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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is a global network of professionals working together to advance the scientific study and conservation of birds.
COMMENTING POLICY: https://americanornithology.org/about/governance/social-media-policy/#commenting
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social The CCP is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
Posting a new series on July 4-6: What to the Colored Conventions is the Declaration of Independence?
ColoredConventions.org
Hannah Goeselt @hgoeselt.bsky.social Boston/Cambridge based. MLIS. Lurking in the depths of the Mass Historical Society. Here to post about manuscripts.
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based English professor and writer
The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social Mild mannered reviewer of #books on natural philosophy, #naturalhistory, #HistSci, & #HistMed. Gentleman naturalist. Tweedy. Beardy. Has been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters. www.wellreadnaturalist.com
Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social Vivant (sans bon). Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. Every story deserves to be heard. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, the Ocean State.
https://linktr.ee/senwhitehouse
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
oehlkers @oehlkers.bsky.social college prof (media & com) in Salem, Mass.
Oriole philologist. Wild bird advocacy historian. Production editor, Bird Observer. archive.org/details/@profoehlkers https://peteroehlkers.podbean.com/
Rebecca Robare @robareowl.bsky.social Scientist and writer, parent of twins, Sherlockian. PhD, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1935/
Jasper Fforde @jasperfforde.bsky.social Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Senator Angus King @senangusking.bsky.social News from the office of Independent U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine. Following/reposting does not equal an endorsement.
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social /'əʊɪn 'mæsiː/
librarian・pedestrian・own views・they/them・Net Zero・Vision Zero・pro-trans・pro-trains・not my king・no gods・no masters・no borders・no statues・no heroes・❄️
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
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free high fives & exclamation marks
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography @sofcb.bsky.social This is the official account of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. You can find us on the web at https://rarebookschool.org/sofcb/ and https://sofcbannualmeeting.com/.
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP! 
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov Proudly serving Maryland's beautiful Eighth Congressional District and leading House Judiciary Committee Democrats in Congress.
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Birdrgirl🦉❌👑 @birdrgirl.bsky.social Lover of birds🦉, everything nature🌲, gardening🌻, all the amazing peeps who work hard💪 and tirelessly to hold onto our democracy, AND everyone who acknowledges global warming and fights for 🌎Mother Earth🌎 and her diversity!
All 📷photos📷 are mine.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Union College @unioncollege.bsky.social 
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
@jordangoffin.bsky.social @jordangoffin.bsky.social 
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
University of Massachusetts Press @umasspress.bsky.social Publishing scholarship, literature, and books for general readers that reflect the quality and diversity of intellectual life on our campuses, in our region, and around the world. More from us at https://linktr.ee/umasspress
Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social PhD candidate at @Inria and @UMontreal working on automatic transcription of manuscripts (HTR). Posts about DH stuff and #HTR_United. More on my research blog: alix-tz.github.io/phd
John Quincy Adams @jqadams-mhs.bsky.social The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his first annual presidential address to Congress, delivered on December 6, 1825.
https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/
A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society | www.masshist.org
Quite Interesting @qi.com A Quite Interesting account from the team behind the BBC show QI.
Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social Navy combat veteran and retired NASA astronaut. Husband to @GabbyGiffords.bsky.social. United States Senator for the great state of Arizona.
Tom Hillard @thillard.bsky.social Writer & Professor. Interests: Gothic literature, book history, scholarly editing, all things early American. Cooking, playing music, gardening, making things.
Jennifer Putzi @putzi.bsky.social Professor of English & GSWS at William & Mary / Studies 19C American literature and culture / Author of Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry / Co-Director of The Black Women's Diaries Project
Tim Cassedy @vicesimusknox.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Literature, Southern Methodist University
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
Sharing America’s stories for more than 200 years.
185 Salisbury St, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
Wheatley Census @wheatleycensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects before 1909. Directed by @jsench.bsky.social & @brigfield.bsky.social. www.wheatleycensus.org
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Jessica M. Dandona @marquisedusud.bsky.social Academic, art historian, obsessed with Scotland, gardening, and books. Spends far too much time in anatomical museums. Will eat cake.
UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social Publishes 70+ books per year in the humanities & social sciences, blending the strengths of a university press with innovation sparked by digital technologies
upress.virginia.edu
Michelle Souliere - Green Hand Bookshop @msouliere.bsky.social Not a professional pudding thief.
Monsters, cats, art, books & trees, not necessarily in that order.
Mostly using Flashes bcs --> visual👁️
Author: Strange Maine/Bigfoot in Maine
strangemaine.blogspot.com
Owner: Green Hand Bookshop
greenhandbookshop.com
L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social born and raised and flourishing in California’s Great Central Valley
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Hannah Mackay @hannymacoy.bsky.social TV Producer. English person in Los Angeles. Peep Show. Fresh Meat. Toast of London. Feel Good. Wayward. Etc etc.
Early American Studies @easmisc.bsky.social EAS Miscellany is the digital companion to Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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David O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social song and dance man
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online The Wild West Begins Where Your Body Ends
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
Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
Matthew Noe @ GM Europe @noethematt.bsky.social Overcaffeinated Kentuckian in Massachusetts. Librarian. Professor. Trustee. Ask me about #GraphicMedicine. Trying to be kind, do good, and read comics. (He/Him)
noethematt.com
Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social Advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, informing the future
https://www.pennpress.org/
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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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social Chair of the Democratic National Committee | Proud Minnesotan
@patrickerben.bsky.social @patrickerben.bsky.social Excited about all things early American and their significance for the present.
Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social Founded in 1965, Early American Literature is the official journal of both the Society of Early Americanists and the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature.
Kimberly Takahata @ktakahata.bsky.social Asst. prof of early American literature | editor at Insurrect! | she/her/hers | opinions my own
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social Early America, urban environmentalism, Floridiana. Teacher & Writer. Dad. Love native plant gardening & ill-advised outdoor adventures. 
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
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 🏳️🌈
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Emi Hastings @unseenlibrary.bsky.social Curator of Books and Digital Projects Librarian at U-M Clements Library. Collects books about women bibliophiles.
ACRL/Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) @rbmsinfo.bsky.social News, updates, committee meetings, and conference announcements for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Posts by Publications and Communications Committee. 📜📚📖
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Nick Mohammed @nickmohammed.bsky.social Actor: Nate, Mr. Swallow, Anthony Stappan etc.
Dave Gorman @davegorman.bsky.social 36hrs of TV stand-up on youtube: https://youtube.com/@davegorman235/ I also set crosswords. Bluth in the Indy, Fed in the Graun, Django in the Telegraph
Davegorman.com
Al Murray @almurray.bsky.social Tickets to my brand new tour on sale NOW via my website!
Steve Pemberton @sjpemberton.bsky.social Leg end
Jon Richardson @jonnyrico.bsky.social “Comedian”. Not good at most things. Completely unable to detect carrots in shoeboxes.
Rob Beckett @robbeckett.bsky.social Comedian
Claudia Winkleman @claudiawinkleman.bsky.social 
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Iain Stirling @iaindoesjokes.bsky.social Stand Up Comedian. On Tour #relevant. Voice of #LoveIsland and #LoveIslandUSA
Stevie Martin @5teviem.bsky.social I’m a comedian and writer and hello hi hello
Come see me live March 3-5 in london. Tickets and everything else I do here: https://linkin.bio/5teviem
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Rep. Josh Riley @reprileyny.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Union-Endicott Tiger. Proudly representing #NY19.
Dr Grace Touzel @boundtobeused.bsky.social Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
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.