Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com Global health & development at Open Philanthropy
https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
@dwarkesh.bsky.social @dwarkesh.bsky.social 
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social Economics + Applied AI, Prof at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Formerly: Carnegie Mellon, UCSD, Northwestern.
Website: www.aleximas.com
Frank Schilbach @fschilbach.bsky.social Behavioral and development economist at MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, mental health, and loneliness
Alex Teytelboym @t8el.bsky.social Economist at Oxford
Fiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social Economics professor;, competition, antitrust, IO, healthcare
Steve Berry @steveberry.bsky.social Empirical study of firms and markets, including models used for policy analysis. Yale Econ, Cowles, and faculty director of the Tobin Center.
Ran Shorrer @ranshorrer.bsky.social Associate Professor @PennStateEcon. Views are my own.
Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social Professor of Economics, Yale University | Development Economics | Bangladesh | Y-RISE
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social Economist, Prof at Columbia University.
Chief Economist: Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group).
Co-editor: Journal of Public Economics.
1st gen, 🏴
https://www.rmetcalfe.net/
Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social Economist at Harvard
https://www.augustinbergeron.com
Nathan Kallus @kallus.bsky.social 🏳️🌈👨👨👧👦 interested in causal inference, experimentation, optimization, RL, statML, econML, fairness
Cornell & Netflix
www.nathankallus.com
Yannai A. Gonczarowski @yannaigonch.bsky.social Faculty @ Harvard Econ + Harvard Computer Science, past: MSR HebrewU, classical (opera) singer, father of two (+a pug) | tweets my own, repost≠endorse
https://yannai.gonch.name/
Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social Economist @PennSP2, former principal economist DOJ #Antitrust. #AI, labor, IO, public, macro. Member, Anthropic Economic Advisory Council. Better the world through knowledge. www.marinescu.eu
Sham Kakade @shamkakade.bsky.social Harvard Professor.
ML and AI.
Co-director of the Kempner Institute.
https://shamulent.github.io
Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social Development economist, worrying about economic growth these days. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/justin-sandefur/
Aislinn Bohren @aislinnbohren.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at Penn. Microeconomist studying information, learning, discrimination and dynamic games.
Saumitra Jha @saumjha.bsky.social Prof @Stanford- T Tom Cunningham @testingham.bsky.social Economics Research at OpenAI.
Danial Lashkari @ldaniall.bsky.social economist @NYFed | economic growth & innovation, int'l trade, economic history | PhD @HarvardEcon | PhD @MIT_CSAIL
www.daniallashkari.com- P Phil Haile @philhaile.bsky.social Professor of Economics at Yale
Imke Reimers @imkereimers.bsky.social Tennis player, alpine & nordic skier, triathlon participant,
Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Econ @Cornell. Former Husky, Gopher, and Cornhusker
Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social Economist, Economic Historian. Soccer Dad, Climber Dad.
https://voices.uchicago.edu/richardhornbeck/
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Sebastien Bubeck @sbubeck.bsky.social I work on AI at OpenAI.
Former VP AI and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft.
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
@jackclarksf.bsky.social @jackclarksf.bsky.social Anthropic and Import AI. Previously OpenAI, Bloomberg, The Register. Weird futures.
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
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/
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
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab @stanforddel.bsky.social Bringing together the world's best minds, whether human or machine, to study how digital technologies can transform the economy. Part of Stanford HAI. Director: Erik Brynjolfsson
Gillian Hadfield @ghadfield.bsky.social Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
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
David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social Economist at the Center for Global Development. Formerly: Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, RAND Corporation, & my local movie theater. I mostly share about international development research plus books and movies. Views mine, not my employer's.
Paul Atherton @paulfab.bsky.social Restless thinker trying new ways to solve old problems. Purveyor of all things Fab. And pies. 
Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social Helping put social science to use for society at Stanford Impact Labs
Twitter: @michaeleddy 🏳️🌈
@soniajaffe.bsky.social @soniajaffe.bsky.social - T Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com Accidental Economist. Prof at Universities of Warwick & Bonn . Visiting Prof Grantham, Visiting Fellow STICERD @ LSE. ERC STG. Fellow @ CEPR & Associate Editor Economic Journal.
Pinar Yildirim @profyildirim.bsky.social Marketing & Economics Professor the Wharton School of @UPenn. Scholar of digital economy, technology, media. @NBER.org Fellow. www.pinaryildirim.com
@deankarlan.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social 
Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social Building open models @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
Steven Glazerman @eduglaze.bsky.social Chief Research/Methods Officer at Innovations for Poverty Action, Washington, DC
Applied (policy) research: development econ, econ of education/labor, RCT design, survey methods, measurement
Dabble in psychometrics, Bayesian inference, machine learning.
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social Machine learning prof at U Toronto. Working on evals and AGI governance.
S Anukriti @sanukriti.bsky.social Senior Economist, World Bank Development Research Group. Interested in gender & political economy. All views my own.
https://sites.google.com/view/s-anukriti/
Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social We generate innovative research policymakers use to reduce global poverty.
Follow our #openscience (@ucbitss.bsky.social) & #inequality initiatives (@berkeleyolab.bsky.social).
Learn more at https://cega.berkeley.edu/.
Stefano DellaVigna @sdellavi.bsky.social Behavioral economists at UC Berkeley
Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social Professor @Harvard, Director @HarvardBizGov, Senior Fellow @PIIE, teaches Ec10, words @nytopinion, was Chair of President Obama's CEA. Some posts may be educational.
Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
EducAid Sierra Leone @educaid.bsky.social EducAid is a UK registered charity (1163161) and Sierra Leone NGO that's been working in Sierra Leone for 30 years.
We run free schools, school improvement projects, work on gender equality and improve community resilience.
www.educaid.org.uk 
Yale Economic Growth Center @yaleegc.bsky.social Economics and and data-driven insights for equitable development. https://egc.yale.edu
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/
Benjamin Kumpf @benjaminkumpf.bsky.social Head of the OECD Innovation and Digital for Development Facility. Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and IE Madrid. Part-time social activist, chiefly impatient when it comes to changing the status quo. 
(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social Papa of two girls; husband to Alisha Holland; Jew; Founder & Research Lead, Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaborator; Founder & Chair, Plurality Institute; Founder & Board Member, RadicalxChange Foundation; co-author, Radical Markets and Plurality
Ashesh Rambachan @asheshrambachan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MIT. Economics + AI.
Visiting Stanford 2025-2026 academic year.
https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/ashesh-rambachan- B Brianjabarian @brianjabarian.bsky.social
It’s Arunas @itsarunas.bsky.social Editor for Economics and Behavioral Genetics @Nature Portfolio and My Own Thing 🔜 DM to share a story or a pitch
Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social Development Economist
Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social Annie & Ned Lamont Professor of International Studies, Thomas J. Davis, Jr. Faculty Scholar @ SIEPR, Professor of Economics @ Stanford
https://economics.stanford.edu/people/marcella-alsan
www.healthinequalitylab.org
Neal Parikh @nparikh.org https://nparikh.org
jake hofman @jakehofman.bsky.social senior principal researcher at msr nyc, adjunct professor at columbia
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
@shanegreenstein.bsky.social @shanegreenstein.bsky.social 
Aarushi Kalra @chidiya.bsky.social Postodoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield and Economics, Oxford || Digital Economies/ Development/ Political Economy || Cofounder Bahujan Economists || https://aarushirita.github.io/
Jon de Quidt @jondequidt.bsky.social Economist at Queen Mary University, London https://jondequidt.com 
John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social I am an Economist leveraging the assignment mechanism in the field to test theory and help non-profits, govts, and anyone who will listen! My goal is to (hopefully!) change the world for the better. My picture is with my oldest son!
Amjad Masad @amasad.bsky.social 
Hellina Hailu Nigatu @hellinanigatu.bsky.social CS PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Interested in multilingual and low-resourced language NLP + HCI. @SIGHPC CDS Fellow. Interned @MBZUAI. Current intern at DAIR
Website: https://hhnigatu.github.io
Gabriel Kreindler @thetahat.bsky.social Economist interested in urban transportation in developing countries.
Economics Department, Harvard University
https://sites.google.com/site/gabrielkreindler
Betsey Stevenson @betseystevenson.bsky.social Former Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers & Chief Economist at Labor. Current academic economist at Michigan. Always an economist at home.
Milena Almagro @milena-almagro.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. @NYUniversity Econ PhD. I use IO tools to study the best human invention: cities.
NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social Knowledge center at NovaSBE. Producing and disseminating rigorous evidence to promote economic development in Africa and around the globe.
📍 Lisbon, Portugal 🔗 www.novafrica.org
Duncan Webb @duncanwebb.bsky.social Development economics postdoc @ Princeton, incoming Assistant Prof @ NOVA SBE, focusing on discrimination, social change, and human capital
www.duncan-webb.com
Catia Batista @catiabatista.bsky.social Professor of Economics | NovaSBE
Founder and Scientific Director | NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social
International migration, economic development & policy impact evaluation
https://catiabatista.org/
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits.bsky.social Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social My market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Forthcoming in May: Moral Economics https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Economics-Prostitution-Controversial-Transactions/dp/1541702018
David Pantalone, PhD @thedrofpants.bsky.social Psychologist, UMB professor, health equity researcher, higher ed admin. Current Masshole but culturally Philadelphian. Zealous Brunonian. Views my own. (he/him)
Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social CEO of Coefficient Giving
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social professor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp //
leveraging research to promote science and progress
Sinan Aral @professorsinan.bsky.social David Austin Professor, MIT; Director @MIT_IDE; Founder, Manifest Capital & Milemark Capital; Hype Machine Author Digital Insider Pod TED Talk
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Sharad Goel @5harad.com Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, co-director of @comppolicylab.bsky.social, applying a computational approach to public policy, including to issues in education, healthcare, and criminal justice. https://5harad.com
Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement."
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
@guidoimbens.bsky.social @guidoimbens.bsky.social 
Gabriel Demombynes @gabrieldemombynes.bsky.social Manager of the World Bank's Human Capital Project, Berkeley Econ PhD, UT-Austin BS Civil & Environmental Engineering & BA Plan II