Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Profile Books 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Tracy Simmons @reportertracy.bsky.social Founder & Executive Director of FāVS News, a nonprofit newsroom covering religion, ethics, and communities across the Greater Northwest. Journalism professor at Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. 🚴
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social I promote books at Duke University Press. Reader, cat lover, messy cook and lazy gardener. Will plunge into any nearby body of water.
S. Piper Booker @spiperbooker.bsky.social MA Public History
MLIS Archives Management
B.A Religious Studies
Cat Lover x 10
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
T.O. @topsurgerystigmata.bsky.social Deacon Candidate for the ELCA who loves coffee and talking about God. Believes storytelling and media literacy is how we tear down empire. Read my stuff here: https://patreon.com/TopSurgeryStigmata
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Secularism & Nonreligion @s-n-journal.bsky.social Secularism and Nonreligion is the world's first journal dedicated to the investigation of secularism and nonreligion in all forms.
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
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Co-director, Religion and State Project
Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements
New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
Kareem El Damanhoury @kareemeldamanhoury.bsky.social Multimedia Journalism & Digital Storytelling Professor, Uni of Denver | Emmy-award winning Journo & Producer, CNN | News Junkie & E-E enthusiast | 2xIronman 70.3
www.keldamanhoury.com
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social Online presence for academics | Website Design, Social Media, Bio Writing
The Social Academic blog and podcast 🎙🎧
https://TheAcademicDesigner.com/
Peruvian-American poet ✨️ https://JenniferVanAlstyne.com
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.
David Evans @forthepoor.bsky.social professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Tuomas Äystö @aystotuomas.eurosky.social Associate Professor (Docent) and University Lecturer, Study of Religion, Uni Helsinki. Co-editor of Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fi&user=0NxHFoEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Lia Merivaki_Ph.D. @liamerivaki.bsky.social Election science, info integrity, AI & Democracy, Public Policy. Director of Foley Institute @ Wazzu.
US Elections team @ The Carter Center.
Non-resident fellow @ Center for Democracy & Technology.
Team #voteredu 🗳️😷🇬🇷 🇺🇲
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
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.
Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip. 
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Kelly Besecke, Bookmark Editing @kellybesecke.bsky.social I help scholars in the qualitative social sciences make their manuscripts clear, compelling, and reader-friendly. Author of You Can't Put God in a Box: Thoughtful Spirituality in a Rational Age. Carleton, UW-Madison, Austin
http://www.bookmarkediting.com
This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social ✍🏽 NYT bestselling author | Historian
📖 Faith, justice, religion
✨ Follow JemarTisby.Substack.com for personal insights & history that matters
The Convocation Unscripted @convocation.bsky.social The Convocation Unscripted is a joint project of Diana Butler Bass, Kristin Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, and Robert P. Jones. Follow us for updates from The Convocation Unscripted Substack magazine, YouTube channel, and podcast.
https://convocation.substack.com/ 
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
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Langston Blues @dradambanks.bsky.social Committed teacher, midnight believer, solo soul. Still a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Here for all things Donny Hathaway, Deep Space Nine, Patrice Rushen and Futurama. And for general smart stuff, foolishness and irreverence.
Cleveland + Bay Area
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Ken Carter @drkencarter.bsky.social Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology @emoryoxford @emoryuniversity
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Maggie Goldberger @suburbangothix.bsky.social PhD Student in American Religions UChicago
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Dr Orson Nava @orsonnava.bsky.social Filmmaker, lecturer and research academic. Associate professor at Ravensbourne University. Focus on film practice as research, ‘race’ and the creative city and the social impact of emerging technologies.
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
RelBib @relbib.bsky.social RelBib - Bibliography of the Study of Religion.
Official account of the Specialized Information Service for the Study of Religion.
#FID #Religionswissenschaft
https://relbib.de/Content/Impressum
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️ 
Joshua Paddison @jpaddison.bsky.social Historian of religion, race, North American Wests. My new book is Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California's First Cult Scare: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/unholy-sensations-9780197775325
mike altman @miketheprofessor.bsky.social co-host of Cult Favorite podcast about cult documentaries, professor of religious studies, writing about pro wrestling, kayfabe, and society
Arvind Singh @arvindsingh55.bsky.social Over 10+ years in Library, Information Management and Privacy roles. Master's in Library and Information Sciences and Master's in Education. Interested in social justice, the environment and philosophy of life. Advocate for Evidence-Based Politics.
Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Redistricting, voting rights, elections. From Texas.
Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own. 
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
David Morris @davidrmorris.bsky.social publisher LakeDriveBooks.com | literary agent Hyponymous.com | author Lost Faith and Wandering Souls | GenXer | PhD | Michigan
Samira K. Mehta @samirakmehta.bsky.social Scholar of American religion, especially American Judaism, focusing on Religion and Reproductive Politics in the US, Interfaith Families, Jews of Color. Knitter, cellist. Dogs and cats, living together!
Michael Baysa @mbaysa.bsky.social Religion, Media Technologies, and Early America, teaching at the University of Vermont, PhD in American Religions from Princeton University
technomusicologist @ravimusic.bsky.social Composer/Sound Designer, Musicologist/Ethnomusicologist, Guitarist and Educator. PHD Candidate Brown University, Visiting Prof Amherst College and Vermont College of Fine Arts. NYC's Johnny Marr at Smithstribute.com
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
bmcgil @bmcgil.bsky.social No pasarán.
🇮🇪🏳️🌈 he/him
español 🇨🇴 português 🇧🇷 english
Massachusetts
Dain Alexander Smith, PhD @biblegeekphd.bsky.social Dain Alexander Smith (he/him), PhD in New Testament, focuses on Pauline lit, Imperialism, Postcolonialism, Hermeneutic Theories, also ordained in the DoC. Check out my YouTube channel, Bible Geek: https://youtube.com/@biblegeekphd?si=_AXOTAVQA0FXW3bj
Michiel de Lange @mdelange.bsky.social Associate Professor New Media at Utrecht University | digital media and urban culture | [urban interfaces] | The Mobile City | ‘Inclusion in the datafied city’
| http://blog.bijt.org | https://www.uu.nl/staff/MLdeLange
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Brady | United Against Gun Violence @bradyunited.org We are uniting Americans from coast to coast, red and blue and every color, to end gun violence. Led by @KrisBrown.bradyunited.org.
Paid Leave for All @paidleaveforall.bsky.social Paid Leave for All is the national campaign of the organizations leading the fight for paid family and medical leave for all working people. #PaidLeaveForAll
National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org We're the National Women's Law Center, and we've been fighting for gender justice for over 50 years. Take action with us: Text NWLC to 32434!
Learn more: www.nwlc.org
The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social Confronting the true drivers of America's affordability crisis. Advancing bold solutions to lower costs. Policy for people—not powerful interests. tcf.org
Planned Parenthood Action Fund @ppact.org This channel is paid for in part by Planned Parenthood Votes, 123 William St., NY NY 10038. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
Planned Parenthood @ppfa.org Hi! We’re America’s most trusted provider of sexual and reproductive health care education, and we think we look pretty good for over 100 years old.
www.plannedparenthood.org & linktr.ee/PlannedParenthood
Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social Ensuring political appointees serve the public interest.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/
Read more of our work at http://revolvingdoorproject.substack.com and http://hackwatch.us
Follow:
Twitter/Post @RevolvingDoorDC
FB/IG: RevolvingDoorProject
Economic Policy Institute @epi.org The working people's think tank for 40 years. Nonprofit + nonpartisan, we use the tools of economics to defend & promote workers' interests in economic policy discussions.
epi.org
Newsletter: epi.org/signup/
Federal Policy Watch: epi.org/policywatch
Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org We’re America’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization. We proudly fight for a world where equality wins at home, school, work, and every community.
National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social 
Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org Advancing ideas that rebalance power in our economy and democracy. www.rooseveltinstitute.org
Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org Formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America. Reproductive Freedom for All is our demand, our mission, and our vision for the future.
AFL-CIO @aflcio.org America's Labor Unions, representing nearly 15 million members across the country.
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
linktr.ee/workingfamilies
Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/center-for-american-progress-1
CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org Holding our leaders accountable and fighting alongside @americanprogress.bsky.social to improve the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive policies.
linktr.ee/fightforprogress
LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org Building political power to protect people and the planet since 1970. Because our Earth is worth fighting for. lcv.org
Text LCV to 278-652 🌎
MomsRising @momsrising.org A movement of 1M+ people rising for all families to thrive. All content from MomsRising Together 501c4 social welfare org unless otherwise stated. Home of the #MomSky: Truth. Action. Care.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
MoveOn @moveon.org Take action with millions across the country to build an America where everyone can thrive. Join the movement: tap.bio/@moveon
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media leverages technology to democratize history.
https://rrchnm.org/
Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social Deputy director of Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. Films at the Whitney, Whitney Publishing Project. Books, poetry, democracy, dogs, supporting scholars and their work. Erstwhile dix-huitiémiste. Also: Utah adjacent.
Tazeen M. Ali @tazeenmali.bsky.social scholar of islam & gender in the US • currently writing on US & UK Muslims on TV • author of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority & Community in US Islam NYUP • she/her • views are my own
Burke Gerstenschlager @bleaktheology.bsky.social Finishing “Tears in Their Eyes: Joy Division as Theological Lamentation”. Former academic book editor. Religion & culture writer. Kierkegaardian. Antifascist. UT Austin Classics BA. YDS MDiv. Lutherpalian. Your post-punk counterweight to joy in Brooklyn.
David G. Robertson @davidgrobertson.bsky.social 
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Shayna Sheinfeld @shaynasheinfeld.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion. Research: Ancient Judaism & Christianity; Gender; Apocalypse; Pop Culture. Jew. She/her.
SATAN @sundayschoolsatan.bsky.social Substitute Sunday school teacher sharing stuff your pastor learned at Christian Seminary. Animated documentary free on YouTube. No book needed.
https://youtu.be/z8j3HvmgpYc?si=bNrxUnq3gqJwLpOt
Dr. Jon Sawyer @jonsawyer.org Ph.D. | Visiting Assistant Professor (Clinical) at the University of Alabama (2027-2029) | Social & Cultural Studies in Education
Dr. Amanda Roberts @toriamosephemera.bsky.social English and Gender Studies instructor at NIU. Dissertation: Tori Amos and Third-wave Feminism
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition. Into infrastructure, sensation, habits of attention, and my dog.
Jen Grace Stewart @jengracestewart.bsky.social Poet, Boymom &
Asst. Teaching Professor @ CU Boulder
Book: Madonna, Complex @wipfandstock
Chap: Latch @riverglassbooks
Recent Poems: @westtrestle @amethyst review @psaltery&lyre
Jason Van Tatenhove @jasonvantat.bsky.social Author, journalist, columnist. Exploring extremism, tech, and resilience. Writing from the mountains of Colorado.
https://www.coloradoswitchblade.com
Author of The Perils of Extremism and AI Ink. - Writing…Publishing and Misinformation at the Dawn of AI
Lukas R.A. Wilde @lukasrawilde.bsky.social Media Studies, Comic Studies, Visual Semiotics - NTNU Trondheim
Connor Kenaston @cskenaston.bsky.social Historian of the modern US | Writing a book about religion and radio in the American century | Assistant History Prof at Randolph College | PhD @UVA | BA @Yale | WV roots | he/him/his
The Society Pages @thesocietypages.bsky.social A social science hub putting news in context.
https://thesocietypages.org/
SocImages @socimages.bsky.social Inspiring sociological imaginations everywhere! Member of The Society Pages. Posts & Editing by Evan Stewart (@evanstewart.bsky.social). Founded by Lisa Wade & Gwen Sharp.
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
First Publics @firstpublics.bsky.social Registration link for the upcoming webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xz4r2HsUSemi5RtyxVfQtw#/registration