Elizabeth Goodspeed @goodspeed.bsky.social Independent designer, writer, trend spotter, & casual archivist (she/her)
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Seb Lee-Delisle @seblee.me Speaker, coder, artist, laser specialist, intermittent YouTuber
seblee.me
liberationlaser.com
michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social nytimes reporter | tech, special projects | mhkeller@{nytimes,protonmail}.com, github/mhkeller | adjunct at CUJ | mhkeller.01 on Signal
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Max Fenton @maxfenton.bsky.social Web developer. Helped in the past with some startup stuff, some publishing stuff, and some art stuff. Big into patterns, networks, and kairomancy.
he/him/they/them
https://letterboxd.com/maxfenton
https://mas.to/@maxfenton
https://maxfenton.com
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
NBER @nber.org The National Bureau of Economic Research is dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.
nber.org
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
John D. Harden @jdharden.bsky.social Investigative data reporter | UC Berkeley @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social lecturer alum | R & SQL devotee, py-curious
Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
caitlin.gilbert@washpost.com ✉️
caitlingilbert.24 on signal
@caitlingilbertdata on tiktok/ig
🎭⚽️🎮 + other thoughts
washingtonpost.com/people/caitlin-gilbert
wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
Christine Zhang @christinezhang.bsky.social https://christineyzhang.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christine-zhang
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social AWS hero blogging at webdev.rip, building sanity.io, arc.codes and enhance.dev ... loves Nanaimo, Vancouver, programming, JavaScript, cloud functions, infra-as-code, synths, drum machines, and outdoors-y stuff. 🇨🇦
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Caitlin Ostroff @ceostroff.bsky.social Data reporter following the money for @wsj.com using words, numbers and code. Co-founder @journalismmentors.bsky.social. Tips? https://github.com/ceostroff/contact
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Tiziana Alocci @tiziana.bsky.social Data artist exploring absent data and invisible phenomena 📓 My first book out soon 📓 Explore my work, tools & talks: https://linktr.ee/tiz.alocci
I. Emilie Steinmark @iemsteinmark.bsky.social Science correspondent at the Economist. Never not looking for birds. 🇬🇧🇩🇰🏳️🌈
Kenneth Cukier @kncukier.bsky.social Journalist, book author, et cetera.
mu @mu.social A mew social thing by @eurosky.social, try for yourself: mu.social
Come visit us on the information superhighway: hello.mu.social
Feedback https://userinput.app/#/s/did:plc:ooensn4mr5mhznzypvxelfa3/3mnwmwn7sn22u
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
Tom Scott @tomscott.name Chief Digital Officer @PLOS.org. Previously responsible for Wellcome Collection’s digital transformation, Director of Product at Springer Nature, BBC /nature, /programmes /music &c. Oenophile and Type 1 Diabetic.
https://tomscott.name
Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to Melee DPS.
I’m https://wil.to
I wrote https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone
I wrote https://web.dev/learn/javascript and https://web.dev/learn/images too, way back when.
I make https://multipa.ge, y'know, when I get a chance.
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at Creator of Flask • earendil.com ♥︎ writing and giving talks • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” • More AI content on https://x.com/mitsuhiko
More stuff: https://ronacher.eu/
Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com Developer of sorts at @webdevs.firefox.com, but this is my personal account. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Jonathan Corum @13pt.com Information designer at 13pt.com, former Science graphics @nytimes.com
TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io Hyper-focusing on RPG design, Cleave (out now!), PBTA, Pathfinder 2e, etc.
he/they, free Palestine, blocks AI slop
https://www.devin-developing.link
Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010.
🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪
It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/
Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social 
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com Data viz / frontend developer @datawrapper.de
🔗 https://elliotbentley.com
R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com mimarobe | Prev affiliations: React core team, AWS Principle TPM, W3C and Mozillian | agentic web herald
Piccalilli @piccalil.li Level up your front-end skills. Stay for the approachable, friendly content and go away with transferable skills you can use day to day.
https://piccalil.li
Neal Agarwal @neal.fun making neal.fun
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Peter L Larson @medievalhistorian.bsky.social Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net Stay-at-home dad in Chicago. News product coach. He/him. Let's work together: https://brianboyer.net Bean tips: https://beantips.com/
Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
dan @danabra.mov электричество смотрит мне в лицо
Matthieu Favas @mattfavas.bsky.social I lead The Economist's coverage of commodities globally - energy, food and mining - as well as that of economic sanctions, grey/black markets and illicit finance more broadly.
jenn schiffer 😮💨 @jennschiffer.com middle-aged dirtbag, human computer genius, analog pixel artist
jennschiffer.com / livelaugh.blog / bugsrock.online
🚫EMAILING MY WIFE
Mackinac @mackinac.social Your bridge to the Social Web.
Mackinac is a Social Web client connecting people regardless of which protocol/platform they use.
mackinac.social
built by @whiteside.io
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Simon Rogers @simonrogers.bsky.social Author: What We Ask Google, May 2026. Data storyteller @Google. Was @Twitter @Guardian. Co-host with Alberto Cairo & Scott Klein of http://datajournalismpodcast.com
Scott Klein @kleinmatic.bsky.social Already living in the future of news at Newspack. Board at @muckrock. Former @propublica. Hoping for the best.
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com You want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com Founder, @euphonos.studio. Stop doomscrolling with @sill.social. Watch good NBA games with heatcheck.site. Used to work for a bunch of news orgs.
Lapsed Philadelphian in 🇳🇱.
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
OM @om.co “Failed Blogger”
✉️ Newsletter: CrazyStupidTech.com
🔗 Blog: om.co
📸 Photos: PhotosbyOm.com
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Chapel Hill Expert Survey @chesdata.bsky.social Chapel Hill Expert Survey of party positions
chesdata.eu
Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social Bitch 😎 lover 😽 child 👼 mother 🦾 sinner 👹 saint 🎅 sometimes feel ashamed 🧚♂️
Matthew Kay @mjskay.com Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web!
📝 powerful publishing tools 🛠️
🌱 for new writers & pros 🌿
🗣️ to connect & grow 👯
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Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub
Code: tangled.org/leaflet.pub/leaflet
Proton @proton.me Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/
@val.town @val.town If GitHub Gists could run
And AWS Lambda were fun
Manton Reece @manton.org Founder of Micro.blog.
Zanny Minton Beddoes @zannymb.economist.com Editor-in-chief at The Economist
Philip Coggan @philipcoggan.bsky.social journalist and writer
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Cyber War. Huh. What is it good for?
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers.com Global CTO, POLITICO. Ex Washington Post, New York Times, NPR. Fond of #TheSqueezle, #TheGiblette, Becky Bowers too.
Who wants to make some soup and drink some tea?
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social She/Her. find me at cons & signings, usually near Boston.
name - I was at an N. K. Jemisin signing and I did a piece of calligraphy for her, she said something like “wow, drive by calligraphy”, I asked if I could use that as a moniker. 
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/
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social Axios managing editor for data viz, previously at Pew Research
My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps
https://www.daniellealberti.com
Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
@yendraws
@readatmidnight
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Germ Network @germnetwork.com Drop into a private conversation, faster.
End-to-end encrypted DMs right from your Bluesky/Blacksky/atproto handle.
Start here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/germ-dm/id6446882771
Learn: germnetwork.com/blog
Find out: germnetwork.com/android-waitlist
LayerCake @layercake.graphics a graphics framework for sveltejs https://layercake.graphics
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com writer @ Core Memory • my two accomplishments here are that i invited AOC and i started the first-ever Hellthread • signal: kylie.111 • https://www.corememory.com/p/kylie-robison
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
elena shao @elenashao.bsky.social ✨ graphics, data & visual journalism @ the new york times
🗞️ https://www.nytimes.com/by/elena-shao
rich harris @rich-harris.dev my life is derp and i do derp shit
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader.
Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social Consulting on audience strategy, audiostrategy.org
Writing a book for @beltpublishing.bsky.social - preorder here! https://tinyurl.com/2nr23yep
Teaching digital sociability and ethics, NYU-Tandon
ACT-UAW Local 7902
Fmr audience data WNYC, NYMag, Megaphone
Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social Data & Graphics @ CNN. 📈👸
Priors: WSJ, ONS. Clearly a fan of acronyms. "Aggressive Door Opener".
Likes: Cats, maps, stats 🐱🗺️📊
Fair Warning newsletter: https://fairwarning.substack.com