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molly ☺ @mollyyy.bsky.social UX//UI Designer in civic tech
I love pizza 🍕 and cats 😻
Carol @farmwife4life.bsky.social Married almost 4 decades, 2 kids, proud Ooma to 2 littles. We farm, raise cattle, fatten our steers and run our own Ag Business (27 years)
If you have to lie to be relevant in life, I don’t need you in mine
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Steven Rich @datab.ae just your average deaf narcoleptic man
data for @nytimes.com
wood for databae woodshop
stan for philadelphia
email: steven.rich@nytimes.com
signal: @databae.01
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social Public interest tech & media lawyer at albertsellars.law, based in Jamaica Plain, Boston. He/him
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Brooklyne @brooklyne.bsky.social 
Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life @citap.bsky.social We research the intersection of technology platforms and democratic society.
Our work produces insights that inform a digital future rooted in equality and justice.
https://linktr.ee/unc_citap
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest @propublica.org.web.brid.gy ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Todd Feathers @toddfeathers.bsky.social Freelance investigative data journalist. Writing about technology, education, and privacy.
toddfeathers.com
Institute for Quantitative Social Science @ Harvard @iqss.bsky.social Harvard's home for social science research.
Links: https://iq.juicer.page
Website: https://www.iq.harvard.edu
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Leon Yin @leonyin.org Investigative data journalist
Bloomberg News
"CTRL + F" and find out
https://inspectelement.org
Leonardo @leonardonclt.bsky.social Visual stories at @BBGVisualData, @business. Creator of CityAccessMap.com. Opinions are my own.
leonardonicoletti.com
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard • Masters degree in pure math • Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal 
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Jeremy Merrill @jeremybmerrill.com dad, a reporter, data reporter (writing about tech at The Washington Post)
I don't have digital; I don't have diddly squat.
Linguistics, NLP, news, Jews, Atlanta, crypto regs/politics, ads, fraud, etc.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
onekade @onekade.bsky.social Civil rights and liberties advocate, appreciator of nice things like democracy and the Boston Celtics. Pro-immigrant. Anti-fascist. Opinions mine.
Jeremy Bowers @jeremybowers.com Global CTO, POLITICO. Ex Washington Post, New York Times, NPR. Fond of #TheSqueezle, #TheGiblette, Becky Bowers too.
Who wants to make some soup and drink some tea?
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Sam Lavigne @lav.io https://lav.io
mike tigas @mike.tig.as currently: 👨🍼 • previously: technologist at FTC, hacker-journalist at @propublica.org, contrib at @torproject.org (Onion Browser for iOS), TabulaPDF • he/him • chicago • [personal acct]
🌐: https://mike.tig.as/
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
wells @wells.bsky.social critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI
all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan.
pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | OCEAN | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social Artist, enviro engineer & prof of Design & Media at New York University - https://tegabrain.com/ On now: https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/tega-sam-exhibition
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social CEO @projectsbyif.bsky.social founder, designer, advisor, Mum, “rebel with the right cause”, expecting more from computers…
https://projectsbyif.com
https://sarah.gold
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social
Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
bianca wylie @biancawylie.com 
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Writer, professor, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
AFK - ON SABBATICAL @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com BRB FOR A BIT. A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com.
Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues.
https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs
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Learn more: https://www.muckrock.com/
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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Meredith Rose @mrose.ink Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, copywrong, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff.
Negate the gods -- raise rocks.
She/her 🏳️🌈
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
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.
sorelle @friedler.net CS prof at Haverford, Chair @acm.org U.S. tech policy, @brookings.edu nonres Senior Fellow, former White House OSTP tech policy, co-author AI Bill of Rights, research on AI and society, @facct.bsky.social co-founder
formerly @kdphd 🐦
sorelle.friedler.net
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com
ProfJSG @profjsg.bsky.social Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
Harlan Yu @harlanyu.bsky.social Co-founder, Upturn. he/him.
Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social I teach data journalism at the University of Maryland, run OpenElections. Fan of WBB & test cricket. Posting obscure things about campaign finance, Congress & elections.
https://github.com/dwillis
https://thescoop.org
https://buttondown.com/dwillis
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com Chief Nerd @ Northwestern University Knight Lab • Project lead @ Census Reporter • Board Member @ City Bureau • Information Design • Digital Journalism • Civic Technology
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social still chasing the high that was space tw*tter circa 2018 💔
year 5 phd studying advocacy technology at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
formerly @aclum.bsky.social🗽, @stsci.edu 🛰️
laurenmarietta.github.io
Craig Gent @vivaharehills.bsky.social Author of CYBERBOSS. Work at LSE. Part of StreamArtNetwork. Critical algorithm studies, livestreaming, solidarity, labour, hybrid media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Previously Novara Media. http://c-gent.net/
https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Marielza @marielza.bsky.social Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute.
UNESCO Women in STEM Committee
Some pottery and cyanotyping
Profile picture is of my face and torso
Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
hank gerba @hankg.bsky.social phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing- L Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social Researcher and teacher. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. “The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet” out from U. Minn press. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.