I publish thebriefing.ie, & founded organisations working on tech & democracy. Political scientist, advocate, writer, knitter. DMs open
Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Head of Tech Research, @algorithmwatch.bsky.social. Will bridge worlds of technology & society for money. Counter-online-harms, government&tech, regulation, data access, etc. Based in Berlin. https://www.oliver-marsh.com/
Assistant Professor at CMU HCII | Director of https://techsolidaritylab.com/
A project of Internews, EJN empowers and enables journalists around the world to cover the environment more effectively.
AI & tech policy, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. My own views.
Understanding the past. Analyzing the present. Training for the future.
Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few!
🇪🇺 We’re the EU/German part
🇨🇭 For Switzerland: @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
🌐 https://algorithmwatch.org/
Director, Emerging Technologies Initiative, George Washington University Law School.
Board Member: Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition and #shepersisted
Member: Global Majority Research Committee (Trust and Safety Foundation).
Researcher studying digital media and tech in relation to tobacco and nicotine. Here for the latest tech and tobacco research and the odd smattering of cricket news. All views my own.
Knight-Georgetown Institute connects independent research with technology policy and design.
Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening.
Professor of Computational Social Science @University of Mannheim & Scientific Director Department Computational Social Science @GESIS
https://sebastianstier.com
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
EU Policy Lead & Applied Researcher @ Hugging Face 🤗
Computer Scientist, PhD
Wikipedia & languages are my ♡
Research Fellow at Michigan Law
www.mattblaszczyk.com
Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Innovation, Digital, Gov+People, Purpose. Sometimes a geek, other times just an old crossfiter. Former State Secretary for Justice - Portugal 22/24
Working on surveillance technology, migration, welfare.
Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs.
Bridging and connecting.
Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
Tech Policy at Georgetown | fellow at New America's Open Technology Institute
Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
AI policy @datasociety and Writer
associate professor at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching data access solutions for public interest researchers.
data access · AI auditing, fairness and accountability · human-centered data science
Journalist. Author of The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy; Harvard Radcliffe fellow; Winner, True Story Award 2024; New Yorker, Guardian Long Read, etc.
Reporter covering Meta, social media and other topics (hopefully) for Reuters' investigative Team.
PhD researcher media theory in surveillance art | film | photography | animation | architecture
Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, platform manipulation, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Senior Research Scientist @Wikimedia Foundation https://martingerlach.github.io
Wikipedia, Computational Social Science, ML/AI, Complex Networks.
S&T Ecosystem Development at the Federation of American Scientists. Former White House OSTP, NOAA Office of Space Commerce, National Academies, State Department. Geeky painter. Views my own.
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Head of ML & Society at Hugging Face 🤗
Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society at Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines. https://tahayasseri.com
NLP and computational social science (CSS) researcher. Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Williams College. AI2 and UMass Amherst alum. she/her. https://kakeith.github.io/
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/
Sociologist at Rutgers. Substantive interests include right-wing politics, populism, and hate speech on social media. I also write about computational methods and AI.
https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at Uni Potsdam, migration, integration, elections, social media, causal inference, Computational Social Science.
Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
Exec Director of @odissei.bsky.social and Associate Professor of Sociology, @erc.europa.eu StG. Co-Director of @ipdln.bsky.social & Social Science Lead at the PDPC (https://edu.nl/hr9eh). See https://tomemery.eu/ for more detail
Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Director, Polarization and Social Change Lab, @pascl-stanford.bsky.social
Co-Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics.
Also: @RenseC@mastodon.online
Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance, privacy and 4th Amendment expert
Focused on tech, privacy, and surveillance: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, drones (Also cooking, movies, and baseball)
Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Chinese tech policy and US-China relations at Stanford
Newsletter: herecomes.transpacifica.net
Basics: gwbstr.com
Also: #filmphotography
Science, Workforce, Labor, & Industrial Policy + Implementation. Founding Director Future of Work & Innovation Economy @New America. Visiting Faculty @ASU. Writer @Forbes. Optimist.
https://linktr.ee/shalinjyotishi
#SciPol #EduSky #STS #EconSky
Emerging Tech: Law - Power - Policy
Geopolitical Cycles & Tech for Active Non-Alignment
PhD Candidate #USCAnnenberg
www.juanof.me
Posts♻️⏳
PhD candidate, Cornell Communication
lucaswright.net
Senior Fellow, Public Intetest Cybersecurity @CLTCBerkeley 🌱
Assistant Prof/Lecturer in Politics and Policy at University of East Anglia, UK. I study political elites, "expertise", AI
Author of "The New Experts", Cambridge Uni Press (2024)
anuradhasajjanhar.com
Professor of Psychology | UvA | Research Director Psychology Department | Co-founder @ Seven (UvA climate institute) | Researching uncertainty, attitudes & sustainable behaviour | https://www.uva.nl/profiel/h/a/f.vanharreveld/f.vanharreveld.html
Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Philosophy (trans and gender stuff, technology, social ontology, cognitive warfare) | Mushrooms (not that kind) | Scifi and sports dorkery
🇵🇸 Researcher, Artist, Runner
www.hbarakat.com
Lawyer, educator, idealist, realist. Director, National Institute for Workers’ Rights. Lots of time in law schools.
Technology ethicist, dog haver, mountain dweller, forest critter, mover of heavy things. Writing a book about wildfire, AI, and Cali. Senior Researcher @ D&S @datasociety.bsky.social. Founder @ Ethical Resolve. Formerly @undersequioas in the Bad Place.
Tech organiser. Former Texan. Wrote a guide to forming a tech union: http://tinyurl.com/5pyfp4yv She/Her,Zij/Haar. 🇳🇱 / 🇺🇸 . 🏳️🌈
Barbara Aronstein Black Prof. Law @ColumbiaLaw; writing about families and inequality, nonmarital families, boys and men, and, most recently, AI companions
Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers, writing about constitutional and digital freedoms.
https://robertdiab.substack.com | publications at www.robertdiab.ca
2024-25 MPP in Digital Society student at McMaster University, Canada pivoting from a 10+ year career in publishing and communications.
Diving into ideas around trust and safety, information integrity, AI, moderation and the like.
I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Future of Work Lead, Responsible AI Initiative at UC Berkeley | natalialuka.com | re-ai.berkeley.edu| #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 | Cover photo: www.charlesgadeken.com/elder-mother
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment
Tech, geopolitics, democracy
Forthcoming book—Bytes & Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech & New Shape of Modern War
https://bit.ly/BytesandBullets
Author of Rise of Digital Repression
http://bit.ly/45186if
Snr. Resident Fellow Global Governance & Democracy @Atlantic Council; ex @NYTimes; ex snr dir. @internetsociety; ex law @lawstrath. Internet of Humans podcast. I own my views
All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law| Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law SF | 2024-2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU
Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
founder @techtonicjustice.bsky.social | defeated Medicaid care-cutting algorithm | legal aid lawyer | rapper | economic + racial + AI justice | sci-fi + fantasy | Warriors | he/him
Learn more of how AI harms low-income people: techtonicjustice.org
Awarded in climate tech and racial justice, work in EVs, honorable mention in number of dumplings eaten. Mostly lurking.
Chair, Policy at Cuneo, Gilbert, & LaDuca LLP. Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Justice Department, Chief Counsel at the House Antitrust Subcommittee.
(she/her) - writing about tech policy, antitrust and competition in digital economies - attempting to leave behind the Zuckerberg apps
https://megan-kirkwood.ghost.io/
https://www.techpolicy.press/author/megan-kirkwood/
https://mastodon.social/@megafreda
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Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Science
PhD Science, Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Lived Experiences in Tech; Magic; Human Knowledge, Values, Culture, & Beliefs
He/Him/His
For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Current Bad Bunny stan
AI Policy Specialist at @scientistsorg.bsky.social I think about AI policy in the US and Brazil- all views are my own. Lifelong Cruzeirense 💙🦊💫
Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Journalist covering tech, politics & policy. Tech Policy Press editor. Wash Post, Politico alum. Tips: cristiano@techpolicy.press, Signal: Cristiano.01
Assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information. https://www.benzevgreen.com
I like things to be open and green. I tweet mostly about #data #commons and #climate.
Researcher @afd-france.bsky.social
PhD Student Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN)
Associate PhD Student @cis-cnrs.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Data, AI, & Society.
AI & In/equality Lead for Centre for Machine Intelligence.
Social, cultural & digital policy.
Author of Understanding Well-being Data: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72937-0
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent.
Historian. Mom. Knocks on doors and talks politics. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/lara-putnam
3newsnow.com Central and Downtown Omaha Neighborhood Reporter
Journalism + education @ NU ‘27 | reporting for Fresno Bee | also Daily NU, WNUR News, Medill on the Hill | he/him
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
We’re a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate.
Learn more: FreePress.net
Tech, justice, human rights.
Director, Amnesty Tech. Head of Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International USA.
