flanur @flanur.bsky.social village flan
AngryDutchman @handle.invalid devops monkey | ex-infosec | iot | perl | video games | boats | sailing | spicy food lover | blues | rock | cat person | amateur bass player | languages: nl, en, fr, de, id | MDNI
Gɘɘʞus Maximus @cybegeek.bsky.social A professional procrastinator. Also, I’m a master of sarcasm. Just ask my imaginary friends on BlueSky ... oh yeah I write poems and make music too... kinda...
Bubblez @handle.invalid
Rob Pickering @rob.pickering.org Hills and lakes for fun.
Also dangerous with SIP, WebRTC, BGP, Javascript, ML & chainsaws.
Know too much about how the Interwebs work.
@robinjpickering on less advanced platforms
www.pickering.org for semi-professional opinions
@tabithanow.bsky.social @tabithanow.bsky.social Red Sox shoes and gardening. I voted the right way. NO DMS.
@jordy.app Certified #Laravel engineer
All opinions my own.
This is my personal account so don’t expect corpo speak here.
Hector @hctr.dev Software developer 🔨 | Self-hoster 🏡 | Lvl 1 game dev 🕹️ | Occasional writer ✏️ | Runner 🏃 | All welcome 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | He/Him
Website: https://hctr.dev
Banner image from: https://nightsky.hctr.dev
fj @fjzeit.bsky.social software professional • artisan bogan • os agnostic • webassembly • c++ • c# • x86 • python • langchain • semantic kernel • leadership • quality • bants & yarns
Lois Scheidt @loiss.bsky.social University Instructor/PhD digital technology, social media, and ethics; writer; thinker; and believer in democracy. Kind and cranky old lady who is proud of her cats.
I'm dyslexic so expect wrong words here and there. Wish Bluesky allowed editing.
philip/oliver @philipoliver.dev 👨💻 fullstack engineer, mostly frontend
🇸🇪 helsingborg, sweden
💬 Let's talk web dev!
Shawa @shawa.io 🇻🇪
he/him
Web dev / Weightlifter / Cat dad
Fran @franprince.dev Senior frontend engineer @mercadolibre ⚛️
Cat advocate 🐈
Coffee enthusiast ☕
My hovercraft is full of eels
Dominik Biedebach @bdbch.com Senior Software Engineer @tiptap.dev (YC S23)
Core Open Source Maintainer of Tiptap
https://bdbch.com/
https://github.com/bdbch
tobias @moeritz.io engineer flavored with too many design opinions
Marco Morales, PhD @marco-morales-phd.bsky.social Data Science Sherpa | Data Science Executive | faculty @ Columbia University | author
https://datascienceshop.substack.com
https://datascienceshop.com
DembeleDink @dembeledink.bsky.social
mey ⛩️ @mey.yuri.capital "nicotine's strongest soldier" | 23f | tech, anime, games, guns | ↙️↙️↙️
discord.gg/9rtyxnf4xh
twitch.tv/lizzythewitch
cezeno.com @cezeno.bsky.social Best electronic gadgets for a replay cheap price. Shop on cezeno.com
Kathy @kathyluthy.bsky.social A Texas girl that is a hot blooded Democrat. Retired Physical Education and Health teacher. I love all animals. But my Shitz Tzus are my babies. I also love my sweet cat.
Beth Marie Mole @bethmariem.bsky.social Senior Health Reporter at Ars Technica. PhD in microbiology. Microbes, infectious diseases, public health, questionable puns. (she/her)
beth.mole@arstechnica.com | bethmm_ars.02 (Signal)
Aurich | 𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍 @aurich.bsky.social Creative director for Ars Technica. Graphic designer. Maker of things. Candy cab gang. Hella cats. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. He/Him
𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍 𝕬𝖗𝖈𝖆𝖉𝖊
John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social Ars Technica's science editor. Various other things that are far less interesting.
Check my author profile on Ars for my email. jtimmer.95 on Signal.
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Kevin Purdy @thepurdman.com We’ll see.
Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social Senior Space Editor, Ars Technica. Likes rockets.
Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social Writes about consumer tech at Ars Technica, formerly Wirecutter. Podcasts about books at Overdue and sometimes about TV at Appointment Television. Dad, D&D, organized labor. He/him. @arstechnica.bsky.social @overduepod.bsky.social
Signal: andrewwrites.25
Kyle Orland @kyleor.land Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
sysengineer @sysengineer.dev I do not give Facebook permission to print anything off my computer
Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social Creator of the Sturdy Wheelbarrows podcast and the grandson who continues to be persecuted for wearing jean shorts to his grandad's funeral :(
Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social reporting, writing, editing climate change stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: jessicastarmckenzie.com/newsletter // tips: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org, jsmckenzie@protonmail.com, or jessimckenzi.01 on signal
@mattyfield.bsky.social @mattyfield.bsky.social Biosecurity Editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Tips? Pitches? Email: mfield@thebulletin.org / Signal: mattfield.34
Erik English @erik-english.bsky.social
Thomas Gaulkin @thomas.gaulk.in Multimedia Editor @thebulletin.org. Something nice for the people.
tgaulkin@thebulletin.org
signal: thomasgaulkin.01
Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social Writer: nytimes, NatGeo, sciam, etc., Disruptive tech editor @bulletinatomic. Author of THE ALMOND IN THE APRICOT | saragoudarzi.com
Signal: saragoudarzi.19
François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social Nuclear editor @thebulletin.org. Fmr MacArthur Found. & Marie S.-Curie fellow @stanfordcisac.bsky.social. Fmr engineer in US/French nuclear ind. 1st gen. Father x3. Cello. Synthbass. Kyokushin. Autism. | Tips: francois@thebulletin.org Signal: francoisdm.21
Chad Small @smallthoughts.bsky.social Atmospheric Sciences Grad student | Freelance Reporter | Presently: Climate Fellow @bulletinatomic.bsky.social | Fmr: Data Fellow @gristnews.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/chad_small
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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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
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
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
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.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/
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
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
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.
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.
Leonardo @leonardonclt.bsky.social Visual stories at @BBGVisualData, @business. Creator of CityAccessMap.com. Opinions are my own.
leonardonicoletti.com
Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social Statistician. PhD @Harvard • Masters degree in pure math • Follow me for fun, nerdy content.
Sign up to my newsletter: kareemcarr.substack.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
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal
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
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
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
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
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com {Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Director, University of Colorado Public Interest Data Science Lab, @cupids-lab.org
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
https://www.brianckeegan.com/
#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/
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
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
✍️ Sign up to my newsletter: https://tumshie.me
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
ktb @kevinbaker.bsky.social
Freddy @DEFCON @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 is just… so tired. @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
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
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com
Previously:
@princetoncitp.bsky.social
@umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow
@themarkup.org
@propublica.org
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
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