Merve Hickok @hickokmerve.bsky.social President @ Center for AI & Digital Policy
Founder @ www.AIethicist.org
Lecturer @ Uni of Michigan
Author “From Trustworthy AI Principles to Public Procurement Practices”
AI policy to to defend human rights & democratic values.
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
Liz O’Sullivan @lizjosullivan.bsky.social CEO @ Vera & AI policy advisor. Stop spying on us.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
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
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
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.
critical slop studies @struthious.bsky.social Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
Ben Zhao @ravenben.bsky.social Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Emily Amick @emilyinyourphone.bsky.social “Make me a Sandwich” - a man on TikTok
Diversify Tech @diversifytech.com We connect underrepresented techies with career opportunities
💌 Join our newsletter if you are an underrepresented techie: diversifytech.com/join
💼 Reach 15K folks if you are hiring: diversifytech.com/post-a-job
Veni Kunche @veni.dev 🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com
👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder
🐥 Mom to two girls
🧠 Neurodivergent
🙅♀️ Gen AI deinfluencer
✨ she/her
🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
Crystal Preston-Watson @scopicengineer.com Accessibility agitator in the streets, Accessibility agitator in the sheets. 24/7/365 absurdist.
https://crystalprestonwatson.com/
https://a11ysavvy.com/
Abdel Sghiouar @boredabdel.bsky.social Cloud Developer Advocate @Google | Co-Host of @kubernetespodcast.com | Devoxx Morocco PC | CNCF Ambassador | Opinions are my own.
#k8s #cloud #servicemesh #security
Lachlan Campbell @lachlanjc.com 🧑🏻💻 Worldwide web design engineer for climate (watershed.com) in San Francisco
🌞 Intentional optimist
🏳️🌈 LAHK-len – they/them
https://lachlanjc.com
Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social 🟡⚪️🟣⚫️
Posts en/in Spanglish:
Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
Nicole Sullivan @nicolesullivan.bsky.social WebKit Engineering Manager at Apple. Ex-Google Chrome, ex-NPM. OOCSS, CSSLint. CSSConf founder, speaker. Climber 🧗, knitter, disabled zebra. Probably riding the hobby carousel 🎠. 🏳️🌈 she/her @stubbornella on Twitter
Brittney Braxton @mintii.bsky.social She/Her
#Gouachetober
I’m a software engineer that loves painting nature with watercolor and gouache. 🎨
Amberley Romo @amberley.dev 👩🏻💻 Tired in tech. 🏋️♀️ Gym possum.
🧶 Made the yarn emoji happen.
🏳️🌈 Y’all means all. 📍ATX. She/her.
🌐 amberley.dev | a11y.coffee | amberley.omg.lol
🌵 Views and opinions my own
Helen Chong @helenchong.omg.lol Graphic designer turned web developer, bookworm, gaymer, hobbyist artist and crocheter. Queer Millennial Chinese Malaysian. Autistic and visually impaired. They/she. 🏳️🌈
https://helenchong.omg.lol
Chrissy Codes @chrissycodes.bsky.social Technical Writer| IT Support | Open Source Enthusiast| Member of the Oxford Comma Church
Sia Karamalegos @sia.codes Freelance web developer & performance engineer. Speaker, writer, teacher, tech community organizer. Google Dev Expert in web technologies, ex-Shopify. she/her. Durham, NC, USA.
Tech: sia.codes
Non-tech: offline.sia.codes
Art/photos alt: @sia.studio
Ana Rodrigues @ohhelloana.blog 8 hours of sleep. 8 hours working as an unprofessional front-end dev @hactar.is
On my other 8 hours I poke my blog, take photos of my cat & try my best.
📧 hello@anarodrigu.es
Keen on IndieWeb, CSS, sustainability, plants, crafts she/her
ohhelloana.blog
Amy @click2carney.bsky.social Digital accessibility specialist. #a11y Freelance web developer & consultant. Mom. Visually-impaired. Climate concerned. Librarian in an earlier life. #AlaskaSky
Thiery Laverdure @thierylaverdure.com Creator of Litebase - https://litebase.com
Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.
hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly
jennifer opal 📚👩🏾💻🤖 @jenniferopal.co lifestyle, devops engineer, ml & ai
belfast 📍| studying msc in ai @ queen’s university belfast
pr: info@jenniferopal.co 💌
🏳️🌈 ♎︎♍︎♎︎
website:
https://jenniferopal.com
tiffany jernigan 🐦🔥 @tiffanyfay.dev 👩💻🥑 @grafana.bsky.social
☸️ #cncf ambassador
💻 ex- vmware, amazon, intel, docker
🎓 electrical engineering georgia tech
💭 opinions:mine
📸 instagram.com/tiffanyfayj
🇺🇸 seattle, wa
🔗 linktr.ee/tiffanyfay | tiffanyfay.dev
Hiroko Nishimura @handle.invalid "Professional Beginner." Compulsive documentation creator. Published Author. 猫2匹と2児のママ. Personal Finance Enthusiast. Marylander by way of Kyoto and NYC 🦀
Find me at hirokonishimura.com & hiroko.io
Cecelia Martinez McCrea @ceceliacreates.com She/her. 🏳️🌈👩🏽💻
I like to create things and connect people! Lead Developer Advocate interested in all things Web/Mobile/DevOps/Testing.
Vue Fangirl 💚 Atlanta JavaScript organizer 🍑 Dog picture aficionado 🐶 Definitely a human 🤖
Autumn Nash 🎃👻💀🖤 @withenoughcoffee.bsky.social 👩🏾💻🌮🍩💻 🌙🪬🧿Lover of nerd jokes, tacos & ☕️Coffee • Mom • 📚 Reader• Advocates • OpenSource• DevOps• Linux• Security • 🎙Speaker • Java • Databases• MilSpouseCoders Thoughts are my own she/her
https://www.fafo.fm
https://www.withenoughcoffee.com
Jess Temporal @jesstemporal.com DevRel 🥑 • Author • Creator of gitfichas.com • 👩💻 myyarnstash.app • 🎙 pizzadedados.com • GitHub ⭐️ • Pythonista • games & cross stitch & knitting & 3D printing • 🇧🇷 & 🇨🇦 • she/her • married to @jairojair.com
Stephen Augustus (he/him) @auggie.dev Black.
#opensource governance: @kubernetes.io, @openssf.org, TODO Group
Office of the CTO, Bloomberg — Opinions are my own
Bio and links: https://whois.auggie.dev/
Formerly @stephenaugustus (Twitter), @justaugustus@hachyderm.io (Mastodon)
Melissa Em @meowwwls.bsky.social she/her
🖌 part-time #illustrator
👩🏻💻 part-time front-end developer
🧘🏻♀️ full-time worrier
Art Fellow @theflytrapmedia.com 💖
📍 Chicago
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
Tech by Choice @techbychoice.org We’re a nonprofit focused on helping underestimated adults enter, stay & thrive in tech.
We’re a tech community you don’t have to code switch in.
🔗 Donation, Memberships, and program details found here - https://tbcevents.org/m/hey
Keith Townsend @CTOAdvisor @handle.invalid Principal The CTO Advisor LLC
Kristen M Thayer @kristenmthayer.bsky.social Software Engineer, Manager, Teacher. Seattleite. Old enough that I can hear the sound of dial-up internet when I close my eyes, young enough to care about up-to-date emoji usage. Kindness and joy are important. (Opinions my own). She/her. 
Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry.com Community builder. Indie founder. Unschooler. 5x Mother. AuDHD . She/her. 🇬🇧
“Don’t let the social networks have all the fun”
🌈 Rosie.land: writing about community building
🪐 Founder & CEO @ministryoftesting.com
Dane @besaid.zone web generalist - basketball fan - F1 enjoyer - 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇯🇲
senior software developer at a bank
Mandy Mitchell @mandymitchell.me 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Software engineer & raconteuse. Probably autistic? My dog thinks I write cool code. https://mandymusings.com/ for my tech blog
Kevin de Youngster @kevindeyoungster.com I'm excited by long walks, cycling up mountains, MTBing down them, LEGO, thoughtful writing, and playing with geospatial data.
http://kevindeyoungster.com
📍 Vancouver, BC
vanessa 🍄 @nessa.dev 👾 Open Soft Sourceware
👩🏻💻 EM @storybook.js.org @chromatic.com
🔙 Ex: GitHub, Wikimedia
📍 BCN | 🇭🇰🇨🇦
emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social director of BCI research at science corp! formerly a software engineer at neuralink and medium.
multiclassing:
https://bsky.app/profile/neurocat.bsky.social
🐈⬛🪴🧠💻✨
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
Ankita Kulkarni @kulkarniankita.com Tech Educator | Prev Senior Eng Leader
Create videos on web dev: YouTube.com/@kulkarniankita
Building https://proofybubble.com/
Educator: nextjscourse.dev
Newsletter: frontendsnacks.dev
Free Next.js Course:
https://bit.ly/nextjshottips
Alex Karp (not the CEO) @autistic.af Sr. Engineering Manager at Slack. Profoundly autistic. Classically-trained pianist, public speaker, avid swing dancer, YA fantasy fiction lover, and a whisky enthusiast. Occasionally funny, usually by accident. More scared of you than you are of me.
✨Leah✨ @leaht.codes Devrel Engineer at Laravel | Former HS math teacher | Book lover | #100devs stream team member | 🏔️ CO ❄️
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/leahtcodes
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@leahtcodes
_D @drnmcy.bsky.social artist/designer/developer/educator ✌🏾🏳️🌈
30’s / He/Him / Richmond, VA
🚫ai, 🚫crypto, 🚫web3, 🚫unethical tech people
https://darionmccoy.com
Adriana Villela 🇨🇦 🇧🇷 @adrianamvillela.bsky.social 🥑DevRel | @cncf.io Ambassador | @opentelemetry.io End User SIG Maintainer | @geekingoutpod.bsky.social host | 💜 #Observability | #bouldering | #running | 🇧🇷🇨🇦
Gettin’ shit done, and keepin’ it real.
Find me: https://adrianavillela.com
Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social artist, writer, tech alchemist. goth cyberpunk riot doll.
please use alt text.
🔞minors dni🔞 she/fae
——
🎮𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴: Demonschool⛧🏫⛧
——
merch👩🎤: transgender.gay
Miss Baah @beebe.bsky.social Software Developer 👩🏾💻 | Feminist 🦋 | Queer | NeuroSpicy | Dyslexic 🤭
Ada Lündhé @adalundhe.dev Author of Hedra performance testing framework. Software unengineer. Walking SEV0. 🏳️⚧️ Trans (they/them) and general music production nerd. Neurodivergent.
Abbey Perini @abbeyperini.dev Web Developer, yapper, and hyperfocuser 🧠🧶🐕🐦🎮
She/They 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙
Views are my own.
https://abbeyperini.dev
https://abbeyperini.com
https://abbeyperini.shop
Jina @jina.social Design Systems Advocate / GDE / they/she / 🩷💜💙 / 🇰🇷🇮🇹hapa / neurodivergent / drag stan / cheerful goth
jina.me
Founder of @clarityconf.com
Ayodele is in the 92% @youraibigsis.bsky.social Data Scientist, coffee addict, blerd, and drummer. Octavia Butler stan. Trekkie, survivalist, and pole dancer. ADHDer, elder emo, horror movies, & video games🖤
Book Clerbs:
The AI Con ➡️ lu.ma/q3won50t
Data Grab ➡️ lu.ma/r79kprlz
Shell 🍋 UX Dev/ Resume Writer @miffens.bsky.social Web/A11y UI dev in the Silly Valley, hobby resume writer
Logo kollendesign.bksy.social
Hector Coronado @hectorcoronado.bsky.social https://www.hectorcoronado.com. Runner, movie watcher, book reader, drums/synths/Theremin noisemaker, chess patzer. Soy de México. Je parle français aussi.
Jonaya Riley @ FoxGirl Games @jonayariley.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Part-time foxgirl, full-time lesbian.
Showrunner for @zeroangels.bardrockcafe.com
Performer and social media gal for @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com
Designer/writer at @foxgirl.games
she/her
🔞Get out of here, kid🔞
Jess Chan / Coder Coder @thecodercoder.bsky.social I like the click clack and the beep boop
self-taught web dev
😺🍵🎆🕶️
💛🤍💜🖤
I make tutorials for beginner web devs:
youtube.com/thecodercoder
Learn how to build a website here:
https://coder-coder.com/responsive
Xe @xeiaso.net Some nerd that uses computers | Blogger with 500-ish articles at https://xeiaso.net | @theprincessxena on the bird website | CEO @techaro.lol | Minors DNI
Jade @jade0x.com “essentially a website”
I have approximate knowledge of many things
• Tech & Data • Fitness & Food •
she/her | 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸
Hackygolucky @tracy.bsky.social she/her
Leading Open at Fastly | Chair at OSI
Building a better Open Web—let's be in cahoots
Everywhere else, VP of Data-based sass 😘
DIANA @diana2.bsky.social Product Designer / FE Engineer | #a11y | CSS | Design Systems | she/her
Néha 🜃🌻😷 @neha.bsky.social 
Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social Eng Team Lead
Always art
The Vy D @thevyd.com she/her • founder of Taskless.io • low-effort 💩posting • no follow for follow gtfo
It's really dark in here
The Power of And @cjsmith.bsky.social Embedded systems, also veterinarian. they/them.
dreamwidth, mastodon.social : cjsmith.
anne gibson @kirabug.com SFFH Writer, UX designer, design systems builder, and accessibility geek. Wrote the Alphabet of Accessibility Issues. She/her. Can roast a duck, knit, beat Skyrim, but can't make Tuna Helper. Has 2 jack russels: Myka and Mei
Sarah Withee #BLM 🇺🇦 @geekygirlsarah.com Head of backend development/hardware tinkerer/public speaker/artificial pancreas user. Girls of Steel lead mentor. Creator https://codethesaur.us. Uses 100% organic sarcasm/puns.
https://geekygirlsarah.com/links
Jessica Sachs @jess.sh FOSS Necromancer at @herodevs. @faker_js, @cypress_io alum, @vuejs ecosystem.
siddharth ☻ @sid.st staff design systems engineer @github.com + sometimes https://ui-devtools.com
🛜 https://sid.st
📍amsterdam
Danielle Allyssa ✨ @danielleallyssa.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 Freelance front-end developer with a side of illustration. I will absolutely talk your ear off about both! #100Devs #BlackSky #BlackTech #WomenInTech #WebDev #CreativeCoding #FrontendDev
Katerina Skroumpelou 🐈 @psyber.city Software engineer @supabase.com - cats and feminist - psyber.city
Shruti Balasa @shrutibalasa.com Tech educator, creating courses & eBooks
Contributor at Laracasts
Co-creating voxpopsites.com
🌐 shrutibalasa.com
📹 youtube.com/thirus
Zuzana Kunckova @zuzana-k.com 🤔 Chronic over-thinker & ruminator
🤓 #php #laravel
🤩 Founder of Larabelles
🎤 Public speaker
Cornelia Davis @corneliadavis.com Technologist, teacher, author, advocate, activist, mom, wife, athlete.
https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native-patterns
Anna Willoughby @akw.bsky.social 🫠
Streaming sporadically on YouTube @hambandana. Currently playing through Fallout 1.
AppVantage and deSalix ui founder, creator of Feedwell.app and Play.OneFrog.lol, writer, shitposter, FE dev, FOSSified, #WiT 🧙♀️
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher 🦉
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
Natalie Davis is a giant now @codefreedomritr.bsky.social Sometimes I do stuff
Nicole Saunders @divsaunders.bsky.social A whole mix of this and that.
Tramaine G. @tramaine.dev Coding | Books | Mental Heath
https://tramaine.dev
I raise a family and write software. And I love learning.
Software Engineer
Software Architect
Serverless Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture
Functional Programming
Object-Oriented Programming
Brandon Roberts @brandonroberts.dev 🕸️ Web developer
👨🏿💻 Maintainer NgRx, creator of AnalogJS
🌐 Angular GDE
🏀 NBA 🏈 NFL, sports ranter
😂 Gif slinger
🤙 OSS contributor
Prev: OpenSauced, Appwrite, Nx
Melissa Young @techsassy.me Technology, teams and leadership. Always rolling for initiative. Surrounded by gamers, computers & kids. (She/They)♠️🤍💜
Pick it up, put it down. Leave it better than you found it.
Currently:
🎻 Learning cello
🏋🏽♀️ Making gains
🏫 PTA President