Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Commentator.
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Society. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture. The personal. The structural.
Editor in Chief, Byline Times.
hardeep@bylinetimes.com / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social Climate, writing, running, beasts. Valve turner. Host: https://sites.libsyn.com/459540/awabw
poetry: https://www.hummingbirdpoetry.org/books/her-animals-by-emily-johnston-2nd-ed
Making good trouble: troublemakerscommunity.org
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social A podcast which celebrates the work of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine - and great comedy in general!
Goon Pod: https://pod.link/1569929507
Goon Pod Film Club: Patreon.com/GoonPod
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social she/her. I'm into sewing, fashion, costuming, museum design & curation, history, sci-fi/fantasy, film, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, space, dinosaurs, and travel. I don't auto-followback. Always punch Nazis, healthcare is a right, eat the rich.
Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM🖤 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙she/her
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social Trade union economist. Views my own, and not of some defunct economist.
Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Weird Studies @weirdstudiesphil.bsky.social The Weird Studies podcast, co-hosted by JF Martel and Phil Ford. Most tweets are Phil's.
Alan Cumming @alancumming.bsky.social Willing to give it a go
Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social Bringing together experts from across the globe to track how climate change is affecting our health, and how the world is responding.
Funded by Wellcome.
Gesche Huebner @geschehuebner.bsky.social Prof Environment & Human Health; Director of the European Centre for Environment & Human Health; University of Exeter.
Energy, buildings, health, climate change. 
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
she/her 🏳️⚧️
A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column | linktr.ee/avdeggar
Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Researcher, Computer Security @ ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist @ Skerry Technologies
Putting the Science in "Mad Science"
Digital, Explainable, and (usually) Adversarial Systems
Looking for employment: CV is here https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html
he/him
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
𝕳 𝖔 𝖙 𝖍 𝖎 🎃 @gizzi-m.bsky.social Chatting mostly #horror movies, noisy/weird/#metal music, football ⚽ 🏈
🟠🟢🔵 https://boxd.it/1oF3t
#WHUFC ⚒️ #RaiderNation 🏴☠️
Chris Kendall @ottocr.at Anglo-Schwäbisch eurocrat | maker of EU foreign policy & spätzle | guerrilla knitter | cross-Channel commuter | was once @ottocrat | personal capacity
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art @balticgateshead.bsky.social Contemporary art gallery ✨
Open Wed-Sun 10am-6pm
Free entry, no booking needed
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
https://baltic.art/
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different.
Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Manon Raffard @manonraffard.bsky.social PhD | Researches #smellstudies #envhum, #inequalities, #hstm, and #19thc #frenchstudies
Autistic academic
Hallsworth Research Fellow @manchester.ac.uk
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/m-raffard/
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Smell Studies Journal @smellstudies.bsky.social The first international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the field of Smell Studies
CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social The TV listings you never did know that you didn't not need, in glorious teletext several times a day. GSOH. Non-smoker preferred. Ring top bell. Your home is at risk if you store dynamite in it.
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
@glory-b.bsky.social @glory-b.bsky.social 
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social Belfast-based Photographer.
Do good, die great.
https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social Making sense of our political hell every Tues and Fri. From Podmasters UK.
Listen: https://linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod
Back us: http://patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Posts without signatures from the production team.
Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social Ex-🇬🇧diplomat. Now an 🇺🇸. Resigned over Brexit lies. Frmr Ambassdr to 🇬🇪 . Writer Byline Times. Patron, European Movement. Advisor Eurasia Foundation. Member, Commission on Political Power looking at how to strengthen UK democracy. Frazzled mom. Owner of 2 🐕🦺
The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for the journal The Space Between
Website: https://spacebetweensociety.com/home/journal/
General Enquiries: spacebetweenjournal@gmail.com
Book Reviews: spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social Env & Climate Justice Prof | Author Decolonizing Environmentalism https://tinyurl.com/3v2fysfr | Editor @environmentalpol.bsky.social | GoogleScholar https://tinyurl.com/PKGSChlr | Ex-Chair @isaess.bsky.social | Dad, Husband
Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social 
Mhairi McFarlane @mhairim.bsky.social Writer 📚romantic comedies & 🍏📺 writers room Slow Horses Series 5 ✍🏻 Meme slag. Lover of cats. Prosecco goblin. Old Hollywood enthusiast. Don’t trust me with Google Maps & we should be fine.
https://www.mhairimcfarlane.com/
@pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social https://theallgolden.bandcamp.com/
JUST Centre @justcentre.bsky.social 🌱 ESRC-funded research centre focused on sustainability transformations that are people-centred, ‘joined-up’ and socially just.
🌐 https://www.just.ac.uk/
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/just-research-centre/
e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social Author of Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life (University of Minnesota Press 2026). queer geographer extraordinaire / food systems researcher / grant writer / editor / artist
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social History, data, art, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron
🍩 www.neillcameron.com
The Phoenix comic @the-phoenix-comic.bsky.social Subscribe now & get every issue delivered to your door! Get 6 issues for £1 here 👉 http://thephoenixcomic.co.uk 
Juha Virtanen @jpvirtanen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Creative Writing | Currently working on apocalyptic feelings and the end of the world | poet and writer
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) is a legal charity in the UK that works on projects focused on protecting and promoting Palestinian human rights https://lphr.org.uk
Reposts are not endorsements. Support LPHR by becoming a member. 
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social Jisc: for the future of education and research
For more than 30 years, Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.
www.jisc.ac.uk
Alex Mace @alexmace.bsky.social Green Party City Councillor for St Stephen ward, Worcester
Co-Leader of Green Group, Worcester City Council
Published and promoted by Clare Wratten on behalf of the Green Party, both at 40 Foregate Street, Worcester, WR1 1EE
The Walrus @thewalrus.ca Award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, national ideas-focused events, and podcasts. Stay connected: http://thewalrus.ca/newsletters
LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk Offical Bluesky account for the LGBTIQA+ Greens, the queer liberation group within the @greenparty.org.uk. Co-Chairs: @melissa.green & @kathrynbristow.uk.
Promoted by LGBTIQA+ Greens (Green Party), c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Green Party Migration Policy Group @gpmigration.bsky.social The official Green Party of England and Wales’s Asylum and Migration Policy Working Group. Campaigning for a fair and humane system of migration.
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social 🍏 Green MP for North Herefordshire and leader of the Green Party MP group in Parliament. Mum, activist, optimist!
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Melissa Harker @melissa.green Green Party Cllr in Gateshead, and member of Green Party Council. @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk Co-Chair. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Gateshead Green Party @gatesheadgreens.bsky.social Join us! https://gateshead.greenparty.org.uk/
Newcastle Green Party @nclgreenparty.bsky.social Published and promoted on behalf of the Green Party, at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Alexandra Heminsley @alexheminsley.bsky.social Secondary school teacher + author, broadcaster, journalist.
Still taking commissions where time allows 🤓
📞Sophie Lambert @cwagencyuk
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social Just a man, standing in front of a social media portal...
States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Research project exploring the experiences and effects of precarious employment within UK higher education geography departments.
Supported by the Royal Geographical Society and Antipode.
www.statesofprecarity.co.uk
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
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
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
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
The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social http://www.bowensociety.com/
Michael Waldron @michaelwaldron.bsky.social curator @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social,
art historian, writer, cat dad
curious about collections, mad about modernism
my own views and musings
he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social Independent Journalist
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th