al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social PhD in Arabic and Turkish literature (linguistic narratology, bioregionalism) / alt-ac career in SWANA education / eco-socialist / singing about left-wing Texas history with Texastextbooks.Bandcamp.com
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Urban Spartanburg @urbanspartanburg.bsky.social News and thoughts about development in this small Southern city
Amy Alton Bautz, clown @b3nd3r.bsky.social GenX Bear-in-the-Woods, habitat Eastern Missouri
Teaching, making art, playing cards, social dancing, clowning as the opportunities arise
For a pro-worker work ethic
Art: https://www.behance.net/AmyBautz
John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.
"Sundman figures it out!" https://johnsundman.substack.com/
(Circle: firefighter coat, 'Sundman' name stipe. Banner: bookshelf w 'Acts of the Apostles')
Elizabeth @tinymysteries.bsky.social I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint
Apophatically @apophatically.bsky.social Orthodox Christian ☦️ Anti-Fascist, TTRPG Nerd, Leftist
Omgeon @omegon85.bsky.social ::Records deleted::
Mert Kartal @mertkartal.bsky.social * Associate Prof. of Political Science, St. Lawrence University
* Transparency International Consultant
* International organization; the European Union; good governance & corruption (control) in Europe, and a bit of Turkey
* 💛💙Fenerbahçe💛💙
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov Delaware's Congresswoman.
Congresswoman Sarah McBride and her congressional staff use this page to share news & services relevant to Delaware. This is her official government Bluesky page.
New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social All USA towns chosen randomly.
By @nofunnick.bsky.social
Check out @art-institute.bsky.social and @wydot.bsky.social and @taxsituations.bsky.social
Matthew Warren @mattwarren.bsky.social High School Social Studies Teacher #APUSH #APEuro | Track & Field Coach | PC(USA) Pastor | PhD at Aberdeen @abdndivinity.bsky.social on Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Views and Emphasis Mine
Knepherbird @knepherbird.com An old spy in a hurry
Mrs Beaver @mrsbeaver84.bsky.social Babushka with opinions. Mondale Democrat. Feminist in a patriarchal church. A Way Forward. Main interests: Orthodox liturgical music, community theater props construction, natural history of solitary wasps
Joshua Pfohl @pfohl.bsky.social west central MN
middling data analyst (renewable energy construction)
too Lutheran to function
Walker Robins @walktalks.bsky.social Historian of American Christians and Israel/Palestine. Author of Between Dixie and Zion (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2020). Takes the notes for the Melrose Pedestrian and Bicyclist Committee. Okie forever. Emergent Masshole.
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Marie Harf @marieharf.bsky.social Buckeye born and raised. IU and UVA taught. Executive Director of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania & Fox News contributor.
Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social Enterprise News - 365 days a year
https://substack.com/@macfarlanenews
https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacFarlaneNews
SIGNAL: https://signal.me/#eu/ufqBLFTh_D87knsngxcXcyng7-Qd8DYPvwGB6LhI44SNFazeeQZD2ZPRThTX-g7M
Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social Political risk researcher on Yemen, MENA Based in Bangkok | Also posts on Appalachia, Rivers, เมืองไทย | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, Arab Center DC | Contact info.nickjbrumfield@gmail.com for work, media inquiries | he/him
Anna Ferris @aferris.bsky.social PhD Candidate University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice | immigration, refugees, citizenship, and inequality
Dalia's mom
Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia.
Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods.
Past: RAND and CPOST.
Wolves. Lynx.
www.erikemueller.com
Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social Family guy. Acting dad. Dog dad. Tax law professor. Backpacker. Beer snob. Weekend guitarist. Israeli expat in SoCal. Founder of @glowlaw.org.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social Author, "The Screen & the Mirror," "Dorothy & Jack," "The Gospel in Dickens," & "One by One." I'm at https://dearstrangethings.substack.com/ and https://dickensblog.com. Beethoven fan, skating fan, Army brat, Pope Leo-quoting Protestant. #TCMParty #MST3K
Chris @grosschris.bsky.social Dixie delenda est
Ben @bseahawk14.bsky.social Millennial OC resident and College Football Donor Advisor. Fan of dogs, Seattle sports, and the Wisconsin Badgers. Views my own.
Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social Studies rhetoric & writing, autobiography, feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation
Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her
whatashrinkthinks.com
collectivedreaming.org
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social #Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
Vali Nasr @valinasr.bsky.social Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, author of Iran's Grand Strategy https://a.co/d/egLBCgz
Elham Fakhro @elhamfakhro.bsky.social Academic and author of a recent book on the Abraham Accords. Interested in the Gulf states, conflict diplomacy, progressive ideas.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-abraham-accords/9780231212380/
Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social Professor, GSPIA, University of Ottawa. Middle East (Iran, Yemen), intelligence and national security. Former Defence analyst.
Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social Open Source Investigator. Jack of all trades. Wife guy. She/her.
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
Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arashtehran.bsky.social Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3IBwY9k SHADOW CMDER https://bit.ly/3KxlTqU | Historian at @yale | Writer @theatlantic | Repped by Aevitas
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
Huss/ein Banai @hbanai.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. Books on liberalism, democracy, human rights, Iran, and US-Iran relations. Working on a book on enmity in politics. Co-Editor, Int'l Studies Review.
hussbanai.info
Brendan @bgilroy.bsky.social A true friend is there for you when you are in trouble
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social The ladder of the Kingdom is within you, hidden in your soul.
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇷
jonas @jh1791.bsky.social Sociology and/of religion. Professor...ish. Semi-pro dilettante. A damned Vermont person™ in the Shenandoah Valley. The Arsenal. We need more heavy metal. And whiskey. Probably.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Sophie Fullerton @sophiefullerton.bsky.social Professor on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
📍IST/NYC
Irate Historian (Pride Edition) @riceandsalt97.bsky.social Preferred pronouns? Buddy I got no idea. Buddhist, lover not a fighter, perpetually tired, historian in training, and professional nerd. Loves birds, science fiction, religious studies and poetry!
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
KJ Atwood @kjforsc.bsky.social 
Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social Circassian, Scottish, Jordanian, and not overly aggressive unless you're a fash
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
The Rev. Andy McQuery @frandym.bsky.social Episcopal priest with opinions. Anglo-Catholic. Yalie. Actual orthodoxy is diverse, inclusive, and compassionate; otherwise it’s just bigotry in vestments. Opera fan. 🏳️🌈 🐈🐈⬛
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
cfm @oh-hi-colin.bsky.social PhD Philosophy ... I try to learn things from medieval philosophical texts from the Islamic world...hobby musician
Nathan Spannaus @orientastic.bsky.social UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies | UAW 4811 | treasurer, Rasheed Wallace fan club | personal account
Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
@svateboje.bsky.social @svateboje.bsky.social My take: Using Berger & Luckmann we can helpfully synthesize poli sci results on affect polarization + partisan media/internet/social-media.
also, i tend to talk too much re folks like Voegelin & Ricoeur
or, notes to self from another planet 
DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social Un sy'n ceisio cerdded i ffwrdd o Omelas. Ffuglen wyddonol ac yn y blaen. "Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood." -Lu Xun
Mads Korsager @madskorsager.bsky.social Defence correspondent | Danmarks Radio - Danish Broadcasting Corp. | Afghanistan veteran | 👉 mkor@dr.dk
Merisi Vienna @merisi-vienna.bsky.social "I seek to capture the beauty that is present in every day, and there is inevitably so much more than I could ever expect to grasp."
#Vienna #Coffee #Austria #Italy
My photographs are copyrighted. All rights reserved.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social Symbols, myths, anthropology, art, linguistics, history. This is a notebook of TILs: things I wish I could learn more about!
he/him
Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Kamal Gasimov @orientalistica.bsky.social Islamic intellectual history; sufism and law; state and religion in post-soviet Eurasia; teaching Arabic as a second language
Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
New book! Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Will Smiley @will-smiley.bsky.social History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law.
Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019).
All views strictly my own.
ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact engineer living in Seattle (posts never represent employer). Transfem person (she/they), liberal, autistic. RTs not endorsements. Here to make friends & talk about Chris Nolan films. Anti-doomer. None of us are immune to the effects of social media.
The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.
https://www.theunpopulist.net
Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social Winnipeg Enthusiast. Noted idiot. In the war on cars.
linktr.ee/rkturnbull
[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social midwest academic, political science + psychology / inveterate fan of The Fall / cat enthusiast / boring social democrat / photographer
International African American Museum (IAAM) @iaamuseum.bsky.social The International African American Museum tells the unvarnished stories of the African American experience across generations, the trauma and triumph that gave rise to a resilient people.
Plan your visit today.
iaamuseum.com
📍Charleston, SC
Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social Digital Humanist | orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-6634 | original stuff ©2026 by author, no AI uses permitted
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social This is my hometown in the pfp. I immigrated to the US in 97. Gen X, mother to two millennials. I write code for a living. Hope for my country of birth to lose the war to 🇺🇦 already.
When I first came here, I had 0 cats. Now I have 2. Bsky magic.
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by August 4th!
Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social “as goes the south, so goes the nation.”
caring loudly for tennessee’s HD51 💓
#EndTheGroceryTax🛒
Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social Public Universal Fiend, Reply Guy Local #666-420 on twitter. Proud Duşakabinoğlu failson and supporter of a Denver el.
🌩️👀 nZUfKLn7iTKj
Adam DeVille @adamdeville.bsky.social Professor of psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice. Canadian citizen abroad.
Heleen Murre-van den Berg @hlmvdberg.bsky.social Professor of Global Christianity, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University - Books - Middle East - Religion - Syriac/Assyrian Christians - Migration
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Your Friend Temporary Southerner @trt311.bsky.social He/Him/His. Seminarian, Anglican (TEC), Preacher, Writer, Democratic Socialist, Student of history, politics, theology, and philosophy. Son, brother, friend. Black, AuDHD, Gay/Queer.
✝️✊🏾🌹🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social Wallensteinposting on main
Non fascist marble av guy
Robert @canneddragons.net Stratagems, gambits and wiles.
Blogging at canneddragons.net.
Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social Catholic, son, brother, Brother, Jesuit, weightlifter, woodworker, radical for Christ. Proudly putting the SJ into SJW. My posts≠orgs I am part of. (he/him)
A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦🇪🇺 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social Red panda in the Upper Midwest. Not that kind of attorney. Archaeology fan. Proportional representation. Linz was right. Senatus delendus est. Advocate of Nordic economic model. Reskeets /= endorsements.
vesaire @vesaire.press ziyadesiyle kültür neşriyatı. https://vesaire.press/
Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social Pastor, Activist, Theologian. The Gospel is anti-fascist, and so am I. Building a new world through the sanctuary movement, combating Islamophobia, and reparations. https://www.michaelcaseywwoolf.com/
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות) @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social They/them autgendered Yid ✡️
Shaul haMelekh Enthusiast
Bi enough
Statistician/mathematician/physicist
CIO of Jacurutu's Municipal Water Utility