Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection 
Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
The Gothic Revival @thegothicrevival.wsocial.eu New website and magazine exploring the #Gothic, #Supernatural and #Paranormal with Tom Stanger.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
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Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
florinatufescu.bsky.social @wildelady.bsky.social Literary scholar &
Translator working from French/English/Romanian/Spanish/Swedish into English/Romanian
Author of Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art over Ego (Irish Academic Press)
Passionate about Peace, Beauty & Knowledge
Ask me anything:)
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Lieven Ameel @lievenameel.bsky.social Professor in literary studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
City in literature, civic community, narrative futures, energy, utopia, literary form and rising waters.
blog: https://lievenameel.hypotheses.org/
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social Scotland's national refugee charity. Celebrating diversity and raising awareness about issues faced by refugees. Co-ordinators of #RefugeeFestScot.
https://linktr.ee/scottishrefugeecouncil
Queen B @beansiemcbeans.bsky.social 🏴 independence supporter, rejoin the EU, end poverty and homelessness, fund the NHS, free Palestine 🇵🇸, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot Scottish Indy supporter sharing the facts - unfiltered. Trying to inspire thought about what Scotland could be, back in the EU.
#ScottishIndependence
🌐 https://yesinpictures.substack.com - interesting FREE analysis you won't see in the UK mainstream media
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
WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social 50% of football's greatest centre back pairing
100% of football's greatest moustache
Aberdeen Scottish Cup Winners 2025
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Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social Los Angeles
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social climate, anti-capitalism, and anti-poverty activist, occasional activist electoral candidate, socialist, amateur musician, amateur naturalist, native plant gardener, birdwatcher, beach lover, former academic social scientist
Harry Stokes @timesplitterc.bsky.social Left wing. Searching for hope.
The world is y̶o̶u̶r̶s̶ ours
Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social Living on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal / Ngambri first nations peoples, now known as Canberra.
Love my politics and my footy (aka Carlton FC) and my music.
Please do not post requests for donations for families in Gaza in my timeline.
CPAWS Yukon @cpawsyukon.org Together we are standing up for the Yukon’s land 🌲 water💧 and wildlife 🦌 while supporting First Nations’ goals. Learn more about #conservation and take action at cpawsyukon.org.
Peaceful Warrior 🇨🇦❤️✊🇺🇦 🇺🇸❤️ @munbosrock.bsky.social Retired, Lean Left, Gray Haired Activist, Optimist, Married to Alex, Dog Owner, A Resistance Member. Long Live the Resistance! All DMs will be ignored. Canadian First Nations Woman. We are in the FAFO era. I swear, that's a warning. The 4th Reich is here.
Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social Gitxsan. Loves learning and working collectively to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations children, youth and families.
Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social Journalist sharing news on health in all policies, First Nations health, health equity, social determinants of health and climate justice. Based in Australia, and providing local, national and global coverage. Editor in Chief, Croakey Health Media (NFP)
Decolonize Myself @decolonizemyself.bsky.social 2Spirit/Cree/Treaty 4
First Nations Personal journey. Exploring colonization, decolonization, healing, &
culture. www.decolonizemyself.ca
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Douglas Jennings @firstnationsaus.bsky.social First nations of the Northern Kabi Kabi nation.
Human rights and social justice supporter.
Postgraduate student of Indigenous knowledges.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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BC First Nations Justice Council @bcfnjc.com Nonprofit organization
Justice through self-determination
303-1979 Old Okanagan Hwy, West Kelowna V4T 3A4
https://linktr.ee/bcfnjc
First Nations Writers Festival @nationswriters.bsky.social We publish #books by #Indigenous Authors of the Greater #Pacific and beyond + distribute to the world. Big thank you to them, and readers, and Followers.
Buy them here. https://firstnationswritersfestival.org/books/
Lake Ontario Stan Account @mohawkrainian.bsky.social Mohawk & Ukrainian, leftist, geek, atheist, living in Canada. Diabetic, thank goodness for zero sugar Dr Pepper. I love my dogs. He/him
#Indigisky #Comics #landback
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Colin Dunn 🏴 @indyposterboy.scot Pro-independence for Scotland and any other peoples that want it. Doing my little bit to push this agenda along. Here for comment not argument. It's nice to be nice, so trolls, name-callers and rude people will be blocked.
Lush @lush.com We believe in safer socials, kinder communities and Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. 🫧
Leaving the world Lusher than we found it.
Customer care: lush.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
WG Saraband 🏴🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social Portuguese turned Scot. Artist. Pro-indy Scotland. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+. Husband. Books. Games. MA Medieval Islamic History. Sweary. Owned by 2 cats. He/Him
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
My artwork: wgsaraband.com
Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social More moustache than man. Former flâneur in the Middle East. #ActuallyAutistic Now a Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/people/academic-and-research-staff/english/craskem.html
One of 'those' followers of walterpater.com
Parami @parami2u.bsky.social Buddhist, vegan(mainly)
Scottish Independence (it's gonna happen - hope it's in my lifetime). Football - Glasgow Celtic, LFC and Barça
I try to be kind but don't always manage
Love Glasgow
She/her
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
International Walter Pater Society @walterpatersociety.bsky.social Promoting the study and appreciation of Walter Pater (1839-1894) | Aestheticism, Decadence, and Victorian studies
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
Philip Fracassi @pfracassi.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling writer of:
• SARAFINA
• THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE
• THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL
• NO ONE IS SAFE!
• BOYS IN THE VALLEY
• GOTHIC
• A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS
www.pfracassi.com/books
(Header art by Chris Nurse)
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
@alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social BANNED by threads, had 290.000 followers and 180 mil views per month
Supporting Uk rejoining EU
You can donate to my work here: https://buymeacoffee.com/alexjungle
Joe Thomas @joethomas2024.bsky.social “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
Carl Sagan
I write about American politics from an outsiders perspective. Aussie.
Read my articles on substack: The Joe Thomas Newsletter:
https://joethomascrespo.substack.com
Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social Global climate justice reporter
@DrilledMedia.bsky.com
Before: Guardian, Independent
Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide
Ex-mental health nurse.
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Simon Dolet @simondolet.bsky.social ATER à l'université Mont-Blanc, doctorant à l'université Côte d'Azur. Histoire des prévisions météorologiques au XVIIIe siècle (climat, environnement, savoirs)
https://cmmc-nice.academia.edu/SimonDolet
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist, anti-fascist, archivist | UCU | rs21 | he/him
Deborah Hyde @deborahhyde.bsky.social Dark folklore.
Former Ed. @TheSkepticMag. Regular #Uncanny expert. Fellow: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Patron: Humanists UK.
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social Disrupting power since 2015
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social #Radge #MDANT #Gype #DandiesMin
Carlton Williams @carltonewilliams.bsky.social Movement Lawyer & Clinical Law Prof
Down w/ @nlg.org @wplc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social
https://x.com/carltonwilliams
#BDS #BLM #LandBack #AbolishICE
#FreePalestine
carltonwilliams@ProtonMail.com
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
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.
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot Powerful citizen journalism from Scotland | Regulated by IMPRESS
bylines.scot
Write for us with stories you feel that matter with our editorial support. Email us at editor@bylines.scot
Committee for Autonomous Social Action - CASA, HGT @casahgt.bsky.social To promote the unity of all workers and their families and to conduct social and political actions designed to strengthen the working class movement. (https://casahgt.org/)
Kevin Cristin @kcristin.bsky.social Docteur en littérature britannique - Enseignant contractuel second degré à Aix-Marseille Université
PhD in English literature | 19th century literature and engineering | Robert Louis Stevenson | history of technology | visual and material culture
ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social journalist. gobshite. chaos merchant. tree obsessive. not necessarily in that order.
bensmoke.com
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Politics UK @politicsuk.com The Home of UK Political News. Follow for Impartial Coverage.
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
UCU Left @uculeft.bsky.social Fighting for an active-member led trade union.
https://uculeft.org/
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social An independent academic publisher in the humanities and social sciences since 1985.
broadviewpress.com
Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Buseum @buseum.bsky.social 
Liz McKinlay🏴 🇵🇸 @fagashlil44.bsky.social Beach bum/bag lady.
Passionate about independence for Scotland and democracy for all, support the right of Palestinians to live in their own state. Hobbies; falling over & swearing, cursing the establishment for betraying all of us. 🇵🇸🏴
Pigoneer. Scotland.
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.