George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Thomas Bevilacqua @thbevilacqua.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Bibliophile. Cinephile. Former DJ/Music snob. Sometimes golfer. English PhD from Florida State University. BA in English from University of Texas at Austin. Originally from Alameda, CA.
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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social Dad, husband. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran.
RAYGUN @raygunsite.com Clothing. Home Goods. Time Travel Supplies.
Iowa (x6), Nebraska (x2), Chicago, KC, Madison.
Katie Hemphill @kmhemphill.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
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Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Julia Flanders @juliaflanders.bsky.social Digital humanities, textiles, fermentation
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
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The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social work in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and in the ancient scrolls.
alumna: hedgebrook. MVICW. futurescapes.
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my book isn't done. she/her
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social You know... the weird one.
Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social Unit of AFGE Local 3403 representing staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Local 3403 represents federal workers supporting art, research, and culture across the United States and territories. 
The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social Sugar, Spice, Smudge and Saja, and occasionally guest animals and humans.
University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social The University of Nebraska Press disseminates books and journals of enduring intellectual and cultural significance. http://unpblog.com | http://bit.ly/UNPmuse
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawing cats since 2016
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
Astronomy on Tap Black Warrior Basin @aotblackwarrior.bsky.social Bringing you fun informal talks and trivia from local astronomers over a cold pint! Locations in Alabama and Mississippi, satellite of @astronomyontap.bsky.social
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social Tracking and documenting ICE flights. Housed @humanrightsfirst.org and based on @tomcartwright.bsky.social’s methodology.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
@tcstr.bsky.social @tcstr.bsky.social 
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
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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.
DreamingAgainstTheMachine @dreamingagainstthemachine.com What would a good future look like?
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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Anne @annebobis.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Ph.D. student. Probably yapping about NJ, Milton, or Shakespeare.
Olivia Henderson @olivia-henderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Studying Early Modern English Literature and Neurodiversity
she/her
neurodivergent
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social Academic editor, History PhD, Jewish Studies expert; adinayoffie.com.
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/
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
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Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Dr Anna Graham @annagraham.bsky.social Early Modernist | Ageing Women's Writing
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social Romance critic & freelance editor. Half of Fated Mates. Chicagoan. She/her.
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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
Vanessa R Barcelos @vanessabcs.bsky.social English PhD candidate, University of Miami
Renaissance literature, witchcraft, gender, and Critical Race Studies
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
@rtnrlfy.bsky.social @rtnrlfy.bsky.social History buff, stamp collector, music fan. Lover of real books and genuine, non-hallucinated sources. Opinions my own.
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
@duncansalkeld.bsky.social @duncansalkeld.bsky.social 
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.
Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social Working as an advisor to Schmidt Sciences for their HAVI DH program (AI + Humanities/cultural heritage). Former CIO for the NEH & founder of the Office of Digital Humanities.
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
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Jacob Tootalian @jtootalian.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
Milo Baynes and the New Frontier of the Great Society @milobaynes.bsky.social Senior Editor at @thehometownholler.bsky.social
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Delicious to biting insects.
NC Piedmont.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social Learn more about what your *real* neighbors are thinking in Silicon Valley! Comedy. Parody. Not official/affiliated with, or sponsored by anyone.
Please support my GoFundMe to help me pay for parking at Valley Fair
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️🌈
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Almost Too Online @almost2online.bsky.social One-sentence explainers of what people are talking about. Probably won't be the most timely information, but it will be here. If you don't find the answer here, please DM if you go down the rabbit hole yourself.
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Wendy Kroy @wendykroy.bsky.social Eeuwige student
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
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Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Heather Harrison @heatherharrison.bsky.social Mississippi journalist @mississippifreepress.org • TikTok @HeatherRHarrison • dog and cat mom • professionally nosy & “cheerily feisty” • msstate alumna • former Reflector editor • all opinions are my own
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
dutchtreat @dutchtreat.bsky.social I like coffee, my cats, and maybe 4 people 🇳🇱
No longer wondering how it happened in Germany
(pfp: De Kat, Bart van der Leck, 1914)
David Abuín Eichinger @davideichinger.bsky.social I enjoy playing with family, reading science fiction and history, gardening, board games, and hiking. I'm a father, husband, Navy veteran, and graduate student studying Robotics at George Mason University.
Mastodon: https://scicomm.xyz/@David
Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com Earthling, she/her, educator, reader, tabletop gamer, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts.
If you want my views and zines on AI, check out padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A.
Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy.
Signal: 352.222.2706
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social RECKONING with Jason Herbert
A long-form podcast about history, the outdoors, and the stories that shape who we are.
Benevolent dictator of Historians At The Movies #HATM
New episodes available now.
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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Claire Schiano-Locurcio @claireschiano.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher | Early Modern England & France | Catholicism & Female Spirituality | Poor Clares & Benedictines Nuns
Working on the ANR Project "Abbesses et Seigneuresses: Une autre histoire de la Réforme Catholique (XVIIe)".
Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.