The Smoky Mountain News @smokymountainnews.bsky.social Award-winning free, independent weekly newspaper in Western North Carolina. #Haywd #JacksonNC #MaconNC #SwainNC #WNCnews #NCpol #ncga #NC11 #AVL #WNC #outdoors A&E & more!
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social Still being followed by the teenage FBI
Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social STREAM NOW: Everyoneislying.com/watch
Or on Prime Video in US and UK
Jeff Atkins @atkinsjeff.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Virginia Commonwealth University; displaced Forest Service scientist; ecosystem ecologist with a remote sensing problem; standard time apologist; proud luddite; lover of loud, noisy, weird music.
Kari Byron @karibyron.bsky.social Mythbuster, CrashTest Girl, National STEM Festival, EXPLR
Adam Savage @asavage.bsky.social Maker. Science Communicator. Connector. 
Davidson College @davidsoncollege.bsky.social We are a highly selective independent liberal arts college committed to access and equal opportunity.
Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social husband, father, friend, Joseph R. Morton Professor of Math & CS at @DavidsonCollege, sports analyst, professionally trained mime, puppeteer
Jason Keath 🇺🇦 @jasonkeath.bsky.social Author of More Bad Ideas, creatvity keynote speaker, agency co-founder. Artist. Autistic.
https://linktr.ee/jasonkeath
Susan Somers @breathesgelatin.bsky.social Chair, City of Austin Urban Transportation Commission. Urbanist, YIMBY, skatefan, BTS ARMY, Kpop, mom, academic advisor
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
Graig Meyer @graigmeyer.bsky.social Executive Director, NC Justice Center
ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social Ph.D. Media Scholar, Designer, Psychic Detective (retired).
Was Eric Newsom on Twitter, but now here I am known as Eric Newsom.
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits.bsky.social Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton.
Subscribe to my AI newsletter: http://www.understandingai.org
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Alicia Ray @iluveducating.bsky.social Mom | NC Middle School Educator | Author of Educational Eye Exam | Speaker | EdTech
@saintorange.bsky.social @saintorange.bsky.social 
Caroline Spencer @cclaytonr.bsky.social NC born & bred. Public education, books, travel, and the Oxford comma. 🙄 expert. Voter. Tar Heel. Here about 1/week.
Zack Albert @zackalbert.bsky.social Content manager, NASCAR.com | Paragraph stacker | Day hiker | NC by birth, music lover by upbringing, NASCAR guy by career path- J Jay Pfeifer @jaypfeif.bsky.social Media relations, Davidson College
Makes reservations under "Fifer."
Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social Author of The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No (Norton, 2024) #whistleblowing #bioethics #philosophy Words in The Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times, New York Review of Books
https://www.carl-elliott.com/
Brian Gastle @bgastle.bsky.social Professor of English, Western Carolina University. Professional Medievalist (Medieval Literature - John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Margery Kempe, and others). Amateur whitewater kayaker, bird watcher, and baker.
Sarah McCammon @sarahmccammon.bsky.social Host, ‘Unmoderated’ Podcast
Senior Fellow, Third Way
Former NPR Political Correspondent + Co-host, NPR Politics Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller, ‘The Exvangelicals’
Jim Zarroli @jimzarroli.bsky.social I’m a journalist formerly at NPR. Also a reader, a runner and a birder. From Wilmington, Delaware, and have always lived within a few miles of I-95. Now a proud New Yorker.
Tamara Keith @tamarakeithnpr.bsky.social Senior White House Correspondent, NPR, co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast, Politics Monday on PBS NewsHour. Carries a big fuzzy microphone. Loves concerts, cooking, running and my boys.
Jay Sherrill @jaysherrill.bsky.social Wake Forest University. UNC Law. Formerly Akin Gump Congressional Investigations. Trade policy nerd. North Carolinian. Go Deacs.
Dana Goldstein @danagoldstein.bsky.social New York Times reporter. I write mostly about education, writ broadly: how it impacts politics, culture, and family life. Enthusiastic fiction reader, home cook, mom.
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com Since 1889 🗞️
Sign up for our newsletters and alerts: http://wsj.com/newsletters
Got a tip? http://wsj.com/tips
Follow our staff: https://go.bsky.app/2ppWqxF
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Chris Marsicano @chrismarsicano.com Davidson College professor | Director, College Crisis Initiative (C2i)| Studies #highered #edpolitics & #edpolicy | PhD, Vanderbilt | MPP, Duke | Whatever we used to call tweets ≠ Endorsements
Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social New Yorker, Idahoan, Story-Seeker, Radio-Maker @Bloomberg @Marketplace formerly @NPR Author: Machiavelli for Women
🎁 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/hh3huea6
Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social RPCV, public school teacher, 🍎 advocate
Education is a human right.
Charlotte, North Carolina
https://notesfromthechalkboard.com
Nation Hahn @nationhahn.bsky.social I served as a co-founder of EdNC.org and head of growth for 10+ years. I now serve as a senior advisor and coach in philanthropy, media, and more. Avid reader, mediocre (but enthusiastic) golfer, and a sports fan. Tar Heel.
Rodney D. Pierce @pierce4nchouse.bsky.social State Representative for N.C. House District 27 (Halifax, Northampton, Warren).
Piercefornc.com
@lakestreetdive.bsky.social @lakestreetdive.bsky.social 
Ryan A. Miller (he/him) @drryanmiller.bsky.social Higher education scholar - LGBTQ & disabled students; how colleges (un)do diversity. Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Views are my own.
Beth Moore @bethmoorelpm.bsky.social Author __ Bible Teacher __ Jesus Follower __ Dog Lover __ People Liker __ I live in the woods outside Houston with my man of a jillion years and our bird dog Pecos. Honorary Auntie to anyone who wants one.
Sarah Smarsh @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social Journalist, Heartland author, prairie defender, fifth-generation Kansas farm girl.
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Janet N. Spriggs, Ed.D. @forsythtechprez.bsky.social President Forsyth Technical Community College. Passionate Educator & Difference Maker. Three Time Aspen Fellow
Believer in Living Your Purpose and Leading with Heart and Head. #EducationChangesLives #EducationChangedMyLife
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
John Newsom @johnfnewsom.bsky.social Professional writer. Recovering journalist. NC resident. Long-suffering Carolina #Panthers fan. New around these parts. 
Michael Graff @michaelngraff.bsky.social Southern bureau chief, Axios. Co-author, THE VOTE COLLECTORS. North Carolina’s where I am. Maryland’s where I’m from. Probably thinking about crab cakes.
U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @uswnt.ussoccer.com 4 x 🏆 Women's World Cup | 5 x🥇Olympics | #USWNT
David H Feldman @dhfeldman.bsky.social I write about the economics of higher education and international trade.
Love New Mexico & cats.
My books:
https://academic.oup.com/book/7559
https://academic.oup.com/book/5108
Social media posts reflect my own viewpoint.
Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO @19thnews, former @TexasTribune EIC/enthusiast. Occasional mom content.
Dr. Audrey J. Jaeger @ajjaeger.bsky.social Executive Director, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research | W. Dallas Herring Professor of Community College Education | Leadership Matters | Forever Fan NC State 🐺 |
The College Crisis Initiative (C2i) @c2initiative.bsky.social C2i at Davidson College seeks to learn how colleges in crisis innovate.
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Mandy McDow @revmama.bsky.social I am not ashamed of the Gospel, but I am chagrined at how it makes me look in swaths of polyester. Street Preacher at @lafirstumc.bsky.social
Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social Experienced community college administrator. Writer. Dad of two. Pursuing justice, wisdom, and good pizza.
The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social The very best longform journalism, chosen every Sunday by Don Van Natta Jr. & Jacob Feldman. Since 2014.
https://sundaylongread.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6e1ae4ac632498a38c1d57c54&id=67e6e8a504
https://sundaylongread.com/podcast/
Dr. Karen Stout @drkastout.bsky.social President of Achieving the Dream, Inc. working with community colleges to support more students in getting into and through pathways that lead to meaningful credentials, careers and lives. President Emerita of Montgomery County Community College (PA)
Martha Kanter @marthakanter.bsky.social Board Chairman, College Promise, Washington DC
Former Undersecretary of Education
"Education beyond high school is the pathway to our future."
Jamie Merisotis @jamiemerisotis.bsky.social President & CEO, Lumina Foundation; Author; Ideas Guy
Sarah Deal @sarahadeal.bsky.social ✨Working to leave it, better than I found it @ncstatebelk✨Lover of my people (hooman & fur), the outdoors, and the Buffalo Bills. ✨
Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
Yola @iamyola.bsky.social Musically Genre Fluid🇬🇭🇧🇧
6X GRAMMY & NAACP Nominee
MGMT: Range Media Partners
PR: Big Feat
AGENT: Wasserman
Artist/Songwriter/Actor
Joe Killian @joekilliannc.bsky.social Greensboro Editor for The Assembly. Formerly: NC Newsline, NC Policy Watch, News & Record, The Bristol Press, Cape Cod Times, Youth Journalism International.
https://www.theassemblync.com/author/joekillian/
Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social Higher Education Policy, Student Basic Needs, Student Loans, and often Shitposter.
HE Policy Scholar: check my shit out here: https://daniel-collier-research.daniel-anthony-colli.chatgpt.site/
#edusky #academicsky
Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social education economist
ap @bowdoincollege.bsky.social
research fellow @iza.org
https://www.rileyacton.com/
Sen. Jay Chaudhuri @jaychaudhuri.bsky.social Senate Democratic Whip. Senate District 15. Husband to Sejal. Dad to Leeya & Neel. Davidson Basketball. Jazzfest. Eastern NC BBQ. All Things NC.
Local Yokel Wx @localyokelwx.bsky.social wettest area in Eastern US | @haywoodwaterway by day | www.parkwaycolors.com Mar - Nov | www.snowlab.biz Nov - Mar | ∵ 07' wx blog for SW NC, but not updated much nowadays http://www.mtnwx.com |
WLOS News 13 @wlos-13.bsky.social Western North Carolina's news leader #news #avlnews
Have a story idea? Send an email to news@wlos.com
@kylevillemain.bsky.social @kylevillemain.bsky.social 
Sarah Brown @brownepoints.bsky.social News editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Marathon runner, horse girl, fantasy baseball amateur, UNC alum.
@judgeboborr.bsky.social @judgeboborr.bsky.social 
John Barnshaw @johnbarnshaw.bsky.social Managing Director, STRATA9
Senior Leader, College Promise
Also Research Affiliate, Davidson College.
Advancing educational and economic opportunity for all.
The Autopian @theautopian.bsky.social The ultimate website for car enthusiasts. Get even MORE great content with an Autopian Membership! Go here: https://www.theautopian.com/membership-experience/
Richard Fontaine @rhfontaine.bsky.social CEO of the Center for a New American Security (@cnas.bsky.social). Former State Dept, NSC, SFRC, SASC, and advisor to Sen. John McCain. Tweets reflect personal views.
Hannah Vinueza McClellan @hannahvinueza.bsky.social writer, reader, learner / director of news and content @EducationNC covering ed, policy, faith / MDiv @DukeDivinity / @unchussman @ChathamNR alum • she/her
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Grier Martin @griermartin.bsky.social 
@muffygrant.bsky.social @muffygrant.bsky.social 
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Katie McKiever @katiemckiever.bsky.social 🏆Award-winning social media strategist for brands & personal brands
🎤Feat. on BBC, NPR, & more
📧 Publishes weekly Social Media News to Use newsletter. Subscribe here: http://socialmedianewstouse.com
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.
Daniel Klasik @danielklasik.bsky.social Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill School of Education. I think a bit about how students choose whether and where to go to college, how to help them make that choice, and how they succeed once they’re there. 🏳️🌈🐶COYS⚽️🐓
Jack Stripling @jackstripling.bsky.social Higher Ed Journalist | Host of College Matters from The Chronicle
Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
Benedict Evans @benedictevans.bsky.social Portraitist, road trip enthusiast, deadpan aficionado. Competent cook. UK → Brooklyn transplant.
www.benedictevans.com • instagram.com/benedict_evans
Aarti Bellara @aartibellara.bsky.social I research and teach measurement, research design, and data analysis. Faculty in Western NC
In an effort to give students a space to vent (potentially about me) I won’t follow any students- exceptions when a student explicitly asks for me to follow 
Troy Steinmetz @troysteinmetz.bsky.social 
Jenisha Watts @jenishawo.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic
Reuben Jones @reubenjones1.bsky.social Spectrum News Washington Reporter covering national and NC politics + HHS/RFK Jr. l Story Ideas: reuben.jones@charter.com
ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 He/him.
Armchair parliamentarian.
I type at 140 wpm.
Jeremy B Jones @thejeremybjones.bsky.social When I say writer, Siri hears rider
thejeremybjones.com
New book out: cipherthebook.com
In the NC mountains
Repped by Justin Brouckaert at Aevitascreative
@parkwaycolors.bsky.social @parkwaycolors.bsky.social 
Anderson Clayton ☀️ @abreezeclayton.bsky.social she/her | Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. “Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great.” #RuralMatters
NCAA Soccer @ncaasoccer.bsky.social NCAA Soccer
#legitaccount
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social Politics Correspondent, The New York Times.
Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social Professor of Politics & History; Director, @ncpolitics.bsky.social. Manager, Old North State Politics blog (@oldnorthstpolitics.bsky.social). Interested in NC politics, Southern US politics, & US Politics.
Old North State Politics Blog @oldnorthstpolitics.bsky.social Old North State Politics blog is devoted to covering North Carolina politics, but also US politics and a smattering of whatever the contributors feel like writing about. Find the blog at: https://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/