New_ Public @newpublic.org New_ Public is a nonprofit product studio focused on reimagining community, connection, and conversation online. newpublic.org
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com I'm a writer and podcaster who explores the future of work through critical theory. Autistic feminist. Wannabe independent scholar. Amateur baker.
Podcast & Newsletter: http://whatworks.fyi
@nonsean.bsky.social @nonsean.bsky.social 
Maike Osborne 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired. @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
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/
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Kyle Lo @ ICML2026 🇰🇷 @kylelo.bsky.social language models, data & evals, prev co-lead of Olmo @ai2.bsky.social, nlp @uwcse, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
Joscha Bach @joscha.bsky.social 
Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere.com Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science
https://raphaelmilliere.com/
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
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
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social E-learning dev & AI educator at U of Arizona Libraries. Former head of UX at MIT Libraries. Winner of MIT Excellence Award. nicolehennig.com. Digital nomad from 2013-17, locationflexiblelife.com.
- vegetarian
- car-free
- universal basic income: yes
Jonathan Cheng @jonathancheng.bsky.social English Literature PhD turned ML Researcher.
I convert cold brews into noisy experiments.
Foundation Models @ Apple
NYC 🏳️🌈
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor.
nsaphra.net
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
Chris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social Data janitor and leftover linguist (retired). Tsundoku expert. Language & Cognition. NLP. Japanese literature. Anti-authoritarian. Pro-science. 
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social Vision scientist. Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. 🇦🇺🇩🇪. pronoun.is/he
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception
Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK
https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk
Jacob Eisenstein @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social natural language processing and computational linguistics at google deepmind.
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
joao @joao.omg.lol Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions
#ActuallyAutistic He/Him
Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social Co-founder @huggingface
Daniel Lowd @lowd.cc CS Prof at the University of Oregon, studying adversarial machine learning, data poisoning, interpretable AI, probabilistic and relational models, and more. Avid unicyclist and occasional singer-songwriter. He/him
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Personal website: http://www.noahwf.com
Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 @jonathanm.bsky.social Interested in: cognitive science, Bayes, (ir)rationality, (effective) altruism, happiness, Al Alignment, reward hacking, running, reading books. He/him
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social Comp. sci. prof. @ American University, Washington DC. AI & games researcher with miscellaneous other interests. https://www.kmjn.org/
Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Researcher at Anthropic; previously DeepMind, cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine.
lampinen.github.io
Lorenzo Bertolini @lorenzoscottb.bsky.social Researcher at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Multimodality & interpretability in AI for health. Occasionally, AI for dream research. All views are my own
https://lorenzoscottb.github.io
Nuño Sempere @nunosempere.com See clearly, act fast, hold myself well. Seek self-reinforcing loops, cherish allies, and play on the side of humanity.
Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social My opinions only here.
👨🔬 RS DeepMind
Past:
👨🔬 R Midjourney 1y 🧑🎓 DPhil AIMS Uni of Oxford 4.5y
🧙♂️ RE DeepMind 1y 📺 SWE Google 3y 🎓 TUM
👤 @nwspk
Thomas Kober @tttthomasssss.bsky.social Linguational Computist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
Ekaterina Hertog @katyahe.bsky.social Associate Professor of AI & Society
Oxford Internet Institute and Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Principal Investigator at DomesticAI (http://domesticai.oii.ox.ac.uk) project funded by ESRC
Kalyan Dutia @kdutia.bsky.social founding/senior data scientist at Climate Policy Radar working on ML for better climate decision-making from documents
kalyan.link / climatepolicyradar.org
Sebastian Risi @risi.bsky.social Neuroevolution, Collective Intelligence, Self-organization
Dennis Ulmer @ACL26 @dnnslmr.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.
Previously PhD Student at NLPNorth at the IT University of Copenhagen, with internships at AWS, Parameter Lab, Pacmed.
dennisulmer.eu
Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social CS / AI / ML PhD. 🇧🇷 ♾️
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev.
Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
Chris J. Maddison @cmaddis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Machine Learning at UofT. #LongCOVID patient.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/
Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social Journalist at Ars Technica focused on deep tech reporting. Also keen on history and climate issues. On Signal at sciencehsu.22
Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning.
Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦
For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000
Erin Grant @eringrant.me Assistant Professor @ualberta.bsky.social & Fellow @amiithinks.bsky.social studying cognition in mind & brain with neural nets, Bayes, and other tools (eringrant.github.io).
elsewhere: sigmoid.social/@eringrant, twitter.com/ermgrant @ermgrant
Edward Grefenstette @egrefen.bsky.social FR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at Google DeepMind, Honorary Professor at UCL DARK, ELLIS Fellow. Ex Oxford CS, Meta AI, Cohere.
Olof Mogren @mogren.ml AI for climate change and biodiversity. PhD. Co-founder @climateainordics.com -- Head of deep learning research at RISE in Sweden. Love trail running and snowboarding. -- https://climateainordics.com , https://ridr.se
Willie Neiswanger @willieneis.bsky.social Assistant Professor in CS + AI at USC. Previously at Stanford, CMU. Machine Learning, Decision Making, AI-for-Science, Generative AI, ML Systems, LLMs.
https://willieneis.github.io
Dr Noemi Dreksler @noemidreksler.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI | Public and expert opinion of AI | AI Risk Management
Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social Principal Scientist at Naver Labs Europe, Lead of Spatial AI team. AI for Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Austrian in France. https://chriswolfvision.github.io/www/
Jan Hosang @janhosang.bsky.social Tinkerer, dog-lover, MLbro, Computer Vision dude.
Carola Doerr @caroladoerr.bsky.social CNRS research director at Sorbonne University in Paris. Interested in black-box optimization (theory, benchmarking, applications, learning,...).
ERC project dynaBBO on dynamic black-box optimization algorithms (consolidator grant)
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social || assistant prof at University of Montreal || leading the systems neuroscience and AI lab (SNAIL: https://www.snailab.ca/) 🐌 || associate academic member of Mila (Quebec AI Institute) || #NeuroAI || vision and learning in brains and machines- C Andrew Critch @critch.bsky.social Human being. Trying to do good. CEO @ Encultured AI. AI Researcher @ UC Berkeley. Listed bday is approximate ;)
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social Researcher at Google and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montréal (academic affiliations: @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social).
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social AGI research @DeepMind.
Ex cofounder & CTO Vicarious AI (acqd by Alphabet),
Cofounder Numenta
Triply EE (BTech IIT-Mumbai, MS&PhD Stanford). #AGIComics
blog.dileeplearning.com
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
AI, RL, cog neuro, philosophy.
www.momen-nejad.org
Vicki @vickiboykis.com Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon).
https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Flaviu Cipcigan @flaviucipcigan.bsky.social Building AIs for scientific discovery. Discovered antibiotics and materials for carbon capture. Tango dancer. See more at flaviucipcigan.com. Opinions my own.
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta.
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Mark van der Wilk @mvdw.bsky.social Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford.
Interested in automatic inductive bias selection using Bayesian tools.
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- T Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social Safe and robust AI/ML, computational sustainability. Former President AAAI and IMLS. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Oregon State University. https://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tgd/
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/
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.com/
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Sean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts ☕ into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social Professor in computational Bayesian modeling, Aalto University, Finland. Co-author of Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd ed, Regression and Other Stories, Active Statistics and Bayesian Workflow. #mcmc_stan and #arviz developer.
https://users.aalto.fi/ave/
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
mr. TIM @timkellogg.me AI Architect | North Carolina | AI/ML, IoT, science
WARNING: I talk about kids sometimes
CompSciOxford @compscioxford.bsky.social Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, sharing news on our outstanding research across a broad spectrum of computer science #CompSciOxford
Karen Ullrich (s/h) @karen-ullrich.bsky.social Research scientist at FAIR NY ❤️ LLMs + Information Theory. Previously, PhD at UoAmsterdam, intern at DeepMind + MSRC.
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Magnus Rattray @mrattray.bsky.social Professor of Computational & Systems Biology at University of Manchester. Applies machine learning and modelling to help understand the complexity of biology. idsai.manchester.ac.uk, https://www.ellismcr.org, @official-uom.bsky.social
Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social 
Pasquale Minervini @neuralnoise.com Researcher in ML/NLP at the University of Edinburgh (faculty at Informatics and EdinburghNLP), Co-Founder/CTO at www.miniml.ai, ELLIS (@ELLIS.eu) Scholar, Generative AI Lab (GAIL, https://gail.ed.ac.uk/) Fellow -- www.neuralnoise.com, he/they
François-Xavier Briol @fxbriol.bsky.social Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning at UCL Statistical Science. Interested in computational statistics, machine learning and applications in the sciences & engineering.
Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research AI in New York. Speech, Formal/Natural Language Processing. Currently LLM post-training, structured SDG and RL. Opinions my own and non stationary.
ramon.astudillo.com
Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
- B Brad Wyble @bwyble.bsky.social Academic, cognitive & vision scientist, computational modeller, cofounder @neuromatch Academy, He/His. This is a personal account.
Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen: NLP, language models, interpretability, AI & society. Co-editor-in-chief of ACL Rolling Review. #NLProc #NLP
Federico Adolfi @fedeadolfi.bsky.social Computation & Complexity | AI Interpretability | Meta-theory | Computational Cognitive Science
Max Planck Institute ESI.
Dept. of Computer Science & Mathematics,
Goethe University Frankfurt.
https://fedeadolfi.github.io
On the job market!