Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat.
Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion.
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Thierry Poibeau @tpoibeau.bsky.social CNRS researcher at ENS-PSL. Natural language processing, Computational humanities, AI and society.
Alyssa Arbuckle @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social ~open access, research infrastructure, scholarly communication~
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Eduba London: The UCL Ancient Near Eastern Studies Community @edubalondon.bsky.social The UCL ANE Seminar Series is a supportive forum for students with a shared interest in the ANE.
Next PGR & ECR conference: Order Out of Chaos: Classification and Categories in the ANE
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Repekka @repekka.bsky.social phd/assyriology/Helsinki (for now). a big fan of rodents and energy drinks
Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social I decipher power through times and places
Historian. Classicist. Egyptologist. Papyrologist. Professor. Lead editor of Everyday Orientalism
The past is now
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From 🐢 to 🍉: #Landback
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SIGBOVIK @harryqbovik.bsky.social The official Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik | Senior Computer Scientist at CMU | Research Interests include Perplexity Theory, k-Armed Bandits, and Cloud Rendering
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Acadiensis @acadiensis.bsky.social One of Canada's leading scholarly journals, Acadiensis is devoted to studying the history of the Atlantic region and remains the essential source for reading and research in this area.
Citations Needed @citationspod.bsky.social A podcast on media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. Hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson
Dr. Tom 7 Murphy VII Ph.D. ! @tomvii.bsky.social http://tom7.org
Dimitris Xygalatas @xygalatas.bsky.social Experimental anthropologist, cognitive scientist, dad, author of Ritual: How seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Django @djangoproject.com The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. Posts by the Django Software Foundation (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social Historical Gangsta. Aspiring meme queen. Hangs with salty dead English guys from the Tudor-Stuart era & tries to avoid scurvy. 🇨🇦⚓️ early East India co voyages. Holocaust educator. Teaches whatever needs teaching.
Fred Burrill @fburrill.bsky.social Settler historian (@UNB) of working-class formation and disintegration, focusing on deindustrialization, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in Quebec and the Maritimes.
Organizer involved in tenant and migrant justice struggles.
Huge baseball fan.
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.
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Atlantic Canada Studies Centre (University of New Brunswick) @acsc-unb.bsky.social An interdisciplinary research centre that broadly focuses on the study of Northeastern North America, and is organized around a community-engaged research model as a decolonial research practice. (Visual art by Wolastoqey artist Emma Hassencahl-Perley.
Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece
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Sean Murray @nomansbsky.bsky.social Hello Games founder. Light No Fire, No Man's Sky, Joe Danger, The Last Campfire
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social News show. News podcast. Hosted by codyjohnston.bsky.social and katystoll.bsky.social.
ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social ASOR is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of the history and cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Raleigh Heth @rheth.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor, Purdue University | PhD @ Notre Dame | Braves Baseball Connoisseur
Mythic literature, Hebrew Bible, Assyriology
Let's try to practice kindness
Department of Historical Studies at University of New Brunswick @histstudiesunb.bsky.social https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/history/
Mary Lundquist @mary-lundquist.bsky.social Artist - children’s book illustrator - person in New Jersey
Author and illustrator of Cat & Bunny and The Little Forest Keepers, Rep’d by Steven Malk at Writers House
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Thee Quaker @theequaker.bsky.social Quaker Media for the 21st Century
Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions @samreligions.bsky.social https://www.samreligions.org/
polcom @polcom.bsky.social For now my place is here
IG: @the_political_compass
Christina Tsouparopoulou @christinatsoup.bsky.social Ancient Middle East & EastMed Archaeology & History | religion, human-animal & human-environment relations, cylinder seals, early writing | Ass.Prof@UKSW Warsaw| Editor NEA | former PI @Cambridge | Hon. Fellow @Durham| mother of 2 | Living with an RD
Rebecca Leuchak @quakerrebecca.bsky.social
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social Old world. New vision.
https://linktr.ee/isawnyu
David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: MFlashman@janklow.com
Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social Prof @UNB. Historian of capitalism and settler colonialism. Book: The Debt of Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State (UBC Press, 2025). Work: Eels + the impacts of racial capital on Treaty in Wəlastəkwey territory. Tamil, eats lentils
Celeste E. Orr @celesteeorr.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology & Gender Studies at UNB. Author of Cripping Intersex (UBC 2022)
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
Hilary Gopnik @hilarygopnik.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, Ancient Cultures at Monash Uni, thinking about different ways people have organized their communities in the past to value caring and humanness. Hopeful for the future.
Dr. Shana Zaia @shanazaia.bsky.social Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
Victor Poulsen @vicmp.bsky.social PhD student in the Collective Minds group @CSHVienna working on Belief Networks | Music side-quest as Löwenmensch | (he/him)
kelsie ehalt 𒆠𒂖𒋛 @wedgie-bce.bsky.social they/them and/or she/her
phd student umich
cuneiform + ritual + magic
+ animals + monsters
+ queer theory + decolonial theory
https://linktr.ee/wedgie_bce
NV @walidshulgi.bsky.social PhD in Assyriology - Ur III Studies - ANE - Cuneiform - Classical languages
Sanna Aro-Valjus @sannaav.bsky.social Assyriologist, statue enthusiast
Ilī-Yahu - 𒉌𒉌𒀭𒅀𒌑 @ili-yahu.bsky.social Assyriology PhD Candidate – UMR 9028 - HARTIS (Université de Lille, CNRS, MC)
Ancient Near Eastern Studies Würzburg @anestudieswue.bsky.social Ancient Near Eastern Studies @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social │ #Assyriology and Near Eastern #Archaeology 🏺
nadia @tamacahut.bsky.social 🇩🇿🇫🇷🇬🇧 Provenance researcher. Cuneiformist. Writes about 19th c. antiquities dealers who smuggled cuneiform tablets out of Iraq to sell to museums in EU/US. Now writing a biography of dealer & smuggler Ibrahim Elias Gejou (British Academy monograph 2026)
Mark Altaweel @maltaweel.bsky.social Professor of Near East Archaeology and Archaeological Data Science. Vice-Dean Innovation and Enterprise
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/32234-mark-altaweel/about
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni @tiffanyspadoni.bsky.social Archaeologist, Associate Professor @UCF, Kurd Qaburstan, Mesopotamia, Urartu, Fortresses, Urbanism, Digital Humanities, All views represent my cat's opinion.
Sonia Mzali @sonia-mzali.bsky.social Doctorante en Assyriologie
(UMR 9028-HARTIS, Université de Lille)
Sumer / Pratiques cultuelles / Genre / Maternités
PhD student in Assyriology
Sumer / Cultual practices / Gender / Motherhood
co-responsable de @ama-mater.bsky.social
Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social Archaeologist, ancient historian, author of 1177 BC, After 1177 BC, Three Stones Make a Wall, and other books
https://cnelc.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-h-cline
Elli Mylonas @emylonas.bsky.social Retired but not gone, Digital Humanist, XML practitioner, one-time classicist, sorter of things
Claudia Glatz @claudiaglatz.bsky.social Archaeologist | Professor @UofGlasgow | Writing a book about mountains | Author of The Making of Empire @CambridgeUP.
Carrie Arbuckle @archaeocarrie.bsky.social Asst Prof Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology @ St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan - Egyptologist - wooden coffins, women, digital games. She/her
@duncanemacleod.bsky.social @duncanemacleod.bsky.social
Jay Crisostomo @cjcrisostomo.bsky.social Teaching Middle East at UMich: ancient languages & histories, intellectual history, and sporting cultures.
Jon Taylor @jonjtaylor.bsky.social Cuneiformist. History of ancient western Asia. Likely to post on assyriology and museums. Hoping to be distracted by dogs, cows, running, zombies. Curator of cuneiform & cylinder seals at British Museum. Host of Thin End of the Wedge podcast. Views my own.
@dcsnell.bsky.social @dcsnell.bsky.social
Michael Muthukrishna @michael.muthukrishna.com Prof. #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how humans evolved & what that means for us today. www.atheoryofeveryone.com
Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social Mesopotamian archaeologist at Univ of Chicago; former Univ of Cambridge; ancient urbanism; Tell Brak and Nippur; Co-Editor, Iraq Journal; distance runner.
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
Imane Achouche @imaneachouche.bsky.social Doctoral student in Western Asian archaeology. Université de Liège.
(Elle ; She ; Her)
Bernhard Schneider @mcb170.bsky.social Mesopotamian Archaeologist
MSCA fellow at the University of Wroclaw
Morgane Pique @mpique.bsky.social PhD student / Doctorante en Assyriologie, université de Lille (UMR 9028-HARTIS)
> Old Babylonian period and its merchants, institutions and society
> Page Pro : https://pro.univ-lille.fr/morgane-pique
Seraina Nett @serainanett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in languages, social and economic history, digital humanities, and cats. 🇨🇭🇩🇰🇸🇪
Dr Ellie Bennett @drelliebennett.bsky.social Assyriologist at the University of Helsinki, interested in gender, emotions, and digital approaches to ancient Middle Eastern history
Also a knitter, nerd, and lover of film 🎥- D Jessie DeGrado @disorientalism.bsky.social
Chuck Jones @chuckjones.bsky.social Father, Husband, Librarian, Open access and free-to-read scholarship advocate, always online. https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social Archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Director of the Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project.
Dr. Petra Creamer @petramcreamer.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Gannon F. Jaspering @gforgannon.bsky.social Principal World Builder for Thick As Thieves🧚♀️
Formerly: CDPR, The Molasses Flood, Hi-Rez
https://www.artstation.com/gforgannon
Married to @madrupert.bsky.social
Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social Author: Comparative Musicology (academic.oup.com/book/62353; open access)
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social
Host/PI @manyvoices.bsky.social
Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland
Assoc. Prof. @Keio U
Music, evolution, diversity
He/him
Tangata tiriti
Ed Hagen @edhagen.net Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University.
Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
Views expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or other organizations I'm affiliated with.
Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Adam Anderson @admndrsn.bsky.social Assyriologist, archaeologist & data scientist
Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social Game designer focusing on strategy games with strong emergent narratives. Half of Wehrlegig Games. Formerly Creative Director at Leder Games. Now Creative Director at Buried Giant Studios. Voracious reader of just about anything I can get my hands on.
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Bethany Henderson @bethanyhenderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at UNBSJ ⛵️🏴☠️
early modern piracy, religion & state violence
bethanyhenderson.com
Mad Rupert @madrupert.bsky.social Comics drawer, concept artist, less than 5 feet tall!
Currently working in games 🎮🎮🎮
Links and contact info: https://linktr.ee/madrupert
Married to @gforgannon.bsky.social 💖💖
Edward Slingerland @slingerland.bsky.social Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia. Founding Director of the Database of Religious History. Chinese philosophy, cognitive science of religion, big data, science-humanities integration.
Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social Aarhus University
Adam Baimel @abaimel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology - Oxford Brookes University
Religion; spirituality; cultural change; environmentalism
www.adambaimel.com
Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague.
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Nathanael Shelley @nshelley.bsky.social Cultural historian of the Near East and Antiquity; Term Asst. Prof. @Columbia and @BarnardCollege
I.T. Soon @isaactsoon.bsky.social Writer of music, fiction, and scholarship. Recovering nihilist.
Jeremiah Coogan @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social Historian of religion, textuality, and enslavement in the Roman Mediterranean | Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
Marshall Cunningham @marshallcunningham.bsky.social Assistant Instructional Professor in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East at UChicago; Section Editor at Religion Compass: ANE; he/him/his; Let’s ride bikes; Go Cubbies!
Thalia Wheatley @thaliawheatley.bsky.social Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations, Dartmouth | External faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
Kristina Sieckmeyer @kristinasieckmeyer.bsky.social Archaeologist curating the #UrukWarkaCollection | Heidelberg University
AABNER journal @aabner.bsky.social The journal is the first open-access and forum-peer-reviewed journal that covers the entire fields of biblical studies, ANE, and cognate fields, and it is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and academic rigor. /aabner.org