Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Gerry @gmanacsa.bsky.social designer • photographer • observer • geek • long-ago rocket scientist • seeker of coffee shops and forgotten places • JP
Hypernode @hypernode.bsky.social 💾 Hypernode is your feed for terminal telnet #BBS culture, dystopian DIY tech and #ASCII aesthetics! Scroll below to see what's hype in the underground #Textmode world. All content is curated by MaxMouse, a real human!
@diana180.bsky.social @diana180.bsky.social Editor of complicated things. Dr of languagey things. Previously: HY, TaY, UoS (UCS), QMUL, UoR, Bloomberg, Dublin Worldcon press. I make you smarter. Myös suomeksi.
Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social PhD from @cwru. Historian of Medicine, Modern US, and birth. Writing on natural birth and the use of induction drugs. Posts are my own.
Tom McGrath @tommx.bsky.social Middle aged software engineer, actor, director, lifelong nerd, net denizen, progressive liberal socialist pinko, and two time cancer survivor. I can also be found at https://tommx.dreamwidth.org.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Stephen Hughes @stephenhues.bsky.social Associate Professor in STS at University College London | Emotional dynamics in science/technology/society relationships (Fantasy, Denial, Ambivalence, Trust) | NEW BOOK: Affect, Emotion & Feeling in Science Communication 2027 with Bristol University Press
MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social Auntie, hat lover, always looking for the work worth doing.
(Photo credit: Millinery By Anna: www.etsy.com/shop/MillineryByAnna)
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @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
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social triumphant home cooking, est. 2006
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
smittenkitchen.com
Taig Dara 泰格·達熱 @taigdara.bsky.social Phd-ing intellectual & institutional history at the University of Hawaiʻi: "The China Democratic League at the first People's Political Consultative Conference"
Francie Jain @franciejain.bsky.social On the hunt for good data. I help employers solve voluntary turnover. Founder of Terawatt.co
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
@hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social 
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social Salty AF. Safe streets & sound climate policy = social justice. Enjoy biking, travel, beer and cats. Content likely to randomly touch on all of the above. All content is my personal opinion. She/Her.
IsDown.app - Is a service down? @isdown.app - Monitoring 5500+ status pages in real-time
- Vendor outages in Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, FireHydrant, and more
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ
Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
IAMCR @iamcr.org The International Association for Media and Communication Research - IAMCR - is a global professional association of media and communication researchers.
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
BRCHaus @brchaus.bsky.social B is for Betsy, also known as @betsywhim.
OG community nerd since last century. Ex-Twitter & Reddit, Meta refugee.
Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
Boing Boing @boingboing.net Try our new ad-free version of Boing Boing at premium.boingboing.net
Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Jacob Epstein @yaakovepst.bsky.social Anti-Zionist living in Palestine-Israel | M.A. Communication | Former analyst @ FakeReporter & Digital Sherlock @DFRLab | Interests: Transnational Jewish far-right, anti-gender politics, male supremacism, illiberalism. | Aspiring PhD student
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
All The Right Movies @alltherightmovies.com The story of Hollywood one film at a time. Details provided in our making of stories are direct from cast/crew or 3+ sources. Podcast, book, socials, newsletter - everything ATRM at linktr.ee/alltherightmovies
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
WOWArtSci @wowartsci.bsky.social WOWArtSci is a residency space for artists and scientists on the ‘Mesa’ aka the Taos Volcanic Plateau in Northern New Mexico.
http://www.wowartsci.org
Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social Science Systems Engineer @NASA/JPL-Caltech. PhD in Geology. 30+ years Geospatial experience. PI for the FOSS4G Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/MMGIS).
Not a NASA account.
Never met a rock I wouldn’t lick.
Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S @4sonline.bsky.social Fostering interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship in social studies of science, technology, and medicine across the globe.
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Cyd @cyd.social Hi, my name is Cyd! I can help you claw back your data from Big Tech, starting with deleting all your tweets for free. https://cyd.social
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Caroline, doing the work @carolinethegeek.bsky.social PhD. youth+tech+community+design researcher, UW iSchool Postdoc, TTRPG-er, enjoyer of things. Always learning.
She/her. Profile pic by Ari!
Yes, I'm here. In the midst of job search. carolinerpitt.phd
Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social Schnoodletarian and polymath who's learned a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
Former analyst and innovator, process improvement nerd/geek, liaison of many hats. Musician, educator, artist.
Anti-bigotry, AuDHD, she/her. Oxford comma proponent.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social CFA is an anti-racism, social justice union of 29k faculty at the California State University. We advocate for students, #highered, & faculty rights. #BlackLivesMatter #UnionStrong
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication
Associate Professor of Mass Communication,
Director, Communication Research Center,
Boston University
New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com Extremism expert by day, novelist by night
THE POPE'S HITMAN (Oct. 27, 2026)
EXTREMISM (MIT Press, 2018)
Affiliate links support my work:
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social Cohost at http://conspirituality.net.
DM for Signal. Antifascist Dad forthcoming from North Atlantic: Spring 2026: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807656/antifascist-dad-by-matthew-remski/
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
LizFlyntz @lizflyntz.bsky.social Archival futurism
SCRIPTed @scriptedjournal.bsky.social A Journal of Law, Technology & Society
https://journals.ed.ac.uk/script-ed/index
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
Yisroel Quint @yisroel.bsky.social Proud dog father, human uncle. Founder of Dollar a Day Fund for Indigenous Environmental Justice. Philanthropy, climate, gender justice. Go Yankees!
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social Writer, community college writing teacher, obsessed with AI in education, #OER advocate, author of HowArgumentsWork.org.
annarmills.com 
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Human Rights; Terrorism; AI; Pop Culture;
'"An aging, angry woman, laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💓💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social Decision (neuro)scientist. Joint faculty between business and policy at UCSD. Neuroeconomics, psych, marketing, policy, snark, etc. 
Friendly Skeleton @jonathan.eylerwerve.com I post art, art process, some trash. Reskeets mean you fucking crushed it, good job.
Chicago. Trying to make the Internet a nice place for humans at https://civicworkbench.com
Anne-Maree Gray @mtramg.bsky.social Aussie who drinks too much coffee, writes fanfic as mrstrentreznor and books (that I never finish) as me, AM Gray. She/her
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2154210/Mrstrentreznor
annemareegray.com
DrKR @slat54.bsky.social Retired absent minded professor.
Darwin award semifinalist.
Ancora imparo.
Note: I don't respond to DMs.
Julia Husar @juliahusar.bsky.social PhD Student studying digital communities, information sharing, data vis in social contexts, other things i'm not yet aware of
resident trans woman
opinions and thoughts are my own 💕
she/her
Bridgit Honda @mathildamoo.bsky.social Doin the moo thing! Bedouin of Lost Websites: Tomato Nation, DHAK, Fametracker, LiveJournal lurker, Polyvore, Television without Pity, Snarkfest(s), FugNation and now, Twitter. 
🏳️⚧️ Poli @hellopoli.bsky.social "Postmodernist Neo-Marxist". Queer. Fat. Lapsed medieval art historian. Current day job in data analysis. EN/PL/FR/IT/DE
they/them 🏳️⚧️
Warsaw/Gdańsk 🇵🇱
Neck @newneck.bsky.social Avatar photo of sedge wren by David Rintoul (https://drintoul.myportfolio.com/) with permission.
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social Songwriter, writer writer, director of MusicAlaska / AKIMI, probably owes you an email.
Still rockin on Bandcamp, Twitch, and Patreon.
Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own. NYCer. https://aramzs.nexus/
Gerry @gerry9000.bsky.social Photos | Design | Tech | Climate | Justice
Boston
Deborah @deborahbee.bsky.social Academic librarian. Public art & transportation, map, cat, & dog enthusiast. Philadelphian. She/her. 
Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Mihai Martoiu Ticu @martoiu.bsky.social 
Stephen Ramsay @sramsay2.bsky.social Professor of English and Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mainly #DigitalHumanities. Blog at https://stephenramsay.net/
Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org DDoSecrets is a 501c3 journalist non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks and other data in the public interest.
DDoSecrets.org
LibraryOfLeaks.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets
DonorBox.org/ddosecrets
Kyle Birchard @kylebirchard.bsky.social Founder of Resight Laboratories, Inc. Writer of tonewood.leaflet.pub
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
@afghanevac.bsky.social @afghanevac.bsky.social 
Matt Hale @mhale0.bsky.social Photographer, designer, mostly harmless. San Diego
maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social Political junkie, history, pop culture & science fiction geek. Left handed, cisgender, lesbian feminist, social justice activist & educator from Chicago. 
Osana @osana.bsky.social An obsessive compulsive, anxiety ridden, depressed human (sadly) wasteland.
They/them
Mx. Riley @riley.pub Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons 🌱 Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics.
@igalia.com @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google
she/ella 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦓 ♾️ 9a
Surveillance Studies Network @survstudiesnet.bsky.social The global network for surveillance studies research. Surveillance & Society journal https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society, conferences, workshops, mentoring, prizes & more. Join us here: https://surveillance-studies.net
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
John Wedoff @jwedoff.bsky.social Sr. Software Engineer, He/Him, dad, Somerville resident
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
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
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social Tech, research, law, teaching & AI - plus a lot of other stuff.
M.Ed, PGDL, LLM, (looking for alt online LLM+tech)
UK/FR
@katyavdgk@mas.to
@katyavdgk.bsky.social
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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com 🌱Tasty Teas for Thirsty Nerds!🌱
Seattle's geeky tea hangout, featuring premium, ethically-sourced, synesthesia-based teas 🍵❤️🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Se habla español/On parle français.
https://linktr.ee/fridaytea
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC
computational sociology
machine learning is feminist
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.
www.lauraknelson.com
Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
Dang it, Bobby @bobby.plus If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer, I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain't giving up, I swear. he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Julie Wash @jakwash.bsky.social That’s my dog’s eye.
MLIS ‘90 SUNY Buffalo
BA UNC CH ‘83
Question. Take time.
Aerographos @aerographos.bsky.social Dad. Naval Architect. Interested in maritime environmental matters, sustainable lifestyles, British and Greek politics. Glasgow, Scotland.
James @nonzerosum.games Join a bleeding-heart liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world with win-win games at nonzerosum.games! #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Science #GameTheory #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
@cageyness.bsky.social @cageyness.bsky.social 
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social