International Review of Social History @irsh-iisg.bsky.social IRSH | @iisg_amsterdam | @CambridgeUP | social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective |
International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social Established in 1935, the IISH is an archival and research institute on labour and social movements. iisg.amsterdam
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org
Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025.
Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social Environmental History is an international journal dedicated to exploring the history of human interaction with the natural world.
http://environmentalhistory.net/
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.
@annanaslund.bsky.social @annanaslund.bsky.social
Andreas @andreasvc.bsky.social Assistant professor Digital Humanities and Information Science @UniGroningen.bsky.social @GroNLP.bsky.social https://andreasvc.github.io/
Philippe Rygiel @prygiel.bsky.social Modern History professor at ENS Lyon, editor Journal of Migration History, chief Editor Palgrave series on Migration History, part time geek
Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, directeur du CRIFUQ (@crifuq.bsky.social) et responsable du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec (@plateformeFDLQ.bsky.social).
Recherche en #sociolinguistique #histoiredelalangue #linguistiquedecorpus
Mateus Andrade @professormateus.bsky.social Historical archives, digital preservation and open science. Researcher at the Laboratory of History and Digital Technologies (HisTech Lab - UFJF)
Ari @ari-holtzman.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UChicago CS & DSI UChicao
Leading Conceptualization Lab http://conceptualization.ai
Minting new vocabulary to conceptualize generative models.
Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social information literacy & education specialist | studied and taught history, american studies, and religious studies
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social Under-reported #Photojournalism from around the World + #Photos of the Week + #PhotojournalismChat Exclusive Interviews with Distinguished #Photojournalists / #PressFreedom #FreePress #JournalismisNotaCrime
https://photojournalismnews.medium.com/
Tillmann Ohm @tillmannohm.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher | Digital Humanities: Images and Objects | FAU Erlangen
Craig Messner @cmessner.bsky.social Humanities machine learning/NLP/language modeling @ JHU | cmessner.me
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Daniel Hutchinson @dhutchinson.bsky.social Historian and digital humanist. Researches WWII, exploring historical applications of AI. http://danielhutchinson.org
Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Anna-Maria Sichani @amsichani.bsky.social BRAID fellow | Research Associate , Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study University of London | Programming Historian Trustee | Software Sustainability Institute fellow | early morning bird
Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social Assistant professor at https://si.umich.edu/ working in computational social science, machine learning, and NLP | https://dallascard.github.io
Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Nilo Pedrazzini @npedrazzini.bsky.social Postdoc @ QMUL (Text Machine project).
Previously Turing Research Fellow @ The Alan Turing Institute.
Computational humanities, historical linguistics, language typology. Or anything language-related.
npedrazzini.github.io
Zachary K Stine @zacharykstine.bsky.social Asst prof of computer science interested in computational methods for the study of language and culture.
Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social Associate Professor @ucddublin.bsky.social • party competition, public opinion, political communication, computational social science • Maintainer @irishpollingind.bsky.social • Young Academy Ireland
stefanmueller.ie
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social Assoc Prof, National University of Singapore 🎓 Computational Methods ∩ Cultural Heritage ∩ Southeast Asia 🏛 Co-director, https://cssh.nus.edu.sg 🌐 https://miguelescobar.com
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa, AGI). LRB reader. 2025-26 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Taylor Arnold @taylor-arnold.bsky.social https://taylorarnold.org
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Bert Spaan @bertspaan.nl cartography + data + visualization // building https://allmaps.org // freelance creative technologist
Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields.
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography
Emma Hyde @emma1616.bsky.social
Gil Pasternak @gilpasternak.bsky.social Professor of Photographic Cultures & Heritage at De Montfort University Leicester, UK • Director of Photographic History Research Centre @phrc-dmu.bsky.social • EU & UK Editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly Photography & Culture
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
- Webpage: https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse
- Weekly book talks: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse
Nataliia Laba @nataliialaba.com Co-edited book: Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images https://www.routledge.com/Six-Critical-Lenses-on-AI-Generated-Images/Bouko-Laba/p/book/9781041232698
w: https://www.nataliialaba.com/research/publications
Luca Rossi @lrossi.bsky.social I work at IT University of Copenhagen trying to understand online participation and collective action while having fun with methods.
Also Head of the Data Science Section.
Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/
https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Christopher Pollin @chpollin.bsky.social Independent DH Scholar & Developer | Knowledge and Agentic Engineer | Founder of Digital Humanities Craft OG
dhcraft.org | patreon.com/DigitalHumanitiesCraft | https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalHumanitiesCraft
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia @fjbeltrantapia.bsky.social Econ history / Historical dem. — NTNU
https://fjbeltrantapia.github.io
Culture and naming practices in the past https://fjbeltrantapia.github.io/allthenames/
Missing girls in historical Europe https://sites.google.com/view/missing-girls-in-history/home
Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social Historian, professor, mom, wife, feminist, rower.
PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark.
Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).
DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social Official account for DH2026 - the 36th annual ADHO conference | July 27-31, 2026 | Daejeon, South Korea | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social | Theme: Engagement | Also on https://mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon & Fediverse 🌐 #DH2026
https://dh2026.adho.org/
Katerina Korola @katerinakorola.bsky.social Art historian and media scholar. Assistant Professor @UMN, PhD'21 @UChicago. Plant amateur, postcard collector, cat person.
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social Digital Humanities @ University of Stuttgart, Themen: Computational Literary Studies, Public Humanities, Erzählforschung, Digital Gender Studies.
Aron 🟥 @aronvandepol.bsky.social PhD researcher in digital humanities and Korean studies at Leiden University. I map visual and textual patterns in colonial-era print with AI methods.
www.aronvandepol.com
Victor de Boer @victordeboer.bsky.social Associate professor User-Centric Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Semantic Web, Digital Humanities, Cultural AI
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social ELLIS PhD Fellow @belongielab.org | @aicentre.dk | University of Copenhagen | @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social | @ellis.eu
Multi-modal ML | Alignment | Culture | Evaluations & Safety| AI & Society
Web: https://www.srishti.dev/
Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social CS PhD student, University of Copenhagen | LLM cultural value alignment, safety, political communication, AI ethics |
he/him.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EQUUUUoAAAAJ&hl=en
Kor Bosch @korbosch.bsky.social Wildlife & history
Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social Visual Communication journal is dedicated to exploring the dynamic and interdisciplinary field of visual culture, offering cutting-edge scholarship https://journals.sagepub.com/home/VCJ |🌿
Arjan Nobel @arjannobel.bsky.social Historicus @uvahumanities.bsky.social | @vuamsterdam.bsky.social | Vroegmoderne Geschiedenis | Publieksgeschiedenis | Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis | Tijdschrift Holland | Zeven Provinciën Reeks
Suzan Abozyid @suzanabozyid.bsky.social Historian/PhD Candidate/Pessoptimist at Leiden University. 🍉
Researching colonial and capitalist logics in post-war integration policies.
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of the FNRS (Belgium) interested in speculative fiction since c. 1890 and especially its material culture. Singer, sewist, pun-lover. Made in the US for immediate export. She/her.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Illustration Archive @profjt.bsky.social The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive dedicated to historical book illustration: https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/. Account run by Prof Julia Thomas. Interested in the Victorians, word and (mental) image, digital humanities
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Mary Borgo Ton @maryton.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Emily Coit @emilycoit.bsky.social Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago.
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
PaulinevdH @paulinacollina.bsky.social Schatgraver & tijdreiziger @stadsarchief Amsterdam. AI, HTR, open data, en losse eindjes volgen tot in de eeuwigheid. #alleakten #PH4045
Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social History and geographies of science, periodicals, and images in C19 Britain @Université Bourgogne Europe
til.ube.fr/membres/ali-hatap
Quintus van Galen @qvgalen.bsky.social Historian, working on the 19th Century in the Netherlands and its empire with Digital Methods.
@lithlefranc.bsky.social @lithlefranc.bsky.social
Hannu Salmi @hansalmi.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, interests in digital history, 19th century, media and music history / hobby photographer (salmiphotos.galleria.fi), film fan (hannusalmi.blogspot.com).
Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
Jeske Nelissen @jesken.bsky.social
Simon Lindgren @simonlindgren.bsky.social simon.lindgren@umu.se
Pol van de Wiel @polwiel.bsky.social Teacher/Docent @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @um-foundations.bsky.social | Boek ‘Zo zijn we niet meer getrouwd’ (uitgeverij Noordboek) | Covertaler en -inleider van Claude Lefort, ‘Democratie en totalitarisme’ (uitgeverij Boom)
Artificial Memory @artificialmemory.bsky.social Artificial Memory investigates the consequences of the surge of artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly generative AI – and its reception in memory studies.
https://artificial-memory.net/
Maintained by Frédéric Clavert (C²DH - uni.lu)
Caroline Vandyck @carolinevandyck.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Antwerp
Boendale’s Many Faces: Modelling Historical Positionality in Jan van Boendale’s Oeuvre (c. 1280-1351?) (funded by FWO)
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Srishti Guha @srishti-g.bsky.social Historian of visual culture | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social Reader in Photographic History & Visual Culture | Writing a book on the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh | @BRAID research fellow | Human-AI creativity | responsible AI
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
Anja H. Langgåt @anjalanggaat.bsky.social Historian, Norsk Folkemuseum. Currently researching the Norwegian photographic industry 1940-2010. Photo history, business history, marketing, Kodak.
Daniel Foliard @danielfoliard.bsky.social Historian. Photography and empires. Author of the Violence of Colonial Photograpy (Manchester UP, 2023). Université Paris Cité/LARCA
Ben Burtenshaw @benburtenshaw.bsky.social Building tools for AI datasets. 😽
Looking in AI datasets. 🙀
Sharing clean open AI datasets. 😻
at https://bsky.app/profile/hf.co
David Tollerton @davidtollerton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Memory Studies at the University of Exeter. Director of the Exeter Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies @exetercihgs.bsky.social Main areas: public Holocaust memory + memorialisation of the COVID-19 pandemic
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi