Roids P. Benchley, Chair of the Yoked Caucus @lolbrarian.bsky.social Award-winning author of Swords of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Dan Batovici @danbatovici.bsky.social ERC CoG 2025 (claim.univie.ac.at) | FWF START Award 2024 (GenAut.univie.ac.at) | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social (TeTra.univie.ac.at) | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature. In Vienna.
Critical Texts @criticaltexts.bsky.social An academic blog by Dr. Gregory Paulson and Dr. Katie Leggett with reflections and resources on Greek New Testament manuscripts, textual criticism, and critical editions for scholars, students, and curious readers. https://criticaltexts.com
FORGOTTEN INDUSTRIES @forgotten-industry.bsky.social An archive & lab journal exploring what happens to the things we leave behind.
Old machines. Abandoned projects. Recovered selves.
Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social 🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social Curator: Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum. Opinions my own. 📜🏛️🏺
Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social Historian of ancient Egypt & papyrologist | games researcher (analogue + digital) | Manchester Met Uni | Co-director of the Manchester Game Centre | Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society | Les Mills instructor | Blood Bowl enthusiast
British New Testament Society @bntsoc.bsky.social BNTS promotes academic research of the New Testament and related writings. We hold an annual conference, open to professional biblical scholars and PhD students
UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social Researching the Heritage Crimes of the Present and Future. New and emerging heritage crimes occur beyond the boundaries of detection, deterrence, and imagination. We ask: what comes next? Hosted by Maastricht University. unescochairculturecrime.org
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com A weekly history podcast hosted by @ceaubin.com and a rotating cast of expert scholarly guests - because it's never too late to have haters.
http://www.thisguysucked.com
Rose A. McCandless @rosemccandless.bsky.social Bibliographer, rare book enthusiast, and special collections instruction librarian. I post about rare books & manuscripts, fine/small press, book arts, digital humanities, etc. MPhil, MLIS. Leftist. Silly goose. she/her
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
Biblical Archaeology Review @biblicalarchaeology.org The magazine making the archaeology of the Bible accessible: discoveries, analysis, and more. Explore our extensive website (www.biblicalarchaeology.org), sign up for Bible History Daily emails, subscribe to BAR, or become an All-Access member!.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Lucas McMahon @chrysoboullon.bsky.social PhD Princeton. The logic and logistics of empire. Foreign affairs, information security, and digital spatial history. Long Roman Empire, sometimes even the Komnenoi. British Academy International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Exeter. 🇨🇦
Stephen Kay @stephenkay.bsky.social Archaeology Manager, British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org
Honorary Secretary @archprospection.bsky.social
FSA FRHistS
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-3377
Lari Ahokas @ahokas.bsky.social Doctoral researcher (History, Uni. Helsinki): medieval book history, manuscript studies, DH. Views own. He/him.
Väitöskirjatutkija (historia, Helsingin yliopisto): keskiajan kirjahistoria, käsikirjoitustutkimus, digitaaliset ihmistieteet. Näkemykset omia.
Alessandra Giliberto @agiliberto.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor at @degruyter_brill | Biblical Studies | She/Her
✉️alessandra.giliberto@degruyterbrill.com | Opinions are my own.
Gerco Wolfswinkel 🇪🇺 @gj.wolfswinkel.net Theologie, IT, fotografie, geschiedenis.. Zoveel interessante onderwerpen!
Keith B Martin DC 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🌎 @keithbdc.bsky.social 😎 #Friend | 👫 #Husband | 👨👩👧👦 #Father | 👨🦳 #GrandFather | #GreatGrandFather | 🎆 #Progressive | 👨🏼⚕️#DC (Retired) | 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraina | 𝗨𝗕𝗜 #UBI | #PNW | #BlueCrew | #Lightworker | 🚫 #Anti-hate | 🚫 #Anti-Trump | 🚫 #NoPorn | 🚫DM | 🚫 #MAGA | #Blues
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
De Gruyter Brill Ancient Studies @dgb-ancientstudies.bsky.social News from the Classical, Ancient Near Eastern & Egyptian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
@plowdensmith.bsky.social @plowdensmith.bsky.social 
Il Manifesto @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social Pubblica gli articoli del ilmanifesto.it dal feed rss.
BOT gestito da @marcomaroni.it, non affiliato alla testata giornalistica.
Maria Silina @mariasln.bsky.social Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project on restitution requests and irregular displacements and alienations of museum collections in the USSR. Montreal, 🇨🇦. They/them 🏳️⚧️
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Jay Crisostomo @cjcrisostomo.bsky.social Teaching Middle East at UMich: ancient languages & histories, intellectual history, and sporting cultures.
Dr Margaret Maitland @margaretmaitland.bsky.social Egyptologist by training. Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Researching inequality in ancient Egypt and histories of excavation/collecting/museums. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/eloquentpeasant
Francisco L. Borrego Gallardo @flborrego.bsky.social Egyptologist, PhD - Associate Professor at @uam.es - Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egipto antiguos (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) 𓅆 · 𓋖 · 𓋍 · 𓏢
https://uam.academia.edu/FranciscoLBorregoGallardo
Dr Julia Lindenlaub @julialindenlaub.bsky.social Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
@sofiatorallas.bsky.social @sofiatorallas.bsky.social 
Ismo Dunderberg @dunderberg.bsky.social Professor of New Testament studies, University of Helsinki
Uuden testamentin eksegetiikan professori, Helsingin yliopisto
Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Dr Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
No one is illegal on stolen land
Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social Researcher and editor | writings on cultural heritage, antiquities trade
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
@ancientgaza.bsky.social @ancientgaza.bsky.social An ancient historian’s burner account to repost requests for support from those in 🍉
Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com ♑️🌕 Associate Professor, Classics at UCLA. Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, co-authored with Mathias Hanses, under contract with Yale University Press. Co-founder and editor, Res Difficiles, The Journal. She/her.
resdifficiles.com
opietasanimi.com
Dr. Melissa Funke @melissakafunke.bsky.social Classicist and lover of fragments. Winnipegger. she/hers
Sabrina Higgins @sabrinahiggins.bsky.social Associate Professor in Global Humanities and Director of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, Archaeologist, Wanderer, and Webmaster and Contributor @peoplingthepast
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Benni Leemhuis @bennileemhuis.bsky.social PRO fietsen bergen wandelen geschiedenis Zwitserland Egypte oud-raadslid GroenLinks Groningen
Katie Paul @anthropaulicy.bsky.social Anthropologist researching extremism, Big Tech harms, digital black markets and online crime.
Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world #PeoplingPodcast #PeoplingVideos #PeoplingBlog
peoplingthepast.com
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it!
Classics /Ancient World feed:
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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
Ivo Volt @ivovolt.bsky.social Classicist, academic publisher, editor, translator. Lecturer in Classics @ University of Tartu, Editor-in-chief of @unitartupress.bsky.social, board member of @aeup-eu.bsky.social
Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social Archaeologist of bronze age people and pots and environment 🏺public history and pedagogy with Peopling the Past
Alba de Frutos García @albadefrutos.bsky.social ailouroboskos, papiróloga, profesora de griego en la Universidad de Murcia.
(My mama always told me that I'd make it,
so I made it)
Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social Scholar, late antiquity nerd, professor, and author of Gender Violence in Late Antiquity https://www.ucpress.edu/books/gender-violence-in-late-antiquity/hardcover and Bishops in Flight https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bishops-in-flight/paper 
Heghnar Watenpaugh @heghnarw.bsky.social Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis
@ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow
@GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus- M @marco-roehberg.bsky.social @marco-roehberg.bsky.social
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #ComputationalProvenance.
We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social.
Find out more about the Lab: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
@serafinacuomo.bsky.social @serafinacuomo.bsky.social 
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Helen Shiner @sculptarch.bsky.social Art historian. Provenance researcher. Modernist sculpture. Catalogue raisonné of works of sculptor/printmaker, Moissey Kogan (1879-1943), Bessarabian (Moldovan), École de Paris, d. Auschwitz
France
https://linktr.ee/moisseykogancr
Lynley McAlpine @lynleymcalpine.bsky.social Provenance researcher and Romanist in Texas
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social All things Roman and Roman law. 
Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between
https://www.evemacdonald.net
Beth Digeser @bddigeser.bsky.social Roman historian, cook, lover of dogs.
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Bethany J @bethanyj.bsky.social Museums, Egyptology, Archaeology.
Deconstructing Mormonism and looking for community.
Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social Antiquities crime researcher, science communicator, journalist, feminist, nerd. This is a private account. I repost anything that catches my attention: cats, AI slop hate, politics, Star Trek, cats, academia, archaeology, cats, and other things. Also cats.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Angela S Chiu @chiuangelas.bsky.social Independent scholar of the market for Asian antiquities, especially Khmer and Thai. PhD Buddhist art and literature of Thailand. Author of The Buddha in Lanna (U of Hawai'i Press, 2017)
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
Georg Gerleigner @gsgerleigner.bsky.social Archäologe und Provenienzforscher. Mag Himbeeren und griechische Vasenmalerei. Privat hier.
Archaeologist and provenance researcher. Likes raspberries and Greek vase-painting. Private account.
Clare Rowan @ancient-tokens.bsky.social Associate Professor in Classics at Warwick, Numismatist, Tokenista. she/her
Greg Given @greggiven.bsky.social "A happy, footnote-drugged maniac who disturbs the book mites in a dull volume, a foot thick, to find in it a reference to an even duller one."
Michael Blanding @michaelblanding.bsky.social Investigative journalist and author of new book, The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby (July 2026). Also: In Shakespeare's Shadow and NYT bestseller The Map Thief. www.michaelblanding.com
jenyth evans @jenyth.com she/her 🌿 jenyth.com
content designer @ aquila interactive 🌿 used to teach medieval irish lang & lit 🌿 views my own, not of my employer
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social I’m a Latin professor and book historian working on slavery and scribal labor in Ancient Rome. Co-edited volume “Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Roman Mediterranean” out now from OUP. Find my other writing in The Nation.
Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.social She/Her/Hers, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBT, Agnostic, Artist, Writer, Actor, Traveller, introspective aesthete, Human Rights Activist, Trans Rights Advocate, Ambassador, Mental Health Matters, Autistic,ADHD, Music Lover, Book enthusiast.
Dr. Elizabeth Schrader Polczer @libbiesp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of New Testament at Villanova University. Duke PhD. Cradle Episcopalian. Mary Magdalene hijacked my life a few years ago.
Jordan Rosenblum @profrosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Classical Judaism, University of Wisconsin-Madison; studies ancient food and plays modern guitar (he/him)
Greg Fewster @gpfewster.bsky.social Postdoc at MF vitenskapelig høyskole, Oslo 🇳🇴 | PhD, University of Toronto 🇨🇦 | Ancient med religion, early xianity, book history 📖, papyrology 🌱, letters 📨
Lieke Wijnia @liekew.bsky.social I curate, write, research and teach. About art, religion, heritage, meaning making. I work as Senior researcher Art & Rurality at Hanze.
Exhibit "Lou Loeber. Artist and Idealist", now on view at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social Documenting White Nationalist Appropriation of Greco-Roman Antiquity at pharosclassics.vassar.edu
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Tamara J. Walker @tamaraw.bsky.social Historian * Author of BEYOND THE SHORES: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS ABROAD (Crown, out now in paperback) and EXQUISITE SLAVES (Cambridge, 2017) * Co-founder of The Wandering Scholar (@wearetws.bsky.social).
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Judith Herrin @judithherrin.bsky.social Historian: especially of Early Christendom, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Ravenna, and the role of women. 
Peranic Innerhalb @peranicinnerhalb.bsky.social Peranic Innerhalb | Sound-sculptured ambient landscapes, where echoes of the past merge with future frequencies. Ethereal textures, deep drones, and sonic architectures beyond time.
https://www.youtube.com/@PeranicInnerhalb