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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Ed Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social Writer/co-writer: The Christophers (2026 - now), The Spot (early 2027), Full Circle, No Sudden Move, Men in Black, the 3 Bill&Ted movies, Mosaic, Now You See Me 1&2, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Laverne&Shirley. Fiction: Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science/AI. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, Statistical Thinking, and Better Code, Better Science
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters (novel) & The World is Ours to Cherish (children’s book). Birmingham bred me, Mississippi fed me. ❤️🌍💚🌎🖤 https://www.maryannaiseheglar.com/
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