Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com Leading applied behavioral science at scale. CXO at Oceans. Dad of Bear. mattwallaertofficehours.com. AppliedBeSci.com for "WTF is he talking about?”
An N of 1
Podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2369863
Newsletter - https://mattwallaert.substack.com/
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social 😀 Take a break from doomscrolling!
We share tech, science, health, environment, and social progress
What Could Go Right? newsletter and podcast 👇
linktr.ee/progressntwrk
Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Writer of newsletter https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Gail Swanson @joyinthecenter.bsky.social Trauma-informed technologist | Writer | Artist | Motorcyclist
I ask a lot of questions.
I think a LOT.
I make things.
Becky Colley, UX Designer @beckycolley.bsky.social Lead UX Consultant. Woman in STEM. Adobe UX Designer to Watch. I like exploring places, befriending dogs, and solving problems. Here to chat about work stuff but views all mine. Manchester, UK 📍
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent service design and digital transformation lead.
Mainly works in public sector.
Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.com/
Hera Hussain @herahussain.bsky.social Founder of Chayn - fight gender-based violence with tech. Feminist technologist. Living trauma-informed design. Forbes & MIT U35. EYL40. Ashoka Fellow.🇵🇰🇬🇧
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social Sustainable development & co-design practitioner. Supports multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net/
THRE (Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities) @thre-equal.bsky.social THRE supports third sector organisations to take a human rights and equalities first approach. Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ http://eepurl.com/iceirz
Linktree ➡️ https://bit.ly/4hXu5wa
Homeless Network Scotland @homelessnetwork.scot We believe a future without homelessness is possible. Homeless Network Scotland is the national membership body of organisations and individuals committed to this future. homelessnetwork.scot
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Tyler Gindraux 🌻 @tylergindraux.bsky.social I'm a researcher and designer of public services. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
Krista Canellakis @kristallakis.bsky.social Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. 💗
mx cordelia yu @thebestsophist.bsky.social Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Aaron Ogle @atogle.com Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.
Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
Indi Young @indiyoung.bsky.social Data Science that Listens - indiyoung.com
Book - Time to Listen indiyoung.com/books/
Systems thinking research for solutions that support human variety. (Fully human made posts & illustrations; no use of AI)
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Sophie Mavzalevskaya @nonselection.bsky.social Participatory art -> participatory action research • Service design & grassroots civic tech • Tinkering with a co-op startup making ND tools • Co-building PUFFF.community for queer solidarity and joy as resistance 🦄🌈✨
She/they | #AuDHD | Western Balkans
Journal of Design Research @jdesignresearch.bsky.social Journal of Design Research. Published by Inderscience. Emphasising human aspects of design through integrative studies of social sciences and design disciplines.
Skeets by @reneewever.bsky.social (editor)
Incl journal updates & vacancies in design academia
Ruha Benjamin @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
SDinGov @sdingov.bsky.social 11 March 2026 | Virtual, online | virtual.sdingov.net
23-25 September 2026 | Edinburgh | sdingov.net
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services.
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Alec MacGillis @alecmac.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica, author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC, native of Pittsfield, resident of Baltimore.
Dr. Jess Parris Westbrook (they/them) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @jesswestbrook.bsky.social 🦨~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social Former Chief Technologist at cfpb
Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Liz Sanders @ebns.bsky.social design research, co-design, participatory design, transdisciplinarity, collective dreaming.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LRLQtE0AAAAJ
Sophie Metcalfe @sophiemetcalfe.bsky.social Senior researcher in policymaking at Institute for Government - especially all things housing, planning and early years
Will Friedman @willfriedman.bsky.social Democracy researcher/writer/advocate focused on the idea that we can’t defend democracy without renewing democracy. Former president, Public Agenda. NYC born, Brooklyn based.
Lucy J Parry @lucyjparry.bsky.social participatory and deliberative democracy theory & practice | co-editor journal of deliberative democracy & deliberative democracy digest 
Helen Bevan @helenbevan.bsky.social Change facilitator, co-designer of change interventions, speaker. Prof. of Practice in Health & Care Improvement at Warwick Business School. Advisor to NHS Horizons. Senior Fellow of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA. Views are my own.
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Product Exec. Building agentic infrastructure & counter-platforms.
Researching platform urbanism, digital statecraft & service design. UMich faculty.
Kristen Uroda @kristenuroda.bsky.social ✏️ illustrator + civic design researcher
michigan-based • working to spark joy and renew moral imagination through a vision of beauty and compassion • SCBWI member
kristenuroda.com
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Ariana Aboulafia @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social disability rights activist.
tech policy’s biggest swiftie.
views my own. 🏳️🌈⚖️
Anika Collier Navaroli @anikacolliernavaroli.com Human. Auntie. Professor. Attorney.
Sometimes I write about tech, policy, journalism, trust & safety, and law.
Prateek Waghre @prateekwaghre.com Sometimes ambivalent/ignorant|
Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)|
past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies|
✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com
Kasia Banas @edinkasia.bsky.social Social/health psychologist. R user. Data Educator. Software Sustainability Institute Fellow 2023. Working at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. she/her
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy @workers4democracy.bsky.social Supporting federal workers to directly resist and defy dangerous, unlawful and illegal orders.
Donate: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/federal-workers-alliance-for-democracy-contributions/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/FederalWorkersForDemocracy
AltUSDA🐮🌱 Growing America’s Recalcitrance @altusda.altgov.info Big USDA’s bratty little unsanctioned sibling 🌱🐮
Do Right and Feed Everyone.
Empower our farms & people.
#climatesmart #nutrition #urbanag #conservation #foodsecurity #diversity #bullsonparade #renegade
🚜💨🥦🥕⚗️🏡🌎🌈🐮✊
Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info This is a #AltGov account. Federal employee. Love my job. Ask for help and you shall receive. Read any USPS mail you get from the IRS.
#Resist #spoon 🥄
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Yale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
Shelly @wages4housewerk.bsky.social User experience researcher and service designer working in civic tech. PhD in sociology. Feminism and economic justice. 
Dylan Paré, PhD (they/them) @mxdylanp.bsky.social Critical learning sciences researcher & co-designer of technologies to support social justice and computational learning. Assistant professor of learning, design, & technology. Views are my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍁🌱
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Alba Villamil @albanvillamil.bsky.social Sociological User Researcher. Equity Design. Talks ethics at @HmntyCntrd. Dreams of retiring as a food blogger. She/her
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social Design leadership — writing a book called Strong Design. 
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Angela Colter @angelacolter.bsky.social @bridgecivictech / former civil servant @18F / sic semper tyrannis
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC
JD Downs @bluejdowns.bsky.social Was a civic technologist. Might still be. 💻 In school for public administration. 🧑🎓 Dog mom. 🐕 Down to earth intuitive tarot reader. 🔮 Adorably dark stand up comedy. 🎙️ Sad happy music. 🦜 Probably taking a photo of a bird right now. 📸 
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. 216 for life, unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. The dadjokes don't stop just b/c they've grown & gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Chelsea Mauldin @chelseamauldin.bsky.social Designer, social scientist, director of the Public Policy Lab @publicpolicylab.bsky.social
Public Policy Lab @publicpolicylab.bsky.social We design policy and services that help the American public build better lives. Nonprofit and nonpartisan. Visit us at www.publicpolicylab.org.
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Code for Boston @codeforboston.bsky.social Civic tech volunteer group serving Greater Boston since 2012. Connect with us at www.codeforboston.org
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Ryan Koch @ryanakoch.com Host of Civic Tech Chat https://civictech.chat
Nerdy for all things tech, political science, and public policy
Jared Spool @jmspool.bsky.social Always focused on eliminating all the poorly-designed products and services from our world. People’s lives are complicated enough. We don’t have to make it worse for them.
You can find me at CenterCentre.com and in the Leaders of Awesomeness community.
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
AC @salty-af.bsky.social service/experience designer, civic tech; 18F alum
stl stuff
CivicTechies @civictechies.bsky.social We are federal public service technologists advocating for our values and exercising our rights. Being united and organized as a community matters more than ever.