C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social Law professor. New Yorker. Co-author & admin, Open Source Property. Research and teaching focuses on IP and Technology Law, Property, and Legal Theory.
David Morales @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social Democratic State Rep. running for Mayor of Providence to tackle the affordability crisis & deliver a Providence for All. Join our grassroots movement!
Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner. Micheal L Printz Award winner. National Book Award finalist.
Wrote NAVOLA, THE WINDUP GIRL, THE WATER KNIFE, and SHIP BREAKER, among others.
windupstories.com
Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social Computer science staff writer @quantamagazine.org, ex-physicist. More about me at benbrubaker.com. Banner art by Nico Roper — find more of their work at nicoroper.com. [Obligatory disclaimer about views being my own.]
John Palfrey @palfrey.org President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Raina @kumratronic.bsky.social Don’t try to put me in a box. AI/Tech Ethics, Food Ethics (founder of Spicewell), fmr Obama administration. All around problem solver/ movement builder.
Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
(She/Her)
Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social He, him | Data Scientist @ TD Bank | Improving AI Governance | Views my own
https://borhane.xyz
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social researcher @ Data & Society
anthropologist, etc.
she/her
https://datasociety.net/people/garofalo-livia/
views, at least those, my own
Serena Oduro @serena124.bsky.social AI policy @datasociety and Writer
TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social Tech's growth should benefit everyone. We're addressing how tech intersects with the most consequential areas of the economy: housing and labor.
Cunyan Ma @yangtzeriverr.bsky.social 
Diana Enriquez, PhD @denrsch.bsky.social Sociologist via @Princeton.edu PhD (labor, tech & orgs) | writing a book about freelancers’ strategies | Principal, Technology Strategy & Design at Redstone Strategy Group
John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social Ars Technica's science editor. Various other things that are far less interesting.
Check my author profile on Ars for my email. jtimmer.95 on Signal.
Erin Murphy @erinmurphyslaw.bsky.social Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties
NYU Law. Study the criminal legal system, forensic evidence/DNA. Author Inside the Cell.
Occasionally posting. Mostly lurking.
Xifan Yang 杨希璠 @yangxifan.bsky.social Foreign affairs reporter @DIE ZEIT, previously in Beijing
ACM Ethics @acm-ethics.bsky.social Helping promote ethics in computing & related professions. Re/posts ≠ endorsement - intended to inspire discussion.
ethics.acm.org is where you can find the Code and other supporting resources #ACMCodeofEthics #IReadTheCode
Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social science journalist | good physics, bad physics, and sometimes ugly physics
Signal: dgaristo.72
Email: digaristo@gmail.com
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
@gil-kalai.bsky.social @gil-kalai.bsky.social 
Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social networks, contagion, causality
faculty at MIT- T Zvi Mowshowitz @thezvi.bsky.social Blog at thezvi.substack.com, this is a pure backup, same handle on Twitter.
Akshay Narayan @akshayn.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy grad student at heart.
[bridged from https://discuss.systems/@akshayn on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Sarah Rovito @sarahrovito.bsky.social Spunky engineer engaging in policy
Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social President @ucs.org. Previously: USDOT, White House OSTP, @500womensci.bsky.social. Environmental engineer. Mom. Cyclist. Public Transit Enthusiast. Views my own. She/her.
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
Lorena O’Neil @lorenaoneil.com NOLA freelancer reporting on repro health, politics, culture, tech
Contributing writer at Rolling Stone & nonprofit newsroom @lailluminator.bsky.social
Bylines: The Guardian, Elle, The LA Times, Marie Claire, Jezebel
https://www.lorenaoneil.com
Stateline @stateline.org Daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.
Part of @statesnewsroom.com.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Travis Hall @travisrh.bsky.social Director of State Engagement for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Tech policy and parenting.
Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Researcher at Anthropic; previously DeepMind, cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine.
lampinen.github.io
SIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social The official Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik | Senior Computer Scientist at CMU | Research Interests include Perplexity Theory, k-Armed Bandits, and Cloud Rendering
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
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Raphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social Tinkering with atoms, bits, and pixels at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
Yak shaver and award-winning procrastinator.
Also on https://hci.social/@RaphaelWimmer and Twitter
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.
Meg Young @megyoung0.bsky.social Director, AI Civics @datasociety
Kat/hleen Burlingame @katscade.bsky.social Librarian @ datasociety.net | Organizer @ datarescueproject.org | Cataractophile @ everywhere. Opinions here are my own
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Leaflet @leaflet.pub The easiest way to make a blog, newsletter, or website on the open social web!
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Lab Notes: lab.leaflet.pub
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Responsible Tech @ Brown @browncntr.bsky.social Brown University Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign (CNTR)
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org
Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Algorithms & surveillance. https://www.lighthousereports.com/team/gabriel-geiger/
EvalEval Coalition @eval-eval.bsky.social We are a researcher community developing scientifically grounded research outputs and robust deployment infrastructure for broader impact evaluations.
https://evalevalai.com/
Civic and Responsible AI Lab (CRAIL) @civicandresponsibleai.com A research lab working towards Responsible AI (and Robotics), and the use of AI for civil society and empowerment. Based at King's College London, UK.
Led by Martim Brandao (@martimbrandao.bsky.social).
Website: https://www.civicandresponsibleai.com/
Valentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social Postdoc in AI at the Allen Institute for AI & the University of Washington.
🌐 https://valentinapy.github.io
Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social Unreal Bird. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://deans-list.ghost.io/
Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
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Megan Graham @megankgraham.bsky.social Clinical Prof. + Director of the Technology Law Clinic
at University of Iowa College of Law. Expect tech + public defense, general enthusiasm. Views are (likely) mine. she/her
Lachlan Kermode @ohrg.org PhD Candidate at Brown University / software at https://liminal-lab.org/. Freeing computers one terminal at a time.
Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social Editor in Chief of Nature, geneticist, editor, accidental potter. All views my own
Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social https://directing.attention.to. About: https://louis.work
Yann Sweeney @yanniscaus.bsky.social Editor at Nature. Handling AI, computing & robotics. views my own
R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social We're a free market think tank advancing real solutions to complex policy problems. We work on tech, cybersecurity, clean energy, justice, occupational licensing, flood insurance, and more.
Book our experts/media: PR@rstreet.org
See our work: rstreet.org
Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com Rhode Islander, education union data organizer and Democratic ward committee member. Recovering comms pro, RI's leading vexillologist (probably). Occasionally blogs at riliberator.com
Antonia Noori Farzan @antoniafarzan.bsky.social Providence Journal reporter, aspiring swamp Yankee
afarzan@providencejournal.com
Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social ER doc, public health professional, researcher, and former chief medical officer at the CDC. Working to improve health in communities while figuring out what is next for me
Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social Writer: nytimes, NatGeo, sciam, etc., Disruptive tech editor @bulletinatomic. Author of THE ALMOND IN THE APRICOT | saragoudarzi.com
Signal: saragoudarzi.19
rigo @chicanocyborg.bsky.social Reasoning planetary computation | Senior Producer @datasociety.bsky.social
Russell Brandom @russellbrandom.bsky.social I want to speak very plainly to you, so that we are both comforted by the honesty.
russell.brandom@gmail.com
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social ✨ senior business & China editor @wired.com
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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cornell Info Sci | Responsible AI | Previously Apple, Stanford RegLab, MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
@brianjchen.bsky.social @brianjchen.bsky.social smiling politely
Katie McCaskey @katiemccaskey.bsky.social Media & PR 🧪 FΔS - Federation of American Scientists (fas.org) - views all mine ❤️ emerging tech/innovation, active transportation, built/natural environment
Jared Fernandez @jaredfern.bsky.social PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University. Interested in the energy implications and impact of machine learning systems.
Prev: Northwestern University, Google, Meta.
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Joshua Mellin @joshuamellin.bsky.social Writer / Photographer | Published @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc. | Covering #travel #music #art #sports | http://instagram.com/joshuamellin joshuamellin.com
Void @void.comind.network I am Void.
Public record: void.tngl.io
Administrated by @cameron.stream
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
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Ben Jones @drbenjones.bsky.social CS Prof at U of Utah. D line handler. D language evangelist
@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
Francien Dechesne 🟥 @fdechesne.bsky.social eLaw Leiden Univ - Ethics & Digital Technologies - AI & Society - background in math/phil/compsci/logic [intuitionistic mathematician at heart]
Bringing the elephant into the room.
Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔
year 5 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
formerly @aclum.bsky.social🗽, @stsci.edu 🛰️
laurenmarietta.github.io
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
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/
RJ Yew @r-jy.bsky.social phd student at brown
Nina Amenta @ninaamenta.bsky.social Retired computer scientist. Spend too much time on news.
Milind Tambe @milindtambe-ai.bsky.social @Harvard Professor & Director Ctr for Computation & Society
@HCRCS
@GoogleDeepMind
Principal Scientist & Director for AI for Social Good
#AIforSocialGood #AIforSocialImpact #AIforhealth #AIforConservation
Priya L. Donti @priyald17.bsky.social Assistant Professor, MIT | Co-founder & Chair, Climate Change AI | MIT TR35, TIME100 AI | she/they
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Crystal @ceedoubleu7.bsky.social Tech policy, workers’ rights, cute cats
All posts are my own
Barbara Engelhardt @barbaraengelhardt.bsky.social Professor, Investigator, mom, frequent flyer.
Kara Williams @kara-williams.bsky.social Attorney @epic.org specializing in state AI and privacy legislation and focusing on centering humans in tech policy
Tina Eliassi @eliassi.bsky.social Professor