Dr Amy Jane Barnes @amyjanebarnes.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Staff Tutor in Art History, Open University. Museums, heritage, visual culture, Chinese things. 'Collector' of chronic illnesses. Passionate about Ipswich (football and town)! Thoughts are my own. She/her
open.ac.uk/people/ajb2863
Mike Glazer @glazer1.bsky.social Crystallographer. Oxford University Physics Department .Retired formally in 2010 but still teaching. Editor of the International Newsletter of the IUCr. Co-founder of Oxford Cryosystems Ltd and co-inventor of the Cryostream.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social Philosopher (emeritus prof) of language, art, and metaphysics, plus Plato and Wittgenstein. Also interested in music, visual art, photography, and walking (when fit).
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social Prof of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice Dean at UCL, Fellow of the Royal Inst. of Navigation. I study how we remember, navigate & imagine space
Photo: Our upcoming field research in the Marshall Islands
https://spierslab.wixsite.com/wavesandwayfinding
James Bland @j-bland.bsky.social painter
Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social Philosopher at CEU Vienna. Director of Research, FWF Cluster of Excellence, 'Knowledge in Crisis'. Author of The Mechanical Mind, Elements of Mind, The Objects of Thought, Aspects of Psychologism, The Meaning of Belief www.timcrane.com
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Laurie Merrifield @laurieboy.bsky.social We draw what we see before we read or write
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social
Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social A playwright without a theatre is just a poet with a split personality. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/
Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Benton End @bentonend.bsky.social Former home, garden and art school of Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines. On a mission to become a place of learning, creativity and experimentation once more.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/bentonend
Alan Parker @englishsettlement.bsky.social Bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.
Proudly a Memorial Device ANT
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social AKA the accidental ecologist
Fine Artist living on a rewilding farm in Pembrokeshire commissions undertaken worldwide.
Website LizaAdamczewski.art
Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
tomlordan.com
Ipswich Art Society @ipsartsoc.bsky.social The Ipswich Art Society is one of the country's foremost exhibiting organisations for painters, sculptors and printmakers.
https://ipswich-art-society.org.uk/home
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social Writer and editor in Washington, DC. Bylines in Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Washington Post. AngelicaHankins.com
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Ben Lewis @theuniversalben.bsky.social Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social Gardener. Hardiness zone 7b/8a. For more go to www.chanceofrain.com
Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I curated an exhibition about them for Charleston which is now at the Dick in Kilmarnock.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism in the East of England | Regulated by IMPRESS
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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social Supporting creative professionals with websites, apps, editing, research, and any excuse to go to the library. https://sitelines-studio.co.uk
Anna Goulding @annagoulding.bsky.social Academic interested in the arts and health 
Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social Prof of Philosophy. Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Centre for the Study of the Senses, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Interested in Neuroscience, Sensory Science, Taste, Smell, Flavour, Multisensory Perception, Wine, Scotch
Ben Henderson History @hendersonhistory.bsky.social Teaching you the stories that shaped history, art & ideas | Present Here for the History & Witness History on the BBC | 97k Instagram followers
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
House Historian @househistorian.bsky.social Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
@suffolkcoastlabour.bsky.social @suffolkcoastlabour.bsky.social 
Eliza Goodpasture @elizag.bsky.social Art historian
Writing about art, books & culture
Editor at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social
Commissioning Editor at @artukdotorg.bsky.social (Drawings)
https://www.elizagoodpasture.com
Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at the Atlantic, reviews books for Foreign Affairs. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social President, PIIE. Globalist. Former central banker. Political economy with a policy purpose. Writes on macroeconomic policy, G7/China relations, globalization, and economies of US, UK, Germany, Japan, and PRC.
Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic & Ferreira series. Grand Prix des Lectrices winner. Cambridge. Agent - Nicola Barr at Rye Literary
Paul Seaward @pseaward.bsky.social History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com 
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Suzanne Ricketts @suzannericketts.bsky.social 
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social Retired barrister (England + Wales) https://www.5sblaw.com/news/all-at-5-stone-buildings-wish-barbara-rich-well-on-her-retirement-from-practice/ law, legal history, public understanding of law. Londoner
https://bleakhouserevisited.substack.com
@eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/ 
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
LucyC @lulichill.bsky.social Art, politics, history, genealogy, nature and decent, honest humanity.
English & European Lit. Law.
London.
Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'
Alex March @alexmarchartist.bsky.social Artist, art lecturer, worrier
UK based collagist, painter and maker of small beautiful things.
www.alexmarch.com
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk Charitable Trust set up by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (1912-2004) a leading 20th century British artist.
Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com Writer, reviewer, listener for @financialtimes.com, @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University Executive Master in Cultural Leadership.
All views, etc.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social Independent journalist covering Trmp, kleptocracy, far-right networks, OSINT, bylines Daily Beast, Guardian, Buzzfeed, Byline Times, footnote in Senate Intel Russia report, subscribe to http://NewsTRACS.com, tips: wendy@newstracs.com
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Jake Tilson @jaketilson.bsky.social Artist, designer, writer.
Cities, typography, food, bands and cats.
Japan, Venice, New York, London.
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Alison Goldie @alisongoldie.bsky.social Storyteller, actor, coach, political animal, arts lover.
Author of The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life (Bloomsbury).
Short Stories on alisongoldie.substack.com
Social media marketing dabbler for comedy types.
Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.
Benjamin Fallow 💚 @benjaminfallow.bsky.social 12 yrs, artist and naturalist 🍃
Youth Council Reserva, Youth Land Trust
Published in BBC Wildlife, The Guardian
Opticron Ambassador
Account run by mum, Nish
https://linktr.ee/BenjaminFallow
https://instagram.com/benjaminfallow/
Alice Strang @alicestrangart.bsky.social Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist & Art Historian
A Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland
Photo by Alex Robson
www.alicestrang.co.uk
Please find me on instagram @alice.strang.art
Art At York - University of York Art Collection @artatyork.bsky.social Over 900 artworks dating from 1500 to the present day, spread across the University of York beautiful campus and available to all. Tweets by the Art Curator, Helena Cox. #UoYArt
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Pirate Irwin @pirateirwin.bsky.social Irish Old Etonian Damon Runyonesque sports journalist. Author of historical thrillers set in Occupied and then Liberated Paris the complex Chief Inspector Gaston Lafarge from The Tortured Detective through to The Redeemed Detective 
Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social #Artist based in #Scotland • #Painter oils of nature, wildlife, light • #Writer #WhenBeastsSpoke stories and thoughts inspired by animals I paint, trying to listen to what they’d like to teach us.
www.CharlotteStrawbridge.co.uk/art
Thane Prince @thaneprince.bsky.social Food writer, martini drinker, cook, lover of London , Spanish language student, restaurant frequenter, theatre goer, consumer of books, lady who lunches.
Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social Trying to be kind. Church and old buildings explorer; love words, cricket, history, theatre, books, art, music, nature, birds, manuscripts. 😊 Only here for gentle stuff.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/episodes/16064942
Dr Stacey Clapperton @sclapperton.bsky.social Curator: Parliament Art Collection at UK Parliament | Modern British Art | #WW1 and #WW2 Art | Northern | Views my own
T @reading-woman.bsky.social Reader, writer, English teacher, deputy head, trustee, eater, drinker, hiker, swimmer, music lover, news junkie, dabbler...
The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis
"We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
Jenny Linford @jennylinford.bsky.social Food writer, cheese enthusiast, Londoner
Anna Maria Barry @annamariabarry.bsky.social Writer & historian in London, working in heritage. Specialises in Victorian/Edwardian culture - especially women's writing, music, art, death masks. Usually found in a graveyard or at a gig!
David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social Investigations @nytimes.com
New book: MURDER THE TRUTH: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful https://www.harpercollins.com/products/murder-the-truth-david-enrich
📬 david.enrich@nytimes.com
Signal: enrich.07
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
@stiffelman.bsky.social @stiffelman.bsky.social 
Eve Chase @evepollychase.bsky.social Author. Sunday Times top ten. Amazon no.1. R&J book club. The Midnight Hour, The Glass House, The Birdcage & others. ✍️📚🐕 🪴
evechase.com
Insta @evepollychase
Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge. Husband, father of two boys and one dog, half-pint rower and ex-cricketer
www.memlab.psychol.cam.ac.uk
Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social helenohara-violin.com
Violinist - Dexys Midnight Runners, Dexys, Tanita Tikaram, Tim Burgess.
Author - ‘What’s She Like’ - a memoir.
Available from route-online.com
AndrewJAshton @andrewjashton1.bsky.social Lancastrian Former Art Gallery Curator, Artist, Teach Art History to Adults,St Martins Sculpture 1980, Insta. andrewashtonart Trustee Martello24
Christopher Wilson @thewislonwrites.bsky.social Two-finger typist, occasional journalist & royal panjandrum
Founder & Emeritus Trustee, The Geddes Awards for student journalism
Under another hat, novelist TP Fielden
Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE!
Suzanne Fagence Cooper @suzannefagence.bsky.social Writer. Lecturer. Curator:
Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, Ruskin, Dickens, Victorian women. Books & more: linktr.ee/Suzannefagence
Doreen Fletcher @doreenfletcher.bsky.social @doreenfletcher.bsky.social www.doreenfletcherartist.com
A painter interested in the pockets of life that others ignore
Ed Thompson @edthompsn.bsky.social I paint with oils and I'm also into football finance - it's a bit of a niche crosssover
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social Artist Autist(ic) woman person parent.
‘De Kooning and Bacon mashed together’ - John Musker, director of The Little Mermaid
In Norwich UK
deaf in one ear
Buy my art: https://www.chloecumming.com
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright.
Author of:
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller)
Deliria (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin (Little Toller)
Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
Rebecca @rebeccafpainter.bsky.social Artist, TV designer, tea drinker, beauty seeker. Commissions open from January. Can't check DMs please contact via website x
Rebeccafosterartist.com
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • Angeleno • he/him/his
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