Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
@ezgihamzacebi.bsky.social @ezgihamzacebi.bsky.social
Ege Altan @altanege.bsky.social PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and WGSS at Penn State 📚 Researching queer aesthetics & literary world-building in Arabic and Turkish lit 🌈
@blakaligula.bsky.social @blakaligula.bsky.social
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social Professor at Rice University. Climate media, environmental literature, cats, basketball. http://bit.ly/profmsm
MultiMasc @masculinities.bsky.social Research project on modern masculinities and gender ideologies. Here we will be disseminating key findings and interesting knowledge on these topics.
Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (2024-2028)
Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season.
listen at badgayspod.com or wherever you find podcasts
subscribe to our monthly chat and advice show at patreon.com/badgayspod
Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Offizieller Account der Freien Universität Berlin;
Beiträge aus der Stabsstelle Kommunikation und Marketing.
Impressum: http://fu-berlin.de/impressum
Mastodon: https://berlin.social/@freieuniversitaet
İlkay Yılmaz @ilkayyilmaz.bsky.social Ottoman historian| author “Ottoman Passports- Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908” | FU-Berlin| DFG-PI
Jessica Clarke @drjessicaclarke.bsky.social Fellow @bsrome.bsky.social | Early Career Research Associate @ics.bsky.social | Author of A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre |
Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social Writer 📚 Voiceover & Audiobooks 🎙️
NO HEELS, NO PROBLEM: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide To Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD - out now.
WORDS FOR OCCASIONS: 🆕 wordsforoccasions.etsy.com
https://maxinefrancesroper.co.uk
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Engin Bolat @histlaw.bsky.social Historian cand. @Bilkent History, 19th century enjoyer, formerly in law school, TOBB ETU alumnus
Music critic & pianist
UCL Institute of Education @ioe.bsky.social World-leading @ucl.ac.uk research and teaching in education, culture, psychology and social science, right here in the heart of London and beyond.
ucl.ac.uk/ioe
#WeAreIOE
christopher webb @christopherwebb.bsky.social Writer & critic, work in @theguardian.com, @1854.photography, @spikeart.bsky.social, @litreview.bsky.social, @thetls.bsky.social etc.
Author of Useless Activity, now out in paperback
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞: https://tinyurl.com/livupwebb
𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘: https://christopher-webb.com
dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social art historian researching whiteness and greco-roman mythology in british history painting. curator thinking about victorian art and global connections. views my own. 🏳️🌈
https://hardeepsdhindsa.co.uk
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social Historian at Trinity College Dublin | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Middle East
Tyler Kynn @seyahatgame.bsky.social Historian of the Ottoman Empire, Game Developer (Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca | The Hajj Trail), Teacher, Assistant Prof @CCSU, PhD @Yale
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3306180/Seyahat_A_Journey_to_Mecca/
www.hajjtrail.com/game
British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social An Institute for advanced research | Arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences in Greece and its wider lands | Fellowships, courses, lectures and more
Claire Crawford 🏳️🌈🍉 @claire-crawford.bsky.social Teaching at @campolis.bsky.social | Visiting Researcher @kcl-spe.bsky.social | Postcolonial theory, social movements, digital politics, India | Trade Unionist @cambridgeucu.bsky.social | Tooting enthusiast 🏊🏻♀️
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Enrique Anarte @enriqueanartelazo.bsky.social Covering queer stories for Openly, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s global LGBTQ+ news platform. Spaniard in Berlin. he/him
📩 enrique.anartelazo@thomsonreuters.com
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Stephen Kay @stephenkay.bsky.social Archaeology Manager, British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org
Honorary Secretary @archprospection.bsky.social
FSA FRHistS
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-3377
João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social Flâneur in Brussels.
Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Patoss @patoss-dyslexia.bsky.social Patoss Dyslexia Charity is one of the UK's leading organisations supporting teachers of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). https://linktr.ee/patoss_dyslexia
Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Sinem Adar @sinemadar.bsky.social Head (CATS/SWPBerlin & CATS Network), Co-Head of the Autocratisation Thematic Group @SWP. Views personal. Writes in EN/TR
"What Are They Hiding from Us?": Dialogues on Conspiracism @dialoguesconsp.bsky.social Seminar series "What Are They Hiding from Us?": Dialogues on Conspiracism by POLIS LAB of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia.
Our website: https://dialoguesconsp.wixsite.com/dialoguesconspiracy
Homocommunist @homocommunist.bsky.social Maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary
homocommunist.xyz
instagram.com/homocommunist
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
Lizzie Porter @lcmporter.bsky.social Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social The UK's first national LGBTQ+ museum.
Registered charity. Let's make history!
2 Granary Sq, Kings Cross, N1C 4BH.
Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm.
Adam Zmith @adamzmith.bsky.social Writer, podcast producer, etc
https://linktr.ee/adamzmith
Switchboard - LGBTQIA+ Support Line @switchboard.bsky.social UK LGBTQIA+ Support Line: 10am-10pm daily 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
📱: 0800 0119 100
💬: switchboard.lgbt
📧: hello@switchboard.lgbt
🔗: linktr.ee/switchboardlgbtq
On Dyscalculia @ondyscalculia.bsky.social On late diagnosed dyscalculia, neurodivergence and mental health. A softer landing spot for the brains that don’t click with numbers.
Alice Kelly @dralicekelly.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
@woutermassink.bsky.social @woutermassink.bsky.social
Isilay Gursu @isilaygursu.bsky.social
Paul Benjamin Osterlund @paulosterlund.bsky.social Istanbul-based independent journalist.
Check out my Substack FLANÖR
flanor.substack.com
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Melis Behlil @melisbehlil.bsky.social Film scholar / critic based in Istanbul. Açık Radyo, Kadir Has University, NECS, etc.
Andrew FInkel @andrewfinkel.bsky.social Journalist, co-founder of P24, author of The Adventure of the Second Wife
Burcu Alkan @wanderlustpress.bsky.social No rest for the wicked, no home for the wanderlust
wanderlustpress.net
Edebiyatçı / Literary Scholar
#mentalhealth #medhum
egem @egem-atik.bsky.social assistant professor of turkish literature at özyeğin university
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
Leonidas Karakatsanis @lkarak73.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece https://www.uom.gr/en/lkara
Yener Bayramoğlu @yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at University of York. media ethnography / queer migration / borders / diaspora / temporalities
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Selin Girit @selingirit.bsky.social Senior Journalist @BBC | Covering Turkey, ME and beyond @BBCWorldService | Previously BBC Turkey Bilingual Correspondent | Instagram: selingirit
Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social PhD. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia-UK. Interested in the investigation of different political forms, political theory of authoritarianism, democratic political theory, rhetoric and political speech.
@06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social
Andy Wilks @andywilks61.bsky.social Turkey-based hack. Posting on anything that catches my eye or gets my goat. Views arbitrary
Ilker Kalin @ilkerkalin.bsky.social Researcher at democracy.umb.sk & Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) | Interested in nonviolent resistance, state repression, gender, and military
Dr Gemma Masson @glmasson.bsky.social London based cliosophic Historian. Mostly Ottomans but all history & folklore welcome! Editor Islam and Christian Muslim Relations Journal, HEmpire & HFolk. British Association for Turkish Area Studies Committee. Museum & book ethusiast! #skystorians
Mark Taylor @markdoeswords.bsky.social He/him, specialist in twentieth-century British literature
Psychic Connection and the Twentieth-Century British Novel out now with Edinburgh University Press
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Psoriasis UK @psoriasisuk.bsky.social UK charity offering information and support for people affected by psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
Dave House @iknowdavehouse.bsky.social Design Systems | Aircooled VWs | Made a few records you don’t have
https://www.das.house
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Beyond 6 Seconds: Neurodiversity Stories @beyond6seconds.bsky.social Extraordinary stories from neurodivergent people: entrepreneurs, creators, advocates & more! Hosted by Carolyn. #ActuallyAutistic
Laura Outhwaite @laouthwaite.bsky.social Principal Research Fellow @ UCL's CEPEO (@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social) | UKRI Policy Fellow @ Ofsted | Developmental Psychologist interested in early education & inequalities | Views my own.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Dr Roberto Mazza @robbyref.bsky.social Historian of MENA and conspiracy theories: run, officiate basketball, editor JQ #podcaster
'If my grandma had wheels, she would have been a bike' (cit.)
Looking for a job.
michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social Dad of 2 wonderful people. #Archaeology videos and other content. #Science & #Nature. Smiling. #Writing #Learning and leading with #AI & #edTech
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
mehmet erdoğan @mehmeterdoganiv.bsky.social leading comms for UNDP on climate change ☘️ background in conflict resolution and public health. love cinema, music & the arts in general. 🏳️🌈
Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him.
Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
Philippe Efendi @fiildefaire.bsky.social Lyon, Istanbul, and elsewhere. In the workshop of Middle Eastern history.
Yasin Arslantaş @yasinarslantas.bsky.social Historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire | Governance, power, knowledge, and connected histories | PhDed at LSE, Lecturing at Anadolu.
aslan burcu erkeği ve en birinci #firstgen
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Jane McFadyen @janemcfadyen.bsky.social Senior Content Designer working on government services, fighting the good UX fight.
Dyscalculia Network @dyscalculianetwork.bsky.social The Dyscalculia Network CIC supports and advocates for adults, parents and children affected by dyscalculia and maths learning difficulties.
Enes Sayın @eosayin.bsky.social @bilkenthistory.bsky.social MA’27
Bogazici History’24
American history, American politics, late Ottoman period etc.
Laura Parker @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety.
Work with me. lauraparker.design
Yaprak Gürsoy @ygursoy.bsky.social Professor of European Politics & Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) European Institute. Posts in English and Turkish
Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social Writer, wit, and bon vivant; scholar manqué; or laconic recluse. Depends on my mood and whom you ask.
Based in Istanbul. Before that Russia, Philly, Hawaii, and more.
History, political economy, food
Buff 'n Blue, Boola Boola
Joe Twist @joetwist.bsky.social German Studies lecturer
Aykut Öztürk @aykutozturk.bsky.social Political scientist at the University of Glasgow. Studies comparative political behavior, democracy and authoritarianism, Turkish politics, online survey methods.
https://aozturk.net
Başak @bashakella.bsky.social Lit prof, disoriented comparatist in an English dept, always missing some place
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Elizabete Aunina @eaunina.bsky.social About Turkey, random musing and my readings. Latvian previously in Turkey, now trotting around Brussels. Working on EU enlargement. ASU, LSE, St Andrews alumna. Views strictly mine!
Dr Sonja Kleij 🟥 @drsonjakleij.bsky.social Lecturer at Utrecht University | Researching early modern literature and performance, war, and gender | Book review editor 1500-1800 for English Studies (Routledge) | (she/her) | Views my own.
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
Astrid Menz @astridmenz.bsky.social Turcologist, Head Librarian Orient-Institut Istanbul, personal account
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1741-3250
Burcu Karahan @burcukarahan.bsky.social Ottoman & modern Turkish literature | literary translation | @stanford Complit
@denizcenkdemir.bsky.social @denizcenkdemir.bsky.social
Asli Ozgen 🟥 @asliozgenh.bsky.social 🎓 first-gen, migrant academic
🎞️ film historian & film critic
🔎 absences, gaps, silences in the archives
🖋️ assistant professor of media and culture, University of Amsterdam
🔗https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/o/z/a.ozgen-havekotte/a.ozgen-havekotte.html