asterisk labs @asterisk-labs.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research lab making the most of open data.
The UK’s first worker-owned co-operative research laboratory.
Learn more at asterisk.coop
SecureDrop @securedrop.org An open-source whistleblower submission system (https://securedrop.org/) — a project of @freedom.press
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Joe Goodman @jjgoodman.bsky.social Climate, data, visuals (not necessarily in that order) @carbonbrief.org
Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Editor and director, Carbon Brief
https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023) and When the Well Runs Dry (2026). Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
Graeme MacGilchrist @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social Oceanographer and climate scientist. Senior research fellow at U. of St Andrews.
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social Climate change, global health security, science diplomacy, and good bad futures • Yale • carlsonlab.bio • viralemergence.org • he/they
Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson @tessweiping.bsky.social postdoc @ NASA working on hydroclimate and drought 🌬️ previously @ columbia & princeton ❤ she/they
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social Climate change social scientist. Collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. Director, @ClimateSSN.bsky.social And @climatedevlab.bsky.social
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu CSSN.org personal account; reskeets NE endorsement
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
John Walke @johndwalke.bsky.social I am the Federal Clean Air Director and a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This is my personal account.
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au Australian climate researcher and advocate on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Burgeoning neo-luddite. Why am I becoming more anarchist with each passing climate disaster?
If you want to save the world: Let's have a chat.
http://www.naruresearch.com.au
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
profserious @profserious.bsky.social Technology, Software, Policy, Security, Universities, Art, Antiques, Cats. https://finkelstein.uk
Cecília do Lago @ceciliadolago.bsky.social Tropical geek & hobbit
🇧🇷 data journalist | #rstats #rspatial #ddj #data | 🎲 📊 🗺️
I cover democracy, corruption, environmental crime and inequality.
📍São Paulo / Brasília
🏆2023 SEJ & OPC |🥈Pulitzer finalist
https://linktr.ee/ceciliadolago
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social Spark is a science-driven non-profit accelerating progress in emerging, high-impact climate fields.
Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social Climate and environmental reporter for @nytimes.com, cat mom, and baker. Send me tips on Signal at MaxineJ.55
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Andrew Marshall Fagerheim @fagerheim.bsky.social PhD Student | Ocean & Climate Science | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Howard Butler @howardbutler.com Point clouds. Open source. PDAL, GDAL, Entwine, http://COPC.io, libspatialindex, and others. non-contributor corporate entity leading Hobu, Inc.
jae holzman @jael.bsky.social hi, i am a woman who writes about climate change and renewable energy. i also play music sometimes. some secret third thing.
Somini Sengupta @sominisengupta.bsky.social I write about people living on a hotter planet. Staff writer for The New York Times. Also book writer, flaneur, and personal chef to The Teenager.
Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford CISAC & Distinguished Research Fellow FPRI. Member of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board & National Academies Committee on Int’l Security and Arms Control.
B2B Champion Dodgers Totoro @ailaminad.bsky.social Pasifika. Queer. Lover of Tucson & Los Angeles. Arizona Wildcat fan. Header: Vianney Harelly. they/she/ella
@lastreetcare.bsky.social |
@nolympicsla.bsky.social
Emily Schwing @emilyschwing.bsky.social Journalist w/ lots of bylines. I really like skis and dogs. I don't really like hot weather or spiders. Go bag packed. AK-based & Arctic focused.
John J. Cullen @johncullenocean.bsky.social Professor Emeritus in Oceanography, Dalhousie University. 🇨🇦🧪🌊 I've spent a long time trying to understand and explain how the ocean works.
Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social Environment and climate reporter covering science, law & policy | Drilled, Article-14, AGU's Eos, African Arguments, The Hindu, The Continent
📍Bengaluru, India
Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.codes Co-founder, core developer, and steering council member of @napari.org
Also other FOSSy and Science-y things.
I prefer Mastodon (profile at https://fosstodon.org/@jni) but begrudgingly checking things out here. 😂
Climate Central @climatecentral.org Researching and reporting the science and impacts of climate change 🌎
Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Open Source Geospatial Foundation @osgeo.bsky.social The OSGeo is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
Matthias Mohr @mohr.ws Self-employed software engineer and consultant working on geospatial ☁ solutions. openEO, STAC and cloud-native geo. Also fixing my parents' computers. 🤪
Alex Leith @ausp.io Father, Open Geospatial Technologist, Digital Earth Architect. Auspatious: https://ausp.io
Volker Mische @vmx.cx Geo, offline/local first, decentralized web. Head of Geospatial at the IPFS Foundation. Making Noise https://github.com/pipedown/noise. Previously Protocol Labs, Couchbase. I'm bridged to ActivityPub via https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/vmx.cx
Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social Author: On The Move, about climate migration in America @fsgbooks. Reporter investigating climate @ ProPublica + New York Times, 2022 NAFellow + EMCollective fellow. Signal: 917-512-1803
Altmetric @altmetric.com We measure the attention that research outputs receive from policy documents, mainstream news outlets, Wikipedia, social media and online reference managers. We detect sentiment of Bluesky/X posts.
Come for the attention to research. Stay for the memes.
Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social climate scientist: extreme heat, health, attribution, climate in the courts. heat wave is two words. iuclimateandsociety.com
Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social climate scientist || documenting and predicting climate impacts || professor @dartmouth
https://geography.dartmouth.edu/people/justin-s-mankin
https://jsmankin.github.io/ 
Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social Ecology, theory, computers. https://carlboettiger.info - A Adam @adamg.computer Software engineer. Mostly interested in Rust, data intensive systems and cats. jlm -> tlv -> ldn.
Tyler Kukla @tykukla.bsky.social Climate-carbon dynamics from the geologic past to the near future. CDR research scientist @CarbonPlan.org. Views my own.
Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com Nuisance and shitposter
Head of @graze.social @ @flipboard.com - talk to me about building on ATProto / Bluesky!
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
Sebastian Galkin @functionth.bsky.social 
Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
indexzero @charlie.dev The Indiana Jones of Web Archeology
Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social NYU Associate Professor of Environmental Studies. Climate, animals, land use, and food systems. MatthewHayek.com
Emily Liu @emilyliu.me this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
J. Emmanuel Johnson @jejjohnson.bsky.social Expat: 🇺🇸—>🇦🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸
Data Engineer @ MARS-IMEO-UNEP
Data-Driven Geoscience:
- Computation Scientist
- GeoSpatial Data Engineer
- AI/ML Research Engineer
- MLOPs Dev
- Developer Advocate
I truly believe that software will save science!
miriam nielsen @zentouro.info urban worm farmer. ricocheting between bored and furious. currently furious. climate scientist.
i talk about climate change a lot. she/her 🏳️🌈
videos @ https://youtube.com/zentouro
@jamesabednar.bsky.social @jamesabednar.bsky.social 
Josh Moore @joshmoore.bsky.social Standardizing open bioimaging data infrastructure
Technical Director – @gerbi-gmb.de
Member & Co-Founder – @image.coop
TA1 Lead – @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social
#OSS Maintainer for @openmicroscopy.org and @zarr.dev
Milan Klöwer @milank.bsky.social Climate scientist. NERC Research Fellow @UniofOxford, prev Schmidt AI in Science; PostDoc @MIT, PhD @UniofOxford. #JuliaLang, open source, low carbon, free education, vegan, 🗻+🚲+🛥️. Cars ruin cities. *354ppm he|him
Tangled @tangled.org https://tangled.org is the next-generation social coding platform.
→ Docs: https://docs.tangled.org
→ Discord: chat.tangled.org
→ IRC: #tangled @ libera.chat
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
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
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Julia Stewart Lowndes @juliesquid.bsky.social Openscapes lead, marine ecologist, kinder & open data science advocate, #rstats RLady, dog lover, auntie
Tom Augspurger @tomaugspurger.net 
Douglas Rao @douglas-rao.bsky.social Research Scholar @ncstate-ncics.bsky.social at Asheville.
Supporting NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information & NOAA Center for #AI.
UMD Terp | NCSU Wolfpack | Interested in #SciComm #DataScience #OpenScience
Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social Environmental researcher 🌍 | data engineer | software engineer
Digital Tool Specialist @ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology https://www.ceh.ac.uk/
Own views
https://bit.ly/KitMacleod - Google Scholar
https://bit.ly/MonitoringEarth - Bsky feed
Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D
Zack Labe @zacklabe.com Climate Scientist at @climatecentral.org | PhD | Passionate about improving science communication through data-driven stories | Harrisburg, PA | https://zacklabe.com/
Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are only my own.
Mathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social Climate scientist at UMass Lowell: droughts, floods, extreme events, & climate change. IPCC WG1 AR6 lead author. Skunk cabbage fan. he/him/his. Shocked but not awed.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qWV-WIQAAAAJ&hl=e
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social Weather and climate scientist focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
dougschuster.bsky.social @dougschuster.bsky.social Earth system science data, open science, Golden Gophers, Family meteorologist.
David Brochart @davidbrochart.bsky.social Better not to start, once begun better to finish.
Steve Purves @opensci.dev Founder @curvenote.com, scribbler at https://opensci.dev, engineer, builder
Matt Patterson @mattpattclimate.bsky.social Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews and NCAS in climate science and ML. Interests in climate dynamics, jet streams and long-term prediction. Formerly at University of Reading and University of Oxford.
@aladino123.bsky.social @aladino123.bsky.social Colombiano🇨🇴. PhD (c) en Clima, Meteorología,y Ciencias Atmosféricas. Opiniones personales
Jacob Tomlinson @jacobtomlinson.dev Building RAPIDS and Dask at NVIDIA. Views are my own. he/him.
https://jacobtomlinson.dev
Graze Social @graze.social Own your algorithm.
👉 https://graze.social/
⚙️ Need product support? Skip the DMs: https://tinyurl.com/3hcabn8v
✨ Building something cool? Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/Y6UkgsFx4D
Mike Mahoney @mikemahoney218.com Helped build NYS's Forest Carbon Assessment. Currently helping build public water data infrastructure. PhD in Environmental Science.
#rstats, ML, Boston and spatial data.
Opinions my own. RTs imply causation.
https://mm218.dev
github.com/mikemahoney218
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Jaz @jaz.sh Jasmine (Jaz)
Gender Nomad
IRC made me gay
Reject drab, wear bright colors and play fast
Former Platform Engineering Lead at Bsky
28. she/her 🏳️⚧️
BSky Stats- https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
https://github.com/jazware
Frontpage @frontpage.fyi A decentralised and federated link aggregator built on the same technologies as Bluesky.
https://frontpage.fyi
Ben Dichter @bendichter.com 🧠 Building open science tools @CatalystNeuro // Dancing west coast swing around the world 🕺 // Capturing Earth's beauty from above 🚁 
Ian - Cambridge Wild turkey fanboy @ianhi.bsky.social huge fan of the local Cambridge turkeys, also like safe streets and making better scientific software. He/Him/His
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com memory safety / Rust, #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
🧔🏼♂️ general words: alilleybrinker.com
🦀 rust words: possiblerust.com
he/him
Crossref @crossref.bsky.social We are the 51 people behind the nonprofit custodian of >180 million open #DOI #metadata and relationships used billions of times monthly by just about every tool in #openscience. More at https://www.crossref.org. [PS we only follow orgs, to keep it easy!]
Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers building tools like Perma.cc & Caselaw Access Project at the Harvard Law School Library. Where
@institutionaldatainitiative.org got started.
🌐 https://lil.law.harvard.edu
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
David Gasquez @davidgasquez.com Data @ Protocol Labs.
Open Data, Open Source, Open Protocols.
Walks taker. Progressive Metal enjoyer.
davidgasquez.com
Peter Sobolewski @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social #Duke #UCSD Alum; Recovering Academic; Research IT
@jacksonlab.bsky.social; core dev @napari.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
bryan newbold @bnewbold.net oscilloscopes, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects.
protocol and standards @bsky.app. formerly archive.org
elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop