Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social https://raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/
The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUI explores the connection between religion and other aspects of American culture.
Nicholas Shrum @nbshrum34.bsky.social American Religions PhD candidate at UVA | UVA Mormon Studies podcast "Scholars & Saints" host | cat dad | bagpiper
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
www.jessicacalarco.com
ɢʀᴇᴇɴʜᴏʀɴ ꜰᴏᴏᴛᴘᴀᴅ @colourmode.bsky.social Greenhorn footpad with Dunning-Kruger Realty Trust, LLC.
Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is Shouting, swearing, DC, WordPress, lifting, other duties as assigned. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social
Martin Bracken FRAS,
STEM ambassador, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomer and Astrophotographer imaging the cosmos from my backgarden in Chelmsford UK. Published Images in Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Sky at Night & Astronomy Now Magazine
LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv The Big Bird at LegalEagle. Believer in the rule of law. 
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com News from Minnesota and beyond. startribune.com
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Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
leon @leyawn.bsky.social i'm leon
Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social Professor of planetary science at Johns Hopkins. Titan’s biggest fan. Pomeranian wrangler. Runner. Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe. She/her. sarahhorst.com
Planetdr.26 on signal
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social Research Scientist 🌾 Adj Professor
Scicomm 🌾 Env/Sci History 🌾 Comics
history, plants, & goldenrod 🌾🏳️🌈🌾
https://liz.kozik.net
she/her
@negauneeinstitute.bsky.social 🌿 Chicago Botanic Garden 🌿
https://rethinkinglawns.com
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
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)
Cville DSA @cvilledsa.bsky.social Charlottesville's premiere socialist organization.
Local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Hasta la victoria siempre 🌹🦊✊
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
DTM @thedtm.bsky.social News, commentary, analysis, and stray thoughts from the editor of https://www.charlottesvilledtm.com/
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social great lakes secessionist | ask your therapist about me (she/her)
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now. 
Famous FNU! @hellkitty.bsky.social 
Nora 🇪🇪 @llcrane.bsky.social A talk about plants, planes and local politics. Ma imetlen ka eesti grafiti:)
Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies
Follow me for thoughts about (a)sexuality, gender, and society
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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social I run a kill shelter for small dogs 💖
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Michael Crenshaw @crenshaw-dev.bsky.social Argo CD stuff, Crozet Virginia stuff
Physically can't stop talking about bike/pedestrian infrastructure. It's a problem, please help.
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social Metadata librarian, University of Virginia Library. Interested in archaeology, linked open data, #OpenAccess, #LODLAM, cycling. Kerameikos.org and Nomisma.org. Charlottesville, VA
Fightful Wrestling @fightful.com Wrestling news from the leaders in news breaking and exclusives
Fightful.com
FightfulWrestling.com
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Lydia Bremer-McCollum @lcbmphd.bsky.social Teacher-scholar of religion and ancient Christianities. Coptic language lover. Fighting for the Undercommons. Currently a Lecturer @ Spelman College | Assistant Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Studies
Website: https://lcbmphd.com/
David Sewell @davidsewell.bsky.social Native southern Californian, Swarthmore alum, former Tucsonan, retired UVA, live in Charlottesville. Interests include the greater Southwest, Lebanon/MENA, immigration policy/support, Quaker concerns.
Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer’s. Reposts do not indicate agreement.
Pitchfork @pitchfork.com The most trusted voice in music
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Laura Helferstay @jackerstay.bsky.social ✨ Education researcher at UVA | Connecting data + people for impactful learning ✏️ |🌱 Raising the next generation (and a little hell) with anti-fascist values | Mostly lurking - all opinions my own
a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social she/her - 🌾🏳️🌈🌾
Plant Toucher
Jo Urriola-Schonewolf @ajschwlf.bsky.social Getting better tattoos soon.
What the Hell is a Pastor @wthiap.bsky.social Have you laid hands "in prayer" on a Nazi today?
wthiap.com
The Fight Against ICE Cruelty @fighticecruelty.bsky.social Formerly "The Fight Against CECOT"
Streetwise, Cville Safety Cat: Interested Female Vocalists Write @averysafecat.bsky.social Bougie, valid. ALA's "Most Inspirational Pinata" 2018. "If you ever go into the UVA library remember to be quiet or this guy will kick yer ass." - antifawatch dot net. He/him. Views expressed here are not necessarily those of UVA.
Aaron (he/him) @aaronaminer.bsky.social apple-devouring 🍎 queer 🏳️🌈 trans 🏳️⚧️ Episcopal ✝️ dad 🥰 SQL nerd. mi ingles es mejor pero prefiero español
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Kellen Squire @kellensquire.org Perpetually undercaffeinated Author, ER Nurse, DNP Student, Pediatric Acute and Intensive Care and Emergency Department Clinical Instructor. "He's a Bernie Sanders type".
https://buymeacoffee.com/cynicalrn
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social Architect, husband & dad, lives in Charlottesville. Bikes for fun and for transport.
Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social Law prof at GW Law, sometimes lawyer, full-time Ruth wrangler. Speaking as private citizen, outside official job duties, on matters of political/social/other concern.
Stuff I write: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1785600
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
Information Charlottesville @infocville.bsky.social This is one of two outlets run by Town Crier Productions, a one-person information outlet that seeks to put out as much information out about local and regional government as possible. Longtime Charlottesville journalist Sean Tubbs is the person behind it.
Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social Native plants (7b/65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain)
Decarbonization, cats, oddments
Working on reducing pollution from buildings at a big nonprofit; speaking for myself here
She/they
Tyler Thrasher @tylerthrasherart.bsky.social Artist, botanist, citizen scientist, author, husband, father, occasional photographer, business owner, personal wizard.
https://linktr.ee/tylerthrasherart?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=737528a5-8cc5-4089-b0bf-cab5206f31df
BrieAnna Frank @brieannafrank.bsky.social USA Today First Amendment reporting fellow.
Email: bjfrank@usatoday.com.
HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social pro wrestler for all elite wrestling. native plant society lifetime member. fat daddy. cowboy.
merch: tinyurl.com/5n93ebb5
actual merch: tinyurl.com/yw5yjhv6
songs: tinyurl.com/ypmh9fw6
Kristi @raisinbran1.bsky.social 
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Suggestion Box: https://forms.gle/1CP83J3YV2jbTLwy9
cville1989🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @cville1989.bsky.social “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”—Denis Diderot
cranky old man still can’t believe this shit is happening in his lifetime
Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestseller JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE. Out Sept 15: LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
Romy Felder @okr0my.bsky.social She/her. Christian (TEC), PhD student in theology & the philosophy of religion: Weil, sacramental materialism, natural law, and political theology, etc!
Jacquelyn Kim @jacquelynkim.bsky.social she/they • university of virginia • working in libraries/archives + public humanities • researching histories of empire + formations of police power
Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social Father · Husband · Son · Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky · Committed to setting a positive tone and fighting for all our families.
Shannon Gillikin @sgillikin.bsky.social Kindergarten teacher, union member, coffee consumer 
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
Emily Joy Allison @emilyjoyallison.bsky.social Writer on religion, gender and sexuality, focusing on Christianity in the US, sexual violence and evangelicalism. Author of #ChurchToo and So You Want to Read the Bible (William Morrow 2027). Views & swears my own 🌈
Sam 🐈⬛ @sammakescoolstuff.bsky.social Sustainability Analyst • Author • Fiber Artist
Former food blogger, current cat enthusiast 🐈⬛
Currently enjoying:
🔍 Castle rewatch
📓 Scrapbooking
🍂 Autumnal bakes
She/Her
Charity Anthology: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210317493-not-coming-out 🏳️🌈
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.
olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com writer, editor, historian.
oliviapaschal.com
Levi Vonk @levivonk.bsky.social Asst prof at UVA. Contributing writer at Jacobin. Co-author of Border Hacker.
aravensgrace @aravensgrace.bsky.social 🏹🐦⬛🍄writer, joker, karaoker 🍄🐦⬛🏹
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
GTMO Watch @gtmowatch.bsky.social Aircraft landing at and leaving the US navy base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Data from public ADS-B signals that military planes don't always send. Most flights are routine cargo/troop transport. False positives possible. By @bellingcat.com
"Chiji's" believer @shindleria235.bsky.social when i feel alive, i try to imagine a careless life, where the sunsets are all breathtaking
https://www.instagram.com/cville_st_art?igsh=aDM2N3p0bXp5b2do (defunct)
Jonny Jackets @jonnyjackets.bsky.social Just a man and his cat.
Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Christiaan Faul @christiaanptr.bsky.social He/him. Adjunct Professor of Bible at Seton Hall University. LPTS and UTS (NYC) alum. Interested in identity construction and cultural trauma in exilic texts. Views my own.
Cat and Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social Trying to do right in a screwed up world. I cover protests and things. Bit of a miscreant. I do stupid things well. (she/her)
Annika Harley @annikaharley.bsky.social She/her
Graduate Student in Environmental Geography at the University of Toronto
🐦 Birder
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all
https://livablecville.org/
ab @abbyattackerman.bsky.social a single decaying log artfully covered in mushrooms • ask me about landslides • (they/she)
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💛💖💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN” MA Thesis & WIP.
She/they. Ace horror writer. 🦑🌈🖤
✨Loves film, folklore, fantasy.
Published in 140+ venues.
Reader @whaleroadreview 🐳
#HorrorWritersChat 👻
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com
Mijitameg @mijitameg.bsky.social