- A Adam Knight Gilbert @akgilbert.bsky.social Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com Composer-Ringleader • darcyjamesargue.com • With Every Breath I Take out now on Nonesuch Records
Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on U Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Co-host @burnitalldownpod.com. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social NPR Music writer, yakker; Pop Culture Happy Hour and New Music Friday host; long-ago A.V. Club editor and Onion copy editor; snack-eater; dad.
https://www.npr.org/people/5244882/stephen-thompson
@mitiadacol.bsky.social @mitiadacol.bsky.social
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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https://www.instagram.com/dril
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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social forbes' 7.4 billion under 7.4 billion.
Jake Blount @jakeblount.com Making and studying the musics of Black otherworlds.
🎻 New Dangerfield
📚 Brown University
bitch-king of angmar (her) @wetropolitan.bsky.social 🗽soprano/kitchen witch/kvetch artist
www.zenopera.com
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Teddy Focaccia @kmaustinyoung.bsky.social Former Nashvillian, present San Franciscan, Episcopal priest, writer, washed-up classical singer, Magnificat stan
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Hans Hassell @hjghassell.bsky.social PoliSci @ BYU
I'm trying to be kinder
I miss Maine
Elizabeth Margulis @margulisa.bsky.social Music Cognition Lab @ Princeton
Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social Novelist, critic, books about crooks.
jacobbacharach.com
Kate McDonald @musiciankate.bsky.social Music theory PhD candidate, specialization in music cognition. Autistic, working on (mis)representation of autism in music theory disability studies. MA on stretto in Bach's WTC. Thesis on perception of polyphonic voices (how many at once?) in progress.
Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com
Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
Pippin the Poodle’s mom 🟦 @erupton.bsky.social Cautious. Still limiting my interaction.
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social neuroscientist, musician, question asker, mom. associate professor of #creativity, associate dean of research @northeastern #music #arts #media #design #psychology #cognition #musicscience 🇭🇰 she/her
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Jeffrey Dean @jeffreyjdean.bsky.social Music historian (15th–16th centuries), editor/book-designer/typesetter, Quaker; foreign-born naturalized British citizen; ally. He/him/his
NOT the Jeff Dean at Google, or the archeologist, or …
Fediverse: @JeffreyJDean@hcommons.social
Emerson Morgan @nemer50.bsky.social Librarian and musicologist. Here to help preserve (musical) evidence of people’s lives. Cat dad.
Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social Digital History | US History
Professor at CU Denver
📖 Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 📖
cblevins.github.io
Stuart Chapman Hill @stuchapmanhill.bsky.social Musician, teacher, &c. Professionally confused. Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at Michigan State University.
http://www.stuartchapmanhill.com
Phil Ewell @philewell.bsky.social Music theorist, cellist, race scholar, husband, dad, Brooklynite, Hunter College prof, he/him, можно по-русски, philipewell.com
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social Grew up in a UFW/IWW household. Now I’m a public to academic librarian, union thug, and general roustabout.
Anonymous because I’m not tenured yet.
Pro-Palestinian, pro-trans, anti-racist, anti-AI, and not fit for human consumption.
henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social 🎼 free Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) scores
Because you've played enough Chopin already 🎹
henselpushers.org/links
guardian of Dishwasher cat 🐆🥣🍴🫧✨
Also henselfest.org 🦢
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social Creating goth, industrial, and experimental music. Teaching at the Peabody Conservatory.
NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org yes, really the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District in cleveland, ohio. Customer Relations: 216.881.8247
https://www.neorsd.org/social
Amy King @girlinbluemusic.bsky.social PhD Candidate: Music Theory & Cognition at Northwestern
☀️Empathetic Music Theory 🎶
🎹🎻🧗♀️🥊📚🎓
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Scott Gleason, PhD @buddytwo.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 publishing October 13 from @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social Math teacher, fiddler, guitarist, cyclist, aunt, and Claymore Award-winning author of THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCYD6Q77, https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-middle-of-nowhere-23)
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
——FREE PALESTINE——
Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com PhD in Music Theory (not sure why I did this lol)
Area of Expertise: EDM, Renaissance (Victoria), Music & Internet Culture, 19th/20th-c American music
Career in RevOps & HubSpot
NH | Millennial | AuDHD
Primarily here to talk UConn/BOS/CIN sports
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜- M Michael S Roth @msroth.bsky.social President of Wesleyan University. (grand)father, husband, author, professor. Defender of academic freedom, liberal education and democracy.
Global Music Notation @globalmusnotation.bsky.social https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-music-notation/
Taxobob @taxobob.bsky.social Recovering academic (music theory). Information architect. American gamelan. #taxonomy #ontology #informationarchitecture
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@zbernstein.bsky.social @zbernstein.bsky.social
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Jeanice Brooks @jeanice-brooks.bsky.social Musicologist and academic. All pet, food, and music news welcome. I might post on sound, music, and heritage stuff. Also en français.
Nate Holder @n8holder.bsky.social Multi-award winning 12x Author 📚 | International Saxophonist 🎷 | Music Consultant 🔴⚫️🟢
Electronic Panopticon @electronicpanopticon.com Amateur Hymnologist, Natural Horn Player, Dieterich Buxtehude Stan, Anti Binary Thinking, Software Granter of Wishes™ 🦀C++🐍☕🐪
EVIL = DEHUMANIZATION
Magnus Krook @mpk68.bsky.social PhD in Latin, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg.
EarlyMusicNewsOrg @earlymusicnewsorg.bsky.social EarlyMusicNews.Org's mission is to help popularize and disseminate news of the "Early Music"/HIP (Historically Informed Performance) genre on an international scale.
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Emily Winerock @winerock.bsky.social Dance historian of Renaissance Europe and early modern England ~ Co-director of the Shakespeare and Dance Project ~ Adjunct faculty at Point Park University ~ Blues, Lindy hop, and Argentine tango social dancer ~ https://shakespeareandance.com
Nistarchi @nistarchi.bsky.social Popular music history, music culture, music production and everything in between
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
@schubertian.bsky.social @schubertian.bsky.social Music theorist and musicologist | Author of Schubert's String Quartets (2023) | Senior Lecturer in Music Analysis @UoMMusic | Assoc. Ed., Music Analysis | Occasional runner | Mum
@olgasanchezk.bsky.social @olgasanchezk.bsky.social
Manual Defiance @shortoctave.bsky.social danza ritual del ego
Middle-aged enby in the 412. Early keyboards player; semi-professional dilettante in everything else.
They/them, he/him
The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social Music for the viola da gamba - acoustic & electric. Runner, swimmer, mother + sometime composer. Sydney, Australia, but performing across the globe. Both groups founded by me, Jenny Eriksson.
Links - https://linktr.ee/TheMaraisProjectElysianFields
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
Michael Winter @michaelwinter99.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle University. Studying 15th and 16th Century English choral music, reconstruction, and fragmentary music manuscripts.
David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social Maine based data and applied scientist.
Founder, www.hellobolero.com
Interested in all things Music, Theory, and Sciences
davidjohnbaker.rbind.io
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Matthias Heyman @jazzmatt.bsky.social Double bassist, professor @VUB, researcher @EhB/KCB, into all things B: Beatles, Blanton (Jimmie), bass (playing and researching), and Belgian jazz (history).
Angie Merila @angiem-routledge.bsky.social music editor at routledge. nyc based.
Your Favorite Musicologist's 6th Favorite Music Theorist @profajchung.bsky.social Assoc. prof of music theory. Coloniality, race, & sonics in the Anthropocene, sound/music philosophy. Book in progress __ Music's Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
Norton Music @nortonmusic.bsky.social
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social 🎹 pictures of composers doing normal shit
📸 all photos © their original photographers
📚archived at @librarycongress
❤️ 90k+ on twitter
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
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.”
Megan Ihnen, Mezzo-Soprano @mezzoihnen.bsky.social I sing new songs.
@tenebraechoir.bsky.social @tenebraechoir.bsky.social
Jess @secondaryjess.bsky.social Beautiful screaming lady
she/her
Octatheoboe @octatheoboe.bsky.social
Sean Smither @seanrsmither.bsky.social Music theorist, multi-instrumentalist
Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Website • jessicaholmes.phd
Music at the Margins of Sense • https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Music-at-the-Margins-of-Sense
Early Music Forum Scotland @emfscotland.bsky.social The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
Edward Klorman @eklorman.bsky.social Mozart's Music of Friends (2016)
J. S. Bach: The Cello Suites (2025)
Prof of Music at UW–Madison
he/him
Evan Ware @warevolf.bsky.social Chair, Music Department and Associate Professor of Music (Theory and Composition) at Cal Poly Pomona | Co-Editor of “Music in Star Trek” | Dad | Kenshi | Cook | Transit Geek | Cat Herder | He/Him
In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com Memes, merch, music, and publishing.
Est. 2020.
quiresandplaces.com
Posts by @voxpopple.bsky.social
Andrew Padgett @voxantiqua.bsky.social Classical singer, early music specialist, toddler dad, miniature painter, web developer, reluctant Boston resident. www.andrewpadgett.com
Karen Desmond @karendesmond.bsky.social Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon
Norm Hirschy @normhirschy.bsky.social Editor, linguaphile, runner, working to outsmart his cat.
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social Music historian, author of "History in Mighty Sounds" and a perenially half-written study of music in monasteries and nunneries around 1600. Loves country walks, reading, sightseeing, archaeology.