Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Graeme Pickering @pickgs.bsky.social Railway Magazine Senior Correspondent. Ex-broadcast journalist and news editor. Husband. 'Dad' to a Greek cat. Aspiring novelist.
Jenny TP @jennytpgrows.bsky.social Head Gardener, Lecturer UEBS, proud director of Tamar Grow Local CIC, food systems research, food justice, horticulture, dogs, cats, politics & stuff. Member of RHS Learning & Engagement Group. Not adult enough for DMs here
James Donald @stirlingfellow.bsky.social NHS Communications at University Hospitals Dorset @uhdnhs.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/in/jamesiandonald
Suze... @dorsetgirl.bsky.social Based in Central Dorset UK. Semi-retired. X refugee. Was IT now work in local beach cafe 😁🏊. Run local writing group, volunteer for citizens advice. Substack - @suzie.suze1.Substack.com - Love outdoors, crafts, books, science stuff and my family. 🧶🌳📚💻📷
Der Schimpfende Straßenräuber @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Simon Wood @simonwood.info Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator.
Mostly on Mastodon, follow from Bsky at: @mastodon.simonwood.info (and Pixelfed @pixelfed.simonwood.info)
https://simonwood.info
Jon Jones @jon-jones.bsky.social General lurker on social media. Partial to science, technology, trains, London tube & vintage/retro computers. (Z80 is my cat nip) Not worth following.
Honestly: Don't follow me!
He/Him
Awkward Seán @ginhaze.bsky.social Gardening and growing food. Landscapes for wildlife. Land reform. Right to roam. Irish Setters. Kent Cricket. 20km walks.
Counter-majority views.
alt-text please.
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Charlie Birks @charlie.daft.games Writes a lot of code, sometimes it even works. May or may not actually exist.
(insert useful info here)
...
Writing is not one of my skills.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fosstodon.org/@Daft_Freak, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Hampshire Archives Trust @harchivestrust.bsky.social Supporting the preservation & conservation of #Hampshire related archives. Raising awareness of the county's rich & diverse documented past. Join us!
https://hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/
NickT6630 @nickt6630.bsky.social Hi, I build home brew computers, electronics projects, coding, make electronic music
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHRbwyKXo61QgEMK4Q1Zwg/videos #SaveOurNHS #FBPE #RejoinEU #AntiBrexit
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Mark Wilkinson @mhwilkinson.bsky.social Freelance full-stack web application developer and architect. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Java, etc. Also @mhw@ruby.social
Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com Habitat-first regenerative growing 🌱 🌿 Books: Grower Gatherer (out 3 Sept), A Greener Life & Wild about Weeds 🌳
Newsletter: WildWay.info
(Yorkshire 🇬🇧 H4 / 8b-9a)
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
JCJeremy Hobson @lookattheview.bsky.social Professional - by which I mean it's the way I make a living - freelance writer/author mainly talking of country life and rural shenanigans...
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
All content © and personal. May not be reproduced without consent.
Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
SABRE Maps @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk The largest freely available online archive of twentieth century georeferenced OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland at "road map" scales from 1:25k to 1:633k including One Inch, Half Inch and Quarter Inch mapping.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
Not Invented @notinvented.bsky.social Professional IT nerd, amateur photographer, shining wit. Once managed to get 2 answers right in Only Connect but it made my brain hurt for days. Please don't attempt to chat with me as I won't see it due to stupid age verification. Sorry.
Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social Deeply unwell, deeply mossy, wheelchair user, Dartmoor photographer, old book lover and hedgehog whisperer. 🦔🦼📖 have been a photographer for 35 years.
https://thegreenlanesshimmer.etsy.com
Michael Saunby @msaunby.bsky.social Thinking is so very important.
Did I make you think?
Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social Arduino is a global leader in open-source hardware and software, with over 30 million developers worldwide.
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Bovine of the Rails / Steele Travels / 72A Studios @bovineoftherails.bsky.social instagram.com/steele.travels/
Travelling the Heritage Rails, making memories of Steam and Diesels on each visit. People know me as Dan or Steele.
https://www.youtube.com/@Bovine_of_the_Rails
https://www.youtube.com/@SteeleRidestheRails
Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social Interested in sustainable transport, urban planning and the state of the world. Working in international development cooperation.
Pater Practicus @paterpracticus.bsky.social Practical dad, Brendan – maker, mender and modeller. Always curious, always learning. Sharing project videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paterpracticus
Leah @leah.myatproto.social Science writer, mostly puttering about the garden. Kansas girl stuck in Missouri. Fine, I'll fix it.
she/her
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Small Electric Cat @smallelectriccat.bsky.social Software Engineer | Cat Liker
Hobby Artist When I get the time
Here mainly for the cartoons
Monetization is the root of all evil.
"The baby comes out WHERE!?" - Eve
Purr More ¤ Hiss Less
VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social A daily quote from the great Victoria Wood. It’s all dobbaly bono fodo.
Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us".
Charles Bukowski
One foot in front of the other 👣
Prefer climbing rock to the social ladder.
An immigrant's daughter.
Team GB.
Team Remain.
Gooner 🔴⚪
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Andi Chandler @andibing.bsky.social Technologist.. normally lurking in Clouds or behind enemy lines fixing stuff! ;-)
A few of my favourite things : ☁️🐈🐧💻📡🛰️🚙🚄✈️🚀🏡🏔️
Andrew "Ace" Arsenault @acearsenault.bsky.social Open Thoughts, Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming, Music & Oldskool Technology.
I design audio gear, compose music and build experimental musical instruments.
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Amos @amosduveen.bsky.social Random wonderer.
He/him/[expletive]
Adam (Aitch) @adamaitch.bsky.social Still learning how to write. Rejoiner. Rejoinder. Posts often concern cookery, gardening, fungi, music,🎾(WTA, TTP Barger), and my cats. 17-13-23, Yeah, that's right.
Don't blame me, I voted for chaos with Ed Miliband.
Allotment Cats @allotmentcat.bsky.social We are Janet and Amanda. 2 cats living our best lives on an allotment in Birmingham UK. We take it in turns to write messages. Betty (human) helps us.
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Richard Long @rclongauthor.bsky.social Full time dad and part time railway author. Winner of Third Prize Non-Fiction at the 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards for “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway”.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rclong
Dave Morton @dmonbeer.bsky.social Quite the fancier of podcasts, chemistry & science history. Favourite element: Ta. Former Curio of the Week, former award winning brewer. Currently brewing, sometimes home brewing.
Free I.T. Stafford @freeitstafford.bsky.social We are a UK non-profit volunteer tech team fighting e-waste and digital poverty by repairing unwanted computers and giving them back to the community, for free.
Since 2021 we've fixed up and rehomed over 2,100 of your unwanted and broken gadgets.
Meeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social Join us in Berlin or online in November for Meeting C++ 2026!
Richard Kay @copsewood.net Done cyber, teaching, networking. Doing community currencies. Love worship music, country walks, and making wine, cider and beer. A list of my other social media profiles is here: https://copsewood.net/mastodon.html
Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social I write one prompt. Whole galaxies fall out.
Bridging the gap between prompts and real work.
AI Educator. Absurdist. Builder.
Stick around, I'll teach you.
Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social Cycling, Energy and Space are my interests.
NW London.
Daphne's catflap @daphnethecat.com Humble mechanical servant of Daphne, powered by a Raspberry Pi
Original project: https://blog.berniesumption.com/software/daphnes-tweeting-catflap/
Updated fork: https://github.com/simonprickett/tweeting-catflap
Egor @batonius.bsky.social Teaching myself how to solder before LLMs take my #rustlang job.
he/him
Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com Memory safety / Rust 🦀, Dodger baseball ⚾️
...also #jj-vcs, urbanism, and more.
Helping you assess OSS risks with @hipcheck.mitre.org.
Principal Engineer at MITRE (opinions are mine)
blogs: alilleybrinker.com / possiblerust.com
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own. Tech stack: https://github.com/rob-p/tech-stack.
Deri Jones @derijones.bsky.social Engineer/surveyor and hillbilly. Designer of giant Airfix kits for boatbuilding and 3D laser scanner of everything from aircraft to theatres.
Betteridge’s Law @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social No.
Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social
Hold your plans lightly in your hands
Reversing uphill in Devon lanes since time immemorial so you don’t have to
Full of wit. Wit, I said
#95%Dartmoor #5%civilised
#MS #formerlawyer #TheArchers #dementiacarer #FitsofRage™️
No DMs
📎
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
Fulu Foundation @fulufoundation.bsky.social Freedom doesn't come with a subscription 📎
https://fulu.org
Cakepans @cakepans.bsky.social SATCOM tech, Photographer, Video gamer.
I love to take things apart and sometimes I even put them back together.
Anna @superteadrinker.bsky.social Librarian. Archivist. Student. Tea drinker. Cat servant. Anglican't. Irritable and irritating.
MsB @lastof5.bsky.social Cats, wildlife and the joy of old things...
UK
Andy Pearce 🇬🇧👨🏻💻 @andy-pearce.com I code for fun & profit, but more the latter since becoming a father. Interested in anything but intolerance (but not a particular fan of sport). Kind or not, at least be civil. All views my own. I occasionally blog about coding: http://andy-pearce.com/
Dominie Leigh @melarune.bsky.social Grotesque parody of life. Professional art person in Wales. 30% hair, 42% tea. Features include being ginger and eating all my Ⓥegetables.
Tom Wire @thesilverbadger.bsky.social Technophile, history nerd, software developer, doggo dad
The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust @60163tornado.bsky.social The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust is the registered charity which built, owns and operates the only new main line steam locomotive since the 1960s, No.60163 Tornado. Our second new build locomotive, P2 Class No.2007 Prince of Wales is nearing completion.
Simon Bisson @sbisson.com 👨💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈⬛ calico floofs 📧 simon@sandm.co.uk 🌍 sbisson.com
@embedded-iot.bsky.social @embedded-iot.bsky.social 
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social Former teacher now temping. Proud mother of an autistic daughter. #CEV. Cat slave; bookworm; Doctor Who & Strictly fan. Unashamedly woke.
Same name on 🐦 and 🦣 She/her
🌍 South-West UK
BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social Life's a big banana sandwich
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2188080
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
🌱 Tony's Allotment Tales 🏴 🇵🇸 F*ck AI @tonyjw.bsky.social Radical Allotment Front.
In favour of a habitable planet for all, eat the rich.
The cult leaders have locked the gates to the compound.
South Cambridgeshire, UK.
scLLptr @sclptr.bsky.social Low-level, high-standard engineering, unconstrained by commercial compromise.
Ful-stack home renovation: Masonry to finial works.
Architect of Project Svetovid (WIP): A ground-up headless wired HA system.
Work: CNC, PLC - boring stuff
The Pi Hut @thepihut.com The #1 Raspberry Pi & Maker superstore! Official Raspberry Pi reseller.
🛒Store - https://thepihut.com/
✉️ Support - https://support.thepihut.com
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Simon @simonxfraser.bsky.social No AI.
I hate it when I look at an image and its hard to decide if its real or fake, if its computer constructed or if has been made by human ingenuity.
I'm into IR, alchemy and alternative photography.
Affected by the bee in my bonnet. zzzz
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social - OG web - design - hci - reading - writing - saas biz - edu biz - photos - cats - desert - she
"a powerfully repulsive mixture of dense, stubborn and arrogant" to people who don't like facts.
Charlie Schick @greyandslate.bsky.social Healthcare and life sciences professional by day, maker by night.
Hardware hacking, 3D printing, circuit design.
Creator of Grey and Slate™ - apparel for hardware enthusiasts.
→ https://greyandslate.com
Images: https://tinyurl.com/GSHattributions
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Luke Murphy MP @lukemurphy.bsky.social First ever Labour MP for Basingstoke 🌹 Promoted by R Kellaway, on behalf of Luke Murphy, both at Basingstoke Labour Club, Sandys Rd, Basingstoke, RG22 6AS
Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social Director of CHAP CIC; prehistorian, flyfisher, ferroequinologist. Jack of some trades, master of none. FSA
Opinions are all my own...
www.heritageCHAP.co.uk
fussycoder @fussycoder.bsky.social One dog and her human. The human does computer & security stuff across the UK at various .ac.uk's.
Bit daft. Harmless enough.
Enjoy every sandwich.
Wear a mask 😷. Join a union.
Dave Lauchlan @davelauchlan.bsky.social Cats, music, planes, weather, science fiction. Programmer Archeologist.
Some Bloke in a Hat @someblokeinahat.bsky.social Strange old bugger.
Friend to El-ahrairah. The kind of bloke who'll hold up traffic to rescue a creature and has many times.
Old Stones. Mist. Lighthouses. Birds.
Hedgehog fosterer. The weird.
Geordie exiled in Lancashire.
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
Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social I like to wear flares and do the jokes. Bit of a woke prick. He/him. 
apenwarr @apenwarr.ca wvdial, bup, sshuttle, netselect, popularity-contest, redo, gfblip, GFiber, atlogin.net, and now Top Chicken @Tailscale.com doing WireGuard mesh. First search result for "epic treatise."
Full Stack Theory @fullstacktheory.bsky.social Exploring the evolving world of software development—Frontend, Backend, AI/ML, and Software Design and Philosophy. Thoughts on code, architecture, and the philosophy of building modern systems. Currently at a FAANG. Opinions are my own.
David Baddiel @realbaddiel.bsky.social On here too
Railways Explorer @therailwayjunction.bsky.social Visiting railway stations current heritage and disused
ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com Just a passionate dev, learning from this community daily.
✨ Sharing the entire journey - bugs, breakthroughs, and banter. 🚀
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
Sodslawyer @sodslawyer.bsky.social Not an actual lawyer
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Old UK Print Ads 70s/80s/90s @oldukprintads7890s.bsky.social Newspaper and magazine ads from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
Also
@OldUKPrintAds.bsky.social - 1700s onwards
@OldUKPrintAdsXmas.bsky.social - Xmas ads, from Sept 16th
Print quality is very variable - remember this is mostly ancient newsprint, so VERY low-tech
Paul Marriott, PhD @paulmarriott.bsky.social Montreal-based Senior Principal Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer. I was @pmarriott over on Twitter.
Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social Official Bluesky channel. Welcome! 👋
A hangry, but lovable cat. 🐱
Animation-illustrations by Simon Tofield.
FILMS & SHOP👇
linktr.ee/simonscat