Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social Researching coastal and ocean space at MIT Urban Studies and Planning + WHOI Marine Policy Center. Atlantan. Jew. Frequent forgetter. She/her. www.coastofbohemia.com. How are people liking it here?
Jessica Ann Levy @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social Historian. Professor. Writer. Podcaster | US and/in the World + corporations + post-apartheid/postcolonialism | Author of Black Power, Inc. | Co-host @WhoMakesCents
hampton. @hampton.bsky.social rhetoric PhD student @ UGA | senior researcher @ Princeton | staring into the abyss at: state violence & paramilitarism + radical memes & graphic media + paranormal realities & haunted presents
Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder
Current projects:
Police Takeovers
Legalizing the Counterrevolution of Property
Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective
jonathonbooth.com
carrie freshour @cfresh.bsky.social geographer. southerner. mom. adoptee. labor. race. gender. DuBois. GLB. abolition.
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Andrew J. Bramlett @andrewbramlett.bsky.social History student at Kennesaw State University
Researching Georgia history, the Progressive Era, and book history
ajbramlett.com
Dez Miller @dezmiller.bsky.social urban rivers | DH and Critical AI Studies | Post45 lit and film
Dezmiller.com
Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social political theory professor and aspiring luddite | increasingly irrational ultrarunner | AAUP-AFT 6741 | toward a new operation dixie for the higher ed labor movement
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.
Stephannie Stokes @stephannnnie.bsky.social Journalist covering homelessness at The Seattle Times. Get in touch: sstokes@seattletimes.com. Signal: stephannies.75.
Atlanta Civic Circle @atlantaciviccircle.org We are a nonprofit newsroom that informs the public on the most critical issues facing metro Atlanta, especially on housing affordability and democracy. Learn more: https://atlantaciviccircle.org
Austin (A.T.) Harrison @at-harrison.bsky.social Scholar. Organizer. Urban Studies Prof. Houser.
https://www.atharrison.com/
Center for Civic Innovation @civicatlanta.bsky.social Strengthening community understanding, engagement, and power to create bold and transformative policy change in Atlanta.
Charles Bethea @charlesbethea.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer in Atlanta
Reporting mostly from the South
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/charles-bethea
Rose Scott @iamrosescott.bsky.social Veteran Emmy/Murrow and groovy other stuff-award winning journalist/host & exe/producer of Closer Look with Rose Scott from NPR member station WABE in Atlanta. Posts are mine. Let's talk about it. 
Jewel Wicker @jewelwickershow.bsky.social 👩🏾💻 Culture reporter and editor | Bylines in
Billboard, Atlanta magazine, GQ, NPR, The New York Times, etc. 
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Videodrome @videodrome.bsky.social Atlanta's Video Rental Store.
617 N Highland Ave NE
Atlanta, Ga. 30306
(404) 277-5827
videodromeatl.com
micah @micahh.bsky.social 
Archive Atlanta @archiveatlanta.bsky.social A history podcast sharing stories about the people, places and events that shaped the city of Atlanta.
Disco Stuart Hall aka Foucauldian Funk (ABD). @kurosarakokuou.bsky.social History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
Krogcodex.org
Marian @marianliou.bsky.social Let the thing be pressed.
Austin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social writer • How I'd Fix Atlanta, Mailchimp, Defector, McSweeney’s, Atlas Obscura, Rolling Stone, Welcome to Hell World, Creative Loafing, Oxford American, First We Feast, Paste, so many others
ATL is my home
http://austinlouisray.com is my work's home
Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social abolition, prisons, journalism, and also sometimes my dog
hannahrileyfernandez.com
thejumpline.substack.com
Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com Atlanta-based accountability journalism rooted in community experience. #atlpol
Julian Bene @julianbene.bsky.social Let's reform the Atlanta Way to use resources for an equitable city. Former 'tax break naysayer' on Invest Atlanta board & Gulch RedLighter, I campaign against wasteful revenue giveaways that favor billionaires at the rest's expense.
Platlanta @platlanta.bsky.social First quarter posting winner 🏆 2026 EDSBS Charity Bowl. “We’re more than just plats.”
Jo Guldi @joguldi.bsky.social Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. Data scientist, writer, historian. Newest: The Long Land War (2022), The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (2023).
will tucker @wmdtucker.bsky.social louisville native. atlanta transplant / DILF. devoted Emily enthusiast. housing policy, climate resilience. all the usual disclaimers.
Scott Markley @snmarkley.bsky.social Studying racially uneven sub/urban development with GIS, maps, #rstats, #rspatial
https://scottnmarkley.github.io
Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net Geographer at Allegheny College | Neo-Classical Luddite
For the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
The South got something to say.
colemanallums.net
@maggie-lee.bsky.social @maggie-lee.bsky.social Georgia data reporter still & GaPolBot dev 4 life: bsky.app/profile/gapolbot.bsky.social yes also flower farmer at Yonder Farm. Meme connoisseur.
Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social Towards a big, efficient public sector that serves the least of us. Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School. United Campus Workers of Georgia. Father of 3. Chicago southsider. Proud 〽️ichigan alum. 🏀 nut.
Joel Silverman @joelsilverman.bsky.social Atlanta-based artist and host of Drift the Map ATL city walks. Critical cartography, aerial photography, 3D digital twins, conceptual projected video, kinetic sculpture
Jerry Shannon @jerry-shannon.bsky.social Geographer working at University of Georgia. Community geography, critical GIS, health, food systems, housing. Website: jerry.shannons.us
Todd Michney @toddmichney.bsky.social U.S. urban historian. Redlining and New Deal housing policy; African Americans and the U.S. construction industry 1865-1965; American homeownership 1880-1950. https://hsoc.gatech.edu/people/person/todd-michney
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
@richardmilligan.bsky.social @richardmilligan.bsky.social 
Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social associate professor//community & regional planning. mobility justice, transportation equity, civil rights, environmental justice, accessibility, GIScience, etc. views my own.
longer-form writing: https://alexkarner.substack.com
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry @foxcenteremory.bsky.social A focal point for the humanities at Emory University.
linktr.ee/foxcenteremory
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Rose Library @ Emory University @roselibraryemory.bsky.social We collect, preserve, & make accessible items of lasting historical value.
📍 Atlanta, GA
🔗 linktr.ee/roselibrary
Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social ThreadATL cofounder, urbanism addict, web developer, neurologically-challenged cane walker
✡רָפָאֵל🪬
King Williams @iamkingwilliams.bsky.social Atlanta. Your Next Best Friend.
Sarah H. Ledford @sledford.bsky.social Urban hydrology- water and cities. Pretending to be a geographer these days. Associate professor of Geosciences in Atlanta. Izzo 🐾🌈 7-19-24
Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley.bsky.social @axios Atlanta reporter / cherry tomato supporter
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies & Planning, Writer
Just Cities, Political Economy, Affordable Housing, and Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
The Bitter Southerner @bittersouth.bsky.social Indie media co, 2 print magazines, books, record label, podcast, tees, flags, ASME 🏆 2026 (General Excellence Literature Science & Politics), 9 James Beard Awards #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld — please subscribe
Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com
Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social Environmental planning and international development theorist at Georgia Tech [USA] #planningsky
Jean-Paul Addie @jpaddie.bsky.social Associate Prof of Urban Studies @ Georgia State University
| Editor of UAA's 'Rights to the City' book series
Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
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.
David M. Iwaniec @sustfutures.bsky.social Sustainability Science, Transformative Resilience, Urban Systems Assoc. Prof. Urban Studies Institute | Andrew Young School of Policy Studies | Sustainable Futures Lab | Center for Urban Transformations | Georgia State University
Sonam Vashi @sonamvashi.bsky.social Atlantan, problem solver, grower of things. Currently reimagining local news with @citybureau.bsky.social and @documenters.org Formerly @jskstanford.bsky.social ‘22, @canopyatl.bsky.social cofounder, local reporter.
UGA Press @ugapress.bsky.social Founded in 1938, UGA Press currently publishes 60-70 new books a year, ranging from works of scholarship; creative and literary works; regional books; and digital projects. 
Aaron Colton @acolton.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Director of College Writing at Pomona College. On writer's block in American fiction: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/writing-through-writers-block
Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social Atlanta-based investigative reporter with ProPublica's South team. I write about health care, public health and the environment, among other things. Get in touch at max.blau@propublica.org.
Stewart Varner @stewartvarner.bsky.social Managing Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities at Penn
Morning person, bike guy.
he/him/his
Seumalu Elora Lee Raymond @eloralee.bsky.social Housing, finance, land. Views are my own. 🇼🇸🇦🇸 she / her / ia
Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social A pluviophile, melomaniac, gardener, karaoke fiend, & academic. Atlantan by labor; New Yorker by birth.
Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
Rebecca Burns @rebeccapburns.bsky.social semi-retired journalist, part-time prof, unskilled gardener, Athens GA
Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social senior lecturer of storytelling and academic director, department of digital screen. university of canterbury. aotearoa new zealand.
Danielle Wiggins @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social Interested in race, cities, politics. Diverging Space for Deviants (UGA Press 2021): http://tinyurl.com/Divergingspace Working on a new book project. 
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship @ecds-emory.bsky.social ECDS is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Learn more about us at ecds.emory.edu