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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social Author, dad, journalist at Mother Jones/CIR. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062973533/ DM for Signal 🔐
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
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Andy Freeman @goldsmif.bsky.social Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths.
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Aisha Down @aishadown.bsky.social Global technology reporter at the Guardian. You can reach me securely on Signal at aishadown.57
Emily J. Goodacre @ejgoodacre.bsky.social Postdoc in developmental psychology, play, and AI toys with @pedalcam.bsky.social.
James Martin @jamesmart1n.bsky.social Passionate about making tech more responsible, notably via my v own https://bettertech.blog. And sharing memes ofc
Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social #LMT 🟨🟪 aims to stimulate debate on digital media, digital technology and digital cultures in education. Edited by @benpatrickwill.bsky.social, @johnpp.bsky.social, @discoursology.bsky.social & @lucipangrazio.bsky.social.
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
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Liz Kendall MP @lizforleicester.bsky.social Labour MP Leicester West. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Charlie Robertson @frontiercharlie.bsky.social Frontier / emerging market obsessive, author The Time Travelling Economist which explains what Marx missed and when countries escape poverty from 1670 to 2070
Benjamin Breitegger @benjbreitegger.bsky.social Journalist. jetzt.at, and sometimes ARTE, DLF, Ö1, SWR, WDR • @journalistenschule.bsky.social alumnus. Roaming around Europe and Africa 📰 📻 📺
Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social Co-founder and director at Foxglove, former Reprieve & Open Rights Group.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
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Q McCallum @qethanm.bsky.social research: (ML+gen)AI, risk, complexity, finance history
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website: https://qethanm.cc
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Robert Booth @robert-booth.bsky.social UK technology editor at The Guardian
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
Soho Bites Podcast @sohobitespodcast.com
◾ Podcast about films set in Soho
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Will Grimond @willljg.bsky.social Freelance (data) journalist | Words in the Guardian, Independent, the i, Standard, Huck + others | Ex-RADAR/PA Media/RSA. Contact: wjgrimond(at)gmail(dot)com
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
@eveuptonclark.bsky.social @eveuptonclark.bsky.social Freelance features writer @BusinessInsider @Telegraph @Fastcompany etc.
eveuptonclark.com
Rachel Muller-Heyndyk @rachelm-h.bsky.social Freelance journalist.
Seen in: BBC, The Times, i Wired, The New Humanist.
https://www.clippings.me/users/rachelmullerhey
Paul Hayward @paulhayward.bsky.social Sportswriter at The Observer.
Journalist since 1987.
Author of 'England Football - The Biography.'
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
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Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Caroline Criado Perez @ccriadoperez.bsky.social Writer, speaker, author of Invisible Women
Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE
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Caleb Gardner @calebgardner.bsky.social Founding Partner: 18 Coffees
Formerly @BarackObama
Loyola #BaumhartScholars MBA faculty; Lab for Applied AI affiliate
📝 Resilience, change management, adaptability (and how tech affects all of it)
📖 NO POINT B is out now
📍Chicago
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Rūta Kazlauskaitė @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism.
Poppy Bullard @poppybullard.bsky.social Producer @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Alaa Hammad @alaa2h.bsky.social Trust & Safety @TikTok Dublin 🇮🇪 | Twitter alum
Passionate about #techpolicy, media literacy & Middle East geopolitics
Lover of #travel and all things #cats
Will Douglas Heaven @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review / Signal: strawbilly.69
Steph Boland @stephanieboland.bsky.social Alright in a sort of a limited way for an off night
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
Please use ALT text :-)
Sascha O'Sullivan @saschaosullivan.bsky.social Host, Westminster Insider, POLITICO Europe
sosullivan@politico.co.uk
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social Tech editor at the Guardian US, science fiction writer, and a tale told by an idiot. Email me: blake.montgomery@theguardian.com
This Ain’t Michael @micheil.bsky.social Digital ecosystems, information systems, physicist, bulldog dad since 1996.
Chicago. Silicon Valley. Scottsdale. Denver.
Opinions and insights do not reflect any organization I am affiliated with.
Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social • National investigative correspondent at The New York Times
• Author of zero books
• NYT stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/by/mike-baker
📍 Cascadia
Archie Bland @archiebland.bsky.social Head of national news at the Guardian.
Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org Shining a light on the UK's role in corruption at home and abroad
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Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social The official account of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition.
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social Leading London law firm renowned for fighting for what's right and providing top-tier personal legal services.
Tel: 0330 822 5788
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Ewan Kirk @ewan.thekirks.co.uk
Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social Cyber Correspondent, BBC News. Author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos. I cover cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social Political Columnist, Bloomberg.
Mark Bergen @mhbergen.bsky.social Bloomberg hack, yank in London, NBA sicko
author of "Like, Comment, Subscribe" bit.ly/3EUxVE5
hmu: mbergen10@bloomberg.net
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Julian Amani @jfamani.bsky.social Journalist, Data, London
Hayley Warren @hayleywarren.bsky.social Data, graphics and visual storytelling at Bloomberg News | Stories: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASy8ufuymtE/hayley-warren
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Steve Bloomfield @stevebloomfield.bsky.social Journalist
Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social Award-winning journalist and author. My bestselling book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’ was named book of the year by the FT, Bloomberg, The Week and HuffPo.
www.ianfraser.org
Tom Braithwaite @tombraithwaite.bsky.social News editor of the Financial Times
ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social U.K Tech Reporter at POLITICO, covering civic tech, online safety and data politics
Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
Harry Rose @harryrose.bsky.social Editor of Which? magazine. Mags, papers, food, consumer stuff, books, records, cricket, Bristol City FC.
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
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James Tapper @jamestapper.bsky.social Journalist at The Observer / observer.co.uk
I write about science, health and other things.
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Steve Goodrich @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social Head of Research and Investigations at Transparency International UK. Formerly at Electoral Commission. Following the money.
James Kynge @jkynge.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House.
Audiobook: Global Tech Wars: China's Race to Dominate https://open.spotify.com/show/0j6iVkv3wIXkj1twQcZoq0
Meike Eijsberg @meikeeijsberg.bsky.social Data Journalist at the Telegraph | Data, OSINT, and other reporting for the European Correspondent | OCJN Cohort 8 | she/her | 🇬🇧🇳🇱🇫🇷 | Views mine
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social First in line to dance on the crypto industry's grave.
Director of Investor Protection - Consumer Federation of America. Former: Crypto Adviser to Gensler SEC. House and Senate Banking Committees.
Vicki Turk @vickiturk.bsky.social London-based journalist writing mainly about tech. Recent bylines: The Observer, The Guardian, Wired. Previously features editor at Wired and Rest of World.
Jasper Corbett @jaspercorbett.bsky.social Head of audio @ The Observer
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@wincottfound.bsky.social @wincottfound.bsky.social
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social Media Editor for @theguardian.com. Likes ≠ endorsements, obv. Story? 👇👇👇
Michael.savage@theguardian.com
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Iain M @iainm.bsky.social Hack, girly swot, he/him. Lives by the (new) river.