LIA 福振凡 🇺🇳🇨🇳🇺🇸 @fuzhenfan.bsky.social University of Chicago alum
United Nations contractor
Human Rights Campaign, Trevor Project, and the Chicago Board of Elections contributor, et al.
Views are my own | Not my employer
Personal account
Hainan -> Chicago
yaso @yaso.is 🥋 Muay Thai athlete (amateur)
🌍 Former W3C, Harvard, World Bank, etc.
🔒 Privacy & security, digital identity, open standards.
yaso.is
Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Queens. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Edward L Platt, PhD @elplatt.com Cooperative governance, civic tech, networks, mental health, cats, bad puns. PhD on large-scale deliberation. Scientific Consultant at Cornell CAT Lab. Formerly: Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, i3Detroit. #FirstGen #disabled
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Dr. Jaleesa Trapp @jaleesat.bsky.social organizer, educator, researcher, and designer. she/her #justiceformanuelellis
@leeanncomfort.bsky.social @leeanncomfort.bsky.social
Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social Prof @Oxford, Affiliate @MIT www.MohsenMosleh.com
estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social Researcher, scientist. Professor at the Network Science Institute @Northeastern and director of the Social Urban Networks Lab. Formerly @uc3m & @mit
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Nikhil Singh @nikhilsinghmus.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Dartmouth Computer Science. Human-AI Systems. Prev: PhD @ MIT.
https://nsingh1.host.dartmouth.edu
Director, SAHAS Lab: sahaslab.com
Matt Groh @mattgroh.bsky.social Assistant professor at Northwestern Kellogg | human AI collaboration | computational social science | cognitive science
Hope Schroeder @hopeschroeder.bsky.social Studying NLP, CSS, and Human-AI interaction. PhD student @MIT. Previously at Microsoft FATE + CSS, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Symbolic Systems
hopeschroeder.com
Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor MIT, Member US National Academies, UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Board Member
Data & computational social scientist; human-centered AI; data privacy; Web3.0; resilient communities.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social Our organization is committed to tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned w/ the public interest. Join us at AllTechIsHuman.org | Hello@AllTechIsHuman.org
jonny sun @jonnysun.bsky.social tv writer/producer (bojack horseman; mrs. davis; a few new unannounced things) & nyt best selling author (goodbye, again; everyones a aliebn).
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Amy Quispe @amyquispe.bsky.social if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s things | NYC technologist & mom (mostly mom rn) | ex-USDS/Medium/Google | CMU/Stuy
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Kelsey Volkmann @kelseyvolk.bsky.social Let’s Design Better Futures
(Views are my own)
ClickHole @clickhole.bsky.social Because all content deserves to go viral.
Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social Feature documentary GHOST IN THE MACHINE. Watch now on PBS and YouTube. notaidoc.com
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future!
Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com Philosopher in tech, currently at Mistral AI. Doctor of talking machines, now teaching them good behavior.
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
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
breen is walking @breenplaces.bsky.social urban planner and mobility practitioner // passionate leader and playful collaborator // enthusiastic Pittsburgher ⟦she/her/they/them⟧⟦views are my own⟧
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social Cognitive scientist working at the intersection of moral cognition and AI safety. Currently: Google Deepmind. Soon: Assistant Prof at NYU Psychology. More at sites.google.com/site/sydneymlevine.
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com New England's leading source for breaking news and analysis.
bostonglobe.com
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Asia Biega @asiabiega.bsky.social Faculty at MPI-SP. CS, Tech Governance, Responsible Tech, Data Protection, Interdisciplinarity. ACM FAccT Executive Committee.
https://asiabiega.github.io/
New York Magazine @nymag.com This is New York: Intelligencer, The Cut, Vulture, Curbed, Grub Street, The Strategist.
Subscribe: http://nymag.com/subscribe
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
Benno Krojer @bennokrojer.bsky.social AI PhDing at Mila/McGill. Happily residing in Montreal 🥯❄️
Academic stuff: language grounding, vision+language, interp, rigorous & creative evals, cogsci
Other: many sports, urban explorations, puzzles/quizzes
bennokrojer.com
Maya Detwiller @omayagawd.bsky.social MIT Center for Constructive Communication Prototype Manager and Poetry Open Mic Attender
Elinor @elinorpd.bsky.social PhD @ MIT CSAIL // researching LLM societal impacts & alignment
previously @ MIT media lab, mila quebec / mcgill
i like language and dogs and plants and ultimate frisbee and baking and sunsets. she/her
https://elinorp-d.github.io
🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social dominatrix in nyc • writing a book on sex work & surveillance @ucpress.bsky.social
words @wired.com @thenation.com @chronicle.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @slate.com @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social etc • she/her
doctrixsnow.com
S @rogueshoes.bsky.social Trouble maker, well meaning, meat popsicle. Anthropologist. She/her. Really tired, but still kicking. Reposts are not endorsements.
Hannah Apuan @malware.delivery software engineer. 💖✨
(go/aws/infra/platform) ✨
currently customer.io 💖
ex twilio. ex sendgrid. ✨
just a little cat girl in a big dog world. 🐱
denver, co ✨
my opinions are my own.
https://hannahapuan.github.io/
add me on WoW: Elestara-Turalyon (❄️ DK)
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Maria Xynou @agrabeli6.bsky.social Director @ooni.org | Board @torproject.org
Harvard University @harvard.edu Official account for Harvard University. Devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
Rose Wang (personal) @iamrosewang.bsky.social Keeping this handle till I figure out what I want to do with it ✌️
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
PLDI @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Website: https://pldi26.sigplan.org/. Official hashtag this year: #PLDI2026. Posts by @jcenzo.bsky.social and @konstantinoskallas.bsky.social.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
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/
Greg Leppert @leppert.me Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
Support us: http://LNI.media/membership
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social Writer/researcher/advocate @ the Public Interest Research Group. Usually: tech/privacy/AI. Sometimes: fiction/poems/satire/birds. Currently learning about: burrowing owls. Cool new lit project coming soon. Kansan at heart.
https://rjcross.org/
Talia Ringer @taliaringer.bsky.social
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
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Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org Research Scientist Meta/FAIR, Prof. University of Geneva, co-founder Neural Concept SA. I like reality.
https://fleuret.org
Aella @aella.bsky.social aella.substack.com, @aella_girl on X
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
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.
Ziv Epstein @ziv-e.bsky.social Postdoc at MIT College of Computing • PhD from MIT Media Lab • Creativity, values and (more-than-)human-centered design
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
@sjbegres.bsky.social @sjbegres.bsky.social
Sasha King @sashamking.bsky.social Project Manager| Futurist| Humanist
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
nora @nora.bsky.social Engineer and Applied Cryptographer working in the ASML at Harvard’s BKC.
Led cryptography R&D at Juicebox and privacy projects at Signal.
Passionate about fostering inclusive communities, mentoring women in tech, and building third spaces for creatives.
Bill Harder, PhD @wlharder.bsky.social Director of #FacultyDev & Teaching Excellence & Political Science Prof. at Goucher College | critical & inclusive pedagogies | presidential/executive politics #highered #Faculty #EduSky #woodworking #cats | he/him
The Only Good Jared @jaredpeacedout.bsky.social Pittsburgh. Sports. Leftist politics. Bad beer. He/him
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Jessica Payne @iamjessicapayne.bsky.social Actor | Singer | Director | Creator
On Camera Coach
Kikalabs.com
Liver donor
Kate Lunsford @katelunsford.bsky.social
amac @amac0.bsky.social Lawyer, coder, baker.
Govt (Deputy US CTO for Obama and Biden), non-profit (Trust & Safety Professional Assn & Foundation, Data & Society, Public.resource), startup person (Google, Twitter).
Curious tinkerer.
@amac on the other thing.
Now in London.
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Aubrey Simonson @aubrey.bsky.social trans VR researcher and reluctant technoutopian - he/him/his
aubreysimonson.com
This is Mike @sturdywaterbear.bsky.social Trans, gay, father of two amazing kids. Love horror stories and caffeine and how quiet the night is at 2am. Kind of awkward but generally kind.- B Bren @bwbarker.bsky.social
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