Nicholas Bagley @nbagley.bsky.social University of Michigan Law Professor
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
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Lynn Overmann @lynnovermann.bsky.social Tech & policy nerd, recovering public defender, DC native, #ALLCAPS fan. Executive Director @beeckcenter.bsky.social Georgetown. May the force be with you, always. Views my own.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
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Will Slack @wslack.bsky.social
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social Mom 💙 Wife ❤️ Texan
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Writer, journalist, filmmaker, professor. Pro-democracy advocate: Not capitulating. Author of Lee Harvey Oswald book, The Gunman & His Mother. Writing/publishing America, America on politics and society: America.substack.com
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social President of the AFL-CIO. Oregonian. Home union IBEW. Solidarity forever! she/her #1u
Adam Conner @adamconner.bsky.social Older but no wiser on a new social platform than the old ones. Professionally caring about the internet, doing tech policy at @americanprogress.bsky.social & @capaction.bsky.social but a poster first, always, and forever. Opinions are…you know the drill.
Chiraag Bains @chiraagbains.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer • Democracy Fund • Brookings • Fmr Deputy Director, Biden White House Domestic Policy Council | DOJ under Obama | Demos. https://www.brookings.edu/people/chiraag-bains/
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Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
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Lisa Margonelli @lisamargonelli.bsky.social Maine resident. Books: Underbug, Oil on the Brain. Fan of termites, mushrooms, clams, and phylogenetic trees. EIC: Issues in Science and Technology. Opinions are my own.
Adriana Bankston @abankston.bsky.social Federal #govrelations #advocacy. University #research & innovation. #STEM research policy. #STEMworkforce #futureofSTEM
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Matt Hourihan @matthourihan.bsky.social Dad (x3) and hub (x1). R&D policy @ AAU.
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Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org Providing expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Non-partisan. Non-profit. https://nationalacademies.org
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
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Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ⚓️ ARPA-H | DARPA Alum | Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own | 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
Kumar Garg @kumargarg.bsky.social President, Renaissance Philanthropy
Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social Dedicated here to the unfinished work. - 16
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
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NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. All views are my own.
Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social Tech reporter at Reuters based in D.C. I used to write about federal workers and DOGE. Former White House reporter @ Bloomberg Government.
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Jesse Lee @jessecharleslee.bsky.social Former Econ Comms for President Biden, Senior Advisor to Speaker Pelosi, Special Assistant to President Obama, VP of Comms for CAP.
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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law, THE Wide Receiver University. How firm thy friendship. Admin law, Legislation & Regulation. Former OMB/OIRA GWRegStudies GWLaw.🐝keeper. My views only.
Jacob Leibenluft @jleibenluft.bsky.social Economic policy; previously: Biden OMB + UST, deputy director of NEC in Obama White House