Allan James Vestal @ajv.bsky.social Journalism, code & politics. Food idiot acolyte and ALX ward system anti-apologist.
(Crunchin' those numbers — and probably something with bacon on it too.)
He/Him.
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social Political scientist @ Notre Dame. Gender, parties, suffrage, role models. New: See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People. https://bookshop.org/p/books/see-jane-run-how-women-politicians-matter-for-young-people-david-e-campbell/21729443
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
ITP/IMA NYU @itp-ima-nyu.bsky.social Interactive Telecommunications Program + Interactive Media Arts
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
linktr.ee/itp_nyu
Blair Simmons @blairsimmons.bsky.social Useless Machine & asst arts prof at NYU ITP/IMA
Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
brent @bront.rodeo less cyber, more punk. aspiring retiree. writing at blog.bront.rodeo
smh @smarmy.space teaching creative code @ NYU, New School, CUNY Hunter
thinking about soft software, http poetics, and the nice internet. making stuff sometimes too.
samheckle.com
blog.smarmy.space
l5lua.org
cal.red
destructionjunket.com
tldr.nettime.org/@L5
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social Building a dedicated satellite for humanitarian aid and disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. Open data, GIS, Remote Sensing, and creating the best possible future.
alex pasternack @pasternack.bsky.social still human in the strange loop • ∆/ ∞ ∆ editor @ Fast Company ⟴ Motherboard // Bandwagon • ¶• / alex.265 on Signal
Marvin Milatz @milatz.bsky.social I work on digital methods in journalism | #OSINT and digital forensics researcher at DER SPIEGEL Dokumentation
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
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Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social Senior Data Editor @yahoonews.com. Previously @washingtonpost.com, FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP). 2021-2022 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown. See my work at reubenfb.com.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy @princetoncitp.bsky.social The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, & the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology & society. Princeton U.
Jeff Kao @jeffykao.bsky.social Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com. Prev. @propublica.org.
michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social nytimes reporter | tech, special projects | mhkeller@{nytimes,protonmail}.com, github/mhkeller | adjunct at CUJ | mhkeller.01 on Signal
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.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
Krishna Karra @krishnakarra.bsky.social satellite imagery analysis at bloomberg news
kkarra4@bloomberg.net
Lazaro Gamio @lazarogamio.bsky.social I make charts at the NYT. Sometimes they're good...
https://www.nytimes.com/by/lazaro-gamio
https://lazarogamio.com/
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Lily Hay Newman @lhn.bsky.social Security reporter for WIRED Magazine. she/her/my man. Signal +1 (347) 722-1347
Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social reporter at @theverge.com, and things of that nature. i cover social media/tech companies and life online. contact me securely on signal: @miasato.11.
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Open Journalism Bot @openjournalism.bsky.social I tweet when a newsroom opens a new repo on GitHub. More at https://www.openjournalism.news | Created by @kleinmatic | List of orgs: https://github.com/silva-shih/open-journalism/blob/master/orgs.csv
Formerly a Twitter bot called newsnerdrepos.
@johnauthers.bsky.social @johnauthers.bsky.social 
AFP News Agency @en.afp.com Top news and features from AFP's reporters around the world.
u.afp.com/socials
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net Editor @ Marketplace.org based in Seattle; D&D DM // Former: NPR's Morning Edition & Up First, NPR digital, MPR News, Orlando Sentinel. // Big fan of dogs and bookstores.
READING: Bear Head; The Uncool
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Caitlin Ostroff @ceostroff.bsky.social Data reporter following the money for @wsj.com using words, numbers and code. Co-founder @journalismmentors.bsky.social. Tips? https://github.com/ceostroff/contact
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
Executive Producer @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social
Aisvarya Chandrasekar @aisvarya17.bsky.social I work at @towcenter.bsky.social as a computational research fellow, studying the impact of AI tools in journalism. I am a grantee in Brown Institute’s 2024-25 Magic Grant cohort, building PollFinder.ai.
https://aisvaryachandrasekar.work/
Dhrumil Mehta @dmil.bsky.social Data Journalism Prof. @ Columbia University and Deputy Director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Outlier Media @outliermedia.org Filling information and connection gaps in Detroit through local reporting since 2016 💛
Managing partner for @detdocumenters.bsky.social
Aaron Mondry @amondry.bsky.social Senior Reporter with @outliermedia.org. I cover housing, development and real estate in Detroit.
https://outliermedia.org/
OSINTtechnical @osinttechnical.bsky.social PAI enjoyer, OSINT guy @truth.bsky.social , my views/freezing cold takes are my own. Standard spiel about not endorsing retweets, likes, and comments.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Abigail Higgins @abigailhiggins.bsky.social Journalist in DC, previously Kenya. Co-founder and Managing Editor of @51stnews.bsky.social. Covering inequality, gender, labor for the Washington Post, The Nation, Lux, etc. Organizing with The National Writers Union.
Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person
I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/
I also post silly things too.
aidan @manykarz.bsky.social Imperfections, limitations, and the hardware of film photography are always fascinating
I love cats and cars and science and music
I oppose authoritarian governments
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social He/him
I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames
Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1
Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR
Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social 💼 Co-lead data & visualizations @spiegel.de
🗺️ Blogging about maps at letsmakeamap.com
#dataviz #ddj #maps #rstats
Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social SCOTUS correspondent for The Economist. Political studies prof at Bard Early College-Manhattan.
William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social Reporter, ProPublica. Focused on federal law enforcement
Contact me on Signal: 804-295-7201
william.turton@propublica.org
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social Data and interactives ed. at the Guardian Aus
dataviz, music, investigative journalism, programming etc
work: nick.evershed@theguardian.com
tip-offs: nick.evershed@protonmail.com
latest: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nick-evershed
Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social Enlightening data. New ideas. Civil conversation. Visit us at vitalcitynyc.org
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social Nautilus Island's hermit heiress (settler, she)
Books, bread, cloth, cyclamen, snow, roses, rooms
Walking—looking—liberation
PINK THEORY! (Milkweed, 2027), PATTERN-BOOK(Carcanet, 2025); rep: Wylie
profile, Corita print; banner, campion/gorse
ohbara.com
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter
Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist.
https://danilocampos.com
advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social political reporter @ The 19th. new englander, bad speller, hot sauce enthusiast. 
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Josh Wallaert @jwlrt.bsky.social Editor, writer. Kinda quiet. New here and I'll probably read more than talk. Bikes, streets, music, ethics + infrastructures of care, SF Bay.
Gio :⁾ @im.giovanh.com cryptid • writer • legendary archivist • universal constant • edge case • cyber artisan
let's be fans of each other
https://im.giovanh.com
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg | co-host of Triple Click | New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice + Press Reset + Blood, Sweat, and Pixels | Email: jschreier@gmail.com | Signal: jschreier.10
dan mentos @danmentos.com 
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
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
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social Staff Writer @niemanlab.org covering the future of news.
🇵🇰 New Yorker
⚽ fan
🗣️ EN/ES/ حیدرآبادی اردو
💌hanaa@niemanlab.org
💼 hanaatameez.com
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Python Coding (CLCODING) @clcoding.bsky.social We teach Python to everyone.
Join us : https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5BbiT9xVJXygonSX0G
Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy 📚 Order here: https://a.co/d/dDydwxe. Currently: co-director Kansas Pop Center & associate professor, KU. Formerly: Census|NIH|USDOL.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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 
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news THE LEGEND OF SKOKIE coming April 2027. Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
Jana Tauschinski @janatausch.bsky.social graphics editor @FT | prev @BBCNews @the_young_fdn | data viz @LCCLondon
https://www.ft.com/jana-tauschinski
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com Texas News with Teeth
Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
Wanna work together? oliviamesser@protonmail.com
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social 💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU
🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org
🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
https://linktr.ee/lainenooney
they/them
Chesca Taylor @chescataylor.bsky.social I design interactive graphics for The Financial Times.
🔗 www.ft.com/chesca-taylor