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.
Lauren M Gillespie, PhD @laurenmgillespie.bsky.social Ecologist who loves exploring the natural world. Hiking, birding, running, statistical analyses. Originally from California but living in France for the past decade, trying to find a good equilibrium between both cultures.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social #ceasefire #nevervotetory Outsider | not in the Meursault way | Cymro #AntiTory since 62 | republican ‘…let’s exalt the importance of ideas and information.’ Loves reading & enjoys a pint or two! 🏴 🇵🇸 NOT WATCHING WORLD CUP
WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest.
https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Watershed is:
@rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
@leanahosea.bsky.social
Posts by Chloe
Hilary @penny4it.bsky.social Botany, ecology, FISC 4, Biological Recording, gardening, mountains, dogs. Proud Mum. Northumberland, UK. 💚🇬🇧
Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social Writer & nature photographer, especially macro photography of arthropods. Board member, Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee (conservation nonprofit). Fan of California, Montana, the rest of the planet. Photo website: https://www.tomastlephotography.com/
Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org Turquoise Roof, a portal for briefings on Tibet today - policy, development, insights, stories.
https://turquoiseroof.org/
Ukraine Battle Map @ukrainemap.bsky.social 
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.
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Mountain Research and Development @mrdjournal.bsky.social The independent, not-for-profit international scientific journal specifically devoted to sustainable development in the world’s mountains.
👉🏽 https://www.mrd-journal.org
Published by the International Mountain Society.
Hosted at @CDEunibe.bsky.social.
Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social Founding environmental journalist of nonprofit @WATERSHED-i.bsky.social
http://watershedinvestigations.com
Documentary filmmaker: ‘Thirst For Justice’, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirstforjustice
Formerly BBC (18 yrs) & Knight Wallace Fellow (2016).
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Tin Girl @tinnedgirl.bsky.social Good stuff but tinned. Interested in #Art #Music #Folklore #Nature #Place #Psychogeography #NatureWriting and all things creative in #Cymru #Wales. Yn dysgu. Not here for politics. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity.
Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Curated
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
@profpitches.bsky.social
#MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
Street Art Sheffield @streetartsheffield.com Website celebrating Sheffield's street art scene. From feature walls to paste-ups, shutter art to painted boardings, we've been documenting and mapping out the Steel City's street and graffiti art scene since 2014.
https://streetartsheffield.com/
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Katie Breathwick @breathwick.bsky.social Classic FM…ex-LBC. Rants about climate and politics. Podcast: You’re Wrong About #ADHD. 2 whippets, 1 husband who kills people for a living.
Board: The Watermill Theatre
Patron: The Women’s Prize
https://linktr.ee/yourewrongaboutadhd
Rewilding Affric Highlands @affrichighlands.bsky.social Rewilding Scotland’s epic east-west corridor. For nature, people and livelihoods.
Laura Parker @lauraparker.bsky.social Countryside writer, sheep keeper, drystone wall lover. Features for Country Life mag on the fun and the fascinating. Lives in Cotswolds, from Scottish Borders. Late of ChipLitFest, which is now sadly an ex-LitFest.
Dan Bailey @danbaileyukc.bsky.social Editor, UKHillwalking.com
Gear Editor, UKClimbing.com and UKHillwalking.com
Guidebook author
Hillwalker, climber
Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social Media consultant concerned about all aspects of human life living on this planet Earth. Interested in science, technology, people's lives and careers, environment, politics & ancestry of people.
Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social We’re Fighting Dirty. Literally.
Fighting Dirty is a group of three environmental activists. Together we formed Fighting Dirty to use legal means to challenge loopholes enabling harmful pollution in our shared environment.
https://fightingdirty.org/
Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social Environmental journalist. Founder of investigative journalism non-profit https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Bylines: @guardian @thetimes @bbc @SkyNews @itv
Ex: @TheENDSReport @PenguinUKBooks @independent
Rachel.salvidge@watershedinvestigations.com
REVIVE @revivecoalition.bsky.social The coalition for grouse moor reform #OurMoors:
Common Weal, Friends of the Earth Scotland, League Against Cruel Sports Scotland, OneKind, Raptor Persecution UK
Find out more: https://revive.scot/
Audax UK @audaxuk.bsky.social Audax UK is the world's largest long distance cycling club, and the validating body for Audax/Randonneuring in the United Kingdom
This account promotes events
Visit www.audax.uk for audacious enlightenment
Nepali @nepalis.bsky.social Spirit that's been untamed for centuries, dragged down by its own kleptocrats. Trying to break free from the shackles.
The Good, Bad, and Ugly. +Rants
Tour de France Hommes @letour.stadio.top Unofficial account of the Tour de France Hommes, which mirrors posts from @LeTour on the other site
For assistance contact @stadio.top
📅 2 July - 25 July
🏆 Tadej Pogačar 🇸🇮
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social South Yorkshire and Derbyshire residents working to bring local grouse moors into community ownership
Richard Jefferies Award @rjaward.bsky.social The Richard Jefferies Award celebrates the best new nature writing book published each year that is judged by a panel from the Richard Jefferies Society and the White Horse Bookshop in Marlborough. https://richardjefferiesaward.blogspot.com/
Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. Associate professor @ SFU. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* New research: oil & queer histories🛢️👩❤️👩 More @ tinaadcock.com
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Kate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world
Arthur H Dadian and Ara Otztemel Assoc Prof in Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts; southern transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer.
ICIMOD @icimod.bsky.social Regional intergovernmental knowledge centre working across 8 Hindu Kush Himalayan #HKH countries
Tweets on #HKH #MountainsMatter 
Amish Mulmi @amishmulmi.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Mountain boy
All Roads Lead North
amishmulmi.com
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
Richard Kendall @richardkendall.bsky.social Experienced Product Manager - open to work! > 10 yrs dig product: content/CMS/taxonomies/site builds/AI; 12 yrs local news website editor; https://linktr.ee/rkendall
👍 music, photography, environment, cricket.
📍Now: Peterborough, UK. Orig: Devon
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
@nickkempe.bsky.social @nickkempe.bsky.social 
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social Northern. Generalised wandering, nature, botany, birds. May also bang on about Castlefield Corridor without warning.
New Climber @newclimber.bsky.social Founder of Vertebrate Publishing. Refugee from Twitter. Likes running, climbing, books and more climbing. Publishing and outdoor adventure content.
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social Secular humanist | 🧠health | NHS 💙| Europe | Rejoin EU | #FBPA | tech | film | history | birbs | puns | 𐭠𐭩𐭫𐭠𐭭
Views expressed still belong to attached brain slug
@drnimaghadiri.bsky.social for more serious acct
Michal Thoma @michalthoma.bsky.social Residing in Prague, indulging in the Himalayas. 🇧🇹 🇳🇵🇨🇿
Louise Mayor @louisemayor.bsky.social RegenAg farmer. Does taekwondo. Studying herbal medicine. Video editor. First aid teacher. Facilitator.
Sometimes works in theatre, backstage and on it.
#LGBTQ+
Ian Carter @iancarter67.bsky.social Galloway-based naturalist and author: Rhythms of Nature | Human, Nature | The Red Kite | The Red Kite’s Year | The Hen Harrier’s Year | Wild Galloway
https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/ian-carter
https://www.whittlespublishing.com/Wild_Galloway
Christopher Goddard @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social Cartographer, writer, artist, long distance walker, DJ, fell runner
@andrewmccloy.bsky.social @andrewmccloy.bsky.social Walking, writing and the outdoors, Campaign for National Parks, YHA, Ramblers
Andrew Bibby @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social I'm a writer and journalist based in the South Pennines, writing on landscapes and the outdoors, and with an interest as well in the co-operative movement. www.andrewbibby.com.
Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social DPH Sheffield Council.
President ADPHUK.
Barely active climber and below average cyclist. Fond of - 80s thrash metal.
Blog - https://gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/
Mike Clark @mrc7cam.bsky.social A retired immunologist who was involved in pioneering antibody based therapeutics at Cambridge University who now lives in the Yorkshire Dales and spends much of his time walking, cycling, birdwatching, and in Winter, skiing.
H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
Michèle Mendelssohn @mendelight.bsky.social Armchair cosmopolitan & literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • MAKING OSCAR WILDE book https://rb.gy/hjps64 • MAKING HISTORY exhibition http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Katie Ives @katie-r-ives.bsky.social Mountain writer and editor, follower of the art of galumphing, climber against fascism. Author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. (she/they)
R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social famous Welsh poet in English language 1913-2000
“…catching this / one truth by surprise / that there is everything to look forward to…”
#RSThomas #poetry #barddoniaeth
📍 yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs
facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
Not a Machine, nor Bot nor AI
Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social 🚲 Happier, healthier and greener lives through cycling.
www.cyclinguk.org
Lhadon Tethong @lhadon.bsky.social Tibetan independence activist and Amala of 4 sweet boys. Born in Canada 🇨🇦 Heart is in Tibet (Tibetan flag emoji banned from existence, for now).
Co-founder & Director, Tibet Action Institute
Rob Galpin @robgalpin.bsky.social Writer, gardener and conservationist. Lots of interests and endlessly distracting hobbies like music, literature, nature writing and poetry. North-east England.
Writing at https://robgalpin.substack.com
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
India Bourke @indiabourke.bsky.social BBC enviro journalist, writing & editing for Future and Earth. Reviews in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social . Prev @newstatesman.com , AFP & others. (Recently returned from mat leave)
Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨
David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social My novella Coldwell is published by Road Song - https://roadsongbooks.com/product/coldwell/
Environmental modernism:
Wensum Literary Magazine https://wensumlit.co.uk/issue-4-autumn-2023/
Further exploring:
Echtrai http://anmorstudio.uk
The Arts of Japan @artsofjapan.com Explore the diverse universe of Japanese creativity. Post by post or on our website https://artsofjapan.com
猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social Briton in Japan
🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇷🇺🆗, learning 🇺🇦
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social Access and nature campaigner, physicist, researcher/translator who writes. Keen climber/runner. Views are my own.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ebenmuse?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=jl6lw
Jen Heard @jen-heard.bsky.social Nature lover, outdoor enthusiast, hiker, sailor and Mum, supervised by a border collie and three chickens.
Based in N.Shropshire, UK
Sail out of Conwy, N.Wales
Michael Walker @michaelwalker.bsky.social Woodland enthusiast, dormouse and bat monitor, nature conservationists.
Josh @jnsnape.bsky.social Nature, cycling, hiking, photography 📸🌎🌳🦫🏳️🌈.
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Evgen Istrebin @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social 
Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social Author of TIME ON ROCK.
Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too
https://linktr.ee/annamfleming
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
Vikki Nelson @vikkinelson.bsky.social
Remainer/returner/rewilder. 🇪🇺I work in the arts. London - North Wales. Believer in fundamental good for our planet’s survival - getting harder!
Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
Political Commentary.
Pisstaking.
Satire.
Dystopia Warner.
Writer.
Hate Tories? You’ll love me.
Woke as fuck.
YouTube https://youtube.com/@supertanskiii?si=4VUI_s-l7bfc1obT
You can shout a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/supertanskiii
Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)
Jack Sommers @jacksommers.bsky.social Editor and newsroom leader in @cnbc’s London office. Also a runner and tour guide.
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Gill Hughes @gillhughes.bsky.social Missing the sea, loving the hills.
Sheffield by way of Liverpool.
(And desperately trying to find all the wonderful people I followed on Twitter since 2009, on here!)
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Glenn Vowles @enviroman.bsky.social For equality, fairness, sustainability, humanism. Opposing over-exploitation of people & planet by the super-rich. Bristol based. Open University Tutor, Environment, 26+ yrs. Green advocate 46+ yrs. https://conserverliving.blogspot.com/