Lorenzo Ancona @lorenzoartifacts.bsky.social 24 yo. Trust & Safety @tremautech // TA @sciencespo // In @artifacts_tech, Stories & Ideas on Tech, Policy & Information in a newsletter format
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
(((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
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.
Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk Geek. Cymru. Digital technology specialist. Consulting Practice CTO at Public Digital. Independent Member for Digital at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Co-founder of GDS. Views my own.
Soizic Pénicaud @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social Researcher and activist based in France. I focus on public sector tech + algorithms (especially in digital welfare) and technology-facilitated violence. Co-founder odap.fr. ex-Etalab
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.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
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
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
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Matteo Nebbiai @matteonebbiai.bsky.social tech & political economy & EU regulation | PhD King's College London | GPEP Fellow at Georgetown University | previously at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
https://matteonebbiai.site/
https://matteonebbiai.substack.com/
Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social Human large language model based at Cornell University
www.ddekadt.com
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Nicolò Gozzi @ngozzi.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at ISI Foundation, Infectious Disease Modeling, Data Science, Forecasting
Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes @gomezgardenes.bsky.social Physicist. Full Professor at University of Zaragoza & GoThAM Lab @gotham-lab.bsky.social.
Research on Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems applied to Evolution, Epidemics, Social Behaviors, Sync & much more
Website: http://complex.unizar.es/~jesus/
Saumitra Kulkarni @saumitranetsci.bsky.social Urban Science | Human Behavior | Data Science
PhD @nunetsi.bsky.social
https://saumitranetsci.github.io/
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social Policy Fellow for EU democracy at Jacques Delors Centre Berlin
Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social Head of ML & Society at Hugging Face 🤗
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
The Markup @themarkup.org Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Send tips: http://mrkup.org/tips. Subscribe: http://mrkup.org/klaxon. Support: http://mrkup.org/donate.
🔻Raoul @remark.eurosky.social
Centre for Future Generations @cfg-thinktank.bsky.social CFG is an independent think-and-do tank created to help decision-makers anticipate and govern rapid technological change. https://cfg.eu
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social
jeff fossett @jfoss117.bsky.social Phd student at Harvard. Research lead at Plurality Institute.
Exploring somewhere in the intersection of technology governance, economics, STS, and plurality. I also like making things.
https://jeffreyfossett.com/
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu Computational Communication Scientist #rstats | Postdoc Researcher | University of Amsterdam | @ascor.bsky.social | @algosoc.org | Blog: favstats.eu | Running on plant-based fuel 🌱 | he/him
Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social We're an academic community for Plurality research & technology | Cooperate across differences | DM us your news, research, jobs, grants & fellowships.
plurality.institute
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Brayden Beckius @braydenbeckius.bsky.social Mission Steward @ Collective Action Network | Co-Steward @ Citizen Collective | Global Systems Innovator | Network Strategist for a New Paradigm
Matteo Dressler @mdressler.bsky.social Social Scientist | Works @FEPS_Europe on democracy, participation & youth | Interested in these topics, Eastern Germany & conflict transformation. Personal Account.
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
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
Recurse Center @recurse.com The retreat for curious programmers.
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC | Online
ali @ Barcelona @basicavisual.io Philosopher and Developer. Digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, data governance. @GovStack.global & @decidim.org
Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Algorithms & surveillance. https://www.lighthousereports.com/team/gabriel-geiger/
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social ⚡️methods for the madness ⚡️
Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social
lizbarry.net
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
Yuting Jiang 江雨婷 @yutingjiang.com Cofounder & CEO @agoracitizen.network
https://linktr.ee/yuting_jiang
Colin Megill @colinmegill.com Cofounder pol.is
President compdemocracy.org
San Francisco, CA
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
mashbean @mashbean.bsky.social mashbean is a former medical doctor turned digital practitioner. ex-moda 🇹🇼 web3 architect. FAB DAO founder.
William Isaac @williamis.bsky.social Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
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/
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
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
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
Eva Constantaras @evaconstantaras.bsky.social Data editor at Lighthouse Reports. Thibi data trainer. Champion of Global Majority accountability data journalism. 🇹🇭 via 🇬🇷 🇹🇷 🇰🇪 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇨🇴 🇯🇵 🇩🇪
Jay Baxter @jayb.bsky.social Community Notes / Birdwatch ML @Birdsite
⿻ 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/
Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social how shall we live together?
societal impacts researcher at Anthropic
saffronhuang.com
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social & this is the wonder that keeps the stars apart. #complexity #plurality #democracy #civictech @CivicTechTO cfndr. @g0vtw fan. early pol.is cntrbtr. ex: biochemst @enviroDGI @HyphaCoop @nwspk @gc_talent
🏡 SF/Tkaronto/NOLA/London
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social Data Science · Digital Epidemiology · Computational Social Science · Tech for good, but not a technosolutionist · Scientific Director at @isi.it · Happier outdoors. 🇪🇺🇮🇹🏔️
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
Yelena Mejova @yelenamejova.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist @ ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy | computational social science, digital epidemiology, data science