Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social We advance science and technology to benefit humanity.
http://microsoft.com/research
@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]
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • Sun Tzu • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://www.youtube.com/@DialecticalHouseParty • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
https://linktr.ee/MikeIsaac
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
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
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Correspondent, Vanity Fair
Signal: @mjnblack.09
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
dell cameron @dell.bsky.social Sr. writer @wired.com:
Surveillance & coptech
Signal: dell.3030
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Rude Law Dog @esghound.com Policy, Research, Muckraking, Two time winner of the "Wokest Hedgefund Analyst" award
blog.esghound.com
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social Subscribe:
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youtube.com/mattbinder
Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com 
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social writer in nyc, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, co-host of @criticallistening.bsky.social
lizpelly.info
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi Senior Reporter, Special Projects at TechCrunch. Formerly Bloomberg News and The Verge. Obsessed with public records and LLCs. Bad surfer. Reluctant karaoke participant.
Send tips 🕵️♂️
Signal: okane.01
sean.okane@techcrunch.com
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social Skateboarding, Tech-criticism, Blockchain colonialism and platform geopolitics, film, LFC.
Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Co-founder and journalist at 404media.co
I read every email
Gerrit De Vynck @gerritd.bsky.social Washington Post tech reporter
San Francisco
Defense tech and AI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/
Signal: GerritD.27
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com https://time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. @local6741.bsky.social & @cucfa.org These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Eden Medina @edenmedina.bsky.social Historian of tech @MITPSTS @MIT. Author Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Co-curator Cómo diseñar una revolucón // How to Design a Revolution. #sci #tech #politics #history #data #design #LatinAmerica #humanrights. Views my own.
Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Digital Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University
MMU UCU committee
I'm a political economist of the internet
www.danieljamesjoseph.net
Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners.
I analyze the video games market in Asia & MENA.
I post insights about the video games industry, as well as thoughts on tech, politics, history, science and public transit.
merritt @merrittk.com Writer/comedian. Madness archaeology @1900hotdog.bsky.social, story-based games at @insecretplaces.com, podcasting @ifyouredriving.bsky.social, merritt+ patreon.com/merrittk
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social Professor, writer, author of (most recently) Crowded Out. Co-host of @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social. Public health, medical anthropology, tech, politics. Good trouble always.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
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)
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reporter @WIRED.com
caroline_haskins@wired.com
785-813-1084
https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford NLP
https://myracheng.github.io/
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10.bsky.social Researcher studying social media + AI + mental health. Faculty of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. she/her
Koustuv Saha @kous2v.bsky.social Computational Social Science & Social Computing Researcher | Assistant Prof @illinoisCDS @UofIllinois | Prev @MSFTResearch | Alum @ICatGT @GeorgiaTech @IITKgp
Jessica Pater @jesspater.bsky.social HCI+health and social computing researcher at Parkview Health. Knitter, dog lover, travel enthusiast.
Jessica Vitak @vitak.bsky.social She/her. Professor at University of Maryland's iSchool. Former director of HCIL. Steering Committee Chair-Elect for CSCW. Research: privacy, surveillance, data ethics. https://jessicavitak.com
Come for the academic expertise. Stay for the cookie content.
Eran Toch @eranto.bsky.social I invent new technologies and user experiences for privacy & human-AI interaction. Prof of Engineering at TAU.
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Ross Weistroffer @libraryofbabble.bsky.social 🗳️ #DemocracyScience nerd for an incrementally better world, reporting from the intersection of info & action. Pro-🏳️🌈,🏳️⚧️, 🇺🇸, and 🇺🇳 🌎🌏🌍
🔎 Researcher @ discourselabs.org
🌇 Urbanist & governance reform advocate @ fairrepla.bsky.social
📍 San Francisco
Nazanin Andalibi @naz-andalibi.bsky.social Associate Prof, University of Michigan School of Information | she/her | emotion AI/privacy/justice/reproductive health and justice/endometriosis/social media| 🐕🦺mom | posts don’t represent employer
Shruti Phadke @shrutiphadke.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Drexel College of Computing and Informatics.
https://shrutiphadke.github.io/
Samantha Dalal @samanthadalal.bsky.social **On the job market!**
InfoSci PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder
MSR SMC '23; MSR TAIX '24
Community-based methods for tech accountability
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Adriana S Vivacqua @avivacqua.bsky.social Professor, CSCW & HCI, UFRJ, Brazil
Matti Nelimarkka @matnel.bsky.social 
Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social Internet sociologist, games scholar, in the non-profit sector.
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Nick Diakopoulos @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com. Writing https://www.ai-accountability-review.com/
Andrew Berry, PhD @andrewberry.bsky.social Design research, person-centered health care, digital health. Assistant Professor in Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
Ankolika De @ankolika.bsky.social PhD candidate, Penn State, Information, HCI, Social Media, STS; On the Job Market.
Sean Munson @smunson.com Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, co-Director of UW ALACRITY Center. Personal informatics & design of collaborative health interventions. Mountains, nature, & casual photography. Views my own. smunson.com
Daniel Epstein @depstein.net Associate Professor, University of California Irvine
https://depstein.net/
Harmanpreet Kaur @harmankaur.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Minnesota CS. Human-centered AI, interpretable ML, hybrid intelligence systems.
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
Diyi Yang @diyiyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Stanford CS @StanfordNLP @StanfordAILab
Computational Social Science & NLP
Michaelanne Thomas @michaelannephd.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information | anthropology of technology | precarity, activism, collaboration | Latin America + US | also parenting, animals, & tiny things | michaelannethomas.com
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
🌶 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
Lionel P. Robert Jr. @lionelprobertjr.bsky.social Professor of Information and Robotics University of Michigan.
#HRI #HCI #Robotics #CSCW
Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Robotics, Robotics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=62sb4psAAAAJ&hl=en