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Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
For more info, see my website alpennia.com
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
Hugo Canihac @hugocanihac.bsky.social Associate Prof. @ScPo_Strasbourg @unistra.fr | @politiqueue.bsky.social |
EU politics, Sociology, History, Political theory, Science fiction
Vardan Barsegyan @vardan.bsky.social Sociologist, quantitative, social and political inequality, migration, asylum, criminality. The Hague, the Netherlands #sociology
https://www.vardanbarsegyan.com
juliette saetre @juliettes.bsky.social Research Fellow @iast.fr (TSE), PhD from EUI.
Working on networks, migration and political behaviour.
https://www.juliettesaetre.com/ 🌞
Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at @lse-ei.bsky.social. Interested in history, sociology & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
Ann Mische @amische.bsky.social Notre Dame sociologist working on culture, social movements, civic participation, political parties, peace/conflict, futures, and foresight techniques. "Mas é preciso ter manha, É preciso ter graça, É preciso ter sonho sempre." (Nascimento/Brant + Elis!)
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Jun (Philip) Fang @philipjfang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto | Culture, creativity, globalization, censorship, ethnography | Book on China & Hollywood in progress | philipjunfang.com
Erin McDonnell @profmcdonnell.bsky.social Sociologist of states, orgs & development at Notre Dame. Author of Patchwork Leviathan. Loves new projects, Ghana, public servants, volleyball and capybaras, in no particular order. my views≠ND RT≠endorse
Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup @jgotzsche.bsky.social Political and Cultural Sociology | Democracy, Critique and Social Movements | Assistant Professor at Aarhus University | Previously Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
https://johangoetzscheastr.wixsite.com/sociologist
Lynette Ong @onglynette.bsky.social http://LynetteOng.com Distinguished Prof of Chinese Politics, University of Toronto. Senior Fellow, Asia Society. Author of “Outsourcing Repression” https://shorturl.at/qtNj8. Autocracies. Repression. Violence. Protests. Development. Also Southeast Asia.
Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley
Working on a book on right-wing populism
https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cihan-tugal
Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
@emilytingle.bsky.social @emilytingle.bsky.social PhD Candidate @University of Georgia
Studying all things Political Sociology, Parties, Campaign Finance, and Democracy
Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, social networks, knowledge, theory, & China.
Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
Timur Ergen @trgn.bsky.social Social Scientist @iaw
https://tergen.org
Benny Witkovsky @bwitkovsky.bsky.social Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at UW-Madison. Studying local politics, nonpartisanship, and polarization. bennywitkovsky.com
Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social Sociology prof at University of Oslo. Class, culture, politics, theory. Member of The European Center for the Study of Culture & Inequality. Associate editor, European Societies. Editorial board of ASR. Frank Parkin Appreciation Society.
Didem Türkoğlu @didem-turkoglu.bsky.social Sociologist. Political Sociology/ Social Movements.
Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com I research youth studies and environmental justice, and I am a dinosaur from the internet
👨🏭Senior Lecturer @ Manchester Met Uni
💚Quaker | #COYS | (he/him)
🔗 www.bennosaurus.com
Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com I research social movements, intersectional solidarity, disasters, and environmental, racial, and economic justice at @pittsociology.bsky.social. I lead policy for the @jtalliance.bsky.social. @solverresearchlab.bsky.social director. www.fernandotormos.com
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, @princeton.edu
Visiting Researcher, Wits Southern Center for Inequality Studies
CIFAR Fellow, "Humanity's Urban Future"
Member, IAS School of Social Science, 2026-27
bradlow.princeton.edu
Sarah Sobieraj @sobieraj.bsky.social Sociologist @ Tufts University
political culture & communication • digital abuse and harassment • social inequalities • media/society • democracy
Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy.
currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
Nick Occhiuto @nickocchiuto.bsky.social Assistant professor Hunter College, CUNY | Sociology PhD Yale | Political sociologist and ethnographer
https://www.nicholasocchiuto.com
Claire Kamp Dush @clairekampdush.bsky.social Prof UMN Sociology and @minnpop.bsky.social. Family Scholar. Demographer. Teacher. Blogger. PI of NCHAT & WAFLS. Passionate about research on the family and my own.
she/her
Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com Prof of Comm and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views=own, overuses speech2text)
Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.
Isak Ladegaard @ladegaard.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, interested in org deviance & alt markets/platforms. I use comp & qual methods. Asst Prof @ UIUC ➡️ HKU. PGP: E1FC377D. Author of Open Secrecy (UCP 2025). https://isakladegaard.com/
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University studying political marginalization, immigrant integration, and moralization. https://sites.google.com/view/kristinabsimonsen/
Lincoln Quillian @lquillian.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com Robots and neuroscience and sex. (But not that way.) Disabled and glorious. Leftist activist who works in biotech. Taiwanese American. Queer AF. #BiInSci. Sincere and earnest. Our struggles are intertwined. (she/they) #CambMA
https://linktr.ee/amberying
Collin Mueller @collinwmueller.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Maryland
https://socy.umd.edu/facultyprofile/mueller/collin
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Kesley Townsend @kesleytownsend.bsky.social Stanford Political Science PhD Candidate | Identity and political behavior
liz @bookjanitor.bsky.social anthropology doc student, former gov ux designer, reader, indoor cat
read with me! catch PEER REVIEW Fridays @ 3pm central @uwm-dcc.bsky.social // https://twitch.tv/digitalculturescollab
my shitposts represent only what i thought was funny at the time
Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Caroline Lee @carolinewlee.bsky.social Sociologist.
Notre Dame Sociology @ndsociology.bsky.social Official page of The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Check out our starter packs to find our Faculty and Students.
https://sociology.nd.edu/
Apply to our Program!
https://sociology.nd.edu/graduate-program/admissions-and-funding/
Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social Covering Congress & immigration for @statesnewsroom.com | signal ariana.92 | afigueroa@statesnewsroom.com | https://www.newsfromthestates.com/author/ariana-figueroa | Boricua, Luna’s human
Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social Mi gente Latino with my friends at the LGBT community. Associate Professor: Indiana University. Depression, psychotherapy research, technology, and data science. 🏳️🌈🇵🇷 Personal account.
https://medium.com/@lluaces
Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org
Elizabeth Hernandez @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social Denver Post reporter. Finding humanity in journalism. I write about marginalized groups, social justice, education, libraries, housing, youth, ghosts and general whimsy. Local news stan.
Rei Magosaki @rmagosaki.bsky.social 孫崎玲 Associate Prof of English, Chapman U. |
Orange, CA | reimagosaki.info | 2026-2027 Society for the Humanities at Cornell U.
mai thai @iammaithai.bsky.social sociologist at Occidental College, writer, performer, people-watcher
The Bloomingtonian @bloomingtonian.bsky.social Independent local news and visual journalism from Bloomington, Indiana. Founded by Jeremy Hogan, working in local journalism since 1988.
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama.
News on the Right (http://bit.ly/2YgUcZX).
Making the Liberal Media (https://shorturl.at/e31nU)
Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social Exec. dir., Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (@critzstudies.bsky.social).
Out now: The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State (UC Press, 2026) at bit.ly/ucpress-gelman, discount code UCPSAVE30!
Writing & podcasts at emmaiagelman.com.
SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social I'm a bot that posts new preprints from SocArXiv.
Maintained by @remoschmutz.bsky.social & @malte.the100.ci
Journal of Marriage and Family @jmfncfr.bsky.social A peer-reviewed academic journal of the National Council on Family Relations, the Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) has been the leading journal in the family field for more than 75 years and is one of the most highly cited journals in Family Science.
Emily Weaver Rogers @emilyweaverrogers.bsky.social writer. editor. mba. cat lady. auntie. former seattlite. orca lover.
https://www.emilyweaverrogers.com
https://emilyweaverrogers.substack.com
📍CLE
Anne Ishii @ill-iterate.com My thoughts reflect nothing for no one. Not even sunlight. PHL<<NYC<<LA<<JPN<<KOR
Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org Equipping the progressive movement with the data and insights it needs to win.
dataforprogress.org
Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social 🏳️🌈♿️🏳️⚧️ writer, researcher, educator, & leftist dog pop | SE OH
I do too many things | LGBTQ+, AuDHD, disability, SJIA, patient-involved research, rheumatology, health tech, sex & sexual health, health equity, access, games, etc.
Links: graysongoal.carrd.co
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
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
Divya Kernan @divyakernan.bsky.social SFF/Speculative Fiction Writer, GrubStreet Novel Generator 2019, GrubStreet Short Story Incubator 2021-2022, stories in Baffling Magazine, Lost Balloon, Strange Pilgrims and PseudoPod.
www.divyakernan.com
Biotech Alumna, RPG Dabbler, French native
she/her
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
ellie liew @ellxelxew.bsky.social She/They | Sociology | MA Social Sciences student @ UChicago | interested in racialization, multiraciality, social movements, & qualitative methodologies
——
ask me about my sociological imagination ;)
The Revival Lab @revivallab.bsky.social The Revival Lab is grounded in community and responsive to reality. We offer solutions and analysis at the intersection of media, tech, and democracy. http://www.therevivallab.org
Honoring the legacy of our founder, Brandi Collins-Dexter.
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
Blair Braverman @blairbraverman.bsky.social writer and dogsledder, host of story podcast “what to carry, what to burn”
Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social Associate Professor UNC-Wilmington
sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state.
PhD CUNY GC
BOOK: https://nyupress.org/9781479823390/test-measure-punish/
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
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.
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!
Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
Scott Kurashige @scottkurashige.bsky.social Author of American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism & co-author of The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs.
Educator, speaker & consultant on history, public scholarship & race/ethnic studies. Views my own & do not reflect employer.
Bryson Kisner @brysonkisner.bsky.social Historian: environment & borderlands, the South & Southwest, the US & the Americas, long 19th c. (mostly), environmental humanities; VAP Wake Forest, PhD Rice '24; Texan, reader (of course), sometimes gardener & birder.
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social Librarian, Liaison Program Lead & Qualitative Research Specialist. LIS adjunct faculty. Library liaison programs, info lit instruction, higher education policy studies, valuation of library labor, qualitative methods.
🌱🐈⬛🚲☕️
https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social CHINGA LA MIGRA
Kind not nice 🌱 Bi Queer Transmasc Genderfluid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Appalachian white occupier 🧣Leftist 🏴🚩 Mad Neurodiverse Chronic Pain Crip ♿ Poet, farmer, historian, gender theorist, child advocate, abolitionist, dissident.
29, US, PA->MO->CA refugee
Brianna Nofil @briannanofil.bsky.social history prof @williamandmary; THE MIGRANT'S JAIL: An American History of Mass Incarceration, out now from @PrincetonUPress
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237015/the-migrants-jail
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Duke Identity and Diversity Lab @dukeidlab.bsky.social We study social and developmental psychology under @sarahegaither.bsky.social Email dukeidlab at gmail.com for info or to sign up for studies!
Tim Hallett @timhallett.bsky.social
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
https://linktr.ee/KrystalKavitaJagoo
Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social I am a law professor. The Only Patent Habermasian. Living, Laughing and Loving American Democracy. Running her own neighborhood on BlueSky. Branch of the CCB Tree. Diva + Professor: Professa.
Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social National correspondent at Mother Jones. tmurphy@motherjones.com.
Signal: timothypmurphy.41
Proton Mail: timothypmurphy@proton.me
Loh Soon How @lohsoonhow.bsky.social PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com
Quincy Surasmith | ควินซี่ สุรสมิทธ์ @quincetessence.bsky.social Host and Producer of @AsianAmericana.com, a podcast about Asian American culture and history. Actor, journalist, managing editor at @fi2w.org, Thai Chip & Dale. Thai-Teochew American (he/him)
Feet in 2 Worlds @fi2w.org Fi2W is a news outlet and journalism training organization for immigrant voices, dedicated to publishing stories by and about immigrants. linktr.ee/fi2w
Grundy, Saida 🇵🇸 | Demotivational Speaker @saigrundy.bsky.social Black Feminist Sociologist [and Closeted Historian] | Noncommittal Blue Sky User | Email Abolitionist | Columnist @ The Guardian US | seriously, I’m never on here..