will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social Wayward philosopher turned salt marsh enthusiast and general ocean freak🌹
Ben Zevenbergen @benzevenbergen.bsky.social Moral Technologist -- 2026 Ethics and Technology Practitioner Fellowship @ McCoy Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University.
Previously at tech ethics work at Google, Princeton University, Oxford University, EU Parliament.
www.benzevenbergen.com
Heather Munro Prescott @knittingclio.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History at Central Connecticut State University
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Emily Winterburn @arntem.bsky.social Occasional writer. Visiting fellow at univ of Leeds. Primary TA. Interested in #histsci #histed #histastro #womeninSTEM. Specifically Herschel, objects & astronomy. #quietlyautistic
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social 🔥Free Disability Zines🔥 https://linktr.ee/disabilityark
Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more!
Recent ones include Disability and: | Star Trek | Ancient Egypt | Radicals | Gods | Film Analysis Tools | Feminists | Anarchists | and more!
Gabriel Finkelstein @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Historian of neuroscience, modern Europe, and history.
Currently working on “Scientific History,” a study of Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond.
https://ucdenver.academia.edu/GabrielFinkelstein #histsci #histSTM
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Hein Brookhuis @heinbrookhuis.bsky.social History & Philosophy of Science | postdoc Maastricht University
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge @hpscambridge.bsky.social A renowned institute at the University of Cambridge, focused on the history and philosophy of science, technology and medicine.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Peter Dickson @phdpeter.bsky.social Philosopher, medical researcher (psychiatry, psychology, oncology), astrophysicist, naturalist, violinist, flautist. Learning 28 languages Sydney
Robert Jensen @robertjensen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, University of Texas at Austin. rjensen@austin.utexas.edu
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social Tech columnist for the BBC and host of The Interface podcast. I cover how we use technology, and how technology uses us
Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com Philosophy and Game Theory 🦚 Research the interface between philosophy, economics, and biology 💱 www.kevinzollman.com
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Steph Wright @estefwright.bsky.social Historian of modern Spain in Lancaster. Interests: gender, sexual violence, #dishist, mental health, medical humanities. Currently working on the history of thalidomide in Spain.
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Donal Brannigan @brannigand.bsky.social Engineer. Interested in Science, Technology and History.
From The Midlands but now Up North.
Was once startled by a cabbage.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Jan R. Boehnke @jrboehnke.bsky.social I work at the School of #HealthSciences, University of Dundee
Measurement, (health-related) quality of life #HRQL, multimorbidity, #ResearchEthics, publishing, #PeerReview, research assessment
Ex- #REF2021, former #NightshiftEditor
No DMs due to UK-OSA.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Rep: Harriet Poland at CAA.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist • Interested in Anxiety, Depression, Somatic Therapy, Mental Health, Well Being & Mindfulness • Art, Literature, Theatre & Film Aficionado • Human Rights & Social Justice.
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
Pilar Garcia-Vello @pilargvello.bsky.social Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology
Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF
Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship
#AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social History at Northumbria University combines quality teaching with a vibrant research culture. #TakeOnYesterday
Stephanie van Dam @stephvandam.bsky.social Social and economic historian, writing global histories of disability and protest.
Lecturer @Erasmus University/ Postdoc @EHESP
PhD @Cambridge on disability & labour in British colonies. Likely to interrupt you to point at a tree.
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)
@nickyrvs.bsky.social @nickyrvs.bsky.social Apologies: I’m not online much
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Radu Harald Dinu @raduhd.bsky.social Assistant professor of history
Jönköping university - Sweden
🇩🇪+🇷🇴 in 🇸🇪
Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social Disability history's my thing.
https://www.tuni.fi/en/people/daniel-blackie
Disability in the Industrial Revolution (OA): https://tinyurl.com/yxv23zpk
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
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
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Emily Witt @embits.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker, author of Health and Safety and Future Sex.
Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Lasse Hjorth Madsen @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social Data scientist, data journalist, I like all things related to science, programming, discussions, societies, writing. Danish webpage with samples of work: tekstogtal.dk
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
@HStiles1 @hstiles1.bsky.social Cantwara Maegth;
Loves rain, sleet, snow, mist, fog, natural history, Norfolk, Norway, Norwich, Natural Selection, Norse. Did I mention rain? Rain!
(tw)It! 🤪
LabLit.com @lablit.bsky.social Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]
Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Dr Juliet Roberts @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social Former theatre sister. OU history graduate. MA and PhD from C2DH University of Luxembourg. Visual culture of facial trauma in WWI. The medical portrait. History of medicine/surgery. Social history.
Katie Snow @katiesnow.bsky.social Researching bodies across the medical humanities.
Book on breasts in caricature and satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers.
Wellcome postdoc @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures project 🥃
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social history keeps me awake at night
The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social Award-winning podcast on the history, philosophy & social studies of science brought to you by graduate students from the University of Melbourne.
Hosted by @tespiteri.bsky.social
New episodes fortnightly.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/thehpspodcast
Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social Dundee UCU is supporting staff and saying no to job cuts at the University of Dundee. Our campaign to #SaveDundeeUni https://sites.dundee.ac.uk/ducu/
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL
UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Dr Rebecca Watterson @drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social Historian of Psychosurgery, Lobotomies, Millies and Medicine
Working Class | Neurodivergent | Mad
Historian 📜 | Survivor 💜 | Joy as resistance ✨
🎙️ Podcast + 📖 Substack
Link hub: https://beccadoesthings.carrd.co/
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Elizabeth (Libby) Straughan @lstraughan.bsky.social Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. Cultural geographer interested in the politics and ethics of embodied experience researching geographies of home and work, human-environment relations and mobilities.
Dr. Daniel P. Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Assistant Professor (Research) @durhamimh.bsky.social + durhamsociology.bsky.social | Co-Lead @ndhumanities.bsky.social |
Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social Durham University RDM (Research Data Management) Service.
RDM support for the University's researchers:
https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_research/rdm
Kenzie Mintus @kenziemintusphd.bsky.social Sociologist studying aging, disability, and health. Writing a book about aging in place, social connections, and the importance of inclusive environments. Thoughts and opinions are my own.
#sociology #medsoc #gerontology
@crippingbreath.bsky.social @crippingbreath.bsky.social 
Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography in Scotland.
Research = mental health/missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/CC.
Not travelling to USA anytime soon.
Human 🦋
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc on EPIC and @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, Uni of Birmingham
Main quest: investigating epistemic injustice among young people with psychosis
Side quest: roleplaying games and mental health!
jodie-russell.co.uk
Swati Joshi @swatijoshi.bsky.social Beckettian passionate about medical humanities☕️
Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk and @humboldtuni.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
Living Assessments @livingassessments.bsky.social Wellcome funded research project health and social care assessments. Disabled and care experienced children and young people & families, history, policy, experts by experience. University of Kent. National Children's Bureau. University of Cambridge.
Stephanie Lloyd @stephaniejeanlloyd.bsky.social Medical anthropology, Science & Technology Studies, Disability studies, Neurosciences, Neurotechnologies, Sensory development, Suicide, Lived experiences
Dr Sam Halliday @drsamhalliday.bsky.social Comparative medical law and ethics, especially beginning and end of life. Durham Law School, Durham Cells, Durham Institute of Medical Humanities
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare,
@UniStrathclyde
& @CaledonianNews
Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine 📚💊
https://tinyurl.com/3y2u52bw
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
@jesseproudfoot.bsky.social @jesseproudfoot.bsky.social 
Georgia Punton @georgiapunton.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities | cognitive psychologist exploring the imagination | she/her
@clairejeantils.bsky.social @clairejeantils.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities, Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University · Network lead INNN · Podcast host « Raconter l’épilepsie »