Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social Professor, Author, and Champion of Academic Freedom and Accountability. I speak only for myself. drleonardbright.com
U of Minnesota Twin Cities AAUP @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the Twin Cities campuses of the University of Minnesota. Find us on the web @ https://www.umn-tc-aaup.org
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
@jordandsnyder.bsky.social @jordandsnyder.bsky.social 
United Academics @local6741.bsky.social United Academics Local 6741 is an @aaup.org & @AFT.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter members and at-large members of AAUP. Visit us at https://local6741.org/ & become a member at https://www.aaup.org/membership/join
Jared Hardesty @drhardesty.bsky.social Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social Join the search for The American Worker. Kevin Van Meter: author, labor educator, union organizer, PhD. Books at @akpress.org & @commonnotions.bsky.social. Inquiry via @workinquirywork.bsky.social & workersinquiry.work. Writings at readingstruggles.info.
Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social Historian of western European borderlands, European unity, and civilizational thinking. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. Author of From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 (LSU Press, 2026)
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
European popular music and politics, global music histories, queer/trans studies.
Writing a book on #Eurovision.
🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him
https://tinylink.net/GacOA
Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social Popular music scholar and music department chair at Wellesley College. Neuroqueer. I wear a mask for a reason. Falo português. תיקון עולם 🏳️⚧️🚴😷
dankettercello @danielketter.com co-director musicintheamericanwild.com | new music for cello students celloteachingrep.com | music theory nerd, new music enthusiast | he/him | www.danielketter.com | https://youtube.com/@danielkcello?si=Ktfo0sNnok85xJL
Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com Musician and composer • assoc. professor of music, Skidmore College • “experimental yet still catchy” — New York Times • repost = 👀
willmasonmusic.com
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Abbi Nye @abbinye.bsky.social https://abbinye.substack.com/
Terry Godier @terrygodier.com Thinking about calm software, reading, and attention.
I like bogs, Casio watches, and They Live memes.
I build Current, an rss reader for apple platforms, and write visual essays about our relationship with technology.
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social We are a group of scholars, educators, and writers in higher ed working and collaborating to demand financial accountability and total realignment of funding to make education a public good with fair tuition and fair labor.
Public higher ed for all!
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Roger Watt @rjwatt42.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Psych at
Stirling University
Trumpet player
Statistic-ist
Grandpa
BA PhD FRSE
https://wattstuff.wordpress.com/
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
https://tinyurl.com/te8cmzmr
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd Assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar (formerly GSU, BYU). Study NGOs, human rights, international politics, causal inference, and stats. 6 kids.
#rstats forever.
andrewheiss.com
Signal: andrewheiss.01
Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Whitney Gegg-Harrison (she/they) @writerethink.bsky.social linguist / cognitive scientist / writing professor obsessed with all things relating to language, learning, and the mind. And knitting and sewing and music (especially violin and ukulele). And cats. Also a UU. neurodivergent. she/they. 🌈💖💜💙 /🖤🤍💜
David Mislin @davidmislin.bsky.social Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social Sometimes I write slow, sometimes I write quick. Mostly about college stuff. Weak on crime.
Email: jstephenmurphy@gmail.com
Website: www.jamessmurphy.com
Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant
Trans rights are human rights
Landback
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
Personal account - these are my views, not my employer’s
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social Professor of political science at UW-Madison. Director of Elections Research Center. First gen college grad. Native Ohioan.
barryburden.info
Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social Science writer. New book: A Pox on Fools arrives in May 2026. Preorders https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/808113/a-pox-on-fools-by-thomas-levenson/ Professing science writing at MIT. Spouse & dad. Servant to 2 feline overlords...All opinions mine.
Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social Los Angeles
Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social Associate Professor studying sports-related media and journalistic professionalism at UW-Milwaukee. Aspiring boat guy.
Creative Quarterly @cqjournal.bsky.social CQ Journal: showcasing the best of Art, Graphic Design, Illustration & Photography. We hold quarterly competitions—submit your work to be judged and printed in our magazine. For students & pros.
https://cqjournal.com
SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social We are the staff of @sciam.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of cells, we are the powerhouse of the oldest continually published magazine in the U.S. ✊ wgaea.st/sciam-letter
John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social Anthropologist. Archaeologist.
https://hoopes.academia.edu/
I’m not here to try and change your mind. I’m here to let other people who think as I do know they’re not alone. Be kind. Love one another.
William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social go to mastodon
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social political theory professor and aspiring luddite | increasingly irrational ultrarunner | AAUP-AFT 6741 | toward a new operation dixie for the higher ed labor movement
Amy Pason @apason.bsky.social Higher Education Advocate. Rhetorician. Supporting democracy teaching students deliberation skills.
Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg CSS superfan. 3D DOM wrangler. Argentino 🇦🇷
Open source @ https://layoutit.com · https://polycss.com · https://lowpoly.gg · https://css.graphics ✨
Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social Former minor Twitter personality, current nobody
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.
Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social The magazine of the American Association of University Professors. https://www.aaup.org/academe | https://academeblog.org/ 
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Interested in the academic workplace and what it's like to live and work as a faculty member. Tell me about it: DM, Signal mzahneis.09, or email megan dot zahneis at chronicle dot com.
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social Antifascist prof. Political theory, postcolony, anathema, the end of days, demon sperm. Views entirely my own.
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (4). Wife guy.
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
💖💜💙
The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Political scientist who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social Easy-to-integrate journal peer review, production, and hosting solutions to help scholarly publishers work smarter (used by 1,300+ journals).
Law review updates: @scholasticalr.bsky.social
For product details, visit our website: scholasticahq.com
Sara VanderHaagen @svhaag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy Scholar and teacher of rhetoric at a public university. AFT Local 3535 ✊🏻 Midwesterner. Lover of plants, people, music, pink tile bathrooms, and Lake Michigan, not […]
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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social 18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
Nmn @nmn.sh 
Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me I make things for making things.
@leaverou@front-end.social on Mastodon, @leaverou elsewhere
https://lea.verou.me
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
Lindsay Ex @lindsayex.bsky.social She / her | Proud twin mama | Policy Director with Colorado Communities for Climate Action | Plant-based | Better together
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Corri Hess @corrihess.bsky.social K-12 & higher education reporter at Wisconsin Public Radio | Past: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Tips? Corri.hess@wpr.org |
https://www.wpr.org/person/corrinne-hess
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
WUWM 89.7 FM @wuwmradio.bsky.social WUWM is no longer posting on this account, but we're not going anywhere. Follow us on IG/FB/YouTube and stream live at wuwm.com.
Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social Professor of Rhetoric in Georgia. Gators, Bonhoeffer, Merton, AAUP, and a Substack about all things TPUSA https://www.matthewboedy.com/
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social Physician Scientist MDPhD
Infectious Diseases
Academic Medicine
Global Health
Science Communicator
Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice
I bet on myself and double down
https://substack.com/@bktitanji
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
@katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social Historian of Women Airforce Service Pilots Book w @crownpublishing
History Prof; Doc film producer; Public Historian; talking head; Bluesky Elder Certified; https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-kate-landdeck-25a04811 https://katherinesharplanddeck.com
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account