IDI @institutional.org A research center at Harvard working to strengthen society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.
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.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
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Rick Ellis @toomuchtvcom.bsky.social Lifelong journalist now at AllYourScreens.com and toomuchtv.substack.com. TCA Member. Appeared on "Dark Side Of Kids TV" doc, winner of the 2024 David Robb Award for Best Investigative Civil Justice Story and a Regional Murrow Award
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Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
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Turkopticon @turkopticon.bsky.social Data worker advocacy group fighting for better treatment on all platforms.
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Daniel Macfarlane @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social Professor in SEGS @ WMU. Dual Canada-US citizen. Books about: Niagara Falls; St. Lawrence; IJC; border waters; Lake Ontario; 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 enviro&energy relations; now working on Lake Michigan & St. Clair
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
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Amanda Regan, Ph.D. @regan008.bsky.social 
Gotham Scholar @gothamscholar.bsky.social Historian A.K. Pertilla: Researching financial history, the history of migration, and the history of knowledge at GHI Washington. All thoughts expressed are my own. | he/him
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social ADHO is an umbrella organisation providing global support for digital humanities research, collaboration, and education through our annual DH conference, Special Interest Groups and Constituent Organisations
@jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social Historian of the Native South, Indian Territory, Five Tribes, American Education, and Social Welfare who likes spending time with some archaeologists. Citizen of the Cherokee Nation
Stephanie Drury @stephaniedrury.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/stephaniedrury
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social Organizer. Florida State Rep. Mom.
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Jo Guldi @joguldi.bsky.social Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. Data scientist, writer, historian. Newest: The Long Land War (2022), The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (2023).
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social I write narrative features about how systems affect people. Writing a book about how we teach literacy and what it means to be a good reader. Contributing writer, Bloomberg Businessweek. Author, Bad Company: https://bookshop.org/a/109816/9780063299351.
Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social Views and speech are mine alone. Might delete.
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
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author of usual cruelty (2019) and
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Caroline Fraser @calfraser.bsky.social Writer, author of Murderland and Prairie Fireslover of trees, foxes, sheep, Grogu.
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social union gal, wife+pre-k mom, political communicator, love da Mets ⚾️, tennis nerd, socialist swiftie⸆⸉, recovering actor + bartender. views mine alone!
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social Senior Editor at Book Riot. Editor/Author of BODY TALK, HERE WE ARE, + (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY. Former librarian. Anti-censorship advocate. Yoga teacher. Your favorite infernal witch. She/her. Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2024.
Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social Mostly free speech and democratic backsliding. Also Syracuse politics and Baltimore sports. https://tomkeck.beehiiv.com/
Jo Bennett @electjobennett.bsky.social Public school teacher, union/community organizer. Democrat & WFP nominee for Onondaga County Legislator Dist. 15. Join Syracuse DSA. Onondaga land.
@tammy-honeywell.bsky.social @tammy-honeywell.bsky.social 
Maurice Mo Brown @mobreezy213.bsky.social African without the memories, American without the privileges.
Bernie / WFP Endorsed Candidate for State Assembly in Syracuse, NY
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
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Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social Historian-Artist. Assistant professor UCLA, Information Studies, Digital Humanities, Southeast Asia, libraries. cindyanguyen.com Author of Bibliotactics https://bibliotactics.com
Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social Organizing with For the People Leftist Library Project and NYC PLAN. Day job in the archives at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports
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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social Expert commentary on emerging tech and security. Send us your article ideas at pitch@bindinghook.com. Project from @VirtualRoutes.bsky.social
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.
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
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Tor Project @torproject.org We're a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online. Download Tor Browser for protection against surveillance and censorship. http://t.me/TorProject
Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social Currently on organizing committee of FORCE2026, Singapore, 3-5 June 2026.
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
Cornell Courage @cornellcourage.bsky.social Cornellians, join us via the pinned post!
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social Civil servant & friend of the digital humanities, food trucks, churros, ice cream, & cheese.
Favoriting is a reminder to return to read it later--that's all.
Anne Leader @anneleaderphd.bsky.social Art historian. Author of The Badia of Florence. Non-Resident Visiting Fellow, IATH @UVA. Italian art and architecture. Editor/creator of digitalSepoltuario sepoltuario.iath.virginia.edu. GenX. Dachshund enthusiast. https://anneleader.substack.com
Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library @browncds.bsky.social Brown University's digital scholarship hub, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), provides inspiration, expertise, services, and teaching in digital scholarship methodologies, project development, and publication to Brown faculty, staff, and students
Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social Working as an advisor to Schmidt Sciences for their HAVI DH program (AI + Humanities/cultural heritage). Former CIO for the NEH & founder of the Office of Digital Humanities.
Meaghan Brown @meaghanbrown.bsky.social Biblionerd; interested in what books do to people, what people do to books. Early modernist by training, chaser of waterfalls and nurturer of plants by passion. All opinions my own and quite capricious. 
ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com anthropologist [no longer] yelling at engineers. feral.
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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab for Digital Humanities @ The University of Pennsylvania
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev The purpose of a system is what it does. 🌪️ they/them
Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social builds castles in the cloud, occasionally lives in them. autodidact, neurodivergent weirdo, pretty decent cook.
Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social Trying to stop being the wrong kinds of annoying and to start being the right kinds of annoying.
brianhood
Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
Dark Hi and Lois content now at @darkhiandlois.bsky.social.
Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and @amityvilleville.bsky.social. I used to make Reply All. One day I will be in the ground hopefully flowers will grow out of me.
scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social hater nation
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
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Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social Art activist. Craftivist. Chicagoan. Educator. President of the Joyful Menace Society. My book, Let’s Move The Needle, is out now. 🖖🏼. Big fan of libraries and dogs. Super 🏳️🌈. Gen X
Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social Librarian by day. Even more maladroit in person! Sundry book and textile arts, cross-cultural gastronomica, and ever taller piles of things on every available surface. Always hoping for funny, but ending up at earnest. she/вона/она/ona/αυτή
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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
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tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social I paint. I used to do other things. I might do them again. He/him. Protect trans kids!
“One of our generation's most moving writers.” —some Bsky rando
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us
Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social texpat in philly, librarian/archivist working in digital collections and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. she/her 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾 emilyhiggs.github.io
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social Librarian. Shop steward. Crafter.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
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Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. Defector’s ALL BALL NFL podcast is out now. I’m just here for a good time.
Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
Pittsburgh, PA.
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.