Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
nora 🍐 @pear-jelly.bsky.social Seasonal reader, Comyns head, spinsterlit, midcentury women writers, heritage publishing and secondhand bookshopping #spinsterseptember 🇮🇪 Dublin
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Gloucester Road Books @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social The latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts at the London School of Economics and beyond
BBC World Book Club @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social Follow for sneak peaks, which authors are coming up, and share your questions to be part of our global book club! New podcast episodes 1st Sat every month https://tinyurl.com/BBC-World-Book-Club Send questions via DM or to worldbookclub@bbc.co.uk
Northern Fiction Alliance @northernfiction.bsky.social We are a radical publishing collective of over 30 independent publishers that showcases creativity and diversity. Head to our website to browse publishers and find your new favourite book: http://northernfictionalliance.com/
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round events. Supported by the Arts Council.
https://linktr.ee/dublinbookfestival
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social 📖Independent Publishers founded in 1986
💌Literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world
🌊YA @rocktheboatnews
nb Magazine @nbmagazine.bsky.social An independent literary magazine illuminating new and notable reads 📚
🖌 Quarterly zine
🖌 Monthly book club
🖌 Online interviews & reviews
linktr.ee/nbmagazine
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social Palaeolithic archaeologist, experimental archaeology, Pleistocene childhoods and skills, wood technologies, and human evolution.
🏺, 🥾, 📚 , 🎶 
Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social Professor at the Univ. of Vienna dating archaeological sites; bones, Neanderthals. Author of "The World Before Us" (http://tinyurl.com/2p873jy8). Kiwi.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5949-598X
https://highamlab.univie.ac.at
João Cascalheira @jmcascalheira.bsky.social Interested in Paleolithic adaptations | Director @ICArEHB @UAlg | PI of @Finisterra_ERC | Blogging at https://world.hey.com/jmcascalheira | Views are my own
Dr Ben Schoville @bschov.bsky.social Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Archaeology. Interested in human adaptations in arid environments, particularly in the Pleistocene, experimental archaeology and the origins of projectiles, and the Acheulean/Middle Stone Age transition. 
Ana Abrunhosa @anaabrunhosa.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ Last Neanderthals ERC project | Associated Researcher @ ICArEHB | Neanderthals | Lithic Raw Materials | AWAP Board of Directors member | Lithics Co-Editor
Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social Does Pleistocene Archaeology @ Leiden University https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/gerrit-dusseldorp#tab-1
Cricket | Natural history 
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social 
Manuel Will @manuelwill.bsky.social Researcher in Paleolithic/African Archaeology & Paleoanthropology at University of Tübingen. Associate Editor Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Manuel-Will
Dr Sally Hoare @sallygeoarch.bsky.social Geoarchaeologist, University of Liverpool, likes human evolution, fire and microarchaeology
Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social Associate Professor | CU School of Medicine & CU Denver Anthropology | Paleoanthropology, Primate Morphology, Teaching Anatomy, Noisy Rock & Roll, Felis catus | Research: ucdenver.academia.edu/CaleyOrr
Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social Primatologist | Group leader & Lecturer @ Uni Tübingen | Freigeist Fellow | primate communication - behavioural plasticity - language evolution 🐵 🗣️
Justin Pargeter @justinpargeter.bsky.social Africanist archaeologist, Assistant Professor @
NYU, Cultural Evolution, Lithic Analysis, rstats, papers @ https://nyu.academia.edu/JustinPargeter
Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social Archaeologist/anthropologist, SFF nerd. Lawful good, veering chaotic neutral later. Snowflake libtard.
Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology & Prehistory @CamBioanth @UCamArchaeology - interested in #science, #humanevolution, #prehistory, #palaeontology, #bones #lithics, #fossils, #climatechange, #museums, #collections
Can get distracted by much more 😍
Eslem Ben Arous (She/Her) @eslembenarous.bsky.social African Pleistocene Geochronologist and Archaeologist | Associated Researcher at MPI-GEA and MNHN
Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jaytstock.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology, Western University, Canada 🇨🇦
www.pavelab.ca
Human phenotypic plasticity, adaptability, skeletal biomechanics, paleobiology, bioarchaeology, life history, niche construction
PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social CNRS, University of Bordeaux https://www.pacea.u-bordeaux.fr/ ; https://sciences-archeologiques.u-bordeaux.fr/
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social Junior Group Leader @humanorigins.bsky.social in Tübingen 💀| Editor, Hunter Gatherer Research | 👩🏽💻 https://ceciliapad.github.io/web/ | Interested on how differences in the way humans live, move and interact with one another shape evolutionary dynamics 🧬
Michaela Ecker @isotopesrule.bsky.social Past Environments & Human Evolution. Emmy Noether Research Group Leader of "Kgalagadi Human Origins" Project (@khoproject.bsky.social) at @uni-kiel.de. She/her. Views my own.
Andy I.R. Herries at La Trobe Archaeoogy @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social Palaeoanthropology & Geochronology Professor at La Trobe University Archaeology. Director of the Drimolen Palaeoanthropology Field School, Amanzi Springs & The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory he/him
William E. Banks @wbanks33.bsky.social CNRS Senior Scientist. PACEA (UMR 5199) lab director. Archaeologist specializing in Paleolithic culture-environment relationships via ecological niche modeling. Formerly of the Rockies and Great Plains, now in Bordeaux, France. Born 326 ppm.
Dr. E Grace Veatch @egveatch.bsky.social Paleolithic Zooarchaeologist & Taphonomist
Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology
Cluster of Excellence in Human Origins #Tuebingen
Liang Bua research team #Tikus #Stegodon
she/her
Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social Science writer. Book on hobbits and human origins coming 2027. Editor PBS Eons. History of science PhD.
W. Andrew Barr @wabarr.bsky.social Associate Prof at George Washington University. Paleoecology and human evolution. Creator of bioanthtree.org
Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social A PI of the HUMAN ORIGINS project (Tübingen, GER)
Humans, hominins & apes -> evolution of human cultural evolution
-> How did we get from an ape-like baseline to human cultural learning/ cultural cognition?
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social Archaeologist, head of the Human Palaeosystems Group at the MPI-GEA, Reader at the University of Cologne, A/Prof at the University of Malta & NatGeo Explorer. Human evolution, niche expansion & the transition to human dominated landscapes.
Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social Associate Professor. Director, Uppsala University Bioarchaeology Research Laboratory @uubrl.bsky.social
Bioarchaeology; trauma & pathology; thanatology & taphonomy; medieval Visby; caves; African Stone Age; 3D imaging. Slightly sweary. He/Him.
Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social PhD in Archaeology. Biomarkers & early human paleoecology. Husband. Father x2. Lecturer, coordinator for environmental science & sustainability and climate action programs and sustainability liaison at Bryant University.
🔗 robertpatalano.squarespace.com
Adam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social Biological anthropologist (Pleistocene human evolution), Professor @Wellesley College, dad, outdoor-lover, sport enthusiast
Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social Archaeologist, Senior Lecturer at University of Malta, PI: TerraForm ERC project.....posting about old stones, and occasional bones. Exploring human responses to climate change, particularly in Malta and Arabia. http://www.huwgroucutt.com
Dr James Cole @jamescolearch.bsky.social Dean for the School of Applied Sciences; Principal Lecturer in Archaeology @uniofbrighton. Human evolution & prehistoric cannibals. @IgNobel prize winner 2018
Jimbob Blinkhorn @jblinkhorn.bsky.social 
Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social Archaeologist and #rstats enthusiast
Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social ❤️ ancient DNA, Neandertals, and gallons of coffee 🦴💀🧪🧬👩🔬
| First Gen 📚
| Lise Meitner Research Group leader, Hominin Palaeogenomics (HOPE) at MPI EVA, Leipzig
Dr Briana Pobiner @brianapobiner.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist • Zooarchaeology + Taphonomy • Paleodiet • Museum Education • Science Communication • Mom • Tennis Player • https://s.si.edu/45ZAaBT
Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist with a primate twist. European Research Council-funded investigator at the Spanish National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain
Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Sarah Pederzani @sarahpederzani.bsky.social palaeoclimate | human evolution | proxy system modelling | R & Quarto enthusiast | Postdoc at Dep. Geology & Geophysics, U of Utah | climber | D&D nerd | she/her
Alice Leplongeon @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social Palaeolithic archaeologist, African archaeology 
Guilhem Constans @guilhemarcheo.bsky.social Archaeologist in Quercy (Lot, France)
#Palaeolithic and #Mesolithic
Associate member of @umr5608traces.bsky.social
Cyrielle Mathias @cylex.bsky.social Dr. in Palaeolithic archaeology.
Stone tools & early Middle Palaeolithic. Postdoc fellow, UMR 7194 HNHP & CRFJ
C'est gravé dans la roche !
Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social #Palaeolithic #Zooarchaeology 🦴🦣 #ZooMS | University of Reading | COEXIST project: https://research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/ | #HumanEvolution and #rstats 🏺Associate Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology, UCL🧪. All views my own.
Kamilla Lomborg @kamillalomborg.bsky.social Archaeologist at heart. Environment and hominin interactions in the Palaeolithic are just my favourite cup of tea.
PhD student in ERC Lateurope, placed at Museum National d’Histoire Nationale, Paris.
Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Archaeology at UCCS in Colorado, mind usually other places. Agent-based models and quantitative methods usually for the Palaeolithic. 
Michelle Langley @michellelangley.bsky.social Associate Professor of Archaeology - Human Evolution - Neanderthals - Palaeolithic- Ancient Bone & Shell Tools and Ornaments - Deep Time Australia
Tomos Proffitt @tomosproffitt.bsky.social PI at ICArEHB Researching Palaeolithic Archaeology, Primate Archaeology, Lithic Analysis, Knapping and Experimental Archaeology. View my own
Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at MPI-GEA and Uni of Liverpool👩🏼💻 Interested in African archaeology, human-environment interactions and computational approaches to cultural evolution https://sites.google.com/view/drlucytimbrell/home
Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social Anthropological geneticist, NYT bestselling author, martial artist, professor, Ox mother. Rock chalk.
Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social Anthropology professor with a weird little book about human evolution coming to science shelves in 2027. https://hollydunsworth.blogspot.com/ & https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/
Marc Kissel @marckissel.bsky.social co-creator of 2 amazing daughters, paleoanthropologist, Assistant professor at AppState in Boone, NC!
Love Dalén @lovedalen.bsky.social Palaeogenomics of mammoths, lemmings and everything inbetween. Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University.
Webpage: https://palaeogenetics.com/ld
Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social Mom. Scientist. Ancient DNA, genetic ancestry, Afrodescendants. Mexico. PI.
She/her/hers RT!=endorsement
Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.
Caroline VanSickle (she/her) @cvansickle.bsky.social Feminist, paleoanthropologist, anatomists, previously known as cvans. I write my own posts without AI and will do my best to not share AI content.
My Website: carolinevansickle.com.
Prof Nicki Whitehouse @fossilbeetle.bsky.social Archaeologist, Scientist, likes all things landscape, land use, ecosystems and biodiversity loss, preferably Neolithic and boggy! Peatlands are a speciality. Quaternary entomologist. I know, a bit eclectic. Proud to be a member of UoG.
Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo @whiterabbit36.bsky.social Paleolithic Archeologists | Reading the past in the bones | Atapuerca Research Team | working at The Institute of Archeology in Mérida (Spanish Research Council -CSIC).
Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social Geochemist to paleoanthropologist. Neanderthal diet + nitrogen isotopes, XRF evangelist. Assistant Professor at George Mason U. PhD from GWU CASHP.
Ségolène Vandevelde @segovandevelde.bsky.social MSCA-PF Postdoc at @UnivCantabria | Adjunct professor at @UQAC | Humanities & Geosciences interdisciplinary researcher | PhD (@SorbonneParis1) in #archaeology #geoarchaeology #prehistory #pyroarchaeology
Also artist (harpist and singer in @UtopusBand)
Zach Cofran @dizachster.bsky.social Associate professor of Anthropology, HEAD (Human Evolution and Development) Lab @ Vassar College. Bones & brains. lawnchairanthropology.com
Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social PhD in Biological Anthropology
Paleoanthropology
Senior Researcher @CNRS
@PACEA_Bordeaux lab,
@univbordeaux
#Paleoanthropology #Prehistory #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #Bioanthropology #Neanderthal #Homosapiens
Helen Fewlass @helenfewlass.bsky.social Archaeological Scientist 👩🔬 Lecturer in Archaeology at Uni of Bristol 💜 Palaeolithic archaeology and Human Evolution 💀 Old Bones 🦷 Proteins 🦴 Radiocarbon dating ⏳
Ollie 🦣 🏳️🌈 @palaeolivic.bsky.social (Professional) Museum dweller 🏺 | full time Neanderthal defender and fan of the Palaeolithic | they/he | London
Dr. Becca Peixotto @beccapeixotto.bsky.social skier, archaeologist
views expressed are my own
AAAS IF/THEN Ambassador
she/her
Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social Ingénieur de recherche CNRS, PhD in Caribbean archaeology (lithic beads and pendants). Archaeometry, spectroscopy, minerals and so on.
Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social Associate Professor of Archaeology
University of Western Australia
Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
Frobenius Institut für kulturanthropologische Forschung (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Universität Tübingen
http://uwa.academia.edu/MartinPorr
Katerina Douka @katerinad.bsky.social Archaeological scientist · Assoc Prof. @univienna · #FINDER_Project @ERC_Research · #Archaeology #Prehistory #Radiocarbon_dating #ZooMS #Palaeoproteomics #Denisovans #Neanderthals
Caroline Partiot @carolinepartiot.bsky.social Biological anthropologist, postdoc Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, children in the past, Nile valley & feminism, views are my own
Palmira Saladié @palmirasaladie.bsky.social Archaeologist-taphonomist working in Atapuerca, Abric Romaní, Barranc de la Boella
Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social Archaeologist | Biologist | Feminist | Max Planck | Hon Prof U Queensland Adjunct Prof Griffith U | Linking Past, Present and Future for a Better Anthropocene | Gender Equity | Research Governance | www.nicole-boivin.com
Marie Soressi @mariesoressi.bsky.social Prof Hominin diversity Archaeology @UniLeiden | VP @ESHE_society | Neandertals | First Homo sapiens in Europe | Excavations | Interactions | VICI awardee | 🇫🇷
Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social Genomics, bioinformatics, ancient DNA. 🇿🇦Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Germany
Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social Interested in population genetics, archaeology, anthropology, Neandertals and early modern humans. Working at MPI-EVA
Ivo Jacobs @ivojacobs.bsky.social Cognitive zoologist investigating the evolution of animal cognition, particularly in response to fire (pyrocognition). Amateur wildlife photographer based in southern Sweden. More interested in rare behaviours than rare species. 
Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social hunter-gatherer archaeology at UCD Archaeology; Book *Hunter-Gatherer Ireland* (Winner EAA Book Prize 2024); President *International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research*; grows/eats chillies; mountain/ultra runner
Jonathan Paige @jnpaige.bsky.social Archaeologist interested in the evolution of technology.
Research Scientist
Center for Applied Fire and Ecosystem Science,
New Mexico Consortium
Nicole Torres Tamayo @paleonicole.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist. Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Zürich 🇨🇭 Honorary Research Fellow at UCL 🇬🇧 Promoting diversity, mental health and open science. Feminist 💜
Jørgen Holm @jholm.bsky.social Danish palaeolithic archaeologist, retired (and tired). Interests: The Middle Palaeolithic, especially Neanderthals. Late Palaeolithic: The Hamburgian -, Federmesser-, Bromme and Ahrensburgian Cultures. Excavations: Jels and Slotseng in Denmark.
Austin Lawrence, PhD @humanaustinology.bsky.social Paleoanthropologist, anatomist. Trying to figure out the evolution of the human hip and pelvis.
Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Western University of Health Sciences.
I ride bikes, play drums, and do what my dog tells me. 🏳️🌈/Ace. he/they.
Roberto Sáez @robertosaezm.bsky.social Paleoantropología, Bioarqueología del Cuidado, Divulgación | Autor de NutcrackerMan (premio 20Blogs) y del libro Evolución humana: Prehistoria y origen de la compasión
Michael Petraglia @mdpetraglia.bsky.social Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transforming Human Origins Research | #HumanEvolution | #Archaeology | Researching #HumanOrigins in #Africa and #Asia
more info: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/28674-michael-petraglia
Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social Our work drives transformative research on the African record of human evolution. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/heri.uct
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.