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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@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
@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. Currently at #ijf25 #ddj #dataviz
@maxroser.bsky.social
— Founder of Our World in Data — Professor at the University of Oxford Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
@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.
@ethanz.bsky.social
UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
@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
@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
@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/
@mitsuhiko.at
Creator of Flask • sentry.io ♥︎ API design, writing and giving talks • Choses Python and Rust • Excited about AI • Husband and father of three • Inhabits Vienna; Liberal Spirit • “more nuanced in person” More stuff: https://mitsuhiko.at/
@chrisalbon.com
Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@leonyin.org
Investigative data journalist Bloomberg News "CTRL + F" and find out https://inspectelement.org
@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
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@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…
@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
@rajiinio.bsky.social
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
@markrubin.bsky.social
social psychology ▪︎ metascience ▪︎ philosophy of science ▪︎ higher education Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/ Substack: https://markrubin.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
@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/
@wattenberg.bsky.social
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
@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
@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.
@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/
@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
@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
@albertocairo.com
Designer, journalist, and professor. Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
@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.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@maosbot.bsky.social
Parent, spouse, Australian, cyclist, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Bayesian ML, Long Covid, photos of dog, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb
@kylelo.bsky.social
#nlp #ml #hci research scientist @ai2.bsky.social, Co-lead of Data for OLMo w/ @soldaini.net, statistics @uw, open science, tabletop, seattle, he/him,🧋 kyleclo.com
@arvind.bsky.social
Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@mjskay.com
Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/ Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu Co-founder https://journalovi.org
@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
@chelseaparlett.bsky.social
Ph.D, stats lover/writer✍🏼, #statistics #scicomm #datascience #statstiktok 👩🏻💻 she/her
@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
@kordinglab.bsky.social
@Penn Prof, deep learning, brains, #causality, rigor, http://neuromatch.io, Transdisciplinary optimist, Dad, Loves outdoors, 🦖 , c4r.io
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her