Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Peter Nagy @petnagy.bsky.social Human-Machine Communication | Everything is a Frankenstein story | He/Him | https://nagypeter.faculty.bio/
Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings" Ursula K LeGuin
"The Nazis changed but they never went away" Chumba
"He sees the bright and hollow sky" my people
"Cuddle us" my kitties
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Elizabeth, Posting Version @elzbethw.bsky.social Let's all get along.
K R @kringelberg.bsky.social they/them, Art Historian
I care a lot (too much?)
Not repping any institution
Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | podcaster | http://clairepotter.substack.com | antifascist | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
Greg Pask @gregpask.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at Middlebury College, lover of insect communication, good teaching, and nerd stuff
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social Cartoonist and general schmuck. I do political cartoons, SuperButch, Hereville, and Wings of Fire.
My policartoons: www.leftycartoons.com or click #PoliCartoon
SuperButch: www.superbutchcomic.com
Support the cartoons! patreon.com/barry
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Smithsonian Institution Archives @siarchives.si.edu.web.brid.gy The Smithsonian Institution Archives captures, preserves, and makes available the history of the Smithsonian.
🌉 bridged from https://siarchives.si.edu/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/siarchives.si.edu
Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social Victorian lady invalid, lying in bed surrounded by books. Long covid, ME, other ailments. Bylines in The Sewanee Review, The Sick Times, Jezebel, etc; cohost of Overinvested pod in absentia; working on a novel. she/her https://linktr.ee/morganleighdavies
thene @thene.bsky.social here we are. 💚🖤
ice, tax, books. witchcraft for cyborgs. she.
Ask me about @bostonfanbrunch.bsky.social
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social Diversity is strength. Equity is freedom. Inclusion is liberation.
Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social Historian, writer, dog person.
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris
email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com
purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
History of Science Society @historyscience.bsky.social 100 years old.
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is dedicated to exploring US history from 1776-1861.
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social I like stuff!
Paul Erickson @mrsidetable.bsky.social Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
Annie @femalecenobite.bsky.social Domine labia mea aperies
Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social Sharing insect science globally.
ESA is the world's largest organization serving insect scientists.
Need to identify an insect? Visit http://entsoc.org/insect-id
Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart @smnstuttgart.bsky.social Natural History Museum | Science | Naturkunde | Museum | Wissenschaft & Forschung
Focus: Paleontology | Botany | Entomology | Zoology | Biodiversity | Paläontologie | Botanik | Entomologie | Zoologie | Biodiversität
#ImAuftragderVielfalt
@snowyfjord.bsky.social @snowyfjord.bsky.social
Physical Culture Historians @physicalculture.bsky.social Preserving & reviving historical exercise methods for mind, body, & spirit—using wands, Indian clubs, calisthenics & fitness tools of centuries past. Please check out our YouTube channel!
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) @nasssbsky.bsky.social NASSS exists to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, sport, and contemporary physical culture.
Website: NASSS.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-american-society-for-the-sociology-of-sport
Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Donna Haraway @djeanneh.bsky.social Writer, teacher, dog lady, hen lady, kin maker
BOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social Celebrating the artist's voice since 1981. Printed quarterly, online daily.
https://bombmagazine.org/
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social Plant Perspectives is a S2O journal in interdisciplinary plant studies exploring plant–human interactions in all spatial, temporal and cultural contexts 🌱
https://linktr.ee/plantperspectives
Giovanni Aloi @giovannialoi.bsky.social Author, curator, and educator specializing in the representation of nature in modern and contemporary art. Tireless gardener.
Founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: the journal of nature in visual culture.
Tamara Golan @deliasrevenge.bsky.social art history professor | medieval & early modern | Chicago | 🦂
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
David Getsy @getdavid.bsky.social "Method: What is needed is a gentler curiosity." - Paul Goodman
... writer, occasional curator, and historian of art and performance ...
linktr.ee/david.getsy
Eleanor H. Goodman @egoodman.bsky.social I have opinions, they are mine alone & do not necessarily represent those of my employer. Executive Editor @PSUPress.bsky.social - Art/Archit, Arts Criticism, Photography, Magic & Occultism, Iberia, Latin America, Medieval/Early Modern Everything. NYU PhD.
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
Marin R. Sullivan @sculpturalthings.bsky.social Art Historian. Curator. Consultant. Writer. Sculpture Obsessive. Proud Chicagoan.
sculpturalthings.com
Marsely Kehoe @marselykehoe.bsky.social Early modern Dutch global art history | digital humanities | textiles | knitting | weaving | urban farming
Karen Leader @proftinkerbell.bsky.social Art historian, intersectional feminist, activist, sharp-tongued, soft-hearted. Despite name, mostly a follower on socials. She/her. No DMs. 🚫
☮️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐈⬛💙🇺🇸
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Jen Wingate @wingatejen.bsky.social Art historian & former prof; material culture & sculpture enthusiast; putting one foot in front of the other https://jenniferwingate.hcommons.org/publications/
Amy Werbel @awerbel.bsky.social Professor researching censorship and freedom of expression in art, law, and culture. Author of books: Lust on Trial, Lessons from China, and Thomas Eakins. Love my growing family, colleagues, and students here in NYC and around the world.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Colby Chamberlain @colbychamberlain.bsky.social Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland Institute of Art | “Fluxus Administration,” UChicago Press, 2024 | Queens native, Cleveland resident | he/him
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Hampton Smith @hampton-smith.bsky.social writing — making against slavery: a material history of abolition in the early united states
hamptondessmith.com
Smarthistory: the Center for Public Art History @smarthistory.bsky.social Smarthistory, a nonprofit, collaborates with museums, academics, conservators, and knowledge-bearers to make art history accessible and engaging while retaining nuance and the highest academic standards—plus everything is free! https://smarthistory.org
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/
Deborah Kass @debkass.bsky.social I told you so.
Maura Coughlin @mauracoughlin.bsky.social Ecocritical art history, organic gardening, all things algal. Teaching Professor at Northeastern University.
Brian Boucher™️ @brianboucher.bsky.social Staff reporter, ARTnews. Formerly staff writer: Artnet News, Art in America. Past contributor: New York Times, New York, Cultured, CNN, et many al.
@princetonartandarx.bsky.social @princetonartandarx.bsky.social
Nancy Um @nancyum.bsky.social Art History - Indian Ocean Studies - Digital Humanities
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
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.”
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
@stephenwhiteman.bsky.social @stephenwhiteman.bsky.social
Alex Boylan @alexboylan.bsky.social writer, professor, likes to think about visual culture and romancelandia
Dr. Zara Anishanslin @drzara.bsky.social Historian with a Thing for Things
Creator/Co-host Thing4Things Podcast
Author THE PAINTER’S FIRE (July 1, 2025)
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social Award-winning historian. Author of four books.Op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine. Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, Fall 2026. https://karencoxhistorian.substack.com
Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social Montreal-based publisher of the world's most brilliant cartoonists and their comics, graphic novels and art! https://linktr.ee/dandq
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