PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain
Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022
Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013
Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
Jackson Powell @powellj.bsky.social MD-PhD student @ Stanford
Ethan Solomon @esolomon.bsky.social Instructor on K99/R00 in psychiatry @ Stanford, MD/PhD @ Penn, SB @ MIT. Interested in the neural electrophysiology of cognition, perception, and psychiatry. ethanasolomon.com
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Kyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social language models, data & evals, prev co-lead of Olmo @ai2.bsky.social, nlp @uwcse, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Alyssa Vance @alyssavance.bsky.social Senior Data Scientist, Blue Rose Research. Futurist, neophile, machine explorer. alyssamvance@gmail.com
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford.bsky.social Globally ranked top 20 forecaster, former data scientist
As seen on TV! The Daily Show, Good Morning America
Protecting liberty and prosperity in the age of superintelligence
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I convert cold brews into noisy experiments.
Foundation Models @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science. 
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social Vision scientist. Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. 🇦🇺🇩🇪. pronoun.is/he
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social I run The Update newsletter: www.update.news
Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @jonathanm.bsky.social Interested in: cognitive science, Bayes, (ir)rationality, (effective) altruism, happiness, Al Alignment, reward hacking, running, reading books. He/him
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Lorenzo Bertolini @lorenzoscottb.bsky.social Researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Multimodality & interpretability in AI for health. Occasionally, AI for dream research. All views are my own
https://lorenzoscottb.github.io
Nuño Sempere @nunosempere.com See clearly, act fast, hold myself well. Seek self-reinforcing loops, cherish allies, and play on the side of humanity.
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
Thomas Kober @tttthomasssss.bsky.social Linguational Computist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Kalyan Dutia @kdutia.bsky.social founding/senior data scientist at Climate Policy Radar working on ML for better climate decision-making from documents
kalyan.link / climatepolicyradar.org
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Dennis Ulmer @ACL26 @dnnslmr.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
Previously PhD Student at NLPNorth at the IT University of Copenhagen, with internships at AWS, Parameter Lab, Pacmed.
dennisulmer.eu
Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social Journalist at Ars Technica focused on deep tech reporting. Also keen on history and climate issues. On Signal at sciencehsu.22
Olof Mogren @mogren.ml AI for climate change and biodiversity. PhD. Co-founder @climateainordics.com -- Head of deep learning research at RISE in Sweden. Love trail running and snowboarding. -- https://climateainordics.com , https://ridr.se
Dr Noemi Dreksler @noemidreksler.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI | Public and expert opinion of AI | AI Risk Management
Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe, Lead of Spatial AI team. AI for Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Hobby Cyclist. Austrian in France. https://chriswolfvision.github.io/www/
Jan Hosang @janhosang.bsky.social Tinkerer, dog-lover, MLbro, Computer Vision dude.
Carola Doerr @caroladoerr.bsky.social CNRS research director at Sorbonne University in Paris. Interested in black-box optimization (theory, benchmarking, applications, learning,...).
ERC project dynaBBO on dynamic black-box optimization algorithms (consolidator grant)
Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social || assistant prof at University of Montreal || leading the systems neuroscience and AI lab (SNAIL: https://www.snailab.ca/) 🐌 || associate academic member of Mila (Quebec AI Institute) || #NeuroAI || vision and learning in brains and machines- C Andrew Critch @critch.bsky.social Human being. Trying to do good. CEO @ Encultured AI. AI Researcher @ UC Berkeley. Listed bday is approximate ;)
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Mark van der Wilk @mvdw.bsky.social Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford.
Interested in automatic inductive bias selection using Bayesian tools.
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
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.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/
Sean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts ☕ into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social Professor in computational Bayesian modeling, Aalto University, Finland. Co-author of Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd ed, Regression and Other Stories, Active Statistics and Bayesian Workflow. #mcmc_stan and #arviz developer.
https://users.aalto.fi/ave/
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, sharing news on our outstanding research across a broad spectrum of computer science #CompSciOxford
Karen Ullrich (s/h) @karen-ullrich.bsky.social Research scientist at FAIR NY ❤️ LLMs + Information Theory. Previously, PhD at UoAmsterdam, intern at DeepMind + MSRC.
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Magnus Rattray @mrattray.bsky.social Professor of Computational & Systems Biology at University of Manchester. Applies machine learning and modelling to help understand the complexity of biology. idsai.manchester.ac.uk, https://www.ellismcr.org, @official-uom.bsky.social
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social 
François-Xavier Briol @fxbriol.bsky.social Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL Statistical Science. Interested in computational statistics, machine learning and applications in the sciences & engineering.- B Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social Academic, cognitive & vision scientist, computational modeller, cofounder @neuromatch Academy, He/His. This is a personal account.
Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen: NLP, language models, interpretability, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review. #NLProc #NLP
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd Biomedical Informatics PhD • CITRIS Health @UC Berkeley • FAMIA • Focusing on Informatics and AI in medicine • Linfield U. Grad • Missoula MT
https://smcgrath.phd
Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI.
computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG
Previously at UIUC, Spotify.
she/her. shadirezapour.com
Tomasz Limisiewicz @tomlim.bsky.social Postdoc at Meta and university of Washington in NLP. Before: PhD from Charles University (Prague 🏰).
Interested in going into the inner workings of neural networks 🔍, multilinguality 🌍, tokenization 🔡 and fairer NLP ⚖️ (he/him)
Matthew Finlayson @mattf.nl NLP PhD @ USC
Previously at AI2, Harvard
mattf1n.github.io
Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social Tenure-track faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Previously postdoc at UW and AI2, working on Natural Language Processing
Recruiting PhD students!
🌐 https://lasharavichander.github.io/
Alexander Terenin @avt.im Decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning theory, artificial intelligence · anti-ideological · Assistant Research Professor, Cornell
https://avt.im/ · https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EGKYdiwAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social Assistant prof of digital humanities @ Durham English, books about work || work about books, she/they, https://krmuth.github.io/
James Michaelov @jamichaelov.bsky.social Postdoc at Oxford. Research: language, the brain, NLP.
jmichaelov.com
Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com TT Assistant Professor @ Aalborg University Copenhagen | Making the world's knowledge reliable and accessible w/ ML + NLP | Former UCPH, UMSI, AI2, IBM Research, UCSD | https://dustinbwright.com
Joey Rudoler @jrudoler.bsky.social wharton stats phd — ml theory, ml for science
prev: comp neuro, data, physics
working with Edgar Dobriban and Konrad Körding
also some sports (esp. philly! go birds)
Dino Sejdinovic @sejdino.bsky.social Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide.
https://sejdino.github.io/
Smerity @smerity.bsky.social Always pondering startups, ML, Rust, Python, and 3D printing.
Independent ML researcher consulting on LMs + data.
Previously: Salesforce Research, MetaMind, CommonCrawl, Harvard. 🇦🇺 in SF. He/him.
Personal blog: https://state.smerity.com
Bram Zijlstra @bramzijlstra.com Machine Learning Engineer with a background in Philosophy and AI.
I live in Amsterdam. Right now working at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK). Also founder of a boutique consulting firm.
Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social Author of Interpretable Machine Learning and other books
Newsletter: https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/
Website: https://christophmolnar.com/
Przemek Grabowicz 🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇮🇪 @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Manjari Narayan | @Neurostats @neurostats.org AI in Bio & Health & Therapeutic Development
Bio: https://linktr.ee/mnarayan
Substack: https://blog.neurostats.org
Peek into my brain: notes.manjarinarayan.org
Previously @dynotx @StanfordMed PhD@RiceU_ECE | BS@ECEILLINOIS
🧪🧮⚕️🧬🧠🖥🤖📈✍️🩺👩📈📉
Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social Foundations of AI. I like simple and minimal examples and creative ideas. I also like thinking about the next token 🧮🧸
Google | PhD, CMU |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06963
vaishnavh.github.io
Thiago Serra @thserra.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Iowa, formerly at Bucknell University, mathematical optimizer with an #orms PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, curious about scaling up constraint learning, proud father of two
Samuel Vaiter @samuelvaiter.com CNRS Researcher
website: https://samuelvaiter.com
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Lucio La Cava @luciolcw.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Calabria 🇮🇹
👨🏻💻 Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies
Prev. Visiting @ IT University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰
🤖 Multimodal Representation Learning & Networks
https://luciolacava.me/
Eigenhector @eigenhector.bsky.social Machine learning, meditation, magic, muscles, mathematics, metta, meta, memes, manifolds.
Researcher in Machine Learning and Contemplative arts.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KjOV76MAAAAJ&hl=en
Recsys book author https://amzn.to/3ANPx6e
Jack Parker-Holder @jparkerholder.bsky.social RS at Google DeepMind and Honorary Lecturer at UCL. Building general world models to solve AGI :)
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com