Iskandar Ding @iskandarding.bsky.social SOAS PhD candidate in Yaghnobi and Sogdian linguistics. Devotee of the Iranian and Persianate world.
John Ayliff (Space Goblin Games) @spacegoblingames.com Indie text game developer, creator of Seedship and Beyond the Chiron Gate. Now working on a pulp sci-fi adventure narrated by the villain!
Website: https://www.spacegoblingames.com/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
TJ McCorvie @allostericstate.bsky.social Revealing the hidden world of shape shifting enzymes using Cryo-EM. Senior research associate at Newcastle University, UK. Currently working as part of Recon4IMD https://www.recon4imd.org Views are my own.
Gutter Dalkey @gutterdalkey.bsky.social Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
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https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Peter Molloy @petermolloy.bsky.social Mainly posts about military history (especially Irish) and toy soldiers. Views mine. Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪.
David Spruce @sprucey.bsky.social MA and PhD history. Former CEO, CFO, pig farmer(!) Harlequins. Wolves. Watch collector. Plays bass badly.Metal 🤘
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Dr Tom Thorpe MCIPR @kensingtons.bsky.social Belfast Green Badge tour guide/conflict historian/spin dr/policy wonk - @drtomstours.bsky.social - Host The Western Front Assoc Mentioned in Dispatches podcast. - Rts≠support - Views own.
WartimeNI | Northern Ireland during the Second World War @wartimeni.com Stories and sights from the Second World War in Northern Ireland from 1939-1945. Posts by Belfast-based Scott Edgar.
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
Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
Holly Langstaff @hollylangstaff.bsky.social Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford.
I run the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and Oxford Translates Summer School.
Hanna Diamond @hdiamond.bsky.social Historian of France & 2WW, professor in French History at Cardiff University, my book ‘Josephine Baker’s Secret War with Yale University Press is out and available online & at all good booksellers.
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social Classicist and linguist, Durham. Working on multilingualism in ancient Italy, the written landscape and the linguistics of slavery.
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Dr Joe Watson @joewatstein.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at Warwick. Ovid/Cavafy-stanning. Also teaching Latin, often writing, sometimes sleeping. Extremely queer, possibly here. He/Him/His.
Martial Muser @martialmuser.bsky.social Classicist and Brass Musician. Did a PhD on Martial at the University of Exeter and now a Head of Classics at a secondary school in London. 
Richard Cole @richardcole.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at the University of Bristol (Bristol Digital Futures Institute) and co-director of the #BristolDigitalGameLab
Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, University of Bristol. Specialist in early twentieth-century French history, culture and politics with a particular interest in sports history and writing.
6502nerd @6502nerd.bsky.social Retro coder and homebrew computer maker, fan of all things 6502, electronics and retro computers in general.
Z80 vs 6502? I don't care they're both in computers I loved back in the day.
Oric, Atari and Amiga were my childhood machines! 
Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. ~6-8 posts a day, ~24 posts on holidays.
⚠Outbound links tagged and monitored by Bluesky.
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Kevin Edwards ( Retro game developer ) @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social Retired video game programmer. 40+ years developing videogames and software.
Creator of games for the BBC Micro, Electron, NES, SNES, PC, XBox, PS3/4, Mobile, Vita, 3DS.
Former LEGO Developer
I also rescue and archive old game development disks, DM me!
Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights.
he/him
@annien.bsky.social @annien.bsky.social « Dans la Russie d’aujourd’hui, le simple fait de rester un humain est déjà un exploit « - Valeria Novodvorskaya
Joanna Naish @joannanaish.bsky.social Languages geek, loves History and Arts. Rural Anglican priest. Rock music and classical in equal measure - views my own.
Tshiung Han @tshiunghan.bsky.social An opinionated English tutor and independent researcher based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social ✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Soon-Tzu Speechley 孫子 @soontzu.bsky.social Sejarawan seni bina, editor, lecturer. I like new books & old buildings. Author, Malayan Classicism (Bloomsbury, 2023).
You might know me as @speechleyish on the bird site. He/him | dia/dia | 伊
Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social Malaysian in UK. I write fantasy and romance. BEHIND FRENEMY LINES out now!
Thaoworra @thaoworra.bsky.social Lao American poet and traveler
Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers.
Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com
organizing with @indivisibleatl.bsky.social | co-editor for JLit @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social | MSt English lit, 650-1550 | queer (historical/SFF) romance reader | ATL | genderqueer (all pronouns)
Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social Scholar and translator, modern Japanese literature and culture; I also write fiction, music criticism, and sundry other things. Plus the occasional sumo and baseball post. Faculty at University of Chicago. www.bourdaghs.com
Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social Bookworm. Linguist. Localization Director. Japanese-English translator & interpretor. Former manga/anime translator. DFTBA ❤️💜💙
日本語OK!
https://j-entranslations.com
Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social she/they | Canada → 日本 | Japanese to English translator | English, Français, 日本語
https://taylordrew.me/
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com Publishes the world's best stories – to be read and read again.
Follow the all new @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social 🎈
Newsletter, IG & more: https://linktr.ee/pushkin_press
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com Sci-fi novelist | Translator of Japanese literature | Bilingual game writing consultant | Essayist | Resident of Japan | SFWA and SFWJ member | Father of a curious young soul | Believer in our potential to change
elikpwilliam.com
elikpwilliam.substack.com
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
🔗 lnk.bio/3fz3
Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social A University of Bristol initiative encouraging and facilitating the study of Hong Kong history & international exchange and collaboration in the field. For more details check out our website: hkhistory.net
Bristol Classics @clahbristol.bsky.social Official Twitter account for the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Header photo: The Nine Muses, Wills Memorial, University of Bristol.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Dr Rowan Whittle @rowanwhittlebas.bsky.social Palaeobiologist at the British Antarctic Survey
Denis Sergeev @meteodenny.bsky.social Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. I use numerical models to study planetary climates. Views are my own. He/him.
https://dennissergeev.github.io
ORCiD: 0000-0001-8832-5288
Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social Medievalist. Pre modern lit & culture across borders, especially all things Arthurian. FRHistS, FHEA. Folkie. 🎵 Mareganlefay.bsky.social 
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social The Royal Musical Association is the foremost UK society dedicated to the study of music. Posts may promote events/opinions not formally endorsed by RMA.
Libby Hudson @libbykerensky.bsky.social Green, Quaker (bad example) #FBPE
#FBPR #FBPA #BLM
Нет войне - No to war 🇺🇦
Россия без Путина. Russia without Putin
Matthias Ammon @drmammon.bsky.social Academic librarian, European migrant, former medieval philologist. Open Research, Eurovision, wombats, puns, pints, sci-fi/fantasy, FPL. He/him.
Kevin Moss @kevinvt.bsky.social Retired Professor of Russian & LGBTQ studies at Middlebury College
Paul David Gould @pauldavidgould.bsky.social Author: Last Dance at the Disco for Deviants, a state-of #Russia novel/ #LGBT #thriller set in 1990s Moscow | buy @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | alum @unibirmingham.bsky.social + @faberacademy.bsky.social | #Brighton based | sub-editor @financialtimes.com
Lauran Doak @laurandoak.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Special & Inclusive Education, University of Nottingham
Jonathan Doak @profjonathandoak.bsky.social Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, Nottingham Trent University.
George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social Associate professor (modern Russia) @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research
Phillip Tipton @mrphilliptipton.bsky.social Eurovision, Linguistics, trains, maps, TV history.
Seaside Gothic @seasidegothic.com A literary magazine from the edge of the sea. Edited by @SebReilly.com. Buy #SeasideGothic Issue 13 now!
seasidegothic.com
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
Views own
The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social Independent family-run scholarly press publishing books and journals on environment and society 
Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Irish author
Fic/non-fic
The "Finfarran" novels
Standalone novel #AWinterWedding Hachette Sept 2026
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl
Lit rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
Thérèse McIntyre (She/Her) @cailinrua1.bsky.social You’re never too old to RAVE…💃🏻🔥- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social radical democracy, political technologies, psychedelics, French philosophy, queer studies - Professor of French at UCC but this is a personal account
Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social Glasgow Germanist working on remediations of architecture in film and literature | DEFA | Kleist | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Transnationalism | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels. FRGS, BWFC.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Louise Rogers Lalaurie @louiserl.bsky.social Writer (Matisse, art, travel, interiors...), translator (French fiction, art, travel, comité Colbert), landlady (Seine-side retreat in France). British, Welsh, European, Irish, French (in that order) https://louiserogers.blog
Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
Janis Kluge @jakluge.de Russia & Economics
All views private
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin)
Picture: Tamek Kowalski
Mart Kuldkepp @martkuldkepp.bsky.social Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social Historian of Russia/Soviet Union; Cultural History of Work; History of Sexual Violence; History of Emotions
research associate (wiss. MA) @OEI/FU Berlin; associate @FSO Bremen
editor @Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
#skystorians
Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Ukrainian ⟷ Spaces @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social A podcast. A live event. A hub. Amplifying the diversity of Ukrainian voices & decolonising Ukraine conversations
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
PD Dr Philipp Köker @philippkoeker.bsky.social Interim Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg | PhD from @uclssees.bsky.social | Expert on Presidents, Parties, Elections, CEE | Occasionally on TV | www.philippkoeker.com | New book -> l.uol.de/partypeople
The Eurasian Knot🎙️ @euraknot.bsky.social Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror.
"Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social American-Australian poet; Pushcart and Best of Net nominee; Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, San Antonio Review, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle Society, Wombwell Rainbow… #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.