Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1946. Home of AUWA Books, Quanta Books, FSG Originals, and Picador.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Meg Cabot @megcabot.bsky.social Author of The Princess Diaries graphic novel (June 2026) and The Magic We Made (Aug 2026)
Insomniac. Cat Lover. Optimist.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), gay cultural history (2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov Proudly serving IL-06. Dad, husband, former clean energy entrepreneur. Climate nerd, gun safety & consumer advocate. Member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com Host, Slate Money. Author of THE PHOENIX ECONOMY.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Laura Nahmias @lauranahmias.bsky.social Senior Reporter covering NYC + state politics for Bloomberg News. Formerly at Daily News Editorial Board, POLITICO, City + State
@kitcross.bsky.social @kitcross.bsky.social 
Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social Distinguished Professor | U. of Minnesota | MacArthur Fellow | Director CPEC | Co-founder Sironix Renewables, Carba.com, & Lakril Technologies | Advisor ActivatedLLC | ❤️✌🏽🍃♻️ #mspsky
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social Journalist, professor, dad. Via Sioux City, Colorado Springs, Palo Alto, Rome, Standing Rock, Bologna, Miami Herald, Bloomberg, Salt Lake, Columbia J School.
bit.ly/bgcjr
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Lucy Jakub @lucyjakub.bsky.social writing a book called HOW TO LIVE
Ann Finkbeiner @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social Freelance science writer, mostly astro, some natsec sci, some women-in-astro, some grief psych, otherwise whatever I can get paid to write about. I love Baltimore, I do.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
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Madeline Miller @madelinemiller.bsky.social Writer (The Song of Achilles, Circe), reader, theater lover. Cats, Long Covid. She/her. 
Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 @webwight.bsky.social Once an erudite nine-year-old, always an erudite nine-year-old. Early China, translation, kids' books, politics (2026), whimsy. Gen Z wannabe
https://quoteofthedayforthesetimes.substack.com/ [Quotations relevant to current events. FREE]
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social Author: Five Days at Memorial, War Hospital. EP, Pandemic (Netflix); producer, Five Days at Memorial (Appletvplus). @nytimes.com. MD, PhD. Sherifink.net/bio
Or9an:c P3rs0n (rose/any other name) @human007.bsky.social Opine Access
Architecture: Anthropology: Geography: Education (meandering/oscillating)
OrganicPerson ex Twitter
Occupy yourself
Personal mission: occupy the em-dash
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Dr. Anna Latour @aldlatour.bsky.social Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in Boolean satisfiability, counting, reasoning under uncertainty, formal verification. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. Go-to LaTeX expert in our research group.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author: Karla’s Choice, Gnomon, Titanium Noir etc. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Greta not Peter. Cuan cuan. Brit logging in via Eurosky.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
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John Horgan @jhorganism.bsky.social Battered old science writer, optimist/grouch, peacenik/hockey player, knownothing/knowitall, materialist/mystic. Spouts off at johnhorgan.org.
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Betsy Gleick @betsygleick.bsky.social Concerned citizen! Editor, reader, New Yorker, baker, and Oxford comma fundamentalist
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Peter D. Kramer @peterdkramer.bsky.social Author, most recently, of Death of the Great Man, a novel. Also new: 30th anniversary edition of Listening to Prozac. peterdkramer.com
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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Angie Waller @angiewaller.bsky.social Artist and internet researcher. I work with Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University and make art books about tech and culture. www.angiewaller.com
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Senior Director of Technology at https://propublica.org. I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
The Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social Another cis feminist for trans rights. She/her. Not quite a crone. Bad-faith arguments get you muted, slurs get you blocked. I repost a lot of geekery, some of it NSFW.
https://linktr.ee/shiftercat
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @Pratt.edu
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Contributing writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Judith Shulevitz @judithshul.bsky.social Essayist, critic.
Staff writer: The Atlantic. Book: The Sabbath World
Articles: linktr.ee/judithshul.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
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Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Joanne Lessner @joannelessner.bsky.social Creator of 7 musicals, 5 novels and 2 people.
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
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/
Paul Parsons @nasaproplus.bsky.social Sports quant, science writer, cosmology PhD. Works at Botsphere. Ex science ed at BBC magazines. Represented by Curious Minds literary agency.
Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz orbiting art and science | tall ish | they/them 🏳️🌈
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) in US for years, now in Canada. I post (A LOT) breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. Bite me, Musk.
Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇨🇦
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.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/
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.
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social NBC News senior national political reporter covering Capitol Hill and elections 🏛️🗳️ Part-time Formula 1 correspondent 🏁🏎️
https://linktr.ee/sahilkapur
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
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.
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