metasequoia「筆談」
student of whatever strikes my fancy, mostly languages and mouth sounds. i post rarely. qui sequitur me non ambulat in tenebris dixit dominus
if i write poetry, i am a Poat
@historianyha.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Pomona College Yuan-Ming military and cultural history and Eurasian empires Founder and host of The Chinese History Podcast
@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/
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social
Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
@mjsdc.bsky.social
Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Dad to one toddler and several other animals.
@ositanwanevu.com
Contributing Editor | The New Republic Columnist | The Guardian Author | The Right of the People (2025) Newsletter | ositanwanevu.com
@restofworld.org
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@notesfrompoland.bsky.social
Independent and informed news and insight on Polish politics, culture, business and history. Support us: https://notesfrompoland.com/donations/support-us/
@cagdasungor.bsky.social
Fellow @SWP-CATS, Berlin, Professor@Marmara University, Istanbul. Interested in China, Cold War, Sino-Turkish relations, media and propaganda
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
@lukelukeluke.bsky.social
I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT Sign up for mushie-mail: cheerful letters filled with stickers, prints, and other goodies > Patreon.com/luke_venechuk
@taniel.bsky.social
Daniel Nichanian. Editor in chief of @boltsmag.org (follow us!). Elections, (local) politics, voting rights, criminal justice, and drag race.
@protass.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
@sodrock.bsky.social
The foreign policy views of the people's champ. AKA Great One, Flex Kavana, and Brahma Bull. Might be Dwayne Johnson, could be Harold Brown. Views my own. Substack⬇️ https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/
@premthakker.bsky.social
reporter @zeteo.com Any tips or info you’d like to share? Signal premthakker.35 Prem@zeteonews.com https://linktr.ee/premthakker
@katmabu.bsky.social
Running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
@jdryan08.bsky.social
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
@devrimyavuz.bsky.social
Sociologist @CUNY @ Lehman College, author of Democracy and Capitalism in Turkey, currently spending savings from quitting smoking on records, films and olive oil
@majnouna.bsky.social
Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Beirut émigré in London. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… All the links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
@merovingians.bsky.social
Extremely Online medieval archaeologist. Stubborn electoralist, out of the predictions game for a while. Gerontocracy hater. DSA for my sins. ADHD. He/Him. #nomoresenators
@cait.bsky.social
big famous microblogger [she/her] texan in ma. Adonis' mom https://ko-fi.com/O5O2SN6KI
@johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Radical liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor. Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths?
@gonultol.bsky.social
Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, SUITS MENA History and Politics Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy. Also block folks who tell me my border collie is akshually a kelpie
@elviereads.bsky.social
catholic (normal). love Jesus, love mary, hate sin, hate the devil. opinions are my own and have not been approved by a censor librorum. she/her
@jricole.bsky.social
Historian, essayist: Middle East, South Asia, Islam, Social History, Foreign Policy, Environment, Culture, Progressive Politics; Signal: Juan Cole
@azforeman.bsky.social
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
@ajw87.bsky.social
Interested in the Columbian exchange. Philology. Manuscripts. Plants. #OldSundanese #MedievalIndonesia #TupianLanguages Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/ New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him
@woland11.bsky.social
Professional yearner, Egyptian in need of immigration the fuck out of here, exmuslim atheist, blah blah you know it all already
@jdmartinsen.bsky.social
Joel is a Beijing-based translator. zhwj on Douban and Tumblr · @jdmartinsen@mastodon.social · he/him · joelmartinsen.com
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火. https://chenchenzhang.net
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@mattitiahu.bsky.social
Philologist and historical linguist at the University of Copenhagen. I mainly work on Ancient Greek dialects and Indo-European historical/comparative linguistics but I do other things too. (he/er/han/αυτός/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ)
@lcbmphd.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar of religion, and Coptic language lover. Fighting for the Undercommons. Currently @ Spelman College
@likethemagician.bsky.social
math👨🏫 linguist 🐝kpr, @deatherhixon's worse ½ ~ oqe/ghaH/𓇓𓅱/ⲛⲧⲁϥ/𒀀𒉈/𒋗𒌑/bí/ēme/tic/yè/yená/hã/à/re/are’/paluṟu/eh/𑀘𑁆𑀧𑀺/𐤡𐤦𐤳/𐬵𐬋/ᜐᜒᜌ/ia/ཁོ་ན/இவன்
@ricciinstitutelib.bsky.social
The Library of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College. 利瑪竇中西文化歷史研究所圖書館. https://web.bc.edu/ricci/
@paulbabinski.bsky.social
History of Orientalism. PhD Princeton Recent publications On the study of looted Qur'ans (with Jan Loop): https://brill.com/view/journals/erl/9/3/article-p239_001.xml On manuscript catalogs: https://www.academia.edu/125336554/The_Manuscript_Catalog_proofs
@tomorrowman4you.bsky.social
a guy full of #thoughts #words #notpoetry and images from outdoor adventures NSFW
@tedzu.bsky.social
@lameensouag.bsky.social
Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and soon Nilotic...)
@leylaamzi.bsky.social
Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
@ajab.bsky.social
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics. Twitter @yakabikaj
@ottomanhistory.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com
@sasanianshah.bsky.social
Historian, late antique Central & W. Asia, Sasanians, Byzantines, Rus’. BD fan, Globe Trotter, Kensington Communist, flâneur, in love w London, Tehran, Athens, & Vienna. Have laptop, will write.
@sariyannis.bsky.social
Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis