logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
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.
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social PhD student in Info Sci at Cornell (Tech)
isabelsilvacorpus.github.io
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Samer Hassan @samerp2p.bsky.social Activist, Researcher, Professor at @ucm.es Madrid, faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center at @Harvard.edu.
Lead EU ERC project P2P Models and others.
#commons #socialcomputing #web3 #decentralization
he/they 🍉
https://samer.hassan.name
André Cruz @andcrz.bsky.social 🎓 PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
🔬 Safe and robust AI, algorithms and society
🔗 https://andrefcruz.github.io
📍 researcher in 🇩🇪, from 🇵🇹
Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wharton Accountable AI Lab. Previously a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, focusing on AI governance
Tourist in the waking world
UW News @uwnews.uw.edu Experts, research and administration news from the University of Washington. Media assistance: uwnews@uw.edu. 
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Abigail Jacobs @azjacobs.bsky.social Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social WiAIR is dedicated to celebrating the remarkable contributions of female AI researchers from around the globe. Our goal is to empower early career researchers, especially women, to pursue their passion for AI and make an impact in this exciting field.
Sarah Rajtmajer @srajtmajer.bsky.social Associate Prof @PennState Tech, Data, Ethics
https://www.rajtmajerlab.net
Thinking about AI, people & information ecosystems.
Also: maths, music, books, ballet, nature & assorted rabbit holes
Sunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research 👩🏻💻
Responsible AI, Human-AI Interaction, AI Evaluation ✨️
Prev: Apple, Princeton CS PhD, Yale S&DS BSc
https://sunniesuhyoung.github.io/
Nick Vincent @nickmvincent.bsky.social Studying people and computers (https://www.nickmvincent.com/)
Blogging about data and steering AI (https://dataleverage.substack.com/)
EvalEval Coalition @eval-eval.bsky.social We are a researcher community developing scientifically grounded research outputs and robust deployment infrastructure for broader impact evaluations.
https://evalevalai.com/
Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io Lead Technical AI Policy Researcher at Hugging Face @hf.co 🤗. Current focus: Responsible AI, AI for Science, and @eval-eval.bsky.social!
Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com Novelist & podcast maker｜Wrote River of Ink (2016), All Our Broken Idols (2020), Fall of Civilizations (2024)｜Creator of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Olive klug @oliveklug.bsky.social Singing songs
Being gay
Having fun
Raising hell
Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford NLP
https://myracheng.github.io/
Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social https://directing.attention.to. About: https://louis.work
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
DAIR Possible Futures @dairfutures.bsky.social A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise?
Run by @dylnbkr.bsky.social and @paulinewee.bsky.social from @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Sign up for workshops:
>>> https://linktr.ee/dair.futures <<<
Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org Illuminating math and science. Supported by the Simons Foundation. 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. www.quantamagazine.org
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
The Urbanist @theurbanist.org Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
FAccTRec @facctrec.bsky.social The FAccTRec workshop at ACM RecSys. https://facctrec.github.io/facctrec2023
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social Your City is a grassroots organization focused on affordability in Seattle, Washington #thisisyourcity
https://www.yourcityseattle.org
Katie Wilson @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social Seattle TRU co-founder and general secretary. Occasional writer. Running for Seattle Mayor @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
Jose A. Guridi @jaguridi.bsky.social PhD (c) at #Cornell Information Science | Interested in how policies for emerging technologies are created, and how can we use emerging technologies to improve policies through broader participation.
I am at the intersection of Policy and HCI :).
Michael Saxon @saxon.me To mine own opinions be true
Research scientist @ GDM. Prev: postdoc @ UW, PhD UCSB, BSMS ASU
Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning
100% Product of public schools
https://saxon.me/
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
EGAIR - European Guild for AI Regulation @egair.eu This is the official Bluesky account of the European Guild for AI Regulation.
Artists fighting for artists rights! ✊🏻🎨
Find more on www.egair.eu
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social he/they • math phd student at uw • uaw4121 unit chair • actor • uw ms ’23 • mit sb ’21 • http://nelsonniu.com
Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social Chicana. Child language development expert. 🧪 Forever a Scientist👩🏽🔬First Gen. Linguist. Writer. Podcaster. she/her. The Vocal Fries 🍟 co-host. Tucson, AZ
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
Ryan Steed @rbsteed.com AI Policy Fellow @ Princeton | PhD Carnegie Mellon | privacy, accountability, & algorithmic systems
Sally James @jamesian.bsky.social Science journalist. Yoga teacher. I'm an "indirect cost" writing for researchers at times.
More at https://seattlesciencewriter.com
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social A podcast about the airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds.
Patreon: patreon.com/ifbookspod
Merch: ifbookspod.dashery.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing @ AACL 2026 in Hengqin, China
🌐 https://gebnlp-workshop.github.io/
Ella Spurlock @ellaksscience.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Washington's Department of Chemistry. Studying inorganic clusters in the Velian Group.
Executive Senator in UW's Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
Interested in science policy, aerial hoop training, D&D, and reading
500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social We aim to serve society by making science open, inclusive, and accessible. Also @500womensci on Instagram and Facebook. Find out more: https://500womenscientists.org/
https://linktr.ee/500womenscientists
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UW
Computational Social Science
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI for science, AI governance, science of science & innovation #SciSci, #AI4Science, AI agents, alignment}
PhD Candidate @ UW.
Visiting Scholar @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Emma Spiro @emmaspiro.bsky.social Associate Professor at the UW iSchool, Co-Founder UW Center for an Informed Public | PhD in Sociology from UC Irvine | Research: social networks, sociology, information integrity & computational social science.
Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: tinyurl.com/y7ekfkhx
Tanu Mitra @tanumitra.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UW_iSchool
Computer Science, PhD @GeorgiaTech
Social computing researcher studying online misinformation
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Bingbing Wen @bingbingw.bsky.social phd student at UW ischool
Eva Maxfield Brown @evamaxfield.bsky.social seattle
uw phd student working on scientific software
https://evamaxfield.github.io
Katelyn Mei @katelynxmei.bsky.social PhDing in Information Science @uwischool.bsky.social | Human-AI interaction & Cognitive Psych | Middlebury College ‘22
katelynmei.com
Kayla Duskin @kayladuskin.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of Washington (@ischool.uw.edu)
Studying online information integrity and platform governance with the Center for an Informed Public (@cip.uw.edu).
Offline, catch me in the Cascades 🏔️. 
Sydney DeMets @sydneydemets.bsky.social https://sydneydemets.github.io
PhD Candidate at UW iSchool. Interested in social networks, diffusion, and rumors. I used to study aquatic ecosystems and do remote sensing work.
Soham De @sohamde.in 🎓 PhD student @ischool.uw.edu (he/him)
🤝 Interested in pluralistic alignment & scalable oversight in the context of social media algorithms
Academic Website: https://sohamde.in/ | 📍Seattle, WA
@anukriti12.bsky.social @anukriti12.bsky.social 
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Isaac Slaughter @isaacslaughter.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UW's iSchool
slaughter.page
Navreet Kaur @navreetkaur.bsky.social PhD at UW iSchool. Research in NLP, Responsible AI, AI Ethics.
She/her
navreeetkaur.github.io
Hua Shen✨ @huashen.bsky.social Postdoc @UW, Prev.@UMich, Ph.D @PSU, Research Intern @GoogleAI, @AmazonScience. 🦋 https://hua-shen.org.
Neel Gupta @neel2112.bsky.social PhD Student at UW iSchool researching cultural analytics.
https://neelgupta2112.github.io/
Kristen @kristenengel.bsky.social Social computing PhD candidate @ UW. I study user engagement with interventions, prosocial behavior, and antisocial content across online platforms.
www.kristenengel.com
Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social A unique collaboration at the University of Washington enhancing technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership. 
Sebastian Gehrmann @sebgehr.bsky.social Head of Responsible AI, CTO Office, Bloomberg.
Anastasia Schaadhardt @sleepystasia.bsky.social PhD in information science from UW | health informatics + psych hospitalization | she/her | 👩🏼🎓👩🏼🏫👩🏼💻
UAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social The Union of 9000 TAs, RAs, Graders, Tutors, Postdocs & Researchers at the University of Washington. #UWWorksBecauseWeDo
https://linktr.ee/uawlocal4121
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Computational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social http://cljournal.org
Computational Linguistics, established in 1974, is the official flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Tags: #CLJournal #NLProc
Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social @Cohere.com's non-profit research lab and open science initiative that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems. Join us in exploring the unknown, together. https://cohere.com/research
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social The Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's @scsatcmu.bsky.social
lti.cmu.edu
Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at UW, Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. lucy3.github.io
Chhavi Yadav @chhaviyadav.bsky.social Machine Learning Researcher | PhD Candidate @ucsd_cse | @trustworthy_ml
chhaviyadav.org
Mimansa Jaiswal @mimansaj.bsky.social Robustness, Data & Annotations, Evaluation & Interpretability in LLMs
http://mimansajaiswal.github.io/
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cornell Info Sci | Responsible AI | Previously Apple, Stanford RegLab, MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
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
Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social 🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research
https://siobhanmackenziehall.com/
Awa Dieng @adoubleva.bsky.social machine learning researcher
Shiran Dudy @shirandudy.bsky.social A research scientist @Northeastern #AIEthics, #ResponsibleAI (she/her)
Work on amplifying voices that we should hear more. My research is on cultural representation and perspective communication in AI. https://www.shirandudy.com
Meera Desai @madesai.bsky.social PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information. Data and evaluation practices for language models / language models as cultural technologies.
https://meera-desai.com
Mira Pijselman @pijselman.bsky.social Governance engineer, digital ethicist, human-centered design // 🇨🇦🇬🇧
AI • quantum • data // oxford • university of toronto // video game enthusiast
all views my own
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Mírian Silva @mirianfsilva.bsky.social She/Her • Former @IBMResearch • MSc in AI/ML @ UFMG 🇧🇷 | Interested in AI Ethics, Safety & Tech Governance. AI/ML engineering & robustness • @blackinai👩🏽💻 (I’m trying to leave twitter🙂↕️)
https://mirianfsilva.github.io