Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social Teacher. Author. Accidental collector of books, assorted craft supplies, and a disturbing number of fountain pen ink samples. #Jewish #Queer she/her
Website: rachelgutin.wordpress.com
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Geek Calligraphy @geekcalligraphy.com Team Ariela & Terri: committed to providing high quality geeky art and calligraphy. 2019, 2020, 2022 Hugo Finalist for Best Fan Artist. 
Avani @avani.bsky.social ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023 #cw2026.
https://linktr.ee/circumviso
Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com Neurospicy disabled trans girl, Ph.Dyke
Writes with @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social, @catblackard.bsky.social, & @jessicamudd.bsky.social
EggPrimeDirective.com
Music—Books—Games—Poetry MothMother.com
Ink—Art CauldronFireStudios.com
Theory TessTanen.com
MOS_8502 🇨🇦 @studio8502.ca (He/Him) Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada.
• https://www.patreon.com/Studio8502
• https://ko-fi.com/mos_8502
• https://studio8502.itch.io/
Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(
Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Fearmongel Advisor @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social I'm a biologist, mad as in angry. Pro-D.C. statehood since 1969.
@mikethemadbiologist@mastodon.online
www.mikethemadbiologist.com
🧪
Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social Writer of novels and stories. Lives in Ohio. 
J m McDermott/joe m mcdermott @jmmcdermott.bsky.social Ugh.
Buy my books and tell me they’re pretty.
sankgreall gmail com
Roger Tang @gwangung.bsky.social Asian American theatre geek
Producer/playwright/designer/advocate
Head of Pork Filled Productions
Sec., Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists
Editor, Asian American Theatre Revue
Star Fleet Security, Posting: Betazed
Very quiet jackal.
Philip Chaffin @philipchaffin.bsky.social 
PS Classics @psclassics.bsky.social Celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, one album at a time. Posts are from label cofounders @TommyKrasker.bsky.social and @PhilipChaffin.bsky.social.
www.psclassics.com
Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
Kirsty Isla Thomas @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social Scottish 🏴🏳️🌈
Queer, disabled creative.
Poetry, Art, Zines, Photography
She/her
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social Historian of Taiwan & the World. Associate Professor, University of Washington Jackson School.
Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025)
Website: ocf.io/jameslin
he/him
Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Writer | Arabfuturist | SFF | Cat dad 🐈⬛️ |
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out now with Gollancz & Saga Press.
Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mahmudelsayed
Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him; MN
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
frozenseapress.com
Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social TV Writer: Dinosaurs, Buffy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, The OC, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Jessica Jones, Foundation, Artful Dodger, Fallout...
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
📍Portland, OR
Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org Co-founder LabEight Ventures. Founding Partner @AugustaFund. Hokie. Daje Roma. Guardian of Nala & Moose. Immersed in water. Moving through with @courts112.
(he/him)
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Emily Hockaday @emilyhockaday.bsky.social Author of NAMING THE GHOST (Cornerstone Press 2022), IN A BODY (Harbor Editions) & BLOOD MUSIC (Harbor Editions). Editor @asimovssfmag.bsky.social. UU.
Linden @emilytheslayer.bsky.social Tired. Not mad, just disappointed. Queer, poly, witchy, switchy. Fiber arts. Idk man I'm just here.
Peter Adrian Behravesh @behravesh.bsky.social Miller Award-winning writer of Persian monstrosities and naftpunk. BFA-winning and Hugo/Ignyte-nominated audio producer. Co-editor of IRAN+100. ایرانی He/him.
Story game designer for MTG at Wizards of the Coast. Opinions are my own. #WotCStaff
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social National opinion columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer; author of After the Ivory Tower Falls; free weekly newsletter at inquirer.com/bunch
Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social Author of Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. The Last Emperor of China is out now. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social Writer, poet (8-time Rhysling nominee), editor, coffee vampire. Supergirl+Buffy+Gilmore Girls.
Offerings for Ordinary Gods, @CLASHBooks out NOW
she/her
Rep: @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
header @lizlee.bsky.social
alitrotta.com
alwayscoffee7@gmail.com
Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social Sley House Presents is a podcast about literature, with in-depth reviews, author interviews, and occasional audio fiction. Account managed by Trevor W.
Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖
https://linktr.ee/jennlynnjordan
💙💜💖
John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social posting about posts at new york magazine
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/- W Kai Ashante Wilson @wildeeps.bsky.social Author of WILDEEPS, of TASTE OF HONEY.
Trying to get new work out there, Patreon link: https://tinyurl.com/2uv52prv
Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social Enthusiastic weirdo, creator and poor maintainer of Tracery and other software. Ask me about JavaScript!
K Tidbeck @ktidbeck.bsky.social Non-binary author of speculative fiction in Swedish and English. They/them.
www.karintidbeck.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Mishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy, mother, vidyagamer, dungeon master. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. AI used me, but I don't use AI.
Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.
As long as you live, shine.
Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com fat lesbian witch 🔮♿️ 🏳️🌈 she/they
📝 eisner-winning journo, rt-approved critic, writing everywhere 📚 fat forward books founder & naafa community voices blog editor 📖 rep by stephanie winter @ komm 🖼️ pfp by @boooworth.bsky.social
💻 theverbalthing.com
@dave.linkblog.org @dave.linkblog.org My linkblog is a feed. This Bluesky account reflects it. More info here..
https://this.how/davewiner/myLinkblog.opml
The same links can be read on the open web, here:
http://scripting.com/?tab=links
Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social Senior Director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, reformed oboist and whitewater kayaker, mom of teenage twins. Opinions are my own.
Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social Law prof at Cardozo Law. Former U.S. State Dept a few times over. Writes on international law, war powers and national security, presidential power and bureaucracy.
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/rebecca-ingber
Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social Award-winning SFF author of THE LESSON and NO GODS, NO MONSTERS, founder/member of Many Worlds. 1/5th of Darkly Lem.
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
4th Street Fantasy @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social Small, single-track convention located in St. Louis Park, MN.
http://4thstreetfantasy.com
#4thstreetfantasy
Mal Frazier (they/them) @malf.bsky.social Your favorite editorial toddler. Acquiring for Tor and Bramble. PNW 🌲
Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social A hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Two wheels good, four wheels bad. Ex Sociology adjunct turned Accounting nerd. North of Boston, near witches. Born into a 321 PPM world. He/Him. Enjoy every sandwich. Aurë entuluva.
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Patrick Dexter @patrickdexter.bsky.social Irish cello guy from Twitter. Playing cello through the storm on Ireland’s Atlantic west coast with my dog friend 🎵
rob pike @robpike.io Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social CONTENTS WILL PLASMATE UPON PACKET RUPTURE!
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
Jackie Wong | Rocker Skating @rockerskating.com Chief Skate Nerd @ Rocker Skating | Real, level-headed figure skating expert analysis | sometimes the Practice Cam guy | jackie@rockerskating.com | he/him
Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social Bilingual SFF/ 2020 Best SF European Promoter
Clarkesworld/ Strange Horizons/ Apex/
ChloroPhilia/Limítrofes/Alphaland/Mil Desiertos /Bionautas/ DNAZ
Librísimo https://www.youtube.com/@CJ-ro7wt
masficcionqueciencia.com
Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social Grows things (words, plants)
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES. FAMILIAR out now! Fabric artist. Butler for cats. They/them
https://jeremycreature.bigcartel.com/
https://www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Doug Orleans @dougo.bsky.social Just here to grab the handle.
P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social 2x Nebula finalist. Aurora, and World Fantasy-finalist. Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now from Tordotcom. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games).
thirdarchive.net | ninepinpress.com
Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Steen Comer (Weeping Gorilla Era) @mediapathic.bsky.social Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist.
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
Al Bogdan @albogdan.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, Videographer, bygone-Coder, who simply enjoys creating and exploring.
Expect nature, convention, and event photos, some writing related posts, plus just randomness.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Sarah Kozloff @sarahkozloff.bsky.social novelist, retired Vassar film professor, dog-lover
Slate @slate.com ~ ~ *brb visiting the 90s* ~ ~
You, you, you oUghTa KnOw: slate.com/party96
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
amy eastment @amyeastment.bsky.social product designer (data viz+research) ⭐ visual artist + game developer ⭐ #blacklivesmatter #protecttranskids #freepalestine #uglydogs ⭐ somerville, ma
Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend. Making the world a better place one silly song at a time.
Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 @ngjeannette.bsky.social Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, poetry, costumes, live roleplay. She/they. Mostly photos of my dog. Repped by @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social Linguist and translator.
↙️ ↙️ ↙️
Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @esedia.bsky.social The only communist cat rescue in NJ
Professor of biology
Writer
World Fantasy Award-winning editor
Permanently broken
he/him; they/them (but only if you must) 🏳️🌈
LDNI 🚫🫏
MDNI 🔞
(This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)
Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax + phonetics; R and stats and dataviz; art and craft and nature; immigrant to normal island; she/her|they/them; not funny (earnest); ai (llm) apologists go away; דאיקייט
Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social Linguist, reader, knitter, video gamer, Canadian (in no particular order). Thinks a lot about auxiliaries and pronouns, Stardew Valley, and books with magic and/or spaceships and/or kissing in them. Experimenting with context collapse. (she/her)
Dr Monika Pleyer @linguisticisms.bsky.social PhD in linguistics. Researching Impoliteness in children's fiction, and metaphors in virtual health discourses (esp. on dementia). 🩷💜💙 they/she
Amy Plackowski @linguistihawk.bsky.social High school ELA & linguistics teacher. A justice-centered, culturally responsive pedagogy must include the study of linguistics. hslinguistics.com. LSA, NEATE, NCTE. Venmo: @AmyPlackowski
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod