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/
Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/Nwr7).
Also blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.
William Merrill @lambdaviking.bsky.social Will irl - PhD student @ NYU on the academic job market!
Using complexity theory and formal languages to understand the power and limits of LLMs
https://lambdaviking.com/ https://github.com/viking-sudo-rm
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 12/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com Professor, University Of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 PI @belongielab.org 🕵️♂️ Director @aicentre.dk 🤖 President @ellis.eu 🇪🇺 Formerly: Cornell, Google, UCSD
#ComputerVision #MachineLearning
@bhyravajjula.bsky.social @bhyravajjula.bsky.social Applied Scientist @Microsoft / ex {UW, IIIT-H}
Poet @HugoHouse
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
The Pudding @pudding.cool The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
Saurabh Shah @saurabhshah2.bsky.social training olmos at Ai2, prev at Apple, Penn …. 🎤 dabbler of things🎸 🐈⬛enjoyer of cats 🐈 and mountains🏔️he/him
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @cs.ubc.ca and @vectorinstitute.ai working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/
Shreya Shankar @sh-reya.bsky.social PhD student at UC Berkeley. Thinking about MLOps, data analysis and processing with LLMs, HCI
Sham Kakade @shamkakade.bsky.social Harvard Professor.
ML and AI.
Co-director of the Kempner Institute.
https://shamulent.github.io
Sarah Wiegreffe @sarah-nlp.bsky.social Research in NLP (mostly LM interpretability & explainability).
Assistant prof at UMD CS + CLIP.
Previously @ai2.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social
Views my own.
sarahwie.github.io
Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social Science of language models @uwnlp.bsky.social and @ai2.bsky.social with @PangWeiKoh and @nlpnoah.bsky.social. https://ianmagnusson.github.io
Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social MTS @ Anthropic. 🇨🇦
Prev: MIT, Google, Apple, Stanford.
Interests: AI/ML/NLP, Data-centric AI, transparency & societal impact
Benoît Sagot @bensagot.bsky.social Directeur de recherche at Inria, former invited professor at Collège de France, co-founder of opensquare
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought
✨ Design @ SHV
🌸 wattenberger.com
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Sandeep Soni @sandeepsoni.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Emory University 
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
@lava18.bsky.social @lava18.bsky.social 
Mohit Iyyer @miyyer.bsky.social associate prof at UMD CS researching NLP & LLMs
Mark Dredze @mdredze.bsky.social John C Malone Professor, Johns Hopkins Computer Science
Director, Data Science and AI (DSAI) Institute
Center for Language and Speech Processing, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare.
Part-time: Bloomberg LP #nlproc
Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement."
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social Helping machines make sense of the world. Asst Prof @icepfl.bsky.social; Before: @stanfordnlp.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social AI2 #NLProc #AI
Website: https://atcbosselut.github.io/
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Cody Blakeney ✈️ NeurIPS 2024 @codestar.bsky.social #Efficient AI
Research @MosaicML
Formerly Visiting Researcher @ Facebook Ph.D
#TXSTFOOTBALL fan
http://linktr.ee/code_star
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social Robustness, Data & Annotations, Evaluation & Interpretability in LLMs
http://mimansajaiswal.github.io/
cats with jobs 🛠 @catswithjobs.bsky.social I want a job
Lisa Bylinina @bylinina.bsky.social linguist bylinina.github.io
Jiacheng Liu @liujch1998.bsky.social 🎓 PhD student @uwcse @uwnlp. 🛩 Private pilot. Previously: 🧑💻 @oculus, 🎓 @IllinoisCS. 📖 🥾 🚴♂️ 🎵 ♠️
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Valentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social Postdoc in AI at the Allen Institute for AI & the University of Washington.
🌐 https://valentinapy.github.io
Valentin Hofmann @valentinhofmann.bsky.social Assistant Professor @cislmu.bsky.social @lmu.de
Hamish Ivison @hamishivi.bsky.social I (try to) do NLP research. Antipodean abroad.
currently doing PhD @uwcse,
prev @usyd @ai2
🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧
ivison.id.au
Joseph Chang @josephc.bsky.social https://josephcc.com
Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social Tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Previously postdoc at UW and AI2, working on Natural Language Processing
Recruiting PhD students!
🌐 https://lasharavichander.github.io/
Ben Newman @benn9.bsky.social NLP research - PhD student at UW
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social 
Ana Marasović @anamarasovic.bsky.social Asst prof @ University of Utah · NLP · she/her 🇭🇷
Prithviraj "Raj" Ammanabrolu @rajammanabrolu.bsky.social AI, RL, NLP, Games Asst Prof at UCSD
Research Scientist at Nvidia
Lab: http://pearls.ucsd.edu
Personal: prithvirajva.com
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
Roy Schwartz @royschwartznlp.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at @CseHuji. #NLPROC
schwartz-lab-huji.github.io
Sewon Min @sewonm.bsky.social UC Berkeley/BAIR, AI2 || Prev: UWNLP, Meta/FAIR || sewonmin.com
Ananya Harsh Jha @ananyahjha93.bsky.social https://ananyahjha93.github.io
Second year PhD at @uwcse.bsky.social with @hanna-nlp.bsky.social and @lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social
Harsh Trivedi @harsh3vedi.bsky.social 🤖 Building AI agents & interactive environments: 🌍 AppWorld (https://appworld.dev) #NLProc PhD @stonybrooku. Past intern Allen AI & visitor CILVR at NYU.
🐦 https://x.com/harsh3vedi
🌐 https://harshtrivedi.me/
Rose E Wang @rewang.bsky.social https://cs.stanford.edu/~rewang
AI & Education ✨ On academic+industry job market. CS PhD @stanfordnlp
prev: MIT 2020, Google Brain, Google Brain Robotics,
@allen_ai
Pao Siangliulue @paopow.bsky.social 🎒 {Creativity, AI, People} | HCI researcher & software eng | @allenai
Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social Ph.D. student at University of Washington CSE. NLP. IBM Ph.D. fellow (2022-2023). Meta student researcher (2023-) . ☕️ 🐕 🏃♀️🧗♀️🍳 
Hyunwoo Kim @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social Social Reasoning/Cognition + AI, Postdoc at NVIDIA | Previously @ai2.bsky.social | PhD from Seoul Natl Univ.
http://hyunwookim.com
Bill Yuchen Lin @billyuchenlin.bsky.social Research Scientist @allen_ai & Affiliate Assistant Prof @UW; Researching on LLM alignment, eval, synthetic data, reasoning, agent. Ex: Google, Meta FAIR;
Sameer Singh @sameer-singh.bsky.social CS Prof at UC Irvine, CTO/Cofounder at Envive AI
Work on evaluation and robustness of LLMs
Gabi Stanovsky @gabistanovsky.bsky.social Assistant professor at the Hebrew University.
Fangyuan Xu @fangyuanxu.bsky.social 许方园👩🏻💻phd student @ nyu, interested in natural language processing
🌍: carriex.github.io
Chaitanya Malaviya @cmalaviya.bsky.social Senior research scientist @ GoogleDeepMind | benchmarking and evaluation | prev @upenn.edu @ai2.bsky.social, and @ltiatcmu.bsky.social
chaitanyamalaviya.github.io
Orion Weller @orionweller.bsky.social PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University. Previously: Allen Institute for AI, Apple, Samaya AI. Research for #NLProc #IR
Jonathan Berant @jonathanberant.bsky.social NLP at Tel Aviv Uni and Google DeepMind
Jonathan Bragg @jbragg.bsky.social Leading agents R&D at AI2. AI & HCI research scientist. https://jonathanbragg.com- A Arjun (they_them) @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social Perspectives my own, not those of my employer
Clara Na @clarana.bsky.social PhD student @ CMU LTI. efficiency/data in NLP/ML- S Suchin Gururangan @suchin.bsky.social PhD student at UW, NLP + ML
Sachin Kumar @shocheen.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (CSE). Hiring PhD Students (Fall'25).
http://shocheen.com
Daniel King @daking.bsky.social Taking a break | previously @databricks @mosaicml @allen_ai @semanticscholar | @harveymudd | he/him | Black lives matter.
Tom Hope @tomhope.bsky.social Assistant professor, research scientist | boosting scientific discovery with AI, NLP, IR, KG, HCI | @ai2.bsky.social
Mitchell Wortsman @mitchellnw.bsky.social 
Jacob Morrison @jacobcares.bsky.social PhD student @ UW
Arman Cohan @armancohan.bsky.social NLP/AI Research
Assistant Professor @Yale
Jack Hessel @jmhessel.bsky.social jmhessel.com
Seattle bike lane enjoyer. Opinions my own.
Shannon Shen @shannonshen.bsky.social PhD Student @MIT | Previous @allen_ai | #NLP #HCI | www.szj.io
Catherine Chen @cathychen23.bsky.social Working on NLP + Cognitive Neuroscience | Postdoc @Princeton | Prev. PhD @BerkeleyEECS | https://cchen23.github.io/
Kaitlyn Zhou @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social Incoming Assistant Professor @cornellbowers.bsky.social
Researcher @togetherai.bsky.social
Previously @stanfordnlp.bsky.social @ai2.bsky.social @msftresearch.bsky.social
https://katezhou.github.io/
Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social PhD candidate at Stony Brook University; Prev: Google Research, AI2 Aristo, Salesforce Research; MS from JHU
https://ykl7.github.io
Matthew Finlayson @mattf.nl NLP PhD @ USC
Previously at AI2, Harvard
mattf1n.github.io
Saadia Gabriel @skgabrie.bsky.social UCLA NLP prof
Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication
Kaj Bostrom @bostromk.net I hate slop and yet I work on generative models
PhD from UT Austin
He/him • https://bostromk.net
Nicholas Lourie @nicholaslourie.bsky.social Better empirical methods for deep learning & NLP. PhD at NYU. Advised by He He and @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social. Prev: @ai2.bsky.social.
I build things. 🤖
Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University Copenhagen | Making the world's knowledge reliable and accessible w/ ML + NLP | Former UCPH, UMSI, AI2, IBM Research, UCSD | https://dustinbwright.com
Rowan Zellers @rowan.bsky.social ai research @ thinking machines . realtime video+voice. i like trains and bikes. sometimes I climb rocks and throw pottery.
Shashank Gupta @shashanknlp.bsky.social Researcher at @allen_ai (Ai2) || Research on NLP, LLMs, Reasoning, Agents, AI4Code, AI4Math || Prev: Microsoft AI, Univ. Of Illinois (UIUC), Max Planck (MPI), IIT-Bombay, BITS-Pilani
Web: https://shashankgupta.info/
Zhaofeng Wu @zhaofengwu.bsky.social PhD student @ MIT | Previously PYI @ AI2 | MS'21 BS'19 BA'19 @ UW | zhaofengwu.github.io
Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social Researcher in NLP, ML, computer music. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp & familiar to two cats. Single reeds, tango, swim, run, cocktails, מאַמע־לשון, GenX. Opinions not your business.
Lj Miranda @ljvmiranda921.itch.io PhD student at the University of Cambridge
https://ljvmiranda921.github.io
Yizhong Wang @yizhongw.bsky.social PhD student @uwnlp, student researcher @allen_ai. NLP/ML.
Pradeep Dasigi @pdasigi.bsky.social #NLP research @ai2.bsky.social; OLMo post-training
https://pdasigi.github.io/
Zaid Khan @codezakh.bsky.social PhD student @ UNC NLP with @mohitbansal working on grounded reasoning + code generation | currently interning at Ai2 (PRIOR) | formerly NEC Laboratories America | BS + MS @ Northeastern
zaidkhan.me
Alisa Liu @alisawuffles.bsky.social phd student at @uwcse
Ellis Brown @ NeurIPS 2024 @ellisbrown.bsky.social CS PhD Student @ NYU w/ Profs Saining Xie & Rob Fergus
Intern @ Ai2 | Prev: CMU, BlackRock, Vanderbilt
https://ellisbrown.github.io