Sepehr Vakil @sepehrvakil.bsky.social Professor, educator, writer. 📚Revolutionary Engineers available for pre-order. https://sepehrvakil.substack.com/
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
💭 people, platforms, power.
they/she. 🧋 🍑 🧑🏾💻
https://psampson.net
Art bot @art-institute.bsky.social Posting random artworks from Art Institute of Chicago's API. For more info, look at the API https://api.artic.edu/docs/#introduction
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
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
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cornell info sci & summer research intern @ Apple | Responsible AI | Previously Stanford RegLab, MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
Sneha Narayan @snehanarayan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carleton College. Very into dogs, bikes, and pedagogy.
Daniel Trielli @danieltrielli.bsky.social Brasileiro. Inconstant poster in English and Portuguese. Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
https://danieltrielli.com
Mohit Iyyer @miyyer.bsky.social associate prof at UMD CS researching NLP & LLMs
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom.
www.propublicaguild.org
Mixmoji 🤖 @mixmoji.pixigeko.com Uses Google's "Emoji Kitchen" to send a mix of two emojis every two hours 🧑🍳
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social I want to do everything all the time
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social in a dumpster. i post about jason statham and the nba sometimes
Human Rights Data Analysis Group @hrdag.org We're a nonprofit organization using data analysis, scientific research, and innovation in scientific methods in the field of human rights.
Website: https://hrdag.org
Substack: https://hrdag.substack.com/
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Illinois DNR @illinoisdnr.bsky.social Official account of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. State parks, historic sites, wildlife, water, mines, education and more. #findyourselfoutdoors
The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social Community-driven & collaboratively developed open source guides for Data Science & Research: http://the-turing-way.org 📚 
Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu advancing computational & data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. Publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social.
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Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@chicago.at @chicago.at chicago.at
Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social The defense policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️
https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
Jedi Council Forums @jedicouncilforums.bsky.social The Official Blue Sky account for the Jedi Council Forums.
Elena Zheleva @elenadata.bsky.social CS Prof @ University of Illinois Chicago. Research in causal inference, machine learning, graph mining, privacy.
www.cs.uic.edu/~elena
Evan Miyakawa @evanmiya.bsky.social College basketball analytics at EvanMiya.com. PhD Statistician / Data Scientist. Featured in ESPN, CBS Sports, The Athletic, Wall Street Journal. Hebrews 11:6.
Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org Regional film archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to films that represent the Midwest. More at chicagofilmarchives.org
Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
Director of the Justice Project
justiceproject.uchicago.edu
marimo @marimo.io An open-source reactive Python notebook: reproducible, git-friendly, execute as scripts, share as apps!
GitHub: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo
Discord: https://marimo.io/discord?ref=bsky
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Open Education Network @openednetwork.bsky.social A community of open education practitioners reimagining higher education so that all students can be successful.
Denali @denali.bsky.social Early childhood and public systems researcher.
Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago.
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Chicago Public Library @chipublib.bsky.social Read, learn, discover.
Opened in 1873, Chicago Public Library has locations in every Chicago neighborhood.
Chicago Collections @chicollections.bsky.social A consortium of libraries, museums, and other institutions with archives that collaborate to preserve and share the history and culture of the Chicago region.
Quarto @quarto.org Open-source scientific and technical publishing system brought to you by posit.co.
github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
Center for Open Science @cos.io Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com Welcome to The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, published weekly since 1823.
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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a scientific and professional organization for people working on Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics.
Hash tags: #NLProc #ACL2026NLP
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Clara Moskowitz @clarakm.bsky.social Senior Editor at Scientific American, covering astronomy, physics and math. She/her 🏳️🌈
Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social CHNOPS in ferruginous saline. Multicellular aerobic chemoheterotroph; symbiont of photosynthetic autotrophs. Descendant of stardust; aspiring good ancestor. Senior Editor, Scientific American. Signal: @lee_billings.81
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
MDN Web Docs @developer.mozilla.org The official MDN Web Docs account, now on Bluesky. We deliver the best web docs around.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I track ICE flights and third-country removals. Bylines in Mother Jones, Zeteo, Rolling Stone, American Prospect. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Newsletter: gillianbrockell.com
Signal: gbrockell.44
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/
UIC GEO @uicgeo.org Union representing 2400+ Graduate, Teaching, and Research Assistants at U of Illinois at Chicago. UIC Works Because We Do! AFT Local 6297, IFT, AFL-CIO. https://linktr.ee/uicgeo
Utsav Gandhi @utsavpgandhi.bsky.social Doctoral student and researcher of tech policy, journalism, and communication platforms |📍Chicago, IL | formerly @cnti @stiglercenter @harrispolicy | 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🏳️🌈 #commsky
Allison Wall @awritingwall.bsky.social Writer. Autistic. Queer. Witchy. D&D. LSQ reader. ✨🌈
Dark Speculative Fiction | Gothic/Weird, Surrealist, Horror
https://www.allison-wall.com
Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social I post every lot in Chicago.
Picking up where Every Lot Chicago left off on Twitter.
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
🤖 https://github.com/MisterClean/everylotbot-chicago
EvalEval Coalition @eval-eval.bsky.social We are a researcher community developing scientifically grounded research outputs and robust deployment infrastructure for broader impact evaluations.
https://evalevalai.com/
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social The official account of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team COO of Bluesky 🦋 - hiring https://bsky.social/about/join!
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social As Chicago's PBS station, WTTW is committed to producing and presenting independent, trusted, best-in-class content fueled by a distinctly Chicago sensibility.
https://t.co/QTmgsrKIaj
Scott Wolford @thescottwolford.bsky.social Professor of Government, UT Austin // Co-director, Correlates of War Project @correlatesofwar.bsky.social // IR, war, game theory, beer snobbery, rock music, Dune references
Jeff Carter @jeffcarter.bsky.social Researches and professes about international relations. “An incredibly average scholar.” Co-director of the Correlates of War project. Probably thinking about music, food, or the dog. 
The Correlates of War Project @correlatesofwar.bsky.social http://www.correlatesofwar.org/
Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social Senior writer at @WIRED.com, covering tech. Signal: peard33.24
WhatsApp: +1-415-565-1302
pareshdave.com
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RAYGUN @raygunsite.com Clothing. Home Goods. Time Travel Supplies.
Iowa (x6), Nebraska (x2), Chicago, KC, Madison.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social The Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago supports inquiry on significant economic and policy questions. Repost/Follow ≠ endorsement.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
etymonline @etymonline.bsky.social Online Etymology Dictionary
AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social Ethical Legal Societal laboratory focused on the implications of AI for Media and Democracy 🤝 CWI, HvA & UvA #ELSAlab
The Aspen Institute @aspeninstitute.bsky.social 
Aspen Digital @aspendigital.bsky.social We connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off. @aspeninstitute.bsky.social
Center of Trial and Error @trialanderror.org Redefining Failure.
We publish the less pretty parts of science as the Journal of Trial and Error (https://journal.trialanderror.org)
https://linktr.ee/journaloftrialanderror
Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org The world's largest professional organization advancing #computing as a science and profession. Also on Mastodon | LinkedIn | Meta | YouTube | Instagram.
IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social Provider of census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Use it for good, never for evil. ipums.org 
Thomas Eßmeyer (né Mildner) @thomasmildner.me Designer and computer scientist ✏️💻 from northern Germany. Trying to make social media more social. In my research, I focus on ethical design, dark patterns, and online well-being. Now a postdoc at Uni Bremen. He/him
#hci #dpbsky
www.thomasmildner.me
PrivaCI Institute for Technology Policy and Social Integrity @priva-ci.bsky.social https://privaci.info
Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social TechCrunch reporter and editor. Used to be @sarahintampa / @sarahperezTC on Twitter. Tips? Signal @sarahperez.01 / sarahp@techcrunch.com.
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
CreativeMornings @creativemornings.bsky.social The world’s largest face-to face creative community. Find your city, or start a chapter: www.creativemornings.com
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
Knight Foundation @knightfoundation.org 
Dasha Pruss @dashapruss.bsky.social Critically studying carceral tech and organizing against it.
▪️Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, George Mason University
▪️Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
▪️dashapruss.com
Evanston RoundTable @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social Free, local nonprofit news for Evanston, covering what matters since 1998.
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UC Berkeley CDSS @berkeleycdss.bsky.social UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society – advancing data-intensive learning, discovery, and innovation
cdss.berkeley.edu
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Urban Omnibus @urbanomnibus.bsky.social An online publication of the Architectural League dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city.
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Senior Reporter at TechCrunch. Co-host of the Equity podcast. Author of TechCrunch Daily AM newsletter.
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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future.
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