Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social ICE OUT
Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social Candidate for Waterloo City Councillor, Ward 5. WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026) and former Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social Academic union member at UMFA. Active in CAUT and the CAUT DF.
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
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social Features Writer, @mongabay.bsky.social ☀️
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social Prof., Harvard Kennedy School
V. Prof., Harvard Divinity School
18th NAACP president & CEO
Attorney & 4th Generation Minister
For speaking: http://unitedtalent
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social I’m the same everywhere. Link to my new podcast + TV show https://linktr.ee/jemelehill?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=55ca250f-2ec3-4d57-afd4-9281b33b8bef
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Blueskryb @handle.invalid A place for books on Bluesky.
Pretty bookshop.org links to post: https://www.blueskryb.cloud/link
Howard University @howard.edu A research-intensive, culturally-diverse Historically Black University✊🏾• 1867
Howard University Faculty Senate @hufaculty.bsky.social The Howard University Faculty Senate are the guardians of the institution. We promote competence, transparency, and accountability. https://hufaculty.com . Reposts are not endorsements.
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
Little Free Library @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social Little Free Library is a nonprofit that builds community, inspires readers, and expands book access through a global network of volunteer-led little libraries.
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
ibramxkendi.com
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
Contact: Info@iceflightmonitor.org
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org MMC is a global network engaged in data collection, research, and analysis on mixed migration, with regional hubs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America #MixedMigration
https://mixedmigration.org/
Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East 
Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social We are a network of scholars, teachers, students and activists standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere.
Jussi P. Laine @jpluef.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Border Scholar, University of Easter Finland. Borders/Migration/Security ｜ Section Editor for the Oxford Intersection on BORDERS
paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social borders, migration, development
sottovoce
Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social Border scholar
Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦
Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand
@UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social
Chroni. @LeDevoir.com
#borders & #borderwalls
In english & en français
(views are my own)
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Luna Vives @lunavives.bsky.social Political geographer & Associate Prof at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #MaritimeRescue #EU #Spain #Canada #Geography #Justice // She/her.
Benjamin J. Muller, PhD @biometricstate.bsky.social Professor of Migration & Border Studies
#BorderTech
https://biometricstate.com/
JUST PUBLISHED! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612236/Architectures-of-Security-Design-Control-Mobility
Vicki Squire @vickisquire.bsky.social Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own
suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social Sociology professor & University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Canada — critical migration & border studies | political sociology |citizenship & social justice
Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/profiles/suzan-ilcan
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
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
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social Ungrateful Migrant | Geographer | UoGlasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, fugitivity, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own
Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke 2026)
Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social Geographer, political ecologist, enthusiastic dilettante, plant pal. Recently relocated to the Big Smoke from the Deep South. Author of The Cactus Hunters ('23, Minnesota). All the links: https://linktr.ee/jdmargulies
Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship
Matthew Longo @matthewblongo.bsky.social Asst Prof of Political Science @PolSciLeiden. Author: THE PICNIC (2024) https://bit.ly/42unDVV) & THE POLITICS OF BORDERS (2018). Native New Yorker.
Kaya Tatjana Barry @kayatbarry.bsky.social Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather (she/her)
Umut Ozguc @umutozguc.bsky.social #Borders #IR #CriticalSecurityStudies #IPS #Walls Convenor @acbsnetwork.bsky.social MacquarieUni
Ari Jerrems @arijerrems.bsky.social Borders | neighbouring | political geographies | IPS | convenor of @acbsnetwork.bsky.social 
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
CUASA - Carleton University Academic Staff Association @cuasa.ca CUASA is the certified trade union representing over 900 full-time faculty and professional librarians at Carleton University.
NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com Media platform covering global conflict zones. Focus on the Ukraine-Russia war. Consider supporting us once via buymeacoffee.com/noelreports or by becoming a member via patreon.com/NOELREPORTS.
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social Internist, Writer, Mother | Associate Prof of Medicine | Advocate for patients and health equity #MedicareForAll is the way
doctoredtales.com
Saint Mary's Department of Geography & Environmental Studies @smugeographers.bsky.social Geography is the study of the Earth's surface, and of the spatial distribution and patterns of its physical and human characteristics. Geographers study how natural and cultural processes work to create distinct spaces, places, landscapes, and regions.
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
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.
Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social FRSC Professor in Halifax🍁. Member of @dalfaculty.bsky.social . Locked out for 30 days in 2025. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement.
"it is not Air / That from a thousand Lungs reeks back to thine" (Armstrong 1744). Silence=Spread🦠 #COVIDisAirborne
Travis Perry @tsperry.bsky.social he/him Post-secondary education, labour, social justice. NL, NS. Views expressed here are my own.
Grant MacEwan University Faculty Association @gmufa.bsky.social We are the bargaining agent for approximately 1100 academic staff who teach, practice, research, and serve across all disciplines at MacEwan University
@ewjonsson.bsky.social @ewjonsson.bsky.social 
Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social. UK export in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Pop health, climate anxiety, safe streets. Volunteer with @velocanadabikes.bsky.social, @visionzerokh.bsky.social, @urbantruth.bsky.social. She/her. Views are my own
🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon. Followed by only the coolest people. Elbows Up. Famous for one word answers. ☮️🇨🇦😎⛷️💙
Dalhousie Lettuce @keepdalstrong.bsky.social Dalhousie University President locks out faculty a few days before the academic year begins. How long will she last as prez? https://globalnews.ca/news/9205450/prime-minister-liz-truss-head-of-lettuce-livestream/
Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social Representing professors, instructors, librarians and counsellors at Dalhousie University since 1978
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.
Backlands Coalition @backlandscoalition.bsky.social A coalition of community groups working to protect the unique urban wilderness of the Purcell's Cove/Herring Cove/Williams Lake Backlands in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. https://backlandscoalition.ca/ #KeepTheBacklandsWild
Robert McLeman @rmcleman.bsky.social Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Climate Mobilities Hub @climohub.bsky.social A Knowledge Hub on Environmental and Climate (Im)Mobilities in the making, based and operated at the University of Vienna - currently in the beta version.
www.climohub.org
Stacie Smith (She/Her) 🇨🇦 🏒 🧠 ⚾️ @stacesmith94.bsky.social Halifax, NS + Saint John, NB | MSVU MEd Curriculum Studies | Dalhousie BScKin'20 | UNB BEd'22 |
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
MDavey History Teacher @mdavey10.bsky.social Molly's @mmdavey.bsky.social husband, proud father, political science, history & govt. teacher, high school coach, former staffer for John Vasconcellos in Sacramento, supports democracy, support Ukraine, NO MAGA, Support California & Canada, Voteblue 🌊
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
@alexjackson2325.bsky.social @alexjackson2325.bsky.social Constitution believer. Native Texan.
BeckyVee @beckyvee.bsky.social Team Talarico! Badass Boomer, Astros fan, progressive, pickleball reject, gun safety advocate & prof. I make shitty art, write, fight fascists, swim & watch fb & tennis. And yes, I have awesome hair. 🤪
https://beckyvillarreal.substack.com
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • Hamilton / MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com
Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social Inadequate cat servant. Husband. Dad. Historian of #CdnImm. Public & oral history. Museums. Bikes. PhD candidate (Hist) @ Carleton. Kjipuktuk / Hfx.
(He/him)
Nova Scotia - What's New? @ns-wn.bsky.social "Nova Scotia - What's New?" is not a media outlet or affiliated with the Government of NS. No journalists/original content. Share open-source info from public channels, don't verify third-party materials. Images auto-added.
Deepshock @deepshock.blacksky.app Light-skinned Black, vidya, Tetris/puzzles, dancing, walking, biking, Developed the game "Steel Seraph", working on another one. Dartmouth. Love cats, hate fascism. Simple as.
In his 40s.
Cat:Primm
https://deepshock.neocities.org/
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social Climatologist & Weather Historian.
www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxcrc
Weather news. Climatic statistics and records. By M. Herrera
@extremetemps in all networks
Acadia University Faculty Association @acadiafaculty.bsky.social AUFA represents full- and part-time faculty, librarians, archivists, instructors, and PAD lecturers at Acadia University.
APUO @apuott.bsky.social Association de professeur.e.s de l’Université d’Ottawa / Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa
MSVU FA @msvufa.bsky.social Official Account of the Mount Saint Vincent University Faculty Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia