Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social Union Organizer. Writer. Yinzer.
Director at Starbucks Workers United.
Author of ON THE LINE, Two Womenโs Epic Fight to Build a Union
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
Christine Hatfield @christine.21st.show producer of Illinois Public Media's @21st.show, journalist, trans nerd. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ป๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ she/her. based in Champaign-Urbana. past: UIS PAR '21, WPR.
the usual blurb: http://seedisclaimer.com/
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Ramsey Hootman @ramseyhootman.bsky.social Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
D. Yates @yatester.bsky.social Life sciences editor in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau. Focus on peer-reviewed published research from U. of I. researchers. See www.news.illinois.edu
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Womenโs, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Texan. Feminist.
Iโm on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
Simran Tapaswi @simrantapaswi.bsky.social Trans feminist philosopher. Research interests: gendered embodiment, sexual violence, gender dysphoria
Brenda Peters RN(NP), PhD ๐จ๐ฆ @brenda-peters.bsky.social Clinical practice in emergency | Clinical research in acute care nursing
Interest in women's health, moral distress, communication in healthcare
Nursing and health have always been political. #Medsky
She/her | Opinions my own |ัะปะฐะฒะฐ ัะบัะฐัะฝั ๐บ๐ฆ | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ally
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
Jason Thibeault ๐จ๐ฆ @lousycanuck.bsky.social Cis bi white guy trying not to be as shitty as social media white guys tend to be.
He/him, they/them. Pronouns are a normal part of speech.
Politics, wrestling, amateur game dev and Linux reply guy. Trans rights, no kings, no war, no fascists.
Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social Atlanta-based investigative reporter with ProPublica's South team. I write about health care, public health and the environment, among other things. Get in touch at max.blau@propublica.org.
Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social Los Angeles
Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social Senior Reporter at MotherJones, 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Get in touch: jlurie@cir.org | Proton: julialurie@proton.me | Signal: julialurie.81 | julialurie.com
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD @profdasgupta.bsky.social Author of ๐ Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA ๐งฌ @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr ๐ช๐ฌ shoumitadasgupta.com
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,notโ๐ฟgoodโ๐ฟ, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Stephanie Zvan @stephaniezvan.bsky.social Former feral child figuring out community. Unpredictably abled activist. Remarkably successful dilettante. Sometimes very silly.
If the name sounds familiar but you can't place me, maybe try here: https://stephanie.zvan.net/
She/her
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social We are the staff of @sciam.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of cells, we are the powerhouse of the oldest continually published magazine in the U.S. โ wgaea.st/sciam-letter
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
https://www.instagram.com/jmnorton
https://www.tiktok.com/@jennajmn
https://linktr.ee/declarationsofdissent
AAUP @ UIUC @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social We are the AAUP chapter at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Learn more: https://aaup-ui.org/home
Wudang96 ๐๐ป @wudang.com Coffee. Black. Thanks. Cats, birds, gardening, environment, not so much yelling, wudang.com martial arts, and fun. T2. Writer, developer, grandma, and baker of cakes. Producer at channel15radio.com Old time radio drama for a new era. Listen in? Come with?
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
I'll Bee Dat @jleep86.blacksky.app Just an old dude looking to talk about stuff. #blacksky. #blackskyover50. #Blerd. #oldschoolhiphop.
I misspell a lot of things.๐คฃ
"Reagan is the Prez but I voted for Shirley Chisholm" - Biz Markie
#FDT
Logic doesn't work in Indiana.
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
Become a member: https://hammerandhope.org/membership
Read new issues and sign up for our newsletter: https://linktr.ee/hammerandhope
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Damiana Swan @damianaswan.bsky.social Artist, photographer, editor, writer, goddess of administrative organization and amaretto. Joyous partner in crime with Satyros Brucato, aka That Damn Mage Guy. She/they. #Resist #BLM #ProtectTransPeople
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery โwith extraordinary moral clarity.โ The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟHistory is the only education; everything else is just training.
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com Human Rights Lawyer โข Author โข Dad Jokes โข SirusXM Host โข Creator: Let's Address This โข Subscribe: qasimrashid.com/subscribe โข Media requests: admin@justwinteam.com
Brittany Wong @brittanywong.bsky.social Senior lifestyle reporter at HuffPost covering relationships, internet culture, gender, work life & more. Born-and-raised Angeleno. https://www.instagram.com/binnywong/
Pitches/story tips/pics of your dogs: brittany.wong@huffpost.com
Lady Levain @breadbae.blacksky.app FKA eatwithnia | #eattolearn
I donโt eat peas or beans | Food is political | typos are seasoning | food selfies got me into a phd program | intersection of food policy & culture
Mi corazรณn es en Brooklyn
Evelyn ๐ง๐พโโ๏ธโจ @evelynthefae.blacksky.app Frequency holder.
Mom and lover of nature. Raising decent humans and finding my voice as a womanist.
Race is fake. Racism is real.
Shameless dirty deleter.
Laura R. Prieto @laurarprieto.bsky.social writer, historian, feminist scholar | firstgen to PhD | Latina daughter of immigrants | many languages spoken | co-directing the Mary Eliza Project & writing about women's suffrage movements across U.S. empire
Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social science reporter - New York Times
Email: carolyn.johnson@nytimes.com
Signal: carojo.55
Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social 
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social Who decides in health? | Health Equity | AI Governance | HIV | Community Participatory Research | Physician | Founder, Health Justice & The Grounded Innovation Lab
@akinfe.bsky.social's life partner | she/her(s)/yeye
#MedSky #BlackMedSky #QueerSky
Rick Riordan @rickriordan.bsky.social Author of Percy Jackson and many other books.
Rick W. A. Smith @rickwasmith.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies at George Mason University. Paleo/genomics, Population History, Colonialism, STS.
Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social Entomologist. Assistant Prof. University of Illinois C-U. Bioinspired Design is my jam, parasitoids my love. #Insect #SciPol #SciCom #Bioinspiration Dutch too.
Matthew R Francis (see pinned) @matthewrfrancis.bsky.social Science journalist and writer, cat man, hat man, music man, queer. So very tired. He/him. Signal: BowlerHatScience.51
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/
jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social a woman on the case (non-gendered)
jacqui shine dot com: women love me, factoids fear me
guide to preparing for surgery (feel free to save and share) https://shorturl.at/D7QMJ
Association for Feminist Anthropology @femanth.bsky.social The Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association that aims to foster the development of feminist analytic perspectives in all dimensions of anthropology.
Champaign County Indivisible ๐ @cc-indivisible.bsky.social Grassroots progressives allied with @indivisible.org in #IL02, #IL13 and #IL15. Citizens committed to the sustained action needed to change the world. Unsigned posts by @jffdougan; signed as indicated.
https://linktr.ee/ChampaignCountyIndivisible
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Shireen @sheermean.bsky.social Wartime Consigliere~EVP: @Reproaction.bsky.social ~NY born & big on DC Statehood, Repro Justice, all the good stuff ~ ๐ฎ๐ท+๐ฎ๐น ~ still figuring this app out ~ She/Her
Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social Abortion, abolition, those sorts of things. Free DC.
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.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Alex Ip ่ๆธ
้ @alexip718.com Freedom through Truth for Service.
Publisher and Editor at @thexylom.com.
I made the "Generative AI Slop-free News Outlets" starter pack + feed: https://go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Signal: alexip.718
Email: alex@thexylom.com
Newsletter: newsletter.thexylom.com
Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social abolitionist lawyer. everyday antifascist. viva viva tortuguita.
https://hearinla.substack.com/p/who-is-ricci-sergienko-and-why-does-the-la-sheriff-hate-him-so-much-83ca9a8a03eb
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade
dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things
Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
Willow Nightingale @willowwrestles.bsky.social Spreading smiles through slams & suplexes ๐
Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social prof of ed psych, curriculum & instruction
research in: learning sciences, learning technologies, science ed, learning analytics, #Rstats
type 1 diabetic #T1D #insulin4all
friend to dogs everywhere
blog and other stuff (papers): https://cynthiadangelo.com
Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social (They) Digital & narrative trainings.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. ๐ค๐ป ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐๐ป Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. #CountryRockSunday https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
HASTAC @hastac.bsky.social An alliance and open community dedicated to Changing the Way We Teach and Learn. Affiliates of @cuny.edu and @futuresed.bsky.social. Join us! https://hastac.hcommons.org/
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com executive editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Michael Hendricks ๐จ๐ฆ @michaelhendricks.bsky.social Biologist, McGill University
Megan Amram @meganamram.bsky.social it's this weird, sexual, anti-comedy comedy that's 'in' right now. - my mom
Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com Itโs a web browser. Itโs Powerful. Itโs Personal. Itโs Private. ๐ณ๐ด๐ฎ๐ธ
๐ https://vivaldi.com
๐ https://forum.vivaldi.net (for support)
ReproFreedomArts @reprofreedomarts.bsky.social Theater dedicated to supporting reproductive health, freedom, rights and justice for 24 years. ReproFreedomArts.org / Also see our blog, Up The Creativity: https://tinyurl.com/ymwjmzf5
Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social Mrs. Doubtfire and some other stuff. Screenwriter, creator, complainer. Politics obsessor.
imdb.me/randimayemsinger
Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social Sharing media news about abortion from around the world. No anti-choice crap.
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
๐ Buy my book 'Abortion' at prh.com/abortion
Becca Rea-Tucker @beccareatucker.bsky.social Author, baker, reproductive justice advocate!
Read my books: The Abortion Companion (out now!) and Baking By Feel (2022)
All my stuff: https://linktr.ee/beccareatucker
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 ๐ @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social โHilarious.โ - Stephen Fry. โMade me laugh out loud.โ - David Sedaris. โVery funny.โ - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. โNot humerus at all.โ - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social research on the UN, peacekeeping, peace processes, and international relations. interested in joy, screwball comedy. custodian of worldโs sweetest dog. opinions mine! ๐งฟ๐ฆ
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: โNashvilleโs Nosiest Bitch.โ
Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social The scientist formerly known as Lab Girl.
I write books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2111914/hope-jahren/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Hannah Seo ์ํ๋ @handle.invalid not a search engine optimizer | bylines @nytmag @guardian @theatlantic etc. | science journalist/writer/poet | ๐ฐ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ raised in ๐ถ๐ฆ Brooklyn based | free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
hannahseo.com
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human & environmental health;
'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press - https://bit.ly/asymptomatic_book)
&
'Science Matters' (https://substack.com/@joshuasweitz)
Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social Official source of news from Trinity College Dublin. Trinity is Ireland's highest-ranked university in the QS World University Ranking 2026 and Times Higher Education 2025 and ranked 75th in the World QS World University Ranking, 2026.
Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social Free-range historian specializing in scrappy women in American history. Book on Jane Grant and The New Yorker in progress. Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans out now. 
PERIL @perilresearch.bsky.social Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab at American University, School of Public Affairs. We design, test, & scale up evidence-based tools to help communities prevent & respond to hate & violence. https://perilresearch.com
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov Representing #IL14. Nurse, health enthusiast, advocate for the working families of Illinois.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Jeff Kessler @jckessler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at UIC. Union agitator, parent, Victorianist, digital media critic, grammarian, & writer. PhD, Indiana Univ.
Co-Editor/Author of "Writing for Inquiry and Research" https://tinyurl.com/55wxre5x
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
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. ะฝะฐ ะฝะพัั ะพัะบะธ, ะฐ ะฒ ะดััะต ะพัะตะฝั