@criener.bsky.social

Chris Graham, ugly bag of mostly water

@cagraham.bsky.social

Historian and author of Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church. A Clodhopper from North Carolina, forced to live on the mountain of conceit, Richmond, Va. Museums are not neutral.

Alex Hertel-Fernandez

@awhf.bsky.social

Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.

Michael Shepherd

@mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, Political Scientist, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Rural Politics and Health Disparities. Website: https://www.michaeleshepherd.com Book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo271447648.html

caredwen

@caredwen.bsky.social

Chemical policy. Occupational and consumer health. Knitting. Reading. Speaking my mind. Raising my child to be kind and brave.

Craig T

@furiousgiorge.bsky.social

Husband, dad, professor. I won some money on Jeopardy once, that was cool. I cannot sanction your buffoonery.

Ben "tax big tech" Verschoor

@benverschoor.bsky.social

Professional Dilettante. Co-founder, VA data center resistance org https://swvadcta.org (pronounced, "suava dicta"). Co-host, Mise en Screen https://miseenscreen.libsyn.com. Writes film and other media criticism at http://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io

Collin Joseph

@kinase.bsky.social

Data scientist from the Bronx who probably loves Messiaen too much 🏳️‍🌈

Peter Cashwell

@petercashwell.bsky.social

Writer, birder, teacher, generalist. Author of THE VERB 'TO BIRD', ALONG THOSE LINES, THE AMAZING Q, etc. Tar Heel Born and Honorary Substitute Legionnaire. he/him. guitar/keyboards/vocals.

Caddie Alford

@caddiealford.bsky.social

Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Director of AI Futures Lab // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric https://caddiealford.com

Abbie Boggs

@abbieboggs.bsky.social

Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students on the Making of US Higher Education (Fordham UP Fall 2026 - https://tinyurl.com/448vs7yv) | continuing collaborative work on https://abolition.university/

Anna Kornbluh

@annakornbluh.bsky.social

nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast http://www.annakornbluh.com

Dan Morrison (he/him)

@danielrmorrison.bsky.social

Sociologist of science, technology, and medicine. Currently writing on antiblackness in higher ed, TBI, ignorance. The views expressed on this platform are my own and do not reflect the views of The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Melissa K Spencer

@melissakspencer.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Richmond. IZA Research Affiliate. Gender, Health, and Crime Economics.

Susannah Paletz

@susannahpaletz.bsky.social

Assoc. Professor @UMD INFO College. Applied social/org/cross-cultural psychologist. studies teams, culture, creativity, tech, and more. Likes cats, RPGs, etc. Hates MBTI, "you only use 10% of your brain." She/her

Jen Woolard

@jlwoolard.bsky.social

Community psychologist, vice-dean at Georgetown U. College of Arts & Sciences; psychology, law, & public policy Re justice for kids and families.

Zach Samalin

@zachsamalin.bsky.social

antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu

Jesse Rothstein

@jrothst.bsky.social

Economist, public policy wonk, professor at UC Berkeley, faculty director of California Policy Lab & Center for Studies in Higher Education

Anshu Sharma

@anshugsharma.myatproto.social

Studying quantum networking. YIMBY, anti-ethnonationalisms, pro open borders. Bathrooms shouldn't be gendered. ‘Anarchist’ isn't a slur. He/him. Adult. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshugsharma/

Ali Watts

@aliwatts13.bsky.social

She/her. Asst Prof of Higher Ed, big old nerd. Social movement learning. Playful/resistant pedagogy. Politics of funding. And dog pics

gary s broderick (he/him)

@garybroderick.bsky.social

Labor union organizer. #1u✊📢 #RichmondVA. Leftist. Practitioner of #strategy + #discipline. #Defend & #Transform public infrastructure + services! Mediamaker, Anti-racist pro wrestling fan, Aspiring meal prepper. Eagles Fan.🦅

Kathy Roberts Forde

@krforde.bsky.social

Co-director Stand Together for Higher Ed, journalism professor at UMass Amherst, historian of US press/democracy/political struggle, dog lover, reader, trekker. Southerner in New England. I do not speak for my university.

Megan Wiessner

@vviessner.bsky.social

Postdoc at University of Virginia | Incoming Assistant Prof at University of Richmond | environmental media studies, digital geographies, and STS... via architectural supply chains and labor relations | Lost Painter https://meganwiessner.com/

Bryan Klausmeyer

@bryan.is

Associate Professor of German, Virginia Tech https://bryan.is | Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts https://goethe-lexicon.pitt.edu | 2026-2027: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Aarushi Bhandari

@sushiaarushi.bsky.social

Asst. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. Pop culture enthusiast. 🍉 Author of Attention and Alienation: The International Political Economy of ICTs - Columbia UP, Honorable Mention, Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award, ASA Marxist Section.

Belle Boggs

@belleboggs.bsky.social

Writer, professor, mom, gardener. Author of The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, coauthor (with Sylvester Allen Jr.) of The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw. President of AAUP NC. aaupnc.org

Jane Rosenzweig

@janerosenzweig.bsky.social

Writing in the age of AI stuff Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com

AI Accountability Lab

@aial.ie

Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability

Christopher Nygren

@cnygren.bsky.social

Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.

Sonja Drimmer

@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/