Rumsey Taylor @iamrumz.bsky.social 🤘🏻 rumz.org
John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social Writer. "BACKBEATS: A History of Rock and Roll in 15 Drummers" is one of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2025.
Also: "Homeplace," about Patsy Cline's hometown. "A Song for Everyone," about Creedence.
johnlingan.com
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
zota @zota.bsky.social Technology therapist, gonzo designer, grey-hat historian.
Los Angeles.
Linda Voris @lindavoris.bsky.social Stein scholar, professor, American University. Book, "The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing," https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-32064-9
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social assistant professor, film + modern literature + sound studies | amelia courthouse
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her.
www.jacquelynardam.com
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ dead serious, take flicks and don’t smile ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
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.
Josh Schneiderman @jschneiderman.bsky.social 
Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
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.
Emily Ogden @emily-ogden.bsky.social Essayist and English professor. Books: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Peninsula Press / U of Chicago Press); Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (U of Chicago Press)
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social Professor of United States literature, Arizona State; co-editor, ALH Review & The Dial; author, America’s England (2013) & Emerson’s Memory Loss (2018); allegedly storied; will bell the cat.
Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social Futurist, academic, writer.
Jeremy Braddock @jbraddock.bsky.social media studies sound studies modernism book history dub techno shoegaze music scoring baseball games
Giant Slide 19 Holes Underground Parking https://jeremybraddock.substack.com/
David Hering @davidhering.bsky.social No blind spots in the leopard’s eyes
Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com • philosophy professor
• editor of Daily Nous, philosophy news site
• person 
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 12/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social Executive Director of the Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social
Literaryartsfund.org
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social orca enthusiast / cat media theorist / contingent academic
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and the host of Some Marvelous Experience, a podcast about friendship and art.
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
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
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Jonathan Shainin @shainin.bsky.social 
Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social The magazine of the American Association of University Professors. https://www.aaup.org/academe | https://academeblog.org/ 
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social Books: DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE (2025) | TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES: GAME SHOWS IN FICTION & FILM (2019), CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE ERICKSON (2021)
www.mikemiley.com
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
Abigail Plumb-Larrick @eminencegrise.bsky.social Qualitative realness. UX research and product discovery. User research doer and teacher. Strong opinions, weakly held.
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Rebecca Schiffman @rebeccaschiffman.bsky.social New album “Before the Future” out now (July, 25, 2025) https://lnk.to/beforethefuturealbum
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social 
michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social screws fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place
books: Walkman | Alien vs. Predator | Equipment for Living: On Poetry & Pop Music | &c.
https://gunsnrobbins.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Free Palestine
http://bit.ly/3pY75Rz
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
OliverCorlett @olivercorlett.bsky.social Pedant, mostly lurking. 
MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social https://matthewhunte.com
(Dilettante-connoisseur, Luftmensch of the mind, Roamer among theories.)
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”
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
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.
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
B. Otterlake @izzz.bsky.social Creator of Bluesky
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Sasha Frere-Jones @sashafrerejones.bsky.social https://n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writing-about-2025/
Miles Klee 🦉 @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal: millionbear.44
book: https://asterismbooks.com/product/double-black-diamond-mads-gobbo-miles-klee
⚠️ user has been kicked out of Musso & Frank for wearing a tank top
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
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/
alex pareene @pareene.bsky.social this is a Star Trek opinions account 
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
andy™ @andylevy.net 83% of my followers have me muted
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Myles Jeffrey @donaldkaufman.bsky.social - B byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social western mass-based writer, archivist & poseur
BDM @bdmcclay.bsky.social critic & essayist / my dog's name is Boswell
i have a newsletter: https://notebook.substack.com/
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Lucy Sante @luxante.bsky.social writer, artist, enigma
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
clayton purdom @claytonpurdom.bsky.social i wear chains that excite the feds
Daniel Soar @danielsoar.bsky.social London Review of Books
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social pulitzer? i barely know her!
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in English Studies at Durham.
Opinions are mine alone but probably should also be those of my employer.
Dad account.
Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.