Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social Nature geek, feminist, board game designer (Wingspan 🪶, Tussie Mussie 💐, Mariposas 🦋, The Fox Experiment 🦊, Picky Pixie 🧚♀️, Undergrove 🍄, and Sanibel 🐚).
https://www.elizhargrave.com/
College of Media at Illinois @mediaatillinois.bsky.social 
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Daniel Evans @djevans.bsky.social Building and studying large-scale historical datasets. Interested in newspaper archives, information retrieval, data reuse, & book / information history.
https://danieljohnevans.github.io/
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
AAUP @ UIUC @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social We are the AAUP chapter at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more: https://aaup-ui.org/home
Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social Bakshi Art and Animation. Run by Ralph and Eddie Bakshi. Animation art shop: https://www.ebay.com/str/bakshianimationart
Website: www.bakshistudio.com
What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
Https://www.johndickerson.com
Caetlin Benson-Allott @caetlin.bsky.social Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, marathon runner, shih tzu fanatic. If you're looking for more info, check me out at www.benson-allott.com 
Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Texas Congressman. Democrat. Born, raised and represent San Antonio.
Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) + Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC).
Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social Host of NPR's Bullseye, Judge John Hodgman and Jordan Jesse Go. Founder and worker-owner of Maximum Fun. Four-time professional actor.
“Still bringin’ satin for them draws, velvet for the mic and got a pound for the cause.”
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Angela Aguayo @djang.bsky.social Author of Documentary Resistance (Oxford University Press), documentary maker, professor of media, communication and culture. Specialist in participatory and engaged cinema.
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures @ UIUC @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social Spurlock creates space for people to learn, collaborate, & build connections. We care for & share cultural collections, provide opportunities for engaging experiences, foster compassion & empathy, amplify community voices, & inspire further exploration.
Michael Phillips @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social Past: Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, etc.
Present: Host and co-producer, “The Movie Racket,” part of the “Filmspotting” podcast commune; announcer, Classical WFMT Chicago, and weekly WFMT
“Soundtrack” contributor.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Misha Mihailova @mihailova.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. President of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research: animated media, AI, vfx, video games. Latest: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/67/2/111/8719517
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Illinois Public Media @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social Educating, informing, and inspiring communities through the power of public media. Heard, seen, and experienced on WILL-AM, FM, TV, Illinois Soul, and beyond!
📍 Based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
🌍 Serving central Illinois and more!
The University of Illinois System @uofilsystem.bsky.social Three universities, one system. #AltogetherExtraordinary
Veronika Hanakova @veronikahanakova.bsky.social AV essayist exploring New Media & Digital Culture ~ Media Archaeology ~ Researcher of gimmicky artifacts: from Star Wipe to my latest obsession the DVD ~ Member of Grassroots of Digital Europe ~ Curator for Marienbad Film Festival & Artycok.TV
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social Avid flyfisher & lover of penguins. James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (retired); Founding Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition, and Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality.
Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
courtney m. cox @courtmcox.bsky.social sports prof | wine student | author of double crossover: gender, media, and politics in global basketball (may 2025) | formerly: espn, kpcc, la sparks
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social Actor, collectible, Planetary Society Board Member and AI since the 90s .
Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov U.S. Representative for IL-13. Proud to serve the people of Central & Southern IL. New Democrat Coalition's Vice Chair for Policy.
Monica R. Sandler @monica-sandler.bsky.social Professor at Ball State University, PhD in Cinema & Media Studies from UCLA, Academy Awards and Award Season Historian.
Pate Duncan @pateduncan.bsky.social PhD student in Film Studies at UW–Madison 🪤
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio.
https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org Maybe the real treasure was the citations we made along the way.
donate.wikipedia25.org
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
@victor-long.bsky.social @victor-long.bsky.social 
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social Author of Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations | Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Director of Film Studies Concentration at the University of Virginia
Transgender Media Portal @transmediaportl.bsky.social Discover films, videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/ Director: @laurah.bsky.social Check out our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/transgendermediaportal
Louis Pelletier @pelletieroscope.bsky.social 
Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social Official page of the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of @SCMStudies. Sign up for our newsletter 'Nontheatrical News’ by emailing: nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Adam Ragusea @aragusea.bsky.social Fading youtube starlet
Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi Star Trek podcast host @greatesttrek.com, fart joke enjoyer, embarrassing dad, one half of a Star Wars character. E-40 enthusiast. Tougher than a $3 steak. Benjaminahr.mobi
Profile photo by Dennys Ilic.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Benji @benji-thurber.bsky.social 
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own. 
Kyra Hunting @kohunting.bsky.social Associate Professor at UKY. Children's media scholar, also moonlighting in fandom. Mom of a neurodivergent elementary schooler and general chaser of joy.
Heather Hendershot @profhendershot.bsky.social Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!
Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social Film critic (thefilmverdict.com) Podcaster (linoleumcast.bsky.social bfastallday.bsky.social maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social deckthehallmark.bsky.social) Member, LAFCA & NSFC. Books: HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE XMAS, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE. he/him🌹🏳️🌈🎄📽
Colin Tait, Ph. D. 🇨🇦 @rcolintait.bsky.social Film and Television Historian - Senior Cataloger Heritage Auctions, Pop Culture Division. Proud Canuck Living in the US.
Mike Birbiglia @birbigs.bsky.social comedian, bluesky early adapter
Doug Jones @actordougjones.bsky.social Yes, that same Doug Jones from Hocus Pocus, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape Of Water, F4: Silver Surfer, Star Trek Discovery, What We Do In The Shadows cameo.com/actordougjones
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Cael M Keegan @caelkeegan.bsky.social Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Bard energy. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
Anirban Mukhopadhyay @anirban009.bsky.social Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign;
Media History, Media Policy, Radio, Social Movements, Postcolonial theory, Critical AI
Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Paul S Moore @psmoore.bsky.social Media Historian. Toronto Metropolitan Univ. CoAuthor: The Sunday Paper @UIllinoisPress. Hollywood Publicity | Canadian movie-going & cinemas (he/him)
The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Web: https://homernetwork.org/
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.social We don't work for Turner Classic Movies, but we do live-tweet their films as they air #SaveTCM
Flow @flowtv.bsky.social Coordinated by Radio-TV-Film graduate students at UT Austin, Flow Journal's mission is to provide a critical forum on the changing landscape of contemporary television and media.
www.flowjournal.org
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Lisa Bode @lisabode.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, UQ. Author of Making Believe: screen performance and special effects in popular cinema (Rutgers UP, 2017). interests: film and technology history; AI aesthetics and culture; silent cinema; animals, food
Evelyn Kreutzer @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social Film/media scholar, video essay maker, feminist
www.evelynkreutzer.com
Postdoc at USI Lugano
Previously at Film University Babelsberg
PhD from Northwestern University
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Christopher Sieving @soulburger26.bsky.social Minnesota person, cinema scholar, author of Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (Indiana University Press, 2022), impostor.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Kathy Fuller-Seeley @kathyfs.bsky.social loves silent film, Jack Benny, good jokes, and cats
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social Professor, Media historian, New Yorker, author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television.
UT Press Journals @utpressjournals.bsky.social Scholarly publisher of academic journals for the University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/our-journals/
Ben Model @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social silent film accompanist-historian-presenter; Undercrank Prods. home video; archivist of Ernie Kovacs television collection
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
David McGowan @animatedstardom.bsky.social Author of Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, out now from University of Texas Press. Reseach interests include animation, classic Hollywood, stardom, & home video/streaming. Lecturer at UAL. Views my own.
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).