Sarah Turner @thepublicturner.bsky.social Researcher of digital technologies - PI @projectcaise.bsky.social; Senior Research Fellow @uclknowledgelab.bsky.social.
Chair @bfn-uk.bsky.social, school governor.
Royal Institution @rigb.org We're an independent charity connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with science.
📺 Home of the #XmasLectures
💥 Weekly science talks online/in person
🌐 rigb.org
Mrjimbob @mrjimbob.bsky.social Musician/author Author/musician
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Lucy van Dorp @lucyvandorp.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Group Leader in Microbial Genomics at UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social.
Reconstructing the evolution of us and our pathogens past, present and future using large-scale genomics.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan
Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social Journalist and podcast host @newscientist.com. Former Tokyoite. Books: SUPERHUMAN (2018) and HOW TO SPEND A TRILLION DOLLARS (2021). Next book: TOGETHERNESS (2026). すごい!
Dr Jazmin Scarlett @grumpyvolcano.bsky.social She/Her|Disabled|Chaotic queer 🏳️🌈🏹♠️|Flood Resilience Officer|Views my own
Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org is this the one that wins
Evan Hadfield @evanhadfield.bsky.social bad at internet
David Emmett @motomatters.com Owner-operator of MotoMatters.com. Motorcyclist. Reader. Writer.
#MotoGP and #motorcycle racing at motomatters.com
Part of @paddockpasspodcast.bsky.social
Personal writing at emmett.nl
Chip in: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/motomatters
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
Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social Professor of Volcanology. Waffle about volcanoes, HigherEd, tea and occasional running. SFHEA & STEM ambassador. She/her.
Rebecca (Becky) Martin @rebeccamartin.bsky.social Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford/LSHTM/UCL STS historian of 19th and 20th century science, medicine, materials, photography, anatomy, teaching, models, race, colonialism, health systems, and HMS Challenger. Former NMM Caird Fellow. Views my own. She/her.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley @luciaoc.bsky.social Award-winning writer and journalist. Author of I Choose Elena (2019), My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) and The Lasting Harm (2024).
Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social Caricaturist for Spitting Image & other TV. Co-creator of award-winning kids' non-fic. Open for caricature commissions. I will never listen to your podcast. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TealCartoons 🚫GenAI
Enquiries: Teal.Cartoons@yahoo.com
www.adrianteal.com
Latitude Festival @latitudefestival.bsky.social Latitude Festival ✨ 23-26 July 2026 | Four days spanning music, arts, comedy and more set in beautiful Henham Park, Suffolk.
BookTalkBookTalkBook @btbtbshow.bsky.social An Author Event Parody. @benmoor.bsky.social and @joannaneary.bsky.social play writers Burton Mastrick and Jenny Nibbingley. Tim Timminey plays himself.
Trent of Trunkman @trunkmanuk.bsky.social Producer, Director and Writer. Founder and Co-Director of Trunkman Productions. Co-Founder of The Cosmic Shambles Network. Makes films and shows. Likes science and comedy and jazz and basketball and motorcycles. Has a dog.
Dr Hannah Wilson @drhannahw.bsky.social MA, PhD, AFHEA. Lecturer (NTU) and Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Manchester with focus on Holocaust studies, material culture/transgenerational memory, and Sobibor Death Camp. Outreach Officer for Generation 2 Generation.
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Kelly Weinersmith @weinersmith.bsky.social A big nerd. Co-author of NYTimes Bestsellers Soonish & A City on Mars. Co-host of Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe. She/her
www.weinersmith.com
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Raven Baxter, Ph.D. @ravenscimaven.bsky.social Dr. Raven the Science Maven. Molecular biologist, science communicator, entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of Fervae — the first social media management platform built for knowledge sharers.
Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
Author:
-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Science Grrl @science-grrl.bsky.social A UK grassroots network celebrating women and non-binary people in science: local connections with a national voice. Because science is for everyone.
www.sciencegrrl.co.uk
Beth Linker, Ph.D. @bethlinker.bsky.social Historian of Science + Medicine + Public Health + Disability @UPenn. New book re origins of posture health panic: SLOUCH https://tinyurl.com/46hfkpsn
bethlinker.com
Other books: WAR'S WASTE & CIVIL DISABILITIES
Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social Philosophy and history of medicine. Many other things. Autrice "Pilules Roses", julietteferrydanini.com
Dan Schreiber @schreiberland.bsky.social Host of QI’s No Such Thing As A Fish / Author of The Theory Of Everything Else / co-founder of BBC’s The Museum of Curiosity
UK TOUR: ‘This Changes Everything’ starts this October
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content https://firstcreatethemedia.com/ Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Matt Watson @mattwatson75.bsky.social Musician. Arts. Stage and Tour Manager. Nature Nerd. Skateboards. Bicycles. ADHDer. Nerd...
Dan Davis @dandavis101.bsky.social Professor of Immunology, Head of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, author of The Compatibility Gene, The Beautiful Cure, The Secret Body and IMMUNE HEALTH (Vintage)
Dr. Amy Harrison-Seales @squeales.bsky.social Former climate physicist. Current public engagement officer. Eternal domestic goddess. (she/her)
Views are my own.
Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Jon Butterworth @jonbutterworth.bsky.social Physics prof @UCL, researcher @CERN, author
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Fran Scott @fransfacts.bsky.social Engineering Presenter, Maker and fangirl of Green Infrastructure. Have an above average interest in fire 🔥
📺 What They Really Mean for You | LegoMasters
🎙️Robot Podcast | Process Automation
📖 How to Build a Racing Car/ Rocket
https://lnk.bio/fransfacts
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social Your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian. Buy my live stand-up special at www.gofasterstripe.com/bet
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
QED @qedcon.org QED is a non-profit science and skepticism event held annually in Manchester.
🌐 https://qedcon.org/
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social I do standup and also write all manner of things. At the moment I'm very much doing this: @murderbastard.bsky.social
Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social Trying to leave things better than I find them
Analytical Scientist 👩🔬 #AcademicMentalHealth advocate 🌱 Founder VoicesofAcademia.com 💬 Author of "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" 📘 ADHDer 💚 Proud mum 👶 she/her. Views mine.
Saturn Sheila @saturnsheila.bsky.social Author, planetary scientist, EDI consultant and space educator.
HerPlaceForSpace.com
Karl Byrne @kjcbyrne.bsky.social Science Communicator, Public Engagement person, Geeky McNerderson, sweary and woke. Swoke?
If you want a science talk or show about your favourite Sci-Fi, get in touch - I'm your carbon based life form! He/Him
Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social Palaeobotany | Scicomm | Associate Prof in Plant Science, Nottingham, UK | Vogon poet | Views my own | She/her
Peter Gallivan @petergallivan.bsky.social Outreach Manager, King's College London @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Churchill Fellow // Answering science questions in The Week Junior Science+Nature.
Passionate about science education and communication, and widening access to the world of STEM.
Views own.
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Dr Emma Yhnell 🧬🔬🧪🧠 🏴 @emmayhnell.bsky.social (Neuro)scientist 👩🏻🔬 • Academic • Educator (PFHEA / NTF) 👩🏻🏫 • Science Communicator • STEMinist • EDI Advocate • Change-Maker • Trustee of National Museums Wales • Keynote Speaker 🎤• Presenter • Host • Writer • (she/her)
Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social Celebrating and amplifying the Black experience in space-related fields. EST. 2020
✉️ blackinastro@gmail.com
Website: blackinastro.com
https://www.blackinastro.com/black-space-week-2026
Kathryn Harkup (she/her) @rotwangsrobot.bsky.social Writer, Science Communicator and Vampirologist
Ben Sparks @sparksmaths.bsky.social Mathematician, Musician, Speaker, Teacher, Author.
Freelance & MEI & Uni of Bath
MEI: Maths into AI
Uni of Bath: Communicating Maths module
Also Numberphile & Maths Inspiration
On YouTube @SparksMaths
Book a talk or workshop:
www.bensparks.co.uk
Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social Award-nominated Charity showcasing/supporting LGBTQIA+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths. Skeets by @DrCarpineti.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |🏳️🌈🏴
Geek: Star Trek | Doctor Who
I make nerdy rainbow pin badges that have raised £35k for homeless LGBTQ+ people
https://linktr.ee/Jamiebgall
Department of Physics at the University of Oxford @oxfordphysics.bsky.social We work to develop, nurture and promote a physics community. Visit https://linktr.ee/PhysicsOxford for events, news and to learn more about the research taking place in our Department.
Rebecca Peyton @rebeccapeyton.bsky.social Let's all hang here until the invaders come.
Actor, Writer, Celebrant for all your ceremony needs, Typo Queen; I cannot get away from my father's death after an RTA and my journalist sister's murder... so I make work about them instead.
Prof. Jennifer Visser-Rogers @statsjen.bsky.social Chief Scientific Officer, Coronado Research | CStat | Twenty Women in Data and Tech, 2024 | HealthSense UK Award, 2020 | VP, International Biometrics Society BIR | TEDx speaker | Vice Chair, Florence Nightingale Museum
Roger Highfield @rogerhighfield.bsky.social Museum exec, visiting prof at the Dunn School, Oxford, and UCL Chemistry. Ex MRC, Editor of New Scientist and Science Editor of the Telegraph. Co-author #VirtualYou and more books. Neutron bouncer
Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social News, views and information for the global physics community. physicsworld.com
Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social Ageing biologist (aren’t we all?)
Author of https://ageless.link/
Presenter of https://www.youtube.com/DrAndrewSteele
Founder of @thelongevityinitiative.org
Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social 
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
Maddi Patterson @maddipaddy.bsky.social An Australian who speaks Italian & lives in Ireland | Freelance Marketing Consultant | Writer | let’s race 🏍️ | #SlavaUkraini
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Bec Hill @bechillcomedian.bsky.social The one with the flipcharts. Comedian, TV presenter, writer, co-host of the @aproblemsquared and Enemy in Paris podcasts, and self-professed MondeQueen. She/They/Her/Them.
Dr Clara Barker @drclarabarker.bsky.social Trans material scientist at Oxford University.
General DND, boardgames and mini-painting nerd.
Neal @neal55.bsky.social A spoken or written account of a person, object, or event.
Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Chief Scientific Adviser @ Defra, practitioner of healthy coding-fieldwork balance, human and dog mom, she/her, On-juhlee, not On-jolly
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social Nil desperandum
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇬🇧
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Bilingual (Spanish/English) author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
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
thisisthekit @thisisthekit.bsky.social Music
Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social Zoology up-close. Revealing everyday wonders from a simple wildlife pond.
📚 Author of Infinite Life, MEGA and more.
🎙️ BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.
Joz Norris @joznorris.bsky.social Comedian. Writer. Actor. Director. Foolish Person.
https://linktr.ee/Jozziah
Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️🌈🇵🇭 @acescicomm.bsky.social Freelance | science communication & EDI | asexual advocacy | LGBTQIA+ inclusive education | they/she | 🇬🇧🇵🇭🇦🇺 |♠️🏳️🌈 | UK | Views are mine.
www.sarahcosgriff.com
https://linktr.ee/sarahcosgriff
John Higgs @johnhiggs.bsky.social Writing your dad's Christmas present since 2012 - https://linktr.ee/johnhiggs
Lucy Nichol @lucynichol.bsky.social Writer. Flunked punk. Serial catastrophiser. 📚 WHEN SALLY KILLED HARRY (03/25 HarperCollins) PARKLIFE, THE 27 CLUB, NO WORRIES IF NOT! (HarperCollins) SNOWFLAKE (Hachette). Rep: Jo Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton
Newcastle via Hull
https://linktr.ee/LucyNichol
Dr. Jane Alexander @janealexandercsi.bsky.social CSI/CUNY, geologist, way too old to be tenure track but here I am. Research interests in sedimentology and geochemistry. Swim/bike/run/ski. she/her/hers.
Views my own.
From Scotland, now split my time between southern Vermont and Staten Island, NY.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social Mental health and substance use researcher. Author, podcaster and blogger #SayWhyToDrugs
Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.
Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) out NOW!
Get LIAR: http://tt.bio.to/LIAR
All things Tanita: https://linktr.ee/tanitamusic