Lindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
Jackson du Pont @jacksondupont.bsky.social Currently Kings War Studies | Fmr @ CSRisks and Kerry Fellow @ Yale | focusing on how to bring lasting solutions to wicked problems | posts my own
Human Rights Data Analysis Group @hrdag.org We're a nonprofit organization using data analysis, scientific research, and innovation in scientific methods in the field of human rights.
Website: https://hrdag.org
Substack: https://hrdag.substack.com/
cursedthing @cursedthing.bsky.social Union Member
Saint Paul
I've probably doorknocked you.
She/her
Mark Whiting @mark.whiting.me Pareto.ai & CSS.seas.uPenn.edu → whiting.me
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social Our mission is to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Thoughts of suicide? Call 988 or text TALK to 741741.
https://afsp.org/
Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social Demographer | PhD student @lseechist.bsky.social | Incoming postdoc @magdalenoxford.bsky.social | Usually working on the 1918 flu | he/him | https://hggaddy.github.io/
Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social President @ucs.org. Previously: USDOT, White House OSTP, @500womensci.bsky.social. Environmental engineer. Mom. Cyclist. Public Transit Enthusiast. Views my own. She/her.
JRW @jweedon.bsky.social
🌶 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
@andreabchapman.bsky.social @andreabchapman.bsky.social
@mainstreetmn.bsky.social @mainstreetmn.bsky.social
Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social Fired by the Trump admin for doing my job. Forever CFPB Union proud: @nteu335.bsky.social
Previously: Candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland’s 6th district @ElectAlexis.bsky.social | ElectAlexis.org
Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social Math teacher running for Congress to bring down costs, take on corruption, and invest in small towns across Southern Minnesota (MN-01).
Funded by people, not corporate PACs. Join us: https://www.jakejohnsonforcongress.com/
Charley Johnson @charleyjohnson.bsky.social Data & Society; Untangled; Facilitation Leadership Lab.
https://untangled.substack.com/
https://www.charley-johnson.com/
https://www.facilitation-leadership-lab.com/
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC
Amy Sample Ward @amysampleward.bsky.social they/them | Co-author of "The Tech that Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists can build an equitable world" with Afua Bruce | CEO at NTEN | Still believe a better world is possible. Opinions always my own.
John Sands @iohn.bsky.social information•society•cats
Opinions my own
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social Striving for a safer world since 1945
science policy | nuclear weapons | clean energy | STEM education | artificial intelligence | data privacy | much much more
David Evan Harris @davidevanharris.com Chancellor's Public Scholar @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Advisor/Fellow: @BrennanCenter.bsky.social, CA Initiative for Tech & Democracy, Int’l Computer Science Inst., Ctr. for Int’l Governance Innovation
https://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/harris-david/
Kara Williams @kara-williams.bsky.social Attorney @epic.org specializing in state AI and privacy legislation and focusing on centering humans in tech policy
Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social Professor at Colorado Law. Data privacy, AI, speech.
Liz O’Sullivan @lizjosullivan.bsky.social CEO @ Vera & AI policy advisor. Stop spying on us.
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
Caroline Meinhardt @cmeinhardt.bsky.social AI policy at Stanford
Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com "A blend of tech insights, dad humor, and existential musings... Bonus points if you can explain data portability over bourbon."
http://mchrisriley.com (... of course)
Ann Lewis @ann-lewis.bsky.social Tech exec, former TTS Director at GSA, former @moveon.org CTO, @scsatcmu.bsky.social grad, bio/pics: https://annlewis.tech/ (Personal account)
Lynn Overmann @lynnovermann.bsky.social Tech & policy nerd, recovering public defender, DC native, #ALLCAPS fan. Executive Director @beeckcenter.bsky.social Georgetown. May the force be with you, always. Views my own.
beeckcenter.georgetown.edu
Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social Co-author "Understanding Your Users," Principal Architect of RAI at Salesforce, EqualAI Board Member, Singapore AI Verify Foundation Advisory Board, Former Visiting AI Fellow at NIST. BS Applied Psy & MS HFES from GA Tech. Previously Google, eBay, & Oracle
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social director of AI and privacy at Consumer Federation of America | teaching tech policy law/reg @udclaw | formerly EPIC (the privacy one not the bad ones), and DOJ Civil Rights division| ⚫️⚪️+🗽 | 🐦 🐿 | he/him
contact: bwinters@consumerfed.org
@danswu.bsky.social @danswu.bsky.social
Nate Persily @persily.bsky.social James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
Tom Knowles 🔸 @tensorproduct.bsky.social Engineering @ DeepMind. My thoughts not theirs. He/him.
Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd was @/virtualcourtney. math prof, pragmatic idealist, parent. Chief Problem Solver at MOTHERFUNCTOR.co
I write a (U.S.) politics newsletter focusing on issues that affect the math community, https://newsletter.motherfunctor.co
Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Raj Movva @rajmovva.bsky.social NLP, ML & society, healthcare.
PhD student at Berkeley, previously CS at MIT.
https://rajivmovva.com/
Kevin De Liban @kevindeliban.bsky.social founder @techtonicjustice.bsky.social | defeated Medicaid care-cutting algorithm | legal aid lawyer | rapper | economic + racial + AI justice | sci-fi + fantasy | Warriors | he/him
Learn more of how AI harms low-income people: techtonicjustice.org
lz @luiszr.bsky.social Personal account. Tech/telecomm/all the IPs. All views are my own and not those of my employer. Following and reblueskying(?) =/= endorsement. Forever on the search for disguised wireless towers.
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
Shakeel @shakeelhashim.com Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London.
https://transformernews.ai
Jacob Feldgoise @jacob-feldgoise.bsky.social Semiconductor supply chains, economic security, and AI workforce — Data Research Analyst @ Georgetown CSET
Sepehr Vakil @sepehrvakil.bsky.social Professor, educator, writer. 📚Revolutionary Engineers available for pre-order. https://sepehrvakil.substack.com/
Greg Leppert @leppert.me Working on AI and access to knowledge at Harvard. Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative; Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
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…
Nicole Wong @nicolewong.bsky.social Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Joshua Kravitz @joshuakravitz.com Freelance Software Engineer. Policy Wonk. Improviser. Pianist. Baker. Eager to make a difference, and to have fun while doing it. @senateapprops, @congressfellows, @ossoff, @digidems, @stanford, @campkesem.
Kumar Garg @kumargarg.bsky.social President, Renaissance Philanthropy
Chris Painter @chris.bsky.social President @metr.org
Check out my artisanal hand-crafted "AI Bluesky" starter pack here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/chris.bsky.social/3lbefurb2xh2u
Hanna Barakat @hbhannab1.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Researcher, Artist, Runner
www.hbarakat.com
Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social Chief of Staff @SIEPR. Economic Adviser @MITCEEPR. PhD'ing
@UW. 2021-2023 WH CEA.
I research energy markets during the transition and, as a treat to myself, consumer sentiment. Views my own.
Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org Philosopher working on AI alignment, governance and adaptation
Lab: https://mintresearch.org
Self: https://sethlazar.org
Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views.
we have it in our power to begin the world over again.
www.jlkoepke.com
Miranda Bogen @mbogen.bsky.social Director of the AI Governance Lab @cendemtech.bsky.social / responsible AI + policy
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
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
Tonya Riley @tonyariley.bsky.social Writing weird girl lit. Rep: @starlingliterary.bsky.social
Adam Kovacevich @adamkovac.bsky.social Founder and CEO, Chamber of Progress. Pro-tech Democrat. Ex: Google, Lime.
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social Director of Science Policy and Advocacy, Stand Up for Science Foundation. Former White House OSTP, Federation of American Scientists, NOAA Office of Space Commerce, National Academies, State Department.
Science advocate. Geeky painter. Views own.
Ellen P. Goodman @ellgood.bsky.social Information law prof @ Rutgers. Philly, animal rights, algorithmic justice, book project on urban tech. Mom, wife, still daughter ..עברנו את פרעה
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Kellee Wicker @kelleewicker.bsky.social VP of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Space at the Meridian International Center, lover of interdisciplinary conversations and breaking things
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
@cliwrites.bsky.social @cliwrites.bsky.social
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Caleb Withers @calebwithers.bsky.social AI & natsec @cnas.bsky.social
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social Internet culture reporter at The Washington Post. DMs and Signal are open: 513.368.3359
Jack Cable @jackhcable.bsky.social CEO & Co-founder at Corridor.
Previously: Senior Technical Advisor at CISA, TechCongress in the Senate, Krebs Stamos Group, CISA, Defense Digital Service, and Stanford.
Jon Klein @jonpaulklein.bsky.social Applying Neurology! Current Northwestern Medical Student
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social Privacy advocate • Deputy Director at @epic.org • Pronounced "Katrina,” just spelled the Irish way.
Nic Fishman @njw.fish Using computers to read the entrails of modernity (statistics, optimization, machine learning).
Currently: Stats PhD @Harvard
Previously: CS/Soc @Stanford, Stat/ML @Oxford
https://njw.fish
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Minnesota Vikings @vikings.bsky.social Vikings social account providing Minnesota Vikings NFL updates & team news. #Skol
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cornell Info Sci | Responsible AI | Previously Apple, Stanford RegLab, MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
Emma Lurie @emmalurie.bsky.social postdoc @ UPenn CIS | public interest technology law and policy | she/her
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social Saint Paul City Council Member for Ward Four.
Executive Director, People’s Parity Project & PPP Action.
Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social Fiscal policy wonk at Center on Budget & Policy Priorities| Former Biden-Harris White House National Economic Council | Former Senate Aide | CAP/JEC Alum | Brock Purdy Fan Club Founder
https://linktr.ee/pthe.queer.oasis
Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social Data/AI policy @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
(Political) philosophy of tech @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
Views my own 🔮✨
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at The Washington Sun. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
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.
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown