Social Protocol Labs @socialprotocollabs.bsky.social Product studio - exploring and building https://sociallabs.com
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/
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Pia Mancini @piamancini.bsky.social CEO @ Open Collective
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Social Futures Lab @socialfutureslab.bsky.social We are the Social Futures Lab at UW CSE! We are reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society.
https://social.cs.washington.edu/
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Colin Megill @colinmegill.com Cofounder pol.is
President compdemocracy.org
San Francisco, CA
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Claudia Chwalisz @cchwalisz.bsky.social Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext (www.demnext.org)
Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social Inclusive policy, research, design and practice, using participatory and deliberative methods. I work with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social on including public voices in AI, and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social on a permanent global climate assembly.
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
John Cutler @johncutle.fish I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
Aviv Ovadya 🥦 @handle.invalid CEO, AI & Democracy Foundation.
Ensuring democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances.
Harvard BKC, GovAI
📧 Email: av@aviv.me
➡️ http://aviv.substack.com
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Ben Redhead @benreddy.bsky.social My favourite -tions are sorti, collabora, delibera, participa.
Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
vaughn @vaughn.bsky.social idk tbd \\ marseille \\ pizza \\ grouchy
www.vaughntan.org
Val @yogival.bsky.social she/they 👩🏽💻🌈 | algorithmic bias researcher @ reliabl.ai | community lead at metagov | aquarius☀️, cancer🌙
Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social PhD student @ CMU HCII
I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.
https://tskuo.github.io
Artem 🪗 @zhgnv.com Founder of https://harmonica.chat. Steward of @citizen-infra.org. Newspeak House fellow. Based in Novi Sad 🇷🇸
Other projects: https://github.com/zhiganov
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social ⚡️methods for the madness ⚡️
Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social
lizbarry.net
DWeb @getdweb.net DWeb connects people, projects, and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is private, reliable, secure and open.
DeSci Labs @descilabs.bsky.social Reimagining how science is published, shared, and explored - through open publishing, intelligent discovery, and decentralized infrastructure for researchers. #openscience
Civic Health Project @civichealthproject.bsky.social Harnessing social cohesion technology to create digital spaces that foster connection, reduce polarization, and strengthen democracy online and offline.
Joseph Gubbels @josephgubbels.bsky.social New Democrat
PhD student in political theory & CanPoli at McGill
Working on participatory + deliberative democracy
Substack: josephgubbels.substack.com
@dhornbein.bsky.social @dhornbein.bsky.social
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Shu @sylin.bsky.social ex PDIS vTaiwan
Simone Maria Parazzoli @essemmeppi.bsky.social Between algorithms and government at the OECD 👁️
Dave @thisisdavekim.com I (still) believe that we can create a more just and joyful world through design, technology, and community. And a fair bit of luck.
Currently working on Applied AI stuff.
Previously at IDEO, Gates Foundation, and ?What If! Innovation.
Jordi Pinyana @painan.net Digital voting, decentralization & blockchain.
@vocdoni.io
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social We're an academic community for Plurality research & technology | Cooperate across differences | DM us your news, research, jobs, grants & fellowships.
plurality.institute
Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science @cairos.network | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
Project Liberty @projectliberty.io Project Liberty builds solutions that help people take back control of their lives in the digital age by reclaiming a voice, choice, and stake in a better internet. Find out more at https://projectliberty.io.
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
Sortition Foundation @sortitionnow.bsky.social Sign the petition: www.858.org.uk/house-of-citizens-petition
It's been over 858 years since King Henry II introduced juries.
Finish the job: Replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.
www.858.org.uk
www.sortitionfoundation.org
Hélène Landemore @hlandemore.bsky.social New here. Prof of political theory @Yale @YaleISPS Author of Democratic Reason, Open Democracy, and Politics without Politicians (forthcoming). Looking for people to follow!
Hélène Landemore @landemore.bsky.social Political theorist, French-American, author of Democratic Reason, Open Democracy, and Politics Without Politicians
Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦
Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duke studying kids & culture. PI of the Mind & Culture Lab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
dorsaamir.com | mindandculturelab.com
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