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/
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science @mesec-community.bsky.social Grassroots association for early-career researchers in consciousness science | events & community building | join us mesec.co
Devon Stoliker @dpsyc42.bsky.social I study how the brain constructs experience, and how psychedelics reveal the relationship between brain organisation, context and the boundary between self and world. Turner Impact Fellow @ Computational Neuroscience Lab, Monash University
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Shuqin Ma @masqbrain.bsky.social PhD student interested in AI consciousness and sense of body ownership.
Romy Beauté @romybeaute.bsky.social PhD researcher at @Sussex Center for Consciousness Science, and PhD enrichment at the @Alan Turing Institute
Focus on Altered States of Consciousness • NLP/LLMs • Complexity measures • Stroboscopic Light Stimulations
Interest in clinical applications
Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SCCS, University of Sussex | Cognitive science, time and consciousness | https://singhalishan6.wixsite.com/ishansinghal
Henry Shevlin @henryshevlin.bsky.social Associate Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. Philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist researching consciousness, social AI, and human AI-coexistence.
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montréal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
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
Rebekka B. @rebekkabrandt.bsky.social Independent researcher (Alumna of Univ. Augsburg, Germany)
Science communication & writing | Focus: research methodology biases, epistemology & philosophy of science
Feed: https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com
Reg.: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2954-9630
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
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
Aziza Chebil @azizac.bsky.social PhD student working on hallucinations in Parkinson's disease in Grenoble, very very obsessed with priors
she/her
Johannes Brinz @johannesbrinz.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Osnabrück 📚 Working on the philosophy of (Neuromorphic) AI, computation, and science.
"From simulating to duplicating the brain": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-026-05505-0
Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Rutgers University; Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science. Canadian now living in south Texas
Gualtiero Piccinini @gualtiero.bsky.social Florence G. Kline Prof & Curators’ Distinguished Prof @ MU. Barwise Prize winner. Author, Neurocognitive Mechanisms (OUP 2020). Resist fascism, address climate change, support Ukraine!
Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social Philosophy Prof. Heretical Christian. Author of "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" & "Galileo's Error." "One of the most persuasive panpsychists" - Stephen Fry.
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Kindra Crick 🧩 @kindracrick.com Working at the intersection of art and neuroscience. Exploring sleep, memory, and perception.
🗓️ Nocturnal Worlds Opens Oct 1 @ Waterstone Gallery, PDX
waterstonegallery.com
🦋 Nature explorer & 🍄🟫 mushroom forager
• linktr.ee/k_crick
Taufik A. Valiante @tvaliante.bsky.social Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Krembil Brain Institute, CRANIA, MPUTC, BME & ECE University of Toronto.
https://neurontobrainlaboratory.ca
https://kite-uhn.com/crania
https://mpc.utoronto.ca
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain
Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022
Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
David P. Reichert @david-p-reichert.bsky.social AI researcher at Google DeepMind -- views on here are my own.
Interested in cognition & AI, consciousness, ethics, figuring out the future.
Due to various concerns, I'm currently no longer working on advancing AI capabilities.
Discussion > blocking?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social CTO of Technology & Society at Google, working on fundamental AI research and exploring the nature and origins of intelligence.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Jochen Wegner @wegner.io Editor-in-chief DIE ZEIT – @zeit.de
Alex O’Connor @cosmicskeptic.bsky.social YouTuber. Not sure if I’ll use this.
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Andrew Corcoran @corcorana.bsky.social vagally-interested postdoc @ nexs.ku.dk | bunny herder | caffeine abuser | open science enthusiast | thoughts almost certainly not his own
Katharina Schmack @kathaschmack.bsky.social Psychiatrist | Neuroscientist | Founding Member of the Psychosis Collective @TheCrick @UCLPsychiatry
The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk We're the Crick, a biomedical research lab in London working to figure out how life works.
Home to more than 2,000 scientists and a free public exhibition space.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/
Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social –Arts and Letters for the Modern Age–
Published by a former (retired) philosophy professor of 30 years.
cathoderayzone.com
https://www.chromaartanddesignmiami.com/
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Lewis Dartnell @lewisdartnell.bsky.social Prof., astrobiology researcher, science communicator & book author (http://beinghumanbook.org / http://originsbook.com / http://the-knowledge.org)
Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com. Science advocate. Prof (UPenn Psych) - Author: Elusive Cures. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
Niccolo Negro @niccolonegro.bsky.social Philosophy of mind (especially consciousness) & philosophy of science. Azrieli Postdoc Fellow at Tel Aviv University; PhD from Monash University.
Rony @ronyhirsch.bsky.social Postdoc @ Seth Lab (Sussex) | Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience | Consciousness | mesec.co Co-founder and VP
ronyhirsch.github.io/minds-matter
Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social Studying the stream of consciousness during sleep and wakefulness
Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute
Chargé de Recherche Inserm
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (OUP)
Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social 🥸 Philosopher of AI and CogSci. Principal software engineer. Asst. Prof. at Center for Cogsci, UniZagreb. Builds and breaks LLMs. Bores people to death with dinosaur facts.
🧙 "The Illusion Engine: The Quest for Machine Consciousness": cogsci.online
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/
Dr Reshanne Reeder @kerblooee.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, mom, citizen of the world. Interested in mental imagery extremes and divergent perception. Got a cool theory or 2.
The "Ganzflicker Lady"
https://reshannereeder.com
Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social Fiddling on this place while the other place burns.
Makes #TheSkewer for the BBC, among other nonsense. weareunusual.net
Simon van Gaal @svangaal.bsky.social Associate Prof at University of Amsterdam. Cognitive psychology/neuroscience. Consciousness, decision making, arousal states. PI in the consciousbrainlab.com
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean at UCL, Fellow of the Royal Inst. of Navigation. I study how we remember, navigate & imagine space
Photo: Our upcoming field research in the Marshall Islands
https://spierslab.wixsite.com/wavesandwayfinding
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social You can find announcements and updates about the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness #ASSC28 | For newsletter subscription visit the www.assc2025.gr
Linda Marshall Griffiths @lindamargriff.bsky.social Award-winning writer of plays, podcasts, fiction. Writing speculative, climate-stories & adaptations. Shortlisted Women’s Prize for Playwriting & Andromeda Award 2025. Repped by UTA, NYC.
https://www.lindamarshallgriffiths.co.uk/
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social AGI research @DeepMind.
Ex cofounder & CTO Vicarious AI (acqd by Alphabet),
Cofounder Numenta
Triply EE (BTech IIT-Mumbai, MS&PhD Stanford). #AGIComics
blog.dileeplearning.com
Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social @ucllaws.bsky.social
@11KBW
#EASTWESTSTREET
#THERATLINE
#THELASTCOLONY
#38LONDRESSTREET
shardcore @shardcore.org making art beyond good and evil
DRASS: On The Hill - streaming everywhere 01/04/26 drass.art
shardcore.org
Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Author of The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYTimes, Big Think, etc. The Ramones, the Mets and lots of video games.
Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist and nature lover. Founding Director of Brain and Mind at Western University. https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/
Tim Bayne @timbayne.bsky.social Philosopher and writer. Occasional traveller.
Robert Chis-Ciure @robertchisciure.bsky.social ERC Research Fellow at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (Anil Seth’s lab)
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist.
Professor at College de France in Paris.
Head of the NeuroSpin brain imaging facility in Saclay.
President of the Scientific Council of the French national education ministry (CSEN)
Nita Farahany @nitafarahany.bsky.social 
Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind • Apes • Dogs • Evolutionary Cognitive Scientist, Assistant Professor @JohnsHopkins • he/him
Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social - C Camilo Miguel Signorelli @cam-signorelli.bsky.social Scientist
Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social #Philosophy and #neuroscience, structural approaches to #consciousness 🧠
Researcher at Zen University and Brain Information Communication Research at ATR; Canon Fellow at Ritsumeikan 🇯🇵.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Ellia?ev=prf_overview
Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social ° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
Annaka Harris @annakaharris.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author of "CONSCIOUS", writer / producer of the audio documentary "LIGHTS ON", author of the children's book "I Wonder"
AnnakaHarris.com
Thomas Nowotny @drtnowotny.bsky.social Professor of Informatics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. President of @cnsorg.bsky.social
I do research in bio-inspired AI and computational neuroscience.
See more at
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p206151-thomas-nowotny/about
Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia
Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social 
Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor, Sheffield. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα. Friend of @philosynthesis.com
Website: https://keithfrankish.com
Manages Philosophy Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/5aps8sbv
Johannes Kleiner @johanneskleiner.bsky.social Physicist and mathematician working on consciousness. Based at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, and University of Bamberg's Institute for Psychology. https://jkleiner.de/
Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social Happy dad | Fascinated by perception | Anti-realist | All metaphysics are wrong but some are useful (before box).
hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social neuroscientist in Korea (co-director of IBS-CNIR) working on BCI (hemodynamics-based), metacognition (including implicit forms, especially in perception), blindsight, & AI introspection
https://tinyurl.com/hakwan
小紅書號：95881807766
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Borjan (Boki) Milinković @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social Mathematical Neuroscientist. Biologically Inclined
Postdoc Researcher @ Destexhe Lab, CNRS, Paris-Saclay
Exploring brains and minds, in humans and machines.
consciousness . synthetic systems . emergence . computation . information . autonomy . causality
Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social Climate & energy governance; citizen engagement. Prof at Lancaster Uni; expert adviser to the Climate Change Committee. Mostly climate stuff, occasional forays into runs, swims, mountains, dogs. Book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-hot-to-handle
Julie Rehmeyer @julierehmeyer.bsky.social Author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. I mostly write about complex chronic illness and math. Bylines in NYT, WashPost, Discover, Wired, Slate, Stat News, Science News, lots more. She/her.
Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social Emergence, synergy, brains, AI safety, mental health
Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)
Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me Associate Professor at Duke University. I'm a philosopher, psychologist, and neuroscientist studying vision, mental imagery, introspection and consciousness.
"There are numerous pitfalls in this business."
- S.S. Stevens
https://subjectivitylab.org