Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social language enjoyer, he/him
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Tommaso Bacci @tobacci.bsky.social reads ancient stuff in Chicago (PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago Divinity School, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East).
Vediamo se i toscani riescono a devastare un altro paese.
Asociación Chilena de Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo @epoa.cl Cuenta oficial de la Asociación Chilena de Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo.
https://epoa.cl
📍Concepción, Biobío, Chile
Parchment & Clay @parchmentandclay.bsky.social Parchment & Clay is a source for content and courses on the history, literatures, and societies of the ancient Middle East, especially Mesopotamia and the Levant. It is run by @blindscholar (lead instructor) and Tucker (producer).
E.L. Meszaros @iastranger.bsky.social Ph.D. in the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity from Brown University (2025). Algorithms, astronomy, mathematics, circus, cats, spiders.
De Gruyter Brill Religion, Bible, and Theology @dgb-relbibtheo.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Religion, Bible, and Theology department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Dor HaMidbar @dorhamidbar.bsky.social Some Religion, some Conspiracism, some Māori wairuatanga | Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, ngā Pākehā
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Lynne in Minneapolis @wuwei-wubuwei.bsky.social Art Historian, Adjunct, Curator - following the circulation of ideas. Also: car free, permaculture, Taoist & Quaker ideals, physics, economics. Build Peace with Justice.
Lina Khan @linamkhan.bsky.social Served as 57th Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Sophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her.
https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social Bible and theology prof at Providence (🇨🇦) | PhD in theological ethics from Aberdeen | long-suffering fan of the Winnipeg Jets and Arsenal Football Club
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Miriam Anzovin @miriamanzovin.bsky.social writer, artist, nerd, makeup aficionado, & human symbiote to a small opinionated dog ✨ #DafReactions creator, works at #BigTalmud ✨ She/her ✨Let’s F&*king Go-lem! https://linktr.ee/miriamanzovin
Athina Dimitriou @athinadimitriou.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor | De Gruyter Brill
Early Christianity ✉️athina.dimitriou[at]degruyterbrill.com
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) is a Cambridge Uni project funded by UKRI, and host of the Endangered Writing Network.
For more information please visit our websites: https://linktr.ee/viewsproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
listen to "the bible lore podcast" for "good knowledge" @haydentank.bsky.social I make The Bible Lore Podcast, which is about the cultures and mythology that influenced the writers of the Bible.
biblelorepodcast@gmail.com
Available on all platforms but here's the Patreon:
https://patreon.com/biblelorepodcast
Blanka Misic @drblankam.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @viennacogscihub.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @univie.ac.at
Researching Roman religion through cognitive science of religion approaches.
New book on Roman rituals from @cambridgeup.bsky.social - https://bit.ly/44orx2D
Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism Amateur @ot-tc-amateur.bsky.social I'm NOT an expert in the #HebrewBible /Old Testament. (My PhD is in something else.) But I love textual criticism. That makes me an amateur.
Abbr.:
MT= Masoretic Text
SamP= Samaritan Pentateuch
OG= Old Greek
Pesh(itta)
Vulg(ate)
Tg= Targums
DSS= Qumran
Douglas Fyfe @duck5.bsky.social Once wrote a book on the structure of Ecclesiastes.
Studying PhD in Psalms at University of Sydney.
Always happy to talk about home brewing and backyard chickens.
Occasionally blogging at duck5.blogspot.com
Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece
who do you think you are? I am
she/her pronouns in bio, every time
🍉
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @amityvilleville.bsky.social. I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me.
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social Dilettante, Director of Jewish Studies at Queen's, I've stopped working on myself because I am tired.
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social Transit advocate. Environmental scientist. Social Democrat. Author of Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.
Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social doctor of apocalypse, now with barbiton lyre
emilypothast.com- M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
CripAntiquity @cripantiquity.bsky.social Our mission is to combat ableism by amplifying disabled and neurodivergent perspectives; creating resources that will empower individuals and transform institutions; and fostering community among our members. cripantiquity.com
Sebastian Hageneuer @archaeobasti.bsky.social Father, ANE Archaeologist, Research Associate, PhD, Gamer.
I dig up artifacts and my kid digs up my patience.
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com Human Rights Lawyer • Author • Dad Jokes • SirusXM Host • Creator: Let's Address This • Subscribe: qasimrashid.com/subscribe • Media requests: admin@justwinteam.com
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Nate Kreider @natekreider.bsky.social Hebrew Bible and LXX, Greek Language and Linguistics, Papyri. Incoming PhD student at McGill.
Max Häberlein @maxavenariolus.bsky.social EC researcher Uni Würzburg | Hebrew Bible, LXX & Second Temple Literature
Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine 🍉
Catherine McNiel @catherinemcniel.bsky.social ✍️Author. Editor. Speaker. Chaplain. ⛪
ISO: beauty, wisdom, iced coffee. Often seen gardening. MDiv-ing @NPTSem. Please Bible Responsibly
CatherineMcNiel.com
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Mara Mills @maramills.bsky.social prof of media, culture, and communication @ nyu
history & theory of digital media, electronics, computing
disability studies / disability arts
banner: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/730402
avatar: jojo doodles conference sketches
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
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.”
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social Answering to many names.
Eric J. White @ericjwhite.bsky.social 20 years an archaeologist, 10 years an educator, now an aspiring and hopefully inspiring writer with an interest in social issues and environmental causes.
Low Society @metacapitalism.bsky.social Deeply committed to opposing MAGA. my pup, books, TV, old movies, jazz, rock, and classical music, beach walks, writing (fiction and non-fiction), abstract painting, stone sculpting, deep sleep, and non-violent villainy.
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Stuart Weeks @stuartweeks8.bsky.social Hebrew Bible academic, NE England.
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social I cut film and tv
i used to be @mtsw on Twitter
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social linktr.ee/deanspade 
Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Philosopher of technology. Disabled. Rotationplasty.
Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Katherine Southwood @katherinesouthwood.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, University of Oxford.
CV: https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-katherine-southwood/
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Josh Miele @berkeleyblink.bsky.social Blind-first identity from Brooklyn to Berkeley
📚 Author of Connecting Dots — A Blind Life
#A11y #MacFellow
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joshua-a-miele/connecting-dots/9780306832789/
Megan Lewis @digital-hammurabi.bsky.social Assyriologist, YouTuber and Podcaster, currently fixated on fishtanks.
Journal of Religious History @j-religioushist.bsky.social International double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality scholarship on the history of all religions & their relationship with human experience.
Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social News from discipline of Classics, University of Galway, Ireland (@uniofgalway.bsky.social). Web: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/
Loquacious Libby @themadlibs.bsky.social 🎓 CMU Heinz (MSPPM), FTS (MDiv), and Westminster, PA (BA)
💻 Program Director
📣 Cleveland ⚾ 🏀 and D2 🏀
🙋🏻♀️ Sarcastic, Opinionated, Observant, and tired 😫
Kirke D.A. Elsass @kelsass.bsky.social Historian; writing on cement and its role in co-creating life in the U.S. by making the environments of prisons, sidewalks, & basements; developing publicly available curriculum for Yale Environmental Humanities; love being outdoors; he/him/Dada
Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World @isawlibrary.bsky.social The ISAW Library is a research library that supports the core academic areas represented by the ISAW faculty and students, as well as the interdisciplinary, cross-boundary approach to the ancient world that lies at the center of ISAW's intellectual mission
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social (he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos
BUY MY NEW BOOK:
https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime
Blog:
news.chanda.science
all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
Posts by/for me🖖🏽
Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair @cripantiquity.bsky.social. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social Biblical-studies professor & Episcopal priest doing anarchist interpretation, resisting tyranny, & loving my neighbor | Posts mine
Once described as “dope teacher” in a student eval
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️-ally | Ⓐ
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social Historian of disability, early America, and the 19th century.
Assistant Prof at Kean University, views mine not my employer's.
Learn More: https://nicoleleeschroeder.com/
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Chris Jones @profchrismjones.bsky.social Topekan. Religion professor. Teacher. I study Hebrew Bible, pedagogy, and trauma.
Joel Baden @joelbaden.bsky.social Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale University.
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.