Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social 'Self-hating white fool.' Sociologist or thereabouts. Not the Light: The Image in the White Racial Frame (Bloomsbury Philosophy, 2027)
Keith M. Judge @optimist-press.bsky.social @Chicago
Owner/Operator @Optimist Press
Newsletter: https://optimistpress.substack.com/
I sift thru the sands of BlueSky for interesting stuff.
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social 鄺文詠 | contributor @404media.co —evy@404media.co | formerly @wired.com and vice news | moving between the hellscape and food | THOUGHTS/OPINIONS MY OWN
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Cal Sutherland @calsutherland.bsky.social —PhD Researcher at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
—Wordsworth, Property, and Marxist Ecocriticism
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social The new home of progressive ideas and debate.
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Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social I research CEOs & management @IESEG.fr Paris, previously Warwick B School & Said Oxford | Author of Elites, Business & Society (forthcoming) | @thinkers50.com Radar | Let your life speak | Views my own | she/her
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social 🚫 MAGA 🚫 Nazi 🚫 Hindutva Anti-authoritarian. Anti-hate. Anti-lies. Anti-oligarchy. Pro human rights, Justice, secular democracy, accountability, feminism ,Pantheist::Debate 🤗
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RW thrives by discrediting truth-tellers who expose lies
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
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.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Fred Kaplan @fredmkaplan.bsky.social Slate's War Stories columnist; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon, and--most recently--A Capital Calamity (a novel); also jazz critic for Tracking Angle.
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/dynamicsymmetry
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Prof@Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher@Nuclear Knowledges, Sciences Po, Paris. Senior Fellow@thebulletin.org. Author: THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging @ https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Henry Giroux @girouxh.bsky.social Academic, writer, public intellectual, books, articles, Jazz, R&B, Etta James, Rachel Farrell, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, wine and roses.
Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social Sí/Í; Gaeilge Líofa #CorcaDhuibhne Abú #RefugeesWelcome https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/%C3%A9id%C3%ADn-n%C3%AD-sh%C3%A9/
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IRANZYE ART @iranzye.bsky.social Landscape Artist / writer
More curated artworks on Instagram 👆🏽👇🏽
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Jonathan Davies @profjsdavies.bsky.social Former professor of urban studies and public policy.
Independent Chair of Feeding Leicester.
Living with CLL thanks to NHS.
Jed Brown @jedbrown.org Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social Socialist, corpus linguistics researcher at UCL, UCL UCU secretary, NEC member. Personal capacity. Repost ≠ endorsement
Blogs about CL/statistics at https://corplingstats.wordpress.com
Stood for election for UCU VP in 2026, see https://seanwallis.uk
Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social Editor of European Physical Education Review. Lecturer in sociology of sport & exercise. Book & film lover. AI hater. Never knowingly undercaffeinated. She/her.
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social Sociologist, focus on gender, care, biopolitics / embodiment, family, popular culture, STS
prof & chair LMU Munich
Former president of German Sociological Association (DGS)
Privately here
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Trying to be a Mensh
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Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Becca @beccalou.bsky.social HE Lecturer, Research in sociology of education, care and disability, social justice, mental health. Views expressed here are my own.
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social Mainly philosophy and cricket
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, Durham UCU. Writing a book on non-reciprocity.
janabacevic.net
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Unite the Union: University of Cambridge Branch @unite0775m.bsky.social Trade union branch for workers at the University of Cambridge, UK. Unite the Union Branch LE0775M. Meets 1st Monday in month (except b.h.) 13.00hrs mainly by Zoom
https://uniteuoc.org.uk/
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social Mostly PC Engine and PC-FX reverse-engineering and development. I also contribute to MiSTer FPGA cores and a Mednafen fork. (hobby).
Ray Griffin @raygriffin.bsky.social Researching the organisation of labour markets | SETU Ireland Lecturer in Management + Organisations
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social deprofessionalised intellectual * co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (Zer0, 2024) * co-editor of Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici (Pluto, 2019) * Omnia Sunt Communia * he/him
Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social historian of the Middle East and its diasporas | Author of UNMENTIONABLES: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (2024) and BETWEEN THE OTTOMANS AND THE ENTENTE: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (2019)
Journal of Management Studies @jmsjournal.bsky.social Journal of Management Studies | A leading international journal sharing research that sparks dialogue and shapes thinking on management and organisations.
Suzi Toole @suzitoole.bsky.social UCU rep, FE teacher, mad scientist
Proud Chair of the FEC, Women's committee & NW Regional committee
Vice Chair of the Equality committee
UCU VP (FE) Elect
All opinions are my own
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
GRAMMYS Lifetime Achievement Award
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Geno Teofilo @genoteofilo.bsky.social NGO Aid Watch Founder and NGO Communications Professional. Former Oxfam, Norwegian Refugee Council & others. Coffee please!
British Journal of Industrial Relations @bjireditor.bsky.social A multidisciplinary, international journal of work, labour, and employment relations.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social Author. Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology, & Animal Studies at NYU. Books: Up to Heaven & Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom & Community in an American Town; and The Global Pigeon. More info: https://tinyurl.com/yp632d63.
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Minister for Women & Equalities.
Chair of the Labour Party.
Proud MP for Houghton & Sunderland South.
21 Group @21group.bsky.social A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
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MPA & B.S. Emergency Management, Public Health, 🌈💜 @arctickn1ght.bsky.social #NewEnglander. #ConstitutionStateNative Married🌈. Activist + Humanitarian.Mentor.Ally.Advocate. Neurodivergent.Independent #Researcher. NSLS 24’,Commentator. #DemocratCTCOILD #Denver #EducateDontHate #ProtectDemocracy #EndPoliticalAdministrativeControl
Anna Danielsson @dradanielsson.bsky.social Associate Professor (Docent) in War Studies, Swedish Defence University. Researching urban war and warfare, urbicide, military epistemics, politics of knowledge and expertise, urban peacebuilding, social theory.
Iain Campbell @paraethics.bsky.social Paramedic and PhD student and lecturer. Ethics researcher.
Trying social media again after fleeing Twitter
ChiefGordonCole @chiefgordoncole.bsky.social Twin Peaks Enthusiast - Inhabitant of the Lynchverse - Cats and Owls
https://www.threads.net/@sophia_sorglos
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Mike Ratcliffe @mike-rat.bsky.social Student and university administrator
https://moremeansbetter.wordpress.com
UCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social Calling for solidarity across UCU branches. We are fighting against cuts, casualisation and marketised education!
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
PA Ulander @pa-dev.bsky.social Full Snack Developer
Once got code to run on the first try
Highly trained in fika breaks ☕🧁
🛠️ #Dev 🐧 #Linux
https://github.com/pa-ulander
https://linkedin.com/in/paulander/
📍Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social Author, international speaker, consultant, software architect, kitchen-sink wrangler.
Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social Mom, New England Sports fan, Atheist, Animal Lover, GenX, “It’s not what they call you, it’s what you answer to” 💙 🫘 Independent, NEVER trump, Swearing is my punctuation, Snarky AF. NO DMs..seriously, DM=block
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social "Our capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but our inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
https://buymeacoffee.com/justjack1
1984 Is Not a Handbook @tiffanycan.bsky.social Master's Public Administration, Writer, Educator, Animal Lover
Michael O' 🇮🇪🇺🇲🇨🇦 @socratesxxx.bsky.social "Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country" - Pres. John F Kennedy -- It's so peaceful wading in the calmer waters of BlueSky💙 -- The beautiful 🎶 Isle of Inishfree 🎶 - I post News from U.S, UK and around the Globe -
Grant Tait @granttait.bsky.social I post short observations about accounting phrases and acronyms
finance professionals use without noticing.
If these feel familiar, that’s what Fun with Accountants explores.
Book details in my profile.
The Athletic @theathletic.com Get every sports story that matters.
Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social █▓▒░░organometallics░░▒▓█ https://kilpatrickgroup.uk
See also research group account: @kilpatrickgroup.bsky.social
Vivek Thuppil @vthuppil.bsky.social
ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social ARCA - Association for Research into Crimes against Art.
A civil society research and training organisation which works to promote the study and analysis of art and antiquities crime.