Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Steve Powell @stevepowell99.bsky.social mad about causal mapping. Also hit me with: psychology, evaluation, politics, qualitative research, AI.
Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London 🤖 Anthropologist writing mainly about tech and aid https://about.me/cheesman
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.”
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Leah Govia @leahgovia.bsky.social Tech, nature, and ethics. Feminist STS and digital, environmental humanities.
Designing games about more-than-human connections 🌻
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
DeVan Hankerson Madrigal @dvhankerson.bsky.social DeVan Hankerson Madrigal, State Policy Engagement & Research Manager @cdt.org. Previously @gtowntechlaw. All tweets are my views only; retweets + likes may not be.
Pronouns: she/her
https://twitter.com/dvhankerson
https://techpolicy.social/@dvhankerson
Kerry Albright @kerryalbright.bsky.social Bluesky newbie! @ADB.org evaluation. Former Deputy Director-Evaluation @UNICEF.org. Proud evidence champion and knowledge broker for children, science and international development.
@socialmpact.bsky.social @socialmpact.bsky.social 
Gerard Atkinson @gerardatkinson.com Policy and Program Evaluation; Ethical AI; Neurodiversity Advocacy
#ActuallyAutistic management consultant, company director, and cat daddy with a 3d printing workshop.
Usually around Warrnambool (Gunditjmara country), drinking coffee and/or running.
Jennifer Eno Louden @enolouden.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at UTEP. Applied researcher interested in improving the criminal legal system for people with mental illness and reducing stigma. 
Michaela Guo Ying Lo @micgylo.bsky.social researcher @ DICE, University of Kent, interdisciplinary researcher, sustainability, livelihoods, tropical forestry, food 
Florencia Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social Consultant & Systems Convener: at the intersection of governance, monitoring, evaluation, research & learning
Co-founder @act4delivery
Collaborating w/#Politeia
Duncan Edwards @duncan-edwards.bsky.social Governance, Open Government, Accountability, Participation, Innovation, Learning, Tech, M&E. Anti-Corruption
Director - The TAP Room
SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence (SOAS-ACE)
Ex IDS, MAVC, PWYP
Running, diving, trekking, cricket, football, photography
Rachel Horan @drrachelh.bsky.social Psychologist 🧠| MERL / MEAL | Conflict & Violence | Director, The Averment Group | Senior Associate, INCAS Consulting 🌍🌎🌏
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
@guijti.bsky.social @guijti.bsky.social 
Lizle Loots @lizleloots.bsky.social Strengthening & supporting the violence against women & violence against children research fields. Partnerships @thesvri.bsky.social
Martín Hernán Di Marco @martindimarco.bsky.social Sociologist. Violence, Femicides & Perpetration. Associate Professor at @OsloMet & Adj. Prof. @emoryuniversity.
Secretary @TG11_ISA & RC38. Food enthusiast
Rajab Mgonja @rajabsworld.bsky.social Passionate about Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Esther Spindler @estherspin.bsky.social Global health researcher & learner. My 9-5 is @Dedoose.bsky.social. Made in 🇫🇷🇧🇷🇺🇸
GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social The GBV Prevention Network is a dynamic group of activists & practitioners committed to preventing GBV in the Horn, East & Southern Africa.
#EndVAWG #PreventVAWG #VAWG #EndViolence #GBV #Feminist
Stephen Davenport @stephendavenport.bsky.social Global Lead #DigitalTransformation #Anticorruption #OpenGov #GovTech @WorldBank Co-Founder @FeedbackLabs, @OpenGovHub, @AidData, @DGateway Alumni
Gender Violence Collaboration Network @gvrcn.bsky.social We are global community of 11,000+ early and mid-career researchers and practitioners in Gender-based Violence (GBV). We aim to increase collaboration, well-being and knowledge sharing through collaboration with advanced-career professionals in the field.
Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net Assistant Professor of Data Governance at UVA
About me: https://sixfouronea.net/
Project: http://digitalsovereigntyobservatory.org
Sarahdactyl @sarahdactyl.bsky.social The gay down the hall, they/she, putting the elder in elder millennial
Global Fund for Women @globalfundwomen.bsky.social We fund bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes.
Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) @thesvri.bsky.social The SVRI is one of the largest global networks advancing research to end violence against women, violence against children, and other forms of violence driven by gender inequality in low- and middle- income countries.
#EndViolence #GBVResearch #VAWG
Take Back The Tech! @takebackthetech.bsky.social Take control of technology to end violence against women! An @apc.bsky.social campaign working with grassroots movements around the world since 2007.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
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.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
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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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Daniel Brumund @danbru8.bsky.social Interested in #tech #justice #reciprocity • Day job: #AI & #Digital #Governance @giz.de • Geeky passion for #SmallAI #NLP #OpenSource #Licensing #HomeServer • Posts = personal • Reposts ≠ endorsement • 🏳️🌈 • 🇧🇬 • 🇿🇦 • Also on @danbru8@mastodon.world
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
Jade Abbott @alienelf.bsky.social CTO & Co-founder Lelapa.AI | Co-founder Maskahane | 🌍🇿🇦 🏳️🌈 | 
Sciencewise @sciencewise.bsky.social Working with policymakers and researchers to meaningfully involve the public in policymaking. We are a consortium with UKRI, British Science Association and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Involvement. More here: www.sciencewise.org.uk
Vukosi Marivate @vukosi.bsky.social Chair of Data Science at University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Co-Founder LelapaAI. #NLProc
PhDCS Rutgers, BScEE-MsEE Wits University.
Changing the World @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP.
Made with ❤️ Tshwane
Lab Data Science for Social Impact 
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social Economist at the Center for Global Development. Formerly: Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, RAND Corporation, & my local movie theater. I mostly share about international development research plus books and movies. Views mine, not my employer's.
Andy Sumner @andypsumner.bsky.social Professor of (International) Development Studies, King's College London / President @EADI / Fellow @UNU-WIDER @CGDev / Academy of Social Sciences
Claire Melamed @clairemelamed.bsky.social Vice President for AI & Digital, United Nations Foundation, Board member, Full Fact and Our World in Data, Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy Research.
Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social Development economist, worrying about economic growth these days. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/justin-sandefur/
Owen Barder @owen.org Economist. ex No10, Treasury, CGD, PxD. Former visiting Professor @ LSE. Development Drums podcast. Team GB triathlete age-grouper. Olympic volunteer. Feminist, internationalist. Set up the first UK Government website. Helped invent AMCs.
Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
ODI Global @odi.global Igniting new ideas to confront global challenges. ODI Global turns bold ideas, evidence, and broad expertise into actionable strategies for a more resilient, just and equitable future.
Website: www.odi.org
Think Change podcast: https://buff.ly/3XAKJJ1
Center for Global Development @cgdev.org The leading think-and-do tank for #globaldev🌍 Celebrating 20+ years of independent research & ideas for global prosperity.
mediarelations@cgdev.org
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Francis Fukuyama @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Drone pilot, cabinetmaker, and fan of classic social theory.
Owner of @americanpurpose.bsky.social
Max Lawson @maxlawsontin.bsky.social Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam. Co-host EQUALS podcast.
The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Journalism from the heart of crises
Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social 1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer.
Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019).
Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
Oxfam Policy & Practice @oxfamgbpolicy.bsky.social Oxfam's account for policy, research & learning. Visit our site for 5,000 humanitarian & development publications, blogs & more. https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/ https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/
https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Duncan Green @duncangreenlse.bsky.social LSE Prof in Practice & Director of its 'Activism, Influence & Change programme/blog'. Recovering Exfamer. Current passion teaching/training next & current gen of change makers, both at LSE and beyond. Author How Change Happens, From Poverty to Power 
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Leah Robin (leduck) @universalduck.bsky.social She is a health researcher and full-time, unrepentant geek who lives in Atlanta with her husband, David; 5 cats; and two marine aquariums in progress, David's big fish aquarium and her little reef aquarium.
KateMcK @kmckegg.bsky.social Nerd, evaluator, Tangata Tiriti, gardener, grandmother
Meredith W @meredithwaters.bsky.social Sr. Dir. | Innovating at the nexus of environment, resilience, & intl. dev. | MEL, CLA, & adaptive mgmt. expert | High performance coach, facilitator | Systems thinker delivering global impact- B Dr. Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead @biancam.bsky.social Co-Editor-in-Chief, New Directions for Evaluation; Award Winning Evaluation Leader; Associate Professor of Eval @UConn; She/Her/Dr
Nai Rui Chng @nairuichng.bsky.social Research Fellow @uofglasgow.bsky.social | Evaluation Science & Practice | Dissemination & Implementation research | One Health | Planetary Health | Anti-Racist https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/staff/nairuichng/
Janice Duddy @jduddy.bsky.social I am an evaluation consultant, facilitator, community-based & participatory researcher, capacity builder and data storyteller living in what is colonial knowns as Metro Vancouver, Canada. I am a curious human who loves to cook!
Maria Montenegro @mariamontenegro.bsky.social Building evaluation capacity |Podcast Host | Career Coaching and Development | Program evaluator
Data Matters @data-matters.bsky.social We are a multidisciplinary team of applied researchers working in social welfare analytics @monashuniversity.bsky.social | Director: @aronshlonsky.bsky.social | https://www.monash.edu/medicine/spahc/socialwork/datamatters | #whatworks #evidencesynthesis
Benoît Gauthier ⚜️🔼 @gauthier.circum.com Promoteur de l'#évaluation des #politiques et des #programmes. Champion impénitent et membre titulaire de la Société canadienne d'évaluation #SCE / Advocate of #policy and #program #evaluation. Champion and fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society #CES
@patriciajrogers.bsky.social @patriciajrogers.bsky.social 
Jacquie D @jacpelawat.bsky.social Public health research. Thinking in systems. MIPH. Global health. Exhausted parent. Views my own.#VotedYes #Treaty#Truthtelling
Lucia Lavric @lucialavric.bsky.social Climate mitigation economics | Just transition | Evaluations | Evidence base
Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social A team of women & non-binary scientists & clinicians here to empower people to better navigate science & health info. Creators of Dear Pandemic.
#publichealth #scicomm #WomenInStem
https://thosenerdygirls.org/
https://thosenerdygirls.substack.com/
Justine Pinskey, PhD @justinepinskey.bsky.social Scientist, communicator, & scholar | Sr. Scientific Writer - Office of Health Equity @UmassChan | #firstgen | #scicomm | #sciart | Meat_Fight | #momademia | Views=own | she/her.
Lauren Kahn @laurenkahn.bsky.social Director of Strategy & Research at https://public.digital/. Previously DFID, GDS, BT Group. Digital transformation for global impact.
#inclusive #responsible #sustainable #digital #impact
Evidence & Implementation Summit @eisummit.org 12-14October 2027 | Melbourne, Australia | #ImpSci | #EvidenceSynthesis | #EIS2027 | Global | Improving Lives
Kim Ozano @kimozano.bsky.social Global health researcher, expert in participatory research & co-production approaches. Director of The Stop Collaborate and Listen Agency and Host of Connecting Citizens to Science Podcast https://bit.ly/Follow_CCS
Julian King @juliankingnz.bsky.social Public policy consultant | Evaluation and Value for Investment at https://juliankingnz.substack.com
Andi Fugard @andifugard.info Policy evaluator. London-based, Belfast-born. They/them. Personal account – views mine. Posts auto delete after a month.
Mastodon: https://sciences.social/@andi
Web: https://andifugard.info/
DM: https://andifugard.info/contact/
tmarente @tmarente.bsky.social Passionate about digital inclusion, #ICT4D, #DigitalDevelopment, #DigitalHealth, #HCD & all things tech. Superdad and husband too. he/him
Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social Sustainable development & co-design practitioner. Supports multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net/
Eva Roca @evaroca.bsky.social Implementation science researcher, Center on Gender Equity and Health/UCSD (social drivers of health, agency, social and gender norms, sexual and reproductive health and rights, mental health), music enthusiast, and data nerd. 
Isaac Castillo @isaac-outcomes.bsky.social Senior Advisor - Learning and #Evaluation at KABOOM!
Past President of Eastern Evaluation and Research Society (EERS).
Lives in Hyattsville, MD. Born in El Paso, TX. Syracuse alumni.
Sean Martin McDonald @seanmartinmcdonald.bsky.social I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public. 
Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social Building a dedicated satellite for humanitarian aid and disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. Open data, GIS, Remote Sensing, and creating the best possible future.