Neil Kirk @drspeakmind.bsky.social Reader in Cognitive (and MIND) Psychology with an interest in all things dialect and voice-y. Other interests include: the X-men, AI, the gym and doomscrolling. 🏳️🌈
Daniel Romero @danielmromero.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMSI, UMICHCS, and UMICHCSE working on Computational Social Science, Network Science, Science of Science, Complex Systems, and Social Media. 🇨🇴🇺🇸 dromero.org
Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social Incoming postdoc fellow at Princeton CITP | PhD @Berkeley_EECS | Princeton ‘21 | NLP, ethical + equitable AI, and sociolinguistics enthusiast | bilingüe 🇦🇷
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
Anson Mackay (they/them) @ans.bsky.social non-binary geographer || ultra runner || managed by @davidadger.bsky.social || cancer blog
https://ansmackay.wixsite.com/uclgeography/blog
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Jenn Kirby @jennkirbym.bsky.social composer, performer, electronics, likes making things
jennkirby.com
Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
Cliodhna Hughes @greatlikecheese.bsky.social
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
@lavlang.bsky.social @lavlang.bsky.social We're the only conference dedicated to queer & trans linguistics/language & sexuality.
#LavLang31 Manchester 20-22 August https://lavlang2025.wordpress.com/
Summer Institute Online details TBA
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
grecommoner @evpok.love Plays music on interesting instruments, cooks for the revolution, is a computational linguist, earns cider being a university prof. Death to all tyrants 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
one day you'll wake up and you'll be glad to be awake
they or anything gender neutral
Louis Barclay @louisbarclay.bsky.social https://directing.attention.to. About: https://louis.work
Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social 🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research
https://siobhanmackenziehall.com/
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen @kasparrosager.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Medical Law, Durham University. DK lawyer/jurist (EU Law/CPS/AI/MD/Safety). Formerly Edinburgh University, Newcastle University. PhD (CS), Cybersecurity/Law, University of Strathclyde.
Gourmand.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7243-2548
Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social Postdoc at UW NLP 🏔️. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. Incoming assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. lucy3.github.io
naitian @naitian.org NLP / CSS PhD at Berkeley I School. I develop computational methods to study culture as a social language.
Myra Cheng @myra.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford NLP
https://myracheng.github.io/
Sophia Chen @sophurky.bsky.social science journalist and lapsed physicist in Columbus, Ohio. words at MIT Tech Review, Nature, Wired
sophurky.com
Signal: @sophurky.70
Daniel Chechelnitsky @dchechel.bsky.social PhDing @ Técnico 🇵🇹
Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social Computational Social Science researcher interested in Human Coordination and emergence of new phenomena in human-AI societies. Professor of Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen. Network Science | NLP | AI agents
http://www.lajello.com
Cedar Brown @ceeed.bsky.social Linguistics PhD candidate @ ucsb | queer & trans language practices & community
poetry & fiction: @elwinschok.bsky.social
Jordi Condom Tibau @jordicondomtibau.bsky.social Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Society, University of Pisa and CNR
Links: https://linktr.ee/jordi.condom
Sandrine Chausson @sandachausson.bsky.social PhD student in Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science at the University of Edinburgh 🏴
Abeer Aldayel @aldayelabeer.bsky.social Assistant Professor @KSU_CCIS | PhD @EdinburghUni | CSS & NLP | Responsible AI, Multilingual & SocialProc | Not into ArabicNLP, health, gaming
🌐 https://abeeraldayel.github.io
Ingmar Weber @ingmarweber.de Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI and Chair for Societal Computing at Saarland University. Co-Director at https://i2sc.net.
Patrick Gildersleve @gildersleve.uk Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Communications and AI at the University of Exeter
Prev. LSE Methodology, PhD Oxford Internet Institute
Wikipedia, News, Attention
he/him
🔗🌳 linktr.ee/gildersleve
🌐 https://gildersleve.uk
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia @glciampaglia.com Asst Prof at U of Maryland (🇮🇹→🇨🇭→🇺🇸). Academic flâneur: complex systems, networks, peer production. Currently trying to figure out how to make people and algorithms work together.
Posts about #Tolkien, #Linux, #Bikes, and life along MD's Rte 1
Catherine Lai @catlai.bsky.social Lecturer in speech and language technology, CSTR, University of Edinburgh. She/her.
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/clai/
Davide Vega @dvladek.bsky.social Associate Professor at Uppsala University, UU Information Laboratory (UU-InfoLab)
https://davidevega.eu
Maria Rasskazova @mrasska.bsky.social 📚Digital Economics PhD student at USPN in Paris.
📑Content production, monetisation and moderation on social media.
🍵 Anxious tea drinker
Georgios Panayiotou @giorgospanay.bsky.social Computer science doctorand at Uppsala University, @uuinfolab.bsky.social.
Mining social networks, discovering new music, occasionally playing baseball and softball.
Probably not George Michael, but search engines believe otherwise.
DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them
Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
Michael Muller (he/him) @michaelmuller.bsky.social These days I read & write haiku with the amazing BlueSky community. I also do research at the hybrid intersection of HCI, AI, critical computing, and social justice. Co-chair of ACM SIGCHI CARES. Member of Fempower.tech, AccessSIGCHI.
Robbie @netzorg.bsky.social CS PhD student @ Berkeley trying to study voice or something
She/her 🏳️⚧️
Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com I do research on trustworthy natural language processing (making computers process human language fairly+faithfully)
pronouns: xe/they (Deutsch: keine)
nouns: computer scientist, linguist, birder
adjectives: trans, queer, autistic
https://dippedrusk.com
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social
Luciana Benotti @lucianabenotti.bsky.social
Verena Rieser @verenarieser.bsky.social AI researcher Google DeepMind * hon. professor at Heriot-Watt University * mother of dragons * Own opinions only.
Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
Tal Linzen @tallinzen.bsky.social NYU professor, Google research scientist. Good at LaTeX.
Nathan Schneider @complingy.bsky.social Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University
he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. http://nathan.cl
ELLIS @ellis.eu Strengthening Europe's Leadership in AI through Research Excellence | ellis.eu
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Elinor @elinorpd.bsky.social incoming PhD @ MIT CSAIL // researching LLM societal impacts & alignment
previously @ MIT media lab, mila quebec / mcgill
i like language and dogs and plants and ultimate frisbee and baking and sunsets. she/her
https://elinorp-d.github.io
David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social Associate prof at @UMich in SI and CSE working in computational social science and natural language processing. PI of the Blablablab blablablab.si.umich.edu
Zhijing Jin @zhijingjin.bsky.social Assi. Prof @UofTCompSci. Postdoc @MPI_IS w/ @bschoelkopf. Research on (1) @CausalNLP and (2) NLP4SocialGood @NLP4SG. Mentor & mentee @ACLMentorship.
Steven Bird 🍉 @steven-bird.bsky.social Living and working with First Nations people who are keeping their ancestral languages strong. He/they.
📍Larrakia, Bininj, and Miriwoong country
http://linktr.ee/stevenbird
Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics,
Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social
President ACL aclweb.org
Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk
ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu
PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social
Dr. Nikko Stevens @drnikko.bsky.social Writing a book on abolition(ist +) tech. (open source) software engineer. I study how racial ideologies influence data structures. Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Smith College. a very happy trans 🏳️⚧️ (they/them)
Center on Privacy & Technology @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social journalist, producer on the science/tech/society | news preservation nerd | mastering info sci @UW | words & vids in MoJo, 5280, WashBlade, Quanta, Inkstick + | henrycarnell.com 🏳️⚧️🌲💻 in Oregon
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social Linguist, anarchist, reader, overthinker, cat enthusiast. PhD student at CSTR, University of Edinburgh: I research speech technology and its social impacts.
ייִדיש אויך מעגלעך.
https://alice-ross.github.io/
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social Researcher in AI policymaking. Barista, improv comedian, guitar player, Queer in AI organizer and mindfulness teacher.
PhD student at University of Hamburg
https://pranav-a.github.io/
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
Oli Liu @oliliu.bsky.social (over)thinking about speech and language and most things in life @ University of Edinburgh. inadequate servant of cats, shameless bibliophile.
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
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
Dr Craig Poku @pokubakes.com Foodie/mathematician/data scientist | Previously Pride in STEM trustee | Himbo in the making | occasional thirst trap | Floater in space | Neurospicy | He/they 🌈
https://linktr.ee/pokubakes
Lake Faith @contentking.bsky.social Freelance sex & lifestyle writer. Previously Cosmo UK. Author of Bi The Way & Pink Pilled. Founder of bi survivors network. Dyslexic AF ✨
Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social Quantitative Methods Lecturer & researcher in survey representation of LGBTI+ populations
https://kenglish95.github.io
Mark Díaz @blahtino.bsky.social Dr. (the medically useless kind) | HCI + AI research scientist @Google | @Northwestern TSB | @Stanford STS | t1 diabetic | he/him | 🇨🇺🇩🇴🏳️🌈
Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social 🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Paul Röttger @paul-rottger.bsky.social Departmental Lecturer @oii.ox.ac.uk. Evaluating safety & societal impacts of AI.
Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
Myrthe Reuver @myrthereuver.bsky.social PhD #NLProc from CLTL, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam || Interests: Computational Argumentation, Responsible AI, interdisciplinarity, cats || I express my own views
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
Pasquale Minervini @neuralnoise.com Researcher in ML/NLP at the University of Edinburgh (faculty at Informatics and EdinburghNLP), Co-Founder/CTO at www.miniml.ai, ELLIS (@ELLIS.eu) Scholar, Generative AI Lab (GAIL, https://gail.ed.ac.uk/) Fellow -- www.neuralnoise.com, he/they
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran @vinodkpg.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist (he/him). Fairness & Ethics in NLP/ML/AI. Staff Research Scientist @ Google. Research Affiliate @ Stanford SPARQ.
https://cs.stanford.edu/~vinod/
Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social Senior Research Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation.
(languages ∪ tech) in Dùn Èideann
Nikita Moghe @nikita-moghe.bsky.social PhD, CDT in NLP, University of Edinburgh. Prev: IIT Madras | University of Mumbai. She/her.
Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social Working on #NLProc for social good.
Currently at LTI at CMU. 🏳🌈
Indira Sen @indiiigo.bsky.social Junior Faculty at the University of Mannheim || Computational Social Science ∩ Natural Language Processing || Formerly at: RWTH, GESIS || she/her
indiiigo.github.io/
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social Postdoc @ CMU Machine Learning and Philosophy • Metascience of AI: safeguarding scientific integrity in the age of AI • gbalint.me • 🇭🇺🏴
Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net I like tokens! Leading the Olmo data team at @ai2.bsky.social with @kylelo.bsky.social // all opinions sampled from my own stochastic parrot
more at https://soldaini.net
Dylan Paré, PhD (they/them) @mxdylanp.bsky.social Critical learning sciences researcher & co-designer of technologies to support social justice and computational learning. Assistant professor of learning, design, & technology. Views are my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍁🌱
Algorithmic Justice League @ajlunited.bsky.social Join the Algorithmic Justice League in the movement towards equitable and accountable AI.
Support our work at http://ajl.org/take-action 🚀
linktr.ee/ajlunited
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, ML. Head of copenlu.bsky.social lab.
#NLProc #NLP #XAI
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io Lead Technical AI Policy Researcher at Hugging Face @hf.co 🤗. Current focus: Responsible AI, AI for Science, and @eval-eval.bsky.social!
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
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
Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen: NLP, language models, interpretability, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review. #NLProc #NLP