Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please) 
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds
Cyclops is so great
I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org Full of passionate intensity.
Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social Writer, thinker, mom, MIT prof & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My new book, Artificial Intimacy, is out in Sept 2026, available for preorder now.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Ayms @ayms-m.bsky.social Bristol-dwelling, queer neurodivergent human who loves nature, walking, food, snuggles and rest. Interesting in learning how we can care for each other better.
Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social Slowly becoming a neuroscientist.
EiC @elife.bsky.social
Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social cultural, environmental historian | co-head of KLIMER research group, UiO | Swiss Excellence Grant alumna | based in Oslo & Zurich 🇳🇴🇨🇭 | here for culture of digitality in HEIs, care ethics & environmental history
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Jeffrey Goldberg @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social Editor in chief, The Atlantic. Moderator, Washington Week with The Atlantic, on PBS.
Douglas Eck @douglaseck.bsky.social Senior Research Director at Google DeepMind in our San Francisco office. I created Magenta (magenta.withgoogle.com) and sometimes find time to be a musician.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Elliott Downing @elliottdowning.bsky.social Author of books seldom read, screenplays never filmed, software rarely used, and bleets like sweet, sweet honey.
If you were following @elliott_downing over on TwitterX, you've found me (or failed to avoid me, as the case may be).
Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr.bsky.social Cohost of The Golics on ESPN radio | TNT Sports CFB analyst | ND ‘12
@mikegolicjr on IG
https://www.youtube.com/@mgolicjr
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Rishub Jain @shubadubadub.bsky.social Works at Google DeepMind on Safe+Ethical AI
PJ Vogt @pjvogt.bsky.social Very rarely here.
Host, Search Engine podcast.
You can find me at http://pjvogt.com
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
Chris ‘BuB’ Cardi @chriscardiphotography.com Catching 🌈RAINBOWS🌈 in a sea of black...
Cure Enthusiast. Mayor of Darkwave. Photographer of the Goths 🦇.
Call me BuB! 🦖🦕
joao @joao.omg.lol Grief Astronomer
A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions
#ActuallyAutistic He/Him
hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI 🎏 → @sakanaai.bsky.social
Visit → https://sakana.ai/
Tom Andersson 🌍 @tom-andersson.bsky.social Research Engineer at Google DeepMind; Building AI for weather & tropical cyclone forecasting; WMO Young Scientist of the Year 2022; he/him
Ferran Alet @ferranalet.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind; AI for Science and Sustainability
Prev: PhD @csail.mit.edu
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Yann LeCun @yann-lecun.bsky.social Professor a NYU; Executive Chairman at AMI Labs..
Researcher in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, etc.
ACM Turing Award Laureate.
http://yann.lecun.com
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Caleb Watney @calebwatney.bsky.social Co-founder IFP // scientific, technological, and industrial progress
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social professor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp //
leveraging research to promote science and progress
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social The law prof at UC Davis. Dad. Denizen of San Francisco. Patron of Amtrak. Tweets are my own, not statements of UC. (he/him)
Anton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social Historian of invention. www.ageofinvention.xyz
Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
Nick Cowen @drnickcowen.bsky.social Classical criminologist at the University of Lincoln. He/him. Read how to stop crime here: https://lncn.ac/drink
Mathias Bonde @mathiasbonde.bsky.social on the hunt for impact, shill for big EA- N Nan Ransohoff @nanr.bsky.social
Anya Martin @anyamartin.bsky.social Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Policy Lead @ YIMBY Alliance. Former director of PricedOut.
Ben Reinhardt @benjaminreinhardt.com Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉
https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org • Housing and other infrastructure • yimbyalliance.org
John Kroencke @johnkroencke.bsky.social
johnkroencke.com
https://theceme.substack.com/p/private-planning-and-the-great-estates
Stewart Brand @stewartbrand.bsky.social Sampling here. Mostly on Twitter still as @stewartbrand.
Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social Econ prof in Vancouver in Vancouver @ SFU. My research explores how culture and institutions shape long-run development. 👉 guillaumeblanc.com
Eli Dourado @elidourado.com On a sacred quest to increase the pace of economic growth at the Abundance Institute. On the side of the builders. tfp/acc 🚀
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Rachel Edwards @underthenettle.bsky.social Fan of economic growth, fringe theatre, beautiful places, parties, the future. Working at worksinprogress.co & Stripe.
Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social "Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail.
Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook
Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social Executive Director, Good Science Project 
Stuart Ritchie @stuartjritchie.bsky.social 
Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social yes, like the city | Editor TheArgumentMag.com | she/her
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
@jacobtref.bsky.social @jacobtref.bsky.social blog.jacobtrefethen.com
OpenAI Foundation
science!
Bia @beatrizgietner.bsky.social PhD candidate in Econ at UCDublin. Progress, Education, and Human Capital.
https://beagietner.github.io/webpage/ Just work-related stuff here, check my Twitter/X for a personality
@briancpotter.bsky.social @briancpotter.bsky.social 
James Pethokoukis @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social American Enterprise Institute, CNBC
My book: 🚀THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST (2023) 🚀 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-pethokoukis/the-conservative-futurist/9781546005544/?lens=center-street
My Substack: Faster, Please! https://fasterplease.subs
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
Étienne @etiennefd.bsky.social this world is indistinguishable from magic (and so are you) 🏙 🌇 🌃 🌌
Rachel Laudan @rachellaudan.bsky.social @rachellaudan.bsky.social Freelance these many years after quitting academia early (history and philosophy of science and technology,From Mineralogy to Geology); then food history (Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History). www.rachellaudan.com
Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social Director, @stanforddel.bsky.social
Professor Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI, SIEPR, Stanford department of Economics and GSB
Author https://amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649
Ronan Lyons @ronanlyons.bsky.social Housing, cities, history. Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Data Lead at CEPH. Dad of 3, husband of 1, soccer coach, rugby fan. ronanlyons.com and ronanlyons.substack.com.
Davis Kedrosky @dkedrosky.bsky.social Economic historian. Ph.D. student in economics at Northwestern University. Writes at https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/
Ryan Decker @ryandecker.bsky.social Macroeconomist from western Colorado. Views are my own.
https://rdecker.net
Freddie Poser @freddieposer.com Head of Product, Centre for British Progress | Director of Priced Out
Andrew Bennett @droojb.bsky.social trying to scale progress, quickly | @andrewjb_ on twitter
Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social Geeky YIMBY liberal
Housing, politics, liberalism and growth
Oxford UK
Only lurking here for now
@markkoyama.bsky.social @markkoyama.bsky.social 
Philip Salter @philipsalter.bsky.social Founder of The Entrepreneurs Network
Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social Head of Campaigns at Britain Remade
@jamierumbelow.bsky.social @jamierumbelow.bsky.social gradually, then all of a sudden
founder @tract
Brian Albrecht @briancalbrecht.bsky.social Applied economic theorist: competition and information. Chief Economist @LawEconCenter Price Theory Newsletter http://pricetheory.substack.com.
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU.
Views not employers'.
I think you should join Giving What We Can.
cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
arseblog @arseblog.com Arsenal blogger, podcaster. Fan of Bourbon, Bowie, German Shepherds, and Pires (not in that order). Creating Arsenal content with real people.
https://linktr.ee/arseblog
Yarin @yaringal.bsky.social Associate Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford;
OATML Group Leader;
Director of Research at the UK government's AI Safety Institute (formerly UK Taskforce on Frontier AI)
Tim Harley @timharley.bsky.social Engineering & Research @ Google DeepMimd
Dr. Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei.bsky.social Prof (CS @Stanford), Co-Director @StanfordHAI, Cofounder/CEO @theworldlabs, CoFounder @ai4allorg #AI #computervision #robotics #AI-healthcare
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social 
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
Robert van der Noordaa @noordaa.bsky.social Foreign Influence (FIMI), Russian propaganda and hybrid warfare expert. Specialty: finding and analyzing disinfo networks. And NAFO!!!
@edhirst.bsky.social @edhirst.bsky.social 
Gunnerblog @gunnerblog.bsky.social Covering #Arsenal for @TheAthleticFC. #ArsecastExtra with @arseblog.com. Real name @jamesmcnicholas. LEZ DOO DIS 💥