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Dr Geraint D’Arcy @gedarcy.bsky.social Lecturer in film, television, media, theatre, scenography, comics, performance, design and combos of the above.
Author of “Critical Approaches to TV and film set design” (2018) and “Mise en scéne, Acting and Space in Comics” (2020)
Marta Teperek @martateperek.bsky.social Programme Leader FAIR Data Open Science NL (part of the Dutch Research Council - NWO), researcher by training.
www.openscience.nl
Care about #researchintegrity #reproducibleresearch #FAIRdata #openscience and #collaboration instead of #competition
Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social Head of Research Services, Delft Uni Library 🇳🇱 | Open Science 🔭 | Technology 💾 | Digital Culture and Humanities 🎨
Rebecca Pinner @drrebeccapinner.bsky.social Assoc Prof in Medieval Literature. Currently researching saints, water & landscapes esp the Fens. Often up a hill. She/her.
Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social Art, design, and architecture books and catalogues are a great way of educating ourselves visually. That's why I collect these artefacts and am creating a website about them (nearly there). You can sign up for my newsletter and a list of items for sale.
Sarah Godfrey @sarahlgodfrey.bsky.social Gender and Media academic. Queer, feminist, Jewish, likes cats, chocolate and coffee.
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
Barbara Sierman @barbaraamsterdam.bsky.social Digital preservation "historian", investigating the beginnings of digital preservation.
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Dr Laura Molloy @lmhatii.bsky.social FRSA. Artist. Senior research lead @CODATA-ISC, Paris. PhD @OIIOxford & @TheRuskin; visual art, archives, open research data, digital preservation & curation. Opinions mine. 🏴🇪🇺 Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@LM_HATII
Michael Popham @mpopham.bsky.social Digital Preservation Analyst at the DPC - formerly Head of Digital Collections and Preservation at the Bodleian Libraries. Frustrated bibliophile -- with more books in my "to read" pile than I have days remaining on this earth.
Charlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social Lecturer in early medieval history at University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). Daemon takes the form of a beagle called Daisy
Co-creator @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social
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)
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Hidden REF @hiddenref.bsky.social Celebrating all research outputs and everyone involved in their creation
CATALYST Project @catalyst-reproducibility.eu CATALYST: Turning research departments into "catalysers" for reproducibility, #HorizonEurope (GA 101292942)
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
UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is a national peer-led consortium that aims to promote and enable rigorous, robust, transparent, and reproducible research in the UK.
https://www.ukrn.org/ #AcademicSky #OpenResearch #Research
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social Epidemiologist 📊 • Associate Prof at Harvard Med School & School of Public Health • Founding Director LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence • Views=own• Mom of 3 kiddos • she/her + 🏳️🌈
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
@nataliewyer.bsky.social @nataliewyer.bsky.social
Neil Grindley @neilgrindley.bsky.social Interested in digital humanities, libraries, archives, digital preservation and curation.
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social Neurospicy librarian; Doctoral hopeful (Simmons ‘30); Olympic hopeful (Brisbane ‘32). Lazy, but bad at it. DM policy: include your reason in your FIRST message. Content: obscure primary sources, #ALA. Mocking my horse, #GarbageMare.
Clarivate @clarivate.com Think forward™
Clarivate for Academia & Government @clarivateag.bsky.social Connecting the scientific and academic community to intelligence they can trust to advance a new era in research and learning.
Simon @simonxix.com 📚community-led open publishing 🐧open source developer 📽️film critic 🐦birder 🏴he/him
🔗 https://simonxix.com
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
Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Benjamin Albritton @blalbritton.bsky.social Rare books and manuscripts. Measurer of shelves.
Maciej Pawlikowski @mmpawlikowski.bsky.social Cultural Heritage & Music
https://linktr.ee/heronscreek
Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social She/her. Temporary Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Uppsala University. DH/LIS, GLAM digitization, heritage science, HPS, textual scholarship. Here for jokes & genuine community. Views my own.
Chapps @chapps.bsky.social Former tech drone, living in L.A. I now create digital reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. No, really. 🏳️🌈
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @uniofeastanglia
Scientist
Biology / Genetics / Rstats
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Tori Cann @canndo.bsky.social Feminist academic based in Norwich, UK. Interests include youth gender studies, collecting zines, laughing, challenging injustice, aimless wandering. A proud council house kid. she/her. nd.
Banner art by Jenny Holzer.
Development UEA @developmentuea.bsky.social The School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, UK. A world-leading centre for research, teaching, and practice using critical analysis. 1st in the UK for Development Studies (REF 2021)
Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social MP for Norwich South “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” - David Graeber
Conor Bollins @conorbollins.bsky.social 🎓Lecturer in Early Modern History, UEA.
📚 Historian of #18thC Political Thought.
☮ Peace Activist, CND. 🦊Brother, uncle, etc.
UEA UCU says join a union @uea-ucu.bsky.social The trade union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of East Anglia
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
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
Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.
Gam zu l'tova.
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
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!
LizC14.bsky.social @lizc14.bsky.social Former Cell biology researcher, now turned Open Research Librarian and carer. Never enough hours in the day.
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Lucy Fleming @lcf100.bsky.social
Fergus Barrowman @fergusthw.bsky.social Editor, Publisher
https://teherengawakapress.co.nz
Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog
Kate Stewart @katestew.art Professor of Sociology at the University of East Anglia.
Vegan. Feminist. Jocund old sarcasmatron.
https://linktr.ee/katestewart
If you add me to a Starter Pack, I’ll probably block you immediately.
Iain Robinson 🌳 @iainrobinson.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, and accidental activist. Trees, woods, nature, landscape, environmental matters, guitars, and fictions of all sorts, though I’ll mostly just upload cat pics and undertake academic moaning.
https://thispartysover.substack.com
Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social We publish books on Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern topics.
https://www.arc-humanities.org
Larissa Borck @larissaborck.bsky.social Digital cultural heritage & #OpenGLAM. Museum enthusiast and Wikimedian.
💼 Curator - Digital Development at Sörmlands museum
http://mastodon.social/@larissaborck
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
Joe @lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social writer and critic for the TLS, Spectator, Tribune, etc / PhD from UEA on the university and literary culture / reviews editor at Critical Quarterly
Dennis Duncan @djbduncan.bsky.social Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
Nick Thompson @suthfor.bsky.social Historian of religion at University of Auckland: Early Modern Christianity, religious violence, and religion in Aotearoa/NZ. Home brewer. Gen X dilettante. Ambulando solvitur.
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
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.
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) Professor at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats.
Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
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
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato.
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Looking into it. Chief Looker: @jenn.bsky.social
Scott Pilkington @spil030.bsky.social campanologist, museologist, science communicator, historian, anthropologist, dancer, fibrecrafter, gin drinker, higher ed specialist, bi. he/him/they/ia 🏳️🌈🇳🇿
ORCiD: 0000-0001-5497-0393
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
David Clover @davidclover.bsky.social Librarian and student services manager.
Claire Sewell @clairesewell.bsky.social Longtime librarian. Known as ces43 in a previous place. Does too much to fit into a bio. All opinions my own (she/her)
Helen Clare @helenclare.bsky.social Sector strategy specialist Jisc's HE & research strategy team. PhD candidate at CWTS Leiden.
Sporadic poster. Views my own. She/her. http://mastodon.world/@HelenClare
Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social Right then, this is the one. I'm all in.
Libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and life.
As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
LibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social LibraryThing founder. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic. I tweet books, libraries, technology, culture.
LibraryThing: @librarything.com
Chris Freeland @chrisfreeland.com Librarian at archive.org. Co-host of the Future Knowledge podcast. #DigitalRightsForLibraries
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social What's hot and cooking in Scholarly Communications. Blog from the Society for Scholarly Publishing -- account run by Editor David Crotty
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
New Zealand Houses @nzh.kolindin.com A collection of New Zealand Houses. Architectural photographic documentation since 2018.
Released as nfts on Tezos and Ethereum ecosystem blockchains.
Author: Kolin Din
Kia Ora!
🌐 https://art.kolindin.com/new-zealand-houses
School of History UEA @ueahistory.bsky.social Historians at University of East Anglia (UEA)
Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social An unofficial bot of BBC News (World).
RSS: https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml
code: https://gitlab.com/tmaehara/bluesky-newsbots
maintainer:
@tmaehara.bsky.social
Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social Wandering scholar at Open University. Digital Humanities, Book History, Comics and Thomas Moore. Irish/Italian. She/her. Views my own.
dh+lib @dhandlib.bsky.social Where the digital humanities and libraries meet. dhandlib.org