Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social Professor in Economics & Finance @iipp-ucl.bsky.social | macroeconomic policy, sustainable finance, land & housing | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64753
The Atlanta Way Out @atlantawayout.bsky.social Headlines from the alternative paper Atlanta should have
Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social Historical demographer and data impresario
Wired profile: https://www.wired.com/1995/03/ruggles/
Publications: https://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggl001/
Data: https://www.ipums.org/
Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social 1% haterade // 39% property taxes are too low // 40% about infrastructure lifecycle budgeting // 15% anti-Stitch & other megaprojects // 5% trying to make the term “BeltLine St” happen.
Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor @atlantaworks.bsky.social #StopCopCity #NoDataCenters #BanWaymo
misrepresenting what happened in pursuance of a false narrative alycodes
spreading misinformation about the Pittsburgh Steelers Jai
purposely obtuse Reylinn
Very bad at grammar and reading comprehension n2theblue
Ufuoma (oo-fwo-ma) @doctorufu.bsky.social Incoming Asst. Prof UArizona Geography | Environmental Justice & Carceral Geographies | Founder of Toxic Prisons Mapping Project toxicprisons.com | itsufuoma.com
JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.
Matt Henry @menrywy.bsky.social Working on a just energy transition
Formerly: NREL, University of Wyoming
Currently: Facilitator and policy strategist
Enviro Humanities PhD
Book on water justice
Based in the rural West
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social An epileptic forever-bumpkin turned counter-forensic geographer
Abolish borders
Ruthlessly criticize what exists
Chinga la migra
Internationalism or bust
Sam Chambers @spatiosam.bsky.social Border Studies / Biometeorology / Spatiotemporal Analytics / Landscape Ecology / Critical Geography
Research Scientist, ASU Human Biometeorology Lab | Research Fellow, Border Forensics, UniBE | Geography Instructor, UTEP
danielle carr @daniellecarr.bsky.social
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social sociology prof @Tufts and Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
rebekah @rebeks.bsky.social housing policy / she/her / pdx / communist / murp student housingauthority.substack.com ~ #orleg
Audrey Lynn Martin @audreylynnmartin.bsky.social Abolitionist Attorney and Housing Advocate
KY-->DC
She/Her
Blake Feldman @3lake.bsky.social senior policy counsel at Southern Center for Human Rights • was at MCJ, SPLC, ACLU of MS • here in my personal capacity • he/him
The Map Room @maproomblog.com A blog by @jonathancrowe.net about maps in all their forms, on and off since 2003. maproomblog.com
Email digest: maproomblog.com/about/subscribe
Mastodon: mapstodon.space/@maproomblog
Support via Patreon: patreon.com/jonathancrowe
Shamus Roller @shamusroller.bsky.social ED at the National Housing Law Project 🇺🇸 Housing nerd. @nhlp.bsky.social
Justin La Mort @lamort.bsky.social Attorney. Educator. Activist. (he/him)
Interested in the intersection of space, place, and the law with democratic accountability and economic inequality.
Opinions are at best my own and not my employer.
https://www.justinlamort.com/
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
@wardykg.bsky.social @wardykg.bsky.social
Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to outsmart the Macho Man.
Milwaukeean. I wrote Health Justice Now, a book about Medicare for All and beyond. Hong for Governor policy director 2K26, database goon @ Defector
https://error.malware-virus.biz
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
zach lou @zlousky.bsky.social climate, housing, EJ, labor. coalition director @ greennewdealca.org
Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social institutions, inequality, geography, democracy | asst law prof at UCLA
Sam Bloch @samkbloch.bsky.social journalist, author of SHADE: THE PROMISE OF A FORGOTTEN NATURAL RESOURCE (2025), samuel.bloch@gmail.com
AVAILABLE NOW: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shade-the-promise-of-a-forgotten-natural-resource-samuel-bloch/22014863
Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social Y23, He/Him | Someone once said I’m naturally anti-dogmatic. Housing is a human right. Currently @thenation.com. Previously @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social and more!
David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social Executive editor, The American Prospect. Author, Chain of Title and Monopolized. Tips at ddayen-at-prospect-dot-org or Signal at ddayen.90
Lucy Block @lucyblock.bsky.social Geography enthusiast in Queens, data communications @cplusc.bsky.social
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Ronda Kaysen @rondakaysen.bsky.social Reporter @nytimes Find my work at nytimes.com/by/Ronda-kaysen
Sam Russek @samrussek.bsky.social reporter-researcher @newrepublic.com | associate editor @orbooks.bsky.social | also @samrussek on X | “some skeptics,” per the NYT | website: https://samrussek.neocities.org/
Eric Nost @ericnost.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, member @envirodgi.bsky.social
Archive Atlanta @archiveatlanta.bsky.social A history podcast sharing stories about the people, places and events that shaped the city of Atlanta.
Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast | columnist @nplusonemag.com
~ 2 niche 2 live 2 on brand 2 die ~
Fran Quigley @franquigley.bsky.social Podcast and Newsletter: We Can Do Better—Ending Poverty in our Time, https://endpovertynow.substack.com Director, Housing, Health & Human Rights Clinic, Indiana U. McKinney School of Law
Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social Investigative reporter and editor. 🏡,🏦,☀️, also🐈. she/ her.
Mark Paul @markpaulecon.bsky.social Associate Prof, Public Policy, Rutgers
PhD Econ, UMass Amherst
Jennie Gustafsson @jiegson.bsky.social Bostadsforskare.
Human geographer researching on rental housing, regulation and financialization. Book review ed @housingtheory.bsky.social. Dept. of Urban studies & @iurmalmo.bsky.social, MAU.
https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=x-t1hugAAAAJ&hl=sv
W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social Author of When It's Darkness on the Delta, A Place Like Mississippi, and other works of nonfiction. Faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. President, @authorsguild.org
H. Jacob Carlson @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Kean University, Social Housing Development Authority, "Housing is a Social Good" (2026)-@UChicagoPress
https://www.hjacobcarlson.com/
Troy Brundidge 312/541 @teebeegeo.bsky.social UOregon/Dartmouth College economic geographer. Interested in marketization, solutionism, insurance and public finance, police, carceral & legal geographies, how we know. Very from Chicago. Mostly quoting things my son says.
@kirstenschwarz.bsky.social @kirstenschwarz.bsky.social
Derek Ruez @derek-ruez.bsky.social geographer, academic worker, queer, etc., based in Finland (he/they).
Academy Research Fellow, Space & Political Agency Research Group, Tampere University
Chair, Tampere University Association of Researchers and Teachers ry
Editor-in-chief, Space & Polity
@cartofish.bsky.social @cartofish.bsky.social
Brandon @brandontakayuki.bsky.social Researching tech labour markets, education, work culture, bourdieu. content means-tested. Teaching at York University.
Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social Postdoc @medialab-scpo.bsky.social, author, and programmer. Most of my work is in #NLProc, #GIS, computational social science, and philosophy of technology.
https://mikaelbrunila.com/information-theory/
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.”
Alex @professuh.bsky.social 📍 ATL, but worldly.
💼 wonk. educator. creator. DJ.
Urban Theory Lab (UTL) @urbantheorylab.bsky.social The Urban Theory Lab (UTL) seeks to develop new ways of conceptualizing capitalist urbanization and its increasingly planetary environmental impacts. Website: urbantheorylab.net
Stephannie Stokes @stephannnnie.bsky.social Journalist covering homelessness at The Seattle Times. Get in touch: sstokes@seattletimes.com. Signal: stephannies.75.
Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
Nik Heynen @nik-heynen.bsky.social Geographer, University of Georgia | Spelman College | UGA's Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land, Sea and Agriculture | Shell to Shore | Birkley Heynen Environmental Foundation
https://linktr.ee/cornbreadheynen
carrie freshour @cfresh.bsky.social geographer. southerner. mom. adoptee. labor. race. gender. DuBois. GLB. abolition.
*contribute according to ability, receive according to needs.*
Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social Archaeologist. Socioecologist. How do people govern themselves? Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society. Director of the Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics Lab @ Penn State.
David Wachsmuth @davidwachsmuth.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance, McGill University
Dani Aiello @aiellodani.bsky.social penn state geography
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how America lost the plot on literacy. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Steph @stephsalyer.bsky.social Veterinary epidemiologist, abortion doula, feminist, reproductive/housing justice and One Health advocate. Views are my own
Dean Hardy @deanhardy.bsky.social geographer; associate professor; studying anti-racism, environmental justice, & climate change mostly in floodplains
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social Associate Prof at LSE | Author of Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
wahgraphy @wahgraphy.bsky.social Diné geographer and photographer working on energy transition and the history of the Colorado River
Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social assistant prof of geography & Native studies. author of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic https://www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geographies
Isaac Javier Rivera @irivera.bsky.social Xicano from Denver’s North Side
Geographer, Teacher, Musician and Organizer
Assistant Professor @CUBoulder Geography
https://www.colorado.edu/geography/isaac-rivera
DP @dpurifoy.bsky.social she/they
brandi t. summers @drbrandi.bsky.social NYC-based, Oakland-bred professor at Columbia U. Write books and articles about blackness, gentrification, aesthetics, architecture, capital(ism), and other things.
branditsummers.com
Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social Love. Intimacy. Geopolitics. Political geographer at UNC-CH. Author of Intimate Geopolitics & Political Geography: a Critical Introduction. Insta @geogsara and @landbackabolition. Free 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/geogsara
Sam @samatl.bsky.social have you filed an open records request today?
Sometimes I do journalism. sam.barnesatl @ gmail .com
Jacob Chamberlain @jacobchamberlain.bsky.social Author of "Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal," out now, UGA Press, March 2025.
Social justice, migration, theory, geography. Publications at link below.
https://linktr.ee/jacobchamberlain?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Charles Bethea @charlesbethea.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer in Atlanta
Reporting mostly from the South
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/charles-bethea
Brandon Weiss @bweisslaw.bsky.social Law Prof @ American University Washington College of Law. Writing & teaching about property, housing, community dev, ethics, legal ed. Dad to 🦉 & 🦕 expert.
https://www.american.edu/wcl/faculty/weiss.cfm
Shelby R. King @shelby-r-king.bsky.social Investigative reporter covering housing and community development for Shelterforce.org.
Signal: 541-514-4223
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Movie enjoyer. Animal lover.
John Ruch @johnruchatlanta.bsky.social civil rights paralegal, underground music preservationist (Loud Fast Lives oral history project https://rss.com/podcasts/loud-fast-lives/), fantasy novelist (https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-Ruch/author/B01MXLO740), ex-journalist
The Map Center @mapcenter.com Andrew Middleton
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
A 'Peddler of Wheres' and owner of the oldest map store on the East Coast, The Map Center in Pawtucket RI. It's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Desus MF NIce @bxdesusnice.bsky.social Desusnice on Twitter (never calling it X)| #KNICKS | 🇯🇲 | @Desus on #countersocial & @spillmob | http://desusnice.com | #BX | @thedailyshow | @SHODesusAndMero
| New show on @amazon coming soon!- A Andrew Epstein @andbeps.bsky.social comms, zohran for nyc. former chief of staff in the nys assembly. licensed by the city of new york to handle food and give tours.
Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social Reporter, ProPublica. The space industry, business & politics, and other things. Signal: HeatherVogell.55
مجد // Majd @majdal.cc What are *you* doing to stop the genocide? To build a better future for all of us?
I'm a PhD student, in geography, at uToronto. I think about just futures in the context of climate change.
More active on Mastodon: @majdal@social.coop
#FreePalestine
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Danielle Wiggins @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social Historian at Georgetown | author of Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism (2025) | Aries | Stevie Wonder stan
Jill Hubley @jillhubley.bsky.social art + code, information + design, slime mold, maps.
data viz at Vera Institute of Justice, opinions my own
Tim Wallace @wallacetim.bsky.social https://www.timwallace.art/
Andrew Kahrl @akahrl.bsky.social Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, author of The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning.
'The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis' (MIT Press 2024)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549868/the-equitably-resilient-city
Brett Story @brettstory.bsky.social Documentary Filmmaker | Geographer | Abolitionist | Goat person
Films include UNION, The Hottest August, Camperforce, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, Land of Destiny
Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social Currently @mayor.nyc.gov. Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.
adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social I am a writer. LA → CHI → NO
co-author of THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC: http://shorturl.at/Otagc
currently writing NOTES ON FINDING HOME
📧: adam.mahoney@capitalbnews.org
adamlmahoney.com
Steven Manson @smmanson.bsky.social Geographer of human environmental systems and data.
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net #Climate & sea level science + policy. Rutgers University. All views my own. www.bobkopp.net
Atlanta Studies @atlstudies.bsky.social Scholarship about the city, for the city. https://www.atlantastudies.org
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social geographer researching the politics of land in england
https://geog.ubc.ca/profile/isabella-pojuner/
remembering the birth of capitalist property relations with the museumofenclosure.hotglue.me
and mapping trespass instagram.com/domesplaybook
Olle Järv 💙🖤🤍💙💛 @ollejarv.bsky.social Human Geographer / Academy Research Fellow at @digigeolab.bsky.social in @helsinkiuni.bsky.social
Interested in Human Mobility, Urban & Rural Studies, Big Data, Transnationalism, Multi-local living
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/olle-järv