Ailsa Henderson @ailsahenderson.bsky.social PoliSci Prof at Edinburgh - run Scottish Election Study, co-run Union survey/Future of England survey
Voting, polling, attitudes to the union
@scotvoting.bsky.social @theunionsurvey.bsky.social
Andrew Naughtie @andrewnaughtie.bsky.social Journalist, writer, Edinburgher. US Politics and other stuff besides.
SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods
📍#Edinburgh
Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. #streetsNOTroads
🚲FREE e-bike & e-cargobike hire: sw20.info
🛠️Tool Library: @sw20etl
🏃♀️Helped setup: Kids Park Run @ Hailes Quarry Park
@johnrobson87.bsky.social @johnrobson87.bsky.social Person on a 🚲 in Edinburgh & beyond!
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social Our 3 million strong audience shows this is the place to read real local news with great photos all day every day. Got a tip?
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BEST_Edinburgh @best-edinburgh.bsky.social Better Edinburgh for Sustainable Travel - coalition of community campaigners and groups in Edinburgh working together to support safer streets & active travel.
Edinburgh Critical Mass @edcriticalmass.bsky.social A friendly protest for safer cycling. Every last Saturday of the month, meeting at Middle Meadow Walk, 2pm.
Edinburgh Reviews @edinburghreviews.bsky.social 🙊 Not an 'Influencer', happy to pay
🏴 An Edinburgh blog for locals & visitors
🧑💻 By Andrew Girdwood / marketer
🎨 By Bronwen Winter Phoenix / artist
https://edinburgh-reviews.co.uk/
sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social Cyclist, bike madness, rider, two wheel explorer and cycle fixer. Sometimes I get to walk a dog. Writes software. Studied economics. Vote for communists, get free stuff. Vote for Tories get robbed of societal structures.
Longstone Community Council @longstonecc.bsky.social Posting about whatever is happening in Longstone, Edinburgh.
https://www.longstonecc.org.uk
SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
Edinburgh Festival of Cycling @edfoc.bsky.social The official account for the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling, find out more at https://edfoc.org.uk/
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social Looking out for Edinburgh's bus passengers and services. Independent of operators, Councils, Government, political parties etc.
Website https://edinburghbususers.group/
Edinburgh Napier University @edinburghnapier.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Napier University.
bit.ly/EdNapier
#MustBeNapier | #ENUDifferenceMakers
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Kate Campbell @kate-c.bsky.social SNP councillor for Portobello Craigmillar.
SNP Candidate for Edinburgh Eastern, Musselburgh and Tranent
Promoted by Kate Campbell, 16 N St Andrew St, EH2 1HJ
Casework to - cllr.kate.campbell@edinburgh.gov.uk
www.katecampbell.scot
Danny Aston @dastonsnp.bsky.social SNP councillor for Craigentinny-Duddingston ward, Edinburgh |
Promoted by D Aston, 16 N St Andrew St EH2 1HJ
Constituent queries to: cllr.danny.aston@edinburgh.gov.uk
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social 1. Scottish Labour MP for Edinburgh South West.
2. Civil Engineer
3. Parkrunner.
Newsletter Sign-Up: http://tinyurl.com/EdSWNewsletter
SOS Leith @sosleith.bsky.social A local community action group working hard to fight for better water quality and environmental protections on The Shore at the end of the Water of Leith in Edinburgh.
Ray fae Leith @leithedinburgh.bsky.social Though not born in Leith, I live in Leith, retired in Leith, play in Leith and probably will die in Leith... I❤️Leith
Friends Of Redhall Park @redhallpark.bsky.social Just trying to help make Redhall Park a beautiful place for our community to enjoy.
Alan Gordon @agordonsalive.bsky.social Community, people, grower, music and making things better. 
Tom Hogg 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @tomhogg.bsky.social Edinburgh based Partick Thistle fan. Member of the anti-growth coalition. I like football, beer, books, & active travel. Trillionaire, for what that label is worth.
Paul Bullen @xpabu.bsky.social Edinburgh. Cycling, running, tool library
Gavin Barrie @gavinkbarrie.bsky.social Former Firefighter, Former Trade Union Official, Former Edinburgh Councillor. Politics, current affairs, especially in Scotland, a country just waiting to be Independent.
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Eric Lesley @ericlesley2.bsky.social Trainee Transport planner. Edinburgh via Liverpool. Goodison Whitesox. All views my own. Same handle on twitter.
Car-Free Holyrood @carfreeholyrood.bsky.social Local residents’ campaign to end motorised through-traffic on Holyrood Park private roads, which are managed by Historic Environment Scotland.
Sasha Taylor @sashataylor.bsky.social Adventurer. Activist. Bikes. Edinburgh.
#MoreKidsOnBikes #VisionZero
CEO @thebikestation.bsky.social
Campaigns @sw20ed.bsky.social @best-edinburgh.bsky.social @infrasisters.bsky.social
Trustee @cargobikemovement.bsky.social @circularcomscot
Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms. 
Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social Award-winning political journalism from Holyrood magazine. https://www.holyrood.com/
Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social I like complicated conversations about rewilding, housing, localism and sustainable transport. Fuelled by rage about the nature crisis. Sustained by all the people doing something about it.
Donald Turvill @turvill.bsky.social Edinburgh Correspondent, The Herald
heraldscotland.com
Tell me your stories… donald.turvill@newsquest.co.uk, call 07525629592, or DM
Chris Young @christhetaurean.bsky.social Husband, Father, Gardener, climate and active&sustainable travel campaigner, artist, photographer #carisnotking #noplanetB born 326ppm #dyslexicthinker
Cllr Stephen Jenkinson @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social Edinburgh’s Transport & Environment Convener and Labour’s Councillor for the Pentland Hills Ward 🌹
Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social Director IPPR Scotland
Views my own
Nigel Bagshaw @nigelbagshaw.bsky.social Translator specialising in all things Central and East European (other than espionage). Sustainable transport campaigner and former Green councillor.
Jim Hunter @jimhunter.bsky.social Interested in current affairs. Does a bit of cooking. Golfer, gym rat and E-bike rider. Wordle fan. World traveller. Social democrat and federalist. Co-owner Heart of Midlothian FC.
InfraSisters @infrasisters.bsky.social Women led group campaigning for night-time cycling infrastructure that's safe for women and girls in Edinburgh.
www.infrasisters.org.uk
Cover photo (c) www.andycatlin.com
Katrina Faccenda @katrinafaccenda.bsky.social Cllr for Leith, Scottish Labour SEC member, TSSA & UNITE, stubbornly optimistic, often rebellious socialist. Occasionally a tour guide.
Gordon Carmichael @gordycarmichael.bsky.social 
Gordon Macdonald SNP @gmacdonaldsnp.bsky.social Retired MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands (2011 - 2026)
Campaigning for independence since 1975.
Cllr. Finlay McFarlane @finlaymcf.bsky.social SNP Councillor for Edinburgh’s City Centre & Culture Spox
Recipient of the Attitude Magazine Pride Award & MABC Campaigner of the year ‘22.
Ross McKenzie @rosssmckenzie.bsky.social Councillor for Gorgie-Dalry, Whitson, Stenhouse, Saughton Mains, Broomhouse, Sighthill, Parkhead and Longstone. Member of the Scottish Greens.
Cllr Jack Caldwell 🇺🇦 @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social ⚓ Leith Walk ward Scottish Liberal Democrats councillor 🔶️🇪🇺. Passionate about poverty,🌳,🏳️🌈,🚶🚴 & North Edinburgh | 🎸Dio & Judas Priest 🤘 | Former Abbeyhill @Scouts ldr & @Pilmeny | He/Him
Daniel Milligan (he/him) 🇵🇸 @dmilligan.bsky.social Partial to life on this planet.
🚲 🌳 🦦 ⚧️ 💚 🍠 ⬅️♾️ 📛 📸
Resist fascism always.
Scottish Greens.
In Edinburgh with a bit of 🏴 / 🇫🇮 / 🇪🇬
Opinions are my own
Councillor Vicky Nicolson, Inverleith Ward @vicnicsnp.bsky.social Mum of wonderful wimmen, Edinburgh SNP spokesperson for Health and Social Care, 20+ year career in Social Care, Trade Union member
cllr.vicky.nicolson@edinburgh.gov.uk
Promoted by Vicky Nicolson, Edinburgh SNP, 16 N St Andrew St, Edinburgh EH2 1HJ
Alex Staniforth @alexstaniforth.bsky.social Scottish Green Councillor for Craigentinny & Duddingston, Edinburgh
Non-binary
They/them
Promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Alex Staniforth, both at 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.
Angus Robertson @angusrobertson.bsky.social 🏴SNP MSP Candidate for Edinburgh Central (SNP) 🏛️Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture 2021-26
@jarlathflynn.bsky.social @jarlathflynn.bsky.social ...One bike bus at a time, nature and photography. #Takethetrain.
Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk Campaign for safe routes to school in Edinburgh. Run by the Travel Committee of James Gillespie’s Primary School and friends
Not able to read DMs, please email instead
https://blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk/
Jule Bandel @julebandel.bsky.social pesky little immigrant | Scottish Greens councillor for Inverleith | local libraries enjoyer | she/they 🏳️🌈✨
The City of Edinburgh Council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social We provide over 700 services to Scotland’s capital city. Follow for news and information on life in Edinburgh.
If you have a service question, please contact us: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/contact
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social Looking to make the outdoors for everyone as director of Ramblers Scotland but these are personal views. Expect pics of walks, posts on politics/world news, risidual overseas aid and guest appearances by a small hairy murderer named Pixie.
Philip Stout @philipstout.bsky.social Edinburgh & the Lake District. Here for your music, food and cycling content.
Niall Anderson @nialla.bsky.social Academic, amateur traditional musician, cyclist and dad. 
Charlie @urchaidh.bsky.social Very much the likes of me.
PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social Prolixity from Dr Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law at GCU Law, Jacobin scribbler, Sunday National columnist, and jaded flâneur.
Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
Cornelius Beer & Wine @corneliusbeers.bsky.social Beer and Wine shops on Easter Road and Leith Walk.
Once won the Viz Craptic Crossword
The “ Spiders Georg “ of rauchbier.
Website: Corneliusbeers.com
Phone: 0131 6522405 and 0131 5638169
David Bol @davidbol.bsky.social ✍️Journalist - Deputy Political Editor
📰The Scotsman @scotsman.com
🌍Climate & energy nerd
🔵Falkirk FC fan
📍Scotland 🏴
David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social Reporter, The Times/Sunday Times. Get me at david.leask@thetimes.co.uk.
Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Paul Lawrence @edinpl.bsky.social Ch Exec City of Edinburgh Council.
Claire Archibald-Shepherd @pumpkinclaire.bsky.social I love steam engines, Tudor Queens, Cold War spies & lots in between. Drinker of gin. Owner of many dresses. Jam Tart, Belter, Gooner. I will always like pictures of cats.
René Winkler @verdantrene.bsky.social Historian of knowledge🇪🇺🏳️🌈 - Interested in the history of natural history and collecting in early modern Scotland - Sibbald, Balfour, Wodrow
Susan Poupard @susanpoupard.bsky.social All things environmental, nature, sustainability, design, digital, arts & heritage · Edinburgh · I work at VisitScotland, volunteer with National Trust for Scotland & with caltonhill.bsky.social · All views my own
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
@thomsonstella.bsky.social @thomsonstella.bsky.social Living my best life in retirement. Finding joy in being ‘granny’. Try to be ‘green’;cycle for transport; need art, garden, yoga in my life.
Chas Booth (he/him) @chasbooth.bsky.social Green councillor for Leith, City of Edinburgh Council. Transport spokesperson, Edinburgh Green Group.
https://chasbooth1.wordpress.com/
Promoted by Chas Booth on behalf of Scottish Green Party, both of 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN
Dave Singleton @davesing33.bsky.social Edinburgh based electronics engineer. Interests: Cargo biking with my kids, coffee, live music, lego, all things Edinburgh Festival, basketball, avoiding single-use plastic.
Cllr Claire Miller (she/her) @cllrcmiller.bsky.social 💚 Green Councillor for 📍 Edinburgh City Centre ward
💰 Finance spokesperson
✉️ c.miller@edinburgh.gov.uk/claire.miller@scottishgreens.org.uk - DMs are off
Promoted by Claire Miller on behalf of Scottish Green Party, both of 19b Graham St, EH6 5QN
Simon Christie @thebonnieloon.bsky.social Edinburgh, cyclist, cycling without age pilot, cook, gardener, music, trains, canals, climate justice. Can we just accept Tr*ump & M*usk are bawbags and post about nice stuff?
Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
linktr.ee/chrisdonia
Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️ @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social #socialworker and #socialwork academic- joy, hope, arts engaged methods,
nature, creativity - based at the University of Edinburgh. Co-Director The Binks Hub. #PoetryHelps #NatureIsNurture (she/her)
🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike https://edi.bike - Edinburgh’s weekly cycling digest, covering local campaigns, path progress, events & more.
Tag posts with #EdTravCyc to share route, road and path issues and follow our custom feed: https://bsky.app/profile/edi.bike/feed/edtravcyc
David @edinburgensis.bsky.social For history, law, classical music, politics, some Spanish stuff and things Scottish. Also the occasional cat.
(RTs/Likes are not endorsements and blank profiles are likely to be blocked.)
Pam Sharp @pams.bsky.social Retired nurse lecturer. Lives in Edinburgh. Scotland UK.
Loves the sea, art, travel, photography, cocktails.
George Williamson @gfzw.bsky.social Associate Audio Director at R*, sound designer, cyclist, QA veteran, player of games, cinephile, etc. Any opinions are mine, and mine alone. Sounds good > clever
Dr Russell Jones @russjoneswrites.bsky.social Writer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Books. Food. Dogs.
https://linktr.ee/russjoneswrites
Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social From Forres. Live in Edinburgh. Finished the Munros in 2021. Care about cycling and other stuff.
https://medium.com/@edward.tissiman
Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social Chair Planning Democracy; board member Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre; volunteer with Spokes; Hon Fellow Scottish Env LINK, worked for Ramblers Scotland before retirement.
Walking, cycling, mountains, Scottish politics, CND, climate change, gardening.
BANZAI - Bruntsfield Area Net Zero Action Initiative @banzaiedinburgh.bsky.social #Community level action, campaigning & activism for a better future. 'Wider Bruntsfield area' of #Edinburgh.
Leith Feeder Ride @leithfeederride.bsky.social We organise a feeder ride to Pedal on Parliament each year and post on all things cycling in and around Leith.
Overlander @overlander.bsky.social Alan Brown, author of 'Overlander' from Saraband Books
, short-listed for the 2019 Saltire Awards. Upland flâneur. Slow bicyclist. Xenophile. Sale polyvalent.
Marco Biagi @marcobiagi.bsky.social ScotGov spad. Can't be publicly political, so sorry, but the only things I can post are hills, running, and occasional nerdery. 🏳️🌈🏴
David Key @davidfkey.bsky.social City of Edinburgh Councillor.
Promoted by David Key, 16 North St Andrew Street, Edinburgh
Rob Munn @robmunn.bsky.social Canadian born citizen of Leith. Reads, cycles, walks. Interested in music, film, politics, planning, active travel. Former Councillor. Blogs as Leith Notes (blogspot)
Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social Friends of Warriston Cemetery was founded in 2013 to safeguard the heritage of the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh. We always welcome new volunteers. www.friendsofwarristoncemetery.com
Esquiver @esquiver.bsky.social IMMIGRANT.
US diplomat (ret); US-German dual citizen; Jew. Enthusiastic Edinburgher. Crumhornist. Journalist, critic, and writer of fiction/plays.
Will not cede em dash to AI.
Mordant, feminist, and generally oblique.
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
Living Streets Edinburgh @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social Promoting Everyday Walking in Edinburgh.
Contact us at:- edinburghgroup@livingstreets.org.uk
If you’d like to sign up for our occasional email newsletter you can subscribe here: https://www.livingstreetsedinburgh.org.uk/contacts/
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