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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed. COYS About: aaronrhanlon.com
Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social Professor of History and founding Director of the School of Social, Historical and Political Research at the University of Waterloo. Posts in a completely personal capacity.
Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social Canadian in Hong Kong. Work: digital historian @ HKU. Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI. Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space They/them Interests: Math. Engineering. Engineering Games. 3d printing and industrial design. Education. Job: SRE at a tech company working on L7 Networking & Load Balancing.
Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social Leo transcribes handwritten historical documents instantly, helping you turn your unwieldy manuscripts into an organized, searchable digital library. Try it for free with 10 credits every month at http://tryleo.ai
The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social SHoW is an academic society aimed at understanding the history of war across time, spaces & cultures. https://www.show.org.uk
Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social Award-winning Diamond Open Access journals of digital methods for the humanities. https://programminghistorian.org • https://tinyurl.com/support-PH • https://linkedin.com/company/prog-hist
Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH. present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia. personal account. https://scottbot.github.io
Grace @gracekind.net A latent space odyssey gracekind.net
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan Co-Editor of Historical Methods. Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
Amanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman. Here for the books. And dogs. GBR. Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
Lincoln Mullen @lincolnmullen.com Historian of American religion at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and George Mason University. https://lincolnmullen.com https://rrchnm.org
Zoe LeBlanc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social #DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UBC computational sociology machine learning is feminist You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing. www.lauraknelson.com
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️‍🩹 links.weratedogs.com
B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social University of Reading (UK) PhD student studying naval strategy and amphibious warfare. Author of books On Tactics and On Operations. Occasional blogger: https://bafriedman.substack.com/
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought. https://othermeans.substack.com/
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social Digital History | US History Professor at CU Denver 📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖 cblevins.github.io
Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social 💥 Founder & CEO @explosion.ai 👩‍💻 Developing spacy.io + prodi.gy + beta.ellf.ai 🐍 Python Software Foundation Fellow ⚡ Hacking @feministai.party 🧠 AI, Machine Learning & NLP 💼 linkedin.com/in/inesmontani 🐘 sigmoid.social/@ines 💥 explosion.ai 🌎 ines.io
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026 Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social Natural Language Processing research community at the University of Colorado Boulder. www.colorado.edu/research/bouldernlp
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz Guerrilla cyberneticist. https://danilocampos.com advisory: if we’ve never talked and you’re weirdly aggressive, I’m just going to block you.
Jacobite Wars @jacobitewars.com Covering the military history of the Jacobite Risings and the wider Jacobite period from the Revolution of 1688 to the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and beyond. Posts by @neilritchie.bsky.social
Military History Visualized @militaryhistory.bsky.social Bernhard Kast Education: MA History, MSc Computer Science https://www.youtube.com/@MilitaryHistoryVisualized/
Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
Dr Dan Spencer @gunpowderdan.bsky.social Historian of late medieval military history. Specialising in English military technology, warfare, and castles. Also a fan of Warhammer, France, dogs, heavy metal and archery.
SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page.
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog
Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Society for Army Historical Research @societyarmy.bsky.social Serving Scholars, Enthusiasts and Soldiers. Established 1921. Registered UK Charity 247844. Retweets do not represent an endorsement. sahr.org.uk
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming. Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia— —but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here. Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Matthew Honnibal @honnibal.bsky.social Computational linguist from Sydney and Berlin. Author of the spacy.io NLP tools Founder and CTO @explosion.ai LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/honnibal Blog: honnibal.dev
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU. Founding research scientist at Percepta. https://emerge-lab.github.io https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems she/her 🏳️‍🌈 Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/ Host at: https://www.changetechnically.fyi/
Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Ed @ed3d.net Main Character Syndrome, but fun. Boston-based. My wood shop and my dogs are my personality. If you're still reading this, I'm your dad now. Sorry, I don't make the rules. I don't speak for my employer. I do make @polytoken.dev. signal: edr.91
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social linear algebra is not ontologically evil
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist. I draw custom maps and artwork on commission: https://surprisedeelmaps.com/ Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father. All opinions my own.
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist. Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
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
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Insta: @bydreamphd
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ VAP @ Oberlin https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/