Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, ๐ช๐บ.
โข tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
โข DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
โข ex W3C, NYT
โข Signal robin.77
Gabrielle Lim @gabriellelim.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Political Science at the University of Toronto. Affiliated with the Citizen Lab. Mostly the politics of information, technology, and security in cyber and outer space.
More at gabriellelim.com
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng ๐ฎ
Samantha Bradshaw @sbradshaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, American University | Studying disinfo, cybersecurity, and emerging technology ๐ฉโ๐ป
Virginia Eubanks @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social Writer working for an abundant, peaceful, and equitable future.
NEW MEMOIR (8/11/26): A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care and Survival. Preorder: bit.ly/4hAFUJb https://virginia-eubanks.com/
Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social For the little guy. Former FTC commissioner. Sr. Advisor @econliberties.bsky.social. Co-host @thefairfightpod.bsky.social.
Kurt Wagner @kurtwagner.bsky.social Journalist at Bloomberg. Go Mariners. Go Seahawks.
Signal: kurtwagner.08
Investigative Reporters & Editors @ire.org Providing training, resources and a community of support to journalists around the world. Join us at #IRE26 June 18-21 in National Harbor, MD! ๐ ire.org
Camille Bromley @chameauleon.bsky.social writer / editor @nytimes. Formerly Wired / The Believer / CJR / Harper's
camillebromley.com
Leah 'AntiTrustButVerify' Nylen @leahnylen.bsky.social "There is no democracy without journalism." Covering antitrust, currently at Bloomberg News and โmaking people feel uncomfortable.โ Former Politico, MLex, CQ. Email me at lnylen2 at bloomberg.net. On Signal: leahnylen.88. Opinions are my own (obvi).
Katharina Brunner @cutterkom.bsky.social I am active in the fediverse. If you want to follow me, follow the bridged account: https://bsky.app/profile/cutterkom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
investigative data journalist @brdata.bsky.social
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Kristian Lum @kldivergence.bsky.social Research Scientist at GDM. Statistician. Mostly work on Responsible AI. Academia-industry flip-flopper.
moiz @moiz.bsky.social Designer at Mozilla โข Previously worked at ProPublica, The Intercept, Wikimedia โข he/him
๐ moiz.ca
Lucia Walinchus @walinchus.bsky.social Managing Data Editor, NBC owned stations. Public records attorney, journalist, ice hockey player/coach. Former bylines: NY Times , Washington Post, Eye on Ohio, etc.
Hearts= likes OR bookmarks
Salomรฉ Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
David Carroll @davidcarroll.org admin of federate.social (circa 2022)
faculty of parsons.edu (circa 2000)
subject of The Great Hack (Netflix 2019)
headshot by Bryan Derballa (Wired 2019)
header from Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (Capcom 1993)
Prinz Magtulis @prinzmagtulis.bsky.social Finance + data + design @graphics.reuters.com . Ex-FT. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
portfolio: prinzmagtulis.com
personal projects: https://www.data-dict.com
Sam Doak @samdoak.bsky.social Journalist, doing OSINT at Sky News.
@joeleastwood.bsky.social @joeleastwood.bsky.social
christa hartsock @dynne.bsky.social up to something.
more active on the fediverse: https://friend.camp/@christa
Evan Feeney @evanfeeney.bsky.social Tech accountability, racial justice, fighting surveillance capitalism, D&D nerd, ultimate player ๐๐๐ Corporate Engagement @ Consumer Reports. opinions my own.
Malena Carollo @malenacarollo.bsky.social Reporter, CalMatters/The Markup | Signal/๐: (813) 591-0688
Jade-Ruyu Yan @fangsonggongzhu.bsky.social Investigative tech reporter at @opendemocracy.net and @techpolicypress.bsky.social
https://www.jadelyan.com/
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Przemek Grabowicz ๐ต๐ฑ๐ช๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ช @przemyslslaw.bsky.social CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI
RTโ endorsement, RT=interesting read
More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
Lori McGlinchey @macvie.bsky.social Technology+Society - Ford Foundation
genug shoyn
Mike L. Miller, PhD @justdoeat.bsky.social Managing Director @ The Moynihan Center, CCNY moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu
Prev: Director @ SSRC, just-tech.ssrc.org | mediawell.ssrc.org
#media #technology #politics #propaganda #disinformation #censorship #surveillance #publicservice
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ช๐บ๐๐ผ๐งชโ๏ธ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ
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.
Harlan Yu @harlanyu.bsky.social Co-founder, Upturn. he/him.
Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. โข Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU โข Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society โข Exvie wanderer โข M-I-Z โข http://jeremylittau.substack.com
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 ๐ฆ
sorelle.friedler.net
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org ยท Board @MuckRock.com ยท Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info ยท rebecca.411 on Signal
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby ๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ she/her
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
chris wiggins @chrishwiggins.bsky.social .edu: associate professor @columbia; adviser to the dean for AI strategy, Columbia College
.org: cofounder @hackNY;
.com: tba;
books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning ๐ Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University ๐จ๐ฆ | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer digital environments. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell ยท Guatemalan-American ยท Ultracyclist
๐@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
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
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.
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard โข Masters degree in pure math โข Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
Sign up to my newsletter: kareemcarr.substack.com
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest @propublica.org.web.brid.gy ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. ๐ Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He/him
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com ๐ฅ PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE ๐ฅ
๐๏ธ @techwontsave.us
๐ฌ https://disconnect.blog
๐ https://hyperscalebook.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social Covering health care @ProPublica. Signal: 347-549-0332. Email: annie.waldman@propublica.org. (Also #COYS)
Jillian Ward @jillianjillian.bsky.social Bloomberg News managing editor for technology in San Francisco. Big tech plus startups/VC. Highly social introvert, still.
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
HAL @urano000.bsky.social I draw | 18+
Work inquiries: deakuma20@gmail.com
Uranohead.neocities.org
https://www.patreon.com/urano000
Kelly Davis @kellyd.bsky.social Connecting the dots.
Edtech consultant Kdavis.substack.com
Walking and writing lisbon.substack.com
๐ Connecting with teachers in transition - reach out!
hex pet @hexpet.bsky.social
djuno @mitskileaks.bsky.social he/him
17
FOR LEGAL REASONS I AM NOT MITSKI
Cameron Beccario @cambecc.nullschool.net Creator earth.nullschool.net and nullschool.app
Born at 329 ppm.
Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social Climate scientist, juggler. Bikes etc. Blogging at https://www.realclimate.org - data visualization, explainers, and debunking.
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
jay @aparrish.bsky.social o lestat รฉ um SANTO
Jake VanderPlas @jakevdp.bsky.social Write code. Mostly Python.
Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net
Rachel Thomas @math-rachel.bsky.social researcher answer.ai
interested in education, immunology, & AI
fast.ai co-founder, math PhD, data scientist
Writing: https://rachel.fast.ai/
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Elissa Redmiles @eredmil1.bsky.social Faculty @Georgetown, Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard
Digital security, "AI", safety, privacy, S*x W*rk
Prev @MSFTresearch @Meta @umdcs @nsfgrfp @datascifellows
J0nathan AIbright @d1gi.bsky.social โโ โโ
tech, media, culture, data, accountability & ๐๐ช
fmr @columbia @towcenter @BKCharvard @elonu
Randall Hunt @randall.dev CTO at Caylent. We're hiring! Formerly @pytorch, @awscloud, @mongodb, @SpaceX.
Jessica L. Beyer @jlbeyer.bsky.social Teaching faculty @ UWโs Jackson School of International Studies / internet, politics, ppl + cybersecurity / author, Expect Us: Online Communities & Political Mobilization / perennial lurker, opinions mine
Privacy International @privacyinternational.org For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
andyguess @andyguess.com Bun dad who studies ๐ฐ๐ณ๏ธ.
Alexandra Siegel @aasiegel.bsky.social Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder
MENA Politics & Computational Social Science
alexandra-siegel.com
Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Camille Franรงois @camillefrancois.bsky.social Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. Iโve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :)
Smitha Khorana @smithakhorana.bsky.social Scholar, journalist, writer, photojournalist. Working on fiction & poetry
Policy work on regulation, journalistโs security, press freedom.
Tweets are sometimes excerpts of fiction writing.
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Ingrid Epure @opinionatedpie.bsky.social principal engineer . grad student @oiioxford
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Law Geek @lawgeek.bsky.social Book worm, mermaid, music fan &, oh yeah, lawyer throwing random thoughts into the ether.
Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & โThe Paper Menagerie"
PJ Vogt @pjvogt.bsky.social Very rarely here.
You can reach me at pjvogt85@gmail.com
Host, Search Engine podcast.
Some of our best episodes are here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5S9VpzSJa8HVGG9H0EmkmJ?si=eeb6813f57ea4218
@mushbuh.bsky.social @mushbuh.bsky.social dumbass itemlabel.com
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social Atmospheric scientist
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing ๐ท, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
Yiqin Fu @yiqinfu.bsky.social