Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
The Hugo Awards @thehugoawards.bsky.social Science fiction’s most prestigious awards. TheHugoAwards.org
ri @rochellei.bsky.social Lover of theatre, drag, photography, art, movies, poetry, music, comedy, and the creative arts generally. @ri from the blue bird app. 
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Metro @metromagazinenz.bsky.social www.metromagazine.co.nz
Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social Labour Candidate for Wellington Bays in 2026. CTU Economist, Unionist, and believer in a better Aotearoa.
https://linktr.ee/craigrenney.official
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Henry Oliver @holiver.bsky.social 
Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social Pakeha man from Aotearoa New Zealand. Community, tech, cities, health systems, politics, disability, design, culture, wit, whimsy..
Diana Minnée @excapeartist.bsky.social COO for startups / Co-founder of
Astronort - Operations, Reimagined astronort.com
Ely Wallis @elyw.bsky.social Working at the Atlas of Living Australia, avid supporter of Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia and beyond, immediate past Chair of TDWG. Previously Museums Victoria for a long time
@raewynwalsh.bsky.social @raewynwalsh.bsky.social Contemporary Jewellery
Aotearoa
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
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views. 
Jared Davidson @anrchivist.bsky.social Archivist by day, author by night. Latest: Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. He/him.
https://jared-davidson.com/
@nothingelseon.bsky.social @nothingelseon.bsky.social 
Michelle Duff @michelleduff.bsky.social Social issues journalist and fiction writer, Te-Whanganui-a-Tara.
Surplus Women out April 11!
www.michelleduff.com
Words in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, Landfall, among others.
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
Todd Atticus @toddatticus.com Artist and book cover designer
Current show: Alas Alas, July 16-25, Tasman Building, 16-22 Anzac Ave, Auckland
http://www.toddatticus.com
https://www.instagram.com/toddatticus
Tess McClure @tessairini.bsky.social editor, human rights & freedom @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/rights-and-freedom
previously: nature and biodiversity
Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social The Gradual Shipwreck
Writer. Books & Music
#MDANT 🏅
Programme Director: WORD Christchurch
Views my own
@rachaelrakena.bsky.social @rachaelrakena.bsky.social 
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social Host @CleaningUpPod. CEO Liebreich Associates. Managing Partner Ecopragma Capital. Founder, Contributor @BloombergNEF. Ex Board TfL, Board of Trade. Olympian. Don't message me - I'm not prepared to give away personal data to prove my age. Srsly BlueSky!
Dan Randow @junglanml.bsky.social social sense-making in a meatbag
Jo Miller @jomillernz.bsky.social Rebel daughter of Liverpool & citizen of Aotearoa. CE @huttcitycouncil. President @taituarā. @lfc forever. YNWA
Alie Benge @aliebenge.bsky.social Writer from Wellington, living in London
Author of Ithaca and editor of Otherhood
Writing nonsense at: https://bit.ly/40e5Cuu
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org- P Lissa Mitchell @photocuratornz.bsky.social
deb te kawa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social Ngāti Porou | Aotearoa | Political Theory | Public Administration | Kua tata oti taku tohu kairangi
Simon Tanner @s-tanner.bsky.social Digital Cultural Heritage Professor, King's College London
Own opinions
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social Senior Writer at The Spinoff.
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Mike Brown @maupuia.bsky.social Hiking and running and music and wine and cooking and cocktails and basketball.
Also lilregie.com for your event registration needs.
GBIF @gbif.org Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Want to be the first to learn about new datasets and use of data in GBIF? Check out @gbifmorpho.bsky.social 🦋
michael lascarides @mlascarides.bsky.social Art tinkerer, library dweller, immigrant. Thinking a lot about how to prove libraries are worth keeping around. Ōtepoti.
Victoria Leachman @vleachman.bsky.social GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) worker, President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, & © geek interested in open knowledge, collections, content, & copying. Views expressed here are mine alone. She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-182
Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social I read poetry to rare lizards.
Frank Chimero @frankchimero.com Another designer in New York
Pauline Reynolds @punahere.bsky.social 
Jane Finnis @janefinnis.bsky.social Consultant Director with The Audience Agency. Champion for our Let’s Get Real programme of action research and positive change in the cultural sector.
Claire Lanyon @clanyon.bsky.social Lover of teaching, technology and social history… work/ed in EdTech & GLAM. Currently: University Librarian. Mum to a Ragdoll cat and wife of a dreamer who shares my joy of fancy dress!
@rjstein.bsky.social @rjstein.bsky.social 
Dr Thom @thomaslinley.com Researching #deepsea #fish. Co-host of The Deep-Sea #Podcast @deepseapod.com. #TeamFish, Curator at The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. #tech and #SciComm. Views are my own. #dyslexic, he/him
Sarah - Toitū te Tiriti @forster81.bsky.social Mum, comms person, childrens book enthusiast and cofounder of The Sapling. Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti
Matthew Oliver @talkingtothecan.bsky.social bush gardening in the shadow of Tarikākā / toitū te Tiriti
Science Media Centre NZ @smcnz.bsky.social Independent, unbiased scientific information for the New Zealand media | sciencemediacentre.co.nz
Anna Guenther @whereisanna.bsky.social Co-founder of things (PledgeMe, Cheese Cartel, WWGSD). Mumma to Brie. Feminist. Tangata Tiriti. Love cheese, books, the power of people getting sh*t done, and naps.
Jessica Moran @jessmmo.bsky.social Librarian and archivist living and working in Aotearoa
Anna Rawhiti-Connell @annarawhiticonnell.bsky.social Writer, head of audience at The Spinoff (We don't run a Bluesky account FYI). 
Bruce Wyman @bwyman.bsky.social I know a few things about museums, technology, user experience, design, science, art, and life. I play at the intersection of them all. (he/him)
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Cilla Wehi @cillaw.bsky.social FBES. Here for isotopes, curiosity, community. Also human ecological relationships. Biologist. Director Te Pūnaha Matatini national centre of research excellence in complex systems, AoNZ. Hapainga te reo Māori. https://priscillawehi.com
Nick Golledge @nick-golledge.bsky.social Antarctic climate scientist, IPCC author, FRSNZ, musician, & artist. #julialang. Vegan, yoga, runner.
Author of FEEDBACK, a book about complexity and connection - published by Rowman & Littlefield.
🌏 www.nicholasgolledge.github.io
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Chris Keall @chriskeall.bsky.social Technology Editor, NZ Herald. Follow Chris Keall Journalist on Facebook to see a list of my recent articles
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/chris-keall/
Monika Kern @belbird.bsky.social Lead learner - Education Manager at Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Aotearoa New Zealand. Views are my own. Member of the Brisbane MQG.
Robert J Weisberg (aka Museum Human) @robertjweisberg.bsky.social Human being, museum worker, blogger (www.museumhuman.com, subscribing is free), complexity junkie, Buddhist, rest as it occurs to me. (he/him)
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Josie Shapiro @josieshapiro.bsky.social Novelist !!
My debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
2024 Sargeson Fellow 
Eloise Wallace @eloisew.bsky.social Twitter émigré - was Tairawhiti_muse
history, art, archives, books & all old things and their stories + museums, galleries
Recently departed Te Tairāwhiti for Murihiku Southland and living in Waihopai Invercargill. Te Unua Southland Museum Director
jem @janetmcallister.bsky.social Roskill. Pākehā. Land back. What is your theory of change. 13 Dec 23: https://awc.org.nz/things-you-can-do-right-now-to-contain-this-cartoon-villain-government/- S @steelotter.bsky.social @steelotter.bsky.social
Max Rashbrooke @maxrashbrooke.bsky.social Senior research fellow (adjunct), Victoria University. Words at the Post, Spinoff, Guardian. @TEDTalks '3 Ways to Upgrade Democracy'. Author on tackling economic inequality and creating democratic renewal. Mostly broadcasting here.
Murdoch Stephens @murdochstephens.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Publisher, Researcher. Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | WGTN. Always keeping the bluesky-deck clean. murdochstephens.com
Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social Novelist and occasional reviewer 
Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social Paediatrician, health researcher, writer, librettist and poet from Aotearoa. Child longitudinal studies, equity, intersectional youth health. Columnist on big-picture health issues, North and South. Staunch Cantonese aunty/mama.
Georgia Carson @thebibliophile.bsky.social Ngāti Whakaue. Wellingtonian post-doc navigating Guangzhou, China. Trying this out.
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
Rev. Frank Ritchie @frankritchie.bsky.social Husband, father, church minister, Chaplain for Media Chaplaincy NZ, co-host on Sunday at Six on Newstalk ZB. ‘Friend of sinners.’
Mark Crookston @markival.bsky.social archivist and librarian
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social Data plumber/word baker
Peter Asquith @wasabicube.com Arbitrary Function Generator (🏴→🏴→🇳🇿)
Aotearoa
he/him
https://wasabicube.com
Frances Cook @francescook.bsky.social Caffeine-powered independent financial journalist. Like cats a bit much.
Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social Author, teacher, nerd.
I write the Olympus Inc. series - Greek myth meets The Devil Wears Prada. Penelope Pops the Question (https://BookHip.com/PQSRZXZ) is free!
van @deathbypdf.bsky.social nonbinary princess pirate boy 💪🫶
professionally lying down
views my own
Sorry if u sense mental illness on the TL
Anna Pendergrast @annapendergrast.bsky.social Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
IIML @modernletters.bsky.social The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Dacia Herbulock @quarrion.bsky.social Director of Science Media Centre New Zealand
Josh Judkins @mrjudkins.bsky.social Ameri-kiwi in San Francisco. Currently hooked on Marvel Snap, and just bought some awesome glow-in-the-dark dinosaur shoes.
Tara Fagan @taranz.bsky.social Educator who believes learners need creativity, curiosity, collaboration and great learning experiences. Advocate for museums and culture & heritage spaces supporting the formal learning ecosystem. Views are my own.
Eleanor Whitworth @ellew.bsky.social Writer. Walk my dog three times a day. Delighted by @briggsay.bsky.social 
Sereana Naepi @sereananaepi.bsky.social Higher education researcher interested in how we can change our education and research systems to better serve everybody.
GOOD BOOKS @goodbookshopnz.bsky.social www.goodbookshop.nz
GOOD BOOKS is a small independent bookshop on Jessie Street in Te Aro, Pōneke Wellington.
We’re proud to be Aotearoa New Zealand’s first (and only) Living Wage bookshop, with a select and inclusive range of books for all.
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.