David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social Physician-scientist | Executive Advisor | Biomedical innovation + health technology | Chief Medical Scientist, Lore | Agency + health | HMS DBMI | AEI | davidshaywitz.com
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
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social ML prof @ Yale
My work on copyright and generative AI has been called "somewhat famous" by the popular press.
https://attention-is-not-all-you-need.github.io
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
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.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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/
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social Director/writer. Maker of algorithmic theater. #MacFellow. And unexpectedly, a lawyer. anniedorsen.com
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
Sebastian Berg @sberg.bsky.social politics & technology I intellectual history I digitalization I democracy I ☕ I science (&) fiction
@digipolicy.bsky.social
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social Research director @Inria, Head of @flowersInria
lab, prev. @MSFTResearch @SonyCSLParis
Artificial intelligence, cognitive sciences, sciences of curiosity, language, self-organization, autotelic agents, education, AI and society
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
@julieecohen.bsky.social @julieecohen.bsky.social 
Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social Using #AI and #NLP to study storytelling at McGillU. Author of Enumerations: Data and Literary Study and director of .txtlab.
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
Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
New project: The World Republic of Data.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Francesca Bria @francescabria.bsky.social Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com
Matthew Connelly @mattspast.bsky.social vice dean of AI initiatives at Columbia; historian of secrecy, the future, and other hard targets.
Melissa K. Griffith @melissakgriffith.bsky.social Faculty at Johns Hopkins SAIS & the Alperovitch Institute | former Wilson Center; Stanford CISAC | PhD from UC Berkeley | cyber and national security; semis; 5G; AI | usual disclaimers apply
Coordinates: melissakgriffith.com
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
ProfDanny @profdanny.bsky.social Technology and risk delivering information security: Professor, PhD, FCIISec, cyber researcher, analyst, consultant, practitioner, father, grandfather.
Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social This account posts automated updates from www.ianalanpaul.com
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Simon Denny @simondenny.bsky.social Artist
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world. 
Joshua Citarella @joshuacitarella.bsky.social Artist and internet culture writer. https://joshuacitarella.substack.com
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. 
Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social Big machines // Writer, artist, educator // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso) // Visiting Prof - UCL // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
Katharine Schwab @kschwab.bsky.social Tech editor @Forbes
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social artist kylemcdonald.net
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Tina Rivers Ryan @tinariversryan.bsky.social Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Frank Rieger @frankrieger.bsky.social 
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Philipp Schmitt @philippschmitt.bsky.social Artist, designer. philippschmitt.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Mat Dryhurst @afterlife.bsky.social 🤷♂️
Jason Schultz @jasonschultz.bsky.social 
Cynthia Wong @cynthiaw.bsky.social 
Katja Hofmann @katjahofmann.bsky.social At Microsoft Research. Lead of https://aka.ms/game-intelligence - we drive innovation in machine learning with applications in games. https://iclr.cc Board.
Wendy Sung @yupwendyaf.bsky.social Assistant professor of race, media, digital culture @UCLA
Sharon Heung @sharonheung.bsky.social Information Science PhD Candidate @ Cornell Tech. Thinking about ableism on social media, platform moderation, accessibility, and AI. www.sharonheung.com
Josh Gellers @joshgellers.bsky.social Dean and Inaugural Faculty Fellow for AI. Expert, Global AI Ethics Institute. Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project. https://www.joshgellers.com
Michael Baym @baym.lol Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Find me under “floating dumpster fire”
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Stephen Scott @stephenscott.xyz This ain’t no disco.
Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social I study the unmet promises and lived harms of extractive technologies.
https://dustinwedwards.com/
Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Value in Health, Board chair at EuroQol Research Foundation, Rotterdam & Professor of Health Economics at University of Melbourne. Proud mum of three wonderful adults and grandma to two very energetic tiny humans. 
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Sonja Thiel @sothie.bsky.social researching european AI practices and ethics in museumcultures at UC Berkeley CA | let’s talk!
| museum curator | writing, talking and teaching & learning about museums & AI | AI Ethics | science & technology |
Mark McKenna @markpmckenna.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof., Of Counsel, Lex Lumina PLLC
Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech writing Good Technologies: A Practical Primer for Lawyers (coming 2027 @ucpress.bsky.social)
teaching intellectual property, information privacy + technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
making prints, perfumes + poems @ tepski.tech/art
Derek Slater @derekslater.bsky.social 
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Beth Simone Noveck @bethnoveck.bsky.social BLOG: https://rebootdemocracy.ai. All things AI policy, democracy, government. BIO: https://thegovlab.org/beth-simone-noveck.html. Prof #AIforImpact #InnovateUS @Northeastern @BurnesCenter @TheGovLab, Chief AI Strategist @NJGOV, @OSTP44 BLOG
Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University
Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher:
https://remikalir.com/
yatima @yatima.bsky.social A murderbot bog witch but, like, chill. Into hyperlocal ecosystems, library books and my cat. Black lives matter, protect trans kids.
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social Visual Investigations journalist at New York Times, with a weakness for satellite images. Austrian in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/christoph-koettl
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Anke Domscheit-Berg @anke.domscheit-berg.de Publizistin, Feministin, Netzaktivistin, 2017-2025 MdB u digitalpolitische Sprecherin für DIE LINKE im Bundestag.
Weil digitale Revolution eine soziale Revolution braucht ❤️✊❤️!
JeanPoole @skynoise.net Video swiss army knife
Melbourne, Australia
https://skynoise.net
Eleonora Lima @eleonoralima.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural AI @King's College London. Research Fellow @Trinity College Dublin working on the KT4D project. Editorial assistant for the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). She'd rather be a cyborg than an academic goddess.
Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com 🌈 coding care | 🤖 intersectional ai | 🌀 making datasets and labyrinths
Sabine Braun @drsabinebraun.bsky.social Professor of Translation Studies | Director Centre for Translation Studies, University of Surrey | Co-Director Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI | Human-machine integration in translation, interpreting, media accessibility
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Making @mysky.social, the feed algorithm you control (it’s the most fun too). Working on AI and inter-group conflict research @chai-berkeley.bsky.social.
Stuart Geiger @stu.lu just a digital trace | Asst Prof at UC San Diego, Comm & Data Science | opaque sociotechnical systems, power, and publics | ethnographer of computation & computational ethnographer | humanities of the digital & digital humanities | https://stu.lu | he/they
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social CTO, Nomic. former history professor/digital humanist.
https://benschmidt.org
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com Senior Technology Reporter at The Intercept
Got a tip? Signal: sambiddle.99 (Make sure you don’t contact me via a work-provided device)
https://sambiddle.com
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own