James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com Unemployed and looking for work. Past bylines at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, @comicsjournal.bsky.social, Gizmodo, HITS Magazine.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer
RJC @voguingtodanzig.bsky.social “I’m just a boy with a new account/Well that’s a pretty nice ac-count”
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social she/her, views my own
Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social On parental leave until 2027.
Correspondent in Paris for The Observer.
Writing a book about feminism and football.
Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir (2025).
Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
Megan Feringa @meganferinga.bsky.social says y’all a lot | women’s football/soccer writer at The Athletic UK
Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social Organizing for a brighter future for all ✨Account managed by the
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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social Bot account of Henri Matisse, a French painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker.
Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social Vincent Willem van Gogh was a 19th century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social Bot account of Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist painter and an important figure in the Symbolist movement.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Pablo Picasso @pablopicasso.bsky.social Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a 20th (1881-1973) century Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. #artbots by
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social Computer scientist with a bunch of obscure hobbies. I have mostly been linking news and making political comments. I plan to post more 3D print models and other math crafts when I can.
"When the world falls apart, some things stay in place."
Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social Teaching; writing about books, book banning, book publishing, music; editing New American Canon series at U of Iowa P. Views mine, not my employer's. 50 Essays 8th ed. out soon. https://samuelscohen.com/
Dada Strain @dadastrain.bsky.social Rhythm Improvisation Community (#BklynSounds)
Founded by Piotr Orlov in 2021 to build new institutions from 2020 visions,
https://dadastrain.substack.com/
Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social Modern and contemporary art historian at Swarthmore College. Author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke, 2024).
www.palomachecagismero.com
Anita Hosseini @aniho.bsky.social Art historian
Senior scientist at the department of art history at the university of applied arts Vienna
current research focuses on the revision of imperial botany through contemporary art
James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity
Web: www.jamesdemilio.com
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
The British Museum @britishmuseum.bsky.social The official account of The British Museum
🏛 Explore 2 million years of human history
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social Armchair phrenologist. Self-certified body language expert. MENSA member. Former Never-Ending Pasta Pass Owner. Intellectual. Gifted kid —> Gifted adult. RIP Seattle Sea Dragons. Vai Corinthians. Bluesky’s premier Seven Mary Three poster.
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
The Met: Ancient Near Eastern Art @metancieneast.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Ancient Near Eastern Art dept.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Mark Tighe @marktighe.bsky.social Author and journalist
Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social Football Finance Writer at The Athletic UK | Will write about money for football | Views are not someone else's
𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦/𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗦: 📧 cweatherspoon@theathletic.com
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/chris-weatherspoon/
Maddy Orr @maddyorr.bsky.social PhD climate x sport 🤓Author of WARMING UP📙Assistant Prof #UofT 👩🏫👩💻Founder @ Sport Ecology Group. 🌱🤽🏻♀️🎿 Happy wife & mom. 💍👶🏼🩷 she/her. 📍Treaty 13/Toronto
Tim Walters @timwalters.bsky.social Canadian college professor. Writes about football, degrowth, culture, political economy, and the climate emergency. Walks a lot.
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social Chief soccer correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Paul Brown @pbsportswriter.bsky.social Investigative reporter, freelance, specialising in sport and finance. You will see me in Josimar and many UK nationals
Stanis Elsborg @staniselsborg.bsky.social Head of @playthegame-org.bsky.social • Sport, history and politics • +45 61774915 • stanis@playthegame.org
Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social Journalist. FIFA, labour rights in the Gulf, sports betting. Featured in Josimar, World Soccer, Daily Mirror and The Blizzard. Author 'Brazil 1970'. Columbia J-School. Views my own.
Matt Slater @mjslater.bsky.social I cover the business/politics of football & other global sports for The Athletic. In other words, I mainly do bad news.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/matt-slater/
Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler.bsky.social sports journalist for The Times
Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social Writer & Analyst. PhD candidate at Heriot-Watt University.
Interests: Media & Sports governance in Africa.
Man Utd fan.
Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
Signal: mcalladine.44
Steve Menary @stevemenary.bsky.social Journalist - sports integrity, match fixing, illegal betting, multi club ownership, football in unrecognised countries. Joint winner of 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award for investigative journalism
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Golden Goal @goldengoalmag.bsky.social a magazine about the 2026 World Cup
https://goldengoal.world/
Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com bitch kraken / texan / she/her / 📍atx / 😎 blocking out the haters w @reproaction.bsky.social / co-founder @theflytrapmedia.com
📰 homewiththearmadillo.blog
📧 (secure) grimesandrea at proton dot me
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Thierry @tcote.bsky.social I lecture about political science, social media and media & politics @ York University, I used to write a lot about music but I don’t so much anymore. I still watch too much tennis. He/him.
Mattie Kaiser @mattiekaiser.bsky.social KaiserNarrative.co | NYC | Marketing & Comms | Climatebase Fellow 🌱 | Transit & bike advocate 🚲 | Violist 🎻 | she/her
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
Colin Millar @colinmillar.bsky.social Football news reporter and journalist for The Athletic. Author of The Frying Pan of Spain.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Dr. Abobo Bixlee, Disgraced Social Media Expert @bixlee.bsky.social luring discover feed dollies to a life of vice
https://linktr.ee/bixlee
Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social NYU journalism professor | Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | Guardian US columnist | Former Middle East bureau chief, Newsday.
https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/mohamad-bazzi/
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social Senior staff writer, The Ringer
Be better tomorrow
Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social culture goblin. research editor at NYT Magazine. author of Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith (out Aug. 25th!)
patreon + other links: https://solo.to/nobodybrokeyourheart
world’s best cats, except for your cats.
Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social Media critic, journalist, anti-racist feminist
*Author: IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S MEDIA (Substack + graphic novel); REALITY BITES BACK
*Founder: Women In Media & News
*Speaker: DM for TV/talks/workshops
*Pundit: ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/VICE
*Comedy nerd
She/Her
@jserwer.bsky.social @jserwer.bsky.social Where, what, when, how, why
Julia Wick @sherlyholmes.bsky.social Journalist in LA, cofounder of @lamaterial.bsky.social
Mainly poetry, politics and local news on here
Nate Duncan @nateduncannba.bsky.social NBA cap guy, scout + attorney creating deep NBA content. #NBAStrategyStream on League Pass, Dunc'd On Pod/Prime http://bit.ly/3l52Tyu Hollinger & Duncan Pod
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop and look2justice. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social Historian; author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social Editor of Streetsblog NYC and a New Yorker who bikes. First, Fourth and 21st Amendment absolutist. And from the lawyers: “Organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only.”
Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social Author of THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS, "brilliant and alarming" (Booklist), "deeply researched...eye-opening, urgent" (Kirkus). Now on sale http://bit.ly/3AsDJUw 
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social All about cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling ambassador with the Dutch Cycling Embassy | Mark Wagenbuur
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org The greatest city in the world should have the greatest streets in the world 🗽
Join us: transalt.org/connect
Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more. 
Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social Founder, Studio Divercity & StreetSmart | Helping replace car-centric urban sprawl with people-centred, water-sensitive & nature-positive cities
L.A. Material @lamaterial.com Making Los Angeles legible.
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
One by Willie podcast @onebywillie.bsky.social Music writer John Spong talks to notable Willie Nelson fans--think Kacey, Lyle, Booker T., Lucinda, Lanois, Whoopi, Brené, etc--about one Willie song they really love. Hear it here: onebywillie.com
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza.bsky.social Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc. 
Brooke Hauser @brookehaus.bsky.social Higher ed/ Western Mass. reporter at The Boston Globe. Author, “Enter Helen” and “The New Kids.”
Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
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Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social 💙 Stream Jeopardy! on Peacock & Hulu
⚔️ Jeopardy! Masters is now on Hulu
🏈 ESPN Jeopardy! now on Disney+, Hulu and the ESPN App
🍿 Watch Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Netflix
H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).