Josh Mayer @joshmayer.bsky.social Researching settler colonialism, imperialism, and Afro-Indigenous freedom struggles in Nicaragua and its diaspora. Assistant Prof. at UConn. Fellow at the Oakland Institute. He/him.
Rebekah Modrak @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social artist, writer, prof at UMich, co-editor of Trouble in Censorville, and creator of RETHINK SHINOLA https://rethinkshinola.com/ and ReMade Co https://remadeco.org/
https://rebekahmodrak.com/
Alzbeta Hajkova @alzbetahajkova.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Technological politics. From Slovakia, in Atlanta. she/her. Views expressed are my own.
Alliance For Higher Education @alliancehighered.bsky.social The Alliance unites higher education to protect: the freedom to teach, think, and learn; the ability to self-govern without partisan influence; and a sector where all students have a fair opportunity to learn and thrive.
Vineeta @vlneeta.bsky.social Enthusiastic amateur
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
AAUP-South Carolina @aaup-sc.org Your South Carolina Conference of chapters of the AAUP. We fight for academic freedom, shared governance, and better working conditions for all in higher ed. Join: no one can advocate for us like us. https://www.aaup-sc.org/
Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social President of American Association of University Professors, VP of American Federation of Teachers, Professor at Rutgers University, Dad, Author, Against Fascism! College4All!
Alasdair Gold @alasdairgold.bsky.social Tottenham Hotspur correspondent for football.london. Before that had the pleasure of being sports editor at various newspapers.
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Christine Woyshner @cwoyshner.bsky.social Historian of African American Education, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Affairs, mom & figure skater
AERA Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education @aeradivf-history.bsky.social AERA Division F explores the history of education broadly from national, international, and comparative perspectives, and provides historical context for the formation of educational policy.
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social AFT President. Teacher. Unionist. Fighting for a better life for children, families & communities through educ & eco opportunity, fairness & freedom & democracy Wife of Sharon Kleinbaum.
Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social | Historian | 📖 "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood" | Heart in New Orleans | Personal account
Mike Gavin @michaelhgavin.bsky.social President and CEO, Alliance for Higher Education, author of The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education, Founder, Education for All. Cubs. allianceforhighered.org
United Academics @local6741.bsky.social United Academics Local 6741 is an @aaup.org & @AFT.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter members and at-large members of AAUP. Visit us at https://local6741.org/ & become a member at https://www.aaup.org/membership/join
Emma Pettit @emmajanepettit.bsky.social Senior reporter at Longview covering our messy, wonderful world. Send tips! emma@longview.report; on Signal at emmapettit.31
AFT Archivist @aftarchivist.bsky.social I maintain the historical records of the American Federation of Teachers at the Walter Reuther Library.
David K Johnson @gayhistoryprof.bsky.social Historian and author of THE LAVENDER SCARE (Chicago, 2004) and BUYING GAY (Columbia, 2019). Working behind enemy lines in the "Free State" of Florida. 
Adrianna Kezar @akezar.bsky.social Higher education researcher focused on equity, student success, change and leadership; director of Pullias Center, University of Southern California. Check out Pullias.usc.edu
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.”
Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social Archives and dissertations, labor and libraries. Too much service. Shepherding CUNY history at @cdha.bsky.social. AAUP Council. Views my own.
She/her, white/Mexican. Not actually Iranian. Queens is the future 💫
https://roxanneshirazi.com/
Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social historian of education doing professor things and listening to music in fascist times.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Noah W. Sobe @noahsobe.bsky.social Chief of Section for Higher Education @ UNESCO. All posts my own. 
Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social Law and education scholar
Stephanie Aguilar-Smith @drsaguilarsmith.bsky.social mami scholar raised on arepas committed to equity & justice, esp for #HSIs
Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social Higher Education Policy, Student Basic Needs, Student Loans, and often Shitposter.
HE Policy Scholar: check my shit out on Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d31xeeIAAAAJ&hl=en
#edusky #academicsky
Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Stolen Relations @stolenrelations.bsky.social Official Bluesky of Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Housed at the Brown Center for Digital Scholarship @browncds.bsky.social; PI Linford Fisher @linford.bsky.social.
stolenrelations.org
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 16 and 17, 2026. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
Carrie Klein @carrienklein.bsky.social Associate Vice President, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) | HigherEd policy & data
Dr. Genia Bettencourt @drgmbettencourt.bsky.social Studies college access, equity, and student success. 
Dr. Rosie Perez (she/her) @rosiejp.bsky.social Higher education faculty member. Student affairs educator. Filipina American. Partner & mama. Sports fan. CLE forever.
All statements are mine.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
Rian Lund Dahlberg | they 🏳️⚧️ @rldahlberg.bsky.social Director of the Board of Higher Education and Workforce @nationalacademies.org | queer on all axises | can’t exist according to USG | nerd about most things | all words here mine | check out my team’s work: www.nas.edu/bhew
Margaret Sallee @mwsallee.bsky.social Professor of higher education at the University at Buffalo; work/family, gender, and organizational scholar; academic mama; espresso fiend; occasional hiker when the children allow
Jarrett T. Gupton @jtgphd.bsky.social 
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Jim Barber @jpbarber.bsky.social Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Education at William & Mary | New book 📚: https://tinyurl.com/yv9mmdrb | I study college student learning, pilgrimage, and fraternity. Native Michigander 👋🏼
Penny A. Pasque @pennypasque.bsky.social Professor, Director of QualLab research center, knitter, hiker…..
Claudia García-Louis @cgarcialouis.bsky.social Detribalized Wixárika scholar | 🇲🇽immigrant | budding decolonial methodologist | LatinX Diaspora | race & ethnicity | AfroLatinX identity development | MesoAmerican history’s influence on US LatinXs
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
Elizabeth DeBray @edebray.bsky.social Ed policy prof at UGA and Atlantan. #academicsky opinions mine
W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social Sociologist of higher ed inequalities & racism @ Michigan
Probably staring at data instead of writing, but at least there’s a stack of books & articles beside me.
More info: https://wcarsonbyrd.com
Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW. History and school finance. Book: Dividing the Public. Retweets are not endorsements. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈 Seattle, WA.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773266/dividing-the-public/#bookTabs=1
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
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Gina Ann Garcia @ginaanngarcia.bsky.social Scholar. Author. Podcaster. Mother.
Higher Education & Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).
www.ginaanngarcia.com
Chris Lubienski @chrislub.bsky.social EdPolicy Prof at Indiana University. National Academy of Education. AERA Fellow. Director: Center for Eval & Ed Policy: https://ceep.indiana.edu/ Husband, Dad, TrailRunner. Also pretend musician. Tweet≠Endorsement. I speak for myself.
Third Way @thirdway.bsky.social Fact-driven, future-focused national think tank championing modern center-left ideas. linktr.ee/thirdwayorg
🎓 @thirdwayedu.bsky.social
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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.
Adrienne Lu @adriennelu.bsky.social Senior reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Ed writing about what it's like to live and work in higher ed. Get in touch: adrienne.lu@chronicle.com; Signal adriennelu.60
Dr. Ty C. McNamee @tycmcnamee.bsky.social Your friendly queer farm boy academic 🌈⛰👨🏻🏫 | Asst Prof of Ed Policy & Evaluation at UKY | #RuralEd #SocialClass #AccessEquity #Queerness #TeachingLearning #Faculty #EduSky
Dr. Crystal E. Garcia @crystalegarcia.bsky.social Associate Prof studying #college students/higher ed environments using #critical frameworks. Posts are my own.
Noellerson @noellerson.bsky.social Wife to #ngallan, mom to #MiniHWN, corgmom to #MrTheoNg. Lover of all things public education, advocacy, and running. Proud public school graduate.
Brendan Lee @bglee34.bsky.social Public Historian of Higher Education at Utah State University
Vanessa A. Sansone @vsansone.bsky.social Associate Professor of Higher Education | Co-Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) | College Affordability | Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Higher Ed Policy & Governance | Rural Higher Education | Regional Public Universities
Antonio Duran, PhD @drantonioduran.bsky.social Associate Professor in #HigherEducation + 1L JD student
Jessica Blake @jessicablake.bsky.social Inside Higher Ed, Policy Reporter | Mizzou Made | Ohio Born & Bred
Ben Cecil @bencecil.bsky.social Senior Education Policy Advisor @thirdwayedu.bsky.social
Washington, D.C.
https://www.thirdway.org/about/staff/ben-cecil
Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social Higher education & African anticolonialism. Professor at Trinity College. Wrote "Making the World Global" and "Free Speech And Koch Money." Director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (AAUP). Views=my own.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
OiYan Poon (she/her) @oiyanpoon.bsky.social Race scholar, author, educator, and Chicago Public School mom & LSC parent rep member. Off-Brand Asian Mom.
Co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative (www.CAFCOLAB.org)
www.publicpedagogy.info
Kelly Rosinger @kellyrosinger.bsky.social assoc prof at Penn State examining how college admissions, financial aid, & other policies can be designed to promote equity | hiker | sometimes baker | mom | she/her | views my own
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social Law professor, Drexel Univ • Affil'd fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Charles Mathies @cmathies.bsky.social Researcher of markets, politics, & structures in movement globally of people, data, & knowledge. 🇺🇸 & 🇫🇮 Education, workforce dev. & labor markets. Views=mine
Stephanie Sowl @stephaniesowl.bsky.social Associate Director of Research | rural higher ed scholar | dog, chocolate, wine lover - in that order
Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social politics, protests, quant methods, bad takes, labor, etc
https://kevinreuning.com/
https://unionelections.org/
https://voterperceptions.org/
All opinions, views, thoughts, and takes are strictly my own.
Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics at University of Colorado. I study immigration, the safety net, and inequality
Affiliated with Hamilton Project at Brookings, NBER, IRP, IZA, United Campus Workers Colorado
https://www.chloeneast.com
Opinions my own
Laura Smithers @laurida.bsky.social in no particular order: virgo, bagel aficionado, coffee addict, private nerd, professional nerd, pleasant enough curmudgeon, keeper of random and rarely useful facts. #content: laurasmithers.net, sunypress.edu/Books/I/Impact-Impasse
Cecilia Orphan @ceciliaorphan.bsky.social Working class kid who got lost on a college campus | Aspiring to lead an analog life | Cat lady | TEDxMileHigh speaker | Co-Director @arrc.bsky.social | I spend a lot of time thinking about higher ed's role in democracy, especially right now
Julie Posselt @julieposselt.bsky.social Gatekeeping, equity, culture, & wellbeing in higher ed & the disciplines
Professor; Associate Dean; Director of EquityGradEd.org & the Center for Enrollment, Research, Policy, & Practice
🧘♀️ she/her/mom; speaking for myself
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Meredith Billings @billingsmer.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Higher Education, Adult Learning, & Organizational Studies at UT-Arlington. Research interests: college affordability, higher ed funding, ed politics and policy, college access, and educational governance. Avid tennis player 🎾
Katie Smith @ksmithedu.bsky.social Read, write and teach about higher ed and student career development/ opportunity/ outcomes. Sometimes re: STEM. Love writing, rec sports, travel. https://sites.google.com/view/ksmithedu
Derek A. Houston, PhD @dahouston.bsky.social Criticalism + Quantification. P-20 Ed Finance, Equity, & Access. Intercollegiate Athletics. Posts are my own. ΩΨΦ #FIETTS
Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Education at UMD. Author of A IS FOR ARSON (2023); SPARE THE ROD (2021); and THE FIGHT FOR LOCAL CONTROL (2016).
Caught somewhere between Ivan and Alyosha.
Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Ph.D. @saralynmc.bsky.social #highered scholar studying #staff in higher education, financial aid, gender, and community colleges. Assistant Professor @Baylor University; opinions my own.
Beth McMurtrie @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social I write about teaching innovation and the future of learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Contact me at beth.mcmurtrie(at)http://chronicle.com
Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social professor at umass.edu | co-host of haveyouheardpodcast.com | director of umass.edu/education/organizations/center-education-policy
previous book: offthemarkbook.com | latest book: educationwarsbook.com | next book: in progress.
Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social Pulitzer-prize-wanting historian at Binghamton U (SUNY). Columbo fan. Books about schools, religion, conservatism. Now writing about the roots of US public schools, c. 1790-1860. Check out adamlaats.net
Judith Kafka @judithkafka.bsky.social Professor of Ed Policy and Hist of Ed @Baruch College and CUNY Grad Center. Dog owner, book lover, Brooklynite, she/her.
Tracy Steffes @tracylsteffes.bsky.social Prof of Education and History, Brown U; wrote Structuring Inequality and School, Society, & State. Interested in U.S. history, education, law, politics, and public policy.
Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social VP, Education & Work, New America. Writes about education for the New York Times, Atlantic, Vox, etc. I’ve made my mind a sunless space.
ben @btskinner.io Data science + noisy music | ATV wheelie judge (junior division) | btskinner.io | he/him
Ethan Hutt @ehutt.bsky.social Associate Prof UNC School of Ed; study ed history, reform, law; love TV, sports, dogs, & prose | New book: http://offthemarkbook.com #Dodgers #COYS 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College. Affiliations: NBER, CCRC, former Senior Economist at CEA (2022-23). This is a personal account.
Beckie Supiano @becksup.bsky.social Chronicle of Higher Ed reporter covering teaching and learning; co-writer of free, weekly Teaching newsletter—get it here: https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/teaching
David Jesse @reporterdavidj.bsky.social Senior writer covering leadership at Chronicle of Higher Education. Ex-Detroit Free Press. Spencer Education Reporting Fellow. Once named best education reporter in country by Education Writers Association https://www.chronicle.com/author/david-jesse
Andrew Koricich @drandrewk.bsky.social Executive Director @arrc.bsky.social | Professor of Higher Ed @appalachianstate.bsky.social | PI @ruraltalentlabs.bsky.social | Studying rural higher ed | Rescue dog dad | National Parks enthusiast | Amateur chef | Proud Appalachian | 🏳️🌈
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)