alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social an aperol spritz in human form
(views expressed are mine alone)
niki grayson @nikigrayson.com vgbees, if you're driving
Library of Arabic Literature @libraryarablit.bsky.social 
Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social 🫧The Good Witch of Game Dev🫧Lead writer + narrative designer for video games and stuff. Babygirl connoisseur. NOW: Gearbox, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED]. A Host of AIAS' Game Maker's Notebook.
https://linktr.ee/alexaraycorriea
Maxim Romanov @maximromanov.bsky.social Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader (“The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” /EIS1600/), Uni Hamburg
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Phil Spencer - P3 on Xbox @xboxp3.bsky.social Microsoft Gaming
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social Translator and historian working with a variety of languages (Arabic, English, Latin, Spanish, Old English, German among others).
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Jason Fanelli @jasonfanelli.com “He’s alright.” - @lotrlore.bsky.social
Voted #1 Jason Of All Time by Game Mess Decides.
Freelance games writer, bylines @ GameSpot, Rolling Stone, MMORPG, and more. Steph’s husband, Olivia and Charlotte’s dad. Contact: jason@jasonfanelli.com.
Chuck Zimmerheld @chucktowski.com site engineer & IT for GIANT BOMB @giantbomb.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/chuckzee/
twitch: https://twitch.tv/chucktowski
he/him
Kate Bunn @katebunn.bsky.social Reporter for online newspaper, Maghrebi.org, focusing on news from the Sahel region.
Rhys Elliott @superhys.bsky.social Head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics.
Ex-Newzoo & Nielsen. Analysis in IGN, BBC, Giant Bomb, The Guardian, GameSpot, GIBiz and more.
Lives on a canal in the Netherlands, but spends most of the time looking at screens instead.
Very Welsh.
lex luddy @lexluddy.xyz | EIC at startmenu.co.uk | Gay Idiot | (she/they) | Might have seen me on: Giant Bomb, ShackNews, GamerGuides, Restart, Waypoint, Fanbyte, PLAY Magazine, TheGamer, and PushSquare | Signal Username: BasicalliLexi.57
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) @cbrl.bsky.social A learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects.
https://www.cbrl.ac.uk
@carolinerose8.bsky.social @carolinerose8.bsky.social Director at the New Lines Institute researching military withdrawal, the captagon trade, and security in the Middle East | Adjunct Professor teaching on the crime-conflict nexus at Georgetown University | Past: MENA+Europe Analyst at Geopolitical Futures
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social Annual Asynchronous Conference, other events and publications. Sponsored by CMRR Winchester, Intellect Books, and Slitherine Games. middleagesinmoderngames.net
MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social Your Middle East virtual library. Posts of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialisedinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Our homepage: https://www.menalib.de/
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
Mehmetcan Akpınar, PhD @akpinarm.bsky.social PhD @UChicago || Specialist in Early and Medieval Islam || Tarihçi. İslam Tarihi Araştırmacısı || University of Chicago @UChiDivinity @NELC_UChicago
Chris Ray Gun 🇵🇷 @chrisraygun.bsky.social I am short.
YouTube | Music | Podcasts 🎙 🎥 🎮 Management: chrisraygun@ellifyagency
MinnMax @minnmax.com MinnMax is a Patreon about games, friends, and getting better. Check out The MinnMax Show, The Deepest Dive, New Show Plus, Pew Pew Bang, MinnMax Interviews, and more!
Dave Glerum @daveglerum.bsky.social Industrial & Organizational Psychologist, Movie and TV enthusiast, Music lover who lives for records and live music.
Scott Gunter @drscottyg.bsky.social Meteorologist | Professor| Dog Dad | Runner
@drwanda25.bsky.social @drwanda25.bsky.social 
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky @vhtroyansky.bsky.social Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Christopher Dring @dringo.bsky.social Games Business Journalist and Analyst. Editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Game Business. As seen on: GamesIndustry.biz. MCV. BBC. The Guardian. Sky. Doctor Who Magazine.
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
@retrogamecorps.com @retrogamecorps.com Hey everybody, this is Russ from Retro Game Corps.
🎥 Retro handheld YouTube videos
🕹Emulation setup guides
https://allmylinks.com/retrogamecorps
Shawn McDowell @turboshawn.com Producer & Editor for Giant Bomb. Producer & Occasional Co-host for Jeff Grubb's Game Mess. Lifelong Pokémon & fighting game nerd. (He/Him) https://www.twitch.tv/turboshawn | https://www.youtube.com/@TurboShawn
Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Eric @ehanne.bsky.social Savoyard, Army Brat, Historian of Medieval Islamic history and culture, Lord Peter Wimsey is my inspiration. Husband & I have the largest pride of rescue kitties. I snark, therefore I am.
Rick @rickvanbrummelen.bsky.social Research Master Middle Eastern Studies @ Leiden | BA in History & Islamic Studies @ Nijmegen; interested in Roman and Umayyad history
Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social I’m University Research Professor in the Study of Religion and was a longtime Dept Chair but now teach, read, write, and have opinions on the fate of higher ed.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Eric Calderwood @ericcalderwood.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
Rawda El Hajji @rawdaelhajji.bsky.social PhD candidate
Bibliotheca Arabica | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
Open Islamicate Texts Initiative @openiti.bsky.social Creating the digital infrastructure for the study of the premodern Islamicate world. openiti.org
Account managed by @jparkesallen.bsky.social
Andrew Mark Henry @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social PhD of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
Edith X Chen @exchen.bsky.social Asst Prof of Pre-Modern Middle East @ U of Utah | Islamic History | Mongols | Global Middle Ages | Local History | PhD Princeton NES | An Islamicist who dabbles in Mongol stuff than the other way around, but let's not get too pedantic
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Natalie Kraneiß @kranatalie.bsky.social PhD candidate in Islamic Studies. Project: Prophetic descent of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and his descendants in the Western Maghrib and Syria. Genealogy, methods of genealogists & verification of historical/genealogical knowledge in the early modern period.
Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social Reporter covering video games at Game File (gamefile.news). Previously launched games coverage at Axios and MTV News. Was Kotaku EiC. stephen(at)gamefile(dot)news he/him
Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. 
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
Malek Teffaha (مالك) @malekawt.bsky.social Love to socialize, especially with cats.
Senior Manager - Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Games.
Game Awards Future Class '22.
عربي لبناني فلسطيني، مشارك آراء.
Lebanese Palestinian queer Arab.
🇱🇧🇵🇸🏳️🌈
He/Him/هو
Alan Karass @gnomeking.bsky.social Library Director at US Naval Academy | ethnomusicologist (music of Tunisia) | recorder player | fledgling saz player | gnome enthusiast | student of Rumi and Ibn ‘Arabi | fan of baba ghanoush
Justin Stearns @kaohu11.bsky.social Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies at New York University Abu Dhabi
Rory McCarthy @rpmccarthy.bsky.social Associate Professor, Middle East Politics @durham.ac.uk
Author: Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda: https://bit.ly/2NA6jLC
www.rorymccarthy.com
Nik Matheou 🇵🇸 @historyastheory.bsky.social • Global Medieval History & Marxism @ University of Edinburgh • @ucu.org.uk Rank & File • Support #FreeOcalan, #DelistPKK & @bdsmovement.bsky.social • Omnia Sunt Communia •
M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own
https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com You may remember us from @videogamedeals!
thorbahn3 shares video game deals via CAG. As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Contests & More: http://cag.vg/links
Irfan Ahmed Nazir @irfannazir.bsky.social Social Scientist | Qualitative Researcher | Politics, Education, Migration, International Relations, and the Middle East | Reposts ≠ endorsements
www.irfanahmednazir.com
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Amélie Zaccour @amelzac.bsky.social Journalist at L’Orient-Le Jour • all Middle East • full Mediterranean 🌊
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Reba Wissner @rebawissner.bsky.social Director of Interdisciplinary Studies/Associate Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University, faculty developer, adjunct advocate, UDL, public musicologist, she/her/hers
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging historians' engagement with the public.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Lucy James @lucyjames.games Video game enjoyer @lookingfor.game podcast: @friendspersecond.bsky.social email: hello@lucyjames.games
Andy Robinson @andyrobinson.bsky.social アンディ•ロビンソン Journalist @videogameschronicle.com | #WHUFC sufferer | Previously: Yooka-Laylee / Impossible Lair writer | Old game mags / CVG | Biz: andy@vgc.gg
Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com video games is two words
Videos: http://guard.bike
Podcast: https://lnk.to/JeffGerstmann
Patreon: https://jeff.zone/
Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Ben Starr @benstarr.bsky.social Actor. Force of Nature. Ham.
Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social Video games & deals. I post deals which may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Epic Creator Code: Wario64
Brad Shoemaker @bradshoemaker.bsky.social 1/3 of @nextlander.com, 1/2 of @techpod.content.town. Formerly Giant Bomb, GameSpot
Chris @retrogradeidiot.bsky.social slow dad. co-host of the a podcast covering classic JRPGs in extreme detail, Retrograde Amnesia:
🍎 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retrograde-amnesia-comprehensive-jrpg-retrospective/id1480854950
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/5uwSe64foe0nvhzS2J
Retrograde Amnesia Podcast @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social A podcast covering classic JRPGs, chapter by chapter, beat by beat.
🎮: Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden I & II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, Lunar: Silver Star Story, Phantasy Star IV.
retroam.com
Theo Beers @t6e.dev Father, husband, Persian/Arabic philologist, programmer
Senior course producer @Boot.dev, non-res. fellow @FUBerlin
Socdem, civil libertarian, anti-identitarian
https://www.theobeers.com/
Najam Haider @nhaider.bsky.social Historian of early Islam. Father of banana and green ninja. Author of Shii Islam: An Introduction. On a quest to write the perfect sentence…
Omniya Abdel Barr @omabarr.bsky.social Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A.
Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
Dustin Furman @dustincanfly.bsky.social 
Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social editor @ Remap // editor @ Crossplay // pr: patrick@remapradio.com and patrick@crossplay.news // tips: patrick.klepek@protonmail.com // signal: 224-707-1561
Hard Drive @hard-drive.net We are Hard Drive. Bum ba dum bum bum bum bum
Jamie Madigan @jamiemadigan.bsky.social My book about the psychology of Dungeons & Dragons is out! See www.psychologyofdnd.com. I'm also the author of Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games. I write and podcast at www.psychologyofgames.com
Simon Dor @simondor.com Prof in game and media studies. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social _Prof. for Game Design & Game Studies (HNU)
_PhD Triforce Holder
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Zayde Antrim @zaydeantrim.bsky.social Editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social, author of Routes and Realms (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mapping the Middle East (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Nathan S. French @innesseff.bsky.social Researching & Teaching -- Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Religion & Law, Jihadi-Salafi Studies, 9/11
Baseball spectator.
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Derek A. Michaud @derek-michaud.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Chair of Philosophy, University of Maine.
Erik Skare @erikskare.no Senior researcher (@nupinytt.bsky.social) |
Author of Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism (Verso) & A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Cambridge UP) |
Linux and digital methods enthusiast
Harry Swinhoe @harryswinhoe.bsky.social Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Security Challenges https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/
Co-Host of Insecure: A Security Studies Podcast https://t.co/SMlJtQ6wRS
Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (DCHA) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supports advanced study of the arts & humanities, fosters interdisciplinary research, and advocates for the value of the arts & humanities in our world today.
Kurt Hargis @kchargis.bsky.social I teach high school African American Studies and AP Comp Sci. Louisiana GLTOY 2023. M.Ed in Ed Tech. Illness stopped MA in History. I am the second-best teacher and third-smartest person in my house. If we don’t count the cats.
Medieval Studies at Lincoln @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social The Medieval Studies Research Group at the University of Lincoln.
Issa Adeli @isadeli.bsky.social Researcher, Policy Advisor | United States Foreign Affairs and the Middle East | Security and Defense Policy | PhD in International Relations | usinmena.substack.com
历史的垃圾🐼 @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social Bike-mounted historian specializing in medieval & early modern Sino-Iranian contact and Persianate political & cultural history. YIMBY, NUMTOT, and caregiver for undemanding plants. Chicago mostly-southsider. He/him.
Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com Posts many cat pics. Former scholar of Islamic history who now writes about new SFF at nerds-feather.com and podcasts about SFF history at Hugo History: klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Visiting Research Scholar in Dept of Politics @ Brandeis | Founder of Jihadology | Author of “The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”
jihadology.net
jihadologyplus.com