Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social Columnist @TheDailyBeast, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, sanctioned by Russia.
I watch Russian state TV, so you don't have to.
Author of a book "In Their Own Words: How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin’s Intentions."
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Lorna Mitchell @lmitch.bsky.social Edinburgh-based librarian 📚
Andy Birnie @copsework.bsky.social 
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social Posts on (mostly) Second World War aviation and naval history. See ALT text for picture credits and additional information!
Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former British Soldier & 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Marine | Author of Live.Fight.Survive | Public Speaker | Defender of Mariupol | Writer & Independent Journalist ✍️
Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social comms for @mayorofchicago.bsky.social but this is my personal account.
Chicago-based attorney never giving legal advice. firm believer in the power of community.
TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Botanist, conservationist, gardener & author. Endlessly curious about green things. Creator of #NoMowMay.
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Currently with the Species Recovery Trust & BSBI Trustee.
b3ta @b3ta.com Funny, original pics & projects made by the B3ta community & weekly newsletter. Sub to newsletter: https://b3ta.com/subscribe/
Sex Tips Bot @sextipsbot.bsky.social A bot that'll give you sexy tips to improve your sex life.
Not AI. Created by Rob Manuel writing silly templates with random words in them.
Tinfoil Matt @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social The brain worm infestation caused by living next to Telegraph opinions every day
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Axel Dalberg Poulsen @axelginger.bsky.social A Danish tropical forest botanist currently focusing on plants of the Zingiberales
at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🫚🫚🫚
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social Journalists (Ed Krassenstein & Brian Krassenstein) - Fighting hate, lies and tackling conspiracy theories.
IMPORTANT Substack Updates: http://krassencast.com
Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
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
Tom Staniford @tomstaniford.bsky.social fCMO | Writer | Speaker | Consultant |
Para-Cyclist | double amputee | deaf |
Team Bottrill Nopinz • Trek Bikes •
BromptonBicycle • Albion Cycling
www.tomstaniford.com
Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨
Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest.
Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/
Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social Politics writer for West England Bylines, Bearly Politics & Left Foot Forward + co-ordinator for campaign group Compass Oxon.
Democracy, womens rights, far right ideology, disinformation, Labour, etc. https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/author/clairejones/
BabelColour @babelcolour.bsky.social I'm Stuart Humphryes (known online as BabelColour). I clean, repair, enhance and transform early colour photography.
IrisBG @theirisbg.bsky.social 🌱 Botanical Collections Management System | Community-focused
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Ricardo Segovia @ricardosegovia.bsky.social Investigador en @biodata.bsky.social
Datos y Biodiversidad
Información para la conservación y la restauración
Canadian BioGenome Project 🇨🇦 @canadianbiogenome.bsky.social The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 🧬 for all Canadian species 🌎
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity 🌿🦋🐍🧬🐢🦌🐸🌳🐿🐙🦈🦦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome 
Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social Trained journalist, Editor, documentary maker and sports commentator.
Ukraine expert. Numbers nerd.
Almost famous on Xitter!
Coffee donations accepted!
https://ko-fi.com/twmcltd 
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com Comedian, allegedly. Latest special 'Woke in Progress' out now on ITVX: https://linktr.ee/AlistairBarrie
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland.
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
Ellen McWilliams @ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social Writer and Academic
West Cork to Blame for Any Views
New Book: RESTING PLACES: ON WOUNDS, WAR AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION (Beyond the Pale Books) https://www.ellenmcwilliams.com/
Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/
Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science & Action @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden’s center for plant conservation science. Preventing extinctions. Reimagining restoration. Meeting the need for native seed. Training the next generation.
@annedubearnes.bsky.social @annedubearnes.bsky.social 
Rowan J. Schley @rschley.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist enthralled by the superlative diversity of life in the tropics.
Speciation | Hybridisation | Genome evolution | Biogeography | Ecology
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. 🌴
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
Jamie Thompson @jamiet-42.bsky.social FLS. Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Reading. Recipient of the Irene Manton Prize for best botany PhD 🌵. Studies plants mostly. Ex chef 🧑🍳
@melastomes.bsky.social @melastomes.bsky.social 
Jen Datiles @jendatiles.bsky.social Botanical materia medica and traditional medicine | PhDc University College London, UK / Washington DC. | she/her 
Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social Evolution, ecology and management of tropical forests | Prof @ U Leeds, UK & Visiting Researcher, IIAP, Peru
Stuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social Author: The Song is Nearly Over (2025), Terri Hooley: 75 Revolutions (2023), Trouble Songs (2018) and 75 Van Songs (2020).
Music journalist. Editor, Dig With It. Ex NME.
https://stuartbailie.bandcamp.com/
Christian Thomas @christiandthomas.bsky.social If they hunt, I gather / Archaeologist into cultural landscapes, Ice Patches, Arrows and Atlatls, traditional economies / Father / appreciator of loud music / Yukon Territory, Canada. #gohabsgo
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.
@worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social 
Robert Cubey @rcubey.bsky.social Edinburgh,
Scotland
RBGE
Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social Prof of Ecosystem Science at Oxford, working on #naturerecovery, especially loves tropical ecosystems; Director Leverhulme Centre for @NatureRecovery.bsky.social; Trustee @nhm-london@bsky.social; ex-President of @BritishEcolSoc.bsky.social ; CBE FRS
Carla Novoa Sepúlveda @novoasp.bsky.social (Geo)Botanist | Natural History Collection | Herbarium & Data Curation | Collection Management | Flora, Funga & Vegetation of Chile 🌿🍄🌾🌵
Part Time: Senior Stickers Curator
https://linktr.ee/novoa_sepulveda
CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social 🔬 Centre d'Analyses et de Recherche en Art et Archéologie
La science au service de l’Art
📍 at Paris & Le Mans
Nik dedidis @nikdedidis.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Greek artist.
Environmentalism and social justice are interconnected. The climate crisis is deeply political.
Repair, reuse, recycle.
boxdnegativ.etsy.com
https://instagram.com/nik.dedidis
https://linktr.ee/Nik.dedidis
Nathan Probably @nathanprobably.bsky.social Curator, Historian of Science, Mycologist.
Wrote about Wetherspoons once: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932723000467
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Mary Heskel @maryheskel.bsky.social plant ecophysiologist, SLAC professor, studies plants and carbon across scales. 
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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ArcheoPoo @pwinbutt.bsky.social I like to study ancient toilets, privies, and fecal deposits. You can't lie in your poops! I also study textiles & pottery.
Not interested in romance, because straight men killed it for me. (Archeologist, Retired Farmer, Political/Economic Risk Analyst)
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Qualified Archaeologist (Archaeobotany, Experimental, Historical). Public Health Nutrition. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social Archaeologist, lecturer, author. About to embark on a new adventure (but no idea what it is yet!). She/her.
Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine...
Views all my own 😊
Green party 💚
She/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409
Phoebe Baker @phoebebakerrr.bsky.social PhD student studying human adaptations to the cold in Upper Palaeolithic Europe! 🏔️🌨️🌱🪡
University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social Archaeology and History department @exeter.ac.uk - posting about research, excavations, news and events
https://linktr.ee/UniofExe_ArchaeologyandHistory
Dr Matilda Siebrecht @archaeoteacup.bsky.social 🏺 Archaeology
🧶 Crafting
📚 Books
Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional who is also an Organist, Christian Universalist, Rower, Geek. Into Boardgames, Reenactment, Heavy Metal and with a soupcon of Long-Covid.
merryn @merryn02.bsky.social Interests: archaeology of ale, beer and brewing, history & prehistory of malt and malting technologies. I like campervans, spinning, walking, gardening, swimming in the sea. Academic stuff is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merryn-Dineley
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
Fiona Pichon @fionapichon.bsky.social PhD, Archaeologist: Prehistory, SW Asia, Lithic tools, Use-wear, Networks 🧙♀️🏊♀️🤸♀️
Researcher looking for a job and new opportunities 🤹♀️
Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medieval archaeologist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member Royal Irish Academy; Fellow Society of Antiquaries; Dad of boys; Dog Dad; Hurling/Camogie; IC Member; Own Opinions here
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
James Clark @jclark997.bsky.social Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge | Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology | He/Him
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics @actgenomics.bsky.social ACTG conducts tree genomic research to understand and conserve biological diversity using the latest scientific advances, workshops and field-based assessments. Visit us at www.actg.science and www.asianfagaceae.com. #iamabotanist
Kai Cartwright @kaicartwright.bsky.social Environmental microbiology, genomics and molecular ecology. PhD student at UCL/RBG Kew researching Trichoderma-plant interactions.
Julián Aguirre-Santoro @jaguirresant.bsky.social Curator of Vascular Plants, Latin America. Missouri Botanical Garden
Thomas Haevermans @euphorbiaman.bsky.social Botanist, Associate Professor at the French Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Institut de Systématique Évolution Biodiversité.
#botanist #taxonomist #herbarium #macroecology #bamboos #gingers #euphorbia #mnhn #plant #systematics
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
James Pendleton @akirakhan.bsky.social Primary care physician taking a naturopathic approach to family medicine. Washington and Hawaii. Author of some books, Assistant professor Sciences, Interest in Ethnobotany/Pharmacognosy esp. related to Mesoamerica. Photography, Painting, creative stuff
Jocelyn Bosse @jocelynbos.se 
Gary I. Stafford @garyistafford.bsky.social South African base ethnobotanist, psychoactive therapy, plant science lecturer
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Dr Charles Smith @smith-brocca.bsky.social Heddwch Paz Peace
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Bylines Cymru
Political Economist
Chair, Wales 4 Europe
Board, European Movement UK
Clwb Alawon Cefn Cribwr
Opinions here STRICTLY personal
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David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social Speaking for myself here-so all the problems are my own. And in my day job, I am Director of Community Engagement and Professor of Politics at Ulster University.
Ellen Heimpel @ellenheimpel.bsky.social PhD student at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh studying monodominant tropical rainforests in central Africa 🌳 | Placement in curation with Kew herbarium team | Plant lover🌱 I amateur potter🌻 (she/her)
Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social Palaeobotany | Scicomm | Associate Prof in Plant Science, Nottingham, UK | Vogon poet | Views my own | She/her