Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app Ask around boy I’m hotter than Picante
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social President of the AFL-CIO. Oregonian. Home union IBEW. Solidarity forever! she/her #1u
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast 
April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social International President of the Service Employees International Union
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social Your Congresswoman. Proudly representing the MA 7th. Here to break concrete ceilings & shake the table. Personal account. She/hers. #ChangeCantWait
Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social Running to be New Mexico’s next Governor. Proud 35th Generation New Mexican. Former USInterior Secretary, #NM01 Rep. Proud UNM Lobo & mom. Pueblo woman. She/her
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app In progress. Harvard PhD candidate. #GodsPlan ☀️
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social National voting rights correspondent Mother Jones. Author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America https://www.aribermanauthor.com/
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov United States Senator for Georgia. Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Democracy in Color @democracyincolor.bsky.social Nonprofit media org at the intersection of race & politics.
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Yassamin Ansari @yassaminansari.bsky.social Congresswoman representing #AZ03🌵 Freshman Class President. Former Phoenix Vice Mayor & UN climate leader. Pro-climate, housing & Taylor Swift. First-generation American. Official account @repyassansari.bsky.social
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
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Los Angeles, he/him, bald
Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Emily @suika.bsky.social PhD candidate at @unileiden.bsky.social. Editor at @tokyoreview.net. Freelance journalist & translator. Volunteer lexicographer. Photographer. Tanka poet. Human.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
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Caroline Luce @lucecaroline.bsky.social American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UC-AFT Comms crew
memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
carolineluce.com
Greg Gates @gregat.es philosopher-turned-software-engineer
VP of pivot tables @ https://rowzero.com, the world's fastest spreadsheet
data & technology manager for WA's 36th LD Democrats
my little blog: https://gregat.es
Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com Senior Research Director at School Perceptions
Author of "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability,” “Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching,” and “Community and Skepticism in Shakespeare’s Comedy”
Ever a book indexer, too
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/4kspr3ds) Other projects in the works, probably
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
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social chips & dips; writing about c19 U.S. literature - wives, violence, energy; prof & union member; Detroit & Philly; Joel Embiid forever
✨Renée di Cherri✨ @cherri.tv hand-made art is my thing & I've worked in tech doing it
✨irresponsibly cheerful ✨
日本語を勉強しています！
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books:
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More here:
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social A snowboarder, currently bereft over the record-shattering heat & lack of snow in the West.
Peripatetic. Infuriated.
Hanger-on at Balloon Juice.
MSP / CO / WI
researchED Canada @researchedcanada.bsky.social A Canadian national network of educators, researchers and policy-makers afiliated with researchED International, UK. Bringing evidence-based research and practice to our K-12 classrooms.
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social Former bee biologist. Former-er plant geneticist. Intermittent videographer. Occasional musician. All-the-time dorky science educator, plus spooky podcaster at https://superduperstitious.com
I also write the YouTube show Bizarre Beasts!
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social Vainly trying to get people to design slides properly
Knock people out for a living #AnSky #CritCareSky
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social 
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Dedicated to bringing a knife to a knife fight. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree.
Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social Sometime writer and (mostly) analog photography | Award winning chili maker | Baltimore via Jersey City, Kurdzhali, Bulgaria, and Ohio | Friend to cats | He/him | No Grace for Doom
Raffi_RC @raffic.bsky.social 🇨🇦 troubadour. children's champion. ecology. Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring. beluga grads. 
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
Trans rights are constitutional rights!
Uphold Yang Wenli Thought
He/him
https://www.eveningconstitutional.net
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app John 3:16 | Founder of The Thurman Perry Foundation | Women’s Incarceration Expert | Political Commentator | Author: BAD GIRLS (coming soon)(Hachette) | Epidemiologist | Words: @WashingtonPost @ESSENCE #writingcommunity
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
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. 
Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social antirape activist turned theorist and educator. I make and analyze media. proud bunny mama. she/hers
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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social Black, Catholic, KY Hillbilly, Okie, Social Psychologist, Nicknamed Godzilla since ‘73, Sci-Fi Geek, Comic Geek, Sport Geek, News Geek, Just a Geek, Lover of Cats, Not speaking for anyone (not even me at times)
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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app 🇵🇷writer and mom🌻 Mixed Race Afro-Boricua❗Asst Prof of #LatinxLit at CUNY| PhD, American Studies | #ComicsStudies baking, crochet 🧶, shitposting, ADHDer
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Qiana Whitted @qianawhitted.bsky.social I write and teach about comic books and Black literature at University of South Carolina. Eisner winner. Here for good comics, romance fiction, horror films, sci-fi anything. HU ‘96 💙⚓️
scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social writer of books • founder of magazines • professor of NYU students • learner of things • listener of tracks • viewer of flicks • tired of everything
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
ProfYolonda @profyolonda.bsky.social Philosopher-Bioethicist with Georgia’s red clay in my blood. Feminist. Race woman. Views are my own.
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
✊🏾🏳️🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social Anti-Academic PhD | Industry Consultant |NYMG podcast | Black Games Archive co-founder | Twitch/TikTok/YouTube: Saffista | Black Women of CoD, TeamSideQuest, & Rainbow Arcade | Powered by LogitechG nymgamersaffista@gmail
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Dr. Augusta Atinuke Irele @heyitsaugusta.bsky.social Higher ed professional, scholar of contemporary African and diasporic literatures, Nigerian, Ohioan (+ a sprinkle of Masshole)
1/3 of @specsntexts.bsky.social
https://lnk.bio/heyitsaugusta
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app Somali - Cidda 🌈 - organizer - anti-hierarchy - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - 🇲🇼🇸🇴🇩🇯
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pfp = the cover of bell hooks' Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
Daphne Penn @daphnempenn.bsky.social Asst. Professor doing academia differently • Deep work disciple democratizing academic knowledge and spaces • Southern girl writing to change the world • Sociologist writing a book about race, immigration, and schooling in the U.S. South
Catherine Knight Steele @steelecat717.bsky.social Author - Digital Black Feminism
Associate Professor @UMD
I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D. @jervette.bsky.social Visionary leader driving innovation via strategic planning, systems building, and social justice
Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social @University of Oxford, research in Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience & Religion:
memory; imagination; action.
❤️classics, mathematics, & art❤️
https://theology.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-buki-fatona
Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social Philosopher of science and race. Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences, University of Exeter. He/him
DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social Associate Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
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You can buy my book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Damon Jones @nomadj1s.bsky.social economist | from NJ | he/him
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
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
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | rogue historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Ajuan Mance @ajuanmance.bsky.social Artist, Writer, Professor of Illustration at California College of the Arts, Professor Emeritus of African American literature at Mills College. Picture book WHAT DO BROTHAS DO ALL DAY? is out now. https://www.ajuanmance.com #comics 🖤🏳️🌈
Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social ObGyn, Medical Educator, Patient Advocate & Activist, Mentor, Sponsor, Servant Leader, Clinician-Researcher and Scientist, she/her/hers, personal account, supporter of climate equity
Brandi Collins-Dexter @brandicd.bsky.social Author of Black Skinhead: Reflections in Blackness & Our Political Future. Cat mom (Ella & Satchel). Researcher. Techno optimist in an antitrust goth phase. Chicago is my ❤️, Baltimore is my 🏡.
https://linktr.ee/BrandingBrandi
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social artist::writer::learner::vegan::swimmer::yogi:: peloton-addict::american-studies::literature::cinema::pop-culture maven::author of BWiS.
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Laurian Bowles PhD @drlaurian.bsky.social Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
she/her/dr | vann professor of racial justice | relationship anarchist | diaspora daughter|
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social Study & teach critical media studies of empire Creator and host of Empire City @nyu_journalism Stories/ Political ed @crookedmedia @sceneonradio @uncivilshow @mothstories @streetpoetsinc
GoddessofTheory @goddessoftheory.bsky.social Not here for endless debates.
wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
NYU. Hesitant Sociologist. Black tings. A Dream Dissolved (One Signal)
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