Andy Arthurππ°βπ¦ Threadinburgh 𧡠@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 π¦ ex-Cocteautriplets
Luis Villa @lu.is Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
@salonidesouza.bsky.social @salonidesouza.bsky.social Professional flossofer, expert napper, absurdity magnet, bluesky lurker. They/them; she/her; doctor/duck.
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social Currently on organizing committee of FORCE2026, Singapore, 3-5 June 2026.
I'm librarian + blogger from Singapore Management University. Social media, bibliometrics, analytics, academic discovery tech.
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor β’ Broadcaster β’ Victorian Pop Culture β’ Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds ποΈ β’ www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social Physicist at large. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist.
Spaceflight, astronomy, history of science, science fiction, & jokes thereof.
Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio.
Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
whalefact @awhalefact.bsky.social whale fact for you. Black Lives Matter. π΅πΈ
contact: whale@awhalefact.com
socials: linktr.ee/awhalefact
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@amymariemason.bsky.social @amymariemason.bsky.social 
Vera de Kok @handle.invalid The Wikimedia community's
2025 Media Contributor of the Year
https://veradekok.nl
Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social the money stuff guy
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of Englandβs places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Nothing should be inferred from the absence of unnecessary disclaimers on this profile.
WikiResearch @wikiresearch.bsky.social Mostly a placeholder until we can bring our feed of volunteer-curated Wikipedia/Wikidata/Wikimedia research news to this platform too. For full coverage subscribe to our newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social Posting about Church & State
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social Unofficial bot account posting whenever the House of Commons Library publishes new research and analysis. 
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan GΓ idhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
J. Heald @heald-j.bsky.social 
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Mythic Beasts Ltd @mythic-beasts.com Now with servers and network in six data centres in three countries. We're really good at managing Linux servers, email, websites and domains with the odd cute cat picture thrown in.
https://www.mythic-beasts.com/
https://status.mythic-beasts.net.uk/
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Carl Baker @carlbaker.bsky.social Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. Personal account for posts on stats, maps, dataviz, games, travel, and misc.
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
Paul Seaward @pseaward.bsky.social History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com 
Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays β βοΈ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
@thewikipedian.bsky.social @thewikipedian.bsky.social 
Philip Nye @philipnye.bsky.social Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk β’ Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank β’ Bilingual: π/SQL β’ Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
Anya @anyaso.bsky.social A librarian. I work at / for the House of Commons Library.
Interested in how Parliament works and how Parliament makes its work available to you. Domain driven librarianship. Something along those lines.
Wary of pragmatists.
@wisht on instagram
Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social Legal humor. Seriously.
By Kevin Underhill
Sym Roe @symroe.bsky.social Turning Python and UK elections into Democracy Club, from Stroud
https://democracyclub.org.uk/
Democracy Club @democracyclub.org.uk Creating the digital foundations to support everyone's participation in democratic life. We built http://WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk and http://WhereDoIVote.co.uk. π³
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
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Elly Platt @takeitupwearitout.bsky.social Costume maker and textile artist, working with upcycled materials to draw attention to fashion overproduction and river pollution.
www.takeitupwearitout.co.uk
Tom Morris @tommorris.org Eternally damned techno-priest heretic, curly brace balancer, and pesky citation requester.
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social At UCL, we champion #OpenScience across all disciplines. We empower our community with support in #OpenAccess, #ResearchData, #CitizenScience, and more, fostering a truly open academic culture.
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UKβs leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
β‘ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Brett Holman @airminded.org Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news β’ runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news β’ tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic β’ software engineer β’ wikipedian
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Tony Bowden @tmtm.com International political data (peppercat.org) + πͺπͺ car-free travel (current project: cycling to every public library in Harjumaa)
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
Pat @auntiepasto.bsky.social Into science, quilting, and reading. She/her
Adam Vartanian @flooey.org Software engineer at Relay. Counterculture-adjacent. Strong opinions, rarely posted. (he)
Manpreet Singh @manpreet1.bsky.social Work on global health and development strategy @gatesfoundation. Escaped doctor from the UK with a public health background. Dad to two kids. Opinions are mine (he/him)
Frith π An Odd Type of Dragon @oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social #sewing and clothing commissions, UK cargo bike life, fandom, two-mum parenting π©βπ©βπ§
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Verity @veritysp.bsky.social Librarian and nerd. Trying to keep my Star Trek posting to a reasonable level. Bi, she/her. Would strongly prefer not to be reposted.
Colleen Cheetham-Gerrard @thecolleencg.bsky.social Geeky. Comedian, sort of. Corgi wrangler. Fuelled by red wine, anger at the patriarchy and fabulous lippy. she/her
Amy / such heights @such-heights.bsky.social 
Selenay @selenay936.bsky.social Fangirl, writer, embroiderer. Reader, gamer, consumer of too much caffeine. #DoctorWho #Wangxian #DAI #DATV #JRPG fan. Queer. She/her
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Selenay
Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social π³οΈβππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏβΎοΈπ₯ Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)
fighting crime and eating marmite @twistedsoup.bsky.social Safety nerd, travel nerd, book nerd, love nerd. Not in that order. They/them.
walkthegale @walkthegale.bsky.social Writer, geek, bookworm, queer, gamer, vidder, ttrpg player, knitter, classics nerd, dinosaur enthusiast, forty-something, she/her. Always here for the femslash.
usuallyhats @usuallyhats.bsky.social "I go invisible out of sheer panic" (aroace nerd, usuallyhats pretty much everywhere, formerly shinyjenni, no dms please we're british)
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues π³οΈβππ¦π³οΈββ§οΈ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
they/them
Laura @latriviata.bsky.social elder(ish) millennial, queer femme | she/her | UK | multifandom (OFMD, star wars, star trek, avatar:tla, others) and personal posting mostly. i block mansplainers, genAI shills and unsolicited fundraising requests.
K | krfabian @krfabian.bsky.social They/them
Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she)
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