Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
Angry Seattle @angryseattle.bsky.social I’m the city of Seattle, Washington, USA. And I’m pissed off!
• J O N L E V E S Q U E • @jonjlevesque.bsky.social Community builder. Former Microsoft & Docusign. Writing "Fix Your Thinking, Fix Your Life" a memoir about breaking cycles and building the life you want.
Lucas A. Meyer @lucas.meyerperin.org Principal Scientist @ MSFT AI for Good Lab
Applied AI for Sustainability, Conservation and Preservation
I post a lot of birds
📍 Houston, TX ✈️ Seattle, WA
🇧🇷🇺🇸 Supports:🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more
You can find me on most of the other social media apps including Twitter and reddit with the same account name @jenmsft
Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social 1.3M+ on YouTube. Democracy enjoyer. Always cold.
✉️: keithsdebateclub@gmail.com
Subscribe: keithedwards.substack.com
Other sites: linktr.ee/keithedwards
Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social per chance, a lawyer
this is a place for silly posting
everything is a joke, I think that's pretty obvious and it’s also seriously problematic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
David Bennett @davidbennett.bsky.social Pacific Northwest resident (Seattle/Bellevue). Running. Travel. Nature. Curious about the world. More questions than answers
https://www.threads.net/@pnw.dave?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
The Athletic @theathletic.com Get every sports story that matters.
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
William Highsmith @whighsmith.bsky.social Data Engineer @ Carter Center, Blue Ally, ATL Apps. Dad, SQL Nerd, Guitar picker
Stephen Robles @stephenrobles.com 📱 Making tech more useful for everyone
📺 225,000+ on YouTube
🎶 Musical theater kid at heart
🎙️Primary Tech + Mac Power Users
➡️ My links: https://beard.fm/bio
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
Semafor @semafor.com Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
Jon Gales @jongales.bsky.social Photography, finance and what not
@mockapapella.bsky.social @mockapapella.bsky.social 
Kevin Fox @kfury.com Writer, futurist, product designer. Designed Gmail, Google Reader, Friendfeed and a few other things.
Cake of Canola Oil @cake-of-canola-oil.bsky.social Day job as a VC, here I’m just a bottle of greasy oil and a fintwit refugee
Harlan Coben @harlancoben.bsky.social Next Netflix series: I WILL FIND YOU
Next book: PLOT TWIST: A Memoir
HarlanCoben.com
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Joel Spiegel @joelspiegel.bsky.social Relict from the tech Paleozoic.Fat ski fan. Blue. Nature photography now @pikatown.bsky.social
Keith Kegley @keithkegley.bsky.social Outdoors, Colorado, Depth matters.
“It’s hard work to to climb down from the trees, walk upright, and build a viable global civilization” -SH
Seth Godin @sethgodin.bsky.social Mostly I blog. Here as a spectator. seths.blog and sethgodin.com for more.
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
Daniel Malmer @malmer.com PhD student researching media, political communication, and extremism. Software developer turned computational social scientist. This is a Frieren stan account.
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
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.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Nick Martin @nick-martin.bsky.social I run The Informant, a publication covering hate and extremism in the US. Returning soon. Living with Long Covid. Profile photo by Victor G Jeffreys II.
The Informant: https://www.informant.news
Other places to find me: https://linktr.ee/nick_martin
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night, apparently
THE POPE'S HITMAN (10/27/2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
► https://tinyurl.com/barnesandnobletph
► https://bookshop.org/shop/jmberger
► https://amzn.to/4qJhTE7
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. 
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.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social Associate Prof at UT Austin. I study political psych & public opinion. I also post about soccer and my cats.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus Dad. Wiseguy. Deep South expat. 🏠 Los Angeles, Ca. Prior 📇: Malcontent strategist @ Planned Parenthood Action Fund, DNC, Nat’l Dem. Inst., BlueState. Views my own. Also @ggreeneva @ 🐦 & 🐘.
Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion.
Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
Caution: frequent cat photos.
https://conspirator0.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ItrZiqTLw
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
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
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.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
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. 🍉 #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸
📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
https://mijincha.com
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Media commentary & analysis; election admin & voting tech; social media. Lapsed poli-sci academic. Likes: democracy, facts.
http://linkedin.com/in/eddie1perez
Board of Directors @osetinstitute.org
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social Anthro PhD Candidate
nukes, cats, semiotics, FOIA, existential threat, heritage, nationalism, secrecy, etc
Queer & multiply neurodivergent
RP/Fave/etc ≠agree
he/him
patreon.com/nuclearanthro
paypal.me/nuclearanthro
https://OSF.io/46sfd/
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com Transparency, regulation, business & interest group politics, and metascience. Manage @apsa.bsky.social DDRIG. The people know it's casino capitalism 🎰
Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social Cautiously pessimistic, esp. about cyber things.
The owls are not what they seem. 🗻🗻🦉🌲🪵 🍒🥧☕️🍩 🕵🏼♀️ 👍🏻
Also: 🔐🔑🔒
And of course: hacklore.org
Other account: @hacklore.bsky.social
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
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.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
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.
Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social Part chaplain, part cross-pollinator, part coach, part builder. Multiracial multicultural institution dreamer. Brava pero vulnerable.
www.bravaleaders.com
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant professor of media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social Researching right-wing extremism in the U.S, conspiracy theories, extremist language, etc.
Professing in Albany, NY
Black Lives Matter
he/him
My book about Oath Keepers: bit.ly/2DOUuh7
CV: https://tinyurl.com/meyy6xpd
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social
IR, Middle East political economy, democracy aid, & development • Egypt she/her • Author, Marketing Democracy: http://bit.ly/3j8sN8k
JJ MacNab @jjmacnab.bsky.social Fellow, George Washington University's Program on Extremism. UC Berkeley alumna. Cats are badass.
DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Queer. Latest book: #NiceWhiteLadies.
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Dani Brown @daniellekbrown.bsky.social Researcher of news x power systems. Complains about institutions & bad peloton rides. No longer engaging regularly in social media. 
Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social Social scientist/bug farmer. quant | media | bias | WS/FR extremism
Pubs: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-41bdcAAAAJ&hl=en
Rgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Betus
Bugs: https://youtube.com/@morphsaplenty?si=zzQ2bcBZUMSX8uOT
Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social BSPH｜MSW Student @ UMontana
Agender｜Heathen｜Libertarian Socialist
Metal｜TTRPGs｜Preparedness｜Firearms
Extremism+Infection Prevention
🦤 @handsofeir.bsky.social
🤬 Sjogren's Syndrome
🫶 @vanillasprinkles.bsky.social
Flathead Valley, Montana #2A #mtpol
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com