George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social The Friends of The Women's Library support The Women's Library at LSE in acquisition, preservation and education. https://friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Sociology @sociologyjnl.bsky.social An official journal of the BSA | Publishing outstanding and original research across all areas of sociology 
Choice Reviews @choicereviews.bsky.social A publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. We support the work of academic librarians by providing tools and services that help them become effective advocates for their patrons
Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social 🤓 Feminist Media Scholar | Digital Ethnographer | Internet Culture Enthusiast
🌟 Postdoc at Microsoft's Social Media Collective
💖 Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective & The Content Creator Scholars Network @weareccsn.bsky.social
💻 www.zoeglatt.com
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social Lecturer in Media and Communication researching the intersections of feminism, postfeminism, and popular culture
Beth Hughes @figroly.bsky.social Freelance contemporary art curator
PhD student at Manchester University
Curator for Lubaina Himid
Living between London & Manchester
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
Liberating Histories @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social Liberating Histories: Women's Movement Magazines, Media Activism and Periodical Pedagogies | funded by the AHRC | Northumbria University UK | Women's Library LSE
Heather Wardle @shwardle.bsky.social Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow. Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. 
Critical Gambling Studies @cgs-journal.bsky.social The open-access journal Critical Gambling Studies. Informing and connecting researchers from different disciplines across the world who study gambling. Find us at https://criticalgamblingstudies.com
Jessica Martin @jessmartin.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Assistant editor at the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Interested in gender, politics & popular culture.
LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social The LSE Department of Media and Communications. World-leading research http://bit.ly/39QSDVA and teaching excellence http://bit.ly/2Y5xPV2 #LSEMedia #partofLSE
Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Adrienne Matei @foxpack.bsky.social Journalist at The Guardian’s wellness desk. My beat is surviving and thriving.
Holly Nelson @holnels.bsky.social PhD researcher in Sociology | University of York | researching women’s rest 🧘♀️
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social Working class feminist academic. Research epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism, media representations of poverty. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
It's not 'intolerant' to defend women's rights!♀️
Alexandra Hall @alexhallcrim.bsky.social Researcher, teacher, mam to two young kids. Slowly writing a book on the freeport paradox. NUFC.
Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
Lucy Potter @lucypotter.bsky.social ESRC Research Fellow at the Uni of York | PhD in non-religion, apostasy & asylum | Sociologist exploring identities, human and refugee rights & (de)coloniality
https://linktr.ee/drlucypotter
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
Tabitha Lambert-Bramwell @tabithalambertb.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, researching the relationships between domestic servants and middle-class professional women 1880-1960 (she/her)
Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social Oh God What Now & More Jam Tomorrow; writer, reviewer (TV & books), editor; author, The Future of Trust (Melville House)
‘The most calming voice in the podcast world’
https://rostaylor.me
https://morejamtomorrow.com
https://rostaylor240051.substack.com
Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh 🚲 🌳🗻🎨✍️ @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social #socialworker and #socialwork academic- joy, hope, arts engaged methods,
nature, creativity - based at the University of Edinburgh. Co-Director The Binks Hub. #PoetryHelps #NatureIsNurture (she/her)
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Hannah Kaarina Yoken @hannhkarina.bsky.social Academy of Finland postdoc & Aaltonen Foundation PI at University of Jyväskylä | PhD from University of Glasgow | Chair of Finnish Oral History Network | Young Academy Finland member | Trade union activist | Historian of gender, media, emotions & protest
Becca Parkinson @beccap1502.bsky.social 📍Manchester
💼 Senior Marketing Coordinator (Trade) at Manchester University Press
📚 Trustee at Manchester Literature Festival
Tom Dark @darkpublisher.bsky.social Non-fiction Publisher, Manchester University Press.
Garry Crawford @cultsociologist.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Salford. FAcSS, PFHEA.
Born in Wolverhampton 🐺. Lives in Sale.
Co-lead of #GAMEHEARTS project.
York Festival of Ideas @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Annual award-winning Festival with more than 150 free events. York Festival of Ideas 2026 took place 30 May to 12 June under the overarching theme of ‘Place and Space’.
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Prof Catherine Happer @catherinehapper.bsky.social Director, Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) @gu-mg.bsky.social Sociologist charting the entanglement of media & communications with capitalist power. Climate, cost of living, crisis. Author of 'The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age', MUP.
Emily Setty @emilysetty.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology @ University of Surrey | Researching young people, digital intimacies & harmful sexual behaviour | Reimagining RSE with safe uncertainty: www.re-imagining-rse.org |Views my own
Laura Swift @lauramswift.bsky.social editor / maker / writer / researcher. Free Palestine 🍉
Helping good people make good books.
lauraswift.com
Amanda Haynes @amanda-haynes.bsky.social Sociologist researching criminal justice inequalities, hate crime, hateful ideologies, algorithmic harms. T&L interests in ethical AI, EDI, UDL. Fan of all creatures, furry, feathered and scaly. University of Limerick/ECSH. Opinions my own after coffee.
Yvette Taylor @yvettetaylor.bsky.social 
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
Emma Huddlestone @emmahuddlestone.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at UEA. Interested in critical military studies, military families and social justice.
David Young @davidhjyoung.bsky.social British Academy Postdoc Fellow - social policy, social security/insecurity, income volatility, Universal Credit, care. Previous researcher: distantwelfare.co.uk, Sanctions, Support and Service Leavers, changingrealities.org, safetynets.study
Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social Prof of Sociology at University of Surrey - fathers, masculinities, youth, digital media...
Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Active in research relating to children in care, care leavers and care experienced adults. 
Lydia Martens 🐠🐟🦀 @lydiamartens.bsky.social Sociologist. Thinker & interpreter. Shifting values to enable just and flourishing worlds. Marine worlds: fish-seabirds-people. Can storytelling help?
Katherine Twamley @ktwamley.bsky.social Prof of Sociology
@UCL
Chair
@UCLSociology
Areas of expertise: Love, intimacy, gender, families, parental leave
@nicolahorsley.bsky.social @nicolahorsley.bsky.social 
Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Interested in understanding the intersection of medicine and criminal justice, but also likely to be talking about Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPGs), running and Star Wars.
Dr. Lucy Neville @drbluestocking.bsky.social Criminologist at The University of Southampton. Amateur academic, occasional poet, aspiring activist, interdisciplinary magpie #sexwork #porn #feminism #fandom #VAWG
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social Medievalist, #Digital humanist, Digital Medievalist executive board member. #Medieval Francophonie enthusiast.
Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Univ of Sheffield Politics. Talk to me about counter-terrorism and communities. She/Her.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/amna-kaleem
Sarah Barnard @sarahbarnard.bsky.social Reader in Sociology of Work at Loughborough University, UK. Interested in equality, diversity and inclusion, technology, work and higher education. Views my own.
Frances Nolan @francesmnolan.bsky.social SFI-IRC (Research Ireland) Pathway Fellow at UCD School of History. PI on Law versus Practice, a digital humanities project exploring women’s property ownership in early modern Ireland.
https://www.lawvpractice.ie/
Laetitia Biscarrat @lbiscarrat.bsky.social Maîtresse de conférences en information-communication, Université Côte d’Azur
souvent épuisée
Feminist Media Studies
Rachel Hewitt @rachelhewitt.bsky.social Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Kate Barker @katebarker.bsky.social Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social Assist. prof. at UC Berkeley. #ScandinavianStudies, #LitWiss & #EnvHum. Researcher of North Sea coastal & petro-cultures. Likes to be beside the seaside.
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
TWhitleyBay @twhitleybay.bsky.social TWhitleyBay - for Whitley Bay* Tweets
(*and surrounding areas).
Sharing news and (literal!) views
Laura Sheard @laurasheard.bsky.social Reader, Uni of Manchester. Qualitative methodologist. Health inequalities, implementation science, prison healthcare, quality of care, patient experience #hashimotos #1stgen #cycling #Bradford
Harriet Tenenbaum @harriet-tenenbaum.bsky.social Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Surrey. Researches children and social justice, emotion development, and teaching and learning throughout the lifespan. Co-Editor, Social Development https://bsky.app/profile/socialdevelopment
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton
14th in the UK for Sociology and 4th for Criminology (Times University Rankings 2026)
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CrimSky #Criminology
Ellen Annandale @ellenannandale.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York, UK. The sociology of health and illness, sociology of gender, sociology of organisations and professions. Views are my own.
Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social #Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
Department of Sociology, University of York @uoy-sociology.bsky.social University of York Department of Sociology official BlueSky social page.
A leading Sociology department based at the University of York. Ranked 11th for Sociology in the UK (Complete University Guide 2025).
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/sociology_uoy
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
Sarah Ralph-Lane @sarahralph-lane.bsky.social Assist. Prof of Sociology, Wallsend Children’s Community Trustee, current research project with Operation Encompass. CYP, girlhood, family, childhood adversities, social harm, social action & culture change.
Lisa Matthews, PhD @poetech.bsky.social Poet & Creative Writing academic • Asemics & sculpture • Deer @ copper.hart • Collage @voila_ici • @Tine.Studios co-founder • Latest book “Hartsongs” with BlueprintPress. UK civil servant by day, digital content designer, UX writer and ND-inclusive #UCD.
Mel Ashby @melashby.bsky.social Artist, developer, queer ouroboros.
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark” — Rebecca Solnit
Chloé @csdawson.bsky.social Sociology PhD - consumer culture, feminism, fashion, and the environment in 20th/21st c. magazines 📚🐈⬛☕️
Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social Associate Professor of Social Care Law and Policy, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies. Socio-legal research on: disability, legal capacity, human rights, sovereignty, governmentality and other stuff. Small Places Blog.
Nicola (Nick) Mai @nickmai.bsky.social I am a sociologist, ethnographer and filmmaker working with marginalised migrant groups and communities affected by environmental change through co-creative and participative collaborations.
https://nicolamai.org/
https://le.ac.uk/people/nick-mai
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social All the social medias; still nothing to say.
Also on Masto at same name
Editor: Dialogues on Digital Society
Co-editor: Sage Handbook of Digital Labour (2025)
Author: Digital Labor (2022); Feminism, Labour and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife (2016)
Andy Dougill @andydougill.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Sustainabilty & Dean of the Sciences, University of York. Researching Climate Change Adaptation & Transformations in African Food Systems.
Benjamin Jacobsen @bnjacobsen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology at University of York and Visiting Fellow on ALGOSOC project at Durham University.
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Jennifer Slack @jdslack.bsky.social Pastel & acrylic painter, anti-maga, Emeritus Professor: cultural studies, technology, and culture. I repost more than post to honor others' efforts. Joined Nov 2024.
No DMs, crypto, "dates," or donations.
Molly Watson @mollywatson.bsky.social Comms at Uni of York // former BBC TV journo
Kate Moores @mooreska.bsky.social Research communications at University of York, UK. Ex-London galleries and museums arts PR-type, formerly Tate and Wellcome Collection and Wellcome Trust. She / her.