Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Sébastien Duval @sebastienplus.bsky.social 20+ years in Japan, now in Tokyo. I develop regenerative tourism, and enjoy unique Japan, rejuvenating hot springs, and delicious vegan cuisines! Français 🆗 日本語 🆗
https://linkedin.com/in/sduval/
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Dave Bryant 🇪🇸 @davebspain.bsky.social I try to photograph nature, mostly birds & I'm having fun with it.
All my own photos, they are taken in the wild and are copyright©
Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social Fascinated by nature: birds, frogs, beach, sky & more. All media by me w/ a long lens. No AI! Lots of nature goodness here & on YouTube & Patreon. (In PA, USA)
Mini nature documentary every Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/gettoknownature
Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/
Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025)
Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Or Porath @orporath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion, Tel Aviv University
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
Mark Hudson @barbarianniche.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian of Japan in Eurasia at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. Fellow Royal Historical Society. Author '24 Hours in Shogun's Japan' (https://www.mombooks.com/book/24-hours-in-shoguns-japan/). Breturn to EU
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social Diplomatic Correspondent for The New York Times
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
@chrisalexander77.bsky.social @chrisalexander77.bsky.social 
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
wordsinspace.net
田中貴子 @takakotanaka.bsky.social 日本中世文学研究者。甲南大学教授。猫（文覚）と暮らしています。
European Association for Japanese Studies @eajs.eu Bluesky account of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Europe's largest association of Japanese studies scholars.
For more info, visit http://eajs.eu/
RT ≠ endorsement.
@michaelryder.bsky.social @michaelryder.bsky.social 
Rereading the Stone (Podcast) @rereadingstone.bsky.social a podcast by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
& William Jones on Chinese literature, poetry, & philosophy, currently: Qing dynasty classic Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢 #石頭記
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1269965
青空文庫(Aozora Bunko) @aozorabunko.bsky.social A volunteer PR account for Aozora Bunko (Blue Sky Open Collection: a nonprofit digital archive of Japanese Literature)
www.aozora.gr.jp
デジタルアーカイブ「青空文庫」のお知らせ用アカウントです。
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Association Victor Segalen @victorsegalen87.bsky.social #victorsegalen #associationvictorsegalen #segalen #écrivain
L’association favorise la connaissance et la diffusion des œuvres de Victor Segalen : https://victorsegalen.org/ 
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social ¶rare book librarian ¶bibliographer & historian of print, typography, and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍ATL (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social Copywriter, silly lyric maker-upper, very amateur photographer, human em-dash user, sometimes macrame maker, slow fashion lover, unincorporated person
Creator of #Stunday
Lin, Chia-Wei @chiaweilin.bsky.social Assistante diplômée & doctorante @Université de Lausanne. Historical linguistics, language contact, indigenous grammatical traditions, Christian and Buddhist translations on the Silk Road. Working on Barlaam&Josaphat.
https://unil.academia.edu/chiaweilin
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
suetsumuhana @torikae.baya.moe PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. See blog posts about my translation project at torikae.baya.moe
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social Book historian & research librarian at the Swedish National Heritage Board (@raa-se.bsky.social) & UiT The Arctic University of Norway. History of reading, Provenance, Cartography & Library history. @sharpweb.org aficionado.
Buddhist Digital Resource Center @buddhistarchive.bsky.social The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. Using state-of-the art technology, BDRC is the leading digital archive of Buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community. bdrc.io
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
Please use ALT text :-)
Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social Assistant Professor of World History at Wilmington College, researching ancient women in Rome, fashion, and empires
Also known as Vintagehistorian
Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Lim Beng Choo @bengchoo-sophia.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Departmrnt of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore. Interested in traditional performance, digital technologies, and poetry.
Tove Björk @bjoerktove.bsky.social I am a scholar of early modern Japanese literature
and Theatre, currently professor at the Graduate School Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan. 日本近世文学、まあ、本当は歌舞伎の研究者であり、現在は埼玉大学人文社会科学研究課で教授をやっています。
AizuYabanjin @aizuyabanjin.bsky.social pottering about, growing stuff, cooking stuff, taking photos of stuff, underachieving, trying not to be a grumpy old man
Gus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social Bibliophile, perpetual grad student. Fan of democracy, cats, and the Oxford comma. Episcopalian, but not great at it. Foxes over hedgehogs.
simon loves books📚活字中毒の左衛門 @kant.bsky.social 在野研究者. Philosopher at heart, historian by trade. Did the research for Gambling Man (Penguin, 2024. 日本語版『勝負師』日経BP). Next book: Tokyo’s Private Railway Empires (ORO, 2028). 元자이니치. 京都生まれ東京下町在住. Simonは芸名です.
https://salonseance.com
American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
https://literarytranslators.org/
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Andreas Guder 顾安达 顧安達 @aguder.bsky.social Chinesisch als Fremdsprache / Chinese as a Foreign Language Teaching and Research 中文作为外语教学与研究, Freie Universität Berlin
Blog on 1800+ Chinese characters here: https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/andreasguder-hanzi/schriftzeichen-etymographien/
David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
Dr. Drew K. Richardson @dkrichardson.bsky.social The Monsters of Everyday Life!
Forthcoming book on Japanese monsters and regional identities.
Eldritch Islands: Essays on Lovecraftian writers of Japanese Horror coming in 2025! (McFarland)
Historian of Japanese Monsters, Yokai, and the Supernatural
Joshua, aka Tatsushu (he/him) @tatsushu.bsky.social Host of the podcast "Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan" (https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast)
Martial Arts: Shindō Musō Ryū, Nakamura Ryū, etc.
Also a JoCoNaut and fan of Tolkien, boardgames, TTRPGs, and more...
(Still figuring out Social Media)
Helen Parker (she/her/hers) @hseparker.bsky.social Intolerant liberal, aggressive pacifist, less paradoxical Japanophile. PR now (if not sooner). Still European.
🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇫🇷
🎭🧡💚🖤[歌舞伎]
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Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social History prof at the University of York. Most recently Research Partner for "Samurai" at the British Museum. Also working on castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Too many hobbies.
www.olegbenesch.com
Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, National Book Award winner. 🏳️🌈 My brand is lesbians. https://www.malindalo.com/
Thomas McAuley @wakapoet.bsky.social Translator of premodern Japanese poetry.
陳・ダニエラ Daniela Tan @tanda-m.bsky.social Researching, Writing and Teaching: Japanese literature
Diving into: Time Studies (Body Time), Books, Oceans
Supporting: Food Not Bombs, Ni Una Menos
Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak @ksymil.bsky.social Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
prestoconfuoco @prestoconfuoco.bsky.social Musician
•Cinema •History •Languages •Nature
Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh @asianstudiesed.bsky.social Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/asian-studies
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Merzmensch aka Kosmopol (at unFiction) @merzmensch.bsky.social Antifa/scist. Writer, Artist, Researcher. Writing about Gen AI since 2017.
Art, Dadaism, Japan, Transmedia.
🇩🇪🇬🇧🇯🇵
merzmensch.com
NEW: Book "KI-Kunst" ("AI-Art"), 2023, by Wagenbach Verlag. Exploring AI since 2016. Shalom!
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
Jane Traynor @jktraynor.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Research focus on kyōgen and transmission of and developments in the traditional theatre arts.
Florian @donaldduckch.bsky.social 
@malteherwig.bsky.social @malteherwig.bsky.social 
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Yulia Ryzhik @yryzhik.bsky.social English professor in early modern literature (University of Toronto), runner, birder, letterpress printer, canoe tripper, cat lover
Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social Bookworm. Linguist. Localization Director. Japanese-English translator & interpretor. Former manga/anime translator. DFTBA ❤️💜💙
日本語OK!
https://j-entranslations.com
Pleco Software @pleco.com Makers of the world's best Chinese dictionary apps since 2001.
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Alice Monard @lirelejapon.bsky.social Écrivaine (livres pour enfants Kotori et poésie Wabi Sabi), amoureuse du Japon et de sa littérature. Seattle après 3 ans à Tokyo.
https://www.editions-akinome.com/auteur/58/alice-monard
Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. 
medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com corpus bones!
Honford Star @honfordstar.bsky.social Publisher of translated East Asian fiction 🌟 Buy our books/ebooks direct at http://honfordstar.com 🌟 Sign up to our newsletter: https://t.co/v9Oozdt652
Matthew Cooper @mcooperk.bsky.social PhD student in the UK, researching gender, monstrosity and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan.
Irish, Queer, Hopeful.
Kind is cool!
EN/ES/日本語 OK
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
illimij @illimij.bsky.social Japan's early modern period and Tokugawa-Meiji transition--communications, education and literacy. 今、内海船、北前船の歴史に興味ある。研究あまり捗っていないです。Still not sure about this online stuff, so I guess I'm being coy: チャールズ アンドリューズ
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social LLM for the commons.
Earl J. @dzigaflitcraft.bsky.social Cinephile, Japanese film researcher, grateful immigrant.
Photography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography Full-time pro photographer, creator & educator in Tokyo/Fukushima. Do walks & tours here, too. TV presenter for NHKWorld. Music lover. Antifa. Hasselblad Ambassador, 2015.
No Meta, Twitter or Amazon.
Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/alfiejapanorama
Roger Brown @rbjapan.bsky.social Marine & Historian. Research modern Japanese political & intellectual history, also interested in military history & US-Japan relations. 専門は日本近現代政治思想史、軍事史と日米関係史にも興味がある。
researchmap.jp/Roger_Brown
Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
Linda Zampol D'Ortia @lindazampol.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (Ca' Foscari Venice).
History of Europe-Asia relations, religions in Asia, history of emotions.
https://lzdo.carrd.co
https://unive.academia.edu/LindaZampolDOrtia
Diego Pellecchia @diegoist3.bsky.social 🇮🇹➗🇯🇵
Nō theatre scholar/practitioner
Based in Kyoto
Hannah Kirshner @sweetsnbitters.bsky.social Author of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS. Probably spending the rest of my life trying to fix a 100-year-old farmhouse in Ishikawa, Japan. www.hannahkirshner.com
www.mokkei-yamanaka.com
https://www.kodansha.co.jp/book/products/0000421507
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University