Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
Dave Shelton @davidashelton.bsky.social Search Engine Un-optimised since 1968
Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com
Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove
PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy.bsky.social Member of Parliament for St Albans.
@libdems.org.uk Deputy Leader and Treasury Spokesperson.
📧 Daisy.cooper.mp@parliament.uk
Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social Pro genealogist (PGDip, RQG), librarian, statistician, maths tutor
#OPS for #WestwardAndBoltons & #RutherglenCemetery
CWGC volunteer
Wildlife watcher, wanderer in wild places
#AuDHD
R @rrharmeyer.bsky.social art historian / visual artist
opinions here entirely my own
Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social Archaeologist and photographer. Found in cemeteries or near water.
🪦 Home of #31DaysOfGraves
📍Liverpool, UK 🏳️🌈 She/her
https://linktr.ee/annafn
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social If you’d like to get in touch, my email address is my Bluesky handle at Hotmail dot com.
Born at 319.08 ppm CO2
Phil Wilkinson @philmorandi.bsky.social Frustrated artist. A life trashed by (very) late diagnosed AuDHD (ADHD + ASD). And misophonia. Angry and depressed by 14 years of destructive Tory rule. 
D@vin@ @81flibbertigibb.bsky.social Dave to the few. Former owner of C*ntDog ™ the legend 🙏🏻💔♥️ and forever sad.
Potatoes are everything. Jim Mcdonald is not my Dad.
Shituation is occuring.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Dee Ann Campbell @deeanncam.bsky.social Librarian. Mom of teens. Inventor’s wife. Hobby harpist. Happily transplanted Texan in New York’s Hudson Valley. Dog and Green Energy fan. I create square things with yarn and read a lot.
Vaucluse Dreamer @vauclusedreamer.bsky.social Living our best life in France, cycling, walking & pootling around The Luberon, Provence in Fifi our 2CV.... 
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
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Jessica Simor KC @jmpsimor.bsky.social Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social The myths of Ancient Greece still echo and shape the modern world. This is their story.
APPLE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=657111fc0e544740
Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
Fergus Craig @ferguscraig.bsky.social Writer actor person.
Rep: Curtis Brown.
Preorder my new book now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Retirement-Home-Knows-Murderer/dp/1408734621/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
ScottLJ (SoftKaos Music) @softkaosmusic.bsky.social 
Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland's rich culture and built heritage since 1978. We preserve, promote and protect Scotland's unique assemblage of ecclesiastical buildings.
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk International awards winning gamesbook publisher.
https://www.stoutstoat.co.uk
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
The Bugle @thebugle.bsky.social The Bugle, as in The Bugle podcast
Javier @javiersa.bsky.social Education and Instructional Design expert.
I love languages.
www.kognitivo.net
🇪🇸 español 🇬🇧 English 🇩🇪 Deutsch
🇫🇷 français 🇮🇹 italiano 🇯🇵 日本語
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Zuzana Nadova @zuzananadova.bsky.social PhD researcher in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings
@Laslab_ehu, @upv_ehu
Interested in language acquisition📊,psycholinguistics🧠, and experimental linguistics🗣️, with an additional interest in ELE 🇪🇸
https://laslab.org/staff/zuzana
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Alison Aye @alisonaye.bsky.social Continuing to record the year, one stitched-newspaper-face at a time. 62 Group. Trying to break the Class Ceiling.
https://bio.site/alisonaye
Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social Artist
Celebrating the magical mundane✨
Art. Photographs. Walking. Noticing.
Puddle botherer ⚪️ Cloud watcher
Northern. Ally. Woke.
Debora Robertson @lickedspoon.bsky.social I write about food, mostly. Did I tell you I live in France now?
deborarobertson.substack.com
Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social Food + drink mostly, but also sport, culture, cartoons. Author of SMÖRGÅSBORD, SPIRITED, SOLO, HOW TO HYGGE, SCANDILICIOUS 📚👩🍳📝
Sky Sentry @skysentry.bsky.social Moderation Lists
A Way with Words @waywordradio.org Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
Anne Daly @annescotland.bsky.social Tour guide in Scotland with Mary's Meanders tours. Outlander fan. Ancestry, Mary Queen of Scots and general history areas of special interest. When not touring, love going to Musicals. 
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old ⏰️ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm 🎟 FREE entry!
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
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.
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner.
Co-host Writing Wrongs podcast www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
@aifl.bsky.social
www.aston.ac.uk/aifl
Personal: timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/
John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social Middle-school English teacher. Former dictionary editor and spokesperson. I write about etymology at mashedradish.com.
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
Lisa Moylett @literarylisa.bsky.social London based literary agent with CMM. Reads a lot.
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Martha Barnette @marthabarnette.bsky.social Co-host, “A Way with Words” public radio show. Speaking requests: info@marthabarnette.com
Author of the bestselling FRIENDS WITH WORDS: ADVENTURES IN LANGUAGELAND
marthabarnette.com
#etymology #writing #books #words @wayword
Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social The Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU. For the dinkum oil on Australian English, historical lexicography, Australian Oxford Dictionaries. CRICOS: 00120
Grant Barrett @grantbarrett.com Linguist, lexicographer, broadcaster, editor, writer. Co-host of fun coast-to-coast US radio language show/podcast "A Way with Words." @waywordradio.org. +1 646 286 2260 grant@grantbarrett.com #linguistics #lexicography #etymology #podcasting #writing
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Evan Q @evanquished.bsky.social Canadian, linguist, learner. Container of multitudes. Sometimes I go outside.
Anthony Shore @operativewords.com I name things.
https://www.operativewords.com
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social Husband to Renee. Father to Andrew and Eleanor. Grandfather to Winnie and Indy. Founder. Writer. Ad-maker. NYT #1 Bestselling author. Instrument-rated Beechcraft pilot. AgainstAllEnemies.net
Julia, dog lover @paddieboy.bsky.social I am a woke retired social worker of over 20 years. Left leaning politics loving having a labour government. Disabled wheelchair user. Love my dogs and enjoy playing the cornet in my local brass band. Will block accounts who DM
Lesley Guapaish @guapaish.bsky.social Illustrator, doodler, knitter, Mrs of Em, dog servant, professional misery, eternal pessimist, lover of chewy sweets. 
Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social Anti-influencer.Searcher of solace in Andalucia. Writer of country/Americana songs of love and defiance.
Writer of one book...so far.
Lurcher minder!
Anti-fascist, Socialist #AVFC Rotterdam original! Huge Rugby fan and ex-player. There's more ...
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Eilidh @eilidhcarr.bsky.social 33 // Berneray, Outer Hebrides. Van adventures, drone photography, prosecco & otters 🚐🦦🥂 Owner of a little gift shop, Coralbox 🏴
@karenp86.bsky.social @karenp86.bsky.social Cat lady, food lover, reader, middle class woman of a certain age
Planet MF @tealblueyonder.bsky.social Just a moody, liberal heathen lost in a raging sea 💙💙💙. Terrible at fantasy football. Fan of ill-timed humor. Free Mom Hugs 🏳️🌈
Virginia O @babygluttes.bsky.social I’ll always be unapologetically liberal💙💙💙. Alabama blue dot. Ally. I can be found yelling Roll Tide on Saturdays in the Fall🐘. Gen X. Middle aged lady strength 💪Frequently respond in GIFs. Hillary Clinton was right about everything.
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social 
@drpunkie.bsky.social @drpunkie.bsky.social 
trralston @trralston.bsky.social Blue dot in a RED county... ugh. Born and raised in CA, moved to WI in 2016. Retired tech support guy
Ari @ariparis.bsky.social 🧶 Love yarn, crochet, Tunisian crochet
🩷 Mom of 1
💞 Taken
🥂🍸 Champagne and cocktails
🧀 Cheese lover
🪴 Grim reaper of plants (😔)
🌈 Love is love
🫏 Dem
🇨🇵 🇺🇸
(She/her/elle)
Andee @clansea.bsky.social Peace loving mischief maker. Good trouble is my game. Irish/welsh ancestry with ZFG! Don’t blame me I voted for her, TWICE! Star Wars, Ted Lasso, Schitt’s Creek, Music & my Aussies, Jack & Jake tickle me pink. Porn bots BEWARE! I take no prisoners.
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly Staff software engineer. AWS/CDK/TypeScript.
Interests: Pink Floyd, Star Trek, coding, biking, VR, cats. Not necessarily in this order.
@anydoubts.bsky.social is my better half.
Elle Hon Vee @lhonvee.bsky.social Jersey Girl in Awesomestow | Phillies Phan ⚾️ | Speaker of "rounded Os, erratic As, dropped consonants and smushed syllables" | Pro-Democracy + anti-spiral of silence | Love: family, museums, design, gardens, forests, the seaside (aka the Shore in NJ)
Torin8 @torin8.bsky.social WIP, aloof, introverted, cat bothering human. Sometimes by sheer luck, I might say something insightful; otherwise usual nonsense warnings apply. Currently awaiting upon the cat distribution system for my next calling.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social Aiming to share next task in #ClimateMitigation:
helping to spread the what-is-to-be-done message beyond the professionals to every human being on the planet by linking the thinkers and the doers?
Greeneralia.net
(Feedback welcome)
SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. Maps of Imaginary Towns,The Netflix Reviewer (Substack), Uneasy Listening (podcast). PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award.
linktr.ee/bradleybooks From Wakefield, now NI
Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social Words and pictures and music.
Words: framleyexaminer.com
Music: http://candidatesite.co.uk
&: http://grampianhorn.com
Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/lexmor/shop
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
Sardonicus.eu
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music 
Arnab Dutt @arnabdutt.bsky.social Creating science based predictive impact models that identify system risk and enable social and environmental disclosure. Planet, nature and people.
I also love wine and Arsenal
https://divineox.org
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Some Melodious Plot @somemelodiousplot.bsky.social I know you love Manhattan, but
you ought to look up more often.
https://somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/
Rebs7 @rebs7.bsky.social Part illustrator, part wage earner. Welsh/English/European. Masker. No truck with man's inhumanity to man.
Still imagining that I'm really Katie The Cat.
Mosheen 🐦⬛ @mosheen.bsky.social I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.