ECIR 2027 @ecir2027.bsky.social European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
21-25 March 2027
Southampton Football Club, England, UK
www.ecir2027.co.uk
Mike Loukides @mikeloukides.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy Long-time O'Reilly Media. Wrote a few books about technology. Post articles at oreilly.com/radar. Technical interests: AI, decentralized tech, programming […]
[bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@mikeloukides on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
PA Ulander @pa-dev.bsky.social Full Snack Developer
Once got code to run on the first try
Highly trained in fika breaks ☕🧁
🛠️ #Dev 🐧 #Linux
https://github.com/pa-ulander
https://linkedin.com/in/paulander/
📍Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research AI in New York. Speech, Formal/Natural Language Processing. Currently LLM post-training, structured SDG and RL. Opinions my own and non stationary.
ramon.astudillo.com
50501 Augusta, GA @50501augustaga.bsky.social A grassroots nonviolent decentralized organization aligned with 50501 GA, SC, & Vets. All team members are volunteers, decision-makers, & are dedicated to the Constitution.
https://linktr.ee/50501augustaga
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Rudy Mens @lazyadmin-nl.bsky.social Blogger at https://LazyAdmin.nl, Microsoft MVP, Freelance IT Consultant
Schuster Braun @schusterbraun.bsky.social 
DEV Community @dev.to A community of software developers sharing coding resources and general commentary.
Built on Forem, an OSS for building online community 🌱
Join the #DEVCommunity: https://dev.to 🌟
Find us in the Fediverse: https://fosstodon.org/@thepracticaldev
dennyabraham @dennyabraham.com 
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com Just a passionate dev, learning from this community daily.
✨ Sharing the entire journey - bugs, breakthroughs, and banter. 🚀
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7
Personal account
Kate Needz Coffee 💛🤍💜🖤 @kateneedzcoffee.bsky.social They/she
💛🤍💜🖤
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 11 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe!
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
wajahatmali@protonmail.com
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Pedro Rios @pedroconsafos.bsky.social Human Rights advocate, Director of AFSC's US-Mexico Border Program & board member of National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
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...😜
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Aimee Knupsky @aknupsky.bsky.social Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer bibliophile and coal patch kid.
@bookchantment on Instagram
Heath Mayo @heathmayo.bsky.social Christian | Conservative | Corporate Lawyer | Founder, Principles First: http://principlesfirst.us
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone Authoress. Books: RINGMASTER (NYT bestseller), TRUE BELIEVER (Hugo finalist), and @beckbook.com (out Oct. 6). Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social and co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net.
https://beckbook.com
https://josie.zone
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@fatecheckpod
Always folklore, fact checking, and disinfo. Covering climate. Sometimes lifestyle/shopping. Sea witch, widow, Lokean 💖 and proud parent 🏳🌈 May or may not be notable 🧿
Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social I talk about what nobody else is talking about…
NY techie in ATL 👩💻🍑 Sassy Libra ♎️, alien enthusiast 👽, pot-stirrer 🫖✨, unapologetically F* Donald Trump* 🔥✌️, and proud refugee from Twitter & Facebook 🏃♀️💻 IG:@CallieOnBrand
Thomas Davidson @thomasdavidson.bsky.social Sociologist at UNC. I study topics including right-wing politics, populism, and hate speech on social media. I also write about computational methods and AI.
https://www.thomasrdavidson.com/
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
David Evans @forthepoor.bsky.social professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Jappie3 @jappie.dev Nix enjoyer | Linux, Rust, Wayland, split keyboards | occasional gamer & weeb | also urbanism, bikes & trains!
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social Staff writer, The New Republic. Law, democracy, and the courts. 49ers/Dodgers stuff too.
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social ICU physician & researcher, EOL/pall care, ethics; #3WishesProgram Medical Dir, #medsky, #firstgen, #refugee, love to cook, #DoctorsWhoCook, over-educated cat lady. Posts are MY opinions & not of my employer. I am my own person.
AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social 27th Attorney General of Arizona 🌵🏜️
IRRJ @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy The Information Retrieval Research Journal (https://IRRJ.org) is a new diamond open access journal that provides an international forum for the electronic and […]
[bridged from https://sigmoid.social/@IRRJ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Expo @expo.dev Develop, preview, submit, and update native apps from a single React codebase for Android, iOS, and web.
Sign up: https://expo.dev
Discord: https://chat.expo.dev
John Roche @jr-placitas.bsky.social Poet in NM, retired English prof, editor, Poetry Playhouse Publications, author, Tubbables. Blue Team! 🇺🇦! No DMs. Spoutible: JRPlacitasPoet
Website: https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/
Clearly Claire @ccb198456.bsky.social Ecologist who hoped for a better future.
Alas, crazy won.
So ‘Nature is the final judge, jury & executioner of the objective truth.’-thx N.D.Tyson 🌏
☔️Rare Seattle native💙🇺🇦🇨🇦🌈 the planet/news junkie=WTFAmerica/rescue dogs/gardening/books/politics
born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social IG: @born_miserable • youtube.com/@halfapersonmusic • youtube.com/@bornmiserable.social • The Blackout Choir on Apple, Spotify, and Amazon • bornmiserable.threadless.com
POSTS: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4j2lwrcd2bxlncqqmnoy7vy/feed/aaagy3sl34xjg
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov Husband. Father. U.S. Senator for California. Fighting for an economy that works for everyone and for our democracy.
Tris @trisresists.bsky.social Don’t blame me, I voted for her!
Good is supposed to triumph over evil.
We need each other more than ever. Grab your capes, let’s save the day together!
Advocate: Equal Rights | LGBTQ | Healthcare | Mental Health | Disability | Pro Choice | 🚫 Fascism
🟦🟧
Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social Reporter at @Gizmodo.com.
I’ve been writing about the history of futurism at @Paleofuture.com since 2007.
Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com
Signal: mattnovak.11
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app Free app to get push notifications for people you follow.
Used by > 8000 people!
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.austinwitherspoon.bluenotify
iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluenotify/id6738239349
Web: web.bluenotify.app
Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social NPR Correspondent covering technology and national security.
Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
Stephanie Allen @socalstephanie.bsky.social GenX (mea culpa) // Californian // mom to a blind dog // backyard gardener // friendly neighborhood skater
Vote411.org
Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social @saraspector43 on TikTok.
Criminal defense attorney who became a little famous in Twitter.
Followed by Mark Hamill, George Conway and Molly Jong Fast!
Occasional tv pundit
Blue Dot in Midland, Texas. Football and PGA!
Zappit @zappit.bsky.social Cartoonist, Supervillainous http://supervillainous.spiderforest.com, Now Creating Huzzah! huzzah.spiderforest.com, NO AI, Open for Commissions - Contact me at zappit1234 AT gmail DOT com Discord: .zappit
https://venmo.com/Zappit
Cashapp: $Zapdraws
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Vern McCandlish @malanalysis.bsky.social A #DFIR, #infosec, #dadjokes, #scifi, #books, #rpg, #ttx, #malware, elder #genx, and #gaming nerd. AKA an elder geek. Retired #leo. Retired from #infosec in #OT now too.
Kindness first is useful but telling off toxic folks is on my response spectrum too.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/
Clelia Astra Bertelli @cle-does-things.bsky.social She/her
Open Sourceress at @llamaindex.bsky.social
Girly dev who likes AI and python💅💻
Find out more here 👉 clelia.dev
Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
Bio 👇. https://medium.com/@spignal/stanley-pignal-bio-2acd9b705ceb
Charlemagne@economist.com
Kirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com (Unofficial) VP of Developer Productivity at Microsoft. Developer tools, engineering systems, .NET, C#, Roslyn, Visual Studio, Editor, WPF, Avalonia, MSBuild.
David Fowler @davidfowl.com Distinguished Engineer @ Microsoft 🧐. Creator of NuGet, SignalR and ASP.NET Core, Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player.
Sang As It Ever Will Be @sanguinarynovel.bsky.social They/Them. Always half baked, full of potential, but under construction - like a living Geocities website
Portfolio: glitchprismatic.com
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/sanguinarynovel
Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen; interpretability, xAI, factuality, accountability, xAI diagnostics https://apepa.github.io/
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social Michigan Attorney General. I love my kids, wife, cats, and country. But not Ohio State U.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com Design (systems) engineer • A girl who lost her heart somewhere in California 🧡 • Mainly posting about design systems, web components, the web platform & my road cycling adventures.
📮 https://arielsalminen.com
📍 Helsinki, Finland
👩🏻🦰 She/her
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Kharne83, grumpy backlog warrior @kharne83.bsky.social The Man. The Myth. The Moron. I'm a 40-something streaming through my backlog as a vtuber. Help.
Also an inadvertent video game pusher.
Ask about my list called "list of people who asked to be on this list".
https://www.twitch.tv/kharne83
Neil Andretti @masterhit.bsky.social aka webdoktor / masterhit / Nils Andreas
KIM-1 & 6502 enthusiast, gardening professional, dog and cat lover,
Blog: netzherpes.de
Chris Simon @chrissimon.au Empowering technology teams to drive business success.
On an allyship journey | Speaker | Founder | Non-executive Director
Created @contextive.tech, co-founded https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/domain-driven-design-australia/.
Also@ChrisSimonAu@hachyderm.io
Andrew Henninger @databyss.com Lead Engineer at @rockstargames.com
My views are my own. He/Him.
Atomic @atomicrunner.bsky.social The Last Salaryman.
Man of Nuclear Mystery.
I would be better with a NeoCities, but here we are.
Minima Inmoralia
Minima Inmoralia
(he/him)
sjra @sj-ra.bsky.social I like storytelling and arts, learning, and getting the details right
Teegan J. K. @anguishconsultant.bsky.social The other-other J. K.
queer • trans • socialist • antizionist • Ashkenazi jew • writer • musician
I play a lot of classic video games and complain about capitalism, usually not in the same post.
IDIC. ACAB. Kill Gen-AI.
In recovery since '19.