Mark Glanville @markglanvillejazz.bsky.social Hebrew Bible scholar, jazz pianist. Blue Note Theology Podcast.
Five books, including Improvising Church & Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities
Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership, UBC, Vancouver
Emily Cash @emhcash.bsky.social beloved child of God.
partner, parent, pastor.
non-marketable skills include: neat handwriting, roasting marshmallows, and unnecessary alliteration.
Cohost of @holywrit.bsky.social
Author of @driftwoodprayers.substack.com
Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social Chicago. Interested in how places are shaped. Friend to alley cats. I don't speak on behalf of my affiliations. he/him
"We know this world is good enough because it has to be."
Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer.
Signal: daralind.18
Ruthless cosmopolitan.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social John Stoehr (he/him). The Editorial Board. Subscribe! http://editorialboard.com.
Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social The events of exactly 250 years ago today (1776). A project in conjunction with America’s semiquincentennial. By Jon Blackwell, an editor at the Wall Street Journal. Also follow me @100yearsagonews.bsky.social
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
spacehams @spacehams.bsky.social
thechicagoneighborhoods.com @chgohoods.bsky.social One designer's take on the neighborhoods in his city, and other things too. Neighborhood prints and Chicago-inspired fonts available on the website: https://www.thechicagoneighborhoods.com/links
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Auburn @gingersnapkid.bsky.social OT/HB PhD specializing in Jeremiah, adjunct prof | “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts... Practice resurrection.” -Wendell Berry | slow-DM-checker
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social she/her | ♊️ gemini journalist & all things digital at mprnews.org 🌙 beep me: sstroozas@mpr.org
Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology
She/her
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social Professional landscape photographer focused on Chicago and Ireland. My website is BarryButlerPhotography.com for prints, books and calendars.
Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social I cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg News. You may know me from #FridayNightZillow, but C-SPAN is more my natural habitat. #Introduction
I'm also @steventdennis on the other places. Opinions mine. Email: sdennis17@bloomberg.net
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
The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com Black-owned publication from Chicago to the 🌍
Reshaping the narrative in pursuit of truth and liberation.
💻: thetriibe.com
📩: https://thetriibe.com/newsletters/
Support us: https://buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhkbXaaeA6Zy03
Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago's neighborhood news source.
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com
How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art A weekly newsletter about data, data visualizations and the aggregated weirdness of the world around us. A pbump.com project.
https://howtoreadthisch.art
Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social Freelance science journalist contributing to NYT, SciAm, Nature etc. Author of "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking" (2018) and "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World" (2023).
✨ Sparkle Monica ✨ @monicacarmean.bsky.social ⚖️ 🐕 🧀 🗳️ 💙
"10/10 Sparkle Monica for real. maximum respect" - @TheMountainGoats
Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social Professionally disagreeable senior Chicago politics reporter for @wttw.bsky.social News
Joyce is resistance @lajoyce.bsky.social UMC Pastor, socialist, mom. Talk to me about Chicago politics, public goods and the world we want to win. Working to build a community that struggles for what we can change and endure what we can’t (yet)
Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social features writer, Chicago Reader: harm reduction, homelessness, and chicago/rust belt history.
proud member, Reader Union
kprout@chicagoreader.com; signal katie.507
https://www.katieprout.com/
Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social I'm a journalist in Chicago
But you're probably here for Birdie
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...
Stacey Wescott (Wescott Images) @staceywescott.bsky.social visual journalist @chicagotribune.bsky.social
Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social Photo editor at The Atlantic. Former webdev. Former Alaska tour guide. Former farm kid. Elegant otter in a former life. kokogiak@gmail.com
shawn @mulchy.bsky.social a very serious journalist | signal: shawn.56
darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social not the darth u are looking for
Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social Texas Monthly senior writer focused on the far right & Christian nationalism. Helped expose the Southern Baptist abuse crisis. Fan of Hip Hop and loud guitars. Send me music.
Amy Peterson @amypete.bsky.social Author, teacher, Episcopal priest. Wayward and curious. Solvitur ambulando. she/her
https://amypete.substack.com
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01N2AKDP8
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social Christian, mom, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Addicted to literary composition. Cringe but free. Editor of The Pomegranate at http://the-pom.com and writer of essays at http://www.amy-colleen.com
David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social NPR media guy
Author, Murdoch’s World
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social Baptist minister with PhD in political communication. New book: 'The Bible According to Christian Nationalists.' President & Editor-in-Chief - @WordAndWay.bsky.social bkaylor@wordandway.org
http://publicwitness.wordandway.org
Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social Ex-CIA Africa analyst. PhD historian. Author of The Missionary Kids (Runner up for RNA Book of the Year).
https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com
@TheBulwark @Lawfare @liberalcurrents @goodfaithmedia
Co-Host @DogShirtTV
Art For Democracy @ Etsy
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Jake @jakeall.bsky.social You say Judas is a brother of mine? / Oh, but sister in our darkness a light shines / and all I ever want to say for the rest of my life / is how that light is G-d
ASA Sociology of Religion Section @asareligion.bsky.social The purpose of the American Sociology Association Section on Sociology of Religion is to encourage and enhance research, teaching, and other professional concerns in the study of religion and society.
Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social Sociologist of morality, social & organizational change and spirituality. Author of The Loyalty Trap on civil servants' experiences under Trump, The Mindful Elite and Situating Spirituality. Learning about climate action. Mom juggling it all.
Andrew Ambrose Mackey @andrewmackey.com Sociologist of Religion researching Christian Nationalism and digital rhetoric. Former political candidate turned academic researcher.
Elena G. van Stee @elenavanstee.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Sociology @upenn.edu | Fellow in Sociology @harvard.edu | Incoming managing editor @contexts.org | www.elenavanstee.com
Gary Adler @garyadler.bsky.social Sociologist of culture, religion, civil society, and law. Love mixing the methods. @PSUsoccrim
Current project: religion-state relations and local government.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xHfWZUgAAAAJ
*Views expressed are my own*
Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UChicago | Sociologist | Columnist @Inthesetimesmag.bsky.social | Co-author of revolutionary sci-fi novel: Everything for Everyone | Subject of documentary film "Coming Around"
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion; retired (sort of); gardener
Niki Dolfi Hall @profdolfi.bsky.social Sociologist by birth, weird-ass human by training. Researching religious discrimination | nontheism | microaggressions | pop culture. Coming soon chapter on Father Brown & nontheism
Me: 🌱🍽🎤🎨🎬🏳🌈♿
Follow ≠ Endorse. Mix of personal + professional posts.
Lisa Pearce @lisapearce.bsky.social https://lisapearce.web.unc.edu/
Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, culture, politics | Director Meanings of Democracy Lab | 📚 MY TAX DOLLARS, PROPHETS & PATRIOTS, RELIGION & PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISM | 🎧 WHEN THE WOLVES CAME
Christopher Han-Fai Seto @criminovelist.bsky.social Assistant professor in the Purdue Department of Sociology. I study hate crime, violence, guns, health, and religion. I also write murder mystery novels. Learn more at chseto.com. All opinions shared here are my own.
Michelle Gotto, MA, MA, MPH @mgotto.bsky.social Bioethicist, Medical Sociologist, MPH. Repro Justice, bodily autonomy for all, med decision making for teens. Physician Asst educator. Opinions my own.
Shai M. Dromi @dromishai.bsky.social Author of "Above the Fray:The RC & the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector"&"Moral Minefields:How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press). Harvard sociologist.
David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social Check out my Substack "Venezuela and the United States" https://davidsmilde.substack.com/ Opinions expressed are my own.
Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. I do ethnographic and interview research on gender, religion, and social change, with a focus on Indonesia. Faculty Director of the Center for Asian Studies.
Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social Social Scientist @ UMass Boston
Editor @ Sociology of Religion
Studies (Non)Religion & Spirituality | Climate | Public Life
https://www.evan-stewart.com
@socimages.bsky.social
Damon Mayrl @mayrl.bsky.social Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College. Religion, politics, history, culture, law, policy, vermú. http://mayrl.org, @mayrl@sciences.social, @yrlsoc@x
Gülay Türkmen @gulayturkmen.bsky.social Sociologist, researcher, writer, editor, teacher, academic nomad
https://www.gulayturkmen.com/
Jonathan Coley @jonathancoley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work 🏳️🌈
http://jonathancoley.com
Oneya Okuwobi @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati | Book: Who Pays for Diversity? March 2025 https://www.ucpress.edu/books/who-pays-for-diversity/paper
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨
Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁
www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
Anne Taylor, PhD @annetaylor.bsky.social Writer. Theorist. Sociology Professor @MtHolyoke. https://annetaylor.substack.com/
I write about meaning making and belonging in culture, religion, travel, media, sport.
Vanessa Verner @nessavsquared.bsky.social Black woman. Southerner. Church Kid. Sociology. PhD Candidate. Texas A&M.
Watching the empire fall with popcorn 🍿blessed oil 🧴 and a few loved ones near and far 💙
Memphis 🏡 Chicago 🏢 Houston 🐎 CStat 🤠
Ziad Munson @zmunson.bsky.social sociology, social movements, public education, food, board games, nordic skiing
Paul Joosse @pjoosse.bsky.social Sociologist, @HKUniversity | Editor, Sociological Theory @SociologicalTheory.bsky.social | Secretary Treasurer of @isa-sociology.org
Sociological Theory Research Cluster | #theory #sociology #charisma #populism and yes, #Trump
Justin Huft @justinhuft.bsky.social Part time researcher in sociology. Full time lover of The Muppets.
PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Race, gender, religion, social psych.
Daniel Cueto-Villalobos @dacuetovilla.bsky.social minnesota sociology
Jonathan Calvillo, Ph.D. @yocalviyo.bsky.social Sociologist: Latine Religions, Race&Ethnicity, Migration, Urban Studies, Hip Hop
Asst Prof - Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Author: The Saints of Santa Ana; In the Time of Sky-rhyming; When the Spirit Is Your Inheritance.
Ruiqian (Richie) Li, Ph.D. @lordrichie.bsky.social Posts are mine. RT ≠ Endorsement. Research Assistant Professor at American University, Senior Researcher at perilresearch.com. Social scientist on religion, politics, and nationalism. Big foodie.
Shruti Devgan @kalamsiyahi.bsky.social Sociologist. Teacher. Straddling worlds. Life in translation. Study South Asia/America/ns/Sikhs, memory, media, emotions, and narratives.
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/sdevgan/index.html
Robbee Wedow @robbeewedow.bsky.social Help me out; don't let me down; I could learn from you.
Tia Noelle Pratt @tiaphd.bsky.social Sociologist, Bartender, University Administrator and Professor, Author BLACK AND CATHOLIC: RACISM, IDENTITY, AND RELIGION (University of Notre Dame Press 2025)
Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji @skhojamoolji.bsky.social Prof of Muslim societies at Georgetown | Award-winning Books: Forging the Ideal Educated Girl (2018); Sovereign Attachments (2021); Rebuilding Community (2023). https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002cNqiVQAS/shenila-khojamoolji
Michael Lee Wood @michaelleewood.bsky.social Sociologist. Culture and cognition, religion, theory, text analysis, social network analysis. Associate professor at Brigham Young University. Notre Dame PhD. www.michaelleewood.com
Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social Sociologist with interests in religion, social theory, culture, and ethnography. Enthusiastic about beer, bikes, and books.
A list of my knowledge widgets, courtesy of Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yjxtzarj
Karrie Gaspard Hogewood @kghog.bsky.social Over-caffeinated. Under-published. Dog mom.
www.karriegaspard.com
Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology at Yale studying right-wing naturalism, organicism, and pastoralism. Fan of Ohio State FB. Currently laying low in Spain 🇪🇸
Dr. Alexandra P. Gelbard @apgelbard.bsky.social Ph.D. In Global & Sociocultural Studies-Sociology, African Diaspora Studies, & Cuba • Curator of www.cabildoderegla.org • Co-Curator of Sweet Wata: Choreographing Ancestral Memory • Photographer• Mom to Pete the Cat & Dalya 🐍
Penny Edgell @pennye.bsky.social Sociologist, feminist, would rather be outdoors. More info at pennyedgell.com
Joseph Roso @josephroso.bsky.social Assistant professor of sociology at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. I study religion, politics, and organizations.
⚾️⚾️⚾️ This account is a vehicle for subjecting my academic colleagues to baseball takes ⚾️⚾️⚾️
http://josephroso.com/
Chelsea Starr @cstarrcstarr.bsky.social Sociologist. Religion, Non-religion, Social movements, Content Analysis, Qualitative Methods. Facebook page where I post sociological perspectives on current events: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573563705847
Andrew Chalfoun @achalfoun.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ripon College. I study social interaction, organizations and religion. PhD from UCLA.
Find me at www.andrewchalfoun.com
Jacqui Frost @jacquifrost.bsky.social Assistant Professor @PurdueSociology. Researching how nonreligious people live, what science means to people, and why religious change happens.
Valentina Cantori @valecantori.bsky.social Sociologist in the making @USC. Studying representations of Public Islam in U.S. civic life | proud first-gen | tagliatelle-maker 🍝🇮🇹
www.valentinacantori.com
Tess Starman, PhD @tessstarman.bsky.social Studying intersections of religion, politics, race, gender, and sexuality.
www.tessstarman.com
Helen Rizzo @hrizzo.bsky.social Sociologist with interests in gender studies, Middle East Studies, and political sociology, associate professor at the American University in Cairo
Omkar Joshi @omkarjoshi.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher in @ivaskalab.bsky.social 🇫🇮 | BS-MS from IISER, Pune 🇮🇳 | Cancer, Cells and Mitochondria | Badminton and cricket!
Xi Wang @xxiwwang.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Northwestern Sociology.
Sociologist studying psychoanalysis theoretically and empirically.
Amy Adamczyk @amyadamczyk.bsky.social
Ada Bayramoglu @adabayramoglu.bsky.social University of Chicago