WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
A safe, fun space for pop enthusiasts to celebrate anniversaries of fucking records.
Any unnecessary abuse results in a block.
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
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@daveawl.bsky.social
@thoughtcat.com
Matt Henderson @matthen.com Maths animations, dialogue systems research
Research @ PolyAI, previously Google, Apple, Reka. PhD Cambridge
Edinburgh, UK
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
flamboyant wrecker
goddess of uselessness
antisocial influencer
[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
Brooke Wolford, PhD @bnwolford.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, NTNU & Researcher, Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, OUS/UiO
Temporarily in Reykjavík! 🇮🇸 Previously UMich, NHGRI, UNC, NCSSM. 🫀🧬 she/her
http://brookewolford.com
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Tommi Mäklin @themaklin.bsky.social I do statistics, bacterial (meta)genomics and bioinformatics software development.
Sarah Hart @sarah-hart.bsky.social Mathematician, speaker, author of Once Upon a Prime: the Wondrous Connections between Mathematics and Literature.
Former Gresham Professor of Geometry, Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Birkbeck https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004985/sarah-hart
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social Staff writer at the New Yorker, Letters from the U.K, "The Premonitions Bureau." Find me on Substack: https://myprivateatlas.substack.com/
Rachel Syme @rachsyme.bsky.social Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess. 
Alex Barasch @alexbarasch.bsky.social writing and editing at The New Yorker
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Clare Malone @claremalone.bsky.social Writer at The New Yorker. (Currently on leave working on a book about MAHA.)
Host of Still Counting. 🎧Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.youtube.com/@StillCountingPodcast
Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social New Yorker executive editor; author of “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America” from Doubleday.
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Helen Shaw @helenshaw.bsky.social Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!
Rachel Riederer @readerer.bsky.social writer on science, culture, and the environment
professional allegiances: @newyorker & @newsguild.
back in the day @guernicamag
Julian Lucas @jcljules.bsky.social staff writer at @newyorker.com // editor-at-large @thedialmag.bsky.social, @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social // jes’ grew carrier
https://www.julianlucas.com
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Nathan Heller @nathanheller.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader.
My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social 
Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com 
Shannon O'Connor @shannonoconnor.bsky.social Senior social editor at The New Yorker. Formerly The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times. I tend to talk about movies, tv, and video games quite a bit. they/she 🏳️🌈
Leo Carey @leojcarey.bsky.social Senior Editor at The New Yorker, ex-X?
Jason Adam Katzenstein @jasonadamk.bsky.social Cartoonist
Jennifer Wilson @jenniferwilson.bsky.social Staff Writer, The New Yorker | jennyfromthebloc.com
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Bruce Handy @brucehandy.bsky.social Adult stuff: New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, elsewhere. Latest book: “Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies.” Kid stuff: picture books including “There Was a Shadow” and (coming October 14) “Balloon.”
Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.
Sarah Larson @asarahlarson.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, podcast reviewer, New York Rangers enthusiast 
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
Geraldo Cadava @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern University. Contributing Writer at The Atlantic. Editor at Public Books. Host of Writing Latinos. University of Arizona basketball fan.
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.
Charles Bethea @charlesbethea.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer in Atlanta
Reporting mostly from the South
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/charles-bethea
Rachel Monroe @rachelmonroe.bsky.social The duke of dark corners / Texas writer for the New Yorker / Co-host of Bad Therapist podcast badtherapistpod.bsky.social
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Katy Waldman @xwaldie.bsky.social 
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire
https://www.keeangataylor.com/
Dhruv Khullar @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social doctor, researcher, writer
Monica Racic @monicaracic.bsky.social Deputy editorial director, @newyorker.com
Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social newsletters at The New Yorker • based in LA • I write about wildfire, technology, and California • caroline_nyce@newyorker.com • Mimbs.22 on Signal
Louisa Thomas @louisathomas.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer (The Sporting Scene), author of Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, etc. 
@frynaomifry.bsky.social @frynaomifry.bsky.social 
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
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
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
Representation: Wylie.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
Kieran Setiya @ksetiya.bsky.social MIT philosopher; would-be self-help guru; master of the semi-colon; substack: http://bit.ly/-ksetiya; podcast: http://bit.ly/-five-q; home: http://bit.ly/-ks-home
Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.
DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social Lawyer, historian, disease-ridden leftist. Books include The Story of Jenny Greenteeth, Revolutionary Forgiveness and The Anti-Fascist Novel in Britain 1923–2023. Write for LRB, Guardian, rs21.
Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social Philosopher of gender, race, borders, science | Essays in LRB, Guardian, Independent | Author of Arguing for a Better World https://tinyurl.com/2mn3zw8k
Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social Foreign correspondent. Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
tomfstevenson@gmail.com
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2978-someone-else-s-empire
MG Zimeta @mgzimeta.bsky.social Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Recovering philosopher | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social | I can't view my DMs here because I haven't verified that I'm not a child.
Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social I work @lrb.co.uk, most of my opinions are other people’s
Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc)
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Jean McNicol @jeanmcnicol.bsky.social Co-editor of the London Review of Books
Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Lab @thecrick; Nephrologist @Royal Free Hospital. Own views etc. 
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social Reading, writing, translating, interpreting, etc.
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi