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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social Award-winning investigative journo. @rollingstone.com national investigative correspondent. NYT bestselling author, Bottle of Lies. @CarnegieCorp fellow. Partial to animals. DM 4 Signal.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social Asst Professor Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate, separately | Author of Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain https://shorturl.at/g23c5 | Personal account (duh)
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
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David Grann @davidgrann.bsky.social Author of The Wager, Killers of The Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, The White Darkness, and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. Also a longtime New Yorker writer. 
Cat Bohannon @catbohannon.bsky.social Researcher, scholar, writer, freak. 🏳️🌈 EVE book out now. This ain’t samizdat but twitter ain’t either. www.catbohannon.com
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Duncan Ross @duncanjross.bsky.social Global Head of Research at Newsweek. CDO for THE from 2015-25. Interested in books, AI, folk music, and more.
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Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social Technology Editor at Nature magazine (@nature.com) #rstats #scicomm. Love is love. 💕
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social Professor at the NYU School of Medicine (https://yanailab.org/). Co-founder and Director of the Night Science Institute (https://night-science.org/). Co-host of the 'Night Science Podcast' https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-science/id1563415749
Aaron Mahnke @aaronmahnke.com Historian. Author. Hall of Fame podcaster.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social author, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and co-host of the new podcast "Everybody's Business." Also co-host of "Elon Inc." and author of “The Contarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs.” Msg me on signal: @chafkin.83
Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
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Wolfson College
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Matt Zwolinski @mattzwolinski.bsky.social Philosopher. Co-author of The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (Princeton, 2023), and Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2023).
Http://bleedingheartlibertarian.substack.com
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
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Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
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Margaret O’Mara @margaretomara.bsky.social Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, historian of Silicon Valley and author of THE CODE. https://margaretomara.com
Paul Pringle @paulpringle.bsky.social Investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Author of Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Host of the iHeart podcast, Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption.
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
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Erik Larson @exlarson.bsky.social Author, tennis addict, lover of Hendrick's martinis, interesting restaurants, and long walks in Central Park. Website: eriklarsonbooks.com
Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Tom Eisenmann @teisenmann.bsky.social Entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School
Kevin Kelly @kevinkelly.bsky.social Senior Maverick, Wired. Author, maker, artist, father. Cool tool maven, true film buff, and fan of Asia. Radical optimist.
Jeremias Adams-Prassl @jeremiasprassl.bsky.social Law @Oxford, currently visiting @Melbourne. Interested in algorithmic management, the future of work, and tech regulation.
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Michael Kearns @michaelkearns.bsky.social Communicator & storyteller, ex-CNBC & CBC
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com Research on work and organising. Editor of Notes from Below and Historical Materialism.
Arun Sundararajan @digitalarun.bsky.social NYU professor. Author, “The Sharing Economy.” Thinking about AI governance, platforms, IP, the ownership of human capital and the future of work. https://digitalarun.io/
Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social ADHD as a career. Startups (Lean Analytics, Startupfest); fixing government (FWD50); subversive thinking (justevilenough.com) Montreal, or seat 13D.
Roger McNamee @moonalice.com From 1982 to 2015, I invested in tech. Since 2016, I have been working for reform of the tech industry.
Author of NYT bestseller Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.
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Phillies fan.
Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
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Laure Claire Reillier @lreillier.bsky.social I design, ignite & scale platform businesses at Launchworks & Co. Author http://platformstrategy.co & http://missionblablacar.com, ex-@eBay. I love cooking & play badly the piano.
David S. Evans @dsevans.bsky.social Economist
Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Personality psych & causal inference @UniLeipzig. I like all things science, beer, & puns. Even better when combined! Part of http://the100.ci, http://openscience-leipzig.org
Richard D. Morey @richarddmorey.bsky.social Statistics, cognitive modelling, and other sundry things. Mastodon: @richarddmorey@tech.lgbt
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Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social Professor of cognitive psychology, podcaster, author, guitarist, skier. Follow my Substack newsletter Craving Coherence: https://rolfzwaan.substack.com/. Listen to my podcast Research as it Happens: https://shows.acast.com/research-as-it-happens.