Róisín O @roisino.bsky.social 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Childless Irish cat lady
To the left to the left
she/her
Daniel Rourke @therourke.net Goldsmiths based digital media theory art • AI, aphantasia, aphids and mycelial pantelegraphy • machinemachine.net
Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social Chair, Computational BIology and Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.
Associate Professor, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.
Disclosures: https://github.com/michaelmhoffman/disclosure/
Josh "cortex" Millard @joshmillard.bsky.social Artist and weirdo and etc. from Portland, OR. Fractal fixation. Online to a deeply unfortunate degree. Ran MetaFilter for a while. Today in Tabs idiot. Blaseball will never die, RIP Blaseball.
Matthew Haughey @haughey.com Internet dork from way back
You should probably also follow me here: https://bsky.app/profile/mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy
And my blog too: https://a.wholelottanothing.org
Kate Stutzel @katestutzel.bsky.social 🌎 Northern Bergen County, NJ
🗣️ Community, politics, culture & more
💙 2027 candidate for NJ Assembly (LD-39)
🔗 https://linktr.ee/KateStutzel
ColdChef @coldchef.bsky.social Undertaker, Overexplainer. Anonymortician. Memento moron. Failure is always an option. I have friends everywhere. I will likely let you down. Putting the "wheee" in "ennui." Obsequious obsequies.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net Biologist. Better Posters book and blog. Academic hoaxes. Academic slop graphics. Home: http://DoctorZen.net. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4049-7034
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Brit Williams, Ph.D. @drbritwilliams.bsky.social Yes, that one. PhD-I study Black Women @ work, health/HIV, & class via EDU | 1stGen | Solo | Childfree by choice | 🌱 based | CiteASista & SisterPhD | 🩷💚 | 5’11 | 1 of 1 | LLM HATER
📬💻📧: https://linktr.ee/drbritwilliams
Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social Media reporter at The New York Times. Signal: benmullin.13
Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io Disaster trans woman with a PhD in media studies. I write stuff sometimes. (she/her)
Buy my book: https://linktr.ee/Shadell13
John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social 🍹 an aperol spritz in human form 🍹
📝 senior reporter @ digiday 📝
📚 The Rage Game: Video Games and the Politics of Reaction due out summer 2027 📚
(views expressed are mine alone)
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Hartford Yarn Works @hartfordyarnworks.bsky.social We are a artisan, small batch Indie yarn dyer and yarn store based in rural Hartford, Wisconsin. We sell yarn and other fiber arts related products. We also enjoy sharing our projects, including knitting, crocheting, spinning, etc.
hartfordyarnworks.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Liam Stack @liam-stack.bsky.social NY Times reporter currently in Tel Aviv, but usually in NYC. Formerly Cairo, and a few other places. Khawaga-at-large. Brand new to BlueSky. Liam.stack@nytimes.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Film critic, out-of-print author, 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇮🇪Londoner. Let's be parasocial acquaintances immediately
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social A small forest creature afraid of the forest
cmo of the onion
Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. LA Podcast co-host, new episodes drop every Monday. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social Them: You're the father of the xbox!
Me: If it moves back in, it’s paying rent.
theoretical physics | CEO | gastroegyptology | cacao | CHM trustee
Kickback Soccer Media @kickbacksoccer.bsky.social America’s soccer media company. Join the American soccer conversation:
@firsttouch.bsky.social
@kickbackcommittee.bsky.social
@soccerwisehq.bsky.social
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
TizzyEnt @tizzyent.bsky.social Father, filmmaker, fisherman, prostidude
Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world An online editorial project sharing stories of solutions and positive change. Created by David Byrne. reasonstobecheerful.world
Become a member: https://bit.ly/3BUCAnL
Sign up to our weekly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gBp8oP
James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout
James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social Crime: Real & Imagined.
L.A. Times Courts/Chaos Reporter
Alleged Author: Russell Avery Novels (Counterpoint Press)
Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
Knows Ball (kinda)
SURVIVING THE LIE, the third and final Russell Avery novel, out 8/11/26.
Plastic Jesus 📷🧑🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social 🇬🇧 by birth ,🇺🇸 by choice / Photojournalist 📷/ Artist: ‘Plastic Jesus’ 👨🎨/ Progressive /fighting neo- fascism/ former 🚁 pilot / IG: plasticjesus / father / 🐶 & 🐈 family /
Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
+
🤓 Fellow at Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🗞️ Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
🆕 Anchor on Medlines
Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social abolitionist lawyer. everyday antifascist. viva viva tortuguita.
https://hearinla.substack.com/p/who-is-ricci-sergienko-and-why-does-the-la-sheriff-hate-him-so-much-83ca9a8a03eb
Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social LA-based investigative journalist covering policing, injustice, and inequality. I create job security for public records custodian’s in California.
Signal: joeyscott.05
Venmo: @joeyneverjoe
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/joeyneverjoe
www.joeyscott.xyz/bylines/
Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com International woman of mystery. MA Philosophy. Anteater. Chief Muckety Muckraker. Signal TDBerg.24
https://linktr.ee/district34
Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social Reporter at Capital & Main/Berkeley California Local News Fellow.
Jlindenfeld@CapitalAndMain.com
Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social Lexis-Olivier Ray
Artist & Award-Winning Investigative Reporter
Based in L.A.
347-644-0191 for news tips
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/acatwithnews
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: SeanCarmitchel@protonmail.com
camacho @bencamach0.bsky.social journalist, photographer
✍️ inadvertent.news
🎥 westsidestorytellers.com
🧱 @iwwfju.bsky.social
managing editor @thesouthlander.com
signal: bencamacho.01
portfolio: bencamacho.com
Ryanne Mena @ryannemena.bsky.social Crime & public safety reporter 🕵🏻♀️
LA Daily News +10 🗞️
Prevs: ProPublica, LAist, Daily Sundial, The Corsair
Send tips! RMena@SCNG.com
DM for Signal
J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social Photographer/Photojournalist
Photos mostly on IG: j.w.hendricks
Website, articles, and to support: ↙️
linktr.ee/jwhendricks
Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social Journalist. Host, Producer: Making Contact on KPFK Los Angeles - 90.7FM
Unionist, organizer, labor nerd.
I write about working for a living: wordsaboutwork.news
Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mel_buer
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
LAist @laist.com We serve greater L.A. and SoCal with the news you need. Listen to LAist 89.3 FM or visit laist.com. To become a member, visit laist.com/donate.
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jeremia Kimelman @jeremiak.com Data journalist at CalMatters. Union dude. Sacramento by way of SF and NYC. Where are we eating bagels next?
Senator Angelique Ashby @senatorashby.bsky.social CA State Senator for Sac., Majority Leader, Capital Caucus Chair, Alum UC Davis & McGeorge Law. Mom of 3. Comment Policy http://linktr.ee/senatorashby
Christopher Cabaldon @senatorcabaldon.bsky.social Senator representing Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa & Sacramento counties. Chair of Senate Privacy & Technologies Committee. Prior: mayor, professor, oboist, entrepreneur, wakeboarder, gamer, diplomat, comics nerd. Comment policy: bit.ly/3EDe0tQ
Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social California State Assemblymember | Los Angeles
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓
Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️
Get involved ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
Chris Rogers @chrisrogersca.bsky.social Assemblymember for Northern California, representing Del Norte, Trinity, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Sonoma Counties
Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson @asmloridwilson.bsky.social California Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson, representing the 11th Assembly District. Chair of Assembly Transportation Committee #CALeg #AD11
Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social CA State Assemblymember from the beautiful East Bay, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, mom of 2 fierce little girls.
https://lnk.bio/BuffyWicks
Gail Pellerin @gailp831.bsky.social Proud Democrat, believer in democracy, lover of good food, wine & bonfires, dedicated to serving my community in AD 28, dreamer of large voter turnout, & promoter of 988! Mom of adult humans ❤️ & emotional support human for the best dog ever 🐾 - Darwin!
Sen. Sabrina Cervantes @senatorcervantes.bsky.social Working mom of triplets. Senator for #SD31 in CA’s Inland Empire. Vice Chair of @calgbtq.bsky.social Caucus & Senate Appropriations Chair. She/her 🇺🇸🏳️🌈 sd31.senate.ca.gov
Ben Allen @benallenca.bsky.social State Senator focused on protecting the environment, cleaning up our political system, and quality education for our children. Bilingüe and a proud dad.
Jacqui Irwin, CA Assemblymember 42nd District @asmirwin.bsky.social Representing Agoura Hills, Bel Air, Beverly Glen, Brentwood, Casa Conejo, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Lake Sherwood, Malibu, Moorpark, Oak Park, Pacific Palisades, Santa Susana, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Topanga, Westlake Village, and Camarillo.
@ashkalra.bsky.social @ashkalra.bsky.social 
Marc Berman @asmmarcberman.bsky.social CA Assemblymember, proudly representing #AD23 in San Mateo & Santa Clara Counties
Lucia Walinchus @walinchus.bsky.social Managing Data Editor, NBC owned stations. Public records attorney, journalist, ice hockey player/coach. Former bylines: NY Times , Washington Post, Eye on Ohio, etc.
Hearts= likes OR bookmarks
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@maggie-lee.bsky.social @maggie-lee.bsky.social Georgia data reporter still & GaPolBot dev 4 life: bsky.app/profile/gapolbot.bsky.social yes also flower farmer at Yonder Farm. Meme connoisseur.
jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social gender, tech & domestic violence reporter @19thnews.org • newsletters @ data + feelings • reads a lot • los angeles • she/her 🧿🌈🇵🇰
signal: jsmn.01
jmithani [at] 19thnews.org
jmithani.com
Tory Lysik @tlysik.bsky.social Data+ graphic + investigative journalist | Formerly- Axios, Vox, Poynter, & others | NYC based but mentally in the mountains | Proud DJA member | Data nerd that reads a lot | she/her
https://www.tlysik.com
sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social independent data journo, kinda retired; past prez
@womenjournos; fishnette@mastodon.online; RTs = Hey, look over there! she/her
Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com Journalist-engineer at Polygraph/The Pudding. Formerly Axios and CSIS. Builder of websites, data visualizations, and pixel cats. She/her.