Daniel Yudkin @dyudkin.bsky.social Director of the Beacon Project at More in Common using social psychology to build a more cohesive future; Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School
Media Bias Fact Check @mediabiasfactcheck.bsky.social Rating the bias and credibility of 8000+ journalists, politicians, and media sources. Fact Checks and media news.
Website: mediabiasfactcheck.com
Democracy Technologies @demtech.bsky.social Democracy Technologies is the first comprehensive online magazine offering news, background, evaluation and networking around – covering online participation in politics, e-voting and party technologies.
Powered by the Innovation in Politics Institute.
@chrispyross.bsky.social @chrispyross.bsky.social Senior analyst @ meo.ca | big fan of climate policy and Canadian politics | Calgarian in Montreal
https://chrispross.github.io/
UnHerd @unherd.com Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture.
Dare to think for yourself, subscribe to UnHerd here: http://unherd.com/join
Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social Assistant professor of international relations and international law | sometime political advisor | All views mine alone | find me on Twitter at @yuanyi_z
Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social @newpublic.org cofounder / Filter Bubble author / dad, husband, human
DWeb @getdweb.net DWeb connects people, projects, and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is private, reliable, secure and open.
mai ishikawa sutton @mai.bsky.social senior organizer @getdweb.net
co-founder of @compost.bsky.social + @dwebpress.bsky.social
maisutton.net/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Social Futures Lab @socialfutureslab.bsky.social We are the Social Futures Lab at UW CSE! We are reimagining social and collaborative systems to empower people and improve society.
https://social.cs.washington.edu/
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer digital environments. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social Writer, organizer, theconnector.substack.com
Sarah Drinkwater @sarahd.bsky.social Constant learner, infinite game player, investor, community builder, Londoner (for now)🍃🌲
commonmagic.xyz
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Golda Velez @goldavelez.org 60% earnest 10% snark and the rest is random tree pics and stuff
volunteer human rights- RaisetheVoices.org
earned governance startup- LinkedTrust.us - spreading @ Workers.vc
signal: @minty.53
Dr. Desmond Upton Patton @dupatton.bsky.social 31st PIK University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸
tech blah blah
@b.astrel.la’s weirder half
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis
probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
Kimberly Bryant aka 6gems @kimberlybryant.bsky.social Founder and CEO Black Innovation Lab http://blackinnovationlab.org
Founder Black Girls CODE
🎙️Host: Inner Garden Podcast http://bit.ly/40q9BoS
rootsandresilience.substack.com
Author~Ascending Nov '26 (Penguin RandomHouse)
💗💚💗💚
Memphis raised~BayArea made
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/
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth?
https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman @tarensk.bsky.social Founder, AI Impact Lab and Ekō. Pickleball fanatic. Parenting is hard. She/her.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Dennis Crowley @dens.nyc I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs
denniscrowley.com
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Dr. Jay Barchas-Lichtenstein (they/them) @drnycnerd.bsky.social Journalism researcher, linguistic anthropologist, fiction writer. Some things I discuss: language & social meaning, news media, #binders, puns, food.
Now: @cnti.bsky.social
Once: @knology.org
My colleagues & I made: https://www.reportingwithnumbers.com/
Nathan Shuherk @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social nonfiction book reviewer. mfa student. mostly writing and talking about books, media, climate change, politics, and my cats.
morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.bsky.social Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Scott Heiferman @heif.com meetup
https://lnk.bio/OK4v
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Kevin Simler @kevinsimler.bsky.social
Mills Baker @mills.bsky.social Head of Design at Substack // thedeadhorses.substack.com // ratsfromrocks.substack.com // mills.land
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Amira Dhalla @amira.bsky.social Focused on tech as it intersects with privacy, security, equity & rights. Always thinking about community care 🌱
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com Senior Software Engineeer snowflake.com
Co-Founder @graze.social, @cocore.dev
Co-Host of @devtools.fm
Creator of @kich.io, @kikbak.tv, @atstore.fyi, @standard-reader.app
hipstersmoothie.com
Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com Nuisance and shitposter
CEO @graze.social - talk to me about building on ATProto / Bluesky!
Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online I write the Fediverse Report, a news site about what is happening in the fediverse.
This is my personal account, where I share and comment on anything I find interesting.
I care about an ethical internet.
He/him. From the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• https://berjon.com/
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
J Wortham @jennydeluxe.bsky.social writer, podcaster, author
https://jennydeluxe.substack.com/
Kelly Stonelake (she/her) @kellystonelake.bsky.social Former Meta executive turned whistleblower and advocate for kids' online safety, common sense tech regulations, suicide prevention, healthcare equity, and safer workplaces for those on the margins. AuDHD, MCAS, POTS, EDS
overturned.substack.com
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social Director of @SNFAgoraJHU, Professor of PolSci, Director of P3 Lab @JohnsHopkins. Studying organizing, movements, civic engagement, democracy. All views my own.
A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social Author of Future Tense. Speculative tech anthropology. Essays + serialized fiction about the future we're building now. https://azmackay.com
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
move fast & break chains
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
kyla scanlon @kyla.bsky.social wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
spencer chang @spencer.place software you can touch
artist, engineer, toymaker
🌐 spencer.place (home)
🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet)
🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space)
📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol)
🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)
Elan Ullendorff @elan.place Algorithmic escape artist | Rolling Stone called me one of the people "quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive"
Teaching @UPenn, Product @MarshallProj | 📍Philly
💌 Subscribe: https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com
Lisa Schirch @lisa-schirch.bsky.social professor of technology and peace studies, tech ethics and deliberative technology, social justice activist, animal lover, biker, hiker, painter, mother, gardener, earthling, national park lover, photographer, book lover,
Charley Johnson @charleyjohnson.bsky.social Data & Society; Untangled; Facilitation Leadership Lab.
https://untangled.substack.com/
https://www.charley-johnson.com/
https://www.facilitation-leadership-lab.com/
Alvin Chang @alv9n.com ● Professor @journalismdesign.bsky.social
● Interactive data journalist pudding.cool
● Moar buttondown.com/charthead // alv9n.com
Gideon Lichfield @glichfield.bsky.social Climber, biker, cocktailer, polyglot, vagabond. Ex EIC WIRED & MIT Technology Review, now writing about the future of democracy at https://futurepolis.substack.com. NYC/SF. He/him/Sir.
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Statecraft @statecraftnotes.skystack.xyz How policymakers get things done
This is an automated Substack Account of https://statecraftnotes.substack.com
Discover more/Create at: @skystack.xyz
Quillette @quillette.bsky.social Where Free Thought Lives.
📧 subscribe: https://quillette.com/#/portal/signup
IFP @ifp.bsky.social
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast.
skinskin @skinskintainan.bsky.social Hello,I am living in tainan in Taiwan,but I am Japanese.
I love to take photos , every kind of photos I take.
#EastCoastKin member
Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Social Computing Group - UZH @scg-uzh.bsky.social Research group on Social Computing led by Prof. Dr. Anikó Hannák at the University of Zurich.
https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/scg.html
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
Hoover Institution @hooverinstitution.bsky.social Ideas Advancing Freedom.
Subscribe to the Hoover Daily Report: http://hoover.org/hdr and Freedom Frequency: thefreedomfrequency.org
@canada-spends.bsky.social @canada-spends.bsky.social
Bob Pickard @pr.bobpickard.com Principal, Leadership Communication Inc. Public relations for newsmakers. 30+ year comms career @ 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇯🇵🇨🇦🇰🇷🇸🇬 Served as CEO of Burson in Asia and North Asia of Edelman. Former MDB global comms chief. PRC state media says I perform “purely sensational hype.”
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social Papa of two girls; husband to Alisha Holland; Jew; Founder & Research Lead, Microsoft Research Plural Technology Collaborator; Founder & Chair, Plurality Institute; Founder & Board Member, RadicalxChange Foundation; co-author, Radical Markets and Plurality
Matt Abrams @mattabrams.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattabrams
Advisor, Investor, Co-Founder, Board Member cursed (and blessed) with curiosity and a drive to #leaveitbetter
Focused on intersection of quality information, deliberative dialogue (citizens’ assemblies), and trust
John Fallot @johnfallot.bsky.social Co-Founder, Prosocial Design Network — https://www.prosocialdesign.org | 🏳️🌈 (he/him) | Views my own.
RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social Social movement for next-generation political economies. Official account of the RadicalxChange Foundation.
FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
Act New Zealand @actnewzealand.bsky.social For real change.
Polarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social We produce research and public resources on democratic attitudes and political behavior. Founded and directed by Sean Westwood (Dartmouth) and Yphtach Lelkes (Penn). www.polarizationresearchlab.org and americaspoliticalpulse.com
julia kamin @juliakamin.bsky.social connecting research to practice @ prosocialdesign.org. supporting social cohesion @ civichealthproject.org. dog mama in NYC.
David Grüning @dgruning.bsky.social PhD at GESIS & Uni Heidelberg
Behavioral/personality science in the digital space @prosocialdesign.org & @one-sec.app.
Occasionally, research methods.
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ScaDS.AI at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy.
CSS-Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social We're an academic community for Plurality research & technology | Cooperate across differences | DM us your news, research, jobs, grants & fellowships.
plurality.institute
Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social). We study decision making in today’s complex and fast-changing world.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdfy736y
Podcast: unravelingbehavior.org
Kristen @kristenengel.bsky.social Social computing PhD candidate @ UW. I study user engagement with interventions, prosocial behavior, and antisocial content across online platforms.
www.kristenengel.com
Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Princeton
Previously: EPFL 🇨🇭, UFMG 🇧🇷
Interests: Computational Social Science, Platforms, GenAI, Moderation