Standard.site @standard.site Open standards for long-form & site lexicons. We build reusable schemas so the ecosystem can grow together.
To start, view definitions → https://standard.site
Docs → https://standard.site/docs
Allison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social asst prof @ cornell info sci | fairness in tech, public health & services | alum of MSR, Stanford ICME, NERA Econ, MIT Math | she/her | koenecke.infosci.cornell.edu
Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social Writer at hellgatenyc.com! Pulitzer finalist! Tips: jessy@hellgatenyc.com Previously: Gothamist/WNYC, NBC New York, BK Reader
Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
Anthony Castrio @castrio.me Co-founder @ http://ApplyAll.com
Growing vegetables @ http://garden.fractaltechhub.com
Jake Berman @lostsubways.com Lawyer, historian, mapmaker. Transport + housing nerd. Californian living in New York.
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning @ Columbia. Wrote and illustrated "The Lost Subways of North America". Order the book at: http://lostsubways.com
Akash Mehta @akashmehta.bsky.social Editor in chief, @nysfocus. Reach out: akash(at)nysfocus.com
NY Web Performance @nywebperf.com Meet with other web developers, designers, business people and system administrators who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.
https://nywebperf.com/
Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info Visit mta.info for service information.
Download our official apps for real-time customer care: mta.info/apps
Recurse Center @recurse.com The retreat for curious programmers.
Work at the edge of your abilities, develop your volitional muscles, and learn generously.
📝 Applications are open!
🔗 https://www.recurse.com/
📍NYC | Online
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
nolen @itseieio.bsky.social the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Layla Bouzoubaa @laylab.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱
Marty Swant @martyswant.bsky.social NYC-based journalist covering tech/marketing/policy/media focused on AI, ads, antitrust, etc.
Currently freelance (NYT, FastCo, Inc, etc.), I spent the past decade on staff at Digiday, Forbes, Adweek, the AP and elsewhere. https://authory.com/MartySwant
The Pudding @pudding.cool The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
Every Noise at Once @everynoise.bsky.social everynoise.com and associated curiosity; see also @glennmcdonald.bsky.social
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/ 
Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social Data Visualization. Ex-Planet & NASA Earth Observatory. Blue Marble, Earth at Night, color, cartography, occasionally skewed views of Earth. Looking for a job.
C.J. Robinson @cj-robinson.bsky.social 2026-27 @upshot.nytimes.com Fellow
Previously @towcenter.bsky.social
https://cj-robinson.github.io/
James Padolsey @j11y.io Building safer AI at nope.net :: Previously working on AI governance and evals at @cip.org and weval.org personal: 🏳️🌈 j11y.io // author, engineer, stroke survivor, epileptic. I live in Beijing.
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO
Phd in accessibility, tool-making, vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Move slo and repair things.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
Dominik Moritz @domoritz.de Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Previously @idl.uw.edu. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.
Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social CS PhD Student @ UMD
Undergrad @ Cornell
https://jenna-russell.github.io/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Fumeng Yang @fumeng.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UMD CS┃she/her┃HCI, Vis, & daydreaming┃Prev Northwestern CS, Brown CS, Tufts CS ┃www.fmyang.com ┃fig-x.github.io
Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 || Journalism, AI, Tech & innovation 👨💻 || Fellow Digital Democracy Centre 🇩🇰 & Marie Curie Scholar 🇪🇺 || Occasional Photographer || #FirstGen
🌐 https://hannescools.com/
🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
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
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Data & Design Group @data-and-design.org We are a research group at CU Boulder Information Science that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
https://data-and-design.org
jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Shadi Rezapour @rezapour.bsky.social Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI.
computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG
Previously at UIUC, Spotify.
she/her. shadirezapour.com
Reginé Gilbert @rejinae.bsky.social Transformation Leader, James Weldon Johnson Prof, Keynote Speaker. Accessibility Advocate. Tweets are my own. #Ux #A11y #Design #HumanSpatialComputing #Research
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Allen Tan @tealtan.bsky.social design director at propublica
Peter Aldhous @peteraldhous.com Science. Data. Journalism. Maps. Teach: @ucscscicomm.bsky.social. Current: Nonprofit newsrooms including @insideclimatenews.org. Ex: BuzzFeed News, berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @newscientist.com, @nature.com, @science.org.
https://peteraldhous.com/
johan @johanm.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://mutua.nyc
https://zangsmicha.love
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
Eric Lau @erxclau.me journalism, computer science, currently @washingtonpost.com
https://erxclau.me
klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social
klaudiajazwinska.com
travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social public interest technologist // luddite hacker.
information science phd at cornell tech.
inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem.
🤠 traeve.com 🤠
Evan Peck @peck.phd 🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof
Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public.
📊❤️ PI: https://infovisions.github.io/
Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD
🔗 https://peck.phd/
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Meg Marco @meghann.bsky.social Director of the Applied Social Media Lab, Harvard
Previously: ProPublica, WSJ, WIRED, Consumerist (RIP)
The cat's name is Elenore (like The Turtles song) and this is mostly about her.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/meg-marco
Kim Albrecht @kimay.bsky.social Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts
Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin
kimalbrecht.com
Eli Gundry @eligundry.dev 3 jr devs stacked on top of each other in a 🧥
America’s favorite cat dad
📍Astoria 🌐 eligundry.com 💿 https://album-mode.party
Hope Schroeder @hopeschroeder.bsky.social Studying NLP, CSS, and Human-AI interaction. PhD student @MIT. Previously at Microsoft FATE + CSS, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Symbolic Systems
hopeschroeder.com
Nick Ornstein @nickornstein.bsky.social PhD Student in Technology and Social Behavior (CS + Comm) @ Northwestern University. Studying online social networks with LLM-based social simulations.
Adrian Parsons @adrianparsons.com Software Engineer searching for next thing. Previously at Capsule8→Sophos, Etsy, and Meetup
Mapping vacant lots at empty.nyc
Gio :⁾ @im.giovanh.com cryptid • writer • legendary archivist • universal constant • edge case • cyber artisan
let's be fans of each other
https://im.giovanh.com
Jaxon White @jaxonwhite.bsky.social Ask about my spreadsheet of spreadsheets. Reporter @SpotlightPA.
Email: jwhite@spotlightpa.org
Signal: JaxonWhite.02
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨
https://openvibe.social
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
William Morland @williammorland.com Software engineer and corgi dad. Into privacy, open source, maps, self-hosting, musical theatre📍London, UK 🏳️🌈🇬🇧(👬🇵🇹)
Casey Randazzo @caseyrandazzo.bsky.social Investigating AI-human organizing
Asst. Professor at UCSB
caseyrandazzo.com
Sarah Stonbely @sarahstonbely.bsky.social Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Columbia University
New Jersey via Brooklyn via Milwaukee via New Orleans via...
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Carrie Pirmann @librariancarrie.bsky.social Book/data geek with too many degrees. Social Sciences Librarian @ Bucknell - Info lit, research + data services, digital scholarship, DEIA. Herder of cats 🐈⬛ 🐈 she/her 🏳️🌈
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Allegra Rosenberg @tchotchke.bsky.social fandom + media + tech + history + polar exploration + the libidinal pleasures of obsession. book out in 2027!!!!!!
newsletter: tchotchke.substack.com
website: allegrarosenberg.com
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Jonathan Miller @jonathanjmiller.bsky.social #Housing analyst #realestate #appraiser blogger @Columbia prof, non-economist, Miller Samuel CEO, family man, maker of snow and lobster fisherman (order varies)
Sara McCrea @saralmccrea.bsky.social writer, audio maker, researcher
books + podcasts @randomhouse
saramccrea.com
Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social Immigration reporter for @NOTUS.org and AJI fellow | Roll ‘ders 🕷️
gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
Michelle Young @michelleyoung.bsky.social Author, journalist, entrepreneur. THE ART SPY from @HarperOneBooks & SECRET BROOKLYN. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP https://michelleyoungwriter.com/theartspy
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Chris Whong @chriswhong.bsky.social Urbanist, technologist, data head. Into #dataviz, #opendata, #webmapping and making cities better. Dev evangelist @Mapbox Teach @nyuwagner
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/
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 […]
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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reporter @WIRED.com
caroline_haskins@wired.com
785-813-1084
https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
U.S. Digital Response @usdigitalresponse.org USDR works alongside state, local, and tribal governments to modernize how they deliver digital services and better meet the public's needs.
https://www.usdigitalresponse.org
Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism @lenfestinstitute.org Solutions for the next era of local news. 
Carrie Melago @carriemelago.bsky.social Editing at @documentedny.bsky.social. Priors: Chalkbeat, WSJ, NY Daily News, New Haven Register. Coal miner's granddaughter. Ms. @jonlemire.bsky.social I’m crafty and write about my kids. https://www.clippings.me/carriemelago
American Journalism Project @theajp.bsky.social The American Journalism Project is the first-ever venture philanthropy dedicated to supporting a thriving local news ecosystem. We invest in and build nonprofit newsrooms that are sustained by and look like the people they serve.
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy Background in Digital History, Literary Studies and Linguistics;
doing #DigitalHumanities / #DigitalHistory things.
Toots in German/English.
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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/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.