Areeq Chowdhury @areeq.bsky.social Policy, politics, artificial intelligence.
Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social Inspiring and supporting better public policy and government around the world through independent teaching and research at the University of Oxford.
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Seb Krier @sebk.bsky.social friendly deep sea dweller
Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
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Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Mark Sandford @marksandford.bsky.social Local and regional government, funding issues, national and regional identity; mostly writing for the House of Commons Library but elsewhere too. Occasional attempts at folk music, cycling, making food
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Lex Zard @lexzard.bsky.social Policy Director @ Check My Ads
Online advertising policy
Aleksandre Zardiashvili, PhD
Views my own
Eva Blum-Dumontet @evabd.bsky.social Head of Movement Building and Policy at Chayn. Tech and gender policy. Privacy enthusiast.
“Marxist, agitator, anarchist, looter and person who in many instances has no idea what she is doing.”
Daniel Soar @danielsoar.bsky.social London Review of Books
The Wayback Machine @waybackmachine.bsky.social The Wayback Machine is a service of the Internet Archive that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for six months for just £12: lrb.me/social
Crofton Black @cr0ft0n.bsky.social Research consultant. Senior reporter @lighthousereports.com. PhD medieval philosophy @warburginstitute.bsky.social. 📚 Negative Publicity (2016) | CIA Torture Unredacted (2019) | Cosmopolemos (coming 2025). https://www.crofton.black
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Kai-Fu Lee @kaifulee.bsky.social #AI expert, CEO 01.ai, Chairman Sinovation Ventures, Author of AI 2041 and NYT Bestseller AI Superpowers
FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com Your daily slice of the best FT journalism
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
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/
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w
Dan Blah @blahs.life Partner & Dad (blahs.life). Chief Technologist / co-founder (reset.tech). Former lots of things.
Julia Powles @juliapowles.bsky.social Law & Tech
Slowly warming up to having my heart in it, here @bluesky
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social Chasing digital badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, but words here are mine.
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Tracy Pizzo Frey @tpf.bsky.social Responsible AI | Tech Ethics | Founder, Restorative AI | Managing Partner, Uncommon Impact Studio | Mom | Excellent packer | Terrible napper | dogs > cats sorry I don't make the rules | all posts are mine from my very own brain
Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social Statistics expert and author of 'Sum of Us' (2025) and 'Bad Data' (2022). Research Affiliate at the Oxford Migration Observatory.
Formerly of the House of Commons Library. Now writing and podcasting on Substack https://georginasturge.substack.com/
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Eric Mill @konklone.com What is me? Who are I going?? The answers and more!!
Currently making Wikipedia safer. Been around the block a time or two: https://konklone.com (This is a personal account.)
Glen @gergyl.bsky.social Australian snow and snow weather, hydrology, climate ... other stuff. I reciprocal follow, and block abusive posters.
Fiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social Economics professor;, competition, antitrust, IO, healthcare
Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com
Also a laser scientist.
She/her. Colorado, USA
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Journalist. Contact me here: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
This Is Not A Drill @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social Exploring the threats that are making our world increasingly dangerous. Presented by Gavin Esler.
Listen ➡️ linktr.ee/drillpod
Support us and get early episodes ➡️ http://patreon.com/thisisnotadrill
Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social Aka @c_c_krebs over there 
AHOY! European Social Web Day 2025 in Hamburg @handle.invalid Social media is worth fixing - and you can help! We're bringing together early adaptors from 12+ countries to push for a European social web #atproto #bluesky
Join us on 24th of April in Hamburg, Germany. https://ahoy.eu
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Jon Davis @jonmdavis.bsky.social Professor of Government, King’s College London. OBE. ⚒️
Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social PhD candidate @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social | Academic Coordinator @ilintelligence.bsky.social | Surveillance law, Privacy, AI regulation and intelligence studies
❌ https://x.com/amircahane
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahane/
People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech
📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
Carly Kind @carlykind.bsky.social Australian Privacy Commissioner
Previously @adalovelaceinst @privacyint
Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca Tech & human rights lawyer | he/him
Director, Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program, CCLA (https://ccla.org | @CanCivLib.bsky.social)
Formerly: hrw.org | cippic.ca
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Sam @smithsam.bsky.social Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘♂️ #FILDI
Cambridge
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
Natalie D Kane @ndkane.bsky.social Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Curator - Design and Disability (opening V&A Dundee June 2026). Councillor, Brixton Acre Lane @lambethgreenparty
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author: Karla’s Choice, Gnomon, Titanium Noir etc. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Greta not Peter. Cuan cuan. Brit logging in via Eurosky.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Jean-Paul (JP) Jassy @jpjassy.bsky.social First Amendment, media, entertainment, and intellectual property lawyer at Jassy Vick Carolan LLP. Taught First Amendment law at USC and UC Irvine Law Schools. Padre and Padres fan. Bills hours and Bills fan. Sco 🦆s! Faithful to US Constitution. 🇺🇸
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Christopher Parsons (he/him/his) @christopher-parsons.com Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
esme harrington @esmeharrington.bsky.social digital rights, ai & tech policy @awoagency.bsky.social | sign-up for Algorithm Governance Roundup https://www.awo.agency/algorithm-governance-new | london 🏳️🌈
angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social Socio-legal academic of data & tech
Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture
Between Awabakal land & Alba, often out and about
Likes clean air
Own views
She/her
www.angeladaly.wordpress.com
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
Christopher Soghoian @christopher.soghoian.net Work: Senior Advisor for Privacy and Cybersecurity, Office of Senator Ron Wyden.
Zach Edwards @thezedwards.bsky.social data supply auditor | privacy & ad tech expert | internet threats
Personal @ victorymedium.com
Work @ Staff Threat Researcher @ Infoblox.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!
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social Work at the FT as director of global public policy and platform strategy. Before that I was at the Guardian doing public policy for over a decade. I'm from Yorkshire, via Hull, London, and now in the middle of England (Lichfield)
Kagi HQ @kagi.com Privacy-respecting search, browser and products that put you first. No ads. No trackers. Ever. https://kagi.com/
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.
Big Brother Watch @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social Defending civil liberties and protecting privacy.
Fearless campaigning. Real change. Delivered to you.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
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Duncan Campbell @duncanc.bsky.social Investigative Journalist, Computer Forensic Expert, 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ equality campaigner 🏳️🌈 Also http://tech.lgbt/@duncaned Слава Україні!
Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: cybercrime and criminal law; digital surveillance, investigations & evidence; privacy law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Views are my own.)
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
File a report in the app or via moderation@blueskyweb.xyz - not via mentions/replies.
https://aaronrodericks.com
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social 
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. 
Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social Personal account. Retired USAF, former Director of CIA & NSA, author, husband, father, granddad. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Rebekah Tweed @rebekahtweed.bsky.social Executive Director of All Tech Is Human | Responsible Tech | AI Governance
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Virginia Mantouvalou @vmantouvalou.bsky.social Professor of Human Rights& Labour Law at UCL; Articles Editor, Modern Law Review; Co-Editor, UK Labour Law Blog; Chair of Kalayaan
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/22589
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Lucie Audibert @lutecia.bsky.social Solicitor (🇬🇧 lawyer) @awo.agency | ex @privacyinternational.org | tech & human rights | skeptical fan of the Internet