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Patrick Herd @patrickherd.bsky.social Engineering (Sometimes Electrical) Environment, Fabrication, EVs, Education. Will instablock cryptobios. Wairarapa, Aotearoa New Zealand. Same handle on mammothsite. 🏳️🌈+🏳️⚧️ ally.
Aja Hammerly @thagomizer.bsky.social Dinosaur and tech manager 
The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social Sugar, Spice, Smudge and Saja, and occasionally guest animals and humans.
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Kevin Wu Won @wuwon.me just a vibe coder
mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social guardian cartoonist - anarcho-marsupialist - lovely fellow - i have written a number of very important books you can buy some of them (also cartoons) here
https://firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/
Alistair @codeteacher.bsky.social Computer Science Teacher | Postgraduate Researcher in AI & Programming Pedagogy | NPQSL
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Linux Australia, Inc. @linuxaustralia.bsky.social Linux Australia is the peak body for Linux User Groups (LUGs) around Australia, representing #linux & #OpenSource users | https://fosstodon.org/@LinuxAustralia
https://linux.org.au
PyCon AU @pyconau.bsky.social Australia's conference for the Python programming community. Join us in Brisbane, 26-30 August 2026!
https://pycon.org.au/
Jasper Fforde @jasperfforde.bsky.social Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
Zachary Everett @zache.au Computer Science Student at RMIT
https://github.com/zachever/
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social Daniel Craig reminds you that The Weekend is here, every Friday evening at 7:00pm Eastern (inspired by: https://twitter.com/CraigWeekend)
Maintained by @young.me
@urcher.bsky.social @urcher.bsky.social 
Jessica Norris @jessica-handweaver.bsky.social I’m a hand weaver living in the Southern Highlands of Australia (lovely Gundungurra Country). I make uniquely beautiful textiles from natural fibres.
Website: simplecraftylife.com
Shomir Wilson @shomir.bsky.social Associate Professor at Penn State. AI and sociotechnical NLP, especially for privacy and fairness. Also posting about academia, photography, and travel. Opinions mine. he/him. http://shomir.net
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Kat Falkner @katfalkner.bsky.social Prof and PVC L&T @ Adelaide University. Educator. Computer Scientist.
Jack Reichelt @jackreichelt.bsky.social 
Dr.Beachgem @drbeachgem10.bsky.social Peds ER doctor and
mom to 4 kids and 4 cats!
Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social Conference organiser emeritus (PyCon AU), computer puppygirl. Narrm/Melbourne.
I am more active at @daisy@cloudisland.nz on Mastodon, and this account is mostly reposts from there, but I do try to pay attention to replies and stuff on here too.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
jade @darko.au exhausted leftist transfemme vegan from lutruwita/Tasmania
doing software things mainly with python and doing politics things for humanity and the environment
Libby (she/they) @libbyberrie.bsky.social Testimonial: "I've never met someone whose simultaneously so organised, yet never has their shit together."
Full stack -> Senior Frontend dev. Neurospicy. Likes to make cool art, videogame, and repair objects.
Opinions my own.
Ask me about my cats.
MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social Bot that tweets quotes(incl spoilers) from
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
Dr Renee Goreham @drreneegoreham.bsky.social Senior lecturer in physics, researcher in nanotechnology at the University of Newcastle, mum, footy player #SuperstarOfSTEM
Flora Hui @florahui.bsky.social Researcher & Optometrist: All things eyes, glaucoma, dementia, EMCR advocacy, SciComm
#SuperstarsOfSTEM | ABC Top 5 Science
Centre for Eye Research Australia | Opinions my own
http://bio.site/florahui
Susi @susise.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Chemist 👩🏼🔬 in 🇦🇺 | Microfluidic vampire 🧛🏼♀️ at CSL | Creator of @Shelium | #SuperstarsofSTEM | #TeamHB8 | VIC Young Tall Poppy 2024 | Comments are my own 💭
Dr Melanie Zeppel @drmelz.bsky.social Forest Carbon, Natural Capital, #SuperstarofSTEM 2023-24 cohort | Women in AI: Agribusiness winner 2022 | Runner, parent, rainbow family. #WomeninSTEM
www.melaniezeppel.com
Caitlyn Forster @bambiraptorf.bsky.social Entomologist and professional graphic novel reader at Sydney Uni. Not particularly professional fisho 🎣🐞🐛
#SuperstarOfSTEM 
Dr. Mel Humphries @melhumphries.bsky.social Mum | Statistician | #SuperstarOfSTEM 2023-24 | Chef
Sitting in the space between maths and AI
Mars Buttfield-Addison @themartianlife.com Academic in radio telescope instrumentation by day, game dev tools + scicomm by night
📍 lutruwita/Tasmania
💚 Skeets as @yarnspinner.dev
Find me at https://themartianlife.com
Trish Kerin @leadlikekerin.bsky.social Trish Kerin Author. Process Safety Leader. Keynote speaker. 2022 Leader of the Year. #SuperstarsofSTEM #PlatypusPhilosophy #FindYourPlatypus
Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com Radio astronomer and science communicator at the University of Sydney. Die hard Melbourne demons fan. Opinions are my own. www.astrolaura.com
Paula Wasiak @paulawasiak.bsky.social Bringing weird birds back into the ‘burbs
Penguin field biologist turned PhD candidate
Reintroducing bush stone-curlews to Millowl
#SuperstarOfSTEM alumnus
Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa @tatiana-biochem.bsky.social Group Leader in Biochemistry 👩🏻🔬
ARC Future Fellow 🌿💊🔬
Superstars of STEM ✨
SA Young Tall Poppy of the Year 🙏🏻
Mum 👩🏻🍼
Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺
Dr Charlotte Birkmanis @charlottebirky.bsky.social • Wildlife scientist
• Shark biologist
• Superstar of STEM
• Australian STEM Ambassador
• Keynote speaker & MC
• Broadcast producer & host
• Director, Marine Philanthropic Foundation
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck
Dr Kylie Soanes @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social Just your friendly neighborhood wildlife scientist on a mission to save nature in cities.
🍃Presenter, writer, and insufferable noticer of nature
🍃Expert in biodiversity conservation + urban ecology
🍃Occasionally witty 
Grace Vincent @phdsleepy.bsky.social Associate Professor at CQUniversity. Mum | Sleep | Physical Activity | Shift Work | Running | Donuts. 🥝 living in 🦘.
Vanessa Moss @cosmicpudding.bsky.social Adventures of the Cosmic Pudding & sidekick Vanessa: astronomy, telescopes, data, #automation, #scicomm... also #TFOM! #SuperstarsofSTEM ✨
Dr Caitlin Cowan @cc-phd.bsky.social Neuroscientist • Psychologist • Microbiome-gut-brain-ist at UNSW
NHMRC Investigator • UNSW Scientia Fellow • NSW Health EMCR Fellow #SuperstarsOfSTEM 23-24 #TallPoppyNSW 22
Dr Sara Webb @sarawebbscience.bsky.social Astrophysicist and Dog lover
www.sarawebbscience.com
Lily van Eeden @lilyvaneeden.bsky.social Lecturer, nature conservation #consocsci #humandimensions
Dr Taylor Szyszka @taylorszyszka.bsky.social She/Her.
Postdoc in Synthetic Biology @SydneyChemistry.
#SuperstarsofSTEM 🌟
Just a gal who loves proteins.
Views my own
Dr Vanessa Pirotta @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social Wildlife scientist 🐋 | Woman in STEAM | author | vessel operator | Sydney | 🇲🇹🇮🇹 | 🐳🐳 calves
www.vanessapirotta.com
https://www.instagram.com/drvanessapirotta/profilecard/?igsh=ZnpieTR6cWV6Mm9t
Eleanor @elamanor.bsky.social Robot Wrangler | Crystal Wizard | Maker of Things
Karen Livesey @karenlivesey.com A/Prof of Physics. Studies tiny magnets. Superstar of STEM (Australia). Speaker and advocate
@donajayakody.bsky.social @donajayakody.bsky.social 
Erin Hahn (she/her) @erinhahn.bsky.social Research Scientist @CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection | Conservation Genetics | Historical Epigenetics | airborne eDNA | STA Superstar of STEM alumnus | Mama | Speed noodle snuggler
Dr Jodie Ward @drjodieward.bsky.social Forensic Human Identification Specialist 💀
Associate Professor (Forensic Genetics) 👩🏼💻
Leverages & democratises DNA technology to link unidentified & missing persons & reunite them with their families 🧬🔗🧑🧑🧒🧒
Science & Technology Australia @scienceau.bsky.social Science & Technology Australia gives voice to 235,000+ scientists & technologists. We run #ScienceMeetsParliament #SuperstarsOfSTEM & #STEMambassadors programs.
Ash @thembo-sec.bsky.social Bad at things.
Jack Skinner @gdayitsjack.bsky.social Full snack CTO, founder & engineering leader. Independent consultant helping teams build amazing software products. Managed API Portals @ FrontGate.app.
g-hoges @g-hoges.bsky.social UX Researcher #uxr, rider of bikes #cycling, but most definitely#notABikeMechanic, music nerd. One of them Hoges-es
Karen Lamb @kelamb.bsky.social Associate Professor and Co-Head of MISCH Biostatistics & Epidemiology Node at University of Melbourne, Australia.
Passionate about #biostatistics, #consultancy, #communication and #mentoring.
Love literature, theatre, gigs and horror movies.
@ekulbyrnes.bsky.social @ekulbyrnes.bsky.social 
This is Sophie @thisisme.nz You probably know me as Patrick.
Married to a wonderful person named Patrick.
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.
Autistic/ADHD/🏳️⚧️/🐣
Heulwen @skymazef3.bsky.social Youtuber, Auslan Teacher, pottering around learning about learning and language learning in Auslan. Am big fan of making my homeroom, my art gallery too. There are a tonne of talented signers linked in playlists.
Mr Drake @mrdrake.au Australian Maths teacher and nerd #iteachmath
@drake@mathstodon.xyz
Jaye @jste.au i do things.
"girl you're arty and profound as shit"
"You're as much a gem as the jewelry you make, Jaye, you know that?"
"Jaye wise. Listen to Jaye"
💝 @awkward.gay 💝
she/fae · 🏳️⚧️ · 🇦🇺
Brenda Moon @brmoon.bsky.social Enthusiastic about open science, open source, open hardware. She/Her. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
https://moon.au/
Huon Wilson @huonw.bsky.social Alumni Rust core team, formerly Swift at @Apple
. (he/they) (@huon_w)
Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social Python/6502/Rust/C, whovian, goth, demo coding, hair dye and heels. Seriously into code optimisation and data compression, currently working in radio astronomy at CIRA, former Driv{e3}r2?/Stuntman dev. ChristopherJam on the c64, shrydar everywhere else.
ada @adaluong.bsky.social adaluong.me
@lizziesilver.bsky.social @lizziesilver.bsky.social 
Julia Ogris @juliaogris.bsky.social Techie, weird-is-good mum.
Cold water swimmer.
I like simple.
Built https://evy.dev
Renee Noble @reneenoble.bsky.social 
John La Rooy @johnlarooy.bsky.social Computing. Science. 3D printing. Melbourne
Manny Savage @savagecx.bsky.social 
Jemma 🏳️⚧️ @notbrokenjemma.bsky.social I Am Not Broken, I Am Jemma 🏳️⚧️
Gen-X, Figuring shit out. 🏳️⚧️💕
http://linktr.ee/notbrokenjemma
Yaakov @yaakov.online 🎶 sky of blue 🎵 and sea of green 🎶 in our yellow 🎵 submarine 🎶
@michellehalls.bsky.social @michellehalls.bsky.social Studying Masters of Data Science. Assistant Technical Director in the APS (Australian Public Service). Wrangling data is my jam. Attempting to teach myself the ukulele.
Saul @nomadghostwriter.com Ghostwriter and developmental editor specializing in remote work & travel | nomadghostwriter.com | Co-creator of remotequeer.co w/ @mattcen.com | Portland, OR & Melbourne, AU | 🚲 📖 🎸 🏳️🌈 🐕 😺🗺
Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi Man about the world; Expatriated Tasmanian living in California; conference organiser: (@NorthBayPython.org) previously (PyCon AU) and linux.conf.au; #python fan; multiple @python.org hats; queer; 💜 @robin.riley.pub
see also: @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Robin Riley @riley.pub Soft creature, wild philosopher, and booster for the commons 🌱 Tech, media, libraries, urbanism, and civics.
@igalia.com @petalumapride.org @northbaypython.org formerly @matrix.org @opensource.org @opensource.google
she/ella 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦓 ♾️ 9a
Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it.
What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.
"Alex" @mangopdf.bsky.social australia's only hacker
https://mango.pdf.zone
Nic Crouch @nic-and-chips.bsky.social I make entropy go up in some places to make it go down in others. Passionate about communities and #dataBS.
Python/Java performance engineer @Snowflake.
Sponsorships @PyConAU.
I don't usually speak for PyCon AU and I never speak for Snowflake.
Miguel Paraz @mparaz.com Melbourne AU, cloud and data platforms, Java and Python oldtimer, Go and Rust newbie, Unix/distributed systems interested, urban birds, vocal percussion
caite @caitelatte.com computer worker, sometimes twitch and celeste gamer, now living in Naarm Melbourne. they/she
attacus || Lilly Ryan @attacus.net Computational entomologist, privacy enthusiast, historian. Perpetually raging against the ghost in the machine.
Mastodon: @attacus@aus.social
👁 Digital Rights Watch | 🎙 Byte Into IT on 📻 3RRR FM | 🐍 PyCon AU
Hogesonline @hogesonline.bsky.social Secondary computing teacher, Assistant head of TAS, Data Analyst, #pythonista, Co-convener of Education track for PyconAU, GPN content creator, uni lecturer, #crochet er, climbs walls, rides a bike
Alex Myer @alexmyer.bsky.social Artist, designer and educator interested in storytelling and technology.
Queer Australian with Latina roots based in Brooklyn.
Urban sketcher and amateur game designer.
📷📺🎥🕹️💻🤖 ✍️ 🎨
Jonny Austin @jonnya.bsky.social CTPO at Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org), co-founder of Makespace Cambridge (makespace.org), Feminist sea shanty techhand (auntieshanty.org). Sometimes t-shirt designer.
@samueltonyhogan.bsky.social @samueltonyhogan.bsky.social 
Matt Cengia @mattcen.com 🏳️🌈🇦🇺
#Linux #SysAdmin, #FOSS advocate, #Scouts Victoria leader, #Bisexual, #Polyamorous, #Autistic, #ADHD geek. þey/þem/þeirs
📻 VK3MCN
Co-founder of remotequeer.co with @saul.remotequeer.co
Currently Seeking Work! 
Ned Letcher @ned.sh Data science, AI/ML, analytics, visualisation. Naarm/Melbourne @thoughtworks, #dataBS, #Python, #NLP, #DuckDB, & assorted whimsical miscellania
Rob Sharp @qnm.bsky.social Scot in Aus. Does computer things.
He/him. 
Max Rozen @rozenmd.com Building Workers & D1 at Cloudflare. Aussie in France.
Building https://OnlineOrNot.com, a self-funded, sustainable company.
He/Him.
Shrey (spanishpear) @spanishpear.bsky.social Staff Engineer - Jira Frontend Platform + DevX @ Atlassian
University educator (Programming languages x Rust 🦀, prev: CS101 in C). OSS when I can!
Opinions entirely my own 🫡
they/them🏳️🌈 📍Syd
Nick Falkner @nickfalkner.bsky.social A education guy and artist who likes people, cats, good food, good wine, a good read, fun games, coffee, and cocktails. You can’t iterate to revolution. Poetry is essential to love.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com