Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
Civic tech & UX by day, art by night.
Building shared versions of reality + hope.
RaksGeek.com
RaksInferno.com
DawnXianaMoon.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/
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Adam Savage @asavage.bsky.social Maker. Science Communicator. Connector. 
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Potter. Recovering technologist. Would like to pet your dog.
Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr
twitch.tv/cypheroftyr
Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
harper.lol / harper.blog
Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun (he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
Signal:willsmith.01
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
notnotrocketscience.com
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
Professing at Pitt
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com Technical Fellow, @honeycomb.io
American by birth, Chinese by heritage, Australian by choice
living on occupied and unceded Gadigal and Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh land
she/it
Byron Woodfork @byronwoodfork.bsky.social Software engineering topics, mentorship advice & movie nerd hot takes ☺️
Latest YouTube video link below 👇🏾
https://youtu.be/Jlk93rV8tws
Jesse Vincent @s.ly Doing AI stuff at Prime Radiant. Past lives include: keyboard.io, VaccinateCA, K-9 Mail, Request Tracker & Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
jesse@fsck.com
jesse@primeradiant.com
@jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social One half of the I Don't Speak German podcast. I follow white nationalist assholes so you don't have to. Working on my Spanish. He/him. Todos somos americanos.
Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social Accountability Architect💡
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
Rick Klau @rickklau.com Co-founder & CEO, Onsemble. Husband. Dad. Previously: California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, 13+ years Google, FeedBurner. he / him.
Star Simpson @starstar.bsky.social Aviation, automation & a long list of other interests. 🇩🇪🇯🇲 Repeal the Jones Act ⛔️🚢 From Hawaii 🌺 Used to live in Iceland 🇮🇸 ég get varla talað íslensku. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
Jesse von Doom @handle.invalid Mostly I live in a Zoom window.
Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social former child (derogatory)
current adult (denunciatory)
future ghost (complimentary)
Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social Comics artist, illustrator and designer in Chicago. Artist for the “Let’s Make” series of comic book cookbooks. Also: I Think You're Sauceome, Shuteye, The Complete Ouija Interviews. She/her
https://tless.link/sarahbecan
Chris DiBona @cdibona.bsky.social Released a few open source projects here and there. Dad, Skiiier, Nerd, Villager. 
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
aziz @texasvc.com @texasvc on all platforms
nerd in houston frequently traveling
i have the best friends
Michi the Adorable Tiny Demon @michitrota.bsky.social FilAm Feminist Foodie Firespinner. British Fantasy & 5x Hugo Award winner. Writing a book on representation, AAPI identity & power. Green America Executive Editor. She/Her. buttondown.email/MichiTrota. Repped by @lmpnk.bsky.social
Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social Deep-sea biologist. Two obsessions: the biodiversity of Earth's largest habitat, and why body size varies across all of life. Science communicator, ocean's weirdest animals daily.
Robin Shostack @shostack.bsky.social Build. Lead. Perform. Turn the boldest ideas into reality. Inspired by space travel, wilderness, and my dog's ability to nap. 
Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶
That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @20x2chi@bsky.social
http://me3dia.com
Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Ben Sussman @sussman.bsky.social He/him, Chicago native. Former eng director @ Google, composer, pianist, banjoist, author, gamer, photographer, illustrator, radio ham, dad. http://debuggingteams.com
Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
https://linktr.ee/KeidraC
Profile ID: Black woman looking up at picture of mountains
Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her. 
Jeff Solin ✶✶✶✶ @jeffsolin.bsky.social Family and friend to others. Comp Sci & Making Teacher at Lane Tech. LTMakers Lab Director. Owner of Solin Systems Consulting. Fierce advocate for my students. Relentless trasher of Aspen SIS.
Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org Puzzle maker. Commissioner of The Mystery League. Newsletter at http://signals.fun.
Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Borja Sotomayor @borjasotomayor.bsky.social Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/borjasotomayor
Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.
Bad Takes R Us
Be Better. Do Better.
He/Him
Steve Brown @unklesteve.com Father & Husband
US National YoYo Master
Always doing a ton of things, find them all at http://unklesteve.com- A Kjell Lindgren @astrokjell.bsky.social Husband, Father, Physician, Astronaut, Space nerd in paradise.
Conrad @conradfuhrman.bsky.social CTO, Futureman Digital (futuremandigital.com)
Hobbies: Cars, Disney, Turntables/Vinyl
Chicago
Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social Chicago gal who wears many hats:
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
📣 Pitch Your Peeps
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com CEO glowforge.com, research fellow at gail.wharton.upenn.edu, creator RobotTurtles.com. Once Google, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian and UCC pastor, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social I wrote DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY, a USA TODAY bestseller (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | I also wrote REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
Edna @edna.bsky.social Retired USMC. Inveterate shenanigator. Texas Aggie. UChicago Maroon. Devoted Chicagoan ✶✶✶✶. Late night chair trolley luge gold medalist. Non-sufferer of fools and the unkind.
Cathy Chouinard ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @chouinardphoto.bsky.social Artist ✶ Photographer ✶ Entrepreneur ✶ Business Owner
Powered by live music & sunshine.
Kim from Scrappy Affirmations @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social Bold Belief Builder, bringer of light, facilitator, speaker, author, creator / producer of Hot Flashes & Fierce Tales (like The Moth, but menopause-centric), death, ritual, and ceremony, flighty creative type www.scrappyaffirmations.com- J @jmegq.bsky.social @jmegq.bsky.social
Troy Henikoff @troyhenikoff.bsky.social 
Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Robin Anil @robinanil.bsky.social Technology Builder
Aaron Silvers Lining Playbook @cut.buzz chameleon/survivor/trustworthy adult now presenting as barber
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
Book me @ https://cut.buzz/
My popular snark: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nyzgcslzg2pxz3mqwu6bnwoy/feed/aaafikybnwenq
Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
BKE @bke613.bsky.social Performance Artist, Musician, Teacher, Designer, Traveller, Adventurer of Life 
Gabrielle Lyon @ghlyon1.bsky.social Desert born, midwest rooted
JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social Artist, educator, and researcher - currently: Electronic Visualization Lab @ UIC.
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.
John Tolva @johntolva.bsky.social Cities, humanities, constellations, and reefs. http://ascentstage.com
Frank Wiles @fwiles.bsky.social Expert in building, scaling and maintaining complex web applications - Founder of REVSYS, PSF Fellow, Django Steering Council and Former President of the Django Software Foundation.
Into Python, Django, React, Rust, Kubernetes and cooking
Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Business & organizational ethnographer. Tweets = my own. Will always be up for talking about public ed and nonfiction. Fueled by Ethiopian coffee. 
Adelle lin @adellelin.bsky.social Artist, technologist, indie games, working on the resistance @newinc @onx @nycresistor
Faculty at Parsons and helping out at the Math Museum in NYC
adelleninja.com
jason huggins @hugs.bsky.social i make robots and test automation tools. (started the selenium & appium open source projects, now vibium.) living at the intersection of software, electronics, mechanics, and the occasional kinetic art project. and baking.
📍: chicagoland
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social Coral scientist running a gene bank-IVF clinic-NICU-daycare for baby endangered corals, so of course it's super easy and nothing ever goes wrong. Fighting for baby corals because they have very short arms. www.marhaverlab.com
Ken Norton @kennorton.com Romantic bird facts
Eric Lunt @elunt.com I live near Chicago and I love tech. More at elunt.com
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
CL @cllantz.bsky.social • Neuroscientist • Development • Visual Circuits • Plasticity • BRAIN
Backpacking, fly fishing, quilting.
Skeets are my own. she/her/hers
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
Karthik Ram @karthik.io Accelerating science https://bsky.app/profile/valency.io
Leave me anonymous feedback! → https://www.admonymous.co/karthik
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ⚓️ Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) | DARPA alum | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own| 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social Professor: Northwestern, Kellogg School • Director: Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement • Schapiro Fellow: Institute for Policy Research • Book: The All-Or-Nothing Marriage • Podcast: Love Factually
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger- B Ben Laurie @benlaurie.bsky.social Exploring the foundations of trust.
Stephan Somogyi @thinkpanzer.bsky.social Primum non nocere
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful & premeditated emdash & serial comma user; verber of nouns
Often staring down both barrels of Brandolini's law
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Erin Drain (she/her) @erinoia.bsky.social Dot connector, west sider, haunted bungalower, thread winder, unlikely women’s basketball super fan.
Used to do/still happy to talk about.
Julia Mossbridge, PhD @gocerp.bsky.social science & tech for unconditional love, hope, and future preparedness
Paul Smith @smith.dev Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and O’s fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place
Co-founder of Ad Hoc
Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower 🪓
meganstielstra.com
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
Yael Hochberg @yhochber.bsky.social