Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Jos Hoy @joeybean.bsky.social Light-Seeker. Conduit. Metal Mouth. Tender. Mama. [they/them]
PhD Candidate @hcde.uw.edu (into: radical care & epistemology, participatory infrastructuring). I don’t use GenAI.
Begin where you are. #LandBack
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
@tadwilliams.bsky.social @tadwilliams.bsky.social 
Andy Hamann @ahamann.bsky.social 
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires and AI bros. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him.
Joshua Blanchard @philoshua.bsky.social lecturer in philosophy @oaklandu.bsky.social
joshuablanchard.net
Hugo Simão @hugo-simao.bsky.social PhD Candidate in HCI and Human Robot Interaction. My interest is to understand why and how people use or would use robots and AI agents!
Resting bot face @strictest.bsky.social Live each day as if it were the _n_th last day of your life, where _n_ is your remaining life expectancy expressed in days, based on standard actuarial tables.
Alicia DeVrio @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor of digital media @ Georgia Tech
HCI PhD @ CMU studying resistance to harmful AI systems
also enjoys weaving, musicals, grammar, ice cream, libraries
--> all the other whatever at uhleeeeeeeshuh.com
julie vera ⛈️ @julievera.bsky.social PhD Candidate @hcdeUW | Research in extreme weather livestreams, crisis comms, sensemaking, & platforms | #SkyWarn Spotter, dog mom, stress baker 🌪️🐶🧁
Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social UW-Seattle PhD candidate, studying online attention dynamics & creators/influencers @ HCDE/CIP, advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social . Former SETS Fellow @ Cornell Tech, working w/ @informor.bsky.social . UAW 4121 ASE Recording Secretary. He/Him
Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net phd candidate @cip.uw.edu, @communitydata.science, & @hcde.uw.edu. I study how to govern public knowledge institutions under attack.
zarine.net
Meghna Gupta @meghnagupta.bsky.social PhD student at UW HCDE | Prev: Research Fellow at MSR India
I think about care, digital safety, and labor in deeply intimate relationships.
https://gupta-meghna64.github.io
joice tang @joicetang.bsky.social phd student @ uw hcde, recording secretary @ uaw 4121 // community-based research, higher ed labor, critical ed tech
she/they // joicetang.com
samuel @smlso.bsky.social [taking a break from] phd student in hcde at university of washington
he/him
samuelso.net
Melinda — Seattle Researcher & Startup Founder @melm.cc Misinfo & Journalism Researcher at UW HCDE, Center for an Informed Public (advised by @katestarbird.bsky.social)
Full Stack Dev & VC Backed Founder @ Proxi Maps
Ex-Texan, Mom, Swiftie. Always up for a project and a team sport.
melm.cc
Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me PhD student at the University of Washington in social computing + human-AI interaction @socialfutureslab.bsky.social. 🌐 kjfeng.me
priya dhawka @priyadhawka.bsky.social PhD student (she/they) at UW HCDE, working on critical data vis and the politics of open data/vis.
dhawkap.github.io
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social PhD @ UW studying meaningful game experiences | prev. SWE @ Twitch. MIT '21, game credit on God of War: Ragnarok | https://ndevasia.github.io
@vishnurad.bsky.social @vishnurad.bsky.social 
Sayan Bhattacharjee @shayeown.bsky.social PhD candidate @hcde.uw.edu investigating the intersection of AI fairness and biomedical reform w.r.t technoscience of skin tone | STS, Social Computing, HCI
https://sayanbe.com/
Dr. Jordan Taylor @jordant.bsky.social Critical Computing + Art + Queer Studies | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | Postdoc at the University of Michigan
Benjamin Mako Hill @mako.cc 
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Neilly Tan @neillytan.com phd candidate @ uw hcde ✎ critical data, design systems, privacy, power
↳ pronounced “nee-lee” • she/her ⚢🏳️🌈 • neillytan.com ✧
Spencer Williams @swilliams1918.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington Information School. Studying science communication and social media.
deza ☕️ @bookishdeza.bsky.social crying over some fictional character.
beacons.ai/theliteraryshard
Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social Writes stuff. Out now: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA. Next: THE LADY OF THORNS. (She/Her)
Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social Spec fic writer. It probably didn't happen, but it should have, could have or might have. Represented by Fox Literary. Cis, queer, she/her.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Ed McDonald - WITCH QUEEN OF REDWINTER OUT NOW! @edmcdonald.bsky.social Epic fantasy author of The Raven's Mark series and The Redwinter Chronicles.
Web page: https://edmcdonaldwriting.com/
Rep: Alex Cochran
edmcdonaldauthor@gmail.com
Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. The Last Contract of Isako out now! Next: Mark of the Warrior (Oct 2026) https://linktr.ee/fondalee
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. Will block on tone.
He/him
office@danielabraham.com
erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social NYT bestselling SFF author - Series: Raven’s Shadow, Draconis Memoria, Raven’s Blade, The Covenant of Steel, The Seven Swords, The Age of Wrath
Repped by Paul Lucas at Regal | Hoffmann & Associates
Website: anthonyryan.net
Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social Malaysian in UK. I write fantasy and romance. BEHIND FRENEMY LINES out now!
Shannon Chakraborty @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social NYT/Sunday Times/Indie bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and The Daevabad Trilogy
Jenn Lyons @jennlyons.bsky.social Author, artist, old-school nerd who likes to write books with dragons in them. x2 Astounding nominated author of the A CHORUS OF DRAGONS series and THE SKY ON FIRE from Tor books. Rep'd by Chris Lotts.
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
Veronica Roth @veronicarothbooks.com Recently: Seek the Traitor's Son (dystopian fantasy)
Next: The Sixth Faction (a Divergent alternate universe story)
Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social SFF author, speaker, lawyer, programmer; rep by Russ Galen; The Dandelion Dynasty & “The Paper Menagerie"; latest: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social author, coder, fangirl, geek. 🌕🌖🌗🌑 Author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Temeraire, & The Scholomance. Latest Release: THE SUMMER WAR
https://lnk.bio/naominovik
Wesley Chu @wesleychu.bsky.social #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Prophecy, The Lives of Tao, and more!
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social #1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
Megan E. O'Keefe @meganeokeefe.bsky.social SFF author and occasional game dev. The Blighted Stars out now from Orbit books! 💗💜💙 (she/her) lit rep: Kate McKean, film rep: Gersh. https://www.meganokeefe.com/books
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
James Logan @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social Fantasy author - THE SILVERBLOOD PROMISE is out now from Arcadia (UK) and Tor (US)! Magic, monsters, assorted mayhem. Mostly runs on gin and oreos. https://linktr.ee/jamesloganauthor
Evan Winter @evanwinter.bsky.social Author of THE BURNING QUARTET: RAGE OF DRAGONS (TIME magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time) & FIRES OF VENGEANCE (out now). Rep: Erin Malone/WME Books
H. M. Long @hmlong.bsky.social Canadian Fantasy Author - Dark Water Daughter - Hall of Smoke - Entwined (‘26) - Ashmarked (27’) - and more
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling author of SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN and HE WHO DROWNED THE WORLD. Winner of Astounding & British Fantasy Awards. Unhealthily into monks, eunuchs, monsterfuckers
shelleyparkerchan.com/learn-more
Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social Author of fantasy novels.
Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler
My stuff at https://djangowexler.com/
Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author: Legends & Lattes. Hugo, Nebula & Locus finalist. Audie winning Narrator. Ex-gamedev - Fate,Torchlight & Rebel Galaxy.
Brigands & Breadknives out Nov 11 '25 from Tor.
travisbaldree.com
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
Christopher Buehlman @buehlmeister.bsky.social Word-grouping dogbotherer, garlicky kitchen haint, father of goblins. Non-compliant, secular, cat-whispery, has a kraken-ink tattoo.
Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social
Founder of bookmatch.co.uk
Ryan Cahill @ryancahill.bsky.social I write Epic Fantasy | Dragons are simply big dogs | Mushrooms should not be consumed | He/Him |
Get The Fall FREE http://ryancahillauthor.com/mailing-list/
Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social Fantasy author.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/marklawrenceauthor
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/
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Technology, UMich. Critical urbanism, platform studies, social atomization and the privatization of care, temporal civics. makingpublicwork.com / ronbronson.design
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine. Now in SF!
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY 🏳️🌈
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
mediajunkie @xianlandia.com likes making stuff with other people
can leap tall buildings, given a running start
crumlish.me
xoxo.zone/@xian
layersofmeta.com
he/they
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org Be realistic; demand the impossible!
Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
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
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Aaron Ogle @atogle.com Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.
Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData