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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President American Sociological Association. Former BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social Founder/director of @RaksGeek.bsky.social. Dancer + singer-songwriter. SF/F essays. Food. Spins fire. Britain's Got Talent.
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tech blah blah
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probably on threads https://www.threads.com/@theericajoy
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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Brian Fitzpatrick @therealfitz.com Chasing Wonder, Engineer, Author, ORD Camp Instigator, Feminist. Previously: Founder & CTO of Tock, Xoogler, Ex-Apple. He/Him.
Optimizing for kindness
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debuggingteams.com
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Harper 🤯 @harper.lol post-normal person
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Leigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
Will “Available for Contracts” Smith @willsmith.fun (he/him) I make podcasts and help people build and launch their indie games. https://techpod.content.town | Cohost of the Dual Boot Diaries and The Full Nerd @PCWorld.com
I've never slapped anyone / not the actor
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Dr. Lucian Walkowicz @notnotrocketscience.com Astronomer, movement artist, & educator based in Chicago 🛸 Founder, Not Not Rocket Science ✨Co-founder, the JustSpace Alliance 🚀they/them causing mayhem
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
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Professing at Pitt
In the data
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥄❄️🐆👩🏽💻 in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 working on 🍯⬢🔭
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Byron Woodfork @byronwoodfork.bsky.social Software engineering topics, mentorship advice & movie nerd hot takes ☺️
Latest YouTube video link below 👇🏾
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Jesse Vincent @s.ly Doing AI stuff at Prime Radiant. Past lives include: keyboard.io, VaccinateCA, K-9 Mail, Request Tracker & Perl.
I can usually be found in #Berkeley
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@jesse@metasocial.com
was @obra on Twitter
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Rick Klau @rickklau.com Co-founder & CEO, Onsemble. Husband. Dad. Previously: California's Chief Technology Innovation Officer, 13+ years Google, FeedBurner. he / him.
Star Simpson @starstar.bsky.social Aviation, automation & a long list of other interests. 🇩🇪🇯🇲 Repeal the Jones Act ⛔️🚢 From Hawaii 🌺 Used to live in Iceland 🇮🇸 ég get varla talað íslensku. Eyes bigger than bookshelf.
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
Jesse von Doom @handle.invalid Mostly I live in a Zoom window.
Heraty Law @heratylaw.bsky.social former child (derogatory)
current adult (denunciatory)
future ghost (complimentary)
Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social Comics artist, illustrator and designer in Chicago. Artist for the “Let’s Make” series of comic book cookbooks. Also: I Think You're Sauceome, Shuteye, The Complete Ouija Interviews. She/her
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Chris DiBona @cdibona.bsky.social Released a few open source projects here and there. Dad, Skiiier, Nerd, Villager. 
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
aziz @texasvc.com @texasvc on all platforms
nerd in houston frequently traveling
i have the best friends
Michi the Adorable Tiny Demon @michitrota.bsky.social FilAm Feminist Foodie Firespinner. British Fantasy & 5x Hugo Award winner. Writing a book on representation, AAPI identity & power. Green America Executive Editor. She/Her. buttondown.email/MichiTrota. Repped by @lmpnk.bsky.social
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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social Slinging zines in Chicago @wildramppublishing.bsky.social.
Co-host of "Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz" podcast
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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her. 
Jeff Solin ✶✶✶✶ @jeffsolin.bsky.social Family and friend to others. Comp Sci & Making Teacher at Lane Tech. LTMakers Lab Director. Owner of Solin Systems Consulting. Fierce advocate for my students. Relentless trasher of Aspen SIS.
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Play 🪜 RADDLE: https://raddle.quest/
Borja Sotomayor @borjasotomayor.bsky.social Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
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Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social Polymath. Linux. Physics. Astronomy. Airplanes. Music. Human rights for everyone. Not in that order.
Bad Takes R Us
Be Better. Do Better.
He/Him
Steve Brown @unklesteve.com Father & Husband
US National YoYo Master
Always doing a ton of things, find them all at http://unklesteve.com- A Kjell Lindgren @astrokjell.bsky.social Husband, Father, Physician, Astronaut, Space nerd in paradise.
Conrad @conradfuhrman.bsky.social CTO, Futureman Digital (futuremandigital.com)
Hobbies: Cars, Disney, Turntables/Vinyl
Chicago
Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social Chicago gal who wears many hats:
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
📣 Pitch Your Peeps
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com CEO glowforge.com, research fellow at gail.wharton.upenn.edu, creator RobotTurtles.com. Once Google, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.
Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian and UCC pastor, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) out 8/11! REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP out now & forever! | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Also: amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
Edna @edna.bsky.social Retired USMC. Inveterate shenanigator. Texas Aggie. UChicago Maroon. Devoted Chicagoan ✶✶✶✶. Late night chair trolley luge gold medalist. Non-sufferer of fools and the unkind.
Cathy Chouinard ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ @chouinardphoto.bsky.social Artist ✶ Photographer ✶ Entrepreneur ✶ Business Owner
Powered by live music & sunshine.
Kim from Scrappy Affirmations @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social Bold Belief Builder, bringer of light, facilitator, speaker, author, creator / producer of Hot Flashes & Fierce Tales (like The Moth, but menopause-centric), death, ritual, and ceremony, flighty creative type www.scrappyaffirmations.com- J @jmegq.bsky.social @jmegq.bsky.social
Troy Henikoff @troyhenikoff.bsky.social 
Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Robin Anil @robinanil.bsky.social Technology Builder
Aaron Silvers Lining Playbook @cut.buzz Barber. Previously: IEEE-type/Fed/Tech/Teacher.
I'm a yes-and kinda dude.
Look, Feel, and Do Better💈🪒
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Mark Hayward @themarkhayward.bsky.social Full time professional comedy yo-yo man, automaton maker, dog-haver
floydwebb @floydwebb.bsky.social Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
BKE @bke613.bsky.social Performance Artist, Musician, Teacher, Designer, Traveller, Adventurer of Life 
Gabrielle Lyon @ghlyon1.bsky.social Desert born, midwest rooted
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
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.
John Tolva @johntolva.bsky.social Cities, humanities, constellations, and reefs. http://ascentstage.com
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
Big Data Energy @jmochicago.bsky.social Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Business & organizational ethnographer. Tweets = my own. Will always be up for talking about public ed and nonfiction. Fueled by Ethiopian coffee. 
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
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.
📍: chicagoland
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
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 • Neuroscientist • Development • Visual Circuits • Plasticity • 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
eszter.com
Karthik Ram @karthik.io Accelerating science https://bsky.app/profile/valency.io
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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net ATProto Community Fund; ATmosphereconf Coorganizer
DocumentCloud, Mozilla Rally and Mozilla.Social. Former AAJA board member.
pfp by @montoulieu.dev's gameboy
Russell Shilling @shilling.bsky.social ⚓️ Navy CAPT (ret), Aerospace Experimental Psychologist 🚀 | 🛸 DARPA Alum | Tech Innovation in #Education, Social Impact, & Behavioral Health | Autism Parent x2 | Views my own | 👾 https://russ-shilling.com/bluesky
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 • Director: Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement • Schapiro Fellow: Institute for Policy Research • Book: The All-Or-Nothing Marriage • Podcast: Love Factually
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
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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
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Weniger, aber besser.