Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Carl Lerche @carllerche.com I do stuff, I say stuff. It's serious business.
David Lat @davidlat.bsky.social Lawyer turned writer, speaker, and podcaster: Original Jurisdiction, http://davidlat.substack.com. Author, Supreme Ambitions. Founder, Above the Law. Proud Papa of two adorable boys. 🏳️🌈
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social Bot highlighting changes to the New York Times "Top Stories" feed.
original by @j-e-d.bsky.social
Bluesky version by @unchi.org
Source: https://github.com/j-e-d/NYTdiff
Brandon Stewart @bstewart.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton
http://brandonstewart.org/
Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social JProf (TT) of Philosophy & Digital Ethics @UniOldenburg/ Co-Director @criticaldatalab.bsky.social (HU Berlin/ Uni Oldenburg)/ Affiliate
@INCAmsterdam @sfb294.bsky.social/ out now: Kybernetik & Kritik (Suhrkamp)
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
@hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves @imaginaries.bsky.social Researching on sociotechnical fictions, hype, financialisation and cyberlibertarianism
Working on a video essay on venture capital and religion
Co-founder of hypestudies.org
andreubelsunces.net
Trevor Ball @easybakeovensz.bsky.social Previously Bellingcat, ARES, US Army EOD.
Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org The global hub for investigative journalism, sharing resources, stories, events, and jobs.
Find #GIJN's regional feeds, here: http://gijn.org/follow-gijn/
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Clive Vella @clivevella.bsky.social OSINT practitioner and educator with a background in sound and music. Currently Data Manager at @airwars.bsky.social /// MA Research Architecture class of 2018. DMs open! /// www.clivevella.xyz
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
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
Simon Munzert @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social Professor of Data Science and Public Policy | Director @ Hertie School Data Science Lab | Elections, Public Opinion, Data
Marina Delcheva @delcheva.bsky.social Journalistin, Wirtschaftsressortleiterin bei profil.at, Austrian-Bulgarian, Balkan by nature.
Alexa Olesen @ouleishan.bsky.social China-focused researcher & consultant. China Leaks & Panama Papers for ICIJ. Ex-AP China.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Joanna S Kao @joannaskao.bsky.social AI accountability lead at the Pulitzer Center, IE global MBA & MIT CS grad. Formerly Financial Times, The New School, Al Jazeera America, Boston Globe. PGP 0x81CFC062
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Annelen Micus @a-micus.bsky.social Co-Director, Institute for Legal Intervention at ECCHR. Formerly with Amnesty Int'l Germany, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Oxford & CCAJAR, Colombia. Views my own.
Joyce Sohyun Lee @joyceshlee.bsky.social Senior Visual Forensics reporter, The Washington Post
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
absolute horses @jcoglan.com this is him here
I write books about programming --> https://shop.jcoglan.com/
Nikolaus Forgó @nikolausf.substack.com Law. IT. And all in between. This is going to be personal.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nikolaus+forgo&oq=nikolaus+forg%C3%B3
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Sara Wess @sarawess.bsky.social DER SPIEGEL, davor 39. Lehrgang @nannenschule | E-Mail: sara.wess@spiegel.de
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨
🌐 johannesklingebiel.de
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.
Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social Slop til you drop http://understanding-tiktok.com
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Lina Paulitsch @linapaulitsch.bsky.social Journalistin Falter
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
david barsky @davidbarsky.com i like cooking and reading books. my day job is to work on ersc.io, but before, it was rust-analyzer. he/they is fine.
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Will Orr @willo.bsky.social Phd candidate @ usc annenberg // data + cultures + logics + regulation
Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social Queer in AI 🏳️🌈 | postdoc at cmu HCII | ostem |william-agnew.com | views my own | he/they
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writing @status.news, a nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood.
subscribe: http://status.news/subscribe
inbox: oliver@status.news
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Phoenix by Tapbots @phoenix.tapbots.com An upcoming Bluesky Client for iOS/iPadOS & Mac from the makers of Tweetbot and Ivory.
Please don't take it personally if we don't respond often with this account. We are extremely busy working on Phoenix.
https://tapbots.com/phoenix
Hellina Hailu Nigatu @hellinanigatu.bsky.social CS PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Interested in multilingual and low-resourced language NLP + HCI. @SIGHPC CDS Fellow. Interned @MBZUAI. Current intern at DAIR
Website: https://hhnigatu.github.io
Anton Rainer @antonrainer.bsky.social Kultur @SPIEGEL. Ertragen, was ist.
Julia Prosinger @juliaprosinger.bsky.social Foreign desk @derspiegel
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Anna Thalhammer @annathalhammer.bsky.social Chefredakteurin und Herausgeberin des österreichischen Nachrichtenmagazins “Profil”. Threema JRTUBHZD
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Max Hoppenstedt @maxhoppenstedt.bsky.social Journalist | DER SPIEGEL | Reporting on Technology and Society | Former: Burns Fellow with The Washington Post; EIC Motherboard Germany; Süddeutsche Zeitung
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social Writer, researcher • STS, economic sociology, political economy of deep tech • University of Glasgow & Edinburgh • Author of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in digital energy infrastructure, cyber security expertise, and hyped up technologies • cover by https://disect.me/
Sebastian Loudon @sebastianloudon.bsky.social Herausgeber von DATUM
Monatsmagazin für Politik und Gesellschaft
www.datum.at @datumsdz.bsky.social
Initiator der DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie
www.datumstiftung.at
rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io (gender)queer transsexual / they/them / eng @oxide.computer / atheist and scientific humanist / 🦀 #rustlang / #jj-vcs #1 fan / https://nexte.st / https://sunshowers.io
also on mastodon: @rain@hachyderm.io / https://hachyderm.io/@rain
Colette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social Journalistin @ derstandard.at
Vienna
Politik, Kunst & Kultur, Menschenrechte, Extremismus
Threema ID FEY8UP7S
Betriebsratschefin Der Standard Verlag
Antifaschistin, what else?
🇨🇦🇦🇹
Holger Stark @holgerstark.bsky.social Stellv. Chefredakteur DIE ZEIT
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future!
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Philipp Pflegerl @ppflegerl.eurosky.social Political Scientist based in Vienna | Research @ IRKS | Online-Monitoring on Conspiracy Theories @ Federal Office for Cult Affairs | PhD @ UIBK at the intersection of far-right studies and social movement research | part of www.filmclubtacheles.com
Maria Windhager @windhager.bsky.social Medienanwältin
Impressum/Offenlegung auf www.medienrechtskanzlei.at
fin @fin-io.bsky.social Data Journalism, freelance. Government Transparency in Austria, Forum Informationsfreiheit. https://fin.io
Anika Zeller @anikazeller.bsky.social #Factchecking @spiegel.de
#Ukraine #Russia #Eurasia
Youssr Youssef @youssr.bsky.social Journaliste & ingénieure, 🇨🇵 & 🇹🇳 · @forbidden-stories.bsky.social #GazaProject · Réal "René Carmille, un hacker sous l'Occupation" @publicsenat· 🤓 📈 passée par @Fig_Data
Contact: hello@youssr.me
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Stefan Kappacher @kappachers.bsky.social Journalist #doublecheck
Christina Schmidt @rprtrn.bsky.social Investigative Recherche DIE ZEIT
Rechtsextremismus // Innere Sicherheit
Berlin // Norden // Rest der Welt
Drop me secrets: Signal: @christinaschmidt.11 Threema: BAF7WTY9
Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt @schmidtwolf.bsky.social Journalist @ DER SPIEGEL // Innere Sicherheit // wolf.wiedmann-schmidt@spiegel.de // Threema PYU6Z97X //
Laurin Lorenz @laurinlorenz.bsky.social Redakteur Investigativ + News + Redaktionsbeirat @derstandard.at // Threema H45FM66B
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
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
Ella Dodd @elladodd.bsky.social Secrèterait for the Committee for Prevention of Torture
Migration specialist
Views my own
Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social Tech Reporter @us.theguardian.com. Tips: dara.kerr@theguardian.com or darakerr.01 on Signal
Katherine Long @klong.bsky.social Investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider and The Seattle Times. katherine.long@wsj.com. Send tips on Signal: longka.38