@db87.bsky.social @db87.bsky.social 
Tim @digital-boredom.bsky.social Testing boundaries since 1968.
Domini Davis @dominidavis.bsky.social Be kind, rewind | WYSIWYG | Autism mom | 🏳️🌈ally | Tired | I read, edit, watch old movies
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Stantibus, Scion of Cthulhu @scionofcthulhu.bsky.social Scion of the Great Dreamer
Gate Keeper of R’Lyeh
Consort of @scarletaries09.bsky.social
Purveyor of Madness
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Therefore Horror 📀🎃🍿 @thereforereview.bsky.social Kristin Battestella chats Classic Film, TV on DVD, #PhysicalMedia & #HorrorMovies! Writing/Video/Podcast collabs open for 2027.
Bylines: I Think Therefore I Review, InSession Film, Search Magazine, Geek Vibes Nation & More! 🍒 Approved. 🎬
Cosi’s Odyssey @cosisodyssey.bsky.social I read Percy Jackson when I was 10 and am yet to recover 🏺
Bryson “Boom” Paul @brysonboompaul.bsky.social Journalist
📍 Dallas, TX
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Forest McMullin @forestmcm.bsky.social Writer and photographer based in Atlanta. Debut novel coming soon.
Short fiction available at https://forestmcmullin.substack.com/
Photography at http://www.forest-mcmullin.com/
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
TheWrap @thewrap.com We are the industry’s independent voice and leading source of high-quality, exclusive, in-depth and breaking entertainment news⭐
➡️ TheWrap.com
Alistair Ryder @yesitsalistair.bsky.social I interview the great and good of film and TV for Zavvi. I then criticise their work as a freelance critic for The Film Stage, AwardsWatch and more
Olivia Cathcart @ohhcathcart.bsky.social I write about comedy, movies, and TV, most recently for Paste Magazine. Yes, my dog and I have matching Hawaiian shirts.
www.oliviacathcart.com
Dana Alyss @danaalyss.bsky.social Queen of The Dating Hunger Games
Go Birds 🦅💚
Mgmt@squintsmedia.co
Chthonic Star @chthonicstar.bsky.social Owned by Summer Star. Liminal Witch. Animist. Maker of chthonically-inspired and eco-conscious ritual goods in Salem, MA.
Liminal Witch Podcast: https://www.chthonicstar.com/pages/liminal-witch-podcast
Junkfood Cinema @junkfoodcinema.bsky.social Supersize your cult movie podcast experience with Brian & Cargill
www.patreon.com/junkfoodcinema
Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social Culture Editor at Defector
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Ellen J Meany @ellenjm.bsky.social Art + Words = Life 🧡💙
Executive Director, Alternative Newsweekly Foundation
Former Publisher, The American Prospect
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Variety @variety.com The business of entertainment.
E. Simone Jenerson @shehunnybadger.bsky.social 
lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social features writer, new york magazine
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social I make comics. My new book ONE FOR SORROW out now from DSTLRY. I drew The Wicked & The Divine, wrote Captain Carter, designed Captain Marvel & Ms Marvel, amongst others. I have ADHD if you're wondering why I'm like this. www.jamiemckelvie.fyi
SPJ Florida @spjflorida.bsky.social Florida chapter of the Society for Professional Journalism.
Newmark J+ @newmarkjplus.bsky.social Empowering journalists at all career stages w/ executive, professional & entrepreneurial training programs & initiatives at the Newmark J-School 🚀
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/j-plus/
Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Reports covers thought leadership in journalism—winner of the Bart Richards Media Criticism Award and Mirror Awards.
https://niemanreports.org/
Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/
We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social We Geek Girls is a site where we share our love of geek culture 🦸🏻, art 🖼️, and literature 📚. All posts done by GiGi. 🤓🇨🇺🇦🇷🇺🇲 https://linktr.ee/wegeekgirls
Society of Professional Journalists @spj-posts.bsky.social SPJ champions journalists by promoting ethics, honoring excellence, fighting for press freedom and supporting emerging professionals.
Ola Ojewumi @olastruth.bsky.social ♿️ Disability lifestyle expert, speaker, writer, founder @projectascendorg, heart and kidney transplant recipient, and cancer survivor. All views are my own.
Bookings: assistant@olaojewumi.com
Kas Roth @kasroth.bsky.social Democracy died in darkness.
https://www.kasroth.net
Cait Kennedy @caitdoescontent.bsky.social Occasional film critic and culture writer. Book reviewer. Full time media lover. Bylines at ButWhyTho?, Paste, The Mary Sue, Polygon, Daily Dead, and more.
Substack: https://simplycinema.substack.com/ and https://turningpageswithcait.substack.com/
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
Nick Dickinson @daughterofcirce.bsky.social Headmistress of Circe Academy of Witchcraft at The Cauldron Black in Salem Massachusetts
https://linktr.ee/UrbanWizard
Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social Culture Journalist for hire | Past: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: History.com, Bloomberg, Capital B News, Salon, Time, The Daily Beast, and many others | reeltalkonline@gmail.com | candicefrederick.contently.com
CoveredGeekly @coveredgeekly.com Daily Source of Film, TV, Gaming & Geek News 🎬🍿
Partnerships 📧 Contact@CoveredGeekly.com
1M+ follows on Facebook!
Evan DeSimone @smorgasboredom.bsky.social Media writer/ennui enthusiast: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
📍 NYC
Brandon C Kendall @bkendall.bsky.social Writer/Producer of things brutal and rad.
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social Newsletter editor at MS NOW. Part-time journalism teacher at
Georgetown School of Continuing Studies. Creator of Your First Byline. http://yourfirstbyline.substack.com (Teague is my middle name so I should be Beckwith on second reference.)
Hatice Yıldız @hyildizhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Vienna @turkishstudies.bsky.social Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. Turkish in Vienna. Making a difference. Since 1541.
📍University of Vienna
🔗 https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/
Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
Middle Eastern Library Leiden @melibrarynl.bsky.social Officiëel account van de Middle Eastern Library @ubleiden.bsky.social - Official Account of the Middle Eastern Library @ubleiden.bsky.social
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Mary Tezak @maryetezak.bsky.social Late Ottoman History / labor, popular economies, borders, and the occasional map projection / PhD candidate
@Georgetown / (she/هي) 🌖
Robyn Dora Radway @robyndoraradway.bsky.social Associate Professor of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social
at Central European University (Vienna)
Early Modernist | Habsburg and Ottoman, author of Portraits of Empires
Koh Choon Hwee @superoldgranny.bsky.social Singaporean historian studying the Ottoman empire at UCLA
@OttomanChoon on twitter
Erik O’Barr @erikcharlemagne.bsky.social Columbia Ph.D. // Ottoman and Iranian History // Other Random Stuff
Lediona S. @lediona.bsky.social PhD Candidate in history at the University of Michigan; I study migration, population exchanges, the Balkans, and the post-Ottoman world.
Harun @harunb.bsky.social Raised between SJJ and DTW. Balkans, Ottomans, and deadpan humor. History Ph.D. via Columbia. Recovering academic. Twitter muhadžir.
@melishafez.bsky.social @melishafez.bsky.social Doctor of History, procrastination enthusiast. "Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society" Cambridge UP, 2021. 
Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social Historian of MENA and conspiracy theories: run, officiate basketball, editor JQ #podcaster
'If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike' (cit.)
Looking for a job.
Sezen Ünlüönen @sezenunluonen.bsky.social I write novels.
I work on Anglo-Ottoman literary interactions in the nineteenth century.
https://iletisim.com.tr/kisi/sezen-unluonen/11719
https://www.instagram.com/sezen.unluonen/
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social PD,U Kassel.Entangled history of Europe,India&the Middle East."German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill,2015)."A Taste for Purity."(NY:Columbia University Press,2024).
https://www.julia-hauser.de
John Woodman @jwripple.bsky.social Essex born, Ely resident. Very old. Sourdough, Islamic/Christian art and architecture; gypsies; polyphony; migration of people and music around Europe and the Middle East.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
edin h @edinh.bsky.social 
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Y. Doğan Çetinkaya @ydogancetinkaya.bsky.social ✌️İstanbul Üniversitesi SBF Faculty of Political Sciences- Özgür Üniversite (Free University)- Tarih ve Toplum Yeni Yaklaşımlar dergisi (History and Society journal) - Toplumsal Tarih (Social History) - https://istanbul.academia.edu/YDoganCetinkaya
Fatih Öyük @foyuk.bsky.social Ph.D. Student in Near Eastern Studies @Princeton
Bestami S. Bilgic @bsbilgic.bsky.social (MA&PhD)-Political History, International Affairs, U.S. Foreign Relations, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Religion- https://blinn.academia.edu/BestamiBilgic
Houston, TX
deren ertas @drnrts.bsky.social phd candidate in history & middle eastern studies at harvard. writing my dissertation on mining, capital, and state formation in the Ottoman Empire.
Asli Cansunar @aslicansunar.bsky.social Prof of political science @UW | inequality, taxation, public services, Ottoman Empire & Turkey | http://aslicansunar.com | http://istanbultelephonedirectories.com
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan @mrfarzanegan.bsky.social Professor of Economics of the Middle East, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies(CNMS), CESifo Research Network Fellow, ERF Research Fellow & Advisory Committee Member, IIEA Executive Secretary (2023-2025)
Pierke Bosschieter @pierke.bsky.social Avid reader and book indexer. Specialised in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, Jewish and Holocaust studies, and Asian studies but also in general history and art. Loves cooking (and eating) and nature photography, especially creepy-crawlies.
Laura Fish @laurafish.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor at Syracuse University Press. PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. 
Deniz Çıtak @denizcitak.bsky.social PhD student in Ottoman & Iranian history at UCLA حب اللغات
شاگرد تاریخ عثمانی و قاجاری
Osmanlı ve İran tarihi talebesi
📍İstanbul
Yücel Yanıkdağ @yanikdag.bsky.social Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
Nesi Altaras @nesialtaras.bsky.social Stanford phd in ottoman jewish history. diaspora montrealer. istanbul jew. Me karisheo en meseles. Eskriviendo bazen en djudio and eng, ve turkce
he/him/ijiko
Arif Camoglu @arifcmgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English @ucdavis
Global 18th and 19th Centuries, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Anglo-Ottoman Encounters, Empire Studies.
Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social İstanbul via London, Cambridge, Bristol & Göreme. Author: Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell & assorted guidebooks. Cat lover. Painted trafo fan. 
K. Mehmet Kentel @kmkentel.bsky.social Urban environmental historian, Assistant Professor of History & Urban Studies @Leiden University, editor of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies, writes & edits & curates
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/mehmet-kentel#tab-1
Mustafa Kaya @mikaya.bsky.social Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
S. Berk Metin (صدرالدين) @nitemkreb.bsky.social sciences po (ba'18), leiden (ma'20), now sfu. ottoman history, religion, material culture, archery, istanbul (şevketlü/mehabetlü/kerametlü) △☽☼
https://www.sfu.ca/history/graduate/grad-students/phd/berk-metin.html
Fabian Steininger @fabian-steininger.bsky.social Teacher in Berlin (History, Social Sciences). PhD on morality debates in the late Ottoman Empire (FU Berlin)
Géraud Poumarède @gpoumarede.bsky.social Professeur d'Histoire moderne
Relations internationales, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle
Italie, Méditerranée, Empire ottoman
Sorbonne Université
Centre Roland Mousnier (CRM)
Nathan Michalewicz @nkmwicz.bsky.social Historian of early modern Europe, France, the Ottoman Empire, and diplomacy. Do a lot of work in digital history. I follow in no particular order football, soccer, history, programming, and politics.
Jamie Pelling @obscureottomanist.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Kean University
Research: State, Sexuality, and Affect in the Modern Middle East
Working to understand weird feelings in and about the late-Ottoman Empire
Alex Schweig @aschweig17.bsky.social Historian of the Middle East, PhD @uarizona
Ottomaniac
he/him
property is theft
Hoping this all works out. Also @aschweig17 at "X" until it does.
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
Alp Eren Topal @alperentopal.bsky.social Author, historian of the Ottoman Empire, the long nineteenth century, and political ideas and concepts.
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social Historian at Trinity College Dublin | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Middle East
Önder Akgül @akgulonder.bsky.social Tarihçi (Historian) | Ottoman Empire; Middle East; Turkey| capitalism, political economy, environment | 2024-26 KMTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern | PhD ‘22 from Georgetown
Serpil Atamaz @serpilatamaz.bsky.social Associate Professor of History/ Late Ottoman-Early Republican Turkey, Iran, Women/ Co-editor of Transforming Empire, https://brill.com/display/title/69009
M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own
https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
Gert Huskens @gerthuskens.bsky.social Historian | Belgian Expatriates in Egypt, 1882-1936 | Postdoc at Ghent University | PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles and Ghent University | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-2823
Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social Historian @LehighU | author of Island & Empire | previously @BardCollege & @Harvard | PhD @Stanford | BA Economics @UniBogazici | https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/island-and-empire
Theo Knights @theoknights.bsky.social PhD Student of early modern Ottoman history. Social historian interested in commerce, customs, and corruption in Ottoman lands.
Erdem Sönmez @erdemsonmez.bsky.social History | Historians | Historiography |
Middle East | Ottoman Empire | Turkey
erdemsonmez.academia.edu