James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social Duke English Prof, Rhodes Chair in DH
Cultural Analytics | Digital Humanities | AI Research
Book: FAST CULTURE, SLOW JUSTICE (Columbia UP, 12/26)
New Paper: "Narrative Forecasting for LLM Storytelling" (COLM 2026)
https://richardjeanso.github.io/
Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social Currently on organizing committee of FORCE2026, Singapore, 3-5 June 2026.
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social Rebuilding will be a slow process. Avatar won’t match my Twitter account for a while.
she/her/Ms.
Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.
Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social Co-founder of Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social
Pottery at tilburyavenue.felt.co.nz
Counter disinfo 🗣
Critical tech 📵
Climate 🌀
Community education 📚
Words 🖋
Art 🎨
wen👩🏻💻 @ds-wen.bsky.social 👋 senior data scientist. i do = data science + ai + lifelong learning with a growth mindset
William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social go to mastodon
Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. “Radically uncool.”
https://humaniterations.net/
Ryan Holiday @ryan-holiday.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author of The Obstacle Is The Way, The Daily Stoic, Ego Is The Enemy, Stillness Is The Key, and more.
Pre-order my newest book: dailystoic.com/wisdom
Spelling Bee Solver (@beesolved from Twitter) @sbsolver.com A busy bee offering daily hints to the NYTimes Spelling Bee since 2018. Please avoid spoilers in replies. Find the latest hints at https://spll.be/hints. Bee well! (Powered by @shunn.net. Not affiliated with NYTimes.)
Nevada Current @nevadacurrent.com A nonprofit online source of political and policy news and commentary. We cover how policies, institutions and systems make life harder for Nevadans than it needs to be, and we explore what it takes to fix them. https://nevadacurrent.com
The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org We are a nonprofit feminist media outlet focused on solutions oriented journalism and global perspectives, from the personal to the political. https://conversationalist.org/
19thnews @19thnews.org The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, policy and power. https://19thnews.org/newsletters
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Karen Neville @derbiser.bsky.social Librarian, wife, mom, geek. She/her. Executive function for at least 4 people at all times. Trying to be better than I was yesterday. 
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
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Moni Barrette-Comics Librarian @monibarre.bsky.social Mama, comics librarian, educator, writer, entrepreneur.
Past President, ALA Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @libcomix
Co-Founder, Creators Assemble @creatorsassemble
2023 Eisner Award judge
Debut book out 2026.
Monibarrette.com
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social Urban librarian, storyteller, wikimedian, all things GLAM 
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Alex DiBranco @alexdibranco.bsky.social Executive Director and Founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
theirms.org, @irms.bsky.social
Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social Former tech writer specialising in telecoms and infosec. Still an aspiring guitarist at over 60.
Nothing I do or say is licenced to anyone scraping social media accounts to train AI.
The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social Affordable Housing, Health Care for All. Liberal Texas Yellow Dog Democrat. #BLM #NoKings Slava Ukraine 🌈💙🦋My History Channel https://youtube.com/@thehistorycatalog?si=I7LSHWZYWE_v-RNz
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Adam Solove @asolove.myatproto.social In Atlanta. (Signal: adamsolove.23)
Organizing for democracy. (Treasurer, @indivisibleatl.bsky.social)
Programmer (Ex-Stripe, Figma) https://www.adamsolove.com/
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people.
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social Lawyer, librarian, @FairUseWeek organizer, @SocialLaw, © savvy, author, armchair philosopher, gentleman farmer, soi disant scholar, @eBookStudyGroup, and bowtie enthusiast.
L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot President Pro tempore, Senate of Virginia | Representing the 18th District | Chairman of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
https://apps.senate.virginia.gov/Senator/memberpage.php?id=S19
(Unofficial bot maintained by @manos.lol)
Dean Blundell @deanblundell.bsky.social Official Account Of Dean Blundell. Canadian. Dog whisperer. Muckraker. 4-time bird attack survivor. DeanBlundell.Substack.com
William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social News/Politics/Discussion/Books/Movies/My Dog Molly
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Link: https://amzn.to/4eTkKoz
shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
signal -> @ali.01
Jared Dunn @jddunn.bsky.social Itinerant Librarian & Community Technologist. Internet Old.
Tom @kiwiteej.bsky.social Kiwi escapee from Twitter. Archivist and other things. Hopes for a better, cooler world. Ōtautahi local. 
Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Cole @bikesnrivers.bsky.social Trying to be a good dad, and a good man.
Paul Kedrosky @paulkedrosky.com Ancient amateur. Partner at http://skvcap.com. Research fellow at MIT IDE. Mailing list & other socials at http://paulkedrosky.com.
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Shomir Wilson @shomir.bsky.social Associate Professor at Penn State. AI and sociotechnical NLP, especially for privacy and fairness. Also posting about academia, photography, and travel. Opinions mine. he/him. http://shomir.net
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.
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social Dad, husband, CNN anchor, author, doorman to three dogs and a cat.
Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
Dr Alex — lived-theory writing @afedorov.bsky.social Hong Kong & Asia | Religion, plurality & secularity
Sociology & education | Autoethnography & writing
Liminality | Infrastructures of aliveness
afedorov.com | #RaveAsMethod | jatb.nl
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Darkrose @darkrose.bsky.social Queer enby Black nerd, SF Firebells fan, angry SF Giants fan, kitty mom, writer, tenor, academic librarian in Norcal. Politics, baseball, FFXIV & other video games, food, choral music, & cats. Way too old for this shit. She/they.
Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social #FreePalestine
#DismantleWhiteness
abolition, reparations, archives, music, film, art, Chicago
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1kmY3
discographies: https://shorturl.at/qDFiQ
Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social orca enthusiast / cat media theorist / contingent academic
Shelly LBC @shellylbc.bsky.social Scientist: #kelp #microplastics #oceanacidification #benthicecology #repeatableresearch #rstats; Black Lives Matter Grassroots. #SURJ #FreePalestine. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles. Rabbit rescue and science-based care advocate. Views my own.
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social Formerly Humanities Commons. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in KCWorks.
Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social 🔶 The Digital Futures Institute brings together expertise from across all disciplines at King’s to forge a better relationship between the individual and technology: kcl.ac.uk/digital-futures
Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures
Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social Singer-songwriter for the Paranoid Style, contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Ringer, Pitchfork, LGM.
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
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
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Stephen Ramsay @sramsay2.bsky.social Professor of English and Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mainly #DigitalHumanities. Blog at https://stephenramsay.net/
James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social Digital archivist at Swarthmore College. Testing out bluesky; more active on Mastodon.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
https://jamestruitt.com/
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his. 
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Ray Mackey Photo @raymackeyphoto.bsky.social Newfoundland
www.raymackeyphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/raymackeyphotography/
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, internet culture, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
Signal: jseidel.37
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Elizabeth Giardina, PhD @elizagiardina.bsky.social Writing about 18th & 19th c. British poetry, environmental humanities, and the histories of science & design. Doing her best. she/her
elizabethgiardina.com