What We Will @wwwrise.bsky.social What We Will is a worker center organizing workers for collective power against AI displacement through layoff support, workforce development, mutual aid, community support, and policy advocacy.
In partnership with the @techworkerscoalition
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
First of the Month @whigman.bsky.social Passionate warrior against trump, trumpism & his slimy, subservient trumplican traitors.
John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social Public HS English Teacher in NYC.
Allison 🧬⚾️ @petitephd.bsky.social Science policy professional. Geneticist. I write about the Mets for @amazinavenue.bsky.social and podcast about them on @apodoftheirown.bsky.social. Women's soccer enjoyer (USWNT & Washington Spirit). Opinions Mine. She/Her
Armin Ganguly @arminganguly.bsky.social German-Brit rebel made in the 60s, RIBA architect & designer by trade. Mentor & writer by passion. Building dreams, breaking pencils. Living proof that realistic optimism is structurally sound 👍 Motto: 👉 #alwayslookup
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dragonfly615 @ubia26112615.bsky.social Here for Dem politics, CLE, PWHL, education stuff, and cool bird pics.🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Former gifted kid and English major. Oxford comma forever
Flipturns 🏊♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social 🏊♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊♂️
Emma Whitford @emmawhitford.bsky.social Covering all things faculty for @insidehighered. Get in touch: emma.whitford@insidehighered dot com // Signal: @emmawhitford.96
Hadass M @hadass-m.bsky.social Jew by Choice. Pro-Israel. Pro-Peace. Pro-Democracy.
Bob Shireman @bobshireman.bsky.social Nationally recognized expert in higher education policy, college affordability, and consumer protection, with more than 30 years of experience across government, philanthropy, and nonprofit organizations.
Melissa Tooley @melissatooley.bsky.social Director, Educator Quality, at New America's Education Policy program. Committed to improving student outcomes. Sunshine seeker, adventurous eater, mom of 2 spunky gals. She/her.
Wesley Whistle @wesleywhistle.bsky.social #HigherEd policy @NewAmerica.org. PhD candidate at UK. Former #Team46 at ED, Sen. Bob Casey, & higher ed admin. Kentuckian. My tweets/sass. He/him 🏳🌈
Mary Alice McCarthy @maryalicemcc.bsky.social New America, Center on Education & Labor; DOL & ED; Political Scientist; Mom to Frida; Cards fan; UNC Grad (go Heels); Eastern Market regular; and a few more things.. 
Lancy Downs @nancywithanl.bsky.social fan of: walkable cities, tennis, libraries, good pastries, and the ocean | new englander in dc | ed & labor @ new america
Carrie Gillispie @carriegill.bsky.social Project Director, Early Development & Disability at New America. Bates bobcat. #EnglishMajor. #OperaSinger.
Blueskys are all mine and reposts ≠ endorsements.
Laura Bornfreund @lbornfreund.bsky.social Author, policy researcher, educator. Education Policy Fellow at New America. Passionate about transforming kindergarten. I live in Florida. Mom to 2. Go UCF Knights!
Education.bornfreund.com
Tia Caldwell @tiacaldwell.bsky.social Work on #highered policy at New America | opinions are my own
Education & Work @educationwork.newamerica.org Every child in every community deserves access to the education and workforce training needed to achieve a future without limits.
In this program at New America, we develop the ideas and communicate the policy changes needed to make it possible.
Stephanie Baker @stephabaker.bsky.social She/her
Higher ed policy at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things.
Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://holdenthorp.substack.com/about #ActuallyAutistic
Kristin M. Jones @kristinmjones.bsky.social Freelance arts writer with bylines in WSJ, Film Comment, Frieze, other pubs. Editor, singer, artist. New Yorker and Bostonian. Views my own.- N @nwhillman.bsky.social @nwhillman.bsky.social
Rachael N @rachyn.bsky.social Music grad, HR practitioner turned academic as a second career. Researching Employee Wellbeing for a PhD.
Interested in HE, Organisations, Wellbeing, Mental Health, Research…Art, History, Cathedrals, Architecture and music. And, my cats! Portsmouth, UK
Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social Education policy at Urban Institute.
Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College. Affiliations: NBER, CCRC, former Senior Economist at CEA (2022-23). This is a personal account.
Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social Higher Education Policy, Student Basic Needs, Student Loans, and often Shitposter.
HE Policy Scholar: check my shit out here: https://daniel-collier-research.daniel-anthony-colli.chatgpt.site/
#edusky #academicsky
Bill DeBaun @billdebaun.bsky.social Senior Director of 📊💡at the National College Attainment Network. Jack of some trades, including dot connecting. Devoted FAFSA data dork. The snark is mine; my views could also be yours! Happy to chat, reach out!
Elizabeth Morgan @elizabeth-morgan.bsky.social CXO, National College Attainment Network (NCAN). Here until every American can fulfill their potential through education after high school. Opinions my own. There will be dog photos. 
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social Cell biologist and geneticist, Professor, mom and consumer of alcohol. Those might all be related. I grind til I own it.
She/her/hers.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6859-0073
personal account
Eric Hoover @erichoov.bsky.social Senior Writer @chronicle.com, covering college access, admissions, inequality. Believer in baseball, underdogs, long narratives.
Stephanie Hall (she/her) @stephmhall.bsky.social ▫️writing about ed policy and politics
▫️former middle & high school teacher (13 years 🇺🇲 & 🇧🇷)
▫️PhD in international ed policy
▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this”
https://campsite.to/stephmhall
Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social The Center for American Progress is dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/center-for-american-progress-1
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
Ivy Sullivan @ivysullivan.bsky.social Youth Apprenticeships | center on education & labor at New America | she/her
New America @newamerica.org We are generating big ideas and bold solutions for a new America.
Mary Keister @marykeister.bsky.social Communicator, higher ed nerd, proud Beloit College grad, occasional drummer
Work with me: https://www.marykeister.com/
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf @jbeowulf.bsky.social Investigating predatory colleges and talking federal higher ed policy for @NewAmerica.org. Formerly of @insidehighered.com and Higher Ed Dive. Signal: jbeowulf.03 (he/him)
Jillian Klein @jayseaklein.bsky.social svp, gov't affairs/public policy, Strategic Education, Inc. lifelong learner. lover of snow days, coffee & celebrity gossip. opinions=mine
Anna Sanders @msannasanders.bsky.social Reading Specialist & Instructional Coach. Passions include SOR, dyslexia, structured literacy, collaboration with SLPs.
Nancy Conneely @conneely.bsky.social BOS ☘️ to DC 🏛️
Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social Vox reporter - covering housing, homelessness, family policy
trying to prod productively
Clare Malone @claremalone.bsky.social Writer at The New Yorker. (Currently on leave working on a book about MAHA.)
Host of Still Counting. 🎧Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
https://www.youtube.com/@StillCountingPodcast
Monica Lewinsky @monicalewinsky.bsky.social yeah, that one.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social K-12 education policy person with a focus on school finance. Currently Director, Education Funding Equity Initiative @educationwork.newamerica.org. Formerly EdTrust, EdBuild. Parent. Order Muppet. Tired of all this.
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
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.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social MIT-trained economist & Harvard prof | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts in a Boston accent | 1st career: union organizer
NYT Columns
https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dynarski
https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski
www.susandynarski.com
Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social Columnist for MSNOW, Public Notice. Formerly: Washington Post, The Week, American Prospect. Subscribe to my newsletter! The Cross Section: paulwaldman.substack.com
Rebecca Natow @rebeccanatow.com #HigherEd #Policy / Associate Prof of Educational Leadership & Policy / Researcher / Author of "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education" / #Philly Sports / #LongIsland is home / #edusky 
Amy Laitinen @amylaitinen.bsky.social Crazy childless cat lady who moonlights in federal higher ed policy.
Chad Aldeman @chadaldeman.bsky.social I write about education finance policy and teacher labor markets. Follow that work: https://www.chadaldeman.com/
And helping children learn to read @ ReadNotGuess.com
Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social “There’s some good in this world… and it’s worth fighting for”
Running comms for National College Attainment Network, all things higher ed policy and practice.
Plus food and cocktails. Opinions mine.
Loquacious Libby @themadlibs.bsky.social 🎓 CMU Heinz (MSPPM), FTS (MDiv), and Westminster, PA (BA)
💻 Program Director
📣 Cleveland ⚾ 🏀 and D2 🏀
🙋🏻♀️ Sarcastic, Opinionated, Observant, and tired 😫
Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social I write about the economy for the opinion pages of The New York Times. Verification: https://go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
Ernest Ezeugo @ernestezeugo.bsky.social He/him. I read about, occasionally write about, and study federal policy and higher ed. And sometimes other stuff, too.
Currently: Federal Policy @ Lumina Foundation.
Formerly: Young Invincibles, SHEEO, New America, and team #ED44.
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein.bsky.social Columnist at The New York Times, host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast. 
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com- N Nate Johnson @natejohnson.bsky.social 25 years in Florida higher education policy. 3 months in vegetable gardening. Let’s talk about collard greens ….
Michael Itzkowitz @mitzkow.bsky.social Founder and President of the HEA Group. Former Director of the College Scorecard @usedgov. Helping ensure value and economic mobility in higher ed. 
Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield @amyellen.bsky.social Higher Ed policy.
Cecilia Muñoz @ceciliamunoz.bsky.social Serial policy nerd: led President Obama's Domestic Policy Council after 20 years at Unidos US; now growing new NGOs. On way too many boards. Author: More Than Ready.
Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social Senior Writer for @chronicle
Baseball fan (#NATITUDE)
Des Moines, IA native
Trombonist
He/Him/His
Tell me your story: eric.kelderman@chronicle.com
Signal: ekelderman.88
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”- K @kvaal.bsky.social @kvaal.bsky.social
Shalin Jyotishi @shalinjyotishi.bsky.social Science, Workforce, & Industrial Policy + Implementation. Founding Director Future of Work & Innovation Economy @New America Writer @Forbes. Visiting Scholar @ASU. Occasional musician.
#SciPol #EduSky #STS #EconSky
https://linktr.ee/shalinjyotishi
Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social Political scientist.
- Substack: https://leedrutman.substack.com
- Podcast: http://politicsinquestion.com
- Senior Fellow: New America
- Co-Founder: https://www.fixourhouse.org
- Washington Post Next 50 (2026): https://tinyurl.com/4m95978c
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Doug Webber @dougwebberecon.bsky.social Section Chief, @federalreserve. Opinions are my own. I have many dogs.
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social Author, LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE, HOW LUCKY, THE TIME HAS COME. Contributing Editor, New York. Columnist, The Washington Post & The Athletic. Writer, MLB. Critic, Grierson & Leitch. Founder, Deadspin. Illini. Mattoonian. https://williamfleitch.substack.com
Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, Nations Apart, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Educational researcher. Professor at USC Rossier. Co-director of USC EdPolicy Hub (https://edpolicyhub.substack.com/). These are my views, not those of my employer.
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic
EdTrust @edtrust.bsky.social Advancing policies & practices to dismantle the racial & economic barriers embedded in the American education system. www.edtrust.org
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.