Kate Sills @katelynsills.com farm kid → cognitive science & computer science at UC Berkeley → computational law. Founder of CitationClerk.com?s=b
Political philosophy with a thin veneer of software engineering.
Guest speaker at Dartmouth, Stanford, SF, NYC, London, and Australia.
Locutus Tips @locutustips.bsky.social Why do you resist us? We only wish to raise quality of life.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
Jilles van Gurp @jillesvangurp.bsky.social Berlin based Dutch guy. FORMATION CTO.
http://www.jillesvangurp.com
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
By @joesondow.bsky.social
Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
15/10 Foundation @15outof10.org @weratedogs.com | making shelter dogs with medical and behavioral needs more adoptable ❤️🩹 https://links.15outof10.org
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Tim Allison @tallison314159.bsky.social Files, search, crawling, security. #ApacheTika among others...
Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social Actor, collectible, Planetary Society Board Member and AI since the 90s .
Frank(ie) Jania @fjania.com EM - Data Platform @ Shopify. ex-{GitHub, Uber, betaworks, Google, IBM}. Co-founded Out in Tech. Opinions are my own, and probably pretty dumb. (he/him) ❤️💜💙
@danielwrigley.bsky.social @danielwrigley.bsky.social 
Alamo Drafthouse @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social The best film, food, and drink since 1997.
drafthouse.com
Alex Bradley @abrad45.com Distributing L’s at Nike's #s23NYC. Formerly tumblr, silverpoint. Better at folding fitted sheets than flat sheets. #FlyEaglesFly
Bob van Luijt @bobvanluijt.bsky.social Co-Founder and CEO of Weaviate. I 😍 all things related to tech, machine learning, digital business, open-source, fashion, and music
@everysale.cvilledata.org @everysale.cvilledata.org 
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Mike Pruitt for Congress @mike-pruitt.bsky.social Husband. 👬 Veteran. ⚓️ Civil Rights Attorney. 👨🏼⚖️ Albemarle County Supervisor, Scottsville District. 🏛️ Fmr. candidate for Congress in VA-05 🇺🇸
Scott Stults @sstults.bsky.social 
Michael Cizmar @michaelcizmar.bsky.social technology veteran and entrepreneur who has founded several companies, specializing in enterprise search, AI solutions, and transformation.
Joseph Lawson @joekiller.com Computer scientist. Charlottesville, VA
https://github.com/joekiller
https://joekiller.com
Josh Devins @joshdevins.bsky.social Senior Principal Engineer at Elastic, working on Search and Machine Learning
Atita Arora @atitaarora.bsky.social Search & AI Solutions Architect | Driving Innovation in RAG, Vectors, NLP & LLM | Conference speaker
René Kriegler @renekrie.bsky.social 
Information Charlottesville @infocville.bsky.social This is one of two outlets run by Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet that seeks to put out as much information out about local and regional government as possible. Longtime Charlottesville journalist Sean Tubbs is the person behind it.
turbopuffer @turbopuffer.bsky.social {vector, full-text} search engine built on object storage. fast, cheap, trillion scale. powers Anthropic, Harvey, Notion, Cognition, and more
Travis Koshko @traviskoshko.bsky.social Award-winning chief meteorologist @ CBS19 in Charlottesville, Virginia | Penn State Meteorology alumnus | senior cat rescuer | photographer | aurora enjoyer | opinions are my own. This account is a secondary source of (non-AI) information.
Orion Weller @orionweller.bsky.social PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University. Previously: Allen Institute for AI, Apple, Samaya AI. Research for #NLProc #IR
Andrew Drozdov @mrdrozdov.com Research Scientist @ Mosaic x Databricks. Adaptive Methods for Retrieval, Generation, NLP, AI, LLMs https://mrdrozdov.github.io/
Eunsol Choi @eunsol.bsky.social assistant professor in computer science / data science at NYU. studying natural language processing and machine learning. 
benjamin @bclavie.bsky.social doing ML stuff at answer.ai / fast.ai
🇯🇵-based 🇫🇷man
Antoine Chaffin @nohtow.bsky.social 27, French CS Engineer 💻, PhD in ML 🎓🤖 — Guiding generative models for better synthetic data and building multimodal representations @LightOn
Tom Aarsen @tomaarsen.com Sentence Transformers, SetFit & NLTK maintainer
Machine Learning Engineer at 🤗 Hugging Face
Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social Ph.D. student at University of Washington CSE. NLP. IBM Ph.D. fellow (2022-2023). Meta student researcher (2023-) . ☕️ 🐕 🏃♀️🧗♀️🍳 
Sewon Min @sewonm.bsky.social UC Berkeley/BAIR, AI2 || Prev: UWNLP, Meta/FAIR || sewonmin.com
Vaibhav @vaibhavadlakha.bsky.social PhD candidate @Mila and @McGill
Interested in interplay of knowledge and language
Love being outdoors!
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net I like tokens! Leading the Olmo data team at @ai2.bsky.social with @kylelo.bsky.social // all opinions sampled from my own stochastic parrot
more at https://soldaini.net
Parishad BehnamGhader @parishadbehnam.bsky.social PhD student at McGill University and Mila — Quebec AI Institute
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
Marius Mosbach @mariusmosbach.bsky.social #NLP Postdoc at Mila - Quebec AI Institute & McGill University
mariusmosbach.com
Eugene Yan @eugeneyan.com RecSys, AI, Engineering; Principal Applied Scientist @ Amazon. Led ML @ Alibaba, Lazada, Healthtech Series A. Writing @ eugeneyan.com, aiteratelabs.com.
Dinos Papakostas @din0s.me 🧠 neural IR 📋 model evals 🏋️ lifting weights
Incredibly optimistic about the future!
𝕏: din0s_ / din0s.me
@n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social @n0riskn0r3ward.bsky.social 
Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net Sr. Research Scientist at Yahoo! / ML OSS developer
PhD in Computer Science at UC Irvine
Research: ML, NLP, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval
EiC: TMLR
Technical Chair: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV
Open Source/Science matters
https://yoshitomo-matsubara.net
Glasgow IR Group @irglasgow.bsky.social Glasgow Information Retrieval Group at the University of Glasgow
merve @merve.bsky.social proud mediterrenean 🧿 open-sourceress at hugging face 🤗 multimodality, zero-shot vision, vision language models, transformers
Aleksandr "Sasha" Petrov @apetrov.bsky.social PhD researcher (Recommender Systems) @TerrierTeam, University of Glasgow.
Ex. Senior Software Engineer @Amazon
The opinions are mine.
@macavaney.bsky.social @macavaney.bsky.social 
Hossein (Saeed) Rahmani @rahmanidashti.bsky.social PhD at UCL
@craigmacdonald.bsky.social @craigmacdonald.bsky.social 
andriy @andriymulyar.bsky.social letting humans touch latent space at nomic
Omar Khattab @lateinteraction.bsky.social Incoming asst professor at MIT EECS, Fall 2025. Research scientist at Databricks. CS PhD @StanfordNLP.bsky.social. Author of ColBERT.ai & DSPy.ai.
Charlie Clarke @claclarke.bsky.social Here for the IR laughs and the NLP fun
Yifei Yuan @yfyuan01.bsky.social Postdoc at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH & guest researcher @coastalcph | previous @CUHK Text Mining Group, working on NLP & IR
Jack McKechnie @jackmckechnie.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow.
Mounia Lalmas @mounialalmas.bsky.social Research @ Spotify
https://mounia-lalmas.blog/mounia-lalmas/
Thomas Jaenich @tjaenich.bsky.social PhD student @uogterrierteam.bsky.social, University of Glasgow.
Ferdinand Schlatt @fschlatt.bsky.social PhD Student, efficient and effective neural IR models 🧠🔎
Lukas Gienapp @lgnp.bsky.social AI engineer @ Seltz; ML/IR research @ hessianAI / ScaDS.AI.
Xi Wang @xiwang-sch.bsky.social Researcher in NLP/IR at the University of Sheffield, Research interests include Conversational AI, RAG and other topics among NLP/IR.
Maik Fröbe @maik-froebe.bsky.social PhD-Student in the webis.de group. Interested in IR and NLP.
Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
Danny To Eun Kim @teknology.bsky.social PhD student @CMU LTI
NLP | IR | Evaluation | RAG
https://kimdanny.github.io
Frank T. Hopfgartner @hopfgartner.bsky.social Researcher interested in information retrieval, recommender systems, data science. General chair of ACM #cikm2023 and ACM #chiir2024
Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
Ralf Schenkel @ralfschenkel.bsky.social Professor at Trier University, interested in databases, information retrieval, semantic web, bibliographic information systems.
Martin Potthast @martin-potthast.com Professor at the University of Kassel, https://hessian.AI, and https://ScaDS.AI. Member of @webis.de
Research in information retrieval #IR, natural language processing #NLP, and artificial intelligence.
Damiano Spina @damianospina.com PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque
📍Naarm, AU
David Vos @davidvos.bsky.social Information retrieval, recommender systems and generative modelling. PhD Candidate at IRLab Amsterdam, supervised by Maarten de Rijke & Harrie Oosterhuis.
Remzi Celebi @rcelebi.bsky.social Working on #knowledgegraphs #LLMs #datacuration #bioinformatics #neurosymbolicAI #dataquality Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Abubakar Abid @abidlabs.hf.co Democratizing machine learning through Gradio, acquired by Hugging Face 🤗
Bill Ingram @waingram.bsky.social Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Virginia Tech University Libraries | Research in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, NLP, Scholarly Big Data & AI Ethics | Runner | Tennis player | Nature lover | Dad
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844
Pedro Madruga @pedromadruga.com http://pedromadruga.com • I build AI teams and ship AI products since 2018 • Group Lead AI Engineer at Karnov Group
In 🇩🇰 since 2012.
Opinions are my own.
Zhepei Wei @zhepei.bsky.social CS Ph.D. student @ UVA. ML/NLP/LLM.
https://weizhepei.com
Stephanie Jarmak @sjarmak.bsky.social Planetary Science Project Scientist for NASA funded information retrieval system the Science Explorer (ADS/SciX). JWST observations, mission design and remote sensing, numerical modeling, AI/ML and information science. I LOVE DATA 🤩
https://sjarmak.com
Steam Deck @steamdeck.com The latest news about Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED, the powerful handheld gaming PCs from the team at Valve.
Leo Boytsov @srchvrs.bsky.social Machine learning scientist and engineer speaking πtorch & C++ (ph-D CMU) working on (un)natural language processing, speaking πtorch & C++. Opinions sampled from MY OWN 100T param LM.
MJ Berends @apprxlinear.bsky.social 
SimonCW @simoncw.bsky.social 
Ben @benrules2.bsky.social 
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Pablo Mendes @ ICLR 2025 & Hiring @pablonmendes.bsky.social Senior Director AI/ML @ Upwork- C @conorlandry.bsky.social @conorlandry.bsky.social
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
@pushrax.bsky.social @pushrax.bsky.social 
Sid Probstein @sidprobstein.bsky.social Founder & CEO, SWIRL. Fractional CTO/CAIO for Startups. Agentic AI, RAG, Search + Retrieval. Opinions mine.
meekohi @meekohi.bsky.social meekohi.com
Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer The cloud you own. https://oxide.computer/bio
David Graus @graus.nu Assistant Professor in AI (Information Retrieval and NLP) at ILLC, @uva.nl & ICAI @opengov.nl Lab Manager | PhD from @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social | Treasurer @setuputrecht.bsky.social | Commissie Persoonsgegevens Amsterdam | @aiog.net | @zwaailicht.nl
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Vince Rivellino @vince-riv.bsky.social cloud engineer; weather watcher; Hokie in Hoo'ville; 🚴🏼♂️
Andrew Kornilov 🇺🇦 / 🇳🇱 @frutik.bsky.social Man with the dog
https://github.com/frutik/awesome-search
https://github.com/frutik/Awesome-RAG
Raphael Cohen @cohenrap.bsky.social Agent whisperer. Ex-NLP.
gell-mann amnesia amnesia @whatthecarp.bsky.social 
Xing Han Lu @xhluca.bsky.social 👨🍳 Web Agents @mila-quebec.bsky.social
🎒 @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Hamel Husain @hamel.bsky.social evals evals evals. https://evals.info
Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social trying to figure out what's going on here, co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social
Natalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social Charlottesville City Councilmember. Graduate of Cville City Schools & UVA. Make housing more affordable and streets safer to move Cville forward. 🚲 🌇
Nat4Cville.com