David Farrier @david-farrier.bsky.social Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils | Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, shortlisted: Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize & Saltire Nonfiction Prize 2025
Professor of Literature & the Environment, Uni of Edinburgh
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Whitney Webb @realwhitneywebb.bsky.social Contributing editor of http://unlimitedhangout.com, author of One Nation Under Blackmail. Follow me on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/whitneywebb
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Jeremy Till @jeremytill.bsky.social Writer, educator and recovering architect. Once Head of Central Saint Martins, UAL. Now Emeritus Professor and free spirit. Posting on climate, spatial practice and hope.
Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com
Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Walter Scheidel @walterscheidel.bsky.social Historian @ Stanford | https://sites.google.com/view/walterscheidel/home
Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social Climate scientist working at NASA/JPL and lover of truth. Arrested for defending Earth. Opinions mine.
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Heather Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social Research Fellow at Loughborough University // contemporary lit, ecocriticism, and American culture // writing a book called Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press) // she/her
Giancarlo Fiorella @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social Director of Research and Training | Bellingcat
Assistant Professor | Utrecht University
PhD, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies | University of Toronto
www.giancarlofiorella.com
Opinions my own
Chris Smaje @chrissmaje.bsky.social Writer, small-scale farmer, social scientist. Seeking low-energy localism by design so it doesn't arrive by default. New book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' just published.
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index
🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact
💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature
💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics
🔗 madeindex.org
Researcher and activist. Author of Science in Resistance. @ferracimo.bsky.social
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social Nature / Climate / More-than-humans / Degrowth / Social justice / Food, Farming and Land Use / Energy / Retrofits / Transport... with typos
London
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, NYU
Primatologist, Author of THE ARROGANT APE
https://www.cewebb.com
Cindy Barukh Milstein @cbmilstein.bsky.social Misfit. Wordsmith. Dreamer. Rebel.
Never at home in this world, so always aspiring to make new ones with others, with love, care & solidarity.
@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social
@cindymilstein on IG
cbmilstein.wordpress.com
Henry Maar @hmaar.bsky.social Historian, humorist, beer enthusiast! H-Diplo Review Editor. Board Member, Peace History Society. Cold War/Arms Control/abolition/peace activism. Author of Freeze! The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2022)
Sophia Florence (Swolephia Arc Pt 2) @sophiaflorence.bsky.social ChemEng/data/applied math (pharma formulations + disinformation), writer/comedian (stand-up and horror films), health/science/tech policy consultant, copywriter, host of the Crumbling Podcast (about disinformation), Connecticut enthusiast.
thecrumbling.com
Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social
@amturiel.bsky.social @amturiel.bsky.social
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
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Judith D. Schwartz @judithdschwartz.bsky.social Vermont-based author focusing on nature-inspired solutions to global crises. Website: www.judithdschwartz.com
Erica Gies / SlowWater.world @ericagies.bsky.social Author of "Water Always Wins," National Geographic Explorer awardee, TEDx speaker, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness.
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social staff writer @ The New Republic
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com Weekend News Editor, the Financial Times @financialtimes.com.
I did write the headline.
Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social Art and Literature ✨🌻
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social I love LA. Fight for #justice. Music is life. #Filmnoir #Dodgers
Starter Packs:
Authors, Journos, Scholars fighting #fascism
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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
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Jermaine Thibodeaux @drconvictsandcane.bsky.social Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!
Dcat @dcatty.bsky.social Historian, writer, professor. I work on race, politics, sports, & pop culture in the US and South(ern) Africa. Go Sox/Pats/Cs/B's/Boks! Part-time sports broadcaster. Author of 5 books, editor of another. [All opinions my own.] Will talk or write for food.
Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration
I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers
I block fundraising (or weirder) and haters
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Jonathan Botes 🗃 @butcallmenate.bsky.social PhD candidate. Historian of gender & sexuality.- P Pamela Scully @pamelascully.bsky.social Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa.
More on https://duncan.money
Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦
Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w
•Gobernanza residual• https://bit.ly/488OkV7
•Residual Governance• http://bit.ly/41wDJzD
proud parent🏳️⚧️♾️🧠
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
@bmarmon.bsky.social @bmarmon.bsky.social
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
for more: https://linktr.ee/karimwafa
Tatenda Mashanda @samaita.bsky.social Ph.D. Rhetoric & Political Culture, @UofMaryland, SADC Geopolitics, African Rhetoric, Foreign Policy.@WakeForest, @WaterfordUWCSA alumnus.@ChelseaFC fan,🦓 🇿🇼
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Chloe Thurston @chloethurston.bsky.social Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief.
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social Professor @ a large Midwestern U
Author of Thinking like an Economist, Creating the Market University
Trying to understand how ideas about economic value have shaped capitalism + its regulation, from the first Gilded Age to the second
Have more hair now
Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social Professor @Cornell studying: people power, organizing, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing)|Builder|Leader|Believer
More here: www.jamilamichener.com
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
R. Daniel Kelemen @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy @Georgetown University. Non-resident Senior Associate @CSIS. EU politics, policy & law.
https://www.rdanielkelemen.com
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Law and Political Science at U. of Minnesota. AdLaw, Admin. Capacity, and the Federal Workforce. Contributing Editor for Lawfare; Nonresident Fellow at Brookings. Signal: Nbednar.46
Opinions are my own; Not UMN.
Bill Resh @billresh.bsky.social Chair & Professor of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University;
Director, CLEAR Initiative; Co-Chair, ARRC
Anne Joseph O’Connell @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social Administrative law & bureaucracy obsessed Stanford Law School professor; former ACUS council member (fired by Trump); writing book, Stand-Ins (on temporary leaders in government, business, & religion); mom of two
Jess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social Professor, mom, triathlete, dog person, Swiftie. US foreign policy, civil-military relations, & bureaucratic politics. Personal views only. Posts before 9/23/23 are imports from the other place.
Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies.
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social Prof @Dartmouth. Director, FieldLab. Carnegie Fellow. Inequality and military effectiveness, war, humanitarian aid, USAID, sci fi. Author, DIVIDED ARMIES (2020, http://amzn.to/2Y80f25). 🇨🇦 #FirstGen #VermontZen
Website: www.jasonlyall.com
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social Editorial director @vox.com | Science, climate, health, culture, and the big ideas shaping our future.
Unearthed @unearthednews.bsky.social Investigative journalism from Greenpeace. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/
Subscribe to the weekly newsletter: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/join-us/
Repórter Brasil @reporterbrasil.org.br Denunciamos violações de direitos humanos, investigamos cadeias produtivas de grandes setores e atuamos na prevenção do trabalho escravo.
🔗 https://reporterbrasil.org.br/
Wikipedia @wikipedia.org Maybe the real treasure was the citations we made along the way.
donate.wikipedia25.org
George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social Bestselling Substack writer, biologist, author of THE UNHAPPINESS MACHINE. Bioeconomics, Systemic Trauma, Capitalism. THE BIOLOGY OF COLLAPSE Out Now
georgetsakraklides.substack.com
Matt Kennard @mattkennard.bsky.social independent journalist. author of Irregular Army & Silent Coup. new book The Racket out now. email: kennarduk@proton.me / signal: kennard.64
Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social Past Team Lead, Climate Emergency Unit; author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency"; columnist w/ Canada's National Observer; former social justice think tank director
https://www.sethklein.ca
https://sethdklein.substack.com
Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social Environmental Coffeehouse is a clearinghouse for all things under the environmental umbrella. There is a wide variety of information under that umbrella & we aim to bring that to you. YT https://www.youtube.com/@EnvironmentalCoffeehouse &FB
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
Ayesha Tandon @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Climate science correspondent at @carbonbrief.org