Kanishk Gandhi's Starter Pack
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@gandhikanishk.bsky.social
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@danpfeiffer.bsky.social
Pod Save America, Obama White House, Message Box, and some books
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@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.
@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
@dgrand.bsky.social
Prof at MIT working on misinformation/fake news, social media, polarization, intuition vs deliberation, cooperation, politics, and religion. (he/him) https://davidrand-cooperation.com/
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - organic modem converting poetry into code - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
@alexhorne.bsky.social
from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | @AI_Radboud | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://cognitionandintractability.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
@typedfemale.bsky.social
@soldaini.net
I like tokens! Lead for OLMo data at @ai2.bsky.social (Dolma 🍇) w @kylelo.bsky.social. Open source is fun 🤖☕️🍕🏳️🌈 Opinions are sampled from my own stochastic parrot more at https://soldaini.net
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
@neurograce.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Psychology & Data Science @ NYU | Working on brains & climate (separately) | Author of "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering, and mathematics have shaped our understanding of the brain" http://tinyurl.com/h9dn4bw7
@mjcrockett.bsky.social
Psychology professor at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | AI hype-buster | They/She 🏳️🌈 www.crockettlab.org
@davidpfau.com
So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me. Views my own, unfortunately.
@nsaphra.bsky.social
Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. Recruiting students to start my lab! ML/NLP/they/she.
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU https://emerge-lab.github.io https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
@tomerullman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.
@andyperfors.bsky.social
Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
@lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
Political Scientist (all views own), Visiting Assoc Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. https://www.nicolecrust.com/ Science advocate. Professor (UPenn Psychology). 1st BOOK: Elusive Cures (June 10, 2025). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
@bayesianboy.bsky.social
philosophy of science, AI ethics, mathematical modelling, machine learning, cogsci, bio. my views may diverge from those of my employers.
@tszzl.bsky.social
@cogscisociety.bsky.social
Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas. 🌐 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
@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
@mmbronstein.bsky.social
DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford Scientific Director @Aithyra Chief Scientist @VantAI ML Lead @ProjectCETI geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, generative models, molecular design, proteins, bio AI, 🐎 🎶
@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social
Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
@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
@zacharylipton.bsky.social
Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.com
@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
@tyrellturing.bsky.social
Researcher and CIFAR Fellow, working on the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience in Montréal at @mcgill.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social.
@xuanalogue.bsky.social
PhD Student. MIT ProbComp / CoCoSci. Inverting Bayesian models of human reasoning and decision-making. Pronouns: 祂/伊
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute. Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
@gershbrain.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University https://gershmanlab.com/
@elsabirch.bsky.social
Living in the SF cloud and engineering in the data cloud. Also: plants, coffee, cooking, a chemeng microbio phd, she/her, via Portland and Boulder. Are these views even mine? We just don’t know. Same handle most other spots.
@natolambert.bsky.social
A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef Writes http://interconnects.ai At Ai2 via HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
@roydanroy.bsky.social
Research Director, Founding Faculty, Canada CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst. Full Prof @UofT - Statistics and Computer Sci. (x-appt) danroy.org I study assumption-free prediction and decision making under uncertainty, with inference emerging from optimality.
@amit-goldenberg.bsky.social
I study emotions, collectives, technology and their interaction. Harvard Business School | Harvard Psych (affiliated) | D3
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦 Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
@spiantado.bsky.social
computational cognitive science he/him http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/
@olivia.science
https://olivia.science assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
@gandhikanishk.bsky.social
PhD Student Stanford w/ Noah Goodman, studying reasoning, discovery, and interaction. Trying to build machines that understand people. StanfordNLP, Stanford AI Lab