Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social Butch Strega Nona. Genderqueer, she/her, but they/them is fine too. You maybe know me from Twitter. Better a pig than a fascist.
s. e. smith @sesmith.lol that person with the peaches
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social Sharing 19th-century Gothic industrial research
Dr. Bridget Marshall (she/her), Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Books: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/industrial-gothic/ and https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/mary-elizabeth-braddon-marshall/
jonas @jh1791.bsky.social Sociology and/of religion. Professor...ish. Semi-pro dilettante. A damned Vermont person™ in the Shenandoah Valley. The Arsenal. We need more heavy metal. And whiskey. Probably.
Namwali @namwalien.bsky.social "I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison
Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
Raewyn Connell @raewynconnell.bsky.social "Trans Lives: Social Realities Across the Globe" out now https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=trans-lives--9781509572038
www.raewynconnell.net
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Molly M. King @mollymking.bsky.social Sociologist of knowledge, science, inequality. Researcher. Wheelchair basketball player. ♿️ Personal citizen account.
Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social Inequities in health are ubiquitous. I study the processes that create and perpetuate them.
Medical sociology (PhD), health policy (MPH), & health demography.
Personal account
Guillermina Altomonte @ghaltomo.bsky.social Sociologist at NYU writing about aging, health care, culture, and markets. Author of Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal (out now!)
Raul Perez @raulperez.bsky.social sociologist and author of The Souls of White Jokes (Stanford University Press) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social The human, budgetary, environmental, and social costs of U.S. wars and military operations, at home and abroad. Housed at Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs at costsofwar.org.
Melissa F. Lavin @themedusa1111.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology. Writer. Ethnographer.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
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Law & Society Review @lawsocietyreview.bsky.social Official journal of the Law and Society Association, publishing innovative scholarship on relationships between law and society, including legal institutions and processes.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-society-review
Eliza Brown @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Medicine, Reproduction, Economy, Organizations, Family, Sexualities, Gender, Demography, STS. https://elizacbrown.com/
The Daily Catch @thedailycatch.bsky.social News and updates from the hyperlocal digital newspaper serving the Hudson Valley, New York towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck.
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I'm an editor and reporter. Feminist. Mother of two. Years in DC, Rome, NYC, London. But mostly DC. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) is a democratic and plural collective of sociologists who support the cause of Palestinian liberation.
sociologistsforpalestine.org
Taylor Beauvais @taylorbeauvais.bsky.social PhD candidate at Boston University studying the sociology of AI.
Grad fellow at Rafik Hariri institute for computation and computer engineering.
Teaching fellow for AI Ethics
Machine learning analyst at Open Justice Lab.
Ravenous @weareravenous.com 🐦⬛ Food media with teeth
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com Journalist: abortion and politics. Cofounder @autonomynews.co. Seen in The New Republic, The Guardian, Slate, Mother Jones, MSNOW, Jezebel. WGAE Council. From PA, now in BK
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social Abortion access correspondent at The Nation and author of Killers of Roe, a whodunnit on the history of the anti-abortion movement, out now wherever books are sold https://www.amylittlefield.com/killersofroe/
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Muireann O'Dwyer @mergito.bsky.social Feminist Political Economy, EU studies, teaching at St Andrews. What if all the measurements are wrong?
@journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
https://linktr.ee/spectrejournal
Casey Seiler @caseyseiler.bsky.social Editor of the Times Union. Ever-vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos. I get to work with some of the finest journalists in the state. Support robust local journalism and send tips to cseiler@timesunion.com
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Phillip Pantuso @phillippantuso.bsky.social deputy managing editor for news @timesunion.com | tips, upstate gossip to phillip.pantuso@timesunion.com | depressed Tottenham fan
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
Katie McInnis @klmac.bsky.social she/her 🏳️🌈 | personal account | past gigs: @duckduckgo @ConsumerReports @CenDemTech & @FCC | all my tweets have errors
Emily Rauscher @emilyrauscher.bsky.social Professor @BrownSociology @PSTC_Brown @AnnenbergInst | Study education & inequality.
Octavia Butler & Patrick Rothfuss fan. From the sticks via financial aid.
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Luke Farrell @lukef.bsky.social Building for working people in NYC nyc.gov/pitcrew | Solved crises @WhiteHouse @USDS 🚀 writing about it occasionally itslukefarrell.substack.com
Hannah Natanson @hannahnatanson.bsky.social Narrative enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. Email: hannah.natanson2@washpost.com and Signal
@HannahNatanson.2026.
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
AMG Himself @angrymetalguy.bsky.social The Angry Metal Guy Himself. The distinguished ringleader of a pugnacious group of cretins. Holder of Very Important Opinions™. Lover of metal. MN sports. PhD in sociology. Opinions here are mine alone.
http://www.angrymetalguy.com
IG: @angrymetalguy
Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social Author of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves (@basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, 2026) and Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed Policing (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2019)
Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job
madeleineebaker.com
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/
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. liberalcurrents.com
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Gretchen Sisson @gretchensisson.bsky.social Sociologist at ANSIRH/UCSF; founder of Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund; author of 'RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption & the Privilege of American Motherhood.'
Mary Beth O'Connor @marybethoconnor.bsky.social From Junkie to Judge memoir. Teenage meth addict and multiple trauma survivor, to secular recovery, to federal judge. I speak and write about a variety of substance use, harm reduction, and recovery topics. junkietojudge.com
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
Saumya @saumyadadoo.bsky.social phd-ing @/columbia re: carcerality & urban space in colonial north india / cofounder @detsolnet.bsky.social / UAW 2710 / committed flâneuse
Nazgol Ghandnoosh @nazgolg.bsky.social Director of Research at The Sentencing Project | Sharer of Personal Views | Former Resident Alien
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Carter Sherman @cartersherman.bsky.social reporter | co-host of the Guardian podcast STATESIDE | author of THE SECOND COMING, about young Americans and the fight over the future of sex | signal: cartersherman.01
Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social pvd-based organizer & journalist covering anti-capitalist social movements, mutual aid & policing | @truthout.org contributor | stories & thoughts https://substack.com/@ellafwrites
Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social I work with data at Relevant Research. I post about migration and sports.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Americas, Earth
Arsenal + Nuggets + Avs + Rockies + Summit
I helped build DetentionReports.com
https://adamjsawyer.com/about
he/him
@tsobotka.bsky.social @tsobotka.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara studying social psychology, addiction, and masculinities.
ReEntry Lab @reentrylab.org Building bridges between writers & other artists leaving incarceration and arts & literary communities ready to receive them. Based in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Beth Schwartzapfel @journo-beth.bsky.social Writer, reader, nerd. Reporter for The Marshall Project covering criminal (in)justice, esp LGBTQ+, parole, addiction, health. Host of VIOLATION. It's not on us to complete the work—but neither can we stop doing it.
Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Shoshana Walter @sho-walter.bsky.social Investigative reporter at The Marshall Project. Author of REHAB: An American Scandal, from Simon & Schuster.
swalter@themarshallproject.org
Signal: shoeshine.99
www.shoshanawalter.com
Reveal @revealnews.org The Reveal podcast is produced by the nation's first investigative journalism nonprofit, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and PRX.
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Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Justin Feldman @jfeld.bsky.social Communism, public health, social sciences, etc.
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social International Digital Editor @meidastouch.com
SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), founded by Amitai Etzioni in 1989, is an international, interdisciplinary organization with members across 50 countries.
2026 Conference in Bordeaux 🇫🇷
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.
Brianna Nofil @briannanofil.bsky.social history prof @williamandmary; THE MIGRANT'S JAIL: An American History of Mass Incarceration, out now from @PrincetonUPress
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237015/the-migrants-jail
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.
Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social Historian of Civil War & Reconstruction. Bicyclist, baker, 3d favorite human of Banjo the dog. Views=mine, repost ≠endorsement
Dr Christina Wade 👻🍺 @braciatrix.bsky.social Award-winning Beer Historian & Author | PhD | Writing About Beer, Folklore, History, & Power| Author: FILTHY QUEENS & THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES Order Filthy Queens: https://tinyurl.com/Ninebeanrowsbooks
VinePair @vinepair.com Drinking is culture.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward
@rooseveltinstitute.org
Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Opinions are my own
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Geraldine @everywhereist.bsky.social James Beard Award-winning writer, bestselling author, and all-around weirdo behind Everywhereist.com. Author, ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hachette, 2017) and IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (PRH, 2024)
Census API Tracker @censusapitracker.bsky.social This account automatically posts updates when the U.S. Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets.
See the tracker: https://www.hrecht.com/census-api-datasets/
By @hannahrecht.bsky.social
This project is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social Hi.
*Scholar of culture, sport, and society.
*Host & Producer of Give Theory a Chance & Give Methods a Chance.
*Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Brockport.
*co-host of the Dear Adam Silver podcast w/ Abigail Smithson