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Richard Soren @richardsoren11.bsky.social
Aja McCarthy @ajamccarthy.bsky.social Librarian. Cheerleader for wild ideas. She/her. Opinions my own.
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Lamin @modoulaminjaiteh21.bsky.social With God Nothing Is Impossible With God Everything Is Possible
Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
Jennifer @bibliojenni.bsky.social Librarian at Hereford Cathedral. Librarian cliche & loving it. Expect books, tea, crafts & cats. All views my own, in case it needs to be said.
"She's the most librarian librarian I have ever seen."
Giovanni Bracchi @giobrach.bsky.social Pure mathematics PhD @ UCL (microlocal analysis & spectral theory) – raised a physicist – friendly neighbourhood continuist – stalwart cat enthusiast – ↙↙↙
Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social Book historian and maker of things. Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org. MSLIS student.
Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social Stashes pens around the house like drinkers stash bottles. Comics for cash. Where applicable.
Artist/Author: Crash Course, Rumble Strip, Donny Digits, Sugar Buzz!, Plastic Culture, etc
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No DMs, I’m not jumping thru that hoop- M @mmegoose.bsky.social @mmegoose.bsky.social
Farley P Katz @farleypkatz.bsky.social Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz
Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching: climate & clothing, fashion & politics, also liberation graphics | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
Professional Wiki @professional.wiki Open source knowledge management with #MediaWiki & @neowiki.ai
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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social 🎸🌱🍄🟫⚗️🧪☕️
I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59
The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut
✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts
🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian)
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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser // Letterpress amateur // Previous rare books librarian at UMN // MLIS, St Kate's // MA American Studies, Columbia
DC -> NYC -> MPLS -> BC
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.
Cassidy Holahan @cassidyh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at UNLV ❧ c18 literature, book history, digital humanities, media studies, theatre and performance ❧ she/her
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store: Aperiodical.net
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
https://robbierichardson.net
Jean @voynichjean.bsky.social Interests include the Voynich manuscript and freshwater aquarium fish. You’re all bots, aren’t you?
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Joshua D Moore @chinecheremdaniel.bsky.social Official page of CMSgt Joshua D. Moore, the fourteenth Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air National Guard. He represent the highest level of enlisted leadership and is the principal advisor to the Director of the Air National Guard
Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
Sonya Cronin @sonyalcronin.bsky.social IRC post doc fellow @UCD networking early modern women writers across the archipelago | formerly IRC @TCD | FRHistS | theory | book: Women, Royalisms and Exiles 1640-1669
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89609-6
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Nepenthe Press @nepenthepress.bsky.social Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature
Illustrated, Limited & deluxe editions.
Based in North Yorkshire, UK
www.nepenthepress.co.uk
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Francesca Giannetti @jofrankie.bsky.social DH librarian w/ interests in text encoding, language learning, librettos, pedagogy, and digital libraries. She/her. Profile pic: Hollyhocks and Cats from the Met. Re me: https://francescagiannetti.com.
Vera @infonta.bsky.social Type design & calligraphy — www.infonta.com.
The power of interpretation in type design. Historical material reimagined.
Letterforms of all kinds, styles and applications. Culture, research, fun.
Married, raising two bilingual kids.
Cambridge, UK
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there 🖤🌊
Anastasia Armendariz @anastasiaa2z.bsky.social special collections librarian. seasonal baker. captain of the pismo beach disaster relief. she/her.
WyrdTurtle @wyrdturtle.bsky.social
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
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Andrew Black (He / Him) No Bluesky, I am not spam! @androidblackish.bsky.social I'm just a regular guy who cares about others. We are always stronger together. I care deeply for our planet, it's the only place where we all can live. Profit means nothing if future generations have no safe place to live or food to eat. We are all equal.
@chuffilly-roche.bsky.social @chuffilly-roche.bsky.social
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social Mathematics Sorceror (sensory alchemist) at the Arctangent Transpetroglyphics Algra Laboratory (ATAL), I transflarnx mathematics into living rainbows. http://owen.maresh.info https://github.com/graveolensa,
Psoepbe-Tlaxtlal; (an undreamt splendour?)
The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social The Author Village is a collective of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book creators, educators, and librarians available for in-person and virtual school and library visits, conferences, workshops, and professional development experiences.
Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson @whitfrazier.bsky.social Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social AI, Mobile and IoT security, future automotive, 17th century shorthand, viticulture and sim racing. Former Chair of GSMA Fraud and Security Group.
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Alicante • Antwerp • Bristol • Galway • Vienna • Zurich •
linktr.ee/rebpaf.network
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the authors.)
Drew Thomas @drewbthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @unisalzburg.bsky.social | Digital History | Applying AI to early modern print & visual communication • The Industry of Evangelism (Brill) • FRHistS
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social 📣 Activating Public Humanities
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
John Kausch (杰克口述) @realcharacterlanguage.world Real Character Language: http://realcharacterlanguage.world
Knowledge Organization #KO Volvelle artist. Hieroglyphs, ontologies, AI criticism, history of universal languages 🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
My is kamacamara @kamacamara1234.bsky.social "I’m just a soul learning to heal, finding light in the cracks of life, and hoping my story can touch even one heart
@goethean.bsky.social @goethean.bsky.social Chicagoan. Raised as a fundamentalist Christian. BA in philosophy. Book hoarder. Interest in 19th cent. German lit & phil. Had a paper published in an academic journal. Traveled to India > ten times. Moderate Democrat. Enjoys board games. Writing a book.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
@bubiz00.bsky.social @bubiz00.bsky.social Loving to make life better for me and my family one day🙏🏻✌️💯