Heather Houser @heatherhouser.bsky.social Full Professor of Lit at University of Antwerp. Formerly at UT Austin. Books: Ecosickness (2014) and Infowhelm (2020). Books in progress: Our Bodies, Our Climate (public scholarship) and Girl Striving (memoir). heatherhouser.com
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
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Once a teacher
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social If you’d like to get in touch, my email address is my Bluesky handle at Hotmail dot com.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
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He/him
Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
https://freakytrigger.co.uk
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Ruth @bouledenerfs.bsky.social The black and white cat is called Penny
Views from my own brain and not my employer's
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Medievalist. Feminist. Poetry now and in the last 1000 or so years. Arts. Practice. All kinds of books and their histories. 
@kwalchester.bsky.social @kwalchester.bsky.social 
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social Historian of South Asia. Refugees, Migration and Borders. 
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow interested in ageing, autism, ADHD, cognition, health & wellbeing 🧠 Also coordination lead and working group member of NHSE-funded Autism Practitioner Network 📝 He/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Based at KCL 🏫
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social Janeway is an open source digital platform for publishing scholarly articles online. Developed by the openlibhums.bsky.social. Posts usually by @ajrbyers.bsky.social.
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social Editor of Tes Magazine
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social UCU branch of the University of Hertfordshire
https://www.ucuherts.org.uk/
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social The world viewed from Brockwell Park in South London.
If Not, Winter @sapphobot.bsky.social fragments from Anne Carson’s translation.
run by @maeveynot.bsky.social, pfp by @justchris.bsky.social, banner by Cy Twombly
Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Maria Korochkina @mariakna.bsky.social VC's Research Prize Fellow (tenure-track) at Aston University. Researching language learning and use across the lifespan; enthusiastic about stats, philosophy of science, and improving learning outcomes through research. More at https://mariakna.github.io.
BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library Publishing - bringing you the very best incredible classic literature, republished for readers new and old. Plus bold new non-fiction for everyone. 📚
Simon Burgess @profsimonb.bsky.social Researching pupils, teachers and schools. Professor of Economics, University of Bristol. FBA. Views my own. 
National Association for the Teaching of English @natecommunity.bsky.social Empowering English teachers to inspire young people. A not-for-profit charitable organisation, established in 1963.
www.nate.org.uk
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Tom Rank @tomrank.bsky.social Reflections on literature, education - and other ramblings. Was @literaryconnect in the other place 😀
http://www.literaryconnections.co.uk/
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. Leverhulme Prize 2026-2029.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ian-cushing
@bryan-cheyette.bsky.social @bryan-cheyette.bsky.social 
Prof Sarah Dillon @profsarahdillon.bsky.social Academic, Writer and Broadcaster. Professor of Literature and the Public Humanities, University of Cambridge. Author of Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2021) and of Turing's Literature (currently writing).
Dungeons and Daddies @dungeonsanddads.bsky.social Dungeons & Daddies, not a BDSM podcast ft. Matt Arnold, Will Campos, Beth May, Freddie Wong, and Anthony Burch. Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/dungeonsanddads 💸
Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
RfP Website: https://ourfp.org
Own profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/tmc242
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
scene_four @scenefour.bsky.social Pro GM, game designer, writer, creator. Tabletop RPGs are my vice. He/him
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social Labour’s MP for Stroud and GP.
For help and support for constituents email me at simon.opher.mp@parliament.uk
Abusive/irrelevant comments may be hidden and those who post them blocked.
www.simonopher.org
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social Economic geographer in Swansea, Wales
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Lynton Lees @lyntonlees.bsky.social Senior Policy Manager, Public First. Previously British Academy, PhD history of universities and education in modern Britain, Columbia. Views my own.
Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social Celebrating cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of Snoopy & the Peanuts gang!
📍50 miles north of San Francisco
Research Plus Universities @researchplusunis.bsky.social A new collaborative led by ten of the UK’s leading research focussed universities – ResearchPlus is committed to making a significant and distinctive contribution to UK research and innovation. #ResearchPlus
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her) @anamsanchezarce.bsky.social Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
Huw Swanborough @huwroscience.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist at ETH Zurich. Primary interests in the neuroscience of affect processing/perception!
Outside of science: Hiking, huts, snow, bluegrass, folk, and all things creative.
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Everything's a signal, man.... Everything's a signal
Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books.
Fellow of The English Association.
Contact me for support for routes to ambitious English for all.
www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social Void Wizard
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
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Alex Thomson @byebyepride.bsky.social Prof of Modern Literature & Critical Theory | Head of School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh | Deputy Chair, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social
@darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social Paddy in London. Or a Londoner, former Paddy depending on how you see it. 
waxbanks @waxbanks.bsky.social saddest song typed on worst computer
Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social Very unlikely, but almost certainly.
Derrida Today @derridatoday.bsky.social Home for the Derrida Today Conferences and Derrida Today Journal (Edinburgh University Press)
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
We Are the Mutants @wearethemutants.com https://wearethemutants.com/
An online magazine focusing on Cold War-era popular and outsider culture.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
Alice Keane @alicedkeane.bsky.social Bloomsbury scholar | teaching at CUNY | PhD, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard Law School | Co-Editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives (September 2025)
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary: @LeverhulmeTrust funded project based at @READEnglish, Durham University: https://soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Casaubon @zas.bsky.social 24 he/him
Noble Bureaucrat
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social Writer, mostly of comics. MARVELS, ASTRO CITY, ARROWSMITH, AUTUMNLANDS, THUNDERBOLTS, SUPERMAN, AVENGERS, UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN, more. NYT bestseller, Harvey & Eisner Awards, yaddita yaddita. My head hurts.
sheltre me from þe poudre & þe fingre
Marcello Giovanelli @mmgiovanelli.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics at Aston University, UK. I research and teach cognitive stylistics, empirical literary studies, poetry, applied English. 34
@omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social 
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Owain Burrell @oburrell.bsky.social Early Career Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. Writing on grammar schools and British literature
@lilianvasquez.bsky.social @lilianvasquez.bsky.social