By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Jacob Gaboury @jacobgaboury.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him)
Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture
Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021)
Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing
https://jacobgaboury.com
Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info They tried to bury us. They didn't realize we were seeds.
@friendsofUSAID @friendsofusaid.bsky.social From and For the American people. Follow @friendsofusaid on IG and X. 
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Alice Tippit. https://evergreenreview.com
Massachusetts Teachers Association @massteacher.bsky.social The MTA represents 117,000 teachers, faculty, professional staff and Education Support Professionals.
Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
Hachette Workers Coalition @hbgworkers.bsky.social The Hachette Workers Coalition is a union fighting for better benefits, protection, rights, and increased equity, transparency, and agency at HBG
https://linktr.ee/hachetteworkerscoalition
Yesenia Montilla @yeseniamontilla.bsky.social NAACP Image Award nominated poet. Author: Muse Found in a Colonized Body (Four Way, 2022). The Pink Box (Willow, 2015). Educator. Dreamer. Top Chef/Maybe. Find Me: www.yeseniamontilla.com
Gita Manaktala @gita2.bsky.social Opinions my own and trained on limited data.
Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Anders Edwards @andersedwards.bsky.social ✍️ Dystopian Author
📚 Erased & What Happened To Ava
➡️ https://a.co/d/9wxT23L
🌐 www.andersedwards.com
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social Creator of Build A Better Donkey (betterdonkey.substack.com).
A digital nomad trying to find a home. By day, a political hack. By night, an exhausted dad. Tortured Philadelphia sports fan. Go Birds.
Jon Corsiglia (he/him/el) | Eco-Economy Insider @ecoeconomyinsider.com The economics of a healthier planet, minus the sermons. Honest eco-swaps + good news that also makes financial sense. 30-yr environmental communicator. 💚💙 SF Bay Area 🌊
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Jack Mac @jackmacd.bsky.social Harvard grad student. Writer. Overdose preventer. Views my own ✨ Boston 🌈
https://jackmacdonald.carrd.co/
MA_Politics_Takes @mapoliticstakes.bsky.social 
grollen @gnot.bsky.social currently reinventing multiple wheels
urban cyclist
poetry, photography, politics & philosophy
cooking & gardening
Cultural Anthropologist
power is always productive.
who is it benefiting? how?
The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social jonathanbeecherfield.net
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Amanda Lastoria @amandalastoria.bsky.social North America's 1st PhD in Publishing
Sessional at Simon Fraser University
Sessional at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
EA at SHARP
Children's and YA Book Reviewer at Quill & Quire
Former Editor of Lewis Carroll Review
UCP Workers Guild @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social Representing workers at the University of Chicago Press, as TNG-CWA Local 34071, a unit of the Chicago News Guild. Bound together in our effort for a more equitable workplace.
https://linktr.ee/ucpworkersguild
Andrea Blatz @andreablatz72.bsky.social Senior editorial associate at the University of Chicago Press. PhD in French studies. 
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Emily Sweeney @emilysweeney22.bsky.social Boston Globe video journalist, Blotter Tales columnist, and Cold Case Files reporter | Follow me on Insta: @emilysweeney22 | Sign up for my newsletter: https://globe.com/coldcase
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
ian-pvd @ian-pvd.bsky.social Web Developer. Building tools for artists, writers & creators to own, distribute, and fund their work. Labor is entitled to all it creates.
pvdindustrial.com
https://ian-pvd.github.io
WordPress, Ghost, NextJS, Typescript, PHP, CSS
Brooklyn, NY | he/him
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social Will (he/him) on Zoom
Bassist for HR Lady and the Smoothgroins
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellow in political science at Aarhus University, by way of the University of Zurich. Research on deservingness, solidarity, and social cleavages in politics.
Website: https://www.davidattewell.net/
Brittany Griffiths @bmariegriffiths.bsky.social Director of Editorial, Design, and Production @cornellupress.bsky.social
Into anything in the realm of publishing studies, nautical history, horror, urban studies, media studies, or WWII.
Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social english @ cuny | VP @moderniststudies.bsky.social | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social American literature, aesthetics, violence, theory, cultural studies. Views mine.
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
Catherine Jampel @catherinejampel.bsky.social https://catherinejampel.com/
freelance scholarly editor * phd, geography * writes about disability and work * she/they
~ haphazardly getting onto BlueSky + might turn over a new leaf + participate more actively than on bird app, where I learned so much
LeVar Burton’s Teaching Assistant @readingrainbowz.bsky.social Former arts & culture journalist and magazine editor | PhD candidate | 20th & 21st century Black queer lit and visual media practices. 🌈📚🎞️🎥
📸shikeith
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Tian Valerian @tian-v.bsky.social Still gay gay totally gay. Just another Twitter refugee.
A British boy lost in America.
Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack
📪 jeremy@vestopr.com
📚 http://www.vestopr.com
✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Sister Spreadsheet
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.
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.
Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social Born, raised and reside in Brooklyn.🗽CEO of Oonee. Working to make our cities better places to live. 🚲🛴👷🏾Unapologetically Woke. 📣✊🏾🫶🏾
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Pronoy @pronoysarkar.bsky.social Literary agent at Georges Borchardt, wide range of non fiction. Former Little, Brown, Macmillan, S&S. Agent contact: pronoy@gbagency.com. Interested in experts, reporters, and compelling work writ large. Feel free to query me at the email above.
Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social MA-based independent journalist. Wrongful convictions, police misconduct, and public records. And sometimes fun stuff too.
NEWSLETTER: https://massdump.ghost.io/
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/massdump
EMAIL: aquemere0@gmail.com
SIGNAL: andrewqmr.01
William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
Chad W. Post @chadwpost.bsky.social “Most Insufferable Man in Publishing.” Loves baseball, hates most pitchers. Sucks at email. Is usually editing or writing for Substack or podcasting.
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Sam @samd.bsky.social https://bettercities.substack.com/
Better cities and transit are possible 🚇
#1 Congestion pricing stan
#1 RFK Jr. hater
anti-slopulist
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social Senior editor, The Nation (@thenation.com) | Editor/co-owner, Discourse Blog (@discourseblog.com)
Get in touch: jmirkinson at thenation dot com / jack at discourseblog dot com
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
• Views here my own
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Archway Editions @archwayeditions.bsky.social Literary imprint of powerHouse Books publishing prose, poetry, etc.
Editors: Chris Molnar, Nicodemus Nicoludis (@nicodemus.bsky.social), & Naomi Falk
https://archwayeditions.us/
Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs at Western Carolina University. American politics, state politics, North Carolina politics, southern politics, elections. Recent book: Anatomy of a Purple State (UNC Press 2024).
http://www.chriscooperwcu.com
PBS News @pbsnews.org We are home to the PBS News Hour and @washingtonweekpbs.bsky.social.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
pjmaciak.substack.com
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
Michael Helquist @mhelquistwriter.bsky.social Activist, historian, author, "Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions," Stonewall Honor Book for bio of 1900s lesbian doctor & activist., worked for CDC WHO, served as director of AIDSCOM.
#women'shistory, #LGBTQ, #AIDS #gayhistory #memoir #USAID
Abby West @abbywestnyc.bsky.social Amistad Books editorial director
Womencrafts @womencrafts.bsky.social Queer/feminist book and gift shop in Provincetown, MA. A hub for community gathering and activism.
Association for the Study African American Life & History @asalh-bhm.bsky.social https://beacons.ai/asalh
WSANA @wsana1851.bsky.social The official account for the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association, celebrating 175 years.
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Heidi Nobles @hgnroadshow.bsky.social Writing professor and book editor; lucky mom; military brat; concerned American for freedom, democracy, and being a good world neighbor. 
Mark Addison Smith @markaddisonsmith.bsky.social Queer, proud, professor, designer, collector, type nerd, movie geek, cat dad, husband, hyphen lover, and eavesdropper behind You Look Like The Right Type, my 17-year archive of daily, overheard-conversation drawings. linktr.ee/markaddisonsmith
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
@aakritimandhwani.bsky.social @aakritimandhwani.bsky.social 
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social Socialist in Boston. Ran digital comms for Mayor Michelle Wu and Senator Markey. Had a lot of fun biking across the US. Helps progressive causes.
paulbologna.com he/him
Josh @josh.jessandjosh.boston Pillar of the community.
Timothy Stewart-Winter @timothysw.bsky.social Queer historian and professor at Rutgers-Newark. New book OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY coming Oct 2026 (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein