Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social Good news for a change
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/
Lum @brokentoys.social aka Scott Jennings. "a writer of some cursed repute" - @ed3d.net
MMO game dev for too long. Wrote that blog you snorted at in 1999. Currently working on an arcane hex and counter wargame from the 1970s, only on your PC.
signal: lum.66
JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social Book: AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15 (pre-order: https://againsttecholigarchy.com)
PhD candidate @ MIT DUSP. Research on labor and the political economy of AI/cloud. https://js-tan.com
๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ @robertmoor.com essayist, journalist, wandering-around-and-looking-at-stuff-ist
books: On Trails; In Trees.
magazine work: The New Yorker, Outside, NYMag, New York Times Book Review, Emergence, Lapham's Quarterly, n+1, Granta
website: robertmoor.com
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Matteo Pasquinelli @mttpsq.bsky.social Professor in philosophy of science
Ca' Foscari University Venice
matteopasquinelli.com
ERC project โ unive.it/aimodels
Book โ The Eye of the Master: A Social History of AI (Verso)
Winner Deutscher Prize 2024
Virginia Mercury @virginiamercury.com An independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan news source covering Virginia government and policy.
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker ๐ต ๐ฃ ๐งโโ๏ธโท๏ธ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isnโt an optional mode, itโs the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social Cartoonist and creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens https://linktr.ee/theoatmeal
Ken-ichi Ueda @kueda.net East Bay curmudgeon, plant and insect dilettante, sucker for a space ship. Tinkering with biodiversity on the AT protocol via https://cuanto.bio and trying to help out with https://lexicons.bio and https://observ.ing.
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
Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social Plant physiological and evolutionary ecologist. Biodiversity scientist. Oak enthusiast. Protea family admirer
Alicia @scuba-licia.bsky.social Scuba Instructor โข Tech Diver โข Underwater Photographer โข Traveler โข Gear Nerd...I'm a work in progress
All ๐ท are mine unless credited.
๐๐๐๐ป ๐ถ๐๐น๐ @andylikescats.bsky.social โmost shit is dumbโ -ian mackaye (from '๐ต๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ณ. ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ & ๐ช ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ', broken world media, 2016)
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art A weekly newsletter about data, data visualizations and the aggregated weirdness of the world around us. A pbump.com project.
https://howtoreadthisch.art
Chef Jose Andres @chefjoseandres.bsky.social Donโt hate others, just love themโฆ.
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Paul Kenyon @paulkenyontv.bsky.social BAFTA winning journalist. Author of Dictatorland and Children of the Night. Films for BBC, C4, PBS America. London, Bucharest, Kyiv. Either writing or on a frontline.
jsnoles @jsnoles.bsky.social FSU, Steelers, Rays, Arsenal, beer, vintage VWs, restaurateur, sarcasm (maybe cynicism), American.
Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social Paleontologist and professor at University of Edinburgh, dinosaur enthusiast and writer. Free born man of the USA. Immigrant. Husband & father. (views mine)
Chentomology @chentomology.bsky.social Entomologist & illustrator, welcome to the world of bugs & other underrated creatures deserve more love!
Online store: chentomology.myshopify.com
Galling, @galling.bsky.social The British Plant Gall Society Bluesky feed. See also our X feed @britgalls, our Facebbok site, British Plant Galls (in association with BPGS), and our website britishplantgallsociety.org
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. ๐ biodiversitylibrary.org
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. ๐ชฒ๐๐ฟ
Nicole Perlroth @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social cyber raconteur | author THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS | former @nytimes | now betting on heroes @ Silver Buckshot Ventures + Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures.
Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social Political writer. Author. Country Mouse. Columnist with @washingtonsun.bsky.social. Formerly with Washington Post. Sign up to receive my columns: https://washingtonsun.com/dana-milbank-newsletter-sign-up
Michael Palmer @cosmopterix.bsky.social Retired botanist but doing #entomology on a wildfire impacted landscape in Oregon.
INaturalist Ambassador.
INaturalist handle @cosmopterix
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle โข waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas โข big fan of being a big fan of things โข go read https://anildash.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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Louis Nastasi @toomanywasps.bsky.social Professor of Entomology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gall wasp systematics and more. More info at
https://NastasiWaspLab.org/
Miles Zhang | ๅผ ่ฟๆฟ @ymilesz.bsky.social | Hymenoptera taxonomy, phylogenomics, and evolutionary ecology | inordinate fondness for insect galls
https://ymilesz.github.io/
Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social Spiders! Art?
most active on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=tshahan
Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social Nonfiction author, blogger, insect identifier, ally. Presenter/speaker. #SciComm, entomology, urban nature, human conflict with other species, other humans. Opposed to colonialism, capitalism. Married Progressive in Kansas, USA.
he/him/they
Danae Wolfe | Chasing Bugs @chasingbugs.com I talk about, write about, and photograph backyard bugs and wildlife. Conservation starts at home. ๐ก
chasingbugs.com
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
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.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
๐ฆ Alie of the Woods ๐ฆ @humanbyweight.bsky.social Alie Kratzer | Engineer + Scientist + Entrepreneur + Author | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ she/her
@norikonbuchan.bsky.social @norikonbuchan.bsky.social nature lover. animal lover. okay forager. accidental gallwasp-ologist. occasional paddler. childless cat lady who is also currently catless
Tim Frey @phytophthora.bsky.social Interests; Galls, plants, board games, food, classical music, NBA basketball
PhD plant pathology. Soil and hydroponic microbial communities and nematode interactions.
Wooster, Ohio.
@calconey on iNaturalist
gallformers admin
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social Journalist covering prisons and harsh sentencing. More fun than I sound.
Nashville, TN
https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/
Signal: @lilianasegura.56
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
Bclark78 @btclark78.bsky.social 
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda D. Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
Ellen O. Martinson @waspvenom.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. Interesting in the molecular mechanisms of parasitoid wasp venom and galling insects. ellenmartinson.weebly.com
Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social Nature pics with Alt Text. Swarthmore, PA, USA. https://colinpurrington.com
Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social He/him
PhD student at The Ohio State University studying phylogenomics in arthropod systems
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
The Onion @theonion.com Americaโs Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Charley Eiseman @ceiseman.bsky.social Freelance naturalist, especially into leafminers, sawfly larvae, and other underappreciated herbivorous insects | http://bugtracks.wordpress.com
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT outgoing president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Jack Schultz @jcschultz.bsky.social Plant biologist, entomologist, chemical/molecular ecologist, current interest focused on plant galls. Mostly-retired guitarist
Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social Evolutionary Biologist & Scientific Naturalist | Associate Professor | Director, E4 Initiative | @RiceUniversity #science #biology #evolution #speciation #entomology #biodiversity #genomics #discovery
Lab website: https://scottpegan.com
Sarah Morrish - Illustrating Natures Details @naturesdetails.bsky.social Natural Science Illustrator, tutor, author & naturalist.
https://www.illustratingnaturesdetails.com/
Author of Natural History Illustration in Pen & Ink
Tapestry weaver in my spare time. www.creativenaturescape.com
@naturescapeweaving.bsky.social
David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social Writer, biologist
๐ปHow Flowers Made our World, now in bookstores!
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
๐ท Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
Adam Kranz @megachile.bsky.social plant gall ID at gallformers.org
writing at adamkranz.substack.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52