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
JoRichardsKent @jorichardskent.bsky.social Rejoin, environment, climatology, anthropology, nature.
US, what have you done?! 🤦♀️
Donate to Ukraine: 🇺🇦
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Progressive4u @progressive4u.bsky.social Left Wing, Socialist, Antiracist, AntiZionist, 🏴 & 🏴 Independence! 🇮🇪 Reunification! YourParty Scotland/UK, Friend of Progressive Parties & accounts. FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Former @mediate4u
Ai is T.H.E.F.T. (Thieves Hard Earned Fostered Talent!)
Maria Winter @mariawinter.bsky.social Historian • Medievalist • research on body & power • EHESS PhD • no career researcher • escaped school teaching • now learning specialist at a research institute • qualified project manager (GPM Basic Certificate & Scrum Master) • opinions my own • Berlin
Urban Tree Festival @urbantreefest.bsky.social The next Urban Tree Festival will run from 9th - 16th May 2026🌳 Visit our website to see our latest news, catch up on our YouTube & sign up for our newsletter!
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social PhD candidate/historian/writer•♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, the cozy+kind• Canadian🍁 #ElbowsUp• #GoSensGo #BlueJays50• (my other account is hacked)•♥️ kindness🍃•
Caroline Malloy, Ph.D. @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social Historian
Speaker
Nonfiction Developmental Editor
... basically, I talk a lot...
World Traveler
King Slim @kingslim.bsky.social Archaeologist, Cycle Tourist, Open minded democracy defender.
Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
Daryl @darylspiano.bsky.social Born 319.5 ppm CO2
Married 💍; #ClimateCrisis
#SolarPower #Solarfarm
#EVs #EVOwner #treehugger #Compost #Piano, #Musician Healthy Diet & Finess, #VitD #Omega3
#Magnesium
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Michigan, USA
Cheryl Richardson @crich428.bsky.social Nature needs a home
Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social Retired law professor and law reformer. Pro EU. Anti Brexit. Pro UN, pro international law and civilised international relations. Supporter of Scottish independence in Europe for pro European, internationalist, democratic, progressive and other reasons.
David Hoy @davidhoy.bsky.social Happily retired, enthusiastic environmental volunteer, sometime choir singer, always wanting better cycling infrastructure, Edinburgh based.
out-of-the-box @peterstott.bsky.social Scottish independence🏴, Avid European.
Atheist. Secularist. Not a Monarchist.
Genocide-aware. Please liberate the USA.
Love our renewables 💨🌊🏞️ No to CCS & greenwash.
Seeker of Eclectica.
Did I forget something?
Martine Paulauskas @textloft.bsky.social Schreibt und übersetzt für Kunst & Kultur, Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Tourismus, Natur & mehr.
https://www.textloft.de/impressum/ https://www.textloft.de
Außerdem Künstlerin https://www.kunsttext.de/impressum/ https://www.kunsttext.de
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
Tony S @oldarchitect.bsky.social Retired Architect and Lecturer, just completed delivery of an Introduction to Built Heritage online course (England). Awaiting next year's recruits.
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Sarah Hendriks @spchendriks.bsky.social Research Fellow at Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury. Scholar of papyrology, architecture, and early modern manuscripts. Aspiring farmer.
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Robin Curtis @planetkooler.bsky.social Long term energy player. In more recent decades in deep geothermal and ground source heat pumps - throughout UK. Decarbonisation - mainly of heat. Responsible for: https://planetcooler.pythonanywhere.com/static/CO2Reg0.html. Personal linterest in #LongCovi
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social #Radge #MDANT #Gype #DandiesMin
Research in Action on Church Heritage @churchheritage.bsky.social Prioritising need and creating momentum to tackle an urgent challenge for the nation | A @socantscot.bsky.social and @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social project | Supported by #NationalLottery #HeritageFund and the Pilgrim Trust
Naturalists' World @naturalistsworld.bsky.social Exploring the natural systems that shape our world, through millions of shared observations.! www.naturalists.world
Murray Leith @murrayleith.bsky.social Prof of Pol Science. Interest in all things Nationalism, Identity & Diaspora, and Scotland/UK/USA Pol. Fan of Space Opera. Ex-matelot.
Stephen Spitewinter @spitewinter.bsky.social 🌱 #History, #Botany, #Plants, #Gardening, #Art, #Allotment, Economic & Social History, Small-scale food production, Cricket. Mending old things and restoring old houses. Location 🇬🇧. Support 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺
I reply to comments on my posts, but not often to DMs
Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org Discover new research from across the sciences and highlights from the world's longest-running journal archive. Part of @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/journals
Stephen, nature lover @cdurham.bsky.social LGTB welcome. Keen photographer, landscapes, flowers, sale enquiries welcome. Gardening, walking, senior citizen, married with two cats. North east England, UK. Passionate about animals and nature. Retired ecologist, botanist, birdwatcher. DM open
@knittingness.bsky.social @knittingness.bsky.social 
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
My Historical Table @myhistoricaltable.bsky.social Historical food website, dedicated to bringing delicious recipes back from the past to the present. Join me at my table. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Founder @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
Ian Godwin @thegodwinexx.bsky.social Professor in crop biotechnology at UQ; love all types of football especially AFL. Perpetual searcher for the world’s finest beer.
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.
James Jefferies @jamesjefferies.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy Technologist @shedcode - Data Engineer @RewildingB - @jamesjefferies (he/him) - #IrisMurdoch, #TheWeddingPresent, #LFC, #Railways #TheArchers #Canals […]
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Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social Stories sprinkle stardust on our lives.
Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire,
Ancient Greece
Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026
Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social 🧬 Sequencing biodiversity. Securing its future.
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) is a global moonshot for biology working to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity.
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Fanny Sikström @fannyskm.bsky.social Archaeologist & PhD student at @rug.nl
| Working on the chronology of the Norse Settlements in Greenland ✨
| Mainly interested in North Atlantic Archaeology, Radiocarbon dating, and Bayesian modelling
Part of @contactproject.bsky.social
CliveJT @clivejt.bsky.social Born in Scarborough UK
INTJ
Likes symbolist paintings
Likes monochrome photographs
Also likes drawing in A5 size sketchbooks.
But is probably in a café right now.
International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social IUFRO (est. 1892) is a non-profit/non-governmental int'l network of forest scientists, promoting global cooperation in forest-related research. Mission: to enhance the understanding of the ecological/economic/social aspects of forests.
linktr.ee/iufro
Dr Michael Clifford @drmikeclifford.bsky.social Paediatric intensivist, anaesthetist, atheist, skeptic, member of the “Guardian Reading, Tofu eating, Wokerati”, former animal eater and alcohol self medicator
Still learning to partner, parent, and appreciate the small things (like compost microbes)
Ian Watt @watty62.bsky.social Open Data advocate. Wikimedia Board Member. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python etc. Enthusiastic reader. Wikimedia UK trainer. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen, OSS Taisho.
“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social 🏴🇪🇺 When the people of Scotland have no democratic route to achieving Scottish independence ,then this is not a union, it’s a british Prison🇬🇧
🏴🍀🇮🇪🇪🇺
Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹
(No access to DMs, email me)
Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social Paleobotanist at @CNRSecologie.bsky.social & @umramap.bsky.social | (re)posts about fossil & living plants 🌲🌿🍂⛏️ Old posts are deleted.
Daniel McAndrew @danielmcandrew.bsky.social Also Known as: Danicvs Cakivs Gellatios Maximvs!
Ancient history nerd
Passionate about Ancient Rome
Cake lover
Proud member of the Great War Group
Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social 🎓Lecturer @BristolUni @BILT (curriculum, pedagogy, SFHEA, sustainability, AI, qual research) UCU WIASN Higher Education
🏺 Archaeologist @archsengage.bsky.social Archaeology
👩🎨Crafter, TephraArts https://tephraarts.etsy.com
📍Bristol ☘️ she/her
Matt Williamson @mattdoesscience.bsky.social 🌌 Owner of www.TaysidePlanetarium.co.uk
🎓 Presentation Skills trainer
with @dyellowlees.bsky.social
He/Him - Trans Rights Are Human Rights - 🏳️⚧️Ally
Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social Rock ponderer.
Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences - UNIMIB @btbsunimib.bsky.social The Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milano-Bicocca
Neelima Thottappillil @nthottappillil.bsky.social NHLBI K99/R00 Postdoctoral fellow @HopkinsMedicine
!!In Faculty job market!!
Studying blood vessels, stem cells and bone
#HumaninSTEM
Alumnus @SCTIMST @EdinburghUniv
#FilledwithLaughter🐾
Anne Robbins @hincmariana.bsky.social Once a historian, always a historian. But also a knitter, gardener, allotmenteer, petition signer, listener, reader.
Leigh Windridge Photography @leighw.photos Nottingham based photographer using OMSystem cameras & lenses.
Prints and 1-to-1 tuition available on request, just get in touch via my website at leighw.photos for more info.
I do YouTube too, come find me at https://youtube.com/@LeighWPhotos
Worth a sub?
Eric Branse-Instone @ericbranse.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy Professionally an #Archaeologist but mainly deals with #HistoricBuildings (views my own!) interested in #acting & #theatre (Trustee of #DunsPlayfest link below) […]
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Derek Black @djm-black.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy European: Germano-Polish Scot. Christian. Bibliophile. Scientist. House-husband.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy Trained ecological scientist (B.Sc., MPhil), dyslexic thinker, blogger, bicycle rider, sometimes driver, ex ADI, bla-de-bla-de-blaa...
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Claire Barnes @clairefromclare.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy Interested in the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare - the remarkable #14thCentury patron of #ClareCollege at #CambridgeUniversity in […]
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Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social Founder of Get It Loud In Libraries www.loudinlibraries.com cool programme of doorstep library gigs with future BRIT & Grammy winners. Born to live in Scotland. Lover of music, books, libraries, radio, dogs, PNE & wife Elizabeth. A BEM, no less. 
wiesenblume @wiesenblume.bsky.social Mag Fotos, Natur, Kunst…
CarrieAnneArt @carrie-anne-art.bsky.social Ex academic, retired early due to ill health. 25+ yrs chronic illness. Digital and generative artist, I may occasionally try to sell you something, so apologies in advance. :-) Love nature and spooky stuff. #CovidCautious #StillMasking #DailyArt_Photo 
Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social Retired Librarian, Family Historian, Quilter, Walker, Victorian photograph & Postcard collector, Folk Music Fan! Monochrome Photography (Monochrome Miss). Powered by caffeine!!!! Trying to cheer up the world one photo at a time!
Keegan Fess @mcjagaloon.bsky.social Big pondo!?
Restoration forester in the eastern Cascades of WA🌲
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
@davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social Nearly all of my followers are Irish people I don't know. aka #FloridaDave in #Ireland #speirgorm
Dr. Grant Veritas @drgrantveritas.bsky.social Neurobiology & evolutionary anthropology.
Ex-WHO adviser.
Author: Cognitive Dissonance in Modern Primates.
Orlando Schwery @oschwery.bsky.social Research Scientist @Zenil-Ferguson Lab, UKY. Macroevolution, Phylogenetics, Diversification, Model Adequacy, Causal Inference, Dung Beetles, Ericaceae. 🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸 Opinions=own. He/him Mastodon: @oschwery@ecoevo.social, X: orlando_schwery oschwery.github.io
Segar Rogers @segarrogers.bsky.social /sē′gər/
Teacher. Maths. Secondary. Edinburgh.
Old enough to remember chalk.
Absent from the classroom since 2025.
Joanne Roulston, MSW, JD @ottawakiwi.bsky.social Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer.
Montréal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
https://joanneroulston.substack.com/
Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Monument Quest @monumentquest.bsky.social Exploring the hidden gems of Transylvania, Siebenbürgen
Daily photos of Transylvanian fortified churches, Saxon villages & castles 🏰🏘️ | History, legends & architecture
Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social Associate Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. I like things that fly through the air (not shit hitting fan though), science, nature, pottery, and well, many things actually. Opinions are my own and probably questionable.
Tree Channel 🌲 @trees.channel.org This is a great place to share your love of trees!
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Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social • Children’s bookseller
Spyglass Books @spyglassbooks.bsky.social
• Artist/Illustrator
My art and prints 👉 http://spyglassillustration.com
• Edinburgh dweller
• Tennis enthusiast
Dr Sudhanshu Shekhar @drsshekhar.bsky.social Scientist @gnotobiology.bsky.social I Editor, Folia Microbiologica I Veterinarian I Former Scientist @uio.no I Alum @ox.ac.uk @umanitoba.bsky.social I Interests #NasalMicrobiome #Allergy #AMR #Gnotobiology I
Altnaharra @altnaharra.eurosky.social Independence supporter living in the north east of Scotland #StillYes
Ian Jackson 🗿😷🇪🇺 🏴 🩺🚲 @drianjackson.eurosky.social Retired Anaesthetist & covid vaccinator. Still have IT role in NHS and in Day Surgery Internationally. Proud Scot, support independence. Long Covid urgently needs research. Brexit is a disaster. Recently caught cycling bug - carbon frames are amazing.
Kimberley Teale @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social Geophysicist. Archaeologist. Landscapes. Lover of nature and dogs.
Proud to survey like a girl.
Rob Galpin @robgalpin.bsky.social Writer, gardener and conservationist. Lots of interests and endlessly distracting hobbies like music, literature, nature writing and poetry. North-east England.
Writing at https://robgalpin.substack.com
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
+ blogger.com/profile/02224647895500543757
@cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social Ecologist and botanist/Eiceolaí agus luibheolaí neamhspleách - interested in vascular plants, bryophytes, conservation and invasive species @rhodorangers.bsky.social
Tá Gaeilge agam
Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social Londoner in Scotland via Gloucestershire
Birder, moth botherer and wildlife gardener.
Council flat to old farmhouse - my childhood me would never have predicted that!
WAF
Konstanze @konstanzem.bsky.social Hobby photographer. All pictures by myself. Taken with mobile phone. Altered by means of apps, but no A.I. Thank you for any reposts. 💚
Anna Zona @annazona.bsky.social Here to share pics. All photos (under "media") are mine, except reposts. Thank you very much to all who like & repost.
Mick Lister @listermj.bsky.social Retired Cumbrian Guardian reader. 2 Border Terriers rule the house.
Nature, Art, Music, Sport.
Try to take photos when I'm out & about and hope for the best. Enjoy seeing all of the great content shared on here.
Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social All things #AnimalRights since 2016.
Ending exploitation. Fighting for total liberation. Building a world where “treating someone like an animal” is a GOOD THING.
👉 www.herbivore.club
👉 https://ko-fi.com/herbivore
Michael Harris @davidmichaelharris.bsky.social MA (Hons), MScR, FSA Scot
Archaeologist. Adult Education Tutor. Editor & proofreader.
Member: Friends of the Earth Scotland; Red Rope; Solidarity Federation-IWA
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Russ Biggs @russbiggs.com Director of Technology at @openaq.org
We are all we have. We are enough.
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Richard Pomfret @richpomf.bsky.social Bradfordian, happily exiled in Co.Clare, Ireland. Loves 'a cappella' music, especially from Finland. Former Maths teacher. Loves small choirs (singing and conducting), quiet places, steam railways and Bradford City F.C.
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
@lutzoettershagen.bsky.social @lutzoettershagen.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
https://lutzoe.github.io/
SazMills @sazmills.bsky.social Here for nature 🌿 wildlife 🐝mountains ⛰️ hiking 🥾 photography 📸 & pooches 🐾🐾
Scotland 🏴
yourlocalarchaeologist @localarchaeologist.bsky.social Archaeology student at KU Leuven | Especially interested in paleoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology | Also active on Instagram as @yourlocalarchaeologist
Mark Laynesmith @marklaynesmith.bsky.social Anglican priest diocese of Oxford, Academic Dean Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology, early medieval church historian