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
Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
Signal: @vicmsong.14
Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social DGA Director KELLY & CAL, RUST CREEK, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek:Discovery, Titans
https://www.jenmcgowan.com
I boop snoots
Ally to all except jerks, jerks you're on your own
#RESIST she/her
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
Representation: Wylie.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
Kieran Setiya @ksetiya.bsky.social MIT philosopher; would-be self-help guru; master of the semi-colon; substack: http://bit.ly/-ksetiya; podcast: http://bit.ly/-five-q; home: http://bit.ly/-ks-home
Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.
DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social Lawyer, historian, disease-ridden leftist. Books include The New Authoritarians, and The Story of Jenny Greenteeth. Write for LRB, Guardian, rs21.
Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
Arianne Shahvisi @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social Philosopher of gender, race, borders, science | Essays in LRB, Guardian, Independent | Author of Arguing for a Better World https://tinyurl.com/2mn3zw8k
Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social Foreign correspondent. Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
tomfstevenson@gmail.com
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2978-someone-else-s-empire
MG Zimeta @mgzimeta.bsky.social Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Recovering philosopher | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social | I can't view my DMs here because I haven't verified that I'm not a child.
Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social I work @lrb.co.uk, most of my opinions are other people’s
Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc). Was a Booker judge in 2025.
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Jean McNicol @jeanmcnicol.bsky.social Co-editor of the London Review of Books
Rupert Beale @bealelab.bsky.social Group Leader, Cell Biology of Infection Lab @thecrick; Nephrologist @Royal Free Hospital. Own views etc. 
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social Reading, writing, translating, interpreting, etc.
erin maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social historian at durham / writer and critic, mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i’m writing a history of the female body, out in june!
https://linktr.ee/erinmaglaque
https://erinmaglaque.com
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Professor @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk - substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Subscribe for latest writing etc at Williamdavies.blog
Jude @judeinlondon.com Writer, Campaigner, Loudmouth. Please hire me I need to pay bills.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
@dubobos.bsky.social @dubobos.bsky.social 
Alice Hunt @alicehunt.bsky.social Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade (Faber, 2024). Co-I on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates. Reviews for the LRB and The Times.
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Jon Parry @jonparryhis.bsky.social Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Books:
The Siege of Loyalty House
God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
jessiechilds.co.uk
IG @jessiechildshistorian
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer
Anna Della Subin @annadella.bsky.social Author of ACCIDENTAL GODS: ON MEN UNWITTINGLY TURNED DIVINE (Metropolitan/ Granta). Essays in the LRB, NYRB, TLS, The Nation & elsewhere. Senior editor at Bidoun.
www.annadellasubin.com
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Malaka Shwaikh @mshwaikh.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews where I research prisons, hunger strikes, limits of resilience, and decoloniality. Talk with me about sunsets and hikes.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social www.northsouthnotes.org- K Bee Wilson @kitchenbee.bsky.social I write about food. And other things. Latest book is THE SECRET OF COOKING. Founder of TastEd ( a food education charity): the joy of vegetables & fruits.
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Jay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I wrote a book, ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023). I post about media and environment in approximately equal parts.
🔗 https://JayOwens.me
Thom Dyke @thomdyke.bsky.social Barrister at Deka Chambers | Expertise in Criminal, Public, International, and Police Law | Ranked in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 | Bencher at Inner Temple | Advocacy Trainer | BHRC Exec Committee 2026/7
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5844-3088
Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @jacobinmag.bsky.social, and elsewhere. PhD candidate @gvagrad.bsky.social
Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. 
anne enright @thewrengirl.bsky.social writer
Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
Lucie Elven @lucieelven.bsky.social 
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
FASHION IS FINISHED: RUDI GERNREICH & THE COUNTERCULTURE (Norton/Pushkin, ~2027)
www.benwritesthings.com
Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social When I was 4, I dressed up as Mephistopheles from Faust for Halloween and corrected each of my grandparents' friends when they thought I was the devil.
Now I'm a cultural critic.
Web: oliviagiovetti.com
Substack: criticaldrift.org
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london.
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed Inscription: The Journal of Material Text
president Oxford Bibliographical Society
micro-essays adamsmyth.substack.com
Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com
@desfreedman.bsky.social @desfreedman.bsky.social 
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer. Art, books, music, climate. Suffolk and London.
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social https://www.nytimes.com/by/jennifer-szalai- J Josie Mitchell @josiemitchell.bsky.social Senior Editor @GrantaMag
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social Communications Lead, Persuasion UK/ Co-editor, Renewal Journal/ Author, "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second EU Referendum"
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social 
Tom White @tom--white.bsky.social Further education worker; writer; UCU member & caseworker
He/Him
BAD DUST: A HISTORY OF THE ASBESTOS DISASTER -- 9/9/25 https://bit.ly/4drpSPO
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Assistant opinion editor at the Guardian. Writer on arts, culture and society.
mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social this is mark sinker's professional account
(trying since 2015 to be less unprofessional)
Tomas Weber @tomasweber.bsky.social Writer in London (The New York Times Magazine, FT Magazine, Rolling Stone, 1843)
www.tomasweber.com
Daniel Soar @danielsoar.bsky.social London Review of Books
@ghaithabdulahad.bsky.social @ghaithabdulahad.bsky.social 
Joanne O'Leary @hyenapetticoat.bsky.social Editor at London Review of Books
@londonreview.bsky.social
daniella shreir @shreir.bsky.social @another-gaze.bsky.social
translator, film programmer, sometimes writer
Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social Historian and theologian, professor at Villanova University. Byline Il Regno, Commonweal, Global Catholic, et al. Gelateria Catholic since 2017. Views my own.
Richard King @richardhywelking.bsky.social 
Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP
#LungSky, Social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson
#MedSky #NHS #LungSky
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hopkinson+NS&sort=date&size=100
Selma Dabbagh @selmadabbagh.bsky.social AngloPal writer, lawyer. Based in London. 
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge 
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social FREELANCE WRITER
Jack Hanson @jackhanson.bsky.social Associate editor at The Yale Review and lecturer at Yale. Writing about religion, literature, and culture.
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social Small Language Model. Discontent Provider. Group Editor of @PodmastersUK, home of Oh God What Now?, Bunker and more podcasts. Inventor of landfill indie. Social media binfluencer.
Jacob Jarvis @jacobjarvis.bsky.social Presenter of American Friction @americanfric.bsky.social and The Bunker. Excited to be on Cockwomble MySpace.
Chris Jones @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social Co-host of American Friction Pod. Former journo. Lover of chips and LOTR - unfortunate LCFC fan.