Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com Bird art and @pigeonpost.shop 🔡🐦
https://links.alex.gd
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, IE, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski.bsky.social Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social Cartography bot by @tanaudel.bsky.social powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Automated. Not AI.
I also draw maps — see kathleenjennings.com
Patreon: patreon.com/tanaudel
KJ Kabza @kjkabza.bsky.social latest fiction: "The Ecstasy of the White Sea" (in BCS #460) | writing | fitness | I like being outside | 50,000 red foxes in a human-shaped receptacle
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social Captain of Kitfox Games (Streets of Fortuna, Boyfriend Dungeon, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud). Co-director of Pixelles & Polaris. She/her. Be full of love. Put in the effort.
Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com 🔸 Making intriguing worlds with heart
🔸 Streets of Fortuna, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud, Ostranauts, Thousand Hells
🔸 Join: http://discord.gg/kitfoxgames
Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social Blind Snake Studio.
I do whatever I want. Game designer, tarot teacher, host-king with the most-king.
Find updates at https://blind-snake-studio.itch.io/
Support me or buy art at https://ko-fi.com/blindsnake
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social She/her. Personal account. 🇵🇭🏳️🌈💃🏻💙
For official aldermanic services and response go to the48thward.org
jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social I read a bunch and edit Seize The Press Magazine.
Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
J.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social https://samirsirkmorato.wordpress.com/ 🫀 your friendly neighborhood offal pile 🫁 works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khōréō, & more 🦷 "Gore Poetics" (Cursed Morsels Press) is out now 🥩
Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social 3rd year Computational Neuroscience PhD candidate at Boston University (advisors Cynthia Bradham & Gabe Ocker). Mathematically modeling corticogenesis.
I also write trippy scifi & mathfiction.
Ignyte Award Finalist 2025
6 stories in Clarkesworld
Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social Everything Specialist🧐Sole Survivor☹️Indigenous👍🏽Fedora 44 KDE💻Mint 22☘️Former chemist⚛️teacher🎓and musician🎼Writes SF🚀F🦄and H💀Uses LAMY🖋️Kate📕Markdown✅and pandoc🪄Todavía aprendo español🇪🇸Over 9000💥WNBA fan🏀BLOG at https://bmccosar.com/ 🔗
Jason at Myth-forged @jason-mythforged.bsky.social (semi-)Professional TTRPG creator, husband, cat-dad. He/Him.
https://ko-fi.com/mythforgedgames
https://dice.camp/@JasonMythForgedGames
https://tothedicecave.org/
https://drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/24891/myth-forged-games
Bagpuss Grognard @davepaters.bsky.social Boy Genius, Broadly happy, Town Fan, RPG Superfan and host of the Frankenstein's RPG Podcast.
Desperately trying not to talk politics on here but I am weak. Very weak. Also a bit more ill, so sorry if I'm a bit..."sharp" at times. Plus #TaxtheRich
Indie City Games @indiecitygames.org Chicago nonprofit community supporting the local game development scene with exhibitions, playtests, meetups, game jams and more!
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/indiecitygames
Itch: https://indiecitygames.itch.io/
https://www.indiecitygames.org
🚫🤖🚫
Ryan Proietto @ryanproietto.bsky.social Wandering thoughts, half-finished things, and the long way around.
Lead Engineer of Alistair: https://alistaircrowe.com 📖⚔️
Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social Writer of things.
devan-barlow.itch.io
Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/DevanBarlow
devanbarlow.com
she/her
2025 Hugo Poetry Nominee
books, dogs, fairy tales, theatre, tea, coffee, sea monsters, crafts
icon:@liuet.bsky.social
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
Neal Agarwal @neal.fun making neal.fun
Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath, Ghastling |
Digging: tulsi tea, sentient ships, pb pretzels | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social SFF author with stories in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and more. Archivist. Member of Codex Writers Group. Submissions Reader for Fusion Fragment. https://bethgoder.com/
Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social They/she. My cats' names are Bruce, Clark, & BabyBear. Nebula award winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Snark at your own risk. Located in South Bend, IN. Sometimes I swear. linktr.ee/catrambo
Gail Marsella @gbcmars.bsky.social Chemistry, SFF, writing, teaching, art, babies, jazz, books, quilting, antiques, auctions, dogs, IPA, chocolate.
--Lehigh Valley Public Media (PBS): https://www.wlvt.org/
--Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6704-3465
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Stanford | Exploring money in politics, campaigns and elections, ideology, the courts, and inequality | Author of The Judicial Tug of War cup.org/2LEoMrs | https://data4democracy.substack.com
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social Writer
https://www.blueguldal.com/
Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social Writer, editor, just this guy. Occasional stories: https://www.unreality.net/writings. I also publish the quarterly zine Kaleidotrope. (He/him.) 😷
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈- B Dale Bowman @bowmanoutside.bsky.social Former outdoors columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Dr. Scott Hartman - but not THAT kind of doctor @skeletaldrawing.bsky.social Father & Husband, vertebrate paleontologist, drawer of skeletals. PhD. Instructional faculty at UW-Madison (anatomy & physiology, evolution, dinosaurs). Webpage: www.skeletaldrawing.com
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social Bone Jail
I draw comics i think that’s a nice way to spend my time
instagram.com/roryblank
patreon.com/roryblank for my monthly print zine
roryblank.bigcartel.com for cool shirts
https://rawpaw.ink/collections/rory-blank (reprints of a few shirts)
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
Chrystal O’Keefe @chrystalok.bsky.social Author, baseball writer, podcaster. White Sox and Mets. Will post corgi pics if you ask nicely. Lynchian. She/her.
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social I am a tree scientist and botanist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. A Fulbright Scholar, Author of Venerable Trees and more books in progress. Read about trees here: https://ourtrees.substack.com.
Francesca Baerald @francescabaerald.com Traditional Artist/Cartographer happily working in the game & publishing industry 👾🎲🎨
WotC•D&D•MtG | SquareEnix | Blizzard•Diablo•Warcraft | DarkHorse | Conan | Free League | Gloomhaven | & more!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiridon/unbound
Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. National Murrow Award Winner. Former Vox, USN&WR. Tariff explainer. Masculinity politics expert. Native Iowan. Jesus freak. Girlboss. Real piece of work.
daniellekurtzleben.substack.com
Liz Levin @lizlevin.bsky.social writes weird tales. mostly fantasy. sometimes science fiction or accidental horror. also teaches.
words @ Flash Fiction Online, Gavagai, Dream Theory Media, Zooscape.
Tisha Mark @tishamark.com 🎨 Artist
Telling stories about light & atmosphere with oil paints. North of Boston. She/her. No AI.
Originals available on my website. Commissions open.
https://tishamark.com
Dr. Word Person @drwordperson.bsky.social Linguist with an interest in various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies; currently an MS student at Uni Stuttgart. Native of Texas.
I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
William Burns @williameburns.bsky.social A man of means by no means.
Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.
Matthew Surridge @bookofdays.bsky.social Writer of short stories at the Book of Days project: https://www.patreon.com/BookOfDays
Writer of other things at other places, too, sometimes. He/him.
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him. Linktr.ee/adamchicago
Mark Peters @markpeters.bsky.social Loves the strange and the magical.
Editorial Reader at Gavagai.
https://mark-peters.carrd.co
Kim Connor @theotherkim.bsky.social Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener
Manahoac Territory
Born at 353.15 ppm.
Ted S Raicer @tdraicer.bsky.social Game designer, author, liberal Democrat, loather of the maga Right and the Jill Stein Left. 
Louise Sugden @roguehobbies.bsky.social HOWDY FRIENDS 🤠
I'm a full time Warhammer, Miniature painting and general nerdy stuff YouTuber!
Follow me for a good goblin' time my dudes 🤌
Sley House Publishing @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social Indie Press. Publisher of genre fiction. Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy. Home to the annual Tales of Sley House Anthology
Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social They/them from Appalachia now in suburban Illinois. Clarion 2024. First reader at Fusion Fragment. Friend to guinea pigs. anjbaker.neocities.org
Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social What fresh hell is this
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelKupperman
Art 4 Sale: https://michaelkupperman.com/shop
Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.
Justine Gardner @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social 🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
C. E. Singer @ce-singer.bsky.social SFF author & attorney & occasional professor | Finalist for the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award | Codex | Fiction forthcoming in Analog Science Fiction and Fact & Flash Fiction Online
http://ce-singer.com/
meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social writer, mpls enjoyer, & professional pulp apologist. stories published in pseudopod, baffling, adventitious, ffo. but captain, what would could they possibly want with spock's brain? List of work available/upcoming: https://mkanewrites.com/
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / toddler mama / clarion west '26
stories in/coming to khōréō, night shades mag, saros sf, hex, sprawl mag, if there's anyone left
yasmeenfahmy.com / NJ / صباح الحرية
Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social TTRPGs | tabletop games | languages | teaching | travel | nature.
Faculty in Italian and Ed Studies at Wesleyan University.
Educator | player | GM | designer | editor | translator.
Co-host of @rpgroots.bsky.social
https://czamboni.carrd.co/
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social moreblueberries | Award-Winning Game Designer | Artist | Co-Founder & Executive Producer at Many Sided Media | He/Him
sadvampiregame.com
hornywizards.com
https://linktr.ee/moreblueberries
A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social Writer | BEST AMERICAN SFF 2026 | BRAVE NEW WEIRD vol 4 | Stories in Reactor / Lightspeed / Nightmare | More info algoldfuss.com | Newsletter https://buttondown.com/algoldfuss | xe/xir/xem
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Claudio Pozas — Commissions Open @claudiopozas.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, game designer, Brazilian.
No AI, No N.F.Ts.
Women's rights are human rights, Love Is Love, Black Lives Matter, Free Palestine, Free Ukraine, Fascists Will Not Pass.
http://www.claudiopozas.com
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Leah Schnelbach @leahschnelbach.bsky.social writer, mostly. intellectual junk drawer at reactor mag. they! 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social I have an MA in archaeology and run a blog called Living in the Longue Durée about ancient history and whatever else. This profile is mostly funny observations about history and science.
Blog: https://livinginthelongueduree.com
Ask if you want Discord.
Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS (Hachette India, 2022)
A DARK & NARROW HOUSE (Putnam/Penguin RH USA & Titan Books UK-2027)
Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist
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queries @rhaliterary
Insta: usmantanveermalik
www.usmanmalik.org
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Jessica Sirkin @jessicasirkin.bsky.social Fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer. Technology and TTRPG writer and editor. Rabbit and cat companion. Working on a novel. Tries too hard. Reads too much. Probably dressed weird.
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social In every time, in every place, the deeds of man remain the same. (He/Him).
WEBSITE: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/ 
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social makes things 🏳️🌈 | RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN @press-android.bsky.social | EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com | Stonecoast MFA '21 | Rep: @laurenbajek.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow.
Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute
Associate Lecturer in Quantitative Archaeology and Later European Prehistory @ UCL Institute of Archaeology
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
Joel Merriner @joelmerriner.bsky.social Doctor of art history, artist and writer, author of https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrating-the-lord-of-the-rings-in-the-soviet-bloc-9781350442085/ adventures in '80s fandom and the visual Legendarium
Dr Michael John Goodman @mikeygoodman.bsky.social Book History | Shakespeare | Digital | Illustration | Literature | Design | Typography | Public Domain |
www.michaeljohngoodman.com
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
Albumism @albumism.com A website & global community of passionate music fans dedicated to celebrating the world's love affairs with albums past, present and future | www.albumism.com
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. No AI. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social Writer, science nerd, boy crazy, Dodger fan. she/her. I made a book & won best dramatic screenplay at #AFF2021. Opinions my own & often wrong. The least influential Amanda on bluesky per bsky38.com
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin.bsky.social One half of the Courses For Philologists + Philologists' Corner Team.
Click the link to learn more about + sign up for fall language classes:
https://forms.gle/AcqKda4kziPLQLK26
Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/jeffgreene
Jimmy Frohman @jimmyfroh.bsky.social Writer of horror, folklore, and American uncanny. Flash Frog, Small Wonders, Neon & Smoke. Dad 🌈 LGBTQIA 🔴🟡⚪🔵🟢 Multiple Sclerosis.
Joey Cross @jjjjjjjjjjcross.bsky.social Humanist writing and teaching about the Hebrew Bible, Demotic literature, and the ancient Middle East at Berkeley. Previously: Berlin, North Carolina, Chicago, Texas, Louisiana.
Ayesha T Qazi-Lampert @ayeshaqazilampert.bsky.social Sharing Digital Field Notes:
Shipboard Science Immersion on Lake Superior 🚢✨
Chicagoan. Pashtun. Peshawar. Environmental Science Public Educator. UIC PhD Cand. Hon Appt Field Museum. 2023 EPA PIAEE Award Rcpt. Unionist 🌎🕊️🧿
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.