John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social Classicist, Buffalonian, Boston native, US and Irish citizen. Posts mostly about my dog, travel, food, drink, and unwise fitness activities. aetate iam adfectus, sed tamen exercitatione robustus.
Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Psychology @BrandeisU. Internalizing psychopathology, stress and cognition. Open science.
https://www.brandeis.edu/psychology/cope-lab/
Richard Cohen @richardcohen.bsky.social Writer, muser, cynic. The man behind WNBAlien, currently seen at @herhoopstats.com and various other portals over the years. Occasionally considered knowledgeable about WNBA CBA and salary matters. Views are my own. He/him.
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
WNBA @wnba.com The official account for the WNBA
https://tr.ee/HEwbJA1hq6
Lea Beness @leabeness.bsky.social Honorary Assoc. Prof. in Roman History, Lefty, Feminist, Dog Lover, Regularly Romesick. She/her. All views her own.
Erin Foley @erinfoleycomic.bsky.social Stand-up comic, host/creator of Herlights - a women's sports podcast, TV writer, dog mom, lesbian 🏳️🌈, https://erinkfoley.com/
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
Penguins Against Trump @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social @penguinsagainsttrump on Threads
Andy Fletcher @andyfletcher90.bsky.social Roman history nerd, especially the late Republic. Currently working on an audio drama about the second triumvirate. Most of the time I'm a musician.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Jen Gerrish @garishgerrish.bsky.social Books, baking, bats
Caesar and Sallust person figuring out how hard to dissociate for the next 4+ years
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social 🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social Lots of former stuff including US Senator from MO, professional grandmother to 16, baker and political analyst MS NOW
Jordan Pickett @jordantpickett.bsky.social Roman and Byzantine Archaeology from Athens GA.
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Diana Spencer @dianajspencer.bsky.social Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
@petesouza.bsky.social @petesouza.bsky.social
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Obviously not THE Home Plate Lady @homeplatelady.bsky.social Scarves. Style. Snark.
The original.
No flinching.
Dr Consuelo Martino @cmart05.bsky.social Cultural Historian of Leadership, Autocracy and Civil War in the Roman Empire; interested in all things about Caesar~ Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Uni of Edinburgh ~ she/her ~ all views my own
CAC - SCÉC @cacscec.bsky.social Le fil Bluesky de la société canadienne des études classiques / Bluesky feed of the Classical Association of Canada.
http://cac-scec.ca
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it!
Classics /Ancient World feed:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lyrmsmhhg7vzz4ghj44y5xzq/feed/7cb2f06b13c0
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
Rachel C. Morrison @rachelconstance.bsky.social Classics postdoc | she/her | Roman letters | early American classical reception | themed cocktails | Oscars predictions | personal assistant to a very small corgi
Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social Art History & Museum Studies Prof. Ancient Rome, object biography, epistemology, museums, display, looting, provenance, forgery.
Cottontop Mary @cottontopmary.bsky.social GenJones /Love Outdoors &Nature/Cats🐈Dogs🐕Beekeeper🐝Chicken Lady🐓🌱Gardener zone 6a🌱Old Quaker Hippie Tree Hugger &Women’s Rights Protestor ☮️Threads @cottontop_mary 💙
Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.
Blue Jays Magic Number @bjmagicnumber.bsky.social Counting down the magic number for the Blue Jays to clinch the AL East; because it's never too early to hope for the playoffs
Andrew Connor @andrewconnor.bsky.social Ancient historian and papyrologist, interested in religions and Romans in Egypt. Wrote "Confiscation and Coexistence: Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus" (from University of Michigan Press).
Walter Scheidel @walterscheidel.bsky.social Historian @ Stanford | https://sites.google.com/view/walterscheidel/home
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta @platanoclassics.bsky.social He/his. Dominican Diaspora classicist. Undocumented (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions (Princeton 2020); Rome, Empire of Plunder (CUP 2017) and Making the Middle Republic (CUP 2023). Father of Boots the Corgi (rip) + Romulus and Remus.
Evan Jewell @quidamabo.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University - Camden. Roman history, epigraphy, archaeology inter alia. Views are my own. He/him.
Estelle Strazdins @drestellestrazdins.bsky.social Cultural Historian, Choromancer, Gallivantrix
Lecturer in Classics, ANU. she/αὐτή/ea; views own.
Seth Bernard @profbernard.bsky.social Romanist who has just left the empire, prof at U of Toronto
Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics at Warwick, Numismatist, Tokenista. she/her
Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics (Roman History) @Durham_Classics. Latin inscriptions & the ancient world by day. Rome, dogs, wine & friends by all other means.
Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social Latin literature and Roman history. Problematically keen on the humanist tradition. he/him
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Hannah Cornwell @hannahecornwell.bsky.social Roman historian, sometime (historically) archaeologist, occasional seamstress & baker.
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Jane Sancinito @janesancinito.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Liv Mariah Yarrow (will not "cheat like hell") @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
Dr Penny Goodman @pjgoodman.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Roman history. Appreciator of the Gothic. Lib Dem. She / her.
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Blanka Misic @drblankam.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @viennacogscihub.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow @univie.ac.at
Researching Roman religion through cognitive science of religion approaches.
New book on Roman rituals from @cambridgeup.bsky.social - https://bit.ly/44orx2D
Claude Eilers @claudeeilers.bsky.social McMaster Classics. Roman history, Greek epigraphy, card tricks, and show tunes
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Nicole Giannella @tiamopatata.bsky.social assistant professor of classics | slavery and law | minor seneca obsession
Zach Herz @zacharyherz.bsky.social Rural jurist at the University of Colorado. All opinions yours.
Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
David J. DeVore @devoretext.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
@lykanthea.bsky.social @lykanthea.bsky.social history buff
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Dorothy Snarker @dorothysnarker.bsky.social Misanthropic, but in a nice way. Bylines Autostraddle, The Hollywood Reporter, old (not current) AfterEllen. Words daily at Dorothy Surrenders. She/Her/Snarker.
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
James Kruck, PhD @jameskruck.bsky.social Trained in Classics, now focused on learning experiences. Manager, Applied Research at the Ivey Business School at Western University.
website: jameskruck.com
Steven Ellis @stevenellis.bsky.social Roman archaeologist.
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social Professor of Classics at Nottingham, writing, cats, brass banding, flowers. Power of Sadness, Latin Epic, Argonauts crossing. She/they. Legally blind
sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social Queer Classicist| Prof of Latin, accidental poet| Ovid, Housman & Catullus fan, not necessarily in that order| also, bunny rabbits. 🏳️🌈
A. Godfrey @oldandsurly.bsky.social Cataloguing librarian. I’m obsessed with Detroit Lions football, literacy, books and reading,and municipal/provincial politics. Oh, and dogs too. 🦁💙🩶🏳️🌈📚- M Mindy Blinkhorn @mindyb.bsky.social
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social Roman archaeologist (archaic central Italy, domestic religion, Pompeii), Adjunct Prof @ Xavier, UMass Amherst/Tufts/Cincinnati.
Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social All Cicero memes WILL be reposted. Views are mine, not my employer's.
Cait Mongrain @caitmongrain.bsky.social Classics PhD @Princeton, MA, BA @Texas Tech | Flavian cultural history, occasional baking, sundry animal rescue | she/her
Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; deacon in the C of E; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys curator.
The Golden Ratio @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social Special needs rescue goldens Guacamole, Remoulade, Feta, Gorgonzola, Mozzarella 😇Maggie, Riley, Queso, Jasmine, Swizzle, St.Patrick, Parmesan, Manchego, Voodoo, Hopper, Venkman, Chief Brody
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
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
Chris Kraus @chriskraus.bsky.social New Englander. Follows Bowie, old book covers, pressed glass, and other classics. Not the novelist, alas.
Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social