Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Indybay @indybay.org San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center • Anti-Oppression Anti-Capitalist Open Publishing Since 2000
Make media • Make trouble!
Publish: indybay.org/publish
Get in touch: indybay.org/contact
www.indybay.org
The Tyee @thetyee.ca Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Grist @grist.org We're a nonprofit news org dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Get our journalism in your inbox: https://grist.org/subscribe/
Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social He/him/ia. Economist convinced that business-as-usual is not the answer. Have data & evidence. Applied to be academic, but didn't know secret handshake. Paid my dues as consultant, then public servant. Now back in comfort zone of cricket and spreadsheets.
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Worse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social Investigating how private equity and brand licensing quietly degrade the products you used to trust.
Allen Woke 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌐 @captainmeap.bsky.social Pro-abundance, new liberal shill, certified Lockheed Liberal, foreign policy enjoyer, American pragmatism believer, Catholic (but not in a weird way).
CaptainMeap on other platforms.
"Cynicism is the death of wisdom."
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social Bikes, transit, tech, dense cities, wilderness, thriving within environmental limits.
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Guido Imbens @imbens.bsky.social
Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social Research Fellow at @clscohorts.bsky.social
epidemiology, causal inference, methods, meta-science
Subscribe to the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai Ideas in AI, preferably in English. Mostly what and why, a little how.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social Econ prof at Oxford.
Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs.
maxkasy.github.io/home/
Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions
University of Waterloo.
https://morenocruz.org
Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com We are a locally owned online and print newspaper created in a Bellingham newsroom by local journos. We publish news, sports and lifestyle content, with a focus on Whatcom and Skagit counties.
Subscribe today: cascadiadaily.com/subscribe
Sequencer Magazine @sequencermag.bsky.social Decode the universe. A popular science magazine, writer-owned forever. From @goesbykim.bsky.social @maxlevy.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and @maddiebender.bsky.social
https://www.sequencermag.com/
Kristin Baumann @kristin-baumann.bsky.social Freelance Data Visualization Developer. Based in Berlin. https://www.kristin-baumann.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
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com anarchist warlord arbitration consultant. drummer in tragic lovers. writes WORK IS FOUR LETTERS, poster emeritus for NORMAL MEN. don't be a dick.
https://golikehellmachine.com
https://tragiclovers.bandcamp.com
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.
Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social New ideas daily.
https://linktr.ee/soreniverson
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Amanda Shendruk @ashendruk.com https://www.not-ship.com/
Explaining the world through data and design • Newsletter: Not-Ship • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian 🇨🇦 🏴
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art A weekly newsletter about data, data visualizations and the aggregated weirdness of the world around us. A pbump.com project.
https://howtoreadthisch.art
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
∅ @varnothing.bsky.social Philosophy|Poetry|Linguistics|Math|Art
Kind of just a notebook
Tags=mostly for muting
Je comprends le français 🇫🇷
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
The Needling @theneedling.com Seattle's Only Real Fake News
(Satire/Parody)
Have a hot headline tip? Send it to Submit@TheNeedling.com
TheNeedling.com
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
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Panthea Lee 李佩珊 @panthealee.bsky.social writer, cultural worker, trandisciplinary facilitator in service of life and liberation 🤲🏽🌿🌒💗 weaving from 台北 / Taipei
struggling with this era of social media. currently more at: panthealee.substack.com and instagram.com/panthealee_.
qdot @buttplug.engineer Teledildonticist, Arctic Fox, Cube
🍑🔌 @buttplug.io
🌐 @good.as.hell.domains
💼 nonpolynomial.com
💵 patreon.com/qdot | ko-fi.com/qdot76367
🐘 buttplug.engineer/@qdot
👾 twitch.tv/qdotfm
💻 github.com/qdot
🎶 last.fm/user/qdot
he/him
art by @gavbat.bsky.social
Kyle Husmann @kylehusmann.bsky.social Data Engineer, Open Science Advocate | kylehusmann.com
Andrew Dalby @ardalby.bsky.social He/him. Recovering academic. Bioinformatics and data science expert, working on influenza evolution and cancer genetics and Bayesian/pragmatic approaches to statistics. Now living in Spain and exploring a new life in Asturias. Crypto = instant block.
Lauren Tierney @tierneymaps.bsky.social Senior Product Manager of Mapping & Cartography @ Esri. Previously @washingtonpost.com and National Geographic. Map-maker and geographer. https://linktr.ee/tierneymaps
Thomas Kiehne @tkiehne.bsky.social Information, data, and systems geek. Climate, sustainability, and adaptation focused with a healthy dose of democracy and public health thrown in. Anti-fascist
He/him/fuck-u-fascist
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Alexander Verbeek @alexverbeek.bsky.social Climate action | Nature | Water-Energy-Food | Sustainability | Wildlife | Innovation | Writing about the beauty of our planet on: https://theplanet.substack.com
Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com Experienced user
Australian in Amsterdam
I talk about product design
Words: https://fasterandworse.com
Videos: https://youtube.com/@fasterandworse
Audios: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
William Careri @wcareri.com Assoc. Dir., Insights and Analytics at Temple University
Adjunct Prof. of Communication at Northampton Community College
https://www.wcareri.com
Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social Chaotic good (usually). Curious skeptic. Unfucker of clusters. I say what everyone else is thinking. Design is political. I swear because I care. she/her. designinginward.com
Mónica Gómez @monicagomez.bsky.social Innovación colectiva y diseño sistémico 🌊
Mente distraída, siempre sobrepensando, cuestionando y experimentando👩🏽🔬
Ing. & UXer crítica de la tecnología 👩🏽💻
📍🇨🇷 ESP/ ENG
midnightgrocer 🌙 mikey @midnigh.ht tinkerer + pixelworker
sd
Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design 💚 aspiring neighbor, 👔 principal software designer in emerging tech for healthcare, 🛠️ tools & workflows nerd, ✍️ occasional poet
😎 peterlewis.design
📝 medium.com/@thispeterlewis
👨🏻💻 figma.com/@designneighbor
📸 vsco.co/peterlewis
Gregg Bernstein (he/him) @gregg.io ⚙️ Research + writing
📘 Author of Research Practice
✏️ Sharing infrequently at http://gregg.io
↗ A work in progress
🤷🏻 http://shoulditalktoahuman.com
Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social UX Researcher & Strategist, Inclusive Designer in Enterprise UX. Speaker, Author, Mentor & Teacher.
Chaotic neutral tea & CSS lover.
Complaining = being alive.
She/Her 🌈
https://stephaniewalter.design/
http://neurospicy.agency/
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social Systems. Design.
she/her
Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. Author of ABSENT MINDS out now 📘. She/her 🌻
Max Graze @datagrazing.bsky.social 📊 data designer,
🦠 avid fermenter,
🏺 potter-er.
datagrazing.com
Amy Cesal @amycesal.com Freelance information designer and data viz consultant.
👩🏼🏫 Instructor @ MICA Data Analytics and Visualization grad program
📊 Product Evangelist @everviz
https://www.amycesal.com
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
Casual Inference Podcast @casualinfer.bsky.social Casual Inference Podcast. Hosted by @LucyStats.bsky.social & @EpiEllie.bsky.social | Partnered with The American Journal of Epidemiology | Casual chats about epi & stats. Episodes every other week!
Abigail Jacobs @azjacobs.bsky.social Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
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
@chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
Allison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social asst prof @ cornell info sci | fairness in tech, public health & services | alum of MSR, Stanford ICME, NERA Econ, MIT Math | she/her | koenecke.infosci.cornell.edu
Berk Ustun @berkustun.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on safety, interpretability, and fairness in machine learning. www.berkustun.com
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social Assistant Prof of AI & Decision-Making @MIT EECS
I run the Algorithmic Alignment Group (https://algorithmicalignment.csail.mit.edu/) in CSAIL.
I work on value (mis)alignment in AI systems.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/dhm/
Ryan Steed @rbsteed.com AI Policy Fellow @ Princeton | PhD Carnegie Mellon | privacy, accountability, & algorithmic systems
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law.
www.simonezhang.com
Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
Matt Groh @mattgroh.bsky.social Assistant professor at Northwestern Kellogg | human AI collaboration | computational social science | cognitive science