bymayachen.bsky.social @bymayachen.bsky.social AI integration consultant. Self-taught. Austin, TX. Twelve years in, six on AI systems. Most companies don't have a model problem — they have a data problem. Opinions held loosely, updated often. Probably wrong about something right now.
Ashraf Aboulnaga @ashrafaboulnaga.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
https://ashraf.aboulnaga.me/
Babak Salimi @bsalimi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. https://bsalimi.github.io/
ewuuu @eugenewu.net eugenewu.net
Sam Madden @samrmadden.bsky.social MIT Professor in EECS, Co-Founder Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Dad
Heather Miller @heathermiller.bsky.social Professing computery things at CMU, doing science at Two Sigma. Co-founder & former Executive Director of the Scala Center at EPFL. Past life: artist @ Cooper Union
Ryan Marcus @handle.invalid Assistant professor at UPenn. Database systems. https://RyanMarc.us
I'm mostly on Mastodon, https://discuss.systems/@ryanmarcus
Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu At CMU, the (Blue)sky's the limit. United by curiosity and driven by passion, we reach across disciplines, forge new ground and deploy our expertise to make real change that benefits humankind.
CMU School of Computer Science @scsatcmu.bsky.social The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the world's premier institutions for CS and robotics research and education. We build useful stuff that works!
Jonathan Aldrich @jonathanaldrich.bsky.social Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, working on programming languages and software engineering. Coauthor, Programming Language Pragmatics (videos: https://tinyurl.com/PLP5vids). CTO of noteful.net ACM Publications Board member. He/him.
Zico Kolter @zicokolter.bsky.social Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. Board member OpenAI. Chief Technical Advisor Gray Swan AI. Chief Expert Bosch Research.
Dr. Claire Le Goues @clegoues.bsky.social Prof@SCS@CMU, scientist, software engineer, “heartless wench”, mama. It's pronounced "Le Gwess". Mostly academia, tech/SE, PGH. She/her
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI (Oxford). Author, "Moral AI - And How We Get There."
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
Sam Arch @samarchdb.bsky.social PhD Student in Databases @ CMU-DB
Previously a Compiler Engineer @ Apple
billions of packets @justinesherry.bsky.social I'm a member of the imperial senate on a diplomatic mision to Alderaan.
Computer networking professor. 🇺🇲❤️🇵🇹, she/her, Dr. Sherry, Mamã, working at AS8!
www.justinesherry.com
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Matei Zaharia @matei-zaharia.bsky.social CTO at Databricks and CS professor at UC Berkeley. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~matei/
Natacha Crooks @nacrooks.bsky.social CS prof at UC Berkeley. Distributed Systems and Databases. Baking, handball and football enthusiast. Avid cheese eater.
Matt Butrovich @butro.bsky.social Databaseologist
Pınar Tözün @pinartozun.bsky.social Head of Data, Systems, and Robotics Section & Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen
https://www.pinartozun.com/
https://itu-dasyalab.github.io/RAD/
http://distortedpollyanna.blogspot.com/
Will Zhang @17zhangw.bsky.social Databases PhD Student @ CMU-DB
SIGMOD/PODS Conference @sigmodconf.bsky.social ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data.
Jignesh Patel @pateljm.bsky.social Professor@Carnegie Mellon University; co-founder @ DataChat
Thorin @tmtabor.io Staff Software Engineer specializing in agents, RAG and MCP applications. Nineteen years of full-stack engineering. Open source developer on GenePattern and g2nb. Building and writing at tmtabor.io
PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB)
https://vldb.org/pvldb/
RSS Feed: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/files/rss/pvldb-rss.xml
Automated by @andypavlo.bsky.social
AI News @ainieuwtjes.bsky.social Hourly update with the latest AI headlines
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@serena666.bsky.social @serena666.bsky.social
Jeremiah Chronister @jeremiahchronister.bsky.social Operator and allocator. McKinney, Texas.
AI systems in a regulated domain, where mistakes are expensive and feedback is slow. Before that, quantitative models on live capital.
Essays every two weeks: jeremiahchronister.com
Discipline: @coachchron.com
Juan Sequeda @juansequeda.bsky.social Principal Scientist & Head of AI Lab at data.world; co-host of Catalog & Cocktails, the honest, no-bs, non-salesy data podcast. Computer Scientist. Previous Founder Capsenta. PhD UTCS. Interests: Knowledge Graphs, AI, LLMs, Data Integration & Data Catalogs
Alexander Erdl @alekusi.bsky.social Graphs are everywhere - DevRel in a world of connected data at Neo4j
Paul Kelly @paulthekelly.bsky.social Software architect and engineer with some opinions. And a new youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0ACxDQNZEZxa3SySF1mSg
Jessica Talisman @jtalisman.bsky.social Information architecture • systems thinking •
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.bsky.social Writer. First Law. Shattered Sea. The Devils. On bluesky you'll find me at @joeabercrombie.com
Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books and the Devils. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a jaded literary sewer etc. etc.
PghGrlAtHeart 🫘📎💙💛 @pghgrlatheart.bsky.social
Wan Shen Lim @wslim.bsky.social databases @ CMU-DB | capybara enthusiast | Pittsburgh | Brunei
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher 🦉
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
This spaceship does not exist @ttaships.airminded.org Bot posting strange spaceships and weird worlds. #AIArt (#midjourney) inspired by vintage scifi art. Text in post unrelated to image. Non-commercial. Owner: @airmindedai.airminded.org
Techdirt @techdirt.com A good old fashioned blog that has been covering tech, law, policy, and democracy for almost three decades now.
Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social Apache {DataFusion PMC}, Database Internals
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
Renée D. @reneed7.bsky.social Recovering news producer. 📺 Dog mom. 🐕🦺 Reunited adoptee. 💕 Mini driver. 🚘 D.C. native, but now Cleveland is home. Radical leftist scum!🏡 #Resist
Natalie Vais @nvais.bsky.social gp at spark capital ✨ databases, infra, dev tools
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Simas @paulikas.bsky.social I just want to build distributed data systems, read books, and drink tea.
Michael Hunger @mesirii.de Developer Advocacy & Labs at Neo4j.
Happy dad of 3 girls ADHD GraphAddict JavaChampion
Code http://github.com/jexp
Words http://medium.com/@mesirii
Network http://de.linkedin.com/in/jexpde
@beyondsearch.bsky.social @beyondsearch.bsky.social
Nigel Small @technige.bsky.social Programmer with a small grey beard.
I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea.
Threema ID: BH83A3XX
Deja Foxx @dejafoxx.bsky.social Digital Strategist | Repro Rights Advocate | Fmr Congressional Candidate AZ07
Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social Candidate for US Senate | Congresswoman #TX30 | Civil Rights & Criminal Attorney | Progressive | Fmr. St. Rep. HD100 | DST 1913 🐘🔥| She/Her/Ella | #TEXASTOUGH
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾
@onepx.bsky.social @onepx.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Andy Rosic @andy.social Skeptical founder building products with AI that sometimes work.
hi.andy.social- J Joe Hellerstein @joehellerstein.bsky.social Computer things @Berkeley and music things elsewhere.
Mary Holstege @mathling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Retired software engineer. Now I write programs to make art and, lately, make art with words.
Will natter on about tech in general with forays into linguistics […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@mathling, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Neo4j @neo4j.com The World's Leading Graph Intelligence Platform.
Developers: https://dev.neo4j.com/developerbsky. Our community: https://dev.neo4j.com/communitybsky
Same handle on all other platforms.
Graph Aware @graphaware.bsky.social We unify data silos and empower analysts with a connected intelligence picture that lets them answer their hardest questions.
https://graphaware.com/
Jim Webber @jimwebber.org Chief Scientist @ Neo4j
Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
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)
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert @colbertlateshow.bsky.social Catch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert weeknights at 11:35pm ET on CBS and Paramount+ 📺 #Colbert linktr.ee/colbertlateshow
Ralph Nader @nader.org The official Bluesky page of consumer advocate, author and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. (Posts by Ralph signed with -R)
Billy Sokol @lokosyllib.bsky.social Musician and Technologist
Husband and Dad- 6 Doug Balog @6nop.bsky.social Building on-prem Data Infrastructure @StackAV. Formerly ValorEp, Tulco Labs, Target, Conviva, Akamai, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (CMU)
Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com Progressive news. Verified facts.
Independent and creator-led.
🇺🇸 | 🇨🇦 • tips@acnewsitics.com
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com memory safety / Rust, #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
🧔🏼♂️ general words: alilleybrinker.com
🦀 rust words: possiblerust.com
he/him
@saramazer.bsky.social @saramazer.bsky.social
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social On Mondays Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Wednesdays he hosts The Weekly Show. Listen wherever you get your podcasts & watch on YouTube.
@fionasgram.bsky.social @fionasgram.bsky.social
Jen Shorten @ptexpat.bsky.social Food obsessed traveler. Mountain goat. Professional data nerd. All opinions are mental.
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
TheGoodParts.dev @thegoodparts.dev Links, highlights/quotes, and other additions to TheGoodParts.dev digital garden.
Web: https://TheGoodParts.dev
By @unixroot.bsky.social
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
JauntyWunderKind @jauntywunderkind.bsky.social Iteration & expansion of our mediaforms.
Embodying ourselves amid the digital.
Singing life to the new bodies electric.
To properly become connected together we must devise better forms to commune with the machine & connect w ourselves.
#BetOnTheWeb.
Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org Updates from a true open source distributed application database
trusted by thousands of successful companies for
best-in-class scalability, availability, performance
and unbeatable fault-tolerance + reliability.
(I follow my PMC)
Andrei Manakov @andection.bsky.social I’m a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Sharechat, working with high-load systems and ML infrastructure. I love reading and writing about distributed systems, performance issues, and high-load solutions.
My blog is here https://andection.substack.com
@hunterhacker.bsky.social @hunterhacker.bsky.social
M. Joel Dubinko @dubinko.consulting Editor of the Problem Solvers Digest
https://dubinko.consulting/digest/
Ian Small @ianssmall.bsky.social
CMU Database Group @db.cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Database Research Group
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/
The Pragmatic Engineer. @pragmaticengineer.com Big Tech and startups, from the inside. Highly relevant for software engineers and managers, useful for those working in tech. The #1 technology newsletter on Substack. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/about
Redowan Delowar @rednafi.com Roving amateur fumbling through software, systems, & sundry.
Engineering @Doordash/Wolt
Writing rednafi.com
Currently in Berlin, Germany
Edward Ribeiro @eribeiro.bsky.social Software Engineer. Former Amazon and DataStax, among others. Lecturer. Obsessed with Databases, Distributed systems and OSS.
ScyllaDB @scylladb.com ScyllaDB is the database for data-intensive applications that require predictable performance at scale (like @Bsky.app)!
Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social ScyllaDB | P99 CONF | "Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read" book (https://github.com/scynthiadunlop/WritingForDevelopersBook)
Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social member of Bristol Tree Forum, developer of bristoltrees.space, datasmith, maker, budding ceramicist, cruiser, XML, exist-db : kitwallace.co.uk
Miguel Rodriguez @miguelerodriguez.bsky.social Lover of music. Eater of donuts. Geek. Gamer. Equality & mental health advocate. Head of Strategy at ASG Creative/ASG Learning.
@cschlegelmilch.bsky.social @cschlegelmilch.bsky.social