University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/
Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
The Anthony Powell Society @anthonypowellsoc.bsky.social The Anthony Powell Society is a charity made up of members across the world who promote interest in British author Anthony Powell and his work, including the 12 volume C20th work: "A Dance to the Music of Time". https://www.anthonypowell.org/
Austin Goodwin Andrews @austin-glock.bsky.social late antique religion + material culture • from Hamlet, North Carolina • he/him
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Melody @melodydilger.bsky.social PhD candidate in Ancient History
Ancient History, Herodotus, Assyriology, Achaemenid Studies, Numismatics
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com Longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. Pitch us: edit@noemamag.com
The Urbanist @theurbanist.org Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social The TV listings you never did know that you didn't not need, in glorious teletext several times a day. GSOH. Non-smoker preferred. Ring top bell. Your home is at risk if you store dynamite in it.
etaylorc @etaylorc.bsky.social The delight is in the finding out.
Inveterate traveler, incorrigible animal rescuer, English teacher by trade. Mostly lurking/liking here. All photos by me unless otherwise stated.
Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist | passionate about the funerary archaeology of pre-Roman southern Italy, food (in archaeology and in real life), university collections, and much more | researching, teaching and learning @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social Actor, Cinephile, Culturalist & Drummer posting stuff I like. buymeacoffee.com/mikewarburton
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Writer of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social Goat Gland Specialist. George Brent Detractor. Crate Digger. Retired Cigarette Lender.
Also on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/75eTt
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com
📕 BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/njnvr4hz
✊🏻 No Pasarán
Cassandra Pronouns (she/her) @indiecornwall.bsky.social she/her writer, sociable introvert
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Crooked Marquee @crooked-marquee.bsky.social A delightfully crooked publication about movies. @jasondashbailey.bsky.social, editor-in-chief.
https://crookedmarquee.com/
BLACK CULTURE CLIPS @blackcultureclips.grapevyne.social Delivering you the latest in Black Culture.
Media sourced from around the web.
https://grapevyne.space
Rob's Solomon's Knots @robl4a1.bsky.social Researching the history of Solomon's Knot
by Rob Wright
More examples on my FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/Solomons.Knot.Untied
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Covie @covie93.bsky.social 
Ezra "God" Olubi @ezra.wtf cats and computer stuff
Sarah Lord @potsofhistory.bsky.social Historic potter at Potted History 
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
@kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social it me, kd: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bgwoouqx463ponaj5f4wy5y2/feed/aaab3vh6gtzlc
👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Wadham College @wadhamcollege.bsky.social Academic excellence within a welcoming, inclusive and progressive community.
TJ Huey @hueytj2.bsky.social 31| Documentary style photographer | gym enthusiast | blerd |plant dad| hiker | From the SOUTH | Creative Director | BTS Photographer
Photography 👇🏾
https://hueytphotography.pixieset.com
AJ @rustgeek.me Lapsed Pentecostal, Recovering Bookworm, Middling Mid-career Materials & Corrosion Engineer, Talkative Introvert, Pretend Poet/Occasional Essayist, Liverpool FC fan, Prodigal (Nigerian) Abroad. Curious about Risk, Resilience, Complex Networks. rustgeek.me
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
AncientBlogger @ancientblogger.bsky.social All about ancient history. Creator and host of the Ancient History Hound podcast. https://linktr.ee/ancientblogger
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social Early prehistoric art expert and cognitive archaeologist. 8th Renfrew Fellow @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & JRF @homertoncollege.bsky.social
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Tamara J. Walker @tamaraw.bsky.social Historian * Author of BEYOND THE SHORES: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ABROAD (Crown, out now in paperback) and EXQUISITE SLAVES (Cambridge, 2017) * Co-founder of The Wandering Scholar (@wearetws.bsky.social).
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social Winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor, Cartoonist and Author https://www.paulnoth.com https://substack.com/@paulnoth?r=7j6we&utm_medium=ios
V. Cook @theartofvcook.bsky.social I do art!
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Dead Funny History, Horrible Histories & Horrible Science! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!
Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social Dr Hana Videen (she/her), author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH & THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Sharing the Old English Word of the Day since 2013.
linktr.ee/wordhord
tmcbphoto @tmcbphoto.com Toronto based aviation photographer 🇨🇦
All photos are my own. Occasionally, posts will also feature birds, astrophotography, and landscapes. Interested? Follow my journey!
www.tmcbphoto.com
Jaq @jaqdup.bsky.social Reskeets ≠ endorsement.
LA based. Loves Eating, Dogs, Running, Poetry and Nice People. I’m interested in all disrupters of the American Healthcare system, good, bad and pathogenic. (I use my bsky as a way to bookmark thoughts through 🧵)
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
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
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
RN@dicknixon.com
Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social Reporter, DailyKos.com, Previously Media Matters. Subscribe to http://oliverwillis.substack.com
Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social The Political Cartoon Gallery is the largest gallery of original political and satirical cartoon artwork in the world. Dr Tim Benson is Britain’s leading authority on political cartoons.
www.original-political-cartoon.com
The Martin Sheen Podcast @themartinpod.bsky.social Join Martin as he shares personal stories, reflections & inspirational poetry on an exploration of hope, faith, love and what it means to be human. #MSWMedia https://themartinsheenpodcast.com/
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
@jo3smith.bsky.social @jo3smith.bsky.social 
Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578
Ruth Scobie @ruthscobie.bsky.social Mostly eighteenth-century; she/her. Writing a book: NOVELS AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY, which is not about the rise of the novel
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Perfume Papi @hassan.blacksky.app Archmage of the lightskin dark arts. 🦄
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Jonathan O'Connor @ninkibah.bsky.social Chess diplomat, C++ programmer and erstwhile alpaca farmer
Mike Brown @plutokiller.com Astronomer, planet hunter, Pluto killer, bear whisperer, finger-wrapped dad. Dangerous secularist. Foot soldier in the War on Cars. He/him.
mikebrown.caltech.edu
Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social The UK's first national LGBTQ+ museum.
Registered charity. Let's make history!
2 Granary Sq, Kings Cross, N1C 4BH.
Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm.
WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social Politics, Music and Sports
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Ariel Elias @arielcomedy.bsky.social Punchup.live/arielelias
Comedian, Kentucky, Jewish, Beer chugger
Angela @angelt.bsky.social Loves reading, walking, listening to a massive range of music, gigs, knitting, photography, making things including stained glass and printing sometimes, loves nature, camping, birds and my cat 😊Bedfordshire based in a little market town. AI is snake oil
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Steve Uncle, People's Champion @the-barely-jew.bsky.social First up against the wall when the revolution comes
Bon vivant, raconteur, rogue
Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social We're all ghosts now. Curated by @pastpostcard.bsky.social. Represented by http://morgangreencreatives.com
Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social Historian, Author of Living in a DAISY Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made. Also writing book on history of the Left in Midwest.
https://austincmccoy.com/
https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social physicist by training, reporter by trade
writer by nature
📍chicago
tips: katrina.miller@nytimes.com
signal: katrinamiller.04
https://katrinamillerphd.com/
9/24 Shawty @thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app Gay nigga doin gay nigga shit.
He/they.
35.
Brooklyn
Anarchistic and Autistic!
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social 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
Deascent 🗽 @deascent.bsky.social Pro Wrestling Nerd 🤼♂️
Occasional Word Rhymer 🎤
Expert Black Man 🧔🏾♂️
Cohost of Black Guy Wrestling Podcast
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.