T. Ryan Gregory ๐จ๐ฆ @tryangregory.bsky.social Back off man, I'm a scientist. Evolutionary biologist. Professor. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, philosophy of science. Also political stuff. Plus jokes. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do (not a joke). Vimy, not Vichy. He/him.
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Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social Historian at Freie Universitรคt Berlin | ๐ Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, Europe, gender, knowledge, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure
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Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social Actor, author, comedian. A good one, even.
Dcpierson at gmail dot com
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Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe at Oregon State University. Writing about incarcerated youth in France, Russia, Ukraine, teaching is life!
Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Politics of Ed. #RVA #GoDuke #LetsGoVCU
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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.bsky.social An immigrant in the Unites States. Father. IT worker. Jewish.
Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Power Politics | Empires | International Order
dhnexon.net | https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | duckofminerva.com
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transfeminism, yiddishkeit, cooking, rabbits (mind the comma)
ostensibly a musician
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Jordan S. Carroll ๐น @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Dan Tuke @danieltuke.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science. Researching migration, political economy, and nonmilitary coercion. Former Baltimorean, current Arkansan. he/him/his
Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social Art enthusiast. Passionate about fantasy, fairy tales and folklore. Purveyor of escapism.
Location: Norway
Alex Remington @alexremington.bsky.social Atlanta baseball fan. Music lover. American Jew.
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social Yo, this my corner
I ainโt running nowhere
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you ๐ซต make sense of higher education ๐ Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
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Todd G @todded1.bsky.social 
Cameron ๐บ๐ธ๐ฝ๐ฆ
@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social Political progressive, economic liberal, bisexual centrist โข Washington, D.C. apologist โข Economics student & writer โข GOP delenda est
Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy Iโm hotter than Picante
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Eve Jochnowitz @evejochnowitz.bsky.social Yiddish, culinary ethnography, cookbooks, Yiddish cookbooks, cycling, dance, delicious food
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
The bird says, "Prosecute ICE" @imadifferentbird.northsky.social They/Them. California expat, Wichita adoptee. Handle shamelessly stolen from @oneshotrpg.bsky.social's Campaign Skyjacks podcast. Big fan of murder ballet. Fucking bitch.
@imadifferentbird@blahaj.zone on the Fediverse
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Goldstein @goldstein.latinsky.app "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair
"Fascism is imperialism turned inwards." -Cesaire
RICO Republicans.
Used to be a serious person. Now, not so much.
Caleb Smith @smithcal.bsky.social Historian, Professor at Hamilton College (all views and opinions expressed are mine alone), PhD, writing about the neoliberal shift of Black politics in Chicago from 1929 to 1994, race, class, and 20th century U.S. political history. he\him\his
Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social Senior writer, Intelligencer/New York Magazine. Bible Bonkers professional
Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social Assistant Prof, CS@Mines
Director: @napplab.bsky.social
Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception
Enjoys: ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ถ๐ค
Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible.
He/him pronouns ๐๐๐
Opinions my own.
https://www.micahcorah.com/
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Womenโs House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Saul Elbein @saulelbein.bsky.social Rooted cosmopolitan. Uncovering stories to build broad coalitions around clean water and soil for all Texans. Co-publisher of Heat Death with @asherelbein.bsky.socialโฌ.
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
eli @e1b.bsky.social ใใกใทในใใซใชใใใใ่ฑใฎๆนใใใทใ.
elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social Oh, so now itโs a research masters? Queer as all hell and massivly into music, movies and difficult theory. Really enjoying rediscovering reading for pleasure. She/ her and sometimes they/ them. Autism? Hell yea.
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor.
https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social Mindfulness & spirituality, justice & democracy ๐ต. #Hineni โก๏ธ (SHE/HER). NEW ืกืืชื SAVTA (grandma)! Photography & all things gardening ๐ฑ & knitting ๐งถ & #poetry. Doodle mom. Pro-choice. My people were immigrants too. https://linktr.ee/pathwithheart
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
@timmis.bsky.social @timmis.bsky.social 
Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social Probably the only Wisลa Krakรณw fan on bluesky.
A.U. Davies @audavies.bsky.social History PhD candidate ABD, focus on Jewish history/studies and history of extremism. PoliSci and public policy nerd. SciFa/fantasy is my jam, current big interest is Warhammer 40k. The local frum raging leftist & always antifascist #TuckFrump
Joshua Schwartz @chesedgevurah.bsky.social Interested in justice (social, corrective, distributive); practising law
Erstwhile scholar of kabbalah & chasidus
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social DONโT UNDERSTAND IRONY? THIS ACCOUNT IS NOT 4 U.
Evidence, logic, and reason before partisanship. Also, puns and dirty jokes. Youโll never find the right answers if you donโt ask the right questions. Interests include: โ๏ธโพ๏ธ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐โก๏ธ๐๐ชด
I use a lot of profanity.
A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social Leftist, lacking patience for incurious, non-empathetic, narrow-viewed arguers. If you have to pick on any oppressed or marginalized group, you are not welcome.
state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social Masshole by birth, Arizonan by questionable life choice
Constantly involuntarily angry about politics
twitter was @sayer_of_stuff
been a while since last actual state song thread
Katja, li'l scamperer ๏ฝขAmethyst๏ฝฃ @vulpine.house Little Mx arctic fox kit xor wouf pup. Agender. Anarchist. Antizionist. Autistic/ADHD. Deafblind. Jew-in-progress. Littlefur. Poly. Queer. Legally an adult.
Avatar by Clepto, banner mine.
No minors.
Fae/faer, they/them, she/her, in preference order.
ืืืื ๐ด @eyalk.bsky.social ืืืขืื ืฉื ืืฉืืื | ืืืจืื ืืืืื ืืืืื | All Cats Are Beautiful | ืืืื ื | ืืชื/ืืื
Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social Soccer nerd. Sometimes I even do soccer poasts.
Azor-in-Exile @azorr.bsky.social Haven't tactically withdrawn from X (FKA Twitter) to use Russian parlance, but I am rebalancing...
Sarah Bunin Benor @sarah-bunin-benor.bsky.social Language, Jews, and Jewish language. Professor @ Hebrew Union College, director of Jewish Language Project, author of Becoming Frum, We the Resilient, Hebrew Infusion, host of Heritage Words Podcast and Peer Review: Creativity and Fulfillment in Academia
Yoshiko Herrera @yoshikoherrera.bsky.social Professor, Political Science Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. Comparative politics, social identities, nationalism, xenophobia, teaching on the Russian war on Ukraine
https://yoshikoherrera.com
Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order. 
Caris Adel @carisadel.bsky.social american & religious studies. UVA. local history, local politics. teaching high school history. Michigander living in VA. elected official ๐๐ป. personal account, personal opinions. rtโ agreement
Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at the European Institute, LSE. Research and teach the political economy of the state; green transition; regenerative economics. Optimist. Alarmed by people who lack self-doubt...
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. Weโre the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
A Dead Sinking Rory @zealousagain.bsky.social The doom that came to Bluesky. Transitioning in my 30s. Non-practicing Jew. Vaguely defined Leftist. She / Her.
I will not ask you for money; do not accept scammers
Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social Chicago Reader music writer
imleor.carrd.co
@gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social 90-year old Holocaust survivor, Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. I have strong opinions about politics, economics, societal problems and a life well lived.
๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ง ๐'๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ, ๐.๐. @kohsj.bsky.social Jesuit
Philosophy
Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช / Paraguay ๐ต๐พ
James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Buy my stuff at gregpakshop.com!
Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Melbourne. Formerly of other places. Research: war, intelligence, innovation, and normative change in international politics. Cat paparazzo. He/Him ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โก๏ธ
taber @kvetch.gay gay nightmare | โก๏ธ | #ActuallyAutistic | minneapolis
Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app Chair @cunyenglish.bsky.social I study books, Blackness & pop culture! Leftist & left handed ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ธ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
One of many Jonathan Grays
I maintain Blackademics the scholarly side of Blacksky
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Personal account
Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social Oklahoman in Virginia. Appellate attorney.
I talk about federal court decisions. A lot.
Sometimes the most you can do is the best you can do.
gabriel.malor@gmail.com
Evan Vossman @evanvossman.bsky.social PhD candidate at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. Writing a dissertation on slavery in early rabbinic literature.
Teaching Fellow at University of Dayton, 2025-2027.
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Postersโ Guild
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ rights are human rights
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social Neverโs just the echo of forever
Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social I like life in Vancouver ๐จ๐ฆ, languages, open-source software, solving confusing problems with data, dogs, distance running, and my ๐ถ son. It's just everything else that worries me.
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) โ๐ @emilylhauser.bsky.social Was: reporter, writer, librarian| Now: social justice comms| Always: huge nerd
Chicago
And what shall we do, we who did not die?
(June Jordan)
Writing: http://bit.ly/43664OI
Me & Israel/Palestine: https://bit.ly/4hQmiQl
LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/3XbgmJ4
Elizabeth @tinymysteries.bsky.social I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
Randi Weingarten ๐๏ธ๐โ๐บ๐ธ @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com Postdoc Associate, Yale
Ph.D. (Assyriology), Harvard
visit me at www.aandeloucas.com
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. ๐บ๐ธ & ๐ช๐บ politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Andrรกs Forgรกcs W @andraswf.bsky.social Hungarian-born British screenwriter.
Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden
As seen on the Bird App
A national security threat, according to Donald Trump
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508
Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com current twitter ex-pat. past congressional reporter. contributing editor @newrepublic.com. running a communications consulting business and raising a tiny baseball fan irl.
letโs work together! โฌ๏ธ
meredithshiner.com
Yashar Ali ๐ @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
oren falk @orenfalk.bsky.social ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐ธ medieval cultural history, esp. Norse. wake up. brush teeth. sagas. rinse. repeat. not necessarily in that order.
Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social Historian of western European borderlands, European unity, and civilizational thinking. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. Author of From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 (LSU Press, 2026)
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Convolver @convolver.bsky.social What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What goodโs Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.
John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Dr. Jolani Peterson @boundedrationality.bsky.social ะ ะฐะทะพะผ ะดะพ ะฟะตัะตะผะพะณะธ ะฐ ัะธ ัะพ ะดัะผะฐะฒ? vibes? papers? essays? ืคึฟืจืืืขืจืก.
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
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Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cรฉvennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Meyada @melari.bsky.social palestinian | american | she/her | bluesky-aged | pseudonymous
mazel tov cocktail @afertig.bsky.social Lover of #mapoli, #jewsky. Celtics fan. He/him, views my own etc etc Love books, travel and a good cup of coffee. Gathering dreams at dreamsofthesetimes.com
Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social Political scientist, kayaker
Emeritus, UMaine
Political Sightlines at https://amyfried.substack.com/
Books on how U.S. conservatives weaponized distrust, New England politics, professionalizing polling, and perceptions of public opinion as a resource
Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social Writer (Disney, Spotify, that one West Wing spec thread you remember from Twitter) | Endurance Rider | Amateur Unfuckologist | Bug Simp | your real dad | mgmt @ Heroes and Villains ๐๐๐