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@atrupar.com
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@erininthemorning.com
Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking & content: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888 Subscribe to support my journalism and read my reporting at www.erininthemorning.com
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@luckytran.com
Public Health, Climate Justice, and Science Communication. Bylines in the Guardian, Washington Post, and more. WHO Fides member. Grist 50 Fixer. Opinions my own and do not reflect those of my employer. http://linktr.ee/luckytran
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@ashtonpittman.bsky.social
News Editor @mississippifreepress.org •Writer 🖋️ •Film Shooter 📷 •Husband 🏳️🌈 •Pibble Dad 🐾 Opinions = mine
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
@thevideogamelibrary.org
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️ New books added daily. • Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n • Support: https://ko-fi.com/thevideogamelibrary
@mrose.ink
Grumpy feminist lawyer. Giant nerd. SFF, horror, romance writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge. Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff. She/her 🏳️🌈 日本語でもOK
@lynnemthomas.com
Rare Book #Librarian, SFF editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin, #geek. 11x Hugo Award winner. bi/queer. Head of RBML at Illinois; Verity podcast; Uncanny Magazine. Baby #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. I don’t auto-follow. #DoctorWho #bookhistory #SFF
@herberthistory.bsky.social
Dad | Kentuckian in Colorado | History Dragon| Creator of Historians At The Movies #HATM | Historians At The Movies Podcast| Reckoning with Jason Herbert| Cuban coffee connoisseur| I aim to misbehave https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
@dbrauer.net
Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Posts too much about Minneapolis politics and knows it, but old professional habits die hard.
@annacwebs.bsky.social
Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️💜🤍🖤💚| she/her | annacwebster.com
@decafjedi.com
I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
@thatwitchmia.bsky.social
Your cranky bi aunt. Streaming Witch @ign.com Organizer w/ @IGNunion.bsky.social Streaming Wars drops every week Critics Choice | TCA
@lizwfab.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Teacher Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn Press, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) LizWFaber.com
@phdrachel.bsky.social
Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️ married to SNEH; Views=my own. On #TikTok she/her http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
@gavia.bsky.social
Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter. Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Atlas Obscura, Daily Dot, etc. she/her
@kathke.com
Historian. 19th/20th century US & Germany. JGU Mainz. 70s/80s cultural criticism, pop science, futurology. Book: Wires That Bind. @torstenkathke on most things.
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio
@kprather.bsky.social
Professor UC San Diego, aerosols, air quality, clouds-climate, health, viruses, bioaerosols, public speaker, environmental justice. ❤️ ❤️ gardening, cooking, empathy. https://airborne.ucsd.edu https://kprather.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@drrgibsongirl.bsky.social
Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire. amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
@aarongleeman.bsky.social
Covering the Minnesota Twins since 2002. The Athletic writer + Gleeman and The Geek talker. Articles: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/aaron-gleeman/ Podcasts: https://www.patreon.com/Gleeman
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@robertmannbooks.com
Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
@elizabethminkel.bsky.social
Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Co-host/editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨ elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
@mikebatestwibh.bsky.social
Podcaster for This Week In Baseball History (@TWIBHistory.bsky.social). Almost used to be A Guy. Enthusiastic SABR member/evangelist. Proud and grieving dad.
@warne.bsky.social
I talk about baseball on Locked On Twins & Access Twins. Jason Kubel enthusiast. I love my family, Jesus, sports cards, late 90s wrestling, Unsolved Mysteries & podcasts by Conrad Thompson & James Pietragallo/Jimmie Whisman.
@billtwibh.bsky.social
Baseball podcast guy and lawyer. MST3K, Rifftrax, MBMBaM, Dropout, and general foolishness enthusiast. Madeline Kahn fanboy. He/him
@kenzianidiot.bsky.social
my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics | dropout tv | she/her
@michaeldthomas.bsky.social
Caregiver for awesome daughter w/ Aicardi syndrome. 8-time Hugo-winning Publisher/Editor w/ my wife, @lynnemthomas, at @uncannymagazine. He/Him, They/Them.
@chrisbecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, digital studies, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
@drsepinwall.bsky.social
Writer. Professor. Lover of Music and Film. Jersey girl in California. 2023 Wang Award Winner. Books: Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Rev in Film & Video Games; Haitian History; Abbé Grégoire & the Fr Rev.
@katejewell.bsky.social
Historian at Fitchburg State. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC Press) out now! https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@mavcall.bsky.social
comm prof: gender & pop culture and online pedagogy. xennial. human to devon rex supergroup: Huey Lewis, Joan Jett, Stevie Nicks, & Eddie Vedder. gluten free foodie. clean air advocate. ❤️ my mn twins! order: https://a.co/d/ifmVETy (she/her)