Dr. Lauren Rouse @rouselaurenc.bsky.social postdoc • fan & disability scholar • nupu organizing committee • blackhawks fan :( • probably drinking coffee right now • free palestine •
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Wai Yen Tang Ph.D. @wytang.bsky.social Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer -
Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism
Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.
Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. Human geographer. ABBA devotee. Geordie in Glasgow. they/them
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jaytodd/
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Kylie Noble @ksen12.bsky.social Irish journalist living in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Interests: healthcare, sexual health, public health, gender, queerness, relationships, society...
Aunt, plays football and enjoys Star Trek. AuDHD.
Scott Trust and Washington Ireland alum.
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at WashU • NASA Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Explorers Club EC50 • eeps.washu.edu/people/paul-byrne • he/him
Sommer Tothill @sommertothill.bsky.social Diversifying from Meta (65k followers across Insta & Threads). Find me on TikTok & YouTube too.
Patriarchy isn't going to smash itself
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally ✊🏻BLM, Free Palestine 🌏Brisbane
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Liminologist @erinsandersmcd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent. Feminist Scholar and Ethnographer. Labour Party Member. Trade Unionist.
Emily Setty @emilysetty.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology @ University of Surrey | Researching young people, digital intimacies & harmful sexual behaviour | Reimagining RSE with safe uncertainty: www.re-imagining-rse.org |Views my own
Andrew Dalby @ardalby.bsky.social He/him. Recovering academic. Bioinformatics and data science expert, working on influenza evolution and cancer genetics and Bayesian/pragmatic approaches to statistics. Now living in Spain and exploring a new life in Asturias. Crypto = instant block.
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Sarah Anderson @saraheanderson.bsky.social Lecturer, criminologist, trade unionist, half-hearted social media user. Works on #desistance, #trauma, #prisons, #criminaljusticeharms #healthandjustice and #hackingcareers.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
Dr Vicky Heap @drvickyheap.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies and SFHEA. Interests: ASB, victims, policy, methods. ‘Mixed Methods in Criminology’: https://bit.ly/2Fbw5St
Write like a Grrrl @writelikeagrrrl.bsky.social 💥Ignite
🔥Inspire
❤️🔥Thrive
https://www.writelikeagrrrl.org/
Creative writing courses & retreats around the world #feminist 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social Biannual online eco-poetry magazine. Edited by Kristian Evans and Zoe Brigley, with Taz Rahman, Sian Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. http://ModronMagazine.com
Dr Oscar @droscaro.bsky.social Criminologist, futurist and writer focussing on social inequality and the future of imprisonment (& too much football) | 📍Berlin #academicsky
Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com Writer, Field Maneuvers boss, PT, comedy, 50+ ultra marathons, west Wales knotweed farmer
I was the Secret Tory
Substack: https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/henrymorrispt
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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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
https://www.thewritertype.com
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Littlebirdwoman @amybonsallphd.bsky.social Honestly, if trees could talk…
Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment.
Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.
UCU Commons @ucucommons.org UCU Commons is a broad activist community working within and alongside the University and College Union (UCU). We are also on http://UCUCommons.org #UCUCommons
Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social Left feminist
Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social Mum, trade unionist, lecturer, Ed D student | Chair of BCU UCU, Vice Chair West Mids UCU, UCU NEC | Social reproduction feminism, reproductive labour, education activism.
V tired.
Hilary Robinson @hilaryrobinson.bsky.social Prof. of Feminism, Art & Theory at Loughborough U. Cat lady, no kids. England, but have lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Pittsburgh. #AcademicSky
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social “Hyper-woke academic with blue hair” (GB News) • He/him • Join a union! • Mostly dogs • Occasionally music theory, musicology & queer studies • Trade union rep
Sharif Mowlabocus @sharifm.bsky.social Queer researcher who researches queer things at Fordham University. NYC-based. Cyclist. Running hard and fast away from X. #Academicsky
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social Researching the Internet is serious business. Mostly.
(We're mainly over on AoIR.social, our organisation Mastodon instance, which is open to all members.)
https://aoir.org/
https://aoir.social/@aoir
https://aoir.org/aoir2026/
Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social ARC Future Fellow, & Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, Swinburne University of Technology. Currently researching the intersections of sexualities, genders, data, tech & sexual health.
Prof Matthew @profmatthew.bsky.social Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish. 
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Donna Haraway @djeanneh.bsky.social Writer, teacher, dog lady, hen lady, kin maker
Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social Academic, trouble maker. Digital, platform, and AI intimacies; non/monogamy and privilege.
Intersectional Automations: https://tinyurl.com/bdehyvcz
Hashtag Publics: https://tinyurl.com/32m5dm6a
Fraught Intimacies: https://tinyurl.com/3a7tb22p
Kate Fitz-Gibbon @katefitzgibbon.bsky.social Researcher in violence against women & children. Professor (Practice) Monash Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University. Chair of Respect Victoria. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. All views my own.
Lisa Duggan @lisaduggan.bsky.social Commie Pinko Queer writer, activist, Distinguished Visiting Prof at Barnard College. Author of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed & The Twilight of Equality. Co-editor of American Studies Now series at UC Press. Find me at lisaduggan.substack.com
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Ms. Naughty @msnaughty.bsky.social Feminist pronographer, creator of porn for women sites and films. Indie Pron Icon, 2017. Feminist porn award winner 2013/14/15. Links may be NSFW. She/her. @msnaughty on the bird site but not posting there anymore. Msnaughty.com/blog/
Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social Writer. Raconteur. Sex Icon. Intimacy coach through BestSelfPsych (but not a psychotherapist).
Regular column at Slate, occasional bylines elsewhere.
USA born. Living in Serbia.
Management: Info@lovermanagement.com
Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social Criminologist and academic | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics & policy #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
📍 Scotland 🏴
British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Page for the BSC Hate Crime Network. Follow for News, Updates, Conferences, Discussion Groups and Latest Developments.
Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social Criminology, public policy, research and experiments
https://sites.google.com/researchdesign.uk/alexsutherland
Newest paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-025-09726-0
Prof Julia Davidson OBE @profjulesd.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, Expert on online harms and cybercrime. Director Institute for Connected Communities University of East London. LSE Alumni and Alpaca Fan.
Matt cracknell @drmattcracknell.bsky.social Criminologist at Brunel university. Interested in prisons, probation, resettlement and short prison sentences.
Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in criminology, Northumbria Uni. Research: criminology curriculum, stigma alcohol/drugs, restorative justice. She/Her🌈
Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Darren Kerr @xdkerr.bsky.social Associate Professor and Head of School of Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University, UK. Co-director of screeningsex.com. Series Editor for EUP's Screening Sex book series. And a quiet author of short fiction inc NoSleep Podcast. Personal acc.
SCMS Adult Film & Media @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the Adult Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group for @scmstudies.bsky.social (the Society for Cinema and Media Studies)
Heather Berg @drheatherberg.bsky.social Socialist feminist writing on sex, work, and everyday struggle. Author of Porn Work (2021) and Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (forthcoming in fall 2026) https://www.drheatherberg.com
Views my own
emalydia 🌙 @thensfwscholar.bsky.social blackademic @ UOregon • black sexuality, porn & U.S. pop culture • unionized • curator of vibes
The Sex Work Historian ☂️(#DecrimNow) @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social Historian| PhD candidate| SW ally/accomplice| Feminist harpy
- Dissertation on sex work in Toronto
- Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thesexworkhistorian
Disclaimer: OPINIONS ARE MY OWN
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social postdoc at @inrsciences.bsky.social // phd from Concordia University // working on anime/-ation, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦
https://www.aurelie-petit.com
Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app Kinky, pansexual, solo-polyamorous grownup, FSSW, professional Dominatrix, and lifestyle switch. Writer, advocate, cannabis enthusiast, recovering serial monogamist, #naturallygrey, and happily #singleinbrooklyn. 💞🌺💋
SingleinBrooklyn.com
Amanda Jo Hobson @amandajohobson.bsky.social Scholar-practitioner-educator; Examines gender, sexuality, race in popular culture—porn, horror, k*nk, romance; vampire studies; Ph.D.; They/She🏳️🌈🧛🏻♂️
Gemma Correll @gemmacorrell.bsky.social Guess I’m doing this now.
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Jan Diehm @jadiehm.bsky.social Fan of finer things: LEGO, women’s sports, & pop divas. Not a fan of: post acute infection syndrome. Data journalist at The Pudding. (she/her)
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead at University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU) https://bsky.app/profile/ucu.org.uk | she/her | unrepentant dyslexic
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Richard Garside @richardjgarside.bsky.social Director @crimeandjustice | Law and justice | Materialist not idealist | Facts not feelings | My views, not my employer’s
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social #Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
Claire Davis @drclairedavis.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester. Research interests include sociology of policing - police culture, police leadership, and inclusion and diversity in policing.
Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Criminologist interested mainly in punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration… increasingly explored via creative methods. Also a singer-songwriter, when I can find the time.
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Dr Jen Holmes @jen-jen-holmes.bsky.social S/L in Criminology and Policing at UWE. PhD explored vulnerable suspects, investigative interviews and third parties. Research interests include homicide and stalking. Ex-police MCIO. Views own. Also posting on korfball, cats and indie/rock/ska
Ben Crewe @bencrewe.bsky.social 
Karen Duke @karenduke.bsky.social Professor in Criminology at Middlesex University, UK; Co-Director Drug & Alcohol Research Centre @darc-mdx.bsky.social; Co-Editor-in-Chief @deppjournal.bsky.social; Trustee at Revolving Doors @revdoors.bsky.social
Jane Callaghan @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social Violence, gender, mental health, #domesticabuse #IPV #childhood. Psychologist. Associate Dean for Research #ADR. Dogs. Cats. Hiking. Crafts. Professor. Mother. Adoptive Scot (never leaving). Trustee FV Rape Crisis. Personal social media. Bi. She/they.
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Prof Andy Newton @profanewton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Policing, Co-Director Safety & Sustainability @NTU | Academic Advisor to Notts Violence Reduction Partnership | Interests: crime, policing, transport, violence prevention, policy evaluation | data science | problem solving | EBP
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Zahra Stardust @zahrastardust.bsky.social 
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/