Al Merose @al.merose.com Differential database administrator. Machine learning for climate & weather. Ex-Google Research, Founding Member of Technical Staff @OpenAthena.ai. Tinkering with xql.systems. He/him.
Playdate @play.date A brand new handheld video game system from Panic.
➡️ Available at https://play.date
💬 Need help? Go to https://help.play.date
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev.
signal: edr.91
Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com ai haters think I'm a booster, ai boosters think I'm a hater
engineering and infosec · he/him (decaf) · vis tacita
maine bluesky feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:txfqncx66asrjzitxfur3of6/feed/aaap7ldsnvpkw
THE INTERNET IS SCARY: @internetisscary.org
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
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.
austin @aparker.io the only thing worse than my code are my jokes
governance @opentelemetry.io
director of ai strategy @honeycomb.io
av by @extinctinks.net
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
ae @aelkus.bsky.social "A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai
all writing: https://segyges.github.io/
also @antiantiai.bsky.social
tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish at different times:
haxx0r in cDc
PhD in using people for ML and vice versa
"theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie
at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive
&c music, politics, nonsense
rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io (gender)queer transsexual / they/them / eng @oxide.computer / atheist and scientific humanist / 🦀 #rustlang / #jj-vcs #1 fan / https://nexte.st / https://sunshowers.io
also on mastodon: @rain@hachyderm.io / https://hachyderm.io/@rain
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net Engineer at Posit, technical lead for quarto.org
Touching grass by learning Brazilian music. feet in Minneapolis, heart in some random Brazil beach town I don't even know yet
On hiatus because 2026. DMs open but do please try to be normal out there
Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space They/them
Interests: Math. Engineering. Engineering Games. 3d printing and industrial design. Education.
Job: SRE at a tech company working on L7 Networking & Load Balancing.
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.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social linear algebra is not ontologically evil
Kara @karashiiro.moe even worse than you thought: a gacha gamer | https://klink.krs.moe/#/p/karashiiro.moe | https://blog.karashiiro.moe
Stefan Große Halbuer @plasticpen.art Freelance Artist / Münster, Germany / President of Purple 💜
Join my new Mailing Club: quietcity.xyz
East River Source Control @ersc.io Building blocks for human and machine collaboration.
david barsky @davidbarsky.com i like cooking and reading books. my day job is to work on ersc.io, but before, it was rust-analyzer. he/they is fine.
Somerville Infrastructure @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social Official account for the Department of Infrastructure and Asset Management for the City of Somerville, MA. 🏗🚧🚜🦺 https://www.somervillema.gov/departments/iam
Peter Steinberger @steipete.me vibe coding is the way. I bootstrapped a remote company before it was cool. Founder @PSPDFKit (exit to Insight). 🏳️🌈
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
Michael Knyszek @michael.express #golang runtime
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
baltimore, md ✨
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
@eaplatanios.bsky.social @eaplatanios.bsky.social 
kc green @kcg.bsky.social cartoonist of Greatures, made "This is Fine" • he/him • http://kcgportfolio.site • https://linktr.ee/kcgreenn • email me: kcgreenn@icloud.com
Dirkjan Ochtman @djc.ochtman.nl Fan of Rust, open source maintainer. Please consider sponsoring my OSS work on GitHub.
Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com #rustlang, #jj-vcs, atproto, shitposts, urbanism. I contain multitudes.
Working on #ruelang but just for fun.
Currently in Austin, TX, but from Pittsburgh. Previously in Bushwick, the Mission, LA.
Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar.bsky.social Senior document signer @ Docusign, prev: lead risk manager @ Alameda Research
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Zara @xara.one neuroscientist. all things data and offsec
x: https://x.com/xedseraph
blog: https://www.xara.one/
James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social ML/AI @ Electric Plant Co, prev ML/RecSys at Spotify. A nervous little punk boy.
Hilary Parker @hspter.bsky.social Data Science advising / consulting. Formerly startup CTO, Data Science Biden 2020, Stitch Fix, Etsy. PhD JHU Biostar. Co-host Not So Standard Deviations podcast. 🥳😴🧘🐈⬛
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
Andrew Therriault @therriault.bsky.social Data scientist. Former politico, founder, and bureaucrat. Occasional cool professor.
akm @akmbs.bsky.social Math and software and music
Alex Dupler @alexdupler.bsky.social Sr PM @ Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) focused on BI & Data Infra. Mostly reading & posting about Mariners, Power BI, Tech, and Politics.
Kelly Vaughn @kvlly.com Engineering leader. modernleader.is
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
swyx @swyx.io i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social Ph.D, stats lover/writer✍🏼, #statistics #scicomm #datascience #statstiktok 👩🏻💻 she/her
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social Database Research @ ClickHouse
Associate Prof. of Databases @ Carnegie Mellon.
Hamel Husain @hamel.bsky.social evals evals evals. https://evals.info
Mara Averick @dataandme.bsky.social open-source 🥑 dev advocate @quansight.com 💻 on @stdlib.io fmr: @rstudio, 🏀 hoop head, data-viz lover, gnashgab, blatherskite, doggos, horses
Jeremy Jordan @jeremyjordan.me product-focused machine learning engineer. broadly curious; amazed by the effectiveness of simple ideas.
jeremyjordan.me
Julia Silge @juliasilge.com Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
Renee Shah @reneeshah.bsky.social Partner at Redpoint focused on AI, infra, security, and developer tools ⚡️
joelgrus @joelgrus.bsky.social you know what I blame this on the breakdown of? society
Luca @lucab.phd ML Ethics, Tech Policy, Italian food, Typos
Pete Skomoroch @peteskomoroch.bsky.social Investor and AI startup founder. Focus: AI, LLMs, LifeOps, AI Product Management. Was founder @SkipFlag. EIR @Accel. Data Science & ML @LinkedIn, @AOL & @MIT
Jowanza @jowanza.bsky.social Founder/CEO of Parakeet. Helping Goods-Producing Companies tackle regulatory, trade, and EHS Compliance.
Forever curious and seeking truth.
Daniel Sternberg @sternberg.bsky.social Dad, Data+AI @ Notion, used to work other places and learn about how people learn. Wishes he had time to use his home studio for music but mostly he just has a really nice mic for Zoom calls.
__Alex Monahan__ @a13x.bsky.social DuckDB hype man, MotherDucker (I work at MotherDuck!), SQL nut, Pythonista, reluctant JS dev
Tim Hopper @tdhopper.com machine learning infrastructure at spotify
Sarah Krasnik Bedell @sarahkb.bsky.social Growth marketer & data engineer. Currently growth @ Prefect, prev data @ Perpay.
📍 VT, ⛷️ & ⛵️
sarahsnewsletter.substack.com
zachary chetchavat @zchetchavat.bsky.social i like basketball, tennis, running, fried foods, and data.
analytics engineering at beacon biosignals
he/him
Bhav Patel (Dodonerd) @bhav.bsky.social They don't know I'm a niche internet micro-celebrity in the fields of Analytics, Data and Experimentation. Specifically Product Analytics. Data Director at Huel
Timo Dechau @timodechau.bsky.social Even data wizard 🧙 - Author of the Analytics Implementation Handbook - All things at https://timodechau.com/
Sean Lopp @loppsean.bsky.social Dagster, RStudio, Looker. Dad. Bikes. Coffee.
@blef.fr @blef.fr I have launched Excel once
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Max Caldwell @growth.wtf Bootstrapping a software company. In my free time I try to do things with data and statistics, or post random thoughts here.
Tom Marthaler @tmarthal.com Arizona, 🏜️, dogs, tech 📔, data, oceans, ॐ.
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David Aronchick @ironyuppie.com CEO, Expanso. Prev: Protocol Labs, MSFT, K8s, Kubeflow, GOOG, AMZN, etc. 4x founder/CEO. The universe is a vector in Hilbert space.
Rahul Dave @rahuldave.bsky.social Chief Scientist @ Univ.Ai. We do AI, ML, Bayes and Data. Somerville, MA.
Bringing up the next generation of decision makers @Hult University! Previously ML and Bayes at Harvard.
Otherwise, Cosmology, Climbing and Skiing.
Liberalism is a moral choice.
Erika Pullum (she/her) @erikapullum.bsky.social Engineer, climber, currently working as Head of Data at Hex.
www.erikapullum.com
Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Wes McKinney @wesmckinney.com Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book
Laurie Voss @seldo.com Head of Developer Relations at Arize. Previously: LlamaIndex, Netlify, co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @jovo.design. He/him. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social Available for personal and commercial work.
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
Bruce "86 47" Dawson @randomascii.bsky.social Retired tech-nerd. Unicyclist, kiteboarder, juggler, hiker, plays tennis and pickleball, advocates for pedestrian/cyclist safety. Windows ETW expert. LGBTQ supporter. Vancouver, BC
he/him
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Open Athena @openathena.ai We help academic labs building AI models to solve technology challenges so they can focus on scientific impact
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social Candidate for State Rep, 27th Middlesex (Somerville)
Currently: City Councilor, Somerville - Ward 3. Affordable housing, safe streets, good jobs, public transit, fighting climate change (also, biologist at Harvard Med School) www.benforstaterepMA.com
Scaled Cognition @scaledcognition.com 
Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
sevenrasmussen.com
Christian Minich @christianminich.com Dad, data, process, philosophy | Token Alchemist @Vercel | My wife says my headstone will read “sorry I’m late”
arynndoesdata @arynn.bsky.social No one of consequence🧋
Data | AI | People
Industrial-Organizational psych
Stage 4 endo & stroke survivor
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Chris Albon @chrisalbon.com 
Abe Gong @abegong.com geek dad with a clipboard
founder @ Katabase and Great Expectations
operating advisor @ Bessemer VP
data, ai, startups, dev tools, systems thinking
storytelling, community, creativity
blog.abegong.com