WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Brian Eisley @brianeisley.bsky.social Abstract artist. Perennial student. Seeker of connections and hidden worlds.
Forever anti-fascist. ✊
Sacramento, CA, USA
JPB @jpb.bsky.social Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry feminist. Cis, but hormonally augmented. Writer/EIC, Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PhD, media/politics. Semiotics, CDA, storytelling
No DMs please, I'm British
Books at https://payhip.com/NefariousBatPress/collection/tc-parker
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social Lit (& other fiction) scholar; writer; teacher; person. Local AAUP board, active for higher ed. Research: media, emotions, marriage, horror.
Forthcoming: The Quiet Fight: Marriage, Time, and the Fiction of Love Trouble (SUNY Press).
Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
readjumpscares.com
darkertimes.com
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
https://provokedeconomy.net/
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
Segnbora @segnbora.bsky.social Bookworm
Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social Slop til you drop http://understanding-tiktok.com
Shady Backflash @popeshady.bsky.social "I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album."
- Rita Rudner
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: A Wall Is Also a Road, Automatic Noodle, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social I skeet about stuff and blog sometimes. Managing Editor @yattatachi.com Portfolio https://awescott.carrd.co/ Bylines: Crunchyroll News, Comics Beat, Anime Herald, startmenu, scrmbl etc. Tweets+opinions are my own.
Unwinnable @unwinnable.com A place for stories | Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1VQ9omB | Pitch: http://bit.ly/3oBCo5z
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
T. Derscheid @derscheid.bsky.social Board gamer. I'm just a cool calm dad.
he/him
trans rights are human rights
Don't take my blocks personally.
If you put me on a list to harass me, I will absolutely report it, every time.
board game blog at http://boardgamemadness.blogspot.com
Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com "All powerful brain-in-a-jar" | Publisher at @unwinnable.com | TTRPG history at VintageRPG.com | New book with @strangeattractor.bsky.social Dec 2026 | Links: https://linktr.ee/vintagerpg
Logan Davis @doing-fine-thanks.bsky.social Programmer, potter, and object maker.
Current PhD student at RPI studying games.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) @alanranta.bsky.social Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.
Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta
ⓘ this user is woke
David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
Amber R Cederström @kilravockrose.bsky.social Acquisitions editor at the University of Wisconsin Press. Acquires in classics, folklore, Nordic studies, and Slavic studies. Cat person and animal lover. Scholar of legends and Nordic witchcraft. Views here my own, etc.
James 서 @lossless.bsky.social Leo’s 아빠. Making things with computation. Interested in augmented reality. Posting about projects, movies, music. He/him.
XR works: https://lossless.mmm.page
Mastodon: @lossless@mastodon.social
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. Apocaloptomist. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · #SpeirGorm
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies and Chair of the Humanities Program at Davidson College. I also make weird things online.
Digital skulduggery and more
☞ https://www.samplereality.com ☜
sarah edwards @seedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, North Central College. Feminist media studies // influencer industry // platforms // labor // tech. Formerly: UW-Madison Comm Arts, Social Media Collective. She/her.
https://sarahedwardsphd.com/
John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
Dave @flowstateneworleans.com Long ago ABD in Latin American history. Profile pic's a flag Dolores Huerta gave my dad in the 80s. My most prized item. Recently exiled to Atlanta. :)
Occasionally posting links to larger photo sets here from my own domain.
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1, 2, 3; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon/BSFA/BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; articles in Irish Uni Review, symplokē, Science Fiction Studies, Irish Studies Review, JGNC; fiction in many venues... He/Him
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Benny Profane @bennyprofanev.bsky.social Aspiring academic at just the right point in history for all things educational.
Woe: 5
Dread: 4
Frolic: 2
Malice: 3
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Rachel Nelson @rachelnevada.bsky.social Nevada-styled sauceress, co-creator of Ufo Sunset @ufosunset1947.bsky.social. What I generally post: music, usually related to lights, the sky, and other themes; poetry that I'm working on; things related to ufos sometimes; and occasionally other stuff.
Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Ignyte-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
JuanOchoa @juanochoa.eurosky.social Illustrator in South America. Anarchist. Butlerian.
Portfolio at https://www.juanochoa.co
he/him
No fash, AI, crypto, ppl without a bio in profile.
AP Strange @apstrange.bsky.social Writer and researcher of the Weird. Certified Kook and Master of Mystical Flapdoodle. Host of The AP Strange Show.
Bobby Campbell @bobbycampbell.net Artsy-Fartsy Mumbo Jumbo
https://weirdoverse.com/
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Dr Angela Puca @drangelapuca.bsky.social Academic research, lectures, tutoring on the study of magick, witchcraft, esotericism, Paganism, shamanism and all things occult.
linktr.ee/angela_symposium
Robert Anton Wilson @rawilson23.bsky.social 
Anders Sandberg @arenamontanus.bsky.social Academic jack-of-all-trades. 
Groose The Game Studies Goose @groosethegoose.bsky.social I am a helpful honking goose that loves game studies. I'll help you appreciate game studies through many memes of varying quality.
Klint Finley @klintron.com He/him.
These days I mostly post about politics and comic books. Also into crime fiction, horror, post-punk.
Podcast/newsletter/website: https://sewermutant.com
Portland, OR
M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social You’ve seen me on TV. This account: Cats. Books. Games. Witchy stuff. Horror. Vampires 🦇 I’m intersex, introverted & feral - Exhausted Elder Goth semi-retired from peoples’ bull💩 Still feisty
Take your AI and shove it
https://xosh.carrd.co/
Jon Lebkowsky @jonkl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Podcaster at https://plutopia.io. Blogs at https://unshaved.substack.com/ and https://weblogsky.com. Digital culture maven, cyberpunk, dharma punk, cyberactivist […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@jonkl, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #synchronicity, #poetry, #therapy ♋ #mystic, #poet, #existential #counsellor (according to some)
"Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
Book a session: https://linktr.ee/Dr_David_Pecotic
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
The Archbishop of Bologna @metaphorge.bsky.social Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large;
413 error.)
Some Other Sphere Podcast @sphericalpod.bsky.social Interview based podcast which explores a range of unusual subjects (often related to the paranormal) and is available on most of the well-known podcast platforms. Hosted by Rick Palmer
https://ko-fi.com/someotherspherepodcast
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social 🚋 on the T 😷 in Pittsburgh 🎤Songs and stories of computer science💾 We are none of us alone🎵 People of all colors and genders keep making tech history🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
JT Lindroos @oivas.com Finnish-American designer / writer. Sleep-walking cheetah. Once a book publisher. Married to kat330. Posts in English ja Suomeksi. Born 326 ppm #climatecrisis #BookSky #fortean he/him
oivas.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Research Assistant Professor of AI & Society at Binghamton University (SUNY) - Civics of Technology Board Member - Luddite Praxis - Dad Life - he/him
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
Lisa Damiano @ldamiano.bsky.social Journaliste @bastamedia.bsky.social
Mai Ibrahim @maiibrahim.bsky.social Postdoc in the Department of Comm & Media Studies | York U | Toronto.
Research areas: Media Theory, Digital Cultures, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of technology.
Meghan Blythe Adams (they / them) @mblytheadams.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
Stacy E. Wood @stacyewood.bsky.social Director of Research and Programs for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry // Technology, Evidence and Internet Weirdness
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Doctor blah blah TV @doctorblahblahtv.bsky.social 
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Athens Community Helpers @athenshelpers.bsky.social Connecting volunteers to progressive and inclusive community organizations in Athens, GA. Mutual Aid is how we survive and thrive.
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism i just can't anymore
Mestarivaraani @mestarivaraani.bsky.social Jack of all trades, master of science. Veteran game master. Fake engineer boy. Not a doctor; don’t let the white coat fool you.
Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com Dad. Husband. Former GOP congressman. Voted to impeach Trump. Now fighting for our democracy. Lt. Col. Air National Guard (ret). Founder of Country First
Adamkinzinger.komi.io
Adamkinzinger.com
Anna Ressman @annaressman.bsky.social privacy, security, doom.
Header image is one of my photos of the old Chicago Sun-Times building being dismantled. She/her. Antiracist.
Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social Writer, thinker, mom, MIT prof & humanistic voice of caution about tech. My new book, Artificial Intimacy, is out in Sept 2026, available for preorder now.
Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social Cultural intelligence, OSINT & digital policy ¦ human-digital flows; digital narratology; semantic threats; cognitohazards; extremism ¦ PhD on horror; creepypasta; digital fictions & how they shape our collective online experience.
Jake Orlowitz @jakeorlowitz.bsky.social Internet Citizen, Founder of the #Wikipedia Library, #1Lib1Ref, and the Wikimedia Consultants Network. Lead at #WikiBlueprint Consulting. Seeker of well people and sane societies. Project2029.me #resist
Chris Barrett @sourball.bsky.social Eater of food, breather of air. 
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
Ashley Hedrick McKenzie, Ph.D. @hashleytag.bsky.social Assistant professor at Clemson University, studying health communication, cancer prevention, and sexual violence prevention. 
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
maniraptor @maniraptor.bsky.social Boltzmann brain.
Sometimes on a trapeze.
Hugo Montembeault @hmontembeault.bsky.social Professor in Game Studies at UQAT-MTL. Co-host of Profil Ludique, a game analysis & theory podcast. Research focus: game design, noise theory, and glitch art.
Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social Brooklyn dad, recovering campaigner, improving challah baker. Brooklyn Democratic County Committee Member (the Fightin' 44th!).