Daru Mcaleece @darustoryteller.bsky.social Gothic-tinged feral storyteller, writer, artist, & Druid. Embracing the strange. He/They
See Haunted Voices @ hauntpublishing.com
Support: http://ko-fi.com/darustoryteller
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org Non profit dedicated to restoring and conserving land and water across the United States - over 8,500 acres protected to date!
https://uniqueplacestosave.org
Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
@scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social
James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: https://amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
Alicja 🖋️🌘 @eveningsink.bsky.social ✍️ Writer (MA) | 🕸️ Literary horror & occult themes 📖 The Last of Adam (WIP) | 👁️Envy, godhood & tulpas 🖋️ Once a Leicester poetry cryptid | 🌀 ADHD pattern detection 🎭 4w3 | 👀 Observing & trying not to disintegrate.
The Adder’s Den @theaddersden.bsky.social 🏴 Scottish history, archaeology, folklore & more~ 🐍
📚 Blog: https://theaddersden.wordpress.com/blog/
✨ FB page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1An214KKj1/?mibextid=wwXIfr
#FolkloreAgainstFascism
Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social Grief horror author. 🏳️🌈 The Deadlands 2024 | Where The Soul Goes w/ Truborn Press. DICHOTOMY, coming March 2027 | EIC @strangewildspress.bsky.social. she/her
https://www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/links
Calamity @heycalamityyy.bsky.social Performance, Production, Narrative Design, & Dramaturgy✨ TTRPG, Theatre, & Video Games ✨ Founder & Creative Producer @taletellhearts.bsky.social✨ ♾️🥄🌈
Prev: Marvel Midnight Suns, Street Gods, Bitter Silver, Emerald Templars
📧heycalamityyy@gmail
@olilazell.bsky.social @olilazell.bsky.social
Scott Leminski @scottleminski.bsky.social I walk a lot.
Writer: Creates worlds from words.
WIPs
- Fantasy: The Oriana Chronicles
- SciFi: TPC Files
- SFF Shorts: Milieu
Ottawa, ON Canada
Dr Amara Thornton @amalexathorn.bsky.social Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
Ollie Douglas @olliedouglas.bsky.social Farm boy at @themerl.bsky.social (at Uni of Reading). Looks after old rural stuff in a big shed. On committee of British Agricultural History Society. Active in AIMA, RMN, and Folklore Society. Views own. “Iconic”.
Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
Watkins Publishing @watkinswisdom.bsky.social 👁️🗨️ Founded in 1893, Watkins Publishing is one of the world's leading voices in wellbeing, self-help, new thought and esoterica. Check out our central London book store Watkins Books. 📚
Folkwise @folkwise.wisefolk.org A show approaching tradition non-traditionally
twitch.tv/folkwise
linktr.ee/folkwise
John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social My book, SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE, is on sale now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separation-of-Church-and-Hate/John-Fugelsang/9781668066898.
Belinda @stonerwitch.bsky.social Terrible lefty.
NukaCafe @nukacafe.bsky.social ☕️Coffee Fixes Everything, Even a Nuclear Apocalypse
👽Creator of Cryptid Radio: A Fallout 76 Podcast
📧Contact Email: ttv.nukacafe@gmail.com
🔗https://linktr.ee/nukacafe
Zariya Hollow: A Horror Anthology @zariyahollow.bsky.social Zariya Hollow Podcast- host Reinhardt tells stories from Witchcrest Peak. Current Top10, Fan fav, 2nd season, ‘The Ghost in the Opera House,’ Gaston Leroux’s tale of love and mystery. Listen \/
https://linktr.ee/zariyahollow
zariyahollow.wixsite.com/home
Uncanny Japan Podcast--Thersa Matsuura👹👋 @uncannyjapan.bsky.social Podcasting the more obscure nooks & crannies of Japanese culture - Uncanny Japan. She/her. Crows. Fountain pens. Nature. Horror w/ a wry sense of humor. 🚫Fascism✊
✨New Book✨ - Legends of Japanese Mythology (mid-grade)
--> https://geni.us/JapaneseMythology
P.L. Rock @plrock.bsky.social A New Deal Democrat, writer of silly screeds, forensic accountant with a degree in Economics, musician of dubious talent, Senior Deacon, and lover of fairy tales, folklore, animals, gardening, and vinyl.
Loremen Podcast @loremen.bsky.social Loremen is a funny podcast about local legends and forgotten folklore. Support us on patreon.com/loremenpod. Watch stuff on youtube.com/loremenpodcast.
Knock Once For Yes @knockonceforyes.com A paranormal podcast where Lil, Fitz and their listeners share their experiences of the paranormal, haunted history, weird folklore and curious cryptids!
http://ko-fi.com/W7W6CNYX
http://patreon.com/KOFY
http://knockonceforyes.com
The Appalachian Folklore Podcast @appfolklorepod.bsky.social
Wyrd Folk Pod @wyrdfolkpod.bsky.social A duelling folklore podcast where the best re-telling wins. Write Wyrd. Listen Now. New episodes every Thursday. Available at Apple Podcasts/Spotify and Amazon Music
www.wyrdfolkpod.com
Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme.
Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators.
www.talesofbritainandireland.com
DreamSwarm @dreamswarm.bsky.social Hub and Podcast for Film, Stories, Art: Fantasy, Folklore, Folk Horror, Magic-Realism, Mythology, Psychogeography
www.DreamSwarm.org
Created by filmmaker Andy Mark Simpson
Spirits Podcast @spiritspodcast.com A boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore from around the world. Pairing legends and libations since 2016!
Dan Mitchell @specileptic.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, comedian, storyteller. PhD candidate. Friend of nature, hugger of trees.
Uncommon Folk- my folklore podcast is available everywhere https://uncommonfolk.buzzsprout.com
A Question of Death @aquestionofdeath.bsky.social Podcast exploring & improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry. Learning what death can tell us about living via conversations with those who work with the dead & grieving as well as examining death in folklore, history, art & food.
Am Fear Uaine 💚 @amfearuaine.bsky.social Spooky n booky. Folklore groupie. Scottish history / ethnology alumnus.
FSA Scot. Bookshop guy.
Tha beagan Gàidhlig agam. Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg.
Eco-socialist #GreenYes 💚🌍🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Member @scottishgreens.org
Albannach. Eòrpach.
Scottish. European.
Myth Monsters Podcast @mythmonsters.co.uk A bite sized look into the monsters of global folklore and mythology with Erin, a self-confessed, mythology nerd. On streaming platforms every Thursday! (she/her)
Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social Author | Art Historian | Cultural Adventurer. Arts journalist & PhD researcher in the Gothic & the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
India • Ladies of Lore Podcast @ladiesoflore.bsky.social Mythology Nerd 🐉| Historian 📜 | Bookworm 📚 | LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈| Host of Ladies of Lore podcast 🎙️
Which, if you’re interested, explores the badass women of mythology and folklore 🔮✨🐉
Find me on all major podcast platforms 🫶🏻
https://linktr.ee/Ladiesoflore
Rob @dartholdius.bsky.social TTRPG player, AFOL, slow runner, minor league scholar, metalhead, feminist
Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social I talk to teenagers about dead people.
42, AuDHD, Married & ATL. 🏳️🌈
BA History & MA in World History.
Currently Teaching:
- East Asia: 1368 to 1911.
- Women in Ancient Near East
- World History
http://Amy-Elizabeth.net/social
D. Brady @dbradyart.com A Lumimous being having a beer
Illustrator
he/him
Portfolio🎨: Dbradyart.com
Prints🖼: inprnt.com/gallery/dbrady
Email 📧: dbradyart@pm.me
What the Force? @wtforce.bsky.social Meta mythic podcast.
Host: @mariecgould.bsky.social
More Analysis at @wtfiction.bsky.social
TY 🐣 @tyblack.bsky.social ❤️🔥 more romance, less martyrdom 🐙 reylo-army-oshamir 🦋 symbolism is morally good 🏁 F1 fan ✨️ adults only 💗 wit & folly YouTube channel
The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com
WillowWinsham @willowwinsham.bsky.social Author and historian, specialising in witchcraft, folklore and cats. Co-founder of #FolkloreThursday
The Story of Witches - Out Now
https://bit.ly/3PNy8yC
willowwinsham.com
Arao Ameny @araoameny.bsky.social Reader | Writer | In my language Leb Lango, Arao means “to gather, to collect”, and Ameny is “to bring light” | Proudly Lango | 🇺🇬
📍Maryland, USA
🔗: araoameny.com
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki @penprince.bsky.social Hugo, NAACP Image Award finalist. Nebula, WFA, Locus, BFA, Otherwise award winner.
#ICFA44 GoH
Represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media & Vince Gerardis of Startling Inc.
He/They
Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social Professor of Democracy, Ethics, and Rhetoric + Mindfulness teacher-scholar-practitioner. Author of On Mindful Democracy (Parallax 2026). Newsletter: zenandtheartofdemocracy.substack.com Email: jde13@psu.edu
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Laurie Skantzos Art @laurieskantzos.bsky.social Hi! I’m an artist living in Guelph Ontario with my partner and a mini bull terrier. Nature, curiosity and colour is my jam.
https://www.laurieskantzos.com/
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social Bioinformatics Scientist / Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Biology, Next Generation Proteomics, Liquid Biopsy, SynBio, AI/ML in biotech // http://albertvilella.substack.com
Alexandra Beaumont - Folklore Fantasy Author @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social 🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
🧪 Follow us to uncover groundbreaking discoveries
🌍 Join a community passionate about progress and open science
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
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 only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Nathan Baschez @nbaschez.bsky.social Building, and writing
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: Intelligent Machines, AI Inside. Author of Hot Type, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social Psychologist. Sr Assoc Director Teaching & Learning @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, & MIND OVER MONSTERS
Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys speculative fiction, Halloween, and the sea. sarahrosecav.com
Talia Ringer @taliaringer.bsky.social
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Lex Fridman @lexfridman.bsky.social Host of Lex Fridman Podcast.
Interested in robots and humans.
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social // prof & writer 🍉
// words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc.
// podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social
// book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social Currently on organizing committee of FORCE2026, Singapore, 3-5 June 2026.
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu
Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social Educator, author, consultant. Associate director at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-author of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast. Birder.
Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social #ActuallyAutistic educator, writer, bibliophile who already loves your dog(s). Opinions are mine. Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
Antonio Byrd @writesantonio.bsky.social He/they and 🏳️🌈. K drama and anime and mostly reposting about whatever I think is interesting. I don’t get any attention here but happy to support others get engagement! 😃
Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University.
Cyborg writer and creative coder. Made in 🇵🇷. He/him.
Learn more about me at https://leonardoflores.net/
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed