Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
🔥 🏡 Ex: Fire Aside
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social 🍉Fun Stack Vibing at @xogot.bsky.social
Started Xamarin, Mono, Gnome. Prev: Microsoft/.NET/Xamarin/Mono/VSMac/MAIA http://mastodon.social/@migueldeicaza
Anna Zeiter @anna.wsocial.eu CEO of W | Board Member | Professor
Sailor ⛵️ | Skier ⛷️ | Flutist 🪈 | Abstract Artist 🎨
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)
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9 @randomhorror9.bsky.social Making horror films approachable, one movie at a time, in a random order. New podcast eps every Tues. Hosted by @happierman.bsky.social & @cecilbaldwiniii.bsky.social of Welcome to Night Vale
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.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Dawn Danby @altissima.bsky.social ecological design strategy geek
co-founder + ceo, spherical
spherical.studio
livinginfrastructure.org
Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social 
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
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
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact (MISI) @misibu.bsky.social MISI investigates how media systems, stories, and algorithms influence what people see, believe, and trust—and how those dynamics shape democratic participation.
rob kimmel @robkimmel.bsky.social scribbler and teacher of scribblers
late stage ethical humanist
Kethryvis @kethryvis.bsky.social Anthropology. Community. Governance. Policy. Tron.
Also: Hockey. Disney. Cross stitch. Embroidery. Cats.
Views expressed are mine and mine alone. 
NovySan @novysan.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Analog Astronaut; Alum - MIT Media Lab; Emmy Award winning VFX Technical Supervisor; Instructor of SciFi & Magic; Immersive DataViz; Machine Learning tools; Deep-Ocean Exploration
Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social Dabble in law, politics, family, music, education, genealogy, and women’s basketball — rarely in that order.
All opinions mine and do not represent any institution I might be affiliated with.
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.org, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
John Sands @iohn.bsky.social information•society•cats
Opinions my own
Douglas Arellanes @dougiegyro.bsky.social Digital media lecturer at Anglo-American University, translator, social media expert, DJ. US expat in Prague since 1992.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/ 
steve cassavant @steve-cassavant.bsky.social 
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
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/
Learning Games Lab, New Mexico State University @learninggameslab.bsky.social As part of New Mexico's largest Land-Grant University, we serve the Cooperative Extension Service by producing educational media. We have created hundreds of animations, videos, games, apps, interactive modules, and web tools, including Math Snacks.
Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social Professor, Fordham Law School
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1084259
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Yesugen Baatartogtokh @yesugenb.bsky.social UMass Amherst CICS PhD Student
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Sophie Chou @sophiechou.bsky.social Data reporter & researcher. Pulitzer winner 🏆 Jersey girl 🏖️ formerly: Your Local Epidemiologist| ProPublica | Pew Research | MIT media lab • ➡️open to opportunities ⬅️
Marshini @ineffablicious.bsky.social Prof at UChicago computer science dept working in HCI and usable privacy and security 
Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social A field-defining intellectual hub for data science and AI research, education, and outreach at the University of Chicago
https://datascience.uchicago.edu
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Angela Zhu @angelazhu2.bsky.social phd student at oregon state university working on ML for species distribution models 🌿 previously at umass amherst ♥️ cyclist and runner 🚴♀️
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Bike Delaware @bikede.bsky.social #EveryoneGetsHome
#AllAgesAndAbilitiesCycling
#CompleteCommunities
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
Luis Villa @lu.is Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
Laura Quilter's grandparents were anti-fascist & so is she @lquilter.bsky.social Public interest copyright & information policy lawyer & librarian. Anti-fascist, queer, tree-hugger. No gods, no masters. SF fannish wanna-be crafty catlady. Southern ex-pat in Western MA. Mom.
wikipedia User:Lquilter, UMass Library, https://lquilter.net/
Will Knight @willknight.bsky.social Hi.
Signal = wak.01.
Donna Baron @dlbaron.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Public Interest Technology Initiative.
“We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.”
― Cheryl Strayed
Theia Henderson @theias.place 
Jules @julesrotich.bsky.social Tech in service of humanity. Fintech, AI, Entrepreneurship, Transformational Leadership
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
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
BlindNewWorld @blindnewworld.bsky.social #BlindNewWorld: empowering the #blind and #VisuallyImpaired community while demystifying #blindness and breaking down barriers to #inclusion.
Powered by Perkins School for the Blind. Learn more at BlindNewWorld.org.
Cheryl Contee @cherylcontee.bsky.social Innovation and Inspiration...Mission-Driven Tech Pioneer, Exited Entrepreneur, Impact Investor, AI Expert, Lover, Fighter, Mother
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Vivian Schiller @vivianschiller.bsky.social 
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social turnt tf up in the widening gyre
Cameron Marlow @cameronmarlow.com CTO at apella.io, trying to make surgery smarter with AI. Just relocated to Boulder, CO
Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UMass Amherst | Political economy of the low-carbon transition, energy and resources in economic growth and development, inequality | Views are my own
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social
klaudiajazwinska.com
Eric Smalley @ericsmalley.bsky.social scitech journalist, editor @theconversation.com
Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social We combine public programs and journalism to examine essential questions in a broad-minded and accessible spirit.
A unit of ASU Media Enterprise.
Nazanin Jafari @nazaninjafari.bsky.social Cs @UMass
NLP researcher
Currently working on LLM safety and factuality and hate speech moderation
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Political economy of AI • Espírito Santo/Brasília, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social Promoting and elevating the standards of journalism since 1938. Home of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard, Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard.
https://nieman.harvard.edu/
Jennifer Preston, Accelerate Philanthropy for Journalism @jennifermpreston.bsky.social Veteran journalist. Former VP, Journalism at Knight Foundation. Started NewsMatch. First social media editor @nytimes - and loving that BlueSky reminds me of early Twitter days when journalists first learned how to inform and engage people and communities.
Tom Bernard @tombernard.bsky.social There are FOUR lights.
Sara Winge @sarawinge.bsky.social Agnostic about Yet Another One.
Archon Fung @politicsprof.bsky.social Director @harvardash@bsky.social. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. All views expressed here are my own.
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
Orestis Papakyriakopoulos @sciorestis.bsky.social Ass. Professor of Societal Computing @TU_Munich
🌐🤖
PI of the Civic Machines Lab @TUMThinkTank
he/him
Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social Musician / Writer
Dada Drummer Almanach https://dadadrummer.substack.com/
Damon & Naomi https://damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/
and yeah I was in Galaxie 500
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Hamed Zamani @hamedzamani.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of CS at UMass. Assoc. Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Interested in IR, NLP & ML.
SHARIAsource@Harvard @shariasource.bsky.social SHARIAsource @ Harvard Law School is a digital portal for Islamic law texts+data science tools. 
Eugene Bagdasarian @ebagdasa.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UMass Amherst CICS, Research Scientist at Google Research. https://people.cs.umass.edu/~eugene/
Stanford PACS @stanfordpacs.bsky.social Engaging scholars, practitioners, and leaders to improve philanthropy and strengthen civil society. Publisher of @ssir.org. Repost ≠ endorsement.
pacscenter.stanford.edu
Rae is an A.I. Killjoy @raewalker.bsky.social Tired trans nurse who studies A.I. & power
AAAS Invention Ambassador
They/them, probably a 🐉
#NurseSky #STS #cat enthusiast
Views always my own as a private citizen & not my employer’s (wild that I have to state this)
Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). ACLS Fellow. Writer of creative nonfiction. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
@bryan-nunez.bsky.social @bryan-nunez.bsky.social 
Kat Cizek @katcizek.bsky.social Tkaronto-based documentarian, researcher, author. Artistic Director and Research Scientist at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Doc Lab.
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Brad Neuhauser @burakkorii.bsky.social carto geek & library cormorant, trekkie & time optimist, always drumming (sorry), learning from transformative justice, working toward abolition, living in Mni Sota, he/him/his, another world is possible
Office Hours @officehourspodcast.bsky.social Welcome to Office Hours.
Each episode, I will talk to a professor with a different perspective on important topics.
You can find my podcast here: https://linktr.ee/officehourspodcast
@keelymax.bsky.social @keelymax.bsky.social 
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Saul Tannenbaum @tannenbaum.org "Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right" - Robert Hunter
Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Urbino - Principal investigator https://mine.uniurb.it