Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Jacke Wilson @jackewilson.bsky.social Host of the History of Literature Podcast. Check it out at historyofliterature.com.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social writer, fun guy 🍄. ✍🏾 novel ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT, shortlisted for the national book award, and some other stuff. work in a bunch of places. organizes sometimes.
newsletter: http://smathewss.substack.com
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social Bleep bloop! I am a bot that shares art from the Guggenheim collection. Not associated with the Guggenheim Museum.
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Mariah Schaefer @mariahms.bsky.social Acquisitions editor for music, dance, and Women's Media History Now! @illinoispress.bsky.social
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Quite Literally Books @quiteliterallybks.bsky.social We are a heritage press devoted to discovering and reissuing ought-to-be-in-print books by American women authors—and occasionally others—who’ve been shelved for far too long.
Jasmine Vojdani @jvojdani.bsky.social editing newsletters and culture at new york magazine
jasminevojdani.com
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social American literature, aesthetics, violence, theory, cultural studies. Views mine.
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
PS2 @CUNY Center for the Humanities @cunygcps2.bsky.social PS2 (Public Scholarship Practice Space) @humanitiescuny honors the past, present & future of public scholarship @thegraduatecenter • bit.ly/cunygcps2
Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social A Caribbean Platform of Criticism
https://smallaxe.net
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
Learn more ➡️ www.acls.org
Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
Tina Jordan @tinajordan.bsky.social Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
Sean Jacobs @seanjacobs.bsky.social Eric Hobsbawm's idea that the imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people infuses my work.
Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
Carmen Thong @carmenthong.bsky.social Presidential Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Studies @ National University of Singapore ||
PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies
carmenthong.com
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Heidi Tworek @heiditworek.bsky.social Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social English professor at Michigan, interested in literature as in life
John Palfrey @palfrey.org President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Harvard Square's landmark independent bookstore since 1932. Visit us at Harvard.com
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto | For info about Fellowships, funding opportunities, events and more, sign up for our newsletter http://eepurl.com/dhuDJv
Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org The Social Science Research Council is an independent nonprofit that for 100 years has mobilized social & behavioral science for global policy impact. ssrc.org
Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social Department of Media, Communications & Cultural Studies @GoldsmithsUoL
#2 in 🇬🇧 2023 QS world rankings
Student/staff work
Free public events
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
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
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Gita Manaktala @gita2.bsky.social Opinions my own and trained on limited data.
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social Prof of Media and Communication at the University of Edinburgh. Based in Politics/IR. Researching #AI, #Journalism and #Public Service Media. Views own. She/Her
Whitney Phillips @whitneyphillips.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Information Politics and Ethics at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. I write about quasi-religion & politics at http://populardemonology.substack.com
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social Visual artist. Pervert. Communist. Philadelphian.
My podcasts: @fangscast.bsky.social (Buffy!)
@tendersubject.bsky.social (cannibalism/body horror)
Look at Art! kayteterry.com
The Drake Motel @drakemotel.bsky.social I have no opinion about this, and I have no opinion about that
Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social The Sciences Po médialab is a research center dedicated to connecting the social sciences with new digital tools.
Yasmine Shamma @yasmineshamma.bsky.social Author of "Spatial Poetics" (OUP); Editor of "Joe Brainard's Art" (EUP); "Conversations with the New York Schools" (EUP); "Migration, Culture, and Identity: Making Home Away" (Palgrave); and "When We Talk about Home" (New Press, forthcoming)
CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social A graduate school of arts and sciences, The Graduate Center is a community of scholars dedicated to the idea that learning is a public good.
Albumism @albumism.com A website & global community of passionate music fans dedicated to celebrating the world's love affairs with albums past, present and future | www.albumism.com
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social We’re a multi-racial, working class political party fighting for a New York for the many, not the few. Text JOIN NY to 30403.
linktr.ee/nywfp
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social palestinian-american raised on a steady diet of hummus and fried chicken. editor-in-chief, the key (a palfest production)
www.sarayasin.com
Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social Author @Rowohlt, freelance journalist, senior correspondent Religion Dispatches, writes about Christian Nationalism & Right-Wing Extremism in the Europe & the US 1/2 of @femshelfcontrol.bsky.social
Agent: Landwehr & Cie
Events: Paula Döring, Kulturagentur
Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social Professor, Scholar, Journalist * Culture and US civic life—past and present * English PhD * Books: "Untimely Democracy" & "Democracies in America" * Bylines: LARB, Public Source, Colorado Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, &c. * www.gregorylaski.com
@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
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.
Will Glovinsky @wglovinsky.bsky.social teaching at Binghamton University | researching 19th c literature, history of basic income & other things | trying to migrate from twitter
Brian Flota @brianflota.bsky.social Humanities Librarian at JMU; co-editor of COMIC BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; co-author of "Sustainable Futures for Comics Collections"; #FirstGen; Opinions mine, vinyl records, etc.
Brittany Griffiths @bmariegriffiths.bsky.social Director of Editorial, Design, and Production @cornellupress.bsky.social
Into anything in the realm of publishing studies, nautical history, horror, urban studies, media studies, or WWII.
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social
Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social Intellectual Publics provides a multi-faceted forum for cutting-edge scholarship across the humanities and social sciences. https://linktr.ee/intellpublics
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
linktr.ee/workingfamilies
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Rahul Mukherjee @rahmuk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Penn CIMS. Wrote "Radiant Infrastructures" (DUP, 2020). Just completed "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT, 2026)." Platforms, Energy, Environment
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, living in NYC / “It’s really hard not to mention, llamas.”
Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs.bsky.social Early/19thC American Literature at Scripps College. Book: “Founded in Fiction” (http://tinyurl.com/y35bkptr). W/NBA takes. He/him.
Mike Koncewicz @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social Political Historian of the 1960s and 1970s, Associate Director of NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (@ipk.bsky.social), Author of They Said No to Nixon and Tom Hayden Biography (forthcoming).
The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social What's hot and cooking in Scholarly Communications. Blog from the Society for Scholarly Publishing -- account run by Editor David Crotty
🧢 @abebeame.bsky.social Rap & Bluesky. abebeame74@gmail.com
Naomi Kanakia @naokan.bsky.social Author of books out or forthcoming from HarperTeen, Feminist Press, and Princeton University Press. Also writes a Substack about the Great Books (with frequent detours to talk trash on contemporary literature)
Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social Bookish armchair radical.
"Well, that's just, like, my opinion, man. . . ."
Long, literate Editor-at-Large for @upittpress.bsky.social
Heyday @heydaybooks.com Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of @newsfromnativeca.bsky.social
Indiana University Press @iupress.bsky.social Founded in 1950, we are one of the largest public university presses and recognized as a leader in the humanities and social sciences. 📚
Harry Ransom Center @ransomcenter.bsky.social Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Opening August 15: The Worlds of Gertrude Stein • Opening August 29: Houdini’s Library
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai
Andrew Colarusso @theprofessor.bsky.social
Eric Drott @ericdrott.bsky.social
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de Working on AI, political theory, and the German philosophical tradition in the 20th c
German Dept #UCBerkeley
Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com 21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social researching journalism x tech for @towcenter.bsky.social
klaudiajazwinska.com
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy