Kelly Smith @kellylsmith.bsky.social Librarian at UC San Diego. Government Information/Urban Studies/Environmental Studies. 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social Infectious disease epidemiologist and research assistant professor at the University of Michigan @icpsr.bsky.social. Cat dad, data nerd, and Cincinnati sports fan. he/him
Justin from librarypunk @smazzie.bsky.social library worker, free rider, wobbly, he/they.
@bertiegirl.bsky.social @bertiegirl.bsky.social
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Jake Carlson @jrcarlso9.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Comic Book Geek. Former data librarian, current AUL (but the two are not incompatible).
SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social SPARC is a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world.
Project On Government Oversight @pogo.org We hold the government accountable by exposing corruption and abuse of power. We've been creating commonsense reforms that work for you since 1981.
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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social Posting about near-ancient pop culture & petromusicology. Opinions are mine alone. He/Him.
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Arch Fella @handle.invalid Czech/Ukraine heritage artist and a builder of wooden boats and surfboards. 3D-printed planes/drones. UAV/UAS pilot. By day: corporate job; Nights: much Hobbies. #VictoryNotVengeance #Infosec, #EMCOMM #OSINT #NAFO #Democracy #FELLA
Heather C @heatherrr.bsky.social She/her, librarian, East Bay, basketball, climate emergency 🌍
Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social engagement + crowdsourcing products ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, philly, carrboro north carolina, learning asl!
🌈 melodykramer.github.io
rebecca frank @rfrank.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UMSI
she/her. digital preservation & curation, risk & disasters, open data.
@rfrank@digipres.club
Laurence Horton @laurencehorton.bsky.social <dc:description>Do #FAIRdata things at Digital Curation Centre. Did #datalibs & RDM things at LSE Library, GESIS, UK Data Archive. University of Toronto Faculty of Information graduate.</dc:description>
Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com Senior editor of @propublica.org's data journalism teams. Super gay. Sometimes printmaker.
infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social Industry News and New Resources For Librarians, Journalists, Educators, and Others; More at infoDOCKET.com; Gary Price, MLIS Editor/Curator
Marie Muller @chutjeveille.bsky.social Documentaliste Kifédélistes-Hédégraffs
#bib #lib #info #doc #metadata #semweb
#NAFO & #taekwondo
Laura Rothfritz @ztirfhtor.bsky.social Research associate & PhD candidate, IBI, HU Berlin & ECDF
I study distrust & mistrust in public data infrastructures with a focus on Data Loss and Data Rescue in the US.
Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com Managing Director of datovis.com. Open Data Consultant for @eleutherai.bsky.social. Technical Director of @datarescueproject.org. Personal website: storytracer.com.
Caro @caropjim.bsky.social Waste and data researcher. I share what I know. Zero waste policy data analyst.
she 🏳️🌈
Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
Halle Burns @halle-burns.bsky.social Data management and data governance, metadata, data modeling, accessibility, organizer @ datarescueproject.org. Carpentries Instructor and Instructor Trainer. Dogs, comics, crafts, theater, video games, chronic illness. Views are my own.
Daria Hafner @dariahafner.bsky.social Social Sciences Research & Instruction Librarian at Wellesley College. Interested in libraries, research, and data.
Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social Professor of Applied Stats at NYU ASH/PRIISM. Survey design, data analysis, general statistical advice. PI: NYU Queer Data Lab. she/her 🏳️🌈
brigid @digitalbrigid.bsky.social mpls ☀️☕️🌲
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Laura A. Sheets @librarian-laura.bsky.social She/her. Librarian. Assistant Professor. Romance Reader. 〽️ichigan Fan living in Ohio. Connoisseur of 80's/90's mystery TV. I hold LOTS of privilege.
Bob Gradeck @bobgradeck.bsky.social Guy in Pittsburgh, fluent in dad jokes, recovering Zamboni driver, manages a civic data project at Pitt. Once finished third in the Pennsylvania Farm Show butter sculpture contest. I brake for estate sales.
Heather Bree @hbree.bsky.social Civic data nerd | Data viz specialist | Javascript 4 life, especially D3 and Svelte | on the research and analytics team of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at JHU
blackdotbug.github.io
Big Local News @biglocalnews.bsky.social Data, tools and collaborations that empower journalists to better cover their community. A project at Stanford University.
MuckRock @muckrock.com The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed.
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Jack Cushman @jackcushmanjr.bsky.social Retired in Vermont, building libraries in #Honduras. Former Inside Climate News & NYTimes Washburo.
AALL @aallnet.bsky.social The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is a nonprofit for legal professionals. We are here to:
+ Grow your network
+ Improve access to legal information
+ Support your professional development
Learn more about AALL: https://www.aallnet.org/
archivist barbie 💌 @daiquiriheiress.bsky.social DAIQUIRIHEIRESS.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 🏳️🌈
Andrea 🌈🌻💜 @puglibri.bsky.social digital initiatives/techbrarian. public librarian lost in academe. tech doomsday. @LibraryFreedom luddite-badass. missing my cat poe. 💔 opinions mine. 😈 she/they 🤘
Kristen Ratan @kristenratan.bsky.social Trying to do my bit, founder of Strategies for Open Science (Stratos) and co-founder of Incentivizing Collaborative Open Science (ICOR), participant in things.
Mark Hahnel @hahnel.org Figshare Founder
Nick Shockey @nshockey.bsky.social Associate Executive Director, SPARC
@librarymuseing.bsky.social @librarymuseing.bsky.social
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social EDGI works to build environmental data and governance systems that are more just, equitable, and effective.
Website: envirodatagov.org
Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/cf3rjd46
Volunteer: https://envirodatagov.org/volunteer/
Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org AHCJ is an independent, nonprofit dedicated to improving health care journalism. Learn about our training, including fellowships, webinars and conferences ➡️ healthjournalism.org
COPAFS @copafs.bsky.social Advancing Excellence in Federal Statistics
APDU @apduorg.bsky.social Association of Public Data Users (APDU) is a national network that links users, producers, and disseminators of government statistical data. Members share a vital concern about the collection, dissemination, preservation, and interpretation of public data.
Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems.
ucs.org
Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers building tools like Perma.cc & Caselaw Access Project at the Harvard Law School Library. Where
@institutionaldatainitiative.org got started.
🌐 https://lil.law.harvard.edu
Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social Dryad is an open data publishing platform and community, committed to making data-sharing and re-use easy, powerful and compelling. #nonprofit #opensource #openaccess. https://datadryad.org/
Please contact help@datadryad.org for support.
IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social Provider of census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. Use it for good, never for evil. ipums.org
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Center for Open Science @cos.io Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research.
📧 Contact COS: contact[at]cos.io | OSF Support: support[at]osf.io
Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/center-for-american-progress-1
Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org We're a national nonprofit that works to reduce poverty, improve the lives of people with low incomes, and create pathways to economic security for everyone.
🔗https://linkstre.am/CLASPDC
Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social Librarian and Community Builder
https://www.thomaspadilla.org/
Ruth Harrison @ruthejh.bsky.social Head of Schol Comms in library services, crafter (knitting and weaving mostly), views own...
Catherine Mitchell @camitchell.bsky.social Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization; fan of democracy; empty nester; dog mom; pickleballer.
librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social A leftist library worker podcast.
https://www.librarypunk.gay
@sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Delta Think @deltathink.bsky.social The scholarly community trusts Delta Think consultants to advance strategy in an ever-changing landscape.
www.deltathink.com
Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social Science-ing, trying to improve science. Metascience, open access, reforming scholarly authorship practices. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist.
Mastodon: @alexh@fediscience.org
Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social Portfolio growth/ #openscience @AIP Publishing; PhD dropout; co-author of DefendResearch.org declaration 👊#censorship;#openscience advocate #PostsAreMyOwn #DefendResearch
Basta YA!
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1803-6186
Roger Schonfeld @rschon.bsky.social JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Organizational strategy for ITHAKA. Contributor at the Scholarly Kitchen. Former Ithaka S+R.
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
aj-boston.neocities.org @aj-boston.bsky.social
Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social Data, Open Scholarship, Libraries, Knitting, Cats. I named Executive Function Theft. The opinions of the Hedgehog Librarian, Professor. Chicago-based. She/her
#knitting #data #executivefunctiontheft
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social CEO Open Knowledge Foundation - Lawyer - Internationalist
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research and researcher assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social RoRI’s mission is to accelerate transformational research on research systems, cultures & decision-making.
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
Jess Mitchell @jesshmitchell.bsky.social ethics, equity, justice, design, attempts to disrupt education and everything that follows. Team member and Adjunct Inclusive Design Research Centre @ OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com
also maurasmale@mastodon.social
Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social Policy and open culture at Creative Commons
panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social Interdisciplinary hinterlands and library systems.
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.
Meredith Rose @mrose.ink Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff.
Negate the gods -- raise rocks.
She/her 🏳️🌈
Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social Lawyer, librarian, @FairUseWeek organizer, @SocialLaw, © savvy, author, armchair philosopher, gentleman farmer, soi disant scholar, @eBookStudyGroup, and bowtie enthusiast.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
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Lila Bailey @lilabailey.bsky.social Public interest copyright laywer, karaoke diva, book reader, dog mom. Here for libraries, museums, books, music, art, comedy, copyright, memes, animals, fandoms, and people being kind.
I work at the Internet Archive, but posts here are my own.
Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social The Muppet Movie is the greatest movie of all time. Academic Librarian, scholcomm, crabby for good. U of Minnesota
Sarah Lamdan @sarahlamdan.bsky.social Librarian & lawyer. Wrote Data Cartels (Stanford University Press, 2022). Creative non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence. Kicking cancer where it counts.
This account is personal - opinions are my own.
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
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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
Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social A think tank that develops strategies and policies for cultivating #DigitalCommons.
https://openfuture.eu/
Paul Keller @paul.eurosky.social Director of Policy at Open Future, President of the COMMUNIA association for the Public Domain. Advocate for more open, just & inclusive digital policies in 🇪🇺 & beyond. Collector of collateral knowledge, © nerd, cyclist.
Dimi Zagorski @dimi.wikimedia.brussels Policy Director at Wikimedia Europe
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍
https://creativecommons.start.page
Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social We provide services, tools and training to build a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.
#TheTechWeWant #OpenDataEditor #OpenDataCommons #SchoolOfData #CKAN
Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org We are the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Working to create a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
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