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they/she/祂 || assistant professor @sfucmns.bsky.social || trans / race / beauty / fashion / media || banner art by @jeniegao.bsky.social
https://www.eriquezhang.com/
Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)
also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. personal: @lysiave.bsky.social
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Former software engineer. Research on labor and the political economy of innovation, with a focus on big tech/cloud and green tech. Newsletter: https://www.valueadded.tech
UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the U Chicago Press Replay series
Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
acquisitions editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
North America's oldest and largest national professional association dedicated to the needs and interests of archives and archivists.
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DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
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
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Writer, artist and musician. Queer. Critic of technology. Grad student (Information Studies at McGill). (He/him)
https://linktr.ee/yanbasque
Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
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Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, & attachment. Author: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." jgcarpenter.com
Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
I read every email
Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Grassroots Organizer-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
We are a research institute investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.
epoch.ai
Head @ Keep Beyond
Liberation strategy + Tech justice
ykhong.com/here
grow bud & biological father of two old-time scotch collies | “quem tiver de sapato não sobra”
