Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social Rudy Rucker is a transreal cyberpunk writer with a checkered past. See Ware Tetralogy, Complete Stories & new evil president novel Juicy Ghosts. He posts on X, Bluesky & Mastodon. Paintings at https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
Geoff Sullivan @geoff7400.bsky.social Arrived here from the other place. Formerly known as geoffsengine.
Profile sketch of Battenhall VAD hospital by Pte. F. W. Rigby, Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Geoffs Search Engine is back, updated.
http://www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/searchWW1.php
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
I write about tech, law, speech, and suicide
Jmiers@uakron.edu
Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org The official Bluesky account of the Nobel Prize.
Celebrating the work and discoveries that have had the greatest benefit to humankind.
MeowHub @dianna1993.bsky.social Cat lover sharing cute cats, funny moments, and daily meows
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com Antifascist middle-aged mall goth, making the most of her plantwitch era. Book rep: Stacia Decker at DCL; film rep: Tara Timinsky, Grandview LA. Contact - Cherie.priest@gmail.com
Our life with Lumi, the Finnish Lapphund @ourlifewithlumi.bsky.social Life as seen through the eyes of Lumi, a Finnish Lapphund in Northern Sweden (born May 5th, 2024)
David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: barrister, cross-bench peer; HL Justice & Home Aff Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-Indept Reviewer Terrorism, Prevent Commr, AFPS; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com Dog butler to Indy, Darby, & Kell. Former USMC 0341. Chicago Tavern style. You may know me from years of MSFT. Or not. Was @nerdpyle before the bad times. Eat shït, nazis
Jen @jenkt.bsky.social Geriatric millennial
tiuksueloi @tiuksueloi.bsky.social
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Schneier on Security @schneier.com An automated feed of posts from Bruce Schneier's blog. https://www.schneier.com/
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
NSIST @nsistuk.bsky.social National Signals Intelligence and Security Trust (www.nsist.org)
Chetham's Library @chethamslibrary.bsky.social Founded in 1653, we are the oldest public library in the English speaking world. This Bluesky account is for connecting with researchers and institutions.
Tolkien Society @tolkiensociety.org International fan club and educational charity promoting the life and works of J.R.R. #Tolkien, including #Hobbit and #LOTR.
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
dóchas is grá @dochasisgra.bsky.social She/her, Irish, 2 kids, 3 cats, 1 dog; many books, unfinished knitting projects, dreams and good intentions; insufficient dopamine receptors. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Janne Hämäläinen @janne.hamalainen.social Computer security architect specializing in healthcare, big data, and AI. An economist by training. I strive to understand the world and help others do the same through my volunteer work as a Rotarian.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social Threat modeling. BH Review Board. Affiliate Professor, UW. Fixed autorun. Helped create CVE.
Not sure why we're building graphs on yet another (effectively) centralized system. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Daphne's catflap @daphnethecat.com Humble mechanical servant of Daphne, powered by a Raspberry Pi
Original project: https://blog.berniesumption.com/software/daphnes-tweeting-catflap/
Updated fork: https://github.com/simonprickett/tweeting-catflap
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
University of Warwick @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Harry @cipher-challenge.bsky.social Join Harry at the National Cipher Challenge, which invites school-aged participants to put their code-breaking skills to the test every Autumn. Created by the School of Mathematical Sciences @UniSouthampton.
Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com Tech reporter / Data journalist.
I report on AI and Big Tech.
Work has appeared in Sherwood News, The Markup, WSJ, MIT Technology Review.
Aspiring 46er. ⛰️
Newsletter: https://beautifulpublicdata.com
https://jonkeegan.com
📝 Send tips: Signal: jonkeegan.73
University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl We are the University of Groningen (short: UG) (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, kort: RUG), an open academic community since 1614 🎓 www.rug.nl
Posts in Dutch and English.
Questions? Our chat is open! 📩
Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.
https://deepcuts.blog
Robert Smith @robert.thecure.com The Cure : founder & writer & singer & guitarist & : shake me up
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Alex @satisfies.bsky.social he/him. computers. cats. they know what are they are doing and they do it anyway.
Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social UNIXy Guy. He/him. Prone to shouting "PUPPY" in public.
I frequently (almost every day, in fact) give away Kindle genre books using #KindleBookGiveaway hashtag, and wrote a feed named "Kindle Book Giveaway" -- but remember bsky has hashtags now!
PJ Evans @mrpjevans.bsky.social Convince computers to do my bidding, IoT botherer, retro computing hazard at The National Museum of Computing, provider of questionable intructions in The MagPi, shows films at Electromagnetic Field.
Steven Swenson @ctigeek.bsky.social I do things to computers and I own goats.
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social Screw it, let's do it.
Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14
Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
James Whatley @whatleydude.com Snr Global Brand Strategist @ the LEGO Group (opinions own, etc). Mainly working on LEGO Games, Ninjago, and Technic. It's fun. Occasional sender of fivethingsonfriday.com. I got ❤️ for writing, gaming, and figuring stuff out. He/Him.
@abouillot.bsky.social @abouillot.bsky.social
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social Trans kiln witch™
Ceramics artist based in London
www.roseschmits.com
she/her
Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social Investor, TV Dragon, Planet Hugger and admirer of many things.
jmumax @uusilehto.bsky.social "Don't take it so seriously..."
Crypto Museum @cryptomuseum.bsky.social Crypto Museum is all about historical cipher machines, spy radio sets, covert equipment, radio direction finders, intercept, spy cameras and much, much more.
The National Museum of Computing @tnmoc.bsky.social The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is home to the world’s largest collection of working historic computers.
Frode Weierud @frode-weierud.bsky.social Retired CERN engineer seriously interested in cryptology and its history. Enjoys ham radio, code breaking, programming, reading, walking and good coffee. AKA LA2RL.
David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social AI, Mobile and IoT security, future automotive, 17th century shorthand, viticulture and sim racing. Former Chair of GSMA Fraud and Security Group.
BSides London @bsideslondon.bsky.social 📅 13 Dec 2025 | 📍 Novotel London West
Grassroots-driven security conference.
Built by the local InfoSec community, for the community.
Web: https://BSides.London
X/Twitter: https://x.com/BSidesLondon
#BSidesLDN2025
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Andrew Langstaff @cowboycoder.com Making mobile phones do cool stuff since 1996.
@peteronion.bsky.social @peteronion.bsky.social Retired (early) Software Eng. G0DZB occasionally /P on HF. Discoverer of the PI 2 Xenon Death Flash. Looks after the Elliott 803 at TNMOC
Royal Institution @rigb.org We're an independent charity connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with science.
📺 Home of the #XmasLectures
💥 Weekly science talks online/in person
🌐 rigb.org
David Abrutat @trooperabs.bsky.social Intelligence services and military historian
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhere.bsky.social CTO at the UK's National Cyber Security Center
Tilly Blyth @tillyblyth.bsky.social Executive Director, Collections and Curatorial at Imperial War Museums, Trustee @bletchleypark and Blue Plaques Panel for @englishheritage previously Director of Weald and Downland Living Museum, and ex @sciencemuseum
Joel Greenberg @joelgreenberg.bsky.social Historian researching the use of signals intelligence in the 20th century. Authorised biographer of Alastair Denniston and Gordon Welchman.
Tony Comer @tonycomer.bsky.social Former Departmental Historian at GCHQ.
Uncle Joe @sydseter.com Co-leader OWASP Cornucopia. If you like what we do for open source, visit our code repository https://github.com/OWASP/cornucopia and give us a star ⭐
🌈 «Difference is of the essence of humanity» 🦄 – John Hume
#appsec #owasp #cornucopia #threatmodeling
Samantha E Thompson @harchivist.bsky.social Brit-Canadian archivist-librarian, government records and local history museum staffer, trad-classical musician, post-academic philosophy PhD (on Augustine), and other hyphenated things. Can't help it: so much to learn.
The Way Computers Were @computerswere.bsky.social Skeeting retro computer culture
🦩Bob🦩 @bobblakley.bsky.social Astros fan, photographer, identity, security, and privacy guy, flamingo aficionado.
Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com Developer of Internet protocols, especially cryptography.
Builder of daleks.
Woke Pride
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social Boffin, flâneur, ailouroboskos. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Calm the FUD down
Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Simson Garfinkel @simson.net Dr. Simson Garfinkel researches and writes at the intersection of AI, privacy, and digital forensics. He is a fellow of the AAAS, the ACM and the IEEE. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at MIT and a Master of Science in Journalism at Columbia.
Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy. New net.wars posting every Friday at https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net. Based London. Folksinger. 2024 CD: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/lasttriphome.htm. Not age-verified here; no DMs.
Cambridge Computer Science @cst.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University Computer Science & Technology Department (aka the Computer Lab). We built the UK's 1st usable programmable computer, offered the UK's 1st Computer Science degree, created the 1st ever webcam - and continue to advance the field today.
Information Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social We are one of the largest academic information security groups in the world, combining expertise in research, education and practice.
Check out our website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/information-security
OS-SCi.com @os-sci.bsky.social OpenSource Science B.V., the open source education institute. https://os-sci.com
Right to Repair Europe @r2reurope.bsky.social 🛠️ We're a coalition advocating to remove barriers to repair our products, so they can last for longer and we can reduce waste. Join us! 🔗 repair.eu
#RighttoRepair #Repair
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Openwrt @openwrt.bsky.social
Geoff Heys @gheys.bsky.social Technology Consultant (retired)
David Barnard-Wills @dbarnardwills.bsky.social Political scientist working in emerging tech regulation. Privacy, ethical AI and responsible innovation. PhD. AIGP. Manchester UK
Nick Bee @nickbee22.bsky.social
@the-drift.bsky.social @the-drift.bsky.social
F1Documents @f1docs.bsky.social Automatically posting F1 documents from the FIA.
@F1Documents on the other site
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Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696