Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social Writer/ethnographer/professor, author of “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (DUP 2019) she/her/free Palestine 🍉
https://www.maurafinkelstein.com
Sana Saeed @sanasaeed.bsky.social media critic, currently uncouth. prev: al jazeera
Omar Jabary Salamanca @ojs.bsky.social 
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social Palestinian in exile. Satire, news, & own opinions. Librarian.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
Independent & nonprofit since 1975.
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Resisting Empire: A History Podcast @resistingempire.bsky.social A history podcast that explores how people resisted empire all over the world and throughout time.
Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine and Human Shields
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Nikhil Anand @liquidperson2.bsky.social anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Book publisher, est. 1925.
University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social Publishing a universe of knowledge for readers worldwide. cup.columbia.edu
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Sujatha Fernandes @sujathaf.bsky.social writer • Professor • migrant workers, social & labor movements, climate storytelling • author Curated Stories, The Cuban Hustle & more • rep'd by Maria Cardona • #FirstGen • yogi www.sujathafernandes.com
Razan S @razanspeaks.bsky.social Syrian. Niche in narrative, pre-2011 exile communities’ palingenesis and diaspora histories.
Also @intersectSyria.bsky.social for info-bites.
Mikko Joronen @mikkojorge.bsky.social Geographer focusing on Palestine/Middle East, settler colonialism/ungovernability, violence/vulnerability, dwelling/air and ontology/space, atmosphere/politics. Associate Professor of Regional Studies @TampereUniversity.
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
Rethinking Marxism @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social a journal of economics, society and culture
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global research on cultural practices, processes, texts, infrastructures, and identities.
journals.sagepub.com/home/ics
Vintage Arab @vintagearab.bsky.social Hajer Ben Boubaker | Créatrice du podcast Vintage Arab et chercheure indépendante | Documentariste @franceculture | 📘 Barbès Blues @editionsduseuil
Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
Listen: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother
Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social Social / cultural / political / media analysis
Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
All views socially & culturally constructed.
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Academics for Palestine - Concordia @a4p-concordia.bsky.social A collective that unites members of the Concordia University community (including alumni) who advocate justice for Palestine 🇵🇸 through Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel.
You can also find us on Insta: @a4pconcordia
📍Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)
Omar Cheta عمر شتا @omarcheta.bsky.social Historian • Alexandria/Syracuse • "How Commerce Became Legal" (Stanford UP, 2025) • omarcheta.com
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Carrie Rentschler @carrierentschler.bsky.social Feminist media studies, STS, digital culture, social movements, diabetes and technology, McGill Professor
Plus: cats, snacks, drums
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Our Networks @ournetworks.ca The past, present and future of p2p, local and decentralized infrastructures 🌻 🎛 🛠 📡
IRL: July 27, 2024 in Vancouver, BC
online, distributed: https://ournetworks.ca
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Harvard SEAS specializing in human-computer and human-AI interaction. Also interested in visualization, digital humanities, urban design.
Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social Public Knowledge promotes an open internet, accessible communications tools, and balanced copyright laws. Reposts do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
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Fast Capitalism @fast-capitalism.bsky.social Journal devoted to analyzing the impact of information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st century. Bridges the social sciences and humanities. Welcomes disciplinary and interdisciplinary work. http://fastcapitalism.com
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Harris Kornstein @harriskornstein.bsky.social Academic, artist, activist, wannabe. Assistant Prof, Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona (drag, digital media, STS, queer/trans theory, disability studies, media art + activism). Infrequent poster.
🖥️: harriskornstein.com
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
SHOT, Society for the History of Technology @shothisttech.bsky.social The Society for the History of Technology (since 1958) is dedicated to the historical study of technology, its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and arts. Organizes Annual member meetings and more
Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social STS, cultural studies, media, environment, climate, energy
Bikes, cats, synths, barbells, good recipes
keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net David M. Wood (DMW)
Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment
https://ubisurv.net
Personal account.
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@galloway.bsky.social @galloway.bsky.social 
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social International, scholar-led, not-for-profit, radical open access publishing collective. Free books, journals and more on theory, culture, media, philosophy, art. Check us out at:
www.openhumanitiespress.org
Trevor Paglen @paglen.studio I'm an artist. 
Mark Hansen @cocteau.bsky.social Professor at Columbia University, Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation - brown.columbia.edu, markh@columbia.edu 🏳️🌈
Sam Husseini - running for Congress @samhusseini.bsky.social #SamHusseini4Congress running in Maryland’s 4th district. Write at https://husseini.substack.com. Art at BeThatEmpty.org
The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social An independent publisher. Changing minds about justice since 1992.
lnk.bio/thenewpress
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social 100% reader-funded. All works free to republish/use/translate. All works co-authored by Tim Foley.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/
Jordan Elgrably @jordanelgrably.bsky.social Native Californian, Franco-American-Moroccan, honorary Palestinian, writer & underdog champion. BLM. 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 Editor-in-chief @TheMarkazReview
Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl Senior Investigator @cen4infores.bsky.social | PhD candidate at TUDelft: whitephosphorus.info | Portfolio: baydoun.nl | Amsterdam, Beirut
Umayyah Cable @umayyah.bsky.social Palestinian-American prof. Author of Mainstreaming Palestine: Cinematic Activism and Solidarity Politics in the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). 🍉🏳️⚧️
Muriam Haleh Davis @muriamhalehdavis.bsky.social Historian of 🇩🇿
Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social 🌶 Spicing up the left since '94.
🗞️ Issue 248: ‘Striking back’ is out now.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social Comics as thinking. Eisner winner. Unflattening from HarvardUP (http://bit.ly/1vENIO7). Former Detroiter/NYer/YYC/now assoc prof SFSU-Comics Studies!
https://spinweaveandcut.com/
Tags #comics
#Unflattening #Nostos
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social academic, researcher of the internet, writer, traveler...
STS, Critical Internet Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Data Studies, Critical Theory, Interpretive methods, etc. #AoIR ista and leftist like Will Rogers
NEH Office of Digital Humanities @neh-odh.bsky.social Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding experimentation with technology in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social Official account of the @APSAtweets & @icahdq #PolComm Divisions | posts by @igoncalves.com | https://www.facebook.com/groups/politicalcommunication.org | @polcomm@mastodon.social | https://politicalcommunication.org/
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @nuqatar.bsky.social produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South.
Toby Craig Jones @tobycjones.bsky.social Professor, Middle East History, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Gulf, Rutgers University, Faculty for Justice in Palestine.
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
Darren Byler @dbyler.bsky.social Anthropologist at Simon Fraser University. Author of Terror Capitalism (Duke 2022) and In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia 2021).
@robinmansell.bsky.social @robinmansell.bsky.social 
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at 
Layal Ftouni @layalftouni.bsky.social
A southern Lebanese living in the flat Lowlands. Assistant prof of gender studies and critical theory at Utrecht University . Free Palestine✊🏽 من البحر إلى النهر
Comrades before lovers, always
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Karim Émile Bitar @karimbitar.bsky.social 🇱🇧🇫🇷Professor of International Relations (USJ, Sciences Po Paris, ENS Lyon), US Foreign Policy & Middle East expert (IRIS, GCSP, MEI), Consultant, Writer, Former Dean of the Institute of Political Science at the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, News addict
Michela Ardizzoni @mardizzo.bsky.social Associate Professor - University of Colorado Boulder. Italian media and art, exploring intersections of race, gender, and the Black Mediterranean. Co-director of MA in Media and Public Engagement.
Ayman Mhanna @amhanna.bsky.social Samir Kassir Foundation director. College of Europe visiting professor. EYL40 member. Wine reviewer.
omnia khalil أمنية خليل @omniakhalil.bsky.social Anthropology professor at the City College of New York
Andrew Carnegie Foundation @carnegie.org Supporting ladders of opportunity and a more peaceful world.
Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. Formerly Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Lisa Yin Han @thehanopticon.bsky.social Media Scholar in the Wild | Assistant Prof at Pitzer College | Studying oceans, energy, and tech 🍉
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social LSE Prof | Media & Communications | Latest book: ICA Best Book Award “Wronged. The Weaponization of Victimhood” | https://cup.columbia.edu/book/wronged/9780231550239
Jack Qiu @jackqiu.bsky.social Chair and Shaw Foundation Prof of Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
VJ Um Amel (Laila Shereen Sakr) @vjumamel.bsky.social Socially conscious cyborg with a data body. Digital artist, author, programmer, and associate professor at UC Santa Barbara
https://vjumamel.com
Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social building new worlds in the shell of the old / trusting kids / abolition / decolonization / Free Palestine! / anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness / https://abolition.university / Beyond Education: Radical studying for another world / http://elimeyerhoff.com
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
https://abusablepast.org/ and more at linktr.ee/theabusablepast
李之诒 | ᴉl lʎɹɹɐp | أبو باندا @abubanda.bsky.social that's 'b' as in 'panda'
Nader Atassi @naderatassi.bsky.social Politics, economics, history, theory. تشاؤم العقل تفاؤل الإرادة
Leila Pour @leilapour.bsky.social historian, iran, mid east, gelobal
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar