Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Nora Feline Pösl @norafelinepoesl.bsky.social Sociologist at RUB:
Research on conspirituality, esotericism & right-wing ideologies in digital spaces | social inequalities & discrimination in education | gender & health.
Book „Ariosophie, Antisemitismus, Konspiritualität“ (Springer VS)
Akephallus @cryptotheism.bsky.social I study western esotericism for a living
"they're like the Bill Nye of the occult" -Alfed Einstein
Frater Yechidah @frateryechidah.bsky.social Author of books on the Golden Dawn and Enochian Magic.
Books: http://www.amazon.com/Frater-Yechidah/e/B00NUK937S/
Nick Farrell @nickfarrell.bsky.social A writer on technology and the esoteric scene (18 books) with most of his life studying occultism, paganism and the Golden Dawn.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social Co-author & illustrator of THE INVISIBLE PARADE, w/ Leigh Bardugo (2025). 2026 Pura Belpré Honor Book Winner. 4x Hugo Award Winner. 6x Locus Award Winner. Inkpot Award Winner. Cover Artist. International Man of Lotería. He/him.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. The Last Contract of Isako out now! Next: Mark of the Warrior (Oct 2026) https://linktr.ee/fondalee
Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Skeptical Buddhism @skepticalbuddhism.bsky.social asks how well we've understood what the Buddha taught, as we see him in our oldest versions of his talks. By going back to those ancient texts, and studying the culture of his time, can we get a more accurate sense of it? An iconoclastic Secular Buddhism.
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
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Sam Crane @uselesstree.bsky.social I teach contemporary PRC politics and ancient Chinese philosophy at Williams College. Teaching Fall 2026 at Trinity College Dublin.
Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life | book project: collective reading practices after 1949 | damianmandzunowski.com
Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social China Anthropologist | @snsf.ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital, global
https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com Atlanta-based accountability journalism rooted in community experience. #atlpol
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Dr Angela Puca @drangelapuca.bsky.social Academic research, lectures, tutoring on the study of magick, witchcraft, esotericism, Paganism, shamanism and all things occult.
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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social Software engineer, Hermetic mage and mystic, Lukumí olorisha, geomancer extraordinaire, blogger, yidish-lerner, Roegadyn black mage, baby-eating dingo, antifascist, gay, Jewish
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Hyperdice @hyperdicetv.bsky.social Hyperdice is a TTRPG show set in the Star Wars galaxy far, far away hosted by Alex and Mollie from @starwarsexplained.com Join us at the table for nerdy Star Wars fun: https://linktr.ee/hyperdice
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
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Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Writing a book about commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️🌈
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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social extremely alive cartoonist. I won an award once • http://amultiverse.com • http://goats.com • http://patreon.com/jonrosenberg • http://linktr.ee/mrjonrosenberg • he/him
Palinode @palinoderevolution.bsky.social Palinode is a philosophical technology collective spearheading the creation of innovative products, academic courses, and creative events, while producing media rooted in the exploration of what it means to be human.
https://palinode.org/
Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on an intertextual analysis of monster encounters with dragons, dwarfs, and the undead in Old Norse fantastical sagas at the University of Leeds
Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social Award-winning author 🇨🇳🇬🇧 :queer and geeky, writes non-fiction about Chinese cultures, curates and translates genre fiction (scifi, horror, fantasy, wuxia). snowpavilion.co.uk
Mx. Coreo Jones @coreopsismajor.bsky.social Take the cilantro, leave the zamboni. Interdisciplinary shitposting, overthinking the absurd, special interests, sometimes smut. Disabled they/X也/они. Art by @brittsabo. FUBFree. My gigs and contact info: https://coreopsismajor.carrd.co/
The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social Map to the corners; all of them. Life in the science mines.
Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social Philosopher of science, Director of Center for Public Engagement with Science at University of Cincinnati. Books: Idealization and the Aims of Science, Recipes for Science, Science and the Public. https://www.angelapotochnik.com
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.
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Rose on Mars @rose.fantasyheartbreaker.com The witch of time and space and caring too much — the Fantasy Heartbreaker.
Once upon a vein, White Wolf's longest-serving #Vampire developer. Created Cavaliers of Mars, Sasha Witchblood, bunches more.
Now six-year Community Advocate at the Big Purple.
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Marco Pouget @marcopouget.bsky.social China. Taiwan. History. Texts. Animals.
Elena Valussi @evalussi.bsky.social Chinese Religions, Daoism, gender.
Loyola University Chicago
kermecat @kermecat.bsky.social student of Religious Studies, researching Japanese New Religious Movements. interested in Buddhism, Shinto, Daoism, Confucianism, Japan, East Asia, Anthropology, Ethnography. 日本語を勉強しています
Autumn Phaneuf, MSE, Ph.D (h.c) @1autumnleaf.bsky.social 👩🏻💻Engineering Professor
🚀Web3, DeSci, AI, Art, & MTG Enthusiast
🎙Host Breaking Math Podcast
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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social Professor of Book History at UBC School of Information, Vancouver. Into medieval manuscripts. He/his. Blog: https://medievalbooks.nl. Writing a book on ads by medieval scribes.
“There is more to life than medieval books, but it's a good place to start.”
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
Richard Kaczynski @richardkaczynski.bsky.social Globe-trotting author, scholar, speaker, statistician, prog rock keyboardist, pumpkin carver & research scientist.
Will Gilbert @willgilphil.bsky.social Philosophy PhD Student | Korean Philosophy & Daoism
Gregory Ripley @gregoryripley.bsky.social Author of An Introduction to Daoism, The Hundred Remedies of the Tao, and Tao of Sustainability, Forest Therapy Guide, Daoist Priest, and Caffeinated Old Rat.
Qijun Zheng @kidream.bsky.social Historian of Buddhism, Daoism and Chinese Religions @ École Pratique des Hautes Études-Paris Sciences et Lettres (EPHE-PSL), Anthropologist @ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales(EHESS), Sinologist @ École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris.
Bryan W. Van Norden @bryanvannorden.bsky.social Leading expert on Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism
Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social Librarian for pre-modern Chinese Books @KULeuven. Ph.D. in Chinese studies. Gongyang Confucianism, revenge (復讎), Kang Youwei, and video games. First gen, they/them.
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Modern Stoicism @modernstoicism.bsky.social Modern Stoicism is a nonprofit organization applying Stoic philosophy to modern living. https://modernstoicism.com/ 
Matthew Keys @matthewkeys.net Journalist who covers the transformation of the media industry after working in it for years. Previously worked for Reuters, Disney-ABC, Tribune Media.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social Head of Audience Development @australia.theguardian.com. SEO, social media, community, analytics, newsletters etc. All the digital news things
Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg.bsky.social Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.
Capitalist Lion Tamer @timcushing.bsky.social WILL WRITE FOR SHORT-LIVED ADORATION
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social Editor of Press Watch (https://presswatchers.org) and Heads Up News (http://headsupnews.org). Ex-Washington Post, HuffPost, Intercept. Freelancer. I afflict comfortable journalists.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social Deputy Editor, The New Republic. Past: ThinkProgress; Huffington Post. “There’s something in the static; I think I’ve been having revelations.”
nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social Presenter, The Interface - a new tech show from the BBC
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I also make investigative podcasts! Finding Q, The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome, Fur & Loathing
Mike Roe @mikeroe.net Wrote The 30 Rock Book. Bylines: Vanity Fair, BBC, LAist, TheWrap. Writing TV/feature drama about crime, faith, and what we owe each other. Hawaiian/🇵🇷. Signal: MikeRoe.39
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social The Countdown with Keith Olbermann Podcast is back: Regular Flavor and, now, Tartar Control all-video on YouTube. Monday, Thursday AM https://link.chtbl.com/countdownwithkeitholbermann
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Kevin Raposo @kevinraposo.bsky.social Founder & Editor - KnowTechie.com / Media Relations at EZPR. Metal drummer, cause I ain’t no bitch. 
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Ben Ratner @benmakestv.bsky.social My four major TV credits: Conan, 60 Minutes, a Burger King commercial & Elmo’s World. Now: Boston 25 News. Past: StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Al Roker Entertainment, TheStreet with Jim Cramer, Sports Illustrated, CNN & CNN+ (lol)
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