Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com Machine-learning engineer and journalist, A.I. Initiatives @nytimes.com
My work: https://www.nytimes.com/by/dylan-freedman
Contact: dylan.freedman@nytimes.com, dylanfreedman.39 (Signal)
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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
Jeremy Merrill @jeremybmerrill.com dad, a reporter, data reporter (writing about tech at The Washington Post)
I don't have digital; I don't have diddly squat.
Linguistics, NLP, news, Jews, Atlanta, crypto regs/politics, ads, fraud, etc.
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
Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers.com Global CTO, POLITICO. Ex Washington Post, New York Times, NPR. Fond of #TheSqueezle, #TheGiblette, Becky Bowers too.
Who wants to make some soup and drink some tea?
Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. #ddj #dataviz
Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social Media reporter at The New York Times. Signal: benmullin.13
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Exploring the future of journalism
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Christina Elmer @elmerch.bsky.social Professor of digital/data journalism @TUDortmund | @NetzwerkRecherche board | @AlgorithmWatch shareholder (she/her)
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social Director of Research + Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Fellow of Green Templeton College. Lead researcher of the Digital News Report. www.richardfletcher.me
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Elisabeth Gamperl @elisabethgamperl.bsky.social news products and editorial innovation @dpa | social anthropologist at ♥️ I Reuters Institute fellow '21
https://linktr.ee/Elisabethgamperl
Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Tow Center for Digital Journalism @towcenter.bsky.social The Tow Center hosts a variety of research projects that explore the intersection of journalism and technology
Alexandra Borchardt @alexandraborchardt.bsky.social Journalist, media researcher, consultant, Prof. Leadership TUM School of Management. @ Wan-Ifra, EBU, Constructive Institute, Republik, Reuters Institute. #journalism #media #AI #diversity #democracy #climate
More at: https://alexandraborchardt.com/
Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr.bsky.social Making sense of digital technology - the changes it brings, the opportunities it provides, and the challenges it presents. Professor, University of Bamberg. Director at Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).
klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social
klaudiajazwinska.com
Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
Amy Ross Arguedas @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @reutersinstitute.bsky.social | Northwestern University and Universidad de Costa Rica alum | Usual disclaimers
Chris Moran @chrismoranuk.bsky.social Guardian's head of editorial innovation. Focusing on AI in the newsroom
Aimee Rinehart @aimeetwoee.bsky.social AI solutions for news. Free speech and underdog enthusiast. Help me build out the Journalists of Bluesky starter pack https://go.bsky.app/GE35h1
Gerret von Nordheim @gvnordheim.bsky.social Fact-Checker and Project Manager AI @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social Dokumentation. Fmly Comp. Social Scientist @ Uni HH/JKW @ Uni Amsterdam/ASCoR, PhD @ TU Dortmund
Gina Chua @ginaskchua.bsky.social Executive Director of the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY and Executive Editor at Large at global news startup Semafor; formerly Reuters, SCMP and WSJ. TJA member. Exploring new forms of journalism and where the profession is heading.
Center for News, Technology & Innovation @cnti.bsky.social The Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) is an independent global research center, seeking to encourage independent, sustainable media, maintain an open internet and foster informed public policy conversations.
AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy 🤝 CWI, HvA & UvA #ELSAlab
Colin Porlezza @cporlezza.bsky.social Associate professor of digital journalism Director of the Institute of Media and Journalism Università della Svizzera italiana | Honorary Senior Research Fellow, City St George’s, University of London | Data, AI & Accountability in Journalism
Alessandro Alviani @alviani.bsky.social Lead Generative AI @ Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien
Ludwig Siegele @econoscribe.bsky.social Scribe and AI builder at the Economist. Mostly Berlin, sometimes London and San Francisco. Skeets my own
Pete Brown @pjb.dad Stay at Home Dad. Alabama Alum. Tech enthusiast. Big comedy fan. Sports cards collector & reseller. Drone Pilot & Photographer.
Ernest Kung @ernestkung.bsky.social At the Intersection of News and Technology | Senior AI Product Manager for The Associated Press
ErnestKung.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Judith Möller @judithmoeller.bsky.social Professor for media use and media effects @BredowInstitut & @JKW_UHH
https://t.co/Wbpkr4vNfs
Expert in bursting bubbles of all sorts
Neil Thurman @neilthurman.bsky.social Professor, LMU Munich's @ifkw.bsky.social; Senior Research Fellow @citystgeorges.bsky.social. Use code HSS20 for 20% off my new book, Media Change, at Wiley's US tinyurl.com/eyznb67j, EU https://tinyurl.com/5ec2s346 & UK https://tinyurl.com/47emtw95 shops
Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjo.bsky.social Journalism | technology | public media | BRAID UK | RIC @ BBC R&D
Liverpool / Edinburgh
AlgoSoc @algosoc.org 'Public Values in the Algorithmic Society' (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to a societal perspective on automated decision making
AlgoSoc.org
Rhianne Jones @rhianne-j.bsky.social Research Director for the Responsible Innovation Centre - RIC | BBC-UKRI Future Leaders Fellow @Digitalgoodnet @BRAID_UK
Phoebe Connelly @phoebedoris.bsky.social AI, Next Gen, video @ The Washington Post. I continue to read a lot of books.
chris wiggins @chrishwiggins.bsky.social .edu: associate professor @columbia; adviser to the dean for AI strategy, Columbia College
.org: cofounder @hackNY;
.com: tba;
books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
Benjamin Toff @benjamintoff.bsky.social Professor at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. On sabbatical for 2026 with the News and Information team at Pew Research Center. I study trust in news, news avoidance, public opinion, and changing media.
Judith Moeller @judith-moeller.bsky.social This is my active account.
Professor for media use and media effects @BredowInstitut & @JKW_UHH
t.co/Wbpkr4vNfs
Expert in bursting bubbles of all sorts and forgetting passwords.
Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social Reporting on AI and journalism for @NiemanLab.org at Harvard. Previously covering tech @restofworld.org Bylines: @thenation.com @popularmechanics @japantimes.co.jp Signal: andrewdeck.01
Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social Political Scientist & Experimentalist | 🔍(Political) News, (Mis)information | Social Media | Trust & Skepticism | AI | (Field) Experiments🔬
University of Zurich, Department of Political Science
💻 www.emmahoes.com
Andrew Briz @brizandrew.bsky.social Editorial Director of Newsroom Engineering @ POLITICO. Developing tools, prototypes, and infrastructure for news creation and distribution.
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Zach Seward @zachseward.com 🆕 Just got here—hi!
👨💻 AI initiatives at @nytimes.com
🔗 zachseward.com
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
🌐 olihawkins.com
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
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
Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design human-centered AI tool to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her.
nishalsach.github.io
Kathryn Hulick @kathrynhulick.substack.com Science journalist and author of THE UFO FILES (Quarto, 2025). I talk about AI, fascinating research, and walks in the woods. Anything that makes me say “wow!” She/her
Clare Spencer @clarespencer.bsky.social Reporter for generative-ai-newsroom.com covering how news organizations use generative AI.
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
Rubina Fillion @rubinafillion.nytimes.com Working on A.I. Initiatives @nytimes; formerly @WSJ, @theintercept, @columbiajournalism; avid consumer of coffee and novels
Henk van Ess @henkvaness.bsky.social #osint #ai
Tyler Dukes @mtdukes.bsky.social Knight Chair of Journalism & Technology, University of Florida. Former AI innovation in journalism at McClatchy. Former News & Observer I-team. 2017 Nieman Fellow. Powered by gas station coffee and eastern NC barbecue.
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social Passionate about AI & Journalism / Previously @hf.co @radiocanadainfo @ledevoir & others
Marty Swant @martyswant.bsky.social NYC-based journalist covering tech/marketing/policy/media focused on AI, ads, antitrust, etc.
Currently freelance (NYT, FastCo, Inc, etc.), I spent the past decade on staff at Digiday, Forbes, Adweek, the AP and elsewhere. https://authory.com/MartySwant
Ezra Eeman @ezraeeman.bsky.social Strategy & Innovation Director at NPO, author of the Wayfinder Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/wayfinder-the-open-edition-6888399695379521536
@natalihelberger.bsky.social @natalihelberger.bsky.social
European Data and Computational Journalism Conference @datajconf.com The European Data & Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production.
September 8-10, Athens, Greece
https://www.datajconf.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
Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social Digital Journalism is an international, peer-reviewed, top-ranked journal that publishes cutting-edge research and concepts. Editor-in-Chief: Oscar Westlund.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rdij20
Nathalie Malinarich @nathaliem.bsky.social Leading digital development at BBC News
AI | Design | Formats | Newsletters | Special Projects
Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social Technological Anthropology PhD working at University of Amsterdam on knowledge production in AI development and use in the media sector with a focus on politics and ethics.
Theresa Josephine Seipp @theresajseipp.bsky.social Postdoc @ AI, Media & Democracy Lab & Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam | Big Tech & Media | Law & Policy | Journalism & Counterpower
Jane Barrett @newsedjane.bsky.social
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social Research & code: Research director @inria
►Data, Health, & Computer science
►Python coder, (co)founder of scikit-learn, joblib, & @probabl.bsky.social
►Sometimes does art photography
►Physics PhD
Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd Biomedical Informatics PhD • CITRIS Health @UC Berkeley • FAMIA • Focusing on Informatics and AI in medicine • Linfield U. Grad • Missoula MT
https://smcgrath.phd
Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI.
computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG
Previously at UIUC, Spotify.
she/her. shadirezapour.com
Tomasz Limisiewicz @tomlim.bsky.social Postdoc at Meta and university of Washington in NLP. Before: PhD from Charles University (Prague 🏰).
Interested in going into the inner workings of neural networks 🔍, multilinguality 🌍, tokenization 🔡 and fairer NLP ⚖️ (he/him)
Matthew Finlayson @mattf.nl NLP PhD @ USC
Previously at AI2, Harvard
mattf1n.github.io
Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social Tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Previously postdoc at UW and AI2, working on Natural Language Processing
Recruiting PhD students!
🌐 https://lasharavichander.github.io/
Alexander Terenin @avt.im Decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning theory, artificial intelligence · anti-ideological · Assistant Research Professor, Cornell
https://avt.im/ · https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EGKYdiwAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social Assistant prof of digital humanities @ Durham English, books about work || work about books, she/they, https://krmuth.github.io/
Charles Sutton @randomlywalking.bsky.social Research Scientist, Google DeepMind / Ex-academic / Deep learning to help people write code / ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️🍕
James Michaelov @jamichaelov.bsky.social Postdoc at Oxford. Research: language, the brain, NLP.
jmichaelov.com
Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University Copenhagen | Making the world's knowledge reliable and accessible w/ ML + NLP | Former UCPH, UMSI, AI2, IBM Research, UCSD | https://dustinbwright.com
Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social wharton stats phd — ml theory, ml for science
prev: comp neuro, data, physics
working with Edgar Dobriban and Konrad Körding
also some sports (esp. philly! go birds)
Andrew Drozdov @mrdrozdov.com Research Scientist @ Mosaic x Databricks. Adaptive Methods for Retrieval, Generation, NLP, AI, LLMs https://mrdrozdov.github.io/
Dino Sejdinovic @sejdino.bsky.social Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide.
https://sejdino.github.io/
Smerity @smerity.bsky.social Always pondering startups, ML, Rust, Python, and 3D printing.
Independent ML researcher consulting on LMs + data.
Previously: Salesforce Research, MetaMind, CommonCrawl, Harvard. 🇦🇺 in SF. He/him.
Personal blog: https://state.smerity.com
Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social Researching planning, reasoning, and RL in LLMs @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
http://www.jesshamrick.com
Bram Zijlstra @bramzijlstra.com Machine Learning Engineer with a background in Philosophy and AI.
I live in Amsterdam. Right now working at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK). Also founder of a boutique consulting firm.
Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social Author of Interpretable Machine Learning and other books
Newsletter: https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/
Website: https://christophmolnar.com/
@shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo.
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social human being | assoc prof in #ML #AI #Edinburgh | PI of #APRIL | #reliable #probabilistic #models #tractable #generative #neuro #symbolic | heretical empiricist | he/him
👉 https://april-tools.github.io
Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social Associate Professor (UHD) at the University of Amsterdam. Probabilistic methods, deep learning, and their applications in science in engineering.