Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Evan Martin @neugierig.org I aim to mostly use this account to announce the blog posts found on my website:
https://neugierig.org
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Stephen Diehl @www.stephendiehl.com Softwares, maths, compilers and bears.
https://www.stephendiehl.com/
Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading House Judiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
warpfork @warpfork.bsky.social still working with computers. to my frustration.
User choice and consent-based system design matters.
Local-first software is always superior.
Updates should never be forced.
Reproducible, deterministic systems are the only ones that should be trusted.
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Anne Bertucio de Hollembeak @annebdh.bsky.social COO at ROOST.tools, working to make Trust and Safety tools available to all.
Open source, security and privacy, and more into my amateur sports league than I should be
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social Organizer, Musician, Floridian, and Congressman (FL10).
https://linktr.ee/maxwellfrostfl
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov Congressman representing Central Florida / Orlando (FL-10)
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Josh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social https://tile38.com | https://github.com/tidwall | https://tidwall.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social Amazing feats of engineering. Posted by https://root.vc
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social Get ready for a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with Rubin Observatory!
Para español siga a Instagram: http://instagram.com/rubin_observatory
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Go @golang.org Go will make you love programming again. We promise.
https://go.dev/
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus.
Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Jay Conrod @jayconrod.com Computer tamer. Beach person. Works on distributed build tools. Likes your cat pictures.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Anton Zhiyanov @antonz.org Maintainer at https://github.com/nalgeon. Author at https://antonz.org
Jenna DiVincenzo @jcenzo.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Purdue ECE. I do research in software verification and programming languages. All opinions are my own. She/her. https://jennalwise.github.io
Brian Slesinsky @skybrian.bsky.social Retired software engineer, amateur accordionist. Other accounts:
https://mastodon.social/@skybrian
https://tildes.net/user/skybrian
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Sam Rose @samwho.dev That guy who makes visual essays about software at https://samwho.dev.
Developer Educator @ ngrok.com
He/him.
Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Carlana @carlana.net philosopher, mom, web mistress, PhD, ditz
https://carlana.net
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
James Gleick @around.com Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel.
Other work can be found at https://around.com.
My new history of the telephone will appear in November.
On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to.
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Mike Judge @mikejudge.bsky.social Software Developer. He/him.
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Takuto Nagami @logica0419.dev Software Engineer | Singer | Composer | Designer | @gophercon.jp Co-chair
Roxy Light @zombiezen.com she/her or they/them. Posts are entirely my own, not my employer's.
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket
I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.- O Oliver Burkeman @oliverburkeman.com
Julio Merino @jmmv.dev Operating systems, build systems, and programming languages. Mostly Unix, Bazel, and Rust. Author of Blog System/5. Creator of EndBASIC, and more. https://jmmv.dev/
Nik 'Ludic' Suresh @mrnikli.bsky.social I'm the CEO at Hermit Tech and aspire to one day be on the news for what I've done to a Microsoft salesperson.
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Fred Hebert @ferd.ca Principal SRE @ honeycomb.io, Tech Book Author, Resilience in Software Foundation board member, Erlang Ecosystem Foundation co-founder, Resilience Engineering fan. SRE-not-sorry.
blog: https://ferd.ca
notes: https://ferd.ca/notes/
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Carmen H. Andoh @carmatrocity.bsky.social Sociotechnical Systems Debugger.
Cuelang, Xoogler, OSS, DevEx. Go Team + Travis CI Alum. Now at Cisco/Splunk. At the intersection of programming languages, infrastructure, developer experience, tooling, and most important of all: People.
David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io ceo exe.dev, tailscale co-founder, programmer
david barsky @davidbarsky.com i like cooking and reading books. my day job is to work on ersc.io, but before, it was rust-analyzer. he/they is fine.
Tim Bray @tbray.org Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
I’m mainly on Fedi, @cosocial.ca@timbray. On this account I mostly post #blueskyabove photos; for more, if you’re not on Fedi try @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Jake Bailey @jakebailey.dev Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript
Underground gopher, finally revealed
jakebailey.dev
github.com/jakebailey
arch btw
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Sabine Hossenfelder @hossenfelder.bsky.social German Physicist
Sam Greenfield @samgreenfield.com Software Engineer at Google and former Michelin-starred restaurateur • he/him • posts are my own personal opinions
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social - G @griesemer.bsky.social @griesemer.bsky.social
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Daniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social Daniel Lemire is a Computer Science Professor at the University of Quebec (TELUQ). Daniel Lemire ranks in the top 2% of scientists worldwide according to Stanford University/Elsevier's 2024 ranking.
Daniel Martí @handle.invalid #cuelang #golang
https://mvdan.cc
London, UK
@roland.zone @roland.zone go (the language) security team lead 🔥💻🔥
Roger Peppe @rog.bsky.social CUE, Go, fiddler, climber, gardener, curry maker.
Russ Cox @swtch.com
Michael Pratt @prattmic.com Hacking on the Go runtime and gVisor. 🏳️🌈
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler.
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @geomys.org founder / RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
Matt Layher @mdlayher.com Software Engineer at PlanetScale. Go, Rust, Linux, networking, and open source software. On and ever upward. he/him.