Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social Higher Education. All of it. All around the world. Also: snark, sumo, Winnipeg Jets triumphalism and bitching about Toronto FC.
I blog here: https://higheredstrategy.com/blog/
I podcast here: https://worlded.transistor.fm/
Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social 🌌💡🌃🛰 #TransformingNight
Out Sept 22!
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295755205/transforming-night/
#SkyStorian #STS #EnvHist #HistTech #envirotech #HistSci
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #CriticalDarkSkyStudies
VMO
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Kerem Duymus @keremduymus.bsky.social Sociologist & Historian, Global History of West Africa & Afro-Ottoman Studies
https://www.keremduymus.uk/
https://afroglobalresearchnetwork.hcommons.org/
lopernzo @lopernzo.bsky.social astrophysics 🌌 + activism 🔧 = @scientistrebellion.bsky.social 🌹. Sees the world through the eyes of a scientist and of a dreamer.
Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Matt Farish @mattfarish.bsky.social Historical geographer, University of Toronto; Affiliate, U of T's Centre for the Study of the US. Writing a book about climate labs, survival schools, and the 20th-c. US militarization of the planet. Distracted by AC Milan and ⚽️. Posts are personal.
Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/decarbonising-the-built-environment/
built environment | social-ecological transition | postdoc at Uniarts Helsinki
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9088-984X
Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social Early career historian. Postdoc at Uni Basel. They/them.
Cultural history of nationalism, bureaucracy, & empire in Central and Eastern Europe.
Writing about democracy, policing, and imperial afterlives in interwar 🇨🇿-🇸🇰.
Circulating around 🇺🇸 (MN) 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 & 🇨🇿
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social I've been a teacher, a co-operative worker, a lawyer and external affairs director at UK charity Sustrans, and am the former chair of Transition Network, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Common Cause Foundation.
João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social Historian | Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies | Pilecki Institute | Warsaw | Researching Cold War in Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-0600
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Omari @oaverettephillips.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis (Late 19th Century Labor History in the US South) | Educator | Labor Organizer | Leftist | he, they
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious.
ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️
@skcblue.bsky.social @skcblue.bsky.social
Stacey Balkan @sbalkan5.bsky.social public university professor in Florida (views my own) | energy humanist | bike warrior | lover of pups| WVU press author | www.staceybalkan.com
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social So Cal, Oregon, New York.
Avi image detail from "Sisters of the Moon Diana" by Leonora Carrington
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Dr. Alyssa (they/them) @yesthattoo.bsky.social Autistic researcher with too many interests and no real intention of narrowing it down. Mostly AAC research at the moment. Sometimes a math teacher.
Not speaking on behalf of any companies/organizations here.
Etienne Lalechère @etiennelalechere.bsky.social PhD Ecology
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Zoyd Wheeler @feignamerican.bsky.social Democracy. Country over party. Art is culture. Bored of the super rich. Writer, but I’m cagey about it.
Jennifer @feistywiddershins.bsky.social Author of contemporary witch fantasy
THE BURNING OF ARBOR
ARBOR'S DESCENT
Pen name J.L. Brown
Published by 🏳️🌈 NineStar Press
Artist, Glass Melter
Book Scout, Coffee Drinker
Maiden, Mother, Crone
Philly sports fan, South Jersey Italian
She/her 📚✨️🌙🧙♀️
Wine is my muse @timothyjones.bsky.social Family 1st, Black. W&M, Oxford. PhD Math
Former: Boxer, Union Baker, Bouncer, USN Officer, Consulting Partner.
Retired Global Fortune 50 CTO
Women's self defense instructor.
Support nonviolence except when it fails
Wine, food, mirth, dogs
Edinburgh, ATL
Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social Arms trade, militarism, global insecurities and global (dis)order @ Uni Sussex and Shadow World Investigations
Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgia State College of Law
Reproductive health, rights, and justice; health & FDA law; social justice; and dogs. 🐶
Views are my own.
Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.
Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social Medieval historian: religion, cities, heresy, intolerance, inquisition, environment, medievalism. Associate Professor (Career-Track), Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Views my own. he/him. https://eugene-smelyansky.com/
Dr. Jim Getz @jimgetz.bsky.social Historian of ancient Near Eastern ritual, religion, and magic. Professor of Instruction in the Intellectual Heritage program at Temple U. Pedagogy wonk.
he/they/Dr
Philly AF. Speaking for no one but myself.
Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung
Karin Kvale @kkvale.bsky.social Earth system scientist working on oceans and climate, Aotearoa Blue Ocean Research. IPCC author. Runner, mother, global citizen born at 340 ppm.
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Climate.us @climate.us We are an independent, nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Donate: https://www.climate.us/donate
Katie Cannon @katiecannon.bsky.social Since the Fascists have seized our national currency, we need to get busy using sub federal public institutions to create public money.
@moneyontheleft has been doing the work on this. Highly recommend.
Peter Johnson (Michel Serres: Ecology) @peterj5319.bsky.social I research and write about the ecological ideas of the philosopher Michel Serres (1930-2019). After publishing several journal articles, I launched my first book in 2026: Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: Michel Serres and Climate Change
Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Change at Universities of Manchester & Uppsala.
Translating climate science, through carbon budgets, into policy goals & mitigation options.
Co-founder https://climateuncensored.com
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
Jared Barnes @barnesja.bsky.social Bonavista, NL
Mostly coastal picture spam.
Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social I have a degree in Physics and a master’s in philosophy. Starting my PhD in Philosophy. Interests: philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of color. I have a YouTube channel about ideas I find fascinating. Luddite
Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social Postdoc in @summerfieldlab.bsky.social at Oxford studying learning in humans and machines
Interested in collective intelligence, metascience, philosophy of science
@oxforducu.bsky.social member
You can find me on Mastodon at neuromatch.social/@jess
Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
https://linktr.ee/avi.lewis
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
gaia.eco - Biodiversity Studio @gaia.eco 🪸 Monitor species. Restore nature.
🌍 Data, KPIs, analytics and reports
🔎 Open up https://gaia.eco
Faisal Abdullah Abualhassan | فيصل عبدالله أبوالحسن @faisal-abu.bsky.social Historian of empire, slavery and descent in the desert world.
PhD, Johns Hopkins (2026)
Mondes désertiques - Sahara et Arabie
مؤرخ الرِّق والنسب في العالم الصحاري من أفريقيا إلى الجزيرة العربية
Riyad(h) | الرياض
Sebastien Hebray @paysagiste.bsky.social 🌍 Pas de pays sans paysages 🌿
Méditerranéen à la façon d’une succulente, adapté au climat. La tête dans le pot… de peinture #biere #marseille #jardin #print
Mediapart @mediapart.fr Journal d'information numérique, indépendant et participatif. Seul·es nos lecteurs et lectrices peuvent nous acheter ! https://www.mediapart.fr 🖋️
Suivez aussi @mediapartblogs.bsky.social, l'espace d'expression libre des abonné·es de Mediapart.
Nicolas Maisetti @nmaisetti.bsky.social De la sociologie politique urbaine.
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu World-class research and academic institution focused on informing solutions to some of the world’s most vexing problems.
📍University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
🌎 https://www.soest.hawaii.edu
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Phil Gilmartin @pmgilmartin.bsky.social Eclectic posts from a retired Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics, now enjoying life house renovating, dog walking, gardening, & travelling.
Pierre Verschueren @pverschu.eurosky.social Victor Cousin hate account ça change pas.
Shitposting as a liberté académique.
Ex-Taulier de MEEF.
Docteur Doctorat.
Juge des normaliens morts.
En poste à Sorbonne Cancoillotte.
Ne me demandez pas qui est Marie Pasteur.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social Earth science PhD-turned journalist. I write about clean energy, tech sustainability, and the science of science fiction.
Website: maddiestonewriting.com
Newsletter: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/t/the-science-of-fiction
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Mariana Diaz Chalela @marianadiazchal.bsky.social
Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie Professor in Sustainable Energy, UCC 🇮🇪
I write a monthly column for the Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hannah-daly/
Born 351ppm, daughters born 408 & 410, now >420ppm 🚨 ‼️
Former @IEA and @UCL
Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
blackecofeminista.bsky.social @blackecofeminista.bsky.social Black feminist historian dreaming of communal farm living. Free all colonized peoples ✊🏽 I teach, I think, I write, cite me don’t fight me 👊🏾
Derrick Flakoll @dflakoll.bsky.social Policy @BloombergNEF - US and Canadian industrial strategy, trade, regulations, etc. UNC and @harvardkennedy.bsky.social
alum. Category-5 brainstormer. Views are my own, likes & reposts are not endorsements, etc.
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social Pour haïr un autre
D’abord, tu dois en faire un Autre
Elle/She/Her
≠Legal advice
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
(And that includes you.)
https://buymeacoffee.com/lalegaultt
🇨🇦 ⚖️ 🌹⚜️🍉 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇺 😷 💉 📚 🏳️⚧️/🏳️🌈 #cdnpoli
No unsolicited DMs, please ask.
Kutlu Akalın kutkut16 @kutkut16.bsky.social Assist. Prof., Dept. of Ancient Languages and Cultures, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (2025)
Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social Finance | History | Trance
Patreon http://patreon.com/isaacsamuel64
Substack https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/
Philipp de Jong @pdejong.bsky.social PhD student at WSL and ETH
soil biodiversity x biogeochemistry x stable isotopes x earthworms
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”
BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social Shakes Prof, cyclist, grouch, fabulist, cat guy.
https://bradleygreenburg.com/index.html
Repped by https://strachanlit.com/
Richard E Frankel @refrankel.bsky.social Professor of German History comparing antisemitism in Germany and the US, late 19th, early 20th century. And yes, it’s painfully relevant to the 21st.
richardefrankel.com
Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social Ottakringerin & Historian of late Habsburg Monarchy * University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna * https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/scheer/
Katherine Hardy @kardyology.bsky.social The Art Newspaper Pictures Editor, RCA.
Editorial Collages https://theartillustrator.com
Illustrations http://katherinehardy.com
D&AD Awards Judge 2021.
Music https://soundcloud.com/kardyandco
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social Father of two | Husband | Plant-Insect Ecologist @ TUM | Artificial Light At Night | Editor @ Annals of Applied Biology & Functional Ecology | Reptile & Bird enthusiast
Rebecca Joy Bingham @rebeccabingham.bsky.social Humanizer, dot-connector, and hope generator. Cheerleader for public health, good humans, and love in all its terrifying disguises. 😍 Closet nerd: Show me trends and anomalies. 🤓 Professional wedding gig cellist. 🎻ENFP• NVC
Andy Harbison @andrewharbison1.bsky.social Early refugee from the Bad Place. IT security, forensics and investigations guy with far too many history books. All opinions personal and do not reflect etc. etc.
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
@lucindacatchlove.bsky.social @lucindacatchlove.bsky.social Writer and culture worker. Lapsed visual artist and performer. FKA Miss de Meaner, Cardinal Sin. Flâneur. Dollar store intellectual. Garden fairy. House goblin. Creature lover. Queer witch. Can also be found @lucinda.cosocial.ca
Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social 35 years in Telecoms. Scot living in England = British. Dundee Angus & Redditch Worcestershire Uk. Interested in Technology, Aviation, History, local culture, military history, politics for the people. Aviation Museum volunteer. Tone deaf pedants blocked.
James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social Prof in Parma. Interested in African science and innovation, sustainable transitions, global health, and helping young people do great things, all around the world.
Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social Interminably Germanist / Reading+London, UK
Kaspar Rosager Ludvigsen @kasparrosager.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Durham University. DK lawyer/jurist (EU Law/CPS/AI/MD/Safety). Formerly Edinburgh University, Newcastle University. PhD (CS), Cybersecurity/Law, University of Strathclyde.
Gourmand.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7243-2548
SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social Art historian. OUT NOW: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
Yarri Kamara @yarrikamara.bsky.social Writer & Translator. Speaking to the world from an African perspective.
www.yarrikamara.com