Omari @oaverettephillips.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis (Late 19th Century Labor History in the US South) | Educator | Labor Organizer | Leftist | he, they
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social triumphant home cooking, est. 2006
three cookbooks + one audiobook + newsletter
glad you’re here
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social Presidential historian. American History Columnist @NYTBR. Senior Fellow @NewAmerica. NYT bestselling author of (almost!) 3 books.
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca In a world drowning in conflict and grief, we crave what keeps us alive: joy—our daily bread; hope—our living water; kindness—the roof over our souls.
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social Publishes 70+ books per year in the humanities & social sciences, blending the strengths of a university press with innovation sparked by digital technologies
upress.virginia.edu
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social Small farmer, ex-farm worker, crop scientist. Here to talk food, farms, & money.
https://www.youtube.com/@FarmToTaber
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Archives Leadership Institute at the University of Virginia @aliatvirginia.bsky.social The Archives Leadership Institute (ALI) is a program of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and will be hosted at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia for three years, 2024-2026. 
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
Information Charlottesville @infocville.bsky.social This is one of two outlets run by Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet that seeks to put out as much information out about local and regional government as possible. Longtime Charlottesville journalist Sean Tubbs is the person behind it.
Naomi House @ INALJ @inaljnaomi.bsky.social #LibraryJobs #LISJobs #StillCOVIDing #FreePalestine #KeepEyesOnSudan #FreeCongo blocks terfs and genocide supporters
Still on Twitter and LinkedIn - basic updates only here
INALJ.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.”
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
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
Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social Virginia’s 43rd Lieutenant Governor. Former State Senator for Virginia’s 15th Senate District.
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Em Gunter 顧安 🍉 @emgunter.bsky.social Aspiring anthropologist studying in Taiwan who always stands up for what is right. I care about immigration and queer life in the American South. I'm also a photographer and something of a journalist. GMT+8
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | 台灣加油 🇹🇼
Opinions are mine
Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in humanities communications; alt-ac/post-ac/union advocate; humanist; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom, politics.
📍Cville
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social James Beard Award (The Cooking Gene) and National Jewish Book Award (Koshersoul) winning author, culinary historian (Rice and Recipes from the American South) and historic interpreter, African- American, Jewish, LGBT public figure.
Molly Hardy @mollyhardy.bsky.social Public Data at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab. Preservation, Critical Cataloging, Herbaria, Bibliography, Archives, Old News, Book History, Copyright, Early America’s fictions. Gardening for Native Habitat. Opinions mine. She/Her
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social Infectious Diseases at UVA: HIV virology, clinical trials at Joint Emerging Diseases Initiative, medical education, stewardship. Skeets are my opinion alone, unless they’re bad. He/him
Angilee Shah @angshah.bsky.social Just looking around. angileeshah.com @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Rose Library @ Emory University @roselibraryemory.bsky.social We collect, preserve, & make accessible items of lasting historical value.
📍 Atlanta, GA
🔗 linktr.ee/roselibrary
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov Official Bluesky account for NOAA's National Weather Service.
Meghin Moore @meghin.bsky.social give me a sword, you cowards | half azn 🇯🇵 smol bean | queen of yap | pennsylvanian turned virginian | news editor @vpm.org
https://linktr.ee/meghin
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social 2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social activatevirginia.org
Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social Co-founder of Grant Witness: https://grantwitness.org
Epidemiologist. Attorney. Social, legal, and environmental determinants of health.
On Signal: sdelaney.84
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Julie Grob @juliegrob.bsky.social Houston, TX / HUG ALL THE CATS
Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social Journalist • JSAAHC Director of Digital Humanities • Raised/Razed co-Director & Writer • Plot of Land Executive Producer • Mapping Cville-Albemarle
Brenda Gunn @bsgunn.bsky.social Texan in Virginia. Libraries, archives, museums, public history. AUL at R1. First gen. r•keh.vist not r•KIVE•ist Connie always said, “if you’re waitin’ on me, you’re foolin’ around.” 
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social Representing the heart of Texas from East Austin to West San Antonio #TX35. Chair of @USProgressives.bsky.social. Labor organizer. Lover of migas and long runs, just not at the same time.
Katy @katy-katy.bsky.social Archivist and librarian at Temple University as Katy Rawdon / Romance author as Katy James. Sportsball enthusiast, union girlie, lapsed poet. She/they. Philly-ish, extremely Boston. katyjames.com
Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social Congressman, former Mayor of Long Beach, educator, comic nerd, progressive & proud American 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Official: @robertgarcia.house.gov
Tomberg Rare Books @atomberg.bsky.social Rare Book Dealer specializing in the preservation of 20th and 21st century cultural movements.
Kristin Moriah @dark-stars.bsky.social Associate Professor of Black Literary and Cultural Studies Queen's University | Queen's University Department of English | Editor of "Insensible of Boundaries" (@pennpress.bsky.social 2025)| Human Animal
Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social 
University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary.bsky.social Acquiring, preserving, organizing, and sharing material to further teaching and learning at UVA and beyond.
Collections, spaces, services, collaboration, and discovery.
The Library is for everyone, and all are welcome.
https://library.virginia.edu/
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
Always check the latest posts for updated advice/information.
We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
@blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social @blkgirlarchivist.bsky.social Storyteller. Archivist. Activist. Creator of Reparative Archives and all spin-offs! (Proper citation please) Founder of Project STAND https://standarchives.com/
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
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- registry.blue
Chris Bourg @mchris4duke.bsky.social Director of Libraries, MIT.
All things open science, plus hiking, birds, Jiffy and Sunny. Maybe other stuff - who knows?
Aniko Bodroghkozy @anikob.bsky.social Media history prof at University of Virginia. Latest book is Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right. Now writing a book on TV news coverage of the JFK assassination. I spend lots of research time in the 1960s.
t-kay @tttkay.bsky.social archivist | librarian | memory worker
dublab.bsky.social dj (the archive of feelings)
dj mixes: https://www.mixcloud.com/tttkay/reposts/
Darius @dariusjohnson.bsky.social Public History | Digital Humanities | Cultural Landscapes
Director of Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project at Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Chesapeake Bay 📍
*Views are my own*
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Vivian Yan-Gonzalez @yangonzalez.bsky.social Prof of Asian American Studies at Chapman University, historian of Asian Am politics and conservatism. PhD Stanford '22, NEH fellow '23, mom to two cute no-longer-potatoes, scarf enthusiast, fiction lover
National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social A federal agency, National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, preservation, public programs, and education in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First @cbs19news.bsky.social #CBS19News is your source for Charlottesville News First. Download the free CBS19 News mobile app or visit http://www.cbs19news.com to stay informed.
29News - Charlottesville @29news.bsky.social 29News is the most trusted and most viewed source for news and First Alert Weather in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene, Madison, Nelson, Fluvanna, Louisa, Augusta, and Waynesboro. For full coverage please visit us at 29news.com
City of Charlottesville @cvillecityhall.bsky.social The Official Bluesky of Charlottesville City Government
Zyahna Bryant. @zysaidso.bsky.social 1913. | University of Virginia | History | doing the work. | She/her. Views are mine
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Unfuck Your Habitat @teamufyh.bsky.social Messiness is not a moral failing
https://www.patreon.com/unfckyourhabitat
Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social Professor of African American and Public History @TSUedu | Coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project | Historic Preservationist | Author | Foodie | Dude with a Camera | Wanderer | Memory Keeper
Website: learothawilliamsphd.com
Heather @htbsutton.bsky.social History Ph.D. candidate, entrepreneur, unapologetic Capricorn, and Critical Roll fan. She/her. Views are my own.
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social 
Caitlin Pollock @pollock.bsky.social digital scholarship, libraries, pedagogy, shoes, and legend of zelda
pam lach @plach.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-Prez. she/her
Wheatley Census @wheatleycensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects before 1909. Directed by @jsench.bsky.social & @brigfield.bsky.social. www.wheatleycensus.org
Africa 📚 @africahands.bsky.social Researcher | Writer | Librarian.
New book: https://brill.com/display/title/73201
Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL
UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
Dan @dannynoonan1962.bsky.social Digital Preservation Archivist/Librarian who reads, runs, bikes, swims & stitches for fun.
Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Leslie Alexander @lesliemalex.bsky.social I’m a historian and professor of Black and African Diaspora History. Author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086908
https://drlesliealexander.com
Tanya Zanish-Belcher @tzanish.bsky.social Archivist, Wake Forest. Midwesterner who lives in the American South. Reader.
Don't look for affirmation in people who have a limited ability to see your capacity.
Kamala Harris
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Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
wribrarian @wribrarian.bsky.social building tings (or burning them down :)
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social Home to @ccp-org.bsky.social, Black Women's Organizing Archive, and @DouglassDay.bsky.social • https://linktr.ee/digblk
The Black Press @ 200 @blackpress200.bsky.social Black Press @ 200 marks the Bicentennial of the Black Press in the United States. It celebrates two hundred years of Black protest, creativity, and journalism.
https://www.blackpress200.org
Julian Chambliss @julianchambliss.bsky.social Scholar and Teacher interested in comics, Afrofuturism, and Digital Humanities.
Dr. Vanessa Holden @drvholden.bsky.social Historian. 
Marisa Parham aka mp285 fka whyyy @amplify285.bsky.social 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ mainly 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ cats 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ as it were 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛AADHum🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛MITH🐈⬛🐈⬛UMD🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛I profess 🐈⬛🐈
Kim Gallon @kgallon.bsky.social Africana Studies Prof @BrownUniversity interested in AI & Health Tech, Black Journalism, Libraries, & The Black Church
Jessica Marie Johnson @jessicamariejohnson.com Historian of slavery, the Black South and the Caribbean | Using art, music & archives to teach and tell Black stories | Assoc Prof | Writer Mostly on IG these days: @jessicamariejohnson_
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.