Sarah Teasley @londontsubaki.bsky.social Professor of Design, RMIT University Born Digital Cultural Heritage Lab. She/her. #AusEaaSI + #DESIAP + Proteins & Fibers Working Group @MPIWG-Berlin
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga.bsky.social historian of science & technology, itinerant potter
🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢 🐛 🐢
Sericulture 養蚕 Amami Ōshima tsumugi 奄美大島紬
(animal) biomaterials (動物)生体材料・バイオマテリアル
Cocoon Cultures @DukeUP, 2027
RTAWD, Proteins & Fibers Working Groups @MPIWG-Berlin
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@ijhs.bsky.social @ijhs.bsky.social
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press
David A. Conrad, Ph.D. @davidaconrad.bsky.social Author of AKIRA KUROSAWA AND MODERN JAPAN (2022)
Essayist for RAN 40th anniversary Blu-ray (2025)
New book on postwar Asia in progress
Part-time stay-at-home dad, adjunct, historian, old movie fan, conflicted Texan
Or Porath @orporath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion, Tel Aviv University
John P. DiMoia @jdimoia.bsky.social #SeoulNationalUniversity, #SNU, #KHistory, Seoul (1995-1996, 2004-2006, 2007-2008, 2018-present), #HistSci #STS, #SJKS, #ReconstructingBodies #ModernKorea, #EngineeringAsia #BioMed, #HistMed #HistTech #EASTM, #SKdevelopment #EA, #SEA, #Thailand #VietNam
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social World's foremost museum of photography & cinema located in Rochester, NY on the historic estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Plan your visit at eastman.org.
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
Ke Ren 任可 @ke-ren.bsky.social Associate Professor of History,
College of the Holy Cross
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh(アイルランドのイアン) @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流(アイルランド文化)イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使(元岩手県国際交流員)、松江親善大使(ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者)。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
jon l pitt @jonlpitt.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Japanese Environmental Humanities at UC Irvine. Plants, music, lit/film. Download my book for free: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780950/botanical-imagination/
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Paul J. Kramer @paul-jokr.bsky.social Social Scientist and Japan Specialist | PhD @ LMU Munich 🇩🇪🇯🇵
I investigate how resilience, governance, and vigilance form effective and democratic crisis management through the case of rural communities in Japan during Covid-19
👉🏻 www.paul-kramer.com
Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social dad/urbanist/assoc.prof. transition design + urban studies|waseda university|Tokyo|co-learning/co-design|public spaces/spheres|urban practices/theories|place {un}making/becoming|climate + sustainability/resilience|views expressed here are my own
Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social Penn State Astronomer (he/him), personal account. “We went and made everything a computer without ever bothering to fix computers.”
Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). PhD, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Specializations include Modern Japan, Modern South Asia, and transnational Asian history. 🏳️🌈
Kathryn Dyt @kathryndyt.bsky.social Vietnam environmental historian @ Warwick | Weather, environment & underground worlds | Author of The Nature of Kingship
Ellen Tilton-Cantrell @ellentc.bsky.social Developmental editor & workshop facilitator for scholarly writers. PhD in Japanese lit. She/her. Based in Minneapolis. www.tiliaeditorial.com
Dgar @dgar.bsky.social Name: Jon O’Hare
Stage Name: Dgar - pronounced “Jar”
Random thoughts, memes, stolen jokes, Oxford commas, and my indie music.
Like = Marked As Read
#DgarMusic
Check out my tunes!
Bandcamp: https://dgar.bandcamp.com
Everywhere else: https://ffm.bio/dgar
The Journal of Japanese Studies @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social
Dr Jieun Kim @jinikim.bsky.social Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. PI of the Hematopolitics Project (hematopolitics.org; @hematopolitics.bsky.social).
Ann Marie L Davis (she/her/Dr) @amldavisann.bsky.social I’m a mom, historian, research librarian, Buckeye convert (but forever a Bruin), and author. I manage Japanese Collections—including an amazing print manga collection—at OSU Libraries. (Please ask me about my background image, held at my library!)
Graeme R. Reynolds @beetrootfox.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/graeme-reynolds/
Mimi Long @mimi-long.bsky.social sewist, mother, swimmer, prof.
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother- A Alex Murphy @asmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Modern Japanese literature, media, performance @ Clark University, RIJS Postdoc @ Harvard University 2024-25
Tanya Barnett @tanyanb.bsky.social 📝: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa・🏫: UTokyo
東京・scholar of adventure narratives in early 20th c. Japanese poetry/prose・近代日本文学/大衆文化史の冒険家・corgi dog mom
BulletTrainsUSA.com @handle.invalid We are passenger Rail enthusiasts! We want all major US cities connected with High-Speed Rail and all US cities with over 100,000 people to have more local commuter Rail! BulletTrainsUSA.com!
Mindy @rekijo.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies at a small Texan SLAC
Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.
S the Researcher @stheresearcher.bsky.social observer of geopolitics in East Asia
researcher for an embassy somewhere
UC Berkeley (B.A)
University of Tokyo (M.A)
Dr. Kandra Polatis @knp31.bsky.social Historian and researcher. Interested in all things science and medicine. Passionate future educator. Detroit resident.
Julia Boss @juliaboss.bsky.social Developmental editor working with scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Lapsed historian. Ex-Algonquin Books.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
Till KNAUDT @tillknaudt.bsky.social I am a historian of modern Japan, working on anti-imperialism, computers, expositions, and hippies, among other things. Soon back in Germany @Leipzig University.
Jessamyn Neuhaus @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Helping academics & introverts nerd out about teaching. SoTL author + editor, professor of history/education/pop culture & Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Director. #AcademicSky IDIC https://jessamynneuhaus.com
Hongyun Lyu @hongyunlyu.bsky.social Electricity; Environment; Technology; Infrastructure; Modern China; PhD candidate in History at UofT
Bill Adler @billadler.bsky.social I'm an American writer living in Japan. I publish short stories on Substack at billadler.substack.com. I'm a pilot, ramen lover, watch collector, coffee drinker, voracious reader, bicycler, and cat person.
Brian Leech @brianleechphd.bsky.social Historian of American West, Midwest, environmental history, mining, energy, food, animals. Currently working on a book about the history of U.S. speed limits & another book about mining in popular culture. https://brianleechphd.net
Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social Permanent resident of Japan. Neuro-affirming parent. Amateur photographer of a certain age. Shitamachi supremacist. Sober 19yrs. Survivor. I write stuff sometimes, but don’t tell anyone. 日本語👌
Profile: @nakimushiart.bsky.social
Cédric @color-lounge.com French wanderer in the streets of Tokyo, photographer, art amateur.
color-lounge.com
#Bitcoin
Eleanor Yamaguchi @eleanoralbertine.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Prefectural University specializing in UK-Japan cultural and historical relations.
Also a dot artist in the little spare time available!
Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social Professor, music theory, ethnomusicology, Japan studies. Research in music & social movements, popular music, music & language. Author, Protest Music after Fukushima; Editor, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music, 33-1/3 Japan. Views my own. linktr.ee/nmanabe
Christopher P. Hood @hoodcp.bsky.social フッド・クリス
http://linktr.ee/hoodcp
Author of novels and non-fiction books on symbols in Japan, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, and books related to Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Sarah Panzer @sarahpanzer.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Missouri State University. Global fascism (esp. Germany and Japan). Beagle enthusiast. She/her. Views are my own.
Michael Toole @mtoole.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies. He/Him. All Views/Likes are my own.
Erja Kettunen -Matilainen @erjakettunenm.bsky.social Adj.prof. Economic Geography @utu.fi #TSE. Trade policy, sustainable development, EU-Asia trade & business, responsible society.
https://sites.utu.fi/palmoil/ @koneensaatio.fi
https://sites.utu.fi/glo-res/ #LSR
https://igu-cdes.mtafki.hu
@geography.fi
Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
Eike Exner @eikeexner.com アイケ・エクスナ
Striphistoricus writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium; author of Comics and the Origins of Manga and Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics.
More about my work at eikeexner.com (name's pronounced Eye-kuh).
Adonis Li @adonismyli.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer in East Asian History, Uni of Lincoln | 🎓 PhD HKU | 🏰 BA, MA York | 🚂Mobility/Transport/Railway history | ⚽@lufc | he/him
William Grimes @williamgrimes.bsky.social Observer of IPE, finance and currency politics, East Asian politics, Japanese politics.
Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social Cultural anthropologists, mostly Japan, think Takadanobaba is pretty neat.
Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social Historian of postwar social movements in Japan. Sometimes curator. Author, Coed Revolution (Duke UP 2021). Ambivalent about being online. chelseaszendischieder.com
Marijuana Masao @marijuanamasao.bsky.social New bong, who dis
High on modernism. My tokes used to do numbers. I still do.
Ben Schrager @benjaminschrager.bsky.social Geography of food and agriculture, Japan, chickens, disease, artisan and traditional foods. At Utsunomiya University. He/him
Philip Brasor @philipbrasor.bsky.social Japan media watcher, blogger of Japanese housing
philipbrasor.com
catforehead.com
Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social Cultural historian of technology, media, and disability in modern Japan. Assistant Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware.
雯出理フランク。日本の技術・メディア・障害史。 デラウェア大学の言語・文学・文化学部の日本語学科長。助教授 。
Noah Oskow @noahoskow.bsky.social JPN translator, Global Studies MA, former JET. 10年間以上日本に滞在。Minnesotaיהודי מ. 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇩🇪🇦🇹 Ghibli stan. EiC/writer at Unseen Japan, head of UJ Tours.
Writing/making videos on intercultural meeting points and lesser-known historical junctures in Japan.
Eve Loh Kazuhara @elkazu.bsky.social ECR Japanese art historian. In Singapore.
Postwar Painting, Nihonga. Tanaka Isson and Amami Oshima.
Lectures at National University of Singapore and University of the Arts (Singapore).
Also sharing posts on Japanese art and culture events, in SG.
merve sen @mervesen.bsky.social phd candidate in comparative literature & visual studies at penn state // welcoming anything related the hospital in literature and visual culture // remain curious about temporality, sound and archives despite no direct occupation.
Mutantfrog @mutantfrog.bsky.social Mutantfrog.com. Researched Japan colonial history at Kyoto U. Formerly lived in New Jersey, Kyoto, Taipei, Brooklyn. Love games. Now resident in Tokyo, working in a job unrelated to any of the above things I prefer to talk about.
Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social Historian of science/medicine. Brain science, neurology and psychiatry. Mainly D-A-CH and JP-KOR-TW. Vienna based.
Interested in history and philosophy of science and medicine.
日本・대한・臺灣・医学史・科学史・精神神経学史・科学哲学
https://meduniwien.academia.edu/BernhardLeitner
Anoma van der Veere @anomav.bsky.social Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
Alex Jania @aejania.bsky.social Historian and practitioner of disaster memorials. Focused on environment, disaster, memory, Japan, and the TransPacific. Lecturer at Northwestern University.
Ray Matsumoto @raymatsumoto.bsky.social History PhD Student at UCLA | MA Graduate of History at WSU | Modern Japanese History, War Responsibility/Guilt, Memory Studies
Jason Garcia 📷 @jgarcia.bsky.social 𝚃𝚘𝚔𝚢𝚘 𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 🇯🇵 𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕 • 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖
#𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚍 #𝚞𝚛𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢 #𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢
https://www.tokyogritandgrain.com • https://www.youtube.com/@TokyoGritandGrain
Alexandra Yan (閻・アレクザンドラ) @asyan916.bsky.social Modern Japanese literature and Comparative Literature scholar
Currently interested colonial Japanese language literature, especially in Korea and Taiwan, and in all things otherwise imperial and anti-imperial.
UCI doctoral candidate
Mahon @mahonmurphy.bsky.social First World War Historian based at Kyoto University Japan. Also dabble in a bit of Popular Culture Studies on the side.
Akira Mizuta Lippit @alippit.bsky.social Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California
Cinema without Reflection (2016)
Ex-Cinema (2012)
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)
Electric Animal (2000)
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国(及び日ソ・露)近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Temple University Japan. Currently working on: “Spy Paradise: Russian Espionage against Japan, from the Cold War to Cyber Warfare.” This book is the sequel to “Cracking the Crab”.
Steve Loves Marines @lovelovemarines.bsky.social Chiba Lotte Marines, it's my life!
ライトスタンド永住権を持っている。
日本語 🆗
English 🆗
Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social East Asian security, Japanese foreign policy, int'l status, nationalism, political behavior. Lowering my expectations 1 day at a time https://www.alexandramathieu.com
Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social Historian of Modern China, Italian, food obsessed.
William Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social Working on: sociocultural history, radicalism, theatre, countercultures, New Left, memory, anti-Olympics, urbanism. Book on Adachi Masao out September 1. PhD on 1960s Japan in progress. https://www.williamandrewswriter.com
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Andres Rodriguez @laoanguo.bsky.social Modern China historian based in the Blue Mountains, Land of the Darug and Gundungurra Peoples. Working on borders, frontiers, and roads. Author of Frontier Fieldwork (UBC 2022)
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Donna Weeks @psephy.bsky.social Academic-ish, Aust-Japan: politics, society, community; music, books, many books, photography, sports-ish; {Suomi} 政治学、政治思想、日豪関係、9条の会、音楽、写真、波乗り、より良い社会を目指す。#tokyolyf and random commentary. Either in Brisbane/Meanjin or Tokyo 東京&茅ヶ崎
Psephy—a psephologist. 😊
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Dr Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
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.
Kevin Riordan @kvnrrdn.bsky.social Modernism | Theater | World Literature
teaching @ Temple University, Japan Campus (Kyoto)
Tony Boccia @tonyboccia.bsky.social Husband and Father. Active duty U.S. Navy Sailor of 23 years. Historian focused on Imperial Japan and her Navy. Creator of PacificHistoryGuide.com Based in Iwakuni, Japan. Let’s Go Mets!
Imperial Japanese Navy History @ijnhistory.bsky.social Documenting the history of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868-1945.
Wayne Soon @waynesoon.bsky.social Historian of Medicine, China, Taiwan, and Diaspora at the University of Minnesota. Associate Professor. Currently researching on global health insurance histories in East Asia. https://a.co/d/4tahHXR
Aminda Smith @amindarella.bsky.social Modern China historian. Co-Director, PRC History Group. Tap dancer. Idahoan.