Brian Proffitt @brian.proffitt.org Transplanted Hoosier fighting entropy through marriage, fatherhood, friendship, & open source. Sr Mgr, Community Outreach, Red Hat OSPO. VP, M&P/Conferences, ASF.
Action is his reward.
Captioner - Amanda @asignia.bsky.social Captioner. Stenographer. New Mexico. Dog mom. Fostering dogs and starting a rescue.
BRCA1, triple negative breast cancer survivor - I removed the tatas + all reproductive organs because they tried to kill me.
Mx. Riley @riley.pub Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons 🌱 Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics.
@igalia.com @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google
she/ella 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦓 ♾️ 9a
Eriol Fox @erioldoesdesign.bsky.social Privacy, Security and Human-rights centred designer for OSS
https://erioldoesdesign.github.io/
https://lockdown.systems collective member
Open Source Design wrangler/maintainer @opensrcdesign
They/them 🏳️🌈 🌻
D&D Nerd 🎲
Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Spelman College. Author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and other books.
Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com 🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building: @anew.social, @disperse.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
👥 Organizing: @seattle.atprotocol.community
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social Neuroscientist, educator, author of SO YOU WANT TO BE A NEUROSCIENTIST? (Columbia, 2020) & MIND OVER MATTER (Princeton TBD) // professor at ucsd // co-host of www.changetechnically.fyi // www.ashleyjuavinett.com // newsletter at graymatter.ghost.io
California Working Families Party @caworkingfamilies.bsky.social We’re a grassroots political party building a multiracial movement of working people to transform California & our country. Text 30403 to join us 🐺
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social President, #Apache Software Foundation ( #ASF )
Makes lots of things & #highland dances
GeekMom.com writer
https://linktr.ee/suehle
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social Electrical Engineering Professor, Robotics Engineer, Author, Speaker, Researcher, Mentor, Advocate. Here to promote, normalize and diversify STEM. #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #Forbes50Over50
CarlottaArdell.com, NoireSTEMinist.com
Pete Bachant @petebachant.me RSE @caltech.edu
Bicycles, fluid dynamics, Python, open source, open science, reproducibility. https://petebachant.me | https://calkit.org
dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com (gaming)(host + vlogger) + techie = #SharpieVLOG 🐣
over 3️⃣8️⃣0️⃣ days since my last league game 🥹
replies off on most posts bc i said so 😤😊
🎤 • host: @GDoCExpo.com
📻 • podcast: @fgcast.com (on-hiatus)
more about me ➡️ www.sharpiepls.com
Wesley Faulkner @wesley83.blacksky.app wesley83.com
Emma Strubell @strubell.bsky.social assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs).
pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist.
Website: strubell.github.io
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
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.
PyBay @pybay.bsky.social PyBay is the San Francisco Bay Area annual regional Python Conference! Check us out at pybay.org
CryptoHarlem @cryptoharlem.bsky.social Nonprofit AntiSurveillance, Cybersecurity Education & Advocacy Organization
AFROFUTURIST * HACKTIVIST * ACTION
"cybersecurity for the people"
Distribute Aid @distributeaid.org Powering grassroots aid movements at scale with open source supply chains & tech.
they/them (or we/us if you're really cool)
https://distributeaid.org
Donate here: https://www.omprakash.org/global/distribute-aid/donate
Swedish charity # 802521-4456
Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and worth looking up.
zeu @zeu.dev software engineer, developer educator @ twilio.com 🇵🇭🇺🇸🏳️🌈
http://zeu.dev - tangled.org/zeu.dev - http://github.com/zeucapua
stream: https://twitch.tv/zeu_dev - https://stream.place/zeu.dev
Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social We're creating a safer social media experience for marginalized people, powered by ATProto, and operating as a nonprofit worker-owned cooperative in Canada.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh Open Source Practitioner, bullish on kindness.
https://erlend.sh – about me
@roomy.space – make space
Dr Eugenia Cheng -- no advice please -- @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social Pure Mathematician+pianist. Grieving involuntary childlessness. Author: "Is Math(s) Real?" 2023 etc. "Unequal" out 2025!
Maryblessing @ukdevv.bsky.social Community and Event Designer | Open Source and DI&B Advocate | Project Manager
Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool Creative, Founder, Chaotic Good
https://roiskinda.cool
https://workingwith.roiskinda.cool/
RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app "clever, knowing, jaded"
🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/railinasah
Catt Small @catt.design Designer with too many hobbies in Brooklyn. I run @gdocexpo.com in my spare time. People go "ooh" when I say I make video games.
Mike McCue @mmccue.bsky.social Co-founder, CEO Flipboard
Host of DotSocial Podcast
Check out my custom feeds in the feeds tab
Made with surf.social beta
Also
Flipboard @mike.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy
Mastodon @mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy
Pixelfed @mmccue.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Kate Hertweck @k8hert.bsky.social Open Science @ Biohub, I like bioinformatics/plant genomics/evolutionary biology.
Fiber artist/sci-fi/queer. Perceived pronouns (any acceptable).
I’m the one on the left in my profile pic. Views my own.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katehertweck
Cat Allman @catface.bsky.social Open source, Sci Foo, critters, craft. Now with digital-science.com, X-Google, Sendmail, Usenix. I believe in science, democracy, nature, happiness.
Kirstie Whitaker @kirstiejane.bsky.social ☀️ Executive Director for @ucbids.bsky.social
💽 Previously: Director for #OpenSource Tools, Practices and Systems at The Alan Turing Institute
🌱 Founder @turingway.bsky.social
🌎 #Inclusive #Communities
💕 Solo mum by choice
Tyler Thrasher @tylerthrasherart.bsky.social Artist, botanist, citizen scientist, author, husband, father, occasional photographer, business owner, personal wizard.
https://linktr.ee/tylerthrasherart?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=737528a5-8cc5-4089-b0bf-cab5206f31df
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
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.”
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Kai (he/they) 🏳️⚧️ @thegrumpyenby.bsky.social queer | transmasc enby | bi | kinky | poly | AuDHD | CPTSD | EDS? | covid cautious | serial immigrant | serious AI hater | deeply unserious person | my kink is competence
freelance dev content
🇦🇹 in Galicia 🇪🇸 No soy expat. Soy immigrante.
Joe Pishgar @pishgar.bsky.social Community management executive, communications critter, content strategist, and builder of forums the internet relies on.
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social I’ve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
blackpythondevs.bsky.social @blackpythondevs.bsky.social creating community across Black Python developers globally
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Karsten Wade @quaid.bsky.social "Kindness is always an appropriate response"
Cares deeply. Parent, survivor (again), & esp your brother. Dharma ☸️ recovery guy
Founder OpenCommAr.ch, Co-founder PAIPalooza.com
He/Him/Él/They. These copyright works CC BY SA 4.0
#Leguminati! #SantaCruzCA
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com 'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
A New Social @anew.social Social media should be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges, not walls. That's why we're building Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
Learn more: https://anew.social
Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social ⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️ 
Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social Paleobiologist 🦴, Software Engineer 💻, and Open Scientist 🔍
Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University (He/Him)
Lorena A Barba @labarba.bsky.social Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Faculty director of the GW Open Source Program Office.
https://lorenabarba.com
www.linkedin.com/in/lorenabarba
steph lieggi @slieggi.bsky.social 
Sayeed Choudhury @sayeedc.bsky.social "Find out what makes you kinder...what opens you up and brings out the most generous, and unafraid version of you." -- George Saunders
Clare Dillon @claredillon.bsky.social Loves InnerSource and Open Source. 
Richard Littauer @richlitt.bsky.social PhD in CS at Te Herenga Waka, focusing on birds. Open source. Linguist and conlanger. eBird and iNat. SustainOSS and CURIOSS. He/him.
See https://burntfen.com for a list of things I did when I should have been doing other things.
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app Harvard PhD candidate. Studying work, technology, and identity. #GodsPlan ☀️
Research: annagifty.com/research
Books: #TheBlackAgenda #TheDoubleTax
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
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)
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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Erin Mikail Staples is screaming into the void @erinmikail.bsky.social perpetual student, constantly curious ✨
devex by day, comedian by night
currently geeking out on dev experience, open source, ML, + data
🕸️ https://erinmikailstaples.com
Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social Habitual CS line-stepper.
Bull City, Gen X, and unserious as hell.
"I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of."-Rapsody
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
adlerian jihad @eethatsme.blacksky.app African | genderqueer | mid 30s | some flavor of neurodivergent | therapist | partnered and polyam
Solidarity with all oppressed peoples.
ROBOT LOVE IS QUEER
Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app Your friendly neighborhood abolitionist.
Educator/Activist/Artist and wildlife photographer. Building towards a care-based world in unarmed response, housing & social/racial justice; writing at https://creating.care
linktr.ee/rhenyard
Jocelyn Harper @gitcute.com Staff Software Witch
Content Creator
Overall Cutie
https://jocelyn.dev
Jen Madriaga @jeninnovate.bsky.social Writer, dreamer tempered with pragmatism. Carpe diem. She/her/hers. Building community. Open Source. Currently on contract with AWS. Ex-Red Hat, LF. Part Mulan, part Moana. Duke Blue Devil. 😈 Proud Durhamite. HI-born. Livin’ aloha 🤙🏽🏝️
ADHD. Social justice.
CURIOSS @curiossorg.bsky.social CURIOSS is a Community for University and Research Institution OSPOs. Our goals are to facilitate the networking and collaboration between CURIOSS representatives from universities and research institutions worldwide.
🌐 https://curioss.org/
xirclebox @xirclebox.com Front-end Dev / Recording Artist / Speaker / Certified A11y Professional (CPACC) / Scuba Diver / Psychologist / Muso Shinden Ryu / PHA F&AM / rightbadcode.com
Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane.com 
@melissareading.bsky.social @melissareading.bsky.social 
Carmen H. Andoh @carmatrocity.bsky.social Sociotechnical Systems Debugger.
Cuelang, Xoogler, OSS, DevEx. Go Team + Travis CI Alum. Now at Cisco/Splunk. At the intersection of programming languages, infrastructure, developer experience, tooling, and most important of all: People.
Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social Open source strategy consultant (details at https://fastwonder.com/), Governing Board member and WG chair at CHAOSS, OpenUK board, TODO Group Ambassador, runner, sci-fi, 3D printed designs, vegan, world traveler. Opinions my own.
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
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Jaz 🏴 @jaz.co.uk ED @ IFTAS about.iftas.org
T&S Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ngve5na356bhaet3bwvf2brr/feed/aaaka26kinvjk
Cymru Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zqeneaobrxkk4u2dc255sobg/feed/aaaetxbagpsqi
🐘 @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Pauline P. Narvas @pawlean.com Developer Experience at OpenAI, prev Vercel.
→ pawlean.com
Valerie Phoenix @digitalblkhippy.bsky.social Fractional CTO for startups @ Phoenixing
→ Idea → production in months
I build compliant, human-centered systems in AI, healthcare, fintech, and fast-growth apps. From architecture to first customer.
🎨 Artist | 🧠 Psychology | 🌴 Your Local Cali Hippie
Regina Walton @reginawalton.bsky.social Community Director and Customer Advocacy Pro | SFTech4Good, Director | Former Expat 🇰🇷 | Type1 #diabetes | J.D., M.A. |Sometimes I paint 👩🏾🎨🎨🖼️ | Happy Adoptee | ✈️🍜🍵
https://linktr.ee/reginawalton
Andrew Preater @preater.com Always-already librarianing. 🍞🌹🌹
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. 💁♂️
🦣 @preater@hcommons.social
Wayne Sutton @waynesutton.bsky.social Startup Programs at Convex + Head of Community & Events at @convex.dev. Connecting developers & startups to build faster with Convex. / 🏍 Adv Rider / 🦋 
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Terrell Jermaine Starr @terrelljstarr.bsky.social Watch my Ukraine reporting at Terrell J Starr Official YouTube and Substack.
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Princess @themultiplemom.bsky.social Advocate for neurodiverse children by day, tired AuDHD mom by night.
Child Development•Community Wellness•Shenanigans
Supernova Momma @supernovaparenting.org Disability Advocate, Certified Positive Discipline Educator, Founder of Supernova Parenting
Half the DSM-5, but AuDHD will do.
Hello@supernovaparenting.org
Quintessence @quintessence.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director of the Nivenly Foundation @nivenly.bsky.social
Head Moderator of Hachyderm.io : community stewardship and trust & safety
Nóva 🕯️💍
Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com Activist, Hacker cosplayer, Artist. Data economy abolitionist.
@cdc_pulpit Sinfluencer, Head of Humanity @ Veilid, designer of weird shirts at hack.xxx
I love gross terrifying things. Because I am one
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social Native Haudenosaunee Television & Musical writer. Wasn’t cool in high school, and never will be. 🥸 I like D&D and stuff. Rep’d at Verve. Ska:rù:rę & Muscowpetung Cree 🪶 Two-Spirit
www.imdb.com/name/nm5422690/
#WGAStrong #StandwithAnimation
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social Actor. Writer. Incomplete thoughts and shenanigans.