annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social TV writer #TheHack, #SexEducation #CallTheMidwife
visually impaired, she/her 
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Sheridan Kates @sheridanvk.bsky.social “the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”.
Tufnell Park Green Party Councillor. Ecosocialist. Tech worker turned ecological economist at @modernmoneylab.org.uk
Geraldine Coggins @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social Green candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester
Councillor for Altrincham
Leader of Green Party in Trafford
Promoted by Helen Heathfield on behalf of Geraldine Coggins and the Green Party of England and Wales all at PO Box 78066, SE 16 9 GQ
Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social The UK's leading feminist economics think tank. We put feminism into economics and economics into feminism.
Press queries: press@wbg.org.uk
wbg.org.uk
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
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
Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social Turning #DoughnutEconomics from a radical idea into transformative action, together.
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social We are alive and we don't agree.
linktr.ee/repeater_books
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
maffew on TNN @maffewgregg.bsky.social The Botchamania Guy.
Still a hack, still lucky.
YouTube
https://youtube.com/@botchamaniaagain7613
Twitch
http://twitch.tv/maffewbotch
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
University of Manchester Innovation Factory @uomif.bsky.social 🚀 Turning ideas into impact at The University of Manchester. We help brilliant research become real-world solutions. Spinouts, licensing, and innovation for a better future. 🌍 #TechTransfer #Innovation #Impact 
Manchester Green Party 🟩 @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social We represent the Green Party in the Manchester City Council area 🐝
GET INVOLVED 👉 Linktr.ee/ManchesterGreenParty
Promoted by Manchester Green Party at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester, M21 9PH
Michael Phillips @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social Past: Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, etc.
Present: Host and co-producer, “The Movie Racket,” part of the “Filmspotting” podcast commune; announcer, Classical WFMT Chicago, and weekly WFMT
“Soundtrack” contributor.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social Ancient webcomic dark arts by Nick G, often written with friends
pbfcomics.com/links
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social A University of Manchester research platform, developing and championing interdisciplinary research in Creativity and Creative practices.
https://linktr.ee/uomcreativemcr
For general enquiries please email creative@manchester.ac.uk.
UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social The Department of Politics at the University of Manchester
Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester @socialresponuom.bsky.social Making a difference to the social and economic well-being of our communities.
🥇UK’s 1st university with social responsibility as a core goal
🏆Europe’s leader for #SDG impact (THE) & #ESG impact (QS) ✍🏼
methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social methods@manchester is a Faculty of Humanities initiative promoting The University of Manchester's expertise in research methods and interdisciplinarity.
Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social Radio astronomy observatory, research centre, UNESCO World Heritage site, beautiful visitor galleries, free parking, and great coffee 😀📡🌟
🔗 https://www.jodrellbank.net/
Banner © Dr Anthony Holloway
Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social Sociologist studying frivolous things and their serious consequences
Work: KU Leuven(BE)
Home: Utrecht(NL)
If you don't understand what I write it's probably Dutch.
More on my ERC project: sociologyofbeauty.eu
Meer over Lelijke Mooie Wereld: dasmag.nl
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com Comics? On the INTERNET?? On WWW DOT BSKY DOT APP??
P_maria15 @mariapiqueras15.bsky.social PhD in Black British media |film studies| cultural studies |memory studies and postcolonial studies)| Lecturer @uib.cat
📍everywhere and nowhere
https://linktr.ee/mariapiquerasperez
Tom Hemingway @tomhemingway.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick. Usually at a gig.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com focused on dreams, mysticism, mortality, community resilience and the psychologies/theologies of liberation
Crone, Quaker-ish, She/Her
whatashrinkthinks.com
collectivedreaming.org
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Jim Field Smith @jimfieldsmith.bsky.social Director, writer and producer. #HIJACK out now on AppleTV+. Previously: LITVINENKO, CRIMINAL, TRUTH SEEKERS, STAG, THE WRONG MANS and so on.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing writers in film, television, news, podcasts, and online media.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995.
Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue A photo viewing client for u from the creator of @skeetsapp.com & @bluescreen.blue
iOS: https://t1p.de/b3o4x
Android: Not available yet
❓ FAQS: https://t1p.de/24kj0
🐞 Bug Reports: https://t1p.de/phwii
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. 📺 he/him
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social functioning idealist, co-founder of @ARTSEMERGENCY.bsky.social & collaborator HARD ART COLLECTIVE 🍃
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social TV Writer: Midsomer, Midwife, ACGAS and Dreamers (still available to stream on C4).
WGGB, Slung Low Shorts and Leeds Care Leavers Christmas.
Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP- R Robert King @robertking.bsky.social Co-showrunner of The Good Wife, Good Fight, Elsbeth, Evil, BrainDead. Producer of Your Honor and Happy Face.
Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social Auteur en filmcriticus, screenwriter, vertaler, fotograaf, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer & chocolade. The Low Countries.
Jim Gavin @jimatdeltaco.bsky.social Middle Men (Simon & Schuster), Lodge 49 (AMC+), Tiger Van Books
Anne Thor @althorego.bsky.social TV and media production at Improbable Productions
Script reading @ukfilmfest
Socials @priffuk.bsky.social
HauntedSink @hauntedsink.bsky.social Joey Comeau. Softer World. Malagash. The Summer is Ended and we are not yet Saved. Lockpick Pornography. Not gay as in happy, queer as in Tom Ripley in a rowboat.
Marge, you like everybody.
https://www.patreon.com/c/joeycomeau
Skadi Loist @skadiloist.bsky.social Associate Prof Film Studies at NTNU Trondheim, focus on film festivals, screen industries, DH, gender*queer & sustainability. #FFRN co-founder
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializating Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
Peter Strachan @pstrachan.bsky.social Creative Director at True Wonder
Courtney Brannon Donoghue @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social Associate Professor, Media Industries. University of North Texas. Author of The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere (UT Press) & Localising Hollywood (BFI Press).
Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University
Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
Welsh National Theatre @welshnattheatre.bsky.social https://www.welshnationaltheatre.com
Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social Serious Actor.
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
will Tavlin @tavlin.bsky.social writer, work in @nymag.com, @newrepublic.com, @nplusonemag.com + more
willtavlin.com
Franz Nicolay @franznicolay.bsky.social Music, writing, teaching: http://linktr.ee/franznicolay ||| PianoFighter.substack.com ||| To us, the beautiful!
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social Television historian, writing a book about Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84). Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University. Book Reviews Admin for Critical Studies in Television journal.
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Cariad Martin @cariadroseandco.bsky.social PhD researcher and lecturer in Media Studies | Family media and fandom, digital childhood, media ethics | Tragic Millennial | Parent | She/her
End Of The Road @endoftheroadfestival.com Bands - Booze - Peacocks
'Engagingly eclectic weekender never fails to surprise'
The Guardian *****
3-6 Sept 2026 | Larmer Tree Gardens, nr Blandford Forum, Dorset
https://endoftheroadfestival.com/
University of Texas Press @utexaspress.bsky.social Publisher of international scope serving UT Austin, the people of Texas & knowledge seekers around the globe through books, journals & digital media | Learn more at utpress.utexas.edu!
University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social Innovative, thoughtful, digitally-forward books in partnership with Michigan Publishing and Fulcrum.
https://press.umich.edu/
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Charlotte Parry-Jones @charlipj.bsky.social Filmmaking. 🏴 Slow Documentary film. Aspiring film programmer. TV makeup artist.
https://vimeo.com/lottiesfilms
--------- @fatecolossal.bsky.social Writer, lawyer. I tweet a good deal about the arts, & about David Lynch / Twin Peaks. (Pic: “Gray and Gold,” John Rogers Cox.)
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Beth Schacter @bethshax.bsky.social TV Writer Person: FIVE STAR WEEKEND. MORNING SHOW. SUPER PUMPED. BILLIONS. QUANTICO. SOUNDTRACK. BUNHEADS.
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business + account are run by Judith St. Germain. We're biblio-cinephiles who ❤️ the arts & artists.
The BW/DR Podcast @bwdrpod.bsky.social A podcast from @brightwalldarkroom.com, engaging with the business of being alive, one movie at a time.
Listen/subscribe: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/podcast/
JMS Holmberg @jakhol.bsky.social Import.