James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu We counter Kremlin information warfare, one claim at a time | Not official EU position
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social GET MY SUBSTACK https://fridainsight.substack.com
World affairs journalist. CNN/CNNE/CNNI on-air contributor, Former CNN producer/correspondent. Sr columnist World Politics Review, contributing columnist Washington Post.
Worked in 70+ countries.
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast debuts 9/9. I’m just here for a good time.
The Gothic Scientist @drjlange.bsky.social Neuroscientist. Special interest in glial biology and role in neurological disorders. Love astrocytes. All views my own. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Guild @guild.host We're the platform for communities, no matter the shape ✨ Use your Guild username as a Bluesky handle and get an AI announcement bot to help with your socials 🦋🤖
Check us out → https://guild.host
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
@ralucaharagus.bsky.social @ralucaharagus.bsky.social I also like to live dangerously!
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Suzanne Valandon @svaladon.bsky.social Fan account of Suzanne Valadon, a French painter and the the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
1865-1938
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@akinder71.bsky.social @akinder71.bsky.social 
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
Kennington Observer @kennintonrunoff.bsky.social We are a famously wonderful blog about all things in Greater Kennington, encompassing Kennington, Vauxhall, Oval, Elephant and Castle and Walworth.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca Associate prof, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa @uottawa.ca
Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen
open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience
MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social Amazing feats of engineering. Posted by https://root.vc
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/- M Fabian @mentzerf.bsky.social
Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow
https://t.co/Gea41bGhz9
harry law @harrylaw.bsky.social Thinking about thinking machines | University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence | Previously Google DeepMind- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social Slop til you drop http://understanding-tiktok.com
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
The British History Podcast @thebritishhistorypodcast.com History with the fun bits left in.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
thebritishhistorypodcast.com
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social Cartography and data-viz enthusiast. “Hobby-etymologist”. 🇪🇺 Europhile of multiple identities 🇷🇴/🇭🇺 |✸☽︎|. Immigrant 🇫🇷. Was an architect once.
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social ✨ Keep it simple, make it scale. AI should be about empowering users and building understanding. 👩💻 AI Developer Experience @ Google DeepMind, ex-Github, ex-Google
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social PhD candidate at Georgetown | Researching nukes, IR, Japan, East Asia | Also posting photos of my cat and food.
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Max Andrews @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com Father. Pragmatist. Generalist. Builder of things both physical and digital.
Current side project:
https://github.com/maxandrews/Epstein-doc-explorer
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Radu Hossu 🇷🇴🇺🇦 @raduhossu.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/raduhossu | #NAFO Fella | Political Strategist | Support my work if you feel it brings value here: http://patreon.com/raduhossu
Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social Chief Economics Correspondent for The New York Times. Adjunct at CUNY Newmark. Ex: FiveThirtyEight, WSJ. He/him.
Email: ben.casselman@nytimes.com
Signal: @bencasselman.96
📸: Earl Wilson/NYT 
Ramp Capital @rampcapital.bsky.social Master shape rotator (yes, that Ramp Capital from Twitter)
Maribeth Rauh @mbrauh.bsky.social I like to poke AI systems (sociotechnical translation and AI safety/ethics evaluation)
Researcher @aial.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social | Formerly Research Engineer @ DeepMind
Б'єрнберт @bjornbert.bsky.social ISW: The enemy “advanced” 1.22 square kms per day in July 2026.
At a new monthly record of 42,860 casualties.
Free Ukraine is 486,000 sq kms.
So, mission accomplished in 1,092 years.
With 562 million casualties, including 245 million killed in action!
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Marianne Monteiro @hereismari.bsky.social Research Engineer at @DeepMind. Educator in training. Ciência da Computação @computacaoufcg. Views are my own. 🇧🇷 🏳️🌈
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Southwark Playhouse @swkplay.bsky.social An exciting programme of theatre productions across two venues: Southwark Playhouse Borough and Southwark Playhouse Elephant🐘+🏰. No booking fees!
Contact us: boxoffice@southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Visit our website: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social 24, ukrainian-american
Print FPV drones like money and we’re hyperinflating
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Norman Casagrande @adabstract.bsky.social ML, history, coding, space, science and everything in between. Personal profile. Research Eng @ DeepMind (Google). Views my own, etc.
Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social Research Scientist at DeepMind. Opinions my own. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org . Founding chairman of www.publichealthactionnetwork.org
Hamza Merzić @hamzamerzic.info Staff Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind
PhD Candidate @ UCL
🇵🇸
Tom Stepleton @stepleton.bsky.social AI research engineer, glider pilot. Apple Lisa power user. @stepleton@oldbytes.space on Mastodon. Most of my posts will be about old computers; occasionally I'll mention flying.
joao @joao.omg.lol Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions
#ActuallyAutistic He/Him
Caity Weaver @caity.bsky.social 
Annaëlle Winand @annaellewd.bsky.social Archives, politics & cinema. Horror & experimental. Ex-underground film programmer | Video collage loser | Clumsy boxer | Assistant professor | Easily distracted | she/her | https://mastodon.social/@annaellewd
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
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.
Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social every raccoon is a friend and comrade in the struggle against capital to make the computer good
Pronouns: (he/she/they), pick *your* favorite
BabelColour @babelcolour.bsky.social I'm Stuart Humphryes (known online as BabelColour). I clean, repair, enhance and transform early colour photography.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social politics reporter @ Rolling Stone • host of @americanfric.bsky.social • clipping with @snapstream.com • siempre jodiendo 🇲🇽
send me a book: https://linktr.ee/Nikkimcr
signal: Nikkimcr.70
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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
Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social Research scientist at Google DeepMind, Gemini Pretraining. Birds, poetry, games, robots
📍London 🔗 edouardleurent.com
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
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/
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social Data Protection Geek. Co-author of the big GDPR OUP Commentary🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 US-based, former Brussels bubbler. Writes about data protection law and policy, AI governance through a Global lens (& sometimes democracy) Strictly personal views.
www.pdpecho.com.
👍🏻😬👍🏻 @coolfacejane.bsky.social