Metin Koca @adagiomminor.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow @York.ac.uk Sociology
Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social ESRC Research Fellow at the Uni of York | PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality
https://linktr.ee/drlucypotter
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Department of Sociology, University of York @uoy-sociology.bsky.social University of York Department of Sociology official BlueSky social page.
A leading Sociology department based at the University of York. Ranked 11th for Sociology in the UK (Complete University Guide 2025).
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/sociology_uoy
Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social Independent researcher, archivist and librarian researching in the fields of conspiracy theories and death studies. Always open to discussing new projects and collaborations.
https://www.robert-spinelli.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
the algorithms + miscarriage project @paul-ord.bsky.social PhD research project at University of York
Understanding the role of algorithmic technologies in women's remembrance after miscarriage
sociology of miscarriage / critical algorithm studies / death studies
UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social Registered Charity responsible for the offical national memorial to our UK Covid dead. Account run by bereaved volunteers.♥️
www.nationalcovidmemorialwall.org
Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow; Associate Faculty @ RRU
Climate, emotions, behaviour change, gender, planetary (and death) care
She/They 🌈🍁
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Lora Stanley @lorastanley.bsky.social Lefty. Dislikes Farage, MAGA and religious hypocrites. Dog trainer. Animal lover. Animal afterlife & reincarnation researcher. Drosophila.
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
Danny Snow @dannysnow.bsky.social PhD candidate @ucdischool.bsky.social , posthumous data. Bass @wearevillagers.bsky.social
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Roger Patulny @rpatulny.bsky.social Sociology Professor HKBU. Research emotions, loneliness, men, networks, urban themes. Part time writer and poet, dad, befriender of English teachers,
Editor, Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social
Research, poems, stories - http://rpatulny.com/
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at University of York and Visiting Fellow on ALGOSOC project at Durham University.
Couture EOLD @coutureeold.bsky.social Thanatologist | End-of-Life Doula
I support people navigating #grief. Evidence-based, current literature, research, theory & applied practice. 15+ years experience in research & field settings.
Cape Breton, NS, Canada 🇨🇦
www.nataliecouturethanatology.com
Dr Nicola Sugden @nicolasugden.bsky.social Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social Engaging with our research community, supporting good practice and sharing updates on all aspects of #openresearch #openaccess #opendata @york.ac.uk
Open Research at York: https://york.ac.uk/open-research
Email the team: lib-open-research@york.ac.uk
Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social Social science - politics and policy of reproduction, death, personhood, kinship.
Currently: reproductive politics of the cervical stitch/cerclage.
Previously: 'Invisible Labours' book on politics of 2nd trimester pregnancy loss.
Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social Global Healthcare venue for tracking & trending⏩Rx ,recalls, technology, studies, treatments, outbreaks, and more💗💊💉🚑 💥 RN - RESEARCHER 💥 PRO-Science 🚫 DMs
Joanna Malone @joannamalone.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York | Interested in religion, nonreligion, ageing, life-course, belonging, and citizenship | Currently undertaking a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆
See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
🥀🪦 @graveyardgirly.bsky.social I walk amongst the stones not to mourn,but to witness love that has nowhere to go but back to the earth.
All photos in media are my own.
Alt text friendly.
Gregory Ortiz Shushan @gregoryshushan.bsky.social Historian of religions and award-winning author of books about afterlife beliefs and near-death experiences. https://www.gregoryshushan.com/
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Laura Spector @lauramakesart1.bsky.social I come in peace.
Artist 🖼️, Cats 🐈⬛🐈, Audiobooks 📚🎧
Upcoming 2027: Solo Exhibition at Holocaust Museum Houston
www.LauraSpector.com
Dr Patricia Hamilton @patriciahamilton.bsky.social Exploring the intersections between black feminist theory, reproduction and parenting. Committed procrastinator.
I made a short explainer about Shared Parental Leave: https://youtu.be/Eju2uKx40C4?feature=shared 
Carol Robinson @carolrobinson1.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of York, UK, with an interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). FHEA. Currently thinking about SoTL ethics, guest speakers in the classroom and how we teach theory. And cake. 
Dr. Katie Clary @drmaryclary.bsky.social GLAM/Museums Person: access, bodies, 💀 death 🐶Harry & Brutus 👩🏻🍼 new mom 📚 C&CA 2024, #MuseumsHeritageDeath 2023 📕 Associate Prof of interdisciplinary studies 
Tom O'Brien @tomob-nz.bsky.social York based Antipodean 🇳🇿, political sociologist, and allotmenteer 🌾 with @petramakela.bsky.social
Nathan Manning @natemanning.bsky.social Sociologist working on university education and right-wing populism, political emotions and young citizens. University of Adelaide, all views my own. Co-Editor Emotions & Society (BUP) - https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-o
Dr Raphaël Nowak @raphahead.bsky.social Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social Prof, Arts, Design & Architecture, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Clean air/COVID safety advocate/activist/researcher. Other health and digital media research too. Personal blog: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/
Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
Anna Strhan @annastrhan.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York | religion, ethics, values, culture, cities, childhood | neurodivergent | she/her | new book 'Growing Up Godless' https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691247250/growing-up-godless
Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce @deathandculture.bsky.social University of York, UK. SFHEA. Editor Death and Culture Bristol Uni Press. Academic interest: death and the dead; crime; celebrity; popular culture; HE Pedagogy. Death and Culture Network
https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/death-and-culture/
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
CDAS: Centre for Death and Society @cendeathsociety.bsky.social Works leading research centre at the University of Bath, UK. Were interested in the social contexts of death, dying and bereavement.
https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-death-society/
Reka Patricia Gal @rekapatriciagal.bsky.social Fire extinguisher on fire. Feminist STS & media theory. Environmental justice. Social Studies of Outer Space. Social Studies of Chemistry. Postdoctoral Researcher @TUM STS. Land⛰️Back.
Desiree @greetinggoodbye.bsky.social end of life doula. toddler mom. tabletop nerd. deathtech dabbler. lifelong angeleno. carb connoisseur. fil-am. 🇵🇭🇺🇸
Discovering NYC @discovering.nyc Writer, public historian & former tour NYC guide sharing the stories behind intriguing pieces of New York City history. Elsewhere @Discovering_NYC, writing at discovering.nyc
nash flynn @itsnashflynn.bsky.social death historian. part time comedian. feral gay. i have autism (derogatory). @deathandfriends.bsky.social
your favourite comedian’s least favourite comedian
always a candidate, never a doctor
death is for everybody out fall 2026*
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies 
🦇 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖚𝖟𝖆 𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖙𝖍 🦇 @fairuzafilth.bsky.social Just a girl living in a spooky world 💀 Horror, history, the occult, and a side of filth ⛓️🖤✨ witch in the #ADK | #ailuddite #fuckfascists
School for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social It's what we're for. For better business. For fairer societies. Based @york.ac.uk.
People in the School - Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/enRmVo
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/uoy-sbs/
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/business-society
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Graveyard Dandelion @graveyarddandelion.bsky.social Graveyards, old things, overgrown things, & other moody places 🪦🖤
I’m Dree | she/her
I have merch 👀 https://www.redbubble.com/people/designsbydree/shop?artistUserName=DesignsByDree&collections=4159333&iaCode=all-departments&sortOrder=relevant
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
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Death and Friends Podcast @deathandfriends.bsky.social translating the intersections between death history & comedy with comedian @guerrillajokes.bsky.social and historian @itsnashflynn.bsky.social
leftist history w/ the emotional maturity of a houseplant at a frat party
season 6 out NOW
Sven Opitz @svop.bsky.social Sociologist, focus on Biopolitics, Ecology, Health, Atmospheric Politics, and More-Than-Human Social Theory, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Thorsten Bonacker @tbonacker.bsky.social Professor for Peace & Conflict Studies @Center for Conflict Studies U Marburg * Research & teaching international statebuilding, United Nations in decolonisation, postwar justice, political violence * SFB 138: Dynamics of Security
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Richard Tutton @drfuturity.bsky.social Professor | Department of Sociology and @satsu-york.bsky.social | @york.ac.uk | Interests in STS of outer space | sociology of futures |futures of sustainable travel | EASST Council member | Senior Fellow Higher Ed Academy
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.
Dr Emily Nicholls @dremilynicholls.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology @University of York. Alcohol, sobriety, veganism, (non)consumption. Current work - no/low alcohol drinks (tinyurl.com/noloyork) and meat substitutes
Caitlin Veal 👾 @caitlinveal.bsky.social @investigatedot.bsky.social 🧡
Social Sciences AA and PhD researcher at York St John 🎓 interested in the spatial construction of social video game experiences, online identity & digital culture w/ a lil bit of death studies on the side🦕👾💀
Kate Flemming @ktflemm.bsky.social Professor of Hospice Practice and Evidence Synthesis @HealthSciYork @UniOfYork. Often seen on a bike. All views my own.
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com 
Yr Friend Camille @yrouttasight.bsky.social Art, music, film, 🌸💀🌸. A big orange cat named Bruce. Sociology grad student, Death Studies research. New Englander. Darkness hippie. She/her.
Dr Gemma Hughes @gemhughes.bsky.social Social scientist. Co-Director Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Management, University of Leicester School of Business. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Health Services Research & Policy https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HSR
Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social Sociologist University of Manchester, co-Director Morgan Centre, Vice Director NCRM; co-editor Journal of Creative Research Methods, researches material culture, dormant things, fashion, wardrobes, gender and feminism.
Jillian Tullis @profjillian.bsky.social Professor. Dying. Death. Health. Communication. 
Nate Bear @natebear1.bsky.social Ecology, tech, empire, public health, other stuff.
About me and where I write about these things:
http://donotpanic.news
Rob Smith @rdjs.bsky.social Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies @ Edinburgh
Biology, Politics, Funding, Governance, Morethanhuman etc.
Our group is engineeringlife.bsky.social
Joshua Hurtado @joshuahh.bsky.social PhD, University of Helsinki. Studying environmental politics, specifically degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
Renske Visser @drrenskevisser.bsky.social Medical Anthropologist & Death Scholar @Oulu uni. Co-host @deathstudiespod (thedeathstudiespodcast.com)
Blogger @deadgoodreading (deadgoodreading.com).
🇳🇱 in 🇫🇮
Sally-Anne Francis @sally-anne-fran.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London. Interested in all things medicines. Health services researcher. Pharmacist. Slow runner. #academicsky #pharmsky
Diana Teggi @dianateggi.bsky.social Medical Sociologist at the University of Bath
#Ageing #Technology
#PalliativeCare
She/they 🏳️🌈- W Philipp Wehage @wehage.bsky.social PhD Student @ Uni Heidelberg
Religious Studies / Sociology / Thanatology
Death & Images Er/Ihm | He/Him
Also interested in #gamestudies
Dr Trish Biers @drtrishbiers.bsky.social Human Remains Specialist. Curation, conservation, repatriation, ethics, museums, relics, education. Stop the trade in human remains! 💀🪦⚰️ #thanatology #folklore #deathwork #deadtorites #tacos
Cindy L. Cain @drclcain.bsky.social Sociologist, organizational issues in health care delivery, end of life care, and dementia. Also sewing! Mostly quilts and apparel. 
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Adam Smith @betterresearch.bsky.social #Dementia Research at University College London - creator of Dementia Researcher supporting ECR Careers.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social Geriatric medicine registrar and PhD student researching care trajectories and geriatric syndromes. Small details and big pictures. Based in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders.
Shaun Pattinson @shaunpattinson.bsky.social Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/s-d-pattinson/
Kate Woodthorpe @katewoody.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, interested in all things death and dying. Director of CDAS, University of Bath
Nilou Davoudi @kotlet00.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UBC | @UniofOxford Alumna | Research in Death, Mourning, and Memoria On Social Media | Compulsive Reader, Traveller, Whirler, Teacup Collector
Julie Brose @juliebrose.bsky.social PhD • Postdoc research fellow @perroninstitute.bsky.social and Honorary @UWA/University of Bristol/NIHR ARC West • Foodie 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧
Research includes #PalliativeCare #PublicHealth #NeuroRehab #PalliativeRehab #OT #Evaluation
linkedin.com/in/julie-brose
Ida Middlemiss Frost @idamiddlemissfrost.bsky.social MA Social Anthropology and Politics at the University of Edinburgh
Currently at the University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Former News Editor: https://thestudentnews.co.uk/author/idamiddlemissfrost/
Sophie Lewis @sophielewis.bsky.social Sociologist + Qualitative researcher, University of Sydney| Focusing on health, illness and care. Cat lover | women’s football ⚽️
Death Scholar @deathscholar.bsky.social Studying dying, death, grief, after death and all things in between. (Dr. Candi K. Cann @ Baylor University)
Dr Ben Bowers @drbenbowers.bsky.social Assistant Professor - University of Cambridge │ Hon. Nurse Consultant Palliative Care │ Co-Theme Lead PEoLC - NIHR ARC East of England. *Views my own*
https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/people/ben-bowers
Alison @aaclarke4.bsky.social Doctor in East of England
Interested in Palliative and Respiratory medicine
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
Kandida Purnell @kandidapurnell.bsky.social Head of Research and Professional Engagement/Associate Professor of International Relations @RichmondUniLdn | Author of/still busy ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics’ | kandidapurnell.me
LaUra Schmidt @laura3schmidt.bsky.social Founding Director: Good Grief Network; Author of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate
Human Animal
Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
meg 💀 @bedazzlemybones.bsky.social (they/them) thanatologist. craft-maker. social worker. future corpse. grief counselor.
Todd Meyers @totomcgee.bsky.social Anthropologist. Teaches at McGill University, Social Studies of Medicine. New book, GONE GONE (Duke University Press, 2025)
JD Daw @jddaw.bsky.social Sociologist and Demographer at Penn State. So, as you would expect, I mostly study kidneys.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Anna Mann @annamann.bsky.social STS, PostDoc @SUZ @UZH, PI “(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End”