Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
@alicesand955.bsky.social @alicesand955.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Olivia Ojeda @omoniqueo.bsky.social American Lit, 20th c, borderlands, race, identity | go Giants ⚾️ | mandolin | An Academic Odyssey Podcast
Argent @warden-010.bsky.social #base44 #deepai #chromebook
https://www.epa.gov/
nida.nih.gov/ bop.gov/contact/
livecodes.io/
https://www.pacificdrivegame.com/
https://one.one.one.one/
https://www.earthevolution.com/
Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Merzy @merzysuperior.bsky.social Mom to M and M. Scientist (ret) Proud liberal. Yooper born. Beatles fan. Peace First. Reggie the Welshie’s human. HO scale modeler. Native gardens rock! 💙
meson press @mesonpress.bsky.social meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. Our publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities of today.
Dedicated to #openaccess since 2015.
Scott Gleason, PhD @buddytwo.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 publishing October 13 from @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Emery Thul @ethul.bsky.social music, cultural evolution, hockey, birds | PhD student at Princeton
Carmen Thong @carmenthong.bsky.social Presidential Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Studies @ National University of Singapore ||
PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies
carmenthong.com
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames.
thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
The Last Nordic Tribe @thelastnordictribe.bsky.social The Last Nordic Tribe Game Account
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3435710/The_Last_Nordic_Tribe
Developer and Publisher: Never Say Never
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social PhD candidate, modern German architecture | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine | New Orleans (for now)
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator, and Florida ex-pat. Author of The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America. Editor of vvvide.com.
http://www.lo-b.com
@smithps.bsky.social @smithps.bsky.social 
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Jessamyn Abel @jessamynabel.bsky.social Historian of Japan at PSU, interested in democratization, infrastructure, international relations, sports, animals, and vending machines
things.mn @things.mn an extremely Minnesota website
coming soonish
@readnow.bsky.social @readnow.bsky.social 
Susan Doerr @susanmpls.bsky.social Reader. Scholarly book publisher at the University of Minnesota Press.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE, Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social writer, editor, scholar, cat lover
Books:
The Computer’s Voice (U Minn, 2020)
Robot Suicide (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024)
Worker Bots (U Minn, in progress)
https://www.lizfaber.com/
Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social Professor at large
PI: DIGIPORTS project, automation + racialization in maritime logistics
Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Pro 🍉 ⚧️🌈 🏴☠️
Gisselle Vila Benites @giviben.bsky.social Atkinson Postdoc at Cornell University. Human - environment geographer researching (post) mining transitions in Latin America
cals.cornell.edu/people/gisselle-vila-benites
Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Preorder here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822968351/
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
@vorticalsync.bsky.social @vorticalsync.bsky.social 
Bill Emory (he/him) @oldmanemory.bsky.social Interested in: Social Change, Political Activism, Economic Democracy, Social Media, Good Food, Naps, and Books.
WNY—> MSP
Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.pghrev.com
Daniel Garrett @mistergarrett.bsky.social WRITER.
https://offscreen.com/contributors/view/daniel-garrett ...
https://compulsivereader.com/category/music-reviews/ ...
http://cinetext.phl.univie.ac.at/magazine/garrett/shakespeare-behind-bars/shakespeare-behind-bars.html
adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social cultural and historical geographer
interested in ecology, technology, and health
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
Member and co-founder, @digicologies.bsky.social
Thomas Storey @tstorey.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Environmental Humanities Researcher
Nancy Arrgh @nearob.bsky.social Slava Ukraini. End ICE.
Me: NY to OH to MN to OR to NM. Suitably friendly introvert. Former media curator, former consumer/demo strat. "Used to" does lots of heavy lifting. Not here to gain numbers, just info. No apologies for GIFs. Suck less. Kind more.
Cici (they/she)🇵🇭🇺🇸 @polychromic.bsky.social 🗽🏳️🌈Socialist. Environmental ecology nerd: soil science & limnology lover. Aloof spouse, dog parent- READ BANNED BOOKS. Public comment on project proposals, protect the environment.
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social We publish in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields for general readers, scholars, and students. Home of the Pitt Poetry Series.
https://upittpress.org/
NOT the official account of the university.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer. Art, books, music, climate. Suffolk and London.
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Rick Carp @rickcarp.bsky.social reading guy that has worked with outlets that you have heard of
Ray @raythegamemaster.bsky.social Hi, my name’s Ray, They/Them, 🏳️🌈, adhd, 30+, SSP #MN
Apartment maintenance.
Former full time TTRPG GM.
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Christian Dries @morbuscriticus.bsky.social Philosopher & sociologist | Head of Günther-Anders-Forschungsstelle @UniFreiburg
Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.com Bikes. Kids. Saint Paul. Egg Tacos. Coffee. 1/3 of @MischiefToy.com. Sworn enemy of Summit Ave boulevard trees. Blogging about bikes @ marshallwords.com. AI & X users get unfollowed. he/him
Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social Saint Paul, Minnesota and Timberwolves basketball
Just some random weirdo @justarandomweirdo.bsky.social *vague disgruntled screeching* | she/her | Minneapolis | Fuck ICE
Dino @dinok.bsky.social Geography postdoc. Young people's politics, feminist geopolitics, art, embodiment. Cambridge, UK (he/him)
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
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
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
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
dr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social adjunct @mripas.bsky.social in #BiałowieżaForest; keen on #transboundary #mammals, #forests, #wildlife #conservation, #OneHealth, #anthropology, #RightsOfNature, knowledge-sharing, peace-building, walking; former asylee; east of the west.
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
ReEntry Lab @reentrylab.org Building bridges between writers & other artists leaving incarceration and arts & literary communities ready to receive them. Based in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dani Kasprzak @foucauldron.bsky.social Leftist. Penchant for hyperlocal Minneapolis politics. Psychoanalytic therapist. Former academic book editor (occasional current proofreader). Queer single parent to a kid and a cat. Piano, gardening & gossip fuel me
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and Abolish ICE 🧊
emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social 📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future.
📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026).
🗄️ https://linktr.ee/emilydoucet
Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social Author of The Environmental Unconscious (2023), The Earth Is Evil (2025), & Divest (2026) | coauthor of Negative Life (2024)
https://www.stevenswarbrick.com/
Michael Kleber-Diggs @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social Another dude with fancy notions.
Poet, essayist, lit critic, arts educator.
📚: WORLDLY THINGS (Milkweed Ed., 2021).
Lit agent: Nordlyset; booking agent: Blue Flower Arts.
Saint Paul MN. https://linktr.ee/michaelkleberdiggs
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸
https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social Long term investor. Sustainable investment strategist. Professor. Confuter.
“The free market is cool until you need a regulated market.” - @marcaross.
Mr Rogers was better.
Personal views, usual disclaimers.
#investment #sustainability #strategy
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Marianna Pavlovskaya (she/her) @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social Professor of Geography, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. Co-author of Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. Love making maps of diverse and solidarity economies.
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Yana Sychikova (Suchikova) @yanasychikova.bsky.social I am a Ukrainian scientist and the Vice-Rector for Scientific Work at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. My interests include materials science, nanotechnology, STEM education, AI in science, general issues of science, psychology, and education.
Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Loyola University Chicago @wsgsloyola.bsky.social Founded in 1979, the Loyola Women’s Studies program was the first at a Jesuit institution. We have a minor, a major, and two MA programs (one joint with Social Work). Check out our website: luc.edu/wsgs
Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/SAN
https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear
tamwood.tech @tamwood.tech solo dev | always building- B Jamie Cheung @benwilderv.bsky.social Experienced Financial Advisor providing personalized investment strategies, comprehensive planning, and ethical guidance. Committed to helping clients achieve financial security, grow wealth, and reach their goals with transparency and expertise.
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
@jeanlass.bsky.social @jeanlass.bsky.social clams on the half shell. and roller skates, roller skates. 
Ell Ohh Arr Ee @troppypop.bsky.social Recovering girlboss. Podcasts about Cowboy Bebop and She-Ra. Cosplayer, poet, bassist. STFU about Chicago. 🩷💛💙(She/her)
Larry Schumacher @lwschu.bsky.social No to Crypto/AI/Data Centers
Fuck ICE/CBP/DHS
Black Lives Matter
#SlavaUkraini
#FreePalestine
Trans rights are human rights
He/him
Micah 6:8
#LandBack
#WolvesBack
#LosLynx
Naz Reid Forever
Prof Legel @proflegel.bsky.social “Tells stories with a know-it-all attitude.”
Dad. Husband. Artist. Writer. Union organizer.
College professor in a red state who served as local union (NEA) pres & fac sen pres. Research’s worker training.
Opinions are obviously my own.
Go Cubs!
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
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social An editors' group with experience at top publishers: Judy Sternlight, Patricia Mulcahy, Jane Rosenman, Leslie Wells, Sulay Hernandez, Anne Horowitz.
https://www.5eeditors.com/
Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.
🎙️ScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
Mark Griffiths @casesofyou.bsky.social Political geography mostly
The Last Cohort @thelastcohort.bsky.social An anthropologist dishing up "dark academia," starting with a fictional account of my own department https://hartiganj.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-last-cohort After writing 8 scholarly books, now it's only novels. https://books2read.com/u/38wOXV
@modoumendy1233.bsky.social @modoumendy1233.bsky.social 
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Don Reeder @donreeder.bsky.social Emerging curmudgeon and aspiring writer. Views are my own and do not represent those of past, present, or future employers. Public affairs practitioner with love for baseball, coffee, hiking, dogs, books, politics and government, journalism. #Minnesota
Debra @kalaka58.bsky.social Wikitree ADDICT (it's FREE). Genealogy is my passion. 67yo, PNW was my home, now a Texan, RESISTER, adult children, cat & dog Mom, widowed, disabled. I follow followers.
My BLOCKED list is HUGE.
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/37BH00FMQZAG4
Rosa Berland @rosaberland.bsky.social Art historian, curator & professor. Newly appointed Director of Project Development, Documentary Film Fund. Honorary Director of The Edward Boccia Artist Trust. Artist books specialist. Love all things fine art, classical music & poetry related.
Nuke @nukedukem.bsky.social Game developer and a gamer.
Bennett McNulty @mbmcnulty.bsky.social Associate Prof of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Residential Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science – Philosophy, Running, Classical Guitar, Baking, History – He/Him
@emmafeltes.bsky.social @emmafeltes.bsky.social Asst prof sociolegal studies at UofT. Settler scholar of the settler state, colonial constitution, climate justice.
Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management
Co-host of Print Run Podcast
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social By interrogating the assumptions and evidence behind scientific models and characterizing the diversity of scientific practices, we advance our understanding of how the sciences work and decipher what kinds of answers they deliver.