Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Futures Institute: A futures-focused space for learning, research, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social 🇱🇧 It's pronounced SAHR-uh (she/her)
🧠 AuDHD ✍ writer 🖌occasional painter 📷 amateur wildlife photographer 🐱 cat mama 🌺 vegan
🔗 http://www.sarahnourwriter.com/
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social Author, Campaigner, Broadcaster.
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social 🌱Nature 🌊
🏳️⚧️Equality ✊🏽
🐕Dogs 🐾
🧱Lego 🧩
🌍Environment 🗳️
🎶Kirsty MacColl 🪁
☕️Twin Peaks 🍩
🦄Scotland 🏴
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.
Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social Professor housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
www.fireflypress.co.uk
The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org Scotland’s anti-poverty network. With justice and compassion we can build a future free from poverty.
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social Reader & Sociology Subject Co-Lead, @UofGSociology.bsky.social University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, genocide. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/
Bev Craig For Greater Manchester Mayor @bevcraig.bsky.social Labour Party candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoralty on 30 July 2026.
Get in touch: Bev4GM@labour.org.uk
Thomas Willett @thomaswillett.bsky.social ✨ LGBTQ+ advocacy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Trans rights are human rights | Occasional gym thirst traps | All views are my own
Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
Signal: mcalladine.44
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Kris (he/him) @portlandkris.bsky.social By the sea w/ palm tree. Dons (https://www.afcwimbledon.co.uk/membership), queer, loving trans siblings & friends, welcoming migrants, LGBTIQA+ Greens (https://join.greenparty.org.uk/join-us/) Banner:Marsha P, PFP:Dons pride crest
Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social Itinerant scholar from Chicago (he/him) | PhD Middle Eastern Studies | current Humboldt Fellow at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de | former Leverhulme Fellow at @cam.ac.uk | @biajs.bsky.social award-winning author | publications: nickposegay.com
Charlotte O'Brien @cobrien.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of York (she/her). Social security; EU law; discrimination; migration; social justice.
The Dodo @the-dodo.bsky.social For animal people
thedodo.com 
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter
My Queer Heart @myqueerheart.bsky.social Wildlife photography. Social Justice Queer.
He/him. No transphobes.
Centre en études genre, UNIL @ceg-unil.bsky.social 🫧Compte du Centre en études genre de l'Université de Lausanne (CEG)🫧
🫧Official account of the Center for Gender Studies (CEG) at the University of Lausanne🫧
site : https://urlr.me/vnPHRh
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social Senior FNS Researcher @ceg-unil.bsky.social. Co-editor of “Transnational Anti-Gender Politics” (Palgrave, 2024) | Researching anti-trans clinical activisms | él/he
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54223-7
Massimo Prearo @massimoprearo.bsky.social Researcher in Political Science @UniVerona | PhD @EHESS_fr | #LGBT+ politics & anti-gender mobilizations | Emma Goldman Award 2022
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
Amanda Coleman @amandacomms.bsky.social Crisis communication consultant, business owner and author of three books on crisis, issues and reputation management. Find me at www.amandacolemancomms.co.uk
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Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social AP in Economics @BathUni • Previously: @SAFE_Frankfurt • @WarwickUni • @UniBocconi • Politics, Media & Science
https://www.eleonora-alabrese.com
Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com My specialty: government decisions on sex classification. Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Dad, dog companion, kayaker. Pieces in n+1, Boston Review, Nature, New Yorker, New York Review, Yale Review.
www.paisleycurrah.com
Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social Deaf and disabled cis queer woman. Interests in law, disability justice, cats, technology. Drinks a lot of tea.
NevereverDave.bsky.social @nevereverdave.bsky.social Cis Gay Man (T with the LGB)
Twitting since 21/03/2011
#TransAlly
#ReportHateCrimes
He/Him
Scottish GRA Reform 86 YES 39 NO & 0 Abstention's 22/12/2022
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app Just here to be on bullshit
Black//Gray Ace/Bi lesbian//Agender//AuDHD//Ancom Sex+ Feminist//♊🌞♏🌕♍🌠//"proship"//🔞
Politics, Games, Sewing, Fashion, Food, and whatever I'm into.
Hoodoo as Practice: https://linktr.ee/hoodooaspractice
Eric Clive @ericclive.bsky.social Retired law professor and law reformer. Pro EU. Anti Brexit. Pro UN, pro international law and civilised international relations. Supporter of Scottish independence in Europe for pro European, internationalist, democratic, progressive and other reasons.
Jess Asato MP @jessasatomp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Lowestoft
jess.asato.mp@parliament.uk
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Charlotte Proudman @drproudman.bsky.social Woman of the Year 2025 | Family Law | Cambridge Academic | Founder @Right2Equality. Personal account; RT/likes not endorsements.
oiko-the-beagle.bsky.social @oiko-the-beagle.bsky.social I'm a 1-year-old beagle rescued from Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin, adjusting and loving this new life of freedom with my family in the NW Chicago suburbs.
#beagle #rescuedog #ridglanbeagle #dogs #freethebeagles #endanimaltesting #labdog #dogsofbluesky
Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly Rabid Linux fan girl. IPv6 advocate. Serial opinion haver.
Proud member of the Green Menace 💚 Hope is here.
🔐 E4BE 06C4 3A99 7EC4
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Jane Ferguson @jane-thenerve.bsky.social Co-founder of @thenerve.news
Ex-Observer New Review
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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
Ian Tucker @tuckerian.bsky.social https://ian-tucker.com/
Lucia Osborne-Crowley @luciaoc.bsky.social Award-winning writer and journalist. Author of I Choose Elena (2019), My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) and The Lasting Harm (2024).
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social A magazine of political commentary, analysis, and amusements.
https://linkin.bio/currentaffairsmag
Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social IRN BRU Anarchist > Champagne Socialists.
I cant access the Chat feature, so don't bother.
they/them
Shared Future News @sharedfuture.news Stories of Northern Ireland peacebuilding #SharedFuture
sharedfuture.news
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social wannabe linguist+tutor • social meaning, semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, film, lit, animals, mental anguish • San Francisco boy —> Massachusetts man
Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org For People. For Planet. 🌍
All posts are promoted by the Scottish Green Party, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN
Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social Feminist, LGBTQ, multi-racial democracy, pro-labor, anti-nuke news & protests around the world. Intersectionality: if one of us is not free, none of us are. Politics and protest in USA (AZ), UK, EU, UKR & ME. #RESIST
(Profile Art by Favianna Rodriguez)
Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social New leadership for Wales 🏴
Arwain Cymru o'r newydd ✊
Hyrwyddwyd gan/Promoted by Plaid Cymru, Tŷ Gwynfor, Caerdydd, CF10 4AL.
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
Kat Joplin ⭐️ Le Horla Mizrahi @katjoplin.bsky.social Journalist, author, drag queen. Very Queer™️
I'm the primary English language writer covering Tokyo's drag and ballroom scenes. 🌈🌈
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Benedetta Lobina @benedettalobina.bsky.social PhD candidate at UCD Sutherland School of Law, focusing on EU & RoL⚖️🇪🇺
Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social Compte inactif. Ou pas?
Autrice Agora Toxica & La Terreur Masculiniste (Éditions @dudetour.bsky.social)
🇨🇦🇫🇷 🇦🇺🇩🇪
HP via dessinfox
Dogmum to Oliver Orson aka Olly and human of Lily the cat.
Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social Ginger Viking Librarian Trade Unionist Cricket Fan
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social For the community, by the community 🏳️⚧️
Visit | https://www.essehouse.co.uk
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social 📊🗺🗳 Poll aggregation and election analysis in Europe #EP2029
📧 contact@europeelects.eu
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Low Traffic Future @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social Our vision is a world with clean air, safe streets, vibrant communities, a stable climate and healthy natural environment for future generations.
Join us at http://lowtrafficfuture.org.uk
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social Part-time bookseller, full-time reader.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
Leslie Hills @skylinefilm.bsky.social Film producer. Book 10 Scotland Street - an opinionated history of one house over two centuries now out in paperback
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
British Pregnancy Advisory Service @bpas.bsky.social A charity providing reproductive healthcare, including abortion care, to over 100,000 women every year. We passionately campaign for reproductive choice.
https://linktr.ee/BPASlink
Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social 📷”The Aurora Guy”
🌌Space Physics Ph.D. student
📍North Pole, Alaska
🫂Participatory science, science comm.
🌀 Professional aurora chaser
👨💻Views my own
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
CPAG in Scotland @cpagscotland.bsky.social CPAG in Scotland works to end child poverty in Scotland.
cpag.org.uk
Chris Creegan @chriscreegan.bsky.social Public policy consultant, Non-executive, Runner.
www.chriscreegan.co.uk
https://open.substack.com/pub/chriscreegan
VisitBristol.info @visitbristol.bsky.social New for 2026, the digital companion for discovering Bristol's hidden gems, must-see attractions, finest restaurants, hotels and unforgettable experiences. www.visitbristol.info
Anne Trans+ Healthcare 🏳️⚧️ @annehealthcare.bsky.social Gender Affirming Care: Supporting trans+ people of all ages.
Real people. Real care. No barriers 💙 #AskAnne
🔗 www.anne.health
👕 Merch shop: https://merchify.me/AnneHealth/
Dr Jenny Andrea Thatcher @drjennyathatcher.bsky.social Former Beauty Therapist. Failed Academic Sociologist. Dyslexic.
Currently writing about my lived experience.
Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int Official account of Michael O'Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, independent, non-judicial institution promoting human rights in Europe.
https://commissioner.coe.int