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Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social Board Game Entrepreneur. Hosts @trashfuture.bsky.social, @nogodsnomayors.com, @gluefactory.bsky.social
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Stas Kartashov
🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed
✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Kristjan Eimre @eimrek.bsky.social https://www.kristjaneimre.eu/
Dr Christopher D. Woodgate @chriswoodgate.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist and Computational Materials Scientist. Currently an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. In free time, a bell ringer, an archer, and a runner…
Johannes Margraf @jtmargraf.bsky.social All day I dream about science!
Computational chemistry, machine learning, electronic structure.
https://margraf.uni-bayreuth.de
Meghan Bobrowsky @meghanb.bsky.social Reporter covering technology @WSJ. Get in touch: meghan.bobrowsky@wsj.com or meghan.99 on Signal
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Paul Heron @paul-heron.bsky.social Socialist. Lawyer. Evertonian
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
OpenUK @openuk.bsky.social The UK organisation for the business of open tech - engaging community to create a cohesive voice, impacting law and policy, whilst building open tech skills.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Earthmover @earthmover.io the cloud platform for weather and climate data teams
https://earthmover.io/
find us more frequently on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earthmover
Katy M @writebikerepeat.bsky.social Freelance cycling writer. Lover of all things French. Talking about cycling ALL THE TIME. Spoiling races on a daily basis. Certified 100% human. Tom Donnenwirth is my therapist. Emotionally dependent on Paul Seixas.
https://writebikerepeat.substack.com/
Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com Corporate Finance Editor at the Financial Times.
Have a tip? Email: robert.smith@ft.com / robert.smith.ft@proton.me | Signal: robert_smith_ft.55
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social 🖥️ Gaming Youtuber, Media Critic, Philosopher King 🤴
💙 Patreon.com/Hbomb
📩 Enquiries to contact@hbomb.zone
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Josie long @josielong.bsky.social I am a comedian and a writer. Free Palestine.
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social podcastress. she/her but they/them if you’re mad at me. Trashfuture/Well There’s Your Problem/Kill James Bond/No Gods No Mayors/Be Gay Solve Crimes available wherever podcasts are sold
Andrew Porter @retropz.bsky.social Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Limmy @limmy.com Streams: twitch.tv/Limmy | Clips: youtube.com/@DaftLimmy
alexandra scaggs @scaggs.bsky.social emotive forces shape the gestalt of the brand identity / https://bsky.app/profile/alphaville.ft.com / “not a dipshit”
Henry Schreiner @henryiii.bsky.social Princeton RSE. Scikit-HEP, Scikit-build, PyPA/build, PyPA/cibuildwheel, pybind11, CLI11, & plumbum. Also on @henryiii@fosstodon.org and @henryschreiner3 (X).
Thomas Swift @swifthom.bsky.social Lecturer at a Northern University, ex-Programme lead for Apprentices, Polymer Chemist and fiction aficionado.
Ieuan Seymour @ieuanseymour.bsky.social Dad. Lecturer in Chemistry and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Aberdeen working on energy materials. Fan of computational materials chemistry, solid-state NMR and bass guitar. Views are my own
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
Lila Sciences @lilasciences.bsky.social Building scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social It’s Liv agar
Jin Hao Li @jinhaoli.bsky.social Is this how we heal?
Nicole Beauregard @nicolebeau.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering @ UConn
ML for Materials Discovery
Likes Sports, Coffee, and Languages
On the PostDoc Market
Digital Discovery @digital-discovery.rsc.org A new #GoldOA journal from @roysocchem.bsky.social, meeting the trend towards greater automation and data-driven scientific techniques head-on. Led by EiC Alan Aspuru-Guzik
🌐 Website: rsc.li/digitaldiscovery-journal Published by @rsc.org
Faraday Discussions @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org A unique scientific meeting and publication, which covers a variety of topics in rapidly developing areas of the physical sciences, with a focus on physical chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines.
🌐 Website: rsc.li/faraday
Quantum Bullshit Detector @bullshitquantum.bsky.social Quantum Bullshit Detector.
Tag for a reading.
Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social Quantum Computing boffin, Condensed Matter Physics, Reproducibility.
Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Blog: https://espressospin.org/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spinespresso
Lab: http://frolovlab.org/
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social Mathematics professor at Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
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)
@rlaplaza.bsky.social @rlaplaza.bsky.social Quantum chemist turned machine learning enjoyer. Curious about most things!
David O'Regan @oregandavid.bsky.social Quantum theorist and simulator working to advance the green transition with little more than the electron density. Father. Academic. Concerned for nature. Gravitates to vintage and retrofuturistic in design, music, motorcycles, electronics, sci-fi.
Graeme Day @graemeday.bsky.social Professor, Head of Digital and Data-Driven Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Chemical Science (@roysocchem.bsky.social)
structure prediction, materials discovery
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala.bsky.social Cofounded and lead PyTorch at Meta. Also dabble in robotics at NYU.
AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.
http://soumith.ch
ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social Matterbeam.
Author of the ToughSF blog. Original SuperNerd.
Ex-Kurzgesagt Duck. Freelance writer.
Discord https://discord.gg/nXvRPcE7uU
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com "A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes.
Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC AR7 lead author.
Website: https://zekehausfather.com/
Substack: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/
Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org Inorganic Chemistry || University of Liverpool || Education || Blogging || Textbooks || www.michaeloneill.org || PERIODically Podcast supporter
Anna B Gunnarsdóttir @annabergljot.bsky.social Researcher at University of Iceland focusing on thin film solid electrolytes and electrodeposition 🔋 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-788X
Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com Building Astral: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools, written in Rust.
CCP-NC @ccpnc.bsky.social Collaborative Computation Project for NMR Crystallography https://www.ccpnc.ac.uk/
Pierre-Paul De Breuck @pierrepauldb.bsky.social Postdoc at Ruhr University Bochum, ICAMS
RC-FEMS
Octopus.ac @octopus-ac.bsky.social The place to publish all your research, Octopus is free, fast and fair.
Funded by UKRI, in partnership with UKRN and Jisc.
www.octopus.ac
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess
DALIA Data Literacy Alliance @daliaeducation.bsky.social Data literacy for all from the very beginning.
Knowledge Graph for FAIR Data Use and Supply.
DALIA Search Portal: https://search.dalia.education/basic/
InChI @inchi-trust.bsky.social Molecular Identifier
https://www.inchi-trust.org and https://www.iupac.org
Samantha Pearman-Kanza @samicat1990.bsky.social Senior Enterprise Fellow: Co-I & Pathfinder Lead for PSDI & PI for CaSDaR! I am interested in all things related to data stewardship, process recording, digital note taking and semantic web technologies. Tea and Cats make the world go round.
Leon Focks @leonfocks.bsky.social PhD Student @greygroupcam.bsky.social
Batteries 🔋 & solid-state NMR spectroscopy ⚛️
Grey Group @greygroupcam.bsky.social The Grey Group- Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Cambridge, UK. Studying energy storage materials via solid-state NMR and other techniques, groupmember-run account
Teresa Insinna @teresainsinna.bsky.social Postdoc @ CRMN Lyon (Lesage Group) working on DNP characterization of Pt catalysts 🧲⚗️ | PhD in NMR/DNP/EPR of battery materials @greygroupcam.bsky.social|Language enthusiast | 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷
James Steele @jamesmasteele.bsky.social PhD Student, University of Cambridge | #Chemist hiding in the Physics Department | Investigating sodium-ion cathodes with x-rays, neutrons, & ssNMR | Supervised by Clare Grey and Siân Dutton | (he/him)
Twitter: @jamessteelenano
LinkedIn: j-m-a-steele
TheFarheenSayed @farheensayed.bsky.social Researcher in @GreyGroupCam at @CambridgeUniversity in SolidStateChem+EChem. @FaradayInst @CATMAT_FI PDRA, ex @Fulbrighter @riceuniversity
Kane @jkshenton.bsky.social Materials modeller and writer of spaghetti code.
@scanlond81.bsky.social @scanlond81.bsky.social
Larry Brazel @larrybrazel.bsky.social PhD student working on Li-O2 batteries in the Grey group, University of Cambridge
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
An(drew) McC @arm61.bsky.social interested in how atoms move and how to model and measure them | lecturer in chemistry in bristol
https://scams-research.github.io
Ashna Jose @ashnajose.bsky.social Research Associate at Imperial College London
Michiel van Setten @mjvansetten.bsky.social principal scientist at imec
first principles research on semiconductors
father, husband, bassoonist, aikidoka, equestrian
Guillaume Fraux @luthaf.bsky.social
@daniellloyd.bsky.social @daniellloyd.bsky.social
British Cycling @britishcycling.org.uk Official Bluesky account of British Cycling 🚴
Cyclingnews @cyclingnews.com The official cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Svetlana Menkin @svetlanamenkin.bsky.social Electrochemist, Royal Society Research Fellow and PI @ Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social Nematode antagonist
Alex Groves @alexrgroves.bsky.social Materials chemist, Chief Editor @natsynth.nature.com handling all things materials and inorganic. PhD at @uclchemistry.bsky.social #Chemistry #MaterialsScience. In my spare time I run long distances for fun...
Jeffrey Snover @jsnover.com PowerShell inventor, Reader, Science & Geopolitics geek, Philosopher-Errant, Retired
onion person @junlper.beer my name is june - she/her - evil transsexual disinfo influencer
i am a host on the kill the computer podcast and the ill conceived podcast:
- killthecomputer.com
- illconceivedpodcast.com
social media at @theonion.com
Materials Research Society @materials-mrs.bsky.social #sciencecommunity of #materialsscience #materialsresearch #engineering #technology #science #nanotech #quantum #AI #robotics #biotech and more! Explore MRS.org
Python Package Index @pypi.org The Python Package Index (PyPI) is the repository of software for the Python programming language. Pronounced 🥧 🫛 👁️
Glue Factory @gluefactorypod.bsky.social Comedy podcast from Milo Edwards, Pierre Novellie, Olga Koch and Riley - new episodes every Wednesday!
https://linktr.ee/gluefactorypod
Peak Squirrel @peaksquirrel.bsky.social Using data to solve Actual problems in Science. Mostly human, but a bit squirrel. Still can’t locate his acorns. My own views. He/Him
Sergei V. Kalinin @sergei-imaging.bsky.social I like using machine learning to solve problems in physics, from discovering physical laws from observational microscopy data, designing and making better materials, and moving atoms by electron beams. Currently my group build automated microscopes.
Anthony @antobi.bsky.social ML Scientist @ MatNex
Doctoral Prize Fellow; PhD @ Imperial College London
Mike Glazer @glazer1.bsky.social Crystallographer. Oxford University Physics Department .Retired formally in 2010 but still teaching. Editor of the International Newsletter of the IUCr. Co-founder of Oxford Cryosystems Ltd and co-inventor of the Cryostream.
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Yue Wu @yue-here.com Artisanal science, hand-made using traditional techniques passed down from generation to generation.
Defne Circi @defnecirci.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Duke
https://defnecirci.github.io/
Yoel Zimmermann @yzimmermann.bsky.social Exploring how the smallest shapes the biggest @ ETH Zurich.
Somewhere between Physics, Chemistry, and ML.
Romain Lacombe @rlacombe.bsky.social AI/ML⚡️& ChemE 🧪 @ Stanford.
Past: founder Plume Labs (acquired by AccuWeather).
Don’t be fooled by the tweets that I’ve got
I’m still I’m still @rlacombe on X (and here).
-> https://romainlacombe.com
Python Software Foundation @python.org The nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. For help with Python code: http://python.org/about/help/
On Mastodon: @ThePSF@fosstodon.org
FAIRmat @fairmat.bsky.social A consortium of the National Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur (NFDI).
FAIRmat represents the interests of experimental, theoretical and computational condensed-matter physics and materials science.
CCDC Cambridge @ccdc.cam.ac.uk The CCDC is a non-profit, charitable institution focused on the advancement & promotion of chemistry & crystallography.
Website: https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/