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@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
@carlzimmer.com
NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.31 web:carlzimmer.com AIR-BORNE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE LIFE WE BREATHE https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793/air-borne-by-carl-zimmer/ [This account includes a tweet archive]
@xkcd.com
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs 😬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@ketanjoshi.co
Analysis, research, writing and communications focused on anti-greenwashing and corporate accountability. Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
@kjhealy.co
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick. https://kieranhealy.org / https://theordinalsociety.com
@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.
@conradhackett.bsky.social
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center Global religious change, sociology
@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 🏳️🌈
@janelleshane.com
I write about the strange side of AI at aiweirdness.com Also a research scientist in optics. She/her. Colorado, USA
@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science. I think about identity, stigma, race, and politics more than any normal person should. Lover of life. Pro-democracy. People should dance more. Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
@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
@orthonormalist.bsky.social
I am the capital. Libertarian Transhumanist. American Hegemonist. Secular Jew. Product Manager. Humorless scold with an unworkable political philosophy. http://aristillus.xyz lazyposter Working on Texas Triangle metatribe. Brenham by 2030.
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Prof of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@dynarski.bsky.social
Economist & Prof at Harvard | First-gen college grad | Education, economics, inequality | Shitposts are in a Boston accent | former union organizer NYT Columns https://bit.ly/3TbaxXV https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski www.susandynarski.com
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought. https://othermeans.substack.com/
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@pamherd.bsky.social
Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
@justinwolfers.bsky.social
Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings and PIIE ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full.
@stephaniemlee.bsky.social
Senior writer at @chronicle.com, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society / stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com / San Francisco
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@astrokatie.com
Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr. Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@economeager.bsky.social
Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. At http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also at http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo, cursed to be serious in life.
@dfisman.bsky.social
Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star. Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social
Sociologist studying families, schools, privilege, power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, Atlantic. Author of HOLDING IT TOGETHER | QUALITATIVE LITERACY | FIELD GUIDE TO GRAD SCHOOL "Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women" www.jessicacalarco.com
@focusfronting.bsky.social
opinions are not my own and represent those of noam chomsky if he were in law school. she/her.
@kityates.bsky.social
Author. Prof of Math Bio and Public Engagement. Member of Independent Sage since October 2020. @Kit_Yates_Maths on twitter Books - Math(s) of Life and Death How to Expect the Unexpected Get them here: https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv He/Him
@dgrand.bsky.social
Prof at MIT working on misinformation/fake news, social media, polarization, intuition vs deliberation, cooperation, politics, and religion. (he/him) https://davidrand-cooperation.com/
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator. Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University. More here: neillewisjr.com Personal account
@mirya.bsky.social
Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
@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/
@helendecruz.net
Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music. newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com website: https://helendecruz.net/ My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
@mammalssuck.bsky.social
EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health I study mothers, milk, & babies Associate Prof at ASU Cheddar Superfan. "Scarier than a badger" Opinions my own
@needhibhalla.bsky.social
Cell biologist and geneticist, Professor, mom and consumer of alcohol. Those might all be related. I grind til I own it. She/her/hers. ORCID: 0000-0002-6859-0073 personal account
@phylogenomics.bsky.social
Prof at #UCDavis Interests: evolution, ecology, function & phylogenomics of host-microbe/microbiome symbioses; #openscience; #birds; baseball; T1D Lab phylogenomics.me Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen TED go.ted.com/6WPm
@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/
@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/
@shiplives.bsky.social
Writer. Comms person. Mostly sci/tech/health. Sometimes music/food/culture. Lifelong Eagles fan from the South. (We exist!) Let’s make the South better, y’all. Stuff I write for fun here: https://medium.com/@shiplives
@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.
@lkfazio.bsky.social
Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
@khoavuumn.bsky.social
@the-engi-nerd.bsky.social
Job titles held over my career: Aircraft Instrumentation Operations Engineer Telemetry and Power Systems Engineer Lead Data Scientist Tactical Air Warfare Analyst Enterprise Systems Engineer