Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social Just another lefty urbanist #NOLATwitter in exile
Nerdy things I’ve made:
https://tupress.temple.edu/books/monument-lab-1
https://plotofland.monumentlab.com/
https://www.papermonuments.org/
https://small.tulane.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Myriam Mompoint @mmompointphd.bsky.social Humanities; African diaspora; Haitian Studies; Francophonie; pan-Caribbean; Brazil; fashion & textile arts; media/film, culture & memory
Televising Transnational Trauma (LUP 2025)
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836242666
Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social Public HS English Teacher in NYC.
Heather Freund @heatherfreund.bsky.social Caribbean, Atlantic World, and British Empire historian. Formerly part of the In the Same Sea project at the University of Copenhagen. Back in the U.S. now (reluctantly).
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist.
Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu
IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️🌈
My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social assistant professor of landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = mattering to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction-re-wilding. tell your dog I said hi.
Doris Morgan Rueda (she/her/ella) @dradorisita.bsky.social Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽
Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History
Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History, NYU. Opinions are mine; facts and evidence belong to everybody. If I'm not in the library I probably […]
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social Author, *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (UC Press 2018)
Doomscrolling glumly since about 2015
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
🏳️🌈 Megan McShea 🏳️🌈 @meganmcshea.bsky.social Lead Archivist, https://www.afrocharities.org/
Sunday poet
Baltimorean
she/her
Shea rhymes with day
https://megan-mcshea.github.io
Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social Comic artist (Real Hero Shit, Tell No Tales, The Nib), writer (KISS U, Mighty Nein Origins: Caduceus Clay, Midst: Ripples), illustrator (Dimension 20, Critical Role, +others). Prize-winning hog. Sprightly court jester. They/them. Kendrawcandraw.com
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
Rwany Sibaja @rwanysibaja.bsky.social Professor and cultural historian of Latin America (sports: 🇦🇷⚽️) | Orígen 🇨🇷y 🇺🇸| History Education | Enjoy ☕️+🧉| https://rwanysibaja.com [Opinions are my own]
Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com Host of HUB History, a Boston history podcast that goes far beyond the Freedom Trail. Freelance podcast producer. Recovering marathoner and current YMCA swimmer. Dog lover.
🔗 https://HUBhistory.com/
📍 Boston, MA
🎧 HUB History
Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social rhetoric, education, neurodiversity, dad humor. Author of Absence of National Feeling: Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (U. Press of Mississippi, 2025).
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social Historian of anarchism, labor, and the left in the Americas / Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Union College / Views my own, not my employer's
Jurretta Heckscher @jurretta.bsky.social Cultural historian & writer; ret. Early American Specialist, Main Reading Rm., Lib. of Congress. Orthodox Christian; politics follow Matt. 25:31-46. Lover of arts & natural world (N. America & Brit. Isles). Stop climate change, or little else will matter.- C Caroline Shaw @carolineshaw.bsky.social Historian @ Bates; Modern Britain & European empires; author of Britannia's Embrace on the long-19th-c origins of modern refuge; writing on the defense of reputation via British slander and libel law, c. 1750-2000.
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Michaël Roy @mroyupc.bsky.social Professor of History @upcite.bsky.social. Author of FUGITIVE TEXTS & YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS. Co-director of @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social.
Lloyd Belton @historylloyd.bsky.social Knowledge Exchange Associate and British Academy Postdoc at Uni of Glasow. I research African maritime history, abolitionism in the U.S, and slavery and race in Latin America.
Kristen Epps @historyenthusiast.bsky.social History professor, specializing in nineteenth century America. Author of Slavery on the Periphery (UGA), editor of the journal Kansas History. She/her. INFJ. Ideas and opinions my own. 💜 🦋
Darlene McDonald @darlenemcdonald.com Novelist. Essayist. Writer of Political and Civil Rights History
https://darlenemcdonald.substack.com
Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social Aussie archaeologist, PhD, obsessed with tool-using animals. Steward at Skara Brae, Orkney. http://twig.technology. Writing a book on intelligence with @abigaildesmond.bsky.social for Harvard Uni Press (2027). No AI.
🐒🦦🐙🐦⬛🐝🕷️🦧🐴🐠🪲🦜🐿️🐋🦀
Marie Francois @mefrancois.bsky.social History professor, research on everyday life in 18th and 19th cenury Mexico City, mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, feminist, anti-racist, scholar, author, historian
Randolph Scully @randolphscully.bsky.social Early American History and other stuff. COYS!
Rebecca loves trans people 💖 @rebeccahall15.bsky.social TTRPG player, ENNIE- and CRIT-NOMINATED Sprigs & Kindling editor, Readin' Magazine staff writer, collector of dance styles, mail carrier, queer disabled Jewish (she/they) 🏳️⚧️🍉✊
2026 📚 counter: 115/200
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social Order muppet, with regret. History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: davulis@jhu.edu. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
Roz Rothwell, PhD @rozsro.bsky.social Historian of premodern South Asia, European empires, and material culture
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
Morgan McCullough @morganmccullough.bsky.social Editor and Fact-Checker - Occasionally writing, frequently thinking about material culture and early America - W&M PhD
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov Proud dad, resident of Lewiston, and Blue Dog. Raised in Leeds and trained in the Marines. U.S. Congressman putting Mainers first.
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
Rebecca Toy, PhD @rebeccatoy.bsky.social
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social 2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
Deirdre Lyons @deirdrelyons.bsky.social Assistant Instructional Professor of History, University of Chicago. Historian of gender in the French Atlantic empire. Always seeking a cozy detective novel and a good 🍷
Phoebe Labat @plabat97.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Brown, 2023-24 Fulbright Doctoral Candidate in France. Historian | Marathoner | Bookworm | Loyola Greyhound | Dog-lover 🐕🦺 📚
Rachel Tils @racheltils.bsky.social PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
Eric K Ward (Woke Since 1619) @bulldogshadow.bsky.social EVP, Race Forward; Senior Fellow, Southern Poverty Law Center; Co-Founder, States At The Core (STAC); Co-Founder, CultureGuard. Boards: Auburn Theological Seminary, National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy, Proteus Fund. Fellow, Moment Institute #SAFC
Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own.
Garden Of Fortune @gardenoffortune.bsky.social This is the building account for @diveamydive.bsky.social’s choose your own adventure stories. It’s not a good idea to follow it, but I’m not your boss 🤷
Colin Coates @ccoates.bsky.social Historian of early French Canada, the environment, and utopias. Also a keen curler.
Evan Turiano @eturiano.bsky.social Historian of Slavery, Rights, Law, Politics • Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org
Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project @fssp.bsky.social The Freedmen & Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of the profound social revolution of emancipation in the United States.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social Author and journalist. Writing at https://michaeldeibert.substack.com. Enemy to autocrats. Friend to all cats. Piti piti, zwazo fe nich-li
Jacky Alciné @jacky.wtf Captain of @olamaelcu.net + other things.
I write on my blog at https://www.jacky.wtf.
https://www.olamaelcu.net/about/support/
sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social phd student in us history (quantification & govt data, esp. vital statistics) • former newsroom software engineer & data journalist • she/her • chicago
smbsimon.github.io
TheSouthernSHA @thesouthernsha.bsky.social The SHA formed in 1934 with a mandate to take an investigative rather than a memorial approach to southern history. We have been investigating ever since.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@ccarbs.bsky.social @ccarbs.bsky.social
Stephanie Richmond @profrichmond.bsky.social Historian of gender and race in the Atlantic world. Currently working on a #digitalhistory project tracing Virginians trafficked in the domestic slave trade. Parenting, pet photos, knitting and fiddle playing may also appear.
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Roberto Ignacio Díaz @robertissimus.bsky.social Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at USC | Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. | Author of “Latin America and the Transports of Opera” | Platonic Cyclist, Real Public Transit Rider | 🇨🇺🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇻🇪🇪🇸🇮🇷🇰🇷
Isaac Yuen @ekostories.bsky.social ✒️ Nature and Science Writer
🌍 Book: Utter, Earth, WVU Press
🎶 Book: The Sound Atlas w/ Michaela Vieser, Reaktion Books
🐫 Artwork: The Minimal Animal Project 🐋🦋🦑
🌱 Links to everything: linktr.ee/isaac_yuen
Alt U.S. Department of Labor @alt-dol.altgov.info The resistance team for the U.S. Department of Labor. Not an official government account. #resist #AltGov #NoKings ❌👑
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
Jac. Squigglesworth his accᵗ @largeforest.bsky.social Jac. Squigglesworth—what are his squiggles worth?
Discovering NYC @discovering.nyc Writer, public historian & former tour NYC guide sharing the stories behind intriguing pieces of New York City history. Elsewhere @Discovering_NYC, writing at discovering.nyc
Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan.
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
emily sunshine @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 2 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social Trying to fight the good fight at @americasvoice.bsky.social 🇺🇸 Immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ rights, cats 🏳️🌈 Cancer survivor. Views here my own ✨ San Francisco📍 🌁
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids
Escape the algorithm
http://newsfor38yearolds.com/
Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social Award-winning community college professor, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Immigration Movement. Alte kaker in training.
Views are mine, not my employer's, and are protected by the First Amendment.
www.BryanEdwardStone.com
Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social High school history teacher. Anti-fascist. Oakland. she/her.
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Former Dem staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Eric Smith/Becca Podos, Neighborhood Literary
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online Appalachian in Queens • Writer, editor, union member • My cathedral is built for a god to see so even secret places have ornament • They
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Sc'Owl @empowlr.bsky.social Using this to amplify. For personal/work stuff, mutuals find me at @empowlractual.bsky.social
Feed me: https://ko-fi.com/empowlr
I block blue crew resisters and people who put no DMs in their bios.
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