David M. Perry
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
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@schoolmarmadvisors.com
Freelance editor, researcher, and/or fact-checker for education and academic authors. Writing a book about how we ask America's teachers to do the impossible. Newsletter: https://dissertate.jennbbinis.com/. r/Askhistorians moderator.
@robtaber.bsky.social
Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State. Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System. Formerly US ED Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships. Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
@sarahtaber.bsky.social
Ex-farm worker & crop scientist. Here to talk food, agriculture, and money. patreon.com/farmtotaber
@mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social
Author, chef, freelance sensitivity reader. Autistic, enby. Food Aversion cookbook COLOR TASTE TEXTURE is out now! (Avery / PRH) Rep’d by Sharon Belcastro at @belcastroagency.bsky.social
@epballou.bsky.social
AEA stage manager, Old Millennial, stationery junkie, hiking, X-Files. Co-editor, "Sincerely, Your Autistic Child" from Beacon Press. chavisory.wordpress.com
@sesquiotic.bsky.social
Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
@rjdashwood.bsky.social
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
@bookofoak.bsky.social
Soft for Izzy Hands and Astarion Fannish, academic, progressive She/they 🏳️⚧️ Fortyish Profile pic by Queer Magneto
@marcus1984.bsky.social
Historian (modern India, technology, foreign relations); editor (Contingent Magazine); advisor (scholarships, fellowships, research)
@bmceuen.bsky.social
Historian of science, focusing on genetics and eugenics in progressive era United States. Teaches Michigan, US, and World History at Wayne State University. Dad to Buddy (5) and Boogie (2). He/him 💖💜💙
@craigipedia.bsky.social
Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own. Research Director @mmfa.bsky.social
@pennyvixen.bsky.social
Horror/fantasy writer and geek about almost everything. Left of left. She/her. Best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014). Books coming in 2025: THE ORB OF CAIRADO (Subterranean Press) in January and THE TOMB OF DRAGONS (Tor Books) in March.
@jessicahuseman.bsky.social
Editorial director for Votebeat, managing investigations and newsroom enthusiasm. Prev: ProPublica. I’ll teach you how to file a FOIA. Did you dig yourself a hole, with your lack of self control? Well if that ain't rock n' roll I've never seen it. Texan.
@michaelmunnik.bsky.social
Canadian pilgrim in Wales. Sociologist of media and religion, senior lecturer at Cardiff University, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK. Musical side-hustle at https://michaelmunnik.ca/
@rhiannongiddens.bsky.social
New album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, out now on Nonesuch Records! https://linktr.ee/rhiannongiddens
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically. Russell Sage Visiting Scholar this year. Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem. Thoughts here represent me, not my employer. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11 nyccivilrightshistory.org
@realrollo-koster.bsky.social
Medieval historian , professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island, specialist of the cultures of the Avignon papacy and the Great Western Schism. Interested in all things medieval.
@jessimckenzi.bsky.social
editing & reporting climate stories @thebulletin.org // outdoorsy newsletter: http://pinchofdirt.substack.com // tips: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org or jsmckenzie@protonmail.com or jessimckenzi.01 on signal
@adriannefblack.bsky.social
Advocate for antiracism. Book: THE KLANSMAN’S SON. She/her. Baltimore. Speaking: phoebe@lyceumagency.com
@cnewf.bsky.social
Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
@mattlibrarian.bsky.social
Librarian, Antifascist, South African American. Grumpy GenX Ask me about my liberal agenda. www.TeenLibrarian.co.uk Signal: mattlibrarian.01
@numb.comfortab.ly
Principal software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript. Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order. @anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
@manigarm.bsky.social
Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
@cnygren.bsky.social
Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
@returnstosender.bsky.social
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 (Harvard, 2022) https://bit.ly/SovietJewBook | 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵 (Stanford, 2026) https://www.sup.org/books/jewish-studies/shadow-holocaust | he/him | Opinions my own | My website: sashasenderovich.weebly.com
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Nation, The Cut, and elsewhere. www.lydiakiesling.com
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@joelcfc25.bsky.social
Minnesota dad of 2. Fishing, history, housing/zoning, GIS and maps, board games, European football, cooking.
@abbysliva.bsky.social
troll under the bridge running @StribGoingOut.startribune.com on all platforms. she/her. Minneapolis. Sorry, I will be posting about the Minnesota Timberwolves 😩
@resnikoff.bsky.social
Urban policy consultant: http://resnikoffconsulting.com/ Roosevelt Institute Fellow, EQ Collaborative Member Working on a book about cities for Island Press and blogging occasionally at http://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/ ned at resnikoffconsulting dot com
@aehillam.bsky.social
Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with poems + CNF at Passages North, Rust & Moth, ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Lunch Ticket, among others. Historian & traveller, now based in Europe. Fiction is my long-game. Hoosier!
@lukeisamazing.bsky.social
same guy from twitter, thanks for having me. cohost and producer of We’re Not So Different medieval history podcast patreon.com/wnsdpod
@estelletang.bsky.social
Lifestyle and wellness editor, Guardian US. https://www.theguardian.com/us/wellness
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
Founding executive editor of Heatmap News. Contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times. Cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
@megireid.bsky.social
Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social Canadian in the South 🍁
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@clbergpowers.bsky.social
Parent, educator, organizer, author... Neurodivergent and Jewish, so more ideas than there are words to convey. I try to share them with kindness and context. Teach Education, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Urban Studies. uncoveringpossible.com
@charlottereads.com
bookseller, audiobook narrator, tiktoker, commie, queer, chaotic good. she/they. 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://www.zotero.org/holdenthorp #ActuallyAutistic
@coolzonemedia.bsky.social
Cool Zone Media is a podcast network that doesn’t mince words: we are living through the collapse of the known, and the birth of a new unknown. https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
@whysophiewhy.bsky.social
Dog Mom to Anderson & Truman, Head of Creative & Managing Executive Producer at Cool Zone Media. She/Her. https://www.coolzonemedia.com/
@saragoodman.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow & Dean's Professor of Political Science at UC Irvine. Department Chair. APSA Treasurer. saragoodmanphd.com citizenship | migration | comparative politics | Europe
@jsweetli.bsky.social
suspended/censored by Elon Musk bc journalism Words in Rolling Stone, The Intercept, The Guardian, POLITICO, The Nation +