Data Orchard @dataorchard.org.uk We are an award-winning social enterprise with a mission to enable every nonprofit organisation to use data effectively to achieve their goals.
Data-Smart City Solutions @datasmartcities.bsky.social Highlighting cities solving problems and engaging communities with data. Directed by Stephen Goldsmith @goldsmithongov.bsky.social at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. Listen: #DataSmartCityPod
https://datasmart.hks.harvard.edu/
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Cheryl Cort @cherylcort.bsky.social Likes urbanism, walkability, buses, trains, bikes, safer streets, homes for all, racial justice, environment, stopping sprawl, keeping rural rural. Policy Director, Coalition Smarter Growth, DC-MD-VA, @betterDCregion. Longtime DC (Ward 1) resident. Terp.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social Chronicling the happenings in Washington D.C.’s neighborhoods since 2006. Founder: Dan Silverman princeofpetworth@gmail.com
gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social GBH News is your home for news, distinctive storytelling, and what matters to you in Boston and beyond. #Boston, #Massachusetts, #USA
Wonyoung So, PhD @wonyoungso.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Urban Technology at University of Michigan | Studying #race #equity #data #tech #housing | PhD at MIT | he/him.
Washington City Paper @wcp.bsky.social Member-supported community newspaper with reporting on Washington, D.C. culture, food, arts, sports, and politics. Support our work: https://buff.ly/HSgIgcc
Kate Fetrow @katefetrow.bsky.social NYC legal services impact & class action litigator. Tweets about politics, economic, gender, and racial justice.
Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey.bsky.social Data Scientist. Mapping Police Violence.
alex baca @alexbaca.bsky.social midnight at the laundromat and i’m staring at you pulling clothes from the dryer. doer of the politics of the urbanist pro-growth left. having fun in ward 1, washington, d.c., the best city in america.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social tenant and climate research and such with @cplusc.bsky.social
Ben Preis @benjaminpreis.com Director, National Housing Crisis Task Force. Senior Research Fellow, Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. Landlords, urban networks, and wealth inequality. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him- P Dr. Joy Buolamwini @poetofcode.bsky.social
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Corin Faife @corin.bsky.social Data journalist covering North America for @afp.com. Formerly Verge, Markup, Cornell Tech, some other places. Always looking for the future in the present.
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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social Author of ALGORITHMIC REALISM: DATA SCIENCE PRACTICES TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE (Oct 6, MIT Press). Assistant Professor of Information and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. https://www.benzevgreen.com
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
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.
Matt Bui @mnbui.bsky.social professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, focusing on racial justice as data justice. interests: critical data x urban comm
working on a book, Appetite for Data, about foodie platforms & race / class / solidarity.
radjusticelab.com
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Monica Stephens @mstephens.bsky.social Twin Cities (MN) based geographer
Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af At ⋂ of software/tech, cities, political economy, uneven dev, labor. Data centers, AI, climate. Obsidian/QGIS/R/LaTeX. (he/him)
Geography Prof at UMBC; Chair Urban Geography SG of AAG.
SEA/THR/ATL/DUB/ATX/PDX/BWI/MTL.
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Previously:
@princetoncitp.bsky.social
@umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow
@themarkup.org
@propublica.org
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social Prof of Human Geography, FAcSS, University College London, UK
PI: ERC Adv Grant https://www.regionalfutures.org
Researching #digitalisation #urbanisation #futures #globalsouth
Editor: urbangeography.bsky.social
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social We provide services, tools and training to build a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.
#TheTechWeWant #OpenDataEditor #OpenDataCommons #SchoolOfData #CKAN
Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
New America @newamerica.org We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.
MIT Media Lab @medialab.bsky.social News from the MIT Media Lab. Explore all of the official MIT social media accounts at socialmediahub.mit.edu
The GovLab @thegovlab.org Action research center studying and co-designing data-driven & participatory decisions #data #opendata #innovation #datacollaboratives #crowdlaw. Learn more at: thegovlab.org
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com Obsessed with data graphics. I design high‑stakes charts.
Founder, Visionary Press • CHARTOGRAPHY weekly
Talks • workshops • consulting → infowetrust.com
Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social Academic Editor and Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・🤖 Communication and/or technology researcher・📚 Author of "Politics Recoded"・They/them・All links https://bio.site/aure
Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social Collecting and sharing data on community-level health and well-being. Personal account: Posts here do not represent the views of my employer. #NHV resident.
Darien Alexander Williams @nigreaux.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Boston University
Black/Muslim urban planning, climate change & disaster studies
jen lowe @jenlowe.bsky.social chronically curious. equal parts numbers & poetics, 🤣 & 😡. never not missing the desert https://curiousdelivery.com/
Digital Witness Lab @digitalwitnesslab.org We are a lab at Princeton University that builds privacy-respecting tools to access hard-to-reach data and empower public interest investigations.
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Rahul Bhargava @rahulbot.bsky.social Creative data & computational journalism. "Community Data" book eBook and pre-order available: http://communitydatabook.com
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Nasser @nasser.wiki technologist. human. building futures we want to live in.
founder bigdreams.info
about me: nasser.wiki
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.
https://knightcolumbia.org/
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown
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
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
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
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
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