- D Peter Rodgers @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social Father of three; former Chief Magazine Editor of @elife.bsky.social (and, before that, Chief Editor of Nature Nano and Editor of Physics World); rower. Views my own
Se-shauna Wheatle @seshauna.bsky.social Constitutional law professor. Cat lover.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/research/ucnp/
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Westengland @westengland.bsky.social West Englander
Erica @pickledintime.bsky.social Doctoral researcher. SU trustee. Nerd. To select audio navigation, press enter now.
📢 🎓 🎯 @whistleblowingprof.bsky.social Whistleblowing Professor
https://linktr.ee/open_letter_jcu_rome
Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist. Cat lover. Pro-EU. Anti-Brexit. Anti-extremism. Convert to independence. Collect watches, pens, guitars, books.
Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social Archaeologist/anthropologist, SFF nerd. Lawful good, veering chaotic neutral later. Snowflake libtard.
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social Mathematics professor at Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
David P. Carey @dpcarey123.bsky.social Neuropsychologist working at Bangor university. Perplexed by marketisation of universities, Brexit, Farage, Trump and neoliberals in general.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Tanaya Sarkhel @tanayas.bsky.social Orthopaedic surgeon, Lead Medical Examiner, part-time Masters student, dance mum, quite tired
@SurgicalTutor and @sw19mum from the birdcage
#OrthoSky #SurgSky #MedSky
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Sloppy33 @sloppy87.bsky.social Retired academic. My books were only ever read by friends and family, and even they moaned when I didn’t offer them a discount…!
John Vibes @johnvibes.bsky.social 📚 Author
👻 Ghostwriter
Find me at
📺 youtube.com/@JohnGVibes
🔖 johnvibes.substack.com (no paywalls)
📖 raveoutlaw.com
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈
New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27)
Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
Alexandra Meakin @ameakin.bsky.social Lecturer in British Politics & Programme Director BA Politics and Parliamentary Studies, @polisatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social Wrote PhD on the Restoration & Renewal of Palace of Westminster. Reposts ≠ endorsements
Julie Dickson @jd2711.bsky.social Birding, Nature, Photography, some Video Gaming. Day job = legal philosophy academic. From 🏴 now in Oxford. 1st generation Uni.
Personal website (academic plus bird photos!): https://julie-dickson.academicwebsite.com/
Shawndra HB @shawndra-ra-ra-ra.bsky.social Bit geeky. Raised to love music. Do a bit of 📷 Adore living in the UK but still have a heart full of Colorado. // ❤️🐝s // Hella-progressive. 🏳️🌈
I have friends everywhere. ✊
Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social Ginger Viking Librarian Trade Unionist Cricket Fan
@vpcampbell.bsky.social @vpcampbell.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Dr. David McBride (dwm) @dwm.me.uk I'm not that kind of doctor. Senior IT technical specialist and occasional patient magnet.
Also:
https://mastodon.social/@dwm
https://dwm.me.uk
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Paul Goldberg @paulwgoldberg.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Oxford University. Research interest in Algorithmic Game Theory, also Computational Complexity.
Also interested in good urbanism & cartoons
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/paul.goldberg/index1.html
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social Head of the School of Law, Politics, & Society, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
Juliette Rowsell @julietterowsell.bsky.social Reporter at @timeshighered.bsky.social covering employment issues, pensions and job cuts ✍️ juliette.rowsell@timeshighereducation.com ✉️
covucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social UCU Coventry University branch
Cambridge UCU @cambridgeucu.bsky.social Cambridge University and College Union, the trade union for academic, academic-related staff & graduate students at the University of Cambridge.
Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
Ingrid Sharp @profingrid.bsky.social Gender and Cultural Historian at the University of Leeds: likes dogs and cake 
orbette @orbette.bsky.social SHE'S HERE, SHE'S THERE, SHE'S EVERY-FKN-WHERE, ORBETTTEEE, ORBETTTEEEE
#UTV #TheHorrorsPersist #sheffield 🐾🐾
Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social Prof. Economic Geography, Durham, UK.
Managing Editor @econsocjournal.bsky.social
Finance, money, FinTech, and more.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/paul-langley/
Tim van Hasselt @tim-van-hasselt.bsky.social Neonatal doctor and Academic Clinical Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK. 
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Ardemis Boghossian @ardemisprime.bsky.social Chemical engineering professor in nanobiotech, B.S.E. @Umich.edu , PhD @MIT.edu , postdoc @Caltech.edu , parent, fighting for scientific integrity in Switzerland
HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social The Heriot Watt branch of UCU
Militant Menagerie✊️
https://heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/
Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social 💥 Join our active, growing branch and be part of the campaign for a safer, fairer university: ucu.org.uk/join · birminghamucu.org
Jonathan Pritchard @pritchardjr.bsky.social Bewildered vagabond and student of the stars. Professor of uncertain opinions. Radio cosmologist at MPIfR.
(Opinions mine, not employers)
Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social Hubris kills.
"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism"
Sounds like a plan.
Laura Wolz @laurawolz.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the University of Manchester - FLF funded by UKRI - SEAC member to SKAO - 1/3 of carers in STEMM aka the three Lauras - grower of tomatoes
Michelle Collins @runningastronomer.bsky.social ✨Astronomer searching for and studying the faintest galaxies in the Universe ✨co-host of the @starxiv.bsky.social podcast ✨ Enthusiastic-but-mediocre runner 🏃🏻♀️ vegan 🌱 She/her
Richard Alexander @richardalexander.bsky.social Astrophysicist at the University of Leicester | Dad | Cyclist | Exiled Scot
https://rdalexander.github.io
Jenny Woods @jennywoods.bsky.social Geek, Gardener, Liberal, day job Senior Research Facilitator in Oxford Physics, posting as myself. Still hoping to make the future a better place.
William Astle @wjastle.bsky.social Statistician at MRC BSU and NHSBT, Cambridge UCU Membership Secretary and elected member of Cambridge University Council
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social Gravitational-wave astrophysicist. University of Glasgow Senior Lecturer. Science, education, LEGO & cake. May contain traces of nuts
🐘 https://mastodon.online/@cplberry
📚 https://cplberry.com
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social Materials scientist, mum, mountain-biker.
Uitlander @uitlander.co.uk A wanderer in space and time
Paul McMillan @mcmillan-astro.bsky.social Astrophysicist working on Milky Way dynamics and Gaia data. University of Leicester. Views expressed are my own.
Website: https://paulmcmillan-astro.github.io/
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social Astrophysicist at Imperial College. Extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology, astrobiology. Writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody. Science for Fiction podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyNyNI115W3kgqZAku?si=jK0XQYAyS1ubvzD76spbEg
Geraint F. Lewis @cosmichorizons.bsky.social Cosmologist & Galactic Archaeologist at
@Sydney_Uni. Proud Silurian, Australian immigrant, & author of books about the strange universe we find ourselves in!
Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social Social Psychologist | Intergroup Relations, Social Injustice, Social Change | Quantitative Methods | Assistant Professor @ucsb.bsky.social | he/him
Sam Marsh @sam-marsh.bsky.social Mathematician, trade unionist, pension scheme trustee and novice diver from Sheffield. Sometimes wrong, but usually not in isolation.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh
Dùn Èideann 
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Clare Burrage @clareburrage.bsky.social Cosmologist at the University of Nottingham
Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science / Teaching research methods / Researching how environments influence cognition communication & parenting
Denis Erkal @derkal.bsky.social Astrophysicist working on dark matter, near-field cosmology, and galaxy formation. All opinions are my own. He/him.
Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social I used to run ultras and search for WIMPs.
(personal account, personal opinions)
Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social Professor of Genetics at U of Leicester. Genome structural variation.
"Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done." Views my own.
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Dyfrig Jones @dyfrigjones.bsky.social Llywydd Undeb Prifysgol a Choleg (UCU)
President of University and College Union (UCU)
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Xsara Helmi 🇬🇧 🇪🇬 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 @xsarahelmi.bsky.social Songwriter, Musician, Interdisciplinary Artist
Visiting PhD Student, CDH, @cam.ac.uk •
@Leverhulme.ac.uk Trust #AuralDiversity (Autism & Music) • @BAFTA.org Scholar Alumna
Transdisciplinary #ArtsBasedResearch
xsara.co.uk/academic
Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social Open Book Publishers • Copim • Open Access Books Network • ScholarLed • All things open access books • Also on Mastodon (@alittleroad@hcommons.social) & LinkedIn (lucy-barnes-01670473) • She/her
Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social Professor of Human Evolution and Fellow of King's College Cambridge. Emeritus, so I now do the research there was never time to do before. Interested in anything evolutionary, from humans to lithics to ecology and stars.
Michael Abberton 🇺🇦🇸🇩 @michaelabberton.bsky.social Cambridge UCU Vice President, UCU NEC…Oh... and UKIP tried to have me arrested for tweeting. http://campaignforucudemocracy.com
Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social Cardiff UCU branch account. For member inquiries, please email UCU@cardiff.ac.uk or phone the office on 02920 874443
Website: cardiffucu.org.uk
Bryn Jones @bryn00.bsky.social An asylum seeker from X and refugee escaping Musk. With posts about the physical sciences, classical music, current affairs, the history of astronomy, pethau Cymraeg a Chymreig, and the great political fraud that is Brexit.
Location: Ynys Môn, Wales.
David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social deprofessionalised intellectual * co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (Zer0, 2024) * co-editor of Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici (Pluto, 2019) * Omnia Sunt Communia * he/him
Dr Leanne Bibby @leannemichelleb.bsky.social Data Engineer. Author. Proud to be one of Cajigo's 100 Women in Tech, Cohort 4. Dune fan and guinea pig owner. AuDHD. Was an academic.
Steve Godby @stevegodby.bsky.social Principal Lecturer in Geography, Nottingham Trent University. FRGS. Cyclist. Eddington Number 55 miles. Ipswich Town fan.
Dave @davedeadfool.bsky.social Wargames, LUFC, History, Green, Remainer
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Unite the Union: University of Cambridge Branch @unite0775m.bsky.social Trade union branch for workers at the University of Cambridge, UK. Unite the Union Branch LE0775M. Meets 1st Monday in month (except b.h.) 13.00hrs mainly by Zoom
https://uniteuoc.org.uk/
Royal Holloway UCU @rhucu.bsky.social Account of the Royal Holloway UCU branch. Photo: Ray Campbell
https://royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com
Stephen McCarthy @misterjabsticks.eurosky.social Data protection and AI, dogs, photography, legislation, science fiction, ancient Greek physics. (he/him). Fervently #TransRightsAreHumanRights.
📷 photography is currently without a home, having left Meta's evil influence.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
David Nelson @davidjn.bsky.social Pronouns: he/him
Reader in Chemistry, University of Strathclyde
Chief Scientific Officer, CataNiTek
Editorial Board Member, Communications Chemistry
H&S Rep., Strathclyde UCU
All views my own
#chemsky
http://djnelson.group
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Haifeng Wang @astrohaifeng.bsky.social Love the Milky Way-Local Universe-Disk Systems-Dark Matter-New Physics with Data-Model-Simulations-Instruments. Love sports and history and travel, etc. Personal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-1036
Liverpool Hope Uni UCU Branch @beourhope.bsky.social Liverpool Hope University UCU Branch Account. Fighting Compulsory Redundancies. https://liverpoolhopeucu.github.io/home/
Superimportantsuccessprof @profbelindab.bsky.social Camford prof sharing insights on becoming a fearless leader and academic star. Very special advisor and multiple founder. 110% not a parody account. Look at all the letters after my name!
Laura Christine @lcodonnell.bsky.social PhD psychology + physiology, physiotherapy. Healer, researcher, writer, poet, editor, educator. Truth, justice, compassion—not just for humans. Consciousness, integrative knowing. Education, Nature, sciences, arts, culture, languages, myth. Global citizen.