Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social Architecture and history / Biography of Ada Louise Huxtable forthcoming (Norton, Mar. '27) / Coauthor, CAPE COD MODERN (Metropolis)
Mark Ellis Harris @meharris.bsky.social Writing a book on OceanGate "Deep End" published 1/27. Tech investigations for IEEE Spectrum, Wired, MIT Tech Review, TechCrunch. Senior Editor at Anthropocene Magazine. Always interested in tips! None of my writing includes generative AI/LLM.
Stephen Ornes @stephenornes.bsky.social Nashville-based award-winning science writer, chicken herder. Bylines in Discover, PNAS, bioGraphic, Science News. Finishing a book about decomposition. Vandy Writer in Residence. An incomplete archive of my articles at stephenornes.com
W. W. Norton Library Mktg @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social Updates from the Library Marketing Dept at Norton (USA). A department of W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923. https://wwnorton.com/library-marketing
Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social Professor, scientist, mom. Author of Bogland. Chaser of wildfires and permafrost thaw. I love bogs and want you to join me. Learn more at merrittraeturetsky.com
Julian Zelizer @zelizer.bsky.social Princeton Professor. Also—The Long View, Substack; Foreign Policy; NPR. New York Times Best Selling Author. https://julianzelizer.substack.com/
Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social Former EIC of Sierra; former editor of Earth Island Journal. Author of the forthcoming book, The Earth Said Remember Me (July '26; Norton). Author of Satellites in the High Country. Lily's Dad. Gardener + Hiker. Posts = ill-considered opinions.
Peter King @peterking1.bsky.social Have a book about my 40 years covering football coming out in October. Preorder: https://wwnorton.com/books/the-game …Had a good run at Cincinnati Enquirer, Newsday, SI, ABC, CNN, HBO, The MMQB and NBC. Chuck the dog pictured.
Erin Osmon @erinosmon.bsky.social Music journalist, critic, author. Teach @ USC. Album notes. Other things. New book about heartland rock due next year via W.W. Norton. Hoosier waving hi in LA.
Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social Russia | Middle East | Nuclear weapons | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr. Associate @erep.csis.org | Fellow @kennaninstitute.bsky.social | Upcoming book WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM @wwnorton.com | Berlin-based
James M. Scott @jamesmscott.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize finalist, New York Times bestseller, and author of Black Snow, Rampage, Target Tokyo, The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty, and co-author, with Jack Carr, of Targeted: Beirut.
Brian Hochman @brianhochman.bsky.social Professor @Georgetown // Author, The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States.
Cleeeeeeeeeeeevelaaaaaaaaaaaand. This is for you.
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL.
Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'
Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social Author: Every Screen On The Planet: The War Over TikTok. Researcher, former lawyer, investigative reporter, trust & safety. Founder, Plain View Project.
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Keith Houston @keithhouston.bsky.social Blogs at @shadycharacters.co.uk. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/).
Anna Harwell Celenza @annacelenza.bsky.social Author & musicologist with strong interests in PB and YA literature, jazz, and American history. Professor at JHU (Writing Seminars) and Peabody Conservatory (Musicology).
Sara C. Bronin @sarabronin.bsky.social Mexican-American architect, attorney, GW Law professor, National Zoning Atlas/Preservation Atlas founder, "Key to the City" author, preservationist, 7th-generation Texan, mother of 3. https://wwnorton.com/books/key-to-the-city
Nicolò Fraccaroli @nfraccaroli.bsky.social Economist at World Bank and Visiting Scholar at Brown University
Joe Mungo Reed @joemungoreed.bsky.social Writes novels and stories and teaches writing.
TERRESTRIAL HISTORY out April 8th 2025
https://bookshop.org/a/113939/9781324079378
https://www.joemungoreed.com/
Dan Kaufman @dankaufman70.bsky.social Author of THE FALL OF WISCONSIN. Contributing Writer: New York Times Magazine. Also: @newyorker.com. Music: Barbez, John & Dan. Email: dankaufman36@gmail.com. Signal: Dankaufman.31.
Laura Beers @fieryparticle.bsky.social Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa
https://linktr.ee/lbeers
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020)
Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
Keith Houston @shadycharacters.co.uk Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and now FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/).
Laura Poppick @laurapoppick.bsky.social Maine-based science and environmental journalist with stories in the NYT, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. Author of STRATA: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton, July 2025).
www.laurapoppick.com
Brandon Keim @brandonkeim.bsky.social Journalist. Writes about nature & animals, usually through a lens of science. 📖 MEET THE NEIGHBORS: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World. 🦝 enthusiast.
🌎 bio.site/brandonkeim
📗 wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081
📰 brandonkeim.substack.com
Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @Brown JD/PhD
My podcast: The Oath and the Office: https://shorturl.at/H7vGP
My book: The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It: https://shorturl.at/z31fC
Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social Science journalist in Flagstaff, Arizona. Author of Brave the Wild River (WW Norton, 2023), Mythical River, and Under Desert Skies. I write about science, nature, rivers, space. Trekkie! www.melissasevigny.com
Boyce Upholt @boyceupholt.bsky.social 🖊 EIC/Found of Southlands 📖: THE GREAT RIVER: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton) 🏆: Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing 
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
Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com My new book Liar’s Kingdom can be ordered here: https://linktr.ee/LiarsKingdomBook; NYU Law; MSNOW legal analyst & podcast cohost "Main Justice »;
Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com
Offering legal analysis & opinion
Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social The Original (2025). Briefly, a Delicious Life.
nellstevens.com
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting 
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Deborah Archer @deborahnarcher.bsky.social Professor @NYU Law. President @aclu. Social and racial justice advocate. Author, Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality 
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
ananyo.bsky.social @ananyo.bsky.social Chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere.
Subscribe to my substack, Confections & Refutations https://ananyo.substack.com
Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest.bsky.social Best-selling author, journalist, podcaster, outdoor adventurer. My parties have dancing. Western Colorado. www.scientificamerican.com/uncertain
Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc. 
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social Director, Medicine Health and Society
@VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
(she/her) #Autistic #NB
https://brandyschillace.com/
southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, internet dog. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. 
Tae Kim @firstadopter.bsky.social "Key Context" Substack founder, covering Nvidia, AI and tech. Priors: Barron's, Bloomberg Opinion tech columnist. Subscribe https://taekim.substack.com/
Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social Writer. Tired Dad. Minivan Driver.
Editor of The Left Hook Substack (https://thelefthook.substack.com); Co-host of Democracy-Ish; Author of a Memoir and a Play; @YouTubeWajahatAli
wajali.com
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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Free Link! #PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec. Disabled person. Philosopher of technology. Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
Tara Karr Roberts @tarabethidaho.bsky.social Novelist: WILD & DISTANT SEAS (WW Norton)
Freelance writer (mostly science stories for universities)
Family person (two teens, not-very-online husband)
Idahoan, Lutheran, erstwhile teacher, book nerd, ice cream enthusiast
She/her
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
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
Liveright @liveright.bsky.social Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
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