Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Dr Lauren Alex O'Hagan @drlaurenalexohagan.bsky.social 🎵 I got me them Rory Gallagher blues🎵
Creator of Rewriting Rory | Research Fellow at Open University | Affiliate Researcher at Örebro University | Specialist in 19th/early 20th-c. visual/material culture & Irish ethnomusicology
www.rewritingrory.co.uk
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social Historical geographer, events whiz, mother to a tiny croissant-obsessed tyrant. Posting in a personal capacity
Jonathan Manley @kingpined.bsky.social Kingpin Editor | Publisher | Chessist | Sceptic | Cake eater | writing a book about Sir George Thomas | All views my own | Mastodon @KingpinEd@newsie.social | Twitter @KingpinEd www.kingpinchess.net
Area @areajournal.bsky.social Area publishes concise papers and commentaries that shape key debates within and beyond the discipline of geography. Area is especially welcoming of work by early career researchers & awards an annual ECR prize.
Clare Hall, University of Cambridge @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social A college for advanced study at the University of Cambridge, renowned for its Fellowship and annual programme for visiting academics.
https://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/
Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social Cultural & Historical Geographer | Managing Editor @RGS-IBG (views own) | critical plant studies | 19th C. floriculture
RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social The latest in geography higher education from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Dr. Jacob Flaws @jacobflaws.bsky.social Assistant professor of history, author of Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024, U of Nebraska Press), historian of the Holocaust, modern Europe, and genocide. www.jacobflaws.com
Simone Edgar Holmes @sedgarholmes.bsky.social PhD student in Early Modern Studies at UCL / Cartography / Ecocriticism / Dutch colonial history, focus on Suriname 🇵🇸🏳️🌈
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer, bookseller. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social The University of Nebraska Press disseminates books and journals of enduring intellectual and cultural significance. http://unpblog.com | http://bit.ly/UNPmuse
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/
Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on 'Conserving Global Health' at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🌿 || #plants, #empire, #nathist, #envhist, #collections, 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 || she/her || views my own ✨
Brandon Morgan @brandon-morgan.bsky.social Historian of New Mexico and Latin America, father of amazing human beings, indebted to my better half. Author of Raid and Revolution, University of Nebraska Press (2024).
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
Evan Wilson @evanwilson.bsky.social Naval historian. Professor at US Naval War College. Views own. Latest book with Paul Kennedy: Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition.
Anna Lou Walker @annalouwalker.bsky.social Senior Arts + Culture Editor at The Conversation UK | Host of Jane Austen's Paper Trail | Author | Runs Gallery_Gals: instagram.com/gallery_gals
🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/AnnaLouWalker
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad 
Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com 🌻 Campaigner @bhgreens.bsky.social
📚 Freelance editor, proofreader, indexer
✒️ Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg
💻 drlukewalker.com
"The people have the power
To redeem the work of fools"
– Patti Smith
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Tom Allen @tomrallen.bsky.social Explorer, author, trail prospector & travel writer. Currently in post as Expeditions & Fieldwork Manager @rgsibg.bsky.social. Mainly here to point you elsewhere. https://tomallen.info/link-in-bio
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Jake Hodder @jakehodder.bsky.social Associate Prof in historical and political geography, University of Nottingham. Internationalism, race, archives. British Academy / Wolfson Fellow 🏳️🌈
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/people/jake.hodder
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
pfp by Daniel Mackie
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice. 
Raf De Bont 🟥 @rafdebont.bsky.social Historian of science and the environment // Late adopter & cautious adventurer // Interested in 19th, 20th and 21st century natures // Author of Stations in the Field and Nature's Diplomats // https://moving-animals.nl
Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social Media Theory / Posthumanities (NYC)
Extimacy Coordinator
www.dominicpettman.com
Dr Andy Flack @drandyflack.bsky.social I'm an environmental historian, currently working on 'dark natures' and their animal inhabitants. Previous work on captive environments, including my book The Wild Within.
Otto Latva @ottolatva.bsky.social Adjunct Prof., PhD, Senior Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Historian specialized in human-animal and human-plant studies as well as cultural and environmental history. Project leader of http://www.utu.fi/humbio
Cristina Brito @crisbri.bsky.social An environmental historian with a long time crush for the ocean 🌊🩵
(◕(‘ 人 ‘) ◕)
Author of 'Humans and Aquatic Animals...'
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728218/humans-and-aquatic-animals-in-early-modern-america-and-africa
#bluehumanities #oceanspast
Friderike Spang @friderikespang.bsky.social https://friderikespang.com/
Postdoctoral Researcher
@Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
@Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague
Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics.
Also interested in everything on emotions.
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
Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social Researcher - Critical Animal Studies - Men & Masculinities
📖 👇
https://www.routledge.com/Human-Animal-Relationships-in-Times-of-Pandemic-and-Climate-Crisis-Multispecies-Sociology-for-the-New-Normal
💜 rabbits, oceans #pigoneer
Unceded Bundjalung Country
Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social curator & #EnvHist @ German Port Museum, Hamburg & @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7095-4403
#C18 #C19
#HistSTM #EntHist
#HistOcean #AnimalHistory #QueerHistory #museums
Founder @collecol.bsky.social
Treasurer @dgej.bsky.social
Annette Leiderer @leiderer.bsky.social historian 📚. teacher (history/latin/spanish) 🧑🏼🏫. writing the #IndustrialisationOfAnimals 🏭🐄🐖. interested in #humans, #animals and everything in between and beyond. what they do and why.
⌨https://uni-freiburg.academia.edu/AnnetteLeiderer
Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
Margaux @margopotato.bsky.social 🎓 Éthique animale @ Université de Strasbourg
🐠 Antispécisme, sentientisme & animalisme efficace
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Humanimalia @humanimalia.bsky.social Interdisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the interaction of humans and other animals.
https://humanimalia.org/
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University. Books: Just Fodder (McGill-Queen's, 2022) and Food, Justice, and Animals (Oxford, 2023). Host of the podcast Knowing Animals. Website: https://josh-milburn.com
Rebecca J H Woods @professorbopeep.bsky.social historian of science, environment, animals at the University of Toronto. Current research: frozen mammoths and the history/future of climate change. https://www.mammothhistorylab.com/
Views my own, not UofT’s.
Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University. https://sheffield.ac.uk/spir/people/academic/rosaleen-duffy & part of the Multispecies Mutualisms project https://multispeciesmutualisms.org
Harriet Evans Tang @iamharrietjean.bsky.social Project Support Officer at University of York. Researcher working on bears and Animal-Human relations in the medieval north: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/bears-in-the-north/. Associated with Universities of York and Durham. Mum of 1
Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
Eva Haifa Giraud @evahaifa.bsky.social Academic, soc. studies Sheffield. Animal studies/STS/soc media/activism. Books: What Comes After Entanglement? (Duke UP) & Veganism (Bloomsbury). Ed. Cultural Politics.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social Sci journo, author of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Highly caffeinated. All bad takes mine. She/her
Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social Writing about birds in people history and people in bird history
birdhistory.substack.com 
Harry Smith @fieldpansy.bsky.social Librarian @ Millennium Seed Bank / SWWDTP PhD @ Bristol/Exeter / interested in biocultural collections + more-than-human histories / #envhum #envhist #planthumanities 🌿👁🗨
Kári Driscoll @kdriscoll.bsky.social Asst. Prof. Comp. Lit. Utrecht University | Editor-in-Chief, Humanimalia | zoopoetics, reading zoos, more-than-human communities | he / him
Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction; researcher in the environmental humanities. Based in Sheffield, lover of allotments and trees. joannaclaredobson.com
https://wreckageandshimmer.substack.com/
Melanie Flynn @animalcrim.bsky.social AKA Crimtweets. Senior Lecturer Criminology & Associate Dean for Research. Nonhuman animal victimology, vegan criminology, environmental justice, crime analysis, crime prevention, evidence based policing, spatial crime concentrations, routine activities.
Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social PI of #ERCStG #GreenFrontier 🔎#politics of #conservation in #EU
#Rewilding conflicts @FNPWUR
🌳 #EnvJustice #Commons & #IllegalLogging @ULBSibiu
🐻 #WildlifeCrime @BeastlyProject @ShefUniPolitics
#StopGenocide
Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. Recent interest: history of peatland restoration. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & RCC fellow
Gregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and environment.
Prof at UW-Madison, LMU Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. ERC Advanced Grant: fragmentsoftheforest.com.
Chasing ecologies and power across viral divides. 
Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more. 
Nico Müller @nicodmueller.bsky.social 🐾 Animal rights | 🐭 Animal experimentation ethics | ☝️ Kantian ethics | 📚 I post about books I'm reading & engage in shameless self-promotion
Philosopher at University of Basel🇨🇭| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-8235
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Lee Ann Thill, PhD @leeannthill.bsky.social Artist creating abstractions of invisible disability narratives with paint & collage
Art-based research on gender, hum/an/imal relations, disability, sexuality
Art therapist
SJ/Philly & East TX
🩷💜💙
Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠
Assistant Prof @usc.edu; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG
Spending 2025–2026 in Deutschland @hanse-ias.bsky.social
ela/she/sie
Andrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social Anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen. Likes birds. A lot. Does stuff on environmental anthropology, landscape, conservation, human-bird relations, sound, perceptions of ecological change.
https://andrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.com/
Emily Celeste @emilyceleste.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UCDavis | border & migration studies | environmental humanities | c20/21 Mexican, Central American & Latinx lit. | chihuahuense + tapatía.
Richard Fadok @slaydok.bsky.social Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Assistant professor at RIT.
For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Dr Jes Hooper @jeshooper.bsky.social Multispecies Ethnographer. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of York, and Founder of The Civet Project Foundation. Studying civets, coffee, pets, and poop. 🐈💩☕ Views my own. Sussex, UK
Scu (James Stanescu) @criticalanimal.bsky.social Academic working on animal studies, weird and radical empiricism, and related concerns. Occasionally still blogs at www.criticalanimal.com 
Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Joan Neuberger @jayneu.bsky.social Retired prof living it up in NYC.
History/Film/Digital/
Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis.
Gimme some acoustic blues.
She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
Maomao Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social Professor of Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, posing as a cat
Salla Tuomivaara @tuomivaara.bsky.social Sociologist (Ph.D), writer, Executive Director @oikeuttaelaimille.fi
#animalrights #veganism #biodiversity #humanrights #criticalanimalstudies
Dr Syd @sydmj.bsky.social Philosopher, bioethicist, med professor, vegan baker, k-drama enthusiast. I like books, baby animals, food. I think and write about brain death, death, brain injuries, xenotransplantation, and animal research ethics. Author of books n stuff.
Brandon Keim @brandonkeim.bsky.social Journalist. Writes about nature & animals, usually through a lens of science. 📖 MEET THE NEIGHBORS: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World. 🦝 enthusiast.
🌎 bio.site/brandonkeim
📗 wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081
📰 brandonkeim.substack.com
Brian Banks Ⓥ 🇨🇦 @brianbanks.bsky.social Scribbler (mainly nature, conservation, critters, science, climate); Geographer (Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society); Soy nature boy. https://brian.eco/
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social Field philosopher and writer. Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney. Author of "Flight Ways," "The Wake of Crows," and "A World in a Shell."
www.thomvandooren.org
Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social Professor, probably thinking about emotion. West coast soul in Philly. 🌱
Current projects: Secular artifacts; Confederate commemoration; conspiracy theory; pedagogy against AI.
📚✍️: http://donovanschaefer.com/research
Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social I'm a veterinarian with a passion for animals, health, and society 🐇⚕️ Fellow with the Mimbres School 📚 She/Her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️ Lizard 🦎
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@zoognosiswithjoy
Mimbres School: https://mimbres.org/
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/zoognosiswithjoy
Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social Iñupiaq Alaska Native historian. Tries to write. Oral historian- check out ww2alaska.com. Author of: https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752525/alaska-native-resilience/ ask your library to order a copy!
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting