SKAT Starter Pack
Sociologists of Science, Knowledge, and Technology, broadly defined, on BlueSky! Learn more about our Section: http://asaskat.com
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@asaskat.bsky.social
@metacramer.bsky.social
Sociologist | Senior Researcher RMZ @hu-rmz.bsky.social Humboldt Universität Berlin @humboldtuni.bsky.social | interested in global inequalities and the governmentality of science https://metacramer.owlstown.net (she/her)
@hu-rmz.bsky.social
Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social https://www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/en/rmz Posts in German and English. Podcast: Science Works https://www.rmz.hu-berlin.de/de/podcast ; https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUjTTUtytDJHWI4skfXDW
@clararuestchmann.bsky.social
Anthropologue • Laboratoire d'anthropologie politique (EHESS) & ATER à Paris 8 🔍 Anthropologie du travail et des techniques, de l’art et de l’urbain 🏗 Œuvres d'art contemporain pérennes 🚇 Grand Paris, architecture et chantiers 📷 Ethnographie visuelle
@cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social
Sociologue 🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes 🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique 🔧 Travail invisible des données 🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique 📟 Quantification et standardisation
@onglynette.bsky.social
http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
@4sweb.bsky.social
We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting Sept 3 - 6, 2025.
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
Professor in Science and Technology Studies @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@yanze-yu.bsky.social
PhD student @ColumbiaSoc ; MA @MichiganChina ; BA @FudanUniversity I study medicine, political economy, and science, knowledge & technology. Profile: https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/yanze-yu
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
@junzhou.bsky.social
phd candidate in sociology at University of Michigan political economy, gender, human-machine relations, work/labor, theory visiting fellow at Harvard & Mellon/ACLS innovation fellow she/they/cat person
@salegria.bsky.social
Sociologist. Assistant Prof @ University of Toronto. I study work, inequality, and technology.
@snigdhakumar.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Univeristy of Minnesota Sociology. Capitalism, technology, finance.
@linzhang.bsky.social
Critical Innovation Studies, Pro@UNH; Author of The Labor of Reinvention (Columbia UP, 2023). Working on a book about transnational biotech https://linzhangweb.org/
@amateurgarde.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lucerne University. Researching libraries/librarians, valuation, amateurization, and resisting organizations (not necessarily connected, but 🤷♀️)
@benjaminhsnyder.bsky.social
I write about technology run amok, capitalism, and other depressing things while also envisioning a world beyond them.
@jessicajsantana.bsky.social
Asst Prof in Technology Management @UCSB, alumna of Stanford Sociology and Berkeley iSchool, researching entrepreneurial failure
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@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
@michaelzt.bsky.social
PhD candidate in sociology & social policy at Harvard, working on punishment, discrimination, predictive algorithms & quantification.
@leomignot.bsky.social
Sociology of science and medicine | Not that kind of doctor | Research engineer @cedurkheim.bsky.social
@liedra.net
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games Content co-lead #EMFCamp Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic https://liedra.net
@suzywbrandon.bsky.social
#PhD interested in #PoliticalEpistemology, #PoliticalEcology, #Sociology, #Socialmedia, & #Cats
@kianakiana.bsky.social
Wasco. Sociologist who studies Indigeneity, intersectionality, and health. Standard poodle apologist. Some people call me keeks.
@larsjohannessen.bsky.social
Sociologist and Prof. in Knowledge, Expertise and Professions at Oslo Metropolitan University • Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University • Digital culture • Qualitative methods • Theorizing • Microsociology • STS
@rafmbatista.bsky.social
PhD Student UChicago-Booth. #BehSci, consumer psych, econ, policy, AI. Thinking (& tweeting) about everyday decisions & experiences. Job Mkt Candidate!
@ericazurawski.bsky.social
postdoc at Dartmouth geography| on the job market | sociology, human geography, law, and sts all in one package | expert on all things food justice, food equity, and the troublesome 'food desert' concept | dedicated to joy-filled classrooms
@lluisparcerisa.bsky.social
PhD in Sociology. Assistant Professor of Education Policy at @UniBarcelona.bsky.social. | Researching abt #Platforms #AI #Datafication #SAWA #TeachersWork #Privatization & #ComparativeEducation. https://linktr.ee/lluisparcerisa
@ptrslz.bsky.social
Sozialwiss. Wasserforscher ThWIC @uni-jena.de | Sociology of Water. Critical Theory of Society. Politics. | privat hier
@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
PhD Researcher Nederbelg in Brussel ☞ History & the Future║Emerging Technologies║Arms Control║Military Innovation║Environment║Bikes and Trains║Europe║Art on long term sick leave, so don't expect anything NL/EN
@fernandotormos.com
I research social movements, intersectional solidarity, disasters, and environmental, racial, and economic justice at @pittsociology.bsky.social. I lead policy for the @jtalliance.bsky.social. www.fernandotormos.com
@aldasky.bsky.social
Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
@josephharrisbu.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University / Director, Global Health Politics Workshop / Host, Global Health Politics Podcast / Comic Book Aficionado
@sarahbrothers.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Penn State
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, political economy, knowledge, theory, and China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
@taylormcruz.bsky.social
sociologist of science, technology, and medicine data analytics and AI in context taylormcruz.com (she/her) 🏳️🌈 #medsoc #STS #data #tech #justice #UCSF
@kellieowens.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Politics and Ethics of AI, Genomics, and Health Information Technologies.
@peterore.bsky.social
Sociologist at Queens College, CUNY. Environmental data production, state formations, and the history of control.
@seyfert.bsky.social
Professor of sociology with a focus on sociological theory, @uni-kiel.de, Germany Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory https://www.seyfert.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970 https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
@ecarolina.bsky.social
Sociologist studying the emergence, translation, and implementation of genetic epidemiology @ University of Edinburgh Research Fellow @ Epidemy Lab (ERC): epidemy.org
@cs1msy.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof UCSD Comm, Affiliate: Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, Urban Studies. Author of Disruptive Fixation (PUP). Working on a book about housing, labor, and urban development in Silicon Valley. 2020-21 member of the IAS.
@simonfern.bsky.social
Sociology PhD candidate at Rice - writing on immigrant health/medical experiences in Spain. Also, collaborative work on food apartheid in the American south. #migration studies, Medicine, #reproduction, care, #STS, #embodiment, coloniality, ANT.
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@drcompton.bsky.social
Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️ He/they/them/him NOLA/DC
@danmk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Sociology @ U of Haifa. Previously: Stanford, Hebrew U. Studying algorithms & culture, AI ethics, AI Hype, data infrastructures, microbiomic futures & more.
@dgraizbord.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology & Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UGA https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33509&bottom_ref=subject
@sarahotner.bsky.social
Professor of Org. Theory & Innovation. Lapsed dancer and diver, resumed swimmer, jogger-in-training. Data wonk, travel geek, foodie. Studies #fragrance, #architecture, #books, #metascience. Loves dogs & crime fiction. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2743-8462
@noortjem.bsky.social
Sociologist of technology and science, also empirical philosopher, creative methods
@parrasaiani.bsky.social
Full Prof. @UniGenova Interested in social research history & methodology, social indicators, factual and political knowledge, fraud in science, circulation of knowledge.
@allisonpugh.bsky.social
Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
@shreeharsh.bsky.social
Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise. Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
@emgerson.bsky.social
Sociologist of institutions and technical work, mostly biology and computing. Focus: intersection of specialties; comparative method. Studying: evolution specialties, organcism. Based at UC Davis Philosophy #HPS #HPBio #STS #PhilSci #Academia #Sociology
@andreabeckerphd.bsky.social
sociology professor and reproductive health researcher @ Hunter College CUNY / bylines in NYT, Slate, The Nation, Vox etc 🕊️abortion girly 🇲🇽 PREORDER MY BOOK PLZ :)
@ahmccumber.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Sociology. Past: Postdoc, Stony Brook University IACS, UCSB Sociology PhD. Author of BAD NATURE - forthcoming, University of Chicago Press www.andymccumber.com
@nataliyan.bsky.social
Sociology PhD at UC Berkeley. Future of work... and other things too. natalialuka.com #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
@shobitap.org
Science & #tech politics and #policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation/tech for equity. #STS scholar. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Pgm, U of Michigan. The Received Wisdom podcast. shobitap.org
@taniamjenkins.bsky.social
Sociologist. Ethnographer. UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of “Doctors’ Orders” (CUP, 2020). Interested in medicine, professions, mental health. Amateur vocalist. 🎵 taniajenkins.com
@tnfalpha.bsky.social
Hospitalist, sociologist @WeillCornell studying information environments, contested illness, medical communication Co-founder, Health for Palestine he/il/el/هو
@dromishai.bsky.social
Author of "Above the Fray:The RC & the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector"&"Moral Minefields:How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press). Harvard sociologist.
@joannakempner.bsky.social
Sociologist and Pet Snoozler. Kid Herder and Hobby Hoarder. Award-winning author focused on gender, health, pain, and stigma. New book: Psychedelic Outlaws about pain patients figuring things out on their own. https://bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
@fuzheng.bsky.social
phd candidate @ columbia sociology. interested in power, STS, economic sociology, classification struggles. very importantly, also a foodie.
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
Princeton Sociology Prof; ethnographer of NASA; tech policy; digitalSTS; ethics and critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to personal data economy. https://janet.vertesi.com https://www.optoutproject.net @cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
@deanarohlinger.bsky.social
Sociologist studying digital technologies, political participation, & politics. Editor in Chief of Social Science Computer Review. Getting by in Florida.
@owenwho.bsky.social
Bibliophile and sociologist; interested in mental health; author of ‘Knowledge in the Time of Cholera’ and ‘On the Heels of Ignorance’. @University of New Mexico
@jenniferreich.bsky.social
sociologist, parent, writer, book series editor, usually adequately caffeinated
@timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Climate change social scientist. Collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. Director, @ClimateSSN.bsky.social And @climatedevlab.bsky.social www.climatedevlab.brown.edu CSSN.org personal account; reskeets NE endorsement
@catherinetan.bsky.social
Sociologist. Assistant Professor @vassar.bsky.social. Med Soc, SKAT, Social Movements, Qualitative Methods. Twitter: @Catherineoscopy Instagram: @CatherineDTan www.CatherineDTan.com
@sarahbrayne.bsky.social
Sociology Professor at Stanford | Author of Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing | Founding Director of the Texas Prison Education Initiative
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@stsucl.bsky.social
Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
@charlesgomez.bsky.social
Computational & Mathematical Sociologist University of Arizona | School of Sociology | Affiliated with College of InfoSci and Applied Math GIDP | Interested in Global Knowledge and Science, Complex Systems, CSS TheGlobalLab.org www.charlesgomez.com
@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology at Yale studying right-wing naturalism, organicism, and pastoralism. Fan of Ohio State FB. Currently laying low in Spain 🇪🇸
@orollins.bsky.social
@hjfulton.bsky.social
Sociology PhD Candidate University of South Florida (USF) 🏳️⚧️ he/him
@alltheshapes.bsky.social
Sociologist studying risk, disaster, and social change http://ryan-hagen.com
@sxz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law. www.simonezhang.com
@claydav.is
PhD candidate in sociology and Mellon cluster fellow in science studies at Northwestern University. studies data as source of power #sts #metascience #sociology claydav.is
@mestefan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Teaching & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, San Diego. Views are my own.
@stefantimmermans.bsky.social
Anyone been abducted? Medical sociologist and ethnographer @UCLA. Sunrise over sunset. Dog is Belgian shepherd named Theo.
@akms.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Sociology & Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair, CUNY Queens College. Formerly NYU (PhD), Harvard (postdoc). Sociologist of race, citizenship, fascism, AI. www.skarpelis.com, she / her
@larryau.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at City College, CUNY Politics of expertise in science and medicine globally Are you a medical professional caring for patients with #LongCovid? Take our survey: http://LongCovidStudy.com Learn more: http://larryau.com
@ahvinson.bsky.social
UMich-based Sociologist, STS scholar, and Learning Health System theorist/builder. Keen to chat abt sociology of health professions ed, quantification, and test/measure development. Currently using most of my energy to change the healthcare system.
@jwlockhart.bsky.social
Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, and the relationship between all of the above. Working at a university in the UK, with which this account is not affiliated.
@runzach.bsky.social
Sociologist of expertise, quantification, medicine, social policy at NYU zachgriffen.com
@jonshaffer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVM | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Previously Post-doc @BermanInstitute, Partners In Health Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b_foLf8AAAAJ&hl=en
@cliu.bsky.social
Sociologist at Microsoft Research working on STS, data, and the state. Incoming Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
@ralmeling.bsky.social
Yale Sociologist. https://www.renealmeling.com. Books: -Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics (forthcoming!) -GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health -Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm Now studying climate change...
@ajravenelle.bsky.social
Asst. Professor, Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of Side Hustle Safety Net (UCPress, 2023) and Hustle and Gig (UCPress, 2019) 23-24 Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage
@danielrmorrison.bsky.social
Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, white ignorance. A host of The Annex, a sociology podcast. Department chair and runner.
@keanbirch.bsky.social
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/ Director, Institute for Technoscience & Society: https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/
@labortechresearchnetwork.org
We are an interdisciplinary group of over 650 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism. Posts by @kaareeenah.bsky.social
@lauraknelson.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UBC computational sociology machine learning is feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
@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.”
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher