Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia (ASTRA) @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social A research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) dedicated to studying the astral sciences in trans-regional Asia.
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/departments/max-planck-research-group-astra
@mbakhshi.bsky.social @mbakhshi.bsky.social Historian of early modern South and Southeast Asian borderlands. Twenty-something shipwreck 🌈
Rosanna Dent @r-dent.bsky.social historian of science and medicine : Brazil : Latin American studies : digital humanist. she/ela/ella
Guanyu @1321-06.bsky.social Postgraduate at Cambridge HPS; representation; analogical reasoning;integrated history and philosophy of science
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Meg Briers @megbriers.bsky.social Scot abroad, doing my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
I mostly think about women, gender and the physical/mathematical sciences in Victorian Britain. Otherwise, running and drawing are also fun.
https://megbriers.co.uk/
@kayacmurat.bsky.social @kayacmurat.bsky.social
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge @hpscambridge.bsky.social A renowned institute at the University of Cambridge, focused on the history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine.
🧿 Raina Bhagat 🧿 @wrynaa.bsky.social English Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY / PhD in Comp Lit @ NorthwesternU / Writing and railing about nuclear energy + science fiction + race / rainabhagat.com (she/her)
Harun Kucuk @harunkucuk.bsky.social Historian of science
Miguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social History & Philosophy of Science @ University of Toronto
mohnesorgehps.com
John's History & Detecting Adventures UK @johnmbradbury.bsky.social Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1EASJzAQcRpH42tQQuLZmA
Resston @resston.bsky.social Brazilian photographer living in São Paulo.
Portfolio: bit.ly/3pz9cRK (look and download) or
Buy high-resolution, watermark-free photos directly from me at better prices via PIX or PayPal. Send me a message.
Instagram : @resston X : @RobResstonFo
Erika Milam @emilam.bsky.social Currently obsessed with the history of fieldwork & long-term research in behavioral ecology: erikamilam.com
#histSTM #hpbio #evobio #envhist
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Emmanuel Valax @evalax.bsky.social PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views my own)
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Katherine Enright @katherinenright.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Faculty of History and University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Reading & writing about 19-20th c. botany, zoology, and other expeditionary sciences in SEA
🇸🇬 she/her
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/katherine-enright
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social Professor of South Asian History. Researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too. Working from Bidjigal land at UNSW Sydney
Privately seeking research on ADHD, ASD, OCD, ALD & ABI
Razak Khan @razak85.bsky.social
Amna Qayyum @aqayyum.bsky.social historian | health, science, gender, global governance | assistant professor @UGA | prev @Brookings @JacksonYale @PrincetonHist
Cheri @kuncheria.bsky.social @theindiaforum.bsky.social | JNU history alum | Tobacco, Agriculture, Commodities, Environment, Economic History | Hoomin to Bourbon and Baddy | Views personal.
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
David Martin @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Misplaced Indo-Cantab-Historian.
Ph.D researcher, St. Catz
Christianity and the history of caste.
Substack: https://substack.com/@davidmartin8293
Oynat Bakam @zaycar.bsky.social Gülmeye hazır mısın? En komik videolar, en eğlenceli anlar burada! Takip et, günün kahkaha dozunu kaçırma!
Marjan Sarwar Wardaki @tarikhhijrat.bsky.social Historian | Asst. Professor @WUSTL | Global History of Science | Migration | Postdoc @Yale | PhD @UCLA | Foodie https://wustl.academia.edu/MarjanWardaki
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social performance • visual culture • writing • pedagogy // akademie schloss solitude fellow 2025-26 // linktr.ee/swatiarora
@dirgesinthedark.bsky.social @dirgesinthedark.bsky.social Citizen, mother, ready to do the work to make things better for everyone. Generally nice, but curses freely.
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Osama Siddiqui @orsiddiqui.bsky.social Historian, crossworder, (half)marathoner.
Divya Cherian @dillivali.bsky.social Historian of India/South Asia
row the boat @rchops7.bsky.social researching non-national futures; previously oxford, now phd history @ harvard
words in the scroll, newslaundry, the print, e-ir, pari
https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/rohan-chopra
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Historian of extinction, race & empire. Vanished shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History Extra, Smithsonian and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Also building a global digital project tracing Blaschka models across collections and archives. Hopefully online soon!
Mytheli Sreenivas @profmytheli.bsky.social WGSS/History/Feminist/South Asia/author of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India/Prof at Ohio State/All views my own
David Hurwitz @davidwonderland.bsky.social Working to bring about a technological solution to the bad debate problem. Traditional formats for fundamental reasons don't meet the common sense requirements for a great debate. Demagogues often win. The Big Lie lives.
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Kenneth Miller @kenmillerwrites.bsky.social Author, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette, Oct. 2023). Contributing editor, Discover magazine. Harmonica and keyboards.
Janella @janellabaxter.bsky.social I'm a U.S. settler, enrolled member
@choctawnationOK, and philosopher of science at Sam Houston State University.
Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
DocMaertens @toxicological.bsky.social Toxicologist, systems biologist. Bringing bioinformatics to environmental health. Interested in using computational toxicology to design safer chemicals? There’s a book for that! https://www.amazon.com/Green-Toxicology-Making-Chemicals-Benign/dp/1839162287
Marco Scoffier @marcoscoffier.bsky.social
Transplanting @transplanting.bsky.social Lover of history, classics, stories, science, gardening and learning. 🌻
Walt Hakala @wnhakala.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of English and Asian Studies Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, @hpsleeds.bsky.social. Fellow of Darwin College, Formerly Cambridge HPS. History of the life sciences and communication.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/staff/9660/dr-edwin-rose
Leonie Böttiger @leonieboettiger.bsky.social PhD student at MPIWG Berlin researching premodern Arabic recipe collections related to crafts. Interested in languages, literature & translation. Managing Editor at ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
I write about my research at arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Yijie Huang @yijiehuang.bsky.social Historian of medicine and science. Postdoc @HeidelbergHistory, PhD @CambridgeHPS. Exploring pre-modern body and healing. Writing on pulse, fever, and more.
@lazeruso.bsky.social @lazeruso.bsky.social
Anubhuti @anubmaurya.bsky.social Interested in History and politics. Here for the chatter
Xianglong Zhu @shannonzhu.bsky.social Studying modern Chinese history of science and technology @HPS Cambridge
Nana Osei-Opare @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Rice University
Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and material knowledge.
Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social working on the rise of herbal medicine research in Ghana.
Co-curator of 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained'
Book Reviews Editor @advancesjournal.bsky.social- S Shankar Nair @shankarnair.bsky.social Historian of 19th and 20th century India.
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
@sweetbutterfly3.bsky.social @sweetbutterfly3.bsky.social
Dr Priyanka Basu @priyankabasu.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts, King’s College London. Author of ‘The Poet’s Song: “Folk” and its Cultural Politics in South Asia’ (Routledge 2024). Previously Curator of ‘Two Centuries of Indian Print’, British Library. Phd, Felix SOAS. Odissi dancer.
Alka Raman @alkaraman.bsky.social Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof @UCL History. Chair of the Women’s Committee @Economic History Society, Associate Editor @Industrial History Review.
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Pratichi Priyambada (She/her) @kaafipratichi.bsky.social Educator. Ph.D. Historian of Dance, Gender, Colonial Law, and Nationalism in 19th-20th c. South Asia. Bharatanatyam/ Uday Shankar/ Mov. Improvisation. Pedagogy of kindness.
https://oxy.academia.edu/PratichiPriyambada
Mou Banerjee, PhD @moubanerjee28.bsky.social PhD @Harvard. Historian of South Asia. "The Disinherited" forthcoming @Harvard_Press in January 2025. thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu
Neeti Nair @neetinair.bsky.social Historian. Teacher. Lapsed dancer.
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Deborah Schlein @djschle.bsky.social Near Eastern Studies librarian | Middle East, South Asia research | manuscripts, marginalia, mild mayhem | history of medicine and science | PhD
rajbir singh judge @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social associate professor of history at csulb. former member at ias. author of prophetic maharaja published by columbia university press
https://www.rajbirjudge.com/
Juan Acevedo @juanacevedo.bsky.social Mostly trying to understand the #Timaeus.
Warburgian, #Begriffsgeschichte, #alphanumeric systems ( علم الحروف، ابجد), diagrams, armillary stuff, #medieval #mss, Graeco-Arabica, #Islamic studies…to the tune of #BWV988 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social #CIUHCT
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Urducosmo @urducosmo.bsky.social Author of Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia. Currently a formalist.
Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social Historian @CSSSC. Author, Creative Pasts(2007); Scripts of Power(2023). Infosys Prize for Humanities 2020. Current obsessions spinning, weaving, growing food.
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social diaspakora
David Ryan @ryangenealogy.bsky.social Historian/genealogist. APG board member. Recently completed MA Public History and Cultural Heritage in University of Limerick. Passionate about heritage, oral history and anything that connects to our past https://ryangenealogicalresearch.com/
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social Historian of science and ideas writing about microscopes, insects and flowers. Postdoc at Aarhus University. Member of the Danish Young Academy.
Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social historian of science & technology, itinerant potter
🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢
Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬
(animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル
Cocoon Cultures @DukeUP, 2027
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Timo Kos @timokos.bsky.social Vice president Leiden University. Follows & shares news & opinions on #HigherEd #Science #Digitization/AI #GeoPolitics #Culture #Sports #Comedy
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675.
Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
N.N. Scott @nnscott.com Archives and Records, Chicagoland. Inappropriately esoteric interests.
"A chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
She/her
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.