The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley. 
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Dani Gilbert @danigilbert.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Northwestern, studying hostage taking in international security. Director with Bridging the Gap, contributor to Good Authority. She/her. Hiking, biking, mostly plants 🌱 #COYS- J Jordan Gans-Morse @jgansmorse.bsky.social Poli Sci prof at Northwestern University. Research on: Russia, Ukraine, democracy, rule of law, and corruption.
Stephanie Edgerly @stephedgerly.bsky.social Professor and Assoc Dean of Research @ Northwestern's Medill School. SF Giants fan. TV watcher. Pop culture enthusiast.
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Social Psych & Institute for Policy Research Fellow @NorthwesternU; Director of the Northwestern SCIP Lab
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Shatema Threadcraft @profcraft.bsky.social Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University. Author: The Labors of Resurrection (OUP 2025) and Intimate Justice (OUP 2016).
Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social Media Matters for America is the nation’s premier media watchdog. Cited as a trusted source of information by Fox News’ “Brain Room.”
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation @harvardash.bsky.social The Ash Center is @harvardkennedy.bsky.social's hub for research and teaching on democracy.
https://ash.harvard.edu/
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social Political scientist at BCJ studying American democracy and voting rights.
Usually on a bike, beach, or backpacking trip.
An American Problem (Princeton UP) coming October 2026: https://shorturl.at/Emjgo
kevintmorris.com
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
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Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at CU Boulder. Director of the Barney Ford Lab. UC Riverside PhD. Princeton Postdoc. Dodgers fan. ⚾
Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social Powered by People
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of world’s sweetest dog. opinions mine! 🧿🦒
Verasight @verasight.io Highest-quality survey data: multi-mode recruitment / ABS, respondent verification, & focus on respondent experience.
#1 ranked Survey Panel on Trustpilot
Brittany S. @oklasotagal.bsky.social Civil rights attorney. Car enthusiast. Sports fan. Defender of democracy.
🏀 M: Thunder W: Lynx
🏈 NFL: Vikings, NCAA: Sooners
Co-host of The Thunder Gals pod!
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.
AFL-CIO @aflcio.org America's Labor Unions, representing nearly 15 million members across the country.
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics @journalrep.bsky.social The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics is the official journal of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, published by @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org.
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org The latest research in Political Science and International Relations from @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/politics
Jesse Acevedo @profejacevedo.bsky.social Associate Professor | University of Denver
https://www.J-Acevedo.com/
Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov Official account for the press office of @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom #CaliforniaForAll
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de Nachrichten, Analysen, Kommentare, Videos, Podcasts: Mehr als 500 SPIEGEL-Journalistinnen und Journalisten decken auf, setzen Themen und sorgen für Kontext.
https://www.spiegel.de/
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Hallie Shoffner @hallieshoffner.bsky.social Farmer and U.S. Senate Candidate in Arkansas
Paid for by Hallie Shoffner for Arkansas
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MJ Strawbridge @mjstrawbridge.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science at WASHU |Rutgers PhD|Black Politics, Political Psychology, Political Communication
https://www.mgstrawbridge.com
L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social Street-level journalism in Los Ángeles covering news, culture, and the taco lifestyle. “The 2020 Emerging Voice” James Beard Award winner. Est. 2006.
https://linktr.ee/LATACO
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
Become a member: kyivindependent.com/membership
Xenta @xenta.bsky.social The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything
https://x.com/Xenta777
Kyiv, Ukraine 💛💙
Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social 24, ukrainian-american
Print FPV drones like money and we’re hyperinflating
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social Host: Government That Doesn't Suck
PoliSci Prof. Official Congress e-news DB: DCinbox.com & CB8 member. Book on Parenting, Politics and Civic Ed (HowtoRaiseaCitizen.com), Political Communications & Electoral Systems.
https://dcinboxinsights.substack.com/
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
M Green @narrprof.bsky.social Communication researcher and social psychologist studying how stories change minds (narrative persuasion).
Personal account.
TJ Billard @billard.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication & Sociology at Northwestern University. Executive Director of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Author of Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere (Oxford UP, 2024).
Mariken van der Velden @marikenvelden.bsky.social Associate prof. Political Communication @VUamsterdam @FSW_VU| VENI 2019 @NWO_SSH| Polarization & Political Compromises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX6A1TeSB, Text as Data
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Sarah Shugars @shugars.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
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Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social Assistant professor of practice at the Edward R. Murrow College of Comm. Research in the intersection of women’s sport, social media & branding.Cofounder of Starting Line 1928. #commsky
Josh Braun @joshbraun.bsky.social Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press.
Mastodon: @josh@sciences.social
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus @hispaniccaucus.bsky.social The 44-Member Congressional Hispanic Caucus advocates for issues important to Hispanics via the legislative process in Congress.
https://linktr.ee/HispanicCaucus?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=44ea9eb0-1904-4887-9b00-1a4a129eb450
Democratic Hispanic Caucus Of Miami-Dade @dhcfmiami.bsky.social We are committed to electing democrats running for office, uniting the Hispanic community, and fighting to protect our democracy.
Nuestra misión es unir a los hispanos y defender la democracia apoyando a nuestros candidatos demócratas.
#OnYourSide #ATuLado
Democratic Hispanic Caucus Of Florida @hispanicdems.dhcfl.org Our mission is to elect Democrats, empower, unite, and defend Florida’s Hispanic community.
Nuestra misión es apoyar a nuestros candidatos demócratas, fortalecer, unir y defender a nuestra comunidad hispana, y nuestra democracia.
#OnYourSide #ATuLado 🇺🇸
Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social Ukrainian, Economist, Postdoctoral Researcher at KSE, organizer of Workshops for Ukraine series, #RStats
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main
Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social Former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ex-Council of Economic Advisers, Census, and Treasury. Bay Area/DC dual citizen. Personal account, all opinions my own
Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social Personal account. I support walkable, bikeable, kid-friendly communities. Associated Faculty, Poli Sci @ OSU-Cascades. Official City of Bend account: @councilormendez.bsky.social
Inola Scheel @inolascheel.bsky.social Political Science & Sociology Student @Göttingen
Data and Mushroom enthusiast 📈🍄
(They/Them)
European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science ▪ https://ecpr.eu/ ▪ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ ▪ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
Fraser McMillan @frasmcm.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish Electoral Politics @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Co-investigator @scotvoting.bsky.social
Annika Werner @profannikawerner.bsky.social Professor of Politics
University of Southampton @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
Research: Democracy, populism, attitudes and values.
Creating new spaces @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
Private: Beaches, boxing and cats.
Institut für Demokratieforschung Göttingen @ifdemgoettingen.bsky.social https://www.ifdem.de/
Theres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of Göttingen, working on political representation, party competition, voting & social groups
Stand Together for Higher Ed (STHE) @standhighered.bsky.social Stand Together for Higher Ed (STHE) is a member-driven organization open to higher ed employees in the U.S. Our work is grounded in the shared values of academic freedom, independent governance, and access to higher education. www.standtogetherhighered.org
Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU. Political Psychologist.
Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social Political Science at the University of Toronto. Elections and Voting. Immigration, Race and Ethnicity. Political Psychology. Recently, a bit of work environmental attitudes.
Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social Minnesota, data, transit/urbanism, miscellaneous ramblings
Helen Webley-Brown @helenwb.bsky.social Stanford Sociology PhD student. Recovering political scientist. Surveillance tech, local politics, policing, housing. https://helenwebleybrown.github.io/.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social Politics @ TPM // Previously @ Teen Vogue
David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com Asst Prof American University (American institutions). Fmr. asst prof ETSU & UC-Riverside & Vanderbilt post-doc CSDI. WUSTL, URI, & GWU alum. Taylor Alison Swift is my muse. www.davidryanmiller.com
Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social Culture and life in Ukraine during war.
Letters and notes from Kyiv on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/c/strategywoman
LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of the LSE Phelan United States Centre.
Read all our articles at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
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
Sydney L. Carr-Glenn, PhD @slcarr.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross| Political Scientist studying race, ethnicity, gender, political behavior, & news media | PhD: University of Michigan 〽️💙
Learn more about my work at: sydneylcarr.com!
Jessala A. Grijalva @jessalagrijalva.bsky.social Political Scientist | Multiracial Democracy & Political Power | Guinier Project Postdoctoral Fellow, Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School | www.jessalagrijalva.com | jessalagrijalva.substack.com
Sam Weinberg @samweinberg.bsky.social executive director @pathtoprogress.bsky.social
ran @katmabu.bsky.social’s campaign
some other stuff
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Rob Voigt @robvoigt.bsky.social using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems | NLP, socioling, discourse-pragmatics | asst prof at UC Davis Linguistics
https://robvoigt.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions. 
Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago
lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦄
Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author
Skeets my own.
etienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social proud husband + dad of 3 boys | Law Professor writing at the intersection of academia, justice, and the pursuit of purpose
www.thetenuretrack.com | freedompapers.substack.com
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social Writer/Organizer/Hopemonger. Read The White Pages (please) (https://thewhitepages.net). From Montana/now in Milwaukee.
"We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
The New Republic @newrepublic.com Ideas. Influence. Impact.
TNR is a leader in the continuing fight for American democracy and a must-read if you want to know the ideas impacting politics and culture today.
Follow us: https://profile.google.com/@newrepublic
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. #NAFO Fella. Author of Taking Down Trump. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple and Spotify.
Substack - tristansnell.com
Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem @burhanazeem.bsky.social Running for MA State Senate to Represent Medford, Somerville, Winchester and Cambridge | Founder Abundant Housing MA