Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social Mathematics professor at Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
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.
Zhijing Jin @zhijingjin.bsky.social Assi. Prof @UofTCompSci. Postdoc @MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. Research on (1) @CausalNLP and (2) NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor & mentee @ACLMentorship.
James MacGlashan @jmac-ai.bsky.social Ask me about Reinforcement Learning
Research @ Sony AI
AI should learn from its experiences, not copy your data.
My website for answering RL questions: https://www.decisionsanddragons.com/
Views and posts are my own.
Lucia Busso @lucia-busso.bsky.social Researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @AstonUniversity.
(cognitive) linguist, Italian, human (in random order). Views my own
Ralph Morton @ralphmortonlang.bsky.social Research Associate at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social Bot that posts content from the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: http://oecs.mit.edu
[author: @mcxfrank.bsky.social]
Henry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social Complexity, in all its forms.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
http://www.henryyuen.net
Wissenschaftsrat @wissenschaftsrat.de Das wichtigste wissenschaftspolitische Beratungsgremium in Deutschland.
⚖️ https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/impressum
▶️ youtube.com/@wissrat
🎙️ https://9te-etage.podigee.io
@chiir-conference.bsky.social @chiir-conference.bsky.social 
Mandana Samiei @mandanas.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill and Mila - Quebec AI Institute w/ Blake Richards and Doina Precup.
Interested in Reinforcement Learning, Continual Learning and Human Cognition.
Based in Montreal. 🇨🇦
Itay Itzhak @ COLM 🍁 @itay-itzhak.bsky.social NLProc, deep learning, and machine learning. Ph.D. student @ Technion and The Hebrew University.
https://itay1itzhak.github.io/
Adi Simhi @adisimhi.bsky.social NLProc, and machine learning. Ph.D. student Technion
Fazl Barez @fbarez.bsky.social Let's build AI's we can trust!
https://fazlbarez.com
Tal Haklay @talhaklay.bsky.social NLP | Interpretability | PhD student at the Technion
BlackboxNLP @blackboxnlp.bsky.social The largest workshop on analysing and interpreting neural networks for NLP.
BlackboxNLP will be held at EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China
blackboxnlp.github.io
Eric Todd @ericwtodd.bsky.social CS PhD Student, Northeastern University - Machine Learning, Interpretability https://ericwtodd.github.io
Theresia Veronika Rampisela @theresiavr.bsky.social 📍Copenhagen, Denmark
• 💻 Postdoc (GenAI for humanities and GLAM)
• 🔎 Responsible AI/ML(RecSys/IR/LLM fairness evaluation)
• 📚 Account is (mostly) for academic purposes
brendan chambers @societyoftrees.bsky.social Ithaca | prev Chicago | prev research scientist | interested in interconnected systems and humans+computers | currently: gardening
Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr ‘Deception Sleuth’ #Nature10 Scientist go.nature.com/3B29NgY • CS Prof. Univ. Toulouse @IUFrance.bsky.social • Metascience + Scientific Text Mining • https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac
@gcabanac at X
@gcabanac@sciences.re at Mastodon
Bill Hersh @billhersh.bsky.social Opinions my own and not those of my employer.
Professor
Division of Informatics, Clinical Epidemiology, and Translational Data Science
Department of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
http://www.billhersh.info
Jaime Teevan @teevan.bsky.social Chief Scientist & Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Professor at UW. Mother to four wild boys. #AI #HCI #Productivity #FutureOfWork
Don Metzler @metzlerd.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Research interests: Generative AI, Large Language Models, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval.
Debasis Ganguly @gdebasis.bsky.social A researcher in Information Retrieval and NLP... Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
@allanhanbury.bsky.social @allanhanbury.bsky.social 
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/
arXiv cs.IR Information Retrieval @csir-bot.bsky.social Unofficial bot by @vele.bsky.social w/ http://github.com/so-okada/bXiv https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IR/new
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Aixin Sun @aixinsg.bsky.social Do a bit of RecSys and a bit in IR
LION Lab @lionlab.bsky.social Linguistically-Oriented NLP - Research Lab at Leipzig University, led by @weissweiler.bsky.social
https://lionlabnlp.github.io/
Kristian Rink @k-rink.eurosky.social Project Lead Enterprise Search
#intergator #enterprise_search #information_management
https://www.intergator.de/
https://sifa.id/p/k-rink.eurosky.social
Dirk Gütlin @gutlin.bsky.social I post the latest Neuroscience, ML/AI, Complex Systems, and Stats papers.
Deciphering prediction and learning with @auksz.bsky.social at Freie Universität Berlin/CCNB/BCCN.
I also play bass in a pop punk band:
https://linktr.ee/goodviewsbadnews
John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social Using qualitative & machine learning methods to study writers/content creators. I study the interaction between writers & audiences. Professor @ University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Lucas Pope @dukope.bsky.social Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
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
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley & InterpretAI
Editor of the Artificial Humanities series
www.ninabegus.com
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
Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Max Read @maxread.info http://maxread.email
Larry S McGrath @larrysmcgrath.bsky.social Head of International Research, Amazon Prime Video. Author of Making Spirit Matter and The Anthropology of AI.
Helping fellow academics find a way out.
larrysmcgrath.com
Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social web: http://maxim.ece.illinois.edu
substack: https://realizable.substack.com
Tyler Shoemaker @t-shoemaker.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Critical AI
tylershoemaker.info
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Max Noichl @mnoichl.bsky.social Philosophy with computers at Utrecht University. www.maxnoichl.eu
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Terry Godier @terrygodier.com Thinking about calm software, reading, and attention.
I like bogs, Casio watches, and They Live memes.
I build Current, an rss reader for apple platforms, and write visual essays about our relationship with technology.
Nicolas Lebrun @nicolas-lebrun.fr Plotter drawing / GIF / experimental video
Artist working mainly with code and sometimes by hand
https://nicolas-lebrun.fr/contact/
hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI 🎏 → @sakanaai.bsky.social
Visit → https://sakana.ai/
Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
weronikalajewska.bsky.social @weronikalajewska.bsky.social Applied Scientist @Amazon
Dominique Louise @dominiquelouise.bsky.social Providing a data-literate perspective on responsible AI use and data science methods in learning analytics in European higher education.
Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.
birger-larsen.bsky.social @birger-larsen.bsky.social 
Martha Lewis @marthaflinders.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam. My work is in compositional approaches to AI and NLP.
https://marthaflinderslewis.github.io/
https://sites.google.com/view/calm-lab
Mischa Honeck @honeckmischa.bsky.social Historian, United States, empire, childhood, gender. Professor, University of Kassel. Mostly nice.
Simon Schug @smonsays.bsky.social postdoc @princeton
computational cognitive science ∪ machine learning
https://smn.one
UMAP @umapconf.bsky.social The 34th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (#UMAP2026)
June 8-11 2026
Gothenburg, Sweden
Website: https://www.um.org/umap2026/
Lalit Maganti @lalitm.com Founding engineer @ perfetto.dev · Senior Staff SWE @ Google · writing @ lalitm.com
ECIR 2027 @ecir2027.bsky.social European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
21-25 March 2027
Southampton Football Club, England, UK
www.ecir2027.co.uk
Anthropic {bot} @anthropicbot.bsky.social Unofficial mirror account of https://x.com/anthropicai from Twitter
We're an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Talk to our AI assistant @claudeai on https://claude.ai/.
Dakota Wing @dakwing.bsky.social Forensic linguist
PhD candidate at York University
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw beekeeper 🐝 skier ⛷️ dog dad 🐕
he/him
📍Toronto
www.DakotaWing.com
www.ForensicLing.com
@jsrozner.bsky.social @jsrozner.bsky.social 
@flo-meier.bsky.social @flo-meier.bsky.social Information Studies @ Aalborg University
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
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
Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social Queer in AI 🏳️🌈 | postdoc at cmu HCII | ostem |william-agnew.com | views my own | he/they
Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social 
Matthew Wilkens @mattwilkens.bsky.social Associate professor of Information Science at Cornell.
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Queen Mary University of London: & The Alan Turing Institute, UK. She/her
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 12/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
JEDI Workshop @jedi-workshop.bsky.social The JEDI workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for researchers who are interested in critically interrogating the role of information access technology in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and emancipation.
Website: http://jedi.inertial.science/
Hacker News Companion @hncompanion.com Stay on Top of Hacker News Discussions - ⚡
https://hncompanion.com
Posts key insights from HN front-page comment threads (not the articles) every hours.
Get a quick overview & decide if a post is worth your time.
Not affiliated with HN or YC.
Tom Ballinger @ballingt.com Duboce Triangle in SF
ballingt.com
Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci Professor at @unibe.ch
Meta Science ⸾ Science Trustworthiness Assessments ⸾ Research Methods ⸾ IT Security & Privacy ⸾ Technology Effects ⸾ Research Memes
https://the100.ci & @error.reviews
EADH 2026 in Kraków @eadh2026krakow.bsky.social EADH 2026 conference in Kraków, Poland
15-19 September 2026
https://eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/
Registration open: https://eadh2026.systemcoffee.pl/
Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social Research group leader at LMU Munich and MCML on ML, NLP & HCI. Also experimenting with lemonade that glows in the dark 🥤 (he/him)
Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social Foundations of AI. I like simple and minimal examples and creative ideas. I also like thinking about the next token 🧮🧸
Google | PhD, CMU |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06963
vaishnavh.github.io
Google Open Source @opensource.google Announcing new open source releases, exploring projects, sharing how we approach FOSS, and supporting communities around the world.
Younès ★ @pyrofoux.itch.io ∴ 🇬🇧: they/them 🇫🇷: iel, accord inclusifs
∴ Game design, Research, TTRPGs and Improv Theater
∴ amab arab acab
Find some of my work here:
🎮 pyrofoux.itch.io
🔬 knivesandpaintbrushes.org/younes
🧠 neurocracy.site
Nicolay Rusnachenko @nicolayr.com 💼 NLP for Radiology / Healthcare ⚕️ @buresearch.bsky.social・PhD in NLP・10+ years in Information Retrieval and Software Dev ・Opinions are mine
📍 Bournemouth 🇬🇧
Michael Kreil @michaelkreil.bsky.social 
Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social
MdB (CDU) 1994-2013; Vorsitzender des Auswärtigen Ausschusses 2005-2008; CompassMitte, Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (DGO); Goldener Blogger 2019 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇮🇱🇺🇦
Paul Kautz @pkautz.bsky.social Annoyingly happy geek from up there in Germany. Doing writing things for a living (Retro Gamer, GameStar, Heise, GEE etc.). And podcasts. So many podcasts!
https://linktr.ee/pkautz
Gijs Hendriksen @gijs.idf.social.ap.brid.gy [bridged from https://idf.social/@gijs on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Reading (UK) working on new wave ordinary language philosophy, experimental semantics and pragmatics, and some aesthetics. I'm building playable simulations of historical philosophical scenes at ux-phi.com.
Christian Drosten @cdrosten.bsky.social Head of Virology at Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
pascal @guldener.io Computational linguist and citoyen, NLP, Infosec
Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science • Director of the Group for Language and Intelligence (glint) ✨• Interested in all things language, cognition, and AI
jennhu.github.io
Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA | Alum @MIT @Princeton @UC Berkeley | AI+Cognitive Science+Climate Policy | https://ucla-cocopol.github.io/
Ilker Kesen @ilkerkesen.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scientist at University of Copenhagen. I am currently more focused on developing pixel language models. #nlproc #multilinguality #multimodality