University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Pascalina @fleur745.bsky.social Positivité
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Tom Shaw @shawthomas.bsky.social Library Engagement Lead for @ojcollective.bsky.social. Former academic librarian now working with libraries globally to support diamond open access publishing. Open knowledge, open research, digital innovation. And sometimes music and other stuff.
Global Safety & Geopolitics Alerts @overseassafetyjp.bsky.social AI-driven realtime alerts on global security, geopolitical risks, and travel safety. 🚨 Join our Telegram for breaking alerts.
🔒 Security guides available.
Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social PhD candidate on the politics of open research and publishing environments at [redacted]. OBC Board of Stewards. Copim. Synths. Tapes. Perennial pain. Skullduggery. Ⓐ 🍉 ORCID: 0000-0003-1217-0149. https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/ (he/him).
Ruth MacMullen (Mallalieu) @ruthmacmullen.bsky.social Work in Oxford, live in Sheffield. Open research, music, cooking, keeper of small child, neverending house project.
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
🎬 PUBLICIST-producer-actor imdb.com/name/nm5117722/
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Asia Cumbria EU Europe Faroe Hungary Ireland Spain
COUNTER metrics @countermetrics.bsky.social COUNTER brings the knowledge community together to agree and adopt the global standard for measuring and reporting content usage through normalised metrics.
countermetrics.org
Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own
Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks!
Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture
Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social Publisher @University of London Press | Humanities research and publishing | Open research
Theo @earthowned.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Manager in the award winning Library Research Support team at the University of Edinburgh. Will talk about Open Research/Science, running and whimsical fluff.
@drgarethcole.bsky.social @drgarethcole.bsky.social Head of Content and Open Research at the University of Exeter. Does a bit of History on the side.
Siân Harris @sianharris.bsky.social Communications about research, international development, publishing, inequity, climate change, politics.
Works for @uob-ieu.bsky.social & others
Opinions mine. Bristol, UK. (she)
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social Formerly Research Intelligence Librarian and NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU member. Equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Bethany @bethanylogan.bsky.social Associate Director at University of Sussex Library. UKSG Trustee.
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 209K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
G E McQueen 莫琨 @gemcq.bsky.social Open Access Librarian | Artist and co-founder of liminalart org | 香港人 | #citylis alumnus | ASD | Interests: #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, Information theories & Contemporary art.
Equinox Open Library Initiative @equinoxoli.org Equinox Open Library Initiative is a nonprofit that supports library automation by investing in open source software and providing technology services for libraries. You can learn more about us at https://www.equinoxoli.org/.
Tom Vause @cheese12233.bsky.social Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Jennifer Em @jenniferem.bsky.social Brown, married, lesbian, healthcare worker, in the PNW, with loads of family and friends that I love. I resist to keep sane. I keep going because they deserve better. 💙💙💙
Opinions expressed are my own.
#dailyactsofresistance
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI
Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they
Views my own
Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
Kira Hopkins @kirahopkins.bsky.social LSE library, formerly of the Copim project, OA enthusiast, publisher (sometimes!) - all views expressed are personal
Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social Open research, metaresearch, higher ed, US politics.
True blue. Dad of daughters.
I post to Mastodon more than Bluesky. But see my bridge account for B versions of the M posts.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social Open Access Publishing Officer for Edinburgh Diamond. All things Diamond OA, TTRPG and board games, and Gothic/horror literature and films.
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Katie Hughes @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social Open Access Librarian living in the UK. Working in Open Access and academic publishing. May qualify as a yarn hoarder. Thoughts are my own. she/her
@hume1711.bsky.social @hume1711.bsky.social
@popsimona.bsky.social @popsimona.bsky.social
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
ADHD librarian @librarianadhd.bsky.social Disorganized librarian. Love reading, if I can find the book I just put down. Knits in random moments. Fascinated by genealogy, archaeology. Cats 🐈 ✡️. Fibromyalgia. ADHD. Map geek. Recreational spreadsheets. Fueled by tea.
Camilla Ridgewell @camilla79.bsky.social Open access | Open research | Institutional publishing
@profpoojasaini.bsky.social @profpoojasaini.bsky.social
Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
ThriveLib Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries @thrivelib.bsky.social Registration is open! August 11, 12, and 13, 2026. A virtual conference for librarians, creating space for their well-being.
https://www.thrivelib.com/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
KnE Open @kneopen.bsky.social Insights and resources on #ResearchExcellence and #OpenAcess publishing for research communities everywhere.
https://kneopen.com/
Heather Staines @heatherstaines.bsky.social Scholcomm consultant, world traveler, dog mom, human mom, Nima, karaoke singer!
Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social #OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Mia Smith @mia-smith0.bsky.social Perseverance is my greatest steadfastness, and I will never give up, no matter what challenges I face.
@arnoldwilson.bsky.social @arnoldwilson.bsky.social
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Dr Evelyn Hearne @evhearne.bsky.social PhD, Public Health Researcher LJMU. Drug sociologist. Lived experience. Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion. LGBTQIA+ 🌈Mother of Cats😻
Ann O’Sullivan @osullivanannie.bsky.social Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin 🍉 @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
Tom Morley @tmorley24.bsky.social Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library.
UKSG eNews co-editor.
@rlhljmu.bsky.social @rlhljmu.bsky.social
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Library cactus (Sarah Humphreys) @sarahhlib.bsky.social Posting the prickly bits about Open (Scholarship/Access/Science/Research) & Libraries. Bodleian Open Scholarship Librarian. Social🐘&🐦 =
@SarahHLib also! #MetalLibrarian and #Hiker Opp.own She/r
Mastodon bridge: @SarahHLib.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
Malcolm Corrigall @malcolminlibraries.bsky.social Librarian at MMU- S West Coast Librarian @sylvianurse.bsky.social Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://sup.ac.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/i0AoJA
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Tasha Mellins-Cohen @tashamc.bsky.social Exec Director of COUNTER Metrics, Founder at Mellins-Cohen Consulting, big fan of standards, data, and sustainable open access. Inveterate textile nerd and housekeeper to a triad of demanding moggies.
Posts are my own opinions.
Lesley English @lesley-e.bsky.social Head of Academic Engagement & Teaching Services at Man Met Uni. Posts about HE libraries, EDI, wellbeing & belonging. Views my own.
Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites
Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Ruth Smalley @ruthsmalley.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, yoga lover, spreadsheet geek. Currently Subscriptions and Licensing Manger at Edge Hill University
Helen M @helenmonagle.bsky.social Library worker, formally @helenmonagle on Twitter (she/her) and co-founder of NLPN. Lover of dogs, beaches and other lovely things. Perpetually tired.
Lesa @lesalionheart.bsky.social Metadata witch
💔🇭🇰♥️🏴🦄
Free 🇵🇸
John Adamson @johnadamson.bsky.social Research Intelligence Lead for UK & Ireland @Clarivate.com
#ResearchQuality #ResearchIntegrity #Benchmarking #Collaboration #AI #Funding #Rankings #Data #HigherEd #Government #Impact #Bibliometrics #Citations
The Itinerant Poetry Library @tipl.bsky.social A live art guerrilla public library service, reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach. 14 countries, 500+ locations (Top 3 locations of library members? #1 Rotterdam #2 San Francisco #3 London): Come Join Before We Travel On! @librarian #TIPL- H @hdasilva.bsky.social @hdasilva.bsky.social
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
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/
Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social Posts from the Open Research team at Durham University Library.
View details of journal articles and book chapters – free access to full-text of many – by scholars from one of UK’s leading research-intensive universities: https://t.co/ocmv3du16G
De Gruyter Brill Library & Information Science @dgb-lis.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Library and Information Science department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Josh Sendall @jsendall.bsky.social Acting University Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UoLLibrary @LULGalleries & Trustee @UKSG #OpenScience #MadeByDyslexia - personal views
Marie Moss @mariebooks.bsky.social Books Product Sales Manager
(Higher Education/Medical sector)
Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social Manchester Metadata Maven
#Metadata Librarian (UK) #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
@clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social
Alicia Wise @wisealic.bsky.social Keen on accessibility, archaeology, digital preservation, goats, libraries, open access, open science, publishing, and running
Ruth Harrison @ruthejh.bsky.social Head of Schol Comms in library services, crafter (knitting and weaving mostly), views own...
Sarah Ormes @sormes.bsky.social Research Analytics Librarian at the University of Bath. Helping academics to demonstrate the impact of their work.
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social Co-founder of Kudos (growkudos.com - research communication showcase for broadening reach and impact of research - @growkudos.bsky.social). Scholarly Kitchen blogger. Follow me and other people in scholarly publishing: https://go.bsky.app/FanaExt
Jill Emery @jemerypdx.bsky.social Librarian by day, smart ass pragmatic Gen Xer always. Living my best life possible.
Jo Fitzpatrick @jofitz.bsky.social Research Data Manager at Lancaster University and Co-chair of NLISN.org
Terry Bucknell @terrybucknell.bsky.social Sales at overton.io (policy impact, grey lit discovery and that kind of thing). Ex-librarian. The Fall. Essex boy who pretends to be a northerner. Daughter says he’s posh.
Rosie Higman @rosiehigman.bsky.social Open research nerd. Librarian. Part-time PhD student. Parent. Cycling in my spare time. LwiththeT
Andrea Chiarelli @drachiarelli.bsky.social Associate Director at Research Consulting. Open research, scholarly communication & research policy. Based in Nottingham, UK.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7336-8330
Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Open Access advocate, co-founder/director of several non-profit enterprises incl. @openbookpublish.bsky.social, @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social.
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
Kirsty Wallis (she/her) @kirstywallis.com Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
@groovypathfinder.bsky.social @groovypathfinder.bsky.social
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈