Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Wilmore Webley, PhD @willyb72.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology and Senior Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Check out https://websites.umass.edu/wilmore/
The Legacy Sites @legacysites.eji.org A Museum, Memorial, Monument, and Square in Alabama dedicated to documenting our country’s history of racial injustice. Created by @eji.org
Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social 🏹🐦⬛🍄writer, joker, karaoker 🍄🐦⬛🏹
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social President, Botanical Society of America.
#PUI Prof + Herbarium Director
Doc Martine and the Botaneers
https://www.chrismartine.com/
#PlantsareCoolToo: https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w
#iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany #plantpeopleFTW
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Brooke Obie @brookeobie.bsky.social Writer|Producer| DIRECTOR #abanitufilm and #GodIsAFrequency| @bookofaddis author| Highly sought-after dinner guest| Everyones a critic; some get paid
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Kiese @kiese.bsky.social 
Kyra Greene aka Nope & Hell Naw @kyra.blacksky.app Blerd, sociologist, nonprofit exec, San Diegan & refugee from McConnell’s south. Certified expert in ignoring calls for civility or submission by immoral and unprincipled clowns. A she, her & hers who is so woke I never sleep.
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
Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social ⛔️ Pls don't follow with 0️⃣ posts or with no alt-text on posts with images or with no bio/profile🖼 Seriously.
Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent.
Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
A.P. Brown @apxbrown.bsky.social Front Range Colorado resident/ West Coast native, formerly ATL & PNW. Essayist, music critic, home baker, whiskey and barbecue enthusiast.
A'Lelia Bundles @aleliabundles.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Biographer -- Author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker and Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (coming from Scribner June 10, 2025) www.aleliabundles.com
Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social Fostering excellence, amplifying diverse voices, and building a vibrant literary community. litcleveland.org
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social Fall 26 Visiting Scholar, Harvard/Philosophy
25/6 Radcliffe, Harvard
Assoc Prof, Indiana U Bloomington
Personal account
Seeking work in&out of academe
Phil & Neuro
Book 1 Smell www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278721
B. 2 Senses https://shorturl.at/tBUSM
Darrick Hamilton @darrickhamilton.bsky.social University and Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Policy, and Founding Director of @RacePowerPolicy @TheNewSchool; and @AFLCIO Chief Economist
Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social Asst. Prof. in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology @ UC Santa Barbara | UC PPFP Fellow | Fascinated by great ape social cognition!
https://www.laurasimonelewis.com/
https://www.originsofmindlab.com/
Harvard Radcliffe Institute @rad-institute.bsky.social Official Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research and exploration.
Liz Kay @lizkay.bsky.social Author, poet, whatever. I can’t keep writing these. 
Maya Shamsid-Deen @omymymaya.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico studying plant colonization and persistence
@maria-hinojosa.bsky.social @maria-hinojosa.bsky.social 
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
Diane M Beckles @dianemariabeckles.bsky.social Integrative Postharvest Biologist @ucdavisplants. | 🍅🥔 Metabolism & Physiology|Compassionate Excellence| ♥️ Barbados 🇧🇧|♥️ Sea turtle conservation 🐢|
Tisse Takagi @tissetakagi.bsky.social rhymes with Lisa. book editor @quantabooks.org. opinions my own.
Jeff Shreve @jeffshreve.bsky.social Literary agent for The Curious Minds Agency, he/him
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Noliwe Rooks @nrooks.bsky.social Chair and Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies. Author of Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, available 3/18/25 and A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social 🦋 #Vision #science| #butterfly wrangler | Distinguished Professor | #Guggenheim | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | NAS | Words: NPR, PBS, ConversationUS | Macondista | Interested in #history | Latina in #STEM
Lab website: www.visiongene.org
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social http://prh.com/AmericaUSA | https://www.anativeson.org
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team Rudolph (Rudy) Fraser ⁂
CEO & Founder, building virtual 3rd places
[ @blackskyweb.xyz ][ blacksky.community ]
@mozilla.org Fellow 🦊
prev. @harvard.edu Fellow
🏴☠️ [ wethepeople.nyc ]
Board @pactcollective.xyz
TSC @lexicon.community
Black crypto-anarchy Ⓐ
Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella) @caballerogill.bsky.social Diversity, equity, inclusion strategist & practitioner🔹Lifelong learner, mom, mentor, connector, #chronicillness, geoscientist,🇵🇪in🇺🇸
George Mason Uni. Prof🔹GeoLatinas Co-founder & Leadership🔹CycloCohort Program Director 🔹Climatematch Co-founder
Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social Scientist. Speaker. Writer. #Kidlit #Picturebook
OUT NOW⚡SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone via @mitpress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/SPARKbk 🎤
Antentor “AJ” Hinton Jr @phdgprotein86.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
The Hinton Lab utilizes SBF-SEM and FIB-SEM to investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate molecule transfer and morphology changes between the Mito and ER
Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
@thepurplepage.bsky.social @thepurplepage.bsky.social 
José Dinneny @josedinneny.bsky.social Curious about plants and their interaction with the environment. Stanford Professor and HHMI Investigator. Opinions are my own.
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Tené T. Lewis @tenelewis.bsky.social 
The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social The Black List connects writers, filmmakers, and storytelling industry professionals around the globe.
https://campsite.bio/theblcklst
Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social A grassroots movement turned non-profit organization with a mission to diversify the neurosciences by building a community that celebrates and empowers Black scholars and professionals in neuroscience-related fields.
linktr.ee/BlackInNeuro
Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social Electrical Engineering Professor, Robotics Engineer, Author, Speaker, Researcher, Mentor, Advocate. Here to promote, normalize and diversify STEM. #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #Forbes50Over50
CarlottaArdell.com, NoireSTEMinist.com
MrProfChanda @mrprofchanda.bsky.social 🍠🍉😷
Danve Castroverde @danvec.bsky.social Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research interests: Plant immunity | Hormone signaling | Plant stress resilience
Funded by NSERC, CFI, ORF and NFRF
闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social Assist Prof at UIUC Plant Bio #NewPI. NSF Postdoc UConn EEB. PhD Harvard OEB. Erasmus MEME evobio alumna. She/Her. Lover of ALL plants.
🧪🔬🌱🌾
Development; Evolution; Evo-Devo; Microscopy; Meristems.
Lived in 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇸
www.minyaaa.com
Melanie McReynolds @drohsopretty.bsky.social Who needs social media? I have followers in real life. Assistant Professor and HHMI Hanna Gray Faculty Fellow at Penn State. Aging, Metabolism, and Faith-Based Science.
Mississippi born and raised.
Luis Antonio Leyva @luisleyvaedu.bsky.social [él/he] Associate Prof. of Math Ed. & STEM Higher Ed., Vanderbilt Univ.-Peabody College. Director of PRISM Research Lab. Critical race scholar. Advancing intersectional justice in undergraduate STEM. 90’s alternative rock and R&B lover. 🇨🇺🏳️🌈. Posts = my own.
dreamhampton @dreamhampton.bsky.social from Detroit
Dr. Jeremy A. M. Waisome @jwaisome.bsky.social Rising Star Assistant Professor
UF Engineering Education (EEd)
Mentorship + Self-efficacy
Researcher + Reluctant Nerd
Singer for Jesus. Lover of the arts
Co-Host of Modern Figures Podcast.
3x UF HWCOE Alum 🧡🐊💙
Joi Mondisa @joimondisa.bsky.social Mentoring Scholar, Engineering Educator, and Engineering Education Researcher
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Gustavo Silva lab at Duke @thesilvalab.bsky.social Research lab @DukeU studying cell response to stress | Ubiquitin | Gene Expression | Diseases
Always promoting Diversity, Inclusion & Equity | #BLACKandSTEM
Avery August @averyxaugust.bsky.social Immunologist, T cell biologist, Prof@Cornell, Selectah and Turntablist...Always curious.... every day I'm hustling...(re)tweets=/endorsement 🇧🇿 🇺🇸
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Drea Darby, Ph.D. @dreadarby.bsky.social I'm a pretty Fly Girl
Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Science
Host-microbe interactions in the 🍌🪰
|#firstgen | #BlackAFinStem |#Filipinx|🇵🇭✊🏽
Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social AUTHOR of Paying the Price 📚
FOUNDER of the #RealCollege movement to support students’ basic needs + Believe in Students (nonprofit) + Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice 💡
TEACHER at Community College of Philadelphia ✏️✏️
MOM of teens 🌱🐶🐈🐈⬛
Prachee Avasthi @pracheeac.bsky.social Co-founder & CSO @ArcadiaScience. Head of Open Science @AsteraInstitute. Immigrant. she/her
Still post frequently on X (@PracheeAC)
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
riana elyse anderson @rianaelyse.bsky.social AKAdemic Activist | Black Psychologist | Detroit Lover | God Follower | Columbia Prof | Twitter Refugee | Carb Aficionado
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Dr. Rubidium @drrubidium.bsky.social Chemist, professor, blackademic, runner, basketball mad, and JB Fletcher fan. Of course she did it. All of it. 
Dr. Kilan Bishop @kilan.co science | health | social change 🧬 | she/hers | Assistant Professor @MiamiRosenstiel | Co-founder @STEMNoire | UMiami & Morgan State alum | Views are my own.
Carissa Brown @carissabrown.bsky.social Forest-dwelling, music-loving, coffee-drinking ecologist. Fire, forests, range edges, plants, & more. Prof in Geography at Memorial University #NorthernEDGELab. she/her
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social Yup, same one from the bird app.
Chantell Evans @channyskye.bsky.social Assistant Professor - Duke; Postdoc - U Penn; PhD - UW Madison
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar - HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow - Duke DST Scholar
Studying mitochondrial quality control and neurodegeneration
R. Shawn Abrahams (They/Them) @youngeukaryote.bsky.social Botanist, Evolutionary Biologist, Dyslexic, Queer/enBy, Black. Postdoc+, Plant Biology - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tanisha M. Williams @tmariewms.bsky.social 
Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press proprietor, Soraya [dot] Press | subscribe 👉🏽 soraya.press
📍Brooklyn
etienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social proud husband + dad of 3 boys | Law Professor writing at the intersection of academia, justice, and the pursuit of purpose
www.thetenuretrack.com | freedompapers.substack.com
Liz Wayne @lizwaynephd.bsky.social Asst Professor at UW Bioengineering | Mississippi raised me I macrophage biosensors | Office Hours Podcast I #BlackANDSTEM
Register for CMBE 2026 Meeting in Puerto Rico! https://www.bmes.org/2026/cmbeconference
Lydia Grmai, Ph.D. @lydiagrmai.bsky.social biologist by day • asst professor @ yalemed
drosophilist: repro, stress, metabolism
maker of music • isaiah 43:2 • she/her
Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social Writer~Professor~Literacy Advocate~Blogger~Creative~Community Organizer-Consultant
Native Chicagoan living in the south.
YouTube: @tiffanyaflowers
Spoutible: @Prof_Flowers
Fanbase: @drtiffanyaflowers
Medium: The Black Aesthetic Tradition Blog
Mary O'Riordan @drbadbug.bsky.social Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan | views my own
Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social Mango eating, sunshine loving, data research and question asker. Immigrant.
jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
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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Personal account
#TenureTrackHustle @meredithdclark.bsky.social I escaped the Upside Down, but I still visit 
Moya @moyazb.bsky.social Moya Bailey. Quirky Black Girl. Queer Androgyne. 90s R&B Lover. Teacher. Gatherer. Mozzarella Stick Aficionado.
https://linktr.ee/moyabailey 
jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
jennmjacksonphd.substack.com
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