Michael Pollan @michaelpollan.bsky.social Author of ten books, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma, How to Change Your Mind and A World Appears. Website: https://michaelpollan.com/books/a-world-appears/
Kitchen Sink Technomystic @bobcluness.bsky.social Scots expat in 🇮🇸. Former record store geek. DJ & host at Repeater Radio. Dilletante Doctoral researcher of esotericism/occultism, technology and /acc. skeets full of spelling errors, BUT I WILL NEVER DELETE THEM.
Doll @dollspace.gay It/Its
Senior Agent Engineer at fieldleveltech.org
Its name is doll. The system is an adult.
Creating ethical and safe AI systems.
EGL Fashion posts!
William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social go to mastodon
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Tivadar Danka @tivadardanka.bsky.social I make math accessible for everyone. Mathematician with an INTJ personality. Chaotic good. Writing https://thepalindrome.org
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
Steve Reich @stevereich.bsky.social
Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social • Postdoc, Dept of Neurosurgery, UTHealth
• Compositionality in neural and artificial systems
Website: https://elliot-murphy.com/
Oops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social Excellence in breakfast cereal. At Any Cost
https://x.com/OA_paperclips
Bobby Campbell @bobbycampbell.net Artsy-Fartsy Mumbo Jumbo
https://weirdoverse.com/
Pertinax @aainalbion.bsky.social Thelemite, A.'.A.'. aspirant, various esoteric interests. Also environmental scientist, ecosystems modeller, amateur folk musician.
R. Michael Johnson @r-michael-johnson.bsky.social bookish hedonist, guitar player, anti-fascist. I ain't one of them AIs; I'm all natural, carbon-based, with entropy closing in fast. Please Advise?
"All human evil comes from a single cause: man's inability to sit still in a room." - Blaise Pascal
Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social Journalist and podcast host @newscientist.com. Former Tokyoite. Books: SUPERHUMAN (2018), HOW TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS (2021), TOGETHERNESS (2026). すごい!
PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social Community-driven, free, open and transparent peer-review for #preprints in #Archaeology
http://archaeo.peercommunityin.org
also @PCI_Archaeology@archaeo.social
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Alex Chen @alexchen01.bsky.social software dev, tinkering with AI tools and local LLMs. building stuff nobody asked for
beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social a dyke who hacks on things. she/xey/ey.
defnotbeka@twitter.com
beka_valentine@kolektiva.social
Nina Miolane @ninamiolane.bsky.social Assis. Prof. @ucsbece Affiliate @SLAClab Stanford Prev @Stanford @Inria @imperialcollege @Polytechnique PI @geometric_intel
http://gi.ece.ucsb.edu, Pilot
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social Studying the stream of consciousness during sleep and wakefulness
Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute
Chargé de Recherche Inserm
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (OUP)
FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social A survey of the weird, the wondrous, the wacko. Critical thinking welcomed.
Science Étonnante @scienceetonnante.com Compte officiel de la chaîne Youtube "Science étonnante"
Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social Writer, librarian by day. Author of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Thames & Hudson) and a forthcoming Arthur Machen biography
Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller.
'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Qualia Research Institute @qualiari.bsky.social QRI is a non-profit institute developing mathematical models of consciousness through innovative exploration of subjective experience.
Check out our research and unique approach at QRI.org.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
Jamais Cascio @cascio.bsky.social Futurist. Writer. Created BANI.
Lead Author, NAVIGATING THE AGE OF CHAOS.
Not as funny as he thinks he is.
Probably won't follow-back unless he knows you. Sorry.
Jason Miller / Strategic Sorcery @strategicsorcery.bsky.social I write books and teach courses about Sorcery, Mysticism, and Strategic Living.
Chaweon Koo [JAH wun] @chaweonkoo.bsky.social I’m a witch, mainly on YouTube and TikTok
Benebell @bellwen.bsky.social Author of I Ching The Oracle (2022), The Tao of Craft (2016) and Holistic Tarot (2015).
Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social http://mikejay.net
Dr Angela Puca @drangelapuca.bsky.social Academic research, lectures, tutoring on the study of magick, witchcraft, esotericism, Paganism, shamanism and all things occult.
linktr.ee/angela_symposium
Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org Taiwan enthusiast. Philosophy professor. Intellectual omnivore. Humean supertaster. https://liao.shen-yi.org/
Leonora Carrington @lcarrington.bsky.social Fan account of Leonora Carrington, a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist.
1917-2011
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
skullcaster @skullcaster.bsky.social 𒀀𒅆𒉡 𒁲𒍑𒅘𒃻𒈠𒉡
portisheadcanon @thediscocat.bsky.social armchair C O S M I C sociology, dad jokes, funk freaks Virginia, insufferable descriptors in bio, jazz director at WRIR, occasional dj, sound design, and dreams of a better possible tomorrow
Booking / inquiries: sean@loveallday.com
The Occult and Religious Research Network @occultandreligious.bsky.social The Occult and Religious Research Network brings together likeminded academics in the field of iconography and semiotics. Founded by @jerrymoorecostume.bsky.social
Link - occultandreligious.wixsite.com/network
Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social PI-Cognitive Scientist working on embodiment, self consciousness and social interactions in humans and artificial agents/ Responsible AI / Art & Science
In Lisbon & London
Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me ✨ wife, writer, engineer, gamer, coaster enthusiast, gymrat, zen existentialist, bi, trans
🦆 cofounder @smol.farm
☀️ @4cor.day - daily puzzle
🎢 @aquacoast.net - theme parks
🍑 @atmomo.xyz - memes & GIFs
Kenneth Stanley @kennethstanley.bsky.social SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. In the past: Maven CEO, Lead at OpenAI, head of basic/core research at Uber AI, professor at UCF.
Stuff I helped invent: NEAT, CPPNs, HyperNEAT, novelty search, POET, Picbreeder.
Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Plann
Maya Benowitz @cosmicfibretion.bsky.social mathematical physicist lost in a liminal space of events to take humanity toward the singularity of knowledge 📙 aspiring timelord github.com/mayabenowitz
Burny @burnytech.bsky.social On the quest to understand the fundamental mathematics of intelligence and of the universe with curiosity. http://burnyverse.com Upskilling @StanfordOnline
Rob Carlson @robcarlson.bsky.social I aspire to leave the planet in better shape than I found it.
Managing Director, Planetary Technologies: @planetaryops.bsky.social
2024 Bloomberg Green Champion
Accidental Affiliate Prof of Computer Science, @UWCSE.bsky.social
Home: synthesis.cc
Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a 20th (1908-1963) century Spanish surrealist painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
linktr.ee/varo_artbot
@peter-harrison.bsky.social @peter-harrison.bsky.social
Jeffrey Ventrella @ventrella.bsky.social ventrella.com
MIT Media Lab, artificial life, fractal art, virtual body language, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, visual math
Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social 🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Footnotes2Plato @footnotes2plato.substack.com Matt Segall, process philosopher
footnotes2plato.com
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Apophatos @apophatos.bsky.social Iamblichan, hermetic, neoplatonist, packrat, narrative projectionist, reflexive recursivist, mythonautic alchemist, budoka, dad.
PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social An archive for preprints in philosophy of science. This is an automated feed of new uploads. More info & contact: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social Project CETI is a nonprofit organization applying machine learning and robotics to listen to and translate the communication of whales in Dominica. #ProjectCETI
https://linktr.ee/ProjectCETI
Nick Jones @nicholaos.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy. Interests in Chinese Buddhism, systems sciences, metaphysics.
http://youtube.com/@thenickjones
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/metaphors-for-interdependence-9780197807194
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #synchronicity, #poetry, #therapy ♋ #mystic, #poet, #existential #counsellor (according to some)
"Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
Book a session: https://linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pecotic
Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social
Λ.S.ד @brain-fr0t.bsky.social 93
XXIII+ ΔΘ <σεραφετων>
they/it/she/έρμου
acephalic ascendant, noise-priestess, diviner {books open}, triumvirate of dead fish, walker of crooked paths, asemic sigilist and astromage
DMs open for inquiries about readings or general convo ✨
93/93
Erica Klarreich @ericaklarreich.bsky.social Mathematics and science journalist. My work has appeared in Quanta, Nature, The Atlantic, New Scientist, Science News and other publications.
Duncan Fleming @microprosopus.bsky.social I teach Hermetic Kabbalah at Rockwax Foundation and make music as War Against Sleep. Bristol, UK. He/Him https://rockwax.org.uk/ http://waragainstsleep.co.uk/
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social PhD student researching multimodal learning (language, vision, ...).
Also a linguistics enthusiast.
morrisalp.github.io
Richard Kaczynski @richardkaczynski.bsky.social Globe-trotting author, scholar, speaker, statistician, prog rock keyboardist, pumpkin carver & research scientist.
Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social What I do not understand, I can still create. -- unknown アメリカで大学教員やっています.いつもヘンなことばかり考えています.意識低い系.
Jessie Peterson @quothalinguist.bsky.social Conlanger, co-host of LangTime Studio, and co-creator of languages appearing in Shadow and Bone, Dune, Elemental, and more
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Sam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social GeoAI, Climate, Remote Sensing, Generative AI and more!
@kenkahn.bsky.social @kenkahn.bsky.social
Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us Science's boldest ideas decoded by the brightest living thinkers and writers.
Read and subscribe today: https://nautil.us/
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Complexity Digest @cxdig.bsky.social Networking the complexity community since 1999.
Official news channel of the @cssociety.bsky.social
Edited by @cgershen.bsky.social
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Closer to Truth @closertotruth.bsky.social 24 seasons and counting exploring fundamental questions in Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning with the world's top thinkers and scientists.
Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections.
#complexitycat
complexitycat.org
Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social Chief Scientist at Quantinuum, ex Oxford Professor, author of Picturing Quantum Processes & Quantum in Pictures. Also, composer/musician at Black Tish, inventor of Quantum Guitar, playing duets with orchestral organ.
Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social Creating ideas, science, technology, books, companies, ...
Wolfram @wolframresearch.bsky.social Where computation meets knowledge.
Creators of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Language. Founded in 1987 by @stephenwolfram.bsky.social
Marco Z @ocramz.bsky.social ML, λ • language and the machines that understand it • building trellis.unfoldml.com • https://ocramz.github.io
@aft-technoprog.bsky.social @aft-technoprog.bsky.social
Catherine Carr @authorcathcarr.bsky.social Author, transformation coach, Pagan theologian. Animist witch, trickster devotee. Background in clinical research, neuroscience, and political science. Believe it or not, life coaching with polytheistic deity involvement seems to work really well.
Ana Dodik @anadodik.bsky.social Graphics & Society @ MIT CSAIL. Prev. Meta, Disney Research.
Yugo. Mother of a half-dog, half-tornado, and a baby seal. 🐶🐶 she/her 🌈🌹
@amirgiles.bsky.social @amirgiles.bsky.social
AetherUltra @dadrunner.bsky.social Owner/Chief Bottle Washer - Planetwide Broadcast System (PlanetWideBS.com). Desert Storm Veteran. Part 107 UAS Drone Driver. Specialty Nitrox Diver. Lover of all people/things creative.
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Darth Manu @darthmanu.bsky.social Practicing Satanist. Ex-Catholic. Esotericism and new religious movements. Against authoritarian/manipulative cults.
"Promoteur de bullshit ésotérique et spirituel" (selon un sceptique).
https://linktr.ee/Darth_Manu
https://aigreurssataniques.eu/
Peter Bebergal @pbebergal.bsky.social I write about gods and monsters.
SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
Kat Shaw @hermeticapothecary.bsky.social * WitchOfWhispers.com
* ko-fi.com/witchofwhispers
* Maker of Ritual Scents
* She/ They
* Disabled
* Eclectic Chaos Witch
GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World @glophi.bsky.social Center for Advanced Studies, Hildesheim University
We link cross-cultural and decolonial philosophy, invite thinkers from the Global South and work at building a global database of philosophical works and practices.
http://glophi.com
Caleb Scharf @calebscharf.bsky.social Thinker, writer, sometimes both at the same time. Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA Ames. Personal account, anything expressed here is my fault alone.
Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social Editor of Science’s award-winning newsletter, ScienceAdviser | journalist | author | nerd | mom (not in that order)
Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com