Melissa Chen @melissaychen.bsky.social 👋 human-computer interaction + computing education phd student @ northwestern university | she/her
🧠 studying how we design sociotechnical learning environments to support computing students' self-efficacy and motivation
🌐 melissaychen.com
Wolfgang Jentner @wjentner.bsky.social Associate Director, AI Research Applications. Office of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at the University of Arizona. Previously at DISC, University of Oklahoma & DBVIS at the University of Konstanz. https://wjentner.io
Joseph Seering @josephseering.bsky.social Assistant Prof at KAIST School of Computing. HCI, AI, T&S.
Jeff Hammerbacher @hammer.blue Curious
David Kouřil @dvdkouril.xyz Data visualization in biology and beyond.
Postdoc @ Harvard Medical School.
Previously: PhD at TU Wien.
davidkouril.com
Vidya Setlur @vsetlur.bsky.social Head of Tableau Research, Wiley book co-author - Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization. Research interests in NLP, visual analytics (and coffee). Opinions are my own.
Jean-Philip Piquemal @jppiquem.bsky.social Professor of Theoretical Chemistry @sorbonne-universite.fr & Director @lct-umr7616.bsky.social| Co-Founder & CSO @qubit-pharma.bsky.social (My Views)
https://piquemalresearch.com | https://tinker-hp.org- J Jen Mankoff @jcmankoff.bsky.social Personal views on disability and accessibility. Disabled, chronically ill academic @UW. make4all.org
‹Programming› 2026 @programming-conf.bsky.social Official website: https://2026.programming-conference.org/
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
Inha Cha @inhacha.bsky.social Ph.D student in Digital Media at Georgia Tech | HCI & STS | inhacha.info | She/her
The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com Data, charts, analysis and games from The New York Times: nytimes.com/upshot
Ben Shapiro (he/him) @benshapi.ro Prof @ University of Washington
trevor manz @manzt.sh middle child, creator of anywidget.dev
building @marimo.io; prev @harvard.edu- S Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social Automatically tweets new posts from http://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Please respond in the comment section of the blog.
Old posts spool at https://twitter.com/StatRetro
Andrew Head @andrewhead.bsky.social Assistant prof at Penn. Designing interactions to make code, formulas, medical notes, and mechanized proofs more readable.
Read about my group's work at https://andrewhead.info
Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd Professor @ University of Washington Information School. Computing, learning, design, justice, kitties, tacos, coffee, gender, politics, and transit. I write at amyjko.medium.com. I maintain wordplay.dev, bookish.press, adminima.app, reciprocal.reviews.
UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu UW HCDE: We build possibility.
We advance systems and technologies for people and communities to create accessible, sustainable, and prosperous futures. Offering undergraduate, master's, and PhD programs in Human Centered Design & Engineering.
hcde.uw.edu
Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social Logic Over Lunacy
Mr. Spock from Twitter
Commentary Account.
Cameron Yick @hydrosquall.bsky.social data vis & diagrams. co-organize @DatavizNYC + software @datadoghq . visual exaptation | creative (en)coding 
Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social 🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
CMU Data Interaction Group @dig.cmu.edu We are a research group at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (@hcii.cmu.edu). Our mission is to empower everyone to analyze and communicate data with interactive systems. 
Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair @vega-vis.bsky.social Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair are declarative formats for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualizations. 📊📈
Enrico Bertini (FILWD) @ebertini.bsky.social FILWD on Substack: https://filwd.substack.com/. Weekly post on data visualization and beyond (quite some AI lately).
Data visualizer (teaching, researching, divulging, etc.) Faculty at Northeastern University. Italian. Father of 3.
Menna El-Assady @elassady.bsky.social Assistant Professor at ETH Zürich
Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab
Interactive Data Lab @idl.uw.edu Visualization & data analysis research at the University of Washington. In a prior life was the Stanford Vis Group. https://idl.uw.edu
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
Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington educates tomorrow's innovators while developing solutions to humanity's greatest challenges.
Lace Padilla @lacepadilla.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Northeastern University and a member of the Data Visualization Lab @Khoury.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrDataVIS
Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social Faculty at Stanford | HCI+ Cognition| Learning Sciences | Artist | Canned seafood enthusiast.
Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca data visualization designer and founder of r42.ca
#dataviz · #LookerStudio · #PowerBI · #d3js · #measure – 🇨🇦 🇩🇪
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Gabriela Molina León @gabymlp.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University | Information Visualization & HCI | Ing. Computación #USBve | @gabymlp@hci.social | https://gmleon.github.io/
Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music.
newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com
website: https://helendecruz.net/
My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
Alper Sarikaya @alper.datav.is Senior Visualization R&D at Microsoft's Power BI. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I speak for myself. he/him https://alper.datav.is/
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org
Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
Mike Bostock @ocks.org Visualization toolmaker. Founder of Observable. Creator of D3. Former NYT Graphics. Pronounced BOSS-tock.
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof Michigan faculty, http://www.cond.org
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Karen B. Schloss @kbschloss.bsky.social Associate Professor
Psychology and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Niklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social Villum Investigator and Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University in Denmark. Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him. Mastodon: @elm@vis.social
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social Assoc Prof Computer Science at WPI— we study data visualization
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social Data Visualization Specialist (she/her) #dataviz 📊
The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy enthusiast of things you like, detester of the things you don't like, but not in a mean way so i don't seem off-putting. just generally a solid follow
[bridged from https://jorts.horse/@Birdbassador on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Danyel Fisher @danyelf.bsky.social Data visualization; user experience with data analysis; general joyful data nerdery. https://danyelfisher.info
Jeffrey Heer @jheer.org UW Computer Science Professor. Data, visualization & interaction. UW Interactive Data Lab, Vega, Ex-Trifacta. Sometimes Seattle, manchmal Berlin.
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Vsevolod Suschevskiy @vvseva.bsky.social Visualization and Interaction Design. Understanding and improving (maybe) research practices of analytical sociologists
https://vvseva.quarto.pub/
Chase Stokes @chasejstokes.bsky.social PhD candidate UC Berkeley School of Information. Interested in baseball, books, and the intersection of visualization and language.
Sehi L'Yi, PhD @handle.invalid Assistant Professor at HKUST CSE / HCI, Data Visualization, AI, Biomedical Informatics / sehilyi.com
Andy Cotgreave @acotgreave.bsky.social Tableau evangelist + data communicator.
Newsletter: http://tabsoft.co/sweetspot
Book: http://bigbookofdashboards.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acotgreave/
Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social Professor of Visual Analytics who does datavis, visualization storytelling and natural travel. Did I mention visualization?
Maarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social Data visualization consultant at the Development Data Group of the World Bank
www.maartenlambrechts.com
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO
Phd in accessibility, tool-making, vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Move slo and repair things.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social Helping you better understand web accessibility for people with disabilities. Created by @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social.
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind.bsky.social Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
IEEE VIS @ieeevis.org The world's premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics. https://ieeevis.org/year/2026/welcome
Mandi Cai @mundeekay.bsky.social 
Dominik Moritz @domoritz.de Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Previously @idl.uw.edu. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
Kate Isaacs @kisaacs.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Kahlert School of Computing & SCI Institute, The University of Utah. Data Visualization. HPC. She/Her. https://kisaacs.github.io
matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social #HCI researcher, assistant professor of computer science at the university of waterloo. previously {tableau | microsoft} research. interested in #visualization and ubietous information experiences. https://mattbrehmer.ca | https://ubixgroup.ca
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Ari @ari-holtzman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS & DSI UChicao
Leading Conceptualization Lab http://conceptualization.ai
Minting new vocabulary to conceptualize generative models.
Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago. Research on visualization, HCI, statistics, data cognition. Moonlighting as a musician 🎺 https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/
Fumeng Yang @fumeng.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UMD CS┃she/her┃HCI, Vis, & daydreaming┃Prev Northwestern CS, Brown CS, Tufts CS ┃www.fmyang.com ┃fig-x.github.io
Sachita Nishal @sachnishal.bsky.social HCI PhD @ Northwestern. I design human-centered AI tool to support science communication + study how AI tools might reshape people’s values, practices, relationships. she/her.
nishalsach.github.io
Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social Professing at University of Utah
vis/hci/programming interfaces
(He/his)
http://mcnutt.in/
Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social I don’t know man, I just don’t know.
Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com Information designer / art director / visual journalist / science communicator • Author of Building Science Graphics • Former gigs include graphics @ Scientific American & design @ National Geographic • www.jenchristiansen.com • Ask me about pulsar charts
Evan Peck @peck.phd 🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof
Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public.
📊❤️ PI: https://infovisions.github.io/
Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD
🔗 https://peck.phd/
Juho Kim @juhokim.bsky.social Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST. HCI and Human-AI Interaction researcher. Director of kixlab.org. juhokim.com - M Maryam Hedayati @maryamhed.bsky.social
Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social Data visualization researcher. Associate Prof of CS at the University of Utah. Lab website: https://vdl.sci.utah.edu. Co-founder of
datavisyn: https://datavisyn.io
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/
Fred Hohman @fredhohman.bsky.social HCI+ML Research Scientist at Apple. Drummer and frisbee thrower.
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/ 
Taewook Kim @taewook.bsky.social PhD student @ Northwestern
https://taewookkim.com
Hendrik Strobelt @henstr.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and Explainability lead at the MIT-IBM AI Lab in Cambridge, MA. Interested in all things (X)AI, NLP, Visualization. Hobbies: Social chair at #NeurIPS, MiniConf, Mementor-- http://hendrik.strobelt.com
Lonni Besançon @lonnibesancon.bsky.social Assist. Prof'ing in Data Vis & Sleuth'ing
"Troublemaker for truth" @ABCaustralia
"Dogged critic" @ScienceMagazine
@TEDx speaker #openscience #vegan
Ziyang Guo @ziyang.bsky.social Computer Science Ph.D. student at Northwestern. Advised by Prof. Jessica Hullman. Interested in Statistical decision theory and Visualizing & modeling uncertainty.
Ana Crisan @amcrisan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo. I try to help people make informed decisions with data. #HCI, #Viz, applied #AI/#ML.
Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net
Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com Visual perception and cognition scientist
(he/him)
My site: http://steveharoz.com
R guide: https://r-guide.steveharoz.com
StatCheck Simple: http://statcheck.steveharoz.com
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com data scientist studying how kids learn to speak, dad, jump roper, bayesian, husband to @amandawalrus.bsky.social, tjmahr.com, Madison, WI
Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research NYC. AI, Economics, Decision Science.
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
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
Alireza Karduni @akarduni.bsky.social Assistant professor of Human-centered Computing, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU | HCI + Vis researcher
Xiaoying Pu @xpu.bsky.social 
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling