Tinkerer, loves to break stuff, find me online at https://8bit.lol/
software dev by day 🧑🏼💻, musician by night 🎶🎹🎷, human being throughout 🙃
music, tech, society, urbanism, future of the planet, ally 👗🏳️🌈✊🏿🇺🇦
🏠 the hague, netherlands 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍
🗣️ english, dutch
🤓 https://github.com/wbolster
Intersectional Puta Feminista | A better world ☆ is ☆ possible | #CSW tweets | WO=MEN @genderplatform.bsky.social | typos are my middle name | ❤ Amsterdam
Founder & Director @Hypercerts Foundation
senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (oxford analytica, brill yearbook of muslims in europe, eater, eurasianet, oc media, saveur, the moscow times, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Do you remember when the social internet wasn't owned by the same five companies? So do we. Independent, ad-free, user-supported social media, 15 years and counting, no billionaires involved. Code fork of LiveJournal. www.dreamwidth.org
Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
peeking into the post-browser web
~ https://metafluff.com
~ https://webtransitions.org
~ https://userandagents.com
~ @intenttoship.dev
past lives: Mozilla, Protocol Labs, Sub Pop Records
Commons Network is a collaboratory for the social and ecological transition: let's transform the system together and shape a caring and just future.
🔗 linktr.ee/commonsnetwork
Raumstation unter Berlin Mitte
History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.
PhD candidate in complex network dynamics at Leiden U and U of Amsterdam. Open Knowledge Foundation Network member.
gamaladel.com
Pues aquí andamios
También por otros lares del fediverso
https://mastodon.social/@cuquisade92.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
The Observatory for Human-Centred Engineering 🔭
🎚️ large-scale integrations of 🎙️ qualitative, 🧮 computational, and ✋participatory methods.
Technology in society, diverse human experiences, experimental approaches, STS at DTU.
github.com/ECHOlab-DTU
Critical Digital Studies | Computational Cultures | CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation” | Uni Siegen | Open Access Publisher at meson press
“Your favorite sociologist’s favorite sociologist” (cit). Researching platforms, work, digital cultures & methods @ University of Milan. PI of @ercresearch.bsky.social funded "CRAFTWORK" - https://craftwork.unimi.it/
Associate Prof at Roskilde University 🇩🇰. Director of the Digital Media Lab here. Research on Publics, Media, and Technology, inspired by STS and ANT.
Hyperlink enthusiast.
(DMI tool updates to be found here - find us at digitalmethods.net !)
The App Studies Initiative (ASI) is an international research network comprising academic experts in app-related media research who contribute to the study of apps and platforms.
🔗 appstudies.org
doing a phd
researching webcam sex platforms https://www.plexxxi.org
owner of a last name you are scared to pronounce out loud
|| in my heart always a researcher at oilab https://oilab.eu
Independent Curator / Museum bod. Own views.
Specialising in Contemporary and Interdisciplinary Arts (Digital / Media Art; Art + Science, Data, AI)
Director, Data as Culture at Open Data Institute (Associate)
Curator Oxford Cultural Programme (External)
Researching socio-environmental things at Manchester Geography.
STS | political ecology | participatory research methodologies | public controversies
More here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8071-4908
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Ass. Prof. AI, Data & Society @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social | Sciences Lead at @dataschool.nl | Visiting Professor @helsinkiuni.bsky.social | Teamplayer | Critical Data & AI Studies | #AIEthics | Governance of AI | Action Research | ENG NL GER |
We do not preach in lecture halls, we engage in the field -
Investigating & shaping the digital society since 2013.
#DigitalMethods #DataEthics #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #ActionResearch
dataschool.nl at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
The Sciences Po médialab is a research center dedicated to connecting the social sciences with new digital tools.
Philosopher - Goldsmiths / Northeastern University London / Central Saint Martins
Co-director: @philosopher1923.bsky.social
Book: Subsumption in Kant, Hegel & Marx (histmat.bsky.social 2024)
https://andressaenzdesicilia.com
experiments in online gardening
permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry
they/them
https://mfowler.info
https://sunbeam.city/@notplants
Postdoc for HUMANads, Utrecht University
🔍 influencer cultures & platform governance; everyday experiences of datafication; digital memory work by and through social media platforms
🥝 in 🇳🇱 via 🇬🇧
Chief executive @taxjustice.net (he/him).
Tax Justice (SAGE Press): https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/what-do-we-know-and-what-should-we-do-about-tax-justice/book286416
The Uncounted (Polity): https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+Uncounted-p-9781509536023
Currently a Research Software Engineer at CIM where I teach Digital Media. Working on a book on sonification and an Encyclopaedia article on Computing and Sound. Occasionally I garden. Owned by cats.
RyC Senior Research Fellow @uocuniversitat.bsky.social in Barcelona
anthropology · STS · embodied plurality · uncommoning city-making · atmospheric care · intergenerational urban landscapes · ethnography as invention
tscriado.org · xcol.org
Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; resigned full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Social anthropologist of kinship, siblingship, social and geographical mobility, generation, inheritance, Philippines and Southeast Asia, and the UK.
📍Berlin
https://inherit.hu-berlin.de/fellows/resto-cruz
Professor Digital Media & Methods, Uni Siegen. Data studies, digital methods, sensory media, app studies, platforms, inventive methodologies, automation.
Media Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social · 🔍 platforms, apps, data, AI, digital methods · 📦 NWO Veni: ‘AI Power’ · 👥 @appstudies.bsky.social, @digitalmethods.net, @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 🔗 fernandovandervlist.nl
PhD Candidate @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social - podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Research Lead in Civic & Democratic Participation Online at Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D
Visiting Researcher @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society @kingsdh.bsky.social. Co-founder @publicdatalab.bsky.social. Member of @digitalmethods.net and @medialab-scpo.bsky.social. Website: lilianabounegru.org. Mastodon: assemblag.es/@lbngr
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Media, Influencer Cultures
Toolkit for capturing and analysing data from online platforms. We use this profile for updates on the tool! 🐈🐈🐈🐈
See https://4cat.nl and https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
Follow @digitalmethods.net for more tool updates.
Academic.
Digital methods.
Climate change.
Expertise.
Imagery.
Occasional music posts.
#AcademicSky #STS
Sheffield & Nottingham
https://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/warren-pearce
Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
Sociologist of technology and science, empirical philosopher, creative methods
web dev, writer, "content" creator, mad/disabled + audhd, queer, luddite, black innit | they/them | elsewhere: https://olu.online/contact
tech/data governance | political theory | sts | and a bit of pol economy | tilburg institute for law, technology, and society (tilt)
institutional page: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/g-vanmaanen
data visualization-information-UX designer and bricoleur coder - bndndr.it
Professor at DTU Management | Section for Human-Centered Engineering | Head of @echodtu.bsky.social
🗺️ controversy mapping
🤖 computational anthropology
🚒 technological problems in society
#digitalmethods #sts #dkforsk
Book: https://bit.ly/contrmap
▟▝ ▜▝
tech, media, culture, data, accountability & 📊🪄
fmr @columbia @towcenter @BKCharvard @elonu
📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Multimedia person! Takes pictures, writes stuff, laughs conspicuously.
Das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft | re-publica.com
re:publica 26 | 18.-20.05.2026 | Station Berlin | #rp26
re:publica Vienna | 02.-03.10.2026 | Kulturhaus Brotfabrik
Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Assistant-Professor in Methods & Statistics at Tilburg University | TESC (@tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social) Director
Specialization: Intensive Longitudinal Methods & Analysis, Psychometrics
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Professional problem solver; DevOps; buddhist, dreamer and sometimes thinker (he/him)
You cannot solve social problems with technology.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
🇪🇺🇳🇱
Art provenance research through open, accessible, searchable data bases.
#kg #museum #art #networks #textanalysis
https://www.openartdata.org
Sussex by the sea 🌊 // Researcher and cultural historian 📚 // Rustington Museum 🏛️
Copyright & Access 📚🗝️🔸Libraries 🔸Policy 🔸 Technology Law 🔸WikiLove 🦊 EU-DSM 🇪🇺🛠️
🪄 Emerging Formats/Media
⚖️ Public Domain & Digital Common Goods
🪟 Transparency & Governance
#PoetryIsResistance
Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
OAPEN connects libraries, publishers, researchers, and funders with a global infrastructure for peer-reviewed open access books to advance research and the public good.
Explore our collection of 40,000+ OA books: https://library.oapen.org
Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
DWeb connects people, projects, and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is private, reliable, secure and open.
DWEB CAMP 2026: July 8-12 near Berlin!
📄 Principles: https://getdweb.net/principles
🌐 Website: https://getdweb.net/
Bluesky account of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Our main account is on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@fsfe)
fsfe.org
Making technology & society more open, fair & inclusive | mastodon: waag@waag.social
sites on life 📒 http://internetphonebook.net 🐠 http://special.fish ❇️ http://html.energy. previously 🌊 http://indp.co
elliott.computer
I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Professor at FEUP, University of Porto.
Researcher at INESC TEC.
Web, Media and Information.
Developer, Book reader, BOOKreplacer, runner, Critter, Midster, Ecosier (is that even a thing?).
Oh I am from Italy. Oh and I love Terry Pratchett books.
Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
Library and Archives Canada preserves your documentary heritage.
Terms and conditions: http://ow.ly/PSbf50Kw33P
En français : @bibliotheque-archives.canada.ca
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository, or online archive, for the long-term preservation of Ireland's social and cultural digital legacy. Explore the Repository: https://repository.dri.ie/
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
We collect, preserve, and share #software #sourcecode for present and future generations. #swh #softwarecommons #freesoftware #opensource
Archive of historical logos.
Filecoin Foundation (FF) facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds research and development projects for decentralized web technologies, and supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community.
Building blocks for a better web. Open protocols to store, verify, and share data across distributed networks 💎.
https://ipfs.tech
We're a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online. Download Tor Browser for protection against surveillance and censorship. http://t.me/TorProject
Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralised communication. Please support at matrix.org/support
Start the conversation, faster.
End-to-end encrypted DMs right from your AT Protocol handle, in public beta now. Drop in.
Learn more at germnetwork.com/blog
you're in her DMs, I made her Germ DM 🔌
ceo and cofounder of @germnetwork.com 🌱 san franciscan today, chicagoan 4eva
lately writing at https://rhosf.leaflet.pub
these skeets delete
Open-source blockchain voting protocol that is scalable, auditable, censorship-resistant & anonymous 🗳 http://vocdoni.io
Trying to make the world a better place building decentralized privacy infrastructure
Protecting, defending public interest journalism in the 21st century.
Subscribe to our ne🦋sletters: https://freedom.press/newsletters/
Staff, board members: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/freedom.press/3lbkk5aha5l22
More: linktr.ee/freedomofpress
CTO @freedom.press
i like computers, cryptography, physics
github.com/redshiftzero
formerly @penumbra.zone
We are the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team. We advocate public policy that promotes free and open knowledge for everyone, everywhere.
Co Founder & COO web3privacy.info ✦ Politics of Care - Digital Rights, Tech Governance
We are an innovation network of 700+ teams and projects, driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.
Fostering privacy via Web3Privacy now: http://web3privacy.info
Research Ukrainian futurism: https://zorelit.space
Art house movies, The Wire mag, Sitges Film festival, Karagarga, Soulseek.
