Michael Pettinger
Writer, Editor, Educator
Distracted by many things, but always end up returning to the forbidden topics: God, Sex, Death, and Italy.
@clairewillett.bsky.social
Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Covering arts philanthropy at orartswatch.org. Writing books and plays at clairewillettwrites.com. Mentoring lefty grantwriters at tinyurl.com/8thHousePDX. Just a Virgo who can’t drive.
@rob-kline.bsky.social
@momdownlow.bsky.social
Trees, the ocean, reading, talking, laughing and gardening. Therapist, mom, native Seattleite.
@altnps.bsky.social
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
@cadabeso.bsky.social
Gay, middle-aged liberal Democrat who is fond of food things, travel and Spanish. I am in the 1% (of gringos who have watched the Netflix series “La Reina del Flow” in all of its 172-episode glory).
@kylelukoff.bsky.social
"Kyle Lukoff? Isn't he, like, the trans Maurice Sendak?" "No, Maurice Sendak is the cis Kyle Lukoff."
@phebej.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, kid sister, boxer, prison abolitionist. Friend of dogs, bicycles, and trees. Novice qi gong practitioner. Literary Saints: James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Italo Calvino. Publications: https://phebejewellwrites.com
@rinapalumbo.bsky.social
Ph.D. (JHU - history); Italian-Canadian expat. Writer, Editor, avid reader. Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/ EIC Third Street Review https://third-street-review.org/
@markstatman.bsky.social
Poet, translator, 14 books, more coming, emeritus professor (Eugene Lang, The New School), lives in southern Mexico, baseball guy (LGFM), dual national 🇺🇸and 🇲🇽. See my Poet in Mexico Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/markstatman
@alessandrostardust.bsky.social
Author of All City, Transmutation, and Breaking the Curse (June '24). Dog mama-papa. Vespa rider. Former professional chef. Tarot reader. Extremely amateur boxing student. Former editor who, uh, made a dramatic exit. (Profile pic by Casey Hansen Conan)
@brookwl.bsky.social
Author GOD & COUNTRY and PARADISE LUST, religion writing teacher and editor, eternal student, Chapel Hill cat lady
@bdundeeholt.bsky.social
Preacher/teacher/poet/theologian/Motown aficionado Baltimorean in Harlem Pomona College/UNC-Chapel Hill/Fuller Theological Seminary/ Pacific School of Religion
@edwardrenehan.bsky.social
Founder at illume Media/New Street Communications. Writer, editor, consultant, publisher. Former longtime Manhattan publishing executive. Newport, RI. illumemedia.net
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@craigsilverman.bsky.social
Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer. I write the free Digital Investigations newsletter and edited the Verification Handbook series. Previously: ProPublica, BuzzFeed News. https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/ https://craigsilverman.ca
@bellingcat.com
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
@jsrailton.bsky.social
Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
@3r1ng.bsky.social
Social media network analysis. Digital ethnography. Formerly: Technology & Social Change Project: https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/technology-social-change/ she/her
@jillian.bsky.social
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Views are mine alone. Work @EFF, teach at College of Europe Natolin, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about #freealaa
@dfrlab.bsky.social
The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
@acarv.in
Former managing editor and director of research, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, occasional conlanger, #ActuallyADHD, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.
@bostonjoan.bsky.social
I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University www.criticalinternet.org
@davidcarroll.org
Is it still a free country? admin of federate.social faculty of parsons.edu subject of https://netflix.com/title/80117542 secure comms https://signal.me/#eu/P4v1lX3Oqmdp0mH_VXLsUO-S773AYm6Z0Rh-FIL7tD7ZOpmNWmpKvYnlKOxWFluX
@emmalbriant.bsky.social
International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof, University of Notre Dame; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge, UK; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Speaker; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social
Repression/resistance/(non)violence • Director of Research Unit Radical Spaces @interactfu.bsky.social • pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will • https://www.jannisgrimm.com/
@marwasf.bsky.social
Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
@snurb.info
Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media. He/his | Progressive Rock | Hannover 96 🖤🤍💚 | 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇺 🕸️ snurb.info 🐘 @snurb@aoir.social ⛔ @snurb_dot_info
@ejbeals.bsky.social
Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
@kdenkwrites.com
UK-based Investigative Journalist & OSINT bod. Bylines everywhere. Email: katherinedenkinson@protonmail.com Website: www.KDenkWrites.com
@sohandsouza.info
🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social; 📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT; 🎓 @MITOfficial.bsky.social @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks; 📍 London, England; https://www.sohandsouza.info
@noura.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @Citizenlab.ca , UofT Exploring the dark dimensions of digital power: authoritarianism, transnational repression & disinformation.
@awildknight.bsky.social
Researching disinformation for DFRLab | She/her | DMs usually open | tessaknight132@protonmail.com
@disinfo.eu
Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
@iyadelbaghdadi.bsky.social
Founder & chair, Kawaakibi Foundation. Obsessed with the future of liberty in the MENA & the world. Studying dictators at the Jamal Khashoggi Disinfo Monitor. Book: "The Middle East Crisis Factory" (Hurst, 2021) 🇵🇸🇳🇴 (Account managed by @kawaakibi.org)
@ngamita.bsky.social
researcher studying influence ops & surveillance; open source, human rights, privacy & pro-democracy tech.
@matthewdeverna.com
PhD candidate at Indiana University working with the Observatory on Social Media. Incoming postdoc (Sep. 2025) at the Stanford Social Media Lab. Computational social science, human-AI interaction, social media, trust and safety, etc. 🛜 matthewdeverna.com
@andrewchadwick.com
Prof Political Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been referred to as “that hybrid media guy.” Here after a four-year break from social media. Occasional posts on music. First-gen undergrad. andrewchadwick.com
@draamattheis.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.