Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💜 ♾️ AuDHD | Monotropic | Neuro-affirming Autism advocate & consultant.
Interests: monotropism, flow, burnout & neuroqueer theory.
Writer • Trainer • Resource Creator | Former SEND EY/Primary teacher ♾️ 💜
https://www.autisticrealms.com/
Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @brunelucu.bsky.social Brunel University Branch of UCU - fighting compulsory redundancies
Polly Rose BFE @theflyingeditor.bsky.social Film editor ✂️ 🎞️ PhD research: Buster Keaton’s film editing & creative process
📽️🍿Presenter and/or programmer of film screenings📍Bristol, UK
HQ: https://bit.ly/m/theflyingeditor
Dustofftom @dustofftom.bsky.social Me, cis, male, extremely happily married! American=SUPPORTER OF ALL COMMUNITIES PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS! 🦋🦋💙🏳️🌈Ukraine BLM NO DMs!
100% disabled veteran.Retired public health professor, Medevac pilot in Vietnam. Live in dark, very dark red state, OK!😢
James Miller @jtmmiller.bsky.social Philosopher based at Durham University. Primarily work on topics in metaphysics and ontology, and the philosophy of language and linguistics. https://sites.google.com/site/jamestmmiller/home
School of Science @marketingscience.bsky.social
@balorseye.bsky.social @balorseye.bsky.social
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Sophia Woodman @sophisteria.bsky.social She/her. Interdisciplinary tourist, gardener, now-settled nomad, committed to building real solidarity across difference through unions and other forms of bottom-up organising.
Views my own, not representing my branch or uni.
Member of UCU Commons.
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
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.
UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social Official account of the Newcastle university branch of the university and college union
Théo Bourgeron @theobourgeron.bsky.social Apologetic academic
Researching health, financial capitalism, the far-right at the University of Edinburgh
Dr James Hickey 🌋🇪🇺 @jameshickey77.bsky.social Volcanologist 🌋 | Geophysicist | Associate Professor @ Uni of Exeter, Dept Earth & Environmental Sciences | SciComm & Outreach | 🏃🏼♂️🏑🚴🏼♂️🧘🏼♂️🤸🏄🏼♂️⛷🧗🏼♂️
@meganebirney.bsky.social @meganebirney.bsky.social
James Rodgers @jmacrodgers.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Fellow Royal Historical Soc. Linguist.
Editorial Adviser, History Today.
Ex correspondent in Moscow, Brussels, Gaza.
New book, The Return of Russia, out now.
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270815/the-return-of-russia/
@jonh6031769.bsky.social @jonh6031769.bsky.social Biker, runner, mathmo, skanker
Elizabeth Simon @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social Political socialisation, attitudinal formation & electoral behaviour.
Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Chris Cocking @chriscocking.bsky.social Social Psychologist interested in crowd behaviour, mass emergencies, pandemics, collective resilience, social influence, public messaging & media/social discourse. No unsolicited DMs please
Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social I like ponies🐎, books📚, archaeology🏺. Mediocre rider, unfocused reader and currently studying for MA Archaeology at University of Reading (p/t mature).
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Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram).
Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Bunker One @greysku11.bsky.social I never agreed to any of this....
Dr Mike Beer @mikebeer.bsky.social Classicist:likes Elagabalus,cultural hybridisation,Caravaggio & Brutalism.Assoc. Lecturer,OU;Hon Research Fellow,Exeter.Trainer & coordinator, Classics for All.
Sean Wallis @seanawallis.bsky.social Socialist, corpus linguistics researcher at UCL, UCL UCU secretary, NEC member. Personal capacity. Repost ≠ endorsement
Blogs about CL/statistics at https://corplingstats.wordpress.com
Stood for election for UCU VP in 2026, see https://seanwallis.uk
Dr Beth Mills @drbethmills.bsky.social Learning Developer & Library Information Assistant in #HE.
Research background: scientific knowledge, evidence & authority in Victorian popular fiction & culture.
Annie Ocean Bennett @annieoceanbennett.bsky.social She / they
Educator, activist, Exeter Pride volunteer coordinator, NEU assistant secretary, writer, lover of life...
Ron Orlowski @rjorlowski1.bsky.social Hippie from 60’s Independent voter posting to help save our Democracy for my 9 grandchildren. 🙏🙏🙏💙Climate Change is here NOW
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social “Hyper-woke academic with blue hair” (GB News) • He/him • Join a union! • Mostly dogs • Occasionally music theory, musicology & queer studies • Trade union rep
Dr Hayley Gibson @hayleyandthecomet.bsky.social Legal academic with a cat. Legal theory|philosophy of history|memory and archaeology
- UCU rep for OULS
- Web content for Legal Humanities Association legalhumanities.com
- feminists@law
- criticallegalthinking.com
Views my own
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
Mike Rowe @mikerrowe.bsky.social Academic. Ethnographer of street-level bureaucrats and discretion, most recently police in particular. Liverpool.
Even Allen @thatlooksqueer.bsky.social They/Them
May/Hem
Art writer and critic “Unforgivingly Queer as fuck” Sacha Coward. Intersectional activist. Epileptic. Botherer. Flaneur. Lefty.
Treat me
https://monzo.me/stevenallen28?h=D14rnP
UCU Hallam @ucuhallam.bsky.social
Catarina Thomson @catarinathomson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Exeter, UK. Winner of the ‘Whose Lecture is it Anyway’ Comedy Improv trophy!
UCU University of Kent branch @ucukent.bsky.social UCU University of Kent
Fighting for a better Higher Education - staff working conditions are student learning conditions.
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/ucuuok/
https://www.instagram.com/ucu.kent?igsh=MWRuZnZ5Y3k1ZXlhNQ==
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile) @amberflood.bsky.social History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution.
I won't bore you with my other interests.
She/her
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The Surrealist Fridge @surrealistfridge.bsky.social Self-parody non-prof account. In Memoriam The Surrealist Fridge 1988-1989. Donnington Bridge Road.
I do railway metaphors to ‘describe” AI, much to my disappointment
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia at Exeter. Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of migration, caste, and indenture.
Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social Tweets by members of the University of Leicester branch of the University and College Union trade union.
LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social Professor, Vascular Biologist, Former President British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society, Co-Chair Interdisciplinary Partnership on Health Inequalities and Race, Past President UoNUCU.
Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social Cardiff UCU branch account. For member inquiries, please email UCU@cardiff.ac.uk or phone the office on 02920 874443
Website: cardiffucu.org.uk
@cornwallhistory.bsky.social @cornwallhistory.bsky.social
Exeter Observer @exeterobserver.org Local news that matters. Independent, investigative, in the public interest. Subscribe free: https://exeterobserver.org/subscribe. Upgrade to paid: https://exeterobserver.org/upgrade.
www.exeterobserver.org
Charlie Wesley @gamelyn1327.bsky.social History, Churches, Games. Roughly in that order. Somewhat academic adjacent. Heavy Metal Is the Law. (he/him)
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval+medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Dr. Ellen Bauerle @bauerle.bsky.social 🏺Executive Editor, Univ. of Michigan Press. My UMP colleagues are all people, no bots. Views my own. #AAACC #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky
Tommaso Sabbatini @tommsabb.bsky.social Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.
(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
Marta Caravà @martacarava.bsky.social Philosopher writing about mind, memory, emotions, social norms, and justice. Pronouns: She/her.
More at https://martacarava.weebly.com/
@p-challenor.bsky.social @p-challenor.bsky.social
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social Oxford Law Research Admin, dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social Community psychologist; grandmother; educator; facilitator; mentor; ex-director DClinPsy Exeter & Plymouth; Playback actor; XRPsychologist; climate; poetry; childhood; politics,health, death. Roots in NE England; Devon.
York College UCU @yorkcollegeucu.bsky.social We represent and support @ucu.org.uk members at York College. Staff working conditions are student learning conditions.
David Wyatt @davidwyatt.bsky.social Sociologist at Aston University
UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social The trade union for staff at the University of Glasgow.
📥 : ucug@glasgow.ac.uk
https://glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/
Andrea Raimondi @raimondiand.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. Previously
UniofExeter. Mostly metaphysics.
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
@nickjmoberly.bsky.social @nickjmoberly.bsky.social
Melissa @missycurtis.bsky.social
Ann-Str-Dav @annettestrdavey.bsky.social Siarad Cymraeg ...
... Science runs on good Data.
Germany runs on Excuses.
2026.
& tief im Westen 😊😍🎧🎶🎶
https://www.uni-wh.de/forschung/uwh-forschungsdatenmanagement
Oxford Brookes UCU @brookesucu.bsky.social Oxford Brookes Branch of the University and College Union (UCU). Find us online at: https://oxfordbrookes.web.ucu.org.uk/
Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social Associate Prof of International Relations, Uni of Exeter. EUCU Vice President and Penryn campus rep. Researches participation, governance, knowledge production, Eurasia. Cyclist. Junglist. Tea obsessive. Constantly restless. Green 🌱
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
Julia Frost @jufrost.bsky.social Associate Professor Health Services Research, University of Exeter
Esme (she/her) @esmegrace31.bsky.social Archives MA student
Broadside ballad and trad folk enthusiast
Big fan of the sea!
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Sussex UCU @sussexucu.bsky.social The union for academic and professional staff at the University of Sussex, including IDS and ISC sub-branches.
Generic white guy SysAdmin @westbynoreaster.bsky.social #HPC #SysAdmin & aspiring #DevOps headed to Charlotte in the new year. #dHTC evangelist, and labor history nerd. #BLM! Opinions my own. he/him
Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com political philosophy, social epistemology, anarchy, sometimes charts 📈 | PhDing @LSEGovernment | he/him
yusufimaadkhan.com/watermelon- M multimimetica.bsky.social @multimimetica.bsky.social
Emmylou Rahtz @emmylourahtz.bsky.social Research Fellow @ecehh.org. Health inequalities, the natural environment, mental health and wellbeing, creative methods.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24545-emmylou-rahtz
Eleanor M. Townsend @emtownsend.bsky.social Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences (Microbiology),
Co-chair of the University of Exeter Staff LGBTQ+ Network,
Co-host of (Un)Serious Science Podcast,
(she/they)
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Anna Bortolan @annabortolan.bsky.social Philosopher working on emotions, mental health, and the self. Senior Lecturer at Swansea University.
Education Choices Magazine @edchoicesmag.bsky.social An award winning magazine that explores the choices available to children, families and young people in the UK.
Devon Development Education at the Global Centre @devondeved.bsky.social Working with schools and communities to help people of all ages understand the big issues in the world and their involvement in them; make links with the ‘global village’ within and outside Devon; and work together for a more just and sustainable world.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Ben Vince @prettywittyandgay.bsky.social PhD student researching queer retreat, ecological loneliness, and erotic idiorrhythmy (Uni of Bristol) 🌿
Poet and performer (of foul deeds) 🔮
Eleanor @eleanorclair15.bsky.social Undergraduate at Exeter University studying History & Theology 🌱
Gemini ☀️ & Capricorn 🌜
The UCU branch at De Montfort University Leicester @ucudmu.bsky.social Defend DMU!
ucu@dmu.ac.uk
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Judith Sawyer @judsawyer.bsky.social Red/Green politics, Feminism♀️🇪🇺 amateur operatics, Dr Who, skeptical interest in paranormal. Reluctant atheist.
Direct messages not in use as I don't want to do third party verification.
Loughborough University UCU @lboroucu.bsky.social Loughborough University UCU (University & College Union) Branch. Posts by Committee Members and Branch Staff.
@mariaakr.bsky.social @mariaakr.bsky.social All things nerd culture and books. Post-doctoral researcher and teaching fellow in Modern Greek Literary Studies, scientific associate in DH projects. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-340
Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social Philosopher of dinosaurs, broadly construed
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Lucie Mingmei Hao @luciemingmeihao.bsky.social Web, research and design | Research IT Developer at @dhlabexeter.bsky.social at University of Exeter. Digital Humanities, open source tools, digitised research materials and more.
Cover image: https://connectinglateantiquities.org/index.html
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Hawkmoth_🐛 @hawkmoths.bsky.social 🌻 Primary Science Specialist
❤️ Lecturer in Education
🥼 Mother of a little scientist
🧭 Views are my own