Theo Sanderson @theo.io researching viral pathogen genomics at @lshtm.bsky.social, building @pathoplexus.org | theo.io / sandersonlab.org
Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
Rachel Edwards @underthenettle.bsky.social Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Anton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social Historian of invention. www.ageofinvention.xyz
Anya Martin @anyamartin.bsky.social Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Policy Lead @ YIMBY Alliance. Former director of PricedOut.
Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
Ben Reinhardt @benjaminreinhardt.com Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉
https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Rebecca Hiscott @rebeccahiscott.bsky.social Managing editor at Stripe Press
@briancpotter.bsky.social @briancpotter.bsky.social 
Davis Kedrosky @dkedrosky.bsky.social Economic historian. Ph.D. student in economics at Northwestern University. Writes at https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/
Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social Co-founder IFP // scientific, technological, and industrial progress- N Nan Ransohoff @nanr.bsky.social
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Eli Dourado @elidourado.com On a sacred quest to increase the pace of economic growth at the Abundance Institute. On the side of the builders. tfp/acc 🚀
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social Econ prof in Vancouver in Vancouver @ SFU. My research explores how culture and institutions shape long-run development. 👉 guillaumeblanc.com
Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social professor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp //
leveraging research to promote science and progress
John Kroencke @johnkroencke.bsky.social
johnkroencke.com
https://theceme.substack.com/p/private-planning-and-the-great-estates
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Mathias Bonde @mathiasbonde.bsky.social on the hunt for impact, shill for big EA
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once- N Natália @nataliacm.bsky.social
Nick Cowen @drnickcowen.bsky.social Classical criminologist at the University of Lincoln. He/him. Read how to stop crime here: https://lncn.ac/drink
@pedroserodio.com @pedroserodio.com 
Rachel Laudan @rachellaudan.bsky.social @rachellaudan.bsky.social Freelance these many years after quitting academia early (history and philosophy of science and technology,From Mineralogy to Geology); then food history (Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History). www.rachellaudan.com
Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social Executive Director, Good Science Project 
Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social "Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail.
Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook
Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
Ronan Lyons @ronanlyons.bsky.social Housing, cities, history. Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Data Lead at CEPH. Dad of 3, husband of 1, soccer coach, rugby fan. ronanlyons.com and ronanlyons.substack.com.
Nathaniel B @bechhof.bsky.social statistics obsessor, economics enjoyer, occasional engineer, founder at TrovBase
Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
Étienne @etiennefd.bsky.social this world is indistinguishable from magic (and so are you) 🏙 🌇 🌃 🌌
Jared Hutchins @pablohutch.bsky.social Assistant professor in Agricultural Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Research interests: agriculture/livestock/productivity/institutions/economic history/data viz
@markkoyama.bsky.social @markkoyama.bsky.social 
ulkar @ulkar.bsky.social we all are nuts, to some extent.
long live the fellowship of nuts!
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social 
@georgehotz.bsky.social @georgehotz.bsky.social 
Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Kyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social language models, data & evals, prev co-lead of Olmo @ai2.bsky.social, nlp @uwcse, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
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
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I convert cold brews into noisy experiments.
Foundation Models @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science. 
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social Vision scientist. Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. 🇦🇺🇩🇪. pronoun.is/he
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
joao @joao.omg.lol Grief Astronomer
A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions
#ActuallyAutistic He/Him
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @jonathanm.bsky.social Interested in: cognitive science, Bayes, (ir)rationality, (effective) altruism, happiness, Al Alignment, reward hacking, running, reading books. He/him
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Researcher at Anthropic; previously DeepMind, cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine.
lampinen.github.io
Lorenzo Bertolini @lorenzoscottb.bsky.social Researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Multimodality & interpretability in AI for health. Occasionally, AI for dream research. All views are my own
https://lorenzoscottb.github.io
Nuño Sempere @nunosempere.com See clearly, act fast, hold myself well. Seek self-reinforcing loops, cherish allies, and play on the side of humanity.
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
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
Thomas Kober @tttthomasssss.bsky.social Linguational Computist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Kalyan Dutia @kdutia.bsky.social founding/senior data scientist at Climate Policy Radar working on ML for better climate decision-making from documents
kalyan.link / climatepolicyradar.org
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Dennis Ulmer @ACL26 @dnnslmr.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
Previously PhD Student at NLPNorth at the IT University of Copenhagen, with internships at AWS, Parameter Lab, Pacmed.
dennisulmer.eu
Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social CS / AI / ML PhD. 🇧🇷 ♾️
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev.
Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
Chris J. Maddison @cmaddis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning at UofT. #LongCOVID patient.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/
Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social Journalist at Ars Technica focused on deep tech reporting. Also keen on history and climate issues. On Signal at sciencehsu.22
Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social Research scientist interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000
Erin Grant @eringrant.me Assistant Professor @ualberta.bsky.social & Fellow @amiithinks.bsky.social studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools (eringrant.github.io).
elsewhere: sigmoid.social/@eringrant, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
Edward Grefenstette @egrefen.bsky.social FR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at Google DeepMind, Honorary Professor at UCL DARK, ELLIS Fellow. Ex Oxford CS, Meta AI, Cohere.
Olof Mogren @mogren.ml AI for climate change and biodiversity. PhD. Co-founder @climateainordics.com -- Head of deep learning research at RISE in Sweden. Love trail running and snowboarding. -- https://climateainordics.com , https://ridr.se
Willie Neiswanger @willieneis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs.
https://willieneis.github.io