Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
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Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
BKE @bke613.bsky.social Performance Artist, Musician, Teacher, Designer, Traveller, Adventurer of Life 
Gabrielle Lyon @ghlyon1.bsky.social Desert born, midwest rooted
Frank Wiles @fwiles.bsky.social Expert in building, scaling and maintaining complex web applications - Founder of REVSYS, PSF Fellow, Django Steering Council and Former President of the Django Software Foundation.
Into Python, Django, React, Rust, Kubernetes and cooking
Kristen Marhaver @coralsci.bsky.social Coral scientist running a gene bank-IVF clinic-NICU-daycare for baby endangered corals, so of course it's super easy and nothing ever goes wrong. Fighting for baby corals because they have very short arms. www.marhaverlab.com
Ken Norton @kennorton.com Romantic bird facts
Eric Lunt @elunt.com I live near Chicago and I love tech. More at elunt.com
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
CL @cllantz.bsky.social โข Neuroscientist โข Development โข Visual Circuits โข Plasticity โข BRAIN
Backpacking, fly fishing, quilting.
Skeets are my own. she/her/hers
Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
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Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social โ๏ธ Experimental Psychologist | Navy CAPT (ret) | DARPA alum | Tech innovation in education and behavioral health | Autism parent | Views expressed are my own| ๐พ https://russ-shilling.com/ideas
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
Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social Professor: Northwestern, Kellogg School โข Director: Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement โข Schapiro Fellow: Institute for Policy Research โข Book: The All-Or-Nothing Marriage โข Podcast: Love Factually
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
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Stephan Somogyi @thinkpanzer.bsky.social Primum non nocere
Research & Teaching @ Columbia Journalism School
Willful & premeditated emdash & serial comma user; verber of nouns
Often staring down both barrels of Brandolini's law
Recovering tech, business, and design journo
Weniger, aber besser.
Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
Paul Smith @smith.dev Program the computers. Gov tech founder, dad, and Oโs fan in the US Midwest. I enjoy weightlifting. I collect spores, molds, and fungus. Making my mind a sunless place
Co-founder of Ad Hoc
Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower ๐ช
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music.zoekeating.com
she/her
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Lenifaye @andreafaye.bsky.social Director of Resource Organizing at Access Reproductive Care-Southeast. Queer & Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.
Durham now, Chicago forever.
https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
Bitsy Joy @bitsyjoy.bsky.social 
Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
Andrew McLaughlin @andrewmcl.bsky.social Nerd. @mcandrew from the Other Place.
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Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social Iโm a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@suzala.bsky.social @suzala.bsky.social Of the people, by the people and for the people. Despise injustice! ๐ the ๐ NAZI #FOTUS...๐ DOWN BALLOT...FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY...LOVE & BE LOVED! DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE! BOW TO NO ONE!!!
Theo Hahn @louispound.bsky.social 
bethanye McKinney Blount @bethanye.bsky.social 
David Falck @davidfalck.bsky.social Engineering leader who loves innovating and growing SW/ML/AI talent. Also, you cannot convince me there's a better place than the Indiana Dunes.
Samar Kaukab @smrkkb.bsky.social 
@joeborn.bsky.social @joeborn.bsky.social 
Bill Hammack (engineerguy) @engineerguy.bsky.social Creator of Engineerguy video on youtube
Jacob Matthews @wrcjacob.bsky.social Digital frenemy
GenX Burning Down the Nest ๐ฅ๐๐โก๏ธ @newenglandvibes.bsky.social It's our turn. The nest is empty, the fire is waiting! Time to live full, fulfilling, and unapologetically loud lives. Join the community!
justin massa @justinmassa.bsky.social helping SMBs thrive w/ gen AI. owner @ midwestquality.consulting + board @ solvehungertoday.org | prev: partner @ IDEO.com ; SVP @ Newlab.com
@joannedoherty.bsky.social @joannedoherty.bsky.social 
Jerry Cattell @jerrycattell.bsky.social SRE @TempusAI (formerly lifesquare, pulseenergy, @orbitz, i-drive, @fedex).
he/him
Kara Oehler @karaoehler.bsky.social sound, art, science, data and journalism. Copenhagen-based
Executive Director - Institute for Climate Sound & Society
Senior Researcher - AIR Lab, ITU Copenhagen and metaLAB (at) Harvard
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...๐
Ryan Castellucci ๐ฌ @rya.nc Hacker. Enby. Administrative inconvenience. Purveyor of technically sophisticated shitposts.
Suing the UK for more gender, help with my legal bills: https://enby.org.uk/
Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc
Non-binary trans androgynous (they/them)
floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
jenniferathome @jenniferathome.bsky.social Proud museum person. Trying to be a good human and make the world lovelier in all the ways. Mom, partner, knitter, Italophile. Pro-peace, pro-choice. No effs left.
Ytasha @ysolstar.bsky.social Afrofuturist. Writing in words and pixels. Author. Dancing always. Drinking tea. Champion for humanity. Next: The Afrofuturist Evolution
Lorena Nicole @lorenanicole.bsky.social #Chicago #Latinx #technologist ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป cat mama to 3 floofy ๐โโฌ๐๐โโฌ Maine Coons, lover of #Python ๐, #educator ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ซ & public speaker, #Fitness buff ๐ฅ๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ, #OrdCamp nerd, Champion of #EthicalTech, down with the left. Forget the rest.
๐๐ฝ lorenamesa.com
Mike Davis @mjdscience.bsky.social I'm here to share science, laugh, and look at interesting posts (dogs welcome).
iamgroot @iamgroot.bsky.social I am Groot.
Andrew @andrewkruger.bsky.social 
@schwardo.bsky.social @schwardo.bsky.social 
Eigenhector @eigenhector.bsky.social Machine learning, meditation, magic, muscles, mathematics, metta, meta, memes, manifolds.
Researcher in Machine Learning and Contemplative arts.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KjOV76MAAAAJ&hl=en
Recsys book author https://amzn.to/3ANPx6e
Shanqing Cai @sqcai.bsky.social Software Engineer @ Google. Applying AI and LLMs to human-computer interaction and accessibility. On-device machine learning. Also interested in speech science and neuroscience. Tsinghua, JHU, & MIT alum. https://caisq.github.io/
Joe Walnes @waln.es Building new stuff at Stripe.
Previously: Apple, Google, Thoughtworks, trading, founder.
Open source: websocketd, xstream, hamcrest, and othersโฆ
github.com/joewalnes
linkedin.com/in/joewalnes
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@natmas.bsky.social @natmas.bsky.social 
Sebastian @mersault.bsky.social Professor at BIFOLD & TU Berlin, research on data engineering for ML. Previously at UvA, NYU, Amazon, Twitter. Opinions are my own.
https://deem.berlin
Alan Said @alansaid.com Working on #recsys, #research, #education, #hcai, #artificialintelligence at University of Gothenburg / @naturvetenskap.bsky.social. Occasionally recording @hcai.bsky.social
Sara Hudson @saratexas.bsky.social Interim CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Nonprofit Quarterly. Writer. Auntie. Children's books stan. Pro-Black, pro-justice, pro-libraries, pro-kindness. she/her/ella
Rajiv Doshi @handle.invalid ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ โ๏ธ ๐ฝ๏ธ ๐ฅ ๐ท ๐บ ๐
Corey Haines @coreyhaines.bsky.social cats, but you can send me pictures of all animals
Aaron U. Salmon @aaronsalmon.com UX & Design leader in Eau Claire, Wis. Jovial lad, coffee/bike shop co-owner.
Standing up my own PDS. Excited about public squares that work for everyone.
Past: Obama '12 HQ, Pentagon, Northwestern Knight Lab, and a bedroom BBS in '91.
aaronsalmon.com
@theadpolancic.bsky.social @theadpolancic.bsky.social 
Rebeca Mojica @rebecamojica.bsky.social ๐ต๐ท ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐๐ฒ๐ธ
Chainmaille artisan, instructor & author.
she/her
We can chose words and actions to build people up or tear them down. Our choices are contagious.
https://linktr.ee/rebecamojica
Ben Lesh @benlesh.bsky.social RxJS lead. Dad. Art lover. Iโve worked at the NG in FAANG. 
jason huggins @hugs.bsky.social i make robots and test automation tools. (started the selenium & appium open source projects, now vibium.) living at the intersection of software, electronics, mechanics, and the occasional kinetic art project. and baking.
๐: chicagoland
Ryun @ryun1.bsky.social Writer, writing slowly. Wisconsin native, Cambodia Daily alum, UofOklahoma alum living in Chicago for the last 20 years. My name was correctly spelled in The Atlantic once. He/him.
Senator Zeitgeist @ericbertsch.bsky.social Science flies us to the moon.
Religion flies us into buildings.
Erin Drain (she/her) @erinoia.bsky.social Dot connector, west sider, haunted bungalower, thread winder, unlikely womenโs basketball super fan.
Used to do/still happy to talk about.
David Altenburg @gensym.bsky.social Chicagoan in SoCal.
Programming, rock climbing, mountain rescue.
Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
Julia Mossbridge, PhD @gocerp.bsky.social science & tech for unconditional love, hope, and future preparedness
Shelly B @shelly2893.bsky.social Progressive, retired English teacher now writer, traveler, both Star Trek ๐๐ป and Star Wars, animal lover ๐๐โโฌ. Progressive, #StillSanders. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
@brucedm.bsky.social @brucedm.bsky.social 
J. Gordon Wright @jgordonwright.com Digital director for @norc.org by day, singer with @chicagojazzdads.com by night. Luckiest dad and husband in the world. Opinions my own.
www.jgordonwright.com- Y Yoni K @yjkogan.bsky.social Bay area resident, coffee lover, software engineer, outdoor activity enjoyer
Formerly: Columbia (SC), Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston
Yael Hochberg @yhochber.bsky.social - S Sasha Laundy @sashalaundy.bsky.social
Brandon Fischer @imprblcnstrct.bsky.social Farmer, Brewer, Woodworker, Artist, Enthusiast
Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social Domestic Extremism Correspondent at NPR. 
Anna Galland @annagalland.bsky.social Democracy enthusiast. Midwest is best.
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.
@dougbradbury.bsky.social @dougbradbury.bsky.social 
Peter Tsai @petetsai.bsky.social Technologist, Photographer, & finder of things old and new... 
Ben H Kram @benhkram.bsky.social infrastructure diplomat and hot-glue gun
Doctor B. Popular @docpop.org Yo-yoer, artist, musician, and host of the Fediverse Files.
San Francisco
DocPop.org
He/Him
Mastodon is still my main account, but you can follow my Masto account here on bsky via here: bsky.app/profile/docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social
Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...
Saya (Sigh-Uh, like Maya) Hillman @sayahillman.bsky.social Keynote Speaker | Facilitator | Product & Community Creator โก๏ธ Transforms adulting from ๐๐๐คฎ๐ณ๐ซฃ to ๐ฅฐ๐๐ค๐๐ฅณ๐๐พ. Personal life, โ
. Professional life, โ
. Life of Yesโ spreader via Mac & Cheese Productionsโ ๐ง
Amanda Walker @aw90.bsky.social security & privacy geek by day, decorative artist by night.
Not interested in cryptocurrency or gofundme scams, sorry.
Krisztina "Z" Holly @krisztinaholly.bsky.social scouting undiscovered ideas and innovators at the frontier 
ษนวสษวส @weaver.bsky.social I tend complex systems, mostly by helping people.โฉ
Humankind developed and lost the bow and arrow at least twice.โจโฉ
GPT delendum est
Adelle lin @adellelin.bsky.social Artist, technologist, indie games, working on the resistance @newinc @onx @nycresistor
Faculty at Parsons and helping out at the Math Museum in NYC
adelleninja.com
JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social Artist, educator, and researcher - currently: Electronic Visualization Lab @ UIC.
PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics.
jdpirtle.com