Ida Östenberg @idaostenberg.bsky.social Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Eller som min son säger: "Mamma är bara professor i vissa saker." Posts in English and Swedish.
Anders Ackfeldt @ackfeldt.bsky.social PhD in History of Religions, Deputy Director Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII). Malmö/Istanbul.
“If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life? That’s easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it.”
Lisa Bukhave @lisabukhave.bsky.social PhD candidate in History of Religion at Uppsala University, studying cultural evolution in Indo-European religions. 🔥 (and very new to Bluesky)
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Ramón Soneira-Martínez @rsoneira.bsky.social Historian and Religious Studies scholar.
Postdoctoral fellow at the @oeai.bsky.social
Atheism, heterodoxy, and religious deviance in ancient times.
#religiones #religion
Jonathan @argparse.bsky.social
Kristina Lindquist @syrran.bsky.social Kritiker, krönikör, folkislärare.
Ingen människa är illegal osv
Skriver oftast här: dn.se/av/kristina-lindquist
Johannes Klenell @johannesklenell.bsky.social Redaktör, kritiker, människovän. Köp min bok Bananrepubliken Sverige.
Källkritikbyrån @kallkritikbyran.se Vi granskar påståenden som fått stor spridning i sociala medier.
RobHawkinsHobby @robhawkinshobby.bsky.social Hobbyist and creator of Skull Forge Scenics resin scenery kits and bases.
All my links:
https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/p/links.html?m=1
Skull Forge Scenics Shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SkullForgeScenics
Nathan Hamelberg @nathanhamelberg.bsky.social Alla avskyr mig för att jag är så allmänt omtyckt
Jonny Garrett @jonnygarrett.bsky.social Craft Beer Channel founder | Author of The Meaning of Beer & A Year In Beer | Beer Writer of the Year 2019 & 2022 | Chair Guild of British Beer Writers
Linus Larsson @linuslarsson.se Flerfaldigt prisförlorande journalist. Techredaktör på DN.
ISHASH @ishash.bsky.social The International Society for Historians of Atheism, Secularism, and Humanism.
David Thurfjell @davidthurfjell.bsky.social Religionshistoriker från Stockholm
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Kawa Zolfagary @zolfagary.se Pressansvarig och författare.
Finns även här: https://linktr.ee/zolfagary
Bluppspel, för dig som vill prata spel med vuxna: https://discord.gg/7XwdK5bZ6u
Alla åsikter här tillhör någon, inte mig, vet faktiskt inte vem.
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
@freebird2024.bsky.social @freebird2024.bsky.social X/Meta quitter, wanna be a lifetime learner & critical thinker.
Mute/block: rumor creators & spreaders, poor manners, or operate troll, bot, fake, or pornographic accounts.
🚫:Trumpism/MAGA/ElonMusk/ Racism/NetoUyoネトウヨ/Wumao/Fascism/Nazis/支黑/粉红 little pink
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Shaun O'Dwyer @shaunodwyer.bsky.social Professor, Kyushu University
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
Anders Nilsson @etwasanders.bsky.social Vetenskapsjournalist. Folkbildning, trams, musik och bättre värld.
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Aike Rots @aikerots.bsky.social Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oslo. Interested in rituals, heritage, environment, whales, goddesses. Books: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan (2017); Sacred Heritage in Japan (2020); Water Powers (forthcoming).
Akira Nishimura @aquillax.bsky.social Professor of Religious Studies and Cultural Resources Studies at the University of Tokyo. I will get used to this service gradually…
https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/religion/
https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CR/english/
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary. *Japan, religion, & counterculture. Forthcoming book, "The Secret World: An Ethnography of Shugendo in Northeastern Japan" w/ UNC Press slated for publication in Nov. 2025.
Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social History prof at the University of York. Most recently Research Partner for "Samurai" at the British Museum. Also working on castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Too many hobbies.
www.olegbenesch.com
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
Christian Haag @christianhaag.bsky.social Fact-Checker // Ex Logically Facts // All things TikTok, Misinformation, Conspiracy theories and History // Based in Sweden // Previously written about the use of history and religion in political communication by extremist groups //
Barbara R. Ambros @bambros.bsky.social Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Animals and religion, gender and sexuality studies, place and space.
Flamman @flamman.se Nyheter, analyser och opinion från vänster.
Grundad i Malmfälten 1906. På Bluesky sedan 2023. Oberoende socialistisk.
flamman.se- H 星野靖二 HOSHINO, Seiji @hoshinos2.bsky.social 一番大きく取るならば宗教学、中間的には近代宗教史、最も狭くは近代日本宗教史の研究者です。こちらでもどうぞよろしく。
https://sites.google.com/view/hoshinoweb/home
Matthew Hayes @matthew-hayes.bsky.social Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies.
Helge Årsheim @awrsheim.bsky.social I teach and research law, religion and human rights at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences & University of Oslo
https://www.inn.no/english/find-an-employee/helge-arsheim.html
Ioan Trifu @ioantrifu.bsky.social Political scientist & historian, specialised on Japan (INALCO🇫🇷- FAU🇩🇪- TUFS🇯🇵)
Researching the transformation of the nation-state, writing on heritage politics, thinking about too many things…
フランス人の政治学者。専門は日本政治史、比較政治など。
Joakim Sundh @joakimsundh.bsky.social Researcher in cognitive psychology. Spending most of my work days thinking really hard about probability. Based at Uppsala University. Statistics, metal, wine & cheese.
Orion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Charles McClean @cmcclean.bsky.social 📚 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale
👦🏻👨🏻👴🏻 Politics of Age
🇯🇵 Japanese Politics
Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social The Japanese Journal of Political Science by @universitypress.cambridge.org.
cambridge.org/jjps
David Newheiser @dnewheiser.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Religious Studies / writes on religion & ethics, politics, culture / dreams of democracy, art, & other miracles / 📙 Varieties of Atheism: http://bit.ly/3CaNe4
https://dnewheiser.net/
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Hanna Victoria Mörck @hannavictoria.bsky.social Livet är till för att levas. Att försöka njuta lite varje dag. Gillar alla säsonger, plocka svamp, bär, baka pajer och god mat.
Heltidsvänster.
Uppsala -Dalarna 2h.
Ioannis Gaitanidis @igaitanidis.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, Tohoku University (Japan); Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan (2022); Teaching Japan: A Handbook (co-ed., 2024); Therapy, Spirituality, and East Asian Imaginaries (co-ed., 2025)
https://researchmap.jp/gaitanidis?lang=en
James Welker @jameswelker.bsky.social ジェームズ・ウェルカー(he/him)
I research queer cultures, feminisms, and popular culture & media in and beyond Japan・クィアスタディーズ、フェミニズム、グローバリゼーション、日本文化史を研究しています
More:
https://linktr.ee/james.welker
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Dagmar Schwerk @dagmarschwerk.bsky.social Professor of Tibetology (with TT) at Leipzig University, Tibetan/Bhutanese Buddhism/History, Engaged Buddhism and the Climate Crisis, own views, passionate violinist, she/her
Peter Althaus @peteralthaus.bsky.social Schreibt gern über alles aber besonders #Osteuropa und besonders #Ukraine bei Focus Online und über Reisen bei wildeast.blog. Hier privat.
Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social Security Expert | Amplifying Ukraine's Global Voice | Former Twitter Enthusiast
Karin Zackari @kzackari.bsky.social Optimistic pessimist and a former clarity. topics: critical human rights theory, human rights history, modern & contemporary history & politics of Thailand, unfreedom, anti-fascism.
Works in higher education. More personal & more pop music in Swedish.
Paul O'Shea @pauloshea.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Lund University.
Interested in international relations, foreign policy, politics in general. East Asia and Scandinavia.
Andrew Browne @andrewbrowne.bsky.social Visual Artist. Fine art, comics, artwork for bands. Based in Tokyo.
Portfolio: https://monomizer.com
東京在住アーティスト。漫画家を目指している。仕事は気軽にDM、メールでご連絡下さい。
#comics #manga #art #illustration
Max V Karlsson @karlssonmax.bsky.social Reporter på Expressen. Öppna DM.
La Résistance @johannalinder.bsky.social I skärningspunkten mellan drömmen och slitet
Ali Esbati @aliesbati.bsky.social Vänster. Är ekonom. Gillar böcker.
Leonidas Aretakis @aretakis.bsky.social Chefredaktör Flamman, kritiker DN Kultur, författare till ”Extas i folkhemmet” (Natur & Kultur).
https://www.nok.se/titlar/allmanlitteratur-sakprosa/extas-i-folkhemmet/
https://www.tiktok.com/@leonidasaretakis
https://www.instagram.com/laretakis/
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
Amélie Poletti Lundström @ameliepoletti.bsky.social she/her
Human rights Lawyer from Sweden. Interested in migration, non-discrimination, racism, gender and diversity.
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @historianzhang.bsky.social Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
Cecilia Kahn @cclkahn.bsky.social Vill ni veta något om svensk bankreglerings historiska politiska ekonomi eller aktuella finansiella regeringsfrågor kan ni säga till.
Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social I have opinions & hobbies too, but here I’m a Professor of Political Science a the Swedish Defence University. I study security, power, identity, narrative & emotion in international politics, esp East Asia.
日本語大丈夫!
https://t.ly/1-z2c
https://t.ly/FG0TI
JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social The official account of the JJRS and NIRC. Follow for publications and event announcements.
https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Stefan Alenius @darlanio.bsky.social Sverige behöver en socialliberal regering som värnar om vårt fria sekulariserade demokratiska samhälle, allas lika värde och allas lika rättigheter.
Extremhögerns nazister, rasister, nationalister och fascister förstör Sverige.
Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social @ tsbalans
Jonas Sjöstedt @jonassjostedt.bsky.social Sitter i EU-parlamentet för Vänsterpartiet, hemma i Umeå.
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Timothy Benedict @tobenedict.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociology@KwanseiGakuin, working on Religions in Japan, Death/Dying, Medical Anthro, 🇯🇵育ち🇺🇸人, author=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/spiritual-ends/paper, views=own
Nina C. Krickel-Choi @nckc.bsky.social Postdoc at Lund University | Visiting Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies
IR theory, security studies, climate change imaginaries, existentialism, IR in East Asia.
She/Her
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
Martin van der Linden @martinvdlinden.bsky.social PhD candidate in the study of religion, Linnaeus University, Sweden | Shinto, digital religion, aesthetics theory, popular culture, and critical media theory
https://lnu.se/en/staff/martin.vanderlinden/
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
Emily Anderson @imorianderson.bsky.social Sometimes scholar of Japanese Christianity and empire, sometimes curator of Japanese American stuff. I also knit and sew. And travel as often as possible. Also cat mom to Imogen the orange.
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
Tanvi Madan @tanvimadan.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookingsinst.bsky.social. Work on Indian foreign policy, the Indo-Pacific, minilaterals like the Quad
Author, "Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Rels During the Cold War." Host, Global India podcast
brookings.edu/experts/madant
Björn Lundberg @bjornlundberg.bsky.social Docent i historia vid Lunds universitet. Skriver om demokrati och beredskap, bland annat. Åsikter är mina egna.
Dr. Kristen Luck @resplendentluck.bsky.social Japanese law, society, politics, then add gender and stir. Librarian, Okinawa Collection and Japan Resource Center, George Washington University. Views are my own, but who’s paying attention?
Johan Jönsson @johanj.bsky.social Wikipedia, litteratur, språk, konst, allt som är vackert. Slumpad fakta.
Driver också Vendels förlag.
Jamie E @jamiedw.bsky.social Oxford, Russia, Sweden. he/him. No one knows who he is.... or what he is doing.
Moa Berglöf @moabrglf.bsky.social Female supremacist. No retreat, no surrender. Politisk redaktör på Sydsvenskan. Författare till Landsförrädare (2022) och Staben (2025). Go Gunners.
Wisti @wistikent.bsky.social Präst, bildkonstnär, författare
Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social Historian of ideas, knowledge, religion, political thought, Germany, and Sweden. 19th-20th century. Right now mainly researching Swedish atheism. Ungefär samma på svenska.
Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se Cultural critic and reluctant public intellectual. Hyperfixations include meme culture, anti-fascism, and esoteric internet lore.
Ceci n’est pas du content → doomscroll.se
Mostly 🇸🇪, occasionally unhinged.
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Tomas Poletti Lundström @ulftomas.bsky.social Associate professor in sociology of religion @ Centre for multidisciplinary studies on racism, Uppsala University.
Current research project: Antisemitism in Swedish pentecostalism 1930-1974.
Francisco Silva @drcisco.bsky.social PhD in the Study of Religion at the University of Manchester, PhD in Sociology at CIES, ISCTE-IUL. Anti-fascist, nerd, he/him. The History of Dungeons and Dragons: @dndhistory.bsky.social
Joel W. Abdelmoez @jwa.bsky.social PhD in Political Science from @lund-university.bsky.social & @cmeslund.bsky.social, MPhil from @cambridgegender.bsky.social. Review editor for @lambdanordica.bsky.social. Interested in time, gender, feminism, social movements, LGBTQ+ stuff and more.
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.