Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor for Language, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Oxford
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social https://dharlanwilson.com
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Heart Bomb @ideahaver.bsky.social New guy in town
Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social Dad (he/him). Shabbos goy. Antifascist Gen-X in NWMT. I dance like the king of the eyesores
Alicia K @wordnerdy.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
She/her
Mainly pics of cats! I wore a cool sweater on Jeopardy one time.
http://wordnerdy.blogspot.com/
Paul Gagliardi @pgagliardi.bsky.social Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player
https://paulgagliardi.squarespace.com/
Miles Stokes @gjallerbru.bsky.social X-Plainer of X-Men. He/him. Extremely offline.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Quantian @quantian.bsky.social Locked in and posting regularly on here now
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
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Robert Tally @roberttally.bsky.social Professor
Adam Ochonicky @adamochonicky.bsky.social associate professor at UW Oshkosh | teaches/writes about nostalgia, regionalism (American Midwest), film, literature, comics, professional writing, genre (horror and science fiction) | still buys CDs and print books | he/him
lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social features writer, new york magazine
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Evolutionary biologist. Professor. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). Vimy, not Vichy. He/him.
Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social Public health & economic & AI warnings. Health and economic policy. Former 16 years at Harvard. DC & Virginia.
✏️ necsi.edu/eric-feigl-ding
🐥 x.com/drericding
📰 bit.ly/raisealarm
📝 drericding.substack.com/subscribe
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Infectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social Infectious disease news.
Sharing reports on outbreaks, from bird flu to Ebola.
Now on Substack :)
https://outbreakanalyst.substack.com/
Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social Real-time infectious disease modelling. Developing methods for outbreak response, surveillance, and pandemic preparedness. samabbott.co.uk
Come join me on the epinowcast forum: https://community.epinowcast.org/latest
Dave Larsen @dalarsen.bsky.social Epidemiologist at Syracuse University working on infectious disease surveillance, outbreaks, and response.
Maeve Cullinan @maevecullinan.bsky.social Global Health Security journalist at The Telegraph. Contact: maeve.cullinan@telegraph.co.uk
Covering infectious diseases, viruses, bacteria, parasites, AMR, vaccines, climate change, conflict, human rights, reproductive rights, etc.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Eric Hittinger @elephanteating.bsky.social Inaugural Director of RIT's School of Public Affairs, WILL International Chair at Univ. of Lille, & Past President of the US Association for Energy Economics. Batteries, renewables, electricity markets, and emissions. Sometimes I bike across the continent.
Fabio Fernandes @fabiofernandes.bsky.social Writer, translator, editor.
Jornalista, pesquisador, professor.
Criador do Observatório do Futuro (PUC-SP).
Esquerdopata, surrealista, budista.
Autista nível 1 de suporte.
Posts in English e em Português.
https://fabiofernandeswriter.com/
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @handle.invalid I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
My Triptych newsletter:
https://triptych.oxus.net/
ML Kejera 😐 @mlkejera.bsky.social he/him. a The Gambian. writer. Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship Recipient. Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlistee. Such a normal guy
Website: mlkejera.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social See link below for Manson book!
American Studies, UMass Boston
Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB
🇵🇸
Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson.
skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
My book, Contemporary SF and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, is available here: https://tinyurl.com/4p55avcy
David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
Emily V Gordon @emilyvgordon.bsky.social Current writer. Former comedy booker. Former therapist. Co-writer of The Big Sick et al. She/her. Adamantly from NC. @wintercoatfilms.bsky.social
reclaim UC @reclaimuc.bsky.social 
ZSW @zsw.bsky.social
I teach American Studies, labor history, and abolitionist university studies. Also I post about birds.
https://abolition.university/
Hunter Felt 🏳️⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social "Rachel Getting Married" LARPER. Writing about music, comedy, sports and pop culture (email hunterfeltblog@gmail.com). "Doll with problems." I'm my own Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Pic is a younger and cuter me. 18+
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working and living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Sameena Mulla @ratnagiri77.bsky.social Anthropologist writes/teaches/dreams/eats. Emory WGSS. Posts my own. Fieldwork in B'more + MKE. Weary, wary, ever hopeful. My books: http://tinyurl.com/yf5erks6 My series: https://tinyurl.com/4dpbjvpx My website: https://www.sameenamulla.com
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
W. Ron Sweeney @wronsweeney.bsky.social The W is silent. Just here to talk writing, sports, comics, and everything else. Sorry I can't help with your election.
Sarah Kizuk @smkay.bsky.social Skidmore College in philosophy; settler colonialism, affect, and place; cat & snack fan. she/her.
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
Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social Educational Technology Strategy. Currently: Northeastern U. Previously Woolf, Trinity, CCSU, ProfHacker
edtech / digital humanities / LFC / &c
Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
Ben Robertson @benrobertson.bsky.social 
Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, four cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
fabius @fabius.bsky.social Failed out of academia into diplomacy
PhD: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/45406
movies: https://boxd.it/wx9b
books: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/herrsurth
Jeff Posnick @jeff.posnick.org Working on developer experience & tooling at Bloomberg.
https://jeffy.info
Sheryl Posnick @sheryl.posnick.org I ate the lotus.
Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social writer, anticarceral policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/him. https://linktr.ee/edidin LOOKING FOR WORK.
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
@jameshaus.bsky.social @jameshaus.bsky.social 
Nickey (they/she) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @bestorb.bsky.social Academic advisor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Recovering academic. PhD in Media Studies.
They/she
Kelsey @kelseysquire.bsky.social English prof. Studies American women writers. Editor at the Willa Cather Review.
eddi vulic ☀️🌙🌬️🌧️ @zidaya.bsky.social teacher of mathematical habits of mind,
medievalist in temperament,
reader,
he/him
insta: zidayastar
mastodon:
@zidaya
tumblr: zidaya
Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social Poet-errant
amishtrivedi.com
Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social English prof at King's / Dalhousie (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Joe Regan @jregan.bsky.social Music, travel, books, comics, 20th century pop culture, MKE, bikes, and then some. Happily retired too.
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social Board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS): https://anarchiststudies.org/
I teach English and translate a lot of things into it
Interested in New Materialisms, Indigenous struggles, SFFH by BIPOC, Kafka, Yiddish...
Antifascist. He/him.
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Jack Hamilton @jackhamilton.bsky.social Professor of American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia and pop critic for Slate magazine. Author of JUST AROUND MIDNIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL AND THE RACIAL IMAGINATION 
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Historian. Edit Dissent magazine, providing intellectual resources for an effective democratic left. Culture/politics podcast Experts in a Dying Field. Book: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America
Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social Social-media user.
Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social Writer, editor, just this guy. Occasional stories: https://www.unreality.net/writings. I also publish the quarterly zine Kaleidotrope. (He/him.) 😷
Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social How to do things with words and computers. Assoc. Prof of Digital Humanities at BYU. Formerly at Twitter, ProfHacker, ello, and The Aquabats.
Photo by https://instagram.com/marktwhitney/.
Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social Working to make higher ed more equitable & joyful. Obsessed w/ fungi. Books: Unexpected Flourishing (2026), Presence of Absence (2024), Putting Humanities PhD to Work (2020). She/her
President, NYC District 15 Community Education Council // opinions mine
Jeffrey R. Villines @jeffinthebowtie.bsky.social HCC English Faculty | Fantasy Author | Occasional Actor | he/him | www.jeffinthebowtie.com
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
sf & tv memes @uncannytreks.bsky.social Bob, mid academic moonlighting as mid cohost of glorious podcast Uncanny Treks
comics, philosophy, Star Trek, X-Men, Legion of Super-Heroes
https://rss.com/podcasts/b5ds9/
Stephen @stephenmk.bsky.social full stack web developer. former religion professor. basketball fan.
Jesse Stommel (Jessifer) @jessifer.bsky.social Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazel’s dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
James South @southjb.bsky.social Academic, psychotherapist, cat fan.
He/him
Owen Goldin @owengoldin.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, doing mostly ancient philosophy, Gardening, music, politics. 
Baryon Posadas @baryon.bsky.social Science Fiction, Empire, Japan
steve yuhan @shyuhan.bsky.social 
lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net academic and aspiring person who likes winter.
contemporary lit, digital stuff.
i’ve written about sci fi, national security and fiction, the humanities, bunkers, and chatbots. now writing about novels and how long they are.
https://lindsaythomas.net
Jenny Rhee @jsrhee.bsky.social AI, art, and speculative fiction 
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
Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent publication: Making Finance Legible https://academic.oup.com/ips/article-abstract/20/2/olag015/8666259
Natalia Tobin @nataliatobin.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD - writing on SF & Jack Womack. Teaching at UNE.