Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social Scotland Correspondent at The Guardian.
Author of Make Bosses Pay. 2x Orwell Prize nominee. She/her.
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Mélissa Cornet @melissacrt.bsky.social No Woman's Land: https://shop.nowomansland.com/no-womans-land.html
Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social How we know (agri)natures & why it matters. More-than-humans (soil, microbes, funghi), agriculture (regenerative), food (local). Environmental social scientist, Associate Prof of Trandiscipl Human-Environment Relations at Univ of Oulu, Finland.
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Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anticolonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social Science fiction writer
joe gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social // geographer
// associate professor in cultural geography
// editorial board - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
ourpower.bsky.social @ourpower.scot Fighting for a fair share of Scotland's renewable energy wealth. Community energy, energy justice, public ownership. 🏴
https://www.ourpower.scot/take-action
James Meadway @meadwaj.bsky.social Economist. Host of the weekly Macrodose podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/macrodosepod.bsky.social
Ryan Burge @ryanburge.bsky.social Teach at EIU | Research Director: For Faith Counts | Books: The Nones & 20 Myths | Pastor: ABCUSA | Graphs about Religion
Nicholas Carter @neacarter.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher, University of Oxford
‘Living Stone’ out on Penguin Viking Books in 2028
linktr.ee/neacarter
Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
Content promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Kate Nevens, both at 19b Graham Street, Ed, EH6 5QN
Nicolas Szende @szende.bsky.social Geography, science studies.
Works on the history of quantitative geography in Britain, n more broadly on neoliberal academia & the production x circulation of (geographic) knowledge.
Loves bread, hates fascists.
Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social Scott Smith is the author of “On Compost: A Year in the Life of a Suburban Garden."
Tariq Jazeel @rikjaz.bsky.social Geographer based at UCL who works on culture, politics, and space. Musings on diasporization, Sri Lanka, South Asia, and much more. coyg…
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/tariq-jazeel
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Tom Dark @darkpublisher.bsky.social Non-fiction Publisher, Manchester University Press.
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social Philosophy PhD | Toronto
Organizing in churches against imperialism. Teaching at the Institute for Christian Studies (www.icscanada.edu). Author of Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, & Liberation Theology w @mattbernico.bsky.social
Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social True freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the earth.
Co-author of Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology. (2026)
Listen to me talk every week on @themagnificast.bsky.social
All views expressed are my own
The Ferret @theferret.scot Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Prof Barbara Bompani @barbara-bompani.bsky.social Academic working on Public Religion & Int Development in Africa. Dipartimento Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali & Imprese Culturali. Universita’ di Parma, Italy
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Roys Report @roysreport.bsky.social Reporting the Truth. Restoring the Church. Christian investigative news website. roysreport.com
Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social Global environmental historian; Pacific World & Andean ethnohistorian; historian of climate & environmental sciences; scholar of all things foul and ugly, all creatures short and squat--at the University of Arizona
Karin Goodwin @karingoodwin.bsky.social Journalist |Co-editor of theferret.scot |Co-founder of Govanhill's Community Newsroom| Migration, housing, justice, people power and planet |Always up for dancin'
Brigid Lowe @brigiddooks.bsky.social Rep @PGJpublishing. Erstwhile academic now wa/ondering at large. Botanical gothic novel The Bloody Branch, based on Welsh mythology, forthcoming with Harvill Secker/Vintage January 2026.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
Paul Dobson @handle.invalid Journalist at @theferret.scot
Ben Macpherson SNP @benmacpherson.bsky.social Local, experienced SNP candidate for Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith ⚓️
Promoted by Calum Carswell on my behalf at @theSNP Gordon Lamb House, 3 Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh, EH8 8PJ ✉️
@ScotGov Minister 🏴
Former Lawyer ✏️
Optimist ➕
Internationalist 🌍
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
James Mittra @jmittra.bsky.social Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation studies, University of Edinburgh: research interests in the health bioeconomy and innovation; posts reflect personal views not those of my employer. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mittra
Calum M Ross @calum-m-ross.bsky.social Solicitor in local government // tutor at Edinburgh Law School // personal account
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Scottish Church History Society @scotchurchhist.bsky.social Society promoting interest in Scottish church history. 'Scottish Church History' journal published by EUP. Join our mailing list - eepurl.com/duJJc5
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
@kidwellj.bsky.social @kidwellj.bsky.social 
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
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/
Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social For a Scottish Socialist Republic
#AutisticLiberation
https://mohkohn.co.uk
he/him
Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk The official Bluesky for Rewilding Britain NGO 🌱 🐳
Our aim is the mass restoration of ecosystems so that nature and people can thrive.
#ThinkBigActWild #Rewilding
Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine. 
Lee Williamson @lee-emma.bsky.social Demographer, stats geek & feminist against inequality. Researcher with SLS-DSU & @scadrdata.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Jake Bendix @jakebendix.bsky.social Retired geography prof, Syracuse University. Expert on wildfire and floods, interested in everything from politics to basketball.
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
@robertdunbar.bsky.social @robertdunbar.bsky.social 
Megan MacInnes @meganmacinnes.bsky.social Sgiathanach, crofter, mum, Manager of Applecross Community Company & Chair of Community Land Scotland
Land & natural resource rights geek.
Alumni: Scottish Land Commission, Global Witness, SOAS
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
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Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive
@annachbuie.bsky.social @annachbuie.bsky.social 
Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.
Scott Hames @hinesjumpedup.bsky.social Scottish literature, politics, magazines, research policy and er, youth baseball https://hinesjumpedup.com/projects @studyscotlit.bsky.social
@transgressivenorth.bsky.social @transgressivenorth.bsky.social 
Eilidh @eilidhcarr.bsky.social 33 // Berneray, Outer Hebrides. Van adventures, drone photography, prosecco & otters 🚐🦦🥂 Owner of a little gift shop, Coralbox 🏴
Action Porty @actionporty.bsky.social Currently running a community shares campaign: https://www.bellfield.scot/buy-shares-1
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social Professor | 2026-2027 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag & The Cross; Religion for Realists; SOON: Fill the Earth and Subdue It | CV: https://tinyurl.com/mtvxvdfa
Jenny Brown Associates @jennybrownagency.bsky.social Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Esa Aldegheri @esaldegheri.bsky.social 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 - of migration, journey and integration
Leverhulme EC Fellow, University of Glasgow
𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 - of travel books and poetry
Free To Go (John Murray 2022), There She Goes (Saraband 2025)
𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗿 - migration is life
The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Kirsten Greer @kgreer18.bsky.social Historical geographer at Nipissing University, North Bay, ON. My research involves reparative work and interdisciplinary collaborations that bring together critical approaches in the humanities and geophysical sciences to understand environmental issues.
Lukas Engelmann @engelmal.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow at Uni of Edinburgh (STIS & CBSS)
Author of 'Mapping AIDS' (CUP), co-author of 'Sulphuric Utopias' (MIT)
PI at the Epidemy Lab (ERC): http://epidemy.org 
Grant Macaskill @grantmacaskill.bsky.social Lightfoot Professor of Divinity,
Durham University.
Honorary Co-Director, Centre for Autism and Theology, Aberdeen
@cpduncanson.bsky.social @cpduncanson.bsky.social 
@ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk 
Harry Smith @hcsmith.bsky.social Professor in Global Urbanism. Research & teaching for environmental & social justice. Urban planning & housing in the Global South and Scotland.
Lori Watson @loriwatson.bsky.social Musician & Researcher @ Scottish Studies UoEdinburgh | trad/folk arts performance & creativity | artistic research, ethno(musico)logy || loriwatson.net | tradmus.com
Emma Nicolson @emmanix.bsky.social Head of Visual Art @CreativeScotland, Founder director @skyeatlas Research associate @RBGE
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026