Robin Tucker @robintucker1.bsky.social I've launched three children and a business or two, and now I'm saving the planet.
Frequently re-energised by the joys of nature and low impact transport. 🚲
Prof Jasper Heathcoat-Beech @profjasperh-b.bsky.social Maverick historian-archaeologist. Offbeat books include 'What-iffery in History: A Dozen Things That Didn't Happen (But Nearly Did)' and 'Thirty Annoying Things in History'. 'An A-Z of WTFs in History' OUT NOW...
Ivor Middleton @iwasid.bsky.social Bookish. Amateur philosopher of the worst kind. Political animal who still believes we can build a better world for all. Banner is the Red Sand sea bell, tolling.
Assuming people are fundamentally good.
Standing up for Palestinians.
Nicki Stephens @nicki2910.bsky.social Psychotherapist. Interested in: politics, psychology, philosophy and environmental issues. Cake lover
“ It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true “
Harriett Martineau
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social Archivist historian train travellers perennially anxious frequently cooking always interested
Tbh if you RT more than you comment I'm unlikely to follow back. I like to chat. UK based. Can't talk politics.
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social Compartilhando a diversidade das aves brasileiras a cada hora. Conheça, admire e proteja nossa avifauna! Sharing the diversity of Brazilian birds every hour. Discover, admire, and protect our avifauna!
@florabrasil.bsky.social | http://linktr.ee/renotviana
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 !
Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social 2nd longest-running livestream on YouTube. Live from an urban coral reef in Miami. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
MBARI @mbarinews.bsky.social An oceanographic research institute focused on advancing marine science and engineering to understand our changing ocean
James Bashford @wrenandbee.bsky.social Neurologist, scientist, father, moth-er, writer. Author of Nature Within (🔔 OUT NOW 📣). #NatureWithin
🌳 https://linktr.ee/drjamesbashford
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
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
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(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.
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
🇰🇪🇧🇸
twitter.com/wagatwe
wagatwe.com
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)
(Post or Repost not endorsement)
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
🗨she/ella🗯 RTs & typos are my own
Website: http://jennifercaroccio.com/
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 • professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
#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
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
https://lnk.bio/heyitsaugusta
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - Cidda 🌈 - 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 😔
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social Visionary leader driving innovation via strategic planning, systems building, and social justice
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
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 🖤🏳️🌈
Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social ObGyn, Medical Educator, Patient Advocate & Activist, Mentor, Sponsor, Servant Leader, Clinician-Researcher and Scientist, she/her/hers, personal account, supporter of climate equity
Brandi Collins-Dexter @brandicd.bsky.social Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡.
https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
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 @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: 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. NYC!
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
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.
hakeemjefferson.com
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
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
Richard. @pratherlab.bsky.social Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist.
Critical Cognitive Science
www.criticalcognition.org
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
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
linktr.ee/jennmjacksonphd
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.
Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social Assoc Prof Immunobiology at University of Arizona, Assoc Dean Basic science and grad studies for College of Medicine-Tucson, NSURP.org director. Long live copper!
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
Ayanna Kim Thomas @ayannakim.bsky.social Tufts Professor and Dean. Considers memory reconstruction as a universal principle of cognition. One of the founders of The Spark Society - dedicated to supporting diverse voices in Cognitive Science.
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
Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
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