Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
Mike Chen 陳懋華 @mikechensf.com San Francisco housing, transportation, good government
🏳️🌈🚌🌉
Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social It seems that to have credibility on this platform you are supposed to tell your tale of woe. I am a queer disabled veteran with bi-polar disease, formerly homeless, yadda, yadda. I count my many blessings instead.
Bobak Esfandiari @bobakkabob.bsky.social Leader in SF YIMBY, past president of the United Democratic Club - #Persian #RichmondDistrict #Gamer - Barack Obama '12 & Santa Clara University '12 alum - views are my own
More here:
https://bobakesfandiari.com/
Mike Dunham @mldunham.bsky.social Berkeley, CA: About to be the YIMBYest city in California.
Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
Sam Greenberg @samjgreenberg.com Advocacy Director @walksf.org
Coordinating Committee @walkbikeberk.bsky.social
posts my own
berkeley
he/they
samjgreenberg.com
Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎
President: Peninsula Young Democrats
Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone
Work: Greenbelt Alliance
Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
Whizzet @startermullet.bsky.social Veni. Vidi. Skeeti.
Every problem will not be solved with abundant housing,
but nothing can be solved without it.
9 degrees West of North
Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social Newsletter: http://publiccomment.blog/
Hire me: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/
Pre-order my book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/build-or-die-how-america-is-suffocating-its-cities-and-what-to-do-about-it-ned-resnikoff/8ae5ebca259e570a?ean=9781642834260
Grow the Richmond (SF) - Local Chapter of YIMBY Action @growtherichmond.bsky.social We are a group of volunteer housing advocates in the Richmond District fighting to end the housing shortage in our community. Check us out at https://growtherichmond.com/.
Christopher Cabaldon @senatorcabaldon.bsky.social Senator representing Yolo, Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Contra Costa & Sacramento counties. Chair of Senate Privacy & Technologies Committee. Prior: mayor, professor, oboist, entrepreneur, wakeboarder, gamer, diplomat, comics nerd. Comment policy: bit.ly/3EDe0tQ
State Senator Jesse Arreguin @jessearreguin.bsky.social Proudly representing California Senate District 7
Comment Policy: https://linktr.ee/senatorarreguin
California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end California's housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement. Learn more at https://cayimby.org.
Alon (they/them) ↙️↙️↙️ @alonlevy.bsky.social Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social
Laura Foote @laurafoote.bsky.social
Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social Sumo citrus influencer, bellwether of good music
Want to see a show soon? I got suggestions https://janes-going-out-guide.beehiiv.com/
Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social 📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Streets Alliance. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social I do housing policy stuff and it’s ruining my life. CADA, SMUD, and SOE fanboy. House Sacramento’s most annoying member.
Urban Land Rent Foundation’s official letterboxd: boxd.it/cUU0R
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social We champion the creation of more housing in Bernal Heights, the Mission, the Portola, and St. Mary’s Park—the neighborhoods we call home. Find out how you can join us: https://www.d9neighbors.com/
Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social Author of Interpretable Machine Learning and other books
Newsletter: https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/
Website: https://christophmolnar.com/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana.ai Researcher (OpenAI. Ex: DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian.
Anon feedback: https://admonymous.co/giffmana
📍 Zürich, Suisse 🔗 http://lucasb.eyer.be
Francis Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social Researcher in machine learning
Dr. Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei.bsky.social Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, CoFounder @ai4allorg #AI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare
Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford | Venture Partner a16z | Research in AI, Neuroscience, Physics
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison, Professor of Physics,
EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science.
Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social Distinguished Scientist at Google. Computational Imaging, Machine Learning, and Vision. Posts are personal opinions. May change or disappear over time.
http://milanfar.org
TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social TMLR Homepage: https://jmlr.org/tmlr/
TMLR Infinite Conference: https://tmlr.infinite-conf.org/
Sumit @reachsumit.com Senior MLE at Meta. Trying to keep up with the Information Retrieval domain!
Blog: https://blog.reachsumit.com/
Newsletter: https://recsys.substack.com/
Joe Sangirardi 🌤️SF🏳️🌈 @joesangirardi.bsky.social elected member, SF Democratic Party 🫏
housing & transit are climate issues 🥑
ran for SF BART Board ‘24 🚇
@sktime.bsky.social @sktime.bsky.social
The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com Reporting on the people, power, and culture shaping San Francisco.
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
San Francisco QuakeBot @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social I’m a bot real-time posting/skeeting M 1.0+ earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Built by @djcentos7.bsky.social
Screen Slate SF Bay @screenslatesf.bsky.social Daily arthouse/repertory cinema listings around the Bay. First official
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San Francisco 49ers @sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social https://www.49ers.com/
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
#FTTB
Santa Clara, CA
betsy cooley @betsycooley.bsky.social Amateur photographer in San Francisco Bay Area, mostly nature, birds, sunsets and landscapes. Love the outdoors, reading and local food scene. Also, curious about and fascinated by weather☔️, the sky🌙 and volcanoes🌋.
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.
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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social True North, Strong and FREE 🇨🇦
When you exploit systems they end.
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.
Sean Fraser @seanfraser.bsky.social MP / Deputé, Central Nova 🇨🇦 Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship / Ministre de l'Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté
Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com handle kind of gives it away. architect + procrastinator. transmitting from beautiful Indianapolis, Indiana. sometimes i complain for fun. i enjoy cool breezes and rainy mornings, separately. my other bike is a bike. is that bad?
Khelsilem @khelsilem.bsky.social Posting live from Squamish Nation territory (Vancouver, BC). Posts are my opinion, which is subject to change based on new information.
helen (she/her) @helenl.bsky.social development professional working on vibrant, sustainable & inclusive communities
pro abundant & affordable housing, bike & bus lanes, & not getting hit by cars 🏡🏢🚎🚲 ❤️| posts & sarcasm my own |
Host of podcast urbanismvancouver.com
Sean Galbraith @plannersean.bsky.social Urban planning shit posting, disc golf, assorted other nonsense and garbage. @plannersean on Twitter
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social
Jason Cox @jasoncoxnc.bsky.social Real estate development, urbanism. Fire trucks are too big, streets are too wide, and the IBC kills good development. Tree canopy aficionado. Sometime restaurateur.
Blair Scorgie 🍁 @blairscorgie.bsky.social Husband, father, planner, urban designer, consultant, sessional lecturer, volunteer, author, advocate, and Torontonian. Views are my own. www.scorgieplanning.com.
HousingNowTO @housingnowto.bsky.social Monitoring Progress & Activity on Twenty-One (21) sites 🏙️ proposed under the Mayor's #HousingNow plan for creating new Affordable-Rental units
#TOPoli #YIMBY
HousingNowTO.com
Brandon Donnelly @handle.invalid City builder @globizen
Chris Drew @chrisjamesdrew.bsky.social urban planning, #BikeTO, transit, trains, camping, volunteering with the School of Urban and Regional Planning Alumni (SURPA) Association at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
IG chrisjamesdrew
Brampton, TO, Ptbo
Alejandra Bravo @alejandrabravo.bsky.social City Councillor for Ward 9 #DavenportTO • Chair of Economic & Community Development Committee • Rights, equity & economic power for people • Anti-fascist, siempre • Wu name: The Contendah.
Gregg Lintern @gregglintern.bsky.social Toronto’s Chief Planner from 2017 to 2023
Adam Chaleff @adamcf.bsky.social Progressive urbanist. East end convert. Dad joke enthusiast.
Globizen™️ @globizen.com We are an international city building company & community focused on creating better places. Globizen = Global + Citizen.
Sharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social Loves all things housing. PhD and Director of Housing of Consumer Federation of America. Author of “Last House in the Block,” book on failed gentrification and homeownership in Detroit
Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer
Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social Housing guy. Researcher at UCLA Lewis Center, host of UCLA Housing Voice Podcast, author of The Affordable City, resident of Los Angeles.
Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social Urban & regional scientist. Co-lead of the Climate & Communities program @urbaninstitute. Research & policy analysis on disasters, disaster recovery, precarious housing, land use, and adaptation. Sourdough enthusiast. https://andrewrumbach.substack.com
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social Sociologist. Neighborhoods, housing, schools, segregation, policy.
Co-Director, Segregation Tracking Project: http://edopportunity.org/segregation
Co-Editor, City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social
Philip Garboden @philipgarboden.bsky.social Assoc Prof at U Chicago Crown School: landlords, vouchers, and so forth | Formerly U Hawai`i | Actually a sociologist
Christine Jang-Trettien @chrjang.bsky.social professor @cuny.edu
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki @airbrycki.bsky.social researcher, cargobiker, #rstats enthusiast
Alex Hermann @aherm.bsky.social Researcher at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Forever Go Blue.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
Caroline Nagy @carolinenagy.bsky.social Associate Director for Housing at AFR, working on corporate landlords and climate change+insurance. Appalachian Ohioan living in upstate NY, friend to all dogs. Personal account: my dumb takes are mine not AFR's.
@nikitrabailey.bsky.social @nikitrabailey.bsky.social "I am the dream and the hope of the slave." "And Still I Rise," Dr. Maya Angelou
Jesse Van Tol @jessevantol.bsky.social CEO @NCRC. Advocate & organizer for race & class equity in banking, housing, business. Memphis to Madison to DC. Minority owner of the Green Bay Packers
Habitat for Humanity (Unofficial) @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social Unofficial Habitat for Humanity Profile
Andrea Riquier @riquier.bsky.social Journalist, basset hound mom, runner, New Yorker, survivor.
Secure Signal at (347) 441-0040.
Frank Muraca @frankmuraca.bsky.social Transitioning North Carolina to a clean energy economy at the NC Department of Commerce. 中文. Data viz. #Rstats.
http://frank-muraca.com
Samara Scheckler @samarascheckler.bsky.social Housing and long-term care researcher at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, urban hiker, fiction and poetry reader, parent to two wild and woolies, cat video watcher
Steve Koller @stevekoller.bsky.social Insurance Research and Policy Engagement Manager, Insurance for Good https://www.insuranceforgood.org/ | Research Fellow at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies https://jchs.harvard.edu
Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
Claire Herbert @12claire12.bsky.social Sociology prof at University of Oregon studying housing, law, property, homelessness, colonialisms. Author of A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Views my own.
Robin Bartram @robinbartram.bsky.social Sociologist of housing and related things
@UChicagoCrown
Jesper Dr.amsch @jesper.drams.ch I share non-hype ML & AI with 8+ years XP
🌦 Machine Learning at ECMWF
💾 Fellow at SSI
You miss 99% of benchmarks you don't overfit on!
🏳️🌈 they
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Bojan Tunguz @tunguz.bsky.social XGBoost maximalist
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…
Julia Silge @juliasilge.com Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social Here for data, data science, analytics engineering, rstats, books
Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social ✨ Keep it simple, make it scale. AI should be about empowering users and building understanding. 👩💻 AI Developer Experience @ Google DeepMind, ex-Github, ex-Google
Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D) & reasoning (https://mng.bz/Nwr7).
Also blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.