Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast
A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. You can follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
@rlanham1963.bsky.social
How AI filters into society--the pace of it, economics of it, etc. Favorite YouTube channel... "Your brother explains/Get to the Point"
@ozbilgin.bsky.social
Professor of Organisational Behaviour, researching equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice at work. Brunel University of London. All my publications are on researchgate.net in open access.
@fadizaghmout.bsky.social
Jordanian feminist Scifi author of 5 novels. The Bride of Amman, Heaven on Earth, LAILA, The Man of Middling Height, Hope on Earth.
@swillmetts.bsky.social
Cultural historian with an interest in secrecy, intelligence agencies, and their impact upon wider culture and society. I work at Leiden University, but my views here are my own.
@williamlallen.bsky.social
political scientist at the University of Southampton • how people engage with info, and why this matters • Deputy Editor @migrationjrnl.bsky.social • UK Young Academy • dog dad • all the baking • www.wlallen.com
@iai.tv
Changing how the world thinks. Home to the big ideas and leading thinkers of our time. Subscribe here: https://iai.tv/subscribe Host of HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 💡
@mariaabizandac.bsky.social
PhD student in American literature at @www.unizar.es. Member of @posthumanuz.bsky.social. SF, crime fiction, posthumanism. Currently Fulbright visiting student at @ucrchass.bsky.social. she/her
@andrearm.bsky.social
Lecturer & film studies researcher. University of Zaragoza. Interested in teen film, girlhood, transitions to adulthood and virtual spaces. Member of @spacescinema.bsky.social
@helenringrow.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her Relatively new on here!
@roxannedouglas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
@dralexjcalder.bsky.social
ECR in Contemporary Writing | teaching at University of Cambridge | co-editing Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | literary experimentation; politics and ethics; gender; the maximalist novel | from Caithness, Highland | he/him
@jenniferacooke.bsky.social
📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory. 🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder. 📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
@sffoundation.bsky.social
Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Collection at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
@lyuguangzhao.bsky.social
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Author of The Boom & The Boom (2024), PhD at UCL, “Support a New Scholar” at SFRA
@martinodonoghue.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India. Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP Views own
@tinanovels.bsky.social
American, utopian, animal, video game & pop studies. EnvHum @UniTorino. Author of American Nightmares https://bit.ly/3euW4Ho. Editor at @Iperstoria. She/her
@joan-grandjean.bsky.social
Art historian passionate by Arab futurities, sci-fi imaginaries and different time folds | PhD exploring contemporary art, SWANA, futures | Co-funder Manazir
@gmacdonald.bsky.social
Literature Energy Environment Climate stuff @University of Warwick. Glasgow Dweller. Yes, they are quite far apart.
@pablogomezm.bsky.social
Film Studies & Science Fiction. Lecturer in English, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Member of the @spacescinema.bsky.social research project
@anamsanchezarce.bsky.social
Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
@sistertodragons.bsky.social
Feminist. Atheist. Obsessed with scifi, fantasy, and horror - since genre fiction is the only place the christo-fascist patriarchy loses.
@drgavinmiller.bsky.social
Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
@jessnorledge.bsky.social
Stylistician @ Uni. Nottingham. Literary Linguistics. Language & Feminism. Contemporary Lit. Dystopia.
@mariettarosetta.bsky.social
Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive. https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
@dracopoullos.bsky.social
Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, The Dark, & more! Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME Books. 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
@chandraclarke.bsky.social
Science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction author, recovering/relapsing entrepreneur, coffee addict, environmental activist. My latest book: Let's Fix This: Cleaner Living in a Dirty World https://bookshop.org/a/87457/9781777217495
@markmaguireb.bsky.social
Works #museum #education. Here for the #art, #comics, #SciFi, #news | Photos mine or otherwise credited. Followers with bio, activity, etc. more likely to become mutuals | ☘️ #SpeirGorm / #SpéirGhorm | 🐘 @[email protected] | 🧵 @markbmaguire
@acathemic.bsky.social
Graduate student in English ☆ interested in outer space, anti-colonialism, speculative fiction, & cultures of science ☆
@laurenrfrausto.bsky.social
Editor, Educator, Poet, Science #Poetry and Metaphor Researcher. #STS #SciComm #STEAM #SciArt #LitSci #SciFi #MedHum #PhilSci #HistSci #HistMed #HistSTM #Conservation. https://www.creatureconserve.com https://www.consilience-journal.com
@michaelafrueh.bsky.social
Associate Professor in German Studies at University of Limerick. Researching & teaching German and comparative literature, ageing & dreams in literature & culture and European Cultural Studies. Director of Centre for European Studies @ulceuros.bsky.social.
@mathijsvdsande.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL). Research on protest, radical democracy and communalism. Member of @doorbraak.eu. Has a trombone and is not afraid to use it.
@alex-goody.bsky.social
Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry
@dominicboyer.bsky.social
energy/environment/media/climate; once made a glacier memorial; writer; occasional podcaster; improv philosopher; resisting the petrostate; 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
@drkarmaw.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, stand-up comic, Simpsonologist, editor-in-chief of Margaret Atwood Studies, clumsiest woman in the world. No DMs: I'm here for public engagement with others, not private chats. :)
@codysiscowrites.bsky.social
Author of queer psychological science fiction. Editor of novels and short stories. A Los Angeles-based human. #UtopiaNow also here as @bookswellclub.bsky.social DMs are closed to scammers, bots, and non-specific chat.
@samgins12.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, WSU Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx science fiction. The Cyborg Caribbean: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-cyborg-caribbean/9781978836228/
@democrafthtx.bsky.social
Progressive activist, Harris Co. Texas Democratic precinct chair, disability justice advocate, compulsive reader, cat servant, UU, nature lover, Science Fiction & Fantasy fan, upset my children have less rights than I did. NO DMs!
@athingbegun.bsky.social
Architecture historian and space analyst who writes sci-fi stories in between academic papers and bowls of pasta.
@joelstainer.bsky.social
Currently my random interests are post-apocalyptic and disaster fiction, economics, and running. Lots of other things distract me as well.
@dhrichards.bsky.social
Political commentator with over 500 media spots from NYT to Fox - I go where I can talk to people, author (fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, whatever suits the story), music nerd Wordpress:https://daverichardspolitics.wordpress.com/
@analogadjacent.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
@bsbeck.bsky.social
See benbeck.co.uk - my interests include: firsts in the recording of sight and sound; anarchism and science fiction; UK TMOs (tenant management orgs); family history; British Quaker history
@waynejm.bsky.social
Professor Equity and Social Justice Education, Western University Canada. queer and trans studies: https://www.edu.uwo.ca/about/faculty-profiles/wayne-martino/index.html
@justineverettphd.bsky.social
Progressive environmentalist, writer and professor specializing in nature writing and science fiction. Worldview: science, quantum animism, idealist panpsychism.
@hugospodcast.com
Host of Hugos There (2024 Hugo nominee for Best Fancast), co-host of Take Me To Your Reader. Fan of baseball, dogs, disc golf, books, science, science fiction, theology, cooking, hiking, triathlons.
@michaelgodhe.bsky.social
Associate Professor Culture and Media Production, Campus Norrköping at Linköping University. Principal Investigator Linköping Space Studies Institute (LSSI) YNWA. "The future so bright I gotta wear shades"
@authorjgabriel.bsky.social
Hello to all. I am an author of #fantasy and #scifi, and Coffee is my drug of choice. When I'm not writing, I'm on my bike or sleeping. That means I never eat or outline. https://authorjasongabriel.com/ #Books #Booksky #fantasy #fantasybooks 💙📚 #scifi
@thedailytomorrow.bsky.social
A (Free!) Daily SF Serial Magazine The newest of the new from today's most exciting writers, daily via Substack. A new story starts every Sunday and stays free for a full month. No ads, ever. Subscribe! https://dailytomorrow.substack.com
@sminsmith.bsky.social
🪐 Researcher in Science Fiction Art 🪫 Union Rep / Lecturer / PhD Student 🦑 Beyond Gender Research Collective 📲 sminsmith.co.uk
@michaeledenart.bsky.social
Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University. Editor at JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden