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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social Author, *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (UC Press 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly since about 2015
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Kyle Devine @kyledevine.bsky.social Economy, ecology, technology, politics, culture, music
Recomposed: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3338-recomposed
Decomposed: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537780/decomposed/
Website: https://kyledevine.info/
The Tonearm @thetonearm.com celebrating music journalism
+
putting a needle on the cultural wax
an online journal of unexpected music + culture → thetonearm.com
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social Philosophy and history of medicine. Many other things. Autrice "Pilules Roses", julietteferrydanini.com
Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. We meet 3-4 times a term on Fridays at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
BEAUTY PILL @beautypill.bsky.social Myriad insinuations available at
beautypill.bandcamp.com
Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social 🦐Unofficially posting frames from the Food Network dub of Iron Chef 🔥 How will the challenger fight back? 🧄 The heat will be on! 🥑
Episode title and frame # are in alt txt
(ran by @dudethatbe.bsky.social)
Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social Soviet historian and aficionado of bleeps and bloops. Assistant Professor of Musicology at UW-Madison. Lover of all things Slavic and sonic. Views my own, not my employer’s.
Read some words: www.gabriellecornish.com
Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social periodic posting on political economy issues, mostly charts, some shirts, weekly kittens. Sic semper tyrannis.
States vs Markets 5th edition now out: https://www.bloomsbury.com/9781350458369
jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social Senior video correspondent for WSJ. Previous: words & reporting in New Yorker, NY Mag, Guardian, WIRED & VICE News etc. Send tips and say hi by email tess.owen@wsj.com, or signal tessowen.77
Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social
Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social She/Her 🇮🇪
Trans ADHD
🏴refugees welcome✊sex work is work☂️Traveller rights🔴join a union🏳️⚧️protect trans kids🏳️🌈no cops at pride
https://linktr.ee/lilithcarroll
dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social Starter pack marxist
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2954-with-and-against
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Contretemps @contretemps-revue.bsky.social Fondée par Daniel Bensaïd en 2001, Contretemps est une revue marxiste engagée dans les mouvements d'émancipation, indépendante de toute organisation. Suivez-nous sur https://t.me/revuecontretemps
maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social
JOEMUGGS.UK
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Like Icarus ascending on beautiful foolish arms
I have bad dreams and I poop a lot.
#MDANT
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com
joemuggs.substack.com
theartsdesk.com
mixcloud.com/joemuggs
rovr.live/#/curator/joe-muggs
etc
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Materialist Institute for Research @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social
Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social www.northsouthnotes.org
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
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
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Magnus Møller Ziegler @magnusz.bsky.social Communist etc. Intellectual history, philosophy, Young Hegelianism, Marx, Vormärz studies. Academic mercenary ⟶ magnusz.dk
Anastasiya Kotova @anastasiyakotova.bsky.social PhD in public international law. Marxist theory, imperialism, corporation, and other exciting stuff.
імперії впадуть.
she/her
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
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/
Rasmus Fleischer @rsmsflschr.bsky.social Forskare i ekonomisk historia (Stockholms universitet).
Kulturskribent i Flamman, GP och Aftonbladet.
Musiker i Vox Vulgaris, etc.
https://linktr.ee/rasmusfleischer
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/
Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of music history at Wayne State University. 19th/20th-century France, sound studies, histories of (sight)reading, street music. Author, Fanfare for a City (UC Press, 2024). Non-ac words in Exacting Clam, Gargoyle, Argyle, Flame Literary
Seán Finnan @seanfinnan.bsky.social PhD candidate & Research Ireland scholar @tudublin
seanfinnan.ie
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
Endnotes @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk
Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social
Der Podcast zur Erweiterung unserer Vorstellung von Zukunft.
Von und mit Jan Groos.
www.futurehistories.today
English: http://futurehistories-international.com
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Nabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social music listening, films, media, communication, cultural studies
Joey La Neve DeFrancesco @joeyquits.bsky.social Joey La Neve DeFrancesco.
Music with Downtown Boys + La Neve.
Founder and organizer with UMAW
joeldefrancesco@gmail.com
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all.
Naomi @naomigrey.bsky.social Professor on the prairie 🌾
{ Do you also have a complicated relationship to writing? }
Katelyn E. Knox @katelynknox.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., c20&21 Francophone immigration literature and culture; author of Race on Display in 20th and 21st Century France and The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. She/her. https://go.dissertationtobook.com
Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
hyoyoonkang.com
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible
This account surrounds hate and forces it to surrender
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
https://authory.com/AmandaMoore
https://www.turtlediaries.net/
Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Border and Rule (2021) & Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).
Sikh. Inquilab. (she/her). Hard on issues, soft on people. Antidote to despair is collective struggle.
New here - mostly find me IRL organizing, in internationalist collectives & networks.
Texas AFT @texasaft.org Proudly dubbed the "most aggressive" group for Texas educators. Representing 66,000 K-12, higher education, and retired school employees. We're #Allin for Texas public schools, colleges, & universities ✊ Affiliated with AFT & the AFL-CIO.
Wayne & Wax @wayneandwax.bsky.social musicologist at Berklee, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, principiante jaranero, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba
Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member.
She/they.
Erin Brooks @erinmbrooks.bsky.social
Austin DSA @austindsa.bsky.social Austin, TX Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America 🌹
austindsa.org
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social Published January, 2026: The Global Casino: How Wall St Gambles with People and Planet. Check out my newsletter: System Change, https://annpettifor.substack.com/
Kristen Turner @kristenmturner.bsky.social Mom of 3 grownups, musicologist, loves the archive and a good romantasy, almost done with The Operatic Kaleidoscope: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Stage. Host of New Books in Music
Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social some kind of bureaucrat | lots of typos | he/him | if you're confused what Double Victory (DVTL) is look at my pinned | views my own, etc normal disclaimers
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social Georgia girl• UNC-CH associate professor of sociology • alum of Mercer, UGA, & Duke • hopeful for a better tomorrow
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
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
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. NBER Research Associate
Fields: development, political economy, environment, economic history, inequality
https://sites.google.com/view/belinda-archibong/home
Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.
https://events.project-syndicate.org/event/democracy-summit
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
portisheadcanon @thediscocat.bsky.social armchair C O S M I C sociology, dad jokes, funk freaks Virginia, insufferable descriptors in bio, jazz director at WRIR, occasional dj, sound design, and dreams of a better possible tomorrow
Booking / inquiries: sean@loveallday.com
Jilll Rogers @musicolojill.bsky.social
La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
Rachel Campbell @drrmcampbell.bsky.social Lecturer in Musicology at University of Sydney. New music fan. Researching musical “Primitivism”. Living on Darkinjung land. Views my own.
Dialectical Zach Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler.bsky.social I teach philosophy. Formerly a musicologist. Writing a book about Adorno’s musical theory of “life without fear.”
Ed board CTWG: https://ctwgwebsite.github.io
Work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SKkjTjsrnEcNm6jQMCFT-ZnHoja0Fx94/view?usp=drivesdk
Scott Gleason, PhD @buddytwo.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 publishing October 13 from @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
Marius @mariusbax.bsky.social Norwegian film and cultural industries researcher who cares more about distribution than most people. Looking for work.
Rides bikes, plays hockey and tabletoprpgs.
Non-academic toots in Norwegian.
Moises Lino e Silva @linoesilva.bsky.social Anthropologist. Faculty Member at UFBA - The Federal University of Bahia. Author of "Minoritarian Liberalism: a Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela." (2022).
Xenia Benivolski @xeniab.bsky.social Writer | Curator
Sound, Music & Visual Art
📖 PhD LUCA KU Leuven
✍️ Frieze, e-flux, the Wire UK
xeniabenivolski.com
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Clair Richards @tellyclair.bsky.social telly, film and media obsessive. writer by trade