James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social Writer and former English professor. Author of *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science* (Virginia 2024). Death positive. Interested in animals, environments, and all things Victorian.
Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social Independent investigative journalist in Edmonton, Alberta. Ex Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Contact in confidence at journalismtips@protonmail.com
Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social Working @gdp-center.bsky.social for a global economy that advances development and addresses climate change. Past: Oxfam, Yale Law, Benin. Views my own. Subscribe to my Substack: timhirschelburns.substack.com
Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
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Lorinda Bullington @lorindabee.bsky.social Systems Ecology Ph.D. Interested in plant-fungi / fungi-beetle 🌲🍄🟫🪲symbioses in forest ecosystems.
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
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Kevin Carmichael @kevincarmichael.bsky.social Economics Columnist, The Logic
Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social He/Him. Toronto, Canada. If you can explain it to me, then I can explain it to everyone. Elsewhere at https://linktr.ee/mjmbca.
Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social Vancouver bureau chief for Bloomberg News
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social Writer at hellgatenyc.com! Pulitzer finalist! Tips: jessy@hellgatenyc.com Previously: Gothamist/WNYC, NBC New York, BK Reader
Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social Provincial affairs reporter for CBC Saskatchewan. CAJ National Director, Saskatchewan Region. Data, politics & freedom of information requests. Cat dad. He/him.
Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social Environmental Reporter & Special Reports Editor for The Highlands Current: An award-winning, non-profit, independent newspaper in NY's Hudson Valley. (https://highlandscurrent.org/author/bcronin/) Also teaching journalism at Marist University. He/Him.
Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law. Previously Chicago-Kent; Yale Law & ISP. Working primarily on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and constitutional / democratic theory.
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social BBC News in Westminster
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
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quack @quacksilver.bsky.social three ducks in a trenchcoat, indie gremlin, Frame Fatales Host Coordinator, Make Your Own Victory showrunner, all skill at video games strictly incidental
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Mark Mac Lean @marktmaclean.bsky.social Mathematician. Full of contradictions. Opinions are entirely my own. Reposts =/= endorsements. Likes are often bookmarks or acknowledgements. He/him/his.
Avery Edison @averyedison.com elegantly withstanding the vast brunt of it
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social rural Ontario family doc | writer | Family Medicine @queensuhealth.bsky.social | she/her
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Sondre Ulvund Solstad @sondreus.bsky.social @TheEconomist Senior Data Journalist &
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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Matthew Scace @mattscace.bsky.social Reporter with The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Author of Jasper on Fire: Five Days of Hell in a Rocky Mountain Paradise, out now: https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/jasper-on-fire-pre-order/
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), Anti-corruption Action Center (AntAC). Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, certified AI hater, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social SATX-based writer and (ENNIE winning!) TTRPG designer who thinks about death the normal amount. VOID 1680 AM, No-Tell Motel, Lighthouse at the End of the World, Killer Ratings. linktr.ee/bannerlessgames
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social Journalist, writer, author.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social Film critic at Washington City Paper
Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com Member of technical staff @anthropic.com. Law professor (on leave) @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Contributing editor @lawfaremedia.org. Former DOJ. alanrozenshtein.com
Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com Sr. Entertainment Editor at Consequence, LAist/AirTalk TV critic, writer of other stuff. I like space battles, videos of cats, old-school funk, and the Oxford comma. She/her. First novel on sale now: http://robot-boyfriend.com
fireb0rn @fireb0rn.bsky.social Hollow Knight speedrunner. I'm the God Gamer. (he/him)
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Justine Peres Smith @redroomrantings.bsky.social Writer. Programmer of Underground Section at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Montréal/Tiohtià:ke
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social (they/them)
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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social Hydrologist, photographer, geoscience consultant, mycophile, sarcastic, dude.
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social Actor/comedian/writer in Toronto. Words in The Beaverton, CBC Comedy, The Toronto Star, McSweeney’s, etc. Pierre Poilievre's personal assistant Mandy. she/her clareblackwood@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/cw/ClareBlackwoodComedy
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Marcus Krueger @trustedsystem.eurosky.social Music and Movie Lover. Sometimes I like to run und bike.
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I use #laufticker when posting about Elite Running and #nevernotrunning when posting about my own running
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Taka @taka-does-stuff.bsky.social I don't run the Barkley but I run the Barkley sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS7bFn8RH5Na4vVxNijCsFCiHeYqRksDi5D9ddC9Fz4yK7nOQhEg8HwG78lz-PFVB2EkFn4QlJKEXMV/pubhtml
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
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Andy Dobson @andy2dobson.bsky.social Wildlife Disease Ecology and Conservation, Author, Dad, Princeton Professor, External Faculty Santa Fe Institute and STRI. Photographer, cook, & nerd who works in Serengeti, Yellowstone, California, NJ, and collects guitars and books. Rewilding his yard!
Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social Professor at Univ of Washington @uwsafs.bsky.social I run models and synthesize data, love R graphics, and do research on the status of marine fisheries, fishing quotas, and blue whales @bluewhalenews.bsky.social
Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social TVLine Founding Editor/former CCO * TCA board member * Proud Dad to two impressive sons * Publisher of Matt's Inside Line, The TV Newsletter: https://mattmitovich.ghost.io/
The Hill Times @hilltimes.com The Hill Times is an influential, independently owned newspaper. We've covered Parliament Hill since 1989.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social The Globe and Mail television critic and recovering theatre critic. I'm gonna bleet about baseball sometimes. Find me by email at knestruck@globeandmail.com. 🇨🇦
Steven Townsend @stevenmtownsend.bsky.social In my forties doing my undergraduate degree for the first time. Double major in Geography focused on Environment and Sustainability and Anthropology at UBC Vancouver. Interests: community building, a healthy planet, social & environmental justice 🏳️🌈
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
Phil Rosenthal @philrosenthal.bsky.social Ex-newspaper guy in Chicago, L.A., Madison and Waukegan, most recently the Chicago Tribune.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.