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
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press).
✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade. Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
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.
Charmslot @zaraworkercouncils.bsky.social 36 Underemployed PhD in English, trans woman Trans Liberation is Human Liberation!! “ultra left”/leftcomm/councils read Anton Pannekoek’s Worker Councils! (mono and taken), she/her, don’t bro me
DMs ok
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
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
Nina Kelly, PhD @nina-eliz.bsky.social asst prof of organizational communication | civic info & political participation/communication researcher | urban & regional planner (AICP) | MI—> CT | flâneuse | views are my own
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings" Ursula K LeGuin
"The Nazis changed but they never went away" Chumba
"He sees the bright and hollow sky" my people
"Cuddle us" my kitties
pam lach @plach.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-Prez. she/her
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
@miriamshu.bsky.social @miriamshu.bsky.social
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
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
Ms. Kathy Reid (she/her) @kathyreid.au #PhD researcher at #ANU Cybernetics, investigating bias in #speech and #voice #tech, with a focus on #data & #ML. Leads R&D at @mozdatacollective.bsky.social
Ex NVIDIA, Mycroft AI, @linuxaustralia.bsky.social, Deakin Uni.
https://linktr.ee/kathyreid
Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social Writer and illustrator in Portland, Oregon
Open for commissions and illustration projects: arthursmid.com
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
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
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Julie Van Pelt @jvppt.bsky.social UC-UAW Commas WE WON!!!!!! we're the union now
Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Law & History @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Researches/writes about law & modern U.S. history: civil rights, social welfare, disability, federalism, agencies, the state. Dog person.
JTMLX @jtmlx.bsky.social Roger Wilner: Military veteran; Stanford; Michigan Law; Democratic activist; retired attorney; retired backpacker & Sierra Club outings leader; grandfather; grew up next to Detroit, spent most of my adult life in California, and now in Portland, Oregon.
Brian, nope too perilous @priorplanning.life Persistence and resiliency. Don't survive, THRIVE.
Tabletop gamer, model railroader, resiliency teacher.
DMs open for folks who want to learn to thrive in these challenging times.
https://priorplanning.life
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social Applying leading-edge thinking from social & physical sciences to major economic & social challenges. Starter pack to connect with our researchers ⇢ https://go.bsky.app/G4R3Gza
INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social We are economists and thinkers from a range of disciplines who challenge conventional wisdom and advance ideas to better serve society.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Christina Carrick @crcarrick3.bsky.social Editor with the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/)
Also scholar of loyalism.
Might also post dogs, sci fi, cats, mountains, and who knows what else.
Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public history at C2DH at University of Luxembourg. International Federation for Public History. Co-production, citizen science. #publichistory #Citizenscience https://www.uni.lu/en/person/NTAwMzk5NTZfX1Rob21hcyBDQVVWSU4=/
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/
hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social H&T is an international journal devoted to the theory of history and philosophy of history. Est. 1960, located
at Wesleyan University, published by Wiley.
Our website: https://historyandtheory.org/
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social Historikerin, Autorin, Professorin am Historischen Seminar der Universität Zürich
Webseite an der UZH: https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/neuzeit/lehrstuehle/dommann.html
Persönlliche Webseite: https://monikadommann.ch/
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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Sven Dupré @svendupre.bsky.social Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam; Professor of Heritage, Technology and Conservation Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the History of Knowledge @jhokjournal.bsky.social
Industrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social Advancing the understanding of industrialization processes.
Who Makes Cents? @whomakescents.bsky.social A monthly podcast about the history of capitalism. Hosted by @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social and @dygottlieb.bsky.social
De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the History department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Laura Almagor @almagor.bsky.social Assistant professor of political history at Utrecht University
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
Claire Priest @cpriest.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of History at Yale University. Interested in property, slavery, credit, capitalism, and financial history.
Rachel Huber @historahub.bsky.social Historian I Cultural Scientist I Trader of historical and digital Knowledge I Associated Researcher @ Digital Humanities, University of Berne
Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social Historian of capitalism
Juan Jose Rivas Moreno @juanjoserm.bsky.social Economic Historian. Max Weber Fellow EUI 2024-2026. Financial History, Trade and Institutions, Monetary History, Early Modern period, especially in relation to the Spanish Empire and Asia.
Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social Historian at Cornell. Adventure Capitalism: A history of libertarian exit from the era of decolonization to the digital age; Países Privados: Historias del sueño libertario. Ipswich Town FC.
Lambert Heller (he/him) @biblionik.org 🤓 Hi there, I'm a librarian
I explore futures of knowledge infrastructure and cultural memory
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Julian zur Lage @jzurlage.bsky.social Historian | Global History, Memory Culture, Knowledge and Business History | PhD thesis https://www.hab.de/geschichtsschreibung-aus-der-bibliothek/ | de/en
Jonas von Bockel @jonasvonbockel.bsky.social Researcher in political economy and history of political thought | Research on John Locke & Adam Smith | @UHH
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de Weltweit forschen und vernetzen! Die Max Weber Stiftung (MWS) betreibt deutsche geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Institute, Büros und Außenstellen im Ausland.
🌐 https://www.maxweberstiftung.de
📃 MWS-Starterpack: https://go.bsky.app/69HyNw8
Centre de recherches historiques @crh.ehess.fr CRH (EHESS-CNRS, UMR 8558)
13 équipes de recherches/De l’Antiquité à nos jours
Sur des aires culturelles très variées
EHESS - 54, bld Raspail 75006 Paris
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social
Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social My book RICARDO’S DREAM - a 'simply brilliant' critique of mainstream economics - came out in Nov '24. Fellow of Schumacher Institute. Formerly with Global Witness & PEP. www.natdyer.com
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo 🇲🇽🇬🇧🇪🇺 @batizlazo.bsky.social F@RoyalHistSoc F@AcadSocSciences #BizHis of banking #cashless #payments #fintech. "Invaded" UK 1994 Escrbo @Arena_Publica ✍️ @NewBooksNetwork host. 🎙️(el/him)
Nicolette Little @nicolettelittle.bsky.social New book 📕: From Red Dresses to Memory Stones: Multimedia Activism and Gender-Based Violence in Canada (UBC Press, 2026)
Feminist media activism, tech-facilitated violence, & memory @UAlberta
Sarah King @sarahking.bsky.social Historian of 20th century US, the Vietnam War, popular culture, celebrity activism | Assoc. Prof. at USC Aiken | Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social | Oral History Director at https://vvohp.org | Canadian-American | #skystorians
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Alan Parkes @aparkes.bsky.social Asst. Professor of US History at Longwood University
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Prof. Dierk König @dierk-koenig.bsky.social Prof. at @FHNW, Groovy in Action, Java Champion, Web, Frege, Artist
@tylerbroker.bsky.social @tylerbroker.bsky.social Me? I’m from the west. Out there, beyond the horizon. The farrrrr west.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social Engineering professor at York University
Defend Democracy @stoppeterthiel.bsky.social Stop Billionaires From Stealing Democracy - Eyes on you: Murdoch, Putin, MBS,Thiel, Koch, Mercer, Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Crow, Lutnick, Griffin etc... #nyc #librarian #defenddemocracy
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
manes @michaelanes.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱
US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad '24 in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com Software developer. Vienna. https://nenadmarinkovic.com
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social 👩🏫
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social 🌍
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social 💻
Twin mom of three 🦸♀️
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
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.
Schoeppner @schoeppner.bsky.social Avant-garde curmudgeon. Historian of race and migration in 19thC US. Writing a book about the invention of illegal immigration.
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social Authentic Stupidity.
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous America, writer of books, and hearer of bands you’ve never heard in dingy clubs you’ve not likely visited. Good at trivia.
MichaelLeroyOberg.com