Ellen Pao @ekp.bsky.social CEO of Project Include
early investor, ex-reddit, ex-VC, ex-lawyer
ellenkpao.com
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social Our aim is to highlight events (Panels, Protests, Fundraisers etc) related to the struggles associated with the #MilkTeaAlliance
https://linktr.ee/MilkTeaAllianceCalendar
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷SOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)💐 ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket 🌸 https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social human- a professor of #Korean and East Asian Studies. Research on performing arts (traditional mask dance dramas, K-pop and hip-hop), media, museums, tourism... #kpop #kdramas 한/영. 합기도, cycling, food, coffee 
Tom Grundy @tomgrundy.hongkongfp.com Director, Founder, Firefighter at @hongkongfp.com - Non-profit, 100% independent impartial #HongKong news since 2015. Views own. Not leaving. #PressingOn https://tomgrundy.org/
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.
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com Game Designer (Consentacle +37 others)
Chair / Director, NYU Game Center ( https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/ )
Founding Collective, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Formerly: Gamelab, LEGO, strap-on.org etc.
https://metasynthie.itch.io/
Opinions are only my own!
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social Academic, poet, translator, & editor of CHA, Voice & Verse, HK Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @hklabourrights.bsky.social 🔉Amplifying workers' voices from #HK to the world 🌎
📩 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/3BYsP7Y
#HKLabourRights #StandWithHK
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization hklabourrights.org
http://hklabourrights.org
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ 仆街鳥
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
Cherie Wong 王卓妍 @chercywong.bsky.social PhD Student in Sociology, @carleton.ca 🏳️🌈🏴
dissident scholar x policy wonk x politico
📍 settler on turtle island 🇨🇦🇭🇰
👧🏻 https://konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/
🌲 https://linktr.ee/chercywong
Personal Account 💛 she/elle/佢/她
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social writer +/ journo covering migration, cities, justice etc. words in The Nation, Politico Mag, The Baffler, The Nation, The New Republic, etc. teaching @ CUNY’s Newmark School of Journalism. tanvim.05 on signal. Tanvim27 on insta.
Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒 💙💛❤️🩹 @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
Maria Ressa @mariaressa.bsky.social 
santy🎗️ @santodrive2.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/santodrive
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
lokman tsui @lokman.org writer, (recovering) academic, amateur activist. teach at graduate institute of journalism, national taiwan university. fellow @citizenlab.ca.
he/him. writing a personal history of home and authoritarianism.
YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social I really f**king love Hong Kong, and Funassyi!
Bluesky user #55,617 -- joined in May 2023! -- but am also "over there" too. Yes, I'm still straddling between Twitter and here (because there still are not enough Hongkongers and Funassyi fans here!).
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person
Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social Undocumented until 2025. Cis. She/her. 165 weeks sober. Saoirse don Phalaistín. Unite Ireland. Destroy ICE. Púca, 2011 - 2026.
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social since 2017 🤯
Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
Christopher Hepburn @chrishepburn.bsky.social Pale and awkward PhD ethnomusicologist.
Postdoc & Teaching Fellowship completed @USC (History).
Author of Defining Waka Musically (Palgrave).
Steadfast polemicist, all in good fun.
Views my own.
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/
한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
Kelly Chan @kafkaesquekelly.bsky.social MA @ McGill East Asian Studies. BA @ UBC History. Interested in modern Japanese tourism, film and media studies, and post-WWII Japanese horror cinema.
Eve Loh Kazuhara @elkazu.bsky.social ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
Andrew Campana @andrewcampana.bsky.social Associate professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!
コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの准教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Nippon Connection Film Festival @nipponconnection.com Nippon Connection – June 8 - June 13, 2027 // 27th Nippon Connection Film Festival // Frankfurt am Main, Germany // http://tinyurl.com/nc-impressum
Midnight Eye @a0dbxza.bsky.social The Asian Cinema
Im Kino 📽️
Patrick Terry @patrickterry.bsky.social Adjunct Assistant Professor - Portland State University School of Film, PhD - Japanese Film - ポートランド州立大学、映画学部、邦画、映画産業
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
Moeko Fujii @moekofujii.bsky.social critic and essayist, I write a column on film for @orionmagazine. 
Benjamin Uchiyama @buchiyama.bsky.social Modern Japan historian. Ex-Aggie/RSEA alum/Jayhawk. Once and future Trojan. Recovering ramen addict. I also wrote a book! https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316899823
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts. 
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.- M Meg Rose @meganrose.bsky.social
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!
Bianca Chui @bmychui.bsky.social 📚 MA grad @ UBC Asian Studies. BA History. 💕 bad jokes + dim sum 🫖 🎲 research on sugoroku/print culture/travel/food/games/meibutsu/kuzushiji 🎲
Pierre-Emmanuel Bachelet @bacheletpe.bsky.social Assistant Prof. (MCF) in East/Southeast Asian History, ENS de Lyon/Institut d'Asie Orientale. Cross cultural relations, maritime circulations, Japan and Vietnam.
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+ 🏳️⚧️
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social Prof of Film and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale. Scholar of Japanese and other East Asian film and media (TV, manga, etc.). Likes rakugo, cats, and cycling. Views are my own. イェール大学教授、日本と他の東アジア映画とメディアの研究者。落語、猫と自転車。
Rebecca @stlrebecca.bsky.social 💙 Writer, runner, resister, wanderer, translator and professor, flood survivor. Debut novel The Kimono Tattoo. www.rebecca-copeland.com
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 🌸
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social In-depth critical analysis of the forces that shape the Asia-Pacific and the world. Edited by Tristan R. Grunow (Nagoya University) and Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University). Find us at: https://apjjf.org/. 
yutaka kubo @yutakakubo.bsky.social Researcher in Japanese cinema and queer cinema. Associate professor of film studies at Kanazawa University. Currently working on projects on food, loss and grief, aging, affect, gay porn, and queer archives.
Works: https://researchmap.jp/y_kubo315
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
T. Seifman @toranosukev.bsky.social Historian of Japanese & Luchuan (Ryukyuan) arts and culture. Person. Personal, not professional, account. I travel from time to time.
They/he. Based in Kyoto.
Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social Tokyo-based writer, localizer, cultural consultant. Author of Pure Invention, Yokai Attack, and more.
https://www.mattalt.com/
https://blog.pureinventionbook.com/
https://linktr.ee/mattalt
Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Japan Chair, CSIS
economics x security x governance in the Indo-Pacific and beyond
all views my own | RT ≠ endorsement
www.kristigovella.com
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
Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social sociologist of disasters
pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
(views aren't even my own) roll tide.
come on, come on, get down to goodison park.....wooh!
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Emily Anderson @imorianderson.bsky.social Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
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
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social Editor of academic books by trade. Hobbyist gamemaker. Lapsed Gundam scholar. Cat and Bird enjoyer. Watches Tora-san films. My views are my own and do not represent my employer or my god.
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
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
matteoB @matteob.bsky.social By day: lumpenproletariat.
By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications.
Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: https://asian-docs.com/
David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social Political scientist at GSAPS, Waseda University. Formerly UW-Madison, Princeton, U.S. Department of State, Stop & Shop. Author of Empire of Hope; The Rules of Play; Think Global, Fear Local (all Cornell UP). Coeditor of Stanford Studies in Asian Security.
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
Christina Laffin @christinalaffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
Akiko Takenaka @ata225.bsky.social Professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Book on motherhood and peace activism in Cold War Japan forthcoming in February 2025
Sarah Appleton @sarahappleton.bsky.social 🎥 Co-director of Shudder Original The Found Footage Phenomenon and Shudder Exclusive The J-Horror Virus! ♑️
📹 I make blu-ray extras for Severin Films, BFI, Arrow Films, Toy Robot, Via Vision, VinSyn, Rekall Films, Delirium…
www.caprisarproductions.com
Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social JPN translator, Global Studies MA, former JET. 10年間以上日本に滞在。Minnesotaיהודי מ. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇩🇪🇦🇹 Ghibli stan. EiC/writer at Unseen Japan, head of UJ Tours.
Writing/making videos on intercultural meeting points and lesser-known historical junctures in Japan.
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer at Kanda University of International Studies. I research Japan's Politics/Nationalist Activism/History Disputes/Pop Culture. Shares/Likes ≠ endorsements. https://linktr.ee/jeffreyjhall
Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Nate Ledbetter @nhledbetter.bsky.social At some point I'll start posting useful stuff here. Maybe.