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audience / analytics @restofworld.org, women's basketball liker

Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com. Become a member: https://longreads.com/join/ Submit to us: https://longreads.com/submissions

Tech news from Asia, Africa, LatAm. Deputy Editor @restofworld. Follow for non‑Western angles.

an editor at restofworld.org

Create and share social media content anywhere, consistently. Built with 💙 by a global, remote team. ⬇️ Learn more about Buffer & Bluesky https://buffer.com/bluesky

Immigration reporter for the L.A. Times. L.A. native, president of CCNMA and proud mama. Reach me at rachel.uranga(@)latimes.com

Reuters congressional correspondent focused on foreign policy and national security. (Signal: PZReuters.94) Don't ban books. YNWA https://www.reuters.com/authors/patricia-zengerle/

senior political correspondent @ Zeteo // contributing writer @ Rolling Stone // co-author of ‘Sinking in the Swamp’ // adjunct professor @ University of Cincinnati // volunteer @ St. Vincent de Paul // “a deranged hack,” according to the Trump White House

Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometimes Behind the Bastards) for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her

Hong Kong Journalists Association chair.

journalist @theintercept

Asia Editor at Rest of World. https://restofworld.org/

Tech reporter @restofworld. Former Beijing Correspondent @scmpnews.

posting about posts at new york magazine. have me on your podcast!

writer / editor @nytimes. Formerly Wired / The Believer / CJR / Harper's camillebromley.com

NYT tech reporter Co-author of Character Limit Signal: rmac.18 ryan.mac@nytimes.com rmac18@protonmail.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/ https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_

Managing Partner, Nüora Global Advisors | Author & Journalist | Vice-chair, NüVoices https://nuoraglobal.com/ https://nuvoices.com/

Reporter at @restofworld.org Covering tech, AI, and manufacturing 📍Hong Kong to New York 📧viola@restofworld.org

investigative data reporter | prev: @restofworld.org, @opensecrets.org, etc | khadijaalam.com

Labor x Tech Editor @restofworld.org, covering how tech is transforming the way we work, especially outside the west. Ideas & tips: gayathri@restofworld.org.

Business journalist in CDMX 🇲🇽

Journalist - tech & society. Deputy editor, Rest of World. San Francisco.

content strategy and stupid jokes

CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15. Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc. My views are not my employer's.

Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Hamline MFAC ‘24. Currently querying. http://jessedoogan.substack.com

culture editor of Guardian Australia

Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). www.michelefilgate.com

Coder, book geek, cakeatarian 🍰 she / her / Herself Kind of not really here, but not really anywhere else, either.

Writer with a love of sports, music, film, the arts, and a sordid past in marketing and Washington politics. Up the Villa!

Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first. Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com

Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien

Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.

Non-human intelligences enjoyer. Bikes, birds, bees and Maisie the dachshund. https://about.me/johnpittman

Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.

Author, journalist, editorial director, delighted participant. New book THE MIDLIFE PLOT TWIST coming Fall 2026 http://www.lindsaygoldwert.com

Design + type + text. Solidarity forever. Views are my own.📍NYC

tv critic at variety. aherman at variety dot com

I’m a medical cartoonist and a content designer/UX writer who works in healthcare IT! www.metrokitty.com

Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP

Designer of many rectangles at Loud Room, a funsized design consultancy. I love and geek out on books, pencils, horror movies, fonts, smart quotes, photography, and games — both video and tabletop. I live and work in Philadelphia under a pile of books.

senior business & China editor for WIRED. my Signal is louise_matsakis.83. I co-write a newsletter called Made in China: https://www.wired.com/newsletter

Author of I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder and Work It Out: A Mood-Boosting Exercise Guide For People Who Just Want To Lie Down. Wrestling and film nerd. Lapsed music fan finding her way back.

Professional Geek 💼 Integrated Marketing Lead at Lion Forge Entertainment ✍🏾 "Protectors of Wakanda" 🎙️theblerdgurl podcast 🔗 https://beacons.ai/theblerdgurl

Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.

Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin

🏳️‍🌈 Freelance Editor & Writer | Fiction Editor at The Offing | EIC at Midnight Breakfast | Tin House Summer Workshop '20 & '23 | she/her | Scrabble + coffee + cross-stitch Work with me! - https://rebeccarubenstein.com/editing-services

flaming hydra // john.m.saward@gmail.com // ig: johnsaward

Archivist, Scoutmaster, record collector, preventative maintenance enthusiast.

Rebuilding from Twitter. Insatiably curious, holistically engaged, determined to be pleased.

Born in Philadelphia. Lives online. Seriously unserious. #a11y worker. Chronic shitposter. Casual gamer. Lover of science, technology, food, history, culture. Filipino American 🇵🇭🇺🇲

Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.

PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @researchorgs.bsky.social at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net

Old-ish person who’s been online a long time and likes puns and tech, except when tech pisses me off. Also a mom of 2 adults, ADHD, draws/paints, and recently retired from working at Microsoft. #BlackLivesMatter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Enthusiast. Hoping Bluesky stays weird.

Native CA living in NC, tech comms emerita, music lover, world-y, reader, tv watcher, foodie, wannabe knitter, dog person. Will travel for my fav bands, like Wilco (pictured)

Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming. Professor of English at UVA (Commonwealth chair upon approval). Speaking for myself as a private citizen here. Being rude will get you blocked.

Writing the book on the History of the Button. Give me some time on it. Publishing a zine called ply.space. Against everything happening within the White House.

Content strategy consultant, author, speaker. Review my book, let me pet your dog. Trustworthy: https://a.co/d/dkufKSS Everything else: http://appropriateinc.com

Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.

Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name. Signal: daralind.18

Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. of Communication & director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu.

feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net

economic policy correspondent at the new york times tips? signal: tonyromm.62 https://www.nytimes.com/by/tony-romm

Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.

Also known as Misha. UX design then (frog, CFPB, startups) and now (Salesforce Platform). Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend

Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39

Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine.

@Propublica.org journalist in Detroit, exploring Michigan and the Midwest Author: "The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy” Teacher: Alma College MFA program in creative writing www.annaclark.net

slothful writer of comics and other hilobrow things

A human person, I’m pretty sure

I read things, I write things; often found in the sea, sometimes found splashing about with paints. Not usually at the same time.

founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com

Producer, writer, singer. Editor, @niemanstoryboard.org Podcasts @ursastory.bsky.social Music: https://www.instagram.com/markarmsmusic Founder (emeritus) of Longreads markarms.com

senior editor, smithsonian mag. preorders now open for JOLT (Scribner, 2026): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jolt/Ted-Scheinman/9781668075593 // https://tedscheinman.com/

Design director-type, publishing geek, itinerant newsroom denizen. Priors: ProPublica, BusinessWeek, Pearson Ed, consultant.

Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works

"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com

Mathematician, writer, Orioles fan, Wisconsinite, cargo shorts dad

Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture ✨💻📚🏳️‍🌈 Pro-Luddite! *Letterpress+zine+#DHmakes *Bookish code+data *Experimental/DH & library futures Dr! 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them 🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition AmandaVisconti.com | WolfproofPress.com 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director

Dean & English professor, runner, Steeler fan, avid reader, dog walker, cat food dispenser. Always up for pizza. Academically: literary modernism, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night possibly forever.

Educational Technology Strategy. Currently: Northeastern U. Previously Woolf, Trinity, CCSU, ProfHacker edtech / digital humanities / LFC / &c

Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. Data scientist, writer, historian. Newest: The Long Land War (2022), The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (2023).

teaching ux @ ArtCenter & UCLAe directing ux @ National Geographic Society (/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻

Senior Product Manager at NYPL (formerly Guggenheim, AMNH and Brooklyn Museum) Also https://mastodon.social/@rdmond. Freelance classicist. @hemerologion.bsky.social

Dean, chief academic technology officer, and professor at a large, public American institution. Standard disclaimer: opinions offered here are solely mine.

what if we could have the things we liked, minus the things we didn't like

How to do things with words and computers. Assoc. Prof of Digital Humanities at BYU. Formerly at Twitter, ProfHacker, ello, and The Aquabats. Photo by https://instagram.com/marktwhitney/.

Working to make higher ed more equitable & joyful. Obsessed with fungi. Books: Unexpected Flourishing (2026), Presence of Absence (2024), Putting Humanities PhD to Work (2020). She/her NYC District 15 Community Education Council // opinions my own

design director at propublica

A frog wearing a scarf. He is sitting under a tall conifer, frowning at a mushroom. A lamp sits nearby. #inovermyhead https://fjord.style AK > OK > WA > MA > CA > OR > NY > OR

Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership

Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/

Rogue history Ph.D. Former public servant. World War II, hockey, lipstick, and classic movies. Colorado and Wyoming bred. DC dweller. Author of DESTINATION CASABLANCA (PublicAffairs).

Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.

I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).

Everything changes; don’t be afraid