Social Statistics, University of Manchester @socialstats.bsky.social Researching social challenges by applying cutting-edge quantitative methods. Courses in statistics, data and research skills -
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/social-statistics/
www.linkedin.com/company/the-university-of-manchester-social-statistics
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Salon.com @salon.com The original online source for news, politics and culture.
Support Salon’s mission — become a member: bit.ly/4m3o3f5
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Emma Fraser @frazbelina.bsky.social I write about TV. Words at many places including The Daily Beast, Elle, Marie Claire, IGN, The Playlist, Backstage Magazine, and more. Talking about costumes, fashion and Felicity’s hair.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Laura Towers @ltowers728.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF | Sociology Department, Uni. of Manchester | CDAS Visiting Fellow | Interested in: siblings; families; relationships; loss, grief & bereavement.
Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social Internet scholar at University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk
Former Prez of @aoir.bsky.social
Pessimist
The Nostagain Network @nostagain.bsky.social North America's first student-led collective studying and showcasing nostalgia. Based in Montréal, Canada.
🍁 https://nostagain.ca
👇 Relive the full playlist of our SYMPOSIUM 2026 here:
https://nostagain.ca/symposium2026
European Centre for the Study of Hate @ecsh-research.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research Centre Addressing Group-Based Hate and Hostility. Values-driven impact-focused research. Advancing Europe's values of human dignity, equality and the rule of law from its Western edge.
www.ul.ie/ecsh
Imagination Lancaster @imaginationlanc.bsky.social A design-led research lab at Lancaster University
https://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/ 
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh; views my own.
she/her
Please don't DM me - I can't access them anymore.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Felipe Soares @felipebsoares.bsky.social Reader in Disinformation Studies - London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Katie Moylan @analogadjacent.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social She/Her | Cultural History of the Internet in Australia | PhD Student Monash University | Outdated Tech Enthusiast 💾💿
Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge @camsociology.bsky.social We are an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Sociology committed to public facing, theoretically strong, empirically oriented research. https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/
probably nicole @not-nicole.bsky.social MSc in Digital Anthropology, fandom, sexuality, platform ecologies, thinking with technology
Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈 @svegaard.bsky.social Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC.
🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country.
QaF.
Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person.
he/him
Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.
My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Trans Writes @transwrites.world A trans led project for platforming trans voices. Co-founded by
@hleehurley.substack.com and @Gemma.transwrites.world
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
APPG on Youth Affairs @youthappg.bsky.social The official account for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs. Check out our website for details & to register for the next meeting. #YouthAPPG
https://youthappg.org.uk/
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social An interdisciplinary research centre at University of Cambridge exploring the nature, ethics and impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/ 
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomsalc.bsky.social We are one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
Gender & Education Association (GEA) @genderanded.bsky.social Gender & Education Association (charity: 1159145)
#equality in & through #education #research #activism #art #feminism #intersectionality #BLM #TransRights 
Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
https://linktr.ee/manchesterhistories
Helen Warner @helenwarner.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Digital Cultutes, University of East Anglia
signifiant other @thethirdmeaning.bsky.social LLM trained on being alive and doing things
Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
UK-based.
Dr Beatriz Lopes Buarque @beatrizlbuarque.bsky.social LSE Fellow interested in the intersection between AI/Technology and security, especially in the relationship between algorithmic bias, the global far right and information warfare.
https://www.beatrizbuarque.com
kat schindel @kat1824.bsky.social researcher + teacher in culture, digital media, and feminism
Zoë Billingham @zoebillingham.bsky.social Director of IPPR North in Manchester. Economist focused on people’s lived experience. Regional policy. Views my own.
The Least Famous Jason Kelley @jason.exposed I used to tweet a lot as @EFF. All the bad tweets were mine.
https://www.eff.org/about/staff/jason-kelley
This here account is where I mostly post dog
Tor Project @torproject.org We're a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online. Download Tor Browser for protection against surveillance and censorship. http://t.me/TorProject
Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) @educationuom.bsky.social Promoting public education and championing the vulnerable since 1890. Part of @UoMhums.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk.
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/codemcr
Website: http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk
Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures
Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
Greater Manchester Universities @greatermanchesteruniversities.org Greater Manchester Universities is a collaboration between GM's five leading Higher Education institutions and the GMCA, working together to tackle inequality, boost the economy, and protect the environment.
Learn more: greatermanchesteruniversities.org
University of Manchester Child Study Centre @childstudycentre.bsky.social At the Child Study Centre we study how children learn to talk, play and make friends!
Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social A University of Manchester research platform, developing and championing interdisciplinary research in Creativity and Creative practices.
https://linktr.ee/uomcreativemcr
For general enquiries please email creative@manchester.ac.uk.
Work and Equalities Institute @workequalities.bsky.social www.wei.manchester.ac.uk
Research institute at The University of Manchester. Research themes include: Work Futures, Fairness and Wellbeing in the Workplace, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Regulation and representation. 
Politics @ UoM @uompols.bsky.social Politics Department at the School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social, at the University of Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social
One of the largest and strongest politics groupings in the UK with a long and distinguished history as a centre of research.
The University of Manchester Library @uomlibrary.bsky.social National Research Library at the heart of @official-uom, welcoming over three million students, researchers and visitors every year.
IT Services @itservices.manchester.ac.uk IT news and announcements for The University of Manchester.
Online 9am-5pm Mon to Fri.
Please direct any technical queries to the IT Support Centre.
itservices.manchester.ac.uk/help/
UoM Research IT @uomresearchit.bsky.social Research IT provide specialised research services and expertise for the research community at the University of Manchester. This includes research compute platforms, research software engineering and much more.
https://research-it.manchester.ac.uk/
Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social Gerontologist: ageing and the lifecourse, wellbeing in later life, social policy for an ageing society. Especially pensions, social care, financing later life.
Also ❤️ @UKDataService.
University of Manchester @OfficialUoM.
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test.
#education #museums #cats
Own views
Prof Michaela Benson @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @thesociologicalreview.org
Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK
Brexitbritsabroad.org
migzen.net
#Podcast producer and host https://whodowethinkweare.org
Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social Sociologist. Ethnography, cities, practices of belonging, walking. Research consultancy, evaluation and training.
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social English Lit PhD student @ UoLiverpool: contemporary trauma literature and theory, online reading communities and affects 💫 amateur internet archaeologist 🔎 writer: Refinery29, VICE, i Paper, Dazed
Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social Actress, Writer, Creator of Philosophy Tube ⚔️
Lohar in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON; Eurus in STAR WARS; Nocturne in BALDUR’S GATE 3; Hotspur in THE PRINCE; also @KillJamesBond ✨👑
Alison Harvey @digitalpromises.bsky.social Professor of Communications, Glendon College, York University
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Katy Mathers - Senior Commissioning Editor, Emerald Publishing @katymathers.bsky.social 📚 Senior Book Editor, Sociology & Criminology
🏆 2025 Shortlist - IPG Young Independent Publisher Award
🤍 Based in Yorkshire
📢 All views my own
🌱vegan 🎭 arts 🏃♀️➡️running 🌍 exploring
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social assistant professor @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social Lecturer in Media and Communication researching the intersections of feminism, postfeminism, and popular culture
Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching infidelity & intimacy | https://simone-schneider.github.io
Anthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social teaching fellow, ucd ics | phd, lse media & comms | reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences | views my own
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Laurel Westbrook @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at U.C. Santa Barbara
Studies gender, sexuality, violence, activism, and surveys
Author of Unlivable Lives https://www.ucpress.edu/books/unlivable-lives/paper
Pronouns: They/them
Vilde Schanke Sundet @vildess.bsky.social Associate professor in media and communication at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I study media industries, platforms, creators, fans, and television. Project leader of GLOBAL NATIVES. 
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Gints Zilbalodis @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social Director of Flow(2024) and Away(2019)
Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Mina Baginova @minabagin.bsky.social Social anthropologist specializing in the intersection of social movements, protests, feminist mobilisations, gender, culture and politics.
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social Home to Criminology, Social Statistics, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Law, Social Anthropology and Sociology at
@official-uom.bsky.social
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/
Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
charlotte durham @charlottedurham.bsky.social phd-ing @ university of leeds, uk | disnet exec member | bodies, space, disney + the everyday hypermediated environment ✨ | she/her
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/pgr/5805/charlotte-durham
Eve Ng, scholar and sky lover @evecng.bsky.social Critical media studies, gender studies
Author of Mainstreaming Gays (2023), Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (2022), and other stuff:
https://evecng.wordpress.com
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Alex Yates @alexyates2000.bsky.social PhDing in Bath • Researching anti-populism • 'Moral panic breeds goose-stepping, can't just stand by rubbernecking' • he/him
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Adam Chen @ahgchen.bsky.social PhD researcher at @imh-uob.bsky.social | Investigating the social determinants of youth suicide and self-harm in England | MGS ESRC DTP Joint studentship with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Birmingham, UK | he/him 🏳️🌈
↳ https://ahgchen.uk
@carysafoko.bsky.social @carysafoko.bsky.social 
Over The Top Under The Radar @overunderpod.bsky.social Join Carys Afoko every week for a critical look at the stories in the news that are either over-reported or that fly completely under the radar.
LISTEN HERE 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/overthetopundertheradar
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester @socialresponuom.bsky.social Making a difference to the social and economic well-being of our communities.
🥇UK’s 1st university with social responsibility as a core goal
🏆Europe’s leader for #SDG impact (THE) & #ESG impact (QS) ✍🏼
Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Advancing Critical Knowledge on Global Media, Communication, and Public Life.
Annelot Prins @lennartspion.bsky.social I research the social function of celebrity. Special interests: famous women in popular music, celebrity feminism, immoral celebrity and monstrous celebrity.
Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social Dedicated to fostering basic & applied research on affect and emotion defined across a diversity of fields. See our website for #AffectScience2025 details!
society-for-affective-science.org 
Lucy Bennett @lucykbennett.bsky.social 🎵 Popular music & media fandom lecturer @ JOMEC, Cardiff University
🏴 From Caerphilly, Wales
🤓 Fan Studies Network board.
✍️ Music writer @Godisinthetv. Lover of music & words 💙🎧
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
LSEblogs at London School of Economics. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/48VNXdo
CCSN @weareccsn.bsky.social Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN) 🤳🏽✨ An interdisciplinary community for humanistic + qualitative studies of digital creators and emerging platform economies and cultures. Join us!