Tom Howarth @tomhowarth.bsky.social AI Reporter at Science Magazine • Tarbell Fellow • Formerly BBC Science Focus, Newsweek & European Southern Observatory • Views are my own
Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social Science writer. STRANGE CREATURES 📚 coming 2027!
Editor, PBS Eons. PhD, history of science.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite
Professor of Logic, University of Notre Dame
University of Oxford
#InfinitelyMore #BookOfInfinity #PanoramaOfLogic #PhilMaths
https://buymeacoffee.com/joeldavidhamkins
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social Fascinated by things very big, very small, and beyond the limits of the human senses. Founder of OpenMind: www.openmindmag.org Creator of the Invisible Universe column: https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la BnF et de ses partenaires. 📚
Accès libre et gratuit à des millions de documents numérisés ➡ gallica.bnf.fr
Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social Paleontologist and professor at University of Edinburgh, dinosaur enthusiast and writer. Free born man of the USA. Immigrant. Husband & father. (views mine)
Val Klavans @valklavans.bsky.social space image processor, ex-NASA/SETI, IMAX film co-producer, retro tech enthusiast, vaporwave mall explorer, 70s prog rock fan, guitarist
MD <-> FL
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social myriapod missing a few dozen limbs. worm watcher and arachnid propagator.
waiting for rain
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social Sharing some of what scientists find in the deep sea. I do my best w/ IDs. Help if you feel like it. NOT AI
Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social Passion is a finite research resource. History is at once art and science. Art history and book history, history of knowledge. Hongkong Type matrices. Non Latin typography and typefoundery. PhDing @ UGent. ERC: PhiSci.
École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) @efeo-paris.bsky.social Institut de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales spécialisé dans l’étude des civilisations de l’Asie.
www.efeo.fr
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together.
https://schoenberginstitute.org/
Maxim Persikov (Panates) @gyankotsu.bsky.social 🇷🇺 | 25 y.o. | (Historical & Grapho-) Linguistics | Japonic | Trans-Himalayan (esp. Gyalrongic & Sinitic) | Chinese Family of Scripts | Unicode IRG | https://x.com/gyankotsu
Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social Washington, D.C.
lyra tasis🪬🧿✡︎ @tribhuwana.bsky.social Studying medieval history and texts in MENA + Europe. Interested in book history, history of medicine, labor history, gender. Cairo Geniza fangirl.
(Blocks are not personal)
They/elle/αυτή/היא/هي
Lin, Chia-Wei @chiaweilin.bsky.social Assistante diplômée & doctorante @Université de Lausanne. Historical linguistics, language contact, indigenous grammatical traditions, Christian and Buddhist translations on the Silk Road. Working on Barlaam&Josaphat.
https://unil.academia.edu/chiaweilin
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Fletcher Hardison @fhardison.bsky.social I talk about Ancient Greek, language acquisition, GNT, LXX, classical languages, books, OCR, and python | translator, teacher, linguist, host Greeking Out podcast.
amindforlanguage.com
PaleoAnthropology @qafzeh.bsky.social Human Origins, Hominin Fossils, Biological Anthropology
#Evolution #Fossils #Science🏺
https://twitter.com/Qafzeh
Mamtimyn Sunuodula @mamti.bsky.social Head of East Asian Section, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, UK
The Fossil Files Podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social Palaeontology podcast from two professional palaeontologists aimed for all to enjoy
https://linktr.ee/fossilfiles.pod
John Hawks @johnhawks.net Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social All views and opinions expressed are my own.
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social Beijinger roaming in Massachusetts; librarian-archivist
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com FSA
Associate Librarian, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Bibliographer & librarian on the edge of the western prairie.
Website: https://www.jasonwdean.com
Faculty Profile: https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/people/jason-dean
Calum Cockburn @ccockburn.bsky.social Curator of Medieval Manuscripts @BritishLibrary
He/him 🌈
Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social Scholar of medieval Chinese literary and manuscript culture (mostly Dunhuang), occasional potter, avid bad tennis player.
Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at Oxford University; plant chaser; artist; author. Find me on Insta @illustratingbotanist
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist. Assistant Professor CCLCM/CWRU.
The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution(OUP 2021) and The Paradox of the Organism (HUP 2025).
www.arvidagren.com
Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak @ksymil.bsky.social Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
Eric Schluessel @ericschluessel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ.
Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social MicrobeTV is an independent podcast network for people who are interested in the life sciences. Our shows are about viruses, bacteria, parasites, evolution, immunology and neuroscience.
microbe.tv/contribute
Jane Qiu, PhD @janeqiu.bsky.social Globe-trotting, award-winning independent science writer in China | Words in @nature.com, @sciam.bsky.social, National Geographic and more | Writing a book on emerging diseases for @scribnerbooks.bsky.social | Ex: @ksjatmit.bsky.social, @nature.com
Teaching the Codex @teachingcodex.bsky.social Pedagogical approaches to palaeography, codicology, and early print. Organisers: Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social), Tristan Franklinos, Jessica Rahardjo, Seb Dows-Miller (@sebdm.bsky.social)
S&T Taïwan en France @sst-taiwanenfrance.bsky.social Compte du Service Sciences et Technologies de la Représentation de Taïwan en France.
🇹🇼 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇵🇹
Site internet : https://www.nstc.gov.tw/france/en
John McQuillen @bookishjohn.bsky.social Early printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum (New York City). My husband says that I fondle Gutenberg Bibles for a living. Sometimes we are in the Catskills.
He/him 🏳️🌈
Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Immunology | 🦠 Microbiology
🧫Cancer Biology | 🧬 Biotechnology
SciComm | Data | Snark
Founder: ImmunoLogic
Director: American Lyme Disease Foundation
w: immunologic.org | ALDF.com
Jeremy Dibbell @jbd1.bsky.social Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
DuXpa6 @duxpacis.bsky.social Enseignant-chercheur (MCF), biochimie, biologie moléculaire et microbiologie. ARN en tous genres, ribosomes, résistance aux antibios, évolution.
Et je me compromets parfois en conférence avec une socio-linguiste 😱
https://duxpacis-biologica.blogspot.com/
Société des Amis de Victor Hugo @societeamishugo.bsky.social 📖✒ Association d’amis d’écrivain, la SAVH diffuse l’œuvre, la pensée et l’actualité de #VictorHugo.
#Romantisme #XIXesiècle
🤝 Rejoignez le cénacle
https://victor-hugo.org/
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Erya Hsue @eryahsue.bsky.social Grad student and journalist based in Taiwan
Société Théophile Gautier @theophilegautier.bsky.social Théophile Gautier, romantisme, beaux-arts, littérature du XIXe siècle
https://www.theophilegautier.fr/
Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson expected fall '27 from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College.
利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所.
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/centers/ricci.html
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
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Kathrin Kininger @guidobaldine.bsky.social Archivarin im Haus-, Hof- & Staatsarchiv in Wien. Mag Urkunden und alles andere Handschriftliche. Unterrichtet gerne. Lernt gerne. 
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
Steve Forrest @sforrest.bsky.social Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️⚧️
Jessie Sima @jessiesima.bsky.social Indie and NYT Bestselling Author & Illustrator of a stack of books for kids.
https://www.jessiesima.com/
Milda Kvizikevičiūtė @mildakviz.bsky.social Early modern travel historian researching rare books. Digital Humanities enthusiast. Basically, if it’s old, bound, and mysterious, I’m probably digging into it.
Epitomax 💊 🐍 @epitomax.bsky.social Legal Drug Dealer 💊⚕️🐍
PharmD
No fake med
J’aime bien expliquer mon métier : la pharmacologie, c’est la vie 😁
Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
Posting in a personal capacity.
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social 2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator.
https://michael-berry.com
www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/
Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social Staff writer @wired.com covering health+biotech. Uses em dashes without AI.
Author page: https://www.wired.com/author/emily-mullin/
Email: emily_mullin@wired.com
Signal: emullin.06 (no PR please)
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social Buddhist vegetarian polyglot reader, author of Another green world, The Private Life of Books, and A Conversation larger than the Universe
/ ‘the reader is the artist’ | Tom Phillips
https://endlessbookshelf.net
https://temporary-culture.com
波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social Mostly posting in 変体英文. || Kulturelles Rāmenprogramm. || Inter indoctos, qui semidoctus est, doctissimus habetur.
Trevor Padgett @trevorpadgett.bsky.social Plant ecologist & PhD candidate | Academia Sinica/Tunghai University
Founder & Lead Educator | 'Taiwan Nature Education' bilingual ecology education
Co-host/Biologist | 'Botanical wonders'
https://tinyurl.com/242w9hee
Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan.
Mary @marypetrone.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Sydney
#1 fan of weird marine invertebrate RNA viruses
Nathan Peiffer-Smadja @nathanpsmad.bsky.social Opinions personnelles et infos sur les infections
Infectiologue, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, AP-HP
Professeur, Université Paris Cité
Chercheur, IAME, Inserm
Sabrina Sadiq @royalfizzbin.bsky.social USyd postdoc 📚 | Virologist 🦠 | Dirt Queen 🏜 | Trekkie 🖖🏽
David Quammen @quammen.bsky.social Author and journalist. The Song of the Dodo, Spillover, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, The Tangled Tree, Breathless, and other books. Most recently, The Heartbeat of the Wild. Bunch of magazine work since 1981.
Chhiū-ông-kong 樹王公 @shuwanggong.bsky.social 鴨子聽雷
https://linktr.ee/shu_wang_gong
Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social The Universal Short Title Catalogue is the most comprehensive catalogue of the early modern print world.
Posts by @ciaokatet.bsky.social and @ernestjeb.bsky.social
Website: https://www.ustc.ac.uk/ | Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ustcgram 
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Malcolm Walsby @lankian.bsky.social Professor of book history, director of the Gabriel Naude research centre at Enssib (University of Lyon)
Henry Fraser @henryfraser.bsky.social Mouth Artist - Author - Speaker. Paralysed from the shoulders down since 2009. Author of ‘The Little Big Things’ and ‘The Power In You’.
Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social Paleontologist. Developmental Biologist. Anatomist. Polar wanderer. Telling people that they are fish since 2008.
Zev Handel @zevhandel.bsky.social Author of 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮 (2019) & 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (@uwapress, 2025). Chinese characters, writing systems, historical phonology, etc.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753027/chinese-characters-across-asia/
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
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Brianne Barker @bioprofbarker.bsky.social Immunologist/Virologist teaching and doing research with undergrads at Drew University. 1x Jeopardy Champ. Science communicator podcasting on TWiV and Immune. Duke sports fan and cat mom.
Brian Cassidy @briancassidy.bsky.social Rare book & archives dealer. Co-founder Type Punch Matrix. Lapsed poet. Duplication dork. Commodifying print since 2004.
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
@jahillbooks.bsky.social @jahillbooks.bsky.social Booksellers in NYC
Website: https://www.jonathanahill.com/
Theodore Gerard Jablonski @321rare.bsky.social Owner + Proprietor at 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, Princeton, NJ, USA. We offer a curated selection of used, rare and out of print books and printed materials across many subject areas to collectors, dealers and institutions. https://32.1rarebooks.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Laura Jackson @jalalajackson.bsky.social part-time bookseller//full-time good-for-nothing
Out-of-print specialist Kitchen Arts and Letters
Generalist/owner First House Books
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com PhD student, info sci at UIUC. DH research–NLP, AI, cultural analytics
Lecturer @ Berkeley (Python for DH)
Interests: place studies, activist histories, US lit, creative writing, rhet/comp: https://matthewkollmer.com
Owner @ https://eveninglandbooks.com
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social Immunology, flow cytometry, music, beer. Opinions 100% my own. He/him. ⭕️
Director of @dartlab.bsky.social
“To science, I felt that I could help”
Also on mastodon: @mielcarz@shakedown.social
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Edmund Brumfitt @ebrumfitt.bsky.social Dealer in rare books, mainly before 1820, mainly European. Plus other distractions.
mark funke @funkebooks.bsky.social Rare books cared for, researched, and placed in good homes. I brake for bibliographies. See our website funkebooks.com for new arrivals.
Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social Virologist. PI working at but not speaking for USask. Co-EiC of Vaccine. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. Emerging viruses, pathogenesis, zoonosis, host responses, dogs, football, off-color language, transcriptomic chaos. Opinions my own.