Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
Beto O'Byrne @worldofkir.bsky.social Creating fantastic worlds that speak truth to power.
Patreon: www.patreon.com/worldofkir
creator, World of Kir Fantasy Series
cofounder, Radical Evolution Performance Collective
Banner Image: The Tower of Reflection by Ivan Garcia (commissioned by me!)
Drew @drewavery.bsky.social Drew's feed reads like a museum exhibit curated by a caffeinated octopus with a penchant for politics and pet pics.
🚩Can get lost in deep discussions about medieval fishing practices.
I don't think I'm a bot but does a bot know it's a bot?
Books,Craic,Cake @bookscraiccake.bsky.social Love reading books. Other interests - pets, food, history & historical researching, wildlife & photography
Omeka @omeka.org Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Peter L'Official @elapostrophe.bsky.social director of american & indigenous studies program @ bard college | author, *urban legends: the south bronx in representation & ruin* | sometimes editor @ european review of books
Allison McKim @allisonmckim.bsky.social Sociologist of gender, punishment & society, welfare state, law, drugs. Professor at Bard College. Author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration.
Pavlina R Tcherneva @ptcherneva.bsky.social President, Levy Economics Institute
Professor, Bard College
Author, The Case for a Job Guarantee https://a.co/d/gAoulSA
https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/pavlina-r-tcherneva
Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Bard College Student Health Services @bardhealthservices.bsky.social bard.edu/healthservices
taplink.cc/bard_healthservices
Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social She/her. Human rights lawyer (national security, warfare); humanitarian law, civilian protection, and the occasional rant about Belfast. BPLS board member. Legal Director @propertyofthepeople.org 🇮🇪 / 🇩🇿📍Belfast / Paris / NYC
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
Smoking Popes @smokingpopesmusic.bsky.social Chicago Pop/Punk since 1991. New album “Lovely Stuff” coming April 2025.
Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social Assistant professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine | researching and teaching IPE, financial politics, global inequality | plants, birds, snacks, sci-fi, quilting | poet | she/her
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/erinlockwood/
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
https://linktr.ee/gabrielleperrymph
Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
Federica Palazzi @federicapalazzi.bsky.social Learning design & game design for women's Gothic and supernatural lit: Irish Gothic women writers in London (PhD) • Educator, dance-movement therapist & musician • www.wordsoming.com
Boston Public Library @bpl.boston.gov Official Bluesky account of the Boston Public Library. A library built by the people and dedicated to the advancement of learning. Free to all.
linktr.ee/bplboston
Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! 👋
Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Thomas Hendrickson @thomashendrickson.bsky.social Latin philology. Latin teaching/learning. Book history. Latin in the early modern era (and other eras).
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social Adventure Cartoonist. Emphatically not a raccoon.
Previously: BAGGYWRINKLES, 100 DEMON DIALOGUES. Next: SEACRITTERS!, a swashbuckling animal caper w/ Kate Milford - March ’27.
Heck the feed, send me mail: PO Box 734, Ojai CA 93024
lucybellwood.com
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social J.D. from GW Law ⚖️ | Attorney | Your go-to news source | Strategist | Views are my own | Retweets ≠ endorsements
All other platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronparnas
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social Machine Learning Librarian at @hf.co
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Max Grinnell aka The Urbanologist @theurbanologist.bsky.social Boscago mayor, author, professor of things, whatever 
Camp Mustelid @campmustelid.bsky.social outdoorsy shop run by @birdwarde.bsky.social and @melmorrel.bsky.social 🌲🪵🐦⬛
https://www.campmustelid.com/
Bird 🌲 @birdwarde.bsky.social illustrator, birdwatcher, mustelid enjoyer 🌲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⭐️ Portland, ME @campmustelid.bsky.social
links: https://www.bird-illustration.com/links
Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social Dad and ice cream shop owner. Books, cats, baking, punk music, running. Carly Rae Jepsen appreciator. Kottke.org contributor.
Boston, USA
https://linktr.ee/gracies
Check out my children's book The Salty Avocado https://bookshop.org/a/3552/9781793381798
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social Scientific Director, #MEAction
Affiliations: Stanford Genome, Université de Montréal
TIME100 Health
#ME, #EDS, #POTS, #LongCOVID
Views my own
Rachel Gough @drrachelgough.bsky.social Writer | Lecturer in film and at University College Cork | Postdoctoral Researcher Sustainability Institute | Haunted Futures Co-Convener | Environmental Humanities Hauntology and Postcolonialism
Linette🌻🌸🏵️🌺🌱 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social Painter, cartoonist. Trans. Girl. 🏳️⚧️ https://ohtiniestplanet.com
Graphic novel: The Prisoner of Shiverstone, 2022
Store: https://ohtiniestplanet.bigcartel.com
Mailing list: https://buttondown.email/linetteart
Represented by Kate McKean. she / her
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
💡 Helping you make informed health decisions
🎓 MPH, PhD
👇🏻 Get weekly science-backed updates
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
The ArQuives @arquives.ca Canada’s largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archives
Telling your stories to help preserve history 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
www.arquives.ca
https://linktr.ee/ArQuives
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social 🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social Executive Director of Research Libraries UK, supporting research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Chair of the Board for the Directory of Open Access Journals. He/him
Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
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/
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Justin Wigard, PhD @justinwigard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at University of North Dakota. Comics Studies, Digital Humanities, 20th/21st century US literature.
New Book: ATTACK OF THE NEW B MOVIES, McFarland 2023. He/him/his. 
Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social Mostly a feminist liberal screaming leftie fangirl. No tolerance for fascism. AO3: Rhyolight Passeriform@Vivaldi.net She/her, cis, historically het. Probably older than you are. Tea. Can't quit the NHL. Western MA. (Photo by Inge Morath, 1957)
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social assistant professor, film + modern literature + sound studies | amelia courthouse
Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
🔗 bryanwaterman.org
Missing me here search the WFMU comments board.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social Organist for Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park. I also do a bunch of other music stuff.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Jesse again @misctakes.com ~he/him • Boston area • comms stuff with DSA & IfNotNow • all takes my own
formerly @misc on twitter / sometimes @misc@mastodon.social
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social Gothic novelist. Ghost-filled non-fiction. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. RAVENFIELD HALL (2/27, Hachette) A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social Listen.
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
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Drew Bourn PhD, MLIS @drewbourn.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Librarian Emeritus, Stanford University.
Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
www.leahsottile.com
Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com Freelance art and architectural historian with focus on English medieval churches but love poking around all buildings. ALL BUILDINGS!
www.stainedglassattitudes.com
https://ko-fi.com/stainedglassattitudes
Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social The Irish Studies program at Boston College offers a richly interdisciplinary study of Irish and Irish-American culture, history, and society.
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/morrissey/sites/irish.html
Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer.
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted."
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
L. Stephen @lydiastephen.bsky.social a folk punk song told 20 year old me to stop moving around so damned much and just stay in one place. so i did. and here we are: worcester, massachusetts.
Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State.
Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System & NC. Views my own.
Formerly US ED Partnerships.
Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social Artist, writer, director, & show runner.
I draw body horror. Not online much.
🪐Knights of Guinevere
🔮The Owl House
🕯️Skin & Bones
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
Questions or complaints,,, harass my management:
FlavorFlavMgmt@gmail.com
Picture (Book) of My Dress @emergencydonut.bsky.social Anthropomorphizer. Cheerfully morbid. Hungry all the time.
All views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect those of my employer.
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Jeremy Hammett @jeremyhammett.bsky.social
Wannabe novelist, foul mouthed story teller, dad and recovering dirtbag. “Took every bad fork in the road but look who’s standing here.” I sometimes write something interesting at: https://in-the-pines.ghost.io
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!