Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD
Anthropologist of Innovation (and all the hype that entails) | Asst Prof of Anthro, TXST | Director of InnoAnth Lab | CASTAC Web Producer | She/Her | ak.vbroek.org
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Created by Angela K. VandenBroek, PhD (1)
#BKind - Some of the Kindest people I know! (1)
I wanted to share with you some of the kindest people I know! This is just a start with many more to come. Rufus came up with #BKind over on X over 2 years ago. Rufus, Lynn, and I wanted to continue the tradition here!
@kitsworkshop.bsky.social
Group of Anthropologists, students and faculty seeking to connect and collaborate with public anthropologists about how anthropology interacts with the digital world.
@youknowjuno.bsky.social
- Author of Decolonizing Extinction: the Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation -General Anthropology Division President - Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies
@eyatesd.bsky.social
anthropology professor (sts, food justice, nuclear history). author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm, UC Press. she/her on sabbatical 2024-2025. 🌱🌱
@davidberiss.bsky.social
anthropology, food, France, New Orleans, bicycling, this list is silly
@aussts.bsky.social
A network for science and technology studies (STS) scholars in Australia and New Zealand
@4sonline.bsky.social
Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe.
@avastmachine.bsky.social
History, politics of climate science, climate change, and knowledge infrastructures. Stanford prof. Director, STS Program and Co-Director, Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Odds that industrial civilization survives this burning century: ???
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@kimtallbear.bsky.social
SWOyate citizen born in Dakota homelands/USA occupied territory. Prof & Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, UAlberta, Faculty of Native Studies. Edmonton/Santa Cruz/L.A https://kimtallbear.substack.com
@ritaparada.bsky.social
Emphatically foreign/realistic optimist/researcher/ethnographer/budding socio-cultural anthropologist. People/places/stories. Past @Meta @Twitter @Nokia
@aaup.bsky.social
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
@emilyolsen.bsky.social
🚀 Cataloguer, Science & Popular Culture at Sotheby’s 💫1/2 of the Art Astra Podcast Nerd about space, art, and pop culture. Opinions my own.
@ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
Anthropologist (interdisciplinary): (im)mobilities, informality, humanitarianism, migration, transnationalism, networks, sports, humor | Assistant professor at University of Oviedo | first gen, dad, surfer, growing organic vegetables
@mollymull.bsky.social
Editor for academic authors. Anthropologist. Ecological gardener inspired by hikes in the NC Piedmont. Owned by 4 cats and 2 dogs.
@dhprice.bsky.social
Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad. Every billionaire is a policy failure.
@alexhinton.bsky.social
Distinguished Prof. of #Anthropology at Rutgers & UNESCO Chair in #Genocide #Prevention / mass violence, Cambodia, #law & society, #extremism, (de)polarization, #transitional justice, peace/conflict https://sasn.rutgers.edu/alex-hinton Twitter @AlexLHinton
@ohalpern.bsky.social
Professor@TU Dresden, historian of science and STS scholar critically engaging AI, cybernetics,infrastructure, environment, and design. https://againstcatastrophe.net https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures
@mbfazi.bsky.social
Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018). University page https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
@synthesiastica.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural Studies, Digital Media and Technopolitics at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Author: Network Culture (2004), After the Internet (2022)
@whkchun.bsky.social
new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only. banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
@drs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Core Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
@sambarhino.bsky.social
Senior Researcher for Digital Culture, Lead Curator for -1 at Nieuwe Instituut. Author, The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/the-black-technical-object
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
@FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@natnes.bsky.social
iranian-american anthropologist & filmmaker I assistant prof multimodal anthro I EthnoCine collective I CoMMPCT collective 🐈 🚲 🧶 she/they
@david-kilby.bsky.social
Archaeologist, professor, science nerd, fan of wild places, frequent harasser of sporty fish who are otherwise just minding their own business.
@pglange.bsky.social
Professor at California College of the Arts. Author of Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube and Director of Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media. Studying 1) Latinas in technology and 2) media migration.
@vanillatweaks.net
Vanilla Tweaks by André, Stridey, Grant, and rx. For support, visit our Discord: http://vanillatweaks.net/discord
@sarsf.bsky.social
The School for Advanced Research. Create. Connect. Understand. SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts. Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
@nelbetancur.bsky.social
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture • 17th and 18th century studies • assistant professor • mountain lover #nelbetancur
@georgeradics.bsky.social
Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
@lorenzoferrarini.com
Lecturer at Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester | Ethnographic documentary filmmaker, photographer and sound recordist | Worked in Burkina Faso and Italy lorenzoferrarini.com
@idenarch.bsky.social
currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives) currently @ stanford / prev @ northeastern first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
@karlmayes.bsky.social
Bass player / Medical Anthropology (SOAS) /book addict / cat associate / Head of Patient & Community Engagement at Leicester’s Hospitals.
@kopyor.bsky.social
Social/medical anthropologist at Waipapa Taumata Rau - U of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Originally from Schenectady NY, USA. Research in Indonesia. Gardener. Home fermentation. Music nerd. Genre fiction. 📚📝🎓🎧🆘🌱🪴🌶️🌌🪐🇺🇸🇮🇩🇳🇿🏳️🌈 He/Him
@hraf755.bsky.social
Promoting understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present since 1949. Home of the world's largest anthropological data bank. https://hraf.yale.edu
@jenstudebaker.bsky.social
#KCMO based business anthropologist, business owner/consultant, career readiness advocate, and writer. she/they
@nickcav.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts. Researching environments, technologies, and social change. Mostly racial capitalism-STS-cities. For more: nickcaverly.com Union yes @MSP-MTA-NEA
@alwaystheself.bsky.social
A woman of many powers. Full professor, cultural critic, political analyst and tarot reader. One of my books has a 2 second cameo in an Oscar winning film.日本語を勉強します. I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams and/or worst nightmare. I have a lot of ancestors.
@alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven (@theramseylab.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, trying to make progressive tech policy happen. https://carefultrouble.net https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
@asociologist.bsky.social
Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab