James @nonzerosum.games Join a bleeding-heart liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world with win-win games at nonzerosum.games! #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Science #GameTheory #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Neil ‘Professor Neil’ Shyminsky @neilshyminsky.bsky.social College professor; feminist dad; he/him; @professorneil on TikTok; @professor_neil on Instagram
https://linktr.ee/neilshyminsky
Bruce Janz @janzb.bsky.social Philosopher, Africanist, Canadian, assorted other things
Heather Marsh @heathermarsh.bsky.social Still trying to change the world
We still need Getgee https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/code-will-rule/
Author of the Binding Chaos series https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B089JXZ8RB?binding=kindle
Patreon - discussions/content https://www.patreon.com/c/BindingChaos
Death Cab for Cutie @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social New album 'I Built You A Tower' out now on Anti Records. 2026 World Tour on sale now. deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/ibyat
Coda Story @codastory.com Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit, such as the abuse of new technologies, the rise of oligarchy and the manipulation of scientific fact.
Genetically Modified Skeptic @gmskeptic.bsky.social Drew | Religious pluralist, atheist/agnostic, wannabe educator and occasional polemicist who makes YouTube videos.
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/
Westenberg @westenberg.bsky.social Field Notes on Now.
Pamela Power @pamelapower.bsky.social Author of both fiction and non-fiction. Screenwriter & Script Editor. Loves coffee, cats, books & rugby. Has two children & one husband and lives in Johannesburg #SoberCurious #Springboks #ReadSA 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Nicholas Carr @nickatnicu.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Neonatologist at Intermountain and UofUtah. AF Veteran. My role model is Bandit Heeler. Posts are my own.
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.- M M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
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
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Andries du Toit - School of Government, UWC @andriesdutoit-uwc.bsky.social Postcolonial statecraft; contentious politics; political belonging, deliberative practice. All this, and the polycrisis. Views not my own.
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
GroundUp News @groundup.org.za GroundUp brings you #NewsThatMatters.
We report human rights stories across South Africa.
Visit https://groundup.org.za/
Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za 
amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social Word artist. Comms worker. Afro-positivist. 🍉Novelist| Ghostwriter | Musician | Editorial Director. Johannesburg, South Africa. Spoken-word acoustic album http://bit.ly/3KSbbe5
Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
Clive Simpkins @clivesimpkins.bsky.social Anti Trump-Musk-MAGA
🇿🇦 SouthAfrican veteran strategic communications coach. Still helping folks make the most of their best. Whether interpersonally, in any media, presenting, or public speaking.
Love what I do, do what I love.
#RescueCatDadx3
Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication, Journalism and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stony Brook University. Author of, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" -- out now via Princeton University Press.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Bel of many hats @belgatherial.bsky.social Wolf Mom, Cheese of Unusual Size, DM, definitely not a real archfae. 
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Seth Deacon @sethart.bsky.social Artist. You don’t know me. You should fix that. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
www.sethdeacon.co.za
@seth.deacon.art
Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social Former ANC MP; Stood against Keir Starmer in Holborn & St. Pancras; Author of ‘Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade’ amongst others. Anti-racist, anti-genocide, anti-corruption. Views my own
Fr Matthew Charlesworth SJ 🇻🇦🇿🇼🇿🇦 @mcharlesworth.fr A Jesuit Priest from South Africa 🇿🇦 currently working in Harare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼. https://linktr.ee/mcharlesworth
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Tim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social five out of eight computers on a scale of computers
Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social writer for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social covering corporate greed and the politics that enable it.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Michael Vazquez @mvazquez.bsky.social philosopher at unc-chapel hill
Rosa Terlazzo @rosaterlazzo.bsky.social Social/political philosopher but I'd rather be reading novels with a cat on my lap
Karen Frost-Arnold @kfrostarnold.bsky.social Epistemologist by day, vampire slayer by night | book: Who Should We Be Online? A Social Epistemology for The Internet (OUP Jan 2023) | she/her
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Robin McKenna @rbnmckenna.bsky.social Scottish philosopher at the University of Liverpool. Likes to do philosophy by reading about things that are more interesting than philosophy. Some sort of social epistemologist.
https://robinmckenna.weebly.com/
Justin Smith-Ruiu @smith-ruiu.bsky.social https://www.the-hinternet.com
Quill Kukla 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social Author of Sex Beyond "Yes": Pleasure and Agency for Everyone
www.quillrkukla.xyz/sex-beyond-yes
Philosopher/geographer writing about sex, language, science, and cities. Trying not to waste any time. Gender: Peep. Berlin/DC
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
Amy Goodenough @goonwuff.bsky.social (they/she)
Game Designer at Tripledot
DM at my friend’s house
Most excited person at the conference
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/
Debt Justice @debtjustice.bsky.social We’re campaigning to end unjust debt and the poverty and inequality it perpetuates. #CancelTheDebt #DebtJustice Formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign
Debt For Climate @debtforclimate.bsky.social Turn Global North Climate Debt into Climate Action by cancelling Global South debt to keep fossil fuels in the ground and fund a just transition!
👉🏿 Visit us at debtforclimate.org 💥
👉🏿 Support us via our crowd funder at tinyurl.com/DonateD4C 💸
Ellie Anderson @ellieanderphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College | Co-host of @Overthink_pod. Phenomenology/poststructuralism, hermeneutic labor, feminist philosophy of love
Tim Dean @ockhamsbeard.bsky.social Senior Philosopher at The Ethics Centre. Honorary Associate, University of Sydney. Author of HOW WE BECAME HUMAN.
Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com (email Tobias at tobiasbuckell.com to reach me if needed)
Regina Rini @reginarini.bsky.social I teach Philosophy at York Uni in Toronto. I also write the 'Morals of the Story' column for the Times Literary Supplement. Work on norms, disagreement, and the role of tech in society.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera @j.wc.tc I’m a purple butterfly in a sky of blue & red.
I’m Dedicated to solving problems & help humanity.
Looking for collaborators, advisors, supporters, & contributors. Let’s schedule!
@i.wc.tc
A4R.net
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For more: @JayDailyUpdates.bsky.social
Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social Writer editor singer songer. Self-appointed ALT text Jello Sherriff.
Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social That guy from that thing. Too young for a Nobel Prize. THE THREE COFFIN PROBLEM out now.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Aragorn Eloff @asqus.bsky.social By day: tech coordinator for an investigative journalism non-profit. By night: anarchism, modular synths, Deleuze and Guattari, philosophy of psychedelics and vegan cupcakes. Dislike: fascists, tankies, machine learning hypsters. https://linktr.ee/asqus
Chris McMichael @vineland1984.bsky.social Researcher University of Witwatersrand
Author Shoot To Kill: Police and Power in South Africa
Noir Joy Division Burial Denis Villeneuve Michael Mann Brubaker and Phillips Thomas Pynchon Anti Fascism etc
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social I am a marine conservation biologist studying sharks and a science writer. Posts are about science and the environment, science communication, and more! He/him
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Jess Coombs @thatjess.bsky.social Lover of words, collector of stories, T-rex sympathiser.
Secretly, a couple of penguins in a sundress.
Amateur cat-herder. 
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
http://davidgraeber.institute,
http://davidgraeber.org
@museumofcare
http://a4kids.org
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Paul Smith @twitchhiker.bsky.social Making things and helping people. Mercifully free of the pressures of grace.
https://linkedin.com/in/paulsmithtech/
Sarah Rice @sarahrice.bsky.social PeopleOps nerd who thinks way too much about the future of work. About three years behind on everything I want to read. Stubbornly optimistic about humans 🌱
Clinton Armitage @clintonarmitage.bsky.social IT Nerd, Skeptic, Atheist, Secular Humanist, Liberal Democrat.
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Phila M. Msimang @msimang.bsky.social Philosopher of race, biology, and related social issues.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phila-Msimang
Nicol Hammond @sachoirgirl.bsky.social South African queer PhD music scholar gardener and cat lady
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social We live because everything else does.
—Richard Wagamese
He/him, Professor of ECE, researching hardware-software co-design of machine learning systems; 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦! Views expressed are my own.
https://rssl.ece.mcgill.ca/
Jane Ward @gentlemanjane.bsky.social Chair of UCSB Feminist Studies. Author of THE TRAGEDY OF HETEROSEXUALITY and NOT GAY. Stay tuned for THE WITCH STUDIES READER. 
Maria (⌐■_■) @thatecologist.bsky.social PhD student studying conmycorrhizal density dependence
Currently reading: A Sand County Almanac
Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
@candesskos.bsky.social @candesskos.bsky.social Philosophy lecturer. Interested in ideology, aesthetics, propaganda, and pedagogical authority. 🇿🇦
Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social Writer living on the road. AI-free. Read THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her.
monicabyrne.substack.com
patreon.com/monicabyrne