Ghost in the Machine: documentary film, 2026 @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power. We're revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here, and where we go next. Mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI. notaidoc.com
Research Lunch Club @researchlunchclub.com Join the Research Lunch Club and meet two other researchers from your city for lunch each month. Join us: researchlunchclub.com 🌎 LIVE across +33 cities globally👇 Join us
Marcus Lillington @marcus-lillington.bsky.social Web agency director https://headscape.co.uk. Musician.
Andy Parker @theavangelist.bsky.social Service and organisation designer. Writing about complex systems, good services and changing things without waiting for permission.
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social Coordinator at @mvtfwd.bsky.social (on sabbatical)
#GE2024
helped 1.5 million voters getting an extra 91 Tory MPs out
#GE2029
let’s use our millions of votes together to get policy
Join: https://MVTFWD.com
Links: https://MVTFWD.com/links
#FBPE #FBPPR
Tom Adams @sonofswiss.bsky.social Head of user research at Department for Education. Will try and moan less about the trains on here than I did on twitter.
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social I help people build the web better. I love pirates, puppies, and Pixar movies. ADHD AF. he/him 🏴☠️
https://gomakethings.com
Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co 👊🏾💥 critical technologist // design researcher // writer // speaker // 📨 First and Fifteenth // 🦆 birdwatcher // 🍽️ collects menus (no, really) // 🔗 https://linktr.ee/uxmichaelco // 🌐 uxmichael.co
Website homepage - Benjamin Parry @benjamin.parry.is.web.brid.gy Personal website of Benjamin Parry
@qwertykate.bsky.social @qwertykate.bsky.social European lass. Likes semi-colons, alliteration, 1982. Author of debut novel 'Purple People' (influences: George Orwell + Smash Hits). Painter, and maker of Christmas cards. May have elf DNA.
Chris How @chrishow.bsky.social Head of Experience Design @clearleft & Co-organiser @uxcampbrighton. Insatiable curiosity for people, digital design and tech. Recovering Post-it note addict.
Bridgy Fed for the fediverse @ap.brid.gy Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/) bot user for the fediverse. To bridge your account to the fediverse, follow this account.
To ask a fediverse user to bridge their account, send their address (eg @user@instance) to this account in a chat message.
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Andy Keetch @specialnoodles.bsky.social A large goon
@hayluke.bsky.social @hayluke.bsky.social 
Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social UX researcher, psychologist. Author "Quantitative User Experience Research" (w/Rodden), "R | Python for Marketing Research and Analytics" (w/Feit & Schwarz). Previously 24 yrs @ Google, Amazon, Microsoft. Personal account.
Blog at https://quantuxblog.com
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Joe Paxton @joepax.bsky.social Quant UX Researcher. Studied moral psychology and social psychology. Now applying that knowledge to technology.
https://fediscience.org/@joepax
Amanda Baughan @amanda-baughan.bsky.social UW CSE PhD Graduate | Human-Computer Interaction, UX, Responsible AI | Ex-Google, AI2
amandabaughan.com
Maria Cipollone @mariacip.bsky.social Working class kid makes good and goes home.
Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social Prof. Most tweets about R. “Polisci, it’s all about what’s going on.”
http://arelbundock.com
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Elea McDonnell Feit @eleafeit.bsky.social Professor of Marketing at Drexel. Philadelphian. Bayesian. 
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Noelle Abbott @noelleabbott.bsky.social Ph.D. In cognitive science and language disorders. Investigating the neural basis of developmental language disorder #devlangdis. Occasionally dabbles in #aphasia research. 🧠 🧐 <—ask me about it!- L Haley Eidem @lesspanicmoredisco.bsky.social
Josue Rodriguez @josuerodriguez.bsky.social • Data Scientist in EdTech
• PhD in Quant Psych
https://josue-rodriguez.github.io
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Geoff Davis @rhymeswithjeff.bsky.social Rotator of shapes. Ex-Google/Google Research/Verily, ex-MSFT/MSR, former math prof. Data scientist, ML/LLM dabbler.
Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social Principal methodologist at Pew Research Center. He/him 
Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social Systems Eng Prof @ GWU 🦛 | Director, Data Analytics MS Program | EVs 🔋🚗 | Low Carbon Tech | Choice Modeling | Survey Research | China | US-China Policy | #rstats | #reproducibility | #opensource | Father | opinions own 
Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com Professor of Statistics, Monash University, Australia. FAA, FASSA. Interested in #forecasting, #rstats, #statistics. he/him http://robjhyndman.com
JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com CTO at a specialty insurance company. Perpetual cocktail party host, open source fan, econometrician, agricultural economist, and OReilly Author.
Soubhik Barari @soubhikbarari.bsky.social Quantitative social scientist. Pronounced like “show biz”. Currently at NORC (National Opinion Research Center), ex-SurveyMonkey, Harvard. Opinions mine only.
🖥️ https://soubhikbarari.com
✍️ https://somewhatunlikely.substack.com
Chris Hilsinger-Pate @chrisjhp.bsky.social Data, food, sports, & music.
Business Analyst
Brian Weinstein @brian-weinstein.bsky.social Froyo enthusiast, Quant UX Researcher @Google
Aditya Ponnada @adityaponnada.bsky.social Sr. Researcher, MongoDB. ex-Spotify Research.
🔬 in HCI + Personalization + Experience Sampling.
With great power comes great difficulty in polynomial factorization!
Website: https://adityaponnada.github.io//
Laura Levy, PhDemocracy 👾🔬✨ @drlauralevy.bsky.social 🔬 Games User Researcher, Blizzard
🎓 PhD human factors psych
🐝 Previous Amazon Games, Georgia Tech Research Scientist
👾 #GUR #HCI
🤷🏻♀️ John McCain put my first game on his "naughty list"
💬 my own thoughts/opinions
🇺🇸🇨🇱🇸🇪
Thomas UX @thomas-ux.bsky.social UX Designer — Your bridge between users and business goals
💊 Healthcare & BioTech
✨ AI & Automation
🧪 Life Science
Behzod @behzod.com Building a portfolio of play
now-ish — https://behzod.com/now-ish
consulting & advising — https://yetanother.studio
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social 
Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host
Dollars To Donuts podcast
Grace Vorreuter @gracevor.bsky.social Researcher at GitHub + Californian in Upstate NY. When not working, I'm handing kids snacks or making a quilt or doing another craft when I should be finishing a quilt.
Joelly-Roly-Poly @uxaboveall.bsky.social Welcome to the 2,170,654th most popular page on BlueSky!
Yoda of UX. KCMO. Wonk. Open to work. Hire a UXR
Founder of FloatGoat
Slava Ukraini!
Mundus sine Caesaribus
Trust only in the Force!
POWER TO THE USER!!
Andrew Maier @andrewmaier.bsky.social UX research, service design, and facilitation — possibly in that order, depending on the day. Dad. Avid reader, occasional writer, amateur vocalist and baker. He/him. Montreal, QC, Canada 🇨🇦
Arvind Venkataramani @avenk.bsky.social design researcher, ritual technologist, neuroatypical in unsatisfactory ways. i sense and work towards emergent futures. let’s make the world a place of flourishing for all life.
Austin Govella @austingovella.bsky.social I help teams work better. Strategy, information architecture, service design, and workshop facilitation:
https://agux.co/
spydergrrl @spydergrrl.bsky.social Outdoorsy UXer. Workshop design coach & consultant. Lives with anxiety. Runs on espresso and Star Wars. She/her. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Founder of CanUX. Best known for popularizing the phrase "UX Theatre". https://spydergrrl.com
Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social Industry-based sociologist and adjunct professor. Future of work. Innovation. Strategic Foresight. Enterprise Software. Ethnography and qual methods. A few books. https://www.samladner.com/
Indi Young @indiyoung.bsky.social Data Science that Listens - indiyoung.com
Book - Time to Listen indiyoung.com/books/
Systems thinking research for solutions that support human variety. (Fully human made posts & illustrations; no use of AI)
Matt Gallivan @theunderstanders.com User researcher at Anthropic • opinions mine etc • SF/NH • ☕️🎸🌁
theunderstanders.com
Dan Berlin @banderlin.bsky.social Founder of Watch City Research, UX Researcher, PhD student, Editor of / author in 97 UX Things book and litter eschewer
People of Research @peopleofresearch.com 👋 We’re People of Research - a global hybrid community connecting researchers across the tech industry, from UX Research to Behavioral Science. Join over 1500 researchers from +60 countries to connect, collaborate, and grow. peopleofresearch.com
Kyle Soucy @kylesoucy.bsky.social Independent UX Research Consultant | Trainer | Speaker | Podcaster
Company: https://usableinterface.com/
Podcast: https://uxconsultantslounge.com/
Publication: https://makingresearchmatter.com/
Lawton Pybus @lawtonpybus.com UX research consultant, human factors PhD, father, marathoner
Mostly off-duty here
Pat Bertini @patbertini.bsky.social Inquisitive & curious mind exploring:
- Responsible AI & ML
- Privacy & data protection
- Accessibility & digital inclusion
Articles on Medium: https://medium.com/@pat-bertini
The ResearchOps Community @teamreops.bsky.social The original Community of Practice for the ResearchOps industry. https://researchops.community/ and https://reopsconference.com/
Niamh Redmond @nredmond.bsky.social Product, Discovery/UX Research, Design; Fractional/Advisory+ hands-on consulting 💻 w Stripe, Meta/FB, MetaLab, Hootsuite | Founder, Nova Ray Consulting-helping solve interesting & purposeful problems.
📍 DUB>ORD>YVR> St.John’s NL
🍁 Outdoor adventure 🌊🌲🗻🚵🏼♀️🏂
Nikki @nikkianderson.bsky.social User research, surfing, and horror…oh my!
User Interviews @userinterviews.bsky.social 🙋♀️ We connect researchers and participants for fast, affordable recruiting. Learn more at http://userinterviews.com/recruit
Meena Kothandaraman @meenak.bsky.social 
Holly Cole | ReOps Community @hollyface1975.bsky.social Let's do this. www.researchops.community
Stokes @stokesonux.bsky.social Writes about UX. Posts miscellany. Principal at Drill Bit Labs- UX & Digital Strategy consulting.
drillbitlabs.com
Scott Jenson @jenson.org UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, & Apple HI guidelines. UX Director Symbian, managed Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design SF. Head of Product for two startups. Google Physical Web + Android UX research. Semi-retired
Lemmy from Radiöhead @melissanyc.bsky.social UX Researcher in Big Tech, erstwhile librarian, diving into collapse informatics/disaster research, esp. how volunteer groups use tech during the emergency lifecycle. Views my own.
Also into ✒️s, 📷, 🎨, & writing.
Texas Gulf Coast ex-pat loving NYC.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Steve Schirra @schirra.bsky.social UX Research @YouTube / HCI / Games / Politics + Law / Books / Birds. Opinions my own. @MIT alum. Previously @twitch, @yahoo, @zynga.
Octavio Medina @octaviomedina.bsky.social Quant UX Research @Google’s Choice Lab. Previously @ideas42, @WorldBankAfrica. #Rstats, #JuliaLang, Bayes and other things. 🏳️🌈
Emilie Lhote @emlhote.bsky.social R&D @Jigsaw. I gravitate to the random. I swing with the non-sequential. All views my own.
Dominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social Researcher, facilitator & cultural strategist passionate about social causes and meaningful change. I work across systemic boundaries whenever possible to build bridges, nurture relationships, and aim for better outcomes for people. Glasgow based
KC Collins @sounddr.bsky.social New book! https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053730/sonic-ux/ Sonic UX. Professor. Search and Rescue. Ottawa, Canada #sounddesign #sound #UX #audio 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Kelby @kelby.net 'people before pixels' UX Researcher & Generative UX Architect.
Co-owner useability.studio and insightsquid.com
Daniel Souza @danielsouza.bsky.social BBQ Specialist. Design Researcher. Information Architect. Loud brazilian. Coffee snob.
Writes about ux, collaboration, asynchronous work and food. Teaches service design at Experience Haus and lives in São Paulo
danielsouza.org
Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co Digital humanities researcher exploring UX. Anthropologist at heart. I post things I'm currently working on, random thoughts and nerdy rabbit holes.
🌿 https://pabloespinosa.co/
Evan Bowers @ehmbahers.bsky.social Product design leader helping organizations build human-centered products with in-depth UX research & collaborative delivery. Proud dog dad.
Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com Brain Boy turned UX Buffoon. Teaching at NN/G. Durham, NC transplant. Find my stuff at calebsponheim.com
Kyle Stewart @kylestewart.bsky.social UX design, research and strategy | accessibility | grocery rescue | board games | metro Detroit | UU
Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social they/them
exist as a cog inside capitalism by: legacy enterprise qualitative ux researcher
exist in the world as a person by: DMing TTRPGs (yes the dragon one, but not exclusively)
mainly lurked on the bird app
might try posting here
Dessy Chongarova @chongarova.com Design Research Consultant | Previously: Monzo, Meta, FutureGov
ADHD Works Certified Coach
linkedin.com/in/descho
Oliver Shreeve @glenncoco01.bsky.social Design, UX or Product Researcher based on whichever gets the most traction with stakeholders
BTN/LDN | 🏳️🌈 | he/they | ex-French-person 
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin.bsky.social Author: Designing for the Digital Age. Consultant. Design & product exec. Researcher. Speaker & teacher. Wildlife photographer.
📷/🧵 Kim.Goodwin
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Jason Tocci @jst.bsky.social UX nerd and game designer with some stuff at https://jasontocci.itch.io and https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/17901/pretendo-games. Views are my own and not my employer’s. (he/him)
Randy Au @randyau.com Hobby consultant, 💎🪚🎮🖥️🎙️🎹🎧👨🍳📷🪛➕
Quant UX Researcher
Writes a data newsletter: https://www.counting-stuff.com/
https://linktr.ee/randy_au
Languages: EN/JP/CN
matto @matthewoliphant.com Buy my books: matthewoliphant.com
Hire me: uxmatto.com
#author, #kdrama, #pdx, #productDesign, #research, #serviceDesign, and #ux.
atautchikun is craic.
nicolasnova @nicolasnova.bsky.social Anthropology of digital cultures/technologies and environmental changes, design research, design fiction. Professor at Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD) / Managing partner girardinnova.com / posts in English et en français
radicallyrach 🦕 @radicallyrachel.bsky.social UX researcher. Past lives: UX strategist, service designer, anti-corruption in Russia & Ukraine. Full of spicy takes on the state of UX, dad jokes, and poetic interludes. Team Tell It Like It Is. 🌻🩵💛
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
colin gray @graydesign.bsky.social designer, researcher, ux; dark patterns, ethics, and technology (https://uxp2.com); associate professor and HCI/d director at IU Bloomington; they/them 🏳️🌈
Dr AbsP @absp.bsky.social Former academic, current UX research lead focused on how people communicate online, forever a sociolinguist. Small and loud. She/her
becca kennedy @beccakennedy.bsky.social UX Strategist in Upstate New York. she/her. curious person. I have too many favorite things. 📚✈️🎮💚 kennason.com / interrobangdesignnews.beehiiv.com
Guy @gschmd.bsky.social I'm a UX & content designer. I live in Maryland with an amazing partner, three great kids, and a really chill dog.
http://thingstoclick.com/