Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social PI + parent = professional cat-herder • inclusiveness • he/him • studying both brain health and communication at Northeastern University
Textbook: The Neuroscience of Language (Cambridge University Press)
http://jonathanpeelle.net
Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social WFMU DJ, writer (The Wire, Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.), bassist, photographer, amateur linguist. Founder, Brooklyn Psychogeographical Association.
Web: davidmandl.com
Instagram: @dmandl
Playlists from my radio show: https://wfmu.org/playlists/GX
Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social quasar gazer | science & education policy wonk | prof. of physics & astronomy at a public liberal arts college | Illinoisan
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social NEW BOOK! Graphic Design for Board Games: https://www.routledge.com/Graphic-Design-for-Board-Games/Solis/p/book/9781032583365
Portfolio https://www.danielsolisgames.com
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/danielsolis
More https://linktr.ee/danielsolisdesign
Sonic Field @sonicfield.bsky.social Sound, listening, and audio.
🐚 sonicfield.org
🪷 listening.md
Tommaso Sabbatini @tommsabb.bsky.social Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
poe @poestiche.bsky.social sonic histories | museums | queer/trans/disability studies | CUNY alum (PhD '26) | 📍 WMass | views mine or my cat's
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art – tenacity – democracy
Writer. Strategy and policy, Test Pattern. Curator, Frameworks for Practice. Adj Industry Prof, RMIT. Cultural Policy, NIDA. Council, National Museum of Australia. CoChair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
Katie Reed @katiereedwrites.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, movie lover, part-time sewist.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
arr @arr.bsky.social 
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Toby Seay @jtseay67.bsky.social PhD, Music Production Studies, MLIS, Archival Studies, Professor, @DrexelUniv | Engineering practice, sonic signatures, aesthetics, recorded artifacts | Recording engineer, consultant, audio preservationist, former president @IASA, former chair @CCAAA
dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨
music/cultural historian at the University of Florida🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉
she/her 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social Writer | Presenter | Historian
I write about music, women's history & cultural history.
QUARTET out now at https://linktr.ee/leahbroadwriter
Substack: http://leahbroad.substack.com
Website: http://leahbroad.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahbroad
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social Ex-liontamer, writer/editor/strategist.
I used to work for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles.
I also host sometimes at Kottke.org.
Call me he/him.
PHL.
Everything changes; don’t be afraid.
https://timcarmody.com
The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social SUBSCRIBE to The Fabulist Magazine: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror & Beyond. Bimonthly, full color and in glorious PRINT! https://fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-subscription/
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
——FREE PALESTINE——
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.com/
Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social Associate Prof., English & Gender/Sexuality Studies @ Siena U. Clarinetist. Author of Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature (SUNY Press, 2024). All views my own.
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley & InterpretAI
Editor of the Artificial Humanities series
www.ninabegus.com
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 12/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Ziv Epstein @ziv-e.bsky.social Postdoc at MIT College of Computing • PhD from MIT Media Lab • Creativity, values and (more-than-)human-centered design
Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.
Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet
Assistant prof @ UChicago
She/her
Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com Music theory prof, timbre, the Yamaha DX7, 80s, pop music, teaching, cats, food, crosswords, complaining about NYT Spelling Bee, knitting. DC area. she/her
Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social Writer, recovering music critic. 
Dr. Melissa Dunphy @mormolyke.com Composer, citizen archaeologist, ethnically ambiguous Australian-American.
Avalon Zoe (A.Z.) Madonna @knitandlisten.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood music writer. I lost on Jeopardy. I smell in color, and am easily distracted by cats.
Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030). 
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Moira Weigel @moiraweigel.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Harvard | Mom, writer, 老外
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social Machine learning prof at U Toronto. Working on evals and AGI governance.
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey
gracekind.net
Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social Music historian at UMass Amherst | bit.ly/evanmaccarthy
Frank Lehman @franklehman.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Music, Tufts University | Music Theory, Film Music, John Williams | Author, Hollywood Harmony (OUP 2018) | Ed. Film Music Analysis (Routledge 2024) | Articles in NYT, WaPo | Currently Wrting The Skywalker Symphonies (OUP forthcoming)
Angelica Frey @angelicafrey.bsky.social Writer for hire: design (digital+physical) visual culture, music, and fashion when needed.
www.angelicafrey.com
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social Musicologist & cultural historian | Assoc. Prof of Music
@tcddublin | General Editor: New Cambridge Music Handbooks | Current research 19C women composers
Danielle Fosler-Lussier @dfosler.bsky.social Director, Imagined Futures initiative at Ohio State, for grad students finding rewarding careers in many lines of work. Musicology, global history, diplomatic history, women's history. She/her. Opinions my own. Repost ≠ endorsement.
Eric Drott @ericdrott.bsky.social 
Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy
Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
Jeffers Engelhardt @jengelhardt.bsky.social Come for the: music & sound studies, Amherst College, Yale Journal of Music & Religion. Stay for the: family pics, Western Mass, Eesti asjad.
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
Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed
Olivia Bloechl @livbloechl.bsky.social Musicologist, keyboardist, lute player, tanguera, sewist, mad witchy gardener, Wisco grrl, neurodivergent, queer af. She/her
Nick Tochka @nicktochka.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, creative nonfiction. Eastern Europe / Albania, United States, and Multicultural Australia.
Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL. Out now in affordable paperback!
vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
@chriswmwhite.bsky.social @chriswmwhite.bsky.social Music theorist & autism dad. Forthcoming book= The AI Music Problem, Routledge. Sometimes in Slate and the Chicago Tribune.
The last King of Rome.
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Hilary Poriss @hilaryporiss.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Northeastern University. Scholar of #opera and #divas. Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (OUP 2021). I also make a mean chocolate chip cookie.
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Rebecca Fiebrink @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social Creative AI / creative computing @ University of the Arts London. https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/1594-rebecca-fiebrink
Creator of https://www.wekinator.org/ for creative interactive supervised learning.
I like food too.
Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social musicologist at the University of Delaware, citizen of West Philly.
Current:
•McCarthyism in the Music Industry, 1945-1960
•Performance and History in the Semiquincentennial
Past:
•What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity (Oxford, 2017).
SLSA - Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts @litsciarts.org An interdisciplinary society of scholars & artists sharing an interest in the cultural & social dimensions of science & technology.
More at https://litsciarts.org/
The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group @lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com Established in 2016, we are a community for queer music scholars. Acct mod @shlomitsofer.bsky.social www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com
RNCM Research @rncmresearch.bsky.social Research at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, UK) asks fundamental questions regarding the nature of music and musicianship in the 21st century.
Website: www.rncm.ac.uk/research
Research Portal: research.rncm.ac.uk
Doug Shadle @dougshadle.bsky.social Musicologist 
Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social PINE Lab PI @ Northeastern, HAPPE EEG software creator, neuroscientist exploring how experiences shape brain & behavior development. Loves cheese. She/her
https://www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/
https://github.com/PINE-Lab/HAPPE
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social thinking about the work needed to make paper work as paperwork; histories of the passport and filing cabinet https://bit.ly/2RMo1Qa; from Aotearoa; part-time Chris Knox biographer
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Alex Cowan @alexcowan.bsky.social Musicologist, UChicago. British/American. Guitar hoarder. Writing on music and eugenics. Ask me about my transatlantic accent.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Vincent Lostanlen @lostanlen.bsky.social Scientist at CNRS.
https://audio.ls2n.fr
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social law professor teaching & writing about trademark, false advertising, IP, & entertainment law at northeastern 
CLIC Center @ Northeastern @clicatnusl.bsky.social Center for Law, Information and Creativity @ Northeastern University School of Law
Boston, MA
Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of music history at Wayne State University. 19th/20th-century France, sound studies, histories of (sight)reading, street music. Author, Fanfare for a City (UC Press, 2024). Non-ac words in Exacting Clam, Gargoyle, Argyle, Flame Literary
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
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Audrey Troutt @auditty.bsky.social Startup CTO in #philly passionate about clean code, vibrant communities, and continuous learning. She/her @auditty@hachyderm.io and @auditty 
Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social Professor in Design Engineering and Music, Imperial College London. Researcher, composer, violist, engineer, instrument designer.
Leader of the Augmented Instruments Laboratory instrumentslab.org.
Co-founder and director of Bela.io.
Rébecca Kleinberger @rebeccakleinberger.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Northeastern
Affiliate @ MIT, Harvard | prev: Media Lab, Microsoft
Topics: HCI, Animal Computer Interaction, Voice Tech
Director INTERACT Animal Lab
https://www.interactanimallab.com
Elizabeth Margulis @margulisa.bsky.social Music Cognition Lab @ Princeton
Katherine Leo @kmleo.bsky.social Forensic Musicology | jazz & commercial pop | Ph.D., J.D., Assoc. Prof. ethno/musicology, Millikin University | cellist | pugs
Ritwik Banerji @ritwikb.bsky.social experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, Midwest grilling dad (MGD), deep in the heart of #postglacial America- H @hubertho.bsky.social @hubertho.bsky.social
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
Laura Forlano @laura4lano.bsky.social Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social The internet's friendliest banshee, PhD.
The Werner Herzog of dynamic systems neuroscience.
Occasional Gàidhlig, constant shouting.
Researching how the brain adapts to neurodegeneration using music.
She/her.