EmilyTav
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Teaching + researching at Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. Co-Curator of an oral history of the origin of the US Digital Service // ex: @usds @whitehouse @ashoka
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Civic Tech
People & accounts related to civic tech (aka using tech-data-design inside of government to deliver to the public)
Tech is not neutral
Some of my favorite brains thinking about the interplay between technology and society.
@chatter.techmeme.com
This account quotes the Bluesky posts that @techmeme.com links to from techmeme.com
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@aldenlibdigital.bsky.social
Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries, Athens. https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity (Not that XL public uni in Columbus--we're older.)
@emmbadger.bsky.social
New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
@pubgovman.bsky.social
Institute for Public Management & Governance, at Vienna University of Economics and Business
@ryanmarino.bsky.social
Human Doctor • Toxicology • Addiction • Emergency • #WTFentanyl & more often just WTF • drugs are misunderstood but people are misunderstood more • he/him • YouTube.com/@RyanMD • #MedSky
@disappearedtracker.bsky.social
Alt-Account of @cripdyke.bsky.social Tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025.
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@dansinker.com
I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
@clivethompson.bsky.social
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Journalist with Wired / New York Times Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Built https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me
@textfiles.com
Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing. 🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
@jpam-dc.bsky.social
JPAM is a leading journal in the fields of public policy and public management. It is also the official publication of @appam.bsky.social. Editor-in-Chief: @erdaltekin.bsky.social
@alt18f.bsky.social
Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
@chrismihm.bsky.social
Adjunct Prof of Public Admin, @maxwellSU, Dep. Chair @FIFAcom Governance Committee, @napawash. Former @USGAO, Chair @UN IAAC, @WHO IEOAC.
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) on the board at Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@hypatia.bsky.social
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
@makenakelly.bsky.social
reporter @ WIRED covering the politics and power influencing the internet DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32 FAQ, Instagram, TikTok, & everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
@reason.com
Reason is the monthly magazine and website of “free minds and free markets.”
@chicagovtfloor.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
@sethabramson.bsky.social
Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds), former CNN and BBC analyst, poet, retired journalism professor. 👤: sethabramson.net/bio ⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com 🕹: retrostack.substack.com 🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
@andycraig.bsky.social
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
@davetroy.com
Publisher and Editor, America 2.0. Baltimore/Washington. Pilot, chef, coder. america2.news Signal: davetroy.69
@lynnovermann.bsky.social
Tech & policy nerd, recovering public defender, DC native, #ALLCAPS fan. Executive Director @beeckcenter.bsky.social Georgetown. May the force be with you, always. Views my own. beeckcenter.georgetown.edu
@marinanitze.bsky.social
Co-author, Hack Your Bureaucracy & Crisis Engineering. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
@normative.bsky.social
He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com
@noahkunin.bsky.social
Digital factotum. Co-host of the new DOGE watchdog podcast watchcatsshow.bsky.social! Co-founder of two different departments that DOGE deleted! (CFPB + 18F)
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS, Trump, LGBTQ, criminal justice, and other legal news. / Email: lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. / He/him.
@pault.ag
he/him ⁂ purveyor of fine bike sheds ⁂ Debian Developer ⁂ Hy ⁂ playing with SDRs as K3XEC ⁂ formerly: board @ OSI Find me on the fediverse at https://soylent.green/@paul
@telliotter.bsky.social
Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/ Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82 elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
@larakate.bsky.social
SVP Partners, Marketing and Biz Dev @ Linktree. Former VP Partners at Twitter. Aspiring Real Housewife of Marin.
@fieldsmeyer.com
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Fmr: Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House | Work on civil rights, democracy, tech, and political power Writing: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com Get in touch: fieldsmeyer.com
@mebates.bsky.social
On parental leave so doing most things one-handed. Designer at Google Chrome. NE DC resident/parent/cyclist desperate for cars to stop at stop signs.
@semafor.com
Building a new global news company. Sign up for our newsletters: https://www.semafor.com/newsletters
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@eaps.bsky.social
European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) is a non-profit, professional organization promoting population studies. https://www.eaps.nl/
@paleofuture.bsky.social
Tech reporter @Gizmodo.com. I’ve been writing about the history of futurism @Paleofuture.com since 2007. Email: mnovak@gizmodo.com Signal: mattnovak.11
@karenattiah.bsky.social
Global. Columnist at Washington Post. Artemis = feline guardian. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Summer School Join the Fall Waitlist for Race, Media and International Affairs 101! https://forms.gle/6LoPuLUUjPT6Tang8
@georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/
@grouchybagels.bsky.social
Think Tank Director at the Roosevelt Institute and Roosevelt Forward. I also volunteer to do people's taxes for the IRS VITA program. History PhD mostly working with economists and political scientists. I've lived in DC longer than I lived anywhere else
@katiejwells.bsky.social
i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. research director @groundwork.bsky.social. new book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023) http://katiejwells.net
@amandalenhart.bsky.social
Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Senior Advisor, Common Sense Media. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.