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Willemijn Ruberg @willemijnruberg.bsky.social Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social). #running
DickensYouSay @dickensyousay.bsky.social If these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Anne Sullivan @annewithane.bsky.social UCR Lecturer. Visual culture postdoc @Caltech 2019-22. Fire, c19 media & lit, volcanoes, astrophotos, & pedagogy. Views are my own. she/hers.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social Social and political theorist. Hon prof at ANU and UCL. Books include ‘The Politics of Life Itself’, ‘Our Psychiatric Future’, ‘The Urban Brain’ (with D. Fitzgerald). Just out: ‘Questioning Humanity (with T. Osborne). Working on new book on biopolitics… 🇺🇦
Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social Left feminist
@sarahkember.bsky.social @sarahkember.bsky.social
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/
Mediapolis Journal @mediapolis.bsky.social Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
@markmanson.bsky.social @markmanson.bsky.social
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Community Wealth Building @communitywealth.bsky.social Bluesky page for a forthcoming new, revised and updated book on Community Wealth Building by Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill, forthcoming from Polity
Martin O'Neill @martinoneill.bsky.social dad of four · professor of political philosophy at the university of york · london-irish turned northerner · arsenal fan · trustee at the democracy collaborative · writing about the theory and practice of social and economic justice
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social Associate Professor of (Systems & Computational) Neuroscience @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in cortical dynamics.
Action Records @actionrecords.bsky.social Action Records has been established since 1979, starting off on a stall in Blackpool just as the independent music scene was emerging. From there we soon opened a site in Preston in 1981 where we have been ever since stocking a huge collection
dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social Doctor/Strategic Innovator
⚕️XLII® Medicine/Psychol🧠ParaOncology®
BSc MBBS PhD MSc MBA CMgr
Genomics Immuno Microbiol Path Psych
Med Director Kids Cancer Charity, Person
Medicine/This Alarming Mess/Human Stuff
Rebuild from X
(anti-data-grab freq post cull)
BioSocieties @biosocieties.bsky.social An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. www.biosocieties.org
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
Louis Hartnoll @rosaefluxemburg.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in the History of Art department, University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. Member of the Historical Materialism Editorial Board.
https://uva.academia.edu/LouisHartnoll
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes. If you’re thinking “the bunny looks different” it’s because it’s a different bunny🥲
www.marhicks.com
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
Kate Spowage @katespowage.bsky.social Critical interdisciplinary sociolinguist working on the politics of language, capitalism, and colonialism. Shamelessly plugging Language as Statecraft, which thinks about all those things. Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Own views, reposts ≠ agreement
Melanie Jackson @melaniejjj.bsky.social www.melaniejackson.net
Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social Retired Sociology/Demography professor. I know the United States has an awfully high middle aged death rate. My goal is to explain it well enough to get people to fix it.
Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Culture | Medical Humanities | Gut Health | Author of “Empire Under the Microscope" (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | lover of books, dogs, slow news, and the oxford comma. | vibe: 📚🔬🦟🐕👶🏻👶🏻🌱
A Northern Lad @willstone.bsky.social kidney disease survivor and two-time kidney transplant recipient | father | comms bod | nature | music | books | politics | | @pnefc #OWNTHOUGHTS
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social The Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN) brings together researchers to study and tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics
Find us at: https://reacpol.net/
@pristinehairnet.bsky.social @pristinehairnet.bsky.social
Clive Peedell @drpeedell.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Oncologist
NHS advocate and campaigner
Lung Cancer #LCSM and prostate cancer #PCSM
#SABR #SBRT
Steering committee member #BTOG and UK SABR Consortium
Wealth inequality creates health inequality
Views personal
computerweekly.bsky.social @computerweekly.bsky.social The UK's leading business technology publication - since 1966. Read all the latest news and features at www.computerweekly.com. Orwell Special Prize 2024. We're the team that exposed the #PostOfficeScandal
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
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Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social The Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and supporting artists and academics.
https://www.stuarthallfoundation.org
Dr Beth Johnson @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social Academic, feminist, TV lover, researcher. Interested in the ordinary and the everyday. Prof of TV, film and media at University of Leeds. Opinions my own.
UM Digital Studies Institute @umichdigital.bsky.social We study ethical, social, and aesthetic implications of digital technologies - particularly focusing on digital media & race, disability, gender, and power.
Ann Arbor, MI
Website: digitalstudies.umich.edu
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters
Podcasts: http://bloom.bg/podcasts
The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal which has been publishing cultural studies scholarship for over 25 yrs.
Read: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ecs
Follow: https://www.instagram.com/ejcs_journal/
Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social Writer, thinker, mom, MIT prof & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My new book, Artificial Intimacy, is out in Sept 2026, available for preorder now.
April Wei-West @aprilw.bsky.social PhD researcher in Music at SOAS, University of London (CHASE-funded) | vocaloid and virtualities | digital ethnography | CHASE DiSCo network lead
From the river to the sea
More: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/april-wei-west
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Prof Angela McRobbie @angelamcrobbie.bsky.social Cultural Studies and Sociology Professor
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.
ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social ❤️ 'Building an Inclusive European Community in Communication'
🌍 ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, focused on the intersections of media and communications with cities and spatiality.
🔗 https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
Howie @drhowards.bsky.social Researcher / SL in education and technology, while awaiting the rapture. Otherwise walking around thinking about music, space and books. YNWA. 🇵🇸
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Howard-Scott
Johan Siebers @johansiebers.bsky.social Language, Life and Thought. Professor in North London ☀️
Debt Shop Boi @debtshopboi.bsky.social Toronto-based synthpop-industrial-darkwave-electropunk artist. Lover of black cats, hater of fascism. https://linktr.ee/debtshopboi
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
https://wordsinspace.net/work/
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸
https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Catherine Waldby @cwaldby.bsky.social Professor ANU. Biopolitics, innovation, reproduction, history.
@journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
https://linktr.ee/spectrejournal
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Christoffer Basse Eriksen @cberiksen.bsky.social Historian of science and ideas writing about microscopes, insects and flowers. Postdoc at Aarhus University. Member of the Danish Young Academy.
Existential Movement @existentialworld.bsky.social An international initiative to bring wisdom to the world, based in applied philosophy, psychology and psychotherapeutic practice.
Annual online conference and yearly Socrates Medal.
Sapientia ad Mundum.
www.existentialmovement.world
Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social Furious feminist philosopher, author, likes to draw pictures
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social Home to the University of Oxford's community of Intellectual Historians | Follow us for updates on events, publications & more | intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk
History of Science (journal) @historyofscience.bsky.social History of Science publishes innovative articles in the history of science, technology & medicine; also on relevant historiographical issues and the teaching of history of science, technology and medicine. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HOS
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Politics & Public Policy, London School of Economics & Political Science.
Interests - digital era governance, democratic audit & renewal, theories of the state, elections & party competition.
And in open social science, universities.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social We are the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Based in the School of Humanities, we offer research-led degrees in Modern Languages, Comparative Literature & Culture, Liberal Arts.
Centre for Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway @cvc-rhul.bsky.social We are the Centre for Visual Cultures, an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London. Posting here about events, podcasts, projects, exhibitions and publications.
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
Benjamin Peters @bjpeters.bsky.social Writing on (post-)Soviet AI and #RussHack. (Books: Your Computer is on Fire. Soviet Internet. Digital Keywords.) Media theorist, historian, frisbeeist, parent
Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá #Marx
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Machine Ethics Podcast @machine-ethics.net Conversations on AI Ethics: Interrogating technology, artificial intelligence and it's impact on society. Created by @benbyford.com www.machine-ethics.net
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Lost in the Middle Ages. Lecturer at the University of Bath - Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker.
English: Journal of the English Association @englishjournaloup.bsky.social English is dedicated to new developments in English Studies. It publishes work that speaks to the discipline as a whole, including reflections on pedagogy and on the place of English Literature in the world beyond academia https://academic.oup.com/english
Lillian @hingleytheory.bsky.social Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford.
PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
lillianhingleydphil.wordpress.com
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Critical inquiry with and about the digital. 💾
Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
https://kingsdh.net/
https://kcl.ac.uk/ddh- A Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social Professor of Political Economy, Labour and resistance to exploitation. Blogs at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk Views my own!
Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite