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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW MaddowBlog.com
Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social Caenhill countryside centre, a charity supporting young people & rescuing animals in the south west of England. My name is Chris (Quish) I work with artist Caroline, singer Kirsty Clinch, Lorna, Kate & daughter Kara https://www.caenhillcc.org.uk/support/
University of Exeter Press @uexeterpress.bsky.social Dedicated to scholarly book publishing for over fifty years. Internationally recognised for excellence in humanities. www.exeterpress.co.uk
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter. anamariecox.com
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Writing and yelling.
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Dionne Warwick @dionnewarwick.bsky.social I am not writing a bio.
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)
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill. https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Erik Wade @erikkaars.bsky.social Queer medievalist. Helicopter parent to a kitty. Champion napper. He/they
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/ Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history! ⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
julia ferraioli @juliaferraioli.com Doing open source-y stuff, probably full of bees. opensourcestories.org co-founder. Human to Luna Rae Muppet Show. she/her 🏳️‍🌈
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group. he/him. Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/ Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat. Jean helps me.
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908. Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. propublica.org
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social Medievalist, PhD'ing at Cambridge. Chaucer, gender, trauma. Bringing the voices of medieval women forward.
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
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.
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
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
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Hanabi Shibas @hanabishibas.bsky.social The couple behind the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam
Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social A small forest creature afraid of the forest cmo of the onion
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة. Professes Arabic and History @ UMD Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist. I draw custom maps and artwork on commission: https://surprisedeelmaps.com/ Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true). unfortunately, I care about power lines now she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚 MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT nicolagriffith.com Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com corpus bones!
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker. I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts. See also @sims-mss.bsky.social I speak for myself and not for my employer
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/ Pasts Imperfect: https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
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/
Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social Blog de diffusion de la recherche en histoire médiévale. Compte tenu principalement par Florian Besson. Retrouvez nos articles sur https://actuelmoyenage.wordpress.com/
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection. irinadumitrescu.com
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal. website is medievalkarl.com
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Fanny Cohen Moreau @fannycomo.bsky.social Parle podcast et Moyen Âge, parfois les deux en même temps (et aime poser des questions) / Créatrice de @passionmedievistes.fr & co https://passionmedievistes.fr/ Aussi @catchadeux.bsky.social From Casablanca, now entre Paris et Dijon City
Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social Professor of History; author, Religious Women in Golden Age Spain; historian of #earlymodern nuns; co-editor @emwjournal; #highered consultant; runner, gardener, needlepointer, cocktail enthusiast; madrileña at heart email me: llehfeldt at gmail dot com
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon). Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science || Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge || Singer, sailor, runner, father || "Always generous" – The New Yorker
Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social Professor. Writer. Columnist. Erratic historian. Typo Queen.
Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖 https://linktr.ee/jennlynnjordan 💙💜💖
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Kate Cooper @kateantiquity.bsky.social People-watcher, ancient and modern. Historian of Late Antiquity. Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him. “Read some fucking apocrypha.” https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
Stephanie J. Lahey PhD @sjlahey.bsky.social Mark Andrews Fellow in #BookScience, Old Books New Science Lab, University of Toronto · #MedievalManuscripts cataloguer & researcher · #Parchment #QuantitativeHumanities 📜 🔬 📚 📊 🇨🇦
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social Solo mom, teacher, writer, friend, Chloe's person. Author/ed Children & Family in Egyptian Monasticism http://tiny.cc/umx8lz, Monastic Bodies, Melania. carrieschroeder.com. Co-founder copticscriptorium.org. Prof @ OU. Opinions mine not my employer's
Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • deputy chair of board @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025) Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
Adrienne Williams Boyarin @aboyarin.bsky.social UVic prof, medievalist, Anglo-Jewish women, Early Middle English, etc
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social https://maiakotrosits.wordpress.com PhD. Ancient things. Early Christianity & Cultural Studies. Out now: After Transformation: A Lyrical History of Christian Late Antiquity (Duke UP). Recently: The Lives of Objects (Chicago UP, 2020).
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker