Information Science at UIUC
A Starter Pack of faculty, affiliates, staff, graduate students, and other community members from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The accounts were compiled by cross-referencing BlueSky accounts to the current UIUC iSchool Directory.
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@matthewkollmer.com
@ejmknox.bsky.social
Professor studying information access and censorship | Star Wars Lover | Reader | emilyknox.net
@anitachan.bsky.social
Scholar, Speaker, Educator Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu anitachan.org
@daniellewilberg.bsky.social
5ft tall host of the Empty Nest Happy Hour podcast and actively fighting middle-age.
@ghostpepper616.bsky.social
School of Information Sciences at Illinois. Arts, Tech, Education, Vegetables.
@katemcdowell23.bsky.social
Data Storytelling for Libraries. DSTL https://uiucdstl.wixsite.com/uiucdstl Storytelling as information research; data storytelling; social justice storytelling; and what library storytelling can teach information science about data storytelling.
@profdownie.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois. Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
@wishkhh.bsky.social
Disabled English graduate who loves to horde books! Chicago is my home 💚🏌🏽♀️💚 She/Her 𓂃⊹ ִֶָ baby librarian 𓂃⊹ ִֶָ #Narcolepsy #idiopathichypersomnia
@kexinq.bsky.social
@maryton.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
@lucianli123.bsky.social
PhD student at UIUC ischool. Interested in studying textual evidence of influence, originality, and idea transmission.
@rdubnicek.bsky.social
he/him * Doing Digital Humanities/Cultural Analytics things, sometimes for the HathiTrust * @University of Illinois
@wonderingishika.bsky.social
CS PhD @ UIUC | Data Efficiency NLP | Conversational AI | agarwalishika.github.io | same handle on twitter
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
@jessfrye.bsky.social
Info Science PhD student at UIUC Willing to talk your ear off about labor history, digital humanities, media and Appalachian studies.
@illinoisrbml.bsky.social
Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/ Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
@beccacohen.bsky.social
IS PhD Student at UIUC studying digital humanities, language, cultural analytics and ethical AI
@fobettarh.bsky.social
Academic. Librarian. Creator of the concept “vocational awe.” PhD student at UIUC’s iSchool. Game designer of Killing Me Softly.
@kyriezz78.bsky.social
PhD Student@UIUC. Research: AI ethics/bias, usable security and privacy, inclusive design, HCI. Dog and cat lover! kyriezz.com
@janamperkins.com
founder, @womenofletters.org. computational social scientist writing a book (DEEP LITERACY, DIGITAL TIME) for Routledge
@smirity.bsky.social
PhD @UIUC| ex-Visiting Researcher #MPI_SP| Trust & safety research for at-risk x HCI x user privacy x tech policy| ex-Privacy Consultant @EY
@melissawong.bsky.social
Adjunct instructor in LIS. Grateful, not grumpy. she/hers. Co-author: Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction (Windsor-Downs, 2020).
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@wenyishang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at SISLT, University of Missouri. UIUC iSchool PhD. Peking University alumnus. Digital humanities researcher focusing on premodern Chinese history (and occasionally English literature). https://wenyi-shang.github.io
@anonnyancat.bsky.social
I'm tired and I'm cranky, AND I love libraries, cats, learning, and gardens. Holding space for justice and equity. Associate Professor Emerita @UIUC. Queer. pronouns she:they
@danielskatz.org
Chief Scientist @ NCSA, Res. Assoc. Prof. @ SCDS & iSchool, @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign He/him Works on: computational & data science: software opensource systems tools policy practices scholcomm FAIR RSE more active on: @danielskatz@fediscience.org
@kkarahal.bsky.social
@lisalibrarian.bsky.social
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
@johnrgallagher.bsky.social
I use qualitative and computational methods to study writers on the internet. I study how machine learning experts communicate. More generally, I study writing and writers. Associate professor.
@infophilia.bsky.social
Lover of libraries and information sciences prof. How does infophilia — our love of information and connections — shape us, our technologies, knowledge culture, our society, and the world? Forthcoming Book: Infophilia Unbound infophilia.substack.com
@copyrightchat.bsky.social
Host of Copyright Chat. ALA Policy Corps. Library Advocate. Dog, cat, and teenager’s mom.
@salthaus.bsky.social
Cline Center Director, professor of political science and communication at Illinois, current data scientist, former Tower Rat, swore an oath that doesn’t expire. www.clinecenter.illinois.edu
@bradly-alicea.bsky.social
Director of research and content @Orthogonal_Lab. Scientific Advisory Board @ Active Inference Institute. Lecturer, iSchool @ UIUC. Developmental biology @openworm. Bike enthusiast. Good without God. Hands off Higher-Ed. #tsundoku afficionado.
@johnmilas.bsky.social
author of THE MILITIA HOUSE (Holt, 23) | Sewanee Writers’ Conference fellow | Shirley Jackson Award nominated | Center for Fiction longlisted | Illinois bois | https://www.johnmilas.com/
@nerdrium.bsky.social
I am a Linux administrator at the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I have opinions.
@gworthey.bsky.social
Where: HathiTrust Research Center, iSchool, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. What: DH+Libraries, multilingual DH, Russian literature, children's literature, translation. How: However I can.
@lbochs.bsky.social
School libraries are the best! Former school librarian now working with pre-service school librarians.
@kristinaintin.bsky.social
Partner at Evening Land Books www.eveninglandbooks.com MSLIS Advisor and Coordinator at UIUC School of Information Sciences Rare book hunter|thrift shop fashionista|library advocate|mega leftist anti-fascist|
@haohanwang.bsky.social
Assistant professor at School of Information Sciences, UIUC, previously Carnegie Mellon University. Working on Computational Biology, Trustworthy AI, and Large Language Models based agents.
@drtlwagner.bsky.social
Cyborg academic in a world of robot academics. Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Preserving queer history and obsolete technology one VHS tape at a time. http://travislwagner.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.
@kevintrainor.bsky.social
Teacher, programmer, data modeler, data analyst, systems analyst, Web developer. For more information about my professional life, please see my LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/trainorkevin
@anuncivilphd.bsky.social
Library & Info Sciences Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo & '22 Lynd Ward Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham and lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
@meicensun.bsky.social
@profmrs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences at UIUC / Sociotechnical Governance Scholar / Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop / baking enthusiast
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
@readingspark.bsky.social
Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Children’s Literature; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com Cover art: Nancy So Miller Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (EMLA)
@ryancordell.org
he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director of @skeuomorphpress.org
@rachelfadler.bsky.social
Research in HCI, Accessibility, and Computing Education Associate Professor at the iSchool at UIUC
@matthewkollmer.com
PhD student (info sci at UIUC). Research in DH, NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Background in 19th/early 20th century US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com I also own and operate a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com