UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social
Felix Draxler @drrelax.bsky.social Postdoc @ UCI with Stephan Mandt.
PhD @ Heidelberg University.
Generative models, Parallel Token Prediction, Free-Form Flows, Normalizing Flows
Karen Tanenbaum @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social Pottery, pets, parenting, and progessive politics
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Uwe Stender at TriadaUS
Mario Carrillo @marioecg.bsky.social artist using code to explore creativity and perception.
Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ✨NEW PROJECT✨ Support science across the country by writing an opinion piece in your hometown or local newspaper.
This account is run by @cantlonlab.bsky.social & @spiantado.bsky.social.
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Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science @JohnsHopkins,
CS Postdoc @Stanford,
PHD @EPFL,
Computational Social Science, NLP, AI & Society
https://kristinagligoric.com/
Vered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social Assistant Professor at @cs.ubc.ca and @vectorinstitute.ai working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/
Sarah Wiegreffe @sarah-nlp.bsky.social Research in NLP (mostly LM interpretability & explainability).
Assistant prof at UMD CS + CLIP.
Previously @ai2.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social
Views my own.
sarahwie.github.io
Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social CS PhD student at UT Austin in #NLP
Interested in language, reasoning, semantics and cognitive science. One day we'll have more efficient, interpretable and robust models!
Other interests: math, philosophy, cinema
https://www.juandiego-rodriguez.com/
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!
Elias Stengel-Eskin @esteng.bsky.social Postdoc @UNC working on NLP, AI, and computational linguistics. Formerly PhD student @JHU and undergrad @McGill
esteng.github.io
Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social Ph.D. student at University of Washington CSE. NLP. IBM Ph.D. fellow (2022-2023). Meta student researcher (2023-) . ☕️ 🐕 🏃♀️🧗♀️🍳
Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi.com Inventor of things.
Currently working on rePebble.com
Previously: cofounder Beeper.com, partner @ycombinator, founder @pebble
Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social Science of language models @uwnlp.bsky.social and @ai2.bsky.social with @PangWeiKoh and @nlpnoah.bsky.social. https://ianmagnusson.github.io
Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social Manchester Centre for AI FUN | Machine Learning Theory | Maths Prob & Stats | Deep Thinker | Posts/reposts might be non-deep | Carpe espresso ☕
@successar.bsky.social @successar.bsky.social
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
Sean Kuno @noboruk.bsky.social Technical Program Manager/Ex-Microsoft Research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noboruk/
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Dylan Slack @dylanslack.bsky.social Researcher at Google DeepMind, previously PhD at UC Irvine
Gabi Stanovsky @gabistanovsky.bsky.social Assistant professor at the Hebrew University.
@dheerudua.bsky.social @dheerudua.bsky.social
Alex Warstadt @alexwarstadt.bsky.social Asst Prof. @ UCSD | PI of LeM🍋N Lab | Former Postdoc at ETH Zürich, PhD @ NYU | computational linguistics, NLProc, CogSci, pragmatics | he/him 🏳️🌈
alexwarstadt.github.io
VCF SoCal @vcfsocal.bsky.social Join us at the next Vintage Computer Festival SoCal in Southern California. Subscribe for updates!
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Catarina G Belem @cgbelem.bsky.social 4th year PhD Candidate @ UCI working w/ Padhraic Smyth and Sameer Singh
Scaled Cognition @scaledcognition.com
Tamanna Hossain-Kay @tamannahossainkay.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UCI NLP
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
Yu Fei @yufei01.bsky.social
Padhraic Smyth @padhraicsmyth.bsky.social ML researcher, teacher, professor, Dad, Irish, ...
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, ...
Daniel Fried @daniel-fried.bsky.social Assistant prof at LTI CMU. Working on NLP: language interfaces, applied pragmatics, language-to-code, grounding. https://dpfried.github.io/
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.
Neal Parikh @nparikh.org https://nparikh.org
Fei Sha @feishaai.bsky.social Scientist and engineer in ai/ml
Http://feisha.org
Dhruv Batra @dhruvbatra.bsky.social Co-founder & Chief Scientist at Yutori. Prev: Senior Director leading FAIR Embodied AI at Meta, and Professor at Georgia Tech.
Michael Wick @updatetheweights.bsky.social Still mostly harmless.
David Hall @dlwh.bsky.social Research Engineering Lead at @StanfordCRFM. I do NLP and foundation model things with JAX. Previously Semantic Machines, Microsoft, Berkeley, Breeze
Kyle Cranmer @kylecranmer.bsky.social Director Data Science Institute @UWMadison, Professor of Physics,
EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science.
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Ashley Shin @hashleys.bsky.social NLP PhD student @ UCSD | NSF CS grad fellow
recommender systems, retrieval, ML 맛집
ashleyshin.org her/she
Stephan Mandt @stephanmandt.bsky.social AI Professor @UCIrvine | Formerly @blei_lab, @Princeton | #GenAI, #Compression, #AI4Science | General Chair @aistats_conf 2025 | AI Resident @ChanZuckerberg
Matt Lease @mattlease.bsky.social Professor | School of Information | U. of Texas at Austin 🤘. Amazon Scholar| Last Mile 🚚. Co-Director | NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) 🪐. Leadership | UT Good Systems (Responsible AI) 🤖. PI | Protecting Information Integrity 🗞️.
@rlongjohn.bsky.social @rlongjohn.bsky.social
Wei "Coco" Xu @cocoweixu.bsky.social Associate Professor in CS @ Georgia Tech
NLP/ML researcher
https://cocoxu.github.io/
Sherry Tongshuang Wu @sherrytswu.bsky.social Assist. Prof at CMU, CS PhD at UW. HCI+AI, map general-purpose models to specific use cases!
Peter Hase @peterbhase.bsky.social Visiting Scientist at Schmidt Sciences. Visiting Researcher at Stanford NLP Group
Interested in AI safety and interpretability
Previously: Anthropic, AI2, Google, Meta, UNC Chapel Hill
Aunty Donna @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social We made pud ✨
Join the Aunty Donna club ➡️ https://bit.ly/AuntyDonnaClub
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social Distinguished Scientist at Google. Computational Imaging, Machine Learning, and Vision. Posts are personal opinions. May change or disappear over time.
http://milanfar.org
Naren Ramakrishnan @profnaren.bsky.social Thomas L. Phillips Professor, CS@Virginia Tech. Data science, machine learning, urban analytics.
kayur @kayur.bsky.social circus geek, usable ML hipster, hot dog aficionado, gen AI @Meta (previous: design @Apple, research @GoogleAI)
@thefilmcastpod.bsky.social @thefilmcastpod.bsky.social
Daniel Lowd @lowd.cc CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Shivanshu Gupta @shivanshu-gupta.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UC Irvine, Research Intern @ai2 | Previously ASAPP Amazon LinkedIn @msftresearch IIT-Delhi
Research on In-Context Learning and LLM Agents
https://shivanshu-gupta.github.io
@alan-ritter.bsky.social @alan-ritter.bsky.social
Tal Schuster @talschuster.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind working on Gemini and Adaptive Compute LLMs
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Shikhar Murty @shikharmurty.bsky.social Final year PhD Student in Computer Science @Stanford
Work on:
- Compositionality, syntax (language structure)
- Web Agents: Synthetic data, tree search, exploration (language interpretation)
Alex Beutel @alexbeutel.bsky.social
Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com The Yacht Rock of Video Games
giantbomb.com/join
For business inquiries: giantbomb@rightclick.gg
Media: media@giantbomb.com
Nextlander @nextlander.com Vinny, Brad, and Alex play games, talk shop, and have fun. Check out the Nextlander Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and support us on Patreon!
nextlander.com
Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com video games is two words
Videos: http://guard.bike
Podcast: https://lnk.to/JeffGerstmann
Patreon: https://jeff.zone/
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Mila-Quebec.bsky.social
Co-Director @McGill-NLP.bsky.social
Researcher @ServiceNow.bsky.social
Alumni: @StanfordNLP.bsky.social, EdinburghNLP
Natural Language Processor #NLProc
Tom Hope @tomhope.bsky.social Assistant professor, research scientist | boosting scientific discovery with AI, NLP, IR, KG, HCI | @ai2.bsky.social
Jason Lee @jasondeanlee.bsky.social Associate Professor at Princeton
Machine Learning Researcher
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Congressman for #CA47. Formerly CA State Senator, @ucirvine.bsky.social law professor, @americanprogress.bsky.social policy director.
"Not some kindly professor" according to the GOP.
Official account: @congressmin.bsky.social
Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social Researcher in NLP, ML, computer music. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp & familiar to two cats. Single reeds, tango, swim, run, cocktails, מאַמע־לשון, GenX. Opinions not your business.
Gerard de Melo @gdemelo.bsky.social Professor for AI at Hasso Plattner Institute and University of Potsdam
Berlin (prev. Rutgers NJ USA, Tsinghua Beijing, Berkeley)
http://gerard.demelo.org
Mona Diab @monadiab77.bsky.social Professor & Director of Language technologies institute (LTI), CMU, and Director of R3LIT lab, Responsible AI/NLP, Applied ML, Arabic NLP, Low Resource NLP, Computational Social Science….
Jeff Hammerbacher @hammer.blue Curious
Prem Devanbu (பிரேம் தேவன்பு) @devanbu.bsky.social Husband, Dad, Software Engineering researcher at UC Davis, Humboldtian. Loves good ideas, jokes, pranks and The Great Outdoors.
Pradeep Dasigi @pdasigi.bsky.social #NLP research @ai2.bsky.social; OLMo post-training
https://pdasigi.github.io/
Akshita Bhagia @akshitab.bsky.social Research Engineer at Ai2
https://akshitab.github.io/
Yuzhe Yang @yuzheyang.bsky.social AI Prof @ UCLA | RS @ Google | PhD @ MIT
#ML, #AI, #health
https://www.cs.ucla.edu/~yuzhe
https://yang-ai-lab.github.io/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Lianhui Qin @lianhui.bsky.social NLP/ML Assistant Professor @UCSD
Adina Williams @adinawilliams.bsky.social NLP, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, AI, ML, etc.
Job currently: Research Scientist (NYC)
Job formerly: NYU Linguistics, MSU Linguistics
Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de professor for natural language processing, head of
BamNLP @bamnlp.de
📍 Duisburg, Stuttgart, Bamberg
#NLProc #emotion #sentiment #factchecking #argumentmining #informationextraction #bionlp
Quanquan Gu @quanquangu.bsky.social Professor @UCLA, Research Scientist @ByteDance | Recent work: SPIN, SPPO, DPLM 1/2, GPM, MARS | Opinions are my own
Dan Fu @realdanfu.bsky.social Incoming assistant professor at UCSD CSE in MLSys. Currently recruiting students! Also academic partner at Together AI. https://danfu.org/
Chhavi Yadav @chhaviyadav.bsky.social Machine Learning Researcher | PhD Candidate @ucsd_cse | @trustworthy_ml
chhaviyadav.org
Kenan Tang @kenantang.bsky.social CS PhD student at UCSB
AI for healthcare / LLM writing assistants / Image Editing
kenantang.github.io
Brihi Joshi @brihi.bsky.social NLP PhD @ USC
Everything language, humans, felines and music
(and an infrequent shit-poster)
brihijoshi.github.io
Muru Zhang @muruzhang.bsky.social First-year NLP PhD @ USC | Intern @ TogetherAI | Prev. UW, AWS
https://nanami18.github.io/
Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP @lchoshen.bsky.social 🥇 LLMs together (co-created model merging, BabyLM, textArena.ai)
🥈 Spreading science over hype in #ML & #NLP
Proud shareLM💬 Donor
@IBMResearch & @MIT_CSAIL
antonio vergari ⚔️ short-circuiting @nolovedeeplearning.bsky.social human being | assoc prof in #ML #AI #Edinburgh | PI of #APRIL | #reliable #probabilistic #models #tractable #generative #neuro #symbolic | heretical empiricist | he/him
👉 https://april-tools.github.io
Vaishak Belle @vaishakbelle.bsky.social AI and Science. Faculty at U of Edinburgh. Write and think on: http://www.vaishakbelle.org
Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford
Scientific Director @Aithyra
Chief Scientist @ProximaBio
ML Lead @ProjectCETI
geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, generative models, molecular design, proteins, bio AI, 🐎 🎶
Kayo Yin @kayoyin.bsky.social PhD student at UC Berkeley. NLP for signed languages and LLM interpretability. kayoyin.github.io
🏂🎹🚵♀️🥋
Tim Rocktäschel @handle.invalid Director and Open-Endedness Team Lead Google DeepMind (GDM). Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University College London (UCL), and PI of @ucldark.com. Fellow, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Aaron Schein @aaronschein.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science at UChicago
Topics: data-intensive social science, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, probabilistic ML
Proud “golden retriever” 🦮
Kareem Ahmed @kareemyousrii.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of California, Irvine | PhD from CS@UCLA
Neuro-Symbolic AI, Tractable Probabilistic Reasoning, Generative Models
kareemahmed.com
Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social Training big models at @ai2.bsky.social.