Philippe Prudent @phprudent.bsky.social Professeur d'histoire des arts en HK et K au Lycée Condorcet (Paris 9ème), docteur en histoire moderne, chercheur (voyage des Britanniques en Italie, marché de l'art à Rome au XVIIIe siècle). Veille expos.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
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/
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social “How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social 📍Your guide to Philly’s Art + Public Space since 2011!
🎧 Podcast, Streets Dept Podcast
🎨 Curation, #StreetsDeptWalls
📸 Founded by Conrad Benner
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social Historian, parent, husband, occasional Bondologist
#BondianColdWar book
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https://martindbrown.substack.com/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Bondian-Cold-War-The-Transnational-Legacy-of-a-Cultural-Icon/Brown-Granieri-Blaive/p/book/9780367569365
Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social Author of Baltimore's Black Arts Then & Now: Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project - available from U of Iowa Press. https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/baltimores-black-arts-then-now
Anti-ICE activist in NJ. Diehard sewist.
Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social Futurist, academic, writer.
Tangotiger @tangotiger.com MLBAM Senior Data Architect
Website http://www.tangotiger.com
Co-author of The Book, with limited free access from
- Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/tangotiger
- Google Books: http://tinyurl.com/tangotiger2
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
https://www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/
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.
John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social Official Historian, Major League Baseball. Since 2011, I have posted a story a week at ourgame.mlblogs.com. Views are my own, not those of MLB.
Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com political scientist @ University of Zürich
platforms, political violence, social media, computing
research & writing:
henryhenryhenry.com
sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social Early modern historian @ghilondon.bsky.social
Currently thinking about how to write history in times of climate crisis.
Also: Early modern utopias / Historical time experiences / Environmental history of the British Empire
James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social Civil Servant: Urban explorer | Access/Equity - Libraries - Technology (Views are my own) - jazz, art, literature, film, food ... Geo-politics - Investment
C. Annemieke Romein @caromein.bsky.social Early modernist: political-institutional and legal (#Policey), Digital Humanities: HTR (@transkribus Community Director + chairperson of the Board), Automatic Metadata, LOD. ECHA specialist giftedness. Editor @DLH.
SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany @socresta.bsky.social SOCRESTA - Social Relations and the State in Renaissance Germany: Feud and the Law in the Prince-bishopric of Würzburg, 1500-1600. MSCA grant no. 101201419, funded by the European Union (2025-7). #earlymodern
Fellow @omandrziga.bsky.social at @york.ac.uk
Žiga Oman @omandrziga.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern Central Europe: plebeian enmities, interpersonal violence, social relations, emotions and disputes.
MSCA Fellow at @york.ac.uk with @socresta.bsky.social, Assist Prof @UniMaribor, editor @ZDJP, Jorkštajerc (Views are my own.)
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
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Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social Senior writer at @FanGraphs.com, formerly SI.com and Baseball Prospectus, creator of JAWS, author of The Cooperstown Casebook (2017). Not sticking to sports or paying $8.
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.
Janneken @janneken.org historian, author, Philadelphia committeeperson in Ward 18. janneken.org. A New Deal for Quilts https://linktr.ee/janneken
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social Map Curator at the Bodleian, University of Oxford; Hon Fellow, Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Chair, Charlbury Beer Festival (2020); Cyclist ...
Dan Cohen @dancohen.org Vice Provost/Dean of the Library, Professor of History at Northeastern University
Posts originate at social.dancohen.org, but I'll hear you if you reply
Subscribe at newsletter.dancohen.org for longer-form writing
Natalie Donnell, PhD @nataliedonnell.bsky.social Historian of women in early modern Europe, political power, transregionality, and network analysis.
nataliedonnell.com - feministhistories.substack.com
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social I wrote two books on science & the Cold War, formerly @ColdWarScience. Developmental editor to the should-be stars. Mostly Philly, sometimes Indiana, always weaving.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social PhD candidate, modern German architecture | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine | New Orleans (for now)
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Netzschleuder @netzschleuder.skewed.de Network catalogue, repository, and centrifuge.
Comprehensive, and with an auditable and contributable FLOSS codebase.
+160K nets to date!
https://networks.skewed.de
(by @tiago.skewed.de at @invcomplexity.skewed.de)
Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social Art historian looking for interesting stories in old master auctions
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social Academic editing, translation [DE and FR>EN], book history in early modern Germany & France, media history, art & art history. Once I had tenure, now I walk the trails of southern Maine.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com Media for DAME magazine. She/her. Co-founder, First-Draft.com. Alumna of The Daily Cardinal.
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social Historian of colonial America, the Caribbean, and slavery. Professor at UCSC. Lover of cooking, sporting, mountains, and indie bands. Mischievous uncle.
chad black @chadblack.bsky.social Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
Tara Nummedal @tnummedal.bsky.social Early modern objects, bodies, and knowledges; digital scholarship; knitter; author of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood & co-author of furnaceandfugue.org
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Lizzie Reis @lzreis23.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, gender, and bioethics. Author, BODIES IN DOUBT: AN AMERICAN HISTORY OF INTERSEX and DAMNED WOMEN: SINNERS AND WITCHES IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND. Emeritus at Univ. of Oregon and retired from CUNY. www.lizziereis.com
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
Lara Putnam @laraputnam.bsky.social Historian. Mom. Knocks on doors and talks politics. https://www.history.pitt.edu/people/lara-putnam- K @klausgraf.bsky.social @klausgraf.bsky.social
Die Deutschen Inschriften @inschriften.bsky.social Forschungsvorhaben zur Erfassung und kommentierten Edition von erhaltenen und abschriftlich überlieferten Inschriften des deutschen Sprachraums bis 1650
https://www.inschriften.net
Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.
PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
Andrew R. Casper @andrewrcasper.bsky.social Art historian of early-modern Italy, Michigan alum and football fan, Penn Ph.D., soccer fan, classical music evangelist, books on El Greco and the Shroud of Turin.
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social Historian of early modern and eighteenth-century France who sees historical parallels everywhere. Interested in fashion, gender, politics, food. And cat photos.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Corinna Ehlers @corinnaehlers.bsky.social Grenzgängerin Theologie/Bibliothek @ixtheo.bsky.social.
Außerdem: Christentumsgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte, Editionen, Alte Drucke.
Fediverse: corinnaehlers@openbiblio.social.
Privater Account.
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⚓
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social English Prof at UNF (Jacksonville, FL). Co-author, The Teaching Archive (U Chicago Press, 2021). Working lately w Jax archivists, historians, writers, and students.
Rachel Sagner Buurma @rbuurma.bsky.social
Ruth Mostern 🌏🌱 @rmostern.bsky.social World & Chinese history, environment & climate, space & place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Academic freedom & labor. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
Gen. JC Christian @genjcchristian.bsky.social Commander of the Red Guard of the Christian Conservative Cultural Revolution and 2nd Eagle of the Apocalypse. I outrank that sniveling bastard, Michael Flynn. I wear camo and am therefore invisible.
- Alabama side of Washington Cascades
Martin Andersson @martinhist.bsky.social Agrarhistoriker som sysslar med räkenskaper, kvarnar, ekonomisk ojämlikhet, migration, social struktur, legohjon och mycket annat i det förmoderna Sverige.
Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social Senior politics writer at Salon.com. I block for MAGA trolling, violent rhetoric, and humorless sanctimony.
I would love nothing more than to never see another meme in replies. I am doomed.
Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
Susan Wabuda @susanwabuda.bsky.social Susan Wabuda, Ph.D. (Cantab.), F.R.Hist.S., FSA. Historian. My opinions are mine. A recent book on Thomas Cranmer. Fordham University. Connecticut farms. Democracy. DMs discouraged.- K @kzickermann.bsky.social @kzickermann.bsky.social
Jaakko Björklund @jaakkob.bsky.social Early modern military history, University of Helsinki
Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social Military Historian. Author, ‘The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Twentieth Century’ (OUP, March 2027). Economic Statecraft; Strategy; Money.
Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Dries Raeymaekers @driesraey.bsky.social Historian of early modern politics and culture at Radboud University. Interested in the history of monarchy, dynasties, and princely courts.
Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social Director, Humanities, Arts, and Culture Programs and Humanities Indicators (http://bit.ly/1vcZlh4) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Quotes and RTs ≠ opinions.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com Personal account, historian of education policy
John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, Illustrator of Philosophers
https://www.onbeyondzarathustra.com
Dr. Richard C. Schlag @richardcschlag.bsky.social fledgling postdoctoral historian, recently completed DPhil at @ox.ac.uk, researching politics, government, conflict, and authority in late medieval Europe, especially 15 C Holy Roman Empire , he/him
https://oxford.academia.edu/RichardSchlag
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.”
Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social early modern Iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan