Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.

Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️‍🌈

Fortunate husband. Proud dad. Former Chicago Tribune architecture critic. Pulitzer, Polk winner. 2013 Nieman. Books: “Why Architecture Matters,” “Terror and Wonder,” “Who Is the City For?,” “Gates of Harvard Yard,” “Amherst College: The Campus Guide.”

Automated Athens: Ancient Greek Ideals in the Early Age of Automation (Chicago, fall 2026) | Editorial Bodies: Perfection & Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric & Poetics (SC, 2018) series co-editor: Rhetoric + Digitality (Alabama) eic: Rhetorica (Hopkins)

Currently finishing "Reading with the New Frankfurt School." PSA: postcritique is not anti-critique. Corgi lover

Environmental Geographer QMUL; Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); NEW BOOK: Landlocked: water, energy and planetary politics in Alberta (w/Chicago): https://shorturl.at/aPnVO

Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.

Patchwork Ethnography is a collaborative research project by Gökçe Günel and Chika Watanabe. www.patchworkethnography.com

Social anthropologist of disaster preparedness, development, NGOs.

Anthropologist at @RiceAnthro.bsky.social author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2019) co-lead @patchworkethno.bsky.social

A discussion about credit, finance, and bankruptcy. This is the account run by the Credit Slips blog authors.

Minnesota Law Prof. Bankruptcy, commercial, consumer finance (debt), corporate, banking. Co-investigator, Consumer Bankruptcy Project. Writing books about people and churches filing bankruptcy. Also @creditslipsblog.bsky.social. Love my 🐈s. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

Research Analyst at the University of Michigan. I study higher education, make stuff, and grow stuff.

American politics associate prof @uva. Bureaucracy lover. Regulatory enthusiast. Political scientist. Em dash devotee. Studies the administrative state and all things contractor/ outsourcing related.

Emeritus professor of constitutional law, including free expression and comparative constitutional law. Still trying to stay intellectually active.

law professor | technology & AI ethics | not a toaster

Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Urban and local politics + policy; cyclist; 🏳️‍🌈; he/him.

Historian of Africa and the world

Central banks, sovereign debt, FX, political economy - all the fine things in life.

Music historian asking what our tools do to what we do, from bone flutes to AI. Two books out in 2026: The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion), and Forty Thousand Years of Music Technology (UChicago Press). https://deirdreloughridge.com

Meteorologist and journalist. I cover wacky weather, changing climate, and how we live, love, work, get around, and dream.

Sociologist embedded in front-line mental health work. Writing about why the “system” isn’t really a system—especially when knowledge is fragmented. Author of 3 books including A Mad Mess (U Chicago Press, Dec) | @University of New Mexico

Sociologist of immigration, public policy, inequality. New book at www.nicolekreisberg.com/1in100

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

Ethicist, historian of philosophy, and AAUP board member at UW Seattle. I have a book about persuasion coming out in fall 2026: 'Just Hear Me Out: How to Change Minds without Lies, Bullshit, or Moral Compromise.'

Health is not healthcare. I write about the foundational forces that shape health. This is an automated Substack Account of https://sandrogalea.substack.com Discover more/Create at: @skystack.xyz

Queer historian and professor at Rutgers-Newark. New book OUTED: LBJ’S CONFIDANT AND THE ARREST THAT TRANSFORMED A PRESIDENCY coming Oct 2026 (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).

Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK