The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social Spreading truth about vaccines since 2015.
Anna Gillespie @akgillespie.bsky.social Hippocampal electrophysiologist interested in the neural mechanisms of episodic memory and how they change during aging and Alzheimer's
Assistant professor at the University of Washington
www.gillespie-lab.com
Beth Stevens @bethstevenslab.bsky.social Neuroscientist passionate about Glia and Neuroimmunology & immune-brain cross talk in health & disease.
Foodie & Wine enthusiast. #openscience and collaboration
Asma Farhat @asmafarhat.bsky.social PhD student @Sylvia Knapp Lab, Vienna
William T. Grant Foundation @wtgrantfdn.bsky.social The William T. Grant Foundation supports research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
Kelsey Martin @kelseycmartin.bsky.social EVP Simons Foundation Autism & Neuroscience, Neuroscientist & Cell Biologist @ UCLA Biological Chemistry, Painter, RPCV, Former Dean @ UCLA DGSOM. Opinions are my own!
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The Friedman Brain Institute @sinaibrain.bsky.social The Friedman Brain Institute is an interdisciplinary clinical and research hub for studying and treating brain and spinal cord disorders at Mount Sinai.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
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The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) @sidb-edinburgh.bsky.social SIDB aims to discover the biological mechanisms underlying autism and neurodevelopmental conditions. Based at The University of Edinburgh, funded by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI).
https://linktr.ee/sidb_edinburgh
Marissa Co @marissaco.bsky.social Neurobiologist studying heterogeneity in autism-related conditions
Simons Foundation F2F • OHSU/Vollum postdoc • UTSW PhD • she/her
American Brain Coalition @americanbrainco.bsky.social Nonprofit organization comprised of the leading professional neurological, psychological, & psychiatric associations & patient organizations in the US. Seeking to advance the understanding of the functions of the brain through public education & advocacy.
Mitya @chklovskii.bsky.social Reverse engineering the brain
Carlos Brody @carlosbrody.bsky.social Neuroscientist, both computational and experimental. Also, parent of a teenager :) . All posts and opinions are in my personal capacity.
professional website: https://brodylab.org
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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social The world's leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Follow us at http://YouTube.com/SimonsInstitute.
Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev Open Source Engineering + Developer Relations at Microsoft + Azure ☁️ | Go (@golang.org), Cloud Native, Linux 🐧 🐍 🦀 ☕ 🍷📷 🎹 | Toronto 🇨🇦🌎שלום | 💨😷💉 | https://aaronw.dev/hello/
John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social UT Austin journalism professor; former NYT, WP. he/him. Galveston BOI. Born at 314.8 ppm CO2.
William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social Assistant prof @ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Studying emotion, morality, social networks, psych of tech. #firstgen college graduate
Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social We are interested in how animals (including humans) respond(ed) and adapt(ed) to changing environments.
Department of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.
PI: Prof. Andrea Manica (he/him)
Website: https://evolecolgroup.github.io/website/
Lee Spector @leespector.bsky.social Teaches and conducts research in AI, ALife, & intersections of computer science with cognitive science, evolutionary biology, physics, and the arts.
Juan Diego Rodriguez @ACL2026 @juand-r.bsky.social CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP
Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models!
Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema
https://www.juandiego-rodriguez.com/
John Kounios @johnkounios.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist researching creativity, intelligence, and other things at Drexel University. Co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain.
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/mQdXccaLZYqbOHEH?ref=Link&loc=play 
Catrina Hacker @catrinahacker.bsky.social Neuroscienctist and sci-comm enthusiast at the University of Pennsylvania interested in brains 🧠 and models of them 💻.
Website: catrinahacker.com
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Christian Jarrett @christianjarrett.bsky.social Editor, Psyche Magazine https://psyche.co/ | SPSP award-winning author of BE WHO YOU WANT | Contributor to BBC Science Focus | http://www.christianjarrett.com
Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social Professor for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Bonn, Germany, Lamarr Institute, ELLIS Fellow.
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Hilde Kuehne @hildekuehne.bsky.social Professor for CS at the Tuebingen AI Center and affiliated Professor at MIT-IBM Watson AI lab - Multimodal learning and video understanding - GC for ICCV 2025 - https://hildekuehne.github.io/
Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Associate professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Esther Paniagua @estherpaniagua.bsky.social Award-winning journalist and author ✍️
#Ciencia #Tecnología #Ciberseguridad #IA
#AI #Cybersecurity #DigitalGovernance #Ethics #DigitalRights
www.estherpaniagua.com
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org Advancing AI & robotics by reverse engineering the neocortex.
Leveraging sensorimotor learning, structured reference frames, & cortical modularity.
Open-source research backed by Jeff Hawkins & Gates Foundation.
Explore thousandbrains.org
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
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
Vanessa Enriquez-Rios @pt007.bsky.social Cancer & Developmental Biology, PhD👩🔬 🏳️🌈
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Organic Chemistry, MS
UCLA, Go Bruins 💙 💛
Chemistry, BS
UCSC, Go Slugs 💙💛
Encephalitis Warrior 🧠🔥
Politics
Southern Illinois
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io |
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt |
Chicago |
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
caitlin.gilbert@washpost.com ✉️
caitlingilbert.24 on signal
@caitlingilbertdata on tiktok/ig
🎭⚽️🎮 + other thoughts
washingtonpost.com/people/caitlin-gilbert
@ffrf.org @ffrf.org The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprophet nonprofit, with 40,000 nonreligious members working to keep state and church separate.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com Jeopardy! champ. Waiting for Survivor to call me back. Writer. YouTuber. Podcaster. Mpromptu@gmail.com. (Send me story tips!) http://linktr.ee/HemantMehta
Articles at https://friendlyatheist.com
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Relapsing lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Ali Velshi @velshi.com Host of The 11th Hour and Chief Data Reporter at MSNOW
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com Secure contact: FedOath@pm.me
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
newsletter:
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Lincoln Project and Lincoln Square founder. Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft driver. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social No kings
Actor/Producer he/him
Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social Team game
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Hard-for-Me-to-Live-with-Me/Rex-Chapman/9781982197773
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor. 
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
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!
Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com some lady.
she/her | sorayanadiamcdonald.com
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us. Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy—out 7/21. www.thisistheplan.com
Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
Yvette Nicole Brown @ynb.bsky.social Caregiver. 💖💚 Emmy nominated💫
Spoutible: @YNB
Post: @TheYNB
IG & Threads: @yvettenicolebrown
Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social Public health & economic & AI warnings. Health and economic policy. Former 16 years at Harvard. DC & Virginia.
✏️ necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social 📚 Author, NYT bestseller FIRED UP
🔥 Organizer, Firestarter University
🏫 Founder emerita, @momsdemand
firedupbook.com 🔥🔥🔥
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social Executive Editor of Occupy Democrats, author, journalist and podcaster newsletter.grantstern.com
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel coming in August: THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social journalist, host of "The Michelangelo Signorile Show" on SiriusXM, channel 127, 3-6 ET weekdays @SiriusXMProg.bsky.social #breadsky
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social Podcaster: The Bob Cesca Show, Trek Politics, Stephanie Miller, TME w John Fugelsang. Writer, artist, cyclist, Rush fan, collector of nerdy things.
patreon.com/bobcescashow
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social Prez & CEO @civilrightsorg. Cat Mom. Former @msnbc. Ran 4 Mayor of NYC; IG @Maya4CivilRights Views & typos are mine. She/Her
Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social Award-winning print, digital and TV investigative journalist
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.