Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
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
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought
✨ Design @ SHV
🌸 wattenberger.com
Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper.bsky.social 🍉 Neutron Muppet 🍉
|| poemmaker | fieldtheorist | professora | creative coach | stage queen | hypewoman | magicwand | humancat ||
linktr.ee/scryptkeeper
samiyabashir.com
Literary Agents: aragi.net
Booking Agents: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social Advocating for a democratic, equitable, and inclusive world through cooperatives, worker ownership, unions, mutual aid, and workplace democracy. 💜
#EconomicDemocracy 🌲🌲
usworker.coop | ncbaclusa.coop | workers.coop | ica.coop
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
Chloe Thurston @chloethurston.bsky.social Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
New Village Press @newvillagepress.bsky.social Books to Build Vibrant Community! Join our monthly newsletter for book events, author news, forthcoming titles, & more: http://bit.ly/NVP-Newsletter
Explore New Village Views: https://newvillagepress.substack.com/
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
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
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social
Zarinah @zarinahagnew.bsky.social “𝕀𝕥 𝕒𝕝𝕨𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕝 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝕕𝕠𝕟𝕖“
resisting entropy ~ brains | self | society | collective intelligence
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Amina V. @aminav.bsky.social Interested in Human Computer Interaction(HCI), Affective Computing and Beauty Tech.
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 www.hanvanderhart.com
Evan Hadfield @evan-hadfield.bsky.social working on the collective intelligence singularity @ The Collective Intelligence Project | @collectintel.bsky.social
https://cip.org/
James Padolsey @j11y.io Building safer AI at nope.net :: Previously working on AI governance and evals at @cip.org and weval.org personal: 🏳️🌈 j11y.io // author, engineer, stroke survivor, epileptic. I live in Beijing.
Claudia Chwalisz @cchwalisz.bsky.social Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext (www.demnext.org)
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social @Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas.
🌐 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org
Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social asst prof @Stanford linguistics | director of social interaction lab 🌱 | bluskies about computational cognitive science & language
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social AGI research @DeepMind.
Ex cofounder & CTO Vicarious AI (acqd by Alphabet),
Cofounder Numenta
Triply EE (BTech IIT-Mumbai, MS&PhD Stanford). #AGIComics
blog.dileeplearning.com
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.
Roger Levy @rplevy.bsky.social Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Lab. President, Cognitive Science Society. Chair of the MIT Faculty. Open access & open science advocate. He.
Lab webpage: http://cpl.mit.edu/
Personal webpage: https://www.mit.edu/~rplevy
steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social computational cognitive science he/him
UC Berkeley
ScienceHomecoming
http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/
Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social Cognitive scientist seeking to reverse engineer the human cognitive toolkit. Asst Prof of Psychology at Stanford. Lab website: https://cogtoolslab.github.io
Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social > Language + CogSci + Evolution + NLP/ML/AI
COMPLEXITY, FUNCTION & FORM in
- language, culture, cognition
- evo dynamics
- info & computation
- explanation
homeostatic property cluster at large
LangEvo is Hard Reading List
https://t.ly/gfGj
Shari Liu @shariliu.bsky.social Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins. Dog person. A woman who is up to something. www.liulaboratory.org
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷
Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social professor at university of washington and scientist at Google DeepMind. computational cognitive scientist. working on social and artificial intelligence and alignment.
http://faculty.washington.edu/maxkw/
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Jonathan Phillips @jsphillips.bsky.social Cognitive scientist / philosopher working on modality and high level cognition.
Cognitive science at Dartmouth
https://phillab.host.dartmouth.edu/
Photo credit: Justin Khoo
Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social Tom Griffiths' Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton. Studying the computational problems human minds have to solve.
dae houlihan @dae.bsky.social Computational cognitive science of emotion. "Leave no yak unshaven." Postdoc @Stanford. https://daeh.info #CogSci
Tracey Mills @traceym.bsky.social PhD student @ MIT BCS
Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
AI, RL, cog neuro, philosophy.
www.momen-nejad.org
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Kai Sandbrink @ackaisa.bsky.social Computational cognitive neuroscience PhD Student, Oxford & EPFL
Kanishk Gandhi @gandhikanishk.bsky.social PhD Student Stanford w/ Noah Goodman, studying reasoning, discovery, and interaction. Trying to build machines that understand people.
StanfordNLP, Stanford AI Lab
Bonan Zhao (赵博囡) @bonan.bsky.social PI Computational Cognitive Science (BoCoCo) lab in Edinburgh 🏴
https://zhaobn.github.io
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social Assistant professor at UCSB, studying the development of the social mind. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (he/him)
bmwoo.github.io
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - science reform - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
Andrew Perfors @perfors.net Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
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. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦
Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
Emory Richardson @emoryrchrdsn.bsky.social cognitive scientist.
intuitive theories, collaboration, cumulative culture, networks, philosophy of science/mind/bio, language. Also kettlebells.
past: @UMich @Yale @UChicago @stjohnscollege.
https://rchrdsnemory.github.io/site/
Rebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscience at MIT. Open science. 🇨🇦
Saxelab.mit.edu
Fiery Cushman @fierycushman.bsky.social Psychologist, but not the kind that can help you
Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social Tea drinking assistant professor of cognitive psychology at Stanford.
https://cicl.stanford.edu
Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social Neuro prof at Princeton, social media cynic.
Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. Learning Sciences, Harvard GSE. Study learning in early childhood using computational modeling & empirical studies. Speaking for self only. She/her
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Beau Sievers @beausievers.bsky.social Psychology, neuroscience, music, game design.
Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social Studies social cognition in children and grown-ups. Teaches in the psychology and cognitive science programs at Yale.
Lab: socialcogdev.com
todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social computational cognitive science @ nyu. director NYU minds, brains, and machines initiative. https://gureckislab.org. Are you interested in research in my lab? https://intake.gureckislab.org/interest/
Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science • Director of the Group for Language and Intelligence (glint) ✨• Interested in all things language, cognition, and AI
jennhu.github.io
Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social Associate Prof of Cog Sci at JHU studying vision and social cognition: isiklab.org
Co-EiC Minds, Machines & Brains: direct.mit.edu/mmb
she/her
Anna (Anya) Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social Language and thought in brains and in machines. Assistant Prof @ Georgia Tech Psychology. Previously a postdoc @ MIT Quest for Intelligence, PhD @ MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She/her
https://www.language-intelligence-thought.net
Erin Grant @eringrant.me Assistant Professor @ualberta.bsky.social & Fellow @amiithinks.bsky.social studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools (eringrant.github.io).
elsewhere: sigmoid.social/@eringrant, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social ::language, cognitive science, neural dynamics::
Lise Meitner Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University |
http://www.andreaemartin.com/
lacns.GitHub.io
Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.
Liberty Severs @libertysevers.bsky.social Philosopher of biology and cognitive scientist. PhD Fellow at Uni. Lisbon/Bochum. Learning, decision-making, agency and control.
Co-founder @nonneuralcognition.bsky.social, VP @ispsm.bsky.social.
Daphna Buchsbaum @daphnab.bsky.social Children, Dogs, Monkeys, Robots. Associate Professor at Brown University.
https://sites.brown.edu/cocodevlab/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4LRxXyIAAAAJ&hl=en
Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll.
Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!
Maxwell Ramstead @mjdramstead.bsky.social Cofounder @noumenal-labs.bsky.social. Honorary Fellow at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Free energy principle, active inference, Bayesian mechanics, artificial intelligence, phenomenology
Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social Prof. of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt & PI of the Human and Machine Cognition lab | hmc-lab.com
Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social computational cog sci • problem solving and social cognition • asst prof at NYU • https://codec-lab.github.io/
Noah Goodman @noahdgoodman.bsky.social Professor of Natural and Artificial Intelligence @Stanford. Safety and alignment @GoogleDeepMind.
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
Liane Young @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social Prof of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College | Director of Morality Lab | Academic Mama | she/her | https://moralitylab.bc.edu/
Andrew Saxe @saxelab.bsky.social Professor at the Gatsby Unit and Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL, trying to figure out how we learn
Guy Davidson ✈️ NeurIPS 2025 @guydav.bsky.social @guyd33 on the X-bird site. Machine learning researcher at Jane Street. Formerly, PhD student at NYU, cognitive science x AI, specifically goal and task representations in minds/machines. Otherwise, cooking, playing ultimate frisbee, and making hot sauces.