Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
Benjamin Saltzman @b-a-saltzman.bsky.social Prof. at the University of Chicago
Author of TURNING AWAY: THE POETICS OF AN ANCIENT GESTURE (Out this April, 2026)
www.bsaltzman.com
Glenn Hendler @glenntwo.bsky.social Prof of English and American Studies, Fordham U (all disclaimers apply). Wrote 33 1/3 book about David Bowie Diamond Dogs & other Bowie things. Coedited Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Member, Academic Board, Jewish Voice for Peace.
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu
Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
Literary Hub [Unofficial] @lithub.com.web.brid.gy The best of the literary web
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://lithub.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/lithub.com
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Trevor Perri @trevorperri.bsky.social Senior acquisitions editor in philosophy and political theory @harvardpress.bsky.social | philosophy PhD
The Immanent Frame (SSRC) @immanentframe.bsky.social The Immanent Frame publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. It was founded in October 2007 in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program @religionssrc.bsky.social.
Ted Genoways @genoways.bsky.social • Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social
Margo Irvin @margoirvin.bsky.social Editor at @ucpress.bsky.social | ancient world, global premodern history, translations | she/her
Laurie Shannon @shannonical.bsky.social natural history 🦔 enviro-lit 🌊 history of ideas 💫 Shakespeare 🎭 Anne Lister Society convener 🎩
🎓 Franklyn Bliss Snyder Prof of Literature, Northwestern
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
Kate Marshall @katemarshall.bsky.social Director of Franco Institute, lit prof, and ass dean of research, Notre Dame. Editing post45 at Stanford UP. Novels by Aliens (Chicago 2023)
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social “To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA | Bad at email
Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social Writer, editor, & English professor in Dayton, OH. Chair, School of Humanities & Cultural Studies. Artifacts: How We Think & Write About Found Objects. Co-founder: the-rambling.com. From rural Appalachia.
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Nicholas Dames @njdames.bsky.social Professor @ Columbia • co-EIC Public Books • writer/critic elsewhere, on the novel then and now • most recent book THE CHAPTER (Princeton UP)
Sara Marcus @thesaramarcus.bsky.social Professor of English, writing about US literature, sound, political disappointment. I also wrote a book about Riot Grrrl. http://saramarcus.com https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248656
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Lynn Wardley @lynnwardley.bsky.social Literature and Lamarck
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
John O'Brien @johnobrien.bsky.social 
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Chris Grobe @cgrobe.bsky.social Theorist/historian of performance. ART OF CONFESSION (http://bit.ly/2BALZDt). Now writing on tech and the arts, politics and performance.
Rachel Sagner Buurma @rbuurma.bsky.social 
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social Quite 80s, pretty nice.
Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her.
www.jacquelynardam.com
Matt McAdam @mxmcadam.bsky.social Executive Editor for Humanities and History of STM at Johns Hopkins University Press
Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social Fast and Furious expert
Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical)
Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/)
Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ed Yong @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
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social Skeets from the most successful news magazine in TV history, offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news ⏱️
Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social English professor at Michigan, interested in literature as in life
Tina @theconstantc.bsky.social Scholar person. INFJ. Preemptively sorry. 
U.S. Senator John Fetterman @fetterman.senate.gov United States Senator fighting for the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
www.fetterman.senate.gov
Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov Official account of U.S. Senator Tim Kaine.
Now on BlueSky @blueskyisland.bsky.social Highlighting prominent figures as they make their way to BlueSky. I had a hard time finding refugees from the old place. So I set this up. Hope it helps!
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Leo Carey @leojcarey.bsky.social Senior Editor at The New Yorker, ex-X?
Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Musa al-Gharbi @musaalgharbi.bsky.social Asst. Professor of Communication, Journalism and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stony Brook University. Author of, "We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite" -- out now via Princeton University Press.
Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
Zach Tavlin @zachtavlin.bsky.social School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Academic, baseball fan, literature/music/movies.
Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈
baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social Academic, queer crank, radical depressive. Partly enigmatic, partly fossil.
How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-the-earth-feels
Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister.
Latest book: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025)
Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP)
https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Jim English @jacquesanglais.bsky.social 
Michael D. Snediker @mdsnediker.bsky.social Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c. - L Blakey Vermeule @lemuelgulliver.bsky.social Lover of all animals and in awe of the natural world. Student of human cognition. I teach philosophy and literature. Passionate about climate justice. We are all interdependent.
William Germano @williamgermano.bsky.social Cooper Union humanities professor, recovering dean, recovering publisher (Routledge, Columbia UP). Books (on writing, revising, teaching, visual measurement, Powell & Pressburger) with Chicago, Princeton, Bloomsbury, the BFI.
Next: Shakespeare and opera.
Jacques Lezra @phredward.bsky.social Political philo, dog, paints, etc travels. Crazy about nicely grilled, fresh sardines.
Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395 
Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Birmingham Poetry Review @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social Volume 52 Out Now! | Est. 1987 | Publishing Award Winning Poetry, Reviews, Essays, & Interviews | Open for Poetry Submissions |
https://linktr.ee/birminghampoetryreview?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6e4b253-f548-4727-91da-c69865518234
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social Poet critic editor and publisher; professor at Wayne State University Detroit; Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences (U Iowa P, 2016); Не то: Избранные тексты/Not This: Selected Writings (Polyphem, 2024); www.barrettwatten.net.
Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social Critic. Thoreau’s Axe (2023), Haunted Convict (2016), The Oracle & the Curse (2013), The Prison & the American Imagination (2009). Writing about Foucault & the legacies of theory for WW Norton. Tending my garden.
https://campuspress.yale.edu/calebsmith/
Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social Writer of all shapes and sizes at The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Frieze, the Village Voice, New Republic, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Organizing at Freelance Solidarity Project. he/him and very gay 🇵🇸 danielfelsenthal.com
Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social Living in Copenhagen, working in Uppsala. European editor for Textual Practice, associate editor for Studia Neophilologica.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/9780231203425
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/do-you-have-a-band/9780231162975/
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social A hub for the humanities, where intellectual relationships are forged across academic boundaries, within and beyond Yale University.
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.