Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
@dangesh.bsky.social @dangesh.bsky.social 
@dingy13.bsky.social @dingy13.bsky.social 
Laurentiu ANDREI @allaurus.bsky.social PhD #Stoicism, #Buddhism, #Comparative_Philosophy, #Japanese_Philosophy #Linux, #Mastodon: @allaurus@mamot.fr
https://uca-fr.academia.edu/LaurentiuAndrei
https://phier.uca.fr/version-francaise/equipe/membres-associes/m-laurentiu-andrei#/
DavidFerreri @davidferreri.bsky.social Just here to share thoughts, learn, and enjoy good conversations. 🌿
Melanie @celine2017.bsky.social ✨ Curious about the world. Kindness, honesty, and good humor go a long way.
Willa from Down Under @willa-hk-au.bsky.social Against genocide!
Love animals,nature,literature,opera,soccer.
In Dog We Trust- B Ben @benbeach.bsky.social left politics, football, literature, film. all views my own.
- N @nodroga.bsky.social @nodroga.bsky.social
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
The Last Nordic Tribe @thelastnordictribe.bsky.social The Last Nordic Tribe Game Account
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3435710/The_Last_Nordic_Tribe
Developer and Publisher: Never Say Never
Josenildo Melo @josenildomelo.bsky.social He studied Law. Bachelor in Social Work. Degree in Philosophy. Journalist. What is all this worth? I really like studying. I AM FROM GOD!
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
The Haysom Review @thehaysomreview.bsky.social Book reviewer and aspiring literary editor. Reading Elizabeth Haysom’s essays. https://substack.com/@thehaysomreview
Rocco e la sua vita moderna @rossisok.bsky.social 諸国一見の僧
@bycei.bsky.social @bycei.bsky.social 
@lutts13.bsky.social @lutts13.bsky.social 
@hume1711.bsky.social @hume1711.bsky.social 
@ichaudhury.bsky.social @ichaudhury.bsky.social 
Miss Amy 🧡🦋 @missamy231.bsky.social MS warrior. Humanist.
Beck The Feminist Lawyer @beckduff.bsky.social Not your lawyer. Views are my own.
Big mouth.
Soft heart.
Curious mind.
Books by Beck Duffield available at most major booksellers.
matt @kermithall.bsky.social i have a heart that whistles everywhere
edinburgh via tyneside
boxd.it/kGO9
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social Respect nature and biodiversity. In the fight to grow a fairer, greener, sustainable future. #BuildBackFairer #BuildBackGreener #MakeBritainWetAgain
@laurencium.bsky.social @laurencium.bsky.social 
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Steve Forrest @sforrest.bsky.social Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
simon loves books📚活字中毒の左衛門 @kant.bsky.social co-founder of Salon Séance. philosopher at heart, historian by trade. did the research for Gambling Man (Allen Lane, 2024; 邦訳『勝負師』日経BP). next book: Tokyo’s Private Railway Empires. 元자이니치. 京都生まれ名古屋育ち東京在住. simonは芸名です.
https://salonseance.com
Convoluted reader @convolutedreader.eurosky.social Avid reader with no interesting opinions to share
Orion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
Smart Cookies podcast @smartcookies.bsky.social Deep-dive conversations with the world's leading minds. European host Zaza looks beyond the mainstream to explore history, technology, philosophy, psychology, and science.👇🏻
https://linktr.ee/euro_trash
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social Open Education and Wikimedian In Residence services at The University of Edinburgh.
https://open.ed.ac.uk/contact-us/
https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia
#OER #OpenEducation #Wikipedia activities & initiatives.
LP @rayleigh-scat.bsky.social 
Zachary Fairbrother ザッカリフェアブラザー @historicalhijinks.bsky.social Daiwa Scholar 2024 | 大和スコラ2024
Aspiring researcher in Japanese Studies
zacharyfairbrother.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@robnewall.bsky.social @robnewall.bsky.social 
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.
John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs
'Obvious but wrong'
Also JTJ on the other place
https://johnthejack.com
Make Your Day Your Tao @makeyourdayyourtao.bsky.social Ancient wisdom in today’s language for today’s world. "It's Your Day, Make It Your Tao" is on Amazon or by order from bookshops. Details at https://yourdayyourtao.org/shop/
The numbers you see in each of these images refer to the Tao’s source verse
Gavin Blair @gavin-blair.bsky.social Writer, journalist, hack in Japan. A few books, a lot more articles, and a bunch of other stuff. Books. Martial arts. Music. Football. Nuanced discussion; little interest in slogans, echo chambers, othering or virtue signals. 
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
JJWalsh @jjwalsh.bsky.social 30+ yrs in Hiroshima, Japan: work in education/consulting/guiding & feature 'good people (Japanese & Foreign) doing great things in Japan' on the LIVE Seek-Sustainable-Japan talkshow-podcast https://youtube.com/@seeksustainablejapan
The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/
Morgan Pitelka @mpitelka.bsky.social Historian of Japan, distinguished professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, specialist in material culture, urban history, environmental history; coeditor, Journal of Japanese Studies
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Literary translator from Japanese
Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
Elisabeth Scherer @elisabethscherer.bsky.social Researching popular media, rituals and Japan / E-learning & #OER @hhu.de /comic studies network http://icon.hhu.de /Frrrrränkin/ Japanese Studies Avenger/hanami addict 🌸
Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary. *Japan, religion, & counterculture. Forthcoming book, "The Secret World: An Ethnography of Shugendo in Northeastern Japan" w/ UNC Press slated for publication in Nov. 2025.
Aike Rots @aikerots.bsky.social Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oslo. Interested in rituals, heritage, environment, whales, goddesses. Books: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan (2017); Sacred Heritage in Japan (2020); Water Powers (forthcoming).
Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. Amateur photographer of a certain age. Shitamachi supremacist. Sober 19yrs. Survivor. I write stuff sometimes, but don’t tell anyone. 日本語👌
Profile: @nakimushiart.bsky.social
Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social Cultural anthropologists, mostly Japan, think Takadanobaba is pretty neat.
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies, Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Joy Brennan @joybrennan.bsky.social Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
William Temple Foundation @williamtemplefdn.bsky.social Shaping debate on religion in public life; continuing Archbishop William Temple's legacy of faith-informed social reform
williamtemplefoundation.org.uk
Craig Mark @drcraigmarkphd.bsky.social Australian academic in Tokyo; Japanese & Australian politics & foreign policy. Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University. Author, The Abe Restoration; & occasionally for The Conversation.
HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social Official account of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
at the University of Edinburgh. Study with us! linktr.ee/hcaatedinburgh
Ioannis Gaitanidis @igaitanidis.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Tohoku University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025)
https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis?lang=en
Takeshi Morisato @takeshimorisato.bsky.social Lecturer in Non-Western Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in decolonising philosophy & higher education with world philosophies.
@annenewstead.bsky.social @annenewstead.bsky.social Bookish, Artsy, Philosopher Historian (DPhil Philosophy), Teacher, Tutor. Coffee Addict. Married. Grammarian. Scribbler & Dauber. World Traveller. Probably Neurodivergent.
AndrewBartlesSmith @andrewbartlessmith.bsky.social Religion & Humanitarian Action, Armed Groups, Frontline Negotiation
Exclusive New Drama: The President and The Emperor @presandemperor.bsky.social An audio drama about the decision that changed the world-the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. Starring Clifton Truman Daniel as his grandpa President Harry S Truman & Sadao Ueda as Hirohito. Listen here https://open.spotify.com/show/2LGi9yr7metP2vjRDLuIe9
Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Summ( )n Futures @summ0n.bsky.social We summon the futures, to play with them now.
http://summon-futures.com
lincoln @kitschygay.bsky.social gay guy | proud badger
my opinions are not a reflection of my employer
@carrieowl1.bsky.social @carrieowl1.bsky.social 
@davidmorey.bsky.social @davidmorey.bsky.social Long view/big picture, philosophy, intellectual history, science, culture, politics, economics. 
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
Dwight J. Friesen @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social neighbor . localist . professor . author . he/they
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation @daiwafoundation.bsky.social Supporting people and projects to connect the UK & Japan since 1988. Grants • Scholarships • Events.
Website🔗: dajf.org.uk
Facebook🔵: https://www.facebook.com/DaiwaFoundation/
Robert 💫 animecanon.com @animecanon.com Exploring the essential works of anime…
I also run @animestairs.bsky.app
Mortada Haidar @morthdr.bsky.social Doctoral student researching memory in Lebanese anglophone literature
JLU, Gießen-for better or for worse
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…- J @jds213.bsky.social @jds213.bsky.social
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
Carl Randall @carlrandallart.bsky.social Painter, London. NPG Portrait Award recipient & exhibitor 2024/13/12/02. Artwork in the Royal Collection, Foundation Carmignac, UCL Art & Tokyo Geidai Museums. www.carlrandall.com
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸
https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Greg Bianchi @gregbianchi.bsky.social Communications Officer at WHO/Europe. Views expressed here are my own.
@kallistratos.bsky.social @kallistratos.bsky.social 
REEVALUATE EU Project @reevaluate-project.bsky.social An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Bartapest @bartapest.bsky.social Author/speaker. Asia's rise, int'l trade, sustainability, strategic foresight, migration, Montréal & fúbol. McGill U Prof & Distinguished Fellow at Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Fmr Asian Dev Bank & OECD. On Threads at bartedes. 🇨�
Ethiopia Beyond @talksmart.bsky.social Exploring the untold beauty, culture, history, innovation, and spirit of Ethiopia.
Sharing authentic stories, breathtaking places, people, traditions, and the new face of Africa’s rising destination.
From ancient civilizations to modern transformation — E- 4 @4evrandsunsmell.bsky.social @4evrandsunsmell.bsky.social
@tritrijuka.bsky.social @tritrijuka.bsky.social 
Aya Homei (保明綾) @homeiaya.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine in modern Japan, Japanese Studies U Manchester. Science for Governing Japan’s Population (CUP, 2023).
@jmaughan.bsky.social @jmaughan.bsky.social 
Cheryl Bell @cherylbe.bsky.social Avid reader, history lover, animal lover
Elyssa Faison @elyssafaison.bsky.social Historian of modern Japan at the University of Oklahoma. 
Thomas McAuley @wakapoet.bsky.social Translator of premodern Japanese poetry.