Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social Radio astronomy observatory, research centre, UNESCO World Heritage site, beautiful visitor galleries, free parking, and great coffee 😀📡🌟
🔗 https://www.jodrellbank.net/
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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social Journalist, formerly of @bloomberg and @time
Food, football and foreign policy… not necessarily in that order. Substack: Ghoshworld
Andy Gait @andygait.bsky.social Playing at life with a losing hand
Ralph @voyagerandroid.bsky.social Pilot, musician, sailor, photographer, mostly apolitical. Fan of honour, honesty, courtesy, politeness, integrity and beauty. Also learning Norsk (Bokmål). All images mine unless stated. Please give attribution before use.
Mohan Sharma @themohansharma.bsky.social I am an Animal Geographer and my area of interests include, cultural geography, human-animal relationships, political ecology and borderland studies.
William Gould @wgouldhistory.bsky.social Professor of Indian History at University of Leeds. Projects on Indian anthropology, cassette tape letters and Dalit print culture. Pianist, guitarist, and full time Dad / carer
Mike Towers @britpolitics.bsky.social You might think that. I couldn’t possibly comment. Teaches British Politics. Interested in global politics. Needs to stop it with the “evidence shtick” (Stephen Bush). #Politics #LFC #History #Genesis
Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
Kolya @kolyavt.bsky.social Living in Vermont. Former longshoreman, sheepherder, field biologist, infantryman, farmer, etc. BS, JD. Neither master, nor jack-of-all-trades.
Rob Aitken @robaitken.bsky.social Anthropologist at York Politics. Processes of identity change esp before, during and after conflict. Left politics, climate change, renewable energy, live in self-build Passivhaus Plus.
Adam Auerbach @adamauerbach.bsky.social Associate Professor @Yale | India, South Asia, Cities, Political Economy of Development | https://tinyurl.com/4nz9v7rw
Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com Travel, science & nature writer. Author of NIGHTFARING. Editor of Nightscape @darkskyintl.bsky.social ✨🌌 New Mexican-Brit. China, Central Asia, Southwest US. Desert witch on a rainy island.
Agent: Jack Fogg
she/her 📍London
meganeaves.com
Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com Central Asia wanderer 🇰🇿🇸🇱🇰🇬 | Cricket writer 🏏 | Also Norfolk, Eurasia and Ukraine 🇺🇦
🌏 jonathancampion.com
🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket
📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com
📲 youtube.com/@20SecondTravels
Ollie Randall @ollie-randall.bsky.social Writer and cartoonist. Author of Writers in Whites: https://fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers-in-whites/
Richard R @richr23.bsky.social Cricket comms for pocket money after decades sportswriting. Left-leaning moderate because that’s what makes for a decent society that works. Triathlete. Spain/UK.
Sadik Al-Hassan MP @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social Award winning Pharmacist and Labour Member of Parliament for North Somerset. The views I express are my own.
Ray Purvis @raypurvis.bsky.social Volunteer Trail Ranger since May 2010 on Portgate to Heavenfield section of Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, Wall miles 22 to 25. Views my own.
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
Brian White @brian36170.bsky.social British living in central France with my wife and best friend, (that's one person, just to be clear). Music, especially jazz, obsessive. Columnist for https://etceteramagazine.fr/
Pro-EU, humanist, live-and-let-live lefty. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇵🎸🍷
Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
Adam Butterworth @adambutterworth.bsky.social Tweets about rocks, film and politics
Editor of the Alpine Journal. Digital and Comms for the Alpine Club, Mount Everest Foundation & others.
Opinions are my girlfriend's, but you wouldn't know her. She posts on a different app.
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Ammu S Anil @ammurosh.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow| MMAJ Academy of International studies| Jamia Millia Islamia| New Delhi| Visiting Fellow| NIICE Nepal|
Hydrodiplomacy| India-Nepal relations| Himalayan studies| South Asia | Gender| Environmental politics|
Kanchana N Ruwanpura @knr21-cam.bsky.social Feminist. Professor. Sri Lanka. Scotland. Sweden.
Contemporary South Asia Journal @csajournal.bsky.social South Asia is internally diverse and part of global flows of people, goods and ideas. Contemporary South Asia seeks to address the issues of the region by presenting research and analysis which is both cross-regional and multi-disciplinary.
Sam Warner @samwarner.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
harry davies @teenheartthrob.bsky.social he/him
Abhinandan Kumar @abhinandankr.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Dept. of International Relations, Jadavpur University, India
Liz Enslin @lizenslin.bsky.social Author, Memoirist, Oregon Book Award Finalist, introvert, former high school teacher, recovering anthropologist, aspiring photographer, #neurodivergent. I live in a straw bale house on a farm with yaks, chickens, two cats, a dog and lots of wildlife.
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Malik A. Hussain @malikaltaf.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Economics | IIM Amritsar | Economic history & public health in colonial India
https://malikahussain.github.io/
Nick Fraser @nicholasfraser.bsky.social Urban Transport, Air Pollution, Tropical Birds, Cycling, Plov.
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Curated
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
@profpitches.bsky.social
#MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
Sutha Kamal @suthakamal.bsky.social Ant‑colony brain: tiny agents, big outcomes.
I tinker, orchestrate, and ship.
AI decades before it was cool.
Music lover. Amateur photographer.
Proud queer Canadian-American.
University of Bristol @bristoluni.bsky.social Top 10 UK Uni 📚 Leading research 🔬 World-class teaching 👩🎓 Vibrant city 🙌 Ranked 51st in the 🌍 (World University Rankings 2026) #WeAreBristolUni
bristol.ac.uk
Tariq Modood @tariqmodood.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol
Leading author on multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia and cultural racism
RTs are not endorsements and may be sent while I print it to read later.
Finley Watson @finwatson.bsky.social PhD candidate at La Trobe. Researching new media politics.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/fwatson/about
Mouli Banerjee @pandapoliticus.bsky.social Early Career Fellow and PhD in politics @ Uni of Warwick. Democracy, Constitutions, legislatures, narratives, political parties, South Asia, Global South.
Books, Poetry, Blogs @ poetrydigressing.com, co-founder@ kasbachronicles.wordpress.com
Rashmi Singh @rashmisingh.bsky.social <Assistant professor of politics in New Delhi> 🐿 ⛰︎
Andy Crow @andycrow.bsky.social Come for the weak wit, stay for the toy soldiers.
Michael Harker @michaelharker.bsky.social Gamer/Academic in Glasgow. Professionally interested in relationships, networks and dev and marketing of Apps. Personally interested in all forms of gaming (especially toy soldiers) as well as history and E-biking. I hope to post positive things.
Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social Military History & other stuff. Visiting Prof, Defence Studies Dept, KCL. Husband, father, grandpa. Christian. Arsenal. Labour. Spaniel magnet. All opinions are just mine. Reposts do not = endorsement.
Alison C @archaeoali.bsky.social Landscape Archaeologist
Part Time Doctoral Researcher @archsoton50.bsky.social
Eardstapa - Woman of Kent - ACIfA
Sharing my ❤️ for the historic environment from big landscapes to hidden spaces.
All 📸 my own unless stated
Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.
Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
& Environmentalist
caroleking.komi.io
@emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social Research Associate at Flinders University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Canberra University
Casual at La Trobe University
Union proud
D Accardi @accardid.bsky.social Historian of Kashmir, religion, gender & politics | conncoll.academia.edu/DeanAccardi
Dr. Carina van de Wetering @carinavandew.bsky.social Lecturer @Leiden; PhD @Bristoluni.
International Relations, US foreign policy, critical theory, discourse and power, trust and meaning, populism and marginalized voices.
Parveen Akhtar @drparveenakhtar.bsky.social Twin Mum. Academic. Politics. Brum
Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social You can’t stop progress
Rithika Kumar @rithikakumar.bsky.social mostly a wallflower but occasionally post about South Asia: gender, migration, politics and Bollywood🌻✨| https://rithikakumar.com | Houston < Philly < Bombay
Prof Alexander Betts @alexanderbetts.bsky.social Professor & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement, Sport, & Community) at Oxford University, football coach, runner, & dad of 3.- P Patrick Heller @pheller.bsky.social Political Sociologist at Brown university
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Tom Chesshyre @tchesshyre.bsky.social Travel writer. Latest book: ‘Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides’ — https://shorturl.at/7xBJL
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Ragini M @raginimohite.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Author of Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures: Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats (Clemson UP, 2021). Modernism, poetry, South Asian literature, world literature, and all that. #WIASN #GEMWA
raginimohite.com
Ashley Giles @ashleygiles.me Coffee, cities, beer, cycling.
🚲☕️🍻🏳️🌈
(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
Lenny Hodges @lrhodges.bsky.social Historian of the early modern world. Postdoc at Durham. Associate Editor for French History. Also pottery.
Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social PhD. Visiting Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia-UK. Interested in the investigation of different political forms, political theory of authoritarianism, democratic political theory, rhetoric and political speech.
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia at Exeter. Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of migration, caste, and indenture.
Jean-Thomas Martelli @jtmartelli.com Political scientist, geek & curator with a focus on South Asia at Seoul National University | Previously musing at CEU's Democracy Institute, Stanford's Anthropology dep., Sciences Po's CERI, IIAS, CSH Delhi & King's College London | https://jtmartelli.com
Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien @zoessuhh.bsky.social Zentrum für Ökonomische und Soziologische Studien (ZÖSS) / Universität Hamburg
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
Fernán Osorno @fernanosorno.bsky.social PhD in Politics - University of Bristol
Research: grassroots work in preventing violent extremism and stigmatisation
Work: at ARYSE: Education - forcibly displaced youth
Patrick Cronin @patrickmcronin.bsky.social Asia-Pacific Security Chair, Hudson Institute &
Scholar in Residence, Carnegie Mellon University
Asif Hameed @asifxhameed.bsky.social Writer, vagabond, wino. PhD’er/Instructor @ Carleton U Poli Sci. I study race, tech, populism and conspiracy wonks, and my dog is constantly giving me side eye.
Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | Teaching methods and stats in social science
Samil Can @samilcan.bsky.social
Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity @queensucsdd.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre at Queen's University, Canada, aimed at advancing research and teaching on the intersections of #democracy and #diversity.
🌐 https://www.queensu.ca/csdd/
Jai Agarwal @jaiagarwal.bsky.social Public Law and History
Catriona Ellis @catrionaellis.bsky.social Historian of children & childhood, education, juvenile justice, health, welfare in C20 South India.
Senior Teaching Fellow at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Christian.
https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/catriona-ellis
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
https://chriskay.co.uk/
https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
William Monk @williamcm7.bsky.social Archivist and amateur translator. Interested in: West Asia and North Africa, especially Iran; the post-Soviet space; France; Italy; Australia; India; Germany.
Views my own, etc.
Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social History PhD student, University of Edinburgh. Interested in mixed-race histories and empire, currently focused on Black/South Asian identities in East Africa.
Chanchal Kumar Sharma @cksharma.bsky.social
Melvin Ting @tingmelvin.bsky.social
Vignesh Karthik KR @krvignesh.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow: KITLV - @knaw-nl.bsky.social
PhD: @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Affiliate: King's India Institute + @citap.bsky.social
Democracy, Public Policy, and Politics of Mobilisation in South & Southeast Asia
Phil Klinkner @pklinkne.bsky.social Soon to be retired political scientist
Aleks Szczerbiak @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex
https://polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/
Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social Professor of South Asian History. Researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too. Working from Bidjigal land at UNSW Sydney
Privately seeking research on ADHD, ASD, OCD, ALD & ABI
Louise Tillin @louisetillin.bsky.social Politics Prof at King's College London. NEW! 'Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy' (Cambridge UP, 2025). Prev books include Indian Federalism (OUP 2019), Politics of Poverty Reduction in India (Orient Blackswan 2020)
Mou Banerjee, PhD @moubanerjee28.bsky.social PhD @Harvard. Historian of South Asia. "The Disinherited" forthcoming @Harvard_Press in January 2025. thenonviolenceproject.wisc.edu
Anand Vaidya @anandvaidya.bsky.social Anthropologist at Reed College. Author of Future of the Forest (Cornell 2025). Environment, law, politics, labor, India.
Asma Faiz @asmaf.bsky.social Associate Professor Of Political Science @LUMS. Research on Ethnicity, Nationalism, Federalism, Electoral Politics, Populism
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
Filippo Boni @filippoboni.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @oupolitics.bsky.social | Co-Convenor @psasouthasia.bsky.social | Editor @regfedst.bsky.social
Online profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/fb3868
Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social Snr Lecturer @ Edge Hill - Social Media, Pol Com, Content Moderation & Politics. 🗳️ Also Convenor @techpolicy.bsky.social
Spends more time posting GIFs than working.
https://www.Leelum.com
Matt Hurst 🏳️🌈 @mattythurst.bsky.social A fan of Reading, Music and Sports (mainly football, cricket and Baseball
Pratichi Priyambada (She/her) @kaafipratichi.bsky.social Educator. Ph.D. Historian of Dance, Gender, Colonial Law, and Nationalism in 19th-20th c. South Asia. Bharatanatyam/ Uday Shankar/ Mov. Improvisation. Pedagogy of kindness.
https://oxy.academia.edu/PratichiPriyambada
Kapil Jain @kapiljaink3.bsky.social SDG | Vegan | Media | Crypto | Tech Investor | India 🇮🇳On a mission for a Net-Zero Lifestyle | Talks about #sdgs #tech #startups #AI #Web3 #Veganism #media #governance Mumbai India
Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social Programme Director – Transformation and Recovery
Richard Hockaday @rjhockaday.eurosky.social Brit now Swiss citizen living in NW Switzerland with wife and 2 dogs