Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Hannah O'Hanrahahanrahan @tedmaul.bsky.social "Currently residing in the 'where are they now' file."
Max Ernst @max-m-ernst.bsky.social Fan account of Max Ernst (1891-1976), a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poet and a pioneer of the Dada and Surrealism movements. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
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https://monkdebunks.substack.com
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Salvador Dalí @salvador-dali.bsky.social Salvador Dalí was a 20th century Spanish surrealist artist. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social Woke Irish Europhile from Dublin,Ireland who regards felonious Pedolf as a grifting fraudulent pedophilic narcissistic sociopathic misogynistic racist malignant cancerous traitorous threat to democracy.THIS IS NOT A DATING SITE SO NO DMs FROM LONELY HEARTS
Daily Tom Baker @dailytombaker.bsky.social Daily pictures and some clips of the iconic actor known as Tom Baker! :D
Rhapsody Angel @rhapsodyangel.bsky.social Sci Fi, fantasy and Astronomy geek.
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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis
"We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
John B @johnb1954.bsky.social Retired Civil Servant who likes music, old motorcycles, old cameras and, very occasionally, going to art galleries. I don’t like the Tories.
Half Man Half Biscuit Information Service @hmhbinfo.bsky.social Irregular info, news, articles, images, vids and lyrics etc re: Wirral's finest musical satirists. Not official.
richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
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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)
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.
Peter Fineran @peterfineran.bsky.social Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Fabrice Jean-Pierre @fabricejpierre.bsky.social Assistant Professor @USherbrooke | Polymicrobial biofilms, interactions & mechanisms of recalcitrance | he/him
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https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=N5UlGZgAAAAJ&hl=en
Tony Taylor @itstonyt10.bsky.social Ex-ping pongist. Half Man Half Biscuit aficionado. MCFC since 1970.
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Matthew J Shepherd @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social Bicentenary Fellow @manchester.ac.uk within @mermanchester.bsky.social - Understanding opportunistic pathogen evolution - AMR, pathogenesis, niche transitions 🧫🧬 Former Fellow @wiko-berlin.bsky.social
Ed Cunningham-Oakes @edcoakes.bsky.social 📍 Liverpool
👨🏾💻 Bioinformatics and EDI
💭 Microbiome and Genomic Diagnostics
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
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Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social Biochemist, views entirely unconsidered and my own. 
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social Writer, plant-lover, water-baby, #healthpolicy nerd. Ex-OpenDemocracy UK editor. NUJ/Unite/Green. Grew up on free school meals. Stroud-based. caroline.molloy@cantab.net
Ashley Dalton MP @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social Labour MP for West Lancashire, email casework to ashley.dalton.mp@parliament.uk | Living with metastatic breast cancer
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
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A Funny Old Game @sidlambert.bsky.social 80s/90s/00s footy nostalgia. On a YouTube odyssey for glorious goals & gaffes. Retro football writer.
Ian Cheeseman @iancheeseman.bsky.social I’m a YouTuber & podcaster - I also host a weekly radio show, on multiple stations,called Break-a-Leg on Musical Theatre - ex BBC
Ed Feil @edfeil.bsky.social Bacterial genomes and whatnot. University of Bath.
Su @suuzi.bsky.social Just here for the music 🖤🤍
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social The official Bluesky thinking page of the Icelandic Cricket Association. Birthplace of cricket (911 CE). Merchandise: https://s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Website: krikket.is
Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning
NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot.
Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social Group Leader at Wellcome Sanger Institute. Using omics to understand chronic lung infections and lung microbiomes in disease
Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social Green MP for Bristol Central.
Former Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her.
Need to get in touch?
📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
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Ed Hodgson @edhodgson.bsky.social I've got ham but I'm not a hamster
Ian Power @ihpower.bsky.social I, for one, am a great fan of Roman numeral puns.
Richard III Society @richardiiisociety.bsky.social We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social Independent. Manchester/Salford.
Debut release, To Rise in the Dark (2024)
Second release, Hunter (2025)
Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social Physicist interested in Astrophysics and Particle Physics| Research in Math and Science Edu| Math and Science Writer| Teacher and Teacher Trainer
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Adrian Cazares @cazares-adr.bsky.social Bacterial Mobile Evolution. Staff Scientist at Sanger Institute. I study how pathogens emerge and evolve by sharing genes. Interested in AMR, Plasmids, Phages, ICEs, and everything that moves within and between genomes.
Wendy Figueroa @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Postdoc @Cambridge University and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Pathogens evolution: Horizontal Gene Transfer🧬, Phages, Mutational hotspots, AMR, virulence 🇲🇽
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social Evolutionary genomics of bacteria
City Xtra @cityxtra.bsky.social Multi-award winning #ManCity coverage: News, Quotes, Transfers, Live Match Commentary • Contact: contact@cityxtra.co.uk
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
TheParisAngel @theparisangel.bsky.social “Have you got any Gauhaus? Have you got any Gauhaus?”
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social Parody account. Here to take the piss out of the full time grifter and part time MP who leads Reform UK. Enjoy – and feel free to encourage my coffee habit: ⬇️
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Throwing Muses @throwingmuses.bsky.social A band from a small island.
Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social 'Looking For The Happy' is out now.
Edvard Munch @edvardmunch.bsky.social Fan account of Edvard Munch, a Norwegian painter and printmaker.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Yasmin Hilliam @yasminhilliam.bsky.social Research Scientist at Dartmouth College and servant to a spoiled Portuguese Water Dog.
Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social Latest news about Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, author of books and other publications:
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@wintersonworld.bsky.social @wintersonworld.bsky.social 
Royal Exchange Theatre @rxtheatre.bsky.social Bringing theatre in-the-round and in communities within Greater Manchester.
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Saucy Seventies @saucyseventies.bsky.social Celebrating the golden age of the great British sex comedy. God bless Barry Evans and Robin Askwith. And Barry Stokes, the Handyman. Too saucy for YouTube!
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Jah Wobble @jahwobble.bsky.social Bass
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Jane Davies @janedaviescf.bsky.social Medical research & clinical care for cystic fibrosis, NHLI Imperial College & Royal Brompton Hospital, London; allergic dog-lover and die-hard folkie
Johny Nocash/John Hartley @johnynocash.bsky.social Whichever name you choose.
Jack of a few trades (music, writing, poetry, photography, life), master of one (education).
‘This Is Not The End’, threequel to ‘How Green Are Your Eyes’, and ‘The Broken Bottle’, out April
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology Society: A world in which the science of #microbiology provides maximum benefit to society | microbiologysociety.org
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
Steve Hanley @stephenhanley6.bsky.social Husband of Máire. Bass guitarist in House of all. Oh! Brother podcast. Big Midweek book. Made - making some great albums.
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Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Darryl Morris @darrylmorris.bsky.social Hello. I'm a broadcaster, writer, documentary-maker and northerner. My latest documentary - God Next Door - is out now on BBC Sounds. I host the weekend late show on Times Radio. I'm a Bolton Wanderers fan and an #ADHD bore. www.darrylmorris.co.uk
Lancashire Cricket @lancscricket.bsky.social Official home of the Red Rose on Bluesky. 🌹
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese
PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture.
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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.
GrumpyMark @grumpymark.bsky.social He/Him. Neurodivergent. CISHet. Green. 🏳️⚧️Ally. Woke.
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