Ben Carlos Thypin @bct.bsky.social Moral high ground?!? That's the most expensive real estate on the face of the earth! - Larry Ellison (who otherwise sucks but this is a good quote)
📍NYC
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social Mom. Fighter + Community Leader
Dan Miller @meelar.bsky.social Queens volunteer chapter leader for @opennewyork.org. YIMBY, pro-transit, pro-biking, anti-borders-and-cars. He/him
Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social he/him, bylines Public Notice, Chicago Reader, Revealer, Prism
Newsletter: www.everythingishorrible.net
Poetry pubs: https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/poetry-publications-noah-berlatsky
EricSchlereth.bsky.social @ericschlereth.bsky.social Historian of North America and the early United States. Author of a couple books, Quitting the Nation (https://bit.ly/3HS2Z8W) and An Age of Infidels (https://bit.ly/4br3EvT). Jacques Pépin super fan.
Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com
Rebecca C. Lewis @rebeccaclewis.bsky.social State politics at @CityandStateNY.bsky.social. She/her. Mom to Ivy the Capitol Dog. Pitches and dog pics to rlewis@cityandstateny.com. rfclewis.38 on Signal
Jeff Coltin @jccoltin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of City & State NY.
🌵➡️🗽 Used to be at Politico.
JarekFA @jarekfa.bsky.social #BikeNYC #YNWA Married father of 2 living in Brooklyn. I’m not a “cyclist” - we just use cargo e-bikes instead of cars since it’s much more convenient to get around with kids.
Ethan Stark-Miller @estarkmiller.bsky.social Transit reporter at amNewYork. NY native. Tips: estarkmiller@schnepsmedia.com.
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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social Listen.
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Errol Louis @errollouis.bsky.social 3X Emmy-Winning Political Anchor at Spectrum News. TV Shows, Podcast and @nymag column are all on my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/errollouis?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=7570b834-52c5-4c14-b563-0c8c928c
Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social Reporter at the NYT covering NYC
NYU Urban Studies @nyu-urbanstudies.bsky.social NYU's innovative new Urban Studies Program, partnering with Anthropology, History, Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology, NYU Global, and more to come. Training students for their future in a majority urban world. NYC, Accra, London, Shanghai, Sydney +++
Citizens Housing and Planning Council @chpcny.bsky.social Nonprofit research and education organization focused on innovative policy for NYC’s housing and neighborhoods. Since 1937. https://chpcny.org
Howard Slatkin @hslatkin.bsky.social Urban planner, New Yorker, more. Executive Director at Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council. Views expressed here are my own.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Chi Ossé @chiosse.bsky.social @nyccouncil Member for Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights (CD 36) @CMChiOsse | Personal Account
Open New York @opennewyork.org Grassroots nonprofit fighting for more homes for all New Yorkers
Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social Editor of Streetsblog NYC and a New Yorker who bikes. First, Fourth and 21st Amendment absolutist. And from the lawyers: “Organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Matt Pierson @pierson.bsky.social Software betas, bikes, and Bronx Bombers: my version of bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒 💙💛❤️🩹 @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
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.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast is out now. I’m just here for a good time.
Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com Postdoctoral Fellow @ Science History Institute. Writing a book on labor & environment in the history of the computer industry.
Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's.
To read my work & for queries, visit www.adamquinnphd.com
Tim Bowman @tbowmanhist.bsky.social Historian of Texas, the Southwest, and modern America. Books: Blood Oranges (2016), and You Will Never be One of Us (2022). Currently working on a history of the Texas farmworkers movement. Opinions my own.
Joe Schiller @jschiller.bsky.social acquisitions editor, University of Oklahoma Press | history | environment | North American West | Sports | joe@ou.edu
Also: hockey
Detroit Lakes, MN
Adam M. Sowards @adamsowards.net Writer & historian.
Words all over. Usually about "the environment."
Rooted in the Pacific Northwest.
https://www.adamsowards.net/
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com AICP certified urban planner doing housing policy stuff at California YIMBY. I used to be much cooler. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Jeanette Patrick @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social Public Historian|Podcaster|Museum Specialist
Now Playing:
Worlds Turned Upside Down
Finding Jane Austen
Revolutions in Retrospect
The Green Tunnel
Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant
Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Rebecca Wingo @rebeccawingo.bsky.social Settler Scholar
Assoc. Prof & Director of #PublicHistory
University of Cincinnati
Western & Indigenous History
Current Research: Photography, Apsáalooke, Wyandot(te), Rondo, Digital Archives
http://pronoun.is/she
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Casey Berkovitz @caseyberk.bsky.social I talk about housing policy for a living, but I skeet about it for fun. Here for housing, politics, sports, and bad jokes. Go bears.
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Dennis Welch @dwelch.bsky.social Political Editor for CBS5 News/3TV in Phoenix. I dig scoops, my dog Joan and the Iowa Hawkeyes
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:
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katie honan @katiehonan.bsky.social Senior reporter at THE CITY, co-host of FAQ NYC, townie. 🌐 🍕📸
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@randonneur.bsky.social @randonneur.bsky.social Just a humble hiker looking for a walk in the woods
Chris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social Birdwatching Historian of Birdwatching
Associate Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
https://www.luc.edu/history/people/facultyandstaffdirectory/profiles/cantwellchristopher.shtml
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈.
Journal of Southern History @joursouhist.bsky.social The Journal of Southern History—published by the Southern Historical Association and edited at and supported by Rice University—is a quarterly devoted to the history of the American South broadly conceived. thesha.org/jsh
Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com
~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
Zachary Schrag @zacharyschrag.bsky.social Professor of History, George Mason University. Currently researching history of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. Views my own.
zacharyschrag.com.
historyprofessor.org
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1420-551X
John S. Huntington @johnshuntington.bsky.social Historian and community college professor. Author of Far-Right Vanguard. Fan of soccer, acoustic guitars, and black labs. Posts are my own.
Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social This place is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here. What is here was time wasted. It is dangerous and should be repulsive to you. This bio is a warning of danger.
Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Jason Scott Smith @jasonscottsmith.bsky.social Historian
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now.
Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social Historian of Energy, Tech, & the Environment; Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; coauthor of ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS (2025) & TACONITE DREAMS (2015) Public & Oral History Practitioner
jeffmanuel.com
Dr. Alex Nuñez @alexnunez14.bsky.social Historian @ U of Arizona. Race/Sports/Mexican American Studies/Baseball. AZ sports fan frustration. Southwest = Southbest. He/him. Views mine🌵⚾️
James W. Martin @jwmiv.bsky.social Lover of water | Historian of Latin America, Pacific Northwest, fishing cultures | Associate Professor at Montana State University-Bozeman | Author of https://www.unmpress.com/9780826359421/banana-cowboys/ | Migrant to https://fishinghistory.org/
Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social Author of NIMBY NATION: The War on Growth That Created Our Housing Crisis and Remade American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2027). American historian and Klarman Fellow @Cornell. Learn more: JacobAnbinder.com
Rosina Lozano @rosinalozano.bsky.social Historian—Borderlands; Latine; American West; Relational Studies of Race and Ethnicity, especially MexAm/Indigenous. Gardening. Author of An American Language: The History of Spanish in the US.
Paul Sabin @paulsabin.bsky.social American historian @Yale, energy and environmental politics and policy, author of "Public Citizens," "The Bet," and "Crude Politics" https://history.yale.edu/people/paul-sabin
Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights
🍉🌈🏜️🚫🧊
Stéphane Gerson @sag111.bsky.social Histories, families, forms of historical writing. Professor of French, French Studies, and History, NYU.
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Michael Childers @michaelchilders.bsky.social Environmental historian of the American West
https://www.michaelwchilders.com/
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
David Patrick McKenzie @dpmckenzie.bsky.social Versatile public historian & professor. Public history, museums, US-LatAm hist, hist memory. Formerly of Folger, Ford’s Theatre, Capital Jewish Museum, Design Minds, Alamo. SATX->Pgh->ElSal->DC/NoVa->GSO.
Adam Arenson @adamarenson.bsky.social Writing and teaching history for a wider public. Black North American border-crossing after the Underground Railroad; Civil War and Reconstruction in the West; Mid-Century Modern art and architecture from Millard Sheets. Californian in NYC. adamarenson.com
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Tracy Neumann @tracyneumann.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Dog person. Lurking, mostly.
@whc-grace.bsky.social @whc-grace.bsky.social Historian of work, psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid c20th Britain
Associate member of the NewBridge Project
https://thenewbridgeproject.com/artists/
Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home.
Kip M. Hustace @kipmhustace.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Seattle U Law. torts, civ pro, democracy, Indigeneity, the humanities, nondomination. ‘ōiwi🦻🏼🏳️🌈, he/him/‘o ia, ˈhjustɪs.
Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4613711
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman.
Here for the books. And dogs. GBR.
Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Rachel Louise Moran @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social Historian & Professor at TAMU. Author of Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America (Chicago 2024) & Governing Bodies (Penn 2018). Posting as a private citizen.- M Geoff Gordon @melancholyleftist.substack.com Critical, historically-oriented social scientist with interests in democratization, authoritarian regimes, development, state formation, and imperialism. UVA, LSE, New College of Florida alum
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, migration, and nativism. Author of Dangerous Migration: Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089220#preview
Alex Hyres @hyres376.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the History of US Education at the U of Utah | AERA Division F Secretary | Research and Writing: https://linktr.ee/hyres376 | Opinions my own.
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
Jaishri Srinivasan @jaishrijuice.bsky.social Adaptations, transformations, emergence in rivers, landscapes, fires, biodiversity, cities, communities, people. History/archaeology nerd. Aspiring polyglot.
Environmental Humanities Research Hub @ehrh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Research Hub (EHRH) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us-6/institutes-and-centres/environmental-humanities-research-hub
Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Organizing with https://higheredlaborunited.org
Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc.
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social Beer writer, traveler, marketer, transit nerd, urbanist, born and bred Rhode Islander, longtime New Yorker, that guy alone on the plane that one time
Beer content is at @brewyork.beer
brewyork.substack.com
📍Brooklyn, NY
Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social Historian of the United States, mostly 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS
@jeaniob.bsky.social @jeaniob.bsky.social White Earth Ojibwe Citizen, Prof. U of Minnesota -- History and American Indian Studies.