Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social World Bank
Macro / Climate
Opinions are mine and not WB
X: Kevin_Carey_WB 
Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social Science, analysis, and news around climate change's impacts on the economy, focusing on growth, inflation, investment, companies, consumers #ClimateRisk #ClimateImpacts
Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social An experiment in posting articles from less common sites and topics, as many posts as Bluesky allows per day. Please mute or block if the volume is annoying.
Contact @tfederman.bsky.social with comments or questions.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Xavier MacDuff @xvrmdf.bsky.social 
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @virusesimmunity.bsky.social We study antiviral immunity and viral disease pathogenesis. We are developing mucosal vaccine strategies to prevent infection and transmission. #COVID19 #longCOVID #vaccines 
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
The Pandemic Institute @thepandemicinst.bsky.social A Liverpool-based, global-facing collaboration founded by seven local partners, preparing the world for emerging infections and pandemics. Visit our website for more information on funding calls and partnerships.
https://www.thepandemicinstitute.org/
Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, New College, Oxford. Editor-in-Chief, Brain
Jim Dunn @urbanhealthprof.bsky.social Sen. Wm. McMaster Chair in Urban Health Equity | Prof @McMasteru | Scientist @MAP_Health |Go @Ticats. Housing: chec-ccrl.ca
Nassim Assefi @nassefi.bsky.social women's health/global health/human rights physician, novelist, creative content catalyst, TED(+MED)ster, single mama, Iranian-American, global nomad, feminist, thrillionaire; www.nassimassefi.com
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Former CDC Director and New York City health commissioner. Focused on partnering with communities around the world to save lives.
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Alex Peltzer @alexpeltzer.bsky.social Clinical Bioinformatics @boehringer with interests in NGS, cloud, @nf_core , cancer & immunology. Tweets are my own. @alex_peltzer@genomic.social
Gresham College @greshamcollege.bsky.social Free public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597
http://gresham.ac.uk
Paul Graham @paulgbot.bsky.social Mirror of Paul Graham’s X account (https://x.com/paulg). Maintained by @fela.xyz, purely as a public service.
A. Marm Kilpatrick @disease-ecology.bsky.social 
Rutendo Muzambi @rutendo-rm.bsky.social Epidemiologist and Research Associate at Imperial College London working on sickle cell research. Previously at LSHTM
Cory Glover @cory-glover.bsky.social A network scientist with too many interests.
Post-Doctorate Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Lab • Mathematician • Physicist • Husband • Latter-Day Saint • Music Obsessive
https://coryglover.github.io
Bill Gates @billgates.bsky.social Global Health. Energy Innovation. Alzheimer’s. https://gatesnot.es/tgn
Annette Zimmermann @drzimmermann.bsky.social Political philosopher of AI. Democratizing AI, AI ethics. Assistant Prof @ UW-Madison. Previous: Harvard Tech & Human Rights Fellow, Princeton postdoc, Oxford DPhil 🤖 In Berlin this academic year 📍
Samuel Lampa @smllmp.bsky.social Fascinated by Living Systems | Clin Micro Bioinfo @ Karolinska | PhD http://pharmb.io | Reproducibility, #SciWorkflows | Curious: Genomic Algos, TEs
R&D: livingsystems.cc
Thinking: livingsystems.substack.com
Married. Dad. Sinner saved by grace.
Matt Brems (he/him) @mattbrems.bsky.social Chief Data Scientist, Break Through Tech @ Cornell University. Chair & Board Member @ Statistics Without Borders. ML/AI Educator. Passionate about democracy. 🏳️🌈
Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social CEO of Coefficient Giving
Pat Alt @patalt.org Trustworthy AI, Counterfactual Explanations, Open-Source Software and other PhD things at TU Delft.
@julialang.org developer @taija.org
Website: www.patalt.org
Nicolas Yax @nicolasyax.bsky.social PhD student working on the cognition of LLMs | HRL team - ENS Ulm | FLOWERS - Inria Bordeaux
Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social Computational cognitive scientist interested in learning and decision-making in human and machiches
Research director of the Human Reinforcement Learning team
Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Sondre Ulvund Solstad @sondreus.bsky.social @TheEconomist Senior Data Journalist &
@Harvard University @IQSS affiliate
Data/sims/models ➡️ articles++
not v active here, so best email: sondresolstad@economist.com
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research center based at the University of Oxford and Oxford Population Health - disrupting and realigning #demography. Funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social
https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/
Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social Scientist working on antibiotic resistance, evolution, and mobile genetic elements. Prof at U.Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College 
Alison Turner @alisonturner.bsky.social Mobilising knowledge for policy and strategy in the NHS
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
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Sam Harper @sbh4th.bsky.social Professor, Epidemiologist, McGill University. Impact evaluation, health inequalities, reproducible research. 🚲🍳🍷🎸🏸👨💻 https://samharper.org
Adam Gaffney @awgaffney.bsky.social Pulmonary & ICU doctor, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, past president PNHP, author "To Heal Humankind", dabbler, tweets my own.
Webpage: https://dradamgaffney.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KChlDTsAAAAJ&hl
@duncanjwatts.bsky.social @duncanjwatts.bsky.social 
Mahan Ghafari @mghafari.bsky.social Molecular evolution of pathogens | Wellcome Trust Fellow @biology.ox.ac.uk | Independent Investigator Data Analytics & Epi Group @psioxford.bsky.social | MedSci Fellow @lincoln.ox.ac.uk | Oxford DTP & Zoology alum | https://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613/
PubSci (Science in the Pub) @pubsci.bsky.social Monthly science talks for the sci-curious, the sci-adjacent and the sci-active. In a London pub with very good beer. Pay-what-you can (for the talks, not the beer). PubSci: Sipping • Supping • Science
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social Aging lab @Stanford. Our interests include mechanisms of aging, brain aging and rejuvenation, neural stem cell aging, genetics of lifespan and suspended animation in killifish
Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social Bren Professor of Computational Biology @Caltech.edu. Blog at http://liorpachter.wordpress.com. Posts represent my views, not my employer's. #methodsmatter
Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social Neuroscientist at CSHL. Interests: neuroAI, molecular connectomics, & cortical circuits. Co-founder of Cosyne and NAISys meetings.
David A. Markowitz @davidamarkowitz.bsky.social https://www.markowitz.bio/
Avital Rodal @rodallab.bsky.social Dances with endosomes, frolics with fruit flies. Speaking for myself.
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
Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social I research, teach, and write about about the causes and consequences of the proliferation of nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (CBRN) weapons to states and terrorists. Views are my own.
Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social Writing about factory farming and the future of meat at Vox. 
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist, human evolution, Neanderthals, modern human origins, S-E Europe and Greece.
Dog enthusiast!
Professor, University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironments. Opinions my own.
Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social Developmental cognitive scientist | Assistant professor of psychology at Yale 
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01. I periodically delete all my posts.
Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org | NYU Law RCLS Sr. Fellow | Berkeley Law | Former National Security Council Deputy Legal Adviser, White House Associate Counsel & Special Assistant to the President (Obama) | Former State Department
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Denis Nash @denis-nash.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist and academic with interests in public health surveillance. Prior experience with CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
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
Bob Wachter @bobwachter.bsky.social Chair, UCSF Dept of Medicine. Career: What happens when a poli sci major becomes an academic physician. Author, "A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future." Hubby/Dad/Grandpa/Golfer
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social Currently interested in social behavior and physiology 🧠🌎
• CV Starr Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Neuroscience Institute
• PhD in Neuroscience at NIH &
Brown University
• MSc in Cell Biology at MPI for Brain Research
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭
Niles Eldredge @nilese.bsky.social 
Chris Mooney @chriscmooney.bsky.social Climate and science journalist and Julia G. and Alfred G. Hill Chair of Excellence in Science, Technology, and Medical Writing at @utknoxville.bsky.social. Former WaPo climate writer. Views are my own. For my latest: https://reportearth.substack.com/
Olivia Rudgard @oliviarudgard.bsky.social Bloomberg Green reporter in the UK. How do we live now?
Writing about people, money, climate.
Mostly reporting, but any stray opinions are my own.
Stories: https://t.co/eIuIZiReQn
Rafa Sanjuan @rafa-sanjuan.bsky.social Virology. Evolution. Science at large. Now focused on emergent viruses. Universitat de Valencia.
Tom ‘Beardo’ Hilliard @tomh4.bsky.social Trying to stay focused on higher ed, but someone always seems to be wrong on the internet.
Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social Journalist. Beat reporter covering the court, prison and other aspects of life at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Former Miami Herald Middle East correspondent.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social The scientist formerly known as Lab Girl.
I write books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111914/hope-jahren/
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Nate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social 86-47
Former Director, NIH Exec Sec
David Fahrenthold @fahrenthold.bsky.social New York Times investigative reporter, writing about the world of nonprofits. CNN political analyst. Please send story tips! daf@nytimes.com
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov Mom, wife, daughter, and loving but distracted friend. U.S. Senator for Minnesota. Prefers window seats, donuts and MN beer (all together when possible) ✈️ 🍩🍺
Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
Annie Roth @annieroth.bsky.social Journalist, filmmaker & children's author focused on science & nature. Words in NYT, Nat Geo & more.
🎥 Hellbent (2023)
📖 Amazing Oceans (2023)
🎥 Little Penguin Love Island (2024)
📖 Earth's Incredible Habitats: Ocean (2025)
RothReporting.com
Humberto Basilio @humbertobasilio.bsky.social Science Journalist | words in The New York Times, Nature, National Geographic, Science Magazine, Scientific American, Atmos, etc | Views my own |
Tips: hmbrtbasilio@gmail.com
Signal: humbertobasilio.24
Heidi Ledford @heidiledford.bsky.social Reporter for Nature, mostly covering biology and medicine.
Probably has more Nature publications than you😁.
hledford.01 (Signal) and heidiledford (@proton.me)
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
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Robert Pauls @robertpauls.bsky.social Political economy of China's socioeconomic transformation, monetary policy, industrial policy. Suzhou, China. www.robertpauls.net
Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social Opticore CFO / Energy things with ANU
syncretica.substack.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Vg7PNIAAAAJ&hl=en
Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki @nks.bsky.social Advisor for Trade and Economic Security @DelorsInstitute
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Jérôme Deyris @jdeyris.bsky.social Assistant Professor in economics at @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social -
I study central banks, in relationship to the climate crisis and to politics
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne | IPE & Geoeconomics | Trade imbalances 🚢 & EV battery value chains 🔋
https://palmapolyak.weebly.com/research.html
Juan Vázquez @artjvrojo.bsky.social Professor and researcher in Economics. Autor de El regreso de China (Península, 2026).