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Valentine Kozin @9of9.bsky.social Lead Technical Artist at ☠️Rare☠️ | 🎭 BAFTA Member
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social Artist graphic designer and anti-poverty activist. No time for bigots.
Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social 🌏 Civil resistance for climate defence.
🛳 Targeting the world’s largest coal port.
🖤💛♥️ On unceded Aboriginal land.
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Sandcastle Kat @sandcastlekat.bsky.social A cat trying to survive in a world without adequate public health protections.
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David Ullrich @davidullrich202.bsky.social “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do the web, we do to ourselves.”
― Chief Seattle, Squamish-Duamish
(1782 – June 7, 1866)
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Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social Passionate about people, positivity and potential. Creating ripples of kindness.
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Christina Virgil @christinavirgil.bsky.social Regretfully insignificant and an insatiable thirst for knowledge📚🧬🦠😷💉
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Henry L Niman PhD @hlniman.bsky.social 
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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. We use trees to study RNA virus evolution and transmission, with a focus on avian influenza. viruses, sequencing, phylogenetics, pop gen. She/her
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Crystal Heath, DVM @crystalheathdvm.bsky.social 💕Spay Neuter Rescue Adopt🐕🌎 One Health 🌍 Prevent the next pandemic 🐮Compassion for all🐣🐷🐮 I don't eat my patients.
Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social dad, viral immunologist, professor
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social Personal account
Evolutionary biologist, senior scientist at CNRS/Sorbonne Université
Interests: origins and control of infectious diseases and conspiracy theories; diversity in science; scientific publishing
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Robyn R. Sadoon, MPP, MPH @ralsadoon.bsky.social PhD Candidate · Public Health Epidemiology
Living between libraries, laptops, and lattes
All opinions are mine
David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social Founding Pres, Vets without Borders-Canada; Veterinary epidemiologist. Writer >20 books poetry fiction nonfiction On Pandemics,The Origin of Feces. Officer, Order of Canada.
https://davidwaltnertoews.wordpress.com/
Michael @mrmickme-v1.bsky.social Purveyor of FAFOcratic commentary. 
Joe Eastman PhD @jlerollblues.bsky.social Covid modeler/research, @TheWHN volunteer, free pathogen newsletter at josepheastman.substack.com, former NASA scientist, renewable energy scientist, atmospheric scientist, ecologist, and modeler of about any system https://substack.com/@josepheastman
Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com Author, keynote speaker, geek, autistic and ADHD.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social Political theorist in Montreal, via Custer, Lubbock, New Underwood, Rapid City, Northfield, State College, and WashPa. Free Palestine.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/
hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social 
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
the hot dam historian (phd) @varsha.bsky.social will index your book in exchange for money, send me a book rec, dissertating at berkeley: history+dams+us foreign policy+india.
linktr.ee/varshaoforange
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Long COVID Justice @longcovidjustice.org We are leading grassroots efforts to confront the Long COVID crisis, while centering racial, social, economic & disability justice. Our work is done by and for chronically ill & disabled people, our families and communities. linktr.ee/longcovidjustice
Laura McCall @equibotanica.bsky.social Motto should be: 'No post without a typo'. 'Like' =|= agree. Vaccine equity is in everyone's interest.
avatar image:
@BruegelBot from the other place
Not super active here ... yet
Joshua C. Agar @joshuacagar.bsky.social Asst. Prof | UPD | RCE | MSCE | Structural Engineer | Wind Engineer | Fellow - UP Building Research Service and UP Center for Air Research in Urban Environments
PAPRnaut @paprnaut.bsky.social Engineer, ASHRAE Member, Mad Scientist.
Doc Scrubs @docscrubs.bsky.social This *is* me being optimistic.
Roland Baker @rolandbakeriii.bsky.social Molecular Genetics, U.C. Berkeley Alumnus; Private sector; Opinions are my own; Posted studies ≠ Endorsement; Not medical advice
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Cornelius Roemer @corneliusroemer.bsky.social Studying SARS-CoV-2 evolution @nextstrain @biozentrum
Studied Physics @Cambridge Uni, then learned about computers
Andrew Urquhart @wolfeagle1989.bsky.social PhD in Space Physics. Hobbyist SARS-CoV-2 lineage hunter. I will block trolls, misinformers, and disinformers at my personal discretion.
Emily Anne Smith @emilyanne-smith.bsky.social Scientist at University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP). Here for all things molecular epidemiology, public health policy, and cats.
Tom Andrews @0bj3ctivity.bsky.social See the wood for the trees.
#COVIDisnotOver
#MaskUp
#WearARespirator
#COVIDisAirborne
David Tomlinson @drtomlinsonep.bsky.social Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist | Special interest: the objective nature of reality | CATA member | FreshAirNHS | Recent interest in scientific misconduct, & clean air
Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social Public Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer: memoir, poetry, children’s stories. Identiplant, AI, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid 🇪🇺N Ireland 🐸 Resist
Blue Sky 3/9/23
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Long Covid Kids @longcovidkids.bsky.social The charity supporting & advocating for children & young people with Long Covid & overlapping illness.
#LongCovidKids #LongCovid #PaediatricLongCovid
#LongCovidAwareness #MECFS
Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires
Dr Kate Cushing @drkatecushing.bsky.social Doctor, scientist, mum, cat slave.
Public Governor Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust
Long Covid & CCH.
Love Northumberland/Newcastle, owls/wildlife/books/art/music/politics/EU
Wrote Little Orange Book 4 parents of babies & small kids.
Green Party member
@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social PhD in physical chemistry, research experience in thin‑film dynamics, surface forces, wetting, and rheology. Served 11 yrs as an NHS hospital public governor with two trusts.
With airborne pathogens, clean indoor air is vital.
mstdn.science/@JoePajak
Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social Writer, editor, analyst. Disability employment rights advocate.
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
RevivalCare 🇨🇦 @revivalcare.bsky.social Commentary skews Canadian. 🇨🇦 🎗🇺🇦
Commentary skewers irrationality.
Find or recommend a Covid safe dentist.
http://www.covidsafedentists.ca
Gina @gina25.bsky.social Currently on a break
Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social Architect Asst Professor @UCDDublin @UCDArch FRIAI RIBA ARB opinions my own #Housing #Architecture #Construction #CovidIsAirborne #ClimateAction
Smart Air UK @smartairuk.bsky.social Smart Air is a social enterprise and B-Corp committed to changing the way we breathe clean air! We create incredibly effective air purifiers and share life-hacks and tips on protecting your health from poisonous air
Lisa Diaz @lisabd.bsky.social 
Nathalie Pearson @natpearson.bsky.social #Hampshire
#SafeAirSchools
#Climate #Nature #LongCovid
Devoted mother | Founder SafeAirSchools.org | Proud King’s College London alumna | Founding Member Long Covid Kids | Passionate about healthcare | Leave nobody behind | Neurodivergent
Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social Working for a safe, inclusive world that prioritises people and planet not profit.