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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social I am a professor of tropical ecology at the University of York. I have a passion for Mountain ecosystems and cultures across the Global South, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania where I work with many Universities, NGOs and Government organisations.
British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk A world-leading independent research organisation providing objective, expert geoscientific data, information and knowledge 🌎
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
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Lawyers for Human Rights @lhr-sa.bsky.social Lawyers for Human Rights is a one of South Africa's foremost public interest law and human rights organisations. We are non-profit and non-governmental, and we've been making rights real since 1979.
amaBhungane @amabhungane.bsky.social Investigative journalism in the public interest. Digging dung, fertilising democracy. http://amabhungane.org
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
African Studies Library - Cambridge University @afrlib.bsky.social We support the research & teaching activities of the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge.
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
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Herman Lategan @hermanlategan.bsky.social Journalist and writer. Published locally, occasionally internationally. Kind, friendly, arrogant and rude. Loved and hated by many. Sharing a post does not mean an endorsements.
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
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Caryn Dolley @caryndolley.bsky.social Tiny particle in a tiny particle. Author of Man Alone, Clash of the Cartels, To The Wolves, and The Enforcers.
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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za 
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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The French Republican Calendar @handle.invalid A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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Ant McCrossan @antmccrossan.bsky.social Broadcaster, Founder. Normally heard talking about cycling. Voice of the Tour de France, Speaker of the Giro d’Italia. Founder of voxwomen.com
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Rob Hatch @robhatch.bsky.social Talker on the telly in 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
Broadcast Sport Commentator of the Year 2024
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Race Radio @theraceradio.bsky.social Pro Cycling is like sausage, I love it but I don't want to know how it is made.
Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly.com Official feed of Cycling Weekly magazine & website. Bringing you news, racing, interviews, fitness, reviews & buying advice since 1891 - http://bit.ly/3Mw15vc
Carlton Kirby @carltonkirby.bsky.social LMCJ - Lively Mind.... Creaking Joints
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social Dad of 2 wonderful people. #Archaeology videos and other content. #Science & #Nature. Smiling. #Writing #Learning and leading with #AI & #edTech
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
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Mr. Denneysmith @todddenney.bsky.social "What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness."
- Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
The Book Lounge @thebooklounge.bsky.social An independent bookshop for independent thinkers, in the heart of Cape Town ✨
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri - 9am to 6pm Saturday - 9am to 4pm Sunday - 10am to 4pm
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Christopher White @bombaylychee.bsky.social Still mostly about something and nothing, and still from various places too.
KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social Posting photographs of plants in the Karoo, South Africa.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=attaqua&verifiable=any
Henk Serfontein @henkserfontein.bsky.social Visual artist. Occasional writer. Community Arts facilitator. Charcoal and dirty feet. Fragile flora.
📍Cape Town. South-Africa.🇿🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Juliet Marillier @julietmarillier.bsky.social Writer of historical fantasy, including the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series. Winner of quite a few awards for writing. When not reading, writing or doing grandmother duties, I look after a small pack of rescue dogs. 
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Zayne 🇿🇦 @zayney.bsky.social ☯ Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer & Designer
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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
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A S Morrigan Fine Artist @asmorrigan.bsky.social Award-winning oil painter specialising in portraiture. Commissions welcome!
Prints available at:
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(All artwork images subject to copywrite, except reposts).
Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social Library of America is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
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Arthur Goldstuck @art2gee.bsky.social Author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to AI, etc). Sunday Times columnist. Publisher of Gadgetza.bsky.social. Founder of World Wide Worx research. Professional speaker. Imbiber of SF, single malt, music, comics. Wits U PhD candidate. Johannesburg. South Africa. 🇿🇦
Tony Richards @tonyrichards.bsky.social Senior Photographer at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Practitioner of historic photographic processes.
Photographer - Collector - Experimenter
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social National correspondent at The New York Times covering religion, faith and values. ~Texas~. Ruth.Graham@nytimes.com
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Maine Public @mainepublic.org 📻 📺 🖥️
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Reach us at comments@mainepublic.org. News tips at tellmemore@mainepublic.org.
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.moma.org
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
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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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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas.
https://foreignpolicy.com/
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Euractiv @euractiv.com Euractiv is an independent pan-European media network. We are an essential, trusted source for news, analysis and debate on EU politics and policy. www.euractiv.com
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters
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The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
Le Monde @lemonde.fr « Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social The largest museum in Canada - we showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK
www.cromwellmuseum.org
LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social www.workingclassicists.com
🏺A hub of resources, support & solidarity
⚡️Representing the working class in classics
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✍️ Platforming working class academics
❤️ Woke AF
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social Environment editor at The Guardian
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LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social Day job on climate change policy. Writing about landscape and the arts in the occasional spare moment...
Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (World).
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