Michael Ium @michael-ium.bsky.social Postdoc @erc-tibschol.bsky.social in the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Former Postdoc @uoft.bsky.social
PhD @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
Co-Editor: @thecjbs.bsky.social
A historian of Ganden Monastery & the early Geluk tradition in Tibet
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies @thecjbs.bsky.social A scholarly peer-reviewed, open access, online publication covering all aspects of Buddhist Studies
https://thecjbs.org/
https://cjbuddhist.wordpress.com/
ERC_TibSchol @erc-tibschol.bsky.social An EU_H2020 funded project exploring the formative phase of the Tibetan scholastic tradition (11th-13th c). Posts reflect only the views of the project owner. https://www.oeaw.ac.at/projects/tibschol/project
Rational_Geographic @ritodhi.bsky.social Feminist father, wannabe farmer, itinerant scholar interested in masculinity, political ecology, climate justice, STS, Agrarian Futures in South Asia, Pacific and Latin America
sakya research centre @sakyaresearch.bsky.social old texts / new publications / timeless art
vienna / dehradun / hamburg
https://sakyaresearch.org/
Kannan Arunasalam @kamalakkannan.bsky.social British–Tamil filmmaker. New feature docs: ‘Republic of Amnesia’ (2025 UK 78 mins) & ‘Possible Landscapes’ (2025 US 105 mins)
Glasgow — Colombo — Jaffna
Gregory Ortiz Shushan @gregoryshushan.bsky.social Historian of religions and award-winning author of books about afterlife beliefs and near-death experiences. https://www.gregoryshushan.com/
david @ middleway @middleway.bsky.social #middleway
@middleway
Believe nothing, as you have been told it.
Jumble & windbaggery, buddhism philosophy & opera. Some hamsters too.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Qalamos: Connecting Manuscript Traditions @qalamos.bsky.social Account of the DFG Project "Qalamos". #manuscripts #Asia #Africa #catalogs | @stabiberlin.bsky.social | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Universität Leipzig | Website: www.qalamos.net | Blog: https://od-portal.hypotheses.org
Ima Sri Rahmani @rahmaniis.bsky.social Researcher on anti-religion racisme (especially Islamophobia) at RSCS UCLouvain Belgium
Usman Azfar @usmanazfar.com Amateur Film Maker
I make videos on British Mosques, Islamic History and Muslim Life
See my films on: www.youtube.com/UsmanAzfar
Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social Associate Professor (Uyghur homeland, ethnic policy in China); Tibetan pop music translator; organizer of "Tibetan Separatist Activities" according to ChinaDaily
Sushant Singh @sushantsingh.bsky.social Lecturer, Yale University || Consulting Editor, The Caravan
[More: http://tiny.cc/YaleSushant]
Earlier: Indian Army || Indian Express || Centre for Policy Research
Books: Mission Overseas || Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017
James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Micah Alex @khattamicah.xyz I sometimes think about community technology, archives, novel interfaces and tech histories
Constantine Lignos @c0nstantine.bsky.social PhD, Columbia | Buddhist Studies & Performance | Tantric ritual dance | Big fan of Céline Dion | Dog dad | He/him | 🇬🇷🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Camelia Dewan PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social Assoc Prof (docent) @UU_University. Author of #MisreadingTheBengalDelta @uwapress. PhD SOAS/Bbk. MSc @LSE. MA@EdinburghUni.
Development, climate change, toxicity.
Mario I Aguilar @profmarioaguilar.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Politics, Director of Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland History of India, Tibet, Hinduism, Buddhism, Interfaith Dialogue, hermit. The Lord of the Rings
Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Bollywood & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
Rinchen T @rinchenpalmo.bsky.social Emory WGSS // colony, caste, race, gender. Falastin zindabad 🇵🇸🇵🇸 resistance zindabad ✊🏾✊🏾
Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com Historian of Buddhism, political thought, and gender in medieval Sri Lanka. Kiwi in Heidelberg. Big fan of nice maps.
He/Er/ඔහු/அவர்
Saya | سایہ (she/they) @sayayashodhara.bsky.social 🪷Buddhist | Artist - Poet - Musician | Trans | Pakistani-Punjabi American | نامو بدھایہ | She/They 🪷
Chris Marrewa @chrismarrewa.bsky.social Religious and Intellectual Historian of South Asia, Diver, Photographer, Wanderer. ACLS Fellow 2024-2025.
https://christinemarrewakarwoski.wordpress.com
Narayani Basu @narayanibasu.bsky.social Historian of modern India | Research nerd | Author & biographer | Archive hound | Full-time chai lover
V.P.Menon: The Unsung Architect Of Modern India: https://amzn.eu/d/3Busqcz
Allegiance: Azaadi and the End of Empire: https://amzn.eu/d/41iQH4E
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Troy Lee-Brown @drtlee-brown.bsky.social Research Fellow @ UWA Def & Sec Institute | Editor @ Black Swan Strategy Papers | Project Manager @ Blue Security Program | Maritime Security, India FP, Indian Ocean, Defence | avmo
Balabanlilar @balabanlilar.bsky.social professor of history, pre-modern South and Central Asia, Islamic kingship, Mughal landscapes and the peripatetic royal court
Aman Kant Panta @amankantpanta.bsky.social Phd candidate at IIIT, Hyderabad. Mountain Societies. Western Himalayas. Political History. Religion( local deity). Ethnography.
Geography facts @geographyfacts.bsky.social Exploring the world through flags and maps🌍 Your daily dose of geography, one post at a time!
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
@langa1.bsky.social @langa1.bsky.social
@ehnbom.bsky.social @ehnbom.bsky.social
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Navneet Khan @imkhannavneet.bsky.social PhD Scholar AIS, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Ethnic Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan and South Asia, IR.
Yoshiki Ishiuchi @strigops44ki.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Kyoto University, Himalayan Area Studies, Bhutan.
Tias Basu @tiasb.bsky.social PhD candidate and Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University | Translator
Cheri @kuncheria.bsky.social @theindiaforum.bsky.social | JNU history alum | Tobacco, Agriculture, Commodities, Environment, Economic History | Hoomin to Bourbon and Baddy | Views personal.- S @svedafr.bsky.social @svedafr.bsky.social
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
Karwaan Heritage @karwaanheritage.bsky.social A Students-led History Collective | Making Academic History Accessible, Engaging and Inclusive. Founded by @eshansharma.bsky.social
Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social Historian of South Asia. Refugees, Migration and Borders.
Frederik Schröer @frederikschroeer.bsky.social Historian of Emotions in Buddhism, India, Tibet; Environmental History; History of Concepts. 🏳️🌈
Trine Brox @trineb.bsky.social
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Ajay Verghese @ajayverghese.bsky.social Political scientist at Middlebury College: India, religion (Hinduism), historical legacies, ethnic violence, and qualitative/mixed methods. Girl Dad x2.
Radhika Govindrajan @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social
Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social Southasia’s magazine of politics and culture. Get our newsletters in your inbox: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters
Joel Bordeaux🌹জোয়েল বোর্দো @joelbordeaux.bsky.social Humanities / Social Sciences researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Dekila Chungyalpa (བདེ་དཀྱིལ་) @dchungyalpa.bsky.social Env strategist, bridge builder, ecofeminist, Himalayan. Working on inner + community + planetary resilience w/ faith & Indigenous leaders on environmental & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative, UW-Madison. Personal account - views are my own. She/ her.
Chandini Jaswal @jaswalc05.bsky.social She/her. Avid Learner of History. Postgrad. Law Student
Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social Political scientist. Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University. My new book "Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation" is available here: https://shorturl.at/BlEJE
https://www.lnachman.com
Tibet Network @tibetnetwork.bsky.social We are a global coalition of 130+ Tibet-related groups dedicated to ending human and political rights violations in Tibet, supporting the Tibetan people’s right to self determination.
TibetNetwork.org
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Eva Seiwert @evaseiwert.bsky.social IR & China l Senior Analyst @MERICS l Prev.: Managing Editor @9DASHLINE, Postdoc @FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pre-order my book “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s Vision of International Relations”: https://shorturl.at/VEUlf.
Hanna Geschewski @hannageschewski.bsky.social PhD researcher in Human Geography @cmi.no / University of Bergen. Displacement, migration and socio-environmental changes in the (rural) Himalayas and South Asia. cmi.no/staff/hanna-geschewski
Santiago Lazcano @santiagolazcano.bsky.social Tíbet and the Himalayas
Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
David G Atwill @dgatwill.bsky.social Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social Anthropologist • Political Ecologist • Author • Photographer • Adventurer • Thinking out of the box • Acting with a conscience •
Degrowth • Wellbeing Alternatives • Climate Change • Loss&Damage • Development • Decoloniality • Bhutan • Madagascar • Kenya •
Kerry Lucinda Brown, PhD @kerrylucinda.bsky.social Specialist in South Asian & Himalayan art (Nepalese and Buddhist visual culture), promoting engagement with global art histories through innovative teaching and research. Associate Chair, Art History, SCAD - Savannah. https://bio.site/KerryLucindaBrown
Miranda Ferries @bhavachakra.bsky.social
Tori Montrose @torimontrose.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at #FurmanUniversity
Japanese and Global Buddhism, Buddhist education and modernization, new religious movements.
Nature 🌲comedy nerd 🤓 dance parties 💃🏻podcasts 🎧 reformed pessimist 😌✨
Rohan Venkat @rohanvenkat.bsky.social Newsletter: India Inside Out || Non-Resident Visiting Scholar & Managing Editor, CASI, University of Pennsylvania || 📍Cairo, Egypt
rohanv on Twitter
Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social Historian dabbling in Anthropology & Pol Sc.
Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector.
Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism.
More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
Tenam བསྟན་རྣམ། @tenam.bsky.social Un tibétain exilé en France.
Dr Ladan Akbarnia @ladanakbarnia.bsky.social Museum curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (and formerly at The British Museum and Brooklyn Museum), San Diego County Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Curator of Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World (2024-25)
Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social ‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/
https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.
International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social International Studies Association - A community of international studies scholars.
https://linktr.ee/intlstudiesassociation
Palden Gyal @paldengyal.bsky.social དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱལ། 华丹嘉
https://pal-den-gyal.com
@toddpmarek.bsky.social @toddpmarek.bsky.social (འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ། 马陶德) Anthro PhD. Tibetan Medicine in Amdo ཨ་མདོ and beyond. #linganth #medanth #STS
Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social Anthropology and Aviation
- https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/h/a/c.h.harris/c.h.harris.html
- co-managing editor, https://roadsides.net/
- UvA lead, https://borderlab.eu/
PolGeoNow @polgeonow.com Political Geography Now reports on changes to the world political map and control of conflict zones. Visit www.polgeonow.com for high-quality original maps and articles, all made and fact-checked by humans.
Robert Barnett @robbiebarnett.bsky.social Professor & Senior Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Affiliate Lecturer, Kings College London; Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia 1998-2018
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor.bsky.social Posts from the international Buddhist journal Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) buddhistdoor.net : offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture. Welcome!
Latest posts: https://bio.site/buddhistdoor
Caroline Starkey @carostarkey.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion and Society, University of Leeds. Research on religion in Britain, especially Buddhism and Spiritualism🪷 Director of Liberal Arts at Leeds ❤️ Loves ghosts and Luton Town Football Club.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Geoff Barstow @thelostyak.bsky.social Scholar of #Buddhism, #Tibet, #vegetarianism, and #animals.
Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
Marguerite @lovemarguerite.bsky.social
འོད་ཟེར།唯色Woeser 💙💛🦋 @woeser.bsky.social 诗人 / 作家 / 怀旧者
写西藏/图伯特的往昔与当下
已出版二十余部书,译为多种语言
正在写两三四本书。。
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
Connie Kassor @ckassor.bsky.social i'm not entirely sure.
International Campaign for Tibet @savetibet.bsky.social Promoting human rights and democratic freedoms for the Tibetan people. Learn more and join our movement: www.savetibet.org
linktr.ee/SaveTibetOrg
Ariana M @arianam.bsky.social Himalayan & South Asian material culture, Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist art & ritual. Fulbright Scholar (2x) & NEH-Mellon Fellow. Also likes: digital humanities, open access, Pictured Rocks. lifeofthebuddha.org | bhutan.virginia.edu
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Alison @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees