Jon Orwant @orwant.bsky.social Geocacher, Perl programmer, AI scientist, reader, erstwhile Google engineering director.
Chris Shabsin @cshabsin.bsky.social Somerville, MA, USA parent of two
Googler working on experiment infrastructure. Language hackery and IDE integration stuff feels a little like knitting thneeds, but at least it's fun
https://cshabsin.github.io/
John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social Cambridge, MA freelance reporter, usually for @CambridgeDay.
MIT; public recs; data; legal news
Lately: immigration.
jhawk@alum.mit.edu
617.797.0250
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Craig Massey @cwmassey.bsky.social 
Warren Madden @wjmadden.bsky.social Meteorologist, retired hunter of hurricanes, aviation, board gamer, World of Warcraft (HuntsTheWind)
CAUTION: by following, you agree to be subjected to random puns! All opinions are mine and mine alone.
Ken Tidwell @kgcab.bsky.social Board games, network security, live music, novels, travel, and other nonsense
Tery Noseworthy @terynose.bsky.social She/her. Board Gamer. Baker. Disc Golfer. Ally. Craft beer and bourbon aficionado.
Gathering of Friends Social Media @gof-social-media.bsky.social Gathering of Friends Social Media 
Vernacular Gothic @vernaculargothic.bsky.social Yoga teacher, editor, mental health counselor, healer, knitter, herbalist, cook, reader, writer, musician…I like nice people. Sharon (she/her)- A @asedeno.bsky.social @asedeno.bsky.social
@hawkeyeop.bsky.social @hawkeyeop.bsky.social 
@adelespinasse.bsky.social @adelespinasse.bsky.social 
@derifatives.bsky.social @derifatives.bsky.social 
Garrett Rooney @rooneg.bsky.social General purpose geek.
Rachel Grey @greyoctagon.bsky.social Handstand junkie, software engineer, manager, ocicat parent, atheist, subway rider. Loves cities, coffee, cats, & books. I don't believe in endless growth for the sake of growth, and think that "stay hungry, stay foolish" is some truly terrible advice.
Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social Landscape designer doing restorative ecology. Author of YA+MG novels and DESIGNING INTERFACES; former UXer. She/her. Ecoregion 59b Boston Basin 🌱
David Bailey @davidrbailey.bsky.social Zero-carbon electric grid orchestration, search engines, and anything else AI. Photography, ecology and anything that gets me into the great outdoors.
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Michael Chapel @mwchapel.bsky.social 🎲 Boardgamer, 🐉 Dungeon Master
📷 Photographer, 🥩 Foodie
🚀 SciFi, 🎺Music, 🎬 Film, Vinyl Nerd,
📚Book Nerd,🏺Ancient Historian
🩰 Dance Dad
⚣ Gay Rights Advocate
Jeremy Daniel @jdanielmit.bsky.social 
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Dave Chalker @davethegame.bsky.social Game Designer:
🏎️ Thunder Road: Vendetta
🦈 Get Bit!
👑 Talisman: Alliances
🏠 Betrayal at House on the Hill 3e
💎 Thief's Market
👊 Sentinels Comics RPG
🔥 Heat
🎲 and more.
💍@qthecocker.bsky.social
VP of @unpub.org
he/him
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 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Stephen Buonocore, “The Podfather of Gaming” @podfathergaming.bsky.social Game industry veteran, entrepreneur, game media personality, and vocal enthusiast of the hobby game industry.
Host of the long-running game industry podcast, Board Games Insider.
Chairman, Play to Z
Board, World Series of Board Gaming- S @stephenwadlow.bsky.social @stephenwadlow.bsky.social
Jonah Warren @playfulsystems.bsky.social Game design prof. ♥︎s weird games and interactions.
https://playfulsystems.com
Full Body Games, Pangolin, Word After Word, Sloppy Forgeries, and Choppy Copies.
Wishlist Sloppy Forgeries ⇢
https://bit.ly/sloppy-bs
Stan Zanarotti @stanzanarotti.bsky.social Computer Security, Politics. Expander of acronyms. Nerd pride! Trans rights are human rights.
Aletta @aletta.bsky.social Financial planning, taxes, tech. Once upon a time I studied astronomy. 
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.- B @briansniffen.bsky.social @briansniffen.bsky.social
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Puzzlesnacks @puzzlesnacks.bsky.social Puzzles for everybody! From Eric Berlin http://www.puzzlesnacks.com
R. Eric Reuss @rericreuss.bsky.social Game Designer & Dad. Best known for Spirit Island.
He/him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Also on ohai.social/@REricReuss (Mastodon), but here more.
My website: https://rericreuss.com/
@brianleet.bsky.social @brianleet.bsky.social 
Isaac Childres @cephalofair.bsky.social Designer of board games. Father of the coolest toddler in the world. He/Him
G2Summit @g2summit.bsky.social Granite Game Summit is a 4 day board game convention focused on open board gaming in a safe, welcoming and friendly environment. It takes place in Nashua, NH March 7-10th, 2024.
Granitegamesummit.com 
Corey Konieczka @psycorey.bsky.social On a break from designing boardgames to pursue other creative ambitions such as writing books and making indie videogames.
Shut Up & Sit Down @shutupshow.bsky.social board game videos and podcasts with heart!
https://beacons.ai/shutupshow
Matt Leacock @mattleacock.bsky.social Game Designer known for cooperative games including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Daybreak
Asmadi Games (Chris) @asmadigames.bsky.social We make cool games! One Deck Dungeon + Galaxy, We Didn't Playtest This, Innovation, and more. Playing games is fun, and we want everyone to be able to have fun.
Account managed by Chris.
Ryan S. Dancey @ryandancey.com Respect other's life choices; defend free speech; protect democracy; yield to the rule of law; apologize when wrong; pay your taxes; debate honestly; celebrate diversity; and do unto others as you would have done unto you
MIT Game Lab @mitgamelab.bsky.social Exploring the Potential of Play -- http://gamelab.mit.edu/
Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social NEW BOOK! Graphic Design for Board Games: https://www.routledge.com/Graphic-Design-for-Board-Games/Solis/p/book/9781032583365
Portfolio https://www.danielsolisgames.com
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/danielsolis
More https://linktr.ee/danielsolisdesign- T @tibbetts.bsky.social @tibbetts.bsky.social
Liana Lareau @lianafaye.bsky.social Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Berkeley. Living in an RNA world. lareaulab.org
Jeff Bigler @jcgbigler.bsky.social High school physics teacher, violist (& violinist), morris dancer/musician, JAFF author, engineer, polymath-in-training, nerd-at-large.
Also part cyborg, part zombie.
Alessondra Springmann, PhD @sondy.com Cat herding, hiking, sewing, planetary science. Currently: Boulder, CO. formerly Tucson, AZ; Arecibo, PR; and a few other places. Asteroid radarist & healthcare advocate. she/they http://sonoranspace.org
Still masking!
Erik Nygren @erik.nygren.org Internet Systems Architect, Maker, Father, Husband, tinkerer, IPv6 evangelist, IETF standards, long-time Linux user, and wanna-be mad scientist. Deals with complex systems and ops/infosec. $dayjob at Akamai (as20940) since 1999. Posts my own. He/Him
Anna Kilroi Barr Folinsky @kilroi.bsky.social I like books and outdoors things and my family and the absurdity of the banal. Data mangler by trade.
Jason @cosmicsquidtea.bsky.social Tea, astrophotography, and gardening!
Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social Game designer. Radical optimist.
Play is essential. he/him
Antoine Bauza @toinito.bsky.social 🎲I design boardgames (7 Wonders 🏛 Hanabi🎉Tokaido🗾Takenoko🐼Ghost Stories👻...) & publish some occasionally (@playpunk.bsky.social)✒️Sometime, I write stuff ⚔️Ttrpg enthusiast🥎Need to play padel more often… Also :🎮☕️🥋🌈🐱🐱
Kevin Wilson @kevinwilson42.bsky.social Boardgame designer best known for Arkham Horror, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, A Gentle Rain, and the Kinfire series of games. Was Director of Game Design at Incredible Dream Studios, now returned to being a freelance game designer. He/him.
Rob Daviau @robdaviau.bsky.social Board game designer, amateur chef, avid rpg fan, leftie.
Mark Jackson @akapastorguy.bsky.social follower of Jesus, husband, father, former pastor, boardgamer, writer, blogger, Legomaniac, Disneyphile, likely to have the same Christmas list at age 62 as he did at age 12
Dale Yu @opinionatedgamers.com Game reviewer: www.opinionatedgamers.com
Game Designer: Flizz&Miez, Gib Gas!, Maglev Metro: Paris & London, and more
Game Developer: Dominion, Suburbia, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Subdivision, and more
Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social Boardgame enthusiast, podcaster, books: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, Universe Explained with a Cookie games: Versailles 1919 and Super Skill Pinball. He/him
https://open.substack.com/pub/gametek
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
W. Eric Martin @wericmartin.bsky.social Publisher and founder of Board Game Beat: independent board game news, reviews, essays, interviews, and more. Visit the site at https://www.wericmartin.com
Spiel des Jahres @spiel-des-jahres.de Der Spiel des Jahres e.V. zeichnet seit 1979 die jeweils besten Titel eines Jahrgangs aus: Spiel des Jahres, Kinderspiel des Jahres und Kennerspiel des Jahres. https://spiel-des-jahres.de
BoardGameWire @boardgamewire.bsky.social The world’s leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
BoardGameGeek @boardgamegeek.com The official Bluesky account for BoardGameGeek
Aldie @aldie.bsky.social Avid board gamer.
Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social he/him | Listening | Learning | BoardGameGeek Community Manager | Bills Fan | Whack-a-Mole Champion of the Universe | Coffee Please |
Phil Walker-Harding @philwh.bsky.social Board and card game designer (Sushi Go!, Tetris, Gizmos, Imhotep, Bärenpark, Silver & Gold, Planted) on Gadigal land (Sydney).
www.philwalkerharding.com
Co-founder of Joey Games.
www.joeygames.com.au
Daniel Karp @karptonite.com Lead web applications developer at BoardGameGeek, board gamer, non-practicing scientist, spouse, not in that order. he/him
Restoration Games @restorationgames.bsky.social We take out-of-print games from the '60s through the '00s, fix them up, and bring them back for the modern gamer. Posts by Justin aka the Board Game Necromancer unless otherwise noted.
Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social Boston-area nerd, computer professional, parent, cook, brewer, award-winning cidermaker. Xoogler. He/him.
Also @nathanw@metasocial.com (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)
Alice's AstroInfo @alicesastroinfo.bsky.social I show you astronomy. Messages are my own. Faculty at SSC. Volunteer for NASA.
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app