Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
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)
jim storrie @jimstr.bsky.social edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at www.theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape
Dr. Andy Holt @drandyholt.bsky.social Scottish neurodivergent AuDHD pharmacologist fae Dundee. Cambridge grajit. Pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics. Bides near Amiskwaciwâskahikan, treaty 6 land, kanata. Socialist. Road cyclist. Footballer. Woodworker. Antifa. Dugs>fowk. 🏴🇵🇸🇺🇦
Sid @squidalisha.bsky.social From Nunavut to Big Berta
Dr Ivan Simic @ivansimic.bsky.social Edmontonian, amateur climber, knitter, cat lover, and then some other things.
Historian, Charles University, Prague | PhD in History, University College London. SSEES | he/him
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. No to the Nine. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Cameron Peters @cspeters42.bsky.social Autistic history-economics graduate. Will say something mean without thinking about it then feel bad about it later. Will use y'all and sera because english needs 2nd person plural and a gender neutral honorifics. I have a sibling and a brother.
@jpatricklee.bsky.social @jpatricklee.bsky.social
TomatoHat @tomatohat.bsky.social Professional lurker
🇨🇦
Grape Cush Core @grapecrush.bsky.social Not interested in cowards and fools. Anti-fascist.
Environment, climbing, skiing, renewable energy, rescue, photography.
Erik Jenkyns @jeneric2.bsky.social Care Giver in dementia care with veterans, bicycle oriented, casual musician, cooker of food. Believes in sustainable lifestyle & urban design, living a mindful life, observing nature. All pronouns are ones own business only, but mine are he/him.
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Erin Rutherford @erinrutherford.bsky.social Community Builder | Local Foodie | Energized by Nature 🔸
#YEG City Councillor
#WardAnirniq
https://linktr.ee/erin.rutherford?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=77d79b16-a047-4741-8076-38d374f11ab7
True Oak @trueoak.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
Proud Canadian that happens to live in Alberta.
Truth.Science.Rule of Law.
1984 is a cautionary tale not a user guide.
Have lovingly tend a pair of oak trees for 30 years.
Gardening soothes the soul as does our laddie.
Elks.Spurs(FB not BB)
NHIZ @nerdhobbiesinzo.bsky.social Commutes by 🚲 🚉
Love my cats 🐈🐈⬛🐈
📺 & 📚 Hard Science, STEM, Sci-fi & Steam Punk
🎵 Metal, rock, electronic or something with 🎸
Being Outdoors ⛰️🌳🏞️
😷 Hypochondriac /s
🤖 Human After All
V0.1
NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social Grandfather; retired law prof ucalgary law; principally post on energy, resources and climate change issues; committed to advancing intergenerational equity; grateful settler on Treaty 7 lands.
Devan Marr @devanmarr.bsky.social Bike Rider. Mediocre Beer Brewer. Lawyer. Luddite. JDHD. He/Him.
It’s never legal advice. It’s rarely good advice.
Toronto, ON
It’s Pauline @psasano.bsky.social A horse named after a bird and a cat named after confectionary. Perinatal RN. She/her #yeg
John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social I'm an author, illustrator, animator & puppeteer. I write stories and comics about nature, especially insects! Currently seeking an agent. he/him www.johnlechner.com 🍃
Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social Public interest lawyer and First Nation rights advocate. Never a KC.
Treaty No 6 territory
YEG
🇨🇦
okellylaw.ca
Desi @desivalentine.bsky.social Likes to read. Doesn’t like to be read. Here for the book-talk, sports-hype and cultural politics. Preoccupied with physical fitness and health.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social Chair and Founder of Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social | International Program Director @stand.earth
📍Vancouver, BC
https://bio.site/tzeporah
Dr. Catherine Kehl @tylik.bsky.social Neurobio, biomech and roboticist - mad scientist. And apparently now CS Prof. Martial artist who lives in a cabin overlooking Puget Sound and loves to forage plants and mushrooms. Way into fiber arts.
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Ned Yeung 🍉 @neddog.bsky.social Commercial and portrait photographer in Edmonton, Canada. See https://cyclopsphoto.com
@joshclassenctv.bsky.social @joshclassenctv.bsky.social
@mlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social Biking guy for recreation and transportation. Enjoys baseball, movies, dinosaurs, and the opera. Somehow one of Toronto Life's 2025 Most Influential.
Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social Ex-Twitter user. Human being, cyborg, mutant, zombie.
Opposed to dying and the destruction of our habitable #climate.
#blogger
COVID-19 thoughts on how to survive this pandemic.
Jane Starr @teajane.bsky.social Gardener, reader, tea drinker, retired librarian, printmaker, geek, parent, wife, cat "owner." YEG. Vaccinated. She/her.
Cole Pederson @pedercol.bsky.social Retired settler in Treaty 6 area; love city life; walker and cyclist in a 1-car, 2-person house; it’s complicated. I don’t chat here.
Emily m Klassen @forivall.com Memory testing : 4190200KB OK
Detecting boot volume...
Web software person (TypeScript, some rust, python)
Stone/brick butch trans menno-dyke. Galatians 6:2
Unceded territories/stolen land of the Coast Salish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations (In 🇨🇦)
Andy Grabia @agrabia.bsky.social Stand-up Philosopher. King of Nightlandia. My thoughts are sporadic. Suffering from Cassandra Complex. 🦉
Carolyn Lisle 🇨🇦 🧶 @peridragon.bsky.social I design colourful knitting patterns with innovative details, often inspired by science and nature but occasionally best described as, “But why would you do that?!”
Trekkie, LOTR fan, nerd in general.
Website: https://www.periwinkledragon.ca/links/
Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social Biodiversity, community & kindness are real wealth. Economic growth is a suicide pact. Seeking humour while forever opposing disinformation, hate & ecocide.
Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social Linux geek, hot sauce fanatic, gin aficionado, cat fancier and insufferable smart ass.
Mariembois @mariembois.bsky.social Neurodivergent, advocate, pattern-seeker. Musician on hiatus. Lover of mastiffs, coffee, reading, disappearing into the woods. She/her.
#yeg on Treaty 6 territory
#harmreduction
#mentalhealthmatters
#endhomelessness
#autismacceptance
Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com Graphic artist, M.Des. — Art direction. Documentary photography. Publication design. Studying the media of design, architecture, and “smart” cities. Invited to Harvard GSD, McGill, and UQAM. — michelechampagne.com
Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social Toronto | Climate + environment reporter at Canada’s National Observer
she/her
cloe[at]nationalobserver.com
cloelogan[at]proton.me
cloelogan.com
You should go on strike @alvincarpenter.bsky.social Strikes are popular. Every time there isn't a strike happening someone should be saying "I miss strikes, do you know when the next strike is?"
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Coulahan @eastenddad.bsky.social I'm a dad. I try to live a moral life.
DebunKitty @debunkitty.bsky.social
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social Transit polls well. We use that popularity to push for more reliable & abundant transit. Let's make it better than driving.
I'm in Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land.
ED @movementyvr.bsky.social
cohost @dwelltime.ca pod
Daniel @danyelling.bsky.social If you follow me, you should also be following @etriders.bsky.social | https://boxd.it/efgw5 | Edmonton | he/him
Christie Page @cpageyyc.bsky.social YYC Urban Mom who believes good design can solve most of the worlds problems.
Jon Lai @jonjlai.bsky.social Personal account
Progress over perfection
Pronouns are he / him
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Treaty 6 (1876)
Nobody @davidepike.bsky.social Teaching. Geography. Urban Planning & Design. Geosciences. Biological Sciences. Climate. Anti-fascism. Anti-racism. Anti-ignorance. Music. Art. History. Basset Hounds. Bicycles. Lichen. Cryptobiotic soil crusts. Pandemics. Books. Reading. Learning.
The Hero 🇨🇦 @thehero81.bsky.social Just a nerd trying to survive another revolution around the sun.
Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
Ky @ky.fyi body { will-change: transform; }
💌 https://ky.fyi
📺 https://hypertext.tv
🏳️⚧️ @namesake.fyi
Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social Reporter with the Investigative Journalism Bureau;
Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person;
Nosy questions, mostly.
anna.mehler.paperny@gmail.com / amehlerpaperny@ijbureau.org
Bookstagramming/dogstagrammimg @mehlerpaperny
Jacy Eberlein @jacy.ca Editor and Developing Editor specializing in science fiction from Edmonton, AB. (he/him)
Also I shoot film photographs.
https://jacy.ca/
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social 🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
🇺🇸 Public schools 🤝 Democracy
🫧 Got it, got it?
John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social Here for the COVID Cautious community.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
S Walker 🇨🇦 🍁🚲 @stuw22.bsky.social Even now, I hold to the notion that to be Canadian is to be peaceful, compassionate, and believe good governance is possible.
Safety In Numbers @safetyinnumbers.bsky.social Pro: Critical thinking, fact-checks & open respectful discourse. Judge me by words/actions, not demographics. (Mask = N95+, no gaps)
Formerly of Twitter SafetyinNumbrz
Flan @flanknits.bsky.social she/her. South Minneapolis
Community organizer. Fiber Artist. Political news junkie. Quaker.
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
Marsha (Sunshine)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social I’m a sad shell of a woman and I’ve got maggots for brains
born at 332ppm
Judith Allen @jaa-edit.bsky.social Animation editor based in the UK. She/ her.
Rob 🏳️🌈 @rotster.net "Classic petty gay". Plant botherer. Aspiring retiree.
He/him.
lnk.bio/rotster
Jon Morgan @jonmorganyeg.bsky.social Edmonton City Councillor for Ward Ipiihkoohkanipiaohtsi.
Jo-Anne Wright - City Councillor for Ward Sspomitapi @joannewrightyeg.bsky.social Jo-Anne Wright
City Councillor for Ward Sspomitapi
jo-annewright.ca
-Public Safety
-Investing in Core Services
-Responsible Development
-Fiscal Sustainability
-Building Strong Communities
Funtime2025 @funtime2025.bsky.social Mathematics, science, and humanities enthusiast! Love using public transit, riding my bike, reading (shout out to the Edmonton Public Library), the Linux kernel, and open source software! I guess I like a lot of things...
Stochastic Parrot 🇨🇦 @stoobiedood.bsky.social Retired technical writer / voice&data comms sales / violinist 🎻
"Ah, but a man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?"
Nasty Canadian™
🏳️🌈Toronto mid-town, cat lover 🐱, curler 🥌, sometime cyclist 🚲 Born at 312.2 ppm
NEVER VOTE CONSERVATIVE
Blue3yedNerd @blue3yednerd.bsky.social Curious, lighthearted cat mom in the Pacific Northwest with my partner.
🩵 Gaming 🩵 Reading 🩵 Weaving 🩵 Plants 🩵 🔗 https://beacons.ai/blue3yednerd
Avery @weftist.bsky.social Weaving. See more on my tumblr weftist.tumblr.com
ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social She/her. Oncology clinical trials nurse. Raging feminist. No kids, just cats ❤️. Join your union and keep masks in healthcare. AuADHD. Living in Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land
𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔲𝔦 @emorui.bsky.social Call me Eva! She/Her. Freelance illustrator and fantasy enjoyer. Open for work. EN/ES
DO NOT edit or use my artwork without my consent -No A/I/N/FT- Bigots DNI🚫
https://vgen.co/emorui
J.Day @thejeffday.bsky.social I run around outside, on my legs, with a camera. I post my own photos except reposts. I live on Treaty 6 land in #yeg #Canada. I like #art , #movement, #words and my family. And #pets.
TY for shares & follows!! ✨🍃🌅
Keep Up: 👇
https://bio.site/jeffday
Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Karen Douglas 🇨🇦 @karenbdc.bsky.social Hoping for 🎶nothing but blue skies from now on🎶
I post boring bits of my life & anything I find interesting.
If you followed me from the old place because of hockey; don't bother. I stopped watching hockey a few years ago.
Pronouns: she /her
Edmonton Transit Riders @etriders.bsky.social Connecting Edmonton with an effective, user-friendly, and accessible public transit system through advocacy and community building 🚌🚊
https://linktr.ee/edmonton_transit_riders
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
PORK-PIE 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @porkpie.ca Luc La🌷(he/him) / Creator of @frankbottom.com / Queer / Free Palestine / BLM / Land Back / Trans Rights / No AI / Clean Air + Mask Up / IATSE 938 (CAG)
💖 Crowdfunder: crowdfundr.com/FrankBottom
🔗 Links: porkpie.ca
Hazel Newlevant @newlevant.bsky.social Cartoonist and editor. My graphic novel QUEER & HOW WE GOT HERE is out now from Little, Brown Ink! 🤪 they/them ⚧️
Kevin Ball 🇨🇦 @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social normalize not normalizing the new normal
pro-vax, anti-vax-‘n’-relax
i pity the fools but i do not suffer them Ⓥ
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_
Brittlestar @brittlestar.com Social Media Darling. International Bestselling Author. Occasionally funny. Brittlestar.com
Water Not Coal @waternotcoalab.bsky.social Join Corb Lund! Protect Alberta’s water, land, & future. Pledge to sign the petition, donate, & volunteer: https://www.waternotcoal.ca/
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Expert Level Bummer @expertlevelbummer.bsky.social Queer, activist, anti-imperialist, abolitionist, anti-Zionist Jew, COVID conscious. Free Palestine Sudan Congo Haiti Hawaii Turtle Island Tigray... Free us all 🍉😷 (she/her)
Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social Health/Law/Human Rights. Thinking globally, meeting CanCon requirements. Disproportionately but not exclusively access to medicines/global health/humanitarian response/public health/infectious disease.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social goblin • he/him • patreon.com/adamtots • Let Me In Your Window: https://amzn.to/4l2oOFw
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/
Kate @rin-doodles.bsky.social Get on a bike. Put on a mask. Do a silly dance. Think Winnipeg thoughts.
Rasmus Birk @rasmusbirk.bsky.social Associate Professor in Psychology @ Aalborg University. I use qualitative methods to study mental health, focusing especially on the social, cultural and spatial contexts of experience.
https://www.rasmusbirk.org/
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority