UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social Official account for the Department of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
https://sociology.wisc.edu/
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Nathan Wilmers @natewilmers.bsky.social Working on wage inequality, economic sociology, unions, and work. associate professor @MITSloan.
Social Forces @socialforcesfan.bsky.social Unofficial social media for the journal Social Forces
Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) is a democratic and plural collective of sociologists who support the cause of Palestinian liberation.
sociologistsforpalestine.org
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Mayor Brandon Johnson @mayorofchicago.bsky.social Father. Husband. Mayor. Building Chicago into the safest, most affordable big city in America.
Lena Ajdacic @lacic.bsky.social Sociologist @UNIL | working on elites, power, inequalities
Reilly Steel @reillysteel.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University | legal scholar and political scientist | research on business, law, and politics | www.reillysteel.com
Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me Ideal city: ⚛️ nuclear-powered, 🏙️ dense housing, 💰 affordable, 🚇 transit. Aka Chicago.
Posting about those things here, and trying to make them better IRL.
brandon mcfadden 🛤️ @brandonmcfadden.com transit is the heartbeat of a city 🏙️
✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ || ✈️ 🚴🚊 || he/him || 💙
Ben @urbenist.bsky.social Director of the Chicago Canal Authority
Ride Illinois @rideillinois.bsky.social Ride Illinois is a nonprofit organization with a mission to make Illinois better through biking. Our efforts, programs, and events aim to make riding a bicycle in Illinois safer, more enjoyable, and accessible to all.
Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social Harebrained is a Chicago design company that makes underwear, shirts, trivia games and anything else we fancy. Artist owned. Fuck AI.
www.harebraineddesign.com
Eric Smith @cargobikekid.bsky.social
Hunter @hunty12.bsky.social Chicagoan • Iowan • Affordable Housing • Urban Planning • YIMBY • Queer • Democrat • PB&J Enthusiast •
filth is my politics, filth is my life
emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️
she // queens🔄chicago
Chicago Bike Sox @chicagobikesox.com Let’s bike to the ballpark
https://chicagobikesox.com
Lake. Big Lake. @lakebiglake.bsky.social White Sox⚾️, N.Y. Mets⚾️, Everton⚽️, transportation and urbanism advocate 🚲🚲🚲. Chicago U.S. 🏳️🌈☮️
Streeterville Socialist @pasta-nachos.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇷🏴
I build robots, complain about Chicago’s mass transit, and do gay stuff. Sometimes all three at once
pasta_nachos on the hellsite
Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social Chicago. Bikes. Books. Writes sometimes. Drums sometimes.
www.andrewhertzberg.com
lucaisharsh @lucaisharsh.bsky.social Michigan to Chicago Pipeline beneficiary 🏙 copywriter ✍️ prolific L taker 🚉 Polly 🐱's human
They/He
Josh @shuabragg.bsky.social ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ 🗽🌃🌹 ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Jen Burns @jenburns.bsky.social Thoughts from hometown Chicago. Fan of active transportation, live music and vinyl. Guilty pleasures include motorcycling and watching F1.
Daniel @streicher.io bike sock / one person edtech shop
🚲📸 Jack Cottle
Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com (hire me policy professionals) Lighter of people, policy person, @chirppradio.org DJ. Bike guy. Chicago Dog stan. Doesn't proofread. Chicago by way of Cleveland | 🇳🇴
John Amdor @johnamdor.bsky.social 'John Amdor needs to get out more.' -Capitol Fax commenter, March 19, 2018
tweets without punctuation or capitalization are by cricket
John @localcelebrity.bsky.social he/him Product Strategist. Printmaker. Chicago, comics, & punk rock. Anti-tech-bro tech worker. Privacy wonk. Opinions mine. Millennial cringe. Probably on my bike. Say hi.
📍 ✶✶✶✶
🔗 subism.com/links
just matt @questionableway.bsky.social illinois irredentist
Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social Research Director, Good Jobs First
deep in the public finance weeds, grammar + typo offender, stata frenemy. opinions are my own. She/her
Personal site: https://amandakass.blog/
Milwaukee Ave Bike Lane @milwaukeeavbike.bsky.social If it were a well-designed bike lane, I wouldn't have to tweet about it. Chicago demands safe and sustainable transit for all.
Chicago Fietser @312fietser.bsky.social Chicago by bike.
Reluctant birder.
Pro building a lot more homes.
Parking Reform.
Less cars in our lives.
HSRGood @hsrgood.bsky.social Trains.
I don't have enough of them.
(21)
Gordo 🦔 @nrdkmaus.bsky.social Computer science code monkey. Vol garden co-leader. 🇺🇸/🇬🇾 Mixed fellow. Read as much as you can.
Loren Johnson @lorenjohnson.bsky.social architect, urbanist, organizer, tabletop gamer, and essayist https://medium.com/@lorenordeanjohnson
President @ Heart of Lincoln Square
B.J. L-R @westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social 📍Forest Park, IL
Car-free transit guy in the streetcar suburbs. Gay urbanist Chicagolander. Chi sign guy/tradie, state capacity booster, left-liberal. Also quizbowl, bikes, and dive bars. Oddly happy when covered in graffiti. Opinions my own. He/Him.
Ryan Richter, AICP @ryanjrichter.com Transportation/urban planner. Fascinated with cities, geography and the movement of people and goods. Chicagoan. ryanjrichter.com
Kurtis Pozsgay @kpozsgay.bsky.social Certified urban planner. Letter "B" love: Books, Bikes, Beer, Bowling, Bocce. Malort.
clipless baddie @urbanistbarbie.bsky.social chicagoposter extraordinaire
Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social Sidewalk enthusiast and adopted Midwesterner (formerly Twin Cities, Chicago). I write and research about housing and cities. PhD student at UW-Madison.
https://pencillingout.substack.com/
https://zakyudhishthu.github.io/
David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social Transportation planner working on making biking, walking, rolling & riding safer & easier | Care deeply about transparency | Posts are my own ofc
Hubbard Bike Lane @bikehubbard.bsky.social Launch all cars into the sun
C Tomaszkiewicz @ctomaszkiewicz.bsky.social
Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social
He/him
Chicagoan, stroke survivor, dev, moving further to the Left as I get older & more pissed off.
I probably repost too damn much.
And make too many grammatical errors & tpyos.
Also @refrag@mastodon.cloud, but that's dormant.
Matt McCabe @mmccabe.bsky.social Working to make things more equitable, peaceful & humane. Currently: Nonprofit strategy + Bike Bus leader! Prev: AmeriCorps & teacher, ed leader, Booth MBA Civic Scholar, Obama campaign + appointee.
Usually posting about Chicago, safe streets, or #Sixers
Joe Lorenzini @quidprojlo.bsky.social Chicagoan back from Philly
Cities, movies, and politics
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/sGW9
Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social Active transportation 🚲🚶🚇 • Climate and land use 🌳🌆 • Chicago politics 🌬️ • Dad x2 • Tweets and opinions my own • he/him
Lil @lilsky.bsky.social I love cool buildings, good food, the cosmos, and all things Chicago ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Bulls 🏀
F1🏁
kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com Love people, drink good coffee, and bike everywhere. I care a lot about cities (and 🎢s) | HIV+ | fighting for better streets @betterstreetschicago.org | My posts are mine
Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
Brandon Pope TV @bpopetv.bsky.social Emmy-winning journalist. Author of “Screening Room” film/tv newsletter: bpopetv.substack.com WBEZ/NPR contributor, host of “MAKING” podcast. TV/Movie critic. Journalism Prof at Columbia College Chi. I like sports and nerd things!
Alice Yin @aliceyin.bsky.social City hall reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Bay Area native. Chicago’s greatest instant ramen chef. Has a crush on lake michigan. ayin@chicagotribune.com
Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social Editorial Director at City Bureau. 📰 Previously Tribune, CS, DNAinfo. Dibs is law ❄️. (she/her) ariel@citybureau.org ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
Alder Andre Vasquez, Political Account @andrefor40th.bsky.social 40th Ward Alder / Father / Spouse / Chair of Immigration Committee / Chair of Progressive Caucus/ Vice Chair of Latino Caucus / Organizer / Problem Solver / Chicagoan until Chicago ends.
A.D. Quig @adquig.bsky.social Cook County, Chicago City Hall and Obama Presidential Center reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Hoosier. aquig@chicagotribune.com
Manny Ramos @mannyramos.bsky.social Chicago-based Investigative Reporter at @blockclubchi.bsky.social
Hannah Meisel @hannahmeisel.bsky.social Legal affairs reporter for @CapitolNewsIL.bsky.social. Voted class clown in high school, though I’d like to think I’ve reformed. hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com 🍋
Sam Charles @samjcharles.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter covering the Chicago Police Department / criminal justice
scharles@chicagotribune.com
Signal: samjcharles.38
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sam-charles-staff.html
Shia Kapos @shiakapos.bsky.social Politics reporter at POLITICO and author of the Illinois Playbook
Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social Chicago Tribune reporter, 2026 Pulitzer team, author "The City is Up for Grabs." Little Village raised. I'm just trying to make my city a better place
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social Chicago. Transportation law, policy, and technology mostly. Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Planning Council. Views my own. One ticket, one timetable, one network....
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
¡matt! ✶✶✶✶ @mattfromchicago.bsky.social just an idiot
✶✶✶✶
he/him
🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Dept of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago.
danielkayhertz.com
Meryl Streep Fighter @baileysanz.bsky.social I love Chicago. I ride a bike sometimes. Jesse’s girl. Cool and not all like uncool
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.
NWChiFiets @nwchifiets.bsky.social Salty AF. Safe streets & sound climate policy = social justice. Enjoy biking, travel, beer and cats. Content likely to randomly touch on all of the above. All content is my personal opinion. She/Her.
Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social We are all we’ve got. We are all we need. ✊🏽
Community Organizer 🚲 @cyclingxsolidarity
Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social Bikes | Food | Transit | Housing | Travel | Music | Fashion | History | And More
📍 Chicago via too many places to list
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account)
also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc.
chicago via new orleans via chicago
Dr. Reinheitsgebot @malzliebchen.bsky.social 🇩🇪🇨🇿🍻
Dad jokes and beer, the destruction of infrastructure not designed for cyclists, Great Lakes secessionist, Solar Noon evangelist. Skeeting from the field of stinky onions.
JGfromNP @jgfromnp.bsky.social I'm JG. I'm from NP. In Chicago. On a bike. He/Him/His.
Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social Chicago’s home. Interested in where we’re going and how we get there, in the very literal sense.
All opinions mine, he/him.
Mr. Cardio @ticketmasterceo.com Columbus ✈️ Cincinnati
🌀 https://cailinpitt.com/timeline
r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social Bike Cities Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Former Coastal Elite Person
Aaron Rogers @aaron-r.bsky.social Not Aaron Rodgers | He/him | 🏳️🌈 ✶✶✶✶
Ryan McCray @ryanmccray.bsky.social Printers Row and North Center
Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social Chicago
PRO biking/walking for transportation
ANTI car-dominated streets
PRO cities/housing/flâneusing
Violin/guitar/art/weather/travel
1st generation American 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
#northDLSD #bikeCHI #ClarkStCorridor
Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social The best goddamn dancer at the American Ballet Academy
Jakub M. @iliekmudkip.bsky.social Chicagoan, Information Technologist in catastrophe modeling (previously bioprocess), loves cities, public transit, & bicycles. OpenStreetMap contributor. (he/him)
Jesse Orr @jessezorr.bsky.social Once a development consultant abroad, now a Chicago civil servant.
Housing / transportation / politics / etc. opinions my own, but restrained.
Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social Near-field Cosmologist and Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Chicago. he/him
lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social notably sexy rascal | he/they | Chicago
clara @clararaubertas.net simple urban beer mom • ✶✶✶✶ • 👨👩👧👧 🚲 🏢 🌇 🚍 💻 🎶 🌳 🌊 🍃 • she/her • also @youngcrone.net • elder millennial, Chicago, kids, urbanism, music, Ruby, et al
austin @bainard.bsky.social jorts authority. head dude at @beermiscuous.bsky.social in Chicago. Free Palestine.
Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social Current* conditions:
🏙 Chicagoan (Rogers Park) 🔢 data 🚍 transit 🚲 bike 📰 local news 🌊 Lake Michigan stan account 🙊 views mine ✍️ lauriemerrell.com 👤 she/her
Alex @acannon.bsky.social They’re passing a new law. Its called Ride Your Bike.
Chicago
Papa Rides a Bike @paparidesabike.bsky.social An avid pedestrian in Chicago.
Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org We're demanding a city-wide #bikegridnow with slow & safe bike-prioritized streets across Chicago. bikegridnow.org
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
TGS @lilybeansdad.bsky.social after unimaginable loss looking to help create safe streets
Logical Frank @logicalfrank.com Richard J. Daley Branch enthusiast and general issue Chicago person. I throw yoyos, homebrew and get angry about bike lanes. He/him.
babski @babski.bsky.social Adam · I like bikes and the bus · he/him
🪩🌌🐎
Chicago via MN
Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
whet moser @whetmoser.com newsletters @ nyt. ex qz, chicago mag, chicago reader. i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a janitor
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social ✶✶✶✶ devout Chicagoan || a blog called SILLY PRIZES || AudHD socialist rabble-rouser || doesn't have much plot significance but that doesn't stop him from chilling || "an account" per Chicago Sun-Times
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
foxyjewishmama @foxyjewishmama.bsky.social Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.