Brian Jones @brianjon.es Web developer and historian in Columbus, OH
Technical Lead for The Public Domain Review
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social Emily
Chicago, IL
she/her
emidly.08 on Signal
๐๏ธ @nathanjurgenson.com author, The Social Photo (Verso)
former: Real Life magazine, Theorizing the Web conference, Snap. currently: have no idea
los angeles
Jessie Char @jessiechar.com obsessed w everything
parker higgins @xor.blue computer person, dancing animal
Orion Reed @orionreed.com advocating widespread dissatisfaction with computing.
researcher @inkandswitch.com + libcomp.org
ยฝ @folkjs.org ยผ @tentpole.bsky.social
el @elliot.website and visual and creativity and computers and math and
elliot.website
Lu wilson @todepond.com prototypes @wikipedia.org
prev @tldraw.com
prev @inkandswitch.com
London
todepond.com
youtube.com/@todepond
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. https://publicdatalab.org/
Brian Moore @brianmoore.com a car crash at the intersection of art and technology
๐ brianmoore.com
๐ท instagram.com/lanewinfield
Kate @katef.bsky.social If I unfollowed you, it's because you keep posting things without alt text
iambic.bot @iambic.bot With careful eye I scan the bluesky stream / For metered posts that match my rhyming scheme
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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social All USA towns chosen randomly.
By @nofunnick.bsky.social
Check out @art-institute.bsky.social and @wydot.bsky.social and @taxsituations.bsky.social
Tom Thorley @tgthorley.bsky.social Advocate, Speaker, Technologist
ROOST @roost.tools Weโre ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit building and maintaining open source, accessible, high-quality, transparent safety tools for digital organizations of all kinds.
roost.tools
Alma Woodsey Thomas @almathomas.bsky.social Fan account of Alma Woodsey Thomas, an American painter and art educator best known for her colorful, abstract paintings.
1891-1978
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Steven Frost @stevenfrost.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐Artist |๐ฒCO | Asst. Prof. CU Boulder Media Studies | Library Advocate | Assoc Dir Unstable Design Lab | Experimental Weaving Residency Co-Founder | https://lnk.bio/harmonyinbadtaste - Talk Series: https://unstable.design/experimental-weaving-talks/
Jacque(line) Wernimont @wernimont.bsky.social Northern Woods dwelling nerd who thinks about how we turn people into numbers. Currently working on history of eugenics, health data, and death certificates. Into fibers, sports, and not falling over. Wrote Numbered Lives (MIT)
Jen King @kingjen.bsky.social Expert of data privacy, algo manipulation (dark patterns), & artificial intelligence. Privacy & Data Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI. Outdoors fanatic and nuts enough to swim in the SF bay. I bleed blue & gold (Berkeley I-School). Former trust & safety Yahoo!
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social Princeton Sociology Prof; NASA ethnography; tech policy; digitalSTS; critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism.
https://janet.vertesi.com
https://www.optoutproject.net
@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io
Simon King @currentform.com Obscurity enthusiast. https://www.asfarasicantell.com/
@datavandals.bsky.social @datavandals.bsky.social https://datavandals.com
The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.
Erin Da(ta)vis @erindataviz.bsky.social Data journalist at Axios, embroiderer at my couch
Data: erdavis.com
Embroidery: instagram.com/threadandfur
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
International Anthem @intlanthem.bsky.social ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ด๐ผ-๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ.
๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฅ.
Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social Chicago Reader music editor and unionist, amateur drummer, persistent cook. Signal: pmontoro.04
he/him/y'all
pmontoro@chicagoreader.com
Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com I want to smush software between my fingers and
turn my weathered feelings into wriggly music.
merveilles.town/@spiralganglion ฮ masto
@inkandswitch.com ฮ research
feelingof.com ฮ podcast
ivy.boo ฮ myself
she / her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social โง Interactive narrative innovation & research
โง Senior Quest Designer: Cyberpunk 2
โง Prev R&D: procedural narrative, hypertext lit
โง Narr design analysis: twitch.tv/CerebralArcade
โง Opinions mine
โง More: staceymason.info
Sara Winge @sarawinge.bsky.social Agnostic about Yet Another One.
Zoรซ Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social Director of Business & Industry at WIRED. Author of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Muskโs Twitter. Signal zoeschiffer.87
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/๐ฆ)
Priya Misner @priyamisner.bsky.social Designer, developer, data viz enthusiast. Building 25 projects this year. Currently at Recurse Center.
priyamisner.com
Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social Principal Frontend Engineer. Fairy Gitmother at ohshitgit.com. Thoughts are mine not my employerโs #GNUTerryPratchett
Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
wonder.voyage
debuggingteams.com
Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social Assistant professor of biomedical data science and dermatology at Stanford. AI for healthcare. Associate editor at NEJM AI and the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Mother of a sassy girl and a baby boy. 
Antoine Beyeler @bylr.info Software Engineer at rerun.io, #rustlang ๐ฆ and #python ๐, #penplotter enthusiast and OSS dev
https://bylr.info
https://github.com/abey79
Windell Oskay @windell-oskay.bsky.social Physicist, photographer, robot maker. Former Evil Mad Scientist, now Bantam Tools. Co-author Open Circuits. NY (Sorta-upstate). Pen plotter go brrr. 
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her ๐
Montreal en/fr ๐จ๐ฆ
gretchenmcculloch.com
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Melissa Lewis @melissa.news data reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting (@motherjones.com + @revealnews.org)
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social Applied Data Science Librarian+Multilingual Digital Humanist+Computational Community Building+++
Takes classes for fun. Gushes about cool papers. Views my own.
Nicola Osborne (they/she) @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social Manager of the Institute for Design Informatics, Programme Manager for Creative Informatics, Board of The Space, Humanities & Data Science group of The Turing Institute, CODI regular. Interested in all things creative and data. Views my own.
Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social Art, writing, walking, typing. . . โฉหหห
Book: Figured Stones โ https://www.corbelstonepress.com/books/figured-stones
New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com We're a campaign to focus attention and resources on building information technologies that serve the interests of people over companies.
It's time to free social media from billionaire control.
Join: FreeOurFeeds.com | Donate: https://gofund.me/2e144bae
@wordnik.com @wordnik.com 
Marco Hernรกndez @mhernandez.bsky.social Graphics Editor at The New York Times ๐บ๐ธ| former Reuters ๐ธ๐ฌ | South China Morning Post ๐ญ๐ฐ | La Nacion ๐จ๐ท
Julien Gachadoat @julienv3ga.bsky.social Generative artist
โ
www.v3ga.net
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. ๐ Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her ใฐ๏ธ
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Shaundai Person @shaundai.com Sr Software Engineer @Netflix โข linktr.ee/shaundai
Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social AI, Ethics & Education ๐
I examine how biases within EdTech and AI can exacerbate educational equity gaps for Black students
2023-2024 Op Ed + MacArthur Foundation Public Voices in Tech Fellowship
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now โฌ๏ธ
http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
BostonJoan ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฆซ @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazelโs dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, โAlgorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,โ which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding todayโs LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Evil Mad Scientist @emsl.bsky.social Makers and makers of writing machines and retro-technological curiosities. Now part of Bantam Tools @bantamtools.bsky.social
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
patricio gonzalez vivo @patricio.io Research Engineer.
Author of https://thebookofshaders.com/, https://lygia.xyz/ and https://pixelspiritdeck.com
Mas:@patricio@merveilles.town
Web: patriciogonzalezvivo.com
Kristi Holmes @kristiholmes.bsky.social Professor and Director at Northwestern University - Leveraging collaborative information initiatives to drive discovery and health #openscience
The AI Literary Review @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social Quarterly poetry journal, exploring new avenues of human creativity with AI-powered tools | ailiteraryreview.co.uk | Editor: @danpower.bsky.social
Nick Montfort @docmofo.bsky.social Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
Saskia Freeke @saskiafreeke.bsky.social ART & CODE & PLAY / Daily artworks every day since 01-01-2015
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
https://linktr.ee/sasj 
Taylor Baldwin @taylorbaldwin.bsky.social co-founder Jamsocket โข YC W22
generative art โข data vis โข classical piano
previously at Datadog, Uber, NYTimes R&D
Lynn Cole ๐ @priestessofdada.bsky.social Like most of you, I make valueless meritless art. By day, I'm an ML professional, specializing in agents, graph ml, predictive networks etc. By night I experiment in the profane, the impossible. I post successes and failures. It's a blast
She/her ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
tiago @tiagocharters.nexp.pt algorithmic art โข machine drawings
โผ https://tiagocharters.nexp.pt
โผ signal: @tiagocharters.32
Libs Elliott @libselliott.com Making quilts with code since 2012.
Emily Xie @emilyxie.bsky.social Digitally native artist working with code and computation.
Devi Parikh @deviparikh.bsky.social Co-CEO, Yutori. Try out Scouts at yutori.com.
Alida Sun @alidasun.bsky.social I am elsewhere:
linktr.ee/alidasun
Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be Generative geometrist, medical radiation physicist, pronouns: he/him
Sometimes at night, I find myself behind the computer. When I finally blink, a mess of code is drawing random structures on the screen. I spend the rest of the night staring.
bleeptrack @bleeptrack.de Creative Technologist and award-winning Artist
Speaker
Randomness Sommelier
~from generative dreams to tangible art~
~doing sidequests for a living~
#generativeart #creativecoding #opensource #maker #electronics #penplotter #solarpunk #tinyhouse 
Rose ~ incloudlands @roseforsythjackson.bsky.social artist, creating with wool, paint and digital media
linktr.ee/roseforsythjackson
Linda Dounia @lindadounia.bsky.social Artist, designer, curator, collector. 
Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recurse.com. public transit enjoyer. azzajew. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae.
๐ https://jakelazaroff.com
Chris Groskopf @onyxfish.bsky.social Technical Leader @cdlib . Ex- CDC, FiveThirtyEight, NPR, Enigma, etc. Parenting, hiking, climbing, reading, and buying too much art. Oakland, CA.
Andy Hickl @andyhickl.bsky.social CTO, AllenInstitute.org. Advisor, Fathom.org. He/him. Working at intersection of AI and biology.
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago @mwrdgc.bsky.social Protecting public health and the environment by providing wastewater treatment for Chicago and 128 suburban communities and serving as Cook Countyโs Stormwater Management Authority. Learn more at mwrd.org.
โ๏ธ Report waterway concerns: 800-332-3867.
Nat Buckley ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @natbuckley.bsky.social Designer, they/them
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley
Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
Georgina Voss @gsvoss.bsky.social Big machines // Writer, artist, educator // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso) // Visiting Prof - UCL // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
www.gsvoss.com // linktr.ee/gsvoss
Zadie Smith @zadiesmith.bsky.social Novelist, essayist, and lover of words. I write about identity, culture, and the complexities of human connection. Author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, among others.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Zadie-Smith/author/B001D0P4CA?ref=ap_rdr&isDram
Joseph Lindley @designresearch.works Advocate for using Design Research to explore emerging perspectives on AI, more-than-human matters, andโฆ pretty much anything.
Watch a film about it here: https://designresearch.works/permission-to-muck-about
Was @joegalen on โexโ platform
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
brendan @schlage.town making @leaflet.pub โ in brooklyn โ sol's dad โ โญ @jinjin.bsky.social
books, basketball, cities, constraints, learning, libraries, poetry, patterns, reading, rhymes, walks, websites, &c
more lists & links @ schlage.town
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesnโt like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Bartosz Ciechanowski @bciechanowski.bsky.social https://ciechanow.ski
Idan Gazit @gazit.me I lead githubnext.com ๐ซ
I use bsky mostly for professional things. So this is my ๐ถ๏ธ spicy LinkedIn. My thoughts are mine, not my employer's.
Personal/political stuff on Mastodon: https://babka.social/@idan
Lorena Nicole @lorenanicole.bsky.social #Chicago #Latinx #technologist ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป cat mama to 3 floofy ๐โโฌ๐๐โโฌ Maine Coons, lover of #Python ๐, #educator ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ซ & public speaker, #Fitness buff ๐ฅ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ, #OrdCamp nerd, Champion of #EthicalTech, down with the left. Forget the rest.
๐๐ฝ lorenamesa.com