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@illdottore.bsky.social
I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool
@charlottewood.bsky.social
2024 Booker shortlisted author ‘Stone Yard Devotional' & other books. Sydney. Here for goodwill & generosity; long smart reads; cooking & gardens; slow, careful attending. https://charlottewood.substack.com
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@drrochellerowe.bsky.social
Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
@abbiefs.bsky.social
Deputy ed of the Economist's long read section, 1843. Fan of things that are surprising, and immersively reported subcultures
@mitpress.bsky.social
Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962. Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
@ericreidy.bsky.social
Editor & Reporter for The New Humanitarian, covering migration and Gaza. What I’m reading/listening to, editing, & writing.
@elazic.bsky.social
Founder and editor of @animusmagazine.bsky.social | Editorial @ MUBI | Film writer, journalist, copy editor and translator | French | In London, UK
@mrothberg.bsky.social
Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators.
@deborahfriedell.bsky.social
@florencehrscott.bsky.social
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
@nabilsalih.bsky.social
A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, and elsewhere.
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
@harrystopes.bsky.social
Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
@gevemac.bsky.social
Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between
@hofferdal.bsky.social
Adviser for international affairs at the University of Bergen (UiB). Latin America & liberation theology aficionado. Strong supporter of free speech, academic freedom and a humane world! Opinions are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
@meganclement.bsky.social
Journalist in Montreuil/Paris with words in NYT, Guardian, CNN and more. Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir. Editor of Impact, a newsletter of feminist journalism. Lecturer in journalism at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle. Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
articles editor at Mother Jones (@motherjones.com), CIR union UAW 2103 (@cir-union.bsky.social) signal: jrosenberg.13
@senthorun.bsky.social
A/Prof in Human Rights Law ✨ Professional Gay🦩 Books: 📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms 📕 Queer Judgments 📕 The Queer Outside in Law 📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun (He/Him)
@theabigailthorn.bsky.social
Actress & Writer. Sharako Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Jess in DJANGO; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; Belle in DRACULA’S EX-GIRLFRIEND. Philosophy Tube & @KillJamesBond ✨👑
@olliemilman.bsky.social
Write about the environment for the Guardian. Author of the Insect Crisis. Just about able to play Let it Be on the ukulele. LFC always.
@drnaomiscott.bsky.social
A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes. My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him. "Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
Researcher on Yemen, MENA, Maritime Domain | Posts about MENA, Appalachia, Rivers | Words in Daily Beast, FPRI, Amwaj, Al-Jazeera, 100 Days in Appalachia | DM for media inquiries | Check out @waterways-project.bsky.social | he/him
@drawcansir.bsky.social
Lapsing academic. Books, theatre, opera. Often early modern; always out of time. Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009324120
@mkonings.bsky.social
Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
@epress.bsky.social
Contributing writer at The New Yorker, Puffin fellow at Type Media Center, author (Dirty Work, Beautiful Souls), long-suffering Bills fan.
@davidwearing.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously). Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
@chanda.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof.: Theoretical Cosmology and Particle Physics ⚛️ 🔭 & Black Feminist Science Studies 🧪 Writer 📚: #DisorderedCosmos #EdgeOfSpaceTime #CosmosIsABlackAesthetic Web: chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽
@sumimadhok.bsky.social
LSE Professor| Feminist Political Theorist| She| Own Views| Thinking and writing on imperialism; anti-imperial epistemic justice; rights politics in most of the world. New📕 bit.ly/3C3Tb7V
@sansip.bsky.social
Books, etc. “Sometimes, I, too, sought expression. I know now that my gods grant me no more than allusion or mention”: Borges
@copddoc.bsky.social
Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP #RCPtimeforchange #LungSky, social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson #MedSky #NHS #LungSky https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hopkinson+NS&sort=date&size=100
@pierredevos.bsky.social
Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
@jamesgrcronin.bsky.social
College Lecturer @ucc.bsky.social University College Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 educated and interested in … iconography, history (ancient, medieval and modern), literature, media, and emancipatory pedagogies. Personal views only.
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
@robin-c.bsky.social
critical theory, social & political philosophy @ fu berlin // center for social critique berlin https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/RobinCelikates https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times https://criticaltheoryconsortium.org
@aycacu.bsky.social
Author / Associate Professor at LSE Human Rights & LSE Sociology / Co-Editor, Humanity Journal & LSE International Studies Series at Cambridge University Press / Own Views / Rep: DGA Literary Agents https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/academic-staff/ay
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@fredsmeijers.bsky.social
expert in type, pies, and… unfinished books: Quadraat, Renard, Arnhem, Fresco, Ludwig, Custodia, Sansa, Monitor, Bery, Puncho, Haultin, Mersey, Lambrusco, Lyonnaise, Counterpunch, Type Now — typeby.com #fredsmeijers #typebysmeijers #typewithcharacter
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@rexbowman.bsky.social
Co-author of ALMOST HEMINGWAY: The Adventures of Negley Farson, and ROT, RIOT AND REBELLION; translator of THE SHALONSKY FAMILY. Writings in Literary Heist, Parhelion, Great Lakes Review, Smart Set, Literary Yard, Full Stop, elsewhere.