Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing. Stirling. 12-14th September 2025.
German Screen Studies Network @g-s-s-n.bsky.social Founded in June 2012 as an international platform for informed comment and German-language film promotion amongst researchers, educators, film professionals, and the interested public. Based at University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
ITI Scottish Network @itiscotnet.bsky.social Scottish Network of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, offering CPD, networking events and support to our members, mainly translators and interpreters based in Scotland. Our directory helps clients find professionals working in 25 languages.
British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is Britain’s leading centre for the study and support of literary translation.
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Şebnem Susam-Saraeva @sebnemsaraeva.bsky.social Professor of Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee: Word Up North, Skipton Music. #bwfc
UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
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.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Sigrid G. Köhler @sigridgkoehler.bsky.social (Noch) enthusiastische Germanistin: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Dekolonialität • Atlantische Welt • Ästhetik • Recht • Populäre), NdL-Professur, https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/111274
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social zine maker, poet, rugby player, academic living in Scotland
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ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social Live-posting events in the German Peasants’ War for their 500th anniversary. Account run by the Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants’ War Project at Oxford and Royal Holloway: https://germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social LSP publishes high-quality peer-reviewed language research in accessible and non-technical language to promote policy engagement.
Allyson Fiddler @allysonfiddler.bsky.social Prof Emerita (German & Austrian Studies).
Paperback August 2025: The Art of Resistance: Cultural Protest Against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-first Century
Daniele Vecchiato @profvecchiato.bsky.social 📖 Associate Professor of German and Translation Studies at the University of Padua, Italy
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Katya Krylova @katyakrylova.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
Sascha Stollhans @saschastollhans.bsky.social Linguist | Pro-Dean for Student Education (Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds) | @inmfl.bsky.social co-lead | Own views | he/him
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Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
German at Bristol | University of Bristol @germanatbristol.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of German at the University of Bristol! Follow us for student and research news, events, and collaborations! | www.bristol.ac.uk/german
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland.
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The University of Edinburgh @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Influencing the world since 1583. Follow our other social channels: https://edin.ac/3CJvzdv
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Translation UoE @translation-uoe.bsky.social Translation Studies @ University of Edinburgh
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students.
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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social Promoting Scottish literatures globally | https://scotlit-iassl.org | scotlit.iassl@gmail.com
The DDGC Collective @ddgc.bsky.social Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum is an international scholarly collective dedicated to critical approaches to German Studies.
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Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social The AGS is the biggest professional association for university-level German Studies in GB and Ireland. We seek to support, foster, and increase the visibility & vitality of German Studies. Membership open to anyone with teaching/research interests in GS.
Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
Karin Bosshard @karinbosshard.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh, PhD Translation Studies (2023), Translator (EN/FR-DE)
Ben Schofield @benschofield.bsky.social Germanist | Comparatist | Americanist | Modern Linguist | Bluesky in a private capacity | he/him | 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social Novelist, she/her, bookings [at] sharonotoo.com
"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains"
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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
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Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
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Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
Elystan Griffiths @elystan.bsky.social German Studies academic at University of Birmingham. Co-editor German Life and Letters. Working on a book on obedience. Interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany, cats, food, film, pottery. Cymro. My views. 🏳️🌈
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DAAD Worldwide @daadworldwide.bsky.social The world's largest funding organisation, supporting the international exchange of students and scholars.
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Ingrid Sharp @profingrid.bsky.social Gender and Cultural Historian at the University of Leeds: likes dogs and cake 
Reading Bodies Multilingual Network @readingbodies.bsky.social Multilingual research network connecting Medical Humanities research across different languages and cultures 🌏 💊💬
Led by @katharinemurphy.bsky.social & @oliviaglaze.bsky.social
Connected to the AHRC-funded project https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
Katie Stone @katherinestone.bsky.social AssocProf @warwicksmlc Researching gender, motherhood & memories of conflict-related sexual violence in 🇩🇪 and beyond. Interested in memorial art and institutions
German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social Come and study German at the TEF Gold-rated University of Portsmouth on England's beautiful South Coast! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/subject-area/languages
Joanna Raisbeck @joannaraisbeck.bsky.social Lecturer in German Studies, UCL. (Photo: Stuart Bebb)
Christiane Schönfeld @christianesch.bsky.social 
James Hodkinson @drjameshodkinson.bsky.social Academic at Warwick | Public engagement specialist | Creative | Arts sector | Musician | Father | LFC … YNWA | Find me here: https://linktr.ee/j.r.hodkinson
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Germanist
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German Studies Association @thegsa.bsky.social The German Studies Association is the multi- and interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, and economics.
Centre for Irish-German Studies @ulcigs.bsky.social Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Encouraging and supporting research in Irish-German relations since 1997.
Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social W+IGS was established in 1988 to bring together female+ Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland and to support them in all aspects of their professional life.
womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com
German Studies at the University of Oxford @oxfordgerman.bsky.social Willkommen! Follow us for news from the largest German department in the UK at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, with the Taylor Institution Library. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social **revolution is not a one time event**
assoc. prof University of Toronto
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social Philosopher of technology. Disabled. Rotationplasty.
Strong opinions and typos argh my urn. Reskeets are not endorsements.
#PhilTech #STS #DisabilityStudies #Cyborg #Bioethics #DisCoTec.
Emily Ladau @emilyladau.bsky.social Author of "Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally." Disability rights activist who lives life on wheels. ♿️
Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social MOTHER TONGUE, out now.
Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR
🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly
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Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social writer, The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, Future Is Disabled, Care Work, Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival ,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. seen a lot, still doing the rest. brownstargirl.org
Maria Town @mariatown.bsky.social Disability Advocate. Cat Mom. 
Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
J. Logan Smilges @jlsmilges.bsky.social Always all of my love, always all that I can hold. Author of #QueerSilence, #CripNegativity, and other words on crip, trans, and queer worlding. They/them.
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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social Disability Awareness Consultant/Severely Disabled Creator, author of NOTES FROM A QUEER CRIPPLE (2025), podcast host of Disability After Dark, award-winning speaker
(they/them)
Website: www.andrewgurza.ca
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Bess W @besswww.bsky.social Design historian, author of Accessible Design: A History of Disability + Design
North Carolina based but will travel for meager honorarium
Dr Syrus Marcus Ware @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social He/him. PhD. Activist. Assistant Professor. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada and Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. 🌈💕🌱
Hannah Quinn, PhD @hanelizqui.bsky.social PhD | Anthropology, anti-ableist ethnography, crip intimacy, consent culture, sex ed, intellectual disability, mad studies, queer kinship | semi-retired | “a cool mom” 💅🏻 | Slow writer, fast talker | blue collar kid | 🔻
Kelly Fritsch @kellyfritsch.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Author of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin (2026); Disability Injustice (2022); We Move Together (2021); Keywords for Radicals (2016).
Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social Professor of being too disabled to be a professor anymore. Previously, Prof. Disability Studies, Gender Studies, English at UW-Madison. Author Hypermobilities (poems), Fantasies of Identification (NYU Press), #criptime #EDS
Emily Beitiks (she/her) @emilybeitiks.bsky.social Longmore Institute on Disability Interim Director @SFSU / Co-Director of San Francisco Disability Cultural Center / all-around access nerd 
Critical Design Lab @criticaldesignlab.bsky.social Disabled artists, designers, and researchers using disability cultural methods to do critical design. https://criticaldesignlab.com/
Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social Author IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH (Ecco,2026); ‘24 New America Fellow; NYC-based Prof @uconn ; ✍️ in LARB, The Baffler, The New Republic, etc; Rep @McKinnonLit, ASL interp 🏳️🌈 LauraMauldin.com
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
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Timothy Y. Loh, PhD @timothyyloh.com anthropologist of science and tech in the Princeton Society of Fellows, PhD from MIT in HASTS (History, Anthropology, STS), research on assistive tech for deaf people in Jordan, MENA, and Singapore. he/他/هو
www.timothyyloh.com.
Deaf Killjoy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @deafkilljoy.bsky.social deafdisabled queer nerd. Stuff I do: history crip linguistics disability studies sign language deaf studies 
Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social Professor of German & Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Brecht, GDR culture, censorship, ghost stations.
Sarah Colvin @sarahcolvin.bsky.social Professor / literature / social justice / prisons / Germany / and things. Representing myself not my institution. Mostly reading & reposting here.
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