The DISCO Network
Envisioning an anti-racist + anti-ableist digital future.
Housed within @umichdigital.bsky.social.
PIs: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, & @steelecat717.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thedisconetwork
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day! Subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, or Spotify, and tell your friends! Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC ✨ AccessibleHigherEd.com DisabilityDaily.podbean.com
@jjoque.bsky.social
visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
@leahlitman.bsky.social
Michigan Law Prof. Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast Author, LAWLESS - out now!!! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
@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
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@danielleboyer.bsky.social
Robotics inventor advocating for tech for good and building SkoBots for language. Indigenous (Anishinaabe - Enrolled SSM). Founder of The STEAM Connection. MI - SoCal
@bvigaming.bsky.social
Black Voices in Gaming is a non-profit organization created to highlight & support Black game developers and creatives through showcases, events, business opportunities and community. http://blackvoicesingaming.com
@fergallenehan.bsky.social
Apl. Prof. Dr. Uni Jena. Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
@sndorf.bsky.social
professor of musicology working in musicology, dance history, and VERY early music. Cheerleader for the Humanities at the University of Dayton. he/him ✡️ צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף
@ewhitmer.bsky.social
Musicologist and Occasional Academic. Musicology, Disability Studies, & Digital Studies. Queer + AuDHD. They/He Lab Member - Digital Accessible Futures — part of The DISCO Network (@disconetwork.bsky.social) Ph.D. Pre-Candidate @umichsmtd.bsky.social
@mayworms.info
👽🏳️⚧️he/him | PhD student @ the University of Michigan School of Information | researching content moderation, trans technologies, folk theories, online communities | Lupin III enjoyer | mayworms.info
@hellothomo.bsky.social
you ever wonder what it all really mean? 💫 Thinking about // PhD-ing in Black technoculture, education, + digital media stuff at Penn Annenberg Raised at @Howard.edu
@candacewinstead.bsky.social
Immunologist, college professor... invested in harm reduction & academic/community engagement via service learning.
@fabiochiusi.bsky.social
Leading 'Automation on the Move' at AlgorithmWatch. Author ‘L’uomo che vuole risolvere il futuro. Critica ideologica di Elon Musk' (Bollati Boringhieri, 2023)
@jetournadre.bsky.social
Social sciences of the Political @CNRS @ISP_Cnrs He/Him/His. Writing on refusal, utopia, collapsism, environmental struggles and ‘neo-ruralities’. Latest Book : The Politics of the Near (Fordham Univ. Press, 2022).
@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
@toririo.bsky.social
Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea. http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
@teltales.bsky.social
Here to find and tell tales relating to all aspects of technology enhanced learning; educational technology; #edtech; #highered; learning design; digital education; future, current and past. Working at the University of Galway. Mo thuairimí féin.
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@arisimarta.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Sciences Po Law School, currently Visiting King’s College London, Digital Humanities. **Research on AI and openness** http://arisimarta.org Sciences Po Law and Technology research group: https://sciencespolawtech.pubpub.org/
@enceladosaurus.bsky.social
There is no apolitical tech. - Tech & AI ethics, programming, game dev, astronomy, #a11y, eSports, and dogs - Former astrophysicist & linguist, now CTO & software dev - Ehlers Danlos & ADHD - Cofounded AAS WGAD & created #disabledandSTEM - they/them
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@versobooks.bsky.social
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@dcbrock.bsky.social
Works at the Computer History Museum, but everything here is solely my fault.
@qutdmrc.bsky.social
World-leading communication, media, and law research for a flourishing digital society. research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/
@lucinda-nelson.bsky.social
👩🏼💻 PhD candidate @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au 📚 online misogyny, platform governance, content moderation, automation, structural inequality, violence against women 🏳️🌈 no swerfs no terfs 🏳️⚧️
@harvardlil.bsky.social
A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers building tools like Perma.cc & Caselaw Access Project at the Harvard Law School Library. Where @institutionaldatainitiative.org got started. 🌐 https://lil.law.harvard.edu
@bapollo.bsky.social
Fifth Year PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan Film, Television, and Media
@hibby.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Michigan's School of Information studying multi-marginalized experiences online. she/they pronouns. Also a Twitch streamer c: https://www.twitch.tv/hibbybobibby https://www.youtube.com/@hibbybobibbyvods
@wells.bsky.social
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. catch me staffing at anime cons! pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
@haimson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. he/him
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@cais-research.bsky.social
Forschungsinstitut: Research for the Digital Age 🔎 | Gesellschaft und Digitalisierung 💻 | #TeamCAIS 👥| Bochum 🏙️| Willkommen beim #CAIS! 🌐 Website: https://www.cais-research.de/ 📌 Impressum: https://www.cais-research.de/impressum/
@transstudies.bsky.social
We are an independent nonprofit research center dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, & political conditions of transgender life. We also publish the platinum open access journal, the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.
@dtortolini.bsky.social
BIPOC-Latinx 🇦🇷🇺🇸, ex pro 🏄♂️ turned PhD candidate in Purdue’s AMST department. I focus on how the senses are impacted by the West through looking at the coffee industry in digital spaces
@melvinearl.bsky.social
Melvin Earl Villaver, Ph.D. | Hip Hop Artist & Scholar | Exploring Afro-Asian musical collaborations, Black music history, and technoscientific art forms | Creator of ‘Harmonic Resurgence’ | Assistant Prof at Clemson | Bridging beats, culture, and academia
@doc-bnice.bsky.social
Curator of Exhibitions, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Researcher of digital visual culture and postphenomenology 🤓. In real life I’d be a florist. Grow food.
@alexandraboutros.bsky.social
associate prof | communication and cultural studies | wilfrid laurier university | pop culture | pop music | critical race theory | media, religion, and identity |
@drtiksha.bsky.social
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@danrosen.xyz
Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, web platforms, and livestreaming. PhD/Annenberg Endowed Fellow @ USC Cinema & Media Studies (he/him) danrosen.xyz
@redico.eu
ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond. Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
@rfrank.bsky.social
Asst Prof @ UMSI she/her. digital preservation & curation, risk & disasters, open data. @[email protected]