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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social Things are terrible (we follow our contributors)
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
Turn It Up To 11 @turnitupto11.bsky.social Almost-blind-music-obsessed 🇨🇦 man. Used to write about... music (from 1995-2015). Newspapers/mags/radio. Ex Polaris Prize grand juror. LPs lover/collector. Contracts seeker. 1000s of LPs, so little time. The original music nerd. 8 years on X. Year 2 here.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️‍🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day. Probably followed you for mentioning reading, history, or writing in your profile. "Armchair Classicist: The Page" on FB
Daily Mothra ʚïɞ @dailymothra.bsky.social Daily pics/gifs/clips of #Mothra 🦋✨ (ESP/ENG) Twt: https://x.com/DailyMothra?t=XSjfzYXTu1rnmtDpoXCsPA&s=09
Shakespearean Insult Bot @shakespeareinsults.bsky.social classics straight from the Bard & remixed bangers, every 6 hours. made by @aliensunset.bsky.social using https://bluebotsdonequick.com/ sibling to: https://beige.party/@shakespearean_Insults https://alien-sunset.neocities.org/bots/Bots
NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social Space news from around the globe, all in one place Focusing on NASA & ESA Missions Artemis III 🚀🌕 | 2027 Note we are not NASA just #Spacenerds #Moonjoy
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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social Trial lawyer, criminal defense lawyer, criminal justice reformer, San Diego Padres fan, founding partner at Hecker Fink LLP.
Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social Writer, host. WAIT A SECOND POD, X-RAY VISION, THE OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES HOTD, KOTSK POD
mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social I'm the mike watt who lives in pedro and works the bass! visit my hoot page to find out more on me: hootpage.com
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employer's I did a TED talk once
The A.V. Club @avclub.com Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. https://linktr.ee/the_avclub
Chris Frantz @chrisfrantz.bsky.social Founding member of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. Keeping it real out here in the field.
Leonardo da Vinci Society @leonardosociety.bsky.social
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Lea Beness @leabeness.bsky.social Honorary Assoc. Prof. in Roman History, Lefty, Feminist, Dog Lover, Regularly Romesick. She/her. All views her own.
Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social Stendahl Chair at Harvard Divinity School / studying demons, apocalypses, and ancient identities, between memory and forgetting
Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social Game Designer. Classicist, (Ancient) Historian, Historical Games Studier. Pākehā. He/him/his. @TheSprawl_RPG, @ardensludere, @peregrinekiwi@dice.camp & Twitter.
Bethany Grainger @bethanyjoanna.bsky.social Ph.D. in New Testament, Wheaton College | Female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
Carlos Enríquez de Salamanca @carlosedes.bsky.social He/Him Phd Candidate Classics at University of Warwick Roman Identity Chancellor's International Scholarship Previously at @rhulclassics.bsky.social and @leidenhumanities.bsky.social
Dr Irene Selsvold @selsvold.bsky.social (Late) Roman archaeologist. Dabbling in archaeological theory, funerary culture and how we think about change in Late Antiquity. Postdoc @ Uni Oslo / Norwegian Institute in Rome
Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social Historian of religion\s at University of Fribourg (CH). linktr.ee/drMBrand PhD, first book: http://tinyurl.com/5n7kt5fs. Interested in Religion, Alternative Histories, History, Comparison, Theory - and sometimes in Manichaeans. #Schweiz
Malcolm Choat @malfy-c.bsky.social Historian, papyrologist, Coptologist: forgery, authenticity, ethics, and provenance; scribal practice in Greek and Coptic papyri; Coptic monasticism & first millennium Egypt.
Kathryn Tempest @kathryntempest.bsky.social Classicist and Roman Historian at University of Leicester; mum to a toddler and two whippets.
Maximiliane Gindele @mgindele.bsky.social Ancient historian. PhD student @unituebingen.bsky.social. Researching cityscapes and time perception in Rome 🏛 Bibliomaniac 📚 Passionate about classical music 🎶 Mother of two 💕
Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity: history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory And about: crime, punishment, imprisonment, prosopography, namelessness, digital humanities, and 👆 THE CITY OF ROME @dependencybonn.de
Ray Laurence @raylaurence1.bsky.social Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University.
Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda 🌊🪔 @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social 👩🏻‍🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool 📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University 🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library 📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science 💙 Books, Astrolabes
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Fuck ICE. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
Cait Mongrain @caitmongrain.bsky.social Classics PhD @Princeton, MA, BA @Texas Tech | Flavian cultural history, occasional baking, sundry animal rescue | she/her
Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social Nautical Archaeologist & Ancient Historian • Greek & Roman Maritime History & Archaeology • Naval Warfare, Warships, & Naval Rams http://stephendecasien.com
Lindsay Powell FRHistS @lindsaypowell.bsky.social Historian. News editor at Ancient History and Ancient Warfare magazines. Author of 15 books, including MARCUS AGRIPPA, GERMANICUS and TIBERIUS. Appeared on History Channel, HistoryHit and The History Network. FRHistS. Website: https://lindsay-powell.com
Diana Spencer @dianajspencer.bsky.social Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Santiago Sánchez de la Parra-Pérez @yagosparra.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Santiago de Compostela. PhD in Ancient Sciences. Epigraphy and Roman public buildings. Hispania + North Africa + Galliae.
Conor Whately @conorwhately.bsky.social Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg.
Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. REX JUBA, out 2026 from Penguin. https://linktr.ee/andrewkenrick
The Amheida Excavations @amheida-project.bsky.social David M. Ratzan (ISAW/NYU). More information, reports, bibliography at https://isaw.nyu.edu/research/amheida.
Matt Notarian @mnotarian.bsky.social Roman archaeologist / classicist / Big Lebowski enthusiast @Hiramcollege. Co-director www.sentinumproject.org. #DigitalArchaeology. #3D Modeling. Roman urbanism. Numismatics. Suburbium. Epigraphy.
James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social Roman history with the potential to be quite interesting. Subscribe for updates 👇 Substack - https://jamescoverley.substack.com Tip Jar - https://ko-fi.com/jamescoverley
Olivier Gengler @periegetes.bsky.social Senior researcher, Heidelberg Academy. Malalas, Sparta, Pausanias, historiography, narratology. Father, baker, painter, maker. 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇦🇹🇬🇷🇨🇭🏴‍☠️
Tony Keddie @tonyk.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UT Austin. Specialist on the texts and material culture of ancient Jews and Christians, ancient imperialism and economics, and the modern politics of biblical interpretation.
Luke Wilkinson @lawilkinson.bsky.social Ancient historian working on non-elite political culture in the Roman Republic. Honorary Research Fellow @ University of Manchester. Enjoyer of hikes, good food and PC gaming. Views are my own.
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Dr Lewis Webb @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social Roman historian. Associate Professor and Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg: https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/lewiswebb
Dr Consuelo Martino @cmart05.bsky.social Cultural Historian of Leadership, Autocracy and Civil War in the Roman Empire; interested in all things about Caesar~ Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Uni of Edinburgh ~ she/her ~ all views my own
Sally @sallymub.bsky.social Mandaean/Iraqi Kiwi🇳🇿 Current PhD @ St Andrews. Ancient Historian studying the Roman Republic, war & trauma, & challenging colonial research frameworks 🏛🌿🍉
Tim Parkin @senex64.bsky.social NZer (Wgtn) at the University of Melbourne (tim.parkin@unimelb.edu.au). Roman historian. New to Bluesky since November '24. Views expressed are mine alone.
Dr Hannah Platts @chattyplatty.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ancient History and Archaeology at RHUL. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and Space in Roman Houses (Bloomsbury, 2019). Obsessed with all things Roman, oh and guinea pigs 🐹. 💙💛
Daniel C. Smith @dcsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Whitman College. Writing on bodies, rituals, and social history in the Roman Empire
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
Ida Östenberg @idaostenberg.bsky.social Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg. Eller som min son säger: "Mamma är bara professor i vissa saker." Posts in English and Swedish.
Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org). Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Dr Henry Clarke @henryhbclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Roman History & Culture, University of Leeds | Identity, culture and landscape in Ancient Iberia | Editor at Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal | Coach and cox at Leeds Rowing Club https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/665/dr-henry-clarke
Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social Making Texas higher education great again. Classics/late antiquity/early Christianity. Sports ball fan.
Edward Dandrow @edwarddandrow.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient History, Roman Near East, war and violence, cultural and ethnic identities, numismatics. Perennial traveler and writer, easily distracted by animals. Cat and bunny slave. Speak only for myself.
Frontière·s | Antiquité-Moyen Âge @frontiere-s.bsky.social Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art. Un espace de réflexion en Open Access sur les sociétés antiques et médiévales Journal of Archaeology, History & Art History. An Open Access space to reflect on ancient and medieval societies
Gaëlle Perrot @gaelleperrot.bsky.social MCF en histoire romaine à @univpoitiers.bsky.social, HeRMA (UR 15071), chercheuse associée HiSoMA Co-rédactrice en chef de @frontiere-s.bsky.social revue d'histoire, d’histoire de l’art et d’archéologie
Dr Jordan D. G. Mitchell @jordgmitch.bsky.social Ancient History • Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and History • Respue Quod Non Es • All opinions are my own.
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Gif Enthusiast. My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 victoriaausten.com
Kyle Glover @kyleghistory.bsky.social History nerd. IC spare part. Currently researching escaping POWs and SOE in occupied Crete. And the Ancient and Medieval world. And historical food. And...
Francesco Rotiroti @rotiroti.bsky.social Legal Scholar, Historian, Classicist – Legal Theory & History, Antiquity & Early Middle Ages, Classics, Early Christianity, Video Games – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Rotiroti
A Averil Cameron @averilcam.bsky.social Keble College Oxford, KIngs College London, posting on late antiquity and Byzantium and opinions, mum and granny, from Leek. Memoir: Transitions. A Historian’s Memoir (Brepols, 2024)
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Dominic Machado @dominicmachado.bsky.social Ancient historian. Associate professor at the College of the Holy Cross. "Voluntas Militum" (Zaragoza, 2023). he/him
Corey Ellithorpe @ellithorpecj.bsky.social •Ancient Historian and Roman Numismatist •Assistant Professor, University of Central Oklahoma •Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Zoé Elise Thomas @archaeadne.bsky.social she/her Roman archaeologist @ LSU working on public architecture and politics, esp in Gaul, plus projects on osteology and reception. Malcontent and “feistful” according to some. Opinions are mine alone.
Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools. https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
Ella Kirsh @ellakirsh.bsky.social Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.
Dominik Hagmann @dominik-hagmann.bsky.social PI 01 #project_iuenna https://iuenna.hypotheses.org #digitalarchaeology #Romanarchaeology he/him | #ARDIG https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominik-Hagmann @heasvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Dr Jack Lennon @drjacklennon.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leicester. Research on Roman religion, magic, dirt/dirtiness, stigma, and marginalisation. Always happy to get involved with public-facing history projects and to talk about Roman dirt!
Dr. Virginia L. Campbell @vlcampbell.bsky.social Ancient historian, archaeologist, writer, lecturer at The Open University and University of Birmingham. All things Pompeii, Rome, and epigraphy. https://pompeiinetworks.wordpress.com/
Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social Classicist, archaeologist, sci-fi and horror nerd and, most importantly, ginger. Oh, and... "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". #EdgyPedlar #AncientStuff
Nathan Leach @nathanleach.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Instruction in Religious Studies, Texas State University | writing on ancient Mediterranean religions, apocalypses, divination, and mysteries
Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social Asst. Prof. History, Oklahoma State U. Vice-Chair, OK State Faculty Council PhD, Princeton University Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental Podcast: infectioushistorians.com Also: Arsenal | UConnWBB | Mets | Vikings
Darrel Janzen @dcjanzen.bsky.social I research Roman literature and history (solitude, environmental humanities, social epistemology). Ancient Studies for all. he/him 🇨🇦
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social Teaching Roman history, researching Roman magic and trying not to accidentally summon demons. Forever DM, Dad and Catholic.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Megan Nutzman @megannutzman.bsky.social Ohio State Classics faculty, formerly ODU History dept; PhD from UChicago; MTS+ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; Minnesotan; author of Contested Cures bit.ly/3sMTELi
Krista Dalton @kristadalton.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion at Denison University Author of How the Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton, 2025) Co Editor-in-Chief http://ancientjewreview.com Series co-editor Theoria with Fordham UP https://fordhampress.com/theoria.
The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️ 📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social Exploring what happens when empires die. Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️ Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷 FSA FRHistS FHEA. 🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Debra Nousek @debranousek.bsky.social Beholden to my canine overlords. And otherwise a stationery nerd and Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, working on Caesar and Latin historiography. She/her 🏳️‍🌈
@lykanthea.bsky.social @lykanthea.bsky.social history buff
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️‍🌈 | http://chancebonar.com Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Alexis Christensen @amchristensen.bsky.social Human being. Educator. Archaeologist working in Italy. Struggling writer. Lover of 🐶 and 🐱 and well crafted things. Associate Prof (Lecturer) of Classics @ U of Utah. *all opinions are my own*
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog
David J. DeVore @devoretext.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.
Daniel Osland @oslandd.bsky.social Claim to be a Roman archaeologist, actually work on late Roman Iberia, very interested in Portuguese soccer, NZ politics, California Nü Punk, and tertiary education. Personal views here, none endorsed by my employer (the University of Otago).
Damián Fernández @historiantillo.bsky.social Opinions my own, though they probably reflect the deep structures and contradictions of late capitalism.