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
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Caroline Sharples @carolinesharples.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton specialising in C20th German history. Author of The Long Death of Adolf Hitler (2026). carolinesharples.com
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social Latest issue:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/bjps/current
BJPS Review of Books:
https://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/
BJPS Short Reads:
https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/
Podcast:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bjps
Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory.
Working across philosophy and cognitive science.
Exploring disorientation, spatial cognition, and ecological grief.
pablofernandezvelasco.com
Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com She/her. Associate professor of philosophy at UNED, Madrid. Interested in all things animal. Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death.
susanamonso.com
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Yiyun Li @appletwigli.bsky.social Fictioneer
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Paula Akpan @paulaakpan.bsky.social historian, londoner & staunch gooner. researching the world-building and lives of Black lesbians & queers in britain, 1970s-90s. big dyke, big nerd. she/her
📕 WHEN WE RULED out now
paulaakpan.com
Philosophy of Grief and Loss at York @griefyork.bsky.social Philosophers investigating experiences of Grief and Loss at the University of York. Previously an AHRC funded project: https://www.griefyork.com. Posting our own work, and things we find interesting.
@amysheawriter.bsky.social @amysheawriter.bsky.social Website: https://amysshea.com
Equitable Disposition Alliance: https://equitabledisposition.org
Death Writes: https://deathwrites.org.uk
Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature at Kiel University, deputy editor for @c21literature.bsky.social , contemporary life writing/fiction, English & German, seriality, modernism • she/her •
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Literature, creative industries & liberal arts, University of York.
New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, 2026).
Yuki Tejima @yukitejima.bsky.social Translator from LA. Translations: Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon | How to Hold Someone in Your Heart (Mizuki Tsujimura) | Someone to Watch Over You (Kumi Kimura) | When the Museum is Closed (Emi Yagi) @booknerdtokyo
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
Forever @msforeverwondering.bsky.social Biblophile. Library advocate. Foodie. Traveller at heart. Proud Mancunian.
American Medical Journal @americanmedicaljournal.com AMJ: #1 open access destination for HCPs. Peer-reviewed journals & diverse content hub. Interviews, podcasts, webinars, infographics.
🔗: https://www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com All things literature. Festival, Academy, Online magazine. Boeken, verhalen, ideeën. #nachtvandepoezie #boekfest #yalfu #exploringstories • https://ilfu.com/
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum 
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
The Writers' Practice @writerspractice.bsky.social An Oxford based literary agency & editorial consultancy headed up by Jemima Hunt. We represent bestselling authors. We launch debut authors.
http://thewriterspractice.com
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
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/
Kate Woodthorpe @katewoody.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, interested in all things death and dying. Director of CDAS, University of Bath
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social Funeral Director/Mortician/Undertaker
Deep grief with ritual of radical gratitude.
Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
Sam Teichman (she/her) @samanthateichman.bsky.social Death, Dying, & Grief Researcher | Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate in Gerontology at Simon Fraser University
Uché Blackstock, MD @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social Physician. NYT bestselling author of LEGACY 📚 TIME100 Health ✨ Thinking about health, culture, & the life I choose.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
@libbysallnow.bsky.social @libbysallnow.bsky.social 
Palliative Approaches to Care in Aging and Community Health @access2care.bsky.social A program of research led by Dr. Kelli Stajduhar that aims to expand the ways in which palliative approaches to care are defined, understood, provided, received, and supported.
https://palliativeapproaches.uvic.ca/ 
The PassingOn Collective @thepassingon.bsky.social We're on a heart-centered mission to accompany people through loss and death, moving through to renewal, all in the company of our village. We believe in hospitality + authenticity + humor as survival strategies, especially in dark times.
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social #multilingualism, #identity, heritage languages, #children, #school, multilingual #libraries, #books, #reading, #makerspaces, #co-production and participatory research, at University of Sheffield, UK. Occasional multilingual storyteller
Ariel Gore @arielgore.bsky.social 
Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social Ambedkarite, romance reader and scholar, annihilate caste
Matteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social Professor of Geriatrics, University of Milan
Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)
Geriatrics • Aging/Ageing • Frailty • Medicine • Public Health • Science • Geriatria • AS Roma • SPQR • MedSky
Post my own
Also on https://mastodon.social/@macesari
Oncology book club @oncologybookclub.bsky.social A book club run by UK oncologists Anthea & Nicola. Alternates between medical &
Non-medical themes. Open to everyone (you don’t have to work in oncology!)
Discussions happen on zoom every few months!
Claudia Rojas @claudidaudi.bsky.social she/her/ella, Teacher Librarian, book and podcast junkie, first gen, hija de inmigrantes, fur mamá, Tía, Nina, world traveler, board gamer, concert goer, Wordler, SoCal native, Chicana
CR 📚 Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
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
Heather Collins 💀🧬⚕️🎓♿️ @variola13.bsky.social Scientist, lecturer, lefty, gamer, book nerd. Sarcastic individual, into silliness, medicine, anatomy, & forensics. Wears odd socks. Death positive 💀 #ME NB: often inappropriate. ENFJ.
She/her.
DMs welcome if we have had some kind of interaction on here.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Sarah Lirley @sarahlirley.bsky.social Historian of death, 19th century U.S., women and gender.
Katie Taylor Artist @katietaylorartist.bsky.social Interdisciplinary artist exploring unidentified human remains #deathscholar
www.kmtaylor.co.uk
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
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
Queer Death Studies Network🌻 @queerdeath.bsky.social International Network for Queer Death Studies. Learn more: https://queerdeathstudies.net/
Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Third Man Books @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social Located in Nashville, Tennessee, TMB publishes fiction, poetry, music history, history, speculative fiction, and more. Visit thirdmanbooks.com to view our full catalog and also for submission guidelines.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
Chris Miller @cmillerphd.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow with the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto
Studying death, dying, and nonreligion
https://chrismiller.ca/
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
My Parents Are Dead: What Now? @deadparentswhatnow.com Demystifying the bureaucracy of death & dying with a sense of humor. Find your niche in The Columbarium newsletter. Listen to the Bitching & Mourning podcast. BUY THE BOOK NOW!💀
https://linktr.ee/deadparentswhatnow
Amy Defibaugh @amyldefibaugh.bsky.social Religion PhD in death and dying studies. Facilitating scholarship, programs and publications for the American Academy of Religion.
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/
The Collective for Radical Death Studies @raddeathstudies.bsky.social Decolonizing death studies and transforming death practices for a more radical future
https://linktr.ee/raddeathreads?lt_utm_source=lt_admin_share_link#436486512
Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social author/Ripples of the Universe (Chicago, 2021) and A Perturbed System (Chicago, 2026) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | university lecturer | curmudgeon | views my own
Beatrice Marovich @beamarovich.bsky.social I’m a professor in religious studies, theology & the environmental humanities. I write about death, the underworld, and the things that take root there.
website: www.beatricemarovich.com
substack: https://beatricemarovich.substack.com
Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
Justine Robinson @justinepilgrims.bsky.social Occupational therapist, passionate about palliative care and arts and nature in health.
Hospice based head of therapies and wellbeing services
This is not my professional account, all views are mine!
TalkDeath @talkdeath.bsky.social TalkDeath.com is the Hub for Death Conscious Conversation
JP Maney @j-p-m.bsky.social My three most recent books are now available online. "Ireland Feeds My Soul", "A Booklover's Last Stand" and "It's Your Day, Make it your Tao" are all available on the Big A. You can also order Tao from your local bookshop. More at www.jpmaney.com
Sarah Wootton @sarahwootton.bsky.social Choice at the end - and beginning - of life. CEO @dignityindying.org.uk @compassionindying.bsky.social
#YesToDignity
Marie Curie UK @mariecurieuk.bsky.social We’re the UK’s leading end of life charity. Hospice care and support, research and campaigns. Whatever the illness, we’re with you to the end 💛
Hayley West / The Departure @hayleyjwest.bsky.social www.thedeparture.com.au
Socially engaged artist, death literacy advocate, radio presenter, librarian, aspiring doom metal vocalist ❤️🔥
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Ali Van Zee @alikat747.bsky.social #Hospice RN, #Sept11 #WTC Responder, #Wildlife Advocate, #ClimateChange #Environment, Looking for sanity and peace in a fractured world, #TGForever www.savebears.org (Same handle on Mastodon and Twitter) 🇬🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦
Ru 🔜 ASC- FC-FurDU @downtherabbithole.info 🐰Bunny
Hospice nurse,VR Artist & Events, Open Format DJ
She/Her/Hellloooo Nurse! 🏳️⚧️ トランスジェンダー
#VRChat: Ru Discord: mama_ru Telegram:Transversewithru
Bookings/Contact: Ru@downtherabbithole.info
Good Grief Network @goodgriefnetwork.bsky.social Good Grief Network (GGN) is a peer-to-peer support organization serving individuals & communities experiencing eco-distress and collective trauma from social and ecological injustice
Chaplain Dollar Tree Darth Vader @chaplaindarth.bsky.social Lutheran. Ukraine medical aid enthusiast. #NAFO
The Death Deck @thedeathdeck.bsky.social Run by Lisa Pahl, hospice social worker, end of life educator and Owner of The Death Deck. We make cards that inspire meaningful conversations about what matters most in our lives and in our deaths. NEWLY LAUNCHED: THE DEMENTIA DECK!
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
DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social Deathwork sisters, Dr KV & artist LV. Creative approaches to mortality education. Your eco-funeral guides. Ceremony. Stories. Legacy. Zines & ltd edition merch
Puny Mortal Podcast 💀 The Mortal Portal
Sunderland & Macc, UK
https://linktr.ee/deadgoodlegacies
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Panagiotis Pentaris @ppentaris.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Social Work & Thanatology
Thanatology Research Lab
Thanatology Podcast
Dr. Elli Wilson @elliwilson.bsky.social Dr. Elli Wilson - Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. UK.
Qualitative researcher, palliative+end of life care, MND, complex homecare
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/eleanor.wilson
Views are my own
Ash Wadi 🟣 @arsh13.bsky.social Anatomical pathology technologist (APT). Interested in science and anatomy, nature, bats, music, film,rugby,comedy
Jessica Hurley @jessicahurley.bsky.social English prof teaching SFF, environmental humanities, queer studies, NAIS, contemporary lit. Currently researching nuclear cultures in decolonial contexts. Author of Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex. She/they pls.
The Posthuman Lab @posthumanlab.bsky.social www.posthumanlab.org | info@posthumanlab.org
Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
James Finley @jamesmfinley.bsky.social Associate Prof. and Director of the Locomotor Control Lab at USC. Father x3, slow runner and cyclist, hip hop enthusiast. 
Queenslanders for End of Life Legal Options @q4eollo.fyi We advocate for Qld & Aust law reform to: Improve access to Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD); Widen eligibility criteria for VAD; & Allow Telehealth for VAD. We also aim to provide resources to educate Australians about their legal end of life options.
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️