ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Follow along for news, events, and calls for papers.
NT at Oxford @nt4ox.bsky.social Graduate Studies in New Testament at Oxford University: Research, News, Seminars, Jobs, more
Markus @chrisaor.bsky.social He/ him. Reading my way through classical antiquity and queer history 🏳️🌈. Also into Pen & Paper Worldbuilding.
Paul Middleton @profpaulmiddleton.bsky.social Professor of NT and Early Christianity, University of Chester.
Researcher in violence and martyrdom in the ancient world.
Double Bass player and SNP member.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
A. v. Stockhausen @vonstockhausen.org Director of “Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike” at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and editor of “Patristic Text Archive” (PTA).
Ancient Christianity, Patristics, Digital Classics.
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!
Tommaso Bacci @tobacci.bsky.social reads ancient stuff in Chicago (PhD Candidate at The University of Chicago Divinity School, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East).
Vediamo se i toscani riescono a devastare un altro paese.
Megan Wines @meganwines.bsky.social Biblical scholar working on apocalypse and masculinity and the bible in popular culture; theatre artist; lover of stories, cats, and beer; probably watching a hockey game or reading a romance novel; she/her 🏳️🌈
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins (she/her) @katgelk.bsky.social editor at Fortress Press, scholar of ancient texts, reader of fun books, baker of baked goods.
Fr Christopher Poore @christopherpoore.bsky.social Episcopal priest. PhD student in theology at UChicago Divinity School. Bringing Anglican texts back to life: editor of Seminary Street Press and VTS Press.
Margo Irvin @margoirvin.bsky.social Editor at @ucpress.bsky.social | ancient world, global premodern history, translations | she/her
Kristian Heal @kristianheal.bsky.social Scholar of Syriac Literature in Late Antiquity, textual transmission, manuscript cultures, and the history of scholarship. Happiest surrounded by books or the English countryside.
Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University
Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher:
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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
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@davidbosu.bsky.social @davidbosu.bsky.social 
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social https://secure.actblue.com/donate/comms2026?refcode=blusky
The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Mitzi Smith @womanistprof67.bsky.social Flora’s Daughter, Author, Professor of Religion (NT), Womanist, Podcaster, Traveler, Stroke Survivor
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Emily D. Crews @emilydcrews.bsky.social Executive Director Marty Center at UChiDivinity. Historian of religions in US/Africa. Relig + gender, reproductive politics, art, abolition. She/her/hers
Reuben L. Lillie @reubenlillie.com 📚 Student at UChicago Divinity School
🎭 Operatic Tenor
🍞🍷 Pastor at loopnaz.org
🏰 White Castle Cravers Hall of Fame
🔗 reubenlillie.com
➡️ Donate to my marathon fundraiser
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
T. B. Sailors @tbsailors.bsky.social Specialist in the academic study of ancient Christianity and its literature
Bis vor Kurzem: @unituebingen.bsky.social | HMML @visithmml.bsky.social | ARISC (Abteilung Jerewan) | Albright Institute @albrightinstitute.bsky.social
Ich hasse Social Media
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
Dr. Wolff @wolffdr.bsky.social My research focuses on intersex and trans justice. Wish I was paddle boarding.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems
Maria S. Thomas @dekayra.bsky.social Researcher @University of Vienna, PhD @VU Amsterdam
Syriac manuscripts, materiality, digital humanities
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
Teemu Taira @teemutaira.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion. Researching public discourses on religion; atheism and nonreligion; religion and news media; methodology. Author of Taking "Religion" Seriously (2022) and other books.
https://teemutaira.wordpress.com
Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: https://www.ceu.edu/departments/historical-studies
Gorgias Press @gorgiaspress.bsky.social Independent publisher of books and journals in history, languages, and religious studies, specifically Biblical Studies, Syriac and Eastern Christianity, Jewish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. "Publishing for the Sake of Knowledge" since 2001!
Monica Mitri @monicamitri.bsky.social Egyptian, Coptic, PhD candidate in religion at USC. Dabbled in theology, business & literature. Love books and tea. https://usc.academia.edu/MonicaMitri
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz @riccardiswartz.bsky.social assistant prof of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. first gen. book w/ Fordham University Press. current projects: trad futurisms/digital dissidents.
Andrew Tucker @andrewtucker.bsky.social Christian, post doc at KU Leuven, PhD from SLU, etc. Mostly basketball stuff.
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity @aartela.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the American Academy of Religion Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit.
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
@alisongs.bsky.social @alisongs.bsky.social 
Dan Schwartz @bergdenker.bsky.social Late Antiquity, Syriac Studies, Digital Humanities. I promise I'll write something clever after one more cup of coffee. (he, him)
Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
PLUR
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@atpapanik.bsky.social @atpapanik.bsky.social 
Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Political Science. http://www.antonstrezhnev.com
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
www.candacelukasik.com
Blake Hartung @bahartung.bsky.social Teaching Professor, Arizona State University
When I have time, I research and write on late antiquity, early Christianity, Syriac literature, and the Mandaeans
My book: https://brill.com/display/title/68207?language=en
Laura Nasrallah @lsnasrallah.bsky.social Buckingham Professor at Yale University (Religious Studies and Divinity)
Fr. Andrew Younan @younan.bsky.social Assyro-Chaldean priest & philosophy prof. Aramaic, Aristotle, phil/science, liturgy, misanthropy.
Grigory Kessel @grigory-kessel.bsky.social Interested in Syriac manuscripts
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
Thomas A. Carlson @medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East c. 950-1500 CE, but I teach much more broadly. I'm writing a book about religious diversity in an illiberal society.
https://www.thomasacarlson.com/
https://medievalmideast.org/
https://www.cambridge.org/9781107186279
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Matthew Monger @biblemonger.bsky.social Scholar of the languages and literature of the Ancient Near East. Focusing on reception history, manuscripts, and material philology.
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society, Oslo.
On YouTube as Biblemonger
Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures.
www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
Mark Goodacre @goodacre.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. Host of the NT Pod. I post on New Testament, Christian origins, ABBA, and Doctor Who.
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Rurouni_Phoenix @rurouniphoenix.bsky.social Independent Researcher. Founder and chief moderator of r/AcademicQuran. I study the Bible and the Quran in their cultural contexts from an academic perspective.
Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social Professor, Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Kutlu Akalın kutkut16 @kutkut16.bsky.social Assist. Prof., Dept. of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (2025)
Jobin Chacko @jobinchacko.bsky.social Syriac Orthodox ♰ | Doctor
Honestly, here to live vicariously through all the amazing stuff Syriac scholars are doing in the field. Maybe one day soon, I'll join in too ;)
God bless you!
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Bestami S. Bilgic @bsbilgic.bsky.social (MA&PhD)-Political History, International Affairs, U.S. Foreign Relations, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Religion- https://blinn.academia.edu/BestamiBilgic
Houston, TX
Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eastern Christianity at KU Leuven.
Yii-Jan Lin @janjancl.bsky.social Associate Professor of New Testament • Yale Divinity School • biblical texts in immigration, borders, apocalypse, textuality, biological metaphors
• 她/she • not always here • http://yiijanlin.com
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Scott McDonough @sjmcdonough.bsky.social Historian of the late ancient world: Sasanian Iran, the Caucasus, and the Eastern Roman Empire. Professor at William Paterson University. I like cats, photography, and sweet cabbage pierogi.
Rob von Thaden @rvontha.bsky.social Denizen of the North Coast who cogitates about cognition, sacred texts, and other sundries. Should be writing about Galatians. (Views are my own)
Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social History professor. Former manuscript cataloger. Research: Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Syriac manuscripts, Syriac Literature. He/him.
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
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.- U UChicago @uchicago.bsky.social
Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results.
Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him.
Linktree.com/joekatz45.
International Catacomb Society @catacombsociety.bsky.social Bridging Disciplines • Supporting Scholarship • Connecting the Public at catacombsociety.org.
Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social Cardinal Cody Chair of Catholic Theology@Loyola University Chicago, Senior Fellow at New Ways Ministry🏳️🌈, he/him, knitter, fifer. Views my own. Repost≠endorsement. Author of _Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church_.
Steven Gnocchi @okeydoxy.com Lego enthusiast. Curling fan. C-list theologian.
Tim Luckritz Marquis @tluckmarq.bsky.social Curriculum designer, professor, researcher.
Alex Istok @alexistok.bsky.social Classics PhD. Teaching at Samford University. Writing about early Christian apologies and Roman legal spaces (real + imagined).
Matthew R. Crawford @mcrawford.bsky.social Professor and Director of Research Program in Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Melbourne, Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Jacob Lollar @jalollar.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
British Academy International Fellow (2024-2027)
Christoph Markschies @markschies.bsky.social ... beschäftigt sich nicht nur mit antikem Christentum
Shervin Farridnejad @farridnejad.bsky.social Professor of Iranian Studies، History, Languages & Cultures of the Near East, University of Hamburg، member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC): Iranian Languages and Religions, Zoroastrianism, Judeo-Persian Literature 
Michael König @08mikowitsch15.bsky.social Historian/Archaeologist; #museum & #SocialMedia - head of visitor service and events @unesco Roman Monuments Augusta Treverorum
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Christine McCarthy @cemccarthyphd.bsky.social 
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Mike Motia @mikemotia.bsky.social Classics and Religious Studies at UMass Boston. Podcasts on Late Antiquity. 
Anna Lefteratou @al3f.bsky.social Kefallonian; Later and Earlier Antiquity fan; Author of "The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven", OUP 2023
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/