Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet. Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad.
Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social Early modern historian. Criminal justice history, satire on stage, torture, gender and sexuality. The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva (2021); Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007).
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Mirella Marini @mirellamarini.bsky.social Historicus/a (adellijke vrouwen, identiteit, diplomatie) - sinds kort podcaster van 👑 Vrouwen des Huizes 👑 @vrouwendeshuizes @treesandhistories op Instagram
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com
📕 BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/njnvr4hz
✊🏻 No Pasarán
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
musiconn – Fachinformationsdienst Musikwissenschaft @musiconn.bsky.social musiconn ist ein zentrales Informationsportal für Musik & Musikwissenschaft und bietet Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Recherche und zu einem reichhaltigen Angebot an Fachinformationen & Internetressourcen an, betreut von der BSB München und der SLUB Dresden.
Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social Climate and sustainability writing and communications; duck monitor.
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Oxford Mail @theoxfordmail.bsky.social Covering local news from across Oxfordshire
Have a story email news@nqo.com or call 01865 425500.
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Jedi Master Wise @wisejones.bsky.social Word Smith, Peace Keeper, Guardian of Nature
SD0695 @deni065.bsky.social Nature lover 🌿
Marine biologists
🇩🇪 🩸 🇧🇷 🤱 🇺🇲 by choice.
Observer over talker.
Plenty of opinions, wisely kept offline sharing them might require legal advice.
Value honesty, humour, quiet thinking, and green spaces.
Polly Jones @drpollyjones.bsky.social Professor of Russian, University of Oxford
Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social TV critic, Greenlit podcast creator/host, still trying to write a book
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social Parody account. Here to take the piss out of the full time grifter and part time MP who leads Reform UK. Enjoy – and feel free to encourage my coffee habit: ⬇️
https://ko-fi.com/:parody_pm
Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Avery Edison @averyedison.com elegantly withstanding the vast brunt of it • posting about comic books a lot lately
Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social Professor at University of Glasgow in beautiful Scotland. Views obviously my own and not medical advice or representative of my employers. Hate injustice and worried about the future of healthcare (and humanity)! ☮️
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social Writer. Amsterdam.
Andy Daly @andydaly.bsky.social Advocating for a new approach to business at Social Enterprise UK. NED. FRSA. Often thinking/talking/writing about procurement. Mancunian in Walthamstow. Europhile. Hispanohablante. Likes ceviche, coffee, cycling, IPA, Kraftwerk and #MUFC.
antonia groß @aagro.bsky.social spaßverderberin, mit vergnügen | journalistin (sie/ihr) | freelance reporter | media, social movements, anti-feminist & far-right networks | www.torial.com/antonia.gross
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2026, Southern Imagining 2026. FAHA 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Vindolanda Charitable Trust @vindolandatrust.bsky.social The Vindolanda Trust is a registered charity running the Roman Army Museum & Roman Vindolanda, in the central sector of the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site.
Megan Bowler @meganlbowler.bsky.social Oxford Classics DPhil and Lecturer, mostly overthinking Ancient Greek comedy and early ideas about etymology | Languages education policy and outreach | she/αὐτή/ea
Classics at St Anne's College @classicsatstannes.bsky.social We are a vibrant community of scholars of the ancient world and its reception in Oxford University.
Bulletin Academic @bulletinacademic.bsky.social We help universities maximize the #policy, social, economic and cultural #impact of academic #research. #REF2029 #workshops #training #editing. Posts by @kristinedmc.bsky.social
James Wilsdon @jameswilsdon.bsky.social undisciplined metascientist | executive director, Research on Research Institute @RoRInstitute.bsky.social | professor of research policy, UCL
Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social Editor, @timeshighered.bsky.social
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com Sociologist and demographer, U. of Maryland; SocArXiv director.
Latest book: Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
Website: philipncohen.com
Blog: familyinequality.com
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
James Mittra @jmittra.bsky.social Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation studies, University of Edinburgh: research interests in the health bioeconomy and innovation; posts reflect personal views not those of my employer. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mittra
Oxford Medical Humanities @oxmedhum.bsky.social Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social art historian with eclectic interests
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
George Hotchkiss @hotchkiss13.bsky.social Retired from FE/HE, lefty , politically homeless, curious, foodie, 🍷🏴🥃 🖖🦮 no to Brexit. Pro Indy but critical of many Indy arguments. Woke mind virus carrier. No DMs. Don’t ask for money. No profile I’ll not follow.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social Professor of Astrophysics @ Univ. of Amsterdam. Neutron stars, pulsars, dense matter, X-ray astronomy. Mom, Migrant. "Particles in stars blah blah". Does science with NICER on the International Space Station and schemes for EVEN BIGGER SPACE TELESCOPES.
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social Recovering X and Twitter addict. Looking for a funnier, more intelligent place.
Lifelong Leeds United supporter.
I block racists.
Elderly white hippie and proud.
Theo Winkler @theowinkler.bsky.social Freier Fotojournalist aus Wien. Schwerpunkte: Extreme Rechte, Verschwörungsideologien, Islamismus, Jihadismus, christlicher Fundamentalismus.
Fotostrecken: https://www.flickr.com/photos/199838581@N03/albums
Anfragen bitte via: theo.w@mailfence.com
Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social Ancient Philosopher;
former Member of 🇪🇺 parliament (Green Party);
Norfolk County Cllr (West Depwade) and leader of the Green Group;
Prof emerita at UEA, Orcid 0000-0003-4860-0323
*The name Rowett rhymes with poet. 314.3ppm
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚖️ Senior Research Coordinator at @democracyreporting.bsky.social, re:constitution programme - rule of law in the EU. Lives on a Berlin-Poznań-Warszawa train. "European Elitist". He/him. Full-time nerd. I'm a fan of bios longer than 160 characters.
Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social Geschäftsführende Vorständin @campact.de, Gesellschafterin @hateaid.org, Aufsichtsrätin @taz.de, engagiert für Digitale Demokratie
russell frost @russellfrost.bsky.social I contain multitudes.
Photographer, artist, podcaster, producer, ex-music marketing weasel.
Occasional horological content.
My wife is @whatdrivesme here.
Unapologetic #Shoresy, #Letterkenny and #Taskmaster stan account
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com He, his. Officially designated RadLib Crank.
Why I give my pronouns: https://rb.gy/p9p5yu
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Michael Kellner @mikellner.bsky.social MdB für Brandenburg🍃
Energiepolitischer Sprecher der Bündnisgrünen Bundestagsfraktion
Leiter der AG Energie & Wirtschaft
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social History professor at Northern Virginia Community College. Author, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by Kansas Press.
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629961/
Currently writing a book on the history of the three-fifths clause. Opinions solely my own.
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
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