MarchOnHarrisburg @endpacorruption.bsky.social Non-partisan, volunteer driven group that’s been fighting for 8 years to get money out of politics, end corruption, and build democracy in Pennsylvania. Working to get #MoneyOut and bring #PeopleIn to the PA state legislature. linktr.ee/marchonharrisburg
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Asha Prihar @ashaprihar.bsky.social I write newsletters & stories about Pennsylvania for @spotlightpa.org | formerly: Billy Penn/WHYY, City Cast Philly
Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social Assoc Prof Immunobiology at University of Arizona, Assoc Dean Basic science and grad studies for College of Medicine-Tucson, NSURP.org director. Long live copper!
League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org Seeking to improve government and impact public policies through education & advocacy. Also at @VOTE411 for elections info!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social Traces & trace fossils. Wrote 'Life Sculpted' (2023), 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014), 'The Evolution Underground' (2017), & more. Hubby, Trekkie, reading, cooking, craft-beer imbibing, childless cat dude, 🚫AI. 🧪🐾🦖🦕🪨⚒️🌍📚✍️ 🖖 https://ajmartinauthor.com
Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com Local news guy @ Fox 5 • Pittsburgh-area native • Bostonian emeritus
Adam Babetski @adambabetski.bsky.social Transportation and Allegheny County reporter @triblive.bsky.social | Penn State and Northwestern Medill alum
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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.)
NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social)
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Kyle Weidleman @weidleman.com Dad. Dog dad. Union man.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social Bryan William Jones
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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social - pittsburgh general nuisance
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"You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you allowed to abandon it."
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Arthropod Abbey (Abigail Hayes) @arthropodabbey.bsky.social Entomologist working to understand evolution + adaptation of arthropod phenotypes 🦗 Non-binary + disabled in STEM 🧪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿ B.S. @St Mary's College of California ⏩ Ph.D. in Entomology @ WSU ⏩ NSF Postdoctoral Fellow @ UConn ⏩ Postdoc @ UVA ⏩ Faculty @ VCU
Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social Microbiology, evolution, and bacteriophages. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Luis Zaman @luiszaman.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of Michigan in Complex Systems and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. We study coevolution with phage and self-replicating computer programs! 
Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social Wife, mother, fucking bitch. Law & light housekeeping. Not pursuant to any official duties.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social Wild animal, science writer, & author of GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals (National Geographic Books). He/him. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002/grizzled-by-jason-bittel/
Whitney Downard @wdownard.bsky.social Statehouse Reporter for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Previously with the Indiana Capital Chronicle. Proud SBU grad and cat mom. #GoBonnies 🐺
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Jess O’Keefe @jesigrac3.bsky.social If you're here for cats & politics, you've come to the right place.
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social Tweets about dev biol, neurodev genetics, random cool science + life; usually with typos, so many typos
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org Evangelist for the study of evolution in action by everyone.
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Amy Kazmin @amykazmin.bsky.social Californian now in Rome covering Italy for "L'autorevole" Financial Times. Previously FT’s woman in New Delhi + Bangkok. UC Berkeley + LSE alumn. Mera dil hai Hindustani. I sing in the rain. #Italianpolitics #india
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Kevin Keegan @mothpotato.bsky.social I study moths so YOU don't have to. Lepidopterist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. All opinions are my own.
Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social Politics reporter, guitar botherer. Luckiest hub and dad to Mr. Bugs aka The Moopus aka Mr. Moops or Mr. Moopus. Former @thedailybeast
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social research psychologist. beliefs, AI, computational social science. assistant prof at Carnegie Mellon
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social A fern and hornwort enthusiast at Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell. I study evolutionary genomics of seed-free plants.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social Covering housing, development, climate, etc. for @thecityreporter.nyc
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social Journalist. Created @thebarbedwire.com. 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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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social stop your cryin' it's alright
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Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
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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
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social The 29th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit be in February, 2026. Follow us to find out about volunteering on the Summit, speaking, or attending!
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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social Chicago journalist at Injustice Watch. 
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires
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Pittsburgh Women for Democracy @pw4d.bsky.social Pittsburgh Women for Democracy is a coalition of engaged citizens working to foster an inclusive, informed, and active community—one that advances democracy, equity, and justice.
kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social chaotic good. co-host of #pagesandprejudice pod. editor of i hate my job. writer. portrait photographer. chronically just like other girls. hot take generator.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social Media studies and communications professor
Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social "There are no answers; only choices."
– S. Lem
I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music.
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social microbiome researcher | professor at NYU and @isbscience.org | affiliate prof @uwbioe.bsky.social | ecology, evolution, and systems biology of 💩 🦠 | precision/personalized nutrition/medicine ⚕️ | 🏳️🌈 he/him | lab website: gibbons.isbscience.org
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
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Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts @pa4moderncourts.bsky.social A bipartisan organization dedicated to improving PA courts through equal access to justice, civic education, and judicial reform and modernization.
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National Democratic Redistricting Committee @democraticredistricting.com On a mission to end gerrymandering and achieve a more representative democracy. Chaired by @ericholder.bsky.social