Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social Science and environment writer and communicator. Loves to talk about risk. Obsessed with plants and hopes to one day see every species of eucalypt.
I make the science behind important issues accessible here: https://theturnstone.substack.com
Dave Dustin @dustin.nz Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Ex-Microsoft SQL Server MVP.
Hobbies include cooking, photography, and woodworking.
Peter Musser @petermusser.com EN, SP, 中文, FR // Librarian, OER person, once and future YouTubeEDU'er. US Navy Vet, dual🍁/🦅
Queer as heck🏳️🌈
Paige Walshe @paigewalshe.bsky.social She/Her | MTL 🇨🇦
Comic artist ☀️illustrator☀️pun enthusiast
Award-winning creator of Froggy! A Pond Full of Pals (2025) and Autumn Antics (2026)
Rep: The Bright Agency
Links: https://paigewalshe.carrd.co/
One Hashtag Birds @one-hashtag-birds.bsky.social
Please follow for photos of beautiful birds without too many hashtags.
Portfolio: https://unsplash.com/@one_hashtag_birds
Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social Winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Humor, Cartoonist and Author https://www.paulnoth.com https://substack.com/@paulnoth?r=7j6we&utm_medium=ios
John Pickering @kiwiskinz.bsky.social Research Professor, but prefer Scrymaster. Embedded scientist and statistician in emergency medicine. See #NerdNite talk https://youtu.be/Gd180NiWSCg. Don't believe in statistical significance. Amateur astronomer and will post photos of the heavens.
Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @colortastetexture.bsky.social COLOR TASTE TEXTURE is a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide, written by an Autistic classically trained chef (published by Avery/Penguin Random House). Available now!
@mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social alt account
greg @greg.nz Greg. He/Him. D&D, MTG, Gacha, Star Wars (but chill about it), FFXIV, and an unfortunate infosec habit. The strongest stars have hearts of khyber.
Wellington, NZ. https://linktr.ee/gregdotexe
Ben Allan @benallan.bsky.social Subeditor / lamestream media left-wing govt mouthpiece / right-wing govt propagandist trapped in Dunedin, New Zealand. Opinions those of the Voice of the Mysterons. Used to program binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects
Matthew Turner @thewalkingfool.bsky.social Author of the novel SWEDEN (2018), translator, traveller on foot, Japan lover, jazz buff, albatross watcher, Ōtautahi resident. *Not* a photographer.
Paul Campbell @moonbaseotago.bsky.social Bits bytes chips and stuff
Ōtepoti/Aotearoa
https://moonbaseotago.github.io/
Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Media Studies/Digital Media, and author.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-8932
https://wheretofind.me/@krveale
"He/Him."
Tangata Tiriti.
All views expressed here are my own.
Milly @millycenti.bsky.social Reader, cat lover, player of board and other games (she/her)
Victoria @vembx.bsky.social ISFJ, EndoStrong, Wellington, Bookworm
DrFrazzled @inotepoti.bsky.social Starting to get fed up with the state of things.
Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social Norwegian prog metal devotee. Ally, climate action, social justice, tangata tiriti and Lion Brown.
iGeek @gamer-geek-news.com Data Scientist by day, gamer tech junky by night, welcome to my stream of conciousness
Toys, tools, tings I tinker with: https://gamer-geek-news.com/showcase
💑👨👩👦🌻🕺🎸🎮💻🏳️🌈☮️🧘♂️🥦
Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social Vegetarian. She/her 🏳️⚧️ #FuckThePatriarchy #TeamSussex
Levin, NZ Aotearoa 🇳🇿 
Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social Retired teacher. The future, if there is to be one, is Green.
Tax wealth not work.
Dan Isaacs (Kelce's Version) @danisaacs.bsky.social I do cloud things. I like taking photos of other worlds. I mostly post toddler or pet photos. Occasionally, informed political takes. I ❤️ CFB.
Sally Greaves @cardiokiwi.bsky.social Cardiologist living in Aotearoa New Zealand with lots of sheep & 235 kākāpō. Science/nature nerd. Bird politics good, human politics suck, but interested. Serious about medicine, other things not so much. Opinions all my own...
Tony Hafoka Ao NZ TON @ahafoka.bsky.social NZ / Aotearoa based. Freedive, spearfisher & volunteer crew for Hibiscus unit of Coastguard NZ Tautiaki Moana https://www.coastguardhibiscus.org.nz
Coastguard stories: https://bsky.app/profile/ahafoka.bsky.social/post/3m3qrgfddx22v
Happykiwi_nz @kiwihappy.bsky.social Animals. Conservation. Nature. Space. Cheese scones for the win. She/her.
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland
Aotearoa New Zealand
Faff @faff.co.nz i'm faff
she/her
Kara Bee @faerytern.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Probably posting about how nz is fucked and what we can do to fix it.
Kara, she/her, in Southland Aotearoa New Zealand.
Greg Bond @docgregb.bsky.social Squeaky wheel. Still not right.
Immigrant / tauiwi.
🩺 🚲 ☕️ 🚉 🏙️
📍Pōneke, Aotearoa NZ
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Tara @taracomics.bsky.social Author of This is Not a Pipe. Posts comics at taracomics.substack.com (they/them: tangata Tiriti)
Archive of live drawings (2017-2024) available at the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55900477
Pūtangitangi for BOTY @putangitangi.co.nz Our names are Ngaire and Lefty (meep). We live in a beautiful local park. We've been together since we were chicks and we've lost count of how many chicks we've raised together.
Fed by @eddie.co.nz and @kelsy.co.nz.
https://putangitangi.co.nz/
Jared Leys @jaredleys.bsky.social Ducks | Books | Hibiscus
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Nichol @henribus.eurosky.social Tired nerd
Emma Warick @emmawarick.bsky.social I am a fan of the great outdoors, including walking, hiking, camping, and bicycling.
Smithiesm @smithiesm.bsky.social 🇯🇵🇳🇿 Tangata Tiriti from Ōtepoti Dunedin | He/him | Toitū te Tiriti
I love to go jump in the lake or get in the sea. No unsolicited DMs please.
Jon Wiley @jonwiley.com I've designed things that saved you time. Texan. Occasional Kiwi. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿
🐶🐾Megan🍓🌻 @meganisalanis.bsky.social Walking, nature, and enjoying photos from both.
#Maths #Nature #Flowers #BeautifulSkies
🐈⬛ Emmaline, Segrentarri of Snakkies & 👵🏼Jean, her human @jeanchimera.bsky.social Cats, some politics, Ukraine, Science, other randomness. | #PlunderCats 🏴☠️ | Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | NAFO
😼 Morgan Victoria (Chica) 🇳🇿 @morganvcat.bsky.social Mistress of the Cat House². Hooman's shack cat. Kingpin in the NZ Division of the International Catnip Cartel. Leaves politics to hoomans. I'm STEALTH.
📍 Ōamaru, Aotearoa
² Two words; not *THAT* kind 🐈⬛
Cat-holic 圣火喵喵刘东篱 @holyfiremeow.bsky.social In cats we trust
圣火昭昭，喵喵喵喵
圣火降临，天下太平
Astro Susie @susiemuc.bsky.social Software Tester. Aspiring astronaut. Proud member of Shaun T’s Dig Deeper Nation. Addicted to Weightlifting, Space, Robotics and Coffee.
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Rich Wells @rich-wells.bsky.social Retired from a day job, now an artist - @Richwellsart on Facebook, living in 🇳🇿
Rem Wigmore - Wolfpack out now! @remedy.bsky.social Award-winning author of queer SFF books including Foxhunt, Wolfpack, The Wind City and Riverwitch. They/he, Pākehā.
Wolfpack back out now! https://books2read.com/vengefulwild2
Itch: https://remwigmore.itch.io/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/remwigmore
Katrina Coombs @klcoombs.bsky.social LA and Palm Springs based Landscape Designer, very amateur photographer, and an ok surfer. Common thread: Beauty, patience, balance, imagination, fun...
All photos and videos (except reposts) are © and cannot be used without permission.
DrJacs @tiwaiwaka.bsky.social Ngāpuhi, Prof of Māori health, surprised terminal cancer survivor - 3 years so far. Toitū te Tiriti, equity etc etc. My memoir, Ngākaurua, is coming out in 2026 via Cuba Press - woohoo!
Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social Health economist dabbling in biostats and clinical informatics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-4332
@urimo.bsky.social @urimo.bsky.social 
Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social Novelty seeker, nature photographer, neuroscientist, dancer, sailor, science writer and editor. Photos my own.
John Crisp @reetspetit.bsky.social Owner of many old shirts & videos.
Ex everything. Master of nothing.
Know a bit about a lot.
Linux server builder. GSoC AI mentor.
ex RNLI helm.
"Utter bastard" according to my best mates. A win.
Estoy en España 🇪🇸
> I do not automatically follow back!
Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social Feminist, leftie, māmā. Tangata Tiriti, she/her. Opinions stated are entirely my own and do not reflect any other person or organisation.
Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa, Tāmaki Makaurau AKL, councillor, leftwards, feminist, climate action, social justice, public transport nerd.
Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social 
@newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social He/him
Kate @knhannah.bsky.social Feminist/co-captain Team Hannah. Here for hope & justice-building. We live in a society. She/her. Most likely making dinner.
These are most definitely my personal opinions.
Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social Māori. Librarian. Feminist. So basically a triple threat.
She/her. Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Reckons here: https://the-opinionist.ghost.io/
nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social 
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com Futurist | Exponentialist | Humanist
Electrification → #Bettrification
Software → Automation → Intelligence
Solar • Wind • Batteries • EVs • BESS • AI • BIO
Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social Father, partner, gardener, swimmer, environmental advocate, lover of life on Earth.
Judy Sutherland @judy9.bsky.social Singer, reader, science nerd, insight meditation practitioner. I also knit. Owned by a black cat. Living in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Insight Meditation. She/her.
Tony Fluerty @tonyfluerty.bsky.social Nature Photographer from New Zealand, now living in Ireland.
I'm dyslexic and sometimes my grammar is more creative than correct.
AGRader @ag-rader.bsky.social 🏞 🪶 🐈⬛ 🇳🇱
Sony a6700📸
Philippa of Māwhera @misspedagogue.bsky.social She/her. Cis. Creative. Art/Art History Teacher & Geek. Teaches online some of the time. West Coast, Aotearoa NZ.
Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction for my story collection Home Theatre. My novel Mincemeat is out in November 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Tam (she/her) @tamarinsauce.bsky.social Profile schmofile. You might know me from the bad place. Aotearoa you know it 
@badfishnz.bsky.social @badfishnz.bsky.social You can take the girl out of West Auckland but you can't take the West Auckland out of the girl
Pakehā, tangata tiriti, she/her/ia, NZ
Pedro @waihekepete.bsky.social Work in healthcare, passionate about politics and the environment, foodie, music lover, reader.
Ant @antyx.bsky.social 
Silk ☕️🐦🦤🦉🐦⬛🦜🐧🕊🦢🦅🦚🇳🇿🇪🇺🇩🇪 @silkb.bsky.social Straight talking North German covered in Kiwi skin
Would love to spend my life hiking/travelling around the world
Flo Mask @flomask.bsky.social Winner of 2021 BARDA Phase 1 Mask Challenge.
Runner up in 2022 Phase 2 Mask Challenge led by NIOSH/BARDA/NIST.
www.flomask.com
www.flomaskeu.com
🐶🏒 @glittery-nails.bsky.social I block anything that smells like bots, AI, spam. I repost a lot of political stuff. It's my breadcrumb trail. If you don't care about politics, enjoy my cute doggo pfp but don't follow back.
An Space Cat @lazer-cat.bsky.social An space cat whom lasers
Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♾️
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy @brianmayarchstereo.bsky.social www.stereoscopyday.com
@tillygeorge.bsky.social @tillygeorge.bsky.social 
Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social Archaeologist, photographer, dilettante.
Primarily posting nerdy analogue photography BS: 110-8x10. Photography = catharsis.
Co-Winner, 2022 #ShittyCameraChallenge - InstantRegret
(Avatar is the dad from the awesome kids book “Pokko and the Drum”)
@firemission.bsky.social @firemission.bsky.social I am here for the Retro games, Linux, Acorn and PS4. Spent my childhood converting arcade games to Atari Lynx specs 16/4096 colours @ 160x102 resolution. DM unavailable.
fantasyconsole.blogspot.com
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social Mixed Reality Urbanism
Spatial and Policy Planner
Resident of South Auckland
Cities Skylines Player and Snob
Leilani Münter @leilanimunter.bsky.social Small herbivore from America living in New Zealand. Spending my brief time on Earth trying to save the wild things. I used to drive race cars.
Billsville Hills @billsvillehills.com https://www.youtube.com/@BillsvilleHills
Wildlife and nature videos from Billsville Hills.
AJ Simpson/Crow’s Eye Images @crowseyeimages.bsky.social Photography Student in Wellington, NZ 📸
More photos on my Instagram: @crowseye_images
Shane @incompleteness.bsky.social Unpublished writer of meta-history-fiction-satire-poesy-philosophy (of sorts)-even a little physics, jumbled up in stream-of consciousness about British and American empires, fascism, the crazy-making drugs and booze they're all on, dreams, religion, UFOs
Michel Mulipola @bloodysamoan.bsky.social Sāmoan Artivist ● Professional wrestler ● Tekken personality ● Story Artist on Disney's Moana 2
2026 Green Party candidate - Māngere
Authorised by Miriam Ross, www.greens.org.nz, Wellington
RSVP - https://www.greens.org.nz/mge_se_ota_260620
Peter @pjpscriv.co.nz Young software lad. Kiwi living in Montréal 🇳🇿🇨🇦. Francisation Niveau 8 (B2). Data viz, podcast, civic tech and solving-the-climate-crisis enthusiast.
A collaboration, bacteria, carbon and light - youtu.be/YrVEgP0LkDA
🌏 pjpscriv.co.nz
Otago Microbiology and Immunology @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago
Lyndsey Fineran @lfineran.bsky.social Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki Artistic Director; formerly Cheltenham Festivals. Usually in a book, at a Festival or in the water.
NZ Games Festival @nzgamesfest.bsky.social New Zealand's very own celebration of gaming, for all ages ✨ 2026 NZ Games Festival starts from May 1 - 13! 🎉
Tickets on sale now! | tinyurl.com/NZGF-Tickets2026
Our website! | www.nzgamesfest.com
Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social Co-Founder: Escarpment Domes. Director: Inspiring Communities. Leader: Housing Alliance Otago. Co-Chair: Independent Music Venues Aotearoa. Losing My Edge - Sundays 12-2pm on Radio One 91FM.
Bumbleebee @parrykylie.bsky.social Grows trees and trans kids.
Loves coffee, elephant jokes, cake and leaf slugs.
Usually found at uni or op shop. She/they
Pieter @reteip.bsky.social 
@pianogirlxf.bsky.social @pianogirlxf.bsky.social 
Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
Paul Brislen @brislen.nz Cassandra PR. Our motto: I fkn TOLD you...
I shall bind him to me, with promises. 🇳🇿🏴
Cymro o ddewis (Welsh by choice)
"We consider that Mr Brislen is an authoritative source." (BSA decision, March 2020)
Aotearoa he/him
Gareth @grenow.bsky.social Self-reinvention is a way to stay young, as long as you can remember what you were.
I recall being an author, journalist, photographer, truffle grower, climate change writer, magazine editor and publisher, but who can be sure?
Born at 313ppm
Sham Iamb @brucef0rte.io They/them cryptobiote. Big fan of the void. Wormgod. Artnshit https://youtube.com/@luddtronics
Morganasea @fourinchcats.bsky.social Random Neurons Firing. Mostly around sewing, embroidery, cats and my beloved hubby. (And the odd original music video!) 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
@invictus29.bsky.social @invictus29.bsky.social Calm is a superpower. Trying to fit as much sewing and knitting into my day as possible. Plus cats, and gardening, and books.
T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her.
Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books