JChianello @jchianello.bsky.social I'm running to be the next Ottawa city councillor for the fabulous ward of Kitchissippi in the Oct. 26, 2026 municipal election!
Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
🍁 John Zelenski @johnzelenski.bsky.social Psychology professor interested in personality, happiness, nature, sustainability, improving our science, and so much more. 🇨🇦
Author of Positive Psychology: The Science of Well-Being (Sage).
https://carleton.ca/happinesslab/dr-zelenski/
Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social Passionate about...just about everything! Especially Waterloo Region. 🇨🇦
Author of CitifiedWR blog https://citified.substack.com/
Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard
"Kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
https://linktr.ee/dtkmelissa
Ruth Mersereau @ruthmersereau.bsky.social Green Party Councillor for City Ward (Kelham Island/Neepsend/City Centre/Highfield), Sheffield City Council.
She/her
Binfluencer 🚮
Promoted by Eamonn Ward, 73 Eskdale Road S6 1SL, on behalf of Sheffield Green Party.
Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social B+ dad, NE MPLS resident, and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Sports: Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette
City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. An @asanews.bsky.social journal.
Erin Gaede @eringaede.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate at UW-Madison studying poverty/inequality, with a focus on housing, race/ethnicity, social movements, and rural communities.
Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social Critical Books for Critical Thinkers https://linktr.ee/fernwoodpublishing
Kirin Taylor @kirinrtaylor.bsky.social • POLITICS OF HOMELESSNESS • Human Rights: Economic & Social Rights • PhD Candidate & Teaching Associate in Political Science @ Syracuse University. • She/Her • All views are my own • https://linktr.ee/kirinrtaylor
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com Professor of political science. Author. Dad.
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
Kelly B @kellyblack.ca Public history. Museums. PhD. Tidal pool explorer. Vancouver Island - Coast Salish territories. Opinions mine etc. Newsletter: buttondown.com/leftcoastdispatch he/him kellyblack.ca
Méabh Temple @meabhtemple.bsky.social Housing justice & property law.
PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin
Sí/í
The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.
We have a francophone version as well!
https://thefunambulist.net/shop/66-beyond-global-south
Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright.bsky.social Architecture and design critic of the @theguardian.com
oliver.wainwright@theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-wainwright
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social A podcast about architecture, history, literature, science fiction and ideas
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Niall Murphy @murphyniallgla.bsky.social If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social Architectural historian, lecturer, author, specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. New book out now: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/palace-of-the-ether
Simone Ferracina @simoneferracina.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director, University of Edinburgh. BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet. Anti-fascist.
https://linktr.ee/simoneferracina
Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social Architectural historian teaching at community colleges.
Mr. Brutalism @jmings.bsky.social Official account of Mr. Brutalism. Architect/Founder of @aggregate-studio.com. Views are my own, y’all should love Brutalism and never skip Leg Day. He/Him/His
https://aggregate-studio.com
Anne Hultzsch @annehultzsch.bsky.social architectural historian. PI #ERCStg WoWA Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 @ETH. she/her.
https://wowa.arch.ethz.ch
Dr William Tozer | RIBA ANZIA 📍 @williamtozer.bsky.social Critic, educator, researcher, architect | Posting daily about architecture | Bartlett UCL PhD | also studied RMIT, University of Auckland | Founder of William Tozer Associates @williamtozerassoc.bsky.social
Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social Professor in the Sociology of Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Founder of brainybirdz. Speaker. Writer. Artist. Long Covid disability advocate.
Love books, food, photography, data visualisation, art.
Also @kerstinsailer@sciences.social
Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social Architecture is the name we give to all the physical and mental feelings we have in a built place.
Architecture is also a conscious joining of elements aimed at a meaningful whole.
I do this at Studioartec and Discourse Architecture.
www.e-artec.it
The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social The RIBA's peer-reviewed architecture journal. Published by Taylor & Francis |
www.thejournalofarchitecture.com & www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjar20 |
EiC @deljana.bsky.social
Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social Urban & landscape design, planning & research | Psychology | Public Mental Health | Wellbeing | Co-production of places
Ours is an anti-fragile approach, mixed with a little disrupting of the status quo
Graham Marshall + Prof Rhiannon Corcoran
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social Art & Architecture: Kreider + O’Leary
Associate Professor: The Bartlett, UCL
Co-Author: UNGOVERNABLE SPACES (Bloomsbury 2025)
www.kreider-oleary.net
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space. My new book, Contested Commons, is out now: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Director: Hypha Studios
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Anastasia Llewellyn @anastasiallewellyn.bsky.social PhD candidate in political science & public policy, University of Ottawa. Studying the intersection of language and housing activism in Wales. Sometimes lecture in translation, Concordia University. Usually somewhere between Odawa, Tiohtià:ke & Caerdydd. 🏴
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
It's Me. Lia. @liak.bsky.social Community Member
Music, Radio, Tech Nerdo.
Sentimentalist
Dog Person
Gilmore Girls rewatcher
Station Director @ #CKCU
Support independent Media
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/
awkword @awkword.bsky.social Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Co-Founder | @crushcolonialism.bsky.social Board • Work: Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Melina Abdullah, Pantea Javidan • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social
Joël León @joelleondanis.bsky.social Caraqueño en Toronto. Architect, researcher, plant caretaker. 
Ian Capstick @iancapstick.bsky.social Ethical tech exec, certified horticulturist and quilter. Queer. Likely topics: social justice, Indigenous rights, sewing, theme parks and gardens.🌱 Happy to help you & your plants, open for horticultural info/help by message or DM!
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social Island Press, an imprint of Princeton University Press, publishes books on today’s most pressing environmental issues, including climate and energy, ecosystems, environmental policy, and more.
https://press.princeton.edu/imprints/island-press
Tim Tierney @timtierney.ca City Councillor Ottawa
VP FCM
Chair, Public Work and Infrastructure
#1 NICKELBACK fan
Matthew Cook @anarchistfish.bsky.social Social worker on coast Salish Territories.
Shop Stewart in the BCGEU
Lousy Christian, worst anarchist. Politics of the Inferno.
Here for housing advocacy and silly
memes
Services on the Victoria Greens riding association
https://linktr.ee/vicbcgreens
Eleanor Mohammed, RPP, MCIP, EP @eleanormohammed.bsky.social Partner, Urban Governance & Planning @ DIALOG | UN-Habitat Professionals Forum Chair | Past President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners, Canadian Institute of Planners, & Alberta Professional Planners Institute #urbanism #cities
Canadian Urban Institute @canurb.bsky.social 
Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social Urban geography professor at McGill University • new cities built from scratch, cultural politics, graphic novels 🇨🇦
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Dr Tepi McLaughlin @healthtepi.bsky.social Public Health Researcher & Advocate | Physical Activity | Active Transport | Preferred name: Tepi | Views my own | Matthew.mclaughlin@uwa.edu.au
| LinkedIn @HealthTepi
Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social Anarchist, antifascist, cop hater, law breaker, Black and Dominican.
Razz Routly @razzroutly.bsky.social they/them | white, settler, queer, disabled, butch | geomatics and indigenous studies student @ carleton university
David Kaufmann @kaufmada.bsky.social Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, follow us @spurethz.bsky.social. I am researching and teaching policy and planning in and of the urban
OC Transpo Helps @helps.octranspo.com Ottawa’s Public Transit - Customer support & alerts: Mon-Fri 7AM-7PM, Sat 8AM-7PM, Sun 9AM-7PM.
Français: @aide.octranspo.com
OC Transpo @octranspo.com People moving people | For Customer support & alerts: @helps.octranspo.com | On se déplace pour vous | Pour l'assistance clientèle et alertes : @aide.octranspo.com
Blanca Valdivia @bancosyfuentes.bsky.social Urbanista feminista socia de Col·lectiu Punt 6
Territorios - Feminismo - Cuidados
Móstoles - Barcelona
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
Common Ground @cgroundpolitics.bsky.social #UAlberta researchers working with westerners to find common ground. Home of Viewpoint Alberta #ableg. Check out website so you don't miss our latest findings: http://commongroundpolitics.ca
Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social Political Science Prof and Laurier Research Chair | Federalism/Multilevel Governance | Political Economy | (Active) Transportation and Infrastructure Policy | Kitchener/Waterloo Region
More at https://tinyurl.com/4pzjpykm
Fe Balata @febalata.bsky.social Political economist and writer. https://fernandabalata.substack.com/ Associate Fellow (honorary) with @neweconomics.bsky.social but views here are my own. 🌎🌍🌏
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Jon Thompson @jonthompson.bsky.social Journalist. Belongs to Northwestern Ontario. Ricochet Media.
“Thunder Bay” now streaming on Crave.
Past words & baritone for Canadaland, CBC, TVO, APTN.
Brodie Conley @brodieconley.bsky.social love to learn✌🏻music (industries) person and researcher // 🎵: fine form // board: debaser.ca + @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social // https://brodieconley.carrd.co/
Miles in Transit @milesintransit.com I push transit to its limits, while attempting to be entertaining.
Brock University | FOSS @brockufoss.bsky.social The Faculty of Social Sciences (FOSS) at @brocku.ca examines the complexities of human behaviour, interaction and society.
Learn about the world around you and how you can change it.
Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social Critical Indigenous Policy Perspectives. Based at the Faculty of Arts, Toronto Met. University | linktr.ee/yellowheadinstitute
McGill TISED @mcgilltised.bsky.social The Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) at McGill University mobilizes education and public policy for sustainability.
Département de sociologie de l'UQAM @sociologieuqam.bsky.social Compte officiel du Département de sociologie de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (@uqam.ca)
Site web: https://sociologie.uqam.ca/ 
Dalhousie University @dalhousie.bsky.social This is Dalhousie University – one of Canada’s leading research-intensive universities, just steps from the ocean. 🌊
Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research @cogsresearch.bsky.social Official account of the Canadian Organization for Gender and Sex Research. Forging a transformative future for gender & sex science in Canada 🇨🇦
@yorkuniversity.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social 
Bishop's University @ubishops.bsky.social Official account of #UBishops.
Be ambitious. Be purple. B.U. 💜
ubishops.ca
StFX University @stfx-university.bsky.social Canada's Premier University Experience. University as it is meant to be.
Public History, Western University @westernupubhist.bsky.social MA & Undergrad Minor #PublicHistory @huronatwestern
@westernu @kingsatwestern. Affiliated with @westernumedarti IG: westernupublichistory TikTok: westernupubhist
#LdnOnt https://www.history.uwo.ca/public_history/index.html
WesternU Research @westernuresearch.bsky.social Supporting & celebrating research, scholarship, creative activity and innovation at #WesternU.
westernu.ca/research
University of Waterloo Faculty of Environment @envwaterloo.bsky.social We're Canada's largest Faculty of Environment, located within the University of Waterloo. Showing you what it's like here through a collection of photography.
UVic Scholarly Communication @uvicscholcom.bsky.social Copyright & Scholarly Communications @ University of Victoria Libraries
Advancing #OpenEducation, spotlighting innovative #UVic research, and decoding scholarly info policies. Follow for academic insights, news & updates.
🔗 linktr.ee/uvicscholcom
Saint Mary's University @smuhalifax.bsky.social Marked by iconic buildings, green spaces and fresh ocean air, Saint Mary's University is committed to a prosperous future for the world — a #WorldWithoutLimits.
Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social Researcher on urban planning and public transportation.
https://marcochitti.substack.com/
mollie bryant @molliebryant.bsky.social I cover housing & criminal justice for nonprofit news site StreetlightNews.org in OKC. Previously: Oklahoma Watch, JXN Clarion Ledger & Amarillo Globe News. bryant@streetlightnews.org and molliebryant.70 on signal
@badrabbitcat.bsky.social @badrabbitcat.bsky.social 
Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social She/her. Retired (first) Bicycle Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Disabled. Mobility justice. #KidicalMassHfx
hfx.bike
Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Jessie Stein @jessielaurenstein.bsky.social 📚PhD Candidate CUNY Grad Center EES and 🎸🎤 at the Luyas
Migration / pedagogy / politics / music
Ebru Ustundag @nomadicebru.bsky.social Critical #feministgeography. #graphicmedicine #Comics
Associate Professor @Brock UniversityGEOG
Co-chair @Graphic Medicine International Collective
Co-Editor @ACME Journal
Collaborator @Mapping Ann Marie MacDonald
Alkim Karaagac @alkimkaraagac.bsky.social Researcher, academic nomad, carer | feminist economic geography, labour, debt, home, social reproduction | @unibirmingham.bsky.social | @uwaterloo.ca | @queensu | @LSECities | @METU_ODTU | 52.4823° N, 1.8900° W
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Honor Brabazon @honorbrabazon.bsky.social Prof at SJU. Law, social movements, neoliberalism, universities, theory. Views here are my own.
Carleton DGES @carletondges.bsky.social Exciting work of our students and faculty in the Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Andrea San Gil León @sangilandrea.bsky.social 📖 Cities, transport, social justice, sustainability.
💜 Nature, dogs, music, art and reading
-Founder Centro para la Sostenibilidad Urbana
-Executive Director Global Network for Popular Transportation
-Global Shapers and Chevening FCO Alumni
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Jane's Walk Ottawa-Gatineau @janeswalkottawa.bsky.social May 3-4 2025.
Jane's Walk is an annual festival of free, community-led walking conversations inspired by the late urbanist Jane Jacobs
https://www.janeswalkottawa.ca/
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
Nathan Wener @nathwen.bsky.social York MES Planning candidate 2026 - Former City Hall Staffer - Love the sport with knife boots 🏒
J. B. Bartram @jbbartram.bsky.social Illustrator, ceramicist, graphic designer, studio gnome. She/her.
Pottery shop: heywitch.bigcartel.com
Newsletter: https://hey-witch.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Ottawa Architecture Foundation @ottarchfoundation.bsky.social Website: https://ottarchfoundation.com/