Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social CNET Editor, here for tracking decentralized media, primarily Bsky/AtProto and Mastodon/Fediverse ... and for disc golf! #DiscGolf
he/him/they/them
Berkeley, CA
Other AT presences
Books: https://bookhive.buzz/profile/peter-butler.bsky.social
juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com journalist girl
All my work is free
Please send tips and share my work
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Chris Fourie @robobonobo.bsky.social MLOps / research engineer in digital health, medical doctor
Research interests: collective intelligence, complexity science, NeuroAI
Grassroots independent research community co-founder, SisonkeBiotik
More at https://www.chrisfourie.africa/
Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org Equipping the progressive movement with the data and insights it needs to win.
dataforprogress.org
Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.social I’m not happy about any of this, but thank you for asking
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com computer security person. former helpdesk
Madison Condon @madisoncondon.bsky.social climate risk, corporations, use & abuse of science & econ in the administrative state
papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1654671
sometimes I am here and sometimes I am not
lastenclosure.bsky.social @lastenclosure.bsky.social From the last parcel of British common land to your precious and limited attention, capital seeks to enclose and commodify every corner of the world. Join hosts Mike and Nick as they give you the tools to dismantle the last enclosure.
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech
HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com
Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social Historian at Cornell. Adventure Capitalism: A history of libertarian exit from the era of decolonization to the digital age; Países Privados: Historias del sueño libertario. Ipswich Town FC.
Hannah L Stephens @hlstephens.bsky.social Working for a better world
Researcher for the Center for Community Uplift @brookingsinstitution
VP of Organizing for NPEU @nonprofitunion
Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social Markets, Twain, Leafs, Survivor
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.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social ✍🏽 writer, editor, socialist 🌹 views are my own 🛸 editorial @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org and member @nyguild.bsky.social
aasthauprety.substack.com 👩🏽💻
nyc via dc
r #FreeŁink @rifka.bsky.social she. basically 40. reforming ☢️
discord: rif.161
mostly autodidactic in: political linguistics🏴
san diego wheelchair user. VERY AUTISTIC, relatedly also #1 US Carrlyn AND Quinton fan
🏒🤴⚽️🌊 🏉🇳🇿|😈🥍🦭⚾️📿🏀🛥️
remember block me @rifka1.myatproto.social too😇🏴
Will Lockett @lockettwill.bsky.social Just a chaotic autistic man looking for meaning in the world
@georgeelliot19.bsky.social @georgeelliot19.bsky.social 
Luke Kemp @lukekemp.bsky.social I am a researcher at the University of Cambridge and author of 'Goliath's Curse: Then History and Future of Societal Collapse'. I study the end of the world and how we got here.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com https://drafts.interfluidity.com/
https://www.interfluidity.com/
https://tech.interfluidity.com/
https://zirk.us/@interfluidity
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Steve Roth @steveroth.bsky.social Entrepreneur, progressive sometime 1%er. (Tax me more.) Addictive reader: trash to tomes. National-accounting & econ geek. Evolution and Shakespeare dweeb. Besotted father. From MO; show me the #s. https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/about
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
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
Ghost in the Machine: documentary film, 2026 @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power. We're revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here, and where we go next. Mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI. notaidoc.com
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social Pakistani-🇨🇦 grew up in Saudi. Illustrator, host of Polite Conversations Pod. IDW ridiculer. Covering types of extremism that masquerade as Rational/Intellectual
https://open.spotify.com/show/25FhI3g0wZMjWT19aIxcOn?si=x6hs5ldDQAWYmlHFLcgTJw
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, AI, politics, religion, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, but frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Flux @flux.community Flux is a media platform for change, providing in-depth coverage of politics, religion, technology, and media.
We're all about empowering independent voices and telling stories that corporate media can't or won't see.
Founded by @matthew.flux.community
Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623.
Get my newsletter about the forces that shape how research is done, shared, believed, and acted upon: www.reviewertoo.com
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Cam.Dr @drcameron.bsky.social Mostly game dev lecturer. Sometimes weird game maker. Always Dad. he/him. Trans rights. Follows != endorsements.
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
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
Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel coming in August: THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social PhD student in Informatics: AIAI: Automated Reasoning, Agents, Data Intensive Research, Knowledge Management. No, I don't know why the title is so long. Also Affiliate of the Center for Technomoral Futures. Views are my own.
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
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social Analysis of effects of disinfo on social systems, writer http://Medium.com/@upine "All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do bothsidesism."
Toni Korpivaara @korpivaara.bsky.social Lifelong PD Project: How The (Human) World Works #HTWW | European Citizen | Behavioral Econ & Neuroscience | Healthcare Startups | Henley🇬🇧 & FUB 🇩🇪 Alumnus | Biases are my own 🇨🇭🇫🇮 🇪🇸🇩🇪🇸🇪
Kristian @kltblom.bsky.social Private account. Not investment advice. Kristian is human and can make mistakes. Please double check responses.
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Third Thoughts @thirdthoughts.bsky.social Ex-ac polisci. Queer & Enby. Ex-Catholic Jew. SF&F (especially Pratchett, Trek). 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. Nuance > Hot Takes.
Youtube vids on political history and philosophy - https://www.youtube.com/@ThirdThoughtsYT
D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
Matthew Coates @coatesmatthew.bsky.social Postdoc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), University of Pennsylvania | Birdwatcher | Englishman in America | Burnley supporter, Up the Clarets!
matthewncoates.github.io
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
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
Support my writing:
https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com ✨ science meets art
🔭 planetary astro PhD + artist
🎨 space-inspired paintings
🪶 bird nerd • gamer • cloud watcher
⬇️ art shop, email list, etc.
https://stellerarts.com
Left Coast Reads 📚🌹 @leftcoastreads.bsky.social 📍 Portland, OR
📚 History. Philosophy. Political economy. Sci-fi.
⚡🚈🌱🚲 Decarbonization.
🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.
DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social NOT JORDAN, IM STEVE
HE/HIM
CHICAGO
CATHODE RAYS FOR DAYS
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo.
Global political economy of food and agriculture. Member of IPES-Food. Website: https://jenniferclapp.owlstown.net/
Author of Titans of Industrial Agriculture (MIT Press, 2025)
Sara Van Goozen @drsvg.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Philosophy (UoYork). Ethics of war, global justice, animals. Posting in personal capacity but mostly about work. She/her, fucking massive nerd. I write for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social wannabe linguist+tutor • social meaning, semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, film, lit, animals, mental anguish • San Francisco boy —> Massachusetts man
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Sandeep @sandeepinbk.bsky.social Law teaching, park hooping
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.
https://www.theunpopulist.net
James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social Proto-Germanic Paganist with nonspecific surliness. Squirrel psychologist, Fullerian Professor of absurdity, geomancer and non-traditional anti-capitalist, oppressor of the inhabitants of Pavia.
Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social Economist, MBA, Historian, Maker/Artist, Ally, Disabled, Chronic Pain, Gen X. Journalism, Politics, Small Dog Rescue. Team Oxford Comma.
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social She/her
Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share
Community over corporations.
People over profit.
ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social Liberal of the Kantian variety. Legal, moral and political philosophy. He, she or they are all fine. An it only to my friends. 🌐🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Researcher, Computer Security @ ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist @ Skerry Technologies
Putting the Science in "Mad Science"
Digital, Explainable, and (usually) Adversarial Systems
Looking for employment: CV is here https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html
he/him
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
toric sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social used to do math
podcast on the production of bigotry at www.odiumsymposium.com and @odiumsymposium.bsky.social, with @homotoptheory.bsky.social
will guest on your podcast
Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social Author, international speaker, consultant, software architect, kitchen-sink wrangler.
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/
https://softwarecrisis.dev/
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.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social