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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com Executive editor, The Bulwark (thebulwark.com) /// Cofounder of The New Atlantis (thenewatlantis.com) and American Purpose (americanpurpose.com).
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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social Mixed Chahta on Anishinaabe Land. Food sovereignty. Bibliographer. 18C lit. Women Writers. DH. Periodicals. Mother of dachshunds, first of her name. She/her
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Glauco Schettini @gschettini.bsky.social Historian. Marie Curie Postdoc at Warwick. Formerly Haverford and Yale. Author of THE INVENTION OF CATHOLICISM: A GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTERREVOLUTION, 1780-1849 (OUP, 2026).
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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social Ridiculous and extra. Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects, jack of many trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français
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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social Associate Professor, University at Albany SUNY
Greek and Roman History
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
Andrew Wender Cohen @awcohen.bsky.social History professor. CNY resident. Philadelphia sports fan. Books: The Racketeer’s Progress (2004), Contraband (2015), and Gangster of New York (2026).
Salina B Baker @salinabbaker.bsky.social History of the American Revolution | ❤ Patriot Dr. Joseph Warren | Author of "The Line of Splendor: A Novel of Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution"
Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social Historian, author, college prof, public speaker, podcaster. Seen on
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Luke Burns @lukevburns.bsky.social Writing funny stuff/weird stuff. New Yorker, McSweeney's, NY Mag, etc. Translator of THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT (2026), on shelves now, and MASTERS OF THE NEFARIOUS, also on shelves now. https://lukevburns.tumblr.com/writing (He/Him) Header image by Lucas Adams
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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
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social Housing 🏘️, transit🚇, walking🚶♂️ and cycling 🚲 advocate in Woburn, MA, USA
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Travis Johnson @travisjj.bsky.social Writer, critic, film maker, diver, dilettante lycanthropologist.
Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe at Oregon State University. Writing about incarcerated youth in France, Russia, Ukraine, teaching is life!
MC @silentvioletmc.bsky.social Librarian whose interested in OA, archives conservation, crafts, and so much more!
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
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social Professor, Tufts Political Science, American Politics, public opinion, pol psych. Just trying not to get lost.
Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social debugging, v: the process of inserting printf statements into code until one's errors reveal themselves
Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com A/Prof of Philosophy at Deakin Uni (all views mine). Writer, does radio stuff, half of The Fake McCoys. Works on digital death, personal identity, Kierkegaard, moral phil. Has more hobbies than advisable. Melbourne + Werona
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Here in the void hope is another drug @theneogrotesque.bsky.social Sharing my deeply held, personal opinions on-the-line. All your cred won't save you from decay.
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Gary Goldberg @digimark.net Retired systems administrator. Likes to play with words.
I'd be shocked if I ever said anything useful.
Renee Searfoss @reneesearfoss.bsky.social Lecturer, history dept Coastal Carolina University, transplant Midwesterner, left wing liberal, shy nerd with limited ability to sum up my personality in a few pithy sentences- S Veronica Schanoes @schanoes.bsky.social Scholar, writer, single mother.
Virginia Haufler @vah301.bsky.social Professor, international political economy, corporations, CSR/ESG politics, cat lover, wannabe mando player
Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fan of health law, religious liberty, and reproductive rights
Susan Richardson @soritacea.bsky.social Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes, both fossil & Recent. Mom to adult humans. Wife of an orchid enthusiast & fish guy. Wish I had more time to knit!
Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
Jennifer Piscopo @jennpiscopo.bsky.social Professor of Gender and Politics and Director of the Gender Institute in @rhulpir.bsky.social at Royal Holloway, University of London; failed ballerina and would-be puppy owner.
Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social Order muppet, with regret. History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: davulis@jhu.edu. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
Katherine Robinson @krobinsonwriting.bsky.social writing a PhD about #TedHughes and early Welsh literature / working on a novel drawing on Shetland's relationship to whales through time / marine mammal conservation / dysgu Cymraeg / UCC
Mark Rice @markriceny.bsky.social American Studies professor. Social libertarian, probably.
Views are mine alone.
He/him
Janice Liedl @jliedl.bsky.social Historian at Laurentian University (Canada). Researching early modern crime and urban women's lives, but I can never stay away from questions of popular culture & history. Gamer, fan, fibre artist.
@invictus29.bsky.social @invictus29.bsky.social Calm is a superpower. Trying to fit as much sewing and knitting into my day as possible. Plus cats, and gardening, and books.
Logan @logiebarr.bsky.social 37 ↟ Oregon ↟ Adventure seeker, Craft beer drinker ↟ Trans 🏳️⚧️ ↟ Historian ↟ Swiftie ↟ Rip City ↟ Portland Fire ↟ Seahawks ↟ Bills ↟ Mariners ↟ SSDGM ↟ Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ↟
Deborah Hollingsworth @hollingswordy.bsky.social Trying to do my part in the US South with a sweet partner and funny little dog.
Humanities prof at a small university, but it won’t take long to realize the views in my posts are my own.
Geoff Dutton @perfidy.press Naively thinks that putting out good stuff causes people to take notice.
Novelist, social commentator, anti-capitalist and anti-fascist.
Supporter of human, animal, and environmental rights.
Kindness is a social adhesive.
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Victoria Barlow @vickybarlow.bsky.social Museum leader. Feminist. European. Not My King.
Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social TV Writer/Producer (mostly heists & fire, see IMDb). Geek, mouthy dame, cat serf. I enjoy puzzles, karaoke, marginally competent crafting, & murder TV. TERFs, racists, antisemites, homophobes, etc - this is not the feed you're looking for. (she/her, grey)
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Suzie @rangerquilter.bsky.social Art quilter trying to focus on making pretty things in a disappointing world.
Thomas J Humphrey @tomhumphrey.bsky.social Historian of land and crowds; Early Americas; bicyclist; does active mean activist? 
Khalil Anthony Johnson, Jr. @khalil.bsky.social "I'm an educator with mega flavor."
Emily Fox @abstractcow.bsky.social Teaching CS theory and algorithms at UIUC. Formerly UTD. Wife and mother. Huge math and programming languages nerd. I play RPGs, metroidvanias, and puzzle games. She/they. 🏳️⚧️. AuDHD.