Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms). Personal account - opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com Jeopardy! champ. Waiting for Survivor to call me back. Writer. YouTuber. Podcaster. Mpromptu@gmail.com. (Send me story tips!) http://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
Articles at https://friendlyatheist.com
Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social Java Language Architect at Oracle. Author, Java Concurrency in Practice (http://amzn.to/2nzZnkl). Also, cats.
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions.
More info: JesseSingal.com
Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
bad_stats @thebadstats.bsky.social 
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Ricky Gervais @mrrickygervais.bsky.social Comedy God
Kobzar @canadiankobzar.bsky.social Kobzar Chronicles 🧵 Toonie Tuesday 🪙 Wild Hornets 🐝 Ravens of Hope 🐦⬛ Чорна нафо 🏴☠️ 
Darcy DeClute | Scrumtuous @scrumtuous.com Pythonista, Mojo lover for AI & ML, Java developer, Scrum Master and author of the best-selling Scrum Master Certification Guide. Looking forward to making friends in a supportive community. (I'm @Scrumtuous on all platforms, including YouTube. Subscribe!)
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Facebook Beef
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Decoding the Gurus @guruspod.bsky.social Decoding the Gurus Podcast.
Email at: decodingthegurus@gmail.com.
Support the pod at: https://patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus
Arthur Dent aka Matt Browne @arthurcdent.bsky.social Australian, professor, statistician, Senior podcast co-host. “The heart and soul of Decoding the Gurus”. I really do know where my towel is
Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social A #philosophy podcast for the worst possible timeline. Hosted by ethicist aaronrabinowitz.net. Ethics director and credentialed creator at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org. Author of Luckpilled (April, 2027). Sibling show: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/
Chris Kavanagh @ckava.bsky.social Cognitive Anthropologist/Social Psychologist. Norn Irish in Japan. Junior co-host of Decoding the Gurus. Interested in conspiracism, extremism, & religion/ritual psychology.
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things.
Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario.
Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com
DMs open to followers
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms- R Rudi Horn @rudih.bsky.social Views are my own.
Shaun Smith @ssmith.bsky.social GraalVM Product and DevRel
Senior Director, Oracle
Fabio Niephaus @fniephaus.com Research Manager on the @graalvm.org team at Oracle. Graal Languages, Native Image, developer tools, GraalVM developer experience. Previously at @hpi.bsky.social, @googlecolab.bsky.social, and @matonguitars.bsky.social. Views are my own.
GraalVM @graalvm.org GraalVM compiles your applications ahead of time into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer resources 🚀
Christian Humer @chumer.dev PL/VM/Compilers at Oracle. Working on Truffle/Graal.
ME/CFS Caretaker and Activist (https://ooe-mecfs.at).
Austrian expat in Zurich.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Mala Gupta @malagupta.bsky.social JavaChampion. Speaker. Books: http://goo.gl/QD6eeh. Co-lead
Delhi JUG. DevNexus Rockstar!
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Blyth Crawford @blythcrawford.bsky.social Views = mine. She/her
Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social Research on the right-wing and religion.
Podcast: Fifteen Minutes of Fascism:
https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964
Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz
Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/dINAA
DMs open. Opinions my own.
Jakub Chrzanowski @chrzanowski.info 🥑 Lead Developer Advocate @JetBrains.com for IntelliJ Platform
🧩 Helps make JetBrains products extensible
🛠️ Builds useful stuff
🦬 Suffers from yak shaving
Dion Almaer @almaer.com Bringing nuance to a knife fight 🔪, surprisingly older than @bgalbs
Past: Ajaxian, Shopify, Google, Mozilla, webOS, and more!
Brian Benz @bbenz.bsky.social Microsoft AI Advocate. Certified stunt coder
Geert Bevin @gbevin.uwyn.com Director of Software Development at Moog Music, Principal Software Engineer at Roger Linn Design, Father of MPE, Board Member at Asheville Music School, Creator of RIFE2 & bld, Java Champion, Maker, 3D Printing & Design, Singer, Guitarist, Kung Fu, Tai Chi
Eric Deandrea @ericdeandrea.dev @java-champions.bsky.social | Sr. Principal Software Engineer (@quarkus.io) @IBM | speaker | author | @bostonjavausers.bsky.social Vice Chair & board member | tinkerer | boater | black belt in martial arts | Opinions are my own
Brian Demers @bdemers.io Father, Geek 🤓, Beekeeper 🐝, Java Champion ♨️, and Developer Advocate 🥑 at Gradle
Chris Engelbert / noctarius - エンゲルベルト クリス @noctarius.com DevRel / Tech Marketing @ simplyblock.io
Noctarius ツ, #Devrel, #Opensource, #JapaneseFood, #JavaChampions
Ex Timescale, clevabit, Instana, Ubisoft, Hazelcast
Views are my own
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/noctarius2k
Viktor Gamov @gamussa.dev Principal Developer Advocate at @confluent.io, ☕️Java Champion, Co-author Kafka in Action, Flink aficionado
David Gómez G. @dgomezg.bsky.social JavaChampion. @madridjug.es co-organizer. I love doing stuff with other people, learning from others & sharing what I know.
Rodrigo Graciano @graciano.bsky.social Java Champion, NYJavaSIG leader, Software Engineer
Arun Gupta @arungupta.bsky.social 
Daniel Hinojosa @dhinojosa.bsky.social Developer of sorts: Typically Java, Scala, and Haskell once in a while.
Angie Jones @angiejones.tech Tech's Favorite Auntie
VP Eng, AI Tools & Enablement @ Block
#techgirl1908
Jason Lee @jasondlee.bsky.social Christian. Husband. Father. Bassist. Martial Artist. Java Champion. Nashville recording artist. Software engineer @ Red Hat. @OKCJUG President. Opinions are mine, but can be yours. You can find me on X: https://x.com/jasondlee
Dervis Mansuroglu @dervis.bsky.social Leading the Norwegian JUG in Oslo, Java Champion, speaker, developer and principal officer at NAV IT (Norwegian gov).
Julien Ponge @julien.ponge.org Software enthusiast | Scientist | #JavaChampions | Personal account, not the views of my employers | I will not discuss much politics here
https://julien.ponge.org/
Ixchel Ruiz @ixchelruiz.bsky.social Assiduous traveler, Software Developer, Java Champion, CDF Ambassador, Open Source advocate, public speaker and mentor.
Antoine Sabot-Durand @antoine.sabot-durand.net Java Champion, boardgames and rpg addict. I work at @SCIAM.fr. Former Jakarta EE CDI spec lead. I’m also the co creator of the @vidocq.dev MicroProfile implementation.
Brian Sam-Bodden (BSB) @bsbodden.bsky.social Polyglot Programmer, Technologist, Author, and Entrepreneur. Applied AI/ML and Data Science. Former Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis. Former Developer Advocate 🥑 @Java_Champions
Oleg Šelajev @shelajev.bsky.social Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at Docker working mainly on developer productivity, Testcontainers, improving how we set up local development environments and tests, and building applications with AI parts. Developer. Author. Speaker. Java Champion. D
Nate Schutta @nts.bsky.social Java Champion. Speaker. Author. Architecture Monkey. Storyteller.
http://ntschutta.io
Michael Vitz @michael.vitz.me Java Champion working as Senior Consultant at INNOQ
CrAIg Walls @habuma.com Java Champion / Alexa Champion / Author of “Spring AI in Action”, “Spring in Action” & “Build Talking Apps for Alexa”/ Disney Parks Fanatic/ tabletop games player.
https://www.habuma.com
James Ward @jamesward.com Just another nerd with a podcast: happypathprogramming.com
And a book:
effectorientedprogramming.com
Ken Kousen @kousenit.com Author, speaker, software developer, and technical trainer. Java Champion, teaches Java, Groovy, Gradle, Kotlin, Android, Spring. Publishes "Tales from the jar side" newsletter and YouTube channel
Karl Heinz Marbaise (he/him) @khmarbaise.bsky.social Java Champion
Apache Maven PMC
Apache Software Foundation Member
Mojo Haus Member
Java Developer,
CI / CD Fan
Freelancer
Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social consultant · father · he/him · human (very) · husband · itinerant · programmer · keynote speaker · technologist · trainer · writer
evanchooly @evanchooly.bsky.social Java Champion. Kotlin fanatic. Bit twiddler. New Yorker. Pronounces it jif. SSE at @Datadog. @evanchooly@mastodon.social
Mark ⚡️Heckler @mkheck.bsky.social Computer scientist & MBA, pilot, inglés y español. Java Champion, Google Dev Expert in Kotlin, Rockstar presenter, author of Spring Boot: Up & Running. Ex Oracle, Pivotal, VMware, Microsoft, Moderne
Tom Cools @tomcools.be DevRel @Timefold | Conference (Keynote) Speaker 🗣️ | #Java Champion | @BeJUG Organizer | Kind of a weird guy 😅
Daniel Oh @danieloh30.bsky.social Java Champion, CNCF Ambassador & TAG DevEX Co-Chair, Microsoft MVP, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, Keynote Speaker, Published Author bit.ly/danielohtv
joschi @joschi.work 🦣 Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@joschi
🐙 GitHub: https://github.com/joschi
Ana-Maria Mihalceanu @ammbra1508.bsky.social
Java Champion Alumni | Architect| Sr. Developer Advocate @Oracle 🇳🇱 | Speaker | Co-founder@BucharestSCC. Opinions are my own. 
Pratik Patel @prpatel.dev master builder of nachos
software . technology . not a bot
Chandra Guntur @cguntur.bsky.social Hoopy Frood
Java Champion. NYJavaSIG & GardenStateJUG Leader
#Saganist #BeKind #UsualSuspects #TrollBlocker 🖖🏼😎 🇱🇷
अहं ब्रह्मास्मि
Motto: docendo discimus
Website: https://cguntur.me
Adam Bien @adambien.blog AWS Hero, JavaONE Rockstar, Consultant, Java Champion
about: https://about.adam-bien.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bien
trainer: http://airhacks.live and http://airhacks.io
podcaster: http://airhacks.fm
yt: http://youtube.com/@bienadam
Jonathan Vila 🥑☕️ - 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇵🇷 @vilojona.bsky.social Senior Staff Developer Advocate 🥑 @Sonar | Java Champion | Oracle ACE | IBM Contributor | Conference cofounder JBCNConf & DevBcn & AI4Devs | BarcelonaJUG organiser
Bert Jan Schrijver @handle.invalid CTO @OpenValue.eu, JUG leader @NLJUG.bsky.social. J-Fall/Spring organizer, @JavaChampions.bsky.social, @iSAQB.bsky.social, JavaOne rock star speaker, Duke’s choice award winner, Java/architecture/CD/DevOps.
Corneil du Plessis @corneil.bsky.social He/Him.
Problem solver.
Scientific thinker.
Delivering code to production since 1985.
Ex-@spring.io Team
Speaker (only diverse panels)
Opinions are my own.
#KFSM, #NoCrypto, 🇺🇦
Kevin Wittek @wittek.dev Engineering Manager and Tech Lead at Docker, doing AI & Testcontainers, guitar & simracing, husband & dad
Anton Arhipov @antonarhipov.bsky.social Developer Advocate @ JetBrains
https://antonarhipov.com
#java #kotlin #programming
Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
https://pitest.org https://www.arcmutate.com
Stefano Cordio @scordio.github.io Software Engineer @ EPAM Systems
Maintainer of @assertj.github.io
Edson Yanaga @yanaga.io Empowering developers worldwide as Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Wallet Lead, @Google. Java Champion and former 7x Microsoft MVP. Opinions are my own.
Marcus Hellberg @marcushellberg.dev Applied AI Researcher, Speaker, DevRel expert.
Java Champion.
VP of AI Research @vaadin.com
Sven Reimers @sreimers.bsky.social Java Champion,
JUG Leader JUG Bodensee, JTaccuino
Apache NetBeans PMC, OpenJFX author,
Systemengineer @ Airbus Defence and Space
Simon Martinelli @martinelli.ch Java Champion, Vaadin Champion, Oracle ACE Pro, Published Author, International Speaker, Programming Architect, and Lecturer for AI-driven Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Java, Persistence, and DevOps.
https://martinelli.ch
Eddú Meléndez Gonzales @eddumelendez.bsky.social 🇵🇪 Java Chavo, Software Engineer and Open Source Contributor. Working on Testcontainers. Opinions are my own.
Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @frankel.ch 🧑💻 Developer and architect
🥑 Developer Advocate
✍️ Blogger @ https://blog.frankel.ch/
🎓 Eternal learner
📖 Book author at http://leanpub.com/integrationtest
Gunnar Hillert @hillert.bsky.social Spring Developer, Java Champion, 2019 Kona IRONMAN Finisher, formerly @oracle @pivotal @vmware @spring.io @atlantajug @devnexus. Plant collector. Board member at Hawaii Island Palm Society.
Loïc Mathieu @loicmathieu.fr Lead Developer @kestra.io, Java & JVM passionate, performance, OSS contributor (mainly Quarkus), Book Author (Quarkus edition ENI), GCP Google Dev Expert.
Like to learn stuff and share what I learned.
https://www.loicmathieu.fr
Todd Ginsberg @todd.ginsberg.com #Java and #Kotlin developer. @trijug.dev organizer. Conference speaker. Gatherers4j maintainer, Philatelist. Big fan of doughnuts and F1. Raleigh, NC He/Him 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Ray Tsang @saturnism.me Loves Java, Cloud, and Developer Productivity. Java Champion.
Ivar Grimstad @theguywiththeduketattoo.com Java Champion | Jakarta EE Developer Advocate | The guy with the Duke tattoo
https://jakarta.ee/community/developer-advocate/
Mads Opheim @madsopheim.com Sosialist, feminist, Java, Kotlin, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile. Styremedlem i Raudt Oslo. Oracle ACE. IBM Champion. Rosenborg herrar og kvinner. He/him.
Guillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev 🥑 Developer Advocate for Google Cloud ☁️
🧠 Focusing on Generative AI 🤖
⭐ Co-founder of the 🪶 Apache Groovy programming language
☕ Java Champion 🏆
📣 Co-host of Les Cast Codeurs Podcast
🐘 @glaforge@uwyn.net on #Mastodon
Rustam Mehmandarov @rustam.no Passionate computer scientist 📍🇳🇴
Java Champion ☕ | Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud ⛅ | Docker Captain 🐳 | Public speaker 🎙️ | Mentor & Community leader 🌟 | All things Java, Cloud, AI/ML, data, & open source | Ex-leader of JavaZone & javaBin.
Benjamin Muskalla @bmuskalla.dev ⛱️ currently https://poolside.ai/
🎤 Speaker https://bmuskalla.dev/talks/
☕ Java Champion
👾 Former @github.com Copilot, Gradle, Tasktop, EclipseSource
🧠 All opinions come from my training data
Michael Simons @rotnroll666.bsky.social 👨👩👦👦👨🏻💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of Spring Boot Buch, and DuckDB in Action with Manning. Java champion working at Neo4j on various integrations within the JVM ecosystem.
More: https://michael-simons.eu
Patrick Baumgartner @patbaumgartner.com Working @42talents. Spring Trainer @VMwareTanzu. Co-Organizer @VoxxedZurich, Board member of @jugch, Software Crafters Zurich & SoCraTes Conf Switzerland
Michael Hunger @mesirii.de Developer Advocacy & Labs at Neo4j.
Happy dad of 3 girls ADHD GraphAddict JavaChampion
Code http://github.com/jexp
Words http://medium.com/@mesirii
Network http://de.linkedin.com/in/jexpde
Gerrit Meier @meistermeier.com Completely random internet person (https://meistermeier.com)
Father and husband
Owned by cat
Doing #Java things at #Neo4j.
Organizer of the Java User Group Ostfalen (https://jug-ostfalen.de)
jbáruch 🎩 @jbaru.ch Head of DevRel at @tweetsbyport - the Agentic SDLC Platform. Co-author of #LiquidSoftware and #DevOps Tools for #Java Developers. Java Champion, MSFT MVP for AI, CNCF Ambassador Alumni.