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writer, artist, alleged geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. dissertation blog: placing.technology. views adamantly mine
the internet can still be fun!
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Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
PhD Candidate @ Drexel University, Info. Sci. 🇲🇦 Studying lived experiences of people who use #drugs, #stigma, #harmreduction through mixed methods, #NLProc. Public health background. Aspiring wine connoisseur & proud cat lady 🐱🐱🐱
NYC-based journalist covering tech/marketing/policy/media focused on AI, ads, antitrust, etc.
Currently freelance (NYT, FastCo, Inc, etc.), I spent the past decade on staff at Digiday, Forbes, Adweek, the AP and elsewhere. https://authory.com/MartySwant
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
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everynoise.com and associated curiosity; see also @glennmcdonald.bsky.social
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/
Data Visualization. Ex-Planet & NASA Earth Observatory. Blue Marble, Earth at Night, color, cartography, occasionally skewed views of Earth. Looking for a job.
reporting and research fellow @towcenter.bsky.social
https://cj-robinson.github.io/
I work on AI governance and evals at @cip.org and weval.org personal: 🏳️🌈 j11y.io // author, engineer, stroke survivor, epileptic. I live in Beijing. I also build book recs on ablf.io
Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
Present: phd in tool-making for vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa. Fall 2026: assistant prof @ Cal Poly SLO.
Softer-ware, accessibility, data interaction.
"Move slo and repair things."
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
Actress & Writer. Currently playing Sophie in BLINK https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/blink-df19
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; Philosophy Tube & @KillJamesBond ✨👑
I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.
CS PhD Student @ UMD
Undergrad @ Cornell
https://jenna-russell.github.io/
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Assistant Professor @ UMD CS┃she/her┃HCI, Vis, & daydreaming┃Prev Northwestern CS, Brown CS, Tufts CS ┃www.fmyang.com ┃fig-x.github.io
Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 || Journalism, AI, Tech & innovation 👨💻 || Fellow Digital Democracy Centre 🇩🇰 & Marie Curie Scholar 🇪🇺 || Occasional Photographer || #FirstGen
🌐 https://hannescools.com/
Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
We are a research group at CU Boulder Information Science that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.
https://data-and-design.org
information science prof at cu boulder
https://jonathanzong.com/
https://www.data-and-design.org
@data-and-design.org
Assistant prof. of information science at Drexel CCI.
computational social science, NLP for social good, narratives, stigma, #NLProc #NLP #NLP4SG
Previously at UIUC, Spotify.
she/her. shadirezapour.com
Transformation Leader, James Weldon Johnson Prof, Keynote Speaker. Accessibility Advocate. Tweets are my own. #Ux #A11y #Design #HumanSpatialComputing #Research
I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech. Responsible AI
https://angelina-wang.github.io/
design director at propublica
Science. Data. Journalism. Maps. Teach: @ucscscicomm.bsky.social. Ex: BuzzFeed News, berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social, @newscientist.com, @nature.com, @science.org.
https://www.peteraldhous.com/
PhD Candidate @ CornellCIS
https://mutua.nyc
https://zangsmicha.love
https://michalove.studio
Substack: https://thelastwave.substack.com/
About: https://micha.love
journalism, computer science, currently @washingtonpost.com
https://erxclau.me
researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social, writing in @columjournreview.bsky.social
📍 on the amtrak between philly and nyc
klaudiajazwinska.com
public interest technologist // luddite hacker.
information science phd at cornell tech.
inequality, ai, and the information ecosystem.
🤠 traeve.com 🤠
🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof
Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public.
📊❤️ PI @informationvisions.bsky.social
Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD
🔗 https://peck.phd/
Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
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
more: casey.prof
Director of the Applied Social Media Lab, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard
Previously: ProPublica, WSJ, WIRED, Consumerist (RIP)
The cat's name is Elenore (like The Turtles song) and this is mostly about her.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/meg-marco
Professor for Information Design at Folkwang University of the Arts
Principal metaLAB (at) Harvard & Berlin
kimalbrecht.com
3 jr devs stacked on top of each other in a 🧥
America’s favorite cat dad
📍Astoria 🌐 eligundry.com 💿 https://album-mode.party
Studying NLP, CSS, and Human-AI interaction. PhD student @MIT. Previously at Microsoft FATE + CSS, Oxford Internet Institute, Stanford Symbolic Systems
hopeschroeder.com
PhD Student in Technology and Social Behavior (CS + Comm) @ Northwestern University. Studying online social networks with LLM-based social simulations.
Software Engineer searching for next thing. NYC via Austin. Chaotic Good.
cryptid • writer • universal constant • edge case • cyber artisan • saved Homestuck
https://im.giovanh.com
let's be fans of each other
Ask about my spreadsheet of spreadsheets. State Capitol Reporter @WITF.
Email: jaxon_white@witf.org
Signal: JaxonWhite.02
I have friends everywhere
movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
member @transjournalists.org
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
tips: Lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Prof of Computer Science at USC
AI, social media, society, networks, data, and
HUMANS LABS http://www.emilio.ferrara.name
REGULARITY AI www.emilioferrara.ai
Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
The App for Connecting Open Social Web
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https://openvibe.social
writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
Software engineer and corgi dad. Into privacy, open source, maps, self-hosting, musical theatre📍London, UK 🏳️🌈🇬🇧(👬🇵🇹)
Investigating AI-human organizing
Asst. Professor at UCSB
caseyrandazzo.com
Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Columbia University
New Jersey via Brooklyn via Milwaukee via New Orleans via...
Research Fellow in AI and News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate & PhD, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, news, (mis)info, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
Postdoctoral Fellow @ Princeton CITP. ex-Cornell PhD, future UIUC asst prof (fall 2026).
Looking at AI's impact on information ecosystems and news consumption. social computing, computational social science & journalism
mariannealq.com
Book/data geek with too many degrees. Social Sciences Librarian @ Bucknell - Info lit, research + data services, digital scholarship, DEIA. Herder of cats 🐈⬛ 🐈 she/her 🏳️🌈
Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
fandom + media + tech + history + polar exploration + the libidinal pleasures of obsession. book out in 2027!!!!!!
newsletter: tchotchke.substack.com
website: allegrarosenberg.com
Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
this bio is left as an exercise to the reader
🌱 emilyliu.me
Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
#Housing analyst #realestate #appraiser blogger @Columbia prof, non-economist, Miller Samuel CEO, family man, maker of snow and lobster fisherman (order varies)
writer, audio maker, researcher
books + podcasts @randomhouse
saramccrea.com
Immigration reporter for @NOTUS.org and AJI fellow | Roll ‘ders 🕷️
policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
I write about tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
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New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
Author, journalist, entrepreneur. THE ART SPY from @HarperOneBooks & SECRET BROOKLYN. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP https://michelleyoungwriter.com/theartspy
Writer, lawyer, and artist exploring the internet.
Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com, Teaching @Pratt.edu.
rebeccawilliams.info, rebecca.411 on Signal
Urbanist, technologist, data head. Into #dataviz, #opendata, #webmapping and making cities better. Dev evangelist @Mapbox Teach @nyuwagner
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/
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reporter @WIRED.com
caroline_haskins@wired.com
Signal: carolinehaskins.61
https://www.wired.com/author/caroline-haskins/
USDR works alongside state, local, and tribal governments to modernize how they deliver digital services and better meet the public's needs.
https://www.usdigitalresponse.org
New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
Solutions for the next era of local news.
Editing at @documentedny.bsky.social. Priors: Chalkbeat, WSJ, NY Daily News, New Haven Register. Coal miner's granddaughter. Ms. @jonlemire.bsky.social I’m crafty and write about my kids. https://www.clippings.me/carriemelago
The American Journalism Project is the first-ever venture philanthropy dedicated to supporting a thriving local news ecosystem. We invest in and build nonprofit newsrooms that are sustained by and look like the people they serve.
he+him / Writing about software craft and quality: unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: shifthappens.site / Design @figma / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
staff writer @newrepublic.com / author A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (@littlebrown.bsky.social, 2KTK) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Initiated @SafeguardingResearch on Jan 15th, 2025.
"No Musk can shut us down."
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AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
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Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Investigative reporter for @Propublica.org covering Missouri and the Midwest. You have got to show me. Call/Text/Signal: 708-967-5731
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
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Interactives Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Head of narrative, The Guardian. I edit US long form and essays. How to pitch me: see below. French. Based in Montana.
‘We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.
Writing @ http://vikramoberoi.com. Owner @ http://baxterhq.com. Creator @ citymeetings.nyc. Curator @ atariemailarchive.org.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
