Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Jaco Zuijderduijn @jacozuijderduijn.bsky.social Associate professor │ Economic History Department, Lund University │ Book: Medieval Capital Markets │ Project: Retirees and pensions of the past │ @GiroMedieval
Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
Views own
she/her
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social Senior Research Data Steward at UCL's Advanced Research Computing department @ucl-arc.bsky.social, sometime clinical trial conduct methodologist, palaeopathologist, archaeologist, & food historian | #DataSharing #OpenScience #HealthcareSystemsData
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Salil @salilb.bsky.social used a monkey's paw to wish that the Knicks would be good again. i regret nothing.
occasionally talking climate politics/policy when not screaming about the Knicks/Yankees.
Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia at Exeter. Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of migration, caste, and indenture.
Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. Researching change, inertia and public engagement in energy transitions.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/19656-iain-soutar
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Raphaël Guintoli @raphaelguintoli.fr Digital - Media - Adtech
Interested in digital / ad tech
Alumni of LinkedIn (MSFT), Accenture
Newsletter Raphaelguintoli.fr
X.com/raphaelguintoli
LinkedIn.com/in/raphaelguintoli
https://github.com/RaphaelGuintoli
contact@raphaelguintoli.fr
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
The Planetary Lab @theplanetarylab.bsky.social The Planetary Lab is the working name of Exeter Science Centre, a charity (CIO, charity no. 1194239) dedicated to public engagement with STEAMM: science, tech, engineering, arts, maths and medicine. Based in Devon, UK.
@mbanister.bsky.social @mbanister.bsky.social
@sh-amil.bsky.social @sh-amil.bsky.social
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
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
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Bruce LaBelle @brucelabelle.bsky.social Organic Chemist; Retired Cal/EPA-DTSC Environmental Chemistry Lab Director; ultrarunner; enjoy exploring the natural world and learning from people in fields far from my own. #PFAS #POPs #EDCs #CECs #EndocrineDisruption #Obesogens
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
yourlocalarchaeologist @localarchaeologist.bsky.social Archaeology student at KU Leuven | Especially interested in paleoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology | Also active on Instagram as @yourlocalarchaeologist
Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Maxim Romanov @maximromanov.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader (“The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” /EIS1600/), Uni Hamburg
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Sahar Aziz @saharazizlaw.bsky.social Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School | Author of “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom” | Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu) | Host, The Race and Rights Podcast | Views my own
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter | Editor of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Pierre Lovato @pierre-lovato.bsky.social Medieval historian. MA student (Rennes 2). Research on Dominican justice and disciplinary practices in Poland (1451–1517). Interested in mendicant orders, manuscripts and digital humanities.
Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk
#FRHistS
#WCCWiki
Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social I blog about premodern history, religions and myth, languages and literature, and gender and sexuality. BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
Mohamed Qassiti @mqassiti.bsky.social Student at @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social|History of Medieval Studies|Medieval Science and Education|Medieval Mediterranean|Latin-Arabic entanglements esp. translation movements
German and History Tutor
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social Prof in Human Geography at University of Exeter researching spaces of science & technology, human & animal health, research involvement & responsibility. Currently works on animal research & its replacements. Unexpected interest in chronic pain & FND.
Musheղ Asaտryan @as-mush.bsky.social Historian | Islam, Late Antiquity, Abbasids, sectarianism, heresy and stuff | Assoc. Prof. at UCalgary
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MusheghAsatryan
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350985858
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
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/
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now.
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Chris Tiplady @christiplady.bsky.social Haematologist. Medical Education. Realistic Medicine. Cycling.
🚴♂️ to work!
Blogs https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/news/blog-the-empty-chair.html
Deborah Black @dlblack58.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
Medieval and Classical Islamic Philosophy
Joel Blecher @joelblecher.com History Professor at George Washington U | Islamic History & Thought | Said the Prophet (UC Press) | Merits of the Plague (Penguin Classics) | Now writing for Basic Books | ex-berliner, Wissenschaftskolleg | sometimes morse code www.joelblecher.com
Jonathan AC Brown @jonathanacbrown.bsky.social https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
https://georgetown.academia.edu/JonathanACBrown
Evrim Binbaş @evrimbinbas.bsky.social Historian | @UniBonn | Timurids, Turkmens, some Ottomans, occasionally modern historiography | fountain pen lover | proud Phrygian
Adam Ramadhan @aramadhan.bsky.social PhDing at Universiteit Leiden on the social and intellectual history of early Shiʿism. Co-Chair of shiistudies.net.
Dr Wahid Amin @wahidamin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Islamic Philosophy | Al-Mahdi Institute
Paolo Sartori @psardor.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @oeaw |
Editor of JESHO and JCAH |
Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/
Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
Zayde Antrim @zaydeantrim.bsky.social Editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social, author of Routes and Realms (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Cyrus Ali Zargar @czargar.bsky.social Al-Ghazali Professor at UCF's Department of Philosophy
Marya Hannun @maryahannun.bsky.social Managing Editor of MERIP.
Post doctoral researcher at University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Lonny Harrison @lonnyharrison.bsky.social Slavicist specializing in the shadows of Russian literature from Dostoevsky to revolutionary terrorism and Soviet authoritarianism. Growing obsession with Polish lit & history. Husband, runner, dog person, audiophile. https://lonnyharrisonresearch.uta.edu/
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Anna Gili @gi-anna97.bsky.social I love trail running and cycling uphill—just too afraid of the downhill to go pro, so I decided to study medieval medicine instead.
Maryann Sue @mscb.bsky.social Someone who sees hearts in the sky and wants a better world for all. ❤️ 🇵🇸 🕊 📚 🌳 🌎
Colin Mitchell @cpmishell.bsky.social Medieval/Early Modern historian of Iran, Central Asia and India at Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
E-Biker & Lover of cats
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Clelia Crialesi @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social Premodern philosophy & mathematics
🇪🇺 🇫🇷 MSCA fellow @cnrs.fr SPHERE
www.mathematicalia.com
Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social • Global Medieval History & Marxism @ University of Edinburgh • @ucu.org.uk Rank & File • Support #FreeOcalan, #DelistPKK & @bdsmovement.bsky.social • Omnia Sunt Communia •
Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social Brown Viking. Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Scandinavia, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
Pieter Coppens @pietercoppens.bsky.social Islamic Studies
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/pieter-coppens
University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social All of the latest news from @uniofexeter.bsky.social - updated by the Press Office. Reposts aren't necessarily endorsements
Rob Haug @robhaug.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic World History at the University of Cincinnati
Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Arabic Bible | Manuscript Studies | Book History | Provenance | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/team/tarras-peter/
Tobias Niedenthal @klostermedizin.de History of Medicine/Pharmacy
● Medicinal plants in Europe
● Herbal anti-infectives
● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany)
-> klostermedizin.de
Jay Rubenstein @medievaljay.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in other stuff
Dr. Haris A. Durrani @hdernity.bsky.social Prize Fellow, Harvard.
Law, tech, history. Space. PhD Princeton, JD/BS Columbia. Author, Technologies of the Self.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/Haris_Durrani.html
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Anca Streinu-Cercel @ancastreinucercel.bsky.social Anca Streinu-Cercel M.D.PhD
Professor Infectious Diseases -Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Senior Specialist infectious diseases - National Institute of Infectious Diseases "Prof. Dr. Matei Bals"
Aya Homei (保明綾) @homeiaya.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine in modern Japan, Japanese Studies U Manchester. Science for Governing Japan’s Population (CUP, 2023).
Jörg Matthias Determann @determann.bsky.social Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Author of “Teaching Science Through Science Fiction” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy.” https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social Academic Editor, Translator & Indexer at Normseite
Publications Manager at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Retired Historian
shiraz @alisyedshiraz.bsky.social vap @brown.edu
cover: Urak Valley, outskirts of Quetta
Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own