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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
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@wang.social
Anaconda Founder&Head of AI; created the PyData movement, PyScript, Bokeh, Datashader; Fellow @ Python Software Foundation; Center for Humane Tech Game~B; Physics, Cybernetics, Memetics. A student of the human condition. Memento mori
@ngerakines.me
he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; GitHub; Check out @smokesignal.events Profile: myself with a thick mustache, septum ring, and hat
@shayan86.bsky.social
BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@davidfowl.com
Distinguished Engineer @ Microsoft 🧐. Creator of NuGet, SignalR and ASP.NET Core, Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player.
@barristersecret.bsky.social
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman. Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth• Also writes thrillers as S.J. Fleet. The Cut Throat Trial coming 28 Aug 2025.
@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/
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@martinstabe.ft.com
Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. Currently at #ijf25 #ddj #dataviz
@waltmossberg.bsky.social
Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.
@maitlis.bsky.social
Co host @thenewsagents . Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
@scientificdiscovery.dev
Science writer and chart maker. Researcher at Our World in Data. Co-founder of Works in Progress. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev https://twitter.com/salonium 🏳️🌈
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@newsagents.bsky.social
Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond. With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player. .
@hausfath.bsky.social
"A tireless chronicler and commentator on all things climate" -NYTimes. Climate research lead @stripe, writer @CarbonBrief, scientist @BerkeleyEarth, IPCC/NCA5 author. Substack: https://theclimatebrink.substack.com/ Twitter: @hausfath
@popovichn.bsky.social
Senior Editor, data + viz @bloomberg / formerly @nytclimate / currently on leave ✨✨✨✨✨
@wattenberg.bsky.social
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@epiellie.bsky.social
Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
@jeremybmerrill.com
dad, a reporter, data reporter (writing about tech at The Washington Post) I don't have digital; I don't have diddly squat. Linguistics, NLP, news, Jews, Atlanta, crypto regs/politics, ads, fraud, etc.
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@chrisalbon.com
Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.
@adamjkucharski.bsky.social
Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own. New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
@leonyin.org
Investigative data journalist Bloomberg News "CTRL + F" and find out https://inspectelement.org
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. NYU professor. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@gunnarmorling.dev
Technologist @ Confluent · Ex-lead of Debezium · Spec lead of Bean Validation 2.0 · Creator of JfrUnit, kcctl and MapStruct · Java Champion · morling.dev · 🚴
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
Stats PhD student @Harvard • My posts are a cool, refreshing breeze of nerdy content crafted for a broad audience. Follow me to enter the nerd space safe.
@chris.blue
Writer of books (http://themissingreadme.com), code (http://slatedb.io), checks (http://materializedview.capital), and newsletters (http://materializedview.io)
@youraibigsis.bsky.social
Data Scientist, coffee addict, blerd, and drummer. Octavia Butler stan. Trekkie, survivalist, and pole dancer. ADHDer, elder emo, horror movies, & video games🖤 AI 101: https://lu.ma/4h3drm9v Parable of the Sower book club: https://dis
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
@shaunlintern.bsky.social
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety 📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern 📝 DMs open 📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
@tomcalver.bsky.social
Data Editor, @thetimes.com I write a weekly data column called Go Figure 🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver 📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
@skamille.themanagerswrath.com
she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
@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/
@funbucket.dev
Dual Microsoft MVP, Inaugural GitHub Star, creator of dbatools, author http://dbatools.io/book 🏳️🌈 Creator of @mutesky.app Totally into PowerShell, SQL Server and AI. 📍 Very North of France
@andrew.heiss.phd
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. andrewheiss.com Signal: andrewheiss.01
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #WBE #IDSurveillance Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@jasonpott.bsky.social
Nurse Researcher in Emergency Medicine in London. Currently completing PhD in outcome prediction following Trauma @ C4TS QMUL #Rstats #nurse #emsky Also enjoy trail running, nvim, walks in the woods, cooking and audiobooks. ORCID: 0000-0003-2068-0560