ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Follow along for news, events, and calls for papers.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order. Looking forward to the pivot past video.
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
Nat Katz @nathanielskatz.bsky.social Roman historian at the University of Arizona. Science Fiction & Fantasy reader and writer. Also: metal, rap, cats, Seinfeld.
@cjsharvard.bsky.social @cjsharvard.bsky.social 
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/ancienthistory101
Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/AncHist101/shop?asc=u
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik @mbikoeln.bsky.social Willkommen auf dem Bluesky-Kanal vom MBI! Hier posten wir über Neuigkeiten und Veranstaltungen rund um die Jüdischen Studien an der Uni Köln.
https://judaistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
ROMANA ERC @romanaerc.bsky.social https://www.romana-erc.com/
PI: Prof. Maren Niehoff
@HebrewU
Jerusalem
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar @tetraseminar.bsky.social Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia (UGent), Marion Pragt (KU Leuven, @worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (UniVie, @andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (UniVie, @danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
PJ Wilson @pjwils.bsky.social PhD candidate in NT & Christian Origins (migration & Acts) at the University of Edinburgh § coordinating refugee and asylum seeker support projects with the Naz § usual caveats: views are my own, etc.
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 🖖
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)
PLUR
IDIC
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Tyrell Corp Testing Lead @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
John Jackson @jpj.bsky.social Historian of scientific racism. Here's how to find all my stuff: https://www.johnpjacksonjr.com/
Łukasz Sokołowski @sokolowskilukasz.bsky.social Doctor of archaeology and cultural anthropologist interested in Roman art and portraiture with special emphasis put on #RomanEast and #Palmyra🏺📖🇵🇱🇪🇺🌍🙋♂
https://khiflorenz.academia.edu/%C5%81ukaszSoko%C5%82owski
Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸
📖'Gladiators in the Greek World'
Host of @AncientHistory101.org
ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary.
Expect typos.
Birkbeck and Leicester alum
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Phylisa Wisdom @phylisawisdom.bsky.social Brooklyn enthusiast.
James Crossley @jc01229.bsky.social Runs CenSAMM. Univ. of Cambridge & MF Oslo. Prof. & critical studier of religion, politics, John Ball/1381, A. L. Morton, apocalypticism, historical Jesus, English radical tradition. https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-james-crossley
Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social Freie Journalistin • Podcasterin • Autorin
🎙️ "Seweryna und die unsichtbaren Nazis" (NDR)
🎙️ "Die Anachronistin"
🎙️ "Was denkst du denn?"
🎙️ "Sport inside" (WDR)
🎙️ #zumfeindgemacht
https://www.norahespers.de
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @yoelitlalim.bsky.social
Eurasian transmissions of knowledge
MIT Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/pillars/healing-arts-and-human-well-being/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Nicole Oesterreich @noester.bsky.social PhD NT Studies, Research team leader of Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital: cjhnt-info.saw-leipzig.de | 2nd temple literature, NT within Judaism, cognitive Studies/emotions | #AcademicMum of 2, sometimes preaching 🏳️🌈-Ally
Sam Barber @barber-samj.bsky.social Art, architecture, material culture | Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Vincent E. @vincente.bsky.social Research MA at Leiden University; working on social networks and book circulation in the late Ottoman Empire
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
Safaitic @safaitic.bsky.social Visit : ociana.osu.edu
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
Heleen Murre-van den Berg @hlmvdberg.bsky.social Professor of Global Christianity, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University - Books - Middle East - Religion - Syriac/Assyrian Christians - Migration
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social Ethicist, half-assed text nerd. Sexual ethics & Jewish text. Queer. AuDHD. She/her.
Current project: The Neurodivergent Talmud
Book: When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (IUP 2023)
RJELevi.com
Institut(e) of Jewish Studies/für Jüdische Studien TÜBINGEN @tuebingen-jewstud.bsky.social here you can learn more about our study programs (BA/MA), events, conferences, lectures, research projects and publications by our faculty members with inter-cultural and inter-religious perspectives.
Niko @nikolaijan.bsky.social Bin für die Utopie hier. 🌳
Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social Historian of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the University of Warsaw, chair of the Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations. Interested in relics, clerics, saints, demons, thieves, and divination. 
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.
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
Forough Mahmoodi Darvish B. @foroughmdarvish.bsky.social MA in Old Iranian Languages and Culture | PhD Candidate in Late Antiquity | Irano-Armenian Studies | Apparently a Historian!
Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social Publishing top scholarship in Judaic studies for over a century, now in open access. Find our archives on JSTOR and recent issues on Project Muse.
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Angie Hobbs @profangiehobbs.bsky.social Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy Emerita. Here for: philosophy; ancient Greek and Roman culture; nature; music; theatre; books; politics; cricket angiehobbs.com
Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu The School of Arts & Sciences is the heart of Penn. Learn about events, news and get involved in the conversation by following us!
https://www.sas.upenn.edu
Visit our online publication, Omnia Magazine: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/
Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
https://gershmanlab.com/
Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor @ Fortress Press
Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
We should improve society somewhat
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!.
Dr Tiggy McLaughlin @amalasuentha.bsky.social late antique historian, theology teacher, writer; still writing about Jesus's flesh in Merovingian Gaul
Borders, Boundaries, Barriers Conference @bordersboundaries.bsky.social Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (Rewley House, 20-21 April 2026)
Registration open early October: https://buytickets.at/bordersboundariesandbarriers/1842029
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
Jake Nabel @jakenabel.bsky.social Historian of ancient Rome and pre-Islamic Iran. Book (open-access!): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-arsacids-of-rome 
@nabodo.bsky.social @nabodo.bsky.social 
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social The University of Pennsylvania's research center for the study of Jewish civilization —linking scholars to scholars, researchers to resources, and ideas to the wider world.
Dr. Shana Zaia @shanazaia.bsky.social Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
@nathanschumer.bsky.social @nathanschumer.bsky.social 
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak and Nippur; Co-Editor, Iraq Journal; distance runner.
Dr Hannah Lucas @hannahalucas.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow @mpiwg.bsky.social / @tuberlin.bsky.social.
Medieval lit, mysticism, medical hums. Sometime yoga teacher. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @columbiaup.bsky.social. She/her.
hannahalucas.com
Judith Herrin @judithherrin.bsky.social Historian: especially of Early Christendom, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Ravenna, and the role of women. 
Rafe Neis (((they/them))) @postrafelite.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🎨✍🏻 🦋 Londoner in the Middle West. Historian of late antiquity and Talmud scholar. Comics artist and painter. First Gen x 3.
Katie Kleinkopf @katiekleinkopf.bsky.social UCW-Kentucky member. Scholar of late antique Christianity interested in asceticism, gender, and historical ethics. She/her. 🖤🩶💜
Jewish Studies at Dalhousie University @daljewishstudies.bsky.social 
Madalina Toca @madalinatoca.bsky.social Late antiquity, epistolography, manuscripts | Humboldt Fellow in Bamberg. Research Associate at the University of Vienna and KU Leuven. Former Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh
Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought.
book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76
new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god.
אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social History Prof. (Israel/Palestine, Jewish history, Middle East), urbanist, map-lover, punster, ebike and public library enthusiast. Seattle, WA
Jewish Book Council @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social Nonprofit organization
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
🎉 #NationalJewishBookAwards
🗣JBC Network—platform for authors to connect with programmers
📘PAPER BRIGADE—annual print #litmag
📖Book reviews + essays
Bethany Grainger @bethanyjoanna.bsky.social Ph.D. in New Testament, Wheaton College | Female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social Associate Professor, University at Albany SUNY
Greek and Roman History
PhD UC Berkeley
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
Laura Duhan-Kaplan @onsophiastreet.bsky.social Rabbi Professor Dean. Recovering philosopher. Reluctant singer. Cat & crow fan. Recent Book: Biblical Animals http://amzn.to/3j1ftQD. Blog: www.sophiastreet.com
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)
Joe Scales @josephscales.bsky.social PI and postdoktor @ Universitetet i Bergen | Analysing violent variations in ancient Jewish narrative (AViVa) | NFR prosjektnr 359600
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Philosopher of emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Eve MacDonald @gevemac.bsky.social Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between
https://www.evemacdonald.net
Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures @jacculturelmu.bsky.social The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures brings together projects of junior and senior researchers relating to Jewish-Arabic cultures.
www.lmu.de/jewisharabiccultures
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity @aartela.bsky.social The Bluesky account of the American Academy of Religion Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity program unit.
Journal of Religious History @j-religioushist.bsky.social International double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality scholarship on the history of all religions & their relationship with human experience.
Isabel Toral @itoral.bsky.social Arabic studies, premodern; climate, gender, politics; Spain, Germany and Europe..Madrid. Berlin. Cats. Owls. Food in history. History. Late Antiquity. Iraq and al-Andalus
Katie Unger Baillie @katiebaillie.bsky.social Director of the Environmental Innovations Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Also: writer, runner, gardener, bird nerd, and twin mom.
CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies @cujewishstudies.bsky.social Academic program at the University of Colorado Boulder offering Majors and Minors in Jewish Studies.
https://linktr.ee/cujewishstudies
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Alberto Rigolio @albertorigolio.bsky.social Professor, Classics and Ancient History, Durham University.
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/
Lior Sternfeld @liorsternfeld.bsky.social Historian of modern Iran, Jewish communities of the Middle East. 
Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan) @labendz.bsky.social We published a new book: "Keeping Contact: Jewish Cultural Initiatives across Cold War Borders" (https://www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712645)
Jewish, Czech & Cold-War hist: https://tinyurl.com/36zsaffc
OyKay JLP: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W7Vy5CXGc4A
Jewish Review of Books @jewishreviewbooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Subscribe at https://www.ezsubscription.com/jrb/subscribe
Rachel B. Gross @rachelbgross.bsky.social Studying U.S. Jews and finding religion in unexpected places | Assoc. Prof. at SF State | Author: Beyond the Synagogue | Now: Mary Antin’s spiritual adventures | https://linktr.ee/rachelbgross