Shaina Hayes @shainahayes.bsky.social peas and love
💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social Anesthesiologist, father of 5 gingers. Correlation ≠ causation. Please don’t attempt to give anesthesia based on my posts, it likely won’t go well.
Maine 🦞—> NJ 🍕
#MedSky, #AnSky, #MedTwitter, Red Sox, tattoos
@DrSandman11 on other socials 💉
gayham @grahamericlatham.bsky.social I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
http://anything-everything.ghost.io/
http://instagram.com/anythingeverything.mtl
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
SuperWendy @superwendy.bsky.social Romance reader, Emeritus RWA Librarian of the Year, Detroit Tigers fan, tea addict, #TBRChallenge hostess. Life is short, read something that makes you happy https://linktr.ee/SuperWendy
Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social Romance enthusiast. Founder @whychoose-tucson.bsky.social Book Riot Contributing Editor. BLACK LOVE MATTERS and SOMEPLACE GENEROUS out now! She/her 🩷💜💙
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social Reader. Librarian. Lawyer. My mouth is unruly. I've been told I'm zesty! Lover of things and (some) people. Watcher of sports and cooking shows. And dramas. Midwestern core, PNW present.
https://ko-fi.com/robinbradford
Anne O'Reilly @anneoreilly.bsky.social Librarian, Professor, Romance Reader, and Romance Researcher. She/Her. 
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
Dr. Mystery @damemystery.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, book lover. House full of cats. She/her.
Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social Ambedkarite, romance reader and scholar, annihilate caste
K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games
Molly Keran @mjkeran.bsky.social Recent English lit PhD thinking about the intersections of pop culture & violence against women. I love cats, romance novels, pop music, and buying too many planners.
Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge.bsky.social Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
Markéta Šmídová @smidovamm.bsky.social PhD student at Masaryk University. Interested in queer romance, English folklore and liminality. Views are my own. She/they. Header: see @portaltohades at twitter
Heather @heatherschell.bsky.social Romance scholar, aspiring NPS Weed Warrior, Ass't Professor of Writing at GW, and ON SABBATICAL!!! I love the smell of sagebrush, pine, moss, and petrichor, and I try to spend as much time as possible where these scents live.
Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers. 
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social Avid reader of romance, classics, lit fic, memoir. Philosophy prof who works on phil and lit, pop culture, med humanities. Editor of Bridgerton and Philosophy out now. Mainer.
Kate Cuthbert @katydidinoz.bsky.social Book lover and narrative nerd. Editor, genre fiction advocate, Doctor of Literature, proponent of reading for fun *and* education. Co-host What Would Danbury Do?
she/her. Naarm/Wirandjuri land
Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social Vivant (sans bon). Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history. Every story deserves to be heard. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
Can't access chat
Nisha Sharma @nishawrites.bsky.social Author. PhD Student in Lit & Social Justice. Advocate for marginalized communities.
I write messy brown girls with complicated feelings.
Radha & Jai re-release- February 2026
🍁🧮🇮🇳🤣✍🏽🍂 - September 2026
The Lotus Inn - March 2027
www.nisha-sharma.com
Austin Gaspard @austingaspard.bsky.social M.A. in History from LaTech
Reading: Too much to list here
I lurk more than I speak on social media
I am, unfortunately, not a cat with sunglasses
Running On Romance @runningonromance.bsky.social Dedicated to Reading, Writing, and Reviewing Romantic Fiction. I post about #romance #fiction #books #bookcovers #bookreviews #romancelandia #romanticsubplots #booksky
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Amy! @amysaysread.bsky.social Professional book recommender and cat lover (she/they)
Pretty Rex @pretendtrex.bsky.social Kinda nerdy. Big artsy, little fartsy. Lover of history, obscure trivia, and elephant jokes. Memes are my love language. Not an actual T-Rex. Full-time university student majoring in Anthropology and Sociology so I can make a career out of people-watching.
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
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Alex Lu @waxenwings.bsky.social Editor at Random House Graphic, Writer-in-progress
Drawn & Quarterly @dandq.bsky.social Montreal-based publisher of the world's most brilliant cartoonists and their comics, graphic novels and art! https://linktr.ee/dandq
Kacy @kacy-h.bsky.social New Orleans librarian specializing in collection development, comics, and queer lit for youth. 2025 Eisner Judge. Content editor on noflyingnotights.com. GNCRT Treasurer (2024-2026).
Erika Chung 鍾嘉穎, PhD @erikachung182.bsky.social Intersectionality, Fandom & Comics | Bookworm | she/her
Prof Wolvie @profwolvie.bsky.social Professor of Comics Studies/Queer Comics, Queer Theory, and LGBTQ+ literature. Lover of all things X-Men. Marvel Legends Collector.
Amie with an ‘i.e.’ 🔜 SDCC @librarylandia.bsky.social Public Historian, Librarian, TCAF Director
Former NYorker🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦
Past President GNCRT
she/her // opinions all me
Writing my PhD on comics censorship
https://carleton.ca/history/cu-people/amie-wright/
Donnie M @donnie-m.bsky.social PhD Candidate at McGill
Doing Soviet History (Estonia, economic reform, and food systems under late socialism)
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
Kansas History @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social We publish new research on Kansas and Western history suitable for scholars and general readers. Quarterly and peer reviewed. We love history, and it shows. 
Dr. Bradley J. Sommer @drhistorybrad.bsky.social Husband. Historian. Writer. Midwest spokesperson and Classical Millennial. Writing a book on Toledo, Millennial culture, and a novel. Fan of Star Wars, LOTR, and Pittsburgh sports. He/Him/His. 🏳️🌈📚
https://bradleyjsommer.com/
@drhistorybrad on substack
Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own.
Слава Україні!
Web: https://www.drrobthompson.com
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, A Study In Sparkling, is out now.
Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social Irish heritage, folklore, vernacular architecture and landscape. Author of books. Contributor to RTE Brainstorm. Lecturer ATU. Views my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
Jane McGaughey @janegvmcgaughey.bsky.social Johnson Chair of Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies | Host of The Irish in Canada Podcast | 
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Ed Madden @edmaddensc.bsky.social Poet. Professor of English, scholar in Irish Studies, queer studies.
Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social A podcast & Substack about romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host: Andrea Martucci (she/her) #romancebks #romancereader
https://linktr.ee/shelflovepodcast
The Smut Report @smutreport.com We are three crones who have been swapping smut since we were maidens and therefore spend a lot of time yelling about romance books.
Primarily managed by Holly.
Blog at smutreport.com
Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social A peer-reviewed open-access journal exploring popular romance media and the logics, institutions, and social practices of romantic love in global popular culture. https://www.jprstudies.org/
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
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. 
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social We are a research centre within the University of Leeds. Let’s think about intimacy together. - https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/420/centre_for_love_sex_and_relationships
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University. 
Katie Barnes @katiehbarnes.bsky.social PhD @ UoS | Researching representations of Irish motherhood in contemporary Irish literature | Always dancing | she/her
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, author
AG About Gender @aboutgender.bsky.social An interdisciplinary, international, feminist, and peer-reviewed journal about gender studies.
✉️ aboutgender@unige.it
🌍 riviste.unige.it/aboutgender
🎙️ Listen to our podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7LYxLbaWac8IPPZQJz1WNO
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)
Dr. Jarret Ruminski @thedevilhistory.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Historian. Lapsed Academic. Poster child for the Cancerian moon. Midnight Fairy King. "A mistake who learned to feel."
Steph, M. A. @stephfunnylaughter.bsky.social Shakespeare enthusiast. Feminist. M.A. in English Literature. English professor/English Ed Program Coordinator. Overeducated. Read Shakespeare. Literacy is power. 📚 she/her
Views my own.
Education Blog:
http://englishteacherinsights.wordpress.com
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
brennan mccracken @brenmccracken.bsky.social phd candidate @ concordia 〰️ the novel, ecology, form 〰️ he/him 〰️ mccracken.brennan@gmail.com
Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social Follow for features, news and to-the-minute updates on developing stories ➡️ montrealgazette.com