Michael Dettelbach @erdumwandler.bsky.social Historian of science and technology, thinks "artificial intelligence" is both an oxymoron and a pleonasm. Possibly a panpsychist. Bene speramus! hominum enim vestigia video. Very occasionally posts longer mind-leavings on https://dettelblog.wordpress.com/.
Arjen Dijkstra @afbdijkstra.bsky.social 
Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
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.
Andrew Holgate @andrewholgate.bsky.social Former Sunday Times literary editor. Now writing a book about the death of Mussolini for Weidenfeld.
Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order ✍️ Lydia Maria Child | WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe ✦ Writing about women who rethought the world ✦Currently: 20C women rethinking war & peace ✦ 2026-7 Fellow at Harvard's Transcendentalism Initiative
Ana Briones @anabriones.bsky.social Musician, school teacher. Loves people, especially kids, animals, plants, nature, music, art and books.
Robert Habeck @robert-habeck.de Ein Mensch. Ein Wort.
https://www.gruene.de/service/impressum
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Laurence Talairach @laurence-talairach.bsky.social Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture | Hist. of med & science | Natural history museums & collections | Literature & Science |Gothic studies | Children's lit
Dr Tessa Dunlop @tessadunlop.bsky.social Agitator and agitated. Historian. Writer. Talker.
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social — Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Research Fellow. Doctor of Spreadsheets. Writer (Slate, TIME, Guardian, etc). PhD, MPH. Host of senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him. Find my writing on Substack and Medium.
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social Epidemiologist and science communicator | newsletter: epiellie.substack.com | cohost @casualinfer podcast | Causal inference for public health #epitwitter | Canadian in US 🇨🇦 | she/her/Dr
Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬!
Using programming & phylogenetics, I study & track viruses. Co-developer of Nextstrain, based at Swiss TPH & Uni Basel.
Founder of CoVariants.org, co-founder of @pathoplexus.org
I like 🐈 & 🛫
@firefoxx66@mstdn.science
Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com Math videos
Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social Analysis of health and mortality data.
Actuary. Partner at LCP.
Chair of the CMI.
MBE for services to Public Health.
Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com Mathematician, writer, Cornell professor. All cards on the table, face up, all the time. www.stevenstrogatz.com
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content https://firstcreatethemedia.com/ Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com Astrophysicist
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
[This account includes a tweet archive]
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
🏳️🌈
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com Scientist, science communicator, public health & climate justice advocate
Biology PhD from Cambridge
WHO Fides member, Grist 50 Fixer, Creative Change alum
New Yorker/Aussie
Opinions my own
https://instagram.com/luckytran
http://linktr.ee/luckytran
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own.
New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social 
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Bill Hanage @billhanage.bsky.social Refugee from Twix. Arsenal fan and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Opinions my own.
Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social Pro Dean Research and Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences at Leeds University. Indoor air, ventilation, infection risks, fluid dynamics, academia, EDI in science and a few cats. Views my own. #academicsky
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social forever virologist but not a working one. past researcher. PCR guy. past lab manager. husband. dad. reader. writer. fixer. bad typist. learner. australian.
#MasksWork
https://virologydownunder.com/
Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social Professor of Immunology, Imperial College London. Editor of OUP Oxford Open Immunology. Co-author - Penguin Long Covid Handbook. Discusses: Covid-19, Long Covid, T cells, immunogenetics and HLA, respiratory infection, science policy, arboviruses, C19th lit
Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds.
Co-Chair, Independent SAGE
Charlotte Summers @charlottesummers.bsky.social Faculty Dean & Prof of Medicine @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Critical care doctor.
Views shared are mine alone.
Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social #BehaviouralScience, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London. Director of Centre for Behaviour Change https://www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/centre-behaviour-change (also on BlueSky). Research on health, environment & AI potential.
Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social I teach math to future elementary school teachers at Fresno State. I make math memes and explainer videos. http://linktr.ee/howiehua
Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social Long COVID/ME interested lung doctor | Campaigner | Independent SAGE | Co-Founder South Asian Heritage Month | Diversity Power List 24/25
Website: https://thelongcovidclinic.co.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/binitakane
Caroline Criado Perez @ccriadoperez.bsky.social Writer, speaker, author of Invisible Women
Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author (#TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking). Science, Medicine, Foppish hair.
Alt socials: https://linktr.ee/drg1985
James Neill - 🇺🇦💙 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇬🇧🔶 @jneill.bsky.social 77th?
According to Narice Bernard:
'That guy is impossible! Avoid.'
BTC (jks, or...)
1KFkyqUL9AmaVXu9SxjQ5PtKPJrryZzQEp
Deenan Pillay @deenan.bsky.social Emeritus UCL Virology, Ex-Indie SAGE, NHS Trust Non Exec, Spurs, Music
Jay Cummings @longformmath.bsky.social Math professor at CSU Sacramento
Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social GP, medical educator, writer (BMJ columnist, Dr Helen in 'Take a Break') Independent SAGE, BMA Council. 
John Roberts @johnactuary.bsky.social Worn out and retired actuary after 40 years in the profession. 
Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social A conference for maths communicators. Every two years in the UK. Next conference Aug 2025, Warwick University. More info: talkingmathsinpublic.uk
Dr Lennard Lee (Oxford University) @drlennardlee.bsky.social Associate Professor Oxford & Birmingham University | NHS Oncologist | HMG clinical advisor | @independentsage #cancervaccines lennard.lee@nhs.net
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.
SpaceKate @spacekate.bsky.social Space journalist, rocket chaser, storyteller. Advocate for diversity and women in STEM. ISU SSP12. Alter-ego of @radiokate.com
www.youtube.com/@NTKSpace
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان
Pronounced /nisri:n/ with an s not a z and a long ee ☺️
Professor of Public Health MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Still curious
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
💚 🧿 🌻
Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat.
She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Rosie White @drrosalindwhite.bsky.social Aspiring Time-traveller⏳ #SloaneLab 🔬🌿 Community Research Fellow @UCL, & Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House 🏰
Conor Farrington @conorfarrington.bsky.social Novelist, writer, Scotsman in Cambridge. 'Quirky and colourful' (The Times)
THE MAIDEN FAUST, a female-led Faust retelling set in 1840s Cambridge, is out in June with Galileo.
Previously, three Russian novels with Little, Brown (2021-4).
Jonathan Crossfield @kimota.bsky.social Storyteller, writer, editor, content marketer, consultant & presenter. In short: professional pedant, prattler & procrastinator. AVAILABLE FOR WORK.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Dr Elisabeth Gernerd @elisabethgernerd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ De Montfort University * The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World * Dress History, Satirical Prints, Georgian Sartorial Culture
Leah Redmond Chang @leahredmondchang.bsky.social Writer * Historian * Author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Bloomsbury; FSG, 2023). She/Her leahredmondchang.com
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Randal Hendrickson @hendrickson.bsky.social Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look.
https://thevapors.substack.com/
Sami Pinarbasi @samihistorian.bsky.social Chaotic good, historian/digital humanist of British slavery & abolition/American Early Republic, horror & sci fi fan, guitar, pc gamer, historical #GIS #dataviz
Lashonda Slaughter-Wilson, PhD @lslaughter-wilson.bsky.social Historian, college professor, wife, mom, studies witch things (17th century)
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Tony Fothergill | Ken Spelman Rare Books, York @tonyfoth.bsky.social Ken Spelman Rare Books, ABA. ILAB. PBFA.
books | birds | baking | photography | travelling | guitars ~ Art, gardening, women & science, Italian Grand Tour, manuscripts, the unusual.
www.kenspelman.com kenspelmanbooks@gmail.com
Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social Historian & Darwin aficionado. Editor, John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Father & advocate for connecting children to nature (natureplaysign.com). He/him/his. Portland, OR.
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Gretchen Reynolds @gretchenxreynolds.bsky.social Columnist for The Washington Post, covering health and exercise science. Also runner, cyclist, dog mom and human mom. Always curious. Usually tired. 
Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social Former contributor to Areo Magazine, currently in Liberal Currents. Feeling good these days. Writes about history, philosophy and international relations. If i’m acting like a jerk tell me to log off! Enjoys 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️perspectives…
Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
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'
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
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
‘Obscure rarity’
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer. 
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land. 
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy.
🦆🌱🚲🏳️🌈📚
themarshtit.com
David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social