Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
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.
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Datastar CEO @data-star.dev 
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social Journalist - Deciphering misinformation and disinformation on Fox
JulietJeske #🟦 Newsletter/Podcast at Substack
http://linktr.ee/DecodingFoxNews
http://decodingfoxnews.substack.com
http://patreon.com/decodingfoxnews
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Random Tiling Bot @randomtiling.bsky.social A bot made by @divbyzero.bsky.social using Tracery and Blue Bots, Done Quick!
Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net ElonJet | Tracking Elon Musk’s Jet by @jacks.grndcntrl.net
Also follow @spacexjets.grndcntrl.net
Mark Zuckerberg's Jet @zuckjet.grndcntrl.net Tracking Mark Zuckerberg's Jet by @jacks.grndcntrl.net
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
benjamin @bclavie.bsky.social doing ML stuff at answer.ai / fast.ai
🇯🇵-based 🇫🇷man
Antoine Chaffin @nohtow.bsky.social 27, French CS Engineer 💻, PhD in ML 🎓🤖 — Guiding generative models for better synthetic data and building multimodal representations @LightOn
Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com Sentence Transformers, SetFit & NLTK maintainer
Machine Learning Engineer at 🤗 Hugging Face
Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social Ph.D. student at University of Washington CSE. NLP. IBM Ph.D. fellow (2022-2023). Meta student researcher (2023-) . ☕️ 🐕 🏃♀️🧗♀️🍳 
Sewon Min @sewonm.bsky.social UC Berkeley/BAIR, AI2 || Prev: UWNLP, Meta/FAIR || sewonmin.com
Vaibhav @vaibhavadlakha.bsky.social PhD candidate @Mila and @McGill
Interested in interplay of knowledge and language
Love being outdoors!
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Xing Han Lu @xhluca.bsky.social 👨🍳 Web Agents @mila-quebec.bsky.social
🎒 @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social
Parishad BehnamGhader @parishadbehnam.bsky.social PhD student at McGill University and Mila — Quebec AI Institute
Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
Marius Mosbach @mariusmosbach.bsky.social #NLP Postdoc at Mila - Quebec AI Institute & McGill University
mariusmosbach.com
Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug.bsky.social Search at Reddit, formerly Shopify and OpenSource Connections. Helped write Relevant Search / AI Powered Search
http://softwaredoug.com
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Dinos Papakostas @din0s.me 🧠 neural IR 📋 model evals 🏋️ lifting weights
Incredibly optimistic about the future!
𝕏: din0s_ / din0s.me
@n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social @n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social 
Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net Research Scientist at Yahoo! / ML OSS developer
PhD in Computer Science at UC Irvine
Research: ML, NLP, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval
EiC: TMLR
Technical Chair: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV
Open Source/Science matters!
https://yoshitomo-matsubara.net
Glasgow IR Group @irglasgow.bsky.social Glasgow Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow
merve @merve.bsky.social proud mediterrenean 🧿 open-sourceress at hugging face 🤗 multimodality, zero-shot vision, vision language models, transformers
Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow.
Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon
The opinions are mine.
@macavaney.bsky.social @macavaney.bsky.social 
Hossein (Saeed) Rahmani @rahmanidashti.bsky.social PhD at UCL
David Graus @graus.nu Assistant Professor in AI (Information Retrieval and NLP) at ILLC, @uva.nl & ICAI @opengov.nl Lab Manager | PhD from @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social | Treasurer @setuputrecht.bsky.social | Commissie Persoonsgegevens Amsterdam | @aiog.net | @zwaailicht.nu
@craigmacdonald.bsky.social @craigmacdonald.bsky.social 
andriy @andriymulyar.bsky.social letting humans touch latent space at nomic
Leo Boytsov @srchvrs.bsky.social Machine learning scientist and engineer speaking πtorch & C++ (ph-D CMU) working on (un)natural language processing, speaking πtorch & C++. Opinions sampled from MY OWN 100T param LM.
Omar Khattab @lateinteraction.bsky.social Incoming asst professor at MIT EECS, Fall 2025. Research scientist at Databricks. CS PhD @StanfordNLP.bsky.social. Author of ColBERT.ai & DSPy.ai.
Charlie Clarke @claclarke.bsky.social Here for the IR laughs and the NLP fun
Yifei Yuan @yfyuan01.bsky.social Postdoc at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH & guest researcher @coastalcph | previous @CUHK Text Mining Group, working on NLP & IR
Jack McKechnie @jackmckechnie.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow.
Mounia Lalmas @mounialalmas.bsky.social Research @ Spotify
https://mounia-lalmas.blog/mounia-lalmas/
Thomas Jaenich @tjaenich.bsky.social PhD student @uogterrierteam.bsky.social, University of Glasgow.
Ferdinand Schlatt @fschlatt.bsky.social PhD Student, efficient and effective neural IR models 🧠🔎
Lukas Gienapp @lgnp.bsky.social AI engineer @ Seltz; ML/IR research @ hessianAI / ScaDS.AI.
Xi Wang @xiwang-sch.bsky.social Researcher in NLP/IR at the University of Sheffield, Research interests include Conversational AI, RAG and other topics among NLP/IR.
Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social PhD-Student in the webis.de group. Interested in IR and NLP.
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Danny To Eun Kim @teknology.bsky.social PhD student @CMU LTI
NLP | IR | Evaluation | RAG
https://kimdanny.github.io
Frank T. Hopfgartner @hopfgartner.bsky.social Researcher interested in information retrieval, recommender systems, data science. General chair of ACM #cikm2023 and ACM #chiir2024
Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
Ralf Schenkel @ralfschenkel.bsky.social Professor at Trier University, interested in databases, information retrieval, semantic web, bibliographic information systems.
Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/
Damiano Spina @damianospina.com PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque
📍Naarm, AU
David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social Information retrieval, recommender systems and generative modelling. PhD Candidate at IRLab Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke & Harrie Oosterhuis.
Remzi Celebi @rcelebi.bsky.social Working on #knowledgegraphs #LLMs #datacuration #bioinformatics #neurosymbolicAI #dataquality Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Abubakar Abid @abidlabs.hf.co Democratizing machine learning through Gradio, acquired by Hugging Face 🤗
Bill Ingram @waingram.bsky.social Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Virginia Tech University Libraries | Research in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, NLP, Scholarly Big Data & AI Ethics | Runner | Tennis player | Nature lover | Dad
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844
Pedro Madruga @pedromadruga.com AI Engineer (in 🇩🇰 since 2012) • http://pedromadruga.com • Interested in Information Retrieval at scale • Group Lead AI Engineer at Karnov Group
Opinions are my own.
Zhepei Wei @zhepei.bsky.social CS Ph.D. student @ UVA. ML/NLP/LLM.
https://weizhepei.com
Guneet Singh @guneetsk.bsky.social 🪸NLP researcher, AI scientist at Deccan AI. Core interests: Computational Social Sciences, Conversational AI, Ai safety and Multilinguality
@parambharat.bsky.social @parambharat.bsky.social 
John Berryman @jnbrymn.bsky.social LLM consulting @ https://arcturus-labs.com/
Author x2: https://amzn.to/3TXmDHk, https://amzn.to/3zKIxGG
Formerly Eventbrite, GitHub (code search and Copilot)
Andreea Iana @andreea-iana.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Mannheim working on #RecSys, information retrieval & #NLP
https://andreeaiana.github.io/
James Kirk @jiminykirket.bsky.social ML/AI @ Electric Plant Co, prev ML/RecSys at Spotify. A nervous little punk boy.
Sara Rosenthal @seirasto.bsky.social NLP Research Scientist at IBM Research
Niladri Shekhar Dutt @niladridutt.bsky.social Research Intern @adobe.com | PhD @ucl.ac.uk | @ellis.eu | ex-Nvidia, Berkeley | Interested in generative modelling in vision and graphics + reasoning (LLMs)
https://niladridutt.com/
Yannis Tevissen @yannistevissen.fr AI scientist | Video Understanding, Retrieval & AI fairness | Head of Science @Moments Lab
https://yannistevissen.fr
@roxpetcu.bsky.social @roxpetcu.bsky.social Mechanistic Interpretability for Retrieval and Reasoning. PhD student at IRLab Amsterdam 🌧️
xjdr @xjdr.bsky.social hot takes, linear Algebra, JAX apologist, Raconteur
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
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
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I medicate my imposter syndrome with cold brews.
Current:
Foundation Models @ Apple
Prev:
LLMs/World Models @ Riot Games
RecSys @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
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
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social Vision scientist. Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. 🇦🇺🇩🇪. pronoun.is/he
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
joao @joao.omg.lol Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions
#ActuallyAutistic He/Him
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Daniel Lowd @lowd.cc CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com