Distributed System of Scientific Collections @dissco.bsky.social DiSSCo is a new world-class Research Infrastructure for Natural Science Collections. It aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, policies and practices.
Tom Shaw @shawthomas.bsky.social Library Engagement Lead for @ojcollective.bsky.social. Former academic librarian now working with libraries globally to support diamond open access publishing. Open knowledge, open research, digital innovation. And sometimes music and other stuff.
Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Open Research, University of St Andrews @standrewsopenres.bsky.social The Open Research team at the University of St Andrews provide support and advice on #OpenAccess, the journal hosting service, #ResearchDataManagement, and #OpenThesis research.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/open-research/
Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA) @ahuauk.bsky.social The representative body for senior university managers in the UK and Ireland.
Data/Culture Project @dataculture.bsky.social Building sustainable communities around tools & data in the humanities and arts @ The Alan Turing Institute (London). AHRC-funded.
https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/dataculture-building-sustainable-communities-around-arts-and-humanities
Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social A University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiative to catalyse and support projects and communities of researchers across @camunivmuseums.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social, @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social & other collections. https://www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/
Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social Plastic philosophy. Sort of famous on Twitter (X).
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social We are the Arts & Humanities Research Council programme working to enable a healthy Responsible AI ecosystem in the UK.
You can also keep up to date via our newsletter: https://braiduk.org/#newsletter
Research Consulting @researchconsulting.bsky.social Research Consulting is a specialist consultancy firm focused on research
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
Owl Daily @owldaily.bsky.social Mission is share daily Owls post 🦉.
Masterpiece Owl Photo.
Website: ohmywild.com
Shop & support animal: ohmywild.com/collections
🚫 There is No AI Image. All credit goes to Photographers.
Knowledge Equity Network @knowledgeen.bsky.social A network of global Higher Education partners focused on sharing the power of knowledge equitably to create a fairer and better world.
Co-founded by the University of Leeds and the University of Pretoria in April 2023.
Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Libraries Hacked @librarieshacked.bsky.social Libraries Hacked is a project to promote open data, to help libraries publish their data, and to showcase projects using library data. And dogs in libraries.
Tweets by Dave.
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Sean McNamara @seanmcnamara81.bsky.social Director of CILIPS, the professional body for library and information workers in Scotland
Alice Strang @alicestrangart.bsky.social Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist & Art Historian
A Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland
Photo by Alex Robson
www.alicestrang.co.uk
Please find me on instagram @alice.strang.art
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Claire Bailey Ross @clairebaileyross.bsky.social Associate Dean Academic @uniportcci | Associate Professor Digital Heritage | Museums Tech, Co-design & Audience Experience | Geordie in the South (she/her)
Anna Clements @annakclements.bsky.social Libraries, open and equitable knowledge, digital scholarship
University of Sheffield, LIBER
Views my own
Laura Van Broekhoven @prmlaurita.bsky.social Director Pitt Rivers Museum. Prof Museum Studies and Ethics, University of Oxford. New to Blsk
Anna Grigson @acgrigson.bsky.social Associate Director (Digital Strategies, Research and Engagement) at the University of Sheffield, UK. Interested in all things open research and scholarly communications. And photography, walking, and the occasional whisky.
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Wendy White @wendysotonlib.bsky.social Libraries, digital innovation, design, nature, art, photography, culture, heritage, place making.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Andrew Shore @andrewshore.bsky.social Director of Content at Art UK.
Love all kinds of music, books etc. Used to work at the British Museum.
https://artuk.org/discover/profile/andrew-shore
Lorraine Beard @lorrainebeard.bsky.social Digital Libraries, open research, digital innovation
Running, hiking, music and comedy
Cheshire/Liverpool 
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Rob Johnson @rschrobuk.bsky.social Managing Director at Research Consulting. I help universities, funders, publishers and not-for-profits manage, disseminate and deliver impact from research.
GatenbySanderson @gatenbysanderson.bsky.social We find, recruit and develop leaders that shape a better society. Public sector, not for profit and education executive search, interim leadership and leadership & talent consultancy.
Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social Co-founder of Kudos (growkudos.com - research communication showcase for broadening reach and impact of research - @growkudos.bsky.social). Scholarly Kitchen blogger. Follow me and other people in scholarly publishing: https://go.bsky.app/FanaExt
Kirsty Wallis (she/her) @kirstywallis.com Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
Carly Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Joe Padfield @jpadfield.bsky.social Principal Scientist at the National Gallery, London | Heritage Science, FAIR Data, and Digital Infrastructure | In projects like E-RIHS, ECHOES & HSDS | Focused on sustainable data, digital innovation, and the future of cultural heritage research.
Liz White @lizcwhite.bsky.social Book lover. Tea drinker. Incorrigibly plural.
Liz Jolly @lizjolly.bsky.social University Librarian, University College Cork. Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde. Hon. Professor, Teesside University. CILIP Trustee. PFHEA. FRSA. Views personal. She/.
Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://sup.ac.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/i0AoJA
Jessica Gardner @jessicagardner.bsky.social University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books. 
Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social Does digital library things at Oxford, likes coins a bit too much, visits castles cos they’re cool.
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️🌈
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz
Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Guillaume j.A. Bresso MPhil/PhD (UniGe) 🌐 @monomusbres.bsky.social French anthropologist, art historian, experienced copyist and able Latinist. He is recognized for his breakthroughs in deciphering logograms and interpreting art and iconography. @UNESCO-UNEVOC Member. Author of Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
Emma Francis @emmajfrancis.bsky.social Open Research Manager and Manager of Aberdeen University Press at University of Aberdeen. Interests include Open Research, Digital Preservation, Lego and Sci-fi- M @mcshearer.bsky.social @mcshearer.bsky.social
Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social University Librarian at the University of the West of Scotland, Doctoral Student, Historian and Photographer. Researching the impact of public libraries on loneliness and social isolation in communities. SCURL Vice Chair and Director at SUP.
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History, Smithsonian, and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener, York resident, views my own
Kristin Hussey @kristinhussey.bsky.social Historian of medicine, science and the environment. Lecturer in Environmental History at Newcastle University researching sleep and circadian rhythms. PI: The Night Shift 1850-present. Also sea swimming, museum-ing and mom-ing. Kristinhussey.co.uk
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
Dr Katy Barrett FSA @spoonsontrays.bsky.social Deputy Chief Curator & Head of Engagement @UKParliament. Vice Chair of Trustees @OldOpTheatre. #histArt #histSci #sciart. Keeper #MuseumofShadows All opinions my own.
www.spoonsontrays.com
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867- A Anna O'Neill @annaoneill.bsky.social University Librarian at the University of Warwick, Co-chair of SCONUL
Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social Director, Libraries at Arts Council England. Data, emerging tech, literacies, reading for pleasure and the joy of libraries. ‘Libraries gave us power.’ Personal views only.
Mike Jones @thatlibraryman.bsky.social Academic librarian with interests in information literacy, library marketing and the impact of AI on the research process!
Selena Killick @selenakillick.com Senior User Researcher & Strategist. PhD Researcher. Interested in evidence-led service design, institutional impact, and making research accessible.
Often found watching cricket.
Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian, National Library of Scotland
Here for the digital humanities, open research and the long nineteenth century
Jo Cornish @jocornish.bsky.social "Knowledge is justice, and all should be welcome in the temples of taxonomies". Fellow of CILIP, FRSA.
Bridges, baseball, cheese.
That's me.
Josh Sendall @jsendall.bsky.social Acting University Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection @UoLLibrary @LULGalleries & Trustee @UKSG #OpenScience #MadeByDyslexia - personal views
Iain Matthews @imm7.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of St Andrews. Freshwater fish, River restoration, Rewilding (& golf). Honorary Curator of the Bell-Pettigrew Museum of Natural History. Director of Reforesting Scotland.
Lorcan Dempsey @lorcand.bsky.social Librarian, writer, adviser. Father, emigrant, Irish.
More about me: https://www.lorcandempsey.net
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
@NickPoole1 @nickpoole1.bsky.social Chief Exec of Ukie, championing the UK video game and interactive entertainment industry. Pronouns: he/him
David Clover @davidclover.bsky.social Librarian and student services manager. 
DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research and researcher assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social ... mostly about digital preservation but also everything else too. Works for the Digital Preservation Coalition. Occasionally Professor at Glasgow Univ. Personal opinions.
William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social Deputy Executive Director of Research Libraries UK & Ireland (RLUK). Convening, Representing, Supporting, Advocating & Collaborating. Own Views.
Andrew Preater @preater.com Always-already librarianing. 🍞🌹🌹
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. 💁♂️
🦣 @preater@hcommons.social
Simon Bains @simonjbains.bsky.social University Librarian, University of Aberdeen
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/simon.bains
Open research, digital preservation, library spaces, running
Views my own. "Woke grandstanding" (conference feedback) a speciality.
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Gary Brannan @gbrannanarchive.bsky.social Acting Director of Library, Learning Services and Research Collections @uniofyork.
'Makes archives sexy.'
'International Man of History'
'A weird bird, in a good way'
All views my own.
Niamh Tumelty @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Director of LSE Library, Managing Director of LSE Press, Programme Director for LIBER Emerging Leaders. Cláirseach, gaeilge agus suathaireacht spóirt, here in personal capacity. Pronounced Nee-uv, it makes sense in Irish! Not on here much these days
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
Jackie Proven @jackieproven.bsky.social Books, art, photography, walking and foodie life in Fife. Scottish. Work in open research 
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Masud Khokhar @masudk.com Higher Education, Libraries, IT, Leadership, Digital, and Inclusion. Chief Digital and Information Officer at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masudkhokhar/ All views are mine. Love Cats & Coffee!
RLUK Research Libraries UK @rluk.ac.uk RLUK's vision is that the UK should have the best research library support in the world. #RLUK26 #RLUKICIL #RLUKDSF #RLUKSPACE #RLUKRSP #librariesXresearch
Chris Banks @chrisabanks.bsky.social Recently retired library director, somehow busier than ever being Co-Chair Besson Street Trust, soprano @LPChoir, #gardener, & continuing #OpenResearch #OA & #music interests
@klingstadt.bsky.social @klingstadt.bsky.social Director Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing @UniofYork; All views my own.