Deniz Kaynak @denizkaynak.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @Aposto
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Gökçer Tahincioğlu @gokcertahincioglu.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
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Özcan Çelik @ozcancelikk.bsky.social Ankara Hukuk- Stajyer Avukat
Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social Historian cand. @Bilkent History, 19th century enjoyer, formerly in law school, TOBB ETU alumnus
Music critic & pianist
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Furkan Elmas @furkanelmas.bsky.social PhD Student at Penn. Economic history, Ottoman, early modern period.
Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
Tommaso Stefini @tommasoaga.bsky.social Sabancı University, MSCA Fellow. Previously EUI and Yale. Historian of the Mediterranean, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice. From Brescia.
Ahmet Erdogdular @ahmeterdogdular.bsky.social Musician
Ottoman-Turkish classical music
PhD Istanbul University
Makam New York- www.makamnewyork.org
Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social Historian (Iraq + elsewhere), Assyrian, Seattle | author, City of Black Gold | latest: “Propaganda of the Victims” (https://doi.org/10.1017/rms.2026.10037) | personal account | she/هي/ܗܝ
Zeynep Turkyilmaz @zeynept.bsky.social
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. Turkish in Vienna. Making a difference. Since 1541.
📍University of Vienna
🔗 https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/
Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
Yazan Badran @yazanbadran.bsky.social Assistant professor, media, journalism, politics, Syria/MENA/SWANA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran
Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social Art historian, gay husband & doodle dad 🐩 Writing ✍️ etc. at bunyaminanderson.com 🛜
F. Esen Esen @fatmaesen.bsky.social Late Ottoman Black Sea | environmental history, capitalism and animals | Trabzon, Samsun, Safranbolu.
Ali Yaycıoğlu @aliyaycioglu.bsky.social Professor of History - Stanford University. Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Mideast & Turkey. Columnist Gazete Oksijen. Draws imaginary cities and landscapes 👉🏽 instagram.com/aliyaycioglu
https://history.stanford.edu/people/ali-yaycioglu
B. Safarik @bradsafarik.bsky.social PhD, Associate Professor in Poli Sci, interested in political systems of the Global South, increasingly concerned about democratic backsliding in my own country. Polyglot. Eyes wide open.
Reposts are sometimes endorsements
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
Birgan Gokmenoglu @birgangokmenoglu.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University | PhD
@lsesociology.bsky.social | Researching time and temporality, grassroots politics, social transformation | she/her
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc @ TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Jochen Schmon @jochenschmon.bsky.social PhD candidate @nssrnews.bsky.social // Doctoral Fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social // History of Political Thought // Critical Theory
https://www.jochenschmon.com
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education.
Emek Karakılıç @emek.me Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy at UMass Boston | Precarious work, wealth inequality, social policy | https://emek.me
Fred Shaia @fredshaia.bsky.social Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow teaching at Brown University and writing a book about climate diplomacy in the United Nations.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Krankenbruder @krankenbruder.bsky.social Director of Free Air, Great Male Renunciation denunciation
Mayed, gruntled, and illusioned
"Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!"
VBNMW ultra.
Free Sanctuary State of Illinois, coast to coast
Illinoisan, Chicagoan, USian. In that order
Pronouns: any- M @mmt-modern.bsky.social @mmt-modern.bsky.social
Miriam Anderson @miriamjanderson.bsky.social IR prof | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
Hager Ali @hagerali.bsky.social Researcher & PhD at GIGA Hamburg, Policy Advisor, Journalist. Civil-Military Relations, Authoritarianism, MENA, Sudan. Editor of #AutocraciesWithAdjectives at ECPR's Political Science Blog "The Loop". Alumna at CEU and Goethe Uni. Admin of Comparativesky
Michael König @08mikowitsch15.bsky.social Historian/Archaeologist; #museum & #SocialMedia - head of visitor service and events @unesco Roman Monuments Augusta Treverorum
Mustafa Türkan @mturkan.bsky.social Studies cinema’s visual politics in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey | logistics of perception, disaster histories & speculative historiography. https://mustafaturkan.academia.edu/research
Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 2 rescue 🐈⬛ •🇸🇪
Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social Working on a just energy transition
Formerly: NREL, University of Wyoming
Currently: Facilitator and policy strategist
Enviro Humanities PhD
Book on water justice
Based in the rural West
Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social 🇵🇷 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at UC-Berkeley | Just + Equitable Environments | Disaster (and Disastrous) Research | Occasionally gardening + a dog
David Cooke @gwalchbach.bsky.social Previously, horticulturalist, archaeologist, archivist and writer. Currently PhD candidate - "Sport in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, 1804-1881"
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Michaël Bourdon @michaelbourdon.bsky.social PhD candidate
Centre for International Studies (Ceri) Sciences Po Paris | alumnus ENS Ulm | Social Sciences and Politics of Startups in Togo & Ghana
hilary hh, PhD 🇵🇸😷 @h229.bsky.social ♿️ Disabled human geographer (she/her)
💼 Currently—Postdoc at University of Michigan
🎓 PhD—UW-Madison in Geography & Environment
🌼 Formerly—nonprofit land conservation
Seyma Kabaoglu @skabaoglu.bsky.social PhD Anthropology | Northwestern | Critical Finance Studies
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
Jared Malsin @jmalsin.bsky.social WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre.
https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social Anthropology, political economy, Middle East @Princeton, @cssaame @cultanth
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Ethemcan Turhan @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social "When there is a solar energy spill, we just call it a nice day"
Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Groningen
#ClimateJustice #EnergyDemocracy #PoliticalEcology #FreePalestine
https://www.rug.nl/staff/e.turhan/
Zoe Griffith @zoegriffith.bsky.social Friendly crone. Asst professor of History at CUNY. Plant person.
I wrote a book on Ottoman Egypt and the Mediterranean archive. It's out now! https://www.ucpress.edu/books/egypts-mediterranean/paper
Youssef Ben Ismail @youssefbens.bsky.social history, law, and middle east studies at Amherst College.
www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/ybenismail
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics;
Signal: Juan Cole
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
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/
Kareem Chehayeb @chehayebk.bsky.social Middle East reporter at The Associated Press, usually reporting on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. kchehayeb@ap.org
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Manipulating Flora @manipulatingflora.bsky.social Research group working on 🌿plants🌴 in early modern natural philosophy - Studies of🌾Plant Physiology, Envinroment, Medicine, Anatomy and Society #histsci #envhist #histplants #plantstudies
Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis. 🇿🇦
Fan of ephemeral social media
Posts delete after 60 days.
Signal: https://peterdutoit.com/signal
Website: https://peterdutoit.com
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social House Arab
migrant academic in the low countries
Critical theory, cultural studies, still can’t call it west asia with a str8 face
He/they
views my own and not my employers
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social Account for journal Environmental Politics.
Sharing our publications, website guest posts.
No access to DMs - email us!
Website: https://environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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Aadita Chaudhury @aadita.bsky.social Ecological materialist with animist characteristics. Researcher on multispecies worlds, folklore, arts, eco-technosocial imaginaries/futures. Co-travelling with poetry, sound, science, ceremony and embodied knowledges.
She/her
aadita.substack.com
Mattin Biglari @mattinbiglari.bsky.social Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History at the University of Bristol. Oil and environmental justice; decolonisation; labour; infrastructure; technopolitics; STS; energy humanities