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Flint Beat @flintbeat.bsky.social Flint Beat was launched in 2017 to empower, impact and inform the residents of Flint, Mich. and serve as a platform for the community to be heard.
MindSite News @mindsitenews.bsky.social Nonprofit, nonpartisan digital journalism dedicated to reporting on mental health in America.
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Rochester Beacon @rochesterbeacon.bsky.social Rochester, NY's premier nonprofit publication and community forum. Providing an in-depth look at the region’s complex challenges.
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100Reporters @100reporters.bsky.social Nonprofit news consortium that reports on corruption and home to Double Exposure Festival and Symposium, the only investigative film festival in the United States, now in its 10th season.
The Philadelphia Citizen @thephilacitizen.bsky.social The Philadelphia Citizen is an independent news outlet focusing on solutions to make Philly a better city and ways to inspire locals to be more engaged.
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YES! Media @yesmedia.bsky.social Award-winning, nonprofit and independent solutions journalism. Reporting stories silenced elsewhere.
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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social journalism prof. @USCAnnenberg, founder Crosstown: data-driven local news (xtownmedia.com), ex-@WSJ. Lacking sense of humor.
CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social Reinventing local news through data. One city at a time. 
Sunlight Research Desk @sunlightresearch.bsky.social Powering investigative journalism. Serving local newsrooms. A project of @muckrock.com.
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Ian (he/him/poppers to my kids) @professortzero.bsky.social Professor of English and Journalism at Chaffey College! Come read us at thebreezepaper.com!
Diara J. @curiousscout.bsky.social Environmental engagement journalist with The Margin & NC Local. A disinfo researcher, media strategist and fantasy book nerd. Also a normal nerd. Poodle puppy mom. Saving up for my trip to Rivendell.
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Jennifer R. Nájera @jennrnajera.bsky.social Borderlands anthropologist. Writer. Immigration & Education. Poetry & Latinx Art. Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside.
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UC Riverside School of Medicine @ucrmedschool.bsky.social A medical school for Inland Southern California
UCR Political Science @ucrpolisci.bsky.social Official account for the Political Science Department at the University of California, Riverside. https://politicalscience.ucr.edu/
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social Professor, University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Public health scientist & sociologist keen on population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news, often for troubling and frustrating topics. Opinions my own. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
The Low Residency MFA @ UC Riverside @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social The Hottest MFA since 2008.
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Miriam Venturini @venturinimiri.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics @ucriverside.bsky.social.
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Studying labor unions -
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Ilana Bennett @ilanabennett.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Riverside studying brain aging using MRI and cognitive aging of learning and memory
Ian Ballard @iancballard.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Riverside studying learning and goal-directed behavior. Director of the Computational Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab (https://www.ballardlab.org). He/him
William H. Grover @wgrover.bsky.social Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside | loves microfluidics, sensors, and weird computers | hates fake medicines | groverlab.org
Gareth Funning @gfun.earth Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!
Michael P. Toothman @michaelptoothman.bsky.social I future-proof humans so technology won't replace them. Educator @ UC Riverside | Polymath | Speaker | Writer | Air Force Veteran
Mark Long @mlmarklong.bsky.social Dean, School of Public Policy, UC-Riverside
Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Ostevik Lab @osteviklab.bsky.social Evolutionary biology lab in the EEOB Department at UCR. We study adaptation and speciation in flowering plants! 🧬🌻🔬
Posts by Kate Ostevik and guests.
Minhye Joo @minhye.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor at Pitzer College | immigrant incorporation in the U.S. + REP + mixed methods
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Mingxun Wang @mingxunwang.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UCR
Computational Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics.
#massspec #molecularnetworking #GNPS #MassQL
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Daniel Majerowicz @dmajer347.bsky.social PhD student at UCR studying Early America/Early Modern Empires. Interests in intellectual history, secularization, religious and political thought.
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Emiliano De Cristofaro @emilianodc.com Professor at UC Riverside, head of SPALab
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social Philosopher, UC Riverside. Father. Human.
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
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Nico Napolio @nicholasnapolio.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Riverside 🏳️🌈
Carolyn Rasmussen @carolynplants.bsky.social Prof of Plant Cell Biology at UC Riverside. Views are my own. She/her
Brian Siana @briansiana.bsky.social Astronomy Professor at UC Riverside / Chair of the Riverside Board of Public Utilities / Heat pump evangelist
Dr. Sydney Glassman @sydneyglassman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Microbiology and Plant Pathology at UC Riverside. Fungal ecology PhD. Mushroom enthusiast 🍄
John Franchak @johnfranchak.bsky.social assoc. prof of psychology at uc riverside • perception, action, and development • data science, rstats, julia, machine learning • he/him
Kieran Samuk @ksamuk.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the EEOB Department at UC Riverside. Studying evolution and recombination using genomics. 🍁🔬🖥️. samuklab.com
Manu Sridharan @manu.sridharan.net CS prof at UC Riverside in Programming Languages and Software Engineering. Original author of NullAway. https://manu.sridharan.net
Mai Nguyen Do, PhD • Đỗ Nguyên Mai, TS @donguyenmai.bsky.social Teacher, poet, political scientist. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, and inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice
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Olivia E. Atherton @oliviaatherton.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Riverside • Interested in personality development, self-regulation, life contexts, and health • https://srchlab.ucr.edu/
Kevin Shih @kevinshih.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics, UC Riverside & IZA
Labor Economist, Economics of Immigration and Education, Trade Adjacent.
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Tabea Springstein @tabeaspringstein.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at UC Riverside | Studying how emotions are experienced and managed in our daily lives & how our emotional lives change as we grow older | PI Emotional Lives Lab (https://emotionlab.ucr.edu/)
Stephanie Moore @smoorephd.bsky.social Assistant professor | School psychologist | Nature enthusiast. I study #SchoolMentalHealth and work to improve mental health equity through early identification, wellness promotion, and #ImpSci. Views are my own.
Dan Koenig @evogen.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UC Riverside. Avid genetics enthusiast.
Pete Homyak @petehomyak.bsky.social Ecosystem biogeochemistry | Associate Professor at UC Riverside | 2017 Ford postdoc fellow | bilingüe 🇨🇴🇺🇲| he/him | Views are my own
Covadonga Lamar Prieto @covadongalp.bsky.social Asturiana | Opinions my own, frequently sarcastic
Roberto Macias @robertomacias.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of English @UCRiverside | Research interests: Chicanx masculinities, ontology, and the concept of the political | (he/him)
Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D. @jorgenleal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside
Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian
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The Lund Report @thelundreport.bsky.social We're an independent, nonprofit newsroom engaged in public-service journalism. We shine a light on health care for people in Oregon/SW Washington. Come visit at www.thelundreport.org
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Martina Guzmán @martinaguzman.bsky.social Media strategist. Founder of VERDAD, a radio mis/disinformation tracking tool. Director: Race & Justice Reporting Initiative at Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights, Wayne State University Law School. @jskstanford @columbiajournalism
The Imprint @theimprintnews.bsky.social The Imprint is a non profit daily news site reporting on youth and families. Follow to stay up to date on child welfare news in the U.S.
Mat-Su Sentinel @matsusentinel.bsky.social Independent, nonprofit news for Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
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Chris Krewson @ckrewson.bsky.social Executive Director, LION Publishers. Suburban husband and father. Into digital local news.
Jonathan Kealing @jkealing.bsky.social journalist, avgeek, dad, traveler, nonprofit executive
The Badger Project @thebadgerproject.org We are an INDEPENDENT news nonprofit in #WISCONSIN investigating the powerful - politics, wealthy donors, police, etc.
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Borderzine @borderzine.bsky.social Borderzine is a bilingual, online news magazine covering life on the U.S.- Mexico border. It is an innovative teaching newsroom showcasing the work of multicultural, multimedia journalism students at UT El Paso and our partner schools across the U.S.
Cascade PBS @cascadepbs.org Cascade PBS provides high-quality national public television and local programming that celebrates the Pacific Northwest. Our mission is to inform and inspire our community to make the world a better place.
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