People/ Orgs that have fantastic Starter Packs!
This is a collection of over 100+ people or organizations who've made unique, mostly nerdy Starter Packs of their own. Follow them, then go to their individual profiles to see what/ how many Starter Packs each offer that interest you and give them a follow too.
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@unimatrix01.bsky.social
@boghuma.bsky.social
Physician Scientist MDPhD Infectious Diseases Academic Medicine Global Health Science Communicator Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice I bet on myself and double down https://substack.com/@bktitanji
@miriamboosh.bsky.social
Mental health, artist, activist. On a recovery journey Co-host @seedsirl 🌱 We will be ok or we won’t. Irish & Sudanese 🇮🇪🇸🇩 https://linktr.ee/MiriamBoosh
@jamestwotree.bsky.social
Historian of Taiwan & the World. Assistant Professor, University of Washington Jackson School. Author of In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan (University of California Press, 2025) Website: ocf.io/jameslin he/him
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Deputy editor, Splinter, covering various horrors. Previous: Grid, bylines all over before that. Author: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (2017, WW Norton). Davelevitan{at}gmail.com Signal: @davelevitan.26
@gregpak.net
Rhymes with "rock." Call your reps (reps.fyi) & help your neighbor. #DidThisToday Comics writer, filmmaker, photographer. PLANET HULK, MECH CADET YU, LAWFUL. He/him. gregpak.fyi (this account is me in sweatpants. @gregpak.com is me in chinos lol)
@protecttruth.bsky.social
"The problem of our time: billionaire oligarchs have learned to exploit today’s media to manipulate public opinion, and co-opt democracies from the inside." - me
@lkfazio.bsky.social
Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
@iansociologo.bsky.social
Sociologist studying race, class, & the environment. Author of The Business of Racism: Revaluation & Reaction in Brazil's Racial Capitalism (under contract with Duke University Press). PhD from UW-Madison. Former NSF SPRF Postdoc at UCSB. He/Him/His.
@hpspodcast.bsky.social
Popular podcast discussing all things history, philosophy and social studies of science. Run by Grad Students at The University of Melbourne. Bluesky posts by Samara and Thomas Season 5 dropping soon! www.hpsunimelb.org/the-hps-podcast
@turnbulldugarte.com
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈 Associate Editor POQ, EJPG, and R&P he/him Far-right, social identities, & electoral behaviour Writing a book on LGBTQ voters for PUP 🏳️🌈🗳️ http://turnbulldugarte.com/ #ihadablackdog https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
@thefarce.org
Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids. Find a protest you can join or an action you can start now https://www.reddit.com/r/onethingtodo/ This is how we do it https://www.thefarce.org
@wyoweeds.bsky.social
I kill things for science (mostly plants). I study crops, weeds, and sometimes other things at a University in Wyoming (but this is a personal account). I like taking photos and writing #Rstats code, but not at the same time. PlantOutOfPlace.com
@bwdr.bsky.social
A different lens on film: no hot takes, lots of long reads. An independent, reader-supported online film journal. Read: brightwalldarkroom.com Support: brightwalldarkroom.com/subscriptions Linktree: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
@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
@abfriedman.com
This is my personal account. Faculty at UPenn. Emergency doc, health economist, geriatrics and privacy researcher. Views are my own. RT does not imply endorsement.
@gaborbekes.bsky.social
Economics Associate Prof, CEU Vienna. Trade, applied IO, organisations. sites.google.com/site/bekesg Author, "Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy" (Cambridge UP) https://gabors-data-analysis.com/ @arsenalfc fan.
@cannoncloud.bsky.social
Development econ PhD Student at Goethe Universität Frankfurt and WZB. Doing research at the corner of development, transport and remote sensing. https://cannoncloud.github.io/ You can find me knitting silly hats or riding funny bikes.
@lukasmergele.bsky.social
Policy consultant @ BSS Economic Consultants, Basel | Economist: Public Sector, Labor Markets, Education | Dad of 3 | German-Swiss musings | trains. https://sites.google.com/view/lmergele/home
@jschneebacher.bsky.social
Economist at the UK Competition and Markets Authority. Interested in firms, productivity, markets, management and growth. Previously at ONS, Nuffield College Oxford. All views my own.
@pierceoreilly.bsky.social
Economist. Irish. Head of the Business and International Taxes Unit, Tax Policy Division, OECD. Views own, etc. Reposts are bookmarks
@o.simardcasanova.net
· French Organizational Economist @cerefige.bsky.social, en français and in English · Incentives in the Workplace, Open Social Media, Europe, Defence, Networks, Meta & Open Science, #Rstats · he/him 🏳️🌈 · https://o.simardcasanova.net
@dismalscientist86.bsky.social
Economist at the Census Bureau studying women's employment, post-prison outcomes, and low-income housing. Living in Davis, CA.
@ksaxby.bsky.social
Health economist at Unimelb. Interested in reducing health & healthcare inequities, esp for 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️, people with disability, First Nations (she/her) linktr.ee/ksaxby | #EconSky 📉📈
@thomsampson.bsky.social
International Trade. Brexit. Associate Professor, LSE Economics.
@sarahhird.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Connecticut studying evolution & bird microbiomes. More importantly: I’m an aspiring anti-racist, raging feminist & trying to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. Please read The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg et al.
@philmarfisi.bsky.social
Sidewalk enthusiast. Other interests: public policy, housing, urbanism, Waterloo Region, Ontario politics, #cdnpoli, Star Trek, music, news media, international relations, and the Oxford comma. Democracy is good, actually.
@lukelebrun.ca
Editor, @pressprogress.ca | Send tips and story ideas: llebrun@pressprogress.ca
@rudyfraser.com
Founder & CEO, @blacksky.app ASML Fellow, Berkman Klein, @harvard.edu Building community networks and technologies blackskyweb.xyz + wethepeople.nyc move fast and break chains; revolution now; not tomorrow—now. 🏴☠️ 🔗: https://linkat.blue/rudyfraser.com
@cgrbravo.bsky.social
Latin American literature & cinema | human rights & memory | Environmental humanities | Politics of affects/ emotions | Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton | Egresado de UConn, UNal., Caro & Cuervo.
@stiles.io
Genetic, research, and software engineer looking to make friends. Creator of Poly, an open source Go package for engineering DNA 🧬 Let's engineer weird little guys together. github.com/bebop/poly 📍San Francisco
@emwjournal.bsky.social
The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@anthrobite.bsky.social
Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠 Assistant Prof at the University of Southern California; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG In a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles – ela/she
@americanstudier.bsky.social
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://linktr.ee/americanstudier he/him
@propublica.org
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. Support our work: https://propub.li/4d2mFWJ
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@boddice.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket. Montreal and Tampere. https://www.robboddice.com/
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@merleeisenberg.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University. PhD, Princeton University Middle Ages & Late Antiquity | Pandemics & Plague | Environmental Podcast: Infectious Historians @ infectioushistorians.com Also: Arsenal | Mets | Vikings | UConnWBB
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@kejamieson.bsky.social
Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. PhD Student @ Exeter Uni. Day Job in Offshore Security. Rower. Owned by a Dog 🐾 katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@iglesiascrespoc.bsky.social
Literary, cultural, and intellectual historian of the early modern Hispanic world, currently at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Soon in Christ's College, Cambridge as Research Fellow.
@joaoftsbotelho.bsky.social
CEEC Researcher at UCP 🇵🇹 https://sciproj.ptcris.pt/en/12767EEC Before: Maria Zambrano fellow @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social 🇪🇸 and postdoc at Max Planck Institute 🇩🇪 MGEs, AMR, defense systems https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_Sz69QgAAAAJ&hl=en
@talkingpointsmemo.com
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
@charleswlogan.bsky.social
Learning Sciences PhD Candidate at Northwestern University - Teaching and learning for collective flourishing in schools and beyond by resisting, refusing, repurposing, and reimagining technologies - Dad Life - he/him/his
@carsoncenter.bsky.social
International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany. Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/ Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/ Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
@isoutar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. Researching change, inertia and public engagement in energy transitions. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/19656-iain-soutar
@ninadavtian.bsky.social
@cnrs-insu.bsky.social researcher at @climatecerege.bsky.social. Using biomarkers to study climate, ocean, and environment of the past. @icta-uab.bsky.social alumna. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3047-6064 🇫🇷 -> 🇪🇸 -> 🇫🇷
@hilaryrosed.bsky.social
It's all about plants in the end (and truffle diversity | soil carbon) she/her 🏳️🌈 🌾🍄👩🏼🔬⛰️🌱 #WomenInSTEM #botany #fungi #seeds PhD from UOregon 🇺🇸 Postdoc at the Australian National Uni 🇦🇺 #MSCA postdoc UiBergen '26 🇳🇴 HilaryRoseDawson.wordpress.com
@trivikrama.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute Occasionally with NatGeo cities, inequality, and justice https://trivikverma.com/
@erikklemetti.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor @ Denison University / Volcanologist / Writer of Rocky Planet on Discover / Baseball, Sumo, Cricket, Soccer fan / Sci Fi aficionado / Amateur Musicologist / Cat person / Dad / Be kind to your bad self. 🇨🇴
@angecass.bsky.social
Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm. Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
@benspky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
@jowilliams.bsky.social
Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK. Opinions own!
@bmcnoldy.bsky.social
Univ. of Miami hurricane researcher living in New Mexico. Husband and dog dad. 🏳️🌈 https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/
@watershedlab.bsky.social
I make ice cream and do science and suck at fly fishing. YYC glaciers - geohazards - climate - geomorphology - geomatics He/him Fellow, RCGS
@jmijin.bsky.social
Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸 📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/ https://mijincha.com
@asrivkin.bsky.social
Planetary Astronomer on #TeamAsteroid; Gedankenband member/guitarist; “Surprisingly nonchalant” according to Wired. He/him הנני 🌻 Work Output: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aGVsk3IAAAAJ Play output: https://andyrivkin.bandcamp.com
@costasamaras.com
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
@tomnewby.co.uk
Structural engineer. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice. Currently working on the unusual combination of social housing and stadiums in the UK.
@karilimax.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Climatology researching extreme events and disasters. Science communicator. Scientific coordinator APECS-Brazil (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) @oqvf.bsky.social project https://linktr.ee/karilimax
@obialik.bsky.social
Sediment, climate change, and impostor syndrome | Science and SFF for the win | Writing for a living and fun | Opinions are my own (or the characters' in my head). Academic stuff: https://obialik.weebly.com Non-academic writing: https://ombialik.weebly.com
@stevecicala.bsky.social
Associate Professor Tufts University Department of Economics https://www.stevecicala.com http://goingelectric.substack.com
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@geohenning.bsky.social
Geosciences MSc • Earthquakes • Soil protection and contaminated sites • 📷 Fujifilm X-T4 and X100V • Herne, Ruhrgebiet • S04 Creator of Bluesky's FujiFeed
@alexevansuk.bsky.social
Climate, campaigning, polarisation, psychology. Larger Us founder & ED, author of The Myth Gap, Visiting Prof at Newcastle, Senior Fellow at NYU Center on International Cooperation, believer in our better nature
@fkearns.bsky.social
Scientist-communicator working on water, wildfire, climate, and disaster issues in AZ + CA | Book: Getting to the Heart of Science Communication | Water Talk podcast co-host | www.faithkearns.com | views = mine
@kellybrenner.bsky.social
Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND (aka Kelly Brenner) 作家 #TradArt #Invertebrates @nudibranch.bsky.social #InverteFest www.metrofieldguide.com
@waiterich.bsky.social
Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Interested in sustainably feeding 10 billion people by 2050. Likes food, agriculture, land use, nature, numbers, climate solutions. DC-based. Own views.
@nicwilson.bsky.social
Writer & Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown. #Nature #Place #ChronicIllness Nature memoir: LAND BENEATH THE WAVES out 12 June Pre-order https://shorturl.at/LOt7x linktr.ee/nicwilsonauthor
@elinetabak.bsky.social
Biodiversity, culture & the environment | postdoc @ Oulu, Fi | #envhum PhD from Bristol & Bath Spa, UK | seeds & insect decline | storying & care 🌱🐝 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
@iceho.bsky.social
The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) fosters international communication among environmental history organizations and #EnvHist scholars. Website: https://iceho.org
@chanface.bsky.social
I make transit construction timelines! 🚧 🚇 | Organizer @tritag.ca | Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 23 | UW Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
@alasdaircameron.bsky.social
Executive Director of charity @SomersetWildlands.Bsky.social - rewilding land in the Somerset Levels for all. Rewilding own land too. Zoologist. Investigator. Campaigner. Bristol, UK. www.somersetwildlands.org
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards - Britain and beyond. Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more! https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
@alleenbrown.bsky.social
Independent Investigative Reporter Write about environmental crisis, criminalization Editor at Drilled Labor organizing with: https://freelancesolidarity.org/ Newsletter (Subscribe!) http://alleenbrown.ghost.io Tips alleen.brown56@gmail.com
@aezmodeus.bsky.social
Siri calls me 'the dark lord'. Eruptively Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Doctoral Candidate (ABD)--Coercive Diplomacy, FPA, China, & Trade (he/they) Lighter Things: Guild Wars 2, Dead by Daylight, Dungeons & Dragons
@jonasnahm.com
Associate Professor at Hopkins/SAIS. Former White House industrial strategy economist. Industrial policy, trade, climate, economic security. Views my own. DC | SF. 🏳️🌈
@wadehistory.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Leiden | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
@katiehonan.bsky.social
Senior reporter at THE CITY, co-host of FAQ NYC, townie. 🌐 🍕📸 KHonan@thecity.nyc // 9175047504 on Signal 🔗 thecity.nyc 🔗 katiehonan.substack.com
@joshua-goodman.com
Education economist @ BU Wheelock & Economics Dept | Wheelock Education Policy Center (@wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social) | Co-editor @ JHR | White House CEA 2022-23 | www.joshua-goodman.com
@katharinehayhoe.com
climate scientist posts 100% my own 🇨🇦 is my home distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy board member, Smithsonian NMNH alum, UToronto and UIUC author, Saving Us
@minamarkh.am
am: Staff Engineer & Product Lead @slack.engineering. International Speaker. Design Systems Advocate. Chaotic Good. was: Hillary for America. IBM Design. always: 🖖🏾. Whovian. Beyoncé. ♿️ AuDHD. CPTSD. INFP. ABCDEFG. 👉🏾 https://mina.codes
@phenomonica.bsky.social
Science Ed PhD Candidate @ Stanford GSE| NSF GRFP Fellow | Knowles Senior Fellow| Here to wonder, learn, and grow.
@vcampanacho.bsky.social
Bioanthropologist interested in osteology, paleopathology, history of anthropology, ethics, curation practices, and women in science. Feminist and setting my own path in science. She/her
@gkiely.bsky.social
Director, University of Chicago Press. #GoHoyas #HoyaSaxa All opinions are my own.
@piacar.bsky.social
Studying early care and education access and quality @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social @buwheelock.bsky.social
@drsarahem.bsky.social
(she/her) 🐌 EM doc, podcaster, POCUS aficionado, fútbol mom, wannabe photographer, ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Black lives matter. #MedSky #EMedSky #SocialJustice #FOAMed #MedEd @empulsepodcast.bsky.social ucdavisem.com/em-pulse
@chartblay.bsky.social
**revolution is not a one time event** assoc. prof University of Toronto https://cassandrahartblay.net/
@asdurso.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University Studying Middle Eastern and North African identity in the US
@kiswanson.medsky.social
Neurosurgeon, among other things. Views, of course, are my own. Be Excellent To Each Other. He/Him. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFGRCu0AAAAJ&hl=en Brookfield/Milwaukee, Wisconsin
@richard.medsky.social
FM Doc at the intersection of #Latinsky & #Medsky. Pura vida! 🇨🇺🇨🇷 (He/His/Él) Posts ≠ Medical advice Latinsky: @latinsky.social Medsky Labelers: @medsky.social & @medsky.info STEM Labeler: @stemlabels.xyz Support: https://ko-fi.com/richferro
@pkpd-babe.bsky.social
Pharmacology • Neuroscience • Ethics • Clinical Trials • Public Health • SciComm • SciArt • Yoga Posts are mine, not my employer’s.