Ryan McGrady
The internet, YouTube, Wikipedia, NYC, birds, media... Sr Research Fellow at UMass Amherst Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Media Cloud.
Places:
rhododendrites.com
Rhododendrites @ Wikipedia/Instagram/Threads
Antisomniac @ Mastodon.social
Starter Packs
Created by Ryan McGrady (2)
Wikimedia New York City
Wikimedia NYC is a nonprofit and official Wikimedia chapter serving the greater NYC area. This starter pack includes current and former members, partners, and others associated with WikiNYC. If you're local and looking to get involved, these are the people to talk to/follow!
Wikipedians
Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia researchers, Wikipedia developers, journalists who cover/follow Wikipedia... send a message to be included!
@wikiworkshop.bsky.social
The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop will take place virtually on May 21-22, 2025 · #WikiWorkshop2025 · More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workshop_2025
@zacharymcdowell.bsky.social
Communication and information professor at UIC. Editor of communication +1. Nerd. Wikipedian. Open access advocate.
@anke-frohlich.bsky.social
Published and Exhibited Wildlife Photographer based in NYC. 🦅 Birds, 🦉 Flaco, the world’s most famous and beloved owl. Prints available. https://ankefrohlich.com
@chrisbaraniuk.com
Freelance science and technology journalist. 10+ years experience. Irish/Polish. I write for the BBC, Wired, the BMJ, The Guardian, and others! Newsletter: thereengineer.pro Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com HQ: Belfast, Northern Ireland
@seanmoncrieff.bsky.social
Unvetted male Funkateer. Elevated neutrino readings. Talky stuff on @newstalkFM @IrishTimesMag columnist. He/Him. 🇮🇪
@rosemarymosco.com
Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
@supercamilla.bsky.social
Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.bsky.social Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science. Unhinged in the footnotes.
@ryanjgallag.com
Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Platform manipulation, deceptive behaviors, disinformation, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. He/they
@bettermedia.studio
Overjoyed to be living in a timeline with a dynamic internet again. And working to be a part of it. Formers: WaPo, NPR, NYTimes, Factcheck.org
@infopetal.bsky.social
@jackiekoerner.bsky.social
Mom, Wikimedian, PhD, gardener, exercise-enthusiast, educator, researcher with lots of questions. I work at the Wikimedia Foundation. All things I say here are my own and do not reflect the views of the Foundation.
@isrfoundation.bsky.social
Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
@ethanplaut.bsky.social
Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him. ethanplaut.com
@katcizek.bsky.social
Tkaronto-based documentarian, researcher, author. Artistic Director and Research Scientist at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab.
@gmeaney.bsky.social
Cultural analytics, gender, migration and national identities in literature and culture https://projectvicteur.com https://cca.ucd.ie
@krichel.bsky.social
Enzyklopädist, Fotograf, Wikipedianer. Wikidata: http://wikidata.org/wiki/Q640 Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Seewolf
@janus.bsky.social
電子音楽家 raving in the late anthropocene 🎛🔊🎶🍉✌️🫠 words in VICE (rip), e-flux, Dazed 💌 bookings: music@janusrose.com 🔗 http://janusrose.com 🌐 https://verdant.garden/roster/janus-rose 📸 https://instagram.com/janus.rose 👤 by @cara.city
@helenljay.bsky.social
Media policy geek - former head of policy at C4 and now PhD at University of Westminster. Interested in public alternatives to our digital infrastructure!
@inclinedvision.bsky.social
PhD researcher media theory in surveillance art | film | photography | animation | architecture
@ovinhas.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies mis/disinfo • fact-checking • content governance • non-WEIRD he/him; ele/dele
@amarichi.bsky.social
www.maribastashevski.com art and science in amsterdam ❌ writer 🧶 piGEOn at WUR 🧼
@devawo.bsky.social
Politics Prof., author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
@vbogg.bsky.social
Climate law attorney, Bay Area nerd. w/ Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
@watty62.bsky.social
Open Data advocate. Charity founder and trustee. Wikimedia UK trainer. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python, LLMs etc. Enthusiastic reader. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen
@jemielniak.bsky.social
head of dpt Kozminski Uni, Polish Academy of Sciences Vice-president, Board member of @EITeu & @Wikimedia, BKCHarvard faculty associate (he/him)
@samwalton9.bsky.social
Product Manager at Wikimedia Foundation. Trustee at Silth's Sanctuary.
@brianckeegan.com
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist at @cuboulder.info High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science. Born at 345ppm. https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social
Internet Citizen, Founder of the #Wikipedia Library, #1Lib1Ref, and the Wikimedia Consultants Network. Lead at #WikiBlueprint Consulting. Seeker of well people and sane societies. Project2029.me #resist
@jdforrester.bsky.social
Government/tech British geek living in New York. Principal engineer at Wikimedia, now tech lead for Wikifunctions/Abstract Wiki. Formerly UK civil servant on digital, data.gov.uk, & others. Also jdforrester@mastodon.social and threads.net/jdforrester_ etc.
@johanj.bsky.social
Wikipedia, litteratur, språk, konst, allt som är vackert. Slumpad fakta. Driver också Vendels förlag.
@noamcohen.bsky.social
Journalist who’s interested in what’s true on the Internet and who decides, which means I like to write stories about @Wikipedia. Author of The Know-It-Alls, on Silicon Valley's libertarian politics: http://thenewpress.com/books/know-it-alls.
@danielbcase.bsky.social
"Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening." – J.G. Ballard, *High–Rise* Proud middle-aged GenXer. Wikipedia administrator and local Democratic Party official here in my part of upstate New York. GO DEEP STATE!!
@clkoerner.com
Dad, husband, nerd, photographer, Wikimedian, WordPress...er? I care about people over tech and how the latter impacts the former. I work at the Wikimedia Foundation. Stupid things I say are my own and do not reflect the views of the Foundation.
@prototyperspective.bsky.social
Monthly science summaries #OpenScience #sustainable system with open source and open knowledge. I like to integrate things (mainly science) into Kialo, Wikipedia, etc
@anticomposite.net
New Englander, Wikimedia volunteer steward, occasional writer of code. [bridged from https://wikis.world/@anticomposite on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@mollystarkdean.bsky.social
The #NewsNerd you've been looking for: NOW 📰 Wikimedia NYC, The New School & Women Do News; THEN 📰 CNN, Reuters, CBS News, Fox News, Coin Desk. If they make news, I probably worked there. 📰🤓
@wikimedianyc.bsky.social
We are the regional Wikimedia chapter serving the New York City metropolitan area. Event calendar at enwp.org/WP:WMNYC
@PixDeVl.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy
Wiki nerd, hobbyist developer and gremlin child. Global Administrator, Wiki Creator and Discord Moderator for community run wiki farm project @miraheze. I am […] [bridged from https://wikis.world/@PixDeVl on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@knowtheory.net
Distributed social networking nerd. Co-organizer for #ATmosphereConf & ATproto Community Fund; Product person. Scifi nerd. Grew DocumentCloud. Made Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
@zittrain.bsky.social
A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@rushkoff.com
I write and think about media, technology, and society. Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human - which is also a podcast. https://rushkoff.com