Open Source North @opensourcenorth.bsky.social Open Source North (OSN) is a one-day, regional tech conference that focuses on enterprise application development. OSN2026 will be at UST on May 28, 2026. www.opensourcenorth.com
Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
Amy Gebhardt 🚫🧊 @amygeb.bsky.social She/Her
🧑🧑🧒🧒 mom + partner
👩🏻💻 software eng leader (currently: 1Password)
😷 believer in science (currently: navigating life w/ a high-risk kid)
🎤 tech conference speaker/attendee
🧁 baker
📍 Minnesotan (from Maine)
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • 🇮🇪 & 🇺🇸 • he/him
Jordan van der Hagen @thejvandy.bsky.social Midwesternism
urban designer/photographer
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
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"
Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live The Wedge's News Leader | Tips: newsroom@wedgelive.com | signal: wedgelive.33
Support hyperlocal news: patreon.com/wedgelive
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social loves dogs, sports, memes. she/her. podcaster. "bluesky's humblest resident nailfluencer 💅" - Jerry
my heart is in the west 🌵🌊 views mine.
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Johan Farkas @jfarkas.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social Professor of Financial Accounting, Vice Dean of Programmes, co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting & Accountability, Univ of Cambridge
Founder & Chair, Cambridge Disinformation Summit
Research: IFRS, GAAP, governance, information risks
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Computational communication, social theory. Interests: Propaganda, dark political communication, the relationship between technology, truth, and knowledge
Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social Dr. Tripodi is a sociologist who studies the internet and how information flows online
www.spillab.com
Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org
Postdoc, Durham University.
Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT.
Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com Associate Professor at Hanken in Finland. I write about the consumer culture and advertising markets that allow disinformation to thrive on social media.
Author of the book "Market-Oriented Disinformation Research."
https://www.carlosdiazruiz.com
Luca Luceri @luceriluc.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor @USC-ISI
🤖 I investigate malicious activity on social media networks 🕵🏼
Scott Lucas @scottlucas.bsky.social Professor, journalist, political analyst, cynical optimist —- Public speaker via London Speakers Bureau --- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@scottlucasworldview
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com CEO Whisperer & Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Disinformation, Propaganda, Democracy; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com • Eng Fra 中文
Matt Schrader @mattschrader.bsky.social Taco Bell stan account, Phoenician by choice. Mostly tweets about China stuff, with some occasional bleating about sport or sci-fi. Opinions are not my employer's.
Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social sci-fi goth civil rights free speech tech law /
now: senior counsel @freepress & @bellagio resident working on my first book /
past: free expression @PENamerica, litigation @ACLU
www.norabenavidez.com
Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social Associate Professor in IR at @swanseauni_ppir
Work on assassination, covert action, US foreign policy, secrecy. Host on the New Books Network. Author of The Brush Contact Substack.
Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social Prof. of IR. Director, New Political Communication Unit, Royal Holloway | Co-Editor: Media, War and Conflict journal | Co-author: Strategic Narratives | Book series editor: AI Politics
Matthew Sussex @matthewsussex.bsky.social Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, SDSC @ANU. Russia / info ops / hybrid / Aus security policy / Indo-Pac. Usual disclaimers.
Magda Long @magslong.bsky.social Researching intelligence, all things covert 🕵️👀, and hybrid warfare.
Tony Ingesson @tonyingesson.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
Mike Jensen @mikejjensen.bsky.social Political Science, Information Warfare, Political Communication
Mark Jacobson @drmarkjacobson.bsky.social Historian of political and psychological warfare; Senior Fellow, The Pell Center at Salve Regina University; co-host of the Active Measures Newsletter Podcast and host of “You May Have Heard,” Army and Navy vet, and proud University of 〽️ichigan grad.
Joe McReynolds @joemcreynolds.bsky.social Japan urbanism: Emergent Tokyo (2022). China-US NatSec: China's Evolving Military Strategy (2016), China's Evolving Information Warfare (2025). 摸着石头过河, learning as I go.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of BROADCAST HYSTERIA; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER. Michigan Wolverine with a Princeton PhD.
Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com Counterterrorism | National Security | Child Safety | www.maargentino.com | 🇨🇦 Facta Non Verba
My Books:
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
Contemporary Far-Right Culture
Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT. Cultural and political histories of Silicon Valley and the internet.
Paul Lashmar @paullashmar.bsky.social Dr Paul Lashmar, Investigative Journalist, author and Emeritus Fellow at CityStGs UoL, retired Associate Professor. Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
Rūta Kazlauskaitė @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism.
Paul McGarr @paulmcgarr.bsky.social Intelligence History | Published first book on Cold War South Asia, published another on Spying in India, writing a third on Indira Gandhi & Margaret Thatcher
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Jeff Whyte @jeffwhyte.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations, Lancaster University.
Alberto Fittarelli @fittarelli.com Sr. Researcher @citizenlab.ca, Disinformation & Harassment. Fmr. Meta. Trainer: find & expose covert influence. I like doers. Opinions my own.
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Justine Underhill @justineunderhill.bsky.social I'm a journalist with a background in economics and theater. I worked as an on-air reporter at Yahoo Finance, and I later created a documentary series. My focus now is on urban design, and I was recently elected to City Council in Falls Church, VA.
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Chrissy Codes @chrissycodes.bsky.social Technical Writer| IT Support | Open Source Enthusiast| Member of the Oxford Comma Church
BekahHW @bekahhw.com I write: Code. Screenplays. Blogs. Books. | College English Teacher ➡️tech | Community Creator & Podcaster: @VirtualCoffeeIO | Keynote Speaker | momx4 | ADHD
Jim Bennett @jimbobbennett.dev World's most energetic dev rel Microsoft MVP. 🌈ally. I ❤️ Star Wars Lego & 🐻❄️. Father, husband. He/him.
Erin Mikail Staples is screaming into the void @erinmikail.bsky.social perpetual student, constantly curious ✨
devex by day, comedian by night
currently geeking out on dev experience, open source, ML, + data
🕸️ https://erinmikailstaples.com
Amanda Martin @amandamartin.bsky.social she/her | Head of devrel @Vapi_AI | dog mom 🐾 | home chef | travel fantasizer | curious dork
Chris D @chrisdemars.net 🛸 UFOs/UAPs/USOs
👣 Cryptids
👻 Ghosts
🎨 Paintball
🎣 Major League Fishing & Bass Nation Co-Angler
👉🏻 Tweets & opinions are my own 👈🏻
Portia @pkafei.bsky.social 👩🏾💻Owner of tech writing agency, DocumentWrite.dev
🐍Fan of Python
🌏World traveler
我会说普通话。
Ayu Adiati @adiatiayu.bsky.social 🤩 Tech blogger | Documentation & Open source enthusiast | Front-end developer
🥰 Documentation & Monthly Challenge Team Lead @VirtualCoffeeIO | Moderator @ DEV & CodeNewbie
🙋🏻♀️ Mom of 1 | 🇮🇩 based in 🇳🇱 | Love 📸 & 🧊☕️
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net The main thing = @codepen.io
Personal site = https://chriscoyier.net
Podcast = https://shoptalkshow.com
Bend, Oregon
Kathryn Grayson Nanz @kgrayson.com Senior Dev & Design Advocate at Progress Software. Front-end Engineer, UI Designer, Component Librarian. Pushing the rectangles around until they look right.
Sarah Rainsberger @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca Open source documentation & community wrangling. Bowling alley proprietess. Sings all the parts.
🚀🧑🚀Core maintainer @Astro.build
📷🐦 Bird photographer
🎼 Choir Alto
⚾ Toronto #BlueJays
💕 @jbrains.ca
🇨🇦 Summerside PEI/Minnedosa MB
Rasul Kireev @rasulkireev.com builtwithdjango.com ⋅ djass.dev ⋅ awesome.lvtd.dev ⋅ pagefresh.lvtd.dev ⋅ filebridge.lvtd.dev ⋅ askhndigests.com ⋅ gettjalerts.com ⋅ gettalentleads.com
Maxime Lamothe-Brassard @maximelb.bsky.social Founder at LimaCharlie, cyber security, ex-intelligence/Google/crowdstrike.
Whitney Champion 🍪 @whit.zip security architect / co-founder @digitaldefenseinstitute.com / co-founder Recon InfoSec
♥♥♥ == @eric.zip, nerdery, rainbows, sweatpants
she/her | mama of 3 | 🤍🙏🌿🌈🍄
unicorns.lol
https://short-stack.net
whitneychampion.com/portfolio
Christopher Luft @tekgrunt.bsky.social Co-Founder @LimaCharlie.io | Host of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast
I am interested in computer science, art & growing my own food. Working to disrupt the way cybersecurity tools and supporting infrastructure are delivered.
Claudia @signorina37.ransomnews.online behavioral #cybersecurity & reputation strategist • social engineer • OSINT/SOCMINT/HUMINT • #cyberculture • security awareness & human risk education • COBOL programmer • #nerd
🔺 co-founder @ransomnews.online
外人
https://signorina37.ch
Michael Moore @michaelmoore.ai #AI, #Cybersecurity, and other technology topics. Trying to make the world a better place. Personal account; my views only. Work: https://s1.ai/purple at @sentinelone.com
B:\a.zza @mcbazza.com I.T. geek. Does things with computers/tech.
All views are own. Don't take seriously. Or, should you?
Servant to 5x cats. He/him
You may know me as 'mcbazza' on the bird-site
Eric Capuano @eric.zip - Dad of two <3
- Co-founder Recon InfoSec
- SANS DFIR Instructor
- BlackHat Trainer
- IANS Faculty
- Trainer @digitaldefenseinstitute.com
- Blog: https://blog.ecapuano.com
- ⬡ ODESZA, Lane 8, Kasbo 🎧
- ❤ @whit.zip
Nikki Webb @nikkic360.bsky.social Happiest by or in the sea 🖤🌊 Global Channel Manager for MSSP Custodian360, part of The Cyber House Party team, Volunteer at The Cyber Helpline. Total cat lady 🖤🖤🖤🐱🐱🐱
Joe Gardiner @thecyberjoe.bsky.social Lecturer in Cyber Sec of CPS (ICS,OT, IoT) at the University of Bristol. Director and Instructor at @hacktonics.bsky.social
spencer @bsky.ethicalthreat.com 🛠️ Former Sysadmin, now Pentester | Microsoft MVP | Helping IT teams make their environment harder to attack
Pentesting -> SecurIT360
Podcast -> CyberThreatPOV
Active Directory Security Resources for IT Admins 👇
https://go.spenceralessi.com/adsecurity
Andrew Case @attrc.bsky.social Volatility Core developer, Dir. of Research Volexity, LSU Cyber
Craig Williams @craigwilliams.bsky.social I build threat intel stuff.
Taz Wake @tazwake.bsky.social DFIR & Threat Hunting Professional | Incident Responder | Certified SANS instructor | SANS Course Author | CISSP, CPP (etc) holder | I have no access to DMs.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
INTERPOL @interpol.int Connecting police & catching criminals in 196 countries for more than a century. 🕵️
Follow our success stories here. 👮♂️🚔👮♀️
✍️ Report crimes to your local police.
Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social cryptography • neuro • cloud • biscuits
ORD-DCA-NYC-BCN ✈️
kennwhite@mastodon.social
Dan Conn @danconn.dev Staff Platform Security Engineer by day, bad musician by night. Also Hacker, Coder, Runner, Feminist.
5x Marathon Runner, 2x HM, 2x 10k🏃
Personal Acc.
https://danconn.dev
Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert RC F'13, F2'17
Cryptogopher / Go cryptography maintainer
Professional open source maintainer
https://filippo.io / https://github.com/FiloSottile
https://mkcert.dev / https://age-encryption.org
https://sunlight.dev / https://filippo.io/newsletter
GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org Open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
https://grapheneos.org/
MetropleX @metroplex.bot Privacy is a Human Responsibility
Oversharing is not Caring
Priv/Acc
GrapheneOS Advocate
@grapheneos.org
Channels:
Discord: https://grapheneos.org/discord
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#community:grapheneos.org
Personal | Likes/Repost ≠ Endorsement
Tonya Riley @tonyariley.bsky.social Writing weird girl lit. Rep: @starlingliterary.bsky.social
MITRE ATT&CK @attack.mitre.org MITRE ATT&CK® - A knowledge base for describing the behavior of adversaries. Replying/Following/Reposting ≠ endorsement.
Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social Gray haired gray hat. Co-founder Veracode. Former L0pht security researcher. Builds tools to find and fix vulnerabilities in code at scale.
Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
hakan @hatr.bsky.social reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi, Signal: hakan.25
Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz ☆ Cybersecurity reporter
★ Newsletters at Risky Business
#infosec #cybersecurity
https://risky.biz
Jason Kikta @kikta.net // Somehow a CTO/CISO
// JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct
// @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor
// Former CNMF
// Retired US Marine Corps
// Personal views and invective
Rob Joyce @rgblights.bsky.social Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Thorin Klosowski @thorinklosowski.com Security and privacy activist at EFF, I work mostly on SSD | this account is mostly shitposts, auto-deletes posts every 30 or so days
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Journalist. Contact me here: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01