Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Past: HotWired/Wired News/Wired, Newser, Adweek, USA Today. Tw: @chipbayers IG/Threads: @cbayers
That’s my recently-departed Dad in the header pic.
Grace Hauck @gracehauck.bsky.social State Investigative Reporter @illinoisanswers.bsky.social. Previously @usatoday.com. Email ghauck@illinoisanswers.org
Evan Prellberg @evanprellberg.bsky.social Chicago based ex-academic who spends most of his time taking pictures of his dog. She is evil, and I love her. I’m never really sure if I’m doing things right, but I’m still here and still trying.
Ari Soglin @arisoglin.bsky.social Managing editor-News at Chicago Sun-Times; former Bay Area journalist. Occasional posts about Chicago Cubs (esp. from the bleachers).
Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com Developer of sorts at @webdevs.firefox.com, but this is my personal account. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Gregory Shmegory @gregoryshmegory.bsky.social Chicagoland dufus, work in transportation planning & GIS. Retired half-assed jazz musician.
Slava Ukraini!
http://www.youtube.com/user/xenoexuberphobe
Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social librarian; lawyer; professor; obsessed with trying to teach information literacy in a world that barely seems to care; lover of dogs, tennis, beaches, swimming, long hikes that cause my muscles to ache, the search for a perfect book, and my two boys.
Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social 13th Gen Virginian. I bow and scrape for no one—neither should anyone else. Dietrich Bonhoeffer fan. Summum Nec Metuam Diem Nec Optem. Mon Mothma’s old man. JET's Pop. NYU MFA—still writing 1st novel. Afghan War Vet. Journeyman lawyer—no problem too small.
David Ramos @ramosbugs.dev software/security engineer, cs phd, recovering trumpeter 🎺🎶 he/him. views expressed are those of my semi-feral cat.
Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social Dave, Toronto. "I'm wetter than I've ever been, and I'm from Canada!"
Dr Ally Louks @drallylouks.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author 📚Literary Scholar 👩🏻🏫 Public Academic👃🏻Smell Expert 📖 UNDER YOUR NOSE: Spring 2027
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social UIC senior lecturer in data and digital journalism | RTDNA/GNI lead trainer | ONA AI lead trainer | Founder JournalistsToolbox.ai | Author: "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI"
Better Streets Chicago @betterstreetschicago.org Chicagoans working together to make our streets better for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit.
🧑🦼🚶🚲🚌
linktr.ee/betterstreetschicago
Invisible Institute @invisible.institute A nonprofit journalism production organization on the South Side of Chicago. Home to CPDP.co, Beneath the Surface, and more. 
Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social I am an investigative reporter at ProPublica focused on immigration. Reach out with tips or information you think should be brought to our attention!
Email: mica.rosenberg@propublica.org
Phone: 332-213-1365
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/micarosenberg
Bike Lane Uprising @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social Report bike lane obstructions with our mobile app from anywhere in the USA & Canada.
BikeLaneUprising.com
Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social Organizer. Florida State Rep. Mom.
Running for US Senate because Floridians deserve better. Change can’t wait.
Mc Nelly Torres ☕️ @watchdogdiva.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Interim editor at Investigate Midwest| 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist | Former publicintegrity.org | NBC6 | Sun-Sentinel | FCIR| IRE | EWA | SPJ | Speaker & Trainer | Yogi 🙏 | Salsa dancer 🇵🇷
Subscribe 📝 https://mcnellytorres.substack.com/about
Alex Nitkin @alexnitkin.bsky.social Government Finance & Accountability reporter,
@IllinoisAnswers/@BetterGov. Formerly of @thedailylinechi, @trdchicago & @DNAinfoChi. Tips: Anitkin@bettergov.org
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
𝕁, Atheoretic Text Monster™ @checkwithscience.com ☘️&🐏 alumnus • connecting cancer scientists to technology • supercomputing, energy, biomedicine, shitposting • politically: "socialism is liberalism taken seriously" & 🇺🇦🇵🇸 • attitude: 🫵😉👍 • Signal: jtd.01 • known Blackguard™
Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social I will be a bummer talking and being angry about genocide until the livestreamed genocide ends. I'd love to be talking about other things but it's hard to think about them much.
Free Palestine!
He/him
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
BlueCollarJazz @domguan.bsky.social | Dominic, Chicagolander and Illinois boi
| B[i]YLINES: https://unraveledpress.com/
@unraveledpress.com
| ✶✶✶✶ JAZZ+PPL POWER: @bluecollarjazz on IG
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com Back in Chicago as a stay-at-home dad and small business owner. Expect some infosec/privacy/safety, 3D printing, and politics.
infosec.exchange/@jschuh
Defunct: twitter.com/justinschuh
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social Senior editor @propublica.org.
Former Washington Post deputy health & science editor and race & economy reporter. Former Boston Globe national political reporter.
https://www.propublica.org/people/tracy-jan
Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social Humanist, Inmigrante, aspiring Urbanist, Army Vet, ex-Esq., serial founder, CPS LSC member, VFW Service Officer, candidate for 35th Ward Alderman. Chicago until the wheels fall off.
Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love personal account for internet sensation keith kurson. deleted the old one by accident
🏡 oakland, ca
📥 Software dev helping states respond to HR1 (2025) / working on SNAP
https://pollen.place/@keithlaugh.love
https://keith.is he/him
Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social Anarchist/Anticapitalist/Anti-fascist/Academic Political Philosophizer/Buddhism/Researcher on Fascism, Authoritarianism & Freedom/opinions are my own (He/Him)
Dave Murphy @helloimdave.bsky.social The smartest dumbass Jestin Haugh knows.
Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com Somewhere in Chicago, working near the intersection of immigration law, data, and technology. Not an attorney!
287(g) Program Tracker: tituslegaldesign.com/immigration-101/287g-program
buymeacoffee.com/andrewtitus
Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social Six books include "Taming the Street," on FDR's historic financial reforms, and NYT bestseller 'The Wizard of Lies,' on Madoff's historic fraud, now an HBO movie. A half-century of writing and reading. Loves life, really loves puppies.
kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering corruption, government, and public accountability. Reach me at kali.bomeli.reporting@gmail.com
Jim Ray @jimray.net I used to be good at this.
r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social Bike Cities Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Former Coastal Elite Person
Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social aviation, Linux, retrocomputing, music, politics, Linux, consciousness, art, philosophy, spirituality, UAPs, Commodore 64, Amiga OS, RISC OS. (he/him)
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
Emily @emilyrose.bsky.social Autistic. ADHD. Chihuahua parent. Not actually a hedgehog. She/her.
Occasional swearing, but pretty SFW.
Redbubble Shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/emilyrosew1/shop
📍Concord, CA
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
Matt Pierson @pierson.bsky.social Software betas, bikes, and Bronx Bombers: my version of bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica
Sylvia Goodman @sylviaruthg.lpm.org Ky Capitol reporter @kentuckypublicradio.org ~ prev @chronicle.com @wbez.org @chicagotribune.com ~ she/her
send tips to sgoodman@lpm.org
Noah Caldwell-Gervais @noahgervais.bsky.social Moderately popular YouTube game critic and travel author.
void @void.how Smart, but risky
Matt Perry @perrymj.bsky.social Dataviz editor + map dabbler, New Orleanian (round No. 2). Former Hoosier/Ball Stater, San Diegan, Bostonian, Worcesterian, newspaperman. Libra + lefty. 🏳️🌈⚜️🐶📊🗺️ 🌮
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Chris Jones @cjonesny.com Banking/finance, legal, data science, prod dev, tech architecture, and regulatory affairs
Alabama→Texas→NYC (25 years)
Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
Matthew Kay @mjskay.com Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social Data journalist at the FT
🇮🇪 in London
nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social Presenter, The Interface - a new tech show from the BBC
https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/theinterface-NW
Contrib Ed, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
I also make investigative podcasts! Finding Q, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, Fur & Loathing
Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social Public radio reporter in Connecticut. One-time Bart Harley Jarvis of the Oklahoma press corps. CUNY grad. Replacement-level infielder for the Hartford Dark Twains Sandlot Baseball Club. he/him
Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com NOLA freelancer reporting on repro health, politics, culture, tech
Contributing writer at Rolling Stone & nonprofit newsroom @lailluminator.bsky.social
Bylines: The Guardian, Elle, The LA Times, Marie Claire, Jezebel
https://www.lorenaoneil.com
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social Founder @conversationalist.org. Host of The Conversationalist podcast. Lapsed lawyer and historian. Writing on authoritarianism, rule of law, human rights, feminism. She/her.
Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social Juarez/El Paso; NYC by marriage; Romania when possible. Social worker/librarian/grad student manqué
Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social Managing Editor, Neighborhoods at The LA Local. Previously: HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, OC Register. She/her.
Kimberly Hudson @kimberlyhudson.bsky.social No
Katie @katiek.bsky.social NYC
she/her
CFP(r) working for a non profit
Proud member of a union ✊🏼
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
@sarapekow.bsky.social @sarapekow.bsky.social 
Crystal Paul @cplhouse.bsky.social Investigative Editor, Block Club Chicago - The Watch
Formerly Seattle Times, Illinois Answers Project.
Raised on the road. Found home in South Side Chicago.
glowing shadow @braindrill.lol Two Up Two Down
housewife • hot dog aficionado
Be of service to your fellow man.
https://aidaccess.org/en/
Anya Taylor-Melancholy @interdiction.bsky.social Re-evaluate your analysis lest you eventuate in dialysis.
Cat on Pizza @catonpizza.bsky.social 
CTA Bus Insights @ctabusinsights.chicagotransitalerts.app 🚌 Chicago bus transit, live.
Bunching, long gaps, ghost buses + hourly speedmaps.
chicagotransitalerts.app
Not affiliated with CTA.
Vincent SEGA @reedonly.bsky.social Boston. Dad. Ex-teacher. YIMBY and urban biking liker. Midlevel software engineer. Middle aged. Midwit.
Michelle Minkoff Carlson @michelleminkoff.bsky.social @AP Elections News Project Manager, IgA nephropathy for more than 20 years, two kidney transplants 2006 and 2016!
Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social Independent journalist in Asheville, NC | https://jessicawakeman.contently.com | jessica dot wakeman at gmail dot com | signal: jessicawakeman.80
Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social Hate sharing IRL. Overshare online. Ranting, too infrequently, at http://gastropoda.com/bio/ Cooking & typing at http://fittoc.wordpress.com 
Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social Writer / Executive Producer at Rick & Morty.
Podcast: Get Played
Comedy: Whose Line is it Anyway, Hebecky Drysbell at UCBLA.
Alum: SNL, Creepshow, Eric Andre Show, Twilight Zone.
She/Her/It
Waikiki Wanda @wanda.bsky.social I was the first person on Bluesky to post “crube” 🪳
Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social reporter @chicago.suntimes.com
union member @cstguild.bsky.social
drummer, mediocre catcher
prev: Daily Herald | she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
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CHAPO TRAP HOUSE @chapotraphousereal.bsky.social ❄️⚖️ Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, and Amber A'Lee Frost Producer: Chris Wade
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff.
please dont, "not all white people" me
Catherine Boyle @catherineboyle1.bsky.social Volunteer Attorney at Northern California Innocence Project, mom, swimmer, basketball fan. Occasional pics of my golden retrievers. I'm so happy bcs today I found my friends
Margot Harrington @margot-silent-t.bsky.social Brand & website designer, artist based in Chicago. Non-binary queer, accessibility-obsessed, anti-fascist free radical. These thoughts are mine.
Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social Urban climates and other human habitats.
Architect by trade, urban climatologist by profession.
Chicago 📍
Header: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31432
Avatar: Giacinto Brandi, L'Architettura(?)
clara @clararaubertas.net simple urban beer mom • ✶✶✶✶ • 👨👩👧👧 🚲 🏢 🌇 🚍 💻 🎶 🌳 🌊 🍃 • she/her • also @youngcrone.net • elder millennial, Chicago, kids, urbanism, music, Ruby, et al
Greg Shill @gregshill.com Professor of Law at Arizona State University • Student of firms, cities & transportation (and Seinfeld) • Papers: ssrn.com/author=887547 • Newsletter: gregshill.substack.com • Cohost, Densely Speaking podcast http://www.denselyspeaking.com/ • gregshill.com
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
Who Steam Framed Roger Rabbit? @untimelygamer.bsky.social He/him. Overeducated, failed academic. I'm into books, movies, videogames, tea, and wine. I sometimes write things. Video games: http://medium.com/@untimelygamer Films: http://letterboxd.com/untimelygamer/ and http://watchestoodamnmuch.wordpress.com.
Brendon @3662brendon.bsky.social I'm here
Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com Meteorologist for REBUILD.US based in Minneapolis. Contributing climate journalist for The Guardian. Author of The Future Earth. Optimistic to a fault.
DM to contact me securely on Signal
Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. 
Luna Oi! @lunaoi.bsky.social Translator and documentarist focusing on Vietnam | Proudly bisexual Vietnamese communist | USA and UK Human Rights Watcher
Website: http://youtube.com/lunaoi
Lucy James @lucyjames.games Video game enjoyer @lookingfor.game podcast: @friendspersecond.bsky.social email: hello@lucyjames.games
Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com War, politics, climate change & food systems, in the Middle East & elsewhere. Investigations @ThePublicSource. Author, Day of Honey. Writing (tor)mentor. Interested in everything.
RTs—and I cannot stress this enough—are not always endorsements.
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
Zoë Takaki @zoetakaki.bsky.social Freelance journalist based in Chicago. Read my stuff here https://zoetakakiworks.wordpress.com
Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social Environmental health scientist; Ukrainian warmonger; tagging along with the Black-Jewish alliance. Adjunct at UIC School of Public Health
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social Redhead. Texan. Vagabond.
Expect typos she/her
Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org We advocate for walking, rolling, bicycling and public transit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities in the Chicago region. Join us! www.activetransportation.org