Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social New novel coming in August: THE BREAKUP
Others include Evil Geniuses, Fantasyland, You Can’t Spell America Without Me, True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century.
Co-created CommandZseries.com, ran Studio 360, New York, SPY
https://www.kurtandersen.com
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Sébastien Billard @sebbillard.bsky.social Journaliste #Ecologie #Climat au @nouvelobs.com
sbillard@nouvelobs.com
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Elizabeth Bruch @ebruch.bsky.social University of Michigan and the Santa Fe Institute. Late to the party, mostly here for the graphs.
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
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
Congress for the New Urbanism @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social CNU envisions a world where cities, towns, and neighborhoods are intentionally designed and managed to foster community, preserve the natural environment, and improve the lives of all people.
Learn more: cnu.org
CNU 34: May 12-16, 2026! cnu.org/cnu34
Wendy Edelberg @wendyedelberg.bsky.social Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Previously, director of The Hamilton Project at Brookings and before that chief economist of CBO.
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Hilary Beaumont @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social Investigative journalist covering the climate crisis
📝 The Guardian, WIRED, Grist & more
Signal hilarybeaumont.38
IG @hilarybeaumont
https://www.hilarybeaumont.com/
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinois’ 43rd governor.
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.”
David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social Global climate justice reporter
@DrilledMedia.bsky.com
Before: Guardian, Independent
Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide
Ex-mental health nurse.
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Stefanie DeLuca @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social Poverty & Inequality Research Lab Director, JHU Prof, Research Principal @ OpportunityInsights, hopeful policy shaper, apathy eraser, Balto Lover, Chicago Born
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
WBEZ @wbez.org We are Chicago's NPR station and your local news source. Find us on air at 91.5FM. Support public media and local journalism: donate.wbez.org- C ClaireWXY @clairewxy.bsky.social Architect, Urbanist, Public Market enthusiast, pro-walking and cycling
Canadian and "American by Birthright"
Focuses most of the time on building great spaces and places, public buildings and civic infrastructure.
Stephen Macedo @stephenmacedo.bsky.social Political Theory, Social Science, and Public Policy, Princeton University.
Trying to seek the truth, wherever it leads.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org.
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
Eliza Brown @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Medicine, Reproduction, Economy, Organizations, Family, Sexualities, Gender, Demography, STS. https://elizacbrown.com/
Jeremy Levine @jeremylevine.bsky.social Professor at Michigan & Associate Director @umichstonecid.bsky.social
Sociologist studying crime victims and the politics of punishment in the U.S.; first book was an ethnography of urban development in Boston.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jeremylevine/
pete tridish @pete-tridish.bsky.social sun power radio
musical saw street fruit tree
As few meetings as possible...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Adam Higginbotham @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social Writer. Author of New York Times bestsellers Midnight in Chernobyl and Challenger. www.adamhigginbotham.com
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social Sociology prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. Law, Criminal Punishment, Politics, and Labor. New book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
Harold Feld @haroldfeld.bsky.social 
Cyrus Samii @cdsamii.bsky.social NYU Politics prof. Methods to inform policy. Governance, conflict, institutions. cyrussamii.com
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Malcolm Araos @malcolmaraos.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Sociologist studying the politics of climate adaptation.
David Wachsmuth @davidwachsmuth.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance, McGill University
Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social I'm a geographer/planner w interests in (de)globalization of services (incl #highered & #research) <> #cities, governance of HE, high impact teaching, ice hockey, jazz, photography. #Firstgen grad.
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
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology @Harvard, Hacker Studies & More https://gabriellacoleman.org/
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
@benjamenwalker.bsky.social @benjamenwalker.bsky.social Podcast maker/ http://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/propaganda/ /theoryofeverythingpodcast.com
/radiotopia.fm Audio fiction author http://adbl.co/Convolution
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://holdenthorp.substack.com/about #ActuallyAutistic
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist
OMNISHAMBLES
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/omnishambles/id1787176282
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
Bella DePaulo @belladepaulo.bsky.social Author of "SINGLE AT HEART: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life." Always have been single, always will be. I write the "Living Single" blog for Psych Today. Bylines in NY Times, Wash Post, Atlantic, etc. TEDx talk, 1.7 million views.
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Amanda Kelso @mandydale.bsky.social Storytelling + technology
Acting CEO @ Sundance Institute
Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
Cameron Marlow @cameronmarlow.com CTO at apella.io, trying to make surgery smarter with AI. Just relocated to Boulder, CO
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Jessica Rosenworcel @jrosenworcel.bsky.social The future belongs to the connected. Former Chairwoman of the FCC. Always an impatient optimist. Mom, wife, inveterate coffee drinker.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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
Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social Chair of MedHist/Bioethics at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Author of Fatal Isolation from the University of Chicago Press (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo20145393.html). Bicycles/dogs. Views mine. He, him, his.
@braydenking.bsky.social @braydenking.bsky.social sociologist @ Northwestern University, social
movements, organizations
Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social All things K-12 education policy. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section.
@anne-mccune.bsky.social @anne-mccune.bsky.social 
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Lucinda Rosenfeld @lucindarose.bsky.social novelist; essayist; fishwife; #endtheoccupation; #StephenMillerisTheDevil
Allison McKim @allisonmckim.bsky.social Sociologist of gender, punishment & society, welfare state, law, drugs. Professor at Bard College. Author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration.
Sean Corcoran @seanpcorcoran.org Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University, lover of opera and ice cream. Views expressed are my own.
Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social Anthropology of traps, technology, and captivating counterurbanisms. Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, CSIC
Margaret Brown @margaretbrown.bsky.social Filmmaker 
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
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.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
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Tey Meadow @ohprofessor.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
Too school for cool
Pronouns: She/Her/Dr
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
rnrdiva @rnrdiva.bsky.social Concert diva and cat person
Michele Lamont @mlamont.bsky.social Harvard social scientist, author of #SeeingOthers #GettingRespect #DignityofWorkingMen and more.
Curious mind, mother, friend, mentor, professor, sociologist
www.michelelamont.org
Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Boston College, TED talk The Case for the Four Day Week, https://www.ted.com/talks/juliet_schor_the_case_for_a_4_day_work_week?subtitle=en
global research on #4DayWeek, author of After the Gig
Boston, MA Born November 9, 1955
Abigail Jacobs @azjacobs.bsky.social Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
Charlie Eaton @charlieeaton.bsky.social Economic sociologist, professor, University of California, Merced.
Research: Wall Street, Big Tech, oligarchs, elites, universities.
Bylines: NYT, WaPo, LAT.
Newsletter and website: https://www.charlieeaton.net
Mona Sloane @monasloane.bsky.social Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Dr. Karlyn J. Gorski @karlynjane.bsky.social Sociology, ethnography, public policy | youth, schools, transportation | cycling, Chicago, snacks
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Mimi Ito @mimiito.bsky.social professor, anthropologist, connoisseur of geek culture and learning, #connectedlearning advocate, director of UC Irvine's Connected Learning Lab, and a steward of the Connected Learning Alliance - mimiito.com
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
David Lieber @davidlieber.bsky.social Working on privacy issues for TikTok’s public policy team. Puttshack Bank Hall of Fame. Posts are my own foolish and sophomoric musings.
Andrew Blum @ajblum.bsky.social Journalist and author of THE WEATHER MACHINE and TUBES. Working on a new book about power (mostly electric).
Rahsaan Maxwell @rahsaanmax.bsky.social Professor of Politics - New York University - diversity, migration, Western Europe (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rmaxwell)
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com