Costa Samaras
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
Starter Packs
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Climate Policymakers
Current elected and other governmental leaders from the U.S. and around the world who work on climate and clean energy issues.
CMU Engineering & Public Policy Department & Alums
This starter pack has researchers and alumni from Carnegie Mellon's Department of Engineering and Public Policy. https://www.cmu.edu/epp/index.html
6th U.S. National Climate Assessment Authors
The Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) will analyze the impacts of climate and global change in the United States: https://www.globalchange.gov/nca6 This is a starter pack of NCA6 authors and technical contributors.
Do Something About Climate Change Starter Park
A few poasters to follow if you want to live...in a livable climate. Some climate researchers, some climate journalists, some climate activists, all climate poasters.
@mtkonczal.bsky.social
Econ person. Director of Policy and Research, @economicsecurityproject.org. Former NEC. #Rstats, dad, Chicago Guy.
@elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social
President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. All views are my own.
@mikamckinnon.bsky.social
Field geophysicist, disaster researcher, scifi science consultant, science writer, public speaker, irrepressibly curious. Occasional rock-licker, frequent devourer of board books. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@zandubin.bsky.social
Comms for changemakers. I don't tell stories I tell facts. I got Disney to vow to electrify Autopia. Co-founder Nat Drive Electric Month. Dodgers--quit shilling for Phillips 66. Sigma Gamma Rho
@joeldodge07.bsky.social
Industrial Policy & Economic Security at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator (https://www.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-policy-accelerator/). Attorney, Policy Advisor, Writer. Views are my own.
@justcalma.bsky.social
Senior reporter, environment & energy @theverge.com / Host of Hell or High Water: When disaster hits home, a podcast from Vox Media and Audible. “Después de la tormenta siempre llega la Calma” ❤️🩹 justinecalma.com / Signal: @bqe210.91
@ianjames.bsky.social
Reporter focusing on water and climate change, Los Angeles Times. ian.james@latimes.com Signal: ianjames.77
@usrepkathycastor.bsky.social
⚡️Tampa Bay's Congresswoman⚡🌴🌤🌅 🇺🇸 People Over Politics! 🇺🇸 former Chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis 🇺🇸 #FL14
@dmf84.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary environmental philosopher 🌳🌹🌎🌞🦝 Values in/and Environmental Science/Research Ethics, Environmental Utopias, posting nuance, jokes 🫠 for/as myself only
@ryansholin.bsky.social
Data-driven decarbonization at @electricitymaps.com Almost certainly that guy you know from the internet. There are 20 data centers between my house and the grocery store.
@eaterofsun.bsky.social
Author, Editor @ The Economist, Chair @ The Degrees Initiative. Climate change, planetarity, critical zones, tv, burdens of life, etc. Reposts are not endorsements
@leticiamarteleto.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology & Demography @UPenn. Stratification, reproductive health & fertility. Mother, wife, immigrant, Latina, 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇹, Runner, 1.60m of opinions all my own.
@noahshachtman.bsky.social
contributing writer at Rolling Stone // contributing editor at Wired // making trouble at ■■■■■■■■ // https://signal.me/#eu/3aA6cspNTXUEOtEYwaK6KOFIw8nf-7G1jQBd3MRqrDeUvZxfzp5Py61cKq4GbcNg
@themariamontano.bsky.social
Former spox for the City of Pittsburgh; Currently Manager of Public Affairs @actreasurer.alleghenycountytreasurer.us. Opinions my own.
@senategabe.bsky.social
Did stuff in the US Senate for a bunch of years. Fight the fucking fascists. Impeach, Convict, Handcuff. Citizensimpeachment.com Signal: @SenateGabe.33
@numb.comfortab.ly
Principal software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript. Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order. @anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social
Cornell Assistant Professor specializing in security sector reform, policing, peacekeeping, and gender. Director of the Gender and Security Sector Lab sabrinamkarim.com
@edebruin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Hamilton College. Studying civil-military relations, civil war, policing. Author of HOW TO PREVENT COUPS (Cornell UP). www.ericadebruin.com.
@sameershah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor • University of Washington • Associate Deputy Editor @ Climatic Change • Political-ecology, climate justice, critical adaptation studies, maladaptation and water insecurity.
@jackiefmogensen.bsky.social
Reporter covering science + health for Mother Jones magazine, Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). Writing about plants, animals, humanity, etc. (she/her) Send tips and fun facts to: Signal: @jackiefmogensen.01 jackiefmogensen@proton.me
@joshtpm.bsky.social
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
@davidmalakoff.bsky.social
Now: International News Editor, Science (@science.org). Then: Freelance science journalist, NPR Science Desk, river conservationist, College of the Atlantic (1986). Birder. Whitewater kayaker. Proud dad of three kids turned adults. Signal: DMalakoff.56
@akispox.bsky.social
🇪🇺 European Commission Spokesperson for energy, climate, transport and taxation.
@zjmillimet.bsky.social
Sr. National Security Executive. Energy & Climate Security Fellow for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich. Transitioning to the private sector in 2025 to work on energy, climate and biodiversity solutions.
@priyankahooghan.bsky.social
Sikh. immigrant. engineer turned policy wonk. donut aficionado. Oxford comma enthusiast.
@aaup.bsky.social
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
@humanecosystem.bsky.social
The intersection of infrastructure & real estate towards cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; abundant access, opportunity and upward mobility Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit
@jdcmedlock.bsky.social
More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@whitneymuse.bsky.social
Energy and Climate policy. Formerly White House and Dept. of Energy. Always a beach lover, seeking more scuba diving trips, watching women's basketball, and reading a good book
@bengroom.bsky.social
Dragon Capital Chair of Biodiversity Economics. www.dragonchair.org.uk.
@natclimate.nature.com
A monthly journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge research on the nature, underlying causes or impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, policy and the world at large https://www.nature.com/nclimate
@balachaudhary.bsky.social
Associate Prof @Dartmouth, Scientist-Activist, Mom, Ecologist, Plant-Fungal Symbioses #mycorrhizas #dispersal #antiracistSTEM, CAREER Awardee, #WOCinEEB Founder, views my own
@ellenqualls.bsky.social
Offering an awkward blend of democracy and nature content. I do this: quallscommunications.com.
@aratip.bsky.social
Advocating for science & technology for our future. Former Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
I host What Next TBD at Slate. A show about tech, power and the future. Who wants night bacon? https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd Lizzie.oleary@slate.com Signal: Lizzieohreally.31
@profsaunders.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Columbia; editor, Good Authority; non-res Senior Fellow, Brookings. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace (preorder: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game)
@jeremymberg.bsky.social
Husband, Father and grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science magazine, Pittsburgh, PA
@buttonsandbiscuit.bsky.social
personal account. it’s an alt. all opinions my own except for the wrong ones
@sezick.bsky.social
Associate Professor #VirginiaTech studying tropical cyclones. Alum @UFGeog @psumeteo & @RUMeteorology. Pittsburgh native. Run, hike, swim #RecoveryIsPossible
@conorlambpa.bsky.social
Former US Representative, federal prosecutor, and Marine officer. Currently Kline & Specter; democracy seminars at Duquesne Law; town hall participant.
@seema.bsky.social
Economics professor at Princeton. I study environmental conservation, gender equality, and (too many) other topics in developing countries. seemajayachandran.com
@jennoliva.bsky.social
Law prof at IU Maurer Law (@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social); #health law, #drug policy, #privacy, #evidence, #torts, complex #litigation; West Point, Oxford & Georgetown Law alum; https://law.indiana.edu/about/people/details/oliva-jennifer-d.html
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.