Ilenna Jones @ilennaj.bsky.social | Cellular/Molecular-turned-Computational Neuroscientist |
| What do neurons even do?? | Neural Computation with Dendrites |
| Biophysical Optimization | AI <-> Neuro |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Kempner Institute |
| www.ilenna.com
Chongwen Wang @chongwenwang.bsky.social Theoretical Neuroscience Researcher@Harvard Engert lab
Looking for Fall2027 Neurotheory PhD positions
Interests: Statistical Physics for Networks of Real Neurons, Zebrafish, Mouse V1, Ephaptic Coupling
Searching for mesoscale structure in the brain.
Dane Carnegie Malenfant @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab
Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions
Ēka ē-akimiht
https://danemalenfant.com/
CABES @cabes.bsky.social Capacities on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Africa to promote engagement in IPBES @ipbes.net.
Funded by @iki-germany.bsky.social
Website: http://www.cabes.online
E-learning: https://elearning.cabes.online
Other: https://linktr.ee/cabes.iki
🌍🧪
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social Abolish the value function!
Adel Halawa @ahalawa.bsky.social Neuroscience PhD student at McGill
Co-supervised by Adrien Peyrache & Blake Richards
Bill Podlaski @billpod.bsky.social Comp neuro @ Champalimaud
Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social 
Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau @alexiajm.bsky.social AI Researcher at the Samsung SAIT AI Lab 🐱💻
I build generative models for images, videos, text, tabular data, NN weights, molecules, and now video games!
Rich Pang @rkp-science.bsky.social Computational neurophysicist interested in memory, dynamics, and spikes.
https://rkp.science
Stephen Grossberg @mindandbrain.bsky.social I founded the field of biological neural network models in 1957 when I was a college Freshman at Dartmouth taking introductory psychology. To see what I have discovered since then, check out my website sites.bu.edu/steveg/.
Yiğit Demirağ @yigit.ai Research Scientist at Google. PhD from ETH Zürich. Exotic AI architectures and silicon.
👾 Zürich, Switzerland
Arna Ghosh @arnaghosh.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google Research, working on Bio-inspired AI • PhD at Mila & McGill University, Vanier scholar • Ex-RealityLabs, Meta AI • Comedy+Cricket enthusiast
David Lipshutz @lipshutz.bsky.social Studying neural computation • Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine • lipshutzlab.com
Idris Sunmola @idris1.bsky.social Johns Hopkins CS PhD student.
#MedicalRobotics #ComputerVision #DeepLearning #Guitar
Massimo Caccia @masscaccia.bsky.social Research Scientist at ServiceNow
Gradient-descent enthusiast building LLM agents.
Formerly Mila, Deepmind, Amazon, ElemenAI, Spotify
Michelle Lin is @NeurIPS2024 (and new to bsky!) she/her @mchll-ln.bsky.social ML for remote sensing @Mila_Quebec * UdeM x McGill CS alum
Interests: Responsible ML for climate & societal impacts, STS, FATE, AI Ethics & Safety
prev: SSofCS lab
📍🇨🇦 Montreal (allegedly)
TW: @XMichellelinX
https://mchll-ln.github.io/
James Allingham @jamesallingham.bsky.social Research Scientist @GoogleDeepMind | Organiser @DeepIndaba | Machine Learning PhD @CambridgeMLG | 🇿🇦
COSYNE @cosynemeeting.bsky.social Computational & Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference
11-16 March 2027, Montreal, QC, Canada
Here too:
🧠Instagram: @cosynemeeting
🧠X: @CosyneMeeting
🧠Neuromatch.social: @CosyneMeeting
Léo Boisvert @leo-boisvert.bsky.social PhD student @ MILA, ServiceNow Research
Mehar Bhatia @meharbhatia.bsky.social PhD Student at MILA/McGill University with Prof. Siva Reddy and Prof. Vered Shwartz. Previously UBC-CS.
Studying societal impacts of AI, alignment and safety.
Based in Montreal🇨🇦
Adam Tupper @adamtupper.com PhD candidate in ML/AI (medical image analysis and federated learning) at Mila and Université Laval, Québec.
Jerremy Holland @jerremy.bsky.social Director of AI Research at Apple. Board Chair for Partnership on AI. Photographer. Musician.
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Muawiz Chaudhary @muawizc.bsky.social Mila
I do work in Computer Vision, Science For Deep Learning
Lookin to go to grad school 
Christian Laforte @chrlaf.bsky.social ML Engineer at NVIDIA. Previously: Stealth GPU startup; Stability AI; AMD; Autodesk; CEO of 2 startups (3D + AI). Toronto, Canada
Kim Stachenfeld, PhD @neurokim.bsky.social Neuro + AI Research Scientist at DeepMind; Affiliate Professor at Columbia Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.
Likes studying learning+memory, hippocampi, and other things brains have and do, too.
she/her.
@omarreid.bsky.social @omarreid.bsky.social 
Salim Masoud Said @salimosaid.bsky.social 
Far Away Football @farawayfootball.bsky.social Exploring football + far away places | An ever-evolving labor of love by @mattheweide.bsky.social
Gramsci ZA @gramsci.bsky.social Video content junkie, bubble blower, dad, grumpy guy 🇿🇦
NUFC, amaBakabaka, Bulls & Boks. ML (O)
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
Silverhorse @silverhorse00.bsky.social There's a season for everything
Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social Human large language model based at Cornell University
www.ddekadt.com
Yang-Yang Zhou 周泱泱 @yangyangzhou.bsky.social Assistant prof at Dartmouth studying migration, conflict, identity | co-host @scopeconditions.bsky.social | she/her
yangyangzhou.com
Francois Venter @francoisventer.bsky.social University of the Witwatersrand clinician-researcher mainly focused on HIV, obesity, and non-communicable diseases: human rights, mountains, perfect backhands.
The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
Ayomikun Kade @kadeayomikun.bsky.social A PhD student at Freya Harrison’s lab in the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
Kowo Cyril @kowo52027.bsky.social Mosquito taxonomy and Vector borne disease specialist. Enjoy playing with landscape epidemiology models for disease predictions under deforestation and climate change scenarios. Enthusiastic data science practitioner and capacity building of ECRs
Godwin Agbeka @kofiagbeka.bsky.social Grad Student at Vanderbilt University
2024 Visiting Scholar @peiferlabunc.bsky.social
Life Science Enthusiast
Hortus Praefectus @zimbotany.bsky.social 🇿🇼 Systematics and Ecology of Zambesiaca flora.🪴🌳🌴🌲🌳
Jay Brito Querido @jbquerido.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and @umlifesciences.bsky.social
#cryoEM #RNA #Ribosomes #RNAsky #RNABiology #Science
https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/our-labs/brito-querido-lab
Cecirahim Sesay, MPH @cecirahim.bsky.social Education Specialist | Epidemiologist
📊 Biostatistics
⚕️ Health Psychology
🧠 Behavioural Epidemiology
📚 Graduate student
🇸🇱📍🇺🇲 Writer of poetry & fiction, lover of music & sci fi, avid reader, traveller, gourmet, neurodivergent, mental health advocate.
Espoir Bwenge Malembaka @esbwenge.bsky.social MD, PhD – Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University, and Center for Tropical Diseases and Global health, Bukavu, DR Congo. Interested in cholera, mpox, outbreaks, vaccines, and Barcelona football club.
Amoré 🇿🇦 @anelel.bsky.social Applied Researcher at the South African National Space Agency. Passionate about understanding near-Earth space.
Lover of nature—it's where I find my balance 🌱🧘♀️ 🌊
Views expressed here are my own.
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Adam Bradley @adambradley.bsky.social Professor of English & African American Studies @ UCLA, founding Director of the RAP Lab, writer at large @ NYT's T Magazine, author of some books. Lives in LA.
Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social Yup, same one from the bird app.
Sirry 🌍✊🏿🏳️🌈📚 @profalang.bsky.social Proud mom | Beloved wife |Cherished daughter | Irritable sister | A1 aunty | Chill friend | Relentless foe | Globally Black.
Also an accidental academic (sociologist & health services researcher) and a reluctant low level univ. admin. Views are mine.
David Crockett @dcrockett17.bsky.social Professor of Marketing, UIC (UIC United Faculty, IFT, AFT)
"Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." ~ Rev. William Coffin
David Okunlola @davescholesy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Florida State University. Interested in social and health demography and quantitative methods.
https://sites.google.com/view/david-a-okunlola/about
Thanks for stopping by! 😎
@mojubaolu.bsky.social @mojubaolu.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, African, and Women's Studies. Lover of Nigeria. Proud Grandma.
E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social Avid Reader; Afrofuturism, African fantasy, sci-fi, horror, Caribbean mythology. Dog-dad.
Writer.
Current WIP “A Call Of Bloody Things.”
Ukamaka Olisakwe @msolisakwe.bsky.social tv writer. novelist. editor. founder & eic of @iselemagazine.bsky.social
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Shade @shadyfiles.bsky.social Author of GODDESS CROWN. Book blog @ http://Coffeebookshelves.com. Korean drama addict. Rep'd by Joanna Moult at Skylark lit.
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters @clhellisen.com Writer, artist, occasional table. Cast Long Shadows (Luna Press) The Shape of Monsters (Audible, TorUK) A Million Points of Light (Audible)
Preorder The Shape of Monsters - https://geni.us/TheShapeofMonster
They/them
clhellisen.com
Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social Author | Activist | Somatic therapist | Sufi mystic
🇮🇷 🇹🇿 🇮🇳 🇦🇫 🇵🇸 🇦🇿 (my ancestors really got around)
Writes gay ghost stories with messy family feels. Posts about food, fiction, folklore, and fighting fascism.
Naomi Eselojor @naomieselojor.bsky.social Nigerian 🇳🇬 living in 🇬🇧.
Writer of speculative fiction
2026 THE CITY OF FACTORIES
2023 Utopian short story winner
Nommo Shortlisted writer
Milford Science Fiction 2024
naomieselojor.com
Dare @dsfalowo.bsky.social earthworker • chronic ills & portals • neurodivergent scribe • author of CAGED OCEAN DUB • work in F&SF, The Dark, Omenana, Baffling, Africa Risen etc • of Codex & the Sauutiverse 🏳️🌈 
Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social Lit & Spec fic writer | 🏆 Winner '25 @iselemagazine.bsky.social Poetry Prize | 2nd place '23 Dreamfoundry Contest | Runner up, '23 Valiant Scribe Poetry competition | Words: Dark Matter Magazine, Augur Magazine, Lolwe | Website: thesolitaryy.wordpress.com
Nkereuwem Albert @nkereuwxm.bsky.social author, The Bone River ( phoenix 25’) || win: Dream Foundry ‘23 || words in: omenanamag, FIYAH, Fusion Fragment and Will This Be A Problem. BSFA and Ignyte Finalist 🐍
@tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social 
Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social Overall best in purple. 🇬🇭🕷️✝️
linktr.ee/akotowaa
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social 
Moustapha Mbacké Diop @mdmoustaf.bsky.social 🇸🇳 || Medical Doctor || SFF/H Writer || FR/ENG/WO || Words in Omenana, ITAL, Fractured Lit, Haven Spec. The Year's Best African Spec Fic (2021). Africa Risen. Blackened Roots. F&SF. The Dark.|| he/him
Kevin Rigathi @formerlykevin.bsky.social Kenyan SFF writer. Podcaster. Artist.
Words in: Will This Be A Problem?, Omenana, Ojuju Magazine.
https://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2021/10/08/the-two-prophets/
Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social Semi-retired biotechnologist and virologist, interested in making vaccines, lover of 70s rock and hard SF. And good red wine. Posts are both personal and professional, and may include music and/or strong opinions. And possibly zombies.
Anuoluwa Ngozi The Playwright @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social Playwright | Literary Polymath | Historian | Founder, Akowdee Magazine and Ojuju magazine.
Words in/forthcoming in: Lolwe, Brittle Paper, Bakunawa Press, Akpata Magazine, LounLoun, Jaylit and Others.
Abdulkareem Abdulkareem @panini500bc.bsky.social A Nigerian writer and poet. 🎈
ML Kejera 😐 @mlkejera.bsky.social he/him. a The Gambian. writer. Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Recipient. Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlistee. Such a normal guy
Website: mlkejera.com
View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social I love LA. Fight for #justice. Music is life. #Filmnoir #Dodgers
Starter Packs:
Authors, Journos, Scholars fighting #fascism
https://go.bsky.app/T2Cka7x
Organizers/organizations
https://go.bsky.app/7jvn2Bj
Alt News
https://go.bsky.app/46Q5XAv
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
Dcat @dcatty.bsky.social Historian, writer, professor. I work on race, politics, sports, & pop culture in the US and South(ern) Africa. Go Sox/Pats/Cs/B's/Boks! Part-time sports broadcaster. Author of 5 books, editor of another. [All opinions my own.] Will talk or write for food.
Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration
I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers
I block fundraising (or weirder) and haters
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Jonathan Botes 🗃 @butcallmenate.bsky.social PhD candidate. Historian of gender & sexuality.- P Pamela Scully @pamelascully.bsky.social Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Charlie Robertson @frontiercharlie.bsky.social Frontier / emerging market obsessive, author The Time Travelling Economist which explains what Marx missed and when countries escape poverty from 1670 to 2070
C4ADS @c4ads.org We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
Michael Kevane @mkevane.com Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
Kennedy Wandera @kennedywandera.bsky.social
International Broadcaster. Board Chair, The Foreign Press Association, Africa.
Postgraduate, University of Leeds, UK🇬🇧
https://www.voanews.com/author/kennedy-wandera/jtjvt
George Kwaku Ofosu @gofosu.bsky.social Assistant Professor LSE Government. Research: electoral politics, political accountability, democracy, African politics
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR |