Holly Herda @hollyherda.bsky.social
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
Sam Bass @samhbass.bsky.social
Wen-Yi Huang @wenyihuangtw.bsky.social Historian of China & Taiwan | Migration & environmental history | An Wang Postdoc at Harvard, 2018-2019. McGill Uni Ph.D.
Maria Tatiana @colorsandstones.bsky.social Jeweler, interested in ancient jewelry. Recreating things using old techniques.
High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social "Ocean, As Much As Rain" by Tsering Woeser - published by Duke University Press OUT NOW 🌧️ https://linktr.ee/highpeakspureearth
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail.
Manlai Chonos @mchonos.bsky.social Global China & political economy of communications. PhD student at University of Trier
Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social Symbols, myths, anthropology, art, linguistics, history. This is a notebook of TILs: things I wish I could learn more about!
he/him
Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Gulsen Kilci @gulsenk.bsky.social Doctorante en histoire médiévale de la Corée (relation interdynastique Yuan-Koryŏ, alliances matrimoniales)
Université Paris-Cité - 박사과정 고려-원나라 통혼관계
CCJ https://ccj.ehess.fr/membres/gulsen-kilci
Rian Thum @rianthum.bsky.social Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group.
Nicholas Walmsley @hulegu.bsky.social Gentleman at Large | Bishkek, Tokyo| I do what I enjoy and enjoy what I do | IG: ngwalmsley
“Some constipated pedant who will take an eternity to get anything done”
Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist, chemist | Nerd, coffee snob, loves fresh air and equality | She/her | Museum lover, but not museum apologist
Sarah Pleuger @sarahpleuger.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Scientist, Music-Enthusiast, Favorite Ice Cream: Chocolate-Mint.
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social Old bloke in Yorkshire, interested in wildlife, gardening, books, classical music, archaeology, cats. Often muddy. Born at 313ppm. Opinions my own.
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Sarah Johnson @sarahwhpress.bsky.social Partner in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, otherwise to be found obsessing about food, gardening, hiking, sailing, undertaking grandiose acts of DIY, hoping for the best
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Mongolia Focus @mongoliafocus.bsky.social Commenting on developments in contemporary #Mongolia and announcing new blog posts offering such analyses.
mongoliafocus.com with >900 posts since 2011.
@dierkes.bsky.social posting here.
Xin Wen @xinwen.bsky.social historian
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Dominic John @domjohn.bsky.social Lapsed academic, idler, some time medievalist. "Phlegmatic" apparently.
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social UW Madison Geography, opinions are mine. Geomorphology, soils, dunes, loess, in the Midwest, Great Plains, northern China. He/him. Living on Ho-Chunk lands.
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Jax Garrett @jaxgarrett.bsky.social
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
ᠮᠥᠩᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ / Münkhnaran Bayarlkhagva @morientalist.bsky.social PhD-ing @ ERC Project "Political Deification: Theorizing from Asia"
Interest: historical IR, religion, ontological security
Read: mongolian, russian, turkish, farsi og lærer norsk
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)
Lindsay @lastronge.bsky.social Ecology, botany & sustainability. Buckinghamshire via Tyrone.
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Zaya C Bulag @zayacb.bsky.social A steppe mutt #SOAS #JLU. Mongolia, Technology and Authoritarianism. 🖼 art by Zolboo Tuguldur.
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social I study animal and environmental history of Mongolia. Ph.D. he/him.
Frau Michel @fraumichel.bsky.social Archaeologist and geographer #smacmuseum #Chemnitz. Lover of cheese and bad jokes. Avid traveler. Antifascist. #Mongolia
Carpetblogger @carpetblogger1.bsky.social Not my circus, not my monkeys.
🇺🇦 Ï
In Nice, FR
carpetblogger.substack.com
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
The Dark Professor (rare archetype) @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social professor of evolutionary psychology. under investigation for academic misconduct
Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social Award-winning author 🇨🇳🇬🇧 :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
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/
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
Xianyang City Bureaucrat @xianyangcb.bsky.social The Stratagems of the Warring States and other open access Classical Chinese translations. Pronouns: 臣/臣之. MQGA.
Tom Mazanec @tommazanec.bsky.social Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JASPA (formerly JAOS) editor. Father of 2. From NE Ohio.
https://eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec
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.
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
"Nomads, Past and Present" Podcast @nomadspod.bsky.social A podcast about nomadism and nomadic peoples, around the world and throughout history. Available wherever you get your podcasts. https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/academic-partners/digital-nomads
Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk Independent researcher of Tangut, Khitan, and Jurchen. Developer of BabelPad and BabelMap. Maintainer of BabelStone Han font. Responsible for adding over 10,000 characters to the Unicode Standard.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2063-7389
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social Archaeologist doing ecology of the past. Fieldwork in Australia, Mongolia, the American Southwest, and sometimes France.
Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger
Annelise Baer @annelisebaer.com Your friendly neighborhood archaeologist
Researcher+Producer of shows you may watch (NatGeo, History, etc)
Food enthusiast, lover of ancient coins & syncretism
@annelisethearchaeologist on TikTok (+250k)
She/her
linktr.ee/annelisebaer
Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures.
WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers
www.RepublicOfYarnia.com
@toddpmarek.bsky.social @toddpmarek.bsky.social (འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ། 马陶德) Anthro PhD. Tibetan Medicine in Amdo ཨ་མདོ and beyond. #linganth #medanth #STS
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social Professor studying contentious climate debates, climate urgency, 'Climateflation', and society-environment relations (and all things Canada 🇨🇦). Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca Views are my own (not my employer's)!
Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ
Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com
Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove
PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
PaleoAnthropology @qafzeh.bsky.social Human Origins, Hominin Fossils, Biological Anthropology
#Evolution #Fossils #Science🏺
https://twitter.com/Qafzeh
Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.
Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
Peter Campbell @petercampbell.bsky.social Heritage crime investigations, underwater explorer, unreliable narrator, future ghost
Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
the Jackmeister: Mongol History @jackmeistermongols.bsky.social Writes about the Mongol Empire. Doing a PhD and Youtube videos on them.
Simon Berger @chakarchinggis.eurosky.social Docteur en histoire. Chercheur postdoctorant au CeRMI (UMR 8041). Étudie l'Empire mongol et les sociétés médiévales des steppes eurasiatiques.
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social ⛏️ Archaeologist. Ancient Greek animals, food, & environment
Fighting Atlantis pseudoscience 🌊🏛
2024 Ockham Award for skeptical activism
Tavros is our rescue 🐈 from Knossos
It's my real name | he/him
www.youtube.com/@flintdibble
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
Dr. James D @doctorjamesd.bsky.social Friendly neighborhood livestock scientist making your meat better for you and the environment with SCIENCE! Views expressed here 100% my own. Thirtysomething bi trans dude living in sunny QLD. He/him.
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down.
Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social "Swear to god you're like a Fox Fire book set in hell." - Ursula Vernon
"You puckish motherfucker." - Sarah Day
Trans and queer anarchist sheep farmer. Navy veteran attempting to redeem himself.
Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social | Writer. Sword & Sorcery: Goatskin novellas WASTE FLOWERS, WHAT ROUGH BEAST? from Brackenbury Books. Historical fiction: AMGALANT on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
J Dierkes @schaumkroenchen.bsky.social 🏑 🍺 🚴
Privately here
Grenzenlos 🔴UNVEU⚪
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social Writer The Age of the Horse (AtlanticBooks/GroveAtlantic) & If Wishes Were Horses. Essays for Paris Review Daily, Long Reads, Lit Hub, Perspective & more. Amazons of Paris on Substack. Exberliner from 🇬🇧living in 🇸🇪 & married to a 🇬🇷.
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks I teach political science at a big community college in Minnesota. I study digital politics and authoritarianism in Central Asia. Opinions expressed here are mine; views do not reflect the state of Minnesota or U.S. government.
Jessica Madison Pískatá @lambinawoolsweater.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College|she/they
Rocks, poetry, the uncanny, reality TV, ghosts.