Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce @deathandculture.bsky.social University of York, UK. SFHEA. Editor Death and Culture Bristol Uni Press. Academic interest: death and the dead; crime; celebrity; popular culture; HE Pedagogy. Death and Culture Network
https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/death-and-culture/
Panagiotis Pentaris @ppentaris.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Social Work & Thanatology
Thanatology Research Lab
Thanatology Podcast
the algorithms + miscarriage project @paul-ord.bsky.social PhD research project at University of York
Understanding the role of algorithmic technologies in women's remembrance after miscarriage
sociology of miscarriage / critical algorithm studies / death studies
University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu Mission-driven nonprofit publisher committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good, serving intellectually curious readers for over 100 years.
uwapress.uw.edu
Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social Social science - politics and policy of reproduction, death, personhood, kinship.
Currently: reproductive politics of the cervical stitch/cerclage.
Previously: 'Invisible Labours' book on politics of 2nd trimester pregnancy loss.
@ddd17-2025.bsky.social @ddd17-2025.bsky.social 
Raven’s Call : Aging & End of Life guide in Oregon @endoflifecare.bsky.social Supporting and informing people who are aging or planning for or currently facing serious illness and/or death, and the people who care about them.
A calming presence for 30+ years.
https://ravens-call.mailerpage.io/
#DeathPositive #EOL #hapc #EOLdoula
Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social Medical Anthropologist & Death Scholar @Oulu uni. Co-host @deathstudiespod (thedeathstudiespodcast.com)
Blogger @deadgoodreading (deadgoodreading.com).
🇳🇱 in 🇫🇮
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social PhD in Archaeology
Mortuary Archaeologist, Adjunct Prof, Researcher, Associate Editor ✨️
I like graves, the C17th, landscapes, & protective magic. I preserve gravestones, write books, & paint pictures (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/RLacy
Dr Emma Clare @dremmaclare.bsky.social Chartered Psychologist & End of Life Doula | Death Wired Differently (neuro-affirming end-of-life support) | PhD/MSc death competency & death anxiety | EoL Doula Intnl Research Group | Global EoL Doula Associations Network Chair |Taphophile | Bird geek
Kate Woodthorpe @katewoody.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, interested in all things death and dying. Director of CDAS, University of Bath
Jennie Riley @jen-studies-death.bsky.social Interdisciplinary researcher in death, dying, religion & theology. PI 'Baggage for the Beyond.' Leverhulme Research Fellow, Aberdeen Divinity; PhD TRS, Durham. ASDS Postdoc rep. SocRel Events Officer. TEDx speaker.
CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social Works leading research centre at the University of Bath, UK. Were interested in the social contexts of death, dying and bereavement.
https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-death-society/
Death Cafe @deathcafe.bsky.social Miniature model painter. Amateur at best..Journey to pro painter on Twitch.
Twitch: twitch.tv/deathcafe
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deathcafettv
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@deathcafe.painting
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deathcafe.ttv/
Mark Hazelwood @palliativescot.bsky.social CEO of Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC). Mostly about palliative care (but not SPPC official). Occasional sharing other enthusiasms. RT ≠ endorsement. @palliative_scot on Twitter
Michael Brennan @michaelbrennan.bsky.social Supporting people and organizations building a more equitable internet. Views expressed are my own. Philadelphia.
Hospice UK @hospiceuk.bsky.social Hospice UK fights for hospice care for all who need it, for now and forever. We champion the 200+ hospices across the UK, and run the campaign Dying Matters.
https://www.hospiceuk.org/
John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social Marie Curie Associate Professor
Sociologist of dying, palliative and end-of-life care, and bereavement.
https://profiles.warwick.ac.uk/u1772723-john-macartney
Madeline Smith @meksmith.bsky.social Justice reporter at CBC Edmonton, on maternity leave until Feb 2027. Past life in newspapers (Journal, Herald, StarMetro). Fighting for my life on uncomfortable courthouse gallery benches. she/her
madeline.smith@cbc.ca
Melanie Lovatt @mlovatt.bsky.social Sociologist. Time & temporalities, ageing, everyday life, relationships. 
Digital Legacy Association @digitallegacyco.bsky.social International Not For Profit Association dedicated in raising awareness, standards and developing best practice in digital assets planning and digital legacy safeguarding.
www.DigitalLegacyAssociation.org
Celia Kitzinger @kitzingercelia.bsky.social Promoting #OpenJustice in the Court of Protection #NotSecretCourt
Check out our website: openjusticecourtofprotection.org
Also all things Lake District + Cumbria including hiking, literature, & other stuff that interests me!
Laura Towers @ltowers728.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF | Sociology Department, Uni. of Manchester | CDAS Visiting Fellow | Interested in: siblings; families; relationships; loss, grief & bereavement.
The University of Bath @uniofbath.bsky.social Together, we belong. Welcome to the University of Bath, a top 150 University in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
Emma Curtis @emmacurtisvoice.bsky.social All about voice! Having one, using it, feeling good about it etc. Hats include: opera singer, voice coach, specialist in performance anxiety, researcher in psychology, ceremony designer, celebrant trainer/supervisor.
Alistair Hunter @alihunter1.bsky.social All-rounder for Icons.com. Cambridge United, Rangers and San Francisco 49ers sufferer.
Ruth Evans @ruthhevans.bsky.social Looking for a sociable, more collaborative, less confrontational approach to life.
Proud of my Welsh heritage; not proud of Brexit.
Enjoying the busyness of retirement: time to spend on friends, family, choir, travel, aging disgracefully.
Dr. Judy Melinek @drjudymelinek.bsky.social Forensic pathologist & coauthor with TJ Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social of Working Stiff & Jessie Teska Mysteries 🔎💀🔬
❤️ & 🔄 DON’T mean I endorse/agree.
Catherine Barnes @cxbarnes.bsky.social 
@pollyshepcase.bsky.social @pollyshepcase.bsky.social 
Mandy Scott @ascotth.bsky.social 
Lesley Goodburn @lgoodbu.bsky.social Sharing Seth's Story - A film, a play and educational resource to improve end of life care, raise awareness of pancreatic cancer signs and symptoms - views are my own #sethslegacy
Pixels 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @restinpixels.bsky.social 43, bi/pan, genderfluid (they/them/she/her), polyam/partnered/open, T4T in TN 🔞
💉: 3/22/2024
Not a boy, not a girl. Which means no matter what, if you think I’m attractive, you’re gay.
Sarah Chavez @sarahcalavera.bsky.social Chicana. Author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT DEATH 📚 Helping people live & die better at orderofthegooddeath.com, Ask a Mortician, & radicaldeathstudies.com 💀 Death + food, ritual, folklore, horror, film, culture & society
🔸 https://msha.ke/sarahcalavera
Darkly Smiling @darkly-smiling.bsky.social HCI researcher exploring arts-based methods, drawing, writing, dance, comics.. "a plethora of delights---a fruit salad compote"
Jody Giles @jodygiles.bsky.social 
Nathan Emmerich @bioethicsuk.bsky.social Replicating my birdnoise accounts, probably oddly, because I am also BioethicsAU.bsky.social and currently reside in Canberra, Australia and work at ANU. 
University of Bradford @uniofbradford.bsky.social Official account for the University of Bradford sharing news, events and research stories #TeamBradford
Palliative Medicine Journal @palliativemedj.bsky.social A high impact peer reviewed multi-disciplinary palliative care journal. Research journal of the EAPC. Find us on FB, X, Instagram, LinkedIn. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PMJ #hpm #hapc #research #hospice #academicsky
MyWishes @mywishes.bsky.social Document & share your Advance Care Plan, Last Will & Testament, Funeral, Online Accounts, Bucket List, Funeral, & Digital Legacy wishes. 🛡️
www.MyWishes.co.uk
100% free to use.
Crow ✨ @deathknells.bsky.social He/him - 🏳️⚧️ - 23
Tattoo and multi media artist
Books open - c.ryantattoos@gmail.com
Dariusz Galasiński @dgalasinski.bsky.social Immigrant. Professor (Uni Wroclaw), linguist. Research on masculinity, suicide, illness, and communication about wine. Here often comments on wine and wine communication.
https://dariuszgalasinski.com
Eleanor Scott @noraknits.bsky.social Researching knitted textile technology, textiles sustainability and circular material systems 🧶
Programme Leader for MSc Textiles Sustainability and Innovation at the University of Leeds 👩🏼🏫
Merryn Gott (she/her) @merryngott.bsky.social Researcher in palliative care, Mum to two gorgeous humans and an unruly labrador, potter, knitter, piano player, ocean lover…Tūtoi Te Tiriti. Trans Ally.
Te Ārai Research Group, www.tearairesearchgroup.net
Te Kura Neehi (Nursing), Auckland Uni
Natalie Anderson PhD RN @cerebralnurse.bsky.social Emergency Nurse Academic🕵🏼♀️
Death, dying & bereavement in acute care 🚑
Clinical education & wellbeing 🩺
Health research methods & ethics🤓
Woke 👀
Sapiosexual 🧠
#BirdNerd 🪶🦉
#NaturePhotography 🏞 📸
Pashta MaryMoon @womynstar8.bsky.social I am the co-founder and executive director of the Canadian non-profit 'Canadian Integrative Network for Death Education and Alternatives', better known as CINDEA (cindea.ca) and its post-deathcare/home funeral training program 'By My Own Heart and Hand'.
Dr Sarah Russell RN @learnpeolc.bsky.social Over 30 years in Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC). Consultant Nurse PEOLC Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust in SE England. #FNF alumni. Interested in lots of stuff. Never stop learning, never stop sharing. Own Views #NurseSky
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Steph Mulrine @stephmulrine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Medical Sociology. Qualitative researcher interested in care, health inequalities, socially-produced vulnerabilities, social class, and death and bereavement. Activist and Trustee of Thrive Teesside.
(she/her)
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Diana Teggi @dianateggi.bsky.social Medical Sociologist at the University of Bath
#Ageing #Technology
#PalliativeCare
She/they 🏳️🌈
Nina Vaswani @weeneens.bsky.social Research Lead at CYCJ, University of Strathclyde. She/her
Youth Justice | Bereavement, loss and trauma | Young masculinities | Mental health | Inequalities | Coproduction.
PI: www.menminds.org and www.challengejustice.org
CYCJ @cycjscotland.bsky.social Children & Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ)
Collaborating for rights-respecting justice for all children and young people in Scotland.
Explore our new eLearning modules at our website
cycj.org.uk | cycj@strath.ac.uk
Naomi Richards @naomi-actor.bsky.social Actor 🎭 Singer 🎶 Cake Baker 🧁
… but most importantly 🙌🏼 MUM to an amazing AuDHD teenager who makes me proud every day. 🩷
@byameliahill.bsky.social @byameliahill.bsky.social 
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📖Asst. Professor of English
📚PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC/Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Ines Perpetuo, PhD @ines-perpetuo.bsky.social Researcher Developer and Concordat Lead @ Imperial. She/Her. #ResearcherDevelopment, #DiversityInSTEM, #anime, Sci-Fi, #StarWars, Heavy Metal🤘
Views are my own!
Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social Sociologist University of Manchester, co-Director Morgan Centre, Vice Director NCRM; co-editor Journal of Creative Research Methods, researches material culture, dormant things, fashion, wardrobes, gender and feminism.
Gemma Allen (she/her) @gemmaallen.bsky.social Hospice Director. Co-founder of No Barriers Here. Independent Consultant.
Ally 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
#equity #research #education #coproduction #leadership #systemchange #hapc
www.nobarriershere.org
Dr Francis Osis @fosis.bsky.social Tweets about heritage, textile crafts, F1, dogs & nice walks. Makes motorsports art stuff at RaceCraft. Glasgow based. #ActuallyAutistic 🖖🌈🏳️⚧️ he/him
https://racecraftembroidery.etsy.com
Dr Romany Reagan @msromany.bsky.social Arts Council England funded research fellow, audio artist & storyteller weaving hidden histories into pieces of creative public engagement at museums & heritage sites. Dark heritage, feminist history, layers of memory in place, folklore 📜🕯️
Bram Lambrecht @lambrechtbram.bsky.social Assistant prof @UGent | neerlandicus | translation, poetry, popular culture | 🏳️🌈
Lucy Selman @lucyselman.bsky.social Professor Palliative & End of Life Care, Uni. of Bristol. Equity, community, communication, bereavement.
Founding Director Good Grief Festival https://bsky.app/profile/goodgrieffest.bsky.social
goodgrieffest.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-26
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Tania Blackmore @taniablackmore777.bsky.social Researcher , textbook author, senior lecturer in Palliative & EOLC . Wife , mum , cat & dog lover . Views are my own .
Dignity in Dying @dignityindying.org.uk We believe in choice at the end of life. Including the option of assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults.
David Ellis @davidellis95.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Ethics and Religion at Leeds Trinity University. Interested in Wittgenstein, religion and exophilosophy.
You can find my publications & work in progress here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-ellis-1
zinvollerleven.nl 🌷 @zinvoller.bsky.social 🌷 zingeving 🌷 boeken 🌷 filosofie 🌷 persoonlijke groei 🌷 trauma 🌷 relaties 🌷 psychologie 🌷 vrijheid 🌷 rust 🌷 leven 🌷 sterven 🌷
https://zinvollerleven.nl/
Dr Becky Alexis-Martin @mysteriousdrbex.bsky.social I research across peace, science, and technology. My current interests include emerging technologies and risk, disarmament policy, resilience and security, arms control, sanctions, compound risks, and CBRN preparedness.
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
@lucygobag.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social 
Keri Fox @kerifox.bsky.social 
Dr. Kayla Cooley @kaylaccooley.com Suicidologist. Research on suicide, the internet, extreme communities & dangerous content. Often hounding the media for safer reporting. Board director. Queer Mom.
Policy, activism, governance, social care, community she/her
#Limerick Ireland 🏳️🌈
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com 
Julia Brown, PhD @juliaehbrown.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Monash Bioethics Centre | Adjunct Assistant Prof at UCSF | currently focused on prenatal genetic tech, previously on mental healthcare | Author of 'The Clozapine Clinic: Health Agency in High-Risk Conditions'
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
Chris Petras @chrispetras.bsky.social Higher ed professional | Curriculum & Instruction PhD Student | Culturally Responsive Death Educator | 1st Gen College student | 🇵🇭🇲🇽 | he/him/his
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne @tuffrey-wijne.com Professor of Intellectual Disability and Palliative Care (Kingston University, London). Let’s talk about dying, death, bereavement and intellectual/learning disability.
No Barriers Here @nobarriershere.bsky.social An equity-informed programme that works in co-production to tackle inequity in palliative and end of life care.
www.nobarriershere.org
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
Community Deathcare @communitydeathcare.bsky.social A holistic and community-centred approach to end-of-life care empowers individuals and their families and strengthens our bonds of relationship.
We honour death as a sacred part of life.
Anna Wilde @annawilde.bsky.social PhD student at University of Birmingham (UK) researching death positivity - https://deathpositiveresearch.com Works at Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social.
Loves dachshunds, fibre arts, cake, poetry, books and lives in the country.
Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social Prof of Medical Anthropology, The Open University (UK)
Researches death, palliative and end of life care. Co-editor of Death and Culture book series. Director of the Centre for Open Thanatology
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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