Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social public education fan, education ranter, retired teacher, SAHD, tailgate trombone, Venangoland PA, Curmudgucation, The Progressive, Forbes.com, Bucks County Beacon
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, certified AI hater, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told.
he/him
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. (PFP illustrated by Farimah Khavari)
EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social Prof at an unnamed red state university, Urban planning and politics, Florida woman musings, Kaffee und Kuchen bitte, and fan of the American League Division winners, 2026.
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social Ex-investment banker, marketer, & public school teacher: pick your ad hominem. Co-author of nonfiction books Carjacked & Schooled. Cranky in the AM.
Newsletter: https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it. 
Jason Gulya @jasongulya.bsky.social Professor of English and Communications at Berkeley College
LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/3txt65da
Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/higherai
Work with me: https://tinyurl.com/2n4wvhsp
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com Mathematician, faculty developer, and education researcher currently working as a consultant. He/him
https://drew-lewis.com
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Brad Meyer @bradmeyer4congress.bsky.social Brad Meyer is a seventh-generation Hoosier, Purdue-trained engineer, and former Senior Engineer at Crane NSA. With 35 years of experience in business and technology, Meyer is a proud democrat running for the Indiana 9th district US Congess.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
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.
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Mystery Science Theater 3000 @mst3kofficial.bsky.social Visit our site to find all the places you can stream and own Mystery Science Theater 3000: www.mst3k.com
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social 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
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org Maybe the real treasure was the citations we made along the way.
donate.wikipedia25.org
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social Professor in literary studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters.
blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social Senior Director of the University of Mississippi's CETL & Assistant Professor of Teacher Education | Author: Failing Our Future (https://bit.ly/3UUdctd) and How Humans Learn (2018) | Speaker: http://bit.ly/jeyler | https://josheyler.wordpress.com | he/him
Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social English professor at King's College, PA 📚 Fiction writer 💻 Optimistic pessimist ✊ Editor of Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts
https://zeal.kings.edu/zeal
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Andrew Moore | Great Books Prof @greatbooksprof.bsky.social Professor of Great Books at St. Thomas University. Creator of YouTube videos at the Internet. linktr.ee/greatbooksprof
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com The Grading Conference is a place where faculty join together to learn about grading practices that best support student learning, promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom, and enhance student and faculty classroom experiences. 
David Clark @dccmath.bsky.social Mathematician at GVSU, but all views are my own. Author of Grading for Growth, the book and the blog!
Blog: https://gradingforgrowth.com/
Book: https://www.routledge.com/9781642673814
Info: https://sites.google.com/mail.gvsu.edu/clarkdav/
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social 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
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Longreads @longreads.com 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
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
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Laura Shine @lshine.bsky.social On-Air Host at 91.9 WFPK, adult alternative, Lpm.org/stream, LPM app, 2-6pm eastern M-F
Mel @onairmel.lpm.org Mornings on 91.9 WFPK, part of @lpm.org. She/her. Married to @ronandmel.bsky.social. Here to see your pets and crush the patriarchy.
Kyle Meredith @kylemeredith.lpm.org Host / Journalist/ Unreliable Narrator
Daniel Gilliam @dgill.bsky.social Composer: fictivemusic.com
Director of Programming at Louisville Public Media & On-air weekdays 9a-12n 90.5 WUOL lpm.org/classical
Dad
Instagram: @fictivemusic
📍Louisville
Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social Guidebook author, TV & radio host, business owner, Lutheran, and NORML Board Member. Fanatically positive and militantly optimistic.
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality. History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
Reviews Coeditor @kairostp.bsky.social
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Roosevelt Montas @rooseveltmontas.bsky.social John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College. Author of “Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed. https://linktr.ee/humrespro
Louisville Public Media @lpm.org Louisville Public Media (LPM) is an independent, community-supported media organization serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. Learn more at lpm.org.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
COYS
About: aaronrhanlon.com
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com
Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social HS English teacher clinging to what the legendary Gwendolyn Brooks wrote: "we are each other's / harvest:" (yes, that line break feels heavier than ever these days)
Also: I share writings, resources + thoughts on education at thebrokencopier.substack.com!
PL Thomas EdD @plthomasedd.bsky.social P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Social media is not my classroom. Posts represent me only and no organization linktr.ee/plthomas
Literacy (reading and composition) and education policy, comic book scholarship
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Josh Brake @joshbrake.com I write about technology, education, and human flourishing all through the lens of a prototyping mindset. | Husband, Dad, Engineering Prof. at Harvey Mudd, Coffee roaster, Pizzaiolo
Substack → joshbrake.substack.com
Website → joshbrake.com
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
David Buck @dbuckedu.bsky.social Professor of English at a community college. Teaching composition (online & hybrid). #TempleMade. Interested in #SDGs, #pedagogy, #ungrading, #AIResistance, & #OER. Ungrading.weebly.com
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
@virtualephemera.bsky.social @virtualephemera.bsky.social 
Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazel’s dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.