Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
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The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Pellicle @pelliclemag.com We’re your favourite ~award winning~ independent drinks, pubs and food magazine/podcast. The joy is the point.
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Nick Hunt @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, Loss Soup, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain Project.
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town Images of people, places, scenes and things from Twin Peaks.
National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social Last November top UK experts briefed leaders on the latest science to galvanise genuine emergency action on the climate & nature. The film version of this landmark event launched 7.04.26.
Find a screening near you
https://www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social Nonprofit equipping journalists to cover science: articles, tip sheets, trainings, courses, mentoring, pitch database, & more. Our new book THE BEST SCIENCE STORIES AND HOW THEY WORK: https://tinyurl.com/TBSSbook
Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social Director of Programmes for Whistledown Productions. Latest: "Derailed: The Story of HS2" for BBC Radio 4 and "Versuchslabor Kinderheim" for Deutschlandfunk. Audio Journalist in Berlin
Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com News, analysis and commentary on environmental stories from @theguardian.com
Lu @lufielding.bsky.social 
Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Luke Andrews @peatblogger.bsky.social Peatland ecologist, biogeochemist, palaeoecologist, postdoc at Liverpool John Moores, small red car enthusiast, coffee addict, runner, and gardener. These are the topics I'll bore strangers to death with at parties. Also cats! 🏴
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social Always hungry, always curious.
Born Greek, Wales is in my heart, and Londoner by choice!
An archaeogastronomical podcast.
By Thom Ntinas. (Pronounced Dinas)
Sound Engineer, Podcaster, Broadcast Sound Supervisor.
Love food, history, music.
Design Week @designweek.co.uk The UK's first design magazine. Bringing you the latest design news, inspiration and analysis since 1986.
https://www.designweek.co.uk/
Green European Journal @greeneujournal.bsky.social Europe's leading political ecology magazine, in print and online.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
Richard Jefferies Award @rjaward.bsky.social The Richard Jefferies Award celebrates the best new nature writing book published each year that is judged by a panel from the Richard Jefferies Society and the White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough. https://richardjefferiesaward.blogspot.com/
Climate Fiction Prize @climate-fiction.bsky.social 📚Book award recognising the power of stories in shifting climate narratives
💡Inspiring writers to reimagine our future
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
Nicole Kirchler @nicolekirchler.bsky.social 'I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.‘ Anaïs Nin
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Mary Long-Dhonau OBE @floodmary.bsky.social Passionate Property Flood Resilience (#PFR) advocate.
I've been flooded & survived.
Promoter of preparing for flooding. Recoverable repair & #BuildBackBetter.
FloodMary.com
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Meg Mills-Novoa @mills-novoa.bsky.social Geographer. Climate justice. Director of the Climate Futures Lab. Berkeley Prof. Extreme fruit enthusiast. 
Alan - Flood Forecaster at the Thames Barrier @alanbarrierea.bsky.social I work for the Environment Agency at the #ThamesBarrier in the Forecasting and Response team.
Spike @yourapocalypse.bsky.social Photographer. Rock/alt. DJ. Folk horror & Forteana fan. Timberwolves supporter. Discordian. Likes the clink of ice in whiskey and the sound of crashing guitars.
custard : manager, Chops FC @custard.bsky.social Breathe! Drink up and organise! The best Doctor Who episode is Face of Evil. (IS IT? MAYBE!) hosted #UnCoolPokemon50 in 2024. If you are an old git and stan XLOV, apply here to join Wumuti's Wine Aunties club
The Nature Chronicles Prize @naturechronicles.bsky.social A global, biennial £10k prize, originating in the Lake District for essay-length, non-fiction nature writing.
www.naturechroniclesprize.com
Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
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British Wildlife @britishwildlife.bsky.social The UK's leading natural history magazine, published by
@nhbs.bsky.social
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Christopher @apperleybennett.com 🌎 Environmental #Art, #Sustainability, #ClimateCulture and #Museums | Art Curator and Photographer | Follow For Inspiration
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
Dr Emily Grossman 🧬✍️🎤✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♾️🐱 @dremilygrossman.bsky.social Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Tim Adams writes @timadamswrites.bsky.social Editor of Observer New Review, London; believer in untrodden ways and Invisible Cities, dawn choruses and last-minute winners.
Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá #Marx
Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
ellencph.co.uk
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Lamorna Elmer @lamornaelmer.bsky.social Publicising books while Rome burns @GrantaBooks
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Robyn Wilder! @orbyn @robynwilder.bsky.social Horrible harridan (freelance journalist). She/her.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Ben Isaacs @benisaacs.bsky.social Broadcaster and writer
Solarpunk SΞΞD @solarpunkseed.bsky.social Science, Education, Exploration, Design. 実 Actualizing the #solarpunk #postcapitalist commons. #DeSci. Free community fab lab café forming on Kalapuya Land / Oregon!✨🌱🌈🌻
solarpunkseed.net
The Kithkin @thekithkin.bsky.social Independent online magazine. Ideas, guidance & opinions from innovative thinkers, authors & campaigners. Free to read. UK based. #PavementPlantPower
https://www.thekithkin.com
IG: https://instagram.com/thekithkin
Threads: www.threads.net/@thekithkin
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Jo Usmar @jousmar.bsky.social Bestselling non-fiction author (the ‘This Book Will Make You…’ series), editor, ghostwriter and journo (& ex-Cosmo columnist). Had cancer, didn’t love it. jousmar.substack.com
Alice Hutton @alicehutton.bsky.social Bylines Guardian US, Sunday Times (of London), RTE, BBC Radio 4.
John Schofield Trust Fellow '17/18 | IJP Fellow '18 |
Author of newsletter, 'What Ties Us Together' on chosen families, LGBT+ parenting+adoptee voices'.
🌈 https://alicehutton.substack.com
Cat Mitchell @catmitchell17.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Publishing researching disability. Ex-Penguin.
📚🌈 she/her
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot. 
Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social Freelance writer @the-independent.com @inews.co.uk @theguardian.com @theleaduk.bsky.social @therevealer.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social @newhumanist.bsky.social
✉️ elliebroughton@gmail.com
fleckaz @fleckaz.bsky.social when will it end
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/ 
Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social Deputy editor at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Marisa Bate @marisabate.bsky.social Feminist journalist, author, newsletter-writer and mother. AND STILL WE MARCH is out now. Sign up to Writing About Women on Substack.
Coco Khan @cocobyname.bsky.social Host, Pod Save the UK; freelance writer (mostly Guardian). Books: The Good Immigrant (and more). Repped by: Aitken Alexander(📚) and Soho Agency (🎤🎬)
Lisa Bachelor @lisabachelor.bsky.social Editor of the Guardian’s Seascape series, all about the state of our oceans. Previously deputy news editor on the Observer.
Amy Lauren Swales @amylaurenswales.bsky.social I write stuff, but I do other stuff too.
Freelance. Commission me!
Alasdair Lane @alasdairlane.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Guardian, Economist, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Atlantic, BBC, NBC, etc. I also run a journo / writer jobs newsletter – writeathome.beehiiv.com
Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk NHS Englander. Ex VCSE and BBC.
Mainly interested in volunteering, VCSE sector, public participation and engagement, so stuff around people, building communities, health, power, digital, media etc.
Husband | 🚸 Dad x2 | 💔 #ACHD
🌍 Warwickshire, UK
Sally Howard @salvolatile.bsky.social global health, social affairs and human interest specialist journalist for broadsheets and journals. Half of India Story Agent with Geetanjali Krishna. Author Kama Sutra Diaries, The Home Stretch, Vagina Inc. Repped Marjacq
E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism @e3g.bsky.social E3G is an independent climate change think tank with offices in London, Brussels, Berlin, and Washington DC, and a global network of associates. We tackle barriers and advance solutions for a safe climate for all.
Peat Mothership @peatmothership.bsky.social Five-year, £3.7m international research project to assess the risk that climate change poses to peatlands. Funded by @NERCscience
Dr Jen Jones @jensoilandpen.bsky.social Writer, soil scientist, nature lover. Passionate about peat. Guardian Country Diarist. Writing for Bloomsbury's British Wildlife Collection.
Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social Biogeochemist at University of Liverpool & SLU Uppsala. Greenhouse gases and water chemistry in peatlands, lakes, streams, ditches and ponds. Lover of mountains and wild places.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXE28xwAAAAJ&hl=en
Ally @allyloveartlearn.bsky.social Oxfam editor and project manager. Here for culture, charities, London and cats. All views just me.
Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social Aspiring gadfly.
Science journalist | Editor | Storytelling specialist
contact me @ clnschltz@proton.me
Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social Community ownership obsessive - Former CEO Supporters Direct - Sport Advisor on Footballers’ Wives - Secret Identity of CommunitySharesCompany - He/him - adoptee. Once had that Slavoj Zizek in the back of my car
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Alex Mitchell @vincennes.bsky.social 
Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org The NUJ chapel for the Guardian
Sheryl Garratt @sherylg.bsky.social Writer, and a coach helping creative professionals do their best work - while also living their best life. Find me at thecreativelife.net
Paul English @paulenglishwords.bsky.social Peddler of words, written and spoken.
Papers. Radio. TV. Books. Voiceovers.
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Cat Thomson @catthomsonwrites.bsky.social Freelance words and a spot of PR. I write about food, drink & travel, plus a monthly hen column in The Scotsman Magazine.
Stevie Nixed @stevienixed.bsky.social Too little but never too late
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
George Garner @georgegarner.bsky.social Editor-In-Chief: Music Week. Words for: Kerrang!, MOJO & more. Can we talk about great white sharks? Views my own.
Geographical Magazine @geographical.co.uk Published since 1935, Geographical Magazine embodies captivating storytelling and stunning photography, it’s your trusted source for authoritative geographical and environmental journalism.
Join our community of curious minds today.
K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
Daisy Buchanan @notrollergirl.bsky.social I write novels, I host the You’re Booked podcast, I love Jilly Cooper and custard.
Corina Romonti @corinaro.bsky.social Obsessive reader. Whitstable dweller. Publicity person at Penguin Press. Views my own (she/her)
Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social Journalism, constructive moaning, weird music, telly, LUFC, all the usual shit.
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
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Melissa Mouchemore @melissamouchemore.bsky.social Creeks, rivers, estuaries. Harbours, ports, seas. A Caught By The River writer. Other places too.
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com