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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
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.
Edinburgh Planning Updates @ediplanningupdates.bsky.social @harryjwilliams.bsky.social
Planning bot powered by www.city-scope.co.uk
Harry Willliams @harryjwilliams.bsky.social Edinburgh mode
Www.city-scope.co.uk
SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk Here to connect with other family historians, genealogists, and people with a passion for Glasgow's past. Drop in to our Glasgow West End research centre or visit us online! Registered Scottish charity. gwsfhs.org.uk
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Katsushika Hokusai @katsushikahokusai.bsky.social Fan account of Hokusai, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
1760-1849
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
METsky 🏛️ @metsky.bsky.social Discover the treasures of The Met! The METsky bot brings you stunning public-domain artworks from the Met Museum’s vast collection curated over 151 years—thanks to their open access initiative. New post every 3rd hour. Not affiliated with The Met. 
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Remy Dean 🏴☠️ @remydean.bsky.social
Author + Artist
'This, That, and The Other' novels 📚 written with Zel Cariad
find me on Medium ➡️ https://remydean.medium.com/
linktree 🌐 https://linktr.ee/remydean
interests include film & TV, art & music, science & fantasy, 咬人猫 & 宅舞
Dinah Winch @dinahw.bsky.social Curator, historian, collector of stuff, pots, stories, museums, buildings.
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Water of Leith Conservation Trust @wolct.bsky.social Working to protect and improve Edinburgh's river, for the benefit of wildlife and our community.
A healthy river cared for by its community
Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa.bsky.social Edinburgh-based arts and culture journalist.
Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year - 2026 Scottish Press Awards.
Any views expressed are mine alone.
www.heraldscotland.com
Avalanche Records @avalanche-edin.bsky.social Shop based @ Waverley Market
Blog/shop http://avalancherecords.co.uk
https://discogs.com/seller/AvalancheWaverley/profile
Edinburgh Evening News column every Saturday
Stef Dempster @stefdemp.bsky.social Archivist. Based in Leith. Interests in history, nature, local goings on. She/her
Typewronger Books @typewronger.bsky.social A bookshop, events space, and risograph print studio in the heart of Edinburgh, run as a not-for-profit company 📚
Find us here 👉 www.typewronger.com
Boro Gallery @boro-edinburgh.bsky.social Art gallery and cafe bar located in central Edinburgh, Scotland.
Open Wed-Sun, late Fri & Sat for vinyl grooves & drinks.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boro_edinburgh/
Web: http://www.boroed.com
Scottish Opera @scottishopera.bsky.social 
Dai Fujikura @daifujikura.bsky.social Composer
www.daifujikura.com
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Meha Priyadarshini @mehapri.bsky.social Historian of early modern global connections and objects
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Nicky @japanicky.bsky.social Came to Japan for a year or two in 1994. Still here. Scottish. English school owner. 
Leonie Bell @leoniebell.bsky.social Director V&A Dundee, Scotlands design museum
Honorary Professor of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
Trustee Edinburgh International Festival
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with LambLex, @GordonBarr.scot & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
(Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0)
http://www.glasgowgardenfestival.org
Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot Buildings/heritage/tech/Muppets fan, ex-scientist.
Works @archhfund.org.uk Scotland
50% of @ScottishCinemas.org
33% of @glasgowgardenfestival.org
Also at @gordonbarr@mastodon.scot
The Hunterian @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, The Hunterian connects people with stories, individuals and ideas.
Sparklemonkey @sparklemonkey.bsky.social Glasgow girl, but ALWAYS dreaming of Japan.
Opinionated
Anxious
Adore CHVRCHΞS
BBC Radio Scotland's Gary's beard.
She/her.
In a different dimension.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Alexander O'Kane @scapegrace.bsky.social PHD candidate at Flinders University. 19th century Anglo-Japanese relations; British communities in Japan; imperialism.
Sascha R. Harnisch @saschaharnisch.bsky.social Historian focussing on early modern Japan 🌸 | University of Erfurt | Bun dad | Tea enthusiast 🌿 | he/him 🫐
Susan Dine @susandine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
Jon Kelbie @jon.bs.kelbie.scot Embarked on the adventure of my lifetime, learning to brew, studying and attempting to establish a small, sustainable craft beer brewery in rural Japan.
Dedicated dad, amateur cook, home-brewer, craft beer and single malt whisky fan.
HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊 @hokutoandy.bsky.social East Coast USA 🇺🇸 to East Asia🌏
Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture.
Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social Welcoming guests to our two teahouses and kimono studio in Kyōto. Join us as we explore Japanese culture, tea and history!
Website: https://tea-kyoto.com/
You can also find us over on...
insta: http://camellia.kyoto &
@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
Nicole Smith @drnicolesmith.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Archaeology, heritage, creativity, picturebooks, digital stuff, museums, place-based learning. 🖼️📚🏞️🌲🌿🎨👾
Jenny Brown Associates @jennybrownagency.bsky.social Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/
Ben Averis @averisben.bsky.social Botany, bryology, lichens, habitat classification, ecology, biodiversity (http://www.benandalisonaveris.co.uk/), art (http://www.benaverisart.co.uk/), music, poetry... Lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Scottish Veg Garden @realscotveg.bsky.social Writer, environmentalist & gardener. I'll be mostly posting about wildlife, growing things, and green stuff. 
Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Audrey Turner @audreyturner.bsky.social I like all wildlife, I'm butterfly recorder for VC95, Moray & Scottish co-ordinator for Garden Moth Scheme. As well as being active in BC Highland Branch, I lead the occasional botany walk for Inverness Botany Group. I do a bit of Pan-species listing too.
Ian McCall @ian-mccall.bsky.social Policy and Campaigns Officer Walking Scotland. Botany at University of Aberdeen. Scottish Environment LINK, Sustaining Dunbar, Ramblers Scotland, RSPB. Living in Fife. Likes to walk.
Reuben Singleton @bordersnaturalist.bsky.social 📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 35 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Wardie Bay Residents Association @wardie-bay.bsky.social Residents association for the 100+ householders along Lower Granton Road overlooking Wardie Bay.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures @sainsbury-institute.org Promoting top research on Japanese visual culture | Affiliated with UEA | 🎖️ Japan Foundation Award 2024 | Art, history & culture
https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
David Craig (author) @dcraig.bsky.social Author of action/adventure fantasy and Scottish Gothic urban fantasy. Published by Elsewhen Press. Repped by John Jarrold Literary Agency. he/him
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/david-craig/
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
https://unseen-japan.com/newsletter?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social-bio&utm_campaign=newsletter
Dr. Stephanie Santschi @stesantschi.bsky.social CONNECTING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL.
Working on Hokusai publication. Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Art History, University of Zurich. Japanese arts, prints and digital humanities specialist.
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Samurai History & News @samuraihistory.bsky.social News about recent historical research, media, entertainment, and info-posts about samurai history in general — from any region/language, in English.
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk Glasgow then and now
Sian Meades-Williams @sianysianysiany.bsky.social Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter 💌 Food and travel features writer🍝Yeovil Literary Prize winner 🏆 The Pyjama Myth 📖 Cats 🐾 Potatoes 🍟 she/her 💕 https://freelancewritingjobs.substack.com
Glasgow City Heritage Trust @glasgowheritage.bsky.social We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
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)
Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social Prof of contemporary history, University of Glasgow.
Mum.
Left feminist.
Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss.
Thalassophile.
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife's Best Books of 2025), Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag.
Patron #JohnClare Countryside Project, Fellow British Naturalists' Assoc. MA PGCE. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES - Waterstones Book of the Month
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: THE LAST WILD RIVER
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
‘Obscure rarity’
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer. 
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land. 
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy.
🦆🌱🚲🏳️🌈📚
themarshtit.com
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social @ionamacduff.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social Butterfly and moth enthusiast, working to conserve these lovely insects in Europe and beyond. Advisor to Butterfly Conservation Europe and author of ‘Butterflies’ published by Bloomsbury.
Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction; researcher in the environmental humanities. Based in Sheffield, lover of allotments and trees. joannaclaredobson.com
https://wreckageandshimmer.substack.com/
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social Author, birder, naturalist (he/him).
Keggie Carew 🦩 @keggiec.bsky.social BEASTLY: The Epic 40,000-Year Story of Animals & Us. (Wainwright SL 2023)
DADLAND. Costa Biog Award 2016.
QUICKSAND TALES. 'a tonic for the tortured and cursed' 2019
keggiecarew.co.uk
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she 
Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShetlandKeepsakes
https://ko-fi.com/catherinemunro
ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social Naturalist, photographer, speaker, author, conservationist. GREEN party member. Wildlife Advocate at Beth Chatto Gardens.
#BridgesNotBorders #IamEUropean
www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk
New book for @princetonupress.bsky.social...see my website frontpage