Roma Patel @romapatel.bsky.social research scientist @deepmind. language & multi-agent rl & interpretability. phd @BrownUniversity '22 under ellie pavlick (she/her)
https://roma-patel.github.io
Critical Internet Studies Institute @criticalinternet.bsky.social Resilience, independent of industry. www.criticalinternet.org
Theia Henderson @theias.place
RJ Yew @r-jy.bsky.social phd student at brown
SOUPS @soupsconference.bsky.social The 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) will take place on August 23-26, 2026 in Germany. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.
Princessa Cintaqia @princessacintaqia.bsky.social PhD Student at BU CDS
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
Allison McDonald @allismc.bsky.social Assistant Professor BU CDS. I study privacy -- tell me your weird tech stories! 📠📟💻
@channelbrandon.bsky.social @channelbrandon.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Brown University | XR interaction techniques & Perception
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Christopher Parsons (he/him/his) @christopher-parsons.com Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Smith College. a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
Lia Holland @liaholland.bsky.social 🌲🏳️🌈🧙♀️ 🖋️rep @jwongbaxter.bsky.social | eat & make obsolete at the same time | they/she | opinions=mine
Becca Branum @beccabranum.bsky.social Belle Case La Follette stan account
strufe @strufe.bsky.social privacy prof at KIT and CeTI/TU Dresden
Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com Professor at UC Riverside, head of SPALab
Home: emilianodc.com
Jo Gunawan @johannagunawan.bsky.social Maastricht Law and Tech Lab.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye @yvesalexandre.bsky.social Professor of Applied Mathematics and CS at Imperial College London (🇬🇧). MIT PhD. I'm working on automated privacy attacks, LLM memorization, and AI Safety. Road cyclist 🚴 and former EU Special Adviser (🇪🇺).
Asia Biega @asiabiega.bsky.social Faculty at MPI-SP. CS, Tech Governance, Responsible Tech, Data Protection, Interdisciplinarity. ACM FAccT Executive Committee.
https://asiabiega.github.io/
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social
@carmelatroncoso.bsky.social @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social
Mikaela Brough @mikaelabrough.bsky.social Information Security PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. Using ethnography to understand (information) security and environmental social movements in PH & UK. MSc (Oxford), BA (McGill). mikaelabrough.github.io
Sophie Stephenson @sophiestephenson.me PhD candidate at @uwmadison.bsky.social studying interpersonal security & privacy. Website: sophiestephenson.me
Cover photo by neilbat.es- H Sophie Hawkes @hawkesse.bsky.social PhD Student @ Royal Holloway, University of London | Cryptography and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies | She/Her
Amy A. Hasinoff @amy-adele.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication
online harm | gender & sexuality | transformative justice | she/her 🏳️🌈
www.amyhasinoff.com
Moy Chuong @see-ew-later.bsky.social clay, knits, dogs, art stuff
they/them
Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social she/her
Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross
PhD '26 @nunetsi.bsky.social
Website: https://asmithh.github.io/
Knitter, narcoleptic, whale fan, and powerlifter
@hajulie.bsky.social @hajulie.bsky.social
Ning Luo @ningluo.bsky.social Assistant professor at UIUC ECE
Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
Max @maxzks.bsky.social https://mzink.us/
Kweku Kwegyir-Aggrey @kwekuka.bsky.social ml, stats, and low notes; currently phd-ing @ brown cs
Eric Null @nullset.bsky.social Public policy (tech/privacy) by day, everything else by night
Director Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology, @cendemtech.bsky.social.
Views expressed here are mine: hastily adopted, uninformed, and deeply held.
He/him!
Arshia Arya @arshiaarya.bsky.social PhD student @ucsd_cse. Ex @MSFTResearch. Alum @bitspilaniindia
Deepak Kumar @kumarde.bsky.social I'm a faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering @UCSD, a playwright, a composer, and a lyricist.
Susanna Gibson @susannasgibson.bsky.social Founder of MyOwn Image | tech accountability + section 230, IBSA, NDII, TFGBV
Lizzie K. @lizz-iek.bsky.social small batch artisanal language model ❤️🔥 tech critic when provoked
🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information + Advisory board to ECP Canada / Pornhub (2023-2026) | #1 Animorphs Fan
www.internetmaggie.com
Pratik Sarkar @pratikscrypto.bsky.social Cryptography, ZK, and MPC Researcher | Currently a Research Scientist at Supra | ex-Cryptography Research Intern at Meta and Visa
Pratyay Mukherjee @pratyay85.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ Hashgraph | Interested in Cryptography and Security | https://pratyay.net/
@hildeweerts.bsky.social @hildeweerts.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology | responsible AI, fairness, etc. | maintainer at fairlearn 👩💻
Adryana "arin" H. @awyrm.bsky.social PhD student at GWU, security, privacy, and disability justice | fake philosopher | any pronouns, she/her is fine
a-wyrm.github.io
Rawane @ra1issa.bsky.social I work in cryptography and privacy. Im currently at Galois, inc.
Marcel Keller @mkskeller.bsky.social Cryptographer who likes to implement multi-party computation and works for CSIRO's Data61. Views my own. 🏳️🌈🇨🇭🇦🇺 (he/him)
Claudio Orlandi @claudiorlandi.bsky.social Professor in #Cryptography at Aarhus University. Research interests: #MultipartyComputation #ZeroKnowledge #Blockchain
Building: Partisia Blockchain, Concordium.
Originally from Florence, Italy.
ais @aisconnolly.bsky.social Privacy, MPC, and coSNARKs at TACEO
sanketh @sanketh.bsky.social doctoress of cryptography
🏳️⚧️ they/them
✍🏽 https://ciphertext.blog
🖼️ pfp by astrophysician
🧑🏽💼 views=own
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
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.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández @andresmh.com Associate Professor of Computer Science at @princeton.edu. Co-director of Princeton HCI. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
https://andresmh.com
Gracie McKenzie @graciemck.bsky.social local news @51st.news @730dc.bsky.social 💌
past: @thetrace.org, @theatlantic.bsky.social's citylab, public radio producer, forests of oregon, etc.
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Pat Cable @pcable.net Just a guy on the internet in Portland, Oregon. Security engineer, but not your security engineer. Lapsed Bostonian.
Electronic on-line web portals: https://pcable.net | https://bigtech.llc
Sauvik Das @sauvik.me I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social
Lisa Marie is tired 😴 @lisa-marie.bsky.social Don't look now but you're in too deep! Turn back!
Queer af ️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Skeets = OPINION
She/Her
Don't take kindly to nazis round these parts 💥
FSF/GNU Emeritus - I survived
WV WestVirginia #WVPol
Tancrède Lepoint @tancre.de Applied Scientist at AWS • Cryptographer • My opinions are my own • 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Kurtis Heimerl @kurti.sh Associate professor @uwcse.bsky.social
Co-founder at Endaga. Co-chair of GAIA @ IRTF
First generation college student. AS 54429, 339663
Jonathan Frankle @jfrankle.com Chief AI Scientist at Databricks. Founding team at MosaicML. MIT/Princeton alum. Lottery ticket enthusiast. Working on data intelligence.
Ira Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social Assistant research prof at Cornell, interested in bridging responsible and robust algorithm design and practice.
I'm currently working with Nikhil Garg and danah boyd; my PhD in CS was advised by Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns.
Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social Computer Security, Privacy, and Public Policy. Deputy Head of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Former Fellow for Sen. Ron Wyden.
Likes teaching. Likes research. Likes Singing.
https://cohney.info
Chelsea Komlo @chelseakomlo.bsky.social (Real world) Cryptographer.
chelseakomlo.com for more info.
Nick Sullivan @nicksullivan.org Asymmetries in action- S Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.bsky.social
Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket
I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.
Malte Schwarzkopf @ms705.bsky.social Computer systems researcher in the ETOS group (https://etos.cs.brown.edu) at Brown University.
Maurice Herlihy @mauriceh.bsky.social Prof at Brown CS.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
jessica dai @jessica.bsky.social go bears!!!
jessicad.ai
kernelmag.io
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social HCI research scientist @ Sony AI in Barcelona. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own.
https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement."
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
Michelle Mazurek @mmazurek.bsky.social security, privacy, people
pointy-headed academic, phillies enjoyer
still tomorrow's gonna be another working day / just trying to get some rest
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Emily Tseng @emtseng.bsky.social Postdoc at MSR, soon a prof at UW HCDE, got my PhD at Cornell IS. I think about power, privacy, and participation in HCI, security and AI.
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
Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347
Lily Xu @lilyxu.bsky.social Assistant prof at Columbia IEOR developing AI for decision-making in planetary health.
https://lily-x.github.io
Harini Suresh @harinisuresh.bsky.social assistant professor @BrownUniversity / previously @cornell @mit / thinking about participatory + equitable + accountable ML
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Justin Troutman @justintroutman.bsky.social southern drawl. applied crypto. disinfo research. tradecraft historian. street baller. bats left. electric + bass player. trail runner. 4x dad. 2 dogs. erdős-bacon #6. cryptography @ duke. security @ panw. justintroutman.com
Moses Namara, Ph.D @namzo098.bsky.social MIT TR35 Global | Research Scientist @Meta | Phd'22 @ClemsonUniv
“Opinions are my own”
DeVan Hankerson Madrigal @dvhankerson.bsky.social DeVan Hankerson Madrigal, State Policy Engagement & Research Manager @cdt.org. Previously @gtowntechlaw. All tweets are my views only; retweets + likes may not be.
Pronouns: she/her
https://twitter.com/dvhankerson
https://techpolicy.social/@dvhankerson
Gabriel Nicholas @gaben.bsky.social Writing about tech policy. Senior Policy Advisor at NTIA, research at Center for Democracy & Technology.
ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance. Formerly ICRSE.
We are a network of 100+ member organisations in 30+ countries in Europe and Central Asia, working to support human and labour rights of sex workers.
www.eswalliance.org
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Sharon Wang @sharonwang.bsky.social she/her | clinical psych PhD student at UW | sexual violence, intimate partner violence, resilience, intersectional feminism, cats | #PsychSciSky
Sohini Ramachandran @sramach.bsky.social Population geneticist @BrownUniversity. Interested in the effects of historical processes & natural selection on human genomes. All views expressed are my own.
🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social dominatrix in nyc • writing a book on sex work & surveillance @ucpress.bsky.social
words @wired.com @thenation.com @chronicle.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @slate.com @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social etc • she/her
doctrixsnow.com
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/
Ryan Marcus @handle.invalid Assistant professor at UPenn. Database systems. https://RyanMarc.us
I'm mostly on Mastodon, https://discuss.systems/@ryanmarcus
Jane 🌻 @imjane.bsky.social
Evan Dong @evandyx.bsky.social Cornell CS PhD student
Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social Associate Professor at UM School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. 🏳️⚧️ he/him