betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
Aled Singleton @aledsingleton.bsky.social Place-based and economic development research Cardiff Business School. Methods based around arts, walking and psychogeography. Treasurer RGS-IBG Participatory Geography Research Group. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/singletona1
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Ames Clark @amesclark.bsky.social Sociologist - interested in care, abolition, temporalities, & political imagination
Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Dawn Lyon @dawnlyon.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of Kent. Researching sociology of time, rhythm, work and everyday life https://research.kent.ac.uk/daat-coronavirus/
steph @urschrei.eurosky.social Alleged geographer at the ⋂ of cities, technology, and climate adaptation. A reluctant polygon enthusiast, I occasionally work on computational geometry and spatial data algorithms, which I promise almost never to discuss.
Tess Osborne @tessosborne.bsky.social Digital health geographer
Chair of the DGRG & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Digital Geography & Society
An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing.
Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social The official bsky feed of the RGS-IBG Digital Geographies Research Group (DGRG)
https://digitalgeographiesrg.org/
@rgsibg.bsky.social
Kiaran Ratcliffe @kiaranmaps.bsky.social GIS Consultant with the Higher Education team at Esri UK. A page to share fun and interesting spatial analysis and map things! 
Simran Tapaswi @simrantapaswi.bsky.social Trans feminist philosopher. Research interests: gendered embodiment, sexual violence, gender dysphoria
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Abel Guerra @abelguerra.bsky.social PhD student the London School of Economics | Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University | platforms, labour, datafication, infrastructures, knowledge and urban space | (he/him/ele) 🏳️⚧️🇧🇷
Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social Postdoc at Tampere University, Finland, researching queer histories of rurality and DIY / 'ITE' art
I'm a cultural geographer w/ special expertise in visual geographies and geographies of sexualities. Also write on affect, emotion and asexualities.
Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Micaela Donabella @mcdonabella.bsky.social phd candidate @ umiami. teaching/writing disabled futures. she/her. t1d #insulin4all. 💉🤖
Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social Assistant professor at San Jose State studying the ambiguities: English ed, curriculum, affect, teacher experience.
Read my work here: https://sjsu.academia.edu/ScottJarvie & here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott-Jarvie
Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social Join Hannah Ayres and Paola Medina-Gonzalez as they try to understand theory.
For any business enquiries email us at, theoryishpodcast@gmail.com.
We are a Shakira Stan Account
Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
Gary Kafer @gkafer.bsky.social Teaching Fellow, Cinema & Media Studies, UChicago • researching surveillance technology and digital culture
https://chicago.academia.edu/GaryKafer
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social Human Geographer & Asexualities Researcher exploring asexual geographies in Ireland (she/her) 💜🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍉
University College Dublin School of Geography 🌍
Former Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar
https://www.rachel-bayer.com/
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, GEM, University of Waterloo. Economic and cultural geography of work through Marxist, feminist, queer, and affect theory. Mostly I'll post about books and stuff. (he/him) 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=6HzsgfsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social Poet. Geographer.
Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk Bristolian. Snr Lecturer Digital Geographies, Exeter. RGS-IBG Deputy Chair Digital Geographies Research Group. See also @geocritbot.uk
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social capacious | affect theory | imbricate!
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift
More here:
http://www.unemployednegativity.com
Casey Boyle @caseyboyle.fail assoc prof of rhetoric
caseyboyle.fail
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com
we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Rob Drew @slobster48602.bsky.social Prof @svsu, author Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody (AltaMira, 2001) and Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke, 2024).- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social Academic, queer crank, radical depressive. Partly enigmatic, partly fossil.
How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-the-earth-feels
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
Derek McCormack @atmosphericthings.bsky.social Irish. Professor of Cultural Geography. University of Oxford. Mansfield College. Immigrant. Own(ish) views and images. He/him.
Lindsey A. Freeman @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social Lindsey A. Freeman, writer and professor interested in running, soccer/football, and poetics. Her most recent book, Running, is about practice, love, queerness, and long-distance running (Duke).
Insta: atomic_lindsey_freeman
www.lindseyfreeman.net
Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org
Current research: Valerie Solanas 🖤 bit.ly/valeriesolanas
Chris Breu @breu.bsky.social Author, Professor, Leftist, Music Geek, Theory Nerd, Intersex (hypospadias), (he/they).
Elizabeth Ault @lizault.bsky.social 
Omar Kasmani @kasmanio.bsky.social Berliner-by-love & cultural anthropologist @FU_Berlin | intimacy, post-migrant be/longing, queer + affect theory | author of Queer Companions (2022, Duke UP)
@jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social 
David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social Digital theory and sound studies prof (yorku); past pres SLSA; quasi-practicing (non)musician.
-Co-edit Proximities book series (UMinn)
-Author: Humanesis: Sound and Posthumanism (UMinn); Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke), and others
Juno Salazar Parreñas 🏳️🌈 @youknowjuno.bsky.social - Author of Decolonizing Extinction: the Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
-General Anthropology Division President
- Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Mehdi Semati @msemati.bsky.social Professor, (Global) Media Studies, Internet-Distributed TV, Cultural Studies, Cross-border media, Digital Diasporic Media, #terrorism studies
Jenny Rice @jennyrice.bsky.social Texan/Kentuckian. I study rhetorics of extremism and other weird stuff.
Author of Awful Archives: conspiracy theory, rhetoric, and acts of evidence
https://www.amazon.com/Awful-Archives-Conspiracy-Rhetoric-Evidence/dp/0814255795
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social Writer/ethnographer/professor, author of “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (DUP 2019) she/her/free Palestine 🍉
https://www.maurafinkelstein.com
Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Desiree Foerster @dfoerster.bsky.social senior research associate @ UChicago. studies phenomenology of digital and environmental media.
Book: https://meson.press/books/aesthetic-experience-of-metabolic-processes/
Web: https://dfoerster.org
Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. 
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Phaedra C. Pezzullo @phaedra.bsky.social Professor @ CU Boulder Environmental & climate justice, sustainability & storytelling, environmental comm. Editor UC Press+ Taylor&Francis. Author: Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution & Networked Cultures of Care. Opinions=mine https://phaedracpezzullo.com
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. https://linktr.ee/ChloeLum
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com
PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies.
Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
lisa lowe @driftinghouse.bsky.social prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo @cgrbravo.bsky.social Latin American literature & cinema | human rights & memory | Environmental humanities | Politics of affects/ emotions | Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton | Egresado de UConn, UNal., Caro & Cuervo. 👉🏽 https://www.carlosgardeazabalbravo.com
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social BOOK: https://www.dukeupress.edu/together-somehow
I party so you don't have to. He/him, with notable exceptions. Gay affinity animal: capybara. Opinions are epiphenomena of discourse and power—and also my own.
theluisgarcia.Carrd.co
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Margot Weiss @margotweiss.bsky.social Writer, professor, queer anthropologist. Books: TECHNIQUES OF PLEASURE (Duke), QUEER THEN AND NOW (Feminist Press), and UNSETTLING QUEER ANTHROPOLOGY (Duke).
margotweiss.com
Anu Koivunen @anukoivunen.bsky.social Media Scholar, Professor of Gender Studies, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies @UniTurku, Finland.
#pyöreäpöytä @radiosuomi
#mediakolumni @SuomenKuvalehti
Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).
Kembrew McLeod @kembrew.bsky.social Writer, media maker, prankster, professor. Author of The Downtown Pop Underground, Blondie’s Parallel Lines and Pranksters. Executive Producer of Copyright Criminals. 
eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social 🕸️🍥 writer / educator 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.eun-song.org 🍥🕸️
🕸️🍥 www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting 🕸️🍥- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Michael D. Snediker @mdsnediker.bsky.social Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c. 
Jayson Harsin @jaysonharsin.bsky.social Professor, American U. Paris. Dir., Ctr 4 Media, Comm, & Global Change. @ topical x-roads of Political Deception, Persuasion, Influence, gender,Economic Rights. For my recent publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1gK3IjoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi
Homay King @homay.bsky.social Author, teacher, scholar. Film, contemporary art, digital culture. California raised, Philadelphia based.
https://linktr.ee/homay.king
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project