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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
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Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social Author “Social Warming”, about how social media inevitably polarises us all (not me or you, obviously, just everyone else). Journalist who has covered sports, technology, science, medicine. Ex-Guardian, -Independent, -New Scientist. 
Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore
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Chris Celenza @chriscelenza.bsky.social Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, author of *The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities*
1946 News @80yearsago.bsky.social An account that covers the 1940s in real time. DMs open for contact and inquiries.
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Jukka Savolainen @savolainen.bsky.social Everything happens for a reason you make up afterward. A recovering sociologist from Töölö 🇫🇮 Savolainen in name & ethnicity. #kalakukko
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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social Historian of medieval Europe, especially Germany, Holy Roman Empire. Writing book about myths and memories of medieval emperors in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Friedrich Nietzsche @nietzschean.bsky.social Professor at 24. Pensioned off at 34. Philosopher with a hammer.
"Beyond Good and Evil" sold 114 copies in its first year. Two years on, a chapter of my autobiography: "Why I Write Such Good Books"
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.
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Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
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Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
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Rude people are blocked.
Anna Harwell Celenza @annacelenza.bsky.social Author & musicologist with strong interests in PB and YA literature, jazz, and American history. Professor at JHU (Writing Seminars) and Peabody Conservatory (Musicology).
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Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social "A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social Political theorist. Worker in the "Realm of Concepts." Book accumulator. Ethical worrier. Teaching at Georgetown University since 2014.
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Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social Sinologist working on medieval (200–1000) China・Reception of the European Middle Ages in China・Posts a selection of classical Chinese literature each day・中古・中世紀
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Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social Assistant prof at Utrecht University, trying to make science as reproducible as non-scientists think it is. Blogs at @the100ci. 
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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social Economics and Ethics, UMass Amherst 
Stephen Macedo @stephenmacedo.bsky.social Political Theory, Social Science, and Public Policy, Princeton University.
Trying to seek the truth, wherever it leads.
Hannah Natanson @hannahnatanson.bsky.social Narrative enterprise reporter at The Washington Post. Email: hannah.natanson2@washpost.com and Signal
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Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
Lisa Weidenfeld @lisaweidenfeld.bsky.social Assistant arts editor at the Boston Globe covering TV, theater, comedy, and movies. Bylines at Boston College Magazine, Boston Magazine, AV Club, Episodic Medium, and more. She/hers.
Schuyler VanValkenburg @scvanvalkenburg.bsky.social Senator representing Virginia's 16th District. Parent of three pretty cool kids, teacher of the Constitution, Democrat, and #Henrico homer.
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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social Studying how Jews meet modernity. Children’s lit—>democracy. Labzik, Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature @TIJSatEmory @yeshivatmaharat
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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social he/him. English professor, Democrat (but I can't bear the DCCC), Mets fan. Views expressed are my own and not those of my employer or David Stearns. Liking/sharing doesn't mean approval except when it does. "'We’ll see if it is,' said Rivera."
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
Allison Wrabel @craftypanda.bsky.social City woman. Opinions mine. Enthusiastic about Cleveland sports. #YRICD. Peaked in middle school. Last name rhymes with table. #MIZ CLE-COU-CHO
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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social Published semiannually, American Religion offers an open-access forum for intellectual and creative engagement with religion in the Americas.
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Creighton Coleman @creightoncoleman.bsky.social Writing about Pentecostalism and politics. Working @UVA.
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
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Deborah Hellman @hellmandeborah.bsky.social Professor @ UVA Law School, writing about discrimination law and theory, bribery and corruption.
Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
Hannah Davis-Reid @hannahdavisreid.bsky.social Charlottesville reporter for @vpm.org! Email me at hdreid@vpm.org and follow me on Instagram @byhannahdavisreid
Johann Neem @johannneem.bsky.social Scholar of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, education. Author of "What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform" and "Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America." Website: https://johannneem.com
Rich Schragger @richschragger.bsky.social UVA Law Professor, urbanist, author of City Power, and church-state scholar
Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social Law professor at the University of Virginia. 
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Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
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