Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social variant practice model
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Burntisland, Fife
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Aisha Down @aishadown.bsky.social Global technology reporter at the Guardian. You can reach me securely on Signal at aishadown.57
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team i'm the most RESPECTFUL transsexual journalist in the world™
@khronos.world
tightpussy.shop
katea.gay
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people i've turned trans: 265
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
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Mountain Training Scotland @mtn-trng-scotland.bsky.social Mountain Training Scotland’s purpose is the advancement, for public benefit, of education and training in the skills required for the leadership and instruction of safe hill, mountain and moor walking, mountaineering, and rock and ice climbing.
London Reconnections @lonrec.bsky.social Transport analysis for London and occasionally beyond.
Ariane Tabatabai @atabatabai.bsky.social Vice President of Research for Security & Defense at Chicago Council on Global Affairs • Contributing Editor at Lawfare • Ex Pentagon & State Department • Author of No Conquest, No Defeat (Oxford University Press) & co-author of Triple Axis (Bloomsbury)
Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him
JD Carpentieri @jdcarpentieri.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Social Science & Policy at UCL's Institute of Education. The damage I have done to the UK is incalculable.
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
@LaidBackBikes @laidbackbikes.bsky.social Specialist Retail Partnership with e-cargo and e-trike/bike shop in Edinburgh. Also in Strathardle, Scotland.
On Insta, FB and the other place people are flitting from!
www.laid-back-bikes.scot (updated / refresh)
Brands: Urban Arrow, ICE, Nihola +
CADi Couriers @cadi.scot We are a workers cooperative in Edinburgh, run by cycle couriers for cycle couriers. Our aim is to provide better, fairer employment for cycle couriers from all backgrounds, while reclaiming public space from cars and making Edinburgh a more pleasant city.
Richard Armstrong @r--armstrong.bsky.social Back on social media after a long sabbatical. Professional dodger of bad vibes. Reclusive mountain biking extraordinaire with a suspiciously high ground-collision rate. Big fan of casual walks and talking to trees.
Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social Marc Lynch. GW Professor, POMEPS commander, Brewers fan. The one true Abu Aardvark. AMERICA’S MIDDLE EAST. Find me at https://abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io
Eric Idle @ericidle.bsky.social Check out the amazing handcrafed gifts made by my daughter at www.idlehandmade.com
You know you want a Holy Grail bag, or that guitar bag, owned only by me and Micky Dolenz. Updates coming shortly...
Alex Hirsch @alexhirsh.bsky.social I created a TV show called Gravity Falls. Currently cooking up new mischief at Netflix
Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social Media/Games Critic/Journalist.
Sensitivity Consultant.
Video Game Map Editor.
Streamer. Card Lord. Enigma.
Dapper Sikh with NFT. (Nice F**kin' Turban).
Toronto Documentary Star.
@Veeren_Jubbal.
muckrack.com/veerender-jubbal
veerender.jubbal@gmail.com
PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social #Evangelist #SMR ☢️ #Wind #Hydro #SpaceSolar #Space 🚀 for #ClimateChange 🌏🔥mitigation #BlueSky #Devops #BigData IT #LLM #GenAI #Ukraine 🇺🇦💪🇺🇸💪🇪🇺💪🇨🇦
Dave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social recovering urbanist and twitter abandonee
Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social #StandUpToRacism #StopTheFarRight No to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or scapegoating migrants. #RefugeesWelcome #JusticeForShekuBayoh #BlackLivesMatter
Head to https://linktr.ee/sutrscot to get involved!- J James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social
James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca The Guardian newspaper once called me a "Guerrilla Satirist" and the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador once called me "an arsehole."
Former journalist. Artist. Writer. Comms guy.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
Get in touch with tips: trucker3@pm.me
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social Digital News editor for @bloomberg.com in London. Former NBC News, BuzzFeed News and was psmith on Twitter. SWFC and St Albans City fan. Mancunian. Likes memes.
Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com Futurist | Exponentialist | Humanist
Electrification → #Bettrification
Software → Automation → Intelligence
Solar • Wind • Batteries • EVs • BESS • AI • BIO
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social Earth science PhD-turned journalist. I write about clean energy, tech sustainability, and the science of science fiction.
Website: maddiestonewriting.com
Newsletter: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/t/the-science-of-fiction
Númenorean Zhang Jue 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social the Russian Empire is already fallen; the Promethean sky will soon rise.
when the year is bǐngwǔ, there shall be prosperity under Heaven!
he/him
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Geoff Waterston @geoffwat.bsky.social Retired Stationer. Now to be found on the hill or gardening. Sport spectator. Occassional curler. (282/282). 
Kevin Henderson @pyspud.bsky.social 
Jturner @j-turner.bsky.social Writer, CFer and mischief-maker. Loves food, travel, rugby, cycling and my very annoying border terrier.
Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com FT data journalist writing about economics, politics and policy
https://www.ft.com/amy-borrett
Pedal on Parliament #pop26 @pedalonparliament.org We’re back! In 2026 we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-friendly Scotland, on Sat 30th May at 11.30am - Middle Meadow Walk to Holyrood, Edinburgh on closed roads. Find your nearest feeder ride on our Website
#ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #pop26
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Email: Rachel.sylvester@observer.co.uk
Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social Former Team GB swimmer and triathlete, and one time runner for England (literally one time). Greenway builder, hedgehog fosterer, wild gardener, ageing punk, book author, francophile, and if I can't bring my dogs, I'm not coming.
Leith Central Community Council @leithcentralcc.bsky.social Representing Albion, Bonnington, Easter Road, Hillside, Leith Walk, Pilrig, South Leith. Meetings every 3rd Monday of the month except July and December @McDonald Rd library - everyone welcome!
leithcentralcc.co.uk
Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social Posting articles from the Te Ao Māori News webpage every hour — https://www.teaonews.co.nz/
🤖 Bot account 🤖 Replies and DMs not monitored.
Not an official account of the Te Ao Māori News. Complaints and bug reports to @francismarkham.work
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
Dr Malcolm Harvey @malch.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen.
John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social 🏴 First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the SNP.
Promoted by John Swinney, 17-19 Leslie St, Blairgowrie, PH10 6AH
Alex Cole-Hamilton 🔶🇺🇦 @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk Edinburgh North Western MSP. Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Kremlin sanctioned. Dad. 🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇦
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
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sign-up for daily email news alerts: http://healthpolicy-watch.news
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Rebecca Shipp @rebeccashipp.bsky.social doctoral researcher - writing on walking, C19/C20 rural cultures, land access, class identities — editor of the thomas hardy journals ✨🐅🌴
The Downballot @the-downballot.com The premier source of information for the thousands of elections below the presidency, from Senate to city council.
Our site: http://the-downballot.com/
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social Disabled, northerner, book hoarder, foreign language enthusiast, trade unionist, Green, and unabashed cat lady.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Phil Gordon @philgordondc.bsky.social Sydney Stein Jr Scholar @BrookingsInst. White House, NSC and State Department under Biden, Obama and Clinton. Only posting articles here, commenting on X.
Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social Cycle campaigner and comms professional • Former TV Producer • Award-winning cycle campaigner • Former clown, expect jokes.
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com Official Account of NSF. News, videos, and community for spaceflight enthusiasts since 2005.
NSF is not affiliated with NASA, initials used with permission.
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Arang Keshavarzian @keshavarziana.bsky.social I teach and study Middle East politics, political economy, critical geography, Iranian history and politics. COYS 🐓🏆See 👉🏼 https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/arang-keshavarzian.html
and see my Linktree 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/arang.keshavarzian
Nick Hobson @nickhobson25.bsky.social Self-employed architect, Scottish Government House Condition Surveyor, nature lover, likes doing up old buildings.
Will follow those posting beautiful landscape photos, especially of Scotland 🏴.
Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social We are Scotland’s national cycling charity. Working with others, we get more people cycling, more safely and easily in a better environment. Charity no SC029760
www.cycling.scot
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Cycling UK in Scotland @cyclingukscotland.bsky.social Enabling and inspiring more people to cycle more often in Scotland. We deliver behaviour change projects and campaign to make Scotland a better place to cycle.
cyclinguk.org
DrCarolineBrown @drcarolinebrown.bsky.social Chartered Town planner. RTPI Director for Scotland, Ireland, Practice & Research. Recovering academic. Likes green space, blue space and active travel. Sometimes knits.
@furtherfrom.bsky.social @furtherfrom.bsky.social 
Paul 4Jags @paul4jags.bsky.social Posting on social media in a personal capacity about stuff I like, such as running, hillwalking, social history, big books, terrible music, and awful football teams.
BeckyB @beckybawden.bsky.social Roaming free in nature and the wilds, dreaming of escaping 🤓
Rafe Uddin @rafeuddin.ft.com FT San Francisco Correspondent | Signal: rafeuddin.01 | Tips: rafe.uddin@ft.com
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10 
Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social Washington Post National Security Reporter. Past features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House.
It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Signal: zsd.19
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social Keen on active travel 🚲 music, cities, odds and ends of Glasgow history, transport. Powoli uczę się polskiego 🇵🇱 posting my own views
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me? 
@bamfordthefourth.bsky.social @bamfordthefourth.bsky.social 
alice lyall @alyall.bsky.social Slow cyclist, serial enthusiast, aspiring harpy. Mostly in Edinburgh.
Work: heritage stuff
Volunteering: river stuff
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
‘Obscure rarity’
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas, Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science Technology, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Jake Benford @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social Europe in a geopolitical world @Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin. Interested in EU external partnerships, Germany’s Europe & foreign policy, UK politics and society, EU-UK relations
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Countryside Jobs Service @countrysidejobs.bsky.social Updates from the CJS Team. Countryside,conservation, wildlife, arboricultural and ecological vacancies, volunteers, news and features.
Adrian Davis @2760.bsky.social Faculty of Public Health Bazalgette Professor - Champion of Evidence Award (2025-27): interests in road transport, necessity of intersectoral collaboration, co-benefits, importance of, & access to, robust peer reviewed evidence.
Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social European | Edinburgh-born | Historian of the Middle Ages | Northern Renaissance | Romanesque sculpture | Peasants’ Revolt | victory to Ukraine
Joana Valdez-Tullett @joanavaldez.bsky.social Archaeologist. Prehistory. Digital Archaeology. Rock Art. Mum of Boys, music, art, nature, animal lover. Avid yogi, veggie. Third Culture Kid
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.