Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and Soul, Technicolor
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
https://www.instagram.com/jmnorton
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social Senior Writer and occasional feature editor at the Toronto Star.
Laura Kinsale @laurakinsale.bsky.social Look Ma, no AI!
Outlaw masks on law enforcement officers!! ICE is a terrorist organization.
Corruption corruption corruption. Trump is GARBAGE.
🇺🇸🇺🇸 Photo Carlin Stiehl via the LA Times
#GreatPyrenees puppies so you know it’s Real Laura Kinsale.
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social PRE-ORDER TO STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • essays and reporting in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic & elsewhere briangoldstone.net
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, and not fit for human consumption.
Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com Fantasy Author & Podcaster | Co-host of 6x Hugo Finalist
Worldbuilding for Masochists | Maradaine Saga | Velocity of Revolution |
http://mrmaresca.com
https://linktr.ee/marshallryanmaresca
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. Bram Stoker Winner, WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
C. J. Lavigne @cjlavigne.com Canadian SFF writer. Author of IN VERITAS and THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER. Short stories in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur, PodCastle, and other fine publications. Rep: Arley Sorg. I like coffee and cats. www.cjlavigne.com
Ayana Gray @ayanagray.bsky.social New York Times-bestselling author of monstrous stories. I, MEDUSA: Fall 2025
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club Grab a cuppa and settle in as @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @boneyabroad.com give authors 15 whole minutes to convince YOU to buy their new book.
Join us on Patreon for 15 extra minutes! https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub/membership
Dorkchester Review @dorkchesterreview.bsky.social Parody journal, not the Dorchester Review. Runs Dorkchester University, Dorkchester Foundation, Dorkchester Press, Dorkchester Consulting. Editor & Chancellor: the very handsome Dr. C.P. Champagne. Old content on Twitter: https://x.com/DorkchesterRev
Shane Hawk @shanehawk.com 🪶 Cheyenne & Arapaho
📥 Editor at Counterpoint Press
📚 NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT series
👤 Rep: Rachel Letofsky
shanehawk.com
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
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
Pop Heist @popheist.com Hi. We’re Pop Heist, a worker-owned media company stealing pop culture back from the algorithm.
popheist.com
Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social Deafblind author of Being Seen, Sword of the White Horse.
Lead Reporter on The Helen Keller Exorcism. New book out 10/6, DEAR BLIND LADY is AITA for disability. Preorder now
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team i'm the most RESPECTFUL transsexual journalist in the world™
@khronos.world
tightpussy.shop
katea.gay
she/her
people i've turned trans: 264
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of polyploids at RBG Kew | science & society | opinions mine
Mizzou, Fulbright Belgium, and Michigan State alum. Here because of medicaid, public universities, and pell grants
https://kevinabird.github.io/
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social Pseudonym. Rastafari. Computer Science PhD. Chess Master. Dad jokes. Arsenal FC. Science. Parenting. Anti-racism.
Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social Anthropological geneticist, NYT bestselling author, martial artist, professor, Ox mother. Rock chalk.
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://www.the-end.news
The Dark Professor (rare archetype) @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social professor of evolutionary psychology. under investigation for academic misconduct
Jedidiah Carlson @jedidiahcarlson.com Population genetics, doom metal, anti-racism, metaresearch, & eye-rolling. Stats prof at Macalester College. He/Him.
https://jedidiahcarlson.com
Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social Associate Prof of Biology at Howard University studying functional and evolutionary morphology #BlackLivesMatter (she/they)
Fully funded MS Programs in EEB:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f34fVzPkKviz0732mU8YtkTnLVaNNUjK_SKCTSglD0o/
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/
Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social The "The Dialectical Biologist" account.
Structural biology & anti-racism.
Loves: birds, proteins, Linux, Lewontin
Hates: race science, racists, transphobes
Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.
John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. i live in Minneapolis. my pronouns are he/him. i am a cofounder at @sequencermag.bsky.social
dansamorodnitsky.com
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab
Steve Pittelli, MD @stevepittelli.bsky.social Semi-retired Shrink, mediocre singer, yoga dude, swimmer, searcher, Daime and other paths, critic of behavioral genetics, dog owner (Corey), Detroit Lions, 35 year vegetarian. Living in the South Carolina Low Country. Blog: www.unwashedgenes.blogspot.com
rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social i speedrun on twitch. occasionally i do science. i hate social media. i love hot wings.
---desperately searching for a job---
to learn more about me:
https://www.speedrun.com/users/rhacodactylus
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zG9hvtUAAAAJ&hl=e
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social Behavior genetics, clinical psychology, Mets. Occasional politics.
Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/
Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf
Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
Aisling Shalvey @ashshalvey.bsky.social Author of ‘Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg’ - MSCA postdoc project UCARE 1945 (unaccompanied children’s access to healthcare 1945-1950) - historian of medicine - COST Action HIDDEN Vice Chairperson
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social Historian.
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.com
Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social Author and editor of books intended to help non-experts understand science. Interested in anything about evolution, development, heredity and nature of science.
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (3).
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
💖💜💙
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Joanna Karolina Malinowska @malinowska.bsky.social philosophy of science • race, racialisation and racism in science • health inequities • epistemic diversity • epistemic and cognitive biases • processual ontology • methodological fairness
https://malinowska.web.amu.edu.pl
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Phila M. Msimang @msimang.bsky.social Philosopher of race, biology, and related social issues.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Phila-Msimang
Will Gervais @willgervais.com psych prof & author | culture & evolution | atheists | methodological pluralism FTW | comic & horror nerd | he/him
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species https://www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Origins-Atheism-Religious-Species/dp/1633889246/
Devang Mehta🌱🧬 @mehta-lab.com Leading the Experimental Plant Systems Biology Lab at KU Leuven 🇧🇪. Previously at UAlberta 🇨🇦, ETH_Zurich🇨🇭, Imperial College London 🇬🇧, VIT University 🇮🇳.
Fmr Early Career Advisor @eLife, @biorxiv affiliate
he/him
mehta-lab.com
Jon Marks @jontheanthroman.bsky.social Biological anthropologist, albeit with eclectic interests
Chris Willoughby @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies @unlv.bsky.social. Author #MastersofHealth: slavery & racial science in #MedEd
@uncpress.bsky.social. Editor #Medicine&Healing in the Age of Slavery @lsupress.bsky.social. views mine
Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social 💻 Assoc Prof of Epidemiology at JH Public Health
🛠️ RAGE Lab: Research on Ancestry in Genetic Epi
📢 loud bark, deep bite.
Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social Psychologist/author deconstructing behavioral/psychiatric genetic research and theories. Author of "Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion" (2023). https://jayjoseph22.substack.com/
Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social Statistical geneticist. Associate Prof at Dana-Farber / Harvard Medical School.
www.gusevlab.org
PSA UPSS Initiative @psa-upss.bsky.social Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS pronounced ⬆️s) Initiative of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), providing mentoring & more. UPSS Chair: @AlisaBokulich.bsky.social
https://www.philsci.org/upss.php
Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social Anthropologist and pilot. Former professor, now flying for a US-based global airline. Still have some writing to do (racism and health, research methods, aeromobilities).
📝 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yeAwZhIAAAAJ&hl=en
Adam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social Biological anthropologist (Pleistocene human evolution), Professor @Wellesley College, dad, outdoor-lover, sport enthusiast
Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org Science writer, journalist, physicist, hat man, cat man, queer. Pfp by @makinaro.com . Signal: BowlerHatScience.51
Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social Evolution and genetics of complex traits. Genes, evolution, and society.
Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language. 
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftist™
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD @profdasgupta.bsky.social Author of 📚 Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA 🧬 @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr 🇪🇬 shoumitadasgupta.com
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social ✏️ race/gender/sex/religion/politics/America
🙄 also "cults"
🎧 #KeepingIt101 w/ IRMF
📚 #RINDWY (Beacon 2024) | #CultsInc | #AbusingReligion (Rutgers 2020)
Justine van der Leun @justinevdl.bsky.social Author of Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival: https://www.justinevdl.com/
ER&L Conference @erlconf.bsky.social Exploring trends, technologies, #eresource management, and digital services in #libraries. Join the festivities from March 21-24, 2027 | Austin, TX + Online | https://electroniclibrarian.org | #ERL27
Maureen Babb 🍁 @librarian-m.bsky.social Science Librarian. Fond of Classics, Archaeology, Paleontology, Comics, and of course Library Stuff. Queer.
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Crawford Award finalist. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
Sign up for my newsletter at: https://the-trying-times.ghost.io/
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
swapnahaddow.com
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehi / Torere / Clan Gunn / kootuku maa / author of ransack & ECHIDNA
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social Māori, Mum, 'Decent writer'
🇳🇿
I write books and tv. Should get a proper job but I like working in my pj's.
she/her/ia
My YA novel 'Migration' is out now! It's a Storylines Notable book, NZ Booklovers winner, and NZCYA finalist🏆💕
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.