Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
Building a California for All.
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of New York Attorney General Letitia James' Office
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
Wesley Hanwen Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social Ph.D. @ CMU HCII. Developing tools and processes to support Responsible AI practices on the ground.
Currently focusing on AI red-teaming, auditing, and impact assessment.
Prev. Microsoft Research, Berkeley EECS.
https://www.wesleydeng.com
AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸ 🐙 @aisafetymemes.bsky.social Techno-optimist, but AGI is not like the other technologies.
Step 1: make memes.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: lower p(doom)
Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social I run The Update newsletter: www.update.news
Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @jonathanm.bsky.social Interested in: cognitive science, Bayes, (ir)rationality, (effective) altruism, happiness, Al Alignment, reward hacking, running, reading books. He/him
Chris Bryant @chrisbryantphd.bsky.social Researcher, Effective Altruist, Dog Dad
Director of @bryantresearch.bsky.social
www.bryantresearch.co.uk
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Oryan Zacks @oryanzacks.bsky.social PhD student in philosophy of biology, researching memory, imagination and consciousness.
Also interested in teaching, sci-comm, pedagogy and dance.
Matt Beane @mattbeane.bsky.social Studying work involving intelligent machines, especially robots. @MITSloan PhD, @Ucsb Asst Prof, @Stanford and @MIT Digital Fellow, @Tedtalks @Thinkers50
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Pedro Lopes @pedrolopes.org Associate Professor at University of Chicago, Computer Science. Runs the Human-Computer Integration Lab (https://lab.plopes.org) & also a musician.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Michelle Lam @mlam.bsky.social Stanford CS PhD student | hci, human-AI interaction (+ dance, design, doodling!)
michelle123lam.github.io
Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social Faculty at Stanford | HCI+ Cognition| Learning Sciences | Artist | Canned seafood enthusiast.
Qiaosi (Chelsea) Wang @qiaosiwang.bsky.social 🐾Carnegie Bosch Postdoc @ Carnegie Mellon HCII
🤖Mutual Theory of Mind, Human-AI Interaction, Responsible AI.
👩🏻🎓Ph.D. from 🐝Georgia Tech HCC. Prev Google Research, IBM Research, UW-Seattle. She/Her.
🔗 http://qiaosiwang.me/
J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira @zamfi.bsky.social I study humans, AI systems, and humans+AI systems as a PhD student @ Berkeley, Assistant Prof @ CCA; previously MIT, EtherPad, Google, Stanford.
Tom Williams @tomwilliams.phd Human-Robot Interaction researcher, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines.
Author of "Degrees of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice" (MIT Press 2025).
Personal: tomwilliams.phd
Lab: MIRRORLab.mines.edu
Gagan Bansal @gaganbansal.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research | Human-AI Interaction | Building AutoGen at Microsoft
Shaun Kane @shaunkane.bsky.social AI for Accessibility
Ian Arawjo @ianarawjo.bsky.social Asst Prof at Université de Montréal, Associate Member of Mila-Quebec AI Institute. PhD from Cornell InfoSci. Creator of ChainForge. Programming and culture, LLM evaluation tooling.
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
Hussein Mozannar @mozannar.bsky.social AI Researcher @MSFTResearch | PhD @mitidss | 🇱🇧
David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social Director, @stanforddel.bsky.social
Professor Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI, SIEPR, Stanford department of Economics and GSB
Author https://amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Juho Kim @juhokim.bsky.social Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST. HCI and Human-AI Interaction researcher. Director of kixlab.org. juhokim.com 
Vera Liao @qveraliao.bsky.social Researcher@MSR, incoming Associate Prof@UMich. Studying human-AI interaction
@chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
Chad Edwards @chadedwards.bsky.social Prof of COM at WMU and Fellow at RWTH-Aachen, Robots, Associate Editor of HMC
Mitchell Gordon @mitchellgordon.bsky.social Incoming assistant prof at MIT CSAIL, CS PhD from Stanford. HCI, human-AI interaction, social computing.
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social Research Scientist at GDM. Statistician. Mostly work on Responsible AI. Academia-industry flip-flopper.
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Mark Díaz @blahtino.bsky.social Dr. (the medically useless kind) | HCI + AI research scientist @Google | @Northwestern TSB | @Stanford STS | t1 diabetic | he/him | 🇨🇺🇩🇴🏳️🌈
Daniel Buschek @dbuschek.bsky.social Prof at Uni Bayreuth, Germany. Human-computer interaction, interactive AI. Building future tools for creative people, while critically evaluating the impact of AI on users, workflows, and outcomes.
Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Jerremy Holland @jerremy.bsky.social Director of AI Research at Apple. Board Chair for Partnership on AI. Photographer. Musician.
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Steve Byrnes @stevebyrnes.bsky.social Researching Artificial General Intelligence Safety, via thinking about neuroscience and algorithms, at Astera Institute. https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
Austin Toombs @altoombs.bsky.social 🎮🎲🧶🏳️🌈🏃♂️📚💻
I play video and board games. I knit, crochet, and sew. I’m gay. I run marathons. I’m an Associate Professor at IU. I study technology-mediated relationships and communities through HCI, CSCW, and Social Computing approaches.
Helena Vasconcelos’ Research @helenasresearch.bsky.social Helena Vasconcelos' research account. Email helenav@cs.stanford.edu.
https://helenavasc.com
Duri Long @duri-long.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern. HCI, Human-Centered AI, AI literacy, co-creativity. Director of Creative Interfaces Research + Design Studio. durilong.com
Lionel P. Robert Jr. @lionelprobertjr.bsky.social Professor of Information and Robotics University of Michigan.
#HRI #HCI #Robotics #CSCW
Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics, Robotics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=62sb4psAAAAJ&hl=en
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Jens Rupprecht @jrupprec.bsky.social PhD student @ Chair for Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences (University of Mannheim)
Website: https://jrupprec.github.io/
Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com Postdoc @nunetsi.bsky.social (Northeastern Uni) 🎓 Computational Social Science 👾 ✨ work on stability of belief in LLMs & Human-AI Collaboration 🌿 he/him 🇱🇻 🇺🇦 | www.savcisens.com
Juniper Lovato @juniperlov.bsky.social Research in complex systems, tech ethics, networks, NLP, and computational social science. Assistant professor of CS at the University of Vermont, Vermont Complex Systems Institute, Computational Ethics Lab.
International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026
Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
Igor Ryazanov @rzigr.bsky.social WASP-HS PhD student in Computing Science, Umeå University
NLP, computational social science
https://rzigr.github.io
Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de Political Sociologist, studying discursive dynamics and democratic lawmaking.
Program Chair MetaCRiSP 2026 (IEEE S&P)
Website: https://hendrik-erz.de
I develop @zettlr.com, a free academic writing app.
Hope Schroeder @hopeschroeder.bsky.social Studying NLP, CSS, and Human-AI interaction. PhD student @MIT. Previously at Microsoft FATE + CSS, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Symbolic Systems
hopeschroeder.com
Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social Is watching you.
Political sociology x Computational social sciences @CrestSociology | @Polytechnique | @CNRS
Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social Computational social sciences @ CREST/Groupe ENSAE-ENSAI
dev. of ActiveTigger https://activetigger.com/
#socialsciences #interdisciplinarity #opensource #bike
Vsevolod Suschevskiy @vvseva.bsky.social Visualization and Interaction Design. Understanding and improving (maybe) research practices of analytical sociologists
https://vvseva.quarto.pub/
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT
Shomir Wilson @shomir.bsky.social Associate Professor at Penn State. AI and sociotechnical NLP, especially for privacy and fairness. Also posting about academia, photography, and travel. Opinions mine. he/him. http://shomir.net
Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMD Info College. NLP, computational social science, political communication, linguistics. Past: Data Science Postdoc @UChicago, Info PhD @UMich, CS + Lx @Stanford. Interests: cats, Yiddish, talking to my cats in Yiddish.
Arduin Findeis @arduin.io Working on evaluation of AI models (via human and AI feedback) | PhD candidate @cst.cam.ac.uk
Web: https://arduin.io
Github: https://github.com/rdnfn
Latest project: https://app.feedbackforensics.com
Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social Professor @milanlp.bsky.social for #NLProc, compsocsci, #ML
Also at http://dirkhovy.com/
Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer @oii.ox.ac.uk. Evaluating safety & societal impacts of AI.
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
Manuel Tonneau @manueltonneau.bsky.social PhD candidate @oiioxford.bsky.social NLP, Computational Social Science @WorldBank
manueltonneau.com
Scott A. Hale @computermacgyver.bsky.social Professor @oiioxford.bsky.social & Director of Research
@meedan.・widening access to quality info・multilingualism・mobilization・NLP・agenda setting
Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor, CS, Colorado School of Mines. Online spiritual care, social computing, online governance, Human-AI Interaction: http://bit.ly/sacredtech. CSCW, CHI, TOCHI, etc. 👩🏼💻
Community Chair for #CSCW2025🇳🇴
https://estellesmithphd.com
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Koustuv Saha @kous2v.bsky.social Computational Social Science & Social Computing Researcher | Assistant Prof @illinoisCDS @UofIllinois | Prev @MSFTResearch | Alum @ICatGT @GeorgiaTech @IITKgp
Jessica Pater @jesspater.bsky.social HCI+health and social computing researcher at Parkview Health. Knitter, dog lover, travel enthusiast.
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
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ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2026 will be in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 10–14, 2026: https://cscw.acm.org/2026/.
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Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Sanchari Das @drsancharidas.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Mason University | Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington | specializing in security, privacy, HCI, AR/VR, and accessibility | Prev Institutions : University of Denver, ParityTech, XRSI, and American Express. 🙏
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
Eran Toch @eranto.bsky.social I invent new technologies and user experiences for privacy & human-AI interaction. Prof of Engineering at TAU.
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Lujain Ibrahim @lujain.bsky.social not really on here
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social Researching machine learning and human-AI interaction, particularly the rise of digital minds. Student researcher at Google DeepMind, visiting scholar at Stanford, co-founder of Sentience Institute, and PhD candidate at U of Chicago. jacyanthis.com
Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social ✨ senior business & China editor @wired.com
✨ contact me on Signal: louise_matsakis.83
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Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
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
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social Ditch Daylight Saving Time. Permanent Standard Time lets us sleep later for health, mood, safety, education, economy, and environment. We’re a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
Diosa Luna @diosaluna.bsky.social Safe space 🏳️🌈 Catlady 😼
Garlic lover🧄 maga/maha🖕🚫
I support Democracy 💙🐸
Separation of church & state
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜