Starter packs with Kate Starbird

People engaging in thoughtful criticism of AI, and/or technology, technopolitics or the tech industry more generally. Looking for more folks? Check here: https://go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

• Created by Eryk Salvaggio  over 1 year ago
• 86 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Welcome CARD readers to Bluesky. Here's a list of good accounts to follow if you want a deeper understanding of the topics I write about.

• Created by Melissa Ryan  over 1 year ago
• 57 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The official Starter Pack of @acm-cscw.bsky.social‬. Follow researchers who publish at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). Contact @estellesmithphd.bsky.social‬ to be added!

• Created by Estelle Smith  9 months ago
• 32 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

it's a collection of news outlets, journalists, people, and other people

• Created by Justin Ling  almost 2 years ago
• 28 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This starter pack includes dozens of journalists, academics and media thinkers who are already on this platform. Some work at the Institute. Others are just people we read, learn from and admire

• Created by Reuters Institute  over 1 year ago
• 25 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

UPDATE: currently at capacity, but I will curate to focus on active posters. Keep suggesting folks to add. I hadn't seen anyone else make one, and figured it was past due. Send suggestions of folks to add, including yourself!

• Created by David Sullivan  over 1 year ago
• 21 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Starter pack de gens à suivre pour suivre les enjeux liés à la désinfo et la big tech (réseaux sociaux, IA, crypto etc) d'un oeil critique. En français et en anglais.

• Created by Jeff Yates  over 1 year ago
• 20 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Co-curated by Brent Toderian & Tom Flood! People & orgs that are ESPECIALLY effective at TRANSFORMING the broad public conversation about better city-making, smarter transportation, & equitable cities for people. This pack is about changing minds, branding ideas, & new ways to break thru the noise!

• Created by Brent Toderian  over 1 year ago
• 19 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People who provide fact-checking, who study misinformation or who provide insights into human psychology and the media system

• Created by Ingrid Brodnig  over 1 year ago
• 15 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

All things fact-checking, misinformation and media literacy.

• Created by Seana Davis  over 1 year ago
• 12 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of individuals who have written for Tech Policy Press, appeared on our podcast, or otherwise contributed to our community.

• Created by Tech Policy Press  almost 2 years ago
• 11 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

academics, researchers, journalists and subject matter experts focusing on conspiracy theories.

• Created by Dr. Marc-André Argentino  over 1 year ago
• 10 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack of people tackling or writing about disinformation, misinformation, fake news, propaganda, information integrity, influence ops and digital authoritarianism (Accounts must have bios)

• Created by Marc Owen Jones  over 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just some recommended folks to follow.

• Created by Mike Masnick  over 1 year ago
• 9 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Sharing a list of thoughtful, diverse, global voices on tech and data policy.

• Created by Lewis  over 1 year ago
• 7 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Group of influential scientist and science communicators on Bluesky as of October/November 2024. You can see a description of our method here: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-emerging-as-the-new-platform-for-science/ and here: https://lassehjorthmadsen.github.io/blueskyanalyses/

• Created by Mike Young  over 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Folks with scholarship and teaching in media, and in JourComm adjacent spaces.

• Created by Jeremy Littau  over 1 year ago
• 6 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of people who post about media reform: structural media incentives, the collapse of US journalism, bringing back ThinkProgress, why AG Sulzberger and John C Malone are different problems... And solutions to improve our media. There’s a Media Reform list too: pin it as a Feed.

• Created by Eric Blair  over 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

List of advisors, scientific committee members, and current (2025) or former (2023, webinar series) speakers who support the University of Cambridge Disinformation Summit projects.

• Created by Alan Jagolinzer  over 1 year ago
• 5 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Here're some accounts to follow. YMMV, but i don't think so.

• Created by Andrew Fraser  over 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Researchers and journalists studying our information environment, rumors, false information, how to correct misbeliefs, and ways to make it easier for people to find accurate information

• Created by Lisa Fazio  over 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

UW HCDE Faculty, Staff, Students Alumni

• Created by Sean Munson  over 1 year ago
• 4 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Tech bods

• Created by Leighton Andrews  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A wide range of experts, academics, professionals, and activists working on information integrity somehow. Inclusion is not an endorsement but a recognition that the account is relevant to those in this interdisciplinary space.

• Created by E. Rosalie  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of educators, teachers, librarians, professors, researchers, and other educators who focus or report on media literacy issues.

• Created by Tim Jones  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The best analytic takes on American politics — from political scientists, historians, other academics, and a few extraordinary journalists — that I can find on Bsky. Reading these folks will make you smarter and better informed. Find your partisan jollies somewhere else. 😏

• Created by Christine Barbour  over 1 year ago
• 3 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Advocates and academics working to advance digital justice, civil rights online, and an equitable Internet for everyone.

• Created by David Brody  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A starter pack on elections, voting, information integrity, and the stakes for democracy — not political horse races. Please DM me with additional suggestions. There are many more worthy candidates, but I am only including those authors that are regularly active on Bluesky.

• Created by Edward Perez  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Tried to put as many ppl that I follow on Twitter

• Created by Manoel Horta Ribeiro  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Democracy suffers when billionaires control the media. This list includes leading academics, writers and advocates in the movement to build a more democratic media system.

• Created by Tim Karr  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A range of thinkers and organizations steering us toward healthier online experiences. A work in progress. Who should we add?

• Created by New_ Public  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Academic and industry researchers in the area of Social Computing. Working to understand and improve platforms and services like the one you are on right now.

• Created by Mor Naaman  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Kristi Branch  about 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by VaryCSS  over 1 year ago
• 2 people have used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Marcus Wadsak  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Mariel Roe  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of scholars and journalists who research right wing politics. This is an in-process starter pack. Will add more as I get my bearings and find folks.

• Created by A.J. Bauer  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Academic, Singer-Songwriter; interests include reading, journaling, travel, art, walking, listening to podcasts, Dem

• Created by Nicole Blair [email protected]  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This is an incomplete list of the people on this platform at the intersection of civic tech, data, and design, which includes both practitioners and researchers.

• Created by Jae Yeon Kim  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Academics, journalists, activists, and other smart people who post about extremism, mis- and disinformation, conspiracy beliefs, technology, and other issues important to democracy. People I've worked with or interact with frequently.

• Created by Daniel Malmer  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Lean meat

• Created by Alex Brown  about 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

People working on Clean Information Spaces. OSINT, disinfo misinfo propaganda and open democracy Dm to be added

• Created by Jerome  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

• Created by Fabienne Vande Meerssche  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Recommendations for students in the Computational Communication Analysis lab at UM-Flint who want to follow discussions in NLP + Computational Social Science.

• Created by Steve Wilson  23 days ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

A list of over 140 WNBA accounts you can follow - including official team accounts, reporters, commentators and more.

• Created by Shams Charania Tweets  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Just some of the Bluesky users involved in researching, reporting, exposing, mitigating, or combatting pseudoscience, anti-science, denialism, conspiracy theories, paranormal claims, and misinformation and disinformation of all types.

• Created by Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

This starter pack includes journalists who specialize in social media; technology publications that regularly cover social media news and developments; and experts and researchers who study information integrity. A “living” list!

• Created by Edward Perez  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

The brave - The bright - The brilliant This pack is now full 🙌 Please follow all - Listen. Learn. Amplify.

• Created by Brent Lee  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky

Useful people

• Created by Anne Applebaum  over 1 year ago
• One person has used this starter pack to join Bluesky