Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
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.”
Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. Author of ABSENT MINDS out now 📘. She/her 🌻
Serena Booth @reniebird.bsky.social CS Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate, co-chair of the ACM Tech Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms.
PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to Ducki.
Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MIT; Human-AI Interaction, Worker-Centric AI
zbucinca.github.io
Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social I'm a senior correspondent for Science, trying to explain to scientists how government works.
Josh Pollock @joshmpollock.bsky.social 
Vidya Setlur @vsetlur.bsky.social Head of Tableau Research, Wiley book co-author - Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization. Research interests in NLP, visual analytics (and coffee). Opinions are my own.
Narges Mahyar @narges-mahyar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer | City St George’s, University of London | Former Co-Director of the HCI-VIS Lab. Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 2023-2024
Josh Horowitz @joshuahhh.com joshuahhh.com
t-shirt size: medium
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Jerry Talton @jerrytalton.net CTO @ Blacklake • Adjust Research Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing & Data Science @ UIUC. Formerly CTO @ Carta, ML @ Slack, Founder & CEO @ Apropose, Research Scientist @ Intel.
Elisa Kreiss @elisakreiss.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA. Alum @StanfordNLP. NLP, Cognitive Science, Accessibility. https://www.coalas-lab.com/elisakreiss 
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@datavandals.bsky.social @datavandals.bsky.social https://datavandals.com
The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.
Enrico Bertini (FILWD) @ebertini.bsky.social FILWD on Substack: https://filwd.substack.com/. Weekly post on data visualization and beyond (quite some AI lately).
Data visualizer (teaching, researching, divulging, etc.) Faculty at Northeastern University. Italian. Father of 3.
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, ...
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Yan Holtz @yan-holtz.bsky.social I ❤️ dataviz!
Author of
- data-to-viz.com
- the R, Python, d3 and React graph galleries
- dataviz-inspiration.com
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
Marti Hearst @martihearst.bsky.social Professor, UC Berkeley. Information visualization, text, and their combination. Previously worked on search user interfaces, natural language processing, and online education.
Interactive Data Lab @idl.uw.edu Visualization & data analysis research at the University of Washington. In a prior life was the Stanford Vis Group. https://idl.uw.edu
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/
Monica Agrawal @monicaagrawal.bsky.social Asst prof at Duke University. Co-founder at LayerHealth.
ML and NLP for healthcare.
PhD MIT, BS/MS Stanford. She/her.
Doğa Doğan @dogadogan.bsky.social Research Scientist, Adobe
www.dogadogan.com
Lace Padilla @lacepadilla.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Northeastern University and a member of the Data Visualization Lab @Khoury.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrDataVIS
Angie Boggust @angieboggust.bsky.social MIT PhD candidate in the VIS group working on interpretability and human-AI alignment
Amy Pavel @amypavel.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin CS | Human-AI Interaction, Accessibility, Creativity | https://amypavel.com/
Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social Covering the Supreme Court etc at TPM & co-hosting the TPM Show; Philly-born Mystics diehard 🚴♀️🏃♀️Call me/beep me: kateriga.24/ kate@talkingpointsmemo.com 📸 Leah Miessler, Anna Moneymaker
Diana Freed @dianafreed.bsky.social Computer & Data Science, Faculty @Brown University | Visiting Scholar, Petrie-Flom (Harvard Law)| Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society | HCI, HAI, Security, Privacy, Tech Policy
Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social associate prof TU Delft; design+ai; relational prototyping; positive and critical; art+science; laptop musicking. https://dave.murray-rust.org
@bradamyers.bsky.social @bradamyers.bsky.social 
Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton | #HCI #AR #VR #SpatialComputing
parastooabtahi.com
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
Adam Carlson @admcrlsn.bsky.social Founding Partner of Zenith Research. Spreadsheets help me relax. Views are my own.
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Daniele Gibney @danielegibney.bsky.social She/her. Not Danielle, Daniela, or Daniel. Kneader of words and curator of colours. Afraid for the future. Proud NL/UK dual national. Climate, politics, dataviz, editing, craft, birds. Omni 🏳️🌈 Views own. https://datayarns.wordpress.com/
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈
https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
Daniel Gayo-Avello @pfcdgayo.bsky.social Assoc. professor at the University of Oviedo.
Web & social media mining + the intersection of politics & social media.
"Sin esperanza, con convencimiento"
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
david holtz @dholtz.bsky.social professor at columbia.
things i’m likely to skeet about (in no particular order): research, the #NBA, music, and #Survivor
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
Brooke Erin Duffy @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social social media researcher and author
associate professor at Cornell University
platforms, power, and the creator economy
www.brookeduffy.com
Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social public interest technologist // luddite hacker.
information science phd at cornell tech.
inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem.
🤠 traeve.com 🤠
Cody Buntain @cbuntain.bsky.social Asst Professor @iSchoolUMD | associate @CSMaP | DCer | 💻 🏍️ 👨🏻🍼
Studying online behavior around crises and political discourse, manipulation, and information quality
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
Brewers Fan Worldistan @nickelback.bsky.social Computing researcher aiding the resistance. Algorithms have values. If a system doesn’t work for everyone it doesn’t work.
Andy Zhao @andyzhao.bsky.social I study information manipulation in the age of social media, AI, and rising authoritarianism, and how we may survive it. PhD @cornellbowers.bsky.social
Phoebe Toups Dugas 🏳️⚧️ @snapdragoness.itch.io She/her.
📚 A/Prof of Human-Centred Computing @ Monash University
🎮 Anti-AI; researching trans gaming, game history, & disaster response (unrelatedly)
🌟 STA Superstar of STEM
🐉 Ancient D&D nerd
🎶 Metalhead
I like dragons. Opinions are my own.
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social Professor of Communication, trying not to be evil Ass. Dean, #HashtagActivism co-author, mom to teenagers and cats. Appreciates novelty socks and cat memes.
Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
@chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
Dominic DiFranzo @difrad.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. I'm an HCI researcher that explores prosocial design in online communities, AI Mediated Communication, and Digital Literacy.
Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social These days I read & write haiku with the amazing BlueSky community. I also do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI.
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻
Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴
https://estellesmithphd.com
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com Professor in Medical Visualization at the dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen and the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) center. 🇳🇱 in 🇳🇴, 📊,🧶,🎮,🤘
John Alexis Guerra Gomez @johnguerra.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor Northeastern University, KhouryVis member
Research on #dataviz #a11y
Co-creator https://btactile.com https://navio.dev https://duto.org
https://johnguerra.co
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Karen B. Schloss @kbschloss.bsky.social Associate Professor
Psychology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alper Sarikaya @alper.datav.is Senior Visualization R&D at Microsoft's Power BI. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I speak for myself. he/him https://alper.datav.is/
Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social Member of Technical Staff @OpenAI | Teaching the machines to learn from humans.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BH7jpGIAAAAJ&hl=en
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions. 
Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Alex Leavitt, PhD (they/them) @alexleavitt.bsky.social Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social ML for healthcare and health equity. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF.
https://irenechen.net/
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Observable @observablehq.com The data visualization company
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
John Gruber @gruber.foo I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball