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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com Computational biologist, data scientist, occasional blogger | https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/ | https://clauswilke.com/ | Opinions are my own and do not represent UT Austin.
SJSCentralTX @sjscentraltx.bsky.social Anti-racist. Слава України! Vaxxed. LGBTQIA+. Texan. Blue. Child of immigrants.🇺🇦🇩🇪🇨🇦🍁
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social Award-winning community college professor, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Immigration Movement. Alte kaker in training.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Independent journalist. Words in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, Slate, The Daily Beast, Texas Monthly etc. My debut novel “Something’s Wrong With The Girls“ will be published by Rare Bird.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Michael King @pointaustin.bsky.social Semi-retired writer, currently in Austin, defrocked academic, published over the years in the Austin Chronicle, Texas Observer, The Baffler, Houston Press, & (eons ago) the New Haven Advocate. Editor, Collected Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (ND, 1976}
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Nadia Chaudhury @nadiachaudhury.bsky.social Eater Northeast deputy dining editor & Eater NY; former Eater Austin editor & BizBash photo editor; writer & photographer; guinea pigs/cats/bunnies; NY>ATX>NY; @voxmediaunion.bsky.social
Lights Camera Austin @lightscameraatx.bsky.social Robert Sims hosts KOOP at the Movies 3-4:30 pm CT Wednesdays on KOOP Radio 91.7 FM/https://koop.org. Lights Camera Austin-branded filmmaker interviews + reviews. Plus soundtrack sets. Member of Austin Film Critics Association + Critics Choice Association.
Brandon Farmahini @brando.bsky.social Ape. Podcasts, sometimes. Director, sometimes. Producer, sometimes. LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/BrandonFarmahini
Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I live in a box of paints. She/her. Banner: a detail from Remedios Varo’s Vampiros Vegetarianos. Three vampires in fantastical golden outfits sip fruit through extra long straws.)
Skate Blanchett @rahblah.bsky.social Stay at home pet mom. Woman of athleisure. Bootstrapped health tech founder. 🏳️🌈
Believer in non-random acts of subversion. My opinions are dumb unless also voiced by a man.
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Stephanie! 💜✌🏻 @craniatology.bsky.social SATX | Environmental policy & GIS | Naturalist | 🏃🏻♀ | adventure 🐈⬛ content | TX mammal 💀 ID | TX native 🌻 enthusiast | 🐿️ bait (ask me about it sometime) | icon + banner: @BarghestBlack | she/they | https://throne.com/craniatology
Sarah Thurmond @sarahthurmond.bsky.social Native of Del Rio, Texas. Proud cat mom to Lola. Freelance editor/writer, contributing editor for Texas Highways, alum of Austin Monthly, Tennis, SI. Interests include tennis, pop culture, theater, politics, and celebrity couplings.
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Matt Wright @mattwright.bsky.social Restaurant owner in Austin, dad, hoops fan. Main interests: #rstats, data viz, Power BI, cheaper housing, Wem-V-P. (Not a frequent poster.)
Renee Babcock @renegade500.bsky.social Radical leftist scum. Academic advisor in TX.
Elder goth, nerd, cat lover. Compulsive reader. I love opera & football, hate driving & early mornings. I need coffee before I can talk in the morning.
Chaotic good.
Cassie @lavishhhloka.bsky.social ✈️🍴💃🏻
Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social Violence prevention advocate, specializing in groin strikes. 
Leigh Tenhet @lileigh.bsky.social Psychotherapist, traveler, ardent abortion supporter, Texan who votes down repression; follows most Texas skeeps
Will Baizer @baizer.bsky.social Somebody else invited me. It’s not my fault. Blame them.
Sports + Startups, VC, Data, and Coding + ✡️
Longhorn/St Louis partisan | Founded r/LonghornNation, the 4th and 5 podcast, and HornsCast | WashU & UT MBA alum
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Prominent #MuonDenier.
Born 326.33.
Was "mid-apocalyptic c" on twtr.
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Austin Sanders @austinsanders.bsky.social Journalist in Austin, TX covering City Hall, cops, housing, and local politics more generally. Currently writing for The Austin Chronicle.
Riemerville @riemerville.bsky.social Salty | #LongCovid,#POTS & #ME | Books, Music, Food, Art #ATXRE | Excuse my typos
We are living in a choose-your-own dystopian novel
Tom Thornton @tomthornton.bsky.social Austin, TX. Very occasional writer for Eater, Texas Monthly, Austin Chronicle. Mostly a real estate coach, trainer, and manager. Dad to two high schoolers. Certified Sommelier. Spurs forever.
Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social Way too much Austin FC content. Cautiously engaging in USMNT discourse again.
Gary Cox @wgarycox.bsky.social Member of La Murga de Austin and Los Verdes. I play tenor and bass trombone and sousaphone. Board game and TTRPG enthusiast. SFF fan — books, TV, and movies. Homebrewer of beer, mead, and cider. 35mm and 120 film photography.
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Austin, TX
a programmer the way a tomato is a fruit @verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru golang writer, weight lifter, friend to some, lover to most.
https://blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru
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J Marotta @jmarotta.bsky.social Very angry nerd. Texas based.
All opinions my own, and I stand by them usually.
Dave Williams @davewilliamsatx.bsky.social Senior Advisor I Coauthor, Quality as an Organizational Strategy and The QOS Field Guide I Creator, Mr. Potato Head PDSA Exercise I DavidMWilliamsPhD.com
Ophelia, again @opheliarevived.bsky.social Chronically ill queer; head full of bees.
Lawyer, but not *your* lawyer.
📍ATX —> ISO: irl friends and law adjacent buddies
She/her (most days)
🩷💜🩵 (approximately)
Basically: if we hook up, congrats! You’re gay now.
Jeb Boyt @jeboyt.bsky.social Writer, Attorney, Urbanist
Austin, Texas
Kari Lavelle @karilavellewrites.bsky.social Author of the BUTT OR FACE? series, ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE (illustrated by Bryan Collier), and WE MOVE THE WORLD (illustrated by @nabihaiderali.bsky.social)
Bob Libal @blibal.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Organizer. Immigration & criminal justice advocate. 
Marc Lippincott @marclippincott.bsky.social Austin based progressive, animation art collector, Realtor and Lawyer, not necessarily in that order. Astros, Philly Eagles, Arsenal, AustinFC, Syracuse Orange fan, also not always in that order. Ham #WB5LAW
Dan Keshet @dankeshet.bsky.social Austin urbanist
Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social Artist, photographer
ATX
kicketh out thee jammes matriarch-fornicators!
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics / herpetophile / Neotropics / Professor @UTAustin in @texasscience.bsky.social and Department of Integrative Biology / Women & Diversity In Science / Proud to be #Woke
Sara D Gore @crouton.bsky.social 
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
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📍Austin, TX
Lance Ellisor @ellisor.net science & nature zealot, avid reader, dog lover, desert mountains and rainforest aficionado, paddler, Astros fan, songwriter, lead singer of a rock band.
Austin, Texas and Arenal, Costa Rica.
my band's music and links:
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Shelley 🌱 @shelleyinaustin.bsky.social Communicator, advocate, word aficionado. Former educator. Fan of breathing, plants, and reasonable people. ATX
Karly H @karlyanne.bsky.social ATX 🏡
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Longhorn everything 🧡
Doug Freeman @dmfreeman.bsky.social Science/Tech Marketing @JonesDilworth; Music critic @AustinChronicle; editor @ATXChronthology; advisor @NanoSafe, @archmission, @projectatx6
atxwxgirl @atxwxgirl.bsky.social Storm spotter, weather geek, cloud journalist. I observe, analyze, document, & report weather & impacts.
Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social Award-winning reporter and film critic.
Veep, Austin Film Critics Association.
Bylines at Austin Chronicle. The Times, Birth.Movies.Death.
Heard on One of Us, Overhated, Certified Forgotten.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/richard-whittaker/movies
Salvador Espinoza @salvadorespinoza.bsky.social Organizing Texas with @goodwin4texas and @handsoffcentraltx. 2nd gen. Life long Texan. Austin, TX
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Zohaib “Zo” Qadri @zoforaustin.bsky.social Proudly Representing Austin City Council, D9. Progressive Democrat fighting for Austinites. Child of immigrants. 🇺🇸 🇵🇰 Proud Texas Ex.
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Josh Hinkle @hinklej.bsky.social KXAN Director of Investigations & Innovation | Host, State of Texas politics program, Cause & Effect investigative program, Catalyst podcast | Uncle x2 | Dog dad x2 | IRE President | FOIFT, Lone Star EMMY boards | Josh.Hinkle@kxan.com | bit.ly/44ksZ6f 🏳️🌈
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Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx.bsky.social I'm here because I lost a bet. Follow me for occasionally unhinged forecast content for Central Texas 
Casey Boyle @caseyboyle.fail assoc prof of rhetoric
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev Gemini. ADHD. 8th Generation Texan. Dog lover. World-class napper. Accidental Swiftie. Hamilfan af.
Soms probeer ik Nederlands te spreken.
Former Outreach Director: UniteWomen Texas
Views are my own.
Bob Ray, filmmaker and stuff @bobray.bsky.social Award eligible Austin filmmaker: ROCK OPERA, HELL ON WHEELS, TOTAL BADASS, many shorts, animation (Platypus Rex, APESH!T, Crashtoons Presents, etc.), music vids (Nashville Pussy, Riverboat Gamblers, Fuckemos), series (Odd Odyssey)… YouTube: @crashcamfilms
Roanna "Rowan" Floyd (aka Petty Davis) @roanna.bsky.social Litcom writer (Rowan Floyd). Author of TOO MUCH HEAVEN, available for preorder everywhere. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Learn more at https://linktr.ee/rowanfloyd
Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social Austin-based reporter covering Texas laws, courts and queer life, and their intersection. Currently a digital reporter for @kxan.com.
She/They NB Trans Fem🏳️⚧ | Mom of 1 human and 2 cats | Forever DM & TT wargamer
Portfolio: muckrack.com/cora-neas/
KVUE @kvue.bsky.social The latest in Austin-area news, weather, and sports
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Dr. Rich Reddick @drrichreddick.bsky.social SVP of Undergrad Ed, University of Texas at Austin. Author of Restorative Resistance in Higher Education. First-Gen higher ed scholar: mentoring, Black faculty. Co-host of KUT's Black Austin Matters. Texas Ex & HGSE alum. Posts/RT are my personal views.
Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fan of health law, religious liberty, and reproductive rights
Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social Love 🎾 and ⚽️. Watch a lot of 📼. 💚 Green. Drink 🍻. 🏳️🌈. Born in 🇻🇮, but linked to 🇻🇬.🍕 is my religion. Schreib mir auf 🇩🇪. Michigan til I die.
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