Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social Science writer, mostly FT.
COYG.
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com Media Engineering x Experimental Music.
https://linktr.ee/stephenroddy
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Techmeme @techmeme.com Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
This account shares top-level Techmeme headlines. Visit https://techmeme.com/ for full context.
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Citizens' Track on AI @ai.citizens-track.org Working for a future of AI shaped by us all: through public engagement and policy impact.
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
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
@easst.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social
Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social Science communicator with McGill University's Office for Science and Society. Separating sense from nonsense. Not all studies are created equal. McGill.ca/OSS
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
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Dr Matt Winning @mattywin.bsky.social 🎤 Climate comedian
🌍 Lecturer in Economics of Sustainability @UCL.ac.uk
🌀 Environmental Expert
📚 Author of 'Hot Mess'
📻 Hosted BBC Radio 4's 'Net Zero: A Very British Problem'
www.mattwinning.com
https://linktr.ee/mattwinning
Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer. New book, HOUSE SOCIETY, forthcoming in Feb 2027 (with Allen Lane)
The Princess Bride @inconceivable.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy The Princess Bride (1987)
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: William Goldman
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Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social Legal scholar & Philosopher. Assistant Professor of Law @UofT Law. Author of 'Algorithmic Rule By Law' (CUP, 2025). Previously at EU Commission's AI HLEG, Council of Europe's CAI, KU Leuven & NYU Law. UChicago alum.
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social Emergence, synergy, brains, AI safety, mental health
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net Safeguards @ Anthropic, but anything posted here is my personal view
San Francisco
Blog: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Justin Kehoe @justinkehoe.bsky.social acquisitions editor at the MIT Press
musician at Constellation Myths
raised in Vermont, resides in Boston
he/him
Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social Economist. Director @CenTaxUK.bsky.social, AssocProf
@WarwickEcon.bsky.social, co-chair @DiscoverEcon.bsky.social, ResearchFellow @TheIFS.bsky.social, @cagewarwick.bsky.social, @LSEInequalities.bsky.social
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftist™
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social CEO of The Atlantic. Going out of business soon, since 1857.
Author of “The Running Ground: A father, a son, and the simplest of sports.”
Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social Host Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙
Assoc Prof of Engineering @ ANU | Deputy Director ANU Defence Institute | UNIDIR Fellow - researching the decommissioning of military AI systems | 🇦🇺🇱🇧
https://www.zenaassaad.com
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Mike Wozniak @mikewozniak.bsky.social Showbusinessman. One bean of @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social. The Malcolm Durridge behind the St Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast. Devoted assistant to the Junior Taskmaster.
www.mrmikewozniak.com
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • Sun Tzu • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://www.youtube.com/@DialecticalHouseParty • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06
mhairi-aitken.bsky.social @mhairi-aitken.bsky.social Co-Founder and Director at Our AI Collective | TEDx speaker | Children and AI | AI Ethics
Nick Bloom @nickbloom.bsky.social Professor of Economics at Stanford
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com
Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social A representation of old British TV. Far more links and details in the weekly Newsletter: https://whydontyoutube.substack.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Tada KUBOTA @tada-kubota.bsky.social STS researcher in Tokyo, Japan
focus: science policy, bioethics, bureaucracy, public engagement/ Asian bkgd (Japanese)/opinions mine
Ones and Tooze @onesandtooze.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com's economics podcast 🎙 Cohosted by @adamtooze.bsky.social and Cameron Abadi | New episodes every Friday
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ones-and-tooze/id1584397047
Mona Diab @monadiab77.bsky.social Professor & Director of Language technologies institute (LTI), CMU, and Director of R3LIT lab, Responsible AI/NLP, Applied ML, Arabic NLP, Low Resource NLP, Computational Social Science….
Eric Drott @ericdrott.bsky.social
Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing Fox with a boxy muzz. Late-30s. Scottish. 🔞 MINORS DNI 🔞
Barks at boxobark.ing
Chatbots are an ontological crime,
That's why I yiff Gemini on Google's dime.
"basically insane" - Andy Masley
ICMLAI_Conference @icmlai-pages.bsky.social Join us at the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science.
May 24-25, 2027 | Berlin, Germany
Website Link: https://artificialintelligence2027.pagesconferences.org/
Email: icmlai2027@pagesconferences.org
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET- G @gauravlaroia.bsky.social @gauravlaroia.bsky.social
Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social Philosopher of science, Director of Center for Public Engagement with Science at University of Cincinnati. Books: Idealization and the Aims of Science, Recipes for Science, Science and the Public. https://www.angelapotochnik.com
Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Chair Transport Committee. Highbury Cllr 2014-26. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Danny Blanchflower @dannyblanchy.bsky.social Prof of econ dartmouth and ex MPC Bank of England working a lot now on the declining wellbeing of the young around the world I am here https://sites.dartmouth.edu/blanchflower/
And now grandad of eleven
Blanchflower@dartmouth.edu
Gabrielle Lim @gabriellelim.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Political Science at the University of Toronto. Affiliated with the Citizen Lab. Mostly the politics of information, technology, and security in cyber and outer space.
More at gabriellelim.com
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social Philosopher at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in politics at the University of Bristol.
Investigating the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour, among other things.
ralphscott.co.uk
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social Opinions @WSJ.com & @Science.org. Author of Life Without Genes @harpercollins.bsky.social & On The Future of Species bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (12 Feb 2026) & @MITpress.bsky.social (28 April 2026). www.adrianwoolfson.com. Co-founder & CEO Genyro.com
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
Tom Baldwin @tombaldwin66.bsky.social Journalist, once a senior Labour Party adviser, and author of the best-selling biography of Keir Starmer, now out in paperback with a new chapter on the election and first weeks in power.
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
Frank @f-w-l.bsky.social writer @Futurism.com
Isabelle Lee @wordscompute.bsky.social ml/nlp phding @ usc, currently visiting harvard;
training & interpretability & reasoning
iglee.me
Jonathan White @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social Professor of Politics, LSE
https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/white-jonathan
Nic Johnson @tiltingatm3.bsky.social teaching fellow in Law, Letters, Society @uchicago
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
Aisha Down @aishadown.bsky.social Global technology reporter at the Guardian. You can reach me securely on Signal at aishadown.57
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China.
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk Disrupting Britain’s broken media. A new journalistic force from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @Zeteo.com.
https://zeteo.uk/
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Liliana Gil @gilanthro.bsky.social Ethnographer of tech primarily in Brazil - skill, inequality, and creativity
Asst Prof Comparative Studies (STS) Ohio State University
Occasional host NBN Anthropology
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com Researcher and writer
Specialised in Gender Studies and Tech Bros
Interests: cultural imaginaries, transhumanism, feminist technoscience, longevity, sociology of futures 🌌
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”