Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
localthunk @localthunk.com Literally a fool
Creator of Balatro ( @playbalatro.com )
Business/Media: balatro@playstack.com
Blog: localthunk.com
Direct contact: localthunk.contact@gmail.com
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Kyra Bee @kyrabee.bsky.social Scientist, community organizer, digital painting, comics, vegan 🌱 . Queer+trans ⚧️🏳️⚧️, opinions are my own. No 🚫AI❌
ICE must be destroyed
She/her 🖖🏻
mady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat trans news and fiction writer, scientist, activist, data nerd
signal: madye2.39 / madycast.com@gmail.com
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she/her/south asian/plural catgirl
meow btw
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"
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP–Penn)
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
Any tips or info you’d like to share?
Signal premthakker.35
Prem@zeteonews.com
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Rachel Sagner Buurma @rbuurma.bsky.social 
Writing Slowly @writingslowly.bsky.social Writing at the speed of a real person in the age of AI, I’m the author of ‘Shu Ha Ri: The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters’. I’m Richard and I live on Bidjigal land of the Eora nation in Sydney. Find me at Writingslowly.com
Patterns @cp-patterns.bsky.social The science of data. A peer-reviewed #openaccess data science journal from @cellpress.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief: Andrew L Hufton (@alhufton.bsky.social)
Visit us online at https://www.cell.com/patterns/
@sarahgasser.bsky.social @sarahgasser.bsky.social 
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
Paul @psrichar.bsky.social 
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
💭 people, platforms, power.
they/she. 🧋 🍑 🧑🏾💻
https://psampson.net
Isabel Goldman @isabelgoldm.bsky.social I am currently a Leading Edge editor at Cell and the DEI Lead at Cell Press. Mother, vegetarian ✍🏻👩🏼💻📝 🌇 🎧. #DEI — Opinions are my own. 🏳️⚧️
Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social Paleobiologist. Evolution and paleoclimate. Coffee enthusiast. Snail evangelist. Visiting Prof @Syracuse University. Paleontological Research Institution Research Associate. Dartmouth, KU, Cornell alum. He/him. Opinions my own. https://www.brendan-anderson
Maeve McLaughlin @microbialmaeve.bsky.social Assistant Professor | UM-Flint | Trans femme 🏳️⚧️ | she/they | Neurodivergent | Bacterial and Phage TRANScription | DnD lover
Andrea Ngan @andreangan.bsky.social 
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social 
Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He/him
David Dylan Thomas @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social Writer/Director “White Meat” whitemeatmovie.com Author, Design for Cognitive Bias Oh, also I give talks. Daviddylanthomas.com
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social 
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Coming Sept. 2026: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, baseball, jazz. DC resident.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Krisha Aghi, PhD @phdoll.bsky.social Neurology postdoc @ UCLA in the Aharoni lab
eartha mae @endoeartha.bsky.social she/her // nimh mosaic k99 fellow // computational neuroendocrinology @ princeton // center for applied trans studies sr fellow // leading edge fellow // transsexual queen
views & opinions are my own
simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social hormones \\ neurons \\ genes \\ pdoc @tollkuhn lab \\ hanna gray fellow @hhmi \\ sr fellow @appliedtrans \\ transsexual àndrògynè \\ queering the anthrocatastrophocene \\ alien behind sén \\ simonesun.com \\ () optional, e is not
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org cell signaling, synbio, publication anarchy, mentoring, teaching, curiosity, caring. ⚧️🏳️🌈🧙🏻♀️
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Garak's Apprentice @garaksapprentice.bsky.social Textile artist, writer, permaculturalist, medieval re-enactor, nerd. I write about fashion history and textile crafts at the intersections of permaculture, sustainability, equitable tech, & neurodivergence. They/them.
Bob Doto @bobdoto.bsky.social Author of *A System for Writing* amazon.com/dp/B0D18J83VB
📝 Capture Thoughts
🕸 Make Connections
🐎 Think Wildly
💻 Write Constantly
I really enjoy talking with people. Hmu in the feed. Also, backgammon.
tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social host of grindr's 5th-favorite podcast // edited a fast & furious book for freaks // Sex Change & the City on sale now! (thisistrans.info)
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
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 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
Sam Handlin @shandlin.bsky.social Swarthmore political scientist. Elections, autocracy, and the politics of digital surveillance in Venezuela and beyond.
Currently moving from the other place...
Obsidian @obsidian.md The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community: http://obsidian.md/community
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
Replies limited to followers only.
Check if my post is a joke before flaming me please.
For story leads, my signal is kab.80
Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
UncommonGray @uncommongray.bsky.social K.D., butch trans woman, she/they/one/it, early 40s, ASL-English interpreter, strategy geek
Crink @crink.bsky.social fka Little Johnny Thompson. Skeet about baseball (Yankees), music, books & life. Enjoy food, the outdoors and hanging with the boys. Formerly NYC, now Philly
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it. 
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Rikker Dockum @rikker.bsky.social Linguist ‘n’ stuff. I was @thai101 on the other place. I’ll probably still talk about Thai too much.
You can read stuff I wrote here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FeZWg9QAAAAJ&hl=en
Mira @thefreeradical.org she/her professionally, it/she if ur trans ΘΔ
transfem journalist @transnews.network and tired anarchist
go read blessed is the flame
my website has my clips: miralazine.com
miralazine@gmail.com <- for comments, inquiries, and death threats
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org An independent news website about trans issues, by trans journalists. assignedmedia.org
Support our work: https://www.assignedmedia.org/support
Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social Futurist, academic, writer.
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness.
Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it
https://voices.nejm.org/browse/voices-series/theodore-iwashyna
Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist and professional nerd. Asst Prof, University of Alaska Anchorage.
queer af, they/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️
jfmclaughlin.org
Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social Linguist, nature appreciator, big fan of sambal & soursop. All things Austronesian & NW New Guinea. Swarthmore/Philly. She/sie/lei/dia/andi.
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social Why do it by hand if you can code it in just quadruple the time?
https://mzucker.github.io/
he/him
CortexFutura @cortexfutura.com Teaching Tana. Exploring how we'll use technology to augment our cognition and use it for progress.
Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com Building WebSim websim.com
Product thoughts: RobHaisfield.com
My research: ScalingSynthesis.com
Stian Håklev @houshuang.reganmian.net Builder at Tana.inc. Disco linguam graecam, Μανθάνω Λατίνην, 热爱语言。Giving my self the high school education I never got (cultural literacy). Fan of E. D. Hirsch fan & Ingeborg Refling Hagen. Les Wergeland!
Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy!
Currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
https://andymatuschak.org
Twitter: andy_matuschak
Mastodon: @andy@andymatuschak.org
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Brandon Toner @brandontoner.ca brandontoner.ca/now
Tana @tana.inc 
Winston @syncretizm.bsky.social Singapore 🇸🇬 Doc, Zen, PKM | Obsidian/Tana stack 📚 Clarity in chaos 🧘🏻♂️ In my free time I dive into neurosci, theoretical physics and coding.
Cedric Chin @cedricchin.bsky.social Publishes http://commoncog.com. Tweets about books & the art of business, from the perspective of an operator. Also: https://warpcast.com/cedric
Anne-Laure Le Cunff @neuranne.bsky.social hypercurious :) I write about personal science, systematic curiosity, experimental thinking ꩜⋆✦ • author of Tiny Experiments • researcher at King’s College London & founder of Ness Labs ⇢ https://nesslabs.com- G GitMurf @gitmurf.bsky.social
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
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 Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com "covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
"I may be unable to discern the point, but it definitely made me read the whole thing"
reporter 〰️ writer 〰️ sculptor 〰 @coyotemedia.org calendar guy 〰️ they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
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
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Jevan Hutson @jevan.bsky.social data privacy/cybersecurity attorney by day, tech law professor/clinic director by night. into data rights, not into data wrongs.