Patrick Mineault's Starter Pack
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@patrickmineault.bsky.social
@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/
@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.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@benjaminreinhardt.com
Dare mighty things! Journeyman wondersmith at Speculative Technologies. 🏴☠️🪐🐉 https://Benjaminreinhardt.com + https://spec.tech
@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
@ologies.bsky.social
A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward
@sifu.tweety.fish
at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
@markhisted.org
How brain neural nets do computations to process info. Bearish on AI taking over the world, bullish on neuro advances via understanding AI. Pers. views. I tag neuro posts w/ #neuroscience /🧪
@eikofried.bsky.social
Associate Prof Leiden Uni. Studying mental health problems as systems. http://eiko-fried.com. Building an early warning system for depression at http://WARN-D.com.
@darinself.com
Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
@samwang.bsky.social
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Come visit my long-form essays at samwang.substack.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.
@micahgallen.com
Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception 👀, interoception 🫁🫀 ↻ 🧠, & metacogniton 🤔. https://www.the-ecg.org
@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
@russpoldrack.org
Professor at Stanford. Psychology/Neuroscience/Data Science. Books include: The New Mind Readers, Handbook of fMRI Data Analysis, Hard to Break, and Statistical Thinking. https://poldrack.github.io/
@bwjones.bsky.social
Neuroscientist Vision Neuroscientist Connectomics / VolumeEM Photographer / #Leica In the data bryanwjones.com ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
@neuroai.bsky.social
Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research. Cognitive computational neuroscience & AI. Writer. Nature wanderer. www.momen-nejad.org
@nicolecrust.bsky.social
Mood & Memory researcher with a computational bent. Science advocate. Frequent shifter of time zones. Professor (UPenn Psychology). Book: Elusive Cures (June 10, 2025). https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243054/elusive-cures
@mattsclancy.bsky.social
Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
@lpachter.bsky.social
Bren Professor of Computational Biology @Caltech.edu. Blog at http://liorpachter.wordpress.com. Posts represent my views, not my employer's. #methodsmatter
@smfleming.bsky.social
Psychologist and neuroscientist at UCL https://metacoglab.org Author, Know Thyself (2021) https://metacoglab.org/book Dad and assistant to the Diplomat
@earlkmiller.bsky.social
Picower Professor of Neuroscience @ MIT Cognitive neuroscience, cognitive control, working memory, attention, neural oscillations, brain dynamics, networks, and bass guitar. You know, the good stuff. https://ekmillerlab.mit.edu/
@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
@jascha.sohldickstein.com
Recently a principal scientist at Google DeepMind. Joining Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamical systems.
@xuanalogue.bsky.social
PhD Student. MIT ProbComp / CoCoSci. Inverting Bayesian models of human reasoning and decision-making. Pronouns: 祂/伊
@carlbergstrom.com
UW biology prof. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk I don't like fascists. he/him
@hakwan.bsky.social
how do we change the ways the mind works by messing w/ patterns of hemodynamic activity (e.g. fMRI BOLD signals)? e.g. by pairing them w/ stims & reward? co-director, Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea
@philipcball.bsky.social
Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
@dsquintana.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
assoc prof, uc irvine cogsci & LPS: perception+metacognition+phenomenology, fMRI+models+ML+AI meta-science, global education, phil sci prez+co-founder, neuromatch.io fellow, CIFAR brain mind & consciousness meganakpeters.org she/her 💖💜💙 views mine
@gershbrain.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University https://gershmanlab.com/
@pessoabrain.bsky.social
Luiz Pessoa, University of Maryland, College Park Neuroscientist interested in cognitive-emotional brain Author of The Entangled Brain, MIT Press, 2022 Author of The Cogitive-Emotional Brain, MIT Press, 2013 Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon (YouTube)
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
@neurobongo.bsky.social
VP, AI Models @IBMResearch, IBM Director, @MITIBMLab. Former prof and serial/parallel entrepreneur.
@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
@lampinen.bsky.social
Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Previously cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine. lampinen.github.io
@kanjun.bsky.social
Empowering humans in an age of AI. CEO, Imbue. Interested in agency, interfaces, & experimental social processes
@docbecca.bsky.social
cocktail enthusiast | neuroscientist | SABV influencer | urban gardener | drum learner | she/her Insta: @doc_becca (fun stuff) Signal: @doc_becca.87 (secrets)
@ucsusa.bsky.social
The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems. ucs.org
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
@raphaelmilliere.com
Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science https://raphaelmilliere.com/
@cantlonlab.bsky.social
Professor studying origins of concepts @CarnegieMellon; Brain development, cognition, evolution, math & logic; Primate Portal @TIME 2017 Silence Breakers; she Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@suryaganguli.bsky.social
Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford | Venture Partner a16z | Research in AI, Neuroscience, Physics
@bwyble.bsky.social
Academic, cognitive & vision scientist, computational modeller, cofounder @neuromatch Academy, He/His. This is a personal account.
@patrickmineault.bsky.social
NeuroAI, vision, open science. NeuroAI researcher at Amaranth Foundation. Previously engineer @ Google, Meta, Mila. Updates from http://neuroai.science