Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social I'm Nature's Deputy Editor for ecology, evolution and social science and handle papers in cog neuro, psych, and a variety of behavioral and social sciences. When I'm not working, I'm a mom (and sometimes even try to find time to play my harp or ski).
Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social Tech & human rights @cdt.org
Posts, thoughts, dreams my own.
Not Alia Bhatt
aliya-bhatia.com
Eddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social eddieyang.net
Molly Roberts @mollyeroberts.bsky.social Political Science Professor, UC San Diego
margaretroberts.net
Yin Yuan @reasonyy.bsky.social Postdoc China Data Lab, 21st Century China, UCSD|Ph.D. in Political Science, UCSD|Research in propaganda, digital politics, political communication, with a primary focus on China|elite politics|NLP|LLM| reasonyy.github.io
Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Utah. Public policy, political institutions, media and politics
Andy Schlaikjer @sagemintblue.bsky.social
Aaron Strauss @aaronstrauss.bsky.social Following the evidence to elect more Dems. Dad x2; kidney donor; baker; goalkeeper
Andreu Casas @andreucasas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication and Computational Social Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. Director of the London Social Media Observatory. UKRI Future Leader Fellow.
Peter Lorentzen @lorentzen.bsky.social Social scientist at the University of San Francisco's Economics Department. 纸上谈兵。
Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social Political Scientist at Dartmouth. Director Polarization Research Lab. According to Nate Silver: "Boring. Can't model for shit."
Patrick van Kessel @pvankessel.bsky.social Lead data scientist at WorkMoney, lover of research, politics, data science, Python and surveys. Career non-profit technologist. Formerly Pew Research Center Data Labs and NORC at the University of Chicago
Gabe Lenz @gabelenz.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley
Keng-Chi Chang @kengchichang.bsky.social UC San Diego PhD student in PoliSci & MS student in CSE
| computational social science | from Taiwan 🇹🇼 👬 🏳️🌈
| https://kengchichang.com
Eunji Kim @eunjikim.bsky.social Media scholar | Assistant Professor of Political Science @Columbia | Author of The American Mirage (PUP 2025) | Host of Media Effects Empricial Workshop (MEEW)
Igor @igorbonifacic.bsky.social Senior reporter for Engadget covering all things AI. Say hello at igor(dot)bonifacic(at)engadget(dot)com. - M Matías Piqueras @matiaspiqueras.bsky.social PhD student in Computer Science at Uppsala University working on developing computer vision models and methods relevant to the study of politics and society.
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Brad Spahn @bradspahn.bsky.social Computational Social Scientist, YIMBY, Crank
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
doğa @dogaker.bsky.social Revolutionary wanderer. Tirades about data science, tech, and metal. Principal Data Scientist at MSFT. Ex-Tweep. Alum of UPenn and McGill. Past regenerations include Doctor of Sociology. He/Him.
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social Heading the Computational Social Science group within SynoSys & ifK at TU Dresden, where we study how online information environments impact public discourse and develop alternatives that benefit democracy.
CSS-Group: https://css-synosys.github.io/
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.
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
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
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/
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
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
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
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
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
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.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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.
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
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/
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.
chris wiggins @chrishwiggins.bsky.social .edu: associate professor @columbia; adviser to the dean for AI strategy, Columbia College
.org: cofounder @hackNY;
.com: tba;
books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
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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Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com 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
MuckRock @muckrock.com The easy way to request and share public records, making government more transparent and democracies more informed.
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, 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.
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