Colin @colin-fraser.net Anti-spreadsheet person
Giacomo Fenzi @giacomofenzi.bsky.social PhD student @EPFL, previously @ETH
Interested in cryptography at large, post quantum and interactive proofs in particular.
Interista alla Prisco.
Olivia Maule @ocmaule.bsky.social science journalist | traveler | Intern with Live Science | 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow | UCSC Sci Comm Slug '26 | NASW Diversity Fellow | proud British/Cuban girl from Miami
Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
Martin R. Albrecht @malb.bsky.social Cryptography Professor at King's College London and Principal Research Scientist at SandboxAQ. Erdős–Bacon Number: 6. He/him or they/them.
https://malb.io
Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com | Assistant Professor, CS @ Georgia Tech |
| Research Scientist @ Google |
| Prev: PhD in EECS from MIT |
| spdr.cc.gatech.edu |
| mikespecter.com |
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Seny Kamara @senykamara.com I design encryption algorithms for a living but am a Hip Hop scholar at heart. Former CS professor at Brown & research scientist at Microsoft. I currently lead research at MongoDB. I think about how data, algorithms, power and culture intersect
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social Your friendly local Wired science editor
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
Fechi Inyama @fechiinyama.bsky.social Illuminating the invisible 🌍🦠
2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellow @ Science News
PhD student in Geobio @ MIT | Harvard ‘24
Alex Music @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social Writer, journalist, and geographer based in Brooklyn. Currently reporting @spectrum.ieee.org and socials-ing @theopennotebook.bsky.social (plus various other hats) | AAAS MMF ‘25 🐛
she/they
https://linktr.ee/alexmusicwrites
Sofia Avritzer @sofiavritzer.bsky.social Brazilian PhD student studying fruit fly navigation in the Maimon Lab
The Rockefeller Univiversity, previously at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | She/Her
Ellen Kuwana, MS (#SciComm #ACESVCON26) @ellenkuwana.bsky.social Science writer, med comms, editor (>600 articles + $89B in grant proposals). Public speaker. Writing coach. APA & plain language expert. Interests: AI ethics, chocolate, SciComm. If I've helped you, thank me here, https://buymeacoffee.com/ellenkuw
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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
Dana McKay @danachatter.bsky.social Academic, in the nexus of HCI and information science. Feminist, Reader, Thinker. Opinions vociferously my own. Loves cats, crafting, music, books and exercise.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social Computer Science Professor, CMU;
co-founder and CTO, Enriched Ag
Energy-efficient computing, a dash of security, and a pinch of databases.
Also on Mastodon (https://hachyderm.io/@dave_andersen )
signal: dga.48
he/him
Tim Roughgarden @timroughgarden.bsky.social Columbia CS professor. Head of Research at a16z crypto. Research on algorithms, game theory, mechanism design, blockchains/web3. Author of Algorithms Illuminated, Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory, and Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis of Algorithms.
Cathy Wu @cathywu.bsky.social AI & Transportation | MIT Associate Professor
Interests: AI for good, sociotechnical systems, machine learning, optimization, reinforcement learning, public policy, gov tech, open science.
Science is messy and beautiful.
http://www.wucathy.com
Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social Mathematician at UCLA. My primary social media account is https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao . I also have a blog at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/ and a home page at https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/
Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com
Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212
Sneha Rao @sneharao.bsky.social Dev Bio PhD candidate in @oweinerlab at UCSF. Embryos, microscopy, developmental mechanics.
Leader of @spgatucsf & co-organizer in @snapcoalition. Advocating for #SciPol & #SciComm training for all grad students!
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social 🖊 Writing about China.
💬 signal: zeyiyang.06
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Sílvia Casacuberta @sicapu.bsky.social Computer Science PhD student & Knight-Hennessy scholar at @stanford.edu.
Prev.: @ox.ac.uk with @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk, @harvard.edu '23, @maxplanck.de, @ethz.ch, IBM Research.
Theory CS for Trustworthy AI
https://silviacasacuberta.com
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
Liv Monahan @livmonahan.bsky.social Plant lover, food lover, she/her 🏳️🌈 | @AAAS Director of
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Techmeme @techmeme.com Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Rose Albert @rosemalb.bsky.social Southern environmentalist + environmental health scientist. PhD candidate @penn. MPH @uabsoph. Toxicology, lung biology, environmental justice.
she/her.
Amanda Silverman @asilverman.bsky.social Features and investigations editor @technologyreview.com
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
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#SciComm #MassMediaFellows #MMF50th
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. CASW organizes New Horizons in Science and other programs for science writers.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Annika Inampudi @annikainampudi.bsky.social reporter @bloomberg.com
previously @science.org && @thenation.com
www.annikainampudi.com
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits.bsky.social Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton.
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ePrint Updates @eprint.ing.bot Unofficial bot tracking the IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive (eprint.iacr.org). Maintained by @str4d.xyz.
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Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social Executive editor, newsroom. MIT Technology Review
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Álvaro Lozano-Robledo @mathandcobb.bsky.social Professor of Mathematics, number theorist (arithmetic geometry), author, Hagoromo chalk ambassador, bonsai amateur.
Views expressed are my own.
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Dog dad.
Please send tips (not PR pitches) through Signal: jtemple.99
James O'Donnell @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social Covering AI for MIT Tech Review. Work has appeared in The Washington Post, FRONTLINE PBS, ProPublica and elsewhere.
Signal: @jamesodonell.22
https://www.technologyreview.com/author/james-odonnell
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory @csail.mit.edu MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Media Inquiries: rachelg@csail.mit.edu
Kira Goldner @kiragoldner.bsky.social Assistant Professor at BU CDS
EconCS | Theory of CS | MD+AI+DS4SG | MD4SG co-founder
Previously Columbia, UW, Oberlin. Views are mine alone.
www.kiragoldner.com
Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com Assistant Prof of CS at NYU Courant. Co-EiC of TMLR. My group is The Salon. Privacy, robustness, machine learning.
http://www.gautamkamath.com
Thomas Steinke @stein.ke Researcher in computer science, math, machine learning, (differential) privacy, AI, etc. at Anthropic.
Kiwi🇳🇿 in California🇺🇸
http://stein.ke/
Aaron Roth @aaroth.bsky.social Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
𝖬𝖺𝗁𝖽𝗂 𝖢𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗁𝖼𝗁𝗂 @mahdi.ch Theoretical Computer Science professor @ U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
Opinions are mine and may evolve over time.
repost ≠ endorsement.
Policy: I don't interact with anonymous profiles.
Join AAUP.
he/him/his.
Jess Sorrell @optimistsinc.bsky.social Assistant prof at JHU CS. Interested in theory of ML, privacy, cryptography. All cat pictures my own and do not represent the cats of my employer
Anupam Gupta @anupamg.bsky.social Professor, Computer Science, New York University. Interested in Algorithms.
Henry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social Complexity, in all its forms.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
http://www.henryyuen.net
Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern CS. Economics, by courtesy. Study mechanism design, economics of algorithms, regulation of algorithms, AI and society. My opinions. virtualchair.net, socialcal.org, pubchat.org, https://sites.northwestern.edu/hartline/
Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston. Dad. Imposter.
Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com Complexity Theorist
Ryan Williams @rrwilliams.bsky.social professor of EECS at MIT. working in theoretical computer science namely algorithm design, complexity theory, circuit complexity, etc.
i'll let you know when P != NP is proved (and when it's not)
Thatchaphol Saranurak @eigx.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
I design fast graph algorithms in dynamic/distributed/local settings.
https://sites.google.com/site/thsaranurak/
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!
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.
Lenore Blum @lenoreblum.bsky.social Mathematician and Theoretical Computer Scientist (#mathematics, #TCS) interested in #Consciousness and #NeuroAI (#Neuroscience, #AI). Distinguished Career Prof of CS at CMU, Emerita. President, Assoc for MathConscSci (AMCS) (https://amcs-community.org)- H Pooya @hatami.bsky.social
Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University, Statistics and Mathematics. Opinions are my own.
Divyarthi Mohan @divyarthi.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Scientist @Columbia. Previously postdoc @BU_CDS @TelAvivUni and PhD @Princeton.
https://www.divyarthimohan.com
Sahil Singla @sahilsingla81.bsky.social Faculty at Georgia Tech.
Vasilis Gkatzelis @gkatzelis.bsky.social Associate professor of Computer Science at Drexel University. Interested in mechanism design, game theory, algorithms, fair division.
https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~gkatz/
Jamie Morgenstern @jamiemmt.bsky.social CS professor at UW, research focus in theory of ML, fairness, and econCS
Greg Bodwin @gbodwin.bsky.social Associate professor at UMich. I do theoretical computer science and graph theory.
Ola Svensson @algosvensson.bsky.social Theoretical Computer Science @ EPFL
@pinkfloydie.bsky.social @pinkfloydie.bsky.social
Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social Faculty at the University of Colorado. Interested in theoretical computer science, and especially lattices. Also: mountains, running, music.
https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~hbennett/
FOCS 2026 @focs2026.bsky.social Official account for the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), to be held in New York, USA, Nov 8–11, 2026.
🔗 https://focs.computer.org/
Yannai A. Gonczarowski @yannaigonch.bsky.social Faculty @ Harvard Econ + Harvard Computer Science, past: MSR HebrewU, classical (opera) singer, father of two (+a pug) | tweets my own, repost≠endorse
https://yannai.gonch.name/
Ellen Vitercik @ellen-v.bsky.social MS&E + CS assistant professor at Stanford. I study reliable AI for algorithmic reasoning, optimization, and decision-making.
https://vitercik.github.io/
Kasper Green Larsen @kasperglarsen.bsky.social Professor and Head of Algorithms, Data Structures and Foundations of Machine Learning at Computer Science, Aarhus University
Gavin Brown @gavin-brown.bsky.social Postdoc at UW CSE. Differential privacy, memorization in ML, and learning theory.
Rachel Lawrence @rachel-law.bsky.social Organic machine turning tea into theorems ☕️
AI @ Microsoft Research ➡️ Goal: Teach models (and humans) to reason better
Let’s connect re: AI for social good, graphs & network dynamics, discrete math, logic 🧩, 🥾,🎨, protecting democracy🗽
www.rlaw.me
Michal Feldman @michal-feldman.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, @TelAvivUni | @ACM SIGECOM Chair | Research areas: Econ&CS, Algorithmic Game Theory, Market Design
Taylor Smith @taylorjsmith.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Theoretical computer scientist. Assistant professor at @stfx-university.bsky.social. Website: taylorjsmith.xyz.
Tom Gur @tomgur.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at Cambridge.
Michael Dinitz @mdinitz.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~mdinitz/
Shivam Nadimpalli @shivamnadimpalli.bsky.social CS Theory postdoc at MIT (https://math.mit.edu/~shivamn)
Moshe Babaioff @moshebab.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of CS at the Hebrew University.
Algorithmic Game Theory.
Economics and Computation.
https://sites.google.com/view/babaioff/about-me
Ryan O'Donnell @booleananalysis.bsky.social
Stefano Tessaro @stefanotessaro.bsky.social Professor at the University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering @uwcse.bsky.social
Working on cryptography, theoretical computer science, and computer security.
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tessaro/
Florent Delgrange @florentdelgrange.bsky.social Reinforcement Learner
delgrange.me
gabe schoenbach @gabey.zip phd student @UChicagoCS. interested in cryptography, algorithms, combinatorics.
gabey.zip
TCS+ @tcsplus.bsky.social TCS+ is the original online seminar in theoretical computer science, committed to the carbon-free dissemination of ideas across the globe since 2013. Talks from the cutting edge of research in TCS, for a wide audience: https://www.tcsplus.org
Guillaume Dalle @gdalle.bsky.social Researcher in machine learning and optimization. Open source enthusiast. Parody songwriter (aka PianoHamster). OCD survivor.
Tomasz Steifer @steifer.pl mathematics, theoretical computer science, philosophy @ Universidad Católica de Chile & Polish Academy of Sciences | 'The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.'