Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Lowdown Cryptic @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social Canada’s rep for the World Crossword Federation and US & Canada Cryptic Championships. Cryptics for AVCX, Crossweird, The Browser, OoLF, Minute Cryptic. Scrabblegrams monthly. Letter banks repeatedly. He/him 🇨🇦 lowdowncryptic on Insta, Blogger, Crosshare
Viresh Ratnakar @viresh.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter "Gussalufz" (The Hindu, The Browser, 1 Across, Object, IXL): https://gussalufz.com.
Open source crossword web apps: https://exolve.app, https://exet.app.
Engineer at (A) Large (Company). Intergalactic Interconnectedness Medium.
Unch Crosswords @unchcrosswords.com "The clued-up crossword magazine"
Issue 4 available to order now! unchcrosswords.com/#shop
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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social Senior Director of the University of Mississippi's CETL & Assistant Professor of Teacher Education | Author: Failing Our Future (https://bit.ly/3UUdctd) and How Humans Learn (2018) | Speaker: http://bit.ly/jeyler | https://josheyler.wordpress.com | he/him
Derek Bruff @derekbruff.bsky.social Educator, author, consultant. Associate director at the University of Virginia Center for Teaching Excellence. Co-author of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast. Birder.
Dan @danfeyer.bsky.social Mostly crosswords
Bruce Ryan @brucery.bsky.social (he/him) Harvard, Stanford JD/MBA. Microsoft (’89-’00). Other careers, too. Walk a LOT, compete in crossword tournaments, know a bit about beer, sake, and 東京. Hapless Memphis Grizzlies and Seattle Mariners fan
Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com Founder and Futurist @ refuturing, Bourbon Enthusiast, Recovering Political Theorist, Former Musician, Kentuckian, Hi-Tech Low-Life. Have you ever jacked in? Have you wiretripped?
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social Reliable, no-hype coverage of tropical storms and hurricanes across the Atlantic from the team at Space City Weather! https://theeyewall.com/
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas, Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science Technology, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Phil Moeller @agemaven.bsky.social Journalist, author Get What's Yours books, Aging in America newslette4r
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of “Fluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Eleanor Schille-Hudson @erbsh.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist--studying how people think about things they can't see
Postdoc in Anthropology at Stanford
Ph.D. in CogSci/Psych from IU Bloomington
https://www.eleanorschillehudson.com/
I love hobbies ✨
L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social born and raised and flourishing in California’s Great Central Valley
Angela Rasmussen @angelarasmussen.bsky.social Catholic feminist. Realities before ideas. Not a virologist.
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
Official member: Leguminati 🫘
Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian and UCC pastor, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Ettingermentum @ettingermentum.bsky.social www.ettingermentum.news
Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social The official travel magazine of Texas. On the road since 1974.
https://texashighways.com
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Austin Frerick @austinfrerick.bsky.social Wrote - Barons. Currently Yale. Formerly US Treasury/CRS. #firstgen 🌽🐷🏳️🌈
Grinnell College @grinnellcollege.bsky.social 
Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social Artist. Used to write books, teach college students, lecture. My current writing and art: patreon.com/howardrheingold
Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social Urban & regional scientist. Co-lead of the Climate & Communities program @urbaninstitute. Research & policy analysis on disasters, disaster recovery, precarious housing, land use, and adaptation. Sourdough enthusiast. https://andrewrumbach.substack.com
Dr Ally Louks @drallylouks.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author 📚Literary Scholar 👩🏻🏫 Public Academic👃🏻Smell Expert 📖 UNDER YOUR NOSE: Spring 2027
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Tierney @tierneyofchoice.bsky.social Definitely not 5 baby raccoons in a trench coat
Elizabeth Neumann @elizabethneumann.bsky.social Violence prevention advocate; Former DHS Asst Sec for CT; Author, Kingdom of Rage; Builder, the Path Back to Peace. @NeuSummits on other platforms.
ElizabethNeumann.org
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
I like teaching philosophy haiku … and kind people. @keithanliker.bsky.social Grateful dad & husband, chemist, college teacher emeritus, HigherEd nerd, news & political junkie, pragmatic optimist, all-around geek. DEI guy. (Views are just mine!) he/him/his
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
D.W. Lafferty @rightscholar.bsky.social Canadian, disaffected Catholic, PhD in Wyndham Lewis. @rightscholar on X. My Substack is called Agony: https://open.substack.com/pub/theagony/p/welcome-to-agony
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Henri Picciotto @hpicciotto.bsky.social Retired after 42 years in the classroom, from counting to calculus. Now working with colleagues, curriculum, cryptic crosswords.
Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University
Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher:
https://remikalir.com/
Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social Retired classical music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Co-constructor, Out of Left Field cryptic crossword. pacificaisle.substack.com. He/him
Julie Hanlon Rubio @juliehanlonrubio.bsky.social Theologian @JST-SCU. Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist? (OUP 2024). Family Ethics: Practices for Christians (Georgetown UP 2010). Hope for Common Ground (Georgetown UP 2016). Still interested in feminism, families, and common ground.
Carolyn McClanahan @carolynmcc.bsky.social Financial planner, physician, problem solver. Discuss money/health/death/aging/health reform. Sometimes funny. Unbridled. Grateful. 
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social Historian at Harvard, senior editor at The Drift, contributing writer at Jewish Currents, author of Make Your Own Job
madeleineebaker.com
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
Tim Arner @timodarner.bsky.social Professor of English. Medieval literature. Linguistic Justice. Dogs, Britpop, books about rock bands. 
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.
actualham @robinderosa.net public university library director; prof & pedagogue; exhausted by all this, retaining my humanity by hanging out with my dogs. NH, USA.
Join me on Mastodon, the water is nice: https://social.coop/@actualham
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Madeleine Pelzel @madspelzel.bsky.social multimodal + community planner / usually on two wheels / freeway-fighter / she/they /
HoustonBikeGuide.com creator 👀
@katybee.bsky.social @katybee.bsky.social 
Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social (She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. Latest book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
Sarah Lohnes Watulak @sarahlw.bsky.social into critical digital pedagogy, inclusive design, connected learning. sometime amateur cellist. mother to cats and kiddos. current status: director of digital pedagogy & media @ DLINQ, Middlebury. Ed.D. (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.
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/
Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social I am the trick my mother played on the world.
Xennial Meteorologist in Connecticut. Heart always in Houston. Forecasts: theeyewall.com & spacecityweather.com.
I like books, history, sports cards, baseball, Rutgers, #BHAFC.
Opinions my own.
Matthew Sitman @mattsitman.bsky.social writer, co-host of Know Your Enemy
Matt Crosslin @grandeped.bsky.social Dad to the Coolest Kid Ever | Artist | Ed Tech Retro-Futurist | Kind of a Professor | Foodie | Sci-Fi Addict | Metamodernist | Spiritual Antagonist | He/Him
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him