NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social @NUJOfficial London Freelance Branch. Supporting indie journalists with our magazine, creative opps, training and events | Meets: 2nd Mon/mo. Run by @nikatalbot.bsky.social
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
National Centre for Creative Health @ncch.bsky.social Helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. ncch.org.uk
Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social Researching militarism, coloniality, state violence, abolition, gender, race, class. Lecturer at University of Manchester. She/her. ♿️
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah-wright
Anastasia Menshikova @anmen.bsky.social postdoc-ing at Uppsala University // mechanisms of cultural change with computational social science methods // PhD from @IAS, Linköping University
Poetics (Journal) @poeticsjournal.bsky.social Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
(unofficial, mostly automated)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poetics
María Angélica Thumala Olave @mthumala.bsky.social Sociology University of Edinburgh
Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social Sociologist at Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science • 🌈 • inequality • cleavage politics • social change • Buch »Triggerpunkte« http://rb.gy/h0zru bei Suhrkamp
https://www.ips.mpg.de/person/159964/3004
Steve Fisher @stevefisher.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, University of Oxford. https://electionsetc.com
https://substack.com/@stevefisheroxford
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Rachel Kenyon @rach-elk.bsky.social Business Engagement Manager at University of Manchester, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange between academic researchers and non-academic partners. Coop National Member Council member. Pro-manchester board director. Running nerd and coach.
Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social Posts a line from Ghostbusters every 30 mins
get a random quote @ https://random-ghostbusters-quote.val.run
made by @cheersderek.com more film script bots at https://bsky.app/profile/cheersderek.com/lists/3lalsqpl2h32q
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social TV writer #TheHack, #SexEducation #CallTheMidwife
visually impaired, she/her 
Michael Kenny @michaelkenny.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, Author
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Evelyn Wilson @evelynwilson.bsky.social Co-Director National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange. Enjoy exploring, showcasing, supporting publishing and occasionally writing on ecologies and histories of cultural collaborations, and associated pursuits. And walking for the need to clear.
Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com The Best Movie House on Leicester Place.
Please contact us here if you have any questions: boxofficemanager@princecharlescinema.com
https://princecharlescinema.com
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Charlie Rahal @crahal.com Agentic, but everything I was, was taught to me.
Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History of Irish Art and its Global Contexts, 1800 - 2000 | Trinity College Dublin
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social Social scientist interested in questions of power at the intersection of housing, land, tech and finance.
King's College London / London School of Economics
www.timwhite.work
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Jani Erola @janierola.net Sociology prof studying intergenerational inequalities, the captain of INVEST Research Flagship Centre at University of Turku, Finland. Or sailing otherwise the Baltic #newwelfarestate.
https://janierola.net
https://invest.utu.fi
http://mapineq.eu
Harriet Shaw @shawharriet.bsky.social Researcher (devolution) @instituteforgovernment
Thomas Pope @tompope.bsky.social Chief Economist @instituteforgov.bsky.social
Matthew Fright @matthewfright.bsky.social Associate director - devolution @instituteforgovernment.org.uk formerly @nao.org.uk analyst. PhD on history of national income accounts. Views are my own.
Sherri Helwig @slhelwig.bsky.social Arts Management professor at the University of Toronto (@utsc.utoronto.ca), arts consultant, wildlife rescue driver, Canadian, and proud mom. Not in that order. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 #AcademicSky #CanadaSky
Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
Tuhin Chakrabarty @tuhinchakr.bsky.social Assistant Prof @sbucompsc @stonybrooku.
Researcher → @SFResearch
Ph.D. → @ColumbiaCompSci
Human Centered AI / Future of Work / AI & Creativity
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social 
Christine Farquharson @ckfarquharson.bsky.social Economist @theifs.bsky.social. Research on early years, education and health. 
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Dr Sarah Artt @sjartt.bsky.social academic, feminist, lover of clothes, devoted audience member and reader (she/her) 🏳️🌈 ‘without community there is no liberation’-Audre Lord
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
Tionne Alliyah Parris @tionneaparris.bsky.social Historian |💭Black Women Radicals, Black Power & Continuities of Struggle✍🏾| Always up to something...
Dr Claire Warrior @clairewarrior.bsky.social Anthropologist and historian. Polar exploration: Erebus, Terror, Scott, Shackleton. Senior Curator National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Trustee UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Sing London Oriana. Views my own.
Paddy McAlary @paddy-mcalary.bsky.social Historian of medieval Ireland and Britain @cam.ac.uk
Research Fellow @queens.cam.ac.uk
Researcher on parliament and government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Teodor Grama @teodorgrama.bsky.social learning & development @instituteforgovernment.org.uk & @ifgacademy.bsky.social, he/him
Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
matthewbarnfield.co.uk
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Amy Borrett @amyborrett.ft.com FT data journalist writing about economics, politics and policy
https://www.ft.com/amy-borrett
Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social because my little dog knows me. writer. scholar. professor. recently finished a book about poetic form and the US welfare state: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-in-general/9780231219228/
Sarah Cowan @sarahcowan1.bsky.social Head of Policy (HE & Research) at The British Academy, views of course my own. 
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Rainbow Murray @rainbowmurray.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Gender, diversity, parliaments, elections, institutions, French politics, UK politics. 🏳️🌈🌱
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
Oliver Heath @olliheath.bsky.social Professor of politics
Mhorag Goff @mhoraggoff.bsky.social Academic researcher, books and nature lover
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory
Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • radical
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social Curator, other things. she/her
James Swallow @jmswallow.bsky.social Writer of Fortune; BAFTA-nominated, award-winning New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of novels, scripts, games, new thriller Dark Horizon, the Marc Dane series, tie-in fiction & much more!
https://jswallow.com/
https://linktr.ee/jmswallow
Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social I write about the Black Library for Warhammer Wordforge and Tabletop Battles.
Father of five. Hockey Dad. Son of New England but Kentucky resident. 50. Ave Dominus Nox. Leafs. Yanks. Celtic. And most of all, #FuckCancer
Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society
https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Rep: Watson Little Ltd
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Metallica @metallica.com Est. 1981
Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
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.
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
Danny McNally @dannymcnally.bsky.social Cultural geographer working on climate adaptation and creative methods
GeoHumanities Editorial Board
Forthcoming books:
Aesthetic Encounters: Cultural Geographies of Participatory Art (LSE Press, RGS-IBG)
Routledge Handbook for Geohumanities
CreativeFED @creativefed.bsky.social CreativeFED is a non-profit organization that serves as an umbrella for the European CCSIs.
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social Economic Historian of early modern world and labour markets and built stuff. Director of LRI. Prof at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL. Hon Sec of Economic History Society. FRHS
Claydem @claydem.bsky.social Learning Designer at the University of Kent & SFHEA.
- Focus: Curriculum design, employability, internationalisation, leadership
- Passionate about coaching and mentoring
- Lover of films, dancing, hiking and being out in nature
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Lee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @academiclee.bsky.social Associate Prof, UoN. Chair @Academics_Stand Founding member of @QPaPNetwork parkrun Event Ambassador and ED. New allotment holder.
Ruth Cooper-Rowan @ruthcooperrowan.bsky.social Writer. Director. Theatre maker. (Fidget Theatre. Carriageworks Young Theatre Makers. Anyone who’ll have me.)
Leeds with a Dorset lilt.
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Andy Tomlinson @andytomlinson.bsky.social Public Policy guy in Europe for Electronic Arts, Board member at Ukie. Video games, politics, tech, often getting distracted by sport.
Family Research, ISA @sociofamilyisa.bsky.social The Committee on Family Research (RC06 or CFR) is the research committee number 6 of the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick
Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @gronlp.bsky.social
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Marc Sinan Winrow @marcsinanwinrow.bsky.social Research Assistant @LSE IR. Teaching Fellow @SOAS. Interested in international and political theory and the normative and historical sources of international order with a focus on Turkey/MENA/eastern Mediterranean.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
hakeemjefferson.com
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈
Canberra