Hilarie Ashton @hilarieashton.bsky.social Academic [gender studies, sound studies, Black studies, queer studies], abolitionist, boxer. Cat person, reader, dreamer, Eyeliner fiend, mutual aid organizer, dog obsessed. Daniel Day-Lewis enthusiast, dad joke appreciator. NYC.
Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social Ethel Smyth scholar, new music pianist; Asst Professor of Musicology, UNC Greensboro; she/her; my views are my own and mostly have to do with women composers
Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social Breakfast Sandwiches guy
Sukaina @sukaina.bsky.social Philosophy prof at UPenn working in moral psychology, normative ethics, and Ancient Greek philosophy // www.sukaina-hirji.com
Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Monorail Maoist @awildschild.bsky.social Don't ever 'well actually' me,
Temple '23
Union
Not technically a maoist
Joseph Henderson @josephenderson.bsky.social I study the politics of climate change and environmental education: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_Fm_bMEAAAAJ&hl=en
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social Composer, Percussionist
Assistant Professor of Music @ Bard College
www.sarah-hennies.com
Caleb T. Boyd @citharize.bsky.social PhD, Musicology.
Interests: Oscar Levant, George Gershwin, Hanns Eisler, Southern cultures, popular music, film music.
Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social Professor at Oxford. Politics of listening, continental philosophy, music and sound studies, academic freedom. On the left. Views mine.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
Ryan Ebright @ryanebright.bsky.social Musicologist at Bowling Green State. I write about opera, new music, American music. Bylines: NY Times, Opera News, New Yorker, NewMusic Box. he/him/his
𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social Was @theresasmets at the X place. Old Brooklyn.
Choir conductor, utility soprano; Ph.D./MLIS Musicological wraith; Mets fan. Porch gardener. Birds. Old Hollywood. She/Her. ABOLISH ICE/DHS. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE
Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social librarian
ritual studies, phenomenology of religion, queer theology
also: hockey, fiber arts, pugs, yoga
keeganosinski.com
Jacek Blaszkiewicz @jacekbl.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of music history at Wayne State University. 19th/20th-century France, sound studies, histories of (sight)reading, street music. Author, Fanfare for a City (UC Press, 2024). Non-ac words in Exacting Clam, Gargoyle, Argyle, Flame Literary
Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app brown glass bottle full of shavings from the sun🌅 Black magic in a cheetah print coat. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
practitioner of radical hospitality 🍞🌹 avid traveler. cat lady 🐈⬛🐈⬛, DINK & #childfree fun auntie. general enthusiast. #AuDHD. 🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩
Fat Tom of Brewerytown @fattom23.bsky.social Philadelphia Twin Dad ° Transit Always ° Urbanism ° Games ° DC Comics ° Linux on a Framework Laptop
Jacob Kopcienski @jkopcienski.bsky.social (He/They) Queer Music, Performance, Organizing.
Assistant Prof. Musicology, App State.
Writer, I Care if You Listen.
Baker of Pizza, Archive Rat, Enthusiastic Interlocutor.
poe @poestiche.bsky.social sonic histories | museums | queer/trans/disability studies | CUNY alum (PhD '26) | 📍 WMass | views mine or my cat's
Eric Drott @ericdrott.bsky.social 
i'm adam @wowthanks.bsky.social friendly neighbor / community director @indyhall / aka flirt vonnegut
Jenny L @jennylobasz.bsky.social Professor. USWNT fan. Breast cancer survivor. She/her.
Sam Reenan @sam-reenan.bsky.social Music theorist researching form and genre mixture in early 20c music. he/him/his. Author, Symphonic Spectacles (OUP 2025). All views my own
Lili Loofbourow @lililoofbourow.bsky.social 
mark lamster @mlamster.bsky.social architecture critic of the dallas morning news. author of “the man in the glass house.” www.marklamster.com
Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social Rutgers Law prof. Into democracy, dogs, and cheese. Knows about LGBTQ+ rights, public interest lawyering, legal ethics, state constitutions, LRW. Too insubordinate for autocracy. 🏳️🌈
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1120939
Beatrice Forman @beaforman.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual covering food (and other things) for the philadelphia inquirer.
Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social Writer on music for NYT Guardian Wire Private Eye and more. Digital Editor at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social
Email is hughmorris98@gmail.com
sabrmetrical caliban (Lev) @sukusuku.moe 23, they/them. PhD student in musicology at Pitt. BA Music (UIUC, 2025). inquisitor of finite modes, perseverer of the Absolute. editor for @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social. banner from Soul Glo, "Gold Chain Punk." pfp: @ardent-knight.bsky.social
Annamarie (Áine Máire ÓhEisleanáin) @sopranovox.bsky.social Animal lover / pro (CPDT-KA, FFCP). Classical soprano. Very online since early 90s. Bookworm. Nerd. Losing myself in genealogy rabbit holes since 2002. 🇺🇸 / 🇮🇪 citizen. Deep belief there’s good in everyone.
Former Twitter: @LlyrCat
Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine. Book: TWO WHEELS GOOD: THE HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF THE BICYCLE. Home: Brooklyn, NY. http://www.jody-rosen.com
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Joe @apollonysus.bsky.social Musicologist, silly joke liker, earnest tech-curious luddite. Working on it
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
Annika Socolofsky @aksoco.bsky.social rhymes with “Danica” • composer & avant-folk vocalist • Dolly Parton scholar • assoc prof CU Boulder Music • PhD Princeton • lifelong tomboy • queer • she/her
aksocolofsky.com
Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social A civil courts reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. PACER obsessed docket sleuth. Send me gossip to agutman(at)inquirer.com and Agutman.96 on Signal.
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
Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students on the Making of US Higher Education (Fordham UP Fall 2026 - https://tinyurl.com/448vs7yv) | continuing collaborative work on https://abolition.university/
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Zito @zeets.bsky.social “It is my image that I want to multiply, but not out of narcissism or megalomania, as could all too easily be believed: on the contrary, I want to conceal, in the midst of so many illusory ghosts of myself, the true me, who makes them move.“
Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social Publishing in its current form since 1957, Wesleyan UP focuses on poetry, music, dance, and the arts. See weslpress.org for new poetry!
https://linkin.bio/weslpress
Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.
Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social Jesus follower | Priest | Episcopal | Anglican | Author http://amzn.to/2l8O1kL | Exec Director of Forward Movement
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Sean Zdenek @seanzdenek.bsky.social Associate Professor of Technical and Professional Writing, University of Delaware. Sound studies, rhetorical studies, disability studies, web accessibility, captioning, tinnitus. Book: Reading Sounds
Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH)
Associate Professor, English
Rutgers-Camden
jilliansayre.net
Jen Kinney @jkjenkinney.bsky.social writer reporter etc.
curating what are you doing, a philly events newsletter --> https://www.whatareyoudoing.today/
Joi Washington, Media Borough Mayor @mayorjoi.bsky.social 💙America's Next Top Mayor
💙Pedestrian Safety, public parks, safer streets
💙Lover of Main Streets
👸🏾 Public Transit Passenger Princess
💙SEPTA CAC Member
💙Choose Joi 😊
🟥 My Personal Account
LeadGraffiti @leadgraffiti.bsky.social A letterpress studio in Newark, Delaware, with a strong urge to experiment and challenge long-held rules about design, readability, and a few other things I'll remember later.
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. + Presidential Prof. + Director: Politics, Identities, & Communication Lab (PICL) @asc.upenn.edu. More fun than I look.
Dorothy Glick Maglione @dorothymaglione.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology at William Jewell College | flutist
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
Zoe Cohen @zoecohen.bsky.social 🌿 Visual Artist
✔️ @newsguild.org member
📍Philly
IG: @zoecohenart
https://linktr.ee/zoecohenart
Marie Thompson @joyousnoises.bsky.social University worker. Tinnitus/noise/sonic cyberfeminisms. Currently writing about sound reproduction and reproductive crisis.
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Tim Rutherford-Johnson @purlis.bsky.social Listener, CFer, wordmonger. Written books about new music; trying to write one about Schubert.
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/about/
Substack here: http://purlis.substack.com
Philly Power Research @researchphilly.bsky.social PPR is a group of volunteer researchers investigating our city's most powerful people, corporations, and organizations.
Haden Plouffe, composer/pianist/rambler @haydnpuff.bsky.social she/her
Pls commission me I write pretty music
Composer, pianist, musicologist, doing pre-production on a game called Beyonder Chronicles: Shadow of the Hero
music:
https://www.youtube.com/@hadenplouffe3976
random writing:
https://buttondown.com/HaydnPuff
@surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social 
Edward Klorman @eklorman.bsky.social Mozart's Music of Friends (2016)
J. S. Bach: The Cello Suites (2025)
Prof of Music at UW–Madison
he/him
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social Writer: DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN? 💐 (2023), THE WAGERS (2019), US CONDUCTORS (2014) • Founded 🎶 http://saidthegramophone.com • http://www.byseanmichaels.com • he/him
Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Assistant professor at RIT.
For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
Tom 🏳️🌈 @majawat.bsky.social Philly Fishtowner
Gay shit, Simpsons, Phillies, & Urbanist high horse
Democratic Ward 31-1 Committee Person
https://linktr.ee/majawat
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Justin Gundlach @justingundlach.bsky.social General Counsel & Director of Research at The Future of Heat Initiative. Previously a senior advisor at New York's Department of Public Service. NYC denizen.
That electrified lamp in the picture used to burn gas.
cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
Buy my book: https://www.cmcrockford.net/store/p/with-ones-own-eyes
rob witts @robwitts.bsky.social a guy who hangs around universities and opera houses- M Mark Graber @mgraber1.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, legal historian, amateur comparative constitutionalist, chess nut and loyal New York Giant fan
Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social Political theory, the wild, the anarchic, also cats, corgis (the wild, the anarchic).
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social 🗃️ historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social Hand-picked lines from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, tweeted in random order. A bot by @hapax.bsky.social, powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com.
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social Professor, Education Finance & Policy
Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com
School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/
Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/
rachie weisberg @rachieweisberg.bsky.social doing leg stuff at pa working families (@paworkingfamilies.bsky.social)
philadelpian by choice new yorker by birth
go birds and f*ck jeffrey yass
Randall Cream @randallcream.bsky.social Prof of Digital Humanities at WCUPA. South Philly Cat Dad. 
Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social Chair, Music Department and Associate Professor of Music (Theory and Composition) at Cal Poly Pomona | Co-Editor of “Music in Star Trek” | Dad | Kenshi | Cook | Transit Geek | Cat Herder | He/Him
James Wagner 1940-2026 @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social cranky radical, fussy aesthete, humanist, generalist, partner of
@bhoggard
Your Favorite Musicologist's 6th Favorite Music Theorist @profajchung.bsky.social Assoc. prof of music theory. Coloniality, race, & sonics in the Anthropocene, sound/music philosophy. Book in progress __ Music's Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com Music stuff. Minimal non-music stuff. 20 new songs a week or your money back at: www.otherdavemoore.com
Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social executive editor @phillymag.com // THE EAGLES OF HEART MOUNTAIN (2021) // First person to win a Presidential Fitness Award and National Magazine Award (maybe)
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Taryn @taryncregon.bsky.social 📍Philly • ♒ • 🍉
📸 IG: ohmygoditsfullofstars
Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social Associate Editor and Lead Critic, Washington Classical Review; Founder of Ionarts; Ph.D. in Historical Musicology; Classical Music Fiend; Opera Addict; Baroqueux agréable and Public Musicologist (all views expressed are my own, not those of my employers)
Leonard Bonarek @lennibug.bsky.social Coco Urbanist, e-cargo bike evangelist, transportation planner, urbanist utopian children's book author. Currently looking for my keys, which are hiding under the injera
Paloma Checa-Gismero @palomacg.bsky.social Modern and contemporary art historian at Swarthmore College. Author of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke, 2024).
www.palomachecagismero.com