ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
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/
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Critical Theory Tutor at the Sandberg Instituut. American, but slightly less so every passing day.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social African and Global History | Assistant Prof | NIE/NTU | Singapore
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.
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social We post here about abuse by ICE\CBP goons from trusted news sources & then add them to our site.
Help us out by bringing awareness to our extensive and growing database on ICE abuse:
https://thebastionusa.com/ice-cbp-abuse-and-misconduct-tracker-database
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
Substack: radleybalko.substack.com
Signal: radleybalko.52
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
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.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
@omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social
Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Karine Varley @karinevarley.bsky.social
Historian at University of Strathclyde, Franco-Prussian War, Second World War, Vichy France, Corsica. Author of Vichy's Double Bind: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vichys-double-bind/7089CE39930C5E4D0E2F8B0B52C0A778
Ludivine Broch @lmebroch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer History @ UoW. Historian of 20C Europe - France, 2WW, transatlantic relations, cultural history, gratitude, objects
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Ed Armston-Sheret @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social Historian, geographer, and writer
EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social Department of History @eui-eu.bsky.social. We offer PhDs and post-doctoral fellowships focused on the transnational and comparative history of Europe in the world 🌐 https://loom.ly/11Zd7ZY
Guilhem | D'histoires en Histoire @guilhem-histoire.bsky.social 📚 Vulgarisation historique
🔖 #CollectifHérodote (VP)
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🎯 Autres réseaux et soutiens à mon travail : https://linktr.ee/dhistoiresenhistoire
Claire-Lise Gaillard @clairelisegaillard.bsky.social Historienne CR Ined
Hist sociale et culturelle des intimités (amitiés, couples sexualités), XIXe-XXe siècles
#HelloESR
Emily C. Bruce @amocantare.bsky.social Modern European historian; Associate Prof. at the University of Minnesota Morris; author of Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class (UMass, 2021); SMC of twins; she/her. Views expressed here are my own.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Richard Taws @richardtaws.bsky.social 18th/19th-century visual culture, history, politics, technology. prof and head of dept @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/20767-richard-taws
Andy Denning @andydenninghist.bsky.social European and imperial history at University of Kansas. Books: Automotive Empire http://bit.ly/autoemp2024. Skiing into Modernity http://bit.ly/skiingmod. Interwar World http://bit.ly/iw2024
Mark R. Cheathem @markcheathem.bsky.social Historian, documentary editor, and writer. Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/markcheathem
Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social Historian of autism and pop music in France (in no particular order), academic administrator trying to serve students at IU Northwest, always ready for karaoke.
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
@revolutions19e.bsky.social @revolutions19e.bsky.social Société d'histoire de la Révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle ; Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle (RH19) ; Compte géré par Emmanuel Fureix
Echoes in the Sky @exoticaviation.bsky.social old aeromachines. oddities. concepts. old tales. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. war. action. occasional flying animal, stellar, and terrestrial guest stars
Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social Promotes the study of historical, social, and cultural aspects of sports. Published by the University of Illinois Press and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH): @nassh1972.bsky.social
Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.
Elisa Chazal @elisa-chazal.bsky.social Historian Postdoc UNIGE | PhD @EUI_EU
Material Culture | Immersive historical reconstructions of 'Old cities' | Temporalities | Consumption in fin-de-siècle Central and Western Europe
📧 elisa.chazal@eui.eu | CV : https://cv.hal.science/elisa-chazal
Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ https://jehadabusalim.substack.com
🔗 linktr.ee/jehadabusalim
Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social Historian of western European borderlands, European unity, and civilizational thinking. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. Author of From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 (LSU Press, 2026)
Léa Leboissetier @leakleb.bsky.social Dr. in modern history @EnsdeLyon / @FWOVlaanderen Junior Postdoc in @UAntwerpen / Mobile labour, itinerant trading & its regulation in 19/20thC Britain. Française à Bxl & Duolingo fanatiek
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy.
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Projects:
@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
Russell Williams @rwilliamsparis.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris; French Editor, The Times Literary Supplement. Thinking about French Weird.
ckroberts71 @ckroberts71.bsky.social UCSB History PhD Candidate. I am super into space history (2024/2025 HSS/NASA Aerospace History Fellow) and recently moved abroad. We'll see. Mostly I share things that I find interesting.
John William Sutcliffe IV, Ph.D. @nuclearhistory.bsky.social Historian of France's military nuclear ambitions (1945-1958) and US nuclear weapons testing. The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the US Government.
Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli- J Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social Historian of War and Peace and other things. Currently: Cooperation in Exile "The London Moment": https://exilegov.hypotheses.org/ and Post-War Periods: https://conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/
Kristie Patricia Flannery @thehistoriann.bsky.social Historian of the global Spanish empire living and working on Wurundjeri country. Author of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (2024).
Nicole Eaton @nicoleeaton.bsky.social Historian at Boston College
communism, fascism, nationalism
USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics
book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL
http://bit.ly/3wdaGkk
Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out
Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social Historian; author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
Marco Gervasoni @marcogervasoni.bsky.social Full professor - history of psychology and Modern History - Università del Molise
Columnist “Huffington post Italia” “il patriottismo è l’ultimo rifugio dei mascalzoni”
Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social Géographe | Professeur d’Histoire Géographie à Rennes, Bretagne | Directeur de collection scolaire aux Éditions Nathan | Géographie des mers et des littoraux, cartographie, passionné de photographie | Curation de lectures universitaires et professionnelles
Ben Rogers @ben-rog.bsky.social Urbanist & writer; Professor @UoL University of London; Distinguished Fellow @LSECities; Founding Director
@CentreforLondon; Chair @DesignSouthEast. Interests include Citizenship, public realm, urban government and democracy, sustainable urbanism, London
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U.
Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council
PhD, Princeton University
Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental
Podcast: infectioushistorians.com
Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social Historian of Modern History, mainly researching and teaching things ~ transnational, colonial, animal ~ also coffee coffee coffee and biking
University of Tübingen, Germany
she/her
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Richardson Dilworth @richardsondilworth.bsky.social Professor at Drexel U and managing editor of Urban Affairs Review. Author of Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022.
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social Freelance journalist, always open to commissions
✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine, Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine
dianedevignemont.com
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland @asimonekeland.bsky.social Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
Laurent Cuvelier @laurentcuvelier.bsky.social MCF en histoire moderne @Université de Tours
Études urbaines, histoire matérielle et luttes sociales
Honorary Consul of France, Limerick 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇮🇪 @francemidwest.bsky.social Bluesky account of Dr Loïc Guyon, Honorary Consul of France in Limerick, Ireland (counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary). For urgent queries, check the website https://france-in-midwest-ireland.org/
Tim Unwin @unwint.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of French, University of Bristol. Trying very hard these days to read for pleasure not profit.
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social Historian of France
Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
WSFH @thewsfh.bsky.social Western Society for French History - organization for academic and independent scholars of France from all disciplines and backgrounds.
https://www.wsfh.org/
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Rolf Strom-Olsen @rstromolsen.bsky.social Professor of Political Philosophy & Humanities, IE University (Spain). Fier d’être canadien 🇨🇦
https://rolfstromolsen.substack.com
Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒 💙💛❤️🩹 @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Maria Snyder @bibliomaria.bsky.social Academic editing, translation [DE and FR>EN], book history in early modern Germany & France, media history, art & art history. Once I had tenure, now I walk the trails of southern Maine.
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography - current project on the My Lai Massacre 1968.
Author of 'Massacre in the Clouds' (2024), 'Amritsar 1919' (2019), 'The Skull of Alum Bheg' (2017) and a few others.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History, Smithsonian, and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com