Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social Just thinking out loud.
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Rebecca Fiebrink @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social Creative AI / creative computing @ University of the Arts London. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1594-rebecca-fiebrink
Creator of https://www.wekinator.org/ for creative interactive supervised learning.
I like food too.
James Fogarty @profjayfo.bsky.social 
Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social 🎓 HCI Professor, UW CS
🛠️ Director, makeabilitylab.cs.washington.edu
♿️ Co-founder, projectsidewalk.org
🤖 Visiting Researcher, Google Research
Tzu-Sheng Kuo 郭子生 @tskuo.bsky.social PhD student @ CMU HCII
I build systems that empower people to shape AI through collaborative, deliberative, and democratic processes.
https://tskuo.github.io
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
John Gastil @jgastil.bsky.social Penn State professor who studies deliberative democracy and group decision making. Currently on sabbatical at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center. Recent books: Hope for Democracy, Legislature by Lot, and Dungeon Party (a novel).
Quan Ze Chen @cqz.name 
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social Writer and illustrator in Portland, Oregon
Open for commissions and illustration projects: arthursmid.com
Mitar @mitar.bsky.social Somewhere and everywhere between (#computer) #science, #technology, #nature and (#open) #society. He/him. Mastodon: @mitar@noc.social
Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
@danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social 
Keith Baar @musclescience.bsky.social Researching ways to improve performance, prevent injuries, and accelerate recovery.
Donnie Maclurcan @donmacca.bsky.social Passionate about equitable #postgrowth futures beyond capitalism; and matching offers and needs. Co-founder and Director of Strategy at the Post Growth Institute. He/him. Views are mine.
Brewers Fan Worldistan @nickelback.bsky.social Computing researcher aiding the resistance. Algorithms have values. If a system doesn’t work for everyone it doesn’t work.
Geoff McNeely @geoster.bsky.social Curator of Wisdom Tech. Dork All Day. Anthropreneur. BizData Analyst. Innoculated against greed and insanity. Regenerative Business Design Strategies.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
johan @johanm.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
Reid @reidpr.bsky.social 
Nouran Soliman @nouran.bsky.social PhD Candidate, HCI @ CSAIL, EECS, MIT | Online Safety & Trust | Social Computing | Social Media | AI
www.nouransoliman.com
Nilou Salehi @nilou.bsky.social hci+ai
co-founder/co-ceo @Across AI
prof @UC Berkeley
gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom
👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org
👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
Amy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social I study online communities, content moderation, and social movements. 
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/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Psychology, & Org Behavior, Stanford University
Direct, the @pascl-stanford.bsky.social, the AI for Public Benefit Lab, & co-direct @Stanfordpacs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
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
Greg GRIFFIN @gregpgriffin.bsky.social PhD, AICP. HusbandFather biking & researching safe and connected communities in the Western Cascades and Willamette Valley.
https://gregpgriffin.com
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Alex Jaffe @blinkity.bsky.social Indie game dev and design consultant. Prev. Lead Champ Designer on Riot's 2XKO, Spry Fox, Kongregate, SuperBot, UW CSE PhD. Cursed problems, player mythologies, immersive designer, game master, dad, a lot of sincerely giving a shit. alexjaffe.games
Todd Youngblood @todd.roots.coop husband, dad, technologist, and co-op MBA building open finance tools for humans and earth. counter corporate. student of the commons.
📍Rocky Mountain High
Tim Bonnemann @planspark.bsky.social Community architect/builder/special ops. Founder and chief vibe coder (stealth). San José, CA. Wannabe trail runner. German native. Vive l’Europe! Skeets my own, etc. #opensource #community #criminaljustice #learningspanish
Tao Orion @tao-orion.bsky.social Smallholder at Viriditas Farm
Designing regenerative climate-adapted systems
Via Resilience Permaculture Design - www.resiliencepermaculture.com
Instructor at OSU Permaculture (🦫)
Author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species
Kalapuya territory
Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social Contributor @the-downballot.com.
Elections, voting rights, redistricting, and maps.
Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social Author of the Nexus trilogy. Climate tech investor, author, and activist. Optimistic about the future. 
Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social CS Professor at Stanford
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
jrh @jrheling.bsky.social Nudger of complex systems. Small scale multi-species livestock farmer 🐑🐓🦃🐐. Regenerative+perennial focused. Stubborn DIY-er. Novo Collegian. Husband. Dad.
formerly @jrheling on Twitter, occasionally @jrheling@mastodon.xyz
Joe Edelman @edelwax.bsky.social 
Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social Research Scientist at the University of Washington based in Queens. Also: SFI External Applied Fellow, Harvard BKC affiliate. Collective Behavior, Statistics, etc..
Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Associate professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
Jason Snyder @cognazor.bsky.social Metamodern agrarian | Christian universalist
Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof Michigan faculty, http://www.cond.org
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. 
Eric Gilbert @eegilbert.org Professor at Michigan. On sabbatical at the Berkman Klein Center. http://eegilbert.org
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
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social 
Charlotte Jee @charlottejee.bsky.social News editor at MIT Technology Review, Londoner and all-round good time gal
Andric @andric.dev Indie software dev.
Striving to build software that’s pragmatic, ergonomic, and collaborative.
Bootstrapping https://promptbible.ai with @ideosyncretic.com to help you better manage your AI prompts
Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social Usually professoring, parenting, running, etc. Social science and design of digital public goods in online communities. Northwestern University, Chicagoland. https://communitydata.science
Sukrit Venkatagiri @sukritv.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College 👨🏽🏫 Studying how AI-generated content impacts security, privacy, and trust in institutions and each other. Previously: UW, Virginia Tech, Meta, Microsoft Research.
Website: https://www.sukritv.com
Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh @shanedkavanaugh.bsky.social Reporter at The @Oregonian | Priors: @nydailynews @crainsnewyork| Holler: skavanaugh@oregonian.com
Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social He/Him
Emergent, PhD student & Executive Director buildsoil.net
Talks about Build Soil but this is a private account separate from the nonprofit. The Icon for the account is a hand drawn chestnut wrapped up in a ribbon with the words "Build Soil" on pink
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969