Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com journalist, author, internet participant
writing and reporting on space, AI, and public policy
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Oakland, CA
Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social The Stanford Chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social. Fighting to preserve academic freedom for all. All Stanford academic staff are eligible to join. Opinions our own.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/
Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. Host of First America podcast. Out June 22. Subscribe now! firstamerica.info
Josh Petri (he/him) @joshpetri.bsky.team Head of Communications, Bluesky Social.
former journalist and outdoor industry person. always an organic life form.
Project 2029 @2029foramerica.bsky.social Developing the governing agenda for America's next bright chapter
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
John Palfrey @palfrey.org President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Yiqing Xu @yiqingxu.bsky.social Stanford researcher. Work on applied stats, AI (?), China.
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Zack Cooper @zackcooper.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Lecturer at Princeton University
Partner at Armitage International
Former Pentagon and White House staffer
Wrangler of children
James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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Shitong Qiao @shitongqiao.bsky.social Professor of Law at Duke. Author of The Authoritarian Commons, Chinese Small Property, and Finance against Law. After two decades studying law, I’m still captivated by these questions: What is law? Does law matter? Why? 
Michael Hirson @hotpotwhynot.bsky.social China-watcher and considerate Citibiker.
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 @kendraschaefer.bsky.social Director Tech Policy Research, Trivium China / Chinese data, AI, and tech policy
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
History of Social Science @histsocialscience.bsky.social The official—and just-launched—journal of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), published by Penn Press: hss.pennpress.org
Jo Ling Kent @jolingkent.bsky.social Senior Business + Tech Correspondent at CBS News, mom of three, dog mom of one, LA gal
Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, about to re-form the band 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Currently in Chapel Hill, moving back to Beijing soonish. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org The latest technology news and analysis from the world's leading engineering magazine.
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social Immigrant rights attorney; focus on immigration detention. (Views my own; repost does not = endorsement)
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Jay Shambaugh @jaycshambaugh.bsky.social Professor of Econ and Intl affairs at GW
Former: Under Secretary of Intl Affairs at Treasury, Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings, Member at WH CEA, Senior /chief economist at CEA.
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Ravi Agrawal @ravireports.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of @foreignpolicy.com and host of FP Live.
Head to https://foreignpolicy.com/
Also here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravireports/
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
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)
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Farzaneh Bad @farzdusa.bsky.social DigitalMedusa https://digitalmedusa.org/
Netrifying the enemies of the global Internet
Say no to IP and government overreach!
@pedlt3.bsky.social @pedlt3.bsky.social 
Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Christopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Jeffrey Ding @jeffreyding.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Washington University | technology and int'l politics | newsletter on China's AI landscape: http://chinai.substack.com
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Soon-to-be Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Recreational essayist. Still technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
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/
afra @afrawang.bsky.social 
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social New York Times Opinion writer and New York Times Magazine columnist. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (https://tinyurl.com/dwwnyt). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.
https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/david-wallace-wells
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Shen Lu @shen-lu.bsky.social ex WSJ, Protocol, CNN.
Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social Journalist covering politics, policy, and economics for CNBC. matt.peterson@cnbc.com. personal site: mattpeterson.me
Chang Che @changche.bsky.social writer covering China | ex @nytimes, words in @newyorker |🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸| join my mailing list for updates on my writing: https://changche.substack.com/about
@davidedgarwolf.bsky.social @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social Editor, The Guardian Long Read
Jinghan (Michael) Zeng @jinghanzeng.bsky.social Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Author - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director (2025), AI with Chinese Characteristics (2022), Slogan Politics (2020) & Chinese Communist Party (2015)
Profile: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jingzeng
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Ami @amidanruo.bsky.social dew point evangelist
sports, books, felines, feelings, new york city, go blue. ann arbor raised, wellesley college made.
Melvin Peña @melvinpena.bsky.social making art, hiking, kayaking, gardening, watching films and tv, listening to music, reading comics, and singing karaoke
about.me/melvinpena
Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social 
Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95.bsky.social writer & editor covering China | journalist-in-residence
@tarbellcenter | writing a book on the Chinese Internet for
@AAKnopf
https://www.yi-lingliu.com/
Jeff Yang @originalsp.in TheyCallUsBruce podcast w/AngryAsianMan: http://bit.ly/listen2TCUB; Guardian US & NPR PCHH; Threads/IG: @originalspin
Books: RISE—A Pop History of Asian America from the 90s to Now; The Golden Screen—The Movies That Made Asian America
Pic: thx @gregpak!
Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social My cat probably won’t like you.
MLIS candidate • studying origins of research culture, academic publishing infrastructure, and document design • really into metadata and type semiotics • Parsons MFADT grad • Formerly: PLOS.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
issielapowsky.bsky.social @issielapowsky.bsky.social Journalist covering tech, politics, and national affairs. Formerly WIRED and Protocol. Work featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., The Atlantic, and more. www.issielapowsky.com
Signal: issielapowsky.08
Yaling Jiang @yaling.bsky.social Covering Chinese consumers on Following the Yuan & research-focused consultancy ApertureChina; ex-journalist & translator, Cantonese learner
📍London/Shanghai
https://www.chineseconsumers.news
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Leon Derczynski @leonderczynski.bsky.social LLMs & Security at NVIDIA
Prof in CS/NLP at IT University of Copenhagen
garak guy, garak.ai
"berømt skikkelse"
"like a gazelle"
Copenhagen/Seattle
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
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social Lawfare Senior Editor - MS NOW National Security and Intelligence Analyst - Former FBI Special Agent - “I am an American, Chicago born…”
Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social CEO, Vet Voice Foundation (@vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social) & Senior Advisor, VoteVets 🗣️ | Marine Corps Veteran 🇺🇸 | Defiant optimist | “If you're going through hell, keep going” | Tweets my own.
China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
@eknup.bsky.social @eknup.bsky.social 
Samm Sacks @sammsacks.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center & International Security Program, New America. Research on U.S.-China relations, technology, geopolitics of data.
https://law.yale.edu/samm-sacks
https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/samm-sacks/
Mark Parker Young @markparkeryoung.bsky.social Principal analyst at Google's Threat Intelligence Group. Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Views my own.
https://markparkeryoung.net
Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social Working on solutions as big as the problems we face.
michael caster @mcaster.bsky.social Head of Global China Programme @article19.bsky.social. Cofounder/advisor @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social. Other stuff. He/him.
@racstern.bsky.social @racstern.bsky.social 
Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social Exec. Director, Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy & Innovation/Asst. Professor of Practice, @OleMiss.bsky.social;
Board: @npcinstitute.bsky.social; @juristnews.bsky.social; Ex VOA White House bureau chief; 2022 Kiplinger Fellow; W7DQ on ham radio
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Nick Demarest @ndemarest.bsky.social Overly-Susceptible to Trust without Verification
and a likely
Provider of Context-Free Judgment and Opinion
@carlminzner.bsky.social @carlminzner.bsky.social 
Emma Rafaelof 江小莲 @erafaelof.bsky.social China and East Asia specialist with focus on tech and trade policy. Former USCC and DHS. 🕎 🍉 🌈
Jon Hillman @hillmanje.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Former advisor to Secretaries of Commerce, State, and USTR. Author, THE DIGITAL SILK ROAD: http://bit.ly/ChinaDSR
Silvia Lindtner @yunnia.bsky.social writer ethnographer Prof Umich Author of Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation she/her
erinxy @erinxy.bsky.social 
Isabel Hilton @isabelh.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, China, geo-politics, climate; Founder of ChinaDialogue; contributing editor Prospect Magazine. Chair of Centre for Investigative Journalism; NED E3G; visiting professor Lau Institute, KCL, co-chair Bureau of Investigative Journalism
John Delury @johndelury.bsky.social Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
The Trade War Lab @tradewarlab.bsky.social Global Trade, Local Consequences. | Analyzing trade politics through research, analysis, engagement, and innovation.
Supported by the University of Kansas.
Deb Seligsohn @debseligsohn.bsky.social Focus on China - especially the environment and public health, but care about the US too. Opinions are my own.
Scott Kennedy @kennedychina.bsky.social Senior Adviser & Trustee Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies | CSIS
Gregory Poling @gregpoling.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Opinion my own, etc etc