Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Roy E. Bahat @roybahat.com Plays a mean game of Werewolf, also a VC who believes in worker power.
Host a (very long) podcast: https://thisisnotadvice.work/
Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
Listen: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Patricia Reed @patriciareed.bsky.social
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Alex Nunns @alexnunns.bsky.social Previously Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter and I also wrote this book: http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/candidate-alex-nunns-2nd-edition
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: THE PARTY'S OVER: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONSERVATIVES FROM THATCHER TO SUNAK | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social Public sociologist & socialist. Interested in elites, knowledge & communication. Author of 'The BBC: Myth of a Public Service'.
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
Streiks | Globale Arbeitsstudien | Klassen- & Staatstheorie | Konjunkturanalyse Political Scientist @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at BU, author of _Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love_ (Stanford UP, January 2025)
James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social
Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory).
Senior Research Associate at Oxford's ECI. Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP.
Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Union✊.
Co-author #LandForTheMany.
Emma Rees 🏴 @emmarees.bsky.social
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Tom Blackburn @tomblackburn.bsky.social You wouldn't even know the sun was up unless there was a press release on it
Tom Hancock @tomhancock.bsky.social China/economics etc, fmr Bloomberg/FT etc. still posting charts on LinkedIn
Lara Friedman @larafriedmandc.bsky.social President, Foundation for Middle East Peace | www.fmep.org
holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social energy & climate policy, writer, analyst
Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social Political Economist | Green Marxist | TikTok: comrade_ashok | twitter: broseph_stalin
https://monopsonycapitalism.com/
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Rosie Warren @proletaricat.bsky.social Worker-owner, Pilsen Community Books
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Laurie Macfarlane @lmacfarlane.bsky.social Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
» melissa@melissagira.com
» tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Timothy Nunan @timothynunan.bsky.social Historian | Int'l history, Cold War and decolonization | Professor at U. Regensburg | Author of "Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan," "Faith in Revolution: Islamist Internationalism in a Decolonizing World" | Views my own.
Ines Schwerdtner @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social Parteivorsitzende Die Linke
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Camila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social Research Fellow, St Andrews
Faculty, Director of Research IUC Turin
Plebeian philosophy & praxis, deliberative democracy, intellectual history, critical legal studies, political economy.
Publications: https://camilavergara.academia.edu/
Arun Kundnani @arunkundnani.bsky.social I write about race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. More at: kundnani.org
Sophia Goodfriend @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social Anthropologist, research fellow at University of Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge & non-resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, writes about AI and war in Israel & Palestine
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social Interest formation between ecology and class,
University of Copenhagen, CommonEcologies
uni-jena.academia.edu/BueRübnerHansen
Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer
let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Eleanor Penny @eleanorkpenny.bsky.social Writer
Host Verso Books Podcast, Novara FM
Agents Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander (books) + Georgia Kanner Independent Talent (film + tv)
Teaching writing at Goldsmiths, Poetry School, City Lit
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Carcinization Now ✨
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray.bsky.social Democratic socialist.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere. Senior editor at Bidoun.
www.annadellasubin.com
Nate George @ngeorge00.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics of the Middle East, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London. My views are my own, not my institution’s.
Narges Bajoghli @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social Writer. Scholar. Educator.
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social
Arif Rafiq @arifrafiq.bsky.social
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social
Aeron Davis @aerond.bsky.social Prof of Political Communication at THW-VUW in Wellington. Also, research on Media/Journalism, Elites, Economic Sociology and Policy/Financialization, currently looking at the Housing Crisis in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social Troublemaker. Vagrant. Author of From the Ashes, Work Won't Love You Back and Necessary Trouble.
hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024).
Marx Freud Karaoke
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social cientista cansada
climate science + political strategy. for internationalist and just transitions.
Writer, Political Economist & Sociology PhD.
🟣 ecocene.blog
🟤 sabrinafernandes.com
🟢 gaiacenic.com
Posts mostly in EN or PT
Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social I cover workers for the NY Times. New Book: "Mutiny, the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class." https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610814/mutiny/
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
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social anti computer aktion
tech editor @bayareacurrent.bsky.social
@dsacommunist.bsky.social
@techworkerscoalition.org
https://baytanc.com
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Erin McElroy @erinmcel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Prof at GWU. Flaming Hydra.
I write about the history and future of tech and politics. My next book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present, arrives on January 12, 2027.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social Building unions @sununion.org; Unions of Our Own out now (Haymarket): unionsofourown.org; co-author Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law and Solidarity Unionism at Starbucks (PM Press)
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
jen liu @uilnej.bsky.social postdoc at toronto climate observatory
jenliujenliu.com
@politicaleconlab.bsky.social @politicaleconlab.bsky.social
Cédric Moisy @cedric-moisy.bsky.social Research scientist 🍇🖥️🌱🦠🔬
Plant Pathology | 3D+t imaging | MRI | Xrays tomography | IA | Image Analysis 🔎☢️🧲
Trunk diseases | Fungal Pathogens | Genetics | Molecular Biology | Grapevine | Breeding & Selection
French Wine and Vine Institute, France 🇫🇷
Nina Lutz @ninalutz.bsky.social PhD-ing at UW @cip.uw.edu @hcde.uw.edu. Visual media in problematic info (mis/disinfo, hate, scams, propaganda) and digital safety in sociotechnical systems. ninalutz.github.io.
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social assistant professor in information, university of michigan. i have big intellectual feelings about language and technology.
https://tisjune.github.io/
she/her
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Michal Schatz @miyyka.bsky.social Editor at Verso Books | michal@verso.co.uk
Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow at LSE's Grantham Research Institute. I work on the political economy of financing a green transition in China and other global South countries
Peter Ryan @peterryanresearch.bsky.social Research on economics, history, and tech at RyanResearch.co with a special focus on Ireland.
Dan Traficonte @dtraficonte.bsky.social law prof at Northeastern; political economy, innovation, industrial policy, US-China tech rivalry
International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social International Studies Association - A community of international studies scholars.
https://linktr.ee/intlstudiesassociation
Sebastian Koth @sebastiankoth.bsky.social science & technoology & political economy
researcher @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar @pr-c.bsky.social 🇨🇴 Research Scientist @Robotics and AI Institute (RAI). Former MIT Media Lab. Ethics of Tech | Participatory Design | HCI | Ancestral Technology
grace @aiproem.bsky.social Writing about everything AI x Infrastructure, AI x big tech, AI x Geopolitics. Ex-Alibaba, ex- CNBC.
Find my rambles at AI Proem on Substack.
https://aiproem.substack.com/