Barney I. Potter @barney-potter.bsky.social 
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Pop Base @popbase.tv Pop Base is your best source for all pop culture related entertainment, news, award show coverage, chart updates, statistics and more. | email@popbase.tv
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social He/Him. Dad. Journo tracking dark money and attacks on public health. JD, ADHD, occasional cartoonist.
Co-founder of Accountability Journalism Institute. Accountabilityjournalism.org
Signal: walkerbragman.44
Reporting: https://www.importantcontext.news
Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social President www.naturehealthglobal.org.
Protagonist of https://www.blame-documentary.com/
Board member https://www.accountabilityjournalism.org.
Member @nam.edu.
Zoologist. Parasitologist. Ecologist.
British. American. Ukrainian.
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social Not the Greek muse, just a casual fan. I study the Third Reich. The demands to READ THEORY will continue until you have actually read Christopher Browning and Ian Kershaw.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social ER doctor at Brigham and Women's in Boston, Harvard Medical School.
Words in: NY Times, WaPo, Atlantic, Slate, CNN. I'm also "editor-in-chief" of MedPage Today and write "Inside Medicine" on Substack:
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
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
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social Senior editor at Futurism.com
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social We study how pathogen antigen proteins evolve and use this knowledge to improve how we design vaccines and therapeutics 💻 💉 🧬
@pasteur.fr 🇫🇷
Lab Head 🧑🦱 @spyroslytras.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/antigen-evolution-and-design/
Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID) @mcid-unibe.bsky.social Strategic center, University of Bern.
Mission: study and mitigation of risks from infectious diseases
Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social Philosopher
Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social Award-winning writer/broadcaster
Editor British Archaeology magazine 2003–23
Editor Society of Antiquaries of London e-newsletter 2015–20
President Sussex Archaeological Society https://mikepitts.wordpress.com/
BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social Biothreats Emergence, Analytics & Communications Network (BEACON): open source surveillance program based at @buceid.bsky.social in partnership with @bostonu.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social & @bostonchildrens.bsky.social Healthmap
beaconbio.org
Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social Virologist, comparative virus/host interactions of HIV, Flu, Ebola and SARS CoV-2
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social Head of the Antigen Evolution and Design lab @antigenevo.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur 🇫🇷
💻🦠🏳️🌈
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Nicholas Wu @wchnicholas.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying influenza, SARS-CoV-2, antibodies, evolution, and protein structures. wchnicholas.github.io
Zeteo @zeteo.com Unfiltered news. Bold opinions. A new media organization from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social
https://zeteo.com
David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social Writer, journalist, guy that says stuff (about stuff). Editor of The Shot. Anti-genocide. Special envoy for social discontent.
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Elizabeth Waller @eslwaller.bsky.social Senior Epidemiologist at UKHSA with an interest in #zoonoses, #viruses, #surveillance and #vetepi
MSc Med Micro / MRes Bioinformatics
She/her 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧 🏳️🌈🦠
ESCMID @escmid.bsky.social Championing medical progress in infection for a healthier tomorrow. ESCMID is committed to advancing the fields of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social Postdoc at UofT, 20th C literature and science, viruses, evolutionary theory, deconstruction, libraryofbabel.info. Author: Natural Lection (http://bit.ly/495ZCJD), Virality Vitality (https://sunypress.edu/Books/V/Virality-Vitality)
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Will de Renzy-Martin @willvoice.it (he/him)
Frequently paid to shout in a padded box
#RogueTrader #ZZZ #HobsBarrow #Poirot #BG3 #Warframe #Eiyuden #WoLong #RiseOfTheRonin #Dawnwalker #FFXIV
#Calm
#BAFTA
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Geneva Health Files @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social Investigating power & politics in the capital of global health. https://newsletter.genevahealthfiles.com/
Reported, Curated & Published by Priti Patnaik https://bsky.app/profile/pritipatnaik.bsky.social
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Jenny Judge @jennyjudge.bsky.social I write about music and mind. Lecturer (i.e. asst prof) in philosophy at the Uni of Melbourne. Formerly NYU Philosophy (PhD) and Cambridge (music PhD). 🇮🇪
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Polygon @polygon.com Covering video games, entertainment, and the culture around them. We find, share, and investigate the things you love and the people who make and enjoy them.
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
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
Mert Erdin @merterdin.bsky.social Virologist 🦠 | Virus Evolution | One Health 🌍
PhD in virus evolution
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Helsinki
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social I did not get ejected by the night manager of Waffle House, we mutually agreed to part ways after being unable to come to an agreement
same handle on discord
Dad / sentient sandwich / chronic doomscroller / he/him
Trans rights are human rights
gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social robin sky leigh
writer & socialist working on labor, capitalist globalization, and the calculation and modeling of the vast socialized harms behind privatized profits.
she | her
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social Having to write these bios gives me a sense of existential dread. In other news, some people on other platforms think I occasionally have interesting things to say.
#medsky
twitter @arghavan_salles
IG @arghavansallesmd
Tik Tok @arghavansallesmdphd
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Davide Bozzi @davidebozzi.bsky.social PhD student
University of Lausanne (UNIL)
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
Research focus: ancient DNA🧬, metagenomics and pathogens evolution🦠
Kotaku @kotaku.com Gaming, reviews, tips & more → https://kotaku.com
Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social Professor at UC Davis
Work: phylogenomics & microbiomes; wildlife and aquatic microbiology; #openscience;
Other: #birds; baseball; T1D
Lab phylogenomics.me
Pics jonathaneisen.smugmug.com
Links linktr.ee/jonathaneisen
TED go.ted.com/6WPm
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Henrock @bchenrock.bsky.social Internet Old Man, Veteran of the Forum Wars, shitpost Huginn, beard and dog enthusiast. He/Him. “Let there be light” sure sounds like a prompt to me.
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Matthijs Welkers @flahless.bsky.social Clinical microbiologist/virologist at AmsterdamUMC, The Netherlands. Focus on viral evolution & sequencing. Flahless like RNA polymerase. Views are my own.
@pha4ge.bsky.social @pha4ge.bsky.social 
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗 only thing I'll tell you about my employer is that these aren't their views
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
Susana Polo 🔜 NYCC @susanapolo.bsky.social She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Anniek de Ruijter @deruijter.bsky.social Professor of Health Law & Policy @AmsterdamLawSchool | & Law for Health and Life |
Board Member @Bureau Clara Wichmann genderequality & strategic litigation | Academic Council @Amsterdam Institute for Global Health
Ricardo Rivero H. 💻🧬 @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social Wet lab Biotechnologist by training, Computational Biologist by choice.
Interested in Viral Evolution, Genomic Epidemiology and AI for Biology.
opinions are my own🧬
ricardoriveroh.com
Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social ER Doctor | Ebola Survivor | Public Health & Humanitarian Response | Historical Determinants of Public Health at Brown School of Public Health | Member Council on Foreign Relations | Emmy Award Winner 🏆
Loren Hontanilla 🎏 JW MAD AH-64 @solelle.bsky.social Freelance Concept Artist & Illustrator, elf lover 😗✌️
CR4 Character Artist
Merch artist at https://solelleart.etsy.com
they/them
🧡 @liconte.bsky.social
Contact: solelle.art@gmail.com
Links: https://solelleart.carrd.co/
mint @mintaii.bsky.social hi i draw
💌: spearmintaii@gmail.com | linktr.ee/mintaii
#art
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
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
Peter Babigumira Ahabwe @pbahabwe.bsky.social Science Diplomat. Epidemic Intelligence Analyst. HCoC Fellow, Y4Biosec & ELBI Alumnus. Follow me on this journey toward global peace and security. RT not an endorsement
Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Gunfire Games ❤️💥
previously: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩 Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
French History (Journal) @frenchhistory.bsky.social French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
kabona @dilfosaur.bsky.social i dunno man i'm just a little kitty cat
Nathan Yaffe @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social I'm Nathan from Drawfee! he/him
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/drawfee
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/drawfee
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/drawfeeshow
https://www.twitch.tv/nathansothershow
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/