Matthew Kollmer
PhD student (info sci at UIUC). Research in DH, NLP, AI, cultural analytics. Background in 19th/early 20th century US lit, creative writing, writing studies: https://matthewkollmer.com
I also own and operate a rare book firm: https://eveninglandbooks.com
Starter Packs
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Information Science at UIUC
A Starter Pack of faculty, affiliates, staff, graduate students, and other community members from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The accounts were compiled by cross-referencing BlueSky accounts to the current UIUC iSchool Directory.
Independent Bookseller's Starter Pack
A starter pack for independent booksellers and book collectors, or anyone interested in rare, used, and collectible books. This starter pack provides access to fellow booksellers, institutions, relevant feeds, book historians, library accounts, and more.
@cdn-bergen.bsky.social
CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence (SFF). We focus on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts in humanities-driven research. UiB, Bergen, Norway.
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
@altnehgov.altgov.info
Democracy DEMANDS wisdom. History cannot be undone, books cannot be unwritten, experiences cannot be ignored. Not the official @nehgov.bsky.social account, but a collective of Hercules Mulligans. #AltGov
@iobabooks.bsky.social
The official account of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Visit IOBA.org to learn more.
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
The 🌎’s oldest and largest library association. Find us at https://ala.org. We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
@memoryplace.bsky.social
Led by Professor John Sutton and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
@ejmknox.bsky.social
Professor studying information access and censorship | Star Wars Lover | Reader | emilyknox.net
@agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education, with a sideline […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@agoldst on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@javiercha.bsky.social
Canadian in Hong Kong. Work: digital historian @ HKU. Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI. Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
@curtisperry.bsky.social
Old professor of old books at UIUC. Hunkering down. Discontent provider. Anti-Zionist secular Jew. Amateur of music and fervent acoustic guitar enjoyer. <Honk> …and one duck egg he/him/his
@globaldhsymposium.bsky.social
The 10th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will take place as a synchronous virtual event and then as an in-person event over the course of April 2-8, 2025 at Michigan State University. #MSUGlobalDH https://msuglobaldh.org/
@uclspeccoll.bsky.social
UCL Special Collections is open to everyone. Our collections of rare, unique and historic archives & books cover themes including history of UCL, education, arts and sciences. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
@robertdaleparker.bsky.social
Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction. https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
@anitachan.bsky.social
Scholar, Speaker, Educator Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu anitachan.org
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@oracleatbluesky.bsky.social
Bluesky’s resident fortune teller. Former librarian. Apparently unemployable. She/her. TERFs and transphobes can f*ck right off. Views are my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@nataliyan.bsky.social
Sociology PhD at UC Berkeley. Future of work... and other things too. natalialuka.com #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
@nathangabbard.bsky.social
Bibliophile. Rare and antiquarian bookseller, @OwlCreekBooks.com, mid-city Los Angeles. English bulldog dad. Midwest grown.
@hollyhilda.bsky.social
Traditional Scandinavian and abstract weaving in the Saint Croix River Valley
@nicholashall.bsky.social
@jungli.bsky.social
@driftlessknitter.bsky.social
Knitter, designer, book lover, host of the Driftless Knitting podcast.
@50501movement.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the #50501Movement 🚨 Next up: May 1 Join the Movement > https://FiftyFifty.one
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/
@blurberryben.bsky.social
UX Researcher, anthropologist, reader, doodler, and amateur cook 🏳️🌈
@nabsiddiqui.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Susquehanna University. https://nabsiddiqui.net
@digthatdata.bsky.social
Probabilistic ML, Complex Systems, Far-From-Equilibrium Dynamics, Statistical Learning Theory, Philosophy of Mind YIMBY Research MLE @CoreWeave + @eleutherai.bsky.social xStabilityai | xMSFT | xAMZN MS Math/Stats, BA Philosophy https://github.com/dmarx
@immanentfields.bsky.social
Poet, translator, scholar | Assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Writing a book about poetry, mysticism, and neoliberalism in the Americas | Also: infrastructure, translation, the seventies, cookbooks
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social. Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Preorder my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
@sanders.senate.gov
Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
@ewdocparris.com
SCIENCE FICTION | DOUBLE FEATURE SFWA | SPSFC4 Judge | Best selling #SciFi author of: THE DENT IN THE UNIVERSE (May '23) THE AURORA'S PALE LIGHT (November '24) THE ATLAS OF HUMAN STRUGGLE (Spring '26) Buy my Books: https://magicgenius.co/books/
@daniellewilberg.bsky.social
5ft tall host of the Empty Nest Happy Hour podcast and actively fighting middle-age.
@ghostpepper616.bsky.social
School of Information Sciences at Illinois. Arts, Tech, Education, Vegetables.
@micahprzybylski.bsky.social
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@taulby.bsky.social
@VT_RLCL. US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.
@sarahchinn.bsky.social
Teaches 19th century US lit at Hunter College, CUNY. Lives in Brooklyn, with all the contradictions that implies.
@natewolff.bsky.social
I invented reuben pizza and was the first guy to notice the -Dick jokes in Moby-Dick. Because of this they made me a professor. I wrote a book about Gilded Age literature: bit.ly/NotQuiteHope
@poestudies.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work. https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-studies-history-theory-interpretation
@screentimeincrease.bsky.social
Literature prof, wildlife rehabber; hopefully open to experiences not determined by status and position
@chrishanlon.bsky.social
Professor of United States literature, Arizona State; co-editor, ALH Review & The Dial; author, America’s England (2013) & Emerson’s Memory Loss (2018); allegedly storied; will bell the cat.