Niall McDiarmid @niallmcdiarmid.bsky.social Photographer
Community Ownership Support Service (COSS) @communityownership.bsky.social Delivering Scotland-wide, the Community Ownership Support Service supports communities and public bodies in the sustainable transfer of assets into community ownership.
coss@dtascot.org.uk - www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk
Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social Discover Scotland’s stories with ground-breaking archaeology news and events that are open to everyone | A @socantscot.bsky.social project | #HESsupported | #ScotArchStrat | Visit https://www.digitscotland.com/
BAVELO @bavelo.esperanto.masto.host.ap.brid.gy BAVELO estas la BAden-Virtemberga Esperanto LigO. Baden-Virtembergo estas federacia ŝtato de Germanio. Jam de longe ni kunlaboras kun niaj francaj partneroj de […]
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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. 🪲🐌🌿
IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
Orknithology @orknithology.bsky.social Birds, other wildlife, and scenery from the Orkney Islands. All images are ©️ Orknithology.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology 🪶 #Nikon #P1000
Le Monde diplomatique en Esperanto @diploesperanto.bsky.social Kritika monatgazeto de informoj kaj analizoj. Esperanto-eldono de @monde-diplomatique.fr ekde 2002. Redaktata en Parizo ekde 1954. https://linktr.ee/diploesperanto
Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk Some time folk singer. Freelance data consultant.
LibDem Herefordshire & Hereford City Councillor for College Ward (promoted by Sam Potts on behalf of the Liberal Democrats all at 54 St Owen St Hereford HR12PU) more at https://linktr.ee/ben4college
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
Dr Christina Cowart-Smith @celticist.bsky.social Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. Trustee @gefrintrust.bsky.social. British Museum tour guide.
SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social A photo diary of the sea and sky, taken from my window.
Also known as Mick Oxley, artist, follower of Newcastle United, cycling , wheelchair user, lover of Northumberland.
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Orkney Solar Panels @holm-solar.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy I'm a bot that automatically posts daily updates from five #solar panels on a roof in #Orkney.
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Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social International Nordic Master’s programme, offering an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.
oldnorse.is
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social THE CASTLE! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Tolkien Books Database @books.digitaltolkien.com https://books.digitaltolkien.com/
A database of Tolkien book editions, cover art, impressions, and publication history (currently UK only)
Part of @digitaltolkien.com
Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social Adjunct prof in Medieval Icelandic Studies | Project manager at the Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social | Researcher @antidote-network.bsky.social |📍 🇮🇸 & 🇨🇿 | Historical Linguist | Víglundur 🐈- S Solar Panels in London @solar.bots.edent.tel I am a bot that automatically posts graphs of solar generation from a house in London, UK.
This is a 5.12kW installation, with an East/West split, installed in […]
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Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Semaphoria @semaphoria.co.uk Just posting my photos of old signals in the modern world. I put more detailed descriptions in the alt text.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
ourpower.bsky.social @ourpower.scot Fighting for a fair share of Scotland's renewable energy wealth. Community energy, energy justice, public ownership. 🏴
https://www.ourpower.scot/take-action
Ny Björn Gustafsson @nybjorn.eurosky.social Swedish archaeologist (PhD, Arch Sci).
Finds specialist (Iron Age through Medieval per.)
Surveyor of islands in the Baltic Sea.
😍LiDAR-spotting!
Works for @raa-se.bsky.social
Papers etc: https://raa.academia.edu/NyBj%C3%B6rnGustafsson
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉) @nawalker.bsky.social Vice President, Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (California, USA); Adjunct Research Fellow, College of Arts Society & Education, James Cook University (Queensland, Australia)
www.wieldoc.org 
VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf Official Unicode Consortium sponsor of the bogroll 🧻 emoji
🐘 Mastodon: https://crispsandwi.ch/@VOLEwtf
🔥 Site: https://vole.wtf
🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike https://edi.bike - Edinburgh’s weekly cycling digest, covering local campaigns, path progress, events & more.
Tag posts with #EdTravCyc to share route, road and path issues and follow our custom feed: https://bsky.app/profile/edi.bike/feed/edtravcyc
@jpkearney.bsky.social @jpkearney.bsky.social Former wage slave. Current gentleman of leisure. Supports Scottish independence.
Threave Rovers FC.
Celtic FC.
Gall-Ghàidhealaibh.
Often very sweary.
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social Birder #WestrayBirding | Orkney Bird Recorder | #birdingScotland #ornithology 🪶 | #TeamMoth | #wildlife #art | 🎶 Punk, Post-punk | PUFC | MUFC | Pro-EU | ✊🏾🏳️🌈 ally
Feeds - Birding Gear, Orkney Birding, UK Patch Birding and BirdWeather PUC.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
Richard Fairhurst @richardfairhurst.bsky.social Building the world’s best bike directions at cycle.travel
Ashley Douglas @ashleydouglas.bsky.social ✍️ 🌈 ✨📚 Writing the biography of Marie Maitland, Scotland's 16th-century Sappho (forthcoming 2026)
Alwin Kloekhorst @alwinkloekhorst.bsky.social 
Andrew Spratt @dirleton.bsky.social Castle reconstruction Artist. Medieval reenactor #ManAtArms #DirletonCastle
Tour de France Hommes @letour.stadio.top Unofficial account of the Tour de France Hommes, which mirrors posts from @LeTour on the other site
For assistance contact @stadio.top
📅 2 July - 25 July
🏆 Tadej Pogačar 🇸🇮
Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social At @GeoTdF.bsky.social we answer your questions on landscapes and geology cycling races | see Geo-Sports.org for more information!
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
Rob Hattersley @robhattersley.bsky.social Escapee teacher, child safety/lifeskills charity CEO. Now project/strategy support for social purpose orgs. RHS horticulture student. Books, cycling, French, history, places, esp. Dorset & Orkney. Born 327ppm. Exvangelical, now just human. Be kind always.
NorseMap @norsemap.bsky.social Project based @UCC & funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Aiming to map the Viking legacy in Europe with the help of the public & to understand the evolution of the perception of the Vikings over the past 200 years.
@alexmulholland.bsky.social @alexmulholland.bsky.social 
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
depths of wiktionary (old) @wiktdepths.bsky.social Moved to @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy
Not affiliated with @enwiktionary.bsky.social or @wikimediafoundation.org.
AERIAL-SCAN @aerial-scan.bsky.social AERIAL-SCAN: Aerial Exploration and Record of Ireland’s Archaeological Landscapes-SCANning the CUCAP Archive.
Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social Aspiring poet, growing problem. My books POYUMS, and POYUMS ANNAW are available to order now. https://buythebook.online/poyums-annaw
🏴💙
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShetlandKeepsakes
https://ko-fi.com/catherinemunro
@mullinsbill.bsky.social @mullinsbill.bsky.social 
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Warren Maguire @warrenmaguire.bsky.social Professor of English Language, University of Edinburgh.
Director of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics.
Co-editor of English Language & Linguistics.
English and Scots dialects, historical phonology, dialectology, historical linguistics.
Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @phoneticslab.bsky.social Research group in phonetics and speech science at Lancaster University
Johan Schalin @schaljoh.bsky.social PhD, nordiska språk, phonology, etymologi, East Nordic, Finnic, lainasanatutkimus, dialektologi, diachronic linguistics, ortnamn/paikannimet, Northwest Semitic, Catalan.
Researcher affiliated with @utu.fi
#langsky
LeftPeggers 🏴 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social #Radge #MDANT #Gype #DandiesMin
Vexiupdate - Flag news @vexiupdate.bsky.social Providing flag-related news from around the world.
Feel free to send in news, you will be credited.
To find us on other platforms, check our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vexiupdate
Macc Sustainable Travel @fhvjhvgvb.bsky.social Sustainable travel is my thing. Pedestrians, cycling, public transport. Green Party Member. Cycling UK local rep. Chairs Cheshire Active Travel Syndicate. Trouble. In posts CEC=Cheshire East Council.
Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social more fun on depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
@todaysflag.bsky.social @todaysflag.bsky.social Flag of the Day, Monday through Friday. My former account: https://twitter.com/todaysflag
senesperulo @senesperulo.bsky.social «. . .ekstreme malrespekta.»
- Le Monde
Esperanto/English
cisa iĉo / cis male
Pronomoj: Li/Lin, He/Him
Blogo: senesperulo.blogspot.com
James Williamson, Labrador GIS Specialist @northernmaps.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
I am a GIS Specialist, working from Happy Valley-Goose Bay. I love maps, cartography and cool data visualisations.
Currently finishing a PhD with MUNL on the historic landscape of the Exploits River Valley.
The Flag Institute @flaginstitute.bsky.social Serving flag nerdery realness since 1971 • Free expert advice on flags and their use
John MacKintosh @johnmackintosh.bsky.social Data work in the NHS, Scotland.
Here for #RStats and #dataviz only
Formerly HighlandR , still at
https://johnmackintosh.com
Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social Undiscovered Scotland is a combination of visitor guide, accommodation listing and business directory which aims to show you what the country is really like.
Website: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands, based in Orkney. Currently obsessed with whaling history and whaling stories in Scotland. 🇨🇦
Stefanie Gropper @tuestef.eurosky.social Medievalist, Scandinavian Studies with focus on medieval Icelandic literature. Editor of Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
DSCOVR:EPIC @dscovr-epic.bot.country Pics from the Earth Polychromatic Camera on the DSCOVR spacecraft (unofficial). Formerly @dscovr_epic on twitter.
FAQ: https://russ.garrett.co.uk/bots/dscovr_epic/
Operator: @russ.garrett.co.uk
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
Graham Scheper @grahamscheper.bsky.social Medievalist studying Old English (BA: @univofmaryland.bsky.social) and Latin literature
youtube.com/@grahamamscheper
Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social Scientist, specializing in bumblebees. Author of various books about insects. Trying to save the planet one bee at a time. 
sortes homericae @sortes-homericae.bsky.social every day a random verse from the Iliad. created by @mattboot.bsky.social
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
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Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
https://linktr.ee/aecral
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. Based in Pittsburgh these days.
Kate Arnold @dulcimerkate.bsky.social Musician/Composer/Electro-Medievalist.
PhD (Arabic poetry, Old French song).
Hammered dulcimer, vielles/viols/violins.
Inventor of the phantasmaphone.
"Absolutely extraordinary" - BBC R3
https://katearnolduk.bandcamp.com/
https://katearnoldmusic.com/
Dr Frances Kane @drfranceskane.bsky.social Linguist interested in Syntax, Multilingualism, Onomastics and Digital Humanities. Gaeilgeoir and occasional triathlete. QCAP Research Fellow.
Hugh McMillan @hugemcm.bsky.social Poet, writer, books @LuathPress. Lives rural Dumfries and Galloway. Edits for Poets’ Republic and Drunk Muse Press
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the University of Nottingham's Centre for the Study of the Viking Age. Follow us for info on events, seminars and conferences.
Hugo Anderson-Whymark @hugowhymark.bsky.social Passion for prehistory! Flint and stone tools | 3D modelling | monuments | flintknapping | all things Orkney. Senior Curator of Prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic), National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh | Visiting Associate Professor @ UHI
Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 42 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social A twelfth-century cathedral built during Viking times in the beautiful Orkney Islands. https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/st-magnus-cathedral/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20St%20Magnus%20Cathedral&text=Built%20from%20local%20red%20and,of%20the%20Kingdom
Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social Orkney's museum of Natural and Maritime History, founded in 1837. "A treasure trove of objects from across the centuries..."
kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social language enjoyer, he/him
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Marie Bretagnolle @mariebreta.bsky.social PhD researcher studying #illustrations for #Tolkien's Middle-earth stories, at Paris-Est Créteil University. She / they.
PhD blog at voirtolkien.hypotheses.org
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Neil McGuigan @neilmcguigan.bsky.social Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
UN Esperante @unesperante.bsky.social • Informoj kaj novaĵoj pri Unuiĝintaj Nacioj en Esperanto.
• Oficiale aŭspiciata de UEA.
• Subtenu UEA per membriĝo: uea.org/alighoj/alighilo
• Retejo: esperantoporun.org
• Blogo: unesperante.wordpress.com