Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide πThe Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience β’ 2026: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism β’ next: bio of Curious George β’ β€οΈ in E. Europe β’ π°,π,πͺ‘
π³ππππππππππππππ | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun π¨π¦π¦π₯πΈ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. πΏπππ
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Captain Cabinets @samebattime.bsky.social A fixation with TV, Film and Horror nostalgia and creating images to amuse myself and others of a like mind
MPI for Social Anthropology @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the world's leading centres for research in socio-cultural anthropology.
Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social Anthropologist. Socialist property law, collectivist use-right, theories of household. Author of Gleaning for Communism: Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell 2023). Hierarchy, liberalism, man-eating street dogs. Creative nonfiction.
Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social Illustration, comics, scribing βοΈ Known for illustrating Queer: A Graphic History & more: www.julesscheele.com
My debut book Orlando - A Graphic Novel Biography is out NOW: https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/product/orlando-by-jules-scheele-preorder
Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds π΅πΈπβπ³οΈββ§οΈ
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social susanstryker.net||Trans Studies||Historian||Filmmaker
Dr Arwen Joyce @arwenjoyce.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester. Travel writer and practicing lawyer in a past life. Interested in labour migration, labour law, legal education. She/her. Dual citizen πΊπΈπ±πΊ living in π¬π§.
Inga Thiemann @ingathiemann.bsky.social Researches othered/feminised work and critical responses to human trafficking/modern slavery. What doesnβt count as work and why not?
Reader at Loughborough Law School.
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Kate Roberts @k8roberts.bsky.social Migration, migrant rights, labour rights, labour exploitation, anti-trafficking
Maayan Niezna @niezna.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Labour exploitation, migration, trafficking, and all things coercion/consent.
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Governmentβs Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Anthem Press @anthempress.bsky.social Independent interdisciplinary international publishing in the social sciences, business/law and humanities.
Anthrodiva Bot 2026 @anthrodiva.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist, vulgar Marxist, sloppy empiricist, crackpot phenomenologist. Lives in WV.
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
Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social a guy
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social Philosopher | practical knowledge, collective inquiry, philosophy of technology | spends too much time running (picture eliot.ely)
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
π https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Billy OceanGate π΅πΈ @stitzch.bsky.social Fit like. Bandcamp Da
He/him
Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social researcher writer walker of forests swimmer of oceans here for the funny and the interesting
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
@wellcomework.bsky.social @wellcomework.bsky.social Read more about us on our website: https://wellcomesuicideproject.leeds.ac.uk/
Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
I block if you have no bio or posts
She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
Geoff Bil @geoffbil.bsky.social Historian of science, assistant professor, University of Victoria. Interests: botany, anthropology, Indigenous history, IP, colonialism, environmental history.
Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social Early American lit, feminism, science studies. NEW WORLD CALCULATION: THE MAKING OF NUMBERS IN COLONIAL AMERICA out 8/25/26.
Pre-order:
tinyurl.com/newworldcalculation
mollyfarrell.org
Views are mine, not my employerβs.
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Education Scotland Learning for Sustainability @edscotlfs.bsky.social Learning for Sustainability is Learning for a Better World! Follow us as we journey towards Target 2030. The ambition is for every Scottish school and setting to be sustainable and for every learner to receive their LfS entitlement by 2030.
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Paul Jonker-HoffrΓ©n @pjonkerhoffren.bsky.social Sociologist, circular economy, work, industrial relations. Reality-based citizen. Helsinki University #NodeWork
ORCID: 0000-0001-5769-8372
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Ingrid Sharp @profingrid.bsky.social Gender and Cultural Historian at the University of Leeds: likes dogs and cake
Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social Renewable energy and climate politics and policy. Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Author of Owning The Green Grid (MIT Press). More at joshuabasseches.com
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson β Herald of a Restless World β is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.β John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Convener of @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
@purepapua.bsky.social @purepapua.bsky.social Running the #WestPapua outrage machine 24/7.
Allergic to colonial bullshit, permanently disgusted with Indon in West Papua
I live in airplane mode.
Frequent flyer.
πBerlin
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en
Scott Hutchison @freeebooter.bsky.social Film, architecture, theatre. Atheist, Rebellious Scot. Pro-Independence, Pro-Europe, vehemently anti-Tory/Reform/Fascist. Oxford comma advocate. Currently helping to restore an Art Deco cinema in Prestwick (broadway.scot )
MBTI: ISTJ-T π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ π΅πΈ πΊπ¦ π³οΈββ§οΈ π³οΈβπ πͺπΊ
@owenhhalala.bsky.social @owenhhalala.bsky.social
hanrachanth.bsky.social @hanrachanth.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at UoE. Mezcal, peasantry, commodity studies, 'placed-based' food and drink, fermentation, terroir. Comms Officer @drinkingstudies.bsky.social. Also a keen knitter.
Kyle Willmott @kylewillmott.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University | Political sociology/economic sociology/Indigenous-settler relations/colonialism/race/law/tax/policy | Tyendinaga Mohawk
kylewillmott.com
Carly Knight @carlyrknight.bsky.social Assistant professor, nyu sociology. Economic & cultural sociologist studying corporations, law, and economic ideas.
Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica covering health, human rights & the environment. Brooklynite. Fan of nature, facts, pie
Maike Melles @maikemelles.bsky.social Postdoc in Ecological Anthropology @Czech Academy of Sciences - Frugality, drinking water and food waste in the NL
PhD on dehesa landscape and heritage in Spain
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/staff/maike-melles/
https://cas-cz.academia.edu/MaikeMelles
Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt.bsky.social political theory @BarnardCollege: climate, Marxism, feminism. A Planet to Win at Verso; Free Gifts out now at Princeton UP https://tinyurl.com/fa8868a5
www.alyssabattistoni.com
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social Writer, historian of ideas, Curator-at-Large
Environment in museums and the wider world
What Birdo is That?
A Field Guide to Bird People π¦
New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. πΏ
Victor Secco @victorsecco.bsky.social Anthropologist @HealthXCross UniVE
Microbes | environment | health | religion
https://pric.unive.it/projects/healthxcross/home
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Andrew Flachs @drflachsophone.bsky.social Associate professor, Purdue Anthropology. Environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, political ecology, food, biotech, fermentation, agriculture. US Midwest, South Asia, Balkans. He/him/his
www.andrewflachs.com- C Christien Tompkins @cptompkins.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University. Author "A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina"
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social We are the trade union for academic and academic-related staff at University of Westminster. Find us on Instagram at @ucuwestminster.
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Managed by @zizilizizi.bsky.social @kaareeenah.bsky.social
Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social Janeway is an open source digital platform for publishing scholarly articles online. Developed by the openlibhums.bsky.social. Posts usually by @ajrbyers.bsky.social.
Ellen Clarke @ellenclarke.bsky.social Philosopher of biology at University of Leeds
occasional blogger at https://philosomama.blogspot.com/
Risk & Disaster TIG @riskdisastertig.bsky.social Join Us: https://linktr.ee/RiskDisasterTIG. RTs = / = Endorsements. Contact us here or at riskanddisastertig [at] gmail [dot] com with any questions.
TULE Network @tulenetwork.bsky.social Trade Unions and Labor Environmentalism (TULE) is a network of early-career researchers exploring how trade unions can advance working-class environmentalism. We organize regular events: https://tulelabour.org/get-updates/
https://tulelabour.org/about
Kristin @curlyreader.bsky.social I have worked in local history museums as well as in education. Besides researching my family tree, I can be found gardening, reading, walking, or sitting quietly with a cup of coffee.
Katya Krylova @katyakrylova.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social Interim Professor at Europa-UniversitΓ€t Viadrina and Senior Researcher at Technische UniversitΓ€t Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | higher education
he/him
Gavin Fridell @gavinfridell.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Global Development Studies, coauthor of Trade Fetishism @Routledge, Rethinking Development Politics @ElgarPublishing and Global Libidinal Economy @SUNYPress || https://www.smu.ca/researchers/arts/profiles/gavin-fridell
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social Oxford Law Research Admin, dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794β¦
Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social Philosopher of science, University of Edinburgh.
More about me here https://www.michelamassimi.com/
Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social Will (he/him) on Zoom
Bassist for HR Lady and the Smoothgroins
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social Academic @york.ac.uk
Sociology of Professions / Critical Management Studies / History
David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder.
Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Advocacy & Academic Engagement Officer at Royal Historical Society. Lecturer in History @ The Queenβs College, Oxford. FRHistS. All views my own.
π§ hannah.elias@royalhistsoc.org
Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social Sociologist interested in wealth inequality, housing, and class analysis. Heidelberg University & London School of Economics https://waitkus.github.io/
Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social We are 4S, an international, nonprofit association focused on the social studies of science, technology and medicine (#STS). Next Annual meeting October 7-10, 2026.
Cymene Howe @cymene.bsky.social podhost. anthropologist. loving the more-than-human.
SHE/HER
SamuΓ«l Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
David Pretel @davidpretel.bsky.social Historian @cchscsic.bsky.social, author, dad
PI ERC Consolidator Grant WILDHIST https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101171213
Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Wert der Vergangenheit" @valuepast.bsky.social Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past"
Website: https://www.leibniz-wert-der-vergangenheit.de
Blog: https://valuepast.hypotheses.org
Susannah Eckersley @susannaheckersley.bsky.social Prof of Critical Heritage & Memory Cultures, Newcastle University, UK
Director, AHRC Northern Bridge
AHRC-DFG: Cultural Dynamics: Museums & Democracy in Motion
HERA: en/counter/points
Horizon 2020: CoHERE
EUFP7: European Museums in an age of Migration
Petra Dolata @pdolata.bsky.social energy historian at the University of Calgary, originally from the Ruhrpott, now residing on Treaty 7 land, supporter of BVB, Brentford FC and Calgary Wild FC, she/her
Leyla Sayfutdinova @leylasayf.bsky.social Researcher of/from Baku. Oil, landscape, infrastructures, city. @University of Glasgow
Corinne Geering @corinnegeering.bsky.social Historian working on regional development, energy landscapes & uses of the past |
Assistant Prof at Johannes Kepler University Linz
LordWoolamaloo @lordwoolamaloo.bsky.social Bookseller, editor, blogger, reader, reviewer, writer, photographer, drinker, swashbuckler, cat tickler
https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/
https://linktr.ee/WoolamalooGazette
Sally Cawood @sallycawood.bsky.social Lecturer in Economic Geography @LancasterEnvironmentCentre working on coloniality, waste and sanitation labour.
More at: https://hazardouslabourgeographies.net/
Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social Political scientist at FDU, Executive Director of the FDU Poll, studying masculinities and research methods.
Chanelle Adams @chanelle.bsky.social postdoctoral scholar, max planck institute for the history of science
chanelleadams.info
Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma
Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, UMass Amherst
https://www.lenorepalladino.com
my book: Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy, out 12/5/24