@ffrf.org @ffrf.org The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprophet nonprofit, with 40,000 nonreligious members working to keep state and church separate.
Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev The open source AI code editor
Anthropic @anthropic.com We're an Al safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable Al systems. Talk to our Al assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social The official account of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.
Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social We are a research institute investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.
epoch.ai
Chris Olah @colah.bsky.social Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. Previously Distill, OpenAI, Google Brain.Personal account.
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
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
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
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
Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social Philosopher, writer.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness. 
Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University. jeffsebo.net
Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social Philosopher, UC Riverside. Father. Human.
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
OpenSecrets.org @opensecrets.org The most comprehensive, nonpartisan money-in-politics resource. Follow the money at opensecrets.org
Free Speech For People @fsfp.bsky.social Reclaiming our democracy, challenging big money in politics and fighting for free and fair elections. ImpeachTrumpAgain.org
Cosma Shalizi @cshalizi.bsky.social This is an automated new-posts account. Messages sent to it will go unread; attempts to converse with it will be fruitless. We would all be better off if Twitter and all its clones disappeared immediately.
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Jonas Kaiser @jonaskaiser.bsky.social | Associate Professor @ Suffolk University
| Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
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. 
Election Truth Alliance @electiontruthalliance.org Official Bluesky of the Election Truth Alliance
Nonprofit, non-partisan, and dedicated to unbiased election analysis and informed discussions about election integrity
https://www.electiontruthalliance.org
https://linktr.ee/ETAlliance
Verified Voting @verifiedvoting.org Strengthening democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in elections for 20+ years. Website: https://verifiedvoting.org/
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org Reporters Committee provides free legal help to journalists and protects their First Amendment rights. Find us at rcfp.org.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us The US Press Freedom Tracker is a database that tracks and catalogs press freedom violations in the United States.
A project of @freedom.press.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social Press freedom is your freedom 🗞️
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #pressfreedom worldwide.
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RSF @handle.invalid Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
We fight for #PressFreedom all over the world.
Strong Towns @strongtowns.org We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. Become a member today! strongtowns.org/membership
Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social Software Modelling and Design Conference - https://dddeurope.com
Amsterdam, June 3-4, 2027
Live Workshops on Software Design, Modelling, Programming, and Practices - https://ddd.academy/
Uri Shalit @urish.bsky.social Machine learning researcher, working on causal inference and healthcare applications
Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com Professor of Empirical Economics & Data Science at TU Munich | Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC) | Co-founder of causalscience.org
http://www.p-hunermund.com
Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social Scientist. Director of AI + Life Sciences and Professor of Public Health, Health Sciences, & Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Vermont Complex Systems Institute. scarpino.github.io
Vicky C Yang @vcyang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at MITSloan. Understanding human collectives using math & data. Former fellow at Santa Fe Institute. 
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
J. Doyne Farmer @doynefarmer.bsky.social Director of Complexity Economics at INET Oxford; Baillie Gifford Professor of Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford; external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute; Chief Scientist, Macrocosm
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/
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association, cultivating a political science public sphere.
https://apsanet.org/publications/journals/perspectives-on-politics/
Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social The Journal of Democracy: The smartest analysis on democracy and authoritarianism around the world. Reposts ≠ Endorsement. https://linkin.bio/jodemocracy
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
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"
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
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.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
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
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com Social networking technology created by Bluesky.
Developer-focused account. Follow @bsky.app for general announcements!
Bluesky API docs: docs.bsky.app
AT Protocol specs: atproto.com
bryan newbold @bnewbold.social.coop.ap.brid.gy dweb, cycling, free software, snow, wiki, hardware, big cities, symbolic systems. I love speculating about found objects.
Working at https://blueskyweb.xyz/ on atproto […]
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
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/
Hillel is on Social Media Break @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
Paul Chiusano @pchiusano.bsky.social Working on @unison-lang.org
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Julia Language @julialang.org Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language built for technical computing.
Official Bluesky account of the Julia Language Project
#JuliaLang
Unison @unison-lang.org Friendly programming language from the future
Open source http://github.com/unisonweb/unison
Cloud platform: https://unison.cloud
Community: https://unison-lang.org/discord
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Up to Four Players #CrystalHeart @upto4players.bsky.social A graphic novel and webcomic about gamers and games, ENnie nominated (twice), and also a #SavageWorlds ttrpg setting! We are @AvivOr (art) and @Nnesk (words).
https://www.uptofourplayers.com/
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.