Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social Publishing empirically grounded & experimental open access books within relational research on science, technology and society
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social Proud community college educator based in Maryland. EdD student with a passion for information literacy and social justice. Warren Democrat. YIMBY. GenAI hater. She/her/bi. ♌️♋️♍️ Posts do not represent my employer.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social Screenwriter. Runner. Dog wrangler. Human potato.
Writer on THE CROW GIRL, IN FLIGHT
Also writer of other things which may be coming soon, or may not be, but some secret third thing (development)
Irish/She/Her
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Despises AI
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).
Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
dan solomon @dansolomon.com senior writer at Texas Monthly. wrote the YA novel The Fight For Midnight (it’s about abortion bans). dogs love me cuz i’m crazy sniffable. he/him
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Kirin Wachter-Grene @kirinwgrene.bsky.social Associate Professor @saic_news | AfAm Lit & Gender/Sexuality Studies | Author of Sex Work in Crime Fiction (Cambridge) & Guest-editor Black Radical Pleasure I & II (The Black Scholar 50.2 & 53.3/4)
https://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/kirin-wachter-grene
Dr. Rebecca Ottman @rebeccaottman.bsky.social PhD in Rhetoric currently working on a book theorizing eloquence and its horizons. Endlessly fascinated by rhetorical theory/classical rhetoric/multilingual pedagogy/digital writing. First-Gen. Fan of memes, 2000s emo lore, and pumpkin spice everything ☕️
Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social https://jessyli.com Associate Professor, UT Austin Linguistics.
Part of UT Computational Linguistics https://sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and UT NLP https://www.nlp.utexas.edu/
parva @parva.bsky.social health care operations financial analyst - grew up in western mass, getting old in central PA
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
Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social Working to make higher ed more equitable & joyful. Obsessed w/ fungi. Books: Unexpected Flourishing (2026), Presence of Absence (2024), Putting Humanities PhD to Work (2020). She/her
President, NYC District 15 Community Education Council // opinions mine
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. @adambecker.bsky.social.
Join the conversation at https://www.patreon.com/cw/DreamingAgainstTheMachine
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik.bsky.social Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
Fran Rodríguez @lacabezaenlasnubes.bsky.social There are other worlds, but they are in this one 〰️ www.lacabezaenlasnubes.com
Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social In the half-between Worlds. Dwell they : The Sound Scientists In Notes and Tone. They Speak of many things...
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app imagining freedom
elvia wilk @elvia-wilk.bsky.social writer who writes, editor who edits
www.elviapw.com
https://elviawilk.substack.com
Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social A new magazine dedicated to the analysis and critique of contemporary technoscience.
https://disjunctionsmag.com/
Toni Schneider @toni.bsky.team CEO of Bluesky, partner @trueventures.com, personal site: https://toni.org
Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️⚧️🎨🌈⚖️
Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜
amanda wyatt visconti (they/them)
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free high fives & exclamation marks- C John Murphy @cubsmurphy.bsky.social Cubs fan, Rhetoric Man
Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy
Ayin Press @ayinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher and studio rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. We publish online and in print. 🧿🕊
https://ayinpress.org/
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social Professor of Physics at UTAustin. Member of the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Particle wrangler, opinionated software user, fan of Texas State Parks, Austin FC, and Newcastle United; sometimes I pick up heavy things.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy)
*Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP)
*Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf
Ana Hojbota @ahojbota.bsky.social academia lurker | habitual overthinker | professional code-switcher
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social Philosopher & sociologist | Head of Günther-Anders-Forschungsstelle @UniFreiburg
Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Grumpy eastern european in north america. Lovingly nitpicky. www.aolteanu.com
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social Assoc Prof | Information Science
Ex-investigative reporter and editor
Crisis informatics nerd
Makes good trouble
Tell your dog I said "hi"
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Ana Schwartz @peonies.bsky.social A few years ago, I wrote a history of sincerity (UNC 2023). In my day job, I teach Texan college students about the past.
Luke Steuber @coolhand.bsky.social Mad scientist. I try to make something new every day. Often I share them. Mostly they’re crap.
datapoems.io/clocks
lukesteuber.com • bipolarsky
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM out now: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS, last won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
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.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
Newsletter:
bostonreview.net/newsletter
Subscribe:
bostonreview.net/memberships
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about zoning?
Susan Doerr @susanmpls.bsky.social Reader. Scholarly book publisher at the University of Minnesota Press.
Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
Keli Tucker @kelidevi.bsky.social PhD candidate in Composition & Rhetoric at UW-Madison. She/her.
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social offshoot is an ever evolving political art project engaging various forms. We are not chained to history, we are students of it and our work is to advance liberatory efforts.
https://offshootjournal.org/
IG: @offshootjournal_
David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social Philosopher of science, mostly busy with transdisciplinary action research on environment/food/society. Assoc prof at Wageningen University, Netherlands. More here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LCzGlYMAAAAJ&hl=en
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Tom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social Philosophy and critical theory | Professor and head of Critical Studies at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam | Working on catastrophe, pessimism and utopian imagination | Books-in-progress: Benjamin, Anders, Weil
Knowable Magazine @knowablemag.bsky.social Sound science. Smart stories. Fact-checked journalism. Published by the nonprofit @annualreviews.bsky.social
📨 Weekly newsletter: https://knowmag.org/SIGNUP
🌎 Lea en español: @revistaknowable.bsky.social
💚 Support: https://knowablemagazine.org/donate
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social Reading, writing, meditating. Lammy-awarded critic. Modestly published poet. Hill Professor of English and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen.
https://lisalmoore.com/
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog
Support my writing:
https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, forthcoming). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Casilli @casilli.bsky.social 🇫🇷 Professor Institut Polytechnique de Paris
I write books 📚 Waiting for Robots, University of Chicago Press (2025)📚 and documentaries 🎥In the Belly of AI (2025)🎥
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Brian House @brian.house ⏼ Rhythms of human + nonhuman systems
https://brianhouse.net
Ashley Patriarca @aspatriarca.bsky.social Associate prof. Obsessed with dogs, teaching, perfume, romance novels, comics, & risk & crisis communication, not necessarily in that order. AL-NC-VA-PA. She/her. Opinions mine, all mine.
Rory Solomon @rorshock.bsky.social Mesh networks, media infrastructure, software engineering, ham/CB radio (KD2QGX); Assistant Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at Macalester College; “very clear & cool, simple but intricate”; he/him
Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social Cultural historian of extinction at work on DINOSTALGIA, a book about how dinosaurs became cultural artifacts, consumer goods, and spokes-creatures for consumption | Instructor @ UC Santa Cruz | Editor @ Contingent Magazine
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social Coordinator @ CCeH. #DigitalHumanities. Digital scholarly editions. History, art history, film studies. Formerly co-host of Coding Codices, founding member of the Digital Medievalist Postgrad Committee.
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fan of health law, religious liberty, and reproductive rights
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
Chef Reactions @chefreactions.bsky.social That annoying, monotone chef from various other platforms. Yup, it’s me.
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas
English prof
Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy
Loves dogs
Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric
(views only ever mine, obv)
she/her
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Stian Klo @stianklo.bsky.social Photographer based in the Arctic | Company: www.lofotentours.com - Hosting high end photography tours and workshops around the globe. Linktree: https://t.co/AFdesUUpcv
The American Weil Society @weilsociety.bsky.social https://simoneweilsociety.org/
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.