Derek Silva
// prof & writer 🍉
// words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc.
// podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social
// new book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social
// hobby jogger 2:49 marathon
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
Starter Packs
Created by Derek Silva (1)
Sports People (and sports adjacent)
Nowhere near exhaustive. DM me if you want on the list!
@phdler.bsky.social
Woke Inter, cross, & anti-disciplinary scholar/researcher/author/artist/activist. Critical psychology/sociology #diversity #education, culture, #socialjustice, artistic mediation of trauma, violence. Boomer still fighting after all these years. 💙
@publicbooks.bsky.social
Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
@adam-ali.bsky.social
asst. prof. - sociocultural studies in sport. I study the relationship between Islamophobia and CVE, Canadian sport media, EDI, and sustainable development.
@theophrastean.bsky.social
Professor, University of Houston-Downtown. Rhetoric, technical communication, composition, early Christianity. M. Editor, Technical Communication & Social Justice. https://badrhetoric.com/about-2/
@mikaeladufur.bsky.social
Sociologist studying kids' social resources and, occasionally, sport at BYU. Living the academic middle management dream. Ohio State alum. Serving the world's best cat.
@rebeccafachner.bsky.social
Historian. Tour guide. Traveler. Smart ass. DC based. New England raised. History pod is Tour Guide Tell All
@lilahdj.bsky.social
abuse prevention educator in sports | former NCAA 400h champ | Public Voices Fellow for the Op-Ed Project
@andrewdnevin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Guelph Research: Digital sociology, Cyber-criminology, Inequality
@vmkitchen.bsky.social
University of Waterloo prof. I study security. www.teamkitchenresearch.ca
@lukasneville.com
Assoc prof, organizational behaviour, Asper School of Business, UManitoba. Personal butler to Tuna the Cat.
@wonderjaye.bsky.social
Scholar's kid (RIH Dr. Mom) & aspiring research professor (goodbye industry!). Sports fan, specifically Falcons, Braves, Hawks, UGA. My homer-ness requires whiskey. Other hobbies: Peloton, crochet, beach reading. 👩🏾🎓 HU1867 | UGA Terry 👩🏾⚕️ | 1913 🔺
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
@hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist Region AoNZ and wider Pacific Topics GBV & Indigeneity, Higher Ed, FIFA Football fan 💙❤️⚽️ Free 🇵🇸 #ToituTeTiriti #AutismIsAwesome
@leverfever.bsky.social
Full-time editor, freelance sportswriter, award-winning author, and former D1 athlete here to share my work about critical issues in sports (away from X). Read my work (and buy my book) here: https://linktr.ee/Katielever
@nazaninghaffari.bsky.social
SUNY-ESF Asst. Prof. Landscape Architecture SSRC Arts Research w. Communities of Color Fellow ✍🏽 about Public spaces, contested urban landscapes, whose right to what city, arts, exclusion, racialized institutions & governance regimes
@guthrieedson.bsky.social
He/him • Mostly soccer/football tweets #ThatsTheSpirit #YNWA #GoPackGo
@mariannedhe.bsky.social
crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer | contributing writer at Truthout and Yes! Magazine | marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
@majeff.bsky.social
Queer community college sociologist (and historian). Foodie, puzzle addict, and pet dad. Minnesotan at heart, even if I no longer live there. ManCity and Oranje!
@shanavwhite.bsky.social
K12 Educator GenX-er Inquisitive Gemini ♊️ Huge Sports Fan: Ravens, Liverpool FC, Warriors, LV Aces, Demon Deacs Powered by petty and chai lattes. "Try Jesus, don't try me." -Black woman proverb
@kimshore.bsky.social
Actively working to end systemic abuse in sport. Survivor, Writer, Speaker, Leadership Consultant, Co-Architect of Children’s Tribunal, Former NSO Board Member.
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
@dnpetti.bsky.social
Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
@drgomezmontoya.bsky.social
Mexicano. Man. Papá. Husband. Educator. 1stGen. EdD. Knowledge. Sports. Justice. Feminist. Cultura. Woo. UMKC/KU. Jedi. Beer. CDMX/KCMO/LFK. He/Him. #AskForHelp
@vijayramjattan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream @ OISE, University of Toronto / Mainly examining the intersections of language, race, and work within the context of education / he, him https://www.vijay-ramjattan.com/
@amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Prof @ Queen's University | Work: Extremist/social movements, religion and politics, diaspora politics, conspiracy theories, online communities, MENA, South Asia | Hip-Hop is Life 🎤
@melnykgribble.bsky.social
Professor & Department Chair, Psychology King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada 🇨🇦
@grouchymarx57.bsky.social
Refugee Solidarity FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 Neurodivergent Books, Books, Books 📚 Class War- Catering & PR dept Militant Librarian BLM ✊🏾 Trans Rights are non-negotiable ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
@sodawn.bsky.social
Sociologist at the University of Georgia. Social psychology, sociology of emotion, group processes, social networks.
@jesshardie.bsky.social
Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
@kbkarlson.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology | Social Science DGS | Education and Social Mobility | ERC Grantee | The K in KHB | Winner of Boudon + Goodman Awards | I Like Quantitative Methods and Great Sociology
@ispsyale.bsky.social
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and inform democratic deliberation.
@thesociologicalreview.org
Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities. https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
@pengzell.bsky.social
I research nepo babies. Sociology Prof at UCL, ERC Starting Grantee 2025-2030, Programme Lead MSc Sociology, Associate Editor RSSM & ESR. Also at Swedish Institute for Social Research & Nuffield College. http://perengzell.com
@jnparker.bsky.social
NC to NOLA via Chicago. Urban sociology, doughnuts, indie rock—order depends on the day. Views my own, but ultimately a singular instantiation of the collective process of knowledge production, so really who’s to say. https://www.jeffreynparker.com
@tristanbridges.bsky.social
Sociologist @ UC Santa Barbara. Co-editor of Men and Masculinities (Sage journal) and Exploring Masculinities (Oxford UP). he/him Also: @TristanBridges@mastodon.social
@taniamjenkins.bsky.social
Sociologist. Ethnographer. UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of “Doctors’ Orders” (CUP, 2020). Interested in medicine, professions, mental health. Amateur vocalist. 🎵 taniajenkins.com
@sarahdamaske.bsky.social
Sociology Professor. Studying gender, work, family, and inequality. Currently: precarity, job quality, and the stalled gender revolution. Author of #TollsofUncertainty, #FortheFamily #Science&Art of Interviewing. ✍️ @time @cnnopinion @harvardbiz
@amlevere.bsky.social
Sociologist, criminologist, owl target. Books: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/intersecting-lives/paper https://nyupress.org/9781479862726/beyond-recidivism/ https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-ex-prisoners-dilemma/9780813562278/
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Assoc Prof of Law & Society @JohnJayCollege + Sociology @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. I research marriage as a sociolegal institution, esp in South Africa. Opinions not employer's. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3365
@kbeardall.bsky.social
Sociologist. Higher education, mental health, culture, organizations. I work for the Census but this is a personal account 🌈 #adhd
@janierola.net
Sociology prof studying intergenerational inequalities, the captain of INVEST Research Flagship Centre at University of Turku, Finland. Or sailing otherwise the Baltic #newwelfarestate. https://janierola.net https://invest.utu.fi http://mapineq.eu
@aliciamwalker1.bsky.social
Sociology prof & author: Sexuality, relationships/behavior/identity gender; qual; Co-Chair CCF; editor CCF blog; Psych Today blogger🩷💜💙 #Resist #AcademicSky #Dateline #Sociology #sexresearch
@alannagillis.bsky.social
Sociologist studying inequality in higher education, Asst Prof at St Lawrence University
@jonathancoley.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, education, religion, work, sexuality, race 🏳️🌈 http://jonathancoley.com
@mollborn.bsky.social
Professor soc/demog Sociology Stockholm University, SUDA Sthlm, and University of Colorado Population Center. Health lifestyles, early life, parenting, LGBQ disparities, reproductive health. Own views. She/her.
@chrisuggen.bsky.social
Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao