Joshua Danish @jdanish.bsky.social Learning Scientist and Board Gamer. Opinions are my own. http://www.joshuadanish.com
Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social Making online videos since 2010. Writer, presenter, editor. Find me talking games at @outsidextra.bsky.social, playing tabletop at @oxventure.bsky.social and being opinionated at youtube.com/@icklenellierose she/her, Londoner
root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social 🧿 Imperial Planetologist to Sol Ⅲ & its moon.
🇸🇧 http://www.sieiti.gov.sb/
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Dan Liebling 🏳️🌈 @liebling.org AI for science, HCI+AI research, #nlproc leading w/empathy @ Google Research https://liebling.org
Caltech, University of Washington, Microsoft Research alum
Sandra Mx1 @sandramx1.bsky.social #VotedForHarris 💙Liberal animal lover Portlandia, OR.
Here because of Elon’s algorithmic ego trip and Trump’s sewage spill of an authoritarian reign!
Speaking for animals, the LGBTQIA+ community, and anyone crushed by racism, greed, or cruelty! 👊🏼🌊🩵🇺🇦🐾
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed 🇰🇳 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain #Blackademics, the scholarly side of #Blacksky
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
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(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social Black, Catholic, KY Hillbilly, Okie, Social Psychologist, Nicknamed Godzilla since ‘73, Sci-Fi Geek, Comic Geek, Sport Geek, News Geek, Just a Geek, Lover of Cats, Not speaking for anyone (not even me at times)
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app 🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social writer of books • founder of magazines • soon-to-be professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
ProfYolonda @profyolonda.bsky.social Philosopher-Bioethicist with Georgia’s red clay in my blood. Feminist. Race woman. Views are my own.
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.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole)
1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social
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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - khaniis 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
*supporting trans & queer Somalis in EA on monthly basis*
pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Daphne Penn @daphnempenn.bsky.social Asst. Professor doing academia differently • Deep work disciple democratizing academic knowledge and spaces • Southern girl writing to change the world • Sociologist writing a book about race, immigration, and schooling in the U.S. South
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social Visionary leader driving innovation via strategic planning and social justice
Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social @University of Oxford, research in Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience & Religion:
memory; imagination; action.
❤️classics, mathematics, & art❤️
https://theology.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-buki-fatona
Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
✊🏾🖖🏾🩷
You can buy my book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social economist | from NJ | he/him
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social Hebrew Bible professor/priest, author: Daughters of Miriam, Womanist Midrash, Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Commentary:Nah|Hab|Zec, Veteran, Cat property #BlackSky wilgafney.com
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | accidental historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Ajuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social artist::writer::learner::vegan::swimmer::yogi:: peloton-addict::american-studies::literature::cinema::pop-culture maven::author of BWiS.
Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com media and journalism prof | made a film about my hometown | trekkie 🖖🏾
taralconley.org
Laurian Bowles PhD @drlaurian.bsky.social Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | relationship anarchist | diaspora daughter|
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
GoddessofTheory @goddessoftheory.bsky.social Not here for endless debates.
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); co-author, Animating Action (coming Dec 2026). Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world.
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
orithyia blue @miasshaw.bsky.social 2023 NYU provost postdoc • 2022 Ford dissertation fellow • PhD @PennGSE • storyteller using art, tech, and design • she/her • www.miasshaw.com
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social Wanderer.
Davia Downey @downeydavia.bsky.social I study federalism, local politics & policy in cities post-disaster. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Diana Williams @dianawilliams.bsky.social Santa Monica based legal Historian. Afro-DiaspoRican. 🇵🇷 Safe streets aficionado. Finishing book on interracial marriage in 19th century Louisiana. #blacksky
Cecília Olliveira @cecillia.com.br Co-Founder @intercept.com.br | Founder/Exec. Director, @fogocruzado.org.br (Open data on armed violence in 🇧🇷) | Caixa Postal 11599 CEP: 22.020-959
📩 contato@ceciliaolliveira.com
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded
PhD epidemiology candidate in perinatal health & homelessness. MPH, MS, smalltime bureaucrat, influencer influencer
Step 1: engage your brain - if there's a thread, read it before replying or quoting
Stanford W. Carpenter @swcarpenter.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist
Sometime Comic Creator
Former Archaeologist
AKA Brother-Story
Dr. Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana @zraresearch.bsky.social Former tweeter. Sociologist of racial inequality, urban studies, and culture. Baltimorean always, no matter where I actually live. Knitter. Creator of practicalphd.net. I skipped sad and got angry.
Always speaking for me.
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.
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
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
Oneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati | Book: Who Pays for Diversity? March 2025 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/who-pays-for-diversity/paper
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Golden M. Owens @goldenowens.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at UW Seattle. Writing on Black women, housework, and AI, and trying to stay sane while doing it.
https://cinema.washington.edu/people/golden-m-owens
https://www.goldenmowens.com
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. @profblmkelley.bsky.social /writer/historian/ph.d./award-winning author of Black Folk/president @natlhumanities /breast cancer survivor/The Oracle
Terza S . Lima-Neves, PhD 🇨🇻 @terzalimaneves.bsky.social TEDx Speaker | Author | Parenting 2 Lil Haters | HBCUProf | Centering The Experiences of Cabo Verdean Women | Fighting White Supremacy | CoFounder Poderozaconference.com
www.terzalimaneves.com
https://linktr.ee/TerzaLimaNeves
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Nikki A. Greene @drnikkigreene.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Art History @ Wellesley
drnikkigreene.com
✨Grime, Glitter & Glass: The Body & the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (Duke UP, 2024) ✨
https://www.dukeupress.edu/grime-glitter-and-glass
Simone Browne @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social 
Tia N. Donaldson, PhD @tiandonaldson.bsky.social SCIENTIST 🐭🧠 | Retired grad student | Tech writer
Amateur baker | Horror movie fan | 🐶🐶 mom
Views my own | We support ✊🏾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️here | She/her
Cassie Osei is Writing a Book @tropigalia.bsky.social Writer, historian, and assistant professor of Latin America, African Diaspora, and Brazil. Info + Inquiries: https://www.cassieosei.com
Whitney Stevens-Sostre, PhD Boricua @stevenssostre.bsky.social Wife & Mom 🤍 🇵🇷 | HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow | BWF PDEP | Neuro PhD 🧠 UW-Madison | NINDSDiversity F99/K00 #DSPAN Alumna | Retina #Ephys 👁️ #BlackInNeuro | Founder @BlackInBiophys.bsky.social 💪🏾
Black In Biophysics @blackinbiophys.bsky.social Recognizing and celebrating Black scientists in Biophysics | Founder: @StevensSostre.bsky.social | Logo: Taneisha Gillyard-Cheairs, PhD | Web: blackinbiophysics.org | #BIBPSWeek2021 YouTube link: https://tinyurl.com/yvw86b53
Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
…and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com #GlobalHealth Scholar • Edinburgh Uni alumna • Runs the 'NotiPHied' podcast • ex-PhD student • Rare disease advocate @thesumairafdn.bsky.social • Found in Nature Medicine, BMJ, Think Global Health, Black Ballad, BBC Science Focus etc.
loisemilyking.com
A Doc Named Slickback @kaerf1.bsky.social Ph.D. • Social Movements + New Media & AI + Critical Race #BlackDH • Asst. Prof. African American Studies / Sociology
Tennille Nicole Allen @tennillenallen.blacksky.app West Side Chicagoan by birth. Sociology professor by training. Black feminist by Audre, bell, and Patricia. I study Black people doing Black things in Black places.
Mikaela Spruill @spruill.bsky.social (Incoming) ASU Assistant Prof | Criminal Justice Postdoc at SPARQ @ Stanford | Cornell Psych Ph.D. | 1913 | Examining how individual judgments & decisions sustain systemic racial inequities | she/hers
mikaelaspruill.com
Earl Huff, Jr., Ph.D. @earlhuffjr.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin iSchool. Co-Director, REALITY Lab. Researches equity and inclusion in online learning, integrating AI into education, and broadening participation. #a11y #HCI #Elearning #CompEd #STEMEd
https://www.earlhuffjr.com
Amy Egbert, Ph.D. @amyegbert.bsky.social Pediatric psychologist | Assistant Professor at UConn | Eating Disorders | Healthy Equity | Amplifying the voices of minoritized populations. All views my own 
Denzil Streete, PhD @drdenzilstreete.bsky.social Sr. Associate Dean & Director of Graduate Education @ MIT. 🇹🇹🗽Morvant-proud.
#books #Arsenal #food
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social Pprofessor. Black environmental literature, war, and 19th century Black life. President of C19: The Society for 19th Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. Forthcoming book: Captive Ecologies: The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery (Duke UP). D.C.
Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social Columbia professor. Scholar of environmental and climate justice, cities, and who gets to build the future. Co-founder LabGov. Detroit born, Miami bred.
https://people.climate.columbia.edu/users/profile/sheila-foster