University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk Welcome to our official account ๐
Nestled in the South Downs, we're a UK university located just 10 mins from beachy Brighton and an hour from London.
www.sussex.ac.uk
Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk www.sussexbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism: contributing to a connected society, combatting political polarisation editor@sussexbylines.co.uk
Emma Chaplin ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @emmachaplin.bsky.social Sweary. Neurodivergent. Wildlife, Swifts in particular, Pells Pool, Lewes stuff, including food & drink.
Profile pic is Lucy from Peanuts. Header pic is Mammies for Trans Rights march
She/her Ei/hi
Trans women are women
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social Bat squeaks by Joe and Andreia with occasional special guests! Posts are not endorsements. ๐ฆ
www.linktr.ee/BatConservationTrust
Dave Barker @woodlanddave.bsky.social Founder & Director at Wildlore CIC | Woodsman, Ecologist & Nature-Based Educator | #Bioregionalism, #CitSci, #DeepEcology #Kinship, #NatureConnectedness, #Resilience & #WildService.
https://www.wildlore.uk
Colin Piper @colinpiper55.bsky.social Sussex based naturalist. Retired Physics teacher. Sussex Wildlife Trust volunteer. Pan Species Recorder.
Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social I have Grandkids - so no longer use Airport Departure Lounges.
Natural History has been the unbroken story of my life.
Watching wildlife, mostly under Dorset skies.
Wrens; Greenfinches; Little Owls; Raptors & Adders are a preoccupation.
Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
Simon Harding @simon-ontheverge.bsky.social Wildlife curious nature nerd, Fungi, Botany, Bugs, Birds and Stuff. Wildlife gardening. Looking forward to having more time
Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social Founding environmental journalist of nonprofit @WATERSHED-i.bsky.social
http://watershedinvestigations.com
Documentary filmmaker: โThirst For Justiceโ, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirstforjustice
Formerly BBC (18 yrs) & Knight Wallace Fellow (2016).
Danny Chatfield @wildlifemandan.bsky.social Amateur naturalist, birdwatcher, wildlife photographer and countryside walker. Mainly active in the Sussex and Surrey areas. Local patch Willoughby Fields NR.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45745089@N04/
Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social Fae Dundee ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... ๐ค
#WildflowerHour
All my posts from X came too.
https://linktr.ee/naturelark
Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Botanist, mycologist, cyclist and gardener based in Norwich, UK. Wildlife, especially insects and other invertebrates. Author of Jeremy Bartlett's "Let It Grow" blog, https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk.
Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social currently writing 'Finding England's Ancient Grassland'
Botanical surveyor and artist based in the Tees Valley, England.
If it's about plants, I'll be interested.
http://theintermingledpot.wordpress.com
BSBI England @bsbiengland.bsky.social The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (@bsbibotany.bsky.social) in England.
Studying, appreciating & conserving wild flowers across England, and supporting the English botanical community.
bsbi.org/england
British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social 
The Ecologist @theecologist.org Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
PKster @pkster101.bsky.social Wildlife photography: (Not an obsession. It's worse than that)
www.youtube.com/@ThePkb22 - for my wildlife videos.
God-fearing atheist - Searcher of political truth in a pandemic of political lies - Arsenal fan and chaser of squash & foot-balls.
Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social We're sorry, we haven't a clue...
#wildlife #nature #biodiversity #birds #butterflies #amphibians #mammals #insects #walking #gardening #organic #flightfree
@richardbickers.bsky.social @richardbickers.bsky.social 
British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social Interested in all the natural world has to offer, with a particular focus on Birds, Moths and Butterflies. Also quite keen on Fungi, Plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish and Insects. Did I leave anything out? Supporting #BirdsSeenIn2026
James Harding-Morris @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social BSBI Countries Manager. Supporting our network of recorders across Britain and Ireland and working to engage people with plants through education and recording. 
@beedee24.bsky.social @beedee24.bsky.social - J JF @joannafuller.bsky.social
NKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social Cis-het white limey. Pro good, positive, kind, helpful things. Also pro wrestling. I support direct action as a means of protest. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social Award-winning project and magazine taking action for nature, climate, people.
littlegreenspace.org.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/lgspace
@marcusbugs.bsky.social @marcusbugs.bsky.social Bug fan, book fan, especially bug book fan.
Usually looking at bugs while walking the Westie. Blurry photos a specialty ๐.
#LitterPicker. Edinburgh, Scotland
Brighton Sunblinds @brightonsunblinds.bsky.social We are a family run business that have been supplying blinds, curtains, shutters and awnings since 1974. We manufacture blinds and curtains
https://linktr.ee/brightonsunblinds
Sustainable Soils Alliance @sustainablesoils.bsky.social We campaign to restore UK soil to health within one generation. For food security, biodiversity, flood protection & climate change mitigation.
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker ๐ @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Debbie Alston @debbie1alston.bsky.social Early retired ecologist, nature enthusiast and conservation volunteer now living in Sussex. Botany, butterflies, birds and mammals mostly. Monty Python and Michael Palin fan.
๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ธ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. ๐ฟ๐๐๐
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Dave Boddington @birdingbodds.bsky.social Brighton based birder with a keen interest in all aspects of natural history and conservation. Surveys my priority. Mostly Sussex and local.
Love cultural connections between the environment/nature and the arts.
Kristen-super-Mare ๐ @kristen-super-mare.bsky.social Still a weirdo, after all these years.
Eastbourne, UK.
Pop fandom, telly, fashion history, textiles, colour, collage... oh, and chronic illness. #MECFS https://
www.instagram.com/busstopgirl
No TERFS. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐ค๐๐ค๐ค
Mammal Society Youth @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social Youth Account of Mammal Society.
Inspiring future conservationists through mammal monitoring and engagement.
Join us for #UMAC2025!
@annieactually.bsky.social @annieactually.bsky.social 
Rosi Croom @rosicroom.bsky.social Climate x Culture. Dedicated optimist. Parent. Musician.
Jode @jodebtn.bsky.social Made from 100% recycled star dust โจ๏ธ
Autistic. Trekkie ๐๐ป crochet, LGBTQ+ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Cat mum ๐ photography ๐ธ
UK, Earth, Alpha Quadrant
Master of typo's.
Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social My cat is called Kedi. Brighton based tofu eating wokerati. Never voted Tory. Voted Remain. Atheist. #AirbnbSucks. Scuba diver. Prolific gig goer. Grungy shoegazer. He/him
Bricycles @bricycles.org.uk 
George Hogg @georgehogg.bsky.social Wildlife Manager / Surveyor , Conservationist for Freedom Group and Dalkia .
Country columnist in local newspapers for many years.
Author of Practical Pest Control.
Owner of Hogg Estate Services for many years
Digcrazygal @digcrazygal.bsky.social #Archaeologist, #YACLeader, #educator, #independentresearcher, #womensrefugeworker, #mindfulnesslifecoach, #herbalist. #EDI and #wellbeing. #PublicOutreach. #Author. Devotee of #TheMorrigan Views own. Looking for forbearance with disingenuous folk...
Worthing Community Chest @worthingcc.bsky.social Unlocking funding for Worthing projects since 2001
We support the fantastic community groups and non-profits of Worthing, West Sussex to bring events and projects to life. Between us we make Worthing Wonderful.
Support us at worthingcommunitychest.org
James C Holland @jimholland.bsky.social Really great writer of really great things. Terrible at bios though, as evidenced by this, what you are reading, right now.
https://jamescholland.com/
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
Ryan O'Hara โ RhinoBytes @rhinobytes.bsky.social Owner of RhinoBytes โ Freelance creative & brand designer
Specialising in impactful brand identities & design support for ethical & socially responsible organisations, charities, and not-for-profits. Available for hire.
rhinobytes.co.uk
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social ๐ธ Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera ๐ธ
๐ https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com ๐
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
๐ฃNEW SUBSTACK ๐
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https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Elderflower Fields @elderflowerfields.bsky.social A wild family adventure in the Sussex countryside ๐ณ
Discover our happy place next May
22-25th May 2026 ๐ช
Cllr Jacob Allen @jacoballen1.bsky.social Labour & Cooperative Councillor for Woodingdean, Brighton & Hove City Council๐น Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Public Realm ๐ค๐๏ธ
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Chris Owen @chr-owen.bsky.social Experienced programme leader in education, SEND & AP across South-east, London & East. #Education #SESLIP. Views my own. Plus #LiveMusic #birding #cycling
Paolo Oprandi @riparia-hirundo.bsky.social Digital learning specialist
greenercralat @greenercralat.bsky.social Coombe Road Area Brighton: a community co-creating greener local spaces
Junior Einsteins Science Clubยฎ @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Irelandโ๏ธ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations ๐บ๐ณ Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช UK ๐ฌ๐ง Canada ๐จ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia ๐ธ๐ฆ Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Gardener๐ชด @lat611.bsky.social Nature loving, tree hugging, cat mom.
Home Ed Network @homeednetwork.bsky.social Connecting home and alternative educating families with fantastic resources, fun community events, and supportive groups and networks.
Homeednetwork.org
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social Iโm campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and letโs Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers ๐ฆซ
Founder of the Wee Pond Project ๐ธ
@dormicespring.bsky.social @dormicespring.bsky.social 
Helen @chalkhillblue.bsky.social
Environment, nature , politics, history,reading, gigs,walking (South Downs) sea swimmer.
Born in Yorkshire , Live in Lewes, East Sussex.
Primary teacher and support worker for children and young adults.
Anti- fascist.
European.
James King @james-king97.bsky.social Software Engineer with a keen interest in ecology, history and politics
The Birdwatcher's Yearbook @thebirdwatchersyb.bsky.social What it says on the tin: annually updated compendium of information for UK birdwatchers
Sussex Kelp Recovery Project (SKRP) @sussexkelp.bsky.social Pioneering marine rewilding project to restore the lost kelp forests of the Sussex coast.
www.sussexkelp.org.uk
@sussexkelp
Latest News:
https://sussexkelp.org.uk/news/latest-news
Film: 5 Years of Recovery for Sussex Seabed https://youtu.be/VqwEJkQbYNE
Albion Life @albionlife.bsky.social We are a Community group dedicated to getting people together with a Voice, a Hub and a Garden. A resource of information and activities for residents of Albion Hill, Brighton UK
Avatar image 'Composition 2' is a creation of our resident 'BN2 Arts' group
Wrap Up Worthing @wrapupworthing.bsky.social Wrap Up Worthing. Since 2022 we have collected unwanted coats and warm items of clothing to help the homeless and vulnerable in our community keep warm in the cold winter months.
Worthing, West Sussex, UK
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Brighton Wildlife @brightonwildlife.bsky.social #Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #Geology #brighton #hove #wildlife #biodiversity #nature #geodiversity #brightonwildlife
Robson Peisley @robsonpeisley.bsky.social ๐ฟ Conservation Scientist @ University of Brighton
๐ฆซ Focused on Human-Wildlife Dynamics, Landscape Management, and Species Reintroductions
๐ณ Board Member @ South Downs National Park Authority
๐ Brighton, UK
๐ linktr.ee/robsonpeisley
Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social Award-winning not-for-profit org fighting for nature conservation in the UK via legal challenges, public campaigns & focused research.
Led by CEO @bobelliot.bsky.social & Directors @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & @ruthtingay.bsky.social
wildjustice.org.
wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday.
Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week.
The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants!
Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social
https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/
Dan Hoare @djhbutterflies.bsky.social Director of Nature Recovery for Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies. Naturalist, tree hugger, volunteer bird ringer, Green Runner. Personal account: opinions, puns & misidentifications are mine
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Brighton and Hove News @bhcitynews.bsky.social Brighton and Hove's liveliest news website www.brightonandhovenews.org
Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally. Happiest when muddy.
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themarshtit.com
Miles King @milesking.bsky.social Winding down long career in UK nature conservation. Always interested in History - and now enjoying archaeology. Running a small urban wildlife project (@poundburynatureproject). Enthusiastic Cellist. Living with Chronic vestibular migraine. Personal a/c
Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES - Waterstones Book of the Month
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: THE LAST WILD RIVER
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
RSPB England @rspbengland.bsky.social Restoring habitats, saving species and connecting people to the wonder of nature, across England. Together, we fly.
Shoreham Fort @garybaines.bsky.social Victorian Fortification built in 1857 as a prototype to the Palmerston Forts, now a Scheduled Monument and looked after by the Friends of Shoreham Fort, Charity No1147869. A diverse and unique history including the Charge of the Light Brigade, WW1 and WW2
Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social Author of 11 books so far (not all about hedgehogs), ecologist, photographer - and spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social โข HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) โข @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) โข publishing technologist โข DH โข bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Keith Pettit @keithpettit.bsky.social Artist. Seeking the magic that survives.
www.keithapettit.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Jo Wadsworth @jowadsworth.bsky.social Local hack, was also @brightonnewsjo but think one account here is enough for now. Chief cook and bottlewasher @bhcitynews
David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social Birds, wildlife, words, East Sussex.
Almost always on๐ถ๐ด or ๐
All photos are phone photos (some with a cheapo macro lens)
I'm Green, I'm Green ๐
I'm Tangerine, BFC ๐งก
Stephen Lowe Watson @stephenlowewatson.bsky.social Ex-NHS IT guy. Wildlife, trees, Sussex downs, climate. Environmental fantasy novel: 'Root Rage'. I amuse myself by twiddling on a concertina.
Born at 316ppm
Wild Orchids UK & IE @ukorchids.bsky.social British and Irish orchids, with occasional orchid posts from other areas.
Run by Sean Cole
Alan Salter @alandcs.bsky.social Moths. (Home trap located in VC13) Butterflies. MotorHomes. Scuba. Walking. Ebiking.
If youโre not posting your own material on the natural world & you start to follow me I will block you as Iโm not interested in following other subjects on this platform.
Flora Conservation UK @floraconuk.bsky.social Elisabeth A. Harris PhD. [Viruses in Marine Algae]. Founder of Flora Conservation UK. A project that encourages gardeners to plant wild flowers for wildlife and pleasure. Has written articles for Dipterists Digest, AES and Natur Cymru. #ukbirding
Sussex News @sussexnews.bsky.social Sussex News brings you news from across Sussex, from the downs to the sea. Read more at sussexonlinenews.co.uk
AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social Gentleman Scientist, ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
LLPS Natural History Section: https://www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/Natural-History-Section
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Hymenoptera #Leicester
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social Digital producer, ecologist, nature conserver/restorer, citizen scientist, wildlife photographer
Cllr Trevor Muten @trevmu10.bsky.social Cabinet member for Transport, Parking and Public Realm Brighton & Hove City Council
Goldsmid ward councillor
Labour Party
Chartered Environmentalist
Chartered Scientist
Chartered Geologist & Fellow Geological Soc
Chartered Water & Environmental Manager
Cllr Tristram Burden @tristramburden.bsky.social Politician |๐นLabour and Cooperative councillor for Queen's Park Ward, Brighton & Hove | Cabinet member for Adult Services, Public Health and Service Transformation| Policy geek ๐ค | Musician & Writer โ๏ธ
East Sussex County Council @eastsussexcc.bsky.social Official account of East Sussex County Council.
Brighton Active Travel ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐งโ๐ฆฝ๐ฒ @batbrighton.bsky.social We need a network of safe and direct walking, wheeling and cycling routes to make Brighton, Hove & Portslade a great city that works for everyone. That's our goal - join us on the journey.
Love The South Downs @southdownsfans.bsky.social From Beachy Head to Winchester, we share stories, photographs and our experience from the stunning South Downs. And did we mention our rather gorgeous book?
lovethesouthdowns.org.uk