Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Laura Porro @laurabporro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Anatomy at UCL. Investigating form and function of living and fossil animals. Occasional musings on gardening, food and travel.
Jazmine Miles Long @ethicaltaxidermy.bsky.social Taxidermist, Artist & Sculptor since 2007. Only working with animals that have died from natural causes. Working with museums, galleries and universities throughout the UK and internationally. Qest scholar and Art Workers Guild ‘Brother’
The Hunterian @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, The Hunterian connects people with stories, individuals and ideas.
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
wetconservatrix (Claire Smith) @wetconservatrix.bsky.social PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant (AFHEA) at the Cole Museum of Zoology. (She/her)
Talk to me about Things In Jars!
(Particularly if they're in propylene phenoxetol or liquid paraffin!)
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Emma Murphy @zoologicallady.bsky.social Curator of Zoology at The Dead Zoo, aka National Museum of Ireland - Natural History.
NatSCA Trustee. Naturalist 🦉 fan of all things ornithological, tea/Guinness/whiskey. Own views.
ElaineShaughnessy @elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
@gina-douglas.bsky.social @gina-douglas.bsky.social 
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Lucy Waitt @lucywaitt.bsky.social Interim Curator at UCL Art Museum. museums, arts, books. gardening and nature, She/her. Views my own.
Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social Curator at a national museum. Recovering academic and sporadic user of this site. Views my own. 
Rachel Jennings @rachisaurus.bsky.social Professional animal nerd. Museum curator. Autistic. Lover of kitsch. Queer. She/her.
Gareth Fabbro @fitzgabbro.bsky.social Volcano lover and lecturer in igneous processes at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Lived in: 🏴 🏴 🇫🇷 🇸🇬 🇫🇯 🇵🇭 🇧🇪. Studied volcanoes in: 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇵🇬 🇵🇭
Tiber F.M. Falzett @ampiobaire.bsky.social Head of #Folklore | #Béaloideas @ UCD (e/sé/he). Co-Ed Folk Life. #Gàidhlig agam. #Bagpiping. #Birding. Ethnographies of communication, the more-than-human, natureculture, endangered languages. 🍁-ach thar lear ag baile san Oileán Epekwitk 🌊
Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social Historian, curator, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
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)
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Colin McCarthy @colinmccarthy.bsky.social Science, Reptiles, Music, Ireland
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
Kate Barker @katebarker.bsky.social Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Danny Anduza @paleontologizing.bsky.social Dinosaur paleontologist and full-time science communicator, streaming LIVE at twitch.tv/paleontologizing
Dr Rebecca Bennion @calymeneblue.bsky.social Palaeontologist working in a local history museum 🖼️ collections (of all kinds), curation, and community engagement 🐬 PhD on whales and marine reptiles, now also working on sharks and cave archaeology
Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social Research Support & Special Collections Librarian at UCL IOE. Also Canadian & a lapsed musician. Researching teachers, interwar, eugenics and imperialism. #HistEd #EduSky #LibrarianSky https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48571-naz
Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex @gswrites.bsky.social Pop science writer/editor consultant for hire, specialising in astronomy and its history. Regular nerd with @somethingwho.bsky.social
Dr. Katie D'Amico-Willman @k8iebird.bsky.social Postdoc @ NC State, phage ecologist, genetics lover, practicing scientist, dog/cat mom, gardener, knitter
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Alice Vernon @alicevernon10.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. NIGHT TERRORS (Icon 2022). GHOSTED (Bloomsbury Sigma 2025). Writes about ghosts, the paranormal and spooky sleep. Represented by Donald Winchester at Watson, Little.
Simon Pooley @s-pooley.bsky.social Lambert Reader in human-wildlife coexistence. Into crocodiles, wetlands, okapi, wildfires, guitar music, diversity & just getting along.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Lisa @linguisticstitches.bsky.social An account for my cross stitch stuff.
She/her
Arcane Bullshit @arcanebullshit.bsky.social Profane nonsense for a trivial lifestyle.
arcanebullshit.com for physical bullshit.
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.
SUE the T. rex 🦖 @suethetrex.bsky.social That’s Specimen FMNH PR 2081 to you. they/them
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social art nuisance, mean little dyke, phd student. I do stuff on memory, haunting, colonialism, whiteness, horror and visual culture. Uncomfortable Art Tours (2017-20), The Whole Picture (2020), Historical Friction (2020-)
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social 🦖 Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (charity no. 1165231)
Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues + the Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park
📧 info@cpdinosaurs.org
https://linktr.ee/cpdinosaurs
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Carolyn Thompson (Summers) @gibbonresearch.bsky.social Interdisciplinary PhD on human-gibbon interface | Primatologist | Conservation consultant | HE Lecturer | Mama | Loves mountains and karaoke
W: www.thompsoncarolyn.com
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-thompson-007316140?originalSubdomain=uk
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
Liz Smith @lizsmith.bsky.social Digital curator for 19th century science collections, Cambridge University Library. Love food, drink, immersive theatre, culture in general. Attached to many fandoms.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social An international Zoological journal covering systematic & evolutionary research from species both alive and extinct 🐆🦋🪲🦇🦕
Homepage: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean
Blog: https://www.linnean.org/news/categories/the-paper-trail
John Jackson @johnjacksonnathist.bsky.social Natural History Museum London science and humanities research, collections, laboratories and libraries - Head of Science Policy and Communication - own views - 🦇🐝🦂🐞🦖🦀🦒🌳🍄🌎☄️ &c
#NHMLondon #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon
#NHMScience
Kris Helgen @khelgen.bsky.social Scientist. Personal account.
American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org Official page of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Open daily, 10 am–5:30 pm.
https://linktr.ee/amnh
La Brea Tar Pits & Museum @tarpits.org TEMPORARILY CLOSED. The Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research at La Brea Tar Pits will reopen in 2028.
🐾 http://linktr.ee/thelabreatarpits
Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social The largest museum in Canada - we showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Zoë Simmons @pselaphacus.bsky.social Head of Life Collections @ OUMNH
Collections Manager of Arachnida
President of BENHS 2024-25
Entomologist, Arachnologist, Natural Historian, Museum and Collections Nerd
All views my own
Dublin's Dead Zoo @dublindeadzoo.bsky.social Behind the scenes at Dublin's Dead Zoo. Unofficial account, run for fun. Opinions are personal, not those of the National Museum of Ireland.
Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Come on in and explore 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history, from meteorites and mountains to dinosaurs and diamonds. Free, no booking required
sedgwickmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social Zoology up-close. Revealing everyday wonders from a simple wildlife pond.
📚 Author of Infinite Life, MEGA and more.
🎙️ BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
ZooMu Network @zoomunetwork.bsky.social The Zoo Museum Network (ZooMu) seeks to build a lasting network of biological collections staff who are equipped to work across living collections in zoos and aquariums and preserved biological collections in natural history museums.
www.zoomunetwork.org
Dr Lu @drlumusetti.bsky.social 🐝🦋🐞 Museum Curator. Ally 🏳️🌈 Opinions my own. I post pictures of insects.
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History @ummnh.bsky.social 🦣 ummnh.org
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–4pm 
Museum of Natural and Cultural History @uomnch.bsky.social Oregon's science and culture museum. Located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. State repository for archaeological and paleontological artifacts.
@mnch_uo on Instagram and @uo_mnch on TikTok.
Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.
[🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳]
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things- T TenMinJoe @tenminjoe.bsky.social
@poison-ivy42.bsky.social @poison-ivy42.bsky.social 
Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social #Behavioural #ecologist; Prof; UCL; weakness for #wasps. Actually, it’s not a weakness.. #Wasplove. Author Endless Forms: Why we should love wasps. http://tinyurl.com/UKwasps #Evolution #Naturewriting #Scicomm #sociality #Genomics
Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social Scientist @ Natural History Museum London. Senior Editor Methods Ecology & Evolution. Biodiversity, macroecology/evolution, R, PCMs, comedy, theatre, books, fun animal facts. she/her https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6w4ihPqk5_LOTuw-VhlaqEn1CctPqWGB
Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social Professor of Invasion Biology at UCL. Amateur father, birder, moth-er. Mainly post wildlife photos, occasionally science and politics. Author of The Jewel Box, winner of the ZSL Clarivate Award for Communicating Zoology.
Dr Beulah Garner @beetlequeen.bsky.social Entomologist. Curator of Polyneoptera at The Natural History Museum, London. Ground beetle evolution and taxonomy in the Vogler lab https://www.site100.org
Chair at Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland colsoc.org
Paolo Viscardi @paoloviscardi.bsky.social Keeper of Natural History at the National Museum of Ireland, based at the Dead Zoo in Dublin. Blogger at paoloviscardi.com
This is my personal account. 
Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social Dr of Zoology
Data Scientist
Science feed co-creator
NYT bestselling author of #DoesItFart🐢💨
Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Chief Scientific Adviser @ Defra, practitioner of healthy coding-fieldwork balance, human and dog mom, she/her, On-juhlee, not On-jolly
Nadine, Hunter of Rocks @nadwgab.bsky.social Geologist | Mineralogy Curator @ the Natural History Museum, London | Creator of #365Minerals & #AreYouSiO2 | Views are my own | She/Her | 🌈💎
Posts about: #minerals #museums #geology #fossils #science
Geology memes: #GeologistProblems
🐘 mas.to/@NadWGab
Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com Science writer, editor and author | Queer animals, birds and embroidery | he/him | ✏️🌱🦦 | joshlukedavis.com
Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social I'm a Palaeobiologist working on #dinosaur evolution and #phylogenetics (🏳️🌈bi). 🇲🇽
Advocate for #decolonisation in palaeo and STEM (he/him).
ORCID: 0000-0002-6247-6181
Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social What is your city built from? This account is all about building and decorative stones and accessible geology in the built environment. londonpavementgeology.co.uk
https://www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
https://linktr.ee/tetzoo
Amanda Callaghan @acallazoo.bsky.social Invertebrate zoology prof. Curator of Cole Museum of Zoology, Uni of Reading. Posts NH museums, Cole stuff, natural world, my garden and my research.
www.reading.ac.uk/ecology/staff/amanda-callaghan
https://collections.reading.ac.uk/cole-museum/
Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social Co-lead of the Biodiversity Futures Lab and PREDICTS project at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College in London, UK. Working for a nature-positive future with an ADHD present. Views my own. He/him.
Marc Jones @marcehjones.bsky.social Curator, fossil reptiles and amphibians, at Natural History Museum London UK. Honorary positions at UCL and University of Adelaide. #tuatara 🦎 #Cymraeg He/Him
Orcid: 0000-0002-0146-9623
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social The Florida Museum of Natural History inspires people to care about life on Earth. Located on the University of Florida campus, we are also the state museum.
Black in Natural History Museums @blackinnhms.bsky.social Black in Natural History Museums Week is an initiative to share the stories, perspectives & knowledge of Black people in the NHM community.
🔗: wlo.link/@blackinnhm
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/