kevinv 🦌 @kevinv.bsky.social Talk to me about The Beach Boys, but not in the 🌊🏄♂️ surfing kinda way. Or the 🐐 Pet Sounds kinda way. I’m talking the 🌈 Ding Dang and 🍔 Cocaine Sessions kinda way. 🏛️ Columnated ruins domino.
Also, the occasional clips from 📺 The Simpsons.
ECIR 2026 @ecir2026.eu The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval
March 29 - April 2, 2026
Delft, The Netherlands
https://ecir2026.eu
Faegheh Hasibi @fhasibi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Radboud University
Information Retrieval- Natural Language Processing
Hamed Zamani @hamedzamani.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of CS at UMass. Assoc. Director of the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Interested in IR, NLP & ML.
Joe C @joe-c-london.bsky.social Proud to be both British and Canadian. Software engineer, political junkie, and lover of travel. Sucker for a good reality competition TV series.
Daria Alexander @doree-ai.bsky.social ML & Data Science Specialist
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Evolutionary biologist. Professor. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). Vimy, not Vichy. He/him.
Dr. Celine Latulipe @drceline.bsky.social Computer Science professor @ University of Manitoba. Research HCI and CS Education. Current focus on technology to support a digital partnership between older adults and close others. Avid animal lover, gardener, foodie. 
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
J. Stephen Downie @profdownie.bsky.social Professor, Executive Associate Dean, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois.
Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
Laura Dietz @laura-dietz.bsky.social Computer Science Professor with focus in Information Retrieval and Text-centric Machine Learning
Weiwei Luo @imweiwei.bsky.social Legal+Economic History. Chinese+Global History. Grinnell College. JD/PhD. Mom. Not really on here much.
Mike Gow 高英智 @mikeygow.bsky.social #Everton STH Upper South Block 212
Recovering China Studies Academic. Assoc Prof.
Likes: football, politics, conversation.
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Chun Xu @xuchun.work Historian. Dragons and bureaucrats in Song, Yuan and Ming China.
Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer.
Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project.
Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo
More at https://andreaghiselli.com/
无巧不成书
Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Bonnie Glaser @bglaser.bsky.social Managing Director, Indo-Pacific Program, German Marshall Fund @GMFAsia, China, Taiwan, Indo-Pac, Europe-China, RT≠ endorsement
Taylor Fravel @fravel.bsky.social Studying China's foreign and security policies and director of MIT's Security Studies Program
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Janka Oertel @jankaoertel.bsky.social ECFR Asia Director. Personal views only. 
Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan. Associate Prof, University of Washington Jackson School & History Dept.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. "Softhanded scribe". Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
Website: http://donaldclarke.net
Twitter: @donaldcclarke
Chris Elford @siegeweather.bsky.social I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor. Translator. Teacher of Mandarin and Classical Chinese. Go/围棋/바둑 try-hard.
Christian Göbel @christiangoebel.bsky.social Prof of China Studies, Uni Vienna. Political scientist working on state-society relations, protest, government responsiveness in China. Data hoarder, computational methods.
David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Associate editor for Nationalities Papers.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Jakub Jakóbowski @jjakobowski.bsky.social Deputy Director, Head of China Dept. at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
China, Europe, the post-Soviet space. Eurasian connectivity.
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University 
Kristin Shi-Kupfer @gusiting.bsky.social China: society-digital-media / Christianity & Poetry & Piano / Professor for Contemporary China Studies at Trier University
Senior Associate Fellow at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
www.gppi.net
Albert Galvany @albertgalvany.bsky.social Prof. of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. My research interests are focused on early Chinese intellectual history, classical Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
https://ehu.academia.edu/AlbertGalvany- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
Yiyi Luo @yiyi2020.bsky.social Assistant professor of classical Chinese literature at UMass Amherst.
Scholar of classical Chinese literature, poetics, court culture, history, and religions.
https://www.umass.edu/east-asia/about/directory/yiyi-luo
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
International Society for Chinese Law and History @isclh.bsky.social The official account of a U.S.-based non-profit professional association for international scholars of Chinese law and history, broadly defined, with dues-paying members from leading research institutions worldwide. https://www.chineselawandhistory.com
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Daniel Mattingly @mattingly.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, focusing on China's domestic and international politics.
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Tim Cheek @cheekytim.bsky.social China historian at UBC, Vancouver.
Yu Wang @ywang1024.bsky.social Assistant Professor@sts Cornell
Sound Studies, China, STS
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
🌈 🌏🥘🍱🥍🏹🎾🎳🎹🎻 🎮📖
norayitongqiu.com
Mindi Zhang @mindyzhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History, UCLA
Modern China
Aspiring Historian of Information, Libraries, and Books
Flavia Fang @flaviafang.bsky.social Historian of medieval China and the Silk Roads | writing about smells | Past & Present Fellow @ IHR and SOAS University of London
I-ch'ih CHANG @plausistory.bsky.social #Historian ; (early) modern #China;
#Qing state and administrative knowledge;
PhD@Renmin University of China
You may see me at: The First Historical Archive of China (FHAC)
Mastodon: @plausistory@hcommons.social
Blog: qing.observer
Dan Lynch @danlynch1994.bsky.social Professor of international relations at the City University of Hong Kong, and formerly at USC. China, cross-Strait relations, econ, and more. Like to read medical science studies. Enjoy rock, jazz, films, and novels. Profoundly detest all rightwingery.
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Le Lin @zedzeppelin2048.bsky.social Sociologist studying China's political economy, education, organizations and technology. Associate Professor at U Hawaii Sociology. Author of The Fruits of Opportunism
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social Historian at Tsinghua University. Focus (more or less) on Chinese and East Asian histories from early modern to contemporary period, history of cartography, and urban studies. Love painting, music, arts, and antique maps
Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social Cinema / film art in China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan especially independent films & films from within the Chinese borderlands (Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong…). And I create English subtitles for Chinese-language films.
YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social 1. A native Shandongese from Shandong Peninsula, China
2. Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Delaware
3. Editor-in-Chief, The Chinese Historical Review (since July 2024)
@peng-xu.bsky.social @peng-xu.bsky.social 
Pericles @pericles.bsky.social Alpha Male. Married (to a female)
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Yige Dong @yige-dong.bsky.social Sociologist@SUNY Buffalo | labor, gender, political economy, China
Yingyao Wang @yingyaowang.bsky.social Associate Prof @UVASociology. works on bureaucracy, state/market relations, and political economy of China. Author of Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics.
Zhifan Luo @zhifan-luo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @McMaster University | Media, power, and computational social science.
Fei Yan @feiyansoc.bsky.social Political sociology, historical sociology, and modern Chinese history
Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, politics, migration & global China. Assistant professor of teaching at UC Riverside. Former postdocs at Harvard University & UPenn. PhD from Emory.
Website: www.weirongguo.com
Leta Hong Fincher洪理达 @letahongfincher.bsky.social Author of LEFTOVER WOMEN: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China and BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China. https://letahongfincher.com
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog Stratification, inequality, population, China, history
https://camerondcampbell.blog
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-1941
Photos https://CamerondCampbell.smugmug.com
https://www.instagram.com/cameron_d_campbell/
fu, zheng @fuzheng.bsky.social PRODIG + Fellow in Critical AI @ Stony Brook University; phd @ columbia sociology. interested in power, STS, economic sociology, classification struggles.
Personal website: https://fuzheng10.github.io/
very importantly, also a foodie.
Wendy Zhou @wwwendyz502.bsky.social East Asia Postdoc@U of Virginia. China, Global Comm, Diaspora Media, and Political discourse. Open to jobs. https://eastasiacenter.as.virginia.edu/wendy-weile-zhou
Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social Author: The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social
Asso Prof @durham-university.bsky.social Exec Editor @bjse.bsky.social; Director @chiedmobilities.bsky.social; Soc of time, Bourdieu, China; https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Time-Inheritors
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Siqi Tu @siqitu.bsky.social Researcher in migration and mobility, diasporic communities, transnational elite education, political economy of global cities, community development, and Global China.
https://siqitu.com/
I repost randomly...
Juan Wang @juanw.bsky.social Political Scientist at McGill. China, the state, communism, money, and discipline. 
Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto | Culture, creativity, globalization, censorship, ethnography | Book on China & Hollywood in progress | philipjunfang.com
Zoe Zhao @zoezhao.bsky.social Research and teach tech, labor and social movements at 🍌𓆑. Neurodiverse 🌶️ and politically depressed organizer/gamer.
https://www.zoezhao.me/
Jun Zhou @junzhou.bsky.social phd candidate in sociology at University of Michigan political economy, gender, technology, labor, theory
Mellon/ACLS dissertation innovation fellow
she/they/cat person
Zitian Sun @zstheunemployedphd.bsky.social Ph.D Candidate at McGill University
Ph.D. McGill, Department of Sociology
M.A. NYU, Department of Politics
M.A. AU, School of International Services
B.A. AU, School of International Services
Wei Zhou @weizhou.bsky.social phding at uchicago sociology
infrastructure, energy, China & Global Capitalism
theweizhou.github.io
Jing Wang @jingwang.bsky.social Assistant Prof, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison; New academic mom; Feminist
Co-Founder 结绳志 https://tyingknots.net
Website: https://www.jing-wang.net/
#GlobalMedia #GlobalComm #GlobalChina #China #Anthropology #Wisconsin #Madison
Kecheng @fangkc.bsky.social Teaching and Researching Journalism @ The Chinese University of Hong Kong- Z Zhihang Ruan @zruan.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Hunter College-CUNY, PhD from Northwestern. Development, labor, land, China, Vietnam. http://zhihangruan.com
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
AAAS Social Science Caucus @aaas-socsci.bsky.social We are the Social Science Caucus under the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aaas-socsci/home
Puck Engman @puckengman.bsky.social Teaches and writes about Chinese socialism
https://history.berkeley.edu/puck-engman
Licheng Qian @lichengqian.bsky.social Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Jing Xu @jing-xu.bsky.social Anthropologist & author of "The Good Child" (Stanford U Press 2017) & " 'Unruly' Children" (Cambridge U Press, 2024): China, child development, culture & cognition, morality, education, family
https://sites.google.com/view/jingxu/home