Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social Tracking the chances that NFL games finish with a score that's never happened before. Built originally by Dave Mattingly. Based on an original idea by @jonbois.bsky.social.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Social Worker | Anti-Trafficking campaigner | Socialist
Nathan Kalmoe, write-in candidate for WI Senate (27th Dist) @nathanforsenate.bsky.social I'm running a progressive WRITE-IN campaign vs. Sen. Hesselbein. She hasn't had a primary since 2012. She's part of the corporate establishment. We deserve a choice! Our district: W Madison/Middleton/Verona/Waunakee/NW Dane. https://www.nathan-kalmoe.com/
Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University. Formerly notgoingpro on other socials.
Emily Lim Rogers @elimrogers.bsky.social anthropologist working on biomedicine/debility/capital. she/her dog dad 🇵🇸
not really on here but i guess am?? Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness now out through Duke UP
emilylimrogers.com
Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social Ancient Historian. Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PhD UChicago. Seleukid Empire, ancient archives, Hellenistic law, inscriptions, coins, antiquity in video games, & otters. 🇵🇷 (Bayamón) & 🏳️🌈
Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social Chicago film historian
Ph.D. | Film tours and talks
Louisiana transplant
Hardcore Gene Kelly fan
chicagomovietours.com
open borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social the only moral position on immigration is open borders.
she/her. socialist in the liberal tradition. Reconstructionist. Liberal Currents Contributing Editor, i guess???
boycott the New York Times
Pessimismus intellectus, optimismus voluntatis
Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Government and policy writer. Views are my own. pbacon@tnr.com
Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social Wasting time online
Liberal
Watch my videos about politics!
https://youtube.com/@ryangeddie?feature=shared
Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social Eager lifelong learner. Therapy is political. Poverty is a policy choice. Page Perspective on YouTube/Co-host I Doubt It Podcast. https://linktr.ee/brittanyepage
Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social Editor, The New Republic. Editor, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Scribbler. Serbo-Calabrian West Virginia Episcopalian.
Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social 🎭 theater kid turned
🎮 game dev turned
✝️ Jesuit priest
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: pastoral ministry in Portland
https://shaneliesegang.com
Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins.
Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast
Explore Ireland with me at
@tuatha.ie
nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Reporter, editor, researcher | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social Professor (views my own - not my institution's), co-editor and co-author of "The Right to Learn" and "It's Not Free Speech," and director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary "The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests?" Portland, OR
Michael Bérubé @michael-berube.bsky.social Writer, teacher, ex-hockey player, occasional golfer, drummer, actor. All the opinions here are mine. Mine, I say!
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Chicago in Pop Culture @chicagopopculture.bsky.social Chicago represented in pop culture. Large focus on non-local interpretations of the city. Extended credit included in alt text. No AI.
Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social The official account of Pusheen the cat.
Shop new and exclusive Pusheen merchandise online at The Pusheen Shop!
Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social Beers, bikes & bong rips.
Chicago homer to a fault. (he/him)
Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social ✨Astronomer searching for and studying the faintest galaxies in the Universe ✨co-host of the @starxiv.bsky.social podcast ✨ Enthusiastic-but-mediocre runner 🏃🏻♀️ vegan 🌱 She/her
Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social I blog about premodern history, religions and myth, languages and literature, and gender and sexuality. BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
Ersatz Doctor @ersatzdoctor.bsky.social My philosophy explainer video channel: http://youtube.com/ThinkingAboutStuff
PhD in philosophy. Community college prof.
Mostly here for unserious philosophy jokes.
Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife endangered species branch chief with more than three decades of experience in wildlife conservation and ecological policy.
https://substack.com/@lylelewis1?r=3fnb3k&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
Adam McLain @adamjmclain.bsky.social Spend my days reading, writing, and teaching, so in my own lil utopia.
UConn PhD & JD candidate, studying American law, literature, and dystopia, which really just means I’m studying religion.
Co-host of The Storming Journey
Gwenivere’s dad.
amclain.com
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social Ancient historian, now a temple attendant for two dainty-pawed gods who sometimes make their epiphanies. Looking for more honesty and less malice in politics, but getting this thing instead.
Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social On here way too much. Political scientist at Georgia State University. Congress & elections. My feed is mostly politics but you’ll get some sports takes and terrible dad jokes along the way.
Chicago AQ @chicagoaq.bsky.social Monitoring Air Quality Index (AQI) pollutants (PM 2.5, PM10, NO₂, SO₂ O₃, CO) measured in The Loop, Chicago. Managed by @nikhunder.com
Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com Just be cool, man.
Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, PopSci, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc.
He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely mine. Old posts delete en masse.
Chicago
www.ethanpfreedman.com
Rosie @rozphy.bsky.social reading and talking about transit, climate, the Great Lakes, local stuff. I ain’t here on business, baby, I’m only here for fun
@MegNumbers @megnumbers.bsky.social I just want more sane people and less “we don’t need to feed them kids”. Formerly @crashtestmeg on the bird site.
Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
Anthony Sanders @ijsanders.bsky.social Center for Judicial Engagement @IJ.org. Short Circuit podcast. Adj Prof @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Book: Baby 9th Amendments. Victorian London. Opinions=mine. https://ssrn.com/author=2923907
Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social farce majeure
Newcastle in the streets. Old ruins in the sheets.
@privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social Upstanding citizen if you squint right, mostly reformed hoodlum.
Skeets reflect the official position of my employer.
Kaleda Denton @kaledadenton.bsky.social Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, interested in major evolutionary transitions, cooperation, conformity, and AI. Canadian 🇨🇦 she/her
Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-them-infected/
Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social SNAP/WIC/Child Nutrition at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Come for the corgi pictures, stay for the food assistance policy.
Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social Mathematical biologist studying evolution. Professor of Mathematics at Emmanuel College, MA. Queer, nonbinary (they/them). For social and ecological justice. Jewish as in Free Palestine. https://www.emmanuel.edu/emmanuel-mathematical-biology-research-embr
Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social Heavy poster • Tudor history enthusiast • loveable shithead • Islington Greens • Arsenal
(She/her/hers)
https://www.instagram.com/agirlcalledlina_?igsh=YW9ocjVqdzN0cWZm&utm_source=qr
🇱🇧 • 🟢 • 🔴⚪️ • 🏳️⚧️ • 🇵🇸
Laurie Schowalter @laurieschowalter.bsky.social Public health, equity, justice / 🇺🇸🇿🇦
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Jay Cannon @jayc180.bsky.social Mostly retired firefighter.
Jill @jill-e-bean.bsky.social Teacher. Lover of music, sports, and animals. Childless cat lady. Team Tampa Bay - Lightning⚡️ Rays⚾️ Rowdies⚽️
Raj Choudhary @rajchoudhary.bsky.social STEM corporate lawyer by day, robotics dad by night
Vetshak @vetshak.bsky.social Veterinarian, footy addict, referee, coach, parent, traveler
Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social "What's she got to stare at now?"
https://newvirago.com/
dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social two things make me happy and two things only: turgid, unworkable political theory and surly cats
всё идёт по плану
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Greg Lipper @theglipper.bsky.social Criminal and constitutional lawyer; former church-state separator; (virtual) taekwondo student; theater and improv lover. #NeverSkeet (he/him/his)
https://www.lipperlaw.com
Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social Art, illustration, pattern design, folklore, flowers, and something yet to be revealed. This is where I thrash. NeverAI. She/her
https://linktr.ee/sewzinski
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social Everyday Life History. Berlin. Violence. Soccer. Not necessarily in that order. Twin Cities born.
Sarah Christopherson @sarahcgchris.bsky.social Past: Congress 2005-2015. Current: tax lobbyist, but the poor kind
Jay Weixelbaum @jayweixelbaum.bsky.social I do a bunch of stuff. Science writer primarily in public health. Producer and founder of Elusive Films. PhD. Expert in history of US companies in Germany during World War II. Musician. Designer.
Jenna 🥭 🥐🛤️🫒 @jennanohea.bsky.social 🏡Chicago |🚲Bike Supremacy |🌺🌴Hawaii no ka ‘oi 🤙
David Epstein @davidnotdave.bsky.social Literature major, then neuroscience Ph.D., then addiction researcher. Enough-knowledge-to-endanger-myself in social sciences and statistics. He/him. Views my own.
Linus Lee @linuslee.bsky.social Chicago n Louisiana, n comics n music n movies n foods (he/him)
Lush @lush.com We believe in safer socials, kinder communities and Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. 🫧
Leaving the world Lusher than we found it.
Customer care: lush.com
Federica Rocky Bocchi @federicabocchi.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UCalgary. Philosophy of science (biodiversity, measurement) & environmental justice.
Impressive unimpressive stone collector, wears weird hats.
sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social freelance investigative journalist, 2024 British Journalism Awards shortlist
fact-checker & subeditor @tbij.bsky.social
they/them
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
she/her 🏳️⚧️
James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social aka Alice Aforethought. Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds, but views my own. Social justice, Law's a Drag, violent protest, Pride and drag, raging lefty 🏳️🌈
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social Designer & Audio Director at @arbitrarymetric.bsky.social: Roman Sands, Paratopic. Dread Delusion💀 ADHD! NSFW maybe!
Sound design, music, design.
Transfeminist illegal girl. She/Her
https://linktr.ee/lazzie_b
RoSa & Para:OD out now! http://bit.ly/4ybiCkI
ClaireHam @claireham.bsky.social I’m a woman with a PhD who has never hurt anyone and who just wants to live her life in peace, but unfortunately the UK Government has decided to persecute me, along with my siblings because we’re trans. I will not assist in my own segregation! 🏳️⚧️
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social Decadent post-scarcity revolutionary trans feminist lesbian progressive on disability. Pro Rejoin EU, sometimes a twat.
Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ @grayfaceghost.northsky.social Trans pan autistic woman socialist antifash coder martial artist priest
Labour supporters or other fash, DNI - you won't like what happens. Blocked by Zack Polanski for calling him a coward on trans rights
She/her
Fediverse: @grayface_ghost@tech.lgbt
Kirsty McTear 🏳️⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social I am a trans-woman and chartered mechanical engineer who works for a major defence contractor in the UK.
After 2 decades of not being active in the community, I am now very active in the fight for trans rights. 🖕 to the UKSC and the EHRC.
Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social I take my cats on walks, work on housing, social inequalities and queering social policy, take action where I can, and knit socks.
📍Edinburgh
Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk Independent Journalist/Writer. Songwriter. Cat lady 🐈 🏳️⚧️ she/her
Subscribe here to support
https://sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/
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https://sophiemolly.co.uk/
Alex Parmar-Yee @fruitypy.bsky.social Chindian. Trans. Femininomenom.
Campaigns & Operations Director @Transsolidarity.bsky.social
🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
❤️🧡🤍🩷💜
@fruity.py.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧
➡️ https://linktr.ee/mimmymum
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Rachel Saunders @rejserin.bsky.social Rights researcher. Passionate travel junkie, field hockey goalie, and all round curiousity freak.
ash (ᯟ︿ᯏ) ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 @reactiveashley.cat Cat furniture, cool auntie, and algorithmic witch. Digital rights, and IP law.
Personal account and talks about everything. I usually follow back if you reply or like my post.
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Juno Dawson @junodawson.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, dog lady.
Ashleigh Talbot⛧🏳️⚧️ @ashleigh.whatthetrans.com Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk, bassist, theremin player and Green. 💚 she/her.
Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Discrimination Barrister, Railway, Car and Flying Nut. Trans woman.
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Victoria McCloud 🏳️⚧️🌈♾️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social Human rights geek | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' |
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info