Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Marshini @ineffablicious.bsky.social Prof at UChicago computer science dept working in HCI and usable privacy and security
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.
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu UW HCDE: We build possibility.
We advance systems and technologies for people and communities to create accessible, sustainable, and prosperous futures. Offering undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Human Centered Design & Engineering.
hcde.uw.edu
Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service.
https://everest-pipkin.com
Unofficial Hackaday Feed @hackaday-feed.bsky.social Unofficial feed from https://hackaday.com/
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington educates tomorrow's innovators while developing solutions to humanity's greatest challenges.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
The Seattle Times @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of The Seattle Times
rss: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/feed/
maintainer: @anotherseattleite.bsky.social
Jonathan Haidt @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit anxiousgeneration.com & afterbabel.com
Andrés Lucero @andrikos.bsky.social 💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University
🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher
🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker
🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips
🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM
📣 Views my own
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social
Desus MF NIce @bxdesusnice.bsky.social Desusnice on Twitter (never calling it X)| #KNICKS | 🇯🇲 | @Desus on #countersocial & @spillmob | http://desusnice.com | #BX | @thedailyshow | @SHODesusAndMero
| New show on @amazon coming soon!
THE KID MERO🇩🇴 @thekidmero.bsky.social EL HIJO DE TITO Y FIFA!! COMEDIAN/WRITER/PRODUCER👹 #VICTORYLIGHT IS THE FUTURE!! PPP! MLBG! EAST TREMONT TIL THE SUN DIE JUHUUURRDDD!!! 👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/kidmero?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=7e4b8197-5ddc-41a5-9cd2-bd93948246ae
Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavick.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Washington CSE | Engineering Manager @ Allen Institute for AI | Previously @ MSFT, Columbia, UW
Interested in accessibility, HCI, AI ✨
Rock Pang @rockpang.bsky.social CS PhD @UWCSE | hci, human-ai, accessibility, the societal impact of tech | Prev @MSFTResearch Intern, @Macalester
Website: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ypang2/
Chang Xiao @changxiao.bsky.social Research Scientist at Adobe Research.
DJ 🐳 @djain.bsky.social HCI Assistant Professor at UMich researching accessibility, audio AI, sound interaction, XR, and health. Director, Soundability Lab. Previously, Google, Apple, Microsoft, UW, and MIT Media Lab.
https://dhruv-jain.com
Nels Numan @nels.dev Research intern at Google, CS PhD candidate at University College London, exploring (outdoor) collaborative mixed reality at the intersection of #HCI, #GenerativeAI, and #CSCW | Previously at Niantic Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM, TNO Research
nels.dev
Anthony Steed @profvr.bsky.social Professor of VR, AR, XR and related concepts at University College London. Interested in presence, plausibility, interactivity, social environments, devices. Also games, puzzles, cocker spaniels and mountains.
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.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
StanfordVR @stanfordvr.bsky.social For two decades we have built and studied VR/AR systems that explore the changes in the nature of social interaction. We research how virtual experiences impact people psychologically, and focus on education, nonverbal behavior, climate change & empathy.
The XR Research Digest @xrdigest.bsky.social Daily insights from XR Research (https://buttondown.com/xrdigest/archive/)
Niall L. Williams @niallw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @ Barnard College (computer graphics + human vision) | Prev: postdoc @ NYU, UNIZAR; CS PhD @ Uni of Maryland; Intern @ NVIDIA, Meta Reality Labs; Undergrad @ Davidson College. I love computer graphics, perception, and cats. https://niall.phd
Niklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social Villum Investigator and Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University in Denmark. Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him. Mastodon: @elm@vis.social
@joaquimjorge.bsky.social @joaquimjorge.bsky.social
Geonsun Lee @gsunlee.bsky.social CS PhD student @UMD | she/her | VR/AR & HCI
Eduardo Velloso @vellosoraptor.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) @ The University of Sydney.
Immersive systems, Human-AI interaction, HCI methodology
Johann Wentzel @johannwentzel.ca 💻 Interaction prototyping @ Apple • 🎓 VR Accessibility PhD @ UWaterloo • He/him • 🇨🇦/🇿🇦
johannwentzel.ca
Christian Holz @christianholz.bsky.social associate professor @ ETH Zürich. sensing, interaction & perception lab https://siplab.org. computational VR/AR input, egocentric perception, predictive mobile health, HCI
Bjoern Hartmann @bjo3rn.bsky.social HCI Prof, Berkeley EECS.
Rick Skarbez @rickskarbez.bsky.social Virtual reality, board games, sports and cats. Originally from the US of A, now residing in Naarm (Melbourne Australia).
Never let a computer tell me shit.
Katja Rogers @katjesjes.bsky.social assistant prof @university of amsterdam, digital interactions lab, she/her
Yiqin Zhao @yiqinzhao.bsky.social Yiqin (Yi-Chin) | PhD candidate @wpicakelab | Augmented Reality Researcher
Marcus Carter @marcuscarter.com Professor in HCI @ USYD, CEO @ Ludolio. Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Game Studies & Virtual Reality.
Kate Clark @kateeuph.bsky.social Researcher on new media and immersive reality technologies 👩💻🎮 exploring the relationship between gender, inclusion, and new media
Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
she/her
Shan-Yuan Teng @tengshanyuan.info Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University (NTU, Taipei). PhD, University of Chicago (Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Wearable, Haptics) https://lab.tengshanyuan.info/
Jessica Van Brummelen @jessvanb.bsky.social Research Scientist at Niantic | HCI, AI, AR
Empowering users, democratizing tech, designing real-world solutions.
Jesús Gutiérrez @jegusan.bsky.social Associate professor at Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Interests: image, video, immersive technologies, quality of user experience, human perception.
Manuela Chessa @manuelachessa.bsky.social Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Genoa, Italy
Doing research on VR, AR, MR, XR, HCI, serious games and exergames.
Leading PILab @DIBRIS UniGe
pilab.unige.it
Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor. @mortenbay.bsky.social Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social Professor, University of Georgia.
Director, Center for Advanced Computer-Human Ecosystems (CACHE). https://www.ugavr.com
#VR #AR #research #behaviorchange #communication #technology #metaverse
Jaeyeon Lee @jaeyeon.bsky.social HCI researcher & professor
Leading TACT Lab at UNIST
tactlab.org
Julia Chatain @juliachatain.bsky.social Dr. | Senior Scientist Singapore-ETH Centre | Embodiment • Math Ed • HCI • XR • AI • Games | #FutureEmbodiedLearningTechnologies (FELT) | juliachatain.com | she/they | 🇸🇬🇨🇭🏳️🌈
Amy Pavel @amypavel.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin CS | Human-AI Interaction, Accessibility, Creativity | https://amypavel.com/
Kathrin Gerling @kathringerling.bsky.social Professor at KIT, Germany (http://hci.iar.kit.edu). Research on human-computer interaction, accessibility, VR, and games (preferably Quake 3). ERC StG AccessVR and Real-World Lab Accessibility (http://accessibility.kit.edu). she/her
@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
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
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/
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
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
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/
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind.bsky.social Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
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
Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist.
Exploring how AI is shaping the way we experience the world. New DC resident + civically engaged, so occasionally I post about that too.
Jaime Teevan @teevan.bsky.social Chief Scientist & Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Professor at UW. Mother to four wild boys. #AI #HCI #Productivity #FutureOfWork
Anubrata Das @ NAACL 2025 @anubrata.bsky.social Just Finished PhD @ UT Austin; Human-Centered NLP. Language Models
https://anubrata.github.io
Renzhe Yu @renzheyu.bsky.social Researcher @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | Responsible AI and educational equity | He/him
renzheyu.com
Bryan Wilder @brwilder.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon. Machine Learning and social impact. https://bryanwilder.github.io/
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social research psychologist. beliefs, AI, computational social science. assistant prof at Carnegie Mellon
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Hannah Li @hannahli.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Columbia || Studying data science and its interactions with human behavior || Applications in education, healthcare, and online platforms.
https://hannahql.github.io/
Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social Freely accessible digital scholarship by and for scholars around the world. Leader | Educator | Ethics in AI
H-Net - Executive Director
DH@MSU - Core Faculty
LGBTQ+ Father and Ally
I stand with the oppressed worldwide
Chicago Cubs | Liverpool FC fan
Connor Esterwood PhD @connoresterwood.bsky.social #academicsky
A Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scholar focused on building effective, ethical, and robust Human-Robot collaborations.
Specific foci are: Trust Management, Personality, Individual Differences, and Open Science, and Methodology in Robotics.
Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social 🗳️ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action. Pro-🏳️🌈,🏳️⚧️, 🇺🇸, and 🇺🇳 🌎🌏🌍
🔎 Researcher @ discourselabs.org
🌇 Urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social
📍 San Francisco
Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Ron Itelman @ronitelman.bsky.social O'Reilly Author, "Unifying Business, Data, and Code" (2024), and Apress author, "The Language of Innovation" (2025)
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.
Andrew Kuznetsov @andrewkuznet.bsky.social CMU SCS PhD, Paramedic
Study tools for cognition, collaboration, and care. Topics: sensemaking/knowledge, teamwork, emergency medicine, orgs. HCI/HF/OBT/OR.
Before: Google Research, Wikipedia, Amazon MTurk, UIUC, Techstars Chicago.
Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn @ossimokryn.bsky.social In between two worlds:
— ACM IUI SC Chair, researches human-AI collaboration, emotions, and absences.
— Network science and temporal networks (code for temporal random networks - https://github.com/ScanLab-ossi/DynamicRandomGraphs)
Dang Nguyen @divingwithorcas.bsky.social Computer Science PhD student at UChicago | Member of the Chicago Human+AI lab @chicagohai.bsky.social
Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social Biomedical Computer Vision & Language Models, scads.ai / Leipzig University, also NFDI4BIOIMAGE, NEUBIAS/GloBIAS, GPUs, AI, ML 🔬🖥️🚀 views:mine
Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social Econ Postdoc @Bocconi.
PhD @imperial.
AI and measurement in economics.
prashantgarg.org
Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social Professor, CSE, UNSW Sydney. #AI #ML #UbiComp #LLM #MFM #timeseries #ST #multimodal #sensors #continuallearning #trustworthyAI ❤️ #coffee
Why am I here? Scouting for a new platform to discover and learn new papers (let’s see if it’s the one)
Johnnie Christensen @j-christensen.bsky.social Social Psychologist; Associate Professor of Communication at UConn; Studying the social dynamics that shape how people perceive and interact with AI; Yellowbrick.me founder; USC & Penn Alumnus; Amateur racecar driver living in Boston. 🏳️🌈
Simon Stepputtis @simonstepputtis.bsky.social Assistant Professor at #VirginiaTech
Creating intelligent robots that reason about their environment and the humans within them through hybrid AI 🚀
Claudia Müller-Birn @clmb.bsky.social Professor «Human-Centered Computing» | Institute of Computer Science | Freie Universität Berlin
Research on Human-AI Collaboration, Value-informed participatory design | Critical Reflective Practice in Computing Education
https://hci.social/@clmb
Andrea De Mauro, PhD @ademauro.com Data Analytics and AI Exec Advisor and Founder | Book author, published by Pearson, FT, Packt, Apogeo | Professor of AI, Business and Marketing Analytics | Former Exec at Vodafone and P&G | ademauro.com | linkedin.com/in/andread
JohnBoik @johnboik.bsky.social PhD research fellow at Active Inference Institute, data science, cognitive science, probabilistic models, Julia, Montana regenerative hobby farmer, author of Economic Direct Democracy: A Framework to End Poverty and Maximize Well-Being. #wellbeingeconomy
johan @johanm.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
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
Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com Research Assistant Professor | Politics & Computational Social Science | Northwestern University, Center for Science of Science and Innovation | Dad & Wife Guy | Not Ok | Sorry for the Swears | #goblue
Stevie Chancellor @schancellor.bsky.social Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions.
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Berk Ustun @berkustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on safety, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning. www.berkustun.com