Lieutenant Columbo (A fan account) @lieutenant-columbo.bsky.social An account about our favorite TV homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo. https://acolumboblog.blogspot.com/
Suite (212) @suite212.bsky.social Podcast that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
https://soundcloud.com/suite-212
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social
A safe, fun space for pop enthusiasts to celebrate anniversaries of fucking records.
City-REDI @city-redi.bsky.social The City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham. Supporting inclusive economic growth in the West Midlands and the UK.
https://tinyurl.com/Find-out-more-about-City-REDI
Ukraine Cricket @ukrainecricket.bsky.social Since 1993 🇺🇦🏏
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📚 GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out
❤️ Charity XI: https://wp.me/pm4mQ-AI5
👋🏻 Admin: @jonathancampion.com
@countycricket.live @countycricket.live Bot account (and sometimes its creator) detailing when live streams of first class and one day matches begin on YouTube. See all live matches on a single page: https://countycricket.live
Built by @paulbailey.social
Saul Hewish @saulhewish.bsky.social Participatory arts for prisons & other marginalised groups. Artistic Director of Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) and p/t Teaching Fellow in Theatre Practice at University of Warwick. My views are my own & not necessarily those of my employers.
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
Richard Kemp @richardmskemp.bsky.social Podcaster for Bristol University Press & Policy Press. Writer. MA: UoG. Bylines: PopMatters & Bristol24/7. Posts about writing, music and pro wrestling. 🍉
✍🏻 & 🎧 https://muckrack.com/richardmskemp/portfolio
(he/him)
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]
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Nicole Kirchler @nicolekirchler.bsky.social 'I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.‘ Anaïs Nin
Deb Grant @djdebgrant.bsky.social Dubliner, BBC6Music host 
Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org A global network of advocates organizing, mobilizing, and taking action to win universal basic income.
Join basicincomeaction.org
DMs Open ❤️ Re-Shares
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Economic and Social Research. PhD from King’s College London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Bridges 5.0 EU Project @bridges5-0.bsky.social Exploring workforce skills for Industry 5.0. We are a #HorizonEU initiative funded by EU HaDEA
https://bridges5-0.eu/
Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social by @nora.zone, huge thanks to @jewel.andraia.xyz, @bluebotsdonequick.com. it/its
Accidental Partridge @accidentalp.bsky.social 🏆 Stuff Magazine’s “tweeter of the year” - 2013
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer. Art, books, music, climate. Suffolk and London.
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Louise O'Boyle @louoboyle.bsky.social Artist . . Maker . . Dean of Teaching, Learning and Assessment, Dún Laoghaire IADT, Dublin . . . views my own
Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social 
Annika Troitzsch @annikate.bsky.social Sociologist, feminist theory, environmental humanities, sts, phd student @tuda.bsky.social and @sfb294.bsky.social, currently working on ecological water security and financialization
Anne-Laure Riotte @annelaureriotte.bsky.social Dr in political science, @AssasParis2, @CERSA_CNRS.
Cultural Policies / Heritage / Creative industries / European Policies
Member of @gruecollectif.bsky.social
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
@culturburo.bsky.social @culturburo.bsky.social 
The EU Culture Letter @cultureletter.bsky.social Writing about EU's cultural policy and industry news, with a focus on digital media, video games and films.
https://eucultureletter.substack.com/
Creative Infrastructures @lindaessig.bsky.social Academic administration; cultural policy; I used to be a lighting designer; “Creative Infrastructures” available from UChicago Press. Amateur potter.
Tal Feder @talfeder.bsky.social Cultural Policy, Cultural Management, Sociology of Art and Culture
Xin Gu @guxin2010.bsky.social Working under UNESCO 2005 Convention on cultural diversity. I write about urban cultural policy, creative industries, cultural work, impact of digital and AI on creativity and society in the Global South context.
Andrew Miles @profandymiles.bsky.social Prof@MCRSociology. Researching culture, class and inequality, cultural policy, social & spatial mobility
Terje @terjeco.bsky.social Media scholar. Streaming across industries. Digital stuff. Media and cultural policy. LFC. Angler in theory.
Cupore @cupore.bsky.social Kulttuuripolitiikan tutkimuskeskus Cupore /
Kulturpolitiska forskningscentret Cupore /
Center for Cultural Policy Research Cupore
https://www.cupore.fi/
Jordan Jacobs @jordannjacobs.bsky.social Author, archaeologist, cultural policy wonk, dad, Cardinal, Cantab, Californian
Matan Hakim @matanhakim.bsky.social Head of Research at the Israeli Institute for Cultural Policy.
#Rstats and #Tidyverse enthusiast.
matanhakim.com
Kaisa Paavolainen @kaisapaavolainen.bsky.social Working with Finnish theatres, performing arts people and cultural policy as managing director of Suomen Teatterit ry. Musical theatre enthusiast. Stephen Sondheim fan. Leeds United supporter.
Szabolcs Musca @szabolcsmusca.bsky.social Academic & cultural curator. Migrant theatre, socially engaged performance, cultural policy. Associate researcher at Bristol & Lisbon, director of Migrant Dramaturgies Network @newtidesp.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Szabolcs-Musca 
Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social Sports journalist
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Tinfoil Matt @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social The brain worm infestation caused by living next to Telegraph opinions every day
Sam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social Sporadic writer & editor at Lion & Unicorn
https://thelionandunicorn.com/
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Iain McDermott @poprambler.bsky.social Back to NOW! podcast, celebrating the variously compiled world of pop. Popmaster alumni. On the TV and radio from time to time.
https://linktr.ee/poprambler
Mid-America Arts Alliance @midamericaarts.bsky.social We support artists and arts organizations in the heartland and beyond. maaa.org
Ilja Simons @iljasimons.bsky.social Senior Lecturer / Researcher / Sociologist at Breda University of Applied Sciences - events - festivals - tourism - storytelling - narratives - communities - placemaking - heritage
Journal for Social Thought @jst-journal.bsky.social JST (The Journal for Social Thought) is a peer-reviewed academic journal run by graduate students in the department of sociology @WesternU
Read the issues at: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/jst/index
✨ Olivia Helmholz-Vero ✨ @oliviahvero.bsky.social (i know, the last name's a mouthful) | phd candidate/pre doc @ uni vienna | researching working class representations, autofictional modes in television, contemporary situation comedies
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Mascots Minute Silence @mascotsilence.bsky.social Photos of mascots observing moments of silence.
@mascotsilence on other platforms
Parth Patel @parth0.bsky.social Associate director for democracy and politics at IPPR. "Charming but bonkers" - Farage. Doctor swimming upstream
Mayor of Greater Manchester @mayorofgm.bsky.social Official account for the Mayor of Greater Manchester. This account's not fully up and running yet (bear with us), so we may not see your comments. Give us a follow and we'll be here soon.
Sadiq Khan @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social Londonmaxxing since 2016
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Minister for Women & Equalities.
Chair of the Labour Party.
Proud MP for Houghton & Sunderland South.
@ed-miliband.bsky.social @ed-miliband.bsky.social 
Yvette Cooper MP @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford, Knottingley & Altofts
Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.com Professes music theory & tech, head of Musical Arts Learning Lab at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/
Executive Director @lgbtqplusmusicsg.bsky.social
UCDiSchool - UCD School of Information & Communication Studies @ucdischool.bsky.social ℹ️ #UCDiSchool exploring how people & technology interact & influence each other.
🎓Provides undergrad & graduate courses in Ireland’s only iSchool.
🔗 www.ucd.ie/ics
Links: www.linktr.ee/ucd_ischool
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social 💻 Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer w/ Andreas Reckwitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 💡 #practicetheory #AI #algorithms #affect #materialculture #temporality. 💬 Content My Own. 🌈 He/Him.
Nathan Kelly @nathankellyedu.bsky.social Leader, Educator, Curriculum specialist FE/HE, Advocate for the Creative Industries
Jennifer Clement @jenlyn.bsky.social Middlebrow reader; knitter; cat lover; secondhand bookstores are as close to heaven as heaven allows. Pronouns she/her. Opinions mine.
@drdavehindley.bsky.social @drdavehindley.bsky.social This September I am running the Robin Hood Half Marathon to raise funds for Nottingham Refugee Forum.
http://bit.ly/4wtJQSH
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Aileen O’Carroll @aaocarroll.bsky.social Sociology (#work, #class, #time & #tech). Policy geek at the Digital Repository of Ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. She, her. Also cats, jokes & typos
British Culture Archive @britcultarchive.bsky.social The Changing Face of British Society & Culture. EXHIBITIONS | SHOP | GALLERIES
LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Jessica @jessicab-e.bsky.social Researcher | Evaluator w/ Sheffield Hallam. ESRC PhD. Interests in HE inequalities, WP policy agenda, critical education policy analysis, narrative & feminist research into education experiences of working-class young women & girls #Sociology #Youthstudies
Roger Martinez @rogermartinezz.bsky.social Sociologia, cultura, classe (UOC)
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Chris Mullin @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social Writer, retired politician and amateur gardener. One of a growing number of refugees from Elon Musk's X/Twitter.
Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social Simpsons, Tap, Derek, Le Show.
@davidgoldblatt.bsky.social @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social 
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.
Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician. 
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
The Daily Jaws @thedailyjaws.bsky.social World’s number one JAWS fan community. Pro-shark. Influencer. DM for partnership enquiries.
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Annelot Prins @lennartspion.bsky.social I research the social function of celebrity. Special interests: famous women in popular music, celebrity feminism, immoral celebrity and monstrous celebrity.
Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social Researcher on precarious work
platform capitalism and unions. Try and teach leadership communication @ University of Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand 
Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social 🎓Music, Fandom & Internet Cultures Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford University)
✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.)
📌 https://jenessawilliams.substack.com
Claire Blencowe @claireblencowe.bsky.social Professor of sociology at Warwick. Critical scholar of cultural and religious racism, extractive industries, racial capitalism, planetary crises & power/knowledge. Wanabe devotee of oceans, birds, & hope.
Carin Runciman @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Johannesburg. Editor-in-Chief at The Sociological Review
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.
Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social Lecturer in Media and Sociology at University of Glasgow. I started my academic journey in media studies from University of Groningen in the Netherlands during 2013 to 2018, now doing research in digital politics and Chinese media industries, etc.
Matina Kapsali @matinakapsali.bsky.social Urban Geographer
Postdoctoral Fellow @USForg @GeographyUOM
Feminist Geography • Social Reproduction • Grassroots Infrastructures • Urban Politics •🐈 • she/her
Ryan Powell @urbanstigma.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, University of Sheffield
Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
📍Glasgow
Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
Trevor MacFarlane @trevormacf.bsky.social Founder CEO of Culture Commons
Former Advisor to senior Labour politicians
Senior Researcher at Labour Together
Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
IVLP Alumnus at US Department of State
Culture Commons @culturecommons.bsky.social An independent think & do tank dedicated to the UK’s creative, cultural and heritage ecosystem
www.culturecommons.uk
William Crawley @williamcrawley.bsky.social BBC presenter. @BBCNIreland, @BBCNewsNI. @BBCR4Sunday. #BBCTalkback. Member @RIADawson. @EF_Fellows. Cynophilist. Talking on-air against my better judgment.
Check my List for: Northern Ireland https://go.bsky.app/VGXofMD