Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social Deputy Director of rapid response at Media Matters, views here are my own
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social Space news from around the globe, all in one place
Focusing on NASA & ESA Missions
Artemis III 🚀🌕 | 2027
Note we are not NASA just #Spacenerds #Moonjoy
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
International Association for Assyriology @iaassyriology.bsky.social The IAA was founded in 2003 to promote and represent Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basis.
Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary @akkadiandictionary.bsky.social The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary (LAD) is a research project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. Starting in 2025, the 17-year project aims to create a new, up-to-date digital online dictionary of #Akkadian.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com #Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨🎨.
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
E.L. Meszaros @iastranger.bsky.social Ph.D. in the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity from Brown University (2025). Algorithms, astronomy, mathematics, circus, cats, spiders.
Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association (@auspsa.bsky.social). Find us at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cajp20
Irene M. Petschko @irenep.bsky.social archaeologist at @oeai.bsky.social / @oeaw.bsky.social
Coordinator at Digital Archaeology and Classics Unit
Fieldwork in the Balkans and elsewhere
3D documentation, GIS, visualisation, data wrangling and archiving
based in lovely Vienna
(she/her)
J. Randy Taraborrelli @jrandyt.bsky.social Presidential historian - latest New York Times bestseller, "JFK - Public, Private, Secret" on sale now. TV writer, too. But more importantly - Dad to a very entitled dog named Axel.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jfk+taraborrelli
@uonphilosophy.bsky.social @uonphilosophy.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account of the philosophy department at the University of Nottingham. We like philosophy!!
The British Philosophical Association @thebpa.bsky.social Representing Professional Philosophers in the UK - www.bpa.ac.uk.
Matthew Longo @matthewblongo.bsky.social Asst Prof of Political Science @PolSciLeiden. Author: THE PICNIC (2024) https://bit.ly/42unDVV) & THE POLITICS OF BORDERS (2018). Native New Yorker.
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Charlotte Bank @charlottebank.bsky.social Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
Co-director Art-Lab Berlin
Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social PhD candidate in Ancient History
Ancient History, Herodotus, Assyriology, Achaemenid Studies, Numismatics
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social Philosopher, feminist, ethicist, cyclist.
Dean of Arts, University of Guelph.
My Erdős number is 3.
(Robert Corless, Neil Calkin, Erdős)
My pronouns are she/her.🌈
David Thomas Suell @dtsuell.bsky.social Asst Prof, Poli Sci & Intl Affairs @Eastern Mich // PhD @ UMichigan // Africana PT, critical & comparative PT, temporality // Managing Ed ContPolTheory
Nino Kadic @ninokadic.com Postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | PhD, King’s College London | Primarily working on mind and metaphysics 💭
Dr R. Alan Williams @r-alan-w.bsky.social Archaeologist and geologist. PhD, FSA. Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University. Bronze Age tin, copper and gold sources and trade networks.
Aramaization Project @aramaization.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu ERC project investigating the Aramaization of the ancient Middle East, hosted by the Spanish National Research Council @csic.es @cchscsic.bsky.social
James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University in Indianapolis
Philosophy Tilburg University @tilburgphilosophy.bsky.social This is the official account of the Tilburg University Philosophy Department. Want to know more about our research and staff? Visit the website at https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/tshd/departments/dphil
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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Croatian Journal of Philosophy @crojphil.bsky.social The Croatian Journal of Philosophy is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal grounded in the tradition of analytic philosophy.
ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social ASOR is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.
Subscribe to our free newsletter Ancient Near East Today: https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social þe hıne æꞇ ꝼꞃumꞅceaꝼꞇe ꝼoꞃð onꞅenꝺon
ǽnne oꝼeꞃ ẏðe umboꞃƿeꞅenꝺe
CHBstills @chbstills.bsky.social Old Retired US Military&Intel, Eagle Scout, Constant traveller, Kayaker, Sailor, Hedonist, bon vivant lover of fine wines. Photographer IATSE 600&669, 300+ film credits. Dual US/CND citizenship, Assignments in 72 countries; 3 wars; & numerous world events.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Alyn Smith MSP 🏴🇪🇺 @alynsmith.bsky.social Scottish European. MSP for Stirling. Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education.
(Photo the brilliant @thekiltedphoto.bsky.social)
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Bailey Poletti @baileypoletti.bsky.social PhD in medieval apocalyptic history, esp. 900-1100, but I try to read broadly. Trying my hand at fiction. All prophecies my own (and most likely wrong). He/him.
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Dr. Kipp Davis @drkippd.bsky.social PhD in Religions and Theology (Manchester, 2009), public academic, Dead Sea Scrolls detective
"Cool like a glacial period."
Tara Steimer-Herbet @tara-steimer.bsky.social I am an archaeologist specialized in the ancient Near East. Currently, I am a Senior lecturer at University of Geneva. My common thread is megalithic societies. I also carry out fieldwork in Lebanon (MEG-A) and Jordan (DPI-SKY)
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com U.S. Senator from New Jersey. 
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Digging Up The Past @diggingupthepast.net A podcast and a site dedicated to the latest historical news and research surrounding the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Visit: www.diggingupthepast.net
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social Brown Computer Science / Brown University || BootstrapWorld || Pyret || Racket
I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about #compsci #education #cycling #cricket and the general human experience.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social Author, pastor, activist, fighter for the common good.
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com Husband | Dad | Designer | California Native | Lifelong Dem | Strategist
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
David Maraniss @davidmaraniss.bsky.social Biographer, historian, journalist, professor, grandfather, Detroit born, DC and Madison based. Believer in Smokey Robinson, George Orwell, democracy, freedom of the press,Jim Thorpe, Roberto Clemente. and the Green Bay Packers.
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Uroš Matić (Priv.-Doz.Dr) @urosmatic.bsky.social Egyptologist, archaeologist
Senior fellow, College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr, Essen
Lecturer at University of Graz
Winner of Harrassowitz Philippika (2018) and Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020) Prizes
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social MS NOW 10PM
Author of 2 books: Deadly Force & Playing With Fire
Former Executive Producer & Writer of NBC’s drama series The West Wing
ms.now/Lawrence
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Melissa Kutner @melissannbee.bsky.social Ancient Studies professor at UMBC. Mostly Roman things. Views my own.
Janine Wende @janinewende.bsky.social Assyriologist || Altorientalistin
https://shorturl.at/pUv6p
Research team leader at the Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary at the Saxon Academy of Science and Humanitites in Leipzig.
Podcast: Von Assur nach Babylon https://pod.link/1730076141- B Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social PhD in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East from Brandeis, postdoc at Stanford. Interests in disability, myth, economics, and materiality. More at www.blindscholar.com.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
American Society for Premodern Asia @aspa1842.bsky.social The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded in 1842 as the AOS, promotes research in the languages & literatures of West, Central, South & East Asia, & North Africa, incl. philology, epigraphy, linguistics & material culture. https://www.aspa1842.org
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Fuck ICE. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com Executive Editor at Morning Brew
Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday
Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, etc etc etc
Failed musician
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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"
Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against America's fascist clown show.
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
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Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
Raleigh Heth @rheth.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor, Purdue University | PhD @ Notre Dame | Braves Baseball Connoisseur
Mythic literature, Hebrew Bible, Assyriology
Let's try to practice kindness
Jason Chen @chenphilosophy.com Bioethicist at The Ohio State University. Certified healthcare ethics consultant. Creator of The Philosophy Podcast Hub. Host of The Ethical Frontier podcast. https://linktr.ee/chenphilosophy
BAG Österreich @bagoesterreich.bsky.social Offizieller Account der Bioarchäologischen Gesellschaft Österreichs / Austrian Bioarchaeological Society. Archaeobotany, Zooarchaeology, Biological Anthropology - https://bag.or.at
Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social Social Media Manager and Volunteer Assistant Warden at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve; here for cats, crochet, jam and water buffaloes 😸🧶🐃
Recovering academic and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History, missing Iraq but not much else 🤷🏼♀️
Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP) @apsap.bsky.social University of Hong Kong and Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography collaborative fieldwork in the Vedi River valley
http://www.openarchaeology.org/armenia/
Dr Micòl Di Teodoro @micsim.bsky.social Egyptologist, Boursière Post-Doctorat at the Université de Liège,
Italian, astronomy enthusiast, in love with nature, geology and dinosaurs, mother of huskies
Colm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, UCL. Irishman in London (and sometimes Brussels).
Niels Ivar Larsen @nielsivar.bsky.social Grand reporter, writer, free speech activist, based in Copenhagen at the foreign desk of Information, Denmark's independent daily. Views expressed here are my very own, unless otherwise stated.
Piotr Michalowski @babbabardah.bsky.social 
History Hit 💥 @history-hit.bsky.social Online history channel and podcast network 🏛️
Rune Rattenborg @runeisforr.bsky.social Archaeologist and assyriologist specialising in the materiality of ancient writing systems. Associate of Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.
Paul G @anakuaqabbi.bsky.social Assyriologist turned data scientist.
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social Associate Professor in Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies in NELC at UCLA. Sumerian, religion & magic, demons, exorcism, and monsters. Also posts about walking in LA and my idiot cats.
Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
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