Mike Layton @mikelayton.bsky.social Working for positive change. Former city councillors The Star called Toronto”s “environmentalist-in-chief”. Inaugural YorkU Chief Sustainability Officer. Opinions are my own. Uke, gardening, cycling, decarbonization, parenting.
Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social Hey, Toronto!
Former candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 11 University–Rosedale.
gabeforunirose.ca
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
📬 https://www.flakphoto.news
📸 https://linktr.ee/flakphoto
Rik Jesse @kiwicdn.bsky.social Retired Chief Deputy Superintendent | Former School Administrator | 32 Years in Education | Lifelong Advocate for Student Learning & Growth
“Stay fearless and graceful under fire.”
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
Mario Santamaría @mariosantamaria.bsky.social Available 23/7
https://mariosantamaria.net
https://internetour.com/
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social STREAM OUR DEBUT SINGLE "LIGHTS DOWN" ↙️
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Rflnb0WvYeuK5B6AHVSXE?si=F93EswKVR5ehFffDiFfCuw&utm_source=copy-link
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyrichmanband?igsi=MWFldWJsOG1pdDl2bA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
@blakaligula.bsky.social @blakaligula.bsky.social 
PB Berge 💖 @persephone.blue 🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is out!!!
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
Jon Fairbanks @thirdmango.bsky.social Media and Cultural sociologist.
“Locally professional” comedian.
I play whatsamusic streams and write about media.
Twitch.tv/thirdmango
Letterboxd.com/thirdmango
Juana María Rodríguez @radiorodriguez.bsky.social A queer Latina femme fighting for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸Author of 📚Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex//Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings//Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces juanamariarodriguez.com
Eric I Schwartz @eischwartz.bsky.social Director of NYU Press = From Downtown to the World
https://nyupress.org/
Mayor Bert Xanadu @moviemayor.bsky.social It's circa 1973. I am Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas. Now on sale: I OWN THIS TOWN: THE MAYOR BERT XANADU XANTHOLOGY spacingstore.bsky.social
Dr. Mara Einstein @drmaraeinstein.bsky.social Cults • MLMs • higher ed • religion • deceptive marketing.
8X author inc. “Hoodwinked: How marketers use the same tactics as cults.” Netflix doc: “Buy Now!”
Ex- NBC, Ex-MTV, advertising refugee. CUNY professor.
SXSW 2025
Drmaraeinstein.com
Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social Writes about media and culture, Boston College Department of Communication Professor
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Helen Morgan Parmett @hxmorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film & TV Studies at the University of Vermont. Co-Director of the Lawrence Debate Union. Studies media, place, and, identity. Author of "Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States"
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social Earthquake geologist 🧪⚒️ | Scicomm specialist 🎙️| Formerly USGS, IRIS, NASA | she/her | Views are mine | website: https://wendybohon.com/
“A delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos.”
@egonzaba.bsky.social @egonzaba.bsky.social 
J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social Analista política, doctora Ciencia Política y profe emérita. Libros: la Nueva Canción chilena; la Operación Cóndor; la transición incompleta argentina. DD.HH.
LTurculet @lturculet.bsky.social Chemistry prof at Dalhousie University. Canadian 🇨🇦, Maritimes ⚓️. Opinions my own. 
Riccardo Pronzato @riccardopronzato.bsky.social Critical algorithmic sociologist.
🎈 Tenure Track Asst. Prof. IULM University
🪂 Visiting Researcher: University of Cambridge (CRASSH); RMIT University (DERC) and University of Copenhagen (MeST).
Bartosz Slosarski @slosarski.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology, University of Warsaw • Critical Data Studies | Environmental & Climate Sociology | Contentious Politics • He/him/his
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Dr. Regina Higgins @reginahiggins.bsky.social Writer, editor, PhD in English. I edit academic books, articles, and more.
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
@aidanmoir.bsky.social @aidanmoir.bsky.social 
Colin Toffelmire @toffelmire.bsky.social Professor of Christian Studies (Ambrose Uni), amateur cook, even more amateur film lover. Theology, culture, language and hermeneutics, probably more politics than is healthy or wise.
💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social former writer/researcher for Wisecrack. obsessed with the horrors of human existence, but in like, a bubbly, upbeat way. fixated on my dog. hypermobile af. she/her
www.jackofallgraves.com
Letterboxd: @hereliescorri
Department of History, Saint Mary’s University @historysmu.bsky.social Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
Carol Liao @carolmliao.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law | UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow, Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics | Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative | Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice #corpgov #climate #sustainability
Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
Trey Avery @brainsandplanes.bsky.social Neuroscientist (EEG, functional imaging, brain stimulation)
traveler, dog dad (Lakeland Terrier). Live in NYC. 🏳️🌈
Views are my own, not my employer.
Carolyn Schmitt @carolynschmitt.bsky.social UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
@riankasingh.bsky.social @riankasingh.bsky.social 
Samuel Pizelo @spizelo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Game Studies at ICCIT, U Toronto Mississauga. Researches games, systems, AI/ML, and digital media. www.samuelpizelo.com
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
nanocrit @nanocrit.bsky.social NANO: New American Notes Online is an indexed, Open Access, and Open Source humanities journal. NANO never charges to submit or to read content. Account managed by the editor, Sean Scanlan, PhD.
https://nanocrit.com
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social || assistant prof at University of Montreal || leading the systems neuroscience and AI lab (SNAIL: https://www.snailab.ca/) 🐌 || associate academic member of Mila (Quebec AI Institute) || #NeuroAI || vision and learning in brains and machines
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social Senior reporter @theintercept.com
Words: @nytimes.com @harpers.bsky.social @latimes.com @rollingstone.com @yahoonews.com @teenvogue.com @vicenews.bsky.social
Leak documents to me at: nick.turse@theintercept.com
Or on Signal: nickturse.01
Ben Scholl @ben-scholl.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.
Game Studies and Esports Researcher
🖥️ benscholl.com 
Ana Pogoutse @apogoutse.bsky.social Research development officer
@utm-research.bsky.social | @uoftmississauga.bsky.social
Tom Streeter @tom-streeter.bsky.social Prof. at Western in London Ontario. Wrote some books and articles about technology, culture, and politics. https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/blog/
Kathryn Fedchun @kathrynfedchun.bsky.social PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Jack perse @jackperse.bsky.social (they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd in media studies. teaching game design.
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Nicole K. Stewart @nicolestewart.bsky.social Views are my own. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸
Researches: platform studies / communication technologies / digital media + cultures
Mélanie Roberge @zacharlotte.bsky.social Amoureuse de la nature, de la lecture et de la culture (et des chats). Marketeuse numérique. Mère de deux presque adultes et heureuse membre de la famille Roberge-Angers.
Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism
Signal: JSweetLI.61
Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation, Mother Jones
https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Sebastian Rodriguez @srod.ca 👨🏻💻 Researcher at metaLAB @harvard.edu
🎓 Previously at @oii.ox.ac.uk and @utoronto.ca
🔎 AI, education, digital humanities, surveillance
srod.ca
aipedagogy.org
M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social a historian currently writing a book about how we do history now and another book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC
http://mjrymszapawlowska.com/
Kathleen Conti @kathleenconti.bsky.social Public historian, preservationist, professor. Writing on race and representation at US historic sites.- A @annefmaclennan.bsky.social @annefmaclennan.bsky.social
Fiona Rawle @firawle.bsky.social Biology Prof. Research focus: science misinformation, learning from failure, & bias in STEM. Advocate for #WomenInSTEM #EDI & Public Understanding of Science.
irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social Asst. Prof @windsorlaw.bsky.social. JD+PhD. Researching #lawandprotest, movement defence & injunctions. Activist. Lawyer. Jugoslovenka. Cyclist. Aging punk. Windsor+Toronto via Belgrade. she/her/comrade. #SFSN 🍉
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
Alessandro Gandini @afrontiercity.bsky.social “Your favorite sociologist’s favorite sociologist” (cit). Researching platforms, work, digital cultures & methods @ University of Milan. PI of @ercresearch.bsky.social funded "CRAFTWORK" - https://craftwork.unimi.it/
Annelot Prins @lennartspion.bsky.social I research the social function of celebrity. Special interests: famous women in popular music, celebrity feminism, immoral celebrity and monstrous celebrity.
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Dr Martin J Power @drmartinjpower.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociology, Co-Director Centre for the Study of Popular Music and Popular Culture, University of Limerick, Ireland......Rabid Celtic fan
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Cameron Brown @camlbrown.bsky.social (he/him) PhD Candidate in Media Studies @ UIowa - Reality TV, TikTok, Audiences, & Emotional Labor - Viva la Vyvanse - CW: ~Lots~ of Foolishness
Timothy MacNeill 🇨🇦 @timothymacneill.bsky.social Musician. Senior Teaching Professor Ontario Tech University.
Rescue Liberty - Reject the Bullies
Liberty Girl by Arlibido:
View and share here:
https://youtu.be/cBRgQ78o5EA?si=VW3Byzt--ayxf2_B
Stream on your service
#elbowsup #Resist #canadianmusic
A.D. Cybulski @adcybulski.bsky.social 
Ananya @chiya21.bsky.social PhD-ing/doomscrolling
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press 
Marsha Barrett @marshabarrett.bsky.social Modern U.S. Historian, Professor
Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social Lecturer in US History @ Oxford | host @NewBooksNetwork | Comms @ HistoryLab+ | Aldrich Fellow @ HistoryofEducationSociety
Historian of education, ideas, and memory in 20th-C America. Mostly RT's!
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Juan Carlos Mezo @jcmezo.bsky.social Historian of sexuality, gender, and visual culture | Mexican and transnational history | Assistant Professor @mountroyalu.bsky.social | Author of Gay Print Culture (Duke University Press, 2026) 🏳️🌈
juancarlosmezo.com
Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
🤺🏳️🌈
dhowlett1692.com
Elisabeth Macias @ejmunfun.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Georgetown. 20th century Latinx urban history and schools. Former HS teacher.
Chase W. Fleece @fleecechase1.bsky.social Adjunct @BGSU_History. Environmental & Agricultural Historian of North America and the Great Lakes 🇨🇦/🇺🇸. Québec Studies. www.chasefleece.com
Joe Blankholm @joeblankholm.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UC-Santa Barbara. Author of The Secular Paradox (NYU 2022). Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Book under contract with W. W. Norton.
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
morgan + @spesincruce.bsky.social minister | PhD candidate (University of Toronto) | seminary prof (I guess?) | Barth/God the Father | he/him | 🇨🇦 | 🏳️🌈
Lily Hirsch @lilyehirsch.bsky.social Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.
Nick Taylor @nickttaylor.bsky.social Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Ian Larson, PhD @socialvideogame.bsky.social PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.