The Needling @theneedling.com Seattle's Only Real Fake News
(Satire/Parody)
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TheNeedling.com
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social Guardian reporter in Los Angeles.
Lois.Beckett@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lois-beckett
Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social Cognitive Science... tech stuff... dev psych... AI... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Ifeoma Ozoma @ifeoma.bsky.social Tech policy | home farming in Santa Fe
🧜♀️ The Lorelei 🌊 @ldermer.bsky.social 
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.
Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social Linguist, nature appreciator, big fan of sambal & soursop. All things Austronesian & NW New Guinea. Swarthmore/Philly. She/sie/lei/dia/andi.
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social We do language science research and engagement with the public! Find us at the Planet Word museum in Washington D.C., and here: https://go.umd.edu/LanguageScienceStationAtPlanetWord 
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Kathleen @deloebrenti.bsky.social Librarian, copyright nerd, music lover, kpop stan, rabblerouser. All unintelligible typos my own and unintentional. Yet ubiquitous.
The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Ten years of LGBTQIA+ folks making cool stuff.
Co-Founded with @beckymew.bsky.social
No one is free until we are all free.
Shop: www.peculiarityshop.com
Gallery: @peculiaritygallery.bsky.social
Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social Art Historian, artist, Gen AI, Big Tech objector and ex suburban mall goth.
Historienne de l’art, artiste, opposante aux IA génératives et Big Tech et ancienne gothique de centre d’achats de banlieue.
bannière : Méduse romaine, aquarelle par Marilou
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social I like history. Horses are also cool.
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social Technology, education, and other random thoughts.
Ursula Martin @umartin.bsky.social Knows a lot about Ada Lovelace's science. University of Edinburgh and Wadham College Oxford and Oxford Maths. 
Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social Mathematician, cis woman, bi, het married, parent of adults. Loud in the physical and metaphorical sense. Member of www.ahmath.org.
https://marginalnotesmaths.blogspot.com
@faultybrain.bsky.social @faultybrain.bsky.social Executive assistant to two cats, landlady to a brain aneurysm, AI hater, US/MX NW 🏳️🌈.
Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social Same ddt. Working in service design for govtech. Bikes, books, cats. But I get out. All content here is personal.
If you know how it works, you are not the user. If your mother says she loves you, find a second source.
IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded
PhD epidemiology candidate in perinatal health & homelessness. MPH, MS, smalltime bureaucrat, influencer influencer
Step 1: engage your brain - if there's a thread, read it before replying or quoting
Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
Dr. Amy Csizmar Dalal @drcsiz.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College. Athlete and crafter. HCI, networks, ethical civic engagement. she/her. @DrCsiz on Threads and Twitter
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
JEDI Workshop @jedi-workshop.bsky.social The JEDI workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers who are interested in critically interrogating the role of information access technology in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and emancipation.
Website: http://jedi.inertial.science/
AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social Grant-funded initiative of AAUP NC, interrogating the use of AI in the university. AI is not inevitable.
https://substack.com/@genuineintelligencenc
https://www.aaupnc.org/projects/genuine-intelligence-project
Instagram: @ncgenuineintelligence
AI Wall of Shame @aiwallofshame.bsky.social Posting anti gen-AI news, campaigns and info (whenever I can bear reading about the cursed stuff...)
#AntiAI
#NoGenAI
Denise Utochkin @denise-utochkin.bsky.social I'd like to put capitalism behind us. Let's join forces 💚
Trolley-problem abolitionist, "pleasure without an identity card", sometimes a postdoc.
They/them btw.
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Kelly B @kellyblack.ca Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me Law professor | Privacy, AI*, and Technology & Society | Veteran | Offering bespoke mentor-mentee relationships | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
ozzy @ozzyllinas.bsky.social 
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com 
Alvin Grissom II @alvingrissomii.bsky.social 
Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social Rhetoric prof, social movement scholar & author of Prison Power (2016) and Black Feelings (2020); both from @UPMiss. Editor of #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Routledge).
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
Jon P @jdp23.thenexus.today Organizer, activist, privacy advocate, strategist, software engineer ... psytrance, tarot and more. Also @thenexusofprivacy.net , @jdp23@neuromatch.social, https://thenexusofprivacy.net
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
erin rose glass @glass.bsky.social sorry i'm so late! good to see you all again!
supercyberlicious.substack.com
erinroseglass.com
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com Anthropologist, speaker, educator. Plant medicines, Land Back + organizing for collective liberation. Is Gaeilgeoir mé 💚 she/her 📍 Tkaronto
→→→ linktr.ee/hilaryagro ←←←
You deserve a better world.
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Aubrie Amstutz @aubrieamstutz.bsky.social Linguist passionate about justice & equity for everyone. I love nature, singing along at concerts, reading memoirs, and learning languages🇫🇷🇮🇹🇲🇽 🍉 ⚧️
Christine Boyd @christineboyd.bsky.social Senior producer with CBC Transformation Office; longtime journalist with CBCNews.ca and CBC Calgary, Globe and Mail. Pickleball, kayaking and film aficionado. 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/she 🏳️⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social Common Cyborg | NB ND Mad Bean | Disability and Epistemology | Research Ethics and Dissensus
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education 📚
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
@ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social @ezekieldixonroman.bsky.social 
MsMekka @mekkacodes.bsky.social 
Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Anthropologist, research fellow at University of Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge & non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, writes about AI and war in Israel & Palestine
Mophat Okinyi @mophatokinyi.bsky.social Founder & CEO at Techworker Community Africa | TIME100 AI 2024 | Ai & Human Rights Activist | Former Content Moderator-ChatGPT | Union Organizer | AI Safety | Machine Learning | AI Ethics | AI Advocate | AI Researcher | Responsible AI | LLM
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca We are PACES: Vancouver - Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, a group of parents concerned by the effects of GenAI+chatbots on students.
https://aicaution.ca/
Follows are not endorsements.
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Valerie Veatch @valerieveatch.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker.
William DeWitt @wsdewitt.github.io Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Genome Sciences.
Previous: JSMF Fellow, Berkeley EECS
♡: Computational biology, evolutionary dynamics, quantitative immunology
https://dewitt-lab.github.io/
[disclaimer: opinions mine] 🇺🇸🚫👑
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody @mandykathryn.bsky.social Mandy he/him actor/singer, Kathryn she/her actress/writer and sometimes Gideon he/him - son
https://www.rescue.org
https://lemonada.lnk.to/DontListenToUshs
Welcome refugees, Black Lives Matter, science is real, vaccines save lives, the earth is round etc
Frank @f-w-l.bsky.social writer @Futurism.com
Annmarie Pisano @annmariepisano.bsky.social professional magpie. human-powered comms for good causes, especially in repro, and 🧶 🍜 obsessive.
Mind & Life @mindandlife.bsky.social Bridging science and contemplative wisdom to foster insight and inspire action toward flourishing.
mindandlife.org
Steven Bird 🍉 @steven-bird.bsky.social Living and working with First Nations people who are keeping their ancestral languages strong. He/they.
📍Larrakia, Bininj, and Miriwoong country
http://linktr.ee/stevenbird
Janet H Murray @janethmurray.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Digital Media, Georgia Tech, graduate of Bx Science HS, author "Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace" (MIT Press updated edition 2017) . Current book in progress:"Digital Delusions" .
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social
Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social Occult detective. | HistSci + ILS @ Indiana. | Science as culture and the afterlives of ideas.
https://linktr.ee/kleidouxos
Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social Data, Open Scholarship, Libraries, Knitting, Cats. I named Executive Function Theft. The opinions of the Hedgehog Librarian, Professor. Chicago-based. She/her
#knitting #data #executivefunctiontheft
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/ 
Allison Dieppa @amdieppa.bsky.social Instructor of writing and literature at Florida Gulf Coast University | Composition studies, critical AI, and early English literature
Amdieppa.wordpress.com
Any views expressed are my own.
Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social computational cognitive neuroscientist (assoc prof
@unigroningen.bsky.socialc) studying mind-wandering using cogsci and AI techniques, also amateur ballet dancer and Tibetan buddhist 
Mind & Life Europe @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social A catalyst for human flourishing: bridging contemplative practices and wisdom with up-to-date scientific research.
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain & writer (philosophy, poésie, sciences sociales). Translator. Prof @ University of Regina. Desires new forms and contents. Livres : Prairiales; En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).
Nora Lindemann @noralindemann.bsky.social Critical perspectives on AI and the digital society | Ethics of AI | Chatbots and LLMs | Feminist philosophy and STS| PhD candidate @UniOsnabrück
she/her
Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social https://directing.attention.to. About: https://louis.work
Kelly YN 🦀🏳️⚧️ @typologianista.bsky.social 🦀🏳️⚧️
Crabby Trans NB CTBI CPTSD AuDHD
Linguist-turned-Caregiver
Here to RT your cats and add some humor and hugs and hope and levity. If you’re here on the attack, stay for a hug 🫂
Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social Parisienne Buffalonian linguist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn
@uofwa.uw.edu @uofwa.uw.edu 
Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @ljrycroftsmith.bsky.social Researching, mathing, designing, writing, queering, drawing, talking, comedying, teaching, board gaming. Homerton College, Cambridge. Currently researching and talking about #AI and #education.
Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social Newly minted maths ed lecturer, PhD student, fledgling left-wing standup. Co-author ‘teaching statistics’ http://tinyurl.com/ya6afzcc he/his
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Decca Muldowney @deccamuldowney.bsky.social managing editor @bayareacurrent.bsky.social | alum of New Internationalist, The Daily Beast, ProPublica, The Real Deal | here to burden the conscience of the affluent
www.deccamuldowney.com
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos