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@kumail.bsky.social
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@financialtimes.com
The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis. https://www.ft.com The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@ericajoy.astrel.la
southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸 tech leader (ex google/slack/msft/github/dccc/parkwood) @b.astrel.la’s weirder half Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis there will be typos
@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/
@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
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@helenlewis.bsky.social
Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 and Strong Message Here | Doom scroller, the internet
@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
@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
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@diplo.de
Aktuelle Nachrichten aus dem Auswärtigen Amt Impressum, Datenschutz & Netiquette: t1p.de/jkm1
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@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…
@akm0803.bsky.social
Hauptstadtbüro DER SPIEGEL - AfD, Innere Sicherheit und sexualisierte Gewalt - Buch „Die Unsichtbaren“ mit @mb-journalist.bsky.social - Threema: 78XAU7T3
@gershbrain.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University https://gershmanlab.com/
@bioturbonick.net
Computational biology and superresolution microscopy. Tech and politics nerd. Promoter of rationality. Progressive. Signal: BioTurboNick.24
@ctrlalttim.com
Almost certainly one of the ecologists of all time. AI/ML, ecological networks, biogeography, virome prediction, open science, methodological anarchism he/they 🧪 https://poisotlab.io/ 📰 https://buttondown.email/ctrl-alt-tim
@ginapieters.bsky.social
I was an academic economist for over 10 yrs (UMinn, TrinityU, UChicago) now I work as a researcher specializing in macro-system impacts of digital assets, money, & payments (crypto/stablecoins/CBDCs). #EconSky #Chicago www.digitaleconomyconsulting.com
@sebastianraschka.com
ML/AI researcher & former stats professor turned LLM research engineer. Author of "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch" (https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D). Blogging about AI research at magazine.sebastianraschka.com.
@xuanalogue.bsky.social
PhD Student. MIT ProbComp / CoCoSci. Inverting Bayesian models of human reasoning and decision-making. Pronouns: 祂/伊
@earleyedition.bsky.social
Audience Editor @australia.theguardian.com. Previously digital editor Quest Newspapers, engagement editor Courier Mail, online news editor 7News Brisbane and more. Social media, journalism, analytics, audience engagement, etc. All the digital news things
@merve.bsky.social
proud mediterrenean 🧿 open-sourceress at hugging face 🤗 multimodality, zero-shot vision, vision language models, transformers
@jihedncib.bsky.social
Machine Learning Researcher (Post-doctoral) at the Connected Politics Lab and the School of Computer Science (University College Dublin). www.jihedncib.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
@cameron.pfiffer.org
AI systems, financial economics PhD, ATProto fan, man with tattooed legs Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/AQ1ajwHwgg0rabcRsdtkm9UYpdg52axiruSTFMmrFy0LR4Ds8pdH25jzjoTc2bGu
@scobleizer.bsky.social
Advocate for tech that makes humans better | Spatial Computing, Holodeck, and AI Futurist | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace | Co-author, "The Infinite Retina."
@rplevy.bsky.social
Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Lab. President, Cognitive Science Society. Chair-Elect of the MIT Faculty. Open access & open science advocate. He. Lab webpage: http://cpl.mit.edu/ Personal webpage: https://www.mit.edu/~rplevy
@johnhorgan.bsky.social
Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, school safety, and a few other things📍Atlanta, GA. Personal account. All views my own. TERRORIST MINDS is now available https://cup.columbia.edu/book/terrorist-minds/9780231198394
@ttp-updates.bsky.social
The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
@grrrck.xyz
r + python + data + web things. team shiny at posit (rstudio). open source all the things https://garrickadenbuie.com https://github.com/gadenbuie
@williamis.bsky.social
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
@safety.bsky.app
Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky. This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature. Community Guidelines: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines
@jay.bsky.team
CEO of Bluesky, steward of AT Protocol. Let’s build a federated republic, starting with this server. 🌱 🪴 🌳
@sashamtl.bsky.social
Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
@patalt.org
Trustworthy AI, Counterfactual Explanations, Open-Source Software and other PhD things at TU Delft. @julialang.org developer @taija.org Website: www.patalt.org