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@data.ft.com
The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories. https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
@petridishes.bsky.social
I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
@ryannorth.ca
You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The Fantastic Four / Squirrel Girl / Krypto the Super Dog guy? The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy? Look.. I'm a lot of guys
@milesklee.bsky.social
New Jersey ain’t the whole world https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@hels.bsky.social
“Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches” New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication 🍉
@rosemarymosco.com
Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
@profmmurray.bsky.social
Stokes Prof. of Law @NYULaw; Faculty Dir. @bwlc_nyu; co-host @StrictScrutiny_ pod; talking head @MSNBC; @NYTimes bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@katie-drummond.bsky.social
Global Editorial Director at WIRED. Board member @freedom.press On IG @katie.at.wired
@economist.com
News and analysis with a global perspective. We’re here to help you understand the world around you. Subscribe here: https://econ.st/4fAeu4q
@kissane.bsky.social
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Co-founded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense. Working/thinking at wrecka.ge, launching unbreaking.org
@gwillow.me
Award-winning author of novels and comics. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK for IDW. I watch a lot of soccer. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
@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.
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
@greenwell.bsky.social
My book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream comes out June 10, 2025. Preorder it here: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@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
@lizcheney.bsky.social
Proud rodeo mom, soccer mom, baseball mom, hockey mom, constitutional conservative.
@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic. Teller of stories, troller of Nazis. Newsletter: theatlantic.com/newsletters/sign-up/deep-shtetl/ Music: bit.ly/azyashir
@usatoday.com
To the point. 📧: https://www.usatoday.com/newsletters/ 🎧: https://www.usatoday.com/podcasts/ 📲 Download the USA TODAY app: https://app.adjust.com/1m5xmvtj
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@dustyweb.bsky.social
Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings. https://dustycloud.org
@tedunderwood.me
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. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@dancow.bsky.social
chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st. Formerly propublican and stanford
@aaronsojourner.org
Labor economics @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & @IZA.org. Formerly senior economist for labor at White House CEA, prof, union organizer, bike courier, house painter, dishwasher... Minneapolis. Views mine. aaronsojourner.org Be kind • Work hard • Have fun
@aussiastronomer.bsky.social
Caltech/IPAC Planet Hunter | Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute | @TEDFellow | Science consultant | General Nerd | My views are not the views of NASA | She/her
@sbagen.bsky.social
Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
@bijan.bsky.social
normal writer @compulsiongames.bsky.social, music critic @thenation.com, playing characters on @funcityventures.bsky.social bijanstephen.blog/about
@itsabbyyep.bsky.social
she/her Typos? You've come to the right place Recent: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:awyncbnck2xzf4obkdqep7ms/feed/aaaovdhpfgmmm Popularist: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:awyncbnck2xzf4obkdqep7ms/feed/aaaeacnurw62m Avi by @riotgrlerin.bsky.social
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
managing editor at THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • bluesky elder (derogatory) • tell me something good: rsmith@thecity.nyc 📍 queens / fun hell
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
@papapishu.bsky.social
Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site. Video at Highlight Reel.
@megannicolett.bsky.social
senior writer @ WIRED reporting on video games | nyc | face god and walk backwards into hell | email: megan_farokhmanesh@wired.com | signal meganfarokhmanesh.76
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
Sociologist studying families, schools, privilege, power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, Atlantic. Author of HOLDING IT TOGETHER | QUALITATIVE LITERACY | FIELD GUIDE TO GRAD SCHOOL "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women" www.jessicacalarco.com
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@lisatozzi.bsky.social
Everything’s going to be just fine. Now go upstairs, pack your bags. We're going to begin a new life under the sea Executive Digital Director, Rolling Stone I sometimes write things https://www.rollingstone.com/author/lisa-tozzi/ Signal: @lisatozzi.44
@parkerortolani.com
assoc. director, product development @ Penske Media | prev @theverge.com & @polygon.com, @9to5mac.com, and @buzzfeed.com | opinions are my own 🔗 https://www.parkerortolani.com ✍🏻 https://www.postsbyparker.com 🎨 https://www.behance.net/parkerortolani
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Squid biologist Science communicator Artist Philadelphian I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social Creator of the SquidMobile https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
@activityuplift.bsky.social
Fun activities for Dementia & Alzheimer's Caregivers, Seniors, and Activity Professionals. https://activityuplift.com