Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social Feminist/white/Jewish/parent/writer. Solidarity is action (Mia McKenzie). Courage then action then hope. Interested in trauma. I write songs and stuff sometimes. (Like ptsdthemusical.net) I mostly curate and comment. Bike riding is the best fun. she/her
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org Award-winning nonprofit news site chronicling the #LongCOVID crisis. Founded by @BetsyLadyzhets.bsky.social & @MilesWGriffis.bsky.social
Website: thesicktimes.org
Newsletter: thesicktimes.org/newsletter
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Melissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social Writer & journalist. 📚Disability Intimacy, Body Language. Founding editor, Hyphen. Writing about immigrant communities, Asian America, culture, food, disability & more. melissahung.xyz
Carly Findlay OAM @carlyfindlay.bsky.social ⭐️ Writer ⭐️ Speaker ⭐️ Arts worker ⭐️ Appearance Activist ⭐️ Cheese lover ⭐️ Rollerskater ⭐️ Feeling fucking fabulous⭐️ CarlyFindlay.com.au
Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social Teaching Constitutional studies, poli sci, political theory, US history topics in Virginia. Own views & comments, these don't reflect my institutional affiliations. Husband / cat person / Madisonian / Lincolnite / Trekkie / strategy gamer / metalhead.
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol
📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru
📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/
Views my own
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Disability Policy Foundry @disabilitypolicy.bsky.social Produce Policy. Build Power.
The Disability Policy Foundry aims to democratize policy research, writing, and publication. Disabled people are already making policy change. We give them a platform to amplify their ideas.
www.disabilitypolicyfoundry.org
@luis01.bsky.social @luis01.bsky.social QMU Psychology and sociology graduate 🎓 @StirlingUniCrim Msc graduate. Aspiring social researcher. Passionate about creative research methods. Substack -
Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. https://humaninformationprocessing.com/.
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
@joshkurlantzick.bsky.social @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social
Public Interest News Foundation @publicinterestnews.org.uk We believe that everyone in the UK should benefit from public interest news that speaks to them, for them and with them. 🗞️
We're building the capacity of the UK's independent news providers to do that.
Joe Shapiro @nprjoeshapiro.bsky.social NPR Correspondent/Investigations Unit, author of NO PITY: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. Contact: jshapiro@npr.org or (encrypted) Shapirojoe@proton.me
Rian Rietveld @rianrietveld.bsky.social Retired web accessibility specialist, growing veggies and flowers in my garden.
Working a few hours a day on accessibility documentation for WordPress users on wpaccessibility.org, sponsored by Kinsta, Human Made and Aiwos.
East Anglian Folklore Centre @shuckhappens.bsky.social
Essex @essex.bsky.social The original (& still the best) #Essex Bluesky account run by the Essex community - Latest news & views independent of any local authority or news outlet
#EssexAndProud
Jacques Balolage @ja34.bsky.social I'm a Global Youth Ambassador at @theirworld.Through storylines, reflections, and lived experience, I write about accessibility, inclusion, leadership, and human dignity
Julia Belluz @juliabelluz.bsky.social Health journalist, contributing opinion writer @nytimes Formerly @voxdotcom, @MIT Knight Fellow etc. Book: https://tinyurl.com/yx2kmsp4
Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Tiffany Watt Smith @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social 'Clever hair' - Guardian. Writer. SCHADENFREUDE; BOOK OF HUMAN EMOTIONS. New Book: BAD FRIEND: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIPS (UK; Faber, US Celadon) Coming Spring 2025
Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social Promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race & disability. Housed at UCLA School of Law. Reposts not endorsements. https://linktr.ee/crdjustice
Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece
who do you think you are? I am
she/her pronouns in bio, every time
🍉
Maria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social Personal ramblings on law & policy | Legal capacity, institutions, reproductive rights, human rights in healthcare | @InclusivePolicy | she/sí/í Migrant. Disabled. Aotearoa and Eire.
@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement
Blossom @teawithhb.com 🎠 Trying to make the world a better place teawithhb.com
🌸 Writer, Disability Advocate, Creator, Poet
🍊 Co-founder poetryorchard.com
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com
Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social 🔍 Persian Gulf and its Discontents
Khaleeji - خليجية
Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social Ras Beiruti journalist & writer
Senior Reporter in Beirut, Al Jazeera English
Non resident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy '25-'26
Journalist-in-residence, Orient-Institut Beirut '25
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social ERC project on #aesthetics #law & #ethics of assisted dying.
To participate in our archive on films, texts, & other media that influence debates around assisted dying
👉 https://assistedlab.ch/
Michael Hanna @mwhanna.crisisgroup.org Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social VP for Research @CIPolicy. Former @CenturyIntl.
Books: Iraq war (forthcoming), Once Upon a Revolution, Shia Power, Hezbollah, Hybrid Actors, Citizenship & Discontents.
Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social Environmental lawyer/locally notorious person. Bad Bunny 101 adjunct professor. Alexandria, Virginia.
Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Twenty-First Century Disability @21stcentdisability.bsky.social What if disability isn't the barrier? ♿️
Rethinking disability in the 21st century.
🎙️
Challenging assumptions. Breaking barriers.https://www.21stcenturydisability.com/
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2222428/episodes
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Clear Language Club @clearlanguage.club The Bluesky account of the blog and newsletter for people who love clear language. Follow to get new posts and updates here in your timeline. Published by freelance content designer, @iainbroome.com.
Join the club: clearlanguage.club
International Centre for Evidence in Disability, LSHTM @iced-lshtm.bsky.social The International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Follow us for disability and global health news.
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/international-centre-evidence-disability
Kerry Albright @kerryalbright.bsky.social Bluesky newbie! @ADB.org evaluation. Former Deputy Director-Evaluation @UNICEF.org. Proud evidence champion and knowledge broker for children, science and international development.
Lorenzo Desideri @lowish.bsky.social Research on assistive & emerging technologies, digital health, social innovation, social robotics, and AI to promote inclusion, autonomy, and mental health.
Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta @suzanneforbes.bsky.social Queer disabled MECFS (and Filth!) Elder in Berlin, housebound retired artist. Still respirator masking. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. Baby vegan. Location: Atlantis by Gaslight. She/her.
Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com Bog hag, platform & systems designer chasing tech that’s actually good for people. Proudly antifascist + neurodivergent 💙
Posts self-destruct.
Website: https://annaecook.com/
Newsletter: https://annaecook.com/newsletter
Josh Otten [Ordinary Things] @ordinarythings.bsky.social Ordinary Things YouTube Channel Proprietor
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
Vijay @vijaykt.bsky.social
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
www.scaachi.substack.com
scaachi.koul@slate.com
Lee Rockwood @queenieofrandom.bsky.social Bit of a geek. Front-end Developer and creative. Disabled spoonie. All opinions my own. She/her
@LeePearson_@mastodon.world
Threads _leeleep
#myositis #juvenileDermatomyositis
Disability Wales @disabilitywales.bsky.social The national membership body of Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) in Wales, striving for the rights of all disabled people.
Y corff aelodaeth cenedlaethol ar gyfer Sefydliadau Pobl Anabl yng Nghymru, sy’n ymdrechu dros hawliau pob person anabl.
Employment Policy @ilo-employment.bsky.social The International labour Organization's Employment Policy Department is responsible for promoting full and productive employment policies that are inclusive, gender sensitive and sustainable. Visit: https://www.ilo.org/employment
Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social Disability history's my thing.
https://www.tuni.fi/en/people/daniel-blackie
Disability in the Industrial Revolution (OA): https://tinyurl.com/yxv23zpk
Mercury Theatre Colchester @mercurytheatre.bsky.social The Mercury Theatre is the most active professional producing theatre in East Anglia staging drama, musicals, comedy and music. 🎭
shruti rajkumar @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social contributing writer @prismreports. formerly @huffpost.
they/them 🏳️🌈
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
@marianryan.bsky.social @marianryan.bsky.social Writer & editor waylaid in Berlin. Granta, NYT Well, Women's Review of Books, Slate, Southern Humanities Review, others. Memoir-ish-in-progress: Autobiography of My Brother. Here be disabled folk.
Beth Hawkins @bethhawkins.bsky.social National Correspondent, The 74 Million. I think a lot about great journalism, better schools, disrupting inequity, neurodiversity and all things LGBTQ. Tacos & craft cider.
Half my heart moved to Wisconsin, so also secret shopping creameries.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Katie Pennick @katiepennick.bsky.social Disability justice researcher/campaigner | PhD candidate @Active-ATA | 💭 crip theory, walking, accessible urbanism, transport. She/her.
Will Fertman @willfertman.com Father and author of The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual, available now from Bloomsbury Academic: https://is.gd/0FoT5z
All opinions are my own. More opinions at:
https://willfertman.com - https://buttondown.com/will_fertman
Deaf Killjoy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @deafkilljoy.bsky.social deafdisabled queer nerd. Stuff I do: history crip linguistics disability studies sign language deaf studies
GiannaMarie @giannamarie.bsky.social associate agent at Azantian Literary Agency, crip autistic book enthusiast, disabled sensitivity reader, ZiMi mask evangelist 😷
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Kamran @kamranmallick.bsky.social Advocating for an inclusive and just world | Driven by my lived experience
Zen @zen-browser.app Welcome to a calmer internet.
→ 🔗 http://zen-browser.app
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→ 📦 http://github.com/zen-browser
@bintelosood.bsky.social @bintelosood.bsky.social
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social Advice blogger, soon-to-be-author. You may remember me as CAwkward on that other site, but I have reclaimed my full title and powers! Here to make new internets to push the bad internets down.
OCD-UK @ocdukcharity.bsky.social Registered Charity (1103210) with a mission to show those affected by OCD that there's hope and that recovery is possible. Check our website at: https://www.ocduk.org
AAATE @aaate-net.bsky.social Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE): Our mission is to foster the role of Αssistive Τechnology (ΑΤ) and inclusive design to create a world where all people can equally enjoy their human rights.
Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social transformative justice. disability justice. abolition.
(she/her)
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
https://www.soiltjp.org
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a blind and gay romance writer that loves fiction podcasts, audiobooks, cookies, and cats! I follow more hashtags than people. Because I take frequent […]
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@jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social Working for Israeli-Palestinian peace, defending Jewish and democratic values.
https://linktr.ee/jstreetdotorg
SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social https://www.soas.ac.uk/soas-global-development
Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social Author IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH (Ecco,2026); ‘24 New America Fellow; NYC-based Prof @uconn ; ✍️ in LARB, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc; Rep @McKinnonLit, ASL interp 🏳️🌈 LauraMauldin.com
Prof. Shirley Lin @profshirleylin.bsky.social Professor of Law @brooklynlaw. Work law, CRT & social movements. Board member @disstudies.bsky.social. (she/her) Opinions = own. Research = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1398227
Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social she/her
Disability policy analyst @americanprogress.bsky.social by day, disability studies PhD student by night.
ME/Long Covid/Lyme/MCAS/etc.
Cat mom!
Need masks in the DMV area? Msg me!
Opinions my own. Reposts/likes not endorsements.
Disability Debrief @debrief.disabilitydebrief.org.ap.brid.gy A disability lens on world news, with resources from 160+ countries.
🌉 bridged from https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Teresa Barrio Traspaderne @tbtraspa.bsky.social Researcher on technology and ESCR at Amnesty International. Amateur DJ and movement freak. Migrant in Mexico.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund @dredf.bsky.social DREDF is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities. Website: dredf.org
Florian Beijers @zersiax.bsky.social Fully blind coder, gamer, hacker, streamer. Accessibility consultant looking for his people.
Youtube: @viewpointunseen
Twitch (gaming): zersiax.
Twitch (hacking/coding blind): IC_Null.
Mastodon: @zersiax@cupoftea.social