Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com Béton brut for bluesky — by @spice.bsky.social
🇮🇷#NoWar
🇻🇪#HandsOffVenezuela
🇨🇺#EndTheBlockade
🇵🇸#FreePalestine
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
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
Gourd @jaredsnyder.bsky.social He//him, Chicago, bikes
Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social Algorithmist
https://moultano.wordpress.com/
Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com ENNIE-winning author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing, Making Enemies and other stuff. Humanist, antifascist, curmudgeon. ✶✶✶✶
Home: spyandowl.com
Blog: themonstersknow.com
Newsletter: onefootinfairyland.com
Mastodon: dice.camp/@KeithAmmann
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social Look up and stay curious. Mostly architecture.
Chicago Buoys @chicagobuoys.bsky.social Posting live readings from buoys around Chicago.
💾 https://github.com/MisterClean/chicago-buoys
👨💻 @michaelmclean.me
Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social I live in Chicago. I work in a lab. Sometimes I bike. Views are my own.
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. Extended credit included in alt text. No AI.
Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city 
Michael Rabbitt @michaelrabbitt.bsky.social Chicago’s 45th Ward Democratic Committeeperson | dems45.com | organizing for equity & justice
public universal reply guy @llkats.com L(ou|ydia|lkats). Chicago, bikes, birds. they/them/comrade.
Colin @colin-fraser.net Anti-spreadsheet person
Chicago History Podcast @chicagohistorypod.bsky.social Stories about the Greatest City in the World. Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts.
Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social Board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS): https://anarchiststudies.org/
I teach English and translate a lot of things into it
Interested in New Materialisms, Indigenous struggles, SFFH by BIPOC, Kafka, Yiddish...
Antifascist. He/him.
Adam D. Jameson @adjameson.bsky.social Author, teacher, bad movie enthusiast
books: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture (FSG), Cinemaps (with Andrew DeGraff, Quirk Books)
current project: "The Good Bad Movie Scene"
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3SnTp
Impeach Trump and abolish ICE
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social reproductive justice for all, solidarity forever. demographer, asst prof of research at CU Boulder, inveterate and not particularly professional poster. на носу очки, а в душе осень
Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social ᚛ᚐᚔᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ᚜
Explorations of Etymology / Historical Linguistics. Usually on Fridays.
Made by a human for humans with no AI
Professor of Secret Histories
www.aidanem.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/aidanem
Subscription: https://www.patreon.com/aidanem
Mike Duncan @theophrastean.bsky.social Professor in Texas. Rhetoric, tech comm, composition, early Christianity. Author: Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem. Fiction, too. Dad gamer. https://badrhetoric.com/about/
noam @noamchompers.bsky.social lecturer. soon to be lecturer (weirdly an important difference)
Cait Hakala @caithakala.bsky.social Chicago ILGA witness slips aficionado and Nora Leerhsen stan account
Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social drifter/writer on architecture, culture and Chicago, photographer specializing in out-of-focus images. there will be posts on opera, apologies in advance.
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
David Wittenberg @dhwitten.bsky.social English & Cinema prof in Iowa. Big objects, time travel, architecture, some politics, philosophy, some poker, miscellaneous theory. In my mind I'm a contented veterinary technician. 
Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org Associate Professor UC Santa Barbara | I study how machine learning models represent culture and what is at stake – aesthetically and politically – when they do.
GAI Debord @dylanschenker.com Communication Studies PhD student, Concordia University. AI, Synthetic Media, and Monsters. Leftist. He/Him
Training isn't theft
Everything for everyone. All of us first.
conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social web dev + hot dad. enjoy charts, unions, conputer games, philosophy. chicago crespo.business
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Xina @ciw.bsky.social Movies, modernism, art, politics, poetry. The usual social media ephemera of architecture, pets, food, flowers, clouds. Bay Area 📍 | Los Angeles ♥️
UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social The UChicago chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Fighting for democracy and academic freedom since 1915. uchicagoaaup.org
Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com Hugo nominated writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.
@greenleaf-k.bsky.social @greenleaf-k.bsky.social 
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Ido Radon @idoradon.bsky.social Artist. Director of curatorial project, SOCIETY. Day job, Cooley Gallery at Reed College.
atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social linear algebra is not ontologically evil
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social Social Scientist, Harvard University
https://www.ryandenos.com/
https://ryandenos.substack.com/
Joseph S. Pete @nwi-jsp.bsky.social Reporter from the Calumet Region
Jenna Goldsmith @goldcutta.bsky.social Poet and petty bureaucrat.
BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social Shakes Prof, cyclist, grouch, fabulist, cat guy.
https://bradleygreenburg.com/index.html
Repped by https://strachanlit.com/
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
@marciefrank.bsky.social @marciefrank.bsky.social Professor at Concordia U in Montreal. Works on British eighteenth-century literature, the novel and other media, and narrative theory. 
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Chicago Writers Podcast @chicagowriterspod.bsky.social The Chicago Writers Podcast is the official podcast of the Stories Matter Foundation. Hosted by @danfinnen.bsky.social and @mbwwelch.bsky.social. https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Elijah @elijahemery.bsky.social Aspiring Space Cowboy, Only Living Boy in New York. Formerly reading Lasch, now Columbia Law. Believer in and victim of the Constitution of the United States of America
jade is okay @europeandaughter.bsky.social a weltanschauung. based in chicago. mainly sharing stuff i think is interesting/important. media studies, russian/eastern european media, sports, whatever. #insulin4all
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com 
Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social Beers, bikes & bong rips.
Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social Political Theorist @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (Princeton 2026)
@chinorthsider.bsky.social @chinorthsider.bsky.social Chicagoan, history, architecture, recovering lawyer.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social Postdoc in evolutionary genomics of polyploids at RBG Kew | science & society | opinions mine
Mizzou, Fulbright Belgium, and Michigan State alum. Here because of medicaid, public universities, and pell grants
https://kevinabird.github.io/
Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa.bsky.social Pseudonym. Rastafari. Computer Science PhD. Chess Master. Dad jokes. Arsenal FC. Science. Parenting. Anti-racism.
Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social Anthropological geneticist, NYT bestselling author, martial artist, professor, Ox mother. Rock chalk.
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://the-end.ghost.io/
The Dark Professor (rare archetype) @evopsychgoogle.bsky.social professor of evolutionary psychology. under investigation for academic misconduct
Jedidiah Carlson @jedidiahcarlson.com Population genetics, doom metal, anti-racism, metaresearch, & eye-rolling. He/Him.
https://jedidiahcarlson.com
Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social Associate Prof of Biology at Howard University studying functional and evolutionary morphology #BlackLivesMatter (she/they)
Fully funded MS Programs in EEB:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f34fVzPkKviz0732mU8YtkTnLVaNNUjK_SKCTSglD0o/
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @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/
Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social The "The Dialectical Biologist" account.
Structural biology & anti-racism.
Loves: birds, proteins, Linux, Lewontin
Hates: race science, racists, transphobes
Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.
John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. i live in Minneapolis. my pronouns are he/him. i am a cofounder at @sequencermag.bsky.social
dansamorodnitsky.com
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social It's me again! **This is my only public social media account**
Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social Professor specializing in bird social behavior. Interested in developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, and ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab
Steve Pittelli, MD @stevepittelli.bsky.social Semi-retired Shrink, critic of behavioral genetics,mediocre singer, yoga dude, swimmer, searcher, Daime and other paths, little dog owner, Detroit Lions, 37 year vegetarian. Living in the South Carolina Low Country. Blog: www.unwashedgenes.blogspot.com
rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social i speedrun on twitch. occasionally i do science. i hate social media. i love hot wings.
to learn more about me:
https://www.speedrun.com/users/rhacodactylus
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zG9hvtUAAAAJ&hl=e
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Aisling Shalvey @ashshalvey.bsky.social Author of ‘Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg’ - MSCA postdoc project UCARE 1945 (unaccompanied children’s access to healthcare 1945-1950) - historian of medicine - COST Action HIDDEN Vice Chairperson
Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social Ass Prof of STS @ UVA
Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology
Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism
I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social Historian.
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.com
Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist and professional nerd. Asst Prof, University of Alaska Anchorage.
queer af, they/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️
jfmclaughlin.org
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social Author and editor of books intended to help non-experts understand science. Interested in anything about evolution, development, heredity and nature of science.
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (6) and Boogie (4). Wife guy.
He/him
It is ok to want special and delicious things
💖💜💙
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Joanna Karolina Malinowska @malinowska.bsky.social philosophy of science • race, racialisation and racism in science • health inequities • epistemic diversity • epistemic and cognitive biases • processual ontology • methodological fairness
https://malinowska.web.amu.edu.pl
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.