Alfred E. Neuman ( MAD Magazine ) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social Author of ALGORITHMIC REALISM: DATA SCIENCE PRACTICES TO PROMOTE SOCIAL JUSTICE (Oct 6, MIT Press). Assistant Professor of Information and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. https://www.benzevgreen.com
Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social C19 enthusiast | Professor and Head of English
at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from
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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.
Amal El-Mohtar is at Worldcon @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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...😜
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer Assistant Professor of Data Science @ Cal Poly SLO
Phd in accessibility, tool-making, vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Move slo and repair things.
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social assistant prof at Wisconsin CS. #NLProc, computational social science, cultural analytics, responsible AI. she/her. Previously at UW, Berkeley, Ai2, MSR, Stanford. lucy3.github.io
Francesca Gentile @fgentile11.bsky.social Associate professor & writing program administrator in the big ROC. Probably watching soccer. Maybe flipping through dusty vinyl somewhere.
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ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
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.”
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Chris Lindgren ✨☕️✨ @lingeringcode.bsky.social #techcomm is cool. Working for socially just data practices in community and professional contexts.
Partner on The Rematriation Project: rematriate.net
Personal Site: clndgrn.com
he/him/his
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
Jason Tham @jasontham.bsky.social 👋 Associate professor at Texas Tech University
⭐️ UX + design thinking + shared leadership
📔 New book: https://linktr.ee/jason.tham
Christian F. Casper @cfcasper.bsky.social Ann Arbor, Michigan
Personal account
Dominus illuminatio mea
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov Mom. Combat Veteran. Blackhawk pilot. U.S. Senator. Illinoisan.
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social Manuscript theorist. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ (2026) https://www.routledge.com/Memory-and-the-Digital-Manuscript-Resurrection-Divinity-and-New-Materiality/Thomas/p/book/9781032966656
Vault of Culture @vaultofculture.bsky.social The Vault of Culture is an edited, semi-scholarly space devoted to publishing a wide range of approaches to a variety of cultural and aesthetic objects: https://www.vaultofculture.com/
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Sarah s @sarahsonic.bsky.social Librarian. Cats. Crafts. (Sometimes, cat crafts.) Random stuff I learn. Assorted nerdy interests.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).
Tia Levings, Writer @tialevingswriter.bsky.social Author of NYT Bestseller A WELL-TRAINED WIFE. Anti-Fundamentalist, mother, artist, hiker, friend.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Jamilah Lemieux @jamilahlemieux.bsky.social Writer (Vanity Fair, The Cut, Slate), editor, cultural critic and amateur stand-up.
Carolyn Hax @carolynhax.bsky.social Ned’s person. Advice person, Washington Post and syndication.
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses. 
Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
DHQuarterly @dhquarterly.bsky.social Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Indexed in Web of Science.
http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
Ghost of Feminista Jones Future @feministajones.com 45. Aries. Made in The Bronx. Alphabet Mafia. Extreme Band Mom. I LOVE FILM!! Certified Cat Lady. Before you reply to argue…don’t.
Stephanie Sheffield @stephaniesheffield.bsky.social Teaching Professor, union member, Mitten dweller. "This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful." (From "Good Bones," by Maggie Smith) Opinions mine. Cat is not.
AJ Hogg @alanhogg.bsky.social Up in Michigan
Philip Derbesy @philipcolin.bsky.social avid reader
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. 
Brett Ashley Kaplan @bashleykaplan.bsky.social I am a writer (Rare Stuff, novel) and professor (University of Illinois) brettashleykaplan.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
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