Mar Hicks
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit.
www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
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Some good folks to follow
A small and non-field-specific subset of people I follow who I bet would improve your feed too. Many post about society and technology.
@ddmgembala.bsky.social
Neurodivergent & disabled archaeologist, educator, writer & parent. she/they
@daveparisi.bsky.social
Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth
@jeff.doctor
Cayuga Nation citizen, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory | he/him | Impact Strategist @ https://animikii.com/ | #LandBack - #CashBack - #DataBack | Find me @ https://jeff.doctor/
@olivia.science
https://olivia.science assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
@richardpope.org
I wrote a book on public services: https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/ It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@aveneziano.bsky.social
Biological Anthropologist with an inordinate fondness for science, nature, bones, fossils, primates, data and R! 💀🦷🦴🩻🦍🦧📊
@zoerose.bsky.social
Research student at UTS, Mandarin columnist, trainer. Never not banging on about a) design for usability and b) design for usability for disability. Canberra. Ask me for facts about ancient China, I dare you.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Deakin Law. Apparently International Law's cool queer aunt. Once had an ANU student call me a handmaiden of Satan. Disabled. Aces. Editor of Queer and Feminist International Law book series (Routledge). She/Her
@aftermath.site
Aftermath is an independent, worker-owned website about video games and internet culture. www.aftermath.site
@theregister.com
Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
@stroupe.net
Charlottesville, VA. Retired biochemist. Gardening, cooking, hiking, yoga, trumpet, urban forestry, wilderness first aid. He/him.
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@juliapowles.bsky.social
Law & Tech Slowly warming up to having my heart in it, here @bluesky
@katejsim.bsky.social
COSPR - children's online safety and privacy research cospr.net Building worker power against militarism in tech @techworkerscoalition.org @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
@jakewittich.bsky.social
🌈 Managing Editor and LGBTQ+ news reporter for @windycitytimes.com 📧 Sign up for our newsletters! https://windycitytimes.com/newsletters/ 📍: Chicago
@mrsidetable.bsky.social
Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement. Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
@jocelynl.bsky.social
Assist. prof. at UIC studying movements and markets (renewables, urban ag, 🇮🇪🏞) & corporate disinformation campaigns Chicago Fair Trade board member Also: rock climber, forager, ceramicist, gardener, ADHD hobby collector https://linktr.ee/leitzinger
@bruceholsinger.bsky.social
THE GIFTED SCHOOL and THE DISPLACEMENTS (from Riverhead Books). English prof at University of Virginia.
@alisontrue.bsky.social
Edited the Chicago Reader during what you might call its “heyday.”
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@girlinthe.bsky.social
#RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her.
@smosment.bsky.social
the glass eye that stares at me in amazement from the bronze mantle, and will never be appeased
@haethre.bsky.social
she/her Mama, writer, cinephile, news junkie, voracious reader, patron of the arts—just persisting through these precedented times. Forsook big cities for desolate farm country on a peninsula. “We’ve decided to find it charming.” -Frasier
@kalmn.bsky.social
🏳️🌈, mom, infosec nerd, two cats in the bathtub but that’s likely to change.
@doriantaylor.com
make things. make sense. https://doriantaylor.com https://intertwingler.net https://twitter.com/doriantaylor https://mastodon.social/@doriantaylor buttondown.email/dorian https://buttondown.email/natureofsoftware https://the.natureof.software 温哥华→多伦多
@thesituationist.bsky.social
Professor and Director of Systemic Justice Project, Harvard Law School. https://systemicjustice.org/; https://theflaw.org/; https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/jon-d-hanson/
@drbeth.bsky.social
The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow & visiting professor in philosophy of media & technology / University of Vienna / Prague University of Business and Economics / Technical University Cottbus / eugeniastamboliev.com
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔 Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
@profsera.bsky.social
Professor Astrophysics/Astroparticle Physics @ U Amsterdam. All things black hole, member Event Horizon Telescope, Africa Millimeter Telescope, Cherenkov Telescope Array. Space, sci-fi, cats, music, valve amps, other unabashed geekery. www.seramarkoff.com
@raqc-cville.bsky.social
The Rivanna Area Queer Center (RAQC) provides a safe refuge for all LGBTQIA+ people in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties, a loving home for our community, and a resource for our liberation.
@dlknowles.bsky.social
Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC. Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV Reach me on Signal: dlknowles.12
@hallwaytrack.verylittlegravitas.com
Small groups. Impromptu conversations. Interesting people. A free, ad-hoc series of gatherings, held just after an interesting discussion. https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
@troutgirl.bsky.social
Co-founder/CTO twice. In my heart I'll always be a webdev. Almost died twice (brain aneurysm and adrenal adenoma). Tacoma native living outside Seattle. She/her.
@zraresearch.bsky.social
Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry. Always speaking for me.
@robertkelchen.com
Professor & head, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. https://robertkelchen.com/
@historycounts.bsky.social
Historian of all sorts of things in the US South, particularly the history of Jim Crow and Louisiana. Author/Editor. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX 20+ years. Native of MA.
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social
Filmmaker (WHAT LIES WEST) and formerly a little Twitter famous. Married to @sean-a-tiger.bsky.social, writes with @nicksinnott.com
@plaguepoems.bsky.social
A record of the plague years. Z”L. https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/plague-poems/
@shlbxxii.bsky.social
Ohio ᪥Leftist Homebody🫖᪥ I ♡ Physical Media📚᪥🧵Sustainable Homesteading from an Apartment🫙᪥ Long Covid since 2022😷᪥🐈⬛Radical Slow Livin🐢᪥
@jamesscheibner.bsky.social
Academic researcher in bioethics, public health ethics, data privacy, patent, copyright, open source licensing, technology transfer, citizen science and access to justice. Plays lap steel, MTG and Dwarf Fortress in my spare time. Opinions my own.
@jasonbell.bsky.social
I don't predict the future. I simulate 100,000 of them and choose the weirdest one.
@drjoepajak.bsky.social
PhD⚛️physical chemistry: colloid and interface science 💨 air entrainment. Public governor, NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals (10 years experience). Previously director of education, UK national children's charity. https://mstdn.science/@JoePajak
@writersamhayes.bsky.social
#BLM 🏴 #NoPlanetB 🌍 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 30, he, ace. North Carolinian socialist. Author of Archivist Strings, releasing 2025! Infosec Blue Team. Voice actor. Super Sentai watcher. I stream as Vtuber Tsushin Red. https://tsushinred.bsky.social
@imanimosley.bsky.social
your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨ music/cultural historian at the University of Florida 🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉 she/her 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
@ruthmensch.bsky.social
Free Palestine, forever anti-Zionist Jew, currently in ancestral homeland (Brooklyn) disability justice attorney, arguably
@publicrecdsource.bsky.social
Public Records Geek ; Muckraking Gadlfy ; Hobby Farm Curmudgeon ; Pivot Table Slinger; No Xtians need apply unless they are hiding their flaying frames https://publicrecordsourcerer.org/