Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Elad Gross @bigelad.bsky.social Defender of Civil Liberties, Friend to Dogs, Proud Missourian.
https://www.EladGross.org
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social Origins and consequences of genome mutation; software for genomic discovery.
Prof. and Chair of Human Genetics at U. of Utah.
https://www.genetics.utah.edu/
http://quinlanlab.org
Rachel Smith-Bolton @rachelsmithbolton.bsky.social UIUC Prof, Drosophila genetics and tissue regeneration, Advocate for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Dem PC, Champaign County Forest Preserve Friends Foundation board, mom of teenagers, etc. etc. etc.
Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social Study genetic conflicts professionally. Try to avoid conflicts in personal life (with mixed results).
Fred Hutch Basic Sciences,
UW Genome Sciences,
HHMI.
Posting in a personal capacity. My posts don’t reflect my employers’ opinions.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social Anti-carnage. Overtonologist.
https://drugmonkey.wordpress.com/
Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Organizing with https://higheredlaborunited.org
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
Official member: Leguminati 🫘
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social Public Health Genetics MPH, PhD. UW Research Scientist. Interested in finding/creating community around science, nature, culture, and compassion. www.myopenreadingframe.com
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social 🧬Founded in 1948, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is the primary professional membership organization for #humangenetics specialists worldwide.
www.ashg.org
The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social Flagship journal of the American Society of Human Genetics
https://www.cell.com/AJHG/home
Editor-in-Chief: @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social
Geno'X Veille @genox-veille.fr Weekly clinical genomics literature watch · curated by Dr Thibaut Benquey, medical biologist (genetics). New genes · pharmacogenomics · hereditary cancer · bioinformatics. New picks every Wednesday. Free, no ads. → genox-veille.fr
Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social Genetics/genomics. Here in my personal capacity. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=A0oDqUQAAAAJ&hl=en
Ayesha Rascoe @ayesharascoe.bsky.social Host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Editor and Author of HBCU Made, Mother of 3, Proud Howard U graduate
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Wellman For MO @wellmanformo.bsky.social Veteran, Entrepreneur, and Father with a lifelong career of service. Candidate for #MO02
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
everybody’s campaign mom @emilyjanehubb.bsky.social All the things and tired too.
MS lady in STL. Pastor's wife, grad student at SLU in ed policy, writer w/ 4 kids, on SLPS BoE. 💚sociology, public edu, reading, crocheting, sertraline, hymns. Opinions mine.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Michael Browning @mbinfpse.bsky.social Alderman, 9th ward, St. Louis City
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Brooke Foster @lonesometoast.bsky.social st. louis dweller, enthusiastic traveler, oh-so-lucky mom (x2), cat butler, bi gal, iowa writers workshop alum. "the distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss."
she/her
Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social Co-founder & President of @runforsomething.net & RFS Civics / Writer x2: RUN FOR SOMETHING & WHEN WE'RE IN CHARGE / Mom, also x2
amandalitman.com/links
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
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Chosen by god, perfected by science
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social Series editor for Tiny Desk at NPR Music. World's Okayist Guitarist. #FreeDC. Mixtapes, tea and whatnot: https://www.vikingschoice.org
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
St. Louis DSA @stldsa.org St. Louis Democratic Socialists of America | RSVP for Strike Back! https://act.stldsa.org/an-evening-of-labor-resistance
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social Husband to a Boliviana. Daddy. Emperor of the Renaud Empire. Lover of Atari, BBSes, retro tech, and Tolkien. Journalist at stltoday.com. The guy behind breakintochat.com.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan @eringloriaryan.bsky.social Your wife and mother
Podcasting: Hysteria (from @crookedmedia)
YouTubing: This Fuckin' Guy
Writing: MSNBC, Esquire, The Daily Beast, TV, et al
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social Official account • good cats being workers • unionized • mascot: Jobert the cat • Business/credit/removal: translatedcats@gmail.com • Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social author of THE VEILED PROPHET — writing in The Nation, The Intercept, Slate, Jacobin, Boulevard — he/him — rep Erik Hane, Headwater Literary
https://linktr.ee/devintoshea
Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social Organizational psychologist @Wharton. #1 NYT bestseller: THINK AGAIN. Podcasts: Re:Thinking & WorkLife. Diver. Arguing like I’m right, listening like I’m wrong.
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.
A. Torch @torcho.bsky.social Activist, Surrealist artist, vintage shopkeeper, anti-racist. Music is life-giving.
#Jazz #Punk #CraftBeer
☂️ ⚔️ 🥪
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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social 🎙️/ ✍🏾 : NPR’s POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR
📖: WANNABE: RECKONINGS WITH THE POP CULTURE THAT SHAPES ME: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
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Sunshine Gerry @gconnolly314.bsky.social Transparency & Tax Breaks in the City of St. Louis
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Evie Hemphill @evhemphill.bsky.social BWorks (@stlbworks.bsky.social) staffer. Former talk show producer. Always an overthinker, clog dancer and lover of Emily Dickinson.- H Ira Flatow @heyira.bsky.social Host and founder of Science Friday, 500 public radio stations, podcasts. Avid science nerd, geek bread baker, orchid, caretaker. Awful poker player.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com General malcontent. Ghostwriter.
Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
Agent: Kimberly Brower @ Park, Fine & Brower
tyleraking.com
She/her 🇨🇴
Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org We are low-wage workers, Black, white and brown, urban and rural standing together across the state of Missouri to fight racism and win economic justice for all
https://www.moworkers.org/
Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social Reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I write about the impacts the built environment has on our community
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Annie @annielrice.bsky.social Midwest raised, STL grown. Learning and unlearning and trying to keep being a better human and more myself. Former immigration lawyer and local elected, now with ArchCity Defenders and President of MICA Project Board but this is just me personally.
Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social Mom, wife, pastor, and former nurse running to represent the people of Missouri’s 1st District in Congress. St. Louis Strong. ✊🏾 Email: info@coribush.org
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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social She/her • Missouri Moms Demand Action • Survivor • Ranked Moms 4 Liberty’s 5th worst problem in MO education •A goddamn delight • Text READY to 644-33
Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social Wife, mama, sister, friend, suburban woman fighting for democracy. NOT a national security/geopolitical expert but I have a guy for that.
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,not✌🏿good✌🏿, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social Running for U.S. Senate to take on the rigged system and fight for Ohio workers. Proud grandpa, dad, and husband to Connie.
Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social Host & exec prod, "Talking Feds Pod" and "Talking San Diego." FCA Lawyer. Teach con law at UCSD & UCLA. Senior Fellow USC. Former US Atty, Dep Assis AG. Founding Contributor, The Contrarian
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jonathan Capehart @jonathancapehart.bsky.social Co-host, MS NOW "The Weekend." Contributor PBS NewsHour, "Brooks & Capehart"
Former Associate Editor, The Washington Post.
Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social Democratic candidate for Congress in MO-2. Host of 'On Democracy with FPWellman' Friday's and ‘In the Hot Seat’ on MeidasTouch. Army Iraq veteran. Pro-Democracy Advocate. Missourian.
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Julie in STL @hyperhouse.bsky.social Hyperfixates on hobbies and local things. Loyal but anxious. You can either find me inside making sourdough/reading/crafting or outside walking/biking and calling out infrastructure failures. Walking on IG as speedhumpme
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social Marie Ceselski: Ret public records archivist, embarrassed fmr Dem Cmte woman, dreaming of STL secession for statehood or becoming IL county. Gardening, nature, politics, history nerd. Traveling The Americas in land yacht https://greatstateofstlouis.com/
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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WashU Medicine @washumedicine.bsky.social WashU Medicine – advancing human health through research, education and patient care.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social Iowa State Auditor, father, bowhunter, former prosecutor, pizza auditor. Running to be Iowa's next Governor.
Public servant, not a politician.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social Still without airbrushing. Still with teeth.
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Cara Spencer @caraspencer.bsky.social Mayor for STL
Tim Miller @timmiller.bsky.social Host of the Bulwark Podcast
MSNBC political analyst.
Punching bag on FYPod with Cameron Kasky.
Church of Jokic.
Nola Dad.
Weak and Gay.
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian and UCC pastor, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
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.
Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social Lawyer for people at Kline & Specter. Teach @Duqklinelaw, “Faith and Democracy.” Former representative, Marine, prosecutor. Town hall participant.