Dr Laura Smith-Khan's Starter Pack
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@lauraskh.bsky.social
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics. email max@kennerlylaw.com
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@drjennings.bsky.social
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain. My Book! https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 Calendars! https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2025-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
@link.spacelawshitpost.me
The Bluesky Sage of Shitposts and Space Law. Bluesky Elder. Apex User. Profile: Cartoon AJ drawn by @atlastalos.bsky.social. Banner: “I am not going to bury my account, my account is going to bury me.” - John Q.
@ketanjoshi.co
Analysis, research, writing and communications focused on anti-greenwashing and corporate accountability. Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@akalhan.bsky.social
Law professor, Drexel Univ • Fellow, UC Nat'l Ctr for Free Speech & Civic Engagement • Affiliated fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Cmte A on Academic Freedom ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@conradhackett.bsky.social
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center Global religious change, sociology
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw Co-editor-in-chief at Just Security (https://bsky.app/profile/justsecurity.org). Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept. https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@restofworld.org
We’re a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West. For the latest updates subscribe to our newsletter here: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
@stevepeers.bsky.social
Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming). Usual disclaimers.
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | alleged "left-wing commie-god" | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, 18th-19th c. history, and baseball-especially minor league | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823. he/him.
@legalminimum.bsky.social
No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Kinda retired. Have entered my super villain era. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
@yilinwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@andrew.heiss.phd
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. andrewheiss.com Signal: andrewheiss.01
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@albertsonb2.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
linguist, discourse/pragmatics bean & bug’s mom podcaster liberalcurrents.com/halftheanswer/ author & associate editor at liberalcurrents.com singer with youtube.com/@arbielle?si=qzzG4mZwgbZWqhRY she/they substantively unserious
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@jtauber.com
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music. Python, Web, Corpus Linguistics, Data Visualization, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Space, Health. Perseus DL. Greek Learner Texts Project & Digital Tolkien Project.
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
@maargentino.com
Counterterrorism | Esotericism | Conspiracy Theories | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba Wehret den Anfängen A mix of a caffeinated conspiracy theorist and a wise owl, perched atop a mountain of esotericism.
@mguariglia.bsky.social
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Visiting Professor at Emory. Book on race and the origins of modern policing out now! MatthewGuariglia.com
@asherwolf.bsky.social
Amnesty Media Award 2014. Cryptoparty. Anti-Robodebt campaigner. Digital rights. Mutant network node herder. Completing a Master of Social Work. Devouring entropy. Working with the OpenAustralia Foundation https://www.patreon.com/asherwolf
@walterolson.bsky.social
Writer on law etc.; Cato Institute. Election law, Maryland civic stuff, cooking. Blogged at Overlawyered back when. No kings, no tyrants.
@focusfronting.bsky.social
opinions are not my own and represent those of noam chomsky if he were in law school. she/her.
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/) 2. Obsessed with lists 3. COMMON PEOPLE 4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS 5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
@annmlipton.bsky.social
Law prof at Tulane, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/ Scholarship at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170 No longer welcome in the State of Nevada.
@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
Nederbelg in Brussel non-practicing intellectual on war & tech NL/EN
@clairefield.bsky.social
Writes about: higher education, vocational education and training, international education and GenAI/EdTech
@jacobware.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sedition-Far-Right-Terrorism/dp/0231
@design-law.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Design patent scholar. Currently writing about "Schedule A" litigation.
@oonahathaway.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Council at U.S. Department of Defense
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
@gabino.bsky.social
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
@helendecruz.net
Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music. newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com website: https://helendecruz.net/ My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
@swilua.bsky.social
@Swilua "An inspiration to bog witches everywhere"— @jermsguy "Ms Frizzle IRL”— @ElleMaeGal "Cranky and Annoyed"— @washingtonpost she/fae kerrycoran.com
@alixabeth.bsky.social
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
@lauraskh.bsky.social
Australian Senior Lecturer (=AssocProf), language, law & society. #LLIRN. External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member. Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed & prac, access to justice ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو