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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.bsky.social PhD Candidate. Using open LLMs to process complex information for regular people to use. Likes lemongrass + ginger tea and chocolate. Two cats.
Alexander Sparrow @asparrowcomic.bsky.social Follow for jokes and sketches. I'm a comedy writer and comedian. Half of @sparrowandboyle. Newsletter 👇
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Joanne Kuai @joannekuai.bsky.social 
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Verity Trott @vezziet.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Research @ Monash. Book FEMINIST ACTIVISM & PLATFORM POLITICS (Routledge) http://tinyurl.com/mr473tx8
Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social I research social media, platform studies, and digital intimacies.
My book, OnlyFans, comes out in October 2026 https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=onlyfans--9781509567188
Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social She/her
Studying influencers & ‘influencer creep’ in creative industries
Associate Professor in Media & Communication, University of Leeds
Pre order Influencer Creep now: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/influencer-creep/paper
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA.
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
Raul Perez @raulperez.bsky.social sociologist and author of The Souls of White Jokes (Stanford University Press) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308
Save Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social The closure of Meanjin has triggered outrage across Australia’s literary and academic communities.
The solution is straightforward — transfer the journal to new custodians who can ensure its future.
More at https://savemeanjin.org
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Greg Larsen @greglarsencomedian.bsky.social Comedian. Writer. Actor.
https://linktr.ee/greglarsencomedian
Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Dr Matt Hilborn @matthewhilborn.bsky.social Film Comedy Researcher, University College Dublin
Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020 (Legenda, 2025) - buy now!
Writing on 21st-century rom com (film/TV) in Spain
Oliver Double @oliverdouble.bsky.social Person who does stuff
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Dick Zijp @dickzijp.bsky.social Assistant Professor Universiteit Utrecht - humoronderzoeker - cultuurwetenschapper - cabaretautoriteit - feminist - social media nomad
https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/DCZijp
@samjclark.bsky.social @samjclark.bsky.social 
Democratic Literacy and Humour @deliah.eu Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the relationship between humour and democracy in Europe.
www.deliah.eu
De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social Philosophy editors at academic publisher @degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
Connect with us here for information on our latest scholarly publications, news and developments in the field. #philsky
Nice new books -> http://tiny.cc/ldm4001
@drnicgraham.bsky.social @drnicgraham.bsky.social Lecturer in Ethics & Values at King’s College London | Media Officer for Humour and Religion Network | Researches humour & religion, gender, and ethics | She/Her | Views my own.
Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social Professor and Head of Department at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Dr Fergus Edwards @drfergusedwards.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Fergus.Edwards
Geoffrey Lee @geoffreylee.bsky.social PhD @ USYD | dissecting the frog that is Twitch livestream humour | he/him | updates at https://geofflearnstobefunny.wordpress.com/
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Stephanie Pitts @sparcsheffield.bsky.social Director of Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre at University of Sheffield. Researcher of lifelong engagement in music. Teacher of music psychology. Lover of gardens and beaches.
Chortle @chortle.bsky.social The website for comedy in the UK www.chortle.co.uk
Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social Cornell Professor, climate activist
Michelle Laura Flood @michellelauraflood.bsky.social 
Sarah Busch @sarahbusch.bsky.social PhD student @UniFreiburg / lecturer @UniCologne / queer-feminist literature 📚contemporary theatre and audience studies🎭/ (she/they) 🏳️🌈
www.tinyurl.com/SBusch
rebecca schneider @rebeccasch.bsky.social Here to find fellow travelers to deny power to fascism, end racism, deflate patriarchy, bust capitalism (unsustainable extractionism), fully reshape liberalism, acknowledge the nightmares of history and the dreams of dreamers. Non-poster. But will show-up.
Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies at ASU. Studying technology, race, power, and ethics. Lover of general shenanigans. I refuse to call them “skeets.” Opinions my own.
Luvell Anderson @luke-rage.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Podcaster: https://snl101.info/, Co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, andersonluvell.weebly.com
Cultural Critique @culturalcritique.bsky.social Cultural Critique is a journal for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and humanistic social sciences.
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/cultural-critique
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social Reimaginer of media industries and society in digital age | Prof@QUT | Strategy consultant | US expat | Fan of swimming, baked goods & nature | drtvlotz@gmail | amandalotz.com | Mostly writing on LinkedIn, glimmers of also being a human here
Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social website: www.gary-needham.com Film and Screen Media, University of Liverpool & currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social digital media + education | Monash University | research interests: automation, AI, tech bans, public interest ed-tech | host of 'Education Technology Society' podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1301377
Squirrel Comedy @squirrelcomedy.bsky.social Melbourne based and NUTS about standup comedy since 2005
Nick Marx @marxnick.bsky.social 
Adam Hembree @ahemmm.bsky.social Actor/academic. Talk to me about early modern language, theatre, magic, role-playing games, photography, and other witchy wordy nerdy business. (he/him)
www.soothplayers.com
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Stephanie Trigg @stephanietrigg.bsky.social Medievalist trying to live a good life on Wurundjeri land and sometimes on Gulidjan/Gadubanud land.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social Frightful hobgoblin
James Macaronas @jmacaronas.bsky.social Paranormal investigator. He/him. Naarm/Melbourne.
PhD - the psychedelic experience in sci-fi.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Free Palestine.
Fuck gen AI.
Stacey Copeland @scopeland.bsky.social Queer Feminist researcher. Podcasts-radio-media-theory. Assistant professor, University of Groningen. Co-director, Amplify Podcast Network. {she/they} 🏳️🌈🎙️
Daniel Smith @drdanielrsmith.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology | Cardiff University 
Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social UK independent scholar. Critical University Studies. Fascinated by US politics. Tweets mostly about Higher Ed issues. Open Water swimmer. Blog https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Bradley J. Dixon @bradleyjdixon.me thought leader | www.bradleyjdixon.me
Mitch Alexander @philosophica.bsky.social join your union
Screams in Eye Of The Enemy, speaks on The Radical Online Leftist Pipeline podcast. Writes at Philosophica. RIP The Racket
samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social digital rights advocate / writer / PhD candidate researching tech + housing justice 🏠 surveillance isn't safety xoxo
samanthafloreani.com
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