Mehrzad Samadi's Starter Pack
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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@techcrunch.com
Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams. Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
@sulliview.bsky.social
Columnist at GuardianUS. Thinking/teaching at Columbia J School. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack)
@niemanlab.org
We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news. 🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@emilybell.bsky.social
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
@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/
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@olihawkins.com
Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
@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. #ddj #dataviz
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
#Physics, #philosophy, #complexity. Johns Hopkins & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. https://preposterousuniverse.com/ He/him.
@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
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@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.
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@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
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
@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.
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@rakyll.org
Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@lucylw.bsky.social
Asst Prof @uwischool.bsky.social; #NLP #healthinformatics #accessibility #scholcomm 🚴🏔️🍄❄️⛷️🧶⚫️⚪️📚🍸in Seattle; llwang.net; she/her
@emollick.bsky.social
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@howard.fm
https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
@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
@garymarcus.bsky.social
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley. Newsletter (50k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
@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
@qianli.dev
Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI Amateur bird watcher 🦉 Personal site: qianli.dev She/her.
@reutersinstitute.bsky.social
Our mission is to explore the future of journalism worldwide. Digital News Report digitalnewsreport.org/2024 Our newsletter: https://politics.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=60081b78294f9bbf995e9bcf8&id=0a8e38824f
@mariaa.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI in Copenhagen, soon-to-be Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder 👩💻 NLP, cultural analytics, online communities, narratives, healthcare 🌐 https://maria-antoniak.github.io
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, co-Director @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own.
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | @AI_Radboud | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://cognitionandintractability.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
@jjvincent.bsky.social
journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor / AI reporter at The Verge. you can buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook
@mehrzads.bsky.social
GenAI at #NVIDIA, Former CEO and cofounder of #Parabricks. Views are my own.