Misty Griffin @mistygriffin.bsky.social Author of Tears of the Silenced 📚Consulting Producer on Sins of the Amish 📺 Creator of the Every Child Safe Act Petition ✍️ mistygriffin.com
💠 #GoodTrouble 💠
Mayanwolfe @mayanwolfe.com Senior Data Engineer and teacher with 100Devs. Let's remove barriers to tech education for those who need it most. Catch me on Twitch at twitch.tv/mayanwolfe! 
Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social D candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and author of the book The Swine Republic, Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality and blogging at https://riverraccoon.substack.com
Ryan J. Foley @rjfoley.bsky.social Reporter. Signal @rjfoley.33
Zachary Oren Smith @zacharyos.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood reporter ● Writes about politics for Iowa Starting Line ● Cohost of Dingus of the Week Podcast
Amie Rivers @amierivers.bsky.social labor journalist @iowastartingline.com // newsletter editor: iowastartingline.com/newsletter // story ideas and hot goss: amie@iowastartingline.com
Iowa Starting Line @iowastartingline.com Iowa news you can use.
https://linktr.ee/iowastartingline
Art Cullen @artcullen.bsky.social Editor, Storm Lake (Iowa) Times Pilot, stormlake.com Pulitzer Prize winner.
Craig Teague @cmteague.bsky.social Husband, dad, prof, chemist. Interim acad admin, block plan, POGIL, fac dev. Midwesterner, baseball fan, musician, geography nerd. Deconstructing Christian, former Republican. I work at Cornell College, but views my own.
Hawks 101 @iahawks101.bsky.social 2 words: Iowa Hawkeye Pride! CC22, Royals, GB, Bill Walton,+Bourdain! Political post = dog pic cuz they’re all good dogs. Enneagram 5.
Kyle Munson @kylemunson.bsky.social 📱 Flitting among tech platforms with the rest of you.
📍 My home is Iowa.
✈️ Love to travel.
📥 Experienced in news media and business brand marketing.
🚴♂️ Bicycling is bliss.
🎵 Lifelong rabid music fan.
Danielle Pettit-Majewski, MPH @daniellefromia-mph.bsky.social Girl mom. Public Health Professional. Political junkie. Book lover. Dog lover. Blue dot in a red state. Fitness enthusiast. Full of rage ATM. Opinions my own.
stevekcjj @stevekcjj.bsky.social Owner 1630 KCJJ and 99pluskfmh.com
CJ Flynn TechnicallyEasier.com @cjflynn.neocities.org CJ Owner of technicallyeasier.com. Helping the 55+ community primarily out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, optimize and simplify technology through digital handyman services and personalized classes. To make your life technically easier give me a call!
Charlie Wishman @charliewishman.bsky.social President, Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Member, IAM 254. Just a dad of two awesome kids.
New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Sci-Fi, History, the labor movement.
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social Des Moines resident/MN raised, working towards equitable clean energy transition, dad, Iowa State grad
Austin Frerick @austinfrerick.bsky.social Wrote - Barons. Currently Yale. Formerly US Treasury/CRS. #firstgen 🌽🐷🏳️🌈
David Cwiertny @dcwiertny.bsky.social Director CHEEC, Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, University of Iowa.
Tyler Hahn @tylerjhahn.bsky.social Libraries 📚, Policy ⚖️, Iowa STEM 🌽
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Laura Crossett @newrambler.bsky.social "She seems like an interesting character." librarian | writer | Iowa native, Wyoming expatriate, NYC aspirant | comms @libraryfutures.bsky.social
http://newrambler.net
Nathan L Smith @nlsmith.com Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini.
South Amana, Iowa
Iowa OER @iowaoer.bsky.social Iowa OER is a statewide group working to make higher education more affordable for students by advocating for the use of open educational resources and practices across Iowa.
Brad D-R @bdria.bsky.social dad, architect, building science enthusiast, photography, hiking, biking, health improvement, progressive politics, and the Iowa State Cyclones.
Iowa Guy @iowaguy.bsky.social I'm a guy who lives in Iowa. I like my state and want it to be an OK place to live. Originally from https://twitter.com/i0wa_Guy
I'm also a husband, dad and nerd. I run a lot too.
Keenan Crow @kcrow.bsky.social They/them. Director of Policy and Advocacy at One Iowa. 
Denise Starry🌱🍅🍷🍺 @deedeerae.bsky.social Mom, Nana, Kitchen Wizard and Hobby Farmer (hippie homesteader?). Grow it, can it, share it. Never stop learning.🌱🍷🍺
Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social Natural resource economist, geographer, meanderer, informed agitator, immigrant
Trans rights are human rights
Landback
💧Dall’acqua salata a quella dolce e zozza💧
Personal account - these are my views, not my employer’s
Nathan T. Wright @nathantwright.bsky.social Illustrator and artist. Creator of Fatberg, a lovable sewer blob. Stick around for cartoons and gardening photos. nathanTwright.com
sara k @heartandfist.bsky.social Iowa. sports fan. book lover. swiftie. dogs. PhD in ed leadership. work in continuous improvement and employee engagement.
Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social English Prof. @GrandViewUniv Researching games, writing, and rhetoric. There will be food. Sweary Prof. He/Him. Lawful Good. Views are my own.
Jeff Karnicky @karnicky.bsky.social Professor at Drake U. /The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daly Comics in the 21st Century Century out now with U of Nebraska Press / comics / contemporary literature
Sarah Voels @bysarahvoels.bsky.social Librarian
Sarah Trone Garriott @sarahforiowa.bsky.social Mom, Minister, Public Servant in IA State Senate, and Candidate for Congress IA House District 3!
www.sarahforiowa.com
Beaverdale @beaverdale.bsky.social Roots in rural Iowa farm & ag, branches in AI, insurtech, ethics, higher ed, project management, social justice & the scholarship of teaching and learning.
GBGames 🍊 @gbgames.com Gianfranco Berardi is an indie game developer ( #GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev ), #Agile Software enthusiast, blogger, Gnu/Linux user, amateur gardener ( #GardeningFeed 🌱 ), and OJ drinker. he/him/his
https://www.gbgames.com
Clint Wrede @clintwrede.bsky.social Librarian who likes movies, TV, baseball, curling, naps. He was a good little monkey and always very curious. Cookies is tasty. We ARE the committee.
Grandma Sophie Hatter, Human Border Collie @maggiepye.bsky.social M, like Bond's boss// Offsite storage librarian// Geeks info policy, international affairs, & info lit // She-her-hers. Opinions are my own, etc.
Nathan Boonstra MD @pedsgeekmd.bsky.social Equal parts puns, pediatrics, pop culture. I debunk vaccine myths like Spock & McCoy combined. Yes, I’ve read the inserts. Opinions mine, not employer’s.- R Ransom Briggs @ransombriggs.bsky.social
Gorgo Forever @gorgoforever.bsky.social Comics, giant monsters and other things
www.warningcomics.com
Ryan Gjerde @gjerdery.bsky.social Digital Initiatives Librarian. Fan of NFFC, Cubs, Bulls, Bears. Occasionally stinking up the house by home brewing.
William Garriott @profwillgarriott.bsky.social Professor. Anthropology. Law & Society. Criminology. Writing, reading, and teaching about drug policy and justice reform. Author of Policing Methamphetamine. New book on cannabis legalization coming soon.
Aaron Tinder @thenewspeed.bsky.social art educator, music person, amateur driveway mechanic, gen x midwestern guy
Alison @alisononel.bsky.social 
yamainu 🏳️🌈 @yamainu.bsky.social Here, queer. Intersectional feminist nerrrd and lover of intellectual freedom.
Lift up voices. Tear down barriers.
🤘 #IowaCityWorldCity
🖖⚽️🏀🐈
Regenerates 1d4 fucks-to-give per long rest, up to a max of 10.
Hoping for true Bluesky decentralization someday.
🇺🇸 b 🗽 g 🇺🇸 h 🗽 @bgh.bsky.social Co-Host of the Cardinals Off Day podcast
Former VEBer
he/him/his
Prufrock451 @prufrock451.bsky.social Wrote Rome Sweet Rome, Acadia, and encyclopedias. Bylines in Wired, Mental Floss, Slate, Boing Boing. Won Jeopardy. Alum of WGA, SFWA, AFSCME. Let’s be pals
Adam J. @adamj.bsky.social Man, it’s a hot one. Like seven inches from the midday sun. Well I hear you whispering the words that melt everyone, but you stay so cold. My munequita, my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa. You’re my reason for reason, the step in my groove. And if you said this l- D @desktopfromhell.bsky.social @desktopfromhell.bsky.social
Shane Church @s-church.net Husband, dad, software developer, Colorado Rockies, minor league baseball 🏔⚾️ and CU Buffs fan 🦬, and Lego enthusiast 🧱 currently living in Iowa.
Bridie Nixon @bridienixon.bsky.social Wildlife ecologist, biology teacher, cancer survivor, tv enthusiast, hockey fanatic, horror addict. She/her
Make Money - Do Magnets @sararah.bsky.social I love giant magnets.
She/her
My opinions are trash and fully my own.
MdmeAlbertine @mdmealbertine.bsky.social Iowan, mom, reader, accountant, long-covid disabled, liberal in a rural place. Love Thy Neighbor. she/her
Jodi L. @jlandry.bsky.social Iowa Mom to 3 amazing humans & G’ma to the coolest ginger. Blue dot in a red state. Happily married 21 yrs , so far, & he’s better to me than I deserve ❤️. Dallas Cowboys & Iowa State Cyclones 🏈 🚫DM’s if we aren’t real life friends.
Ben Godar @bengodar.bsky.social Used to write comedy for fun and profit
Nonprofit film programmer at Varsity Cinema
Talk #STLCards for Cardinals Off Day podcast
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/nmzJ
Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social He/him, mid-30s, Iowan, nerd, leftist, cat lover
John Pemble @johnpemble.bsky.social Journalist. Public radio announcer. Producer. Podcaster. Photographer. Enjoyer of glowing moving pictures.
Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social doc, epidemiologist, and editor in Iowa City studying antimicrobial resistance and hand hygiene
ignore the noise, always forward
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened”-John Green
J.D. Scholten @jdscholten.bsky.social Iowa State Representative (District 1) and baseball player. ⚾️🇺🇸
Sarah A. Young Bear-Brown @saybb.bsky.social Meskwaki
Deaf
Mother
Artist
Activist
Advocate
NH @nhytrek.bsky.social reporter in the Midwest, currently at Investigate Midwest covering Illinois government
bookworm, word nerd
Jason B @jastiger.bsky.social Des Moines, IA. Father, Husband, Atheist, Progressive, Video Game and Bicycle Enjoyer
jasonbenell.substack.com
Joe Van Haecke @inspirememrv.bsky.social Educator | Improvisor | Rush | ISU Cyclones | MST3k
Nina B. Elkadi @ninaelkadi.com Writing about water, labor, and agriculture.
Signal: ninaelkadi.64
posts + likes auto-delete after 30 days
ninaelkadi.com
Dexter Merschbrock @dexterm.bsky.social Open source Iowa Politics takes and predictions
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. (PFP illustrated by Farimah Khavari)
Rob Hogg @senatorrobhogg.bsky.social Retired Iowa state senator. Author of America’s Climate Century (2013). Paris to Pittsburgh (2018). Born at 322 parts per million.
Elinor A. Levin @levinforiowa.bsky.social I’m an Iowan by choice twice-over, elected to represent District 89 in the State House of Representatives.
Librarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social She/her. Iowa. Libraries. Dog Mom. Crafty. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
Steve Konrady @skonrady.bsky.social Naturally meandered
Whitney Zahnd @whitneyzahnd.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at UIowa| UIUC alumna | Posts about rural health, cancer disparities, access to care, faith, cats, and women’s basketball| Opinions are mine, not my employer’s | Website: https://www.acre-lab.org
Jennifer Konfrst @konfrst.bsky.social Mom, educator, and state representative putting people over politics. Running for US Congress because #IA03 needs someone fighting for us. Flipping #IA03 = Dem House
Swenson @swenson.bsky.social Retired regional scientist & university lecturer. Runner, hiker, meanderer, antifascist, free-thinker, Army veteran, and sadly, too often an invasive species.
Rob Bingham @robbinghamia.bsky.social Relapsing political campaign addict and cat parent
Dan Stevenson @dbsiowa.bsky.social Father, teacher, union member, Pirates fan. Here as Dan, not Mr. Stevenson.
Gage @gagemiskimen.bsky.social Marion City Councilman
📍Iowa 🌽
Jon Green @modestholdings.com Chairman of the Johnson County, Iowa, Board of Supervisors. I'm from the Government and I'm here to help.
Sig: 1+307-828-1004
https://www.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/
https://www.greenforjc.com
Dr. Amy Burgin @burginam.bsky.social Aquatic Ecosystem Ecologist & Water Scientist. #AIMS PI.
I share thoughts re: #water, #climate, #scicomm, #DEI #firstgen #Biogeofeminist. Midwesterner.
RT≠endorse, opinions=many, all mine. #BLM she/her
BGC cycles: N>S>O>C>Fe>P>Si
Jenny Turner @jennytrumpet.bsky.social Human mom, giant schnauzer mom, public ed fan, Iowan, she/her
Hope Bibens @hopebibens.bsky.social 
David Muenchrath @mindfulmuench.bsky.social Film enthusiast just passing time kicking around this flyover state.
Anne Marie Gruber @amhgruber.bsky.social Public univ prof/librarian, mom, advocate. Trying to improve Iowa from the inside. I geek: open education, libraries, social justice, & homemade freezer meals.
Daniel Hoy @hoydan.bsky.social NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador volunteer, space and space exploration enthusiast, opinions are my own.
Cara @stonca01.bsky.social Educator, facilitator, collaborator, outreach ambassador, caring helper, dog lover, musician, grateful (is an action): Librarian (she/her/hers) https://about.me/carabstone Views here do not represent my employer or any organizations I'm part of.
Maurine Neiman @maurineneiman.bsky.social Biologist and professor studying evolution of sex & committed to social justice. A rising tide lifts all boats. Opinions mine and do not represent my employer.
❤️🐌💉
Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social STEM Librarian & Associate Professor in Iowa
Expect science, baseball, St. Louis Cardinals, #STLCards, progressive politics, astronomy, owls, beer, & pretzels
Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
🍓 GMTK Game Jam: http://gmtk.itch.io
🔠 Word Play: http://s.team/a/3586660/
🧲 Mind Over Magnet: http://s.team/a/2685900/
Nick Westergaard @nickwestergaard.com Storytelling + Brand Building |🎙Keynote Speaker 📚Author of #BrandNow & #GetScrappy 🎧Host of the #OnBrandPodcast 🎓College Educator
More at: nickwestergaard.com
Amanda Iles @amandaeye.bsky.social Writer. Traveler. Consummate generalist fascinated by details and driven by questions. On the glass half-empty/half-full debate, let's first decide if the glass is real. If we're not having fun, what's the point?
Sarah K Peck @sarahkpeck.com I write about entrepreneurship, the future of work, leadership, parenting, and gender. Join 11K+ people on Substack!
🔥 Newsletter: http://sarahkpeck.substack.com
💚 Community for Founders With Kids http://startupparent.com/fwk
Robbie Schneider @robbieschneider.bsky.social Author, Social Media, Sanity & You.
Healthcare writer, #marketing and #socialmedia strategist. Fighting the good fight for access to health information and community resources. Pro-human beings.
Linktr.ee/robbieschneider
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Marc Bernardin @marcbernardin.bsky.social Writer, raconteur. GOD OF WAR (TV), PICARD, CARNIVAL ROW, CASTLE ROCK, MOTU, CRITICAL ROLE. Comix: MESSENGER: THE LEGEND OF MUHAMMAD ALI, ADORA AND THE DISTANCE. Pod: FATMAN BEYOND. Lightweight famous. He/Him