Ananth Krishnan @ananthkrishnan.bsky.social Director at The Hindu Group. Formerly, foreign correspondent based in China for India Today & The Hindu; Brookings India fellow; author, India’s China Challenge
Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social Climate and environmental journalist, writer, docu filmmaker. Covers climate policy @CarbonBrief. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
Yan Zhuang @yanzhuang.bsky.social NYT reporter in Seoul | yan.zhuang(at)nytimes.com
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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
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Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of modern U.S. || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
David Bandurski @dbandurski.bsky.social Executive Director of the China Media Project, a think tank promoting freedom of expression through research and journalism capacity building.
chinamediaproject.org
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https://linguasinica.substack.com/
Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social MLB
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine
🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social Writer, carceral history & disability; part of the struggle for academic freedom. My latest book: https://chicago1919.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/fightforrights/index?path=introductions
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Jeremy Page 裴杰 @jnbpage.bsky.social The Economist’s Chief China Correspondent & Drum Tower podcast co-host. Previously, the Wall Street Journal’s chief political & diplomatic reporter in Beijing 2010-21. Also posted in Moscow & Delhi. 12 int'l journalism awards. www.linkedin.com/in/jnbpage
Yi-Ling Liu @yilingliu95.bsky.social writer & editor covering China | journalist-in-residence
@tarbellcenter | writing a book on the Chinese Internet for
@AAKnopf
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Andrea Pollio @andretwp.bsky.social Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Timothy McLaughlin @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social Contributing writer at The Atlantic, Co-author of Among the Braves.
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social Historian (PhD) & Author: AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN; Masterless Men; After Life; Southern Labor History.
Rocker. Traveler. Questioner. Seeker.
IG @kerileighmerritt
Zubayra Shamseden @zubayra.bsky.social Co-Executive Director @UyghurNetwork.org | published @ www.chinafile.com @Thediplomat.com
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at University of Kentucky. Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic world, 16th-17th C. Also here to follow climate, safe streets, YIMBY/urbanist, disability rights, and baseball stuff.
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson @lizingleson.bsky.social Assistant Professor of International History at London School of Economics
Author of MADE IN CHINA (Harvard University Press, 2024)
Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social Assistant professor of feminist and queer cultural studies at National University of Singapore, PI of @casmidaproject.bsky.social @queermeninsg.bsky.social @cleansportssg.bsky.social, & Author of #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social (use code: E25MHSHO)
@soyonbo.bsky.social @soyonbo.bsky.social
Albert Wu 吳孟軒 @albertmwu.bsky.social Historian. With Michelle Kuo, a newsletter on #Taiwan: http://ampleroad.substack.com
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
catielila @catielila.bsky.social Co-author of "Revolutionary Taiwan" (Cambria Press, 2024) and author of "Parliament in the British Political Imagination, 1550-1600" (forthcoming, Manchester University Press). Early modern Britainist by training; now living and teaching in Taipei
Vincent Chan (he/him) @mrchanchan.bsky.social Aspiring Asian & Asian Canadian Studies and Instructional Leadership Scholar. Passionate Secondary Social Studies Teacher. Adjunct Professor in Teacher Education. Avid Baseball Fan. ISFJ. 🇭🇰🇨🇦
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social Author of A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785900/a-guide-to-maos-china/#bookTabs=1
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
Philadelphia Phillies @notphillies.bsky.social Back-to-back National League East Champions
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Unofficial bot that will mirror the Phillies' X feed until @Phillies.com starts posting. Set up by @aceofbens.com.
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Latin American and Caribbean History @UWMadison. ✍️The Lettered Barriada (DukeUP); Puerto Rico: A National History (PrincetonUP/Planeta); A Counter-Republic of Letters (under contract w/ DukeUP). 🇵🇷
💾: https://linktr.ee/jmelendezbadillo
Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social Freelance journalist, always open to commissions
✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine, Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine
dianedevignemont.com
Virginia Sole-Smith @virginiasolesmith.bsky.social Burnt Toast newsletter + Burnt Toast podcast + FAT TALK. Plant lady. Pasta enthusiast.
Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, host of Civic Forum with Rory Truex. https://linktr.ee/civicforumpod
afra @afrawang.bsky.social
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social
Prashanth Iyer @prashanthiyer.bsky.social Co-host of Expected By Whom with Sean Shapiro, produced by Winged Wheel Podcast| Formerly of The Athletic Detroit | Bourbon enthusiast
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net Michele Banks
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Tasha Rachman @tasharachman.bsky.social Phd-ing at Yale. Chinese political economy. Formerly macro hedge fund. Fan of corvids, cats and capital flows.
Paul Gagliardi @pgagliardi.bsky.social Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player
https://paulgagliardi.squarespace.com/
Jonathan Fulton @jonathanfulton.bsky.social Associate professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council. Research focuses on China-Middle East relations. Host of The China-MENA Podcast, author of China-MENA Newsletter on Substack.
Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
Adam Brookes @eadbrookes.bsky.social Recovering journalist, dilatory author. 'FRAGILE CARGO: The World War Two Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City'. Also some spy novels. Opinions valid.
History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social New perspectives on the many ways in which the past shapes the present. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly deliveries of our original writing about history: http://hnn.us/newsletter
Powered by @bunkhistory.bsky.social at the University of Richmond.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
adrian de leon @aadeleon.bsky.social author of Notes from a Wayward Son (2026), Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland (2026), Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America (2023), atbp. // writer and history professor at NYU
Jeanette Patrick @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social Public Historian|Podcaster|Museum Specialist
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Tina Shull @tinashull.bsky.social Associate Professor and public historian at UNC Charotte | Author of DETENTION EMPIRE | Carceral Studies, Climate Migration, Abolition | Creator, Climate Refugee Stories digital history project
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
L.D. (From Seaver to Seattle) @seatoseabaseball.com currently writing From Seaver to Seattle, the love letter to baseball you never knew you needed: https://seatoseabaseball.com/ | Box Score Banter @baseballprospectus.com | stuff and things @ Sports Ref
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social Energy & Climate Geopolitics
Head of Political Strategy @350.org
Energy Co-Lead, International Climate Policy Hub.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Thin from Thin Ink @thinink.bsky.social Food Systems nut who also happens to be a foodie. Writes Thin Ink, Lead Reporter for Lighthouse Reports, co-founder of Kite Tales Myanmar, founder of Myanmar Now, & former correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
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Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social Librarian for History at the University of Michigan
Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Emma Rafaelof 江小莲 @erafaelof.bsky.social China and East Asia specialist with focus on tech and trade policy. Former USCC and DHS. 🕎 🍉 🌈
Fraser Bruce @frabruce.bsky.social Beijing-based news editor
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
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Martin Ritchie @martinshanghai.bsky.social Bloomberg News in China.
All about commodities, especially metals, steel and critical minerals. Past lives in Scotland, Russia.
Emma Martin @emmamartin89.bsky.social Research Associate @ Cardiff University working on foreign disinformation.
American based in UK
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Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social phd student at university of michigan school of information - she/her - data, public interest technology, social justice
Pete Keeley @petekeeley.bsky.social Copy editor by day, copy editor by night also. I work at Puck. I use to work at THR. Also: Deep-cleaning enthusiast. Proud dad and Volvo XC70 owner.
Anna L. Ahlers @annalahlers.bsky.social Head of LMEP research group “China in the Global System of Science”, MPIWG & professor II, University of Oslo | sociology of science + authoritarianism & democracy + China’s (local) governance | https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/LMRG-china-science
@pegofnevada.bsky.social @pegofnevada.bsky.social Born and raised in Kentucky. Still believe in women’s rights, civil rights, human rights, and democracy. Difficult to see us fighting battles we thought we won decades ago.
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Donica Belisle @donicabelisle.bsky.social Professor of History at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Treaty 4. www.donicabelisle.ca
Daniel Prokop @danielprokop.com The book 'Peter Pan' was not supposed to be a blueprint for social development.📖Author x 3 | ⛏️geologist| 😂comedian| 🎙️radio host| 🖨️publisher|🧟♂️parent... 🕉️🇦🇺 🦘 🚫DM unless I know you please 🚫 Porn
Scott Kennedy @kennedychina.bsky.social Senior Adviser & Trustee Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies | CSIS
Shelly Chan @shellypchan.bsky.social Historian @ucsc
Anna Stirr @annastirr.bsky.social - L Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick @lizwish.bsky.social Researcher on China, Russia, Sino-Russian relations, Central Asia, Arctic, resources, non-traditional security.
Emile Dirks @emiledirks.bsky.social Senior research associate @citizenlab.ca, board member @pencanada.bsky.social. Researching biometric surveillance, authoritarianism, and Chinese politics.
Torsten Weber @torweber.bsky.social Historian in Tokyo 🇯🇵 Japan-China relations • Pan-Asianism • memory politics & historical memory • 'Embracing Asia in China & Japan' http://palgrave.com/book/9783319651538 • research website http://rabediaries.hypotheses.org • #scicom ⚽️ M05❤️🤍
Nicholas Orsillo @nickorsillo.bsky.social I'm an academic copy editor, proofreader, and Czech-to-English translator; would-be historian; and keeper of life in glass boxes. www.nicholasorsillo.com
Ian M. Miller @ianmmiller.bsky.social 孟一衡. Chinese history at St. John's University (NYC).
Izi Li-Duffy 杜政傑 ཡེ་ཤེས་ يىزى @ijld.bsky.social Beijing based; Chinese culture & history. Specialise mostly in early ceramics. Pagoda enthusiast.
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