Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
"Studies in Hogg and His World" @studiesinhogg.bsky.social Peer-reviewed print journal.
James Hogg (1770-1835) #EttrickShepherd, poet, novelist, essayist. Submissions: Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca
#ScottishRomanticism https://jameshoggblog.blogspot.com/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Dr Laura Watson @lauracwatson.bsky.social Musicologist/Associate Professor, Maynooth University | author Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic (2019); coeditor Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019); coeditor Women and Music in Ireland (2022) | Sounding the Feminists | Memoirs | she/her
James Gardner @jegcomposer.bsky.social Grateful Immigrant and Manuhiri | Composer | EMS Researcher | an "individual with diverse but intertwined competencies”
Based near Tītīrangi, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
gardnercomposer.com
Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social Music theory and history professor. Will help you with your music theory homework. Dad.
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Duncan Gill @duncangill.bsky.social SNP activist, when I get out of a comfy chair. Coffee, Packers, Dons, Guns N Roses… the important things in life
Sarah Kudirka @sarahkudirka.bsky.social Artist | she/her | also curator, gardener + stitcher | Glasgow | #standwithukraine
#freepalestine🇵🇸Instagram: @sarahkkd | Scotland🏴 www.sarahkudirka.com
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
Dr Catherine Preston @docp67.bsky.social Welsh historian
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him
Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Dr. Paul Saks @paulsaksphd.bsky.social Clinical/Forensic Psychologist, Expert Witness, Professor, Dad of 2, 🐕Dog Dad, Progressive Democrat 🌊🇺🇸💙, Proud Nerd, Poet, History & Art Lover. My little ones deserve a bright future filled with love, so I resist.
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Marian @ladymarian66.bsky.social Back in California after too many years away.
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
North West Medieval Studies Postgrad Network @northwestmedieval.bsky.social Home of the North West Medieval Studies Postgraduate Network and Reading Group
Enquiries: nwmsreading@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/north-west-medieval-studies-postgrad-network
Instagram: @northwestmedieval
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
21 Group @21group.bsky.social A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
ApocalypseHere @apocalypsehere.bsky.social Into archaeology, geology, architecture, cats, dogs, science, music, other stuff.
Not into fascism, airborne pathogens, mass breaks from reality, cruelty, war.
Probably autistic with ADHD.
Pro independence for Scotland.
ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social A project powered by a network of aviation enthusiasts hunting for interesting cleartext ACARS messages. All posted messages are delayed & have identifying information removed. Most messages are very undramatic.
acarsdrama.com | jumpseat.acarsdrama.com
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Department of Music @ King's @kingsmusic.bsky.social 🎼 High-level teaching and a flourishing research culture in performance, composition, musicology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, jazz and popular music studies: kcl.ac.uk/music
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Chuck D @chuckdpe.bsky.social RapARTivist GET OUR Culture APPS at RsTVapp.com RapCentralStation.net
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social Actor & Comedian | he/him | http://patreon.com/wsebag
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social Connecting you with North Lanarkshire's industrial & social heritage | Explore museum, archive & local studies collections | Visit our museums & search rooms
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social Perpetually bemused | Occasionally amused | They/them | 🏳️⚧️🇩🇪🇪🇺
Media Diversified @writersofcolour.bsky.social "We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer’s movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious" - Toni Morrison
(2013-2022)
https://linktr.ee/mediadiversified
Iris Duane MSP 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @irisduane.bsky.social Green MSP for the Glasgow Region 💚
Socialist, feminist and trade unionist ✊🏾
Let’s make hope normal again!
she/her/hers
Views my own 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
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
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Adam Wagner KC @adamwagner1.bsky.social Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba @ainmean-aite.bsky.social Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-names of Scotland is the national advisory partnership for Gaelic place-names in Scotland with support from Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
For more information, please visit our bilingual website: https://www.ainmean-aite.scot/
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Joanne Belknap @joannebelknap.bsky.social Court watcher to #Resist #ICEHoles.#AbolishDHS Democratic Socialist, feminist, activist, abolitionist, pro-Palestinian, author, knitter, 2xcancer survivor, past Prez Amer. Socty. of Criminology. (Vision issues, pls excuse typos.)✊🏾 🍉🇵🇸☮️🇺🇦🏳️🌈🐈⬛ 🏊♀️🏂 #Pinks
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Dr Katherine Emery @drkatherineemery.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher at Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Interested in saints cults and musical libraries.
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Carro 🇸🇪🌊 @carolinesweden.bsky.social Swedish. AuDHD. PTSD. Middle-aged, early retired. Atheist .Lifelong radical left scum. Democratic socialist.💙🇨🇦🇩🇰
Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘The New Age of Genocide’, and ‘What is Genocide?’. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.com
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Jane @localnotail.bsky.social local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant
English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.
Fair Witness.
Creative Scotland @creativescots.bsky.social Hi 👋🏻 We’re Creative Scotland, the national agency for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.
🔎 www.creativescotland.com
📸 Tiree Music Festival, image by Kevin Kerr
Jarvis Jay Masters @jarvisjmasters.bsky.social This is the official account for the Campaign to Exonerate Jarvis Jay Masters. #JusticeforJarvis.
Please Sign the Petition: https://tinyurl.com/2uwuvuva
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
taz @taz.de 🐾 Ermöglicht von über 25.000 Genoss*innen und http://taz.de/fuer-alle. Macht mit!
tazler*innen Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/KSgzo17
💌 Feedback an die Redaktion: briefe@taz.de, Social Team: kommune@taz.de | taz.de/impressum
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Dr Sally Garden @monsgraupius.bsky.social Scottish musician & musicologist.
https://monsgraupius.org/biography
• Concert giver. Archive seeker.
• Founder, Grieg Society of Scotland. https://griegsocietyscotland.org/blog
• Chair, Norwegian Scottish Association.
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
@lilbitwytchie.bsky.social @lilbitwytchie.bsky.social "Several miles over the madness horizon and accelerating..." (Terry Pratchett)
Likes crafting, gardening, reading, music. Geek. Socialist. She/Her. 🏴
Prearranged DMs only please.
Tacfarinas @tacfarinas.bsky.social Historian (mostly medieval and ancient history) of no particular importance.
Storyteller Fran @storytellerfran.bsky.social ✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. Author of Folk Tales of Scottish Saints, published by The History Press 2027 ✨✨
Avicia @avicia.bsky.social California native, history lover, bi, T1D, left-wing American. Pro-vaxx, covid cautious, pro-science. She/her. 
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social 35 years in Telecoms. Scot living in England = British. Dundee Angus & Redditch Worcestershire Uk. Interested in Technology, Aviation, History, local culture, military history, politics for the people. Aviation Museum volunteer. Tone deaf pedants blocked.
✨Kira 🏳️⚧️💜✨ @kira.goodgirls.online ✨ she/her ✨
✨ bay area, california ✨
✨ leftist ✨
✨ AuDHD ✨
✨ cat mom 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈 ✨
✨ cat girl 😸 ✨
✨ trans, polyam, lesbian ✨
✨ wife of @j9celestia.bsky.social ✨
✨ gf of @violetwren.bsky.social ✨
🔞 NSFW - MDNI
@angels4peace.bsky.social @angels4peace.bsky.social 🕊️🌍🏳️🌈🧙🏴☠️✊🇵🇸♿️♾️✊🏿🏳️⚧️♻️🖖
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”. Zora Neale Hurston
~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social I like to think there's a little something for everyone here. There isn't, but I can think what I want. 
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social I live in Glasgow and my hobbies include arranging my CDs in alphabetical order, discovering new and exotic whiskies, sheep-spotting and flying my kite.
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social Green MP for Bristol Central.
Former Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her.
Need to get in touch?
📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/carladenyer
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Ramses the Pigeon @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social Writer, producer, occasional performer, and accidental antique-dealer. (That hyphen is important!)
You can support me on Patreon or tip me on Ko-fi!
https://patreon.com/RamsesThePigeon
https://ko-fi.com/ramsesthepigeon
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Joshua Idehen @joshuaidehen.bsky.social I verse over bops for a semi living and I’m kinda alright at tekken.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama out now with CUP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/reprints-and-revivals-of-renaissance-drama/061B68B70ADC59CD5A6D9C3A0F9C0D40
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
Music and the Holocaust @holocaustmusic.bsky.social Reflecting the Music and the Holocaust website from World ORT. Posting music and history news, performances and remembrance events. Suggestions welcome.
Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University @musicinthebrain.bsky.social Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) is a DNRF Center of Excellence at Aarhus University. We investigate how the brain processes music 🎶
www.musicinthebrain.au.dk
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social Fan account of Paul Klee (1879-1940), a Swiss-German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social