Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social make cool shit
https://linktr.ee/joeyesposito
The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
—
To read all its wit and wisdom, get a copy from a local bookstore or library.
They put this saltwater (Antalya) fish into freshwater (Samsun) @fellowesin.bsky.social I am Esin!! 18, He/Him 🏳️⚧️, Turkish, computer engineering undergrad, artist, YouTuber, amateur magazine archivist, wannabe academic. TUR/ENG/GER/FRA/NLD
Website: https://fellowesin.neocities.org/
Bona Books 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social Publishing radical queer specfic from London, UK. Founded: @trip.bsky.social, @robwillb.bsky.social, @chrismccartney.bsky.social.
Harassed by: @lyamkk.bsky.social
🛸I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (2024)
🧱Wrath Month (2026)
https://linktr.ee/bonabooksltd
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Ariel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi PhD candidate @ UBuffalo • NSF GRFP
ChemE doing computational systems biology
Multi passionate bean with too many ideas
🫶 Lover of cats, code & crafts
Coral, yr Bird Friend @parodybit.bsky.social Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently doing web dev and systems integration for a library.
Looking for a remote position friendly to AI-free workflows and building accessible solutions, ideally not-for-profit.
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
Follows are not endorsements.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social A record of the plague years. Z”L.
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/plague-poems/
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
@lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social 
Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in cortical dynamics.
Lauren @pringlesitalia.bsky.social Aspiring touching grass and lying flat influencer
Andy Hall @testtubegames.com Game Developer behind TestTubeGames.
Enjoy building, finding, and sharing cool science through games / toys / simulations. No AI.
My games: https://testtubegames.com
Other games I love: https://thescienceplayground.com/
he/him
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Alex Lind @jalexlind.bsky.social 
Douglas Fisher @dcfishergames.bsky.social BoardGame Design (in development) | Board Gamer | Horror Movies | Dark Coffee | Lefty Politics | Shenanigans | ENM | He/Him
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/eJUXl
BGG User Name: szever
Jacob Pleasants @jbpleasa.bsky.social Technoskeptical STEM Educator
Co-Director, Civics of Technology
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com An online monthly magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction! Edited by @cislyn.bsky.social and @granades.com.
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Christopher Gutiérrez @gutierrezartsci.bsky.social Physics professor. Artist. Punk. Son of 🇲🇽 immigrants. Imaging quantum phenomena as leader of the Quantum Matter Design Studio at UCLA. #FirstGen from SouthCentral LA (he/him)
My links: https://linktr.ee/GutierrezArtSci
Rae is an A.I. Killjoy @raewalker.bsky.social Tired trans nurse who studies A.I. & power
AAAS Invention Ambassador
They/them, probably a 🐉
#NurseSky #STS #cat enthusiast
Views always my own as a private citizen & not my employer’s (wild that I have to state this)
Jennifer's TBR is huge... @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. Member of The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️💋
Paridhi Rustogi @paridhirustogi.bsky.social Biogeochemical oceanographer + climate science @Princeton | I study carbon, oxygen, and bubbles 🫧
Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Politics of Ed. #RVA #GoDuke #LetsGoVCU
(Jon is not AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check output.)
Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social Living and working in Vancouver, BC with daughter Emi, our service pup Kya and horses Dazzle and Caleesi. Former Creative Editorial Director, now Learning thru Gaming Minecraft educator. I post about animal welfare, girlpower and stuff that happens!
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social Space archaeologist | Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/ | Blog https://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
🛍️ andreagrimes.threadless.com
Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Free Link! #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Philosopher of technology. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
Nicoli @nicoligongoli.bsky.social Poetry maker | anthill reader | paper hobbyist |
Collector of cats + stamps and things | jibaritacore 🇵🇷
@succulentslug.bsky.social
linktr.ee/NicoliGongoli
Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing Fox with a boxy muzz. Late-30s. Scottish. 🔞 MINORS DNI 🔞
Barks at boxobark.ing
Chatbots are an ontological crime,
That's why I yiff Gemini on Google's dime.
"basically insane" - Andy Masley
Nicole Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com Physics professor, astronomer, education researcher, and scicommer who loves dogs, speculative fiction, weights, and good trouble. NH, US. She/They.
Opinions are mine alone. RT≠endorsement. Posts are ephemeral.
I swear a lot.
noisyastronomer.com
Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com 2024 Michigan Press Association's News Media Publication of the Year. Hard-hitting reporting on politics and policy. Part of the nonprofit @statesnewsroom.com.
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
The Urbanist @theurbanist.org Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social Principal Instigator. Category 1 mind, Category 4 attitude. 🧪🔭🚀
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Rebecca Boyle 🌕 @rboyle31.bsky.social Journalist, selenophile, hiker, Coloradan. Friend of dogs, foe of AI. I speak for the Moon.
Life is short but sweet for certain.
Author of award-winning national bestseller OUR MOON!
Buy it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611468/our-moon-by
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social assistant prof in philosophy @ maastricht university.
ethics and politics of technoscience.
critical of the hype and critical of the critics.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
My Kicks @hikemix.bsky.social Philosopher in Glasgow, working on laws of nature, physics, and artificial intelligence. Researching bullshit but not a bullshitter.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
Jen Raso @jenraso.bsky.social Associate Prof at McGill's Faculty of Law | McCAIS leadership team | Researching digital government, AI systems, and other socio-legal-technical things | www.jenraso.com
Amy Newell was elected to Brookline's Board of Library Trustees @amynewell.bsky.social hope from despair. Forest Witch. Baba Yaga type. Crazy. Artist, Aspiring Activist, Recovering Engineering Leader. bipolar, bisexual, and bitchy AF she/they 🏳️🌈
amyforbrookline.com
www.amywriteswords.com
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social The IRIS Center at SIUE is a place for students, faculty, staff, and community members to collaborate on research, teaching, and community engagement in the digital humanities.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social In the grim, Doug future of Bluesky, there is only Warren.
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Matthew R Francis (see pinned) @matthewrfrancis.bsky.social Science journalist and writer, cat man, hat man, music man, queer. So very tired. He/him. Signal: BowlerHatScience.51
Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
Paul Schütze @paulschuetze.bsky.social PostDoc (he/him) | Political & Social Philosophy | Ethics & Critical Theories of AI | Uni Osnabrück @ https://bsky.app/profile/ectaiuos.bsky.social
Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social Art Historian, artist, Gen AI and Big Tech objector and ex suburban mall goth.
Historienne de l’art, artiste, opposante aux IA génératives et Big Tech et ancienne gothique de centre d’achats de banlieue.
Image de la bannière : d'Albrecht Dürer, 1600
jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
ralph @crutzen.eu Neoluddistische A.I.narchoprimitivist, maar klooit graag met #Linux, #RaspberryPi, #Arduino, #3Dprinting, lasersnijders, Axidraw en het geven van #wiskunde- en informaticalessen in het VO.
Ook via @ralphcrutzen@mathstodon.xyz
Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social (sometimes-computational) linguist, AI/ML unenthusiast, Luddite, they/he
I periodically auto-delete my old posts and likes
https://linktr.ee/abstract_tesseract
Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Author of The Little Book of Aliens. Stuff shows up at The Atlantic, NYTimes, Big Think, etc. The Ramones, the Mets and lots of video games.
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org A free, collaborative, multilingual internet encyclopedia.
donate.wikipedia25.org
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
Dr Kirsten Banks @astrokirsten.bsky.social Wiradjuri Astrophysicist 🌌 Science Communicator 🚀 PhD in Astrophysics 📚 Boring Machine 😂 Relatable Intellectual 🧑🔬
Gryphon @gryphonmyers.dev Indie software developer. Previously at 2K Games
https://mastodon.social/@gryphonmyers
https://lagoware.com
Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social Professor of optics, blogger of physics, history, & pulp fiction. Generally tries to keep things light-hearted, in spite of *waves hands at everything* (he/him) Blocking doomerism on sight.
blog: https://skullsinthestars.com/
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
Politechs @politechs.bsky.social A podcast on the politics of technology from the perspective of tech workers.
Catherine 🌷 @catebridget.bsky.social Adjunct Prof in Writing
she/her
https://medium.com/@catesawers/no-shit-sherlock-what-it-means-to-have-information-literacy-08f62e92fe73
SEIU Local 500
exquisitely crafted handmade jewelry @ catesjewels.etsy.com
screenplays on The Black List
Peter McPherson ⏭️ GenCon @peterlmcpherson.bsky.social Board game designer: Tiny Towns, Wormholes, and Fit to Print. Rulebook writer.
He/him - Upstate NY
Upcoming releases:
Lodge
Antiquarians
Mortar & Hustle
petermcpherson.com
Discord playtest server: https://discord.gg/hvSuTk3XJF
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net Michele Banks
Artist inspired by science
Friend to squirrels
https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/ 
Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social Husband, Proud Papa, Teacher-Scholar-Activist, Writer, Democratic Socialist. Nihil humani a me alienum puto ... y sigo a los perros. Opiniones son mias.
Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social get ready for some bad drawings. he/him
Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976
In het Nederlands maar soms also in English!
Anita Coleman @infophilia.bsky.social Lover of libraries and information sciences prof. How does infophilia — our love of information and connections — shape us, our technologies, knowledge cultures, our society, and the world? Forthcoming Book: Infophilia Unbound infophilia.substack.com
Gil Hova 🔜 Gen Con @gil.hova.net He/him. JC/NYC.
• Tabletop games - now making games as Informal Ferret Games
• Robot fight facilitator at NHRL
• Fan of weird/noisy music
• Ferret nut
• Still not a negotiable Final Fantasy currency
All my links: https://gil.hova.net
Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social Disabled, queer, Jewish, (chimerical?) cyborg, load bearing, professor of space stuff, abortion funder, antifascist, wielder of wrenches and too many pens. Building joy with a side of chaos. Team Lightning Thunder Unicorn. Team Peace Rose.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Maker. Post Office Stan. They/She.
Working on a novel that for now I'll just call "the Post Office book." It has vampires. And poets.
📖 Current read: American Pastoral, Philip Roth
deborahrosereeves.com
https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social Technology, education, and other random thoughts.
modamo @modamo.xyz Kaleidoscopic
📚: https://bookhive.buzz/profile/modamo.xyz
🎧: https://rocksky.app/profile/modamo.xyz
Banner photo: a charcoal still life by my talented girlfriend 💜
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Tanya Augsburg @tanyaphd.bsky.social Interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, curator, arts writer, educator who can sometimes be persuaded to perform. Day job: Professor, SFSU.
Chaz Marler @gamenightpicks.com Making videos on Game Night Picks to help you find board, card, & tabletop games (new & old) that are worth a 2nd look! 👀
He/Him
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
Anisota @anisota.net A peaceful social media interface that helps you be offline more and online better. For Bluesky & the Atmosphere. Made by @dame.is in Appalachia.
Enter the forest: anisota.net
Waxing Gibbous, 71% Lit 🌔
dame @dame.is dame.is
Creator of @anisota.net + @aturi.to. Design engineer & artist by day, 3 moths in a trench-coat by night. Queer Appalachian (they/them). Avatar syncs w/ the sky. 🏳️⚧️
🎧 Sexy to Someone by Clairo
Taoskie @taoskie.bsky.social * The human mind is a wondrous and treacherous thing.
* Old activist (anti-war and imperialism, civil rights, women's movement, unìons, environment, etc.), nature lover, and cat grandma.