James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social Anthropology professor with a weird little book about human evolution coming to science shelves in 2027. https://hollydunsworth.blogspot.com/ & https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/
Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social Science Systems Engineer @NASA/JPL-Caltech. PhD in Geology. 30+ years Geospatial experience. PI for the FOSS4G Multi-Mission Geographic Information System (MMGIS https://github.com/NASA-AMMOS/MMGIS).
Not a NASA account.
Never met a rock I wouldn’t lick.
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Matt Howland, Ph.D. @matthowland.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Wichita State
3D and spatial methods to investigate climate resilience, plus community-engaged digital public archaeology
Studied old stuff at UC San Diego, Penn State
Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social Hi I’m Brooke and I tell feminist, working class and lgbtq history to conservative men. (They hate it!)
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social Mixed diaspora lad, officially living wherever a fast VPN is.
Partly forged by the #MilkTeaAlliance, still believes in building solidarity between people, movements & struggles.
Creates some feeds... Red Pandas, Protests & more.
My feeds >> Me
Adam @eblueaxe.bsky.social Archaeologist working in Northern England; specialist in the early medieval. Interested early medieval archaeology, board and PC gaming, miniature modelling, WW2, and most nerdy stuff
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.
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
Email: laura.jedeed@gmail.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurajedeed
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social Creator of anthropeum.com (daily artifact guessing game) Coin collector. UW ’27.
History + fishtanks + code
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
Lisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social Professor of Geoarchaeology and Heritage Science at Durham University @arcdurham.bsky.social
https://castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/
John Van Hoesen, Ph.D. @jvh-vt.bsky.social I share thoughts on geology, maps, data visualization, and history. Currently exploring stories around the natural and human history of slate.
Former Geology Prof | Fulbright Scholar | Vermont
Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social Em. Professor of European Prehistory at Leiden Universty.
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social Digital heritage specialist, football (soccer) fan and Doodle owner.
Disclaimer: My posts on BlueSky reflect my personal views only and do not represent my employer.
@rlrugs.bsky.social @rlrugs.bsky.social
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)
qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social Archaeologist (retd.), idiot looking for a village, used to run @uvicanthro on tw*tter, paleocoasts, dog!, yyj
Ladytron @ladytrongroup.bsky.social Official account of Ladytron.
Follow on Instagram and YouTube for more.
Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social Archaeology Art
Archaeology Podcast Network @archpodnet.bsky.social The APN 🎙 is an international community that creates free, professional podcasts on a range of archaeological topics. Become a member today!
Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social Local Gov. Archaeology, Books, Art, Mountains. Birmingham City, Post-Punk, Films. Usually found in the Yorks, Worcs, and Pembs Tri-State area. History and Philosophy @ UWL. https://thefastflowingriver.wordpress.com/
Edward Hammond @baalhammond.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Bristol looking at ancient Carthage in games. Higher Education professional. Founder of Posthumous Punic Memes for Salty Carthaginian Teens. Views my own.
🔗 https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/edward-hammond
Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍
https://creativecommons.start.page
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Works for NYU's https://isaw.nyu.edu, but lives near Huntsville, Alabama. Editor/PI of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org).
Primary social account: https://hcommons.social/@paregorios/
Krime @krime.bsky.social Professional reprobate
He/him
https://linktr.ee/krime_1
TYNESIDE ANARCHIST ARCHIVE @tyneanarcho.bsky.social tynesideanarchistarchive.wordpress.com
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Dr Deniz Ikiz @denizikiz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Heritage and Climate Change, Eindhoven University of Technology
Hana Morel @hanamorel.bsky.social Head of Climate Change, Historic England
Climate Action, Policy, Communities and Heritage.
UK based.
Views are my own.
Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org We are the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Working to create a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
donate.wikimedia.org
Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social I'm a medieval archaeologist who works with open knowledge. Posts will inevitably descend into castles, cricket, and Star Trek.
Banner photo is Pevensey Castle in Sussex. It's one of my favourite castles. The photo is mine and licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Michael Fradley @mfradley.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist working at @eamena.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
James Taylor @archaeo-james.bsky.social Archaeologist and Lecturer @University of York. Neolithic Greece and Turkey and beyond, digital methods, GIS, fieldwork, and the creative mess of turning trenches, data, and drawings into knowledge of the past.
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Emily Worthington @emilyinyorkshire.bsky.social Historical clarinetist, researcher, writer, lecturer @musicatyork & Orpheus Instituut.
C19th Britain & Germany | performance practices & cultures | embodied & artistic research methods.
Housekeeper to a very fine feline.
https://baermannsbody.york.ac.uk
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social Mediterranean & computational archaeologist. ISAW/NYU. Child of immigrants. Opinions/typos mine. Original work CC-By. https://gaerhf.org https://p-lod.org https://palp.art https://roman-amphitheaters.org https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/isaw-papers
Dr Alice Rose @alicekensa.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist: archaeology | isotopes | osteology | palaeopathology. Areas of study include medieval plague and diet in early modern Ireland. Currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. All views my own!
Yorkshire Philosophical Society @ypsyork.bsky.social Promoting public understanding of science and civilisation since 1822. Based in York, UK. Find us at ypsyork.org
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social Darren Cullen
"Britain-hating anarchist who knows the value of nothing" - Johnny Mercer MP.
""Artist"" - Daily Mail
Hell Bus / Co-curator Museum of Neoliberalism
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com
www.linktr.ee/spellingmistakescostlives
sieyèsnomaybe @eccod.bsky.social je suis anarchiste, property is theft, etc.
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
Faine Greenwood @faineg.com civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
zoë bread @zoebread.bsky.social sklomolp
Shannon Lee Dawdy @shannonleedawdy.substack.com Author, public anthropologist, archaeologist of contemporary life. If you've got a time machine, DM me. https://shannonleedawdy.substack.com/
Emergency Committee for Rojava @defendrojava.bsky.social Building solidarity with the women-led Rojava Revolution in North-East Syria through popular education and grassroots advocacy.
Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social Archaeologist #roman #pottery #childhood. Ex NCT #childbirth educator. Join a union. UCL. My own musings. She/Her. 🏴 Current obession: these pots⬇️
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2478734#abstract
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social Professor of anthropology and public policy, interested in #energysky, #climatesky , #academicsky and #Urbanism+. Writes about #participatory and #qualitative research methods. I love #crochet and hate #cancer
https://blogs.umass.edu/harper/
Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut @oeai.bsky.social Official account of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
#archaeology #classics
Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social Teaching and writing university worker. Interested in urban planning, radical democracy, popular movements and what world might be built in neoliberal ruins. Based in Norra Fäladen, Lund, Sweden.
Jessie Hendy @jessiehendy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Palaeoproteomics at the University of York
ICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometimes Behind the Bastards) for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her
(d)anger @blackhawkexile.bsky.social Carpenter, gardener, half-baked anthropologist. Easily distracted by things related to Burma, forests, punk rock, John Coltrane, and the end of capitalism.
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social Photojournalist, writer, editor and videographer.
EIC, The Ten Four: https://latenfour.com/
Links: https://linktr.ee/acatwithnews
Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews
Email tips, licensing inquiries, etc.: SeanCarmitchel@protonmail.com
Helen J @helgaj.bsky.social Community arts, heritage and archaeology. Was on the Thames, now in Cumbria. She/her.
Daan Jansen @daancjansen.bsky.social Animal historian working with rats 🐀 in early modern cities
University of York
I try to be creative too: artist, writer, videomaker and more
Harald Fredheim @haraldfred.bsky.social Researching lived experience and participation in museums and archaeology. Also enjoys volleyball and cycling. York & Manchester. He/him
BioArCh @york-bioarch.bsky.social A centre of excellence in bioarchaeology, specialising in the analysis of human, animal and plant remains and molecular techniques - proteins, lipids, DNA and stable isotopes. Department of Archaeology, University of York
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Jess Cook Hale @jwcookhale.bsky.social Submerged paleolandscapes archaeologist, scientific diver, likes marine geophysics but not remoras.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-6999
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
Ellie @elricaludwig1881.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood Arctic exploration and transcription enthusiast!
Dr. des. Sarah Bockmeyer @sarahbockmeyer.bsky.social Archaeologist AND single mother of one. PhinisheD my PhD on Neolithic megaliths, earthen burials and archaeological theory at Kiel University and @ClusterROOTS.bsky.social (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS). Boardmember @agtida.bsky.social . Views my own.
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS).
No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin
Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social trans butch lesbian anarchist. disabled feminist theorist. she/her.
Dr. Ellen Green @ritualpurposes.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist, taphonomy enthusiast and stratigraphy nerd.
A great lover of all things Roman, Iron Age and Dead.
Arran Rees @arranjrees.bsky.social Museum data, researcher, cat friend, runner. 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Ian Regueiro Salcedo @arkeologian.bsky.social Soy una cierva albina en @arqueocerva.bsky.social. Con un mando en una mano 🎮 y un pico en la otra ⛏️. Historiador, arqueólogo clásico y sobretodo archaeogamer. En estos momentos sobreviviendo en Italia como PhD en arqueología y videojuegos #archaeogaming
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Erin Sebo @erinsebo.bsky.social A/Prof Medieval Literature, Flinders | Visiting Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford | Lead CI ARC DP23: First English Speakers | DP23: Finding Friendship in Old English Literature | PhD TCD | FSA | IAUPE | Beowulf monograph ManchesterUP '26
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
CAAInt.bsky.social @caaint.bsky.social CAA is an international organisation bringing together archaeologists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Reposting is not endorsement.
https://linktr.ee/caa_international
SHARITAGE @sharitage.bsky.social Digitally enabled community-based European SHAred cultural heRITAGE engangement
Funded by the European Union
https://archaeotrail.org/sharitage/
Bénédicte Khan @bk-archeo.bsky.social Archaeologist
Associate researcher (OrAM - UMR 7041 ArScAn).
PhD in osseous materials technology, focused on SW Asia between the Hellenistic and Islamic periods.
Personal account - Views are my own.
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social Passionate about uncovering history, committed to heritage. We’re a leading archaeology charity in the UK, trusted by partners and communities for over 50 years. Visit oxfordarchaeology.com for insights on our discoveries and projects.
Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social Researcher in Archaeology/Anthropology. Former Postdoctoral Research Associate at MOLA, PhD from University of Edinburgh, MSc in Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology. Into Theoretical Archaeology, Personhood, Ethnography of archaeology, Emotions
Archaeology @ Uni of York @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social The Department of Archaeology at the University of York is exploring the breadth of the human past and pioneering a future in sustainable heritage
Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social Associate Professor. Director, Uppsala University Bioarchaeology Research Laboratory @uubrl.bsky.social
Bioarchaeology; trauma & pathology; thanatology & taphonomy; medieval Visby; caves; African Stone Age; 3D imaging. Slightly sweary. He/Him.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social 🖤 Material support & advocacy for unhoused & recently housed people in Washington DC 🖤
Mutual Aid Ⓐ Anarchy Ⓐ Anti-fascism
https://linktr.ee/remorahousedc