hazel @hazelcills.bsky.social hazelcills.com
Juliet Shen @julietshen.online product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. long time Trust & Safety person full of personal opinions like the skeets below
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Puck @puck.news The inside story at the nexus of power, money, and ego. Built in partnership with a team of elite journalists, Puck begins where the news ends. Read us at puck.news
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
the simple tee @thesimpletee.bsky.social .
jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com Media strategist and producer. Culture, news, and tech nerd. Semafor, Bad Robot, CAA, Obama White House, The Verge alum. USC Marshall, NYU Gallatin grad. Recovering tweeter @jonfriedman
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
John Sides @johnsides.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University - https://johnsides.org/
Publisher of Good Authority - https://goodauthority.org/
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida specializing in American elections
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Enes Ataç @ienesatac.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University
https://www.enesatac.org/
Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, religion, civil society, and law. Love mixing the methods. @PSUsoccrim
Current project: religion-state relations and local government.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xHfWZUgAAAAJ
*Views expressed are my own*
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
Damon Mayrl @mayrl.bsky.social Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. Religion, politics, history, culture, law, policy, vermú. http://mayrl.org, @mayrl@sciences.social, @yrlsoc@x
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
Gizem Arikan @gizemarikan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social. Political psychology, religion and politics, democratic attitudes, immigrants and integration. Web site: gizemarikan.com
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Gerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social William R Kenan Jr Professor of Sociology @ Davidson College | Race, Religion, Power, Social Change | Past Roles: Journal Editor Sociology of Religion, President SSSR & ASR, Chair ASA Religion, AAR Religion & Social Science Unit | cv https://bit.ly/40mps8D
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) @sssreligion.bsky.social The SSSR is an interdisciplinary academic association that promotes & communicates social scientific research about religious institutions and experiences. Founded in 1949. sssreligion.org Flagship publication: JSSR @jssreligion.bsky.social
Jacqui Frost @jacquifrost.bsky.social Assistant Professor @PurdueSociology. Researching how nonreligious people live, what science means to people, and why religious change happens.
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social Pronounced Gyoo-in, Assoc Prof
@SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools
Valentina Cantori @valecantori.bsky.social Sociologist in the making @USC. Studying representations of Public Islam in U.S. civic life | proud first-gen | tagliatelle-maker 🍝🇮🇹
www.valentinacantori.com
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion @jssreligion.bsky.social The JSSR Journal is a multi-disciplinary journal that publishes research on the social scientific study of religion. Flagship publication of @sssreligion.bsky.social. Engage our journal: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14685906
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Erin Johnston @erinfjohnston.bsky.social Sociologist studying religion, culture, identity, and qualitative methods.
Sr. Research Scientist and Lecturer @ Duke University
Department of Sociology | Religion and Social Change Lab
https://sites.google.com/site/ejohnsto/
Shai M. Dromi @dromishai.bsky.social Author of "Above the Fray:The RC & the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector"&"Moral Minefields:How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press). Harvard sociologist.
Jack Delehanty @jackdelehanty.bsky.social Sociology professor, runner, husband, dad. Research on religion and political culture. Teaching on sociological theory and more. Making Moral Citizens, my book on faith-based community organizing, available from UNC Press.
Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social Sociologist | religion, politics, disability | Kettering Foundation Research Fellow | Christian Nationalism books: http://linktr.ee/andrewwhitehead | https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/ | https://tinyurl.com/42wspc8m | all views my own
Christopher Han-Fai Seto @criminovelist.bsky.social Assistant professor in the Purdue Department of Sociology. I study hate crime, violence, guns, health, and religion. I also write murder mystery novels. Learn more at chseto.com. All opinions shared here are my own. 
Paul Djupe @pauldjupe.bsky.social Prof at Denison University; Political Scientist studying US religion and politics. blogging at religioninpublic.blog. Riding all over (hilly) Ohio.
Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social Social Scientist @ UMass Boston
Editor @ Sociology of Religion
Studies (Non)Religion & Spirituality | Climate | Public Life
https://www.evan-stewart.com
@socimages.bsky.social
Landon Schnabel @landonschnabel.bsky.social Sociologist at Cornell studying inequality and writing a book on how religions are gender-typed. Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/u3FcHK
Nazita Lajevardi @nazita.bsky.social Political scientist. Scholar of race, religion, and American politics.
Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social Sociologist of morality, social & organizational change and spirituality. Author of The Loyalty Trap on civil servants' experiences under Trump, The Mindful Elite and Situating Spirituality. Learning about climate action. Mom juggling it all.
Lisa Pearce @lisapearce.bsky.social https://lisapearce.web.unc.edu/
Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social Assistant professor of sociology at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. I study religion, politics, and organizations.
⚾️⚾️⚾️ This account is a vehicle for subjecting my academic colleagues to baseball takes ⚾️⚾️⚾️
http://josephroso.com/
Jan-Philip Steinmann @jpsteinmann.bsky.social PostDoc | Sociologist | @KFN | @FGZ | Social inequalities | Migration and integration | Right-wing populism | Deviant behavior | Religion
https://www.jan-philip-steinmann.com/
Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social Social scientist, Bombayite, Californian, ex-Cairene. Mango maven. Cat lady. Teaches at Scripps College. Deeply sourced expert in search of novel gustatory experiences. If you post/snipe, anonymously, expect to be blocked.
Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Matthew D. Taylor @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social visiting scholar at @faithandjustice.bsky.social | creator: "Charismatic Revival Fury" podcast | author: "The Violent Take It by Force" | www.drmatthewdtaylor.com
Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social After practicing law for 20+ years, I now write about elections and political extremism. You can find my most recent work at the Bucks County Beacon.
Donate: Ko-fi https://share.google/x92w1Me217PImRaIl
Youssef Chouhoud @chouhoud.bsky.social Arab and Muslim public opinion, MENA, Religion & Politics, Race & Ethnicity
Research Scientist, Yaqeen Institute
إسكندراني / Brooklynite
#YNWA
www.chouhoud.com
Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social Scholar of Christian nationalism and the American Right. Award-winning author and podcaster. Co-host of @straightwhitejc and founder of Axis Mundi Media. Words: NYT, Rolling Stone, Politico, NBC, HuffPost, LARB, Revealer, and more.
www.axismundi.us
Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches
Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy
Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum
Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding road
Emily Joy Allison @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social Writer on religion, gender and sexuality, focusing on Christianity in the US, sexual violence and evangelicalism. Author of #ChurchToo and So You Want to Read the Bible (William Morrow 2027). Views & swears my own 🌈
Khyati Y. Joshi @profkjoshi.bsky.social Scholar: FDU | Author: White Christian Privilege
Practitioner: Social Justice Education * http://idsj.us Pizza: Thin crust w/ extra jalapeños (she/her)
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
SueAnn Shiah 夏叔安 @sueannshiah.bsky.social #FaithfullyLGBT #Presbyterian #Riotgrrrl
#Taiwanese American @NewBloomMag
Writer-Musician-Producer-Filmmaker | Ethnomusicologist | Public Theologian
Alum-Belmont U, National Taiwan U
Current-Princeton Theological Seminary
www.sueannshiah.com
Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social Money, Lies, and God & other books
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
Media & speaking requests contact goodnewskatherine@gmail.com
Kelly J. Baker (she/her) @kellyjbaker.bsky.social writer. mother. gremlin. PhD. MFA. author: Gospel According to the Klan, The Zombies Are Coming, Grace Period, Final Girl & Sexism Ed. co-host: @podonlyknows.bsky.social newsletter: https://www.kellyjbaker.com/newsletter/
Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social Author: "Building God's Kingdom" (OUP). I teach and write about religion, politics, violence, and the far right. I'm probably in my camper.
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Anthony B. Smith @anthonyb1939.bsky.social Film, religion, politics. The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (University Press of Kansas).
Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social therapist | activist | novice bookbinder | academic escapee | interests: climate, community, grief, religion, apocalypse, temporalities | Also here for sci-fi & music chat! (she/her) 🏴
(I don't have access to DMs)
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨
Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁
www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion; retired (sort of); gardener
Caitlin Fitzgerald @caitlinfitzgerald.bsky.social Sociology PhD student @notredame focusing on the intersection of religion, culture, and health | Graduate Scholar @HumanEcologyCUA
Ariel Zellman @arielzellman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Co-director, Religion and State Project
Territorial Conflict, Politics & Religion, Extremist Social Movements
New Book: Religious Minorities at Risk, Oxford, w Matthias Basedau & Jonathan Fox
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
The Association of Religion Data Archives (The ARDA) @religiondata.bsky.social https://www.thearda.com/
The ARDA includes a variety of tools designed to foster better research, teaching, and understanding of religion data. Always free to access. Nonpartisan/nonsectarian.
Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social Sociologist at Swarthmore College, trans man. Wrote Producing Politics & The Class Ceiling & a bunch of articles on class & race & inequality &/or political participation.
DanielLaurison.com = me
WeAreHigherEd.org = standing up for education and democracy
Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern, Visiting Researcher at WZB Berlin
Culture, political sociology, NLP, social networks, computational social science
oscarstuhler.org
Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social Biblical-studies professor & Episcopal priest doing anarchist interpretation, resisting tyranny, & loving my neighbor | Posts mine
Once described as “dope teacher” in a student eval
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️-ally | Ⓐ
Michael E. Heyes @thedemonologist.bsky.social I am a professor of religion who teaches elements of popular culture, monstrosity, and medieval studies. My writings are primarily about demons and the demonic, currently present-day American demonology and politics: https://www.michaeleheyes.com/
Lydia Bean @lydiabean.bsky.social Small business owner, community leader, and mom running for Tarrant County Clerk.
Marietta van der Tol @marietta1.bsky.social University of Cambridge | Trinity College | Conferences in Political Theologies | Comparative study of religion in politics, law and society | All the interdisciplinary stuff | Constitutionalist.
Véronique Altglas @valtglas.bsky.social Sociologist researching religion, social class, and politics. Queen's University Belfast. Trade union activist. Tá Gaeilge Agam; falo português do Brasil; にほんご を べんきょう します。
David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com Senior Editor, University Press of Kansas | Lecturer, KU | Who Is a New Christian? (Cambridge, 2024) | Bylines: Christian Century, Sojourners, Presby Outlook, Revealer
Hannah I. Pearson @pearson-hi.bsky.social She/Her | ✡️ | 🌈 | First Gen |
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Warren Wilson College 🐻🌲
Focusing on how religion & culture impact our thoughts & behaviors.
Elizabeth Gish @elizabethgish.bsky.social religious studies / democracy / psychotherapy
minister @ Christian Church (DOC) / Senior Program Officer @ Kettering Foundation / psychotherapist @ Lotus & Phoenix Psychotherapy
*all posts / likes mine and not reflective of my employers*
Michel Chambon 陈立邦 @michelchambon.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist, Sinologist, French Catholic Theologian, Christianity in Asia.
https://michelchambon.com
Coordinator of ISAC
https://isac-research.org
C. James Law @doclaw.bsky.social Religious studies scholar with a wide range of interests, including but not limited to - civil religion, memorialization, gender, and sexuality
Kerith Woodyard @kerith.bsky.social Associate Professor. Argumentation, Advocacy, Rhetoric of Religion. #TeamRhetoric
Mikey Pasek @mikeypasek.bsky.social Assistant professor of social psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I study identity-based division and how to reduce it, with a focus on ethno-religious conflict. Cinnabon enthusiast. michaelhpasek.com
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
Michael T Miller-Wierzbicki @drmikemw.bsky.social Academic research on Judaism, esp Black Jews and Black Hebrew Israelites. Posts about religion. Music-loving vegan. Family man. From Birmingham to Warsaw via Liverpool and Nottingham. Animal lover, environmentalist.
Hizer Mir @hizmir.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient.
Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
Joshua D. Reichard @jdreichard.bsky.social President/CEO, Omega Graduate School, American Centre for Research in the Social Sciences (ACRSS) | ogs.edu
joshuareichard.com | 📚 GS: tinyurl.com/jdrscholar
Sociology • Theology • Comp. Science Education • Vintage Computing • Amateur Radio
Uzair Ahmed @uzaahm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo @crexuio.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social. Sociologist working on the racialisation of Muslims. Interested in racialisation, islamophobia, radicalisation and extremism.
Jolyon Thomas @jolyonbt.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies @ Penn. Books: Drawing on Tradition (2012), Faking Liberties (2019); New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025); Animating Action (coming Dec 2026); Difficult Subjects (coming Fall 2027). More: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
Whose Dad Fought Fascism in WWII? Kids of Antifa, Unite 😇 ! @ninaeliasoph.bsky.social 🐣 I like multiple realities, absurdity (except when it fills up the gov't), class politics, sociological imagination, forests 🦆 🐿️ 🐣
I draw & write: Ethnography, democratic theory, graphic nonfiction. Send me your thoughts to make into words/drawings!
Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃
https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu
Hamdullah Baycar @hamdullahbaycar.bsky.social Asst. Prof. @KTU IR
PhD @ExeterIAIS I MA @HarvardCMES
#UAE #Gulf #Identity #Nationalism #Orientalism
https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/hamdullahbaycar/
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Dr Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of Leeds. New/minority religions. Socialist. I love cats, coffee, and off-kilter pop music. He/him. 🖖
Ann Youngblood Mulhearn @aym42.bsky.social historian | writer | political gadfly
short, loud, and opinionated
(opinions expressed here are my own)
Omri Elisha @omrielisha.bsky.social Anthropologist of religion at Queens College/The Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of Moral Ambition: Mobilization & Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches (2011)
Currently thinking about astrology, spirituality, and historical consciousness. 
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
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness