Claudia Chender @claudiachenderns.bsky.social Leader of the Nova Scotia NDP and MLA for Dartmouth South.
Daniel Sandí @danielsandi.bsky.social PhD in Social Sciences. Policy & Research Analyst. Workers' rights advocate, fiction reader, aspiring writer. Based in Halifax, NS
SL Doiron @stacydoiron.bsky.social Queer, genderqueer, worker, older student, late diagnosed autistic + adhd (they/them or she/her or whatever—just not ‘lady’). Wind chimes and nor’easters.
Sam @smknigh.bsky.social Ecologist, #nativeplants gardener (joinhortus.com/g/Sam), and urban cyclist in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). Climate action NOW.
(she/her/elle)
Scott @papasays.bsky.social Bikes and other things
Death Cab for Cutie @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social New album 'I Built You A Tower' out now on Anti Records. 2026 World Tour on sale now. deathcabforcutie.ffm.to/ibyat
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat
Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social
Attack Librarian @attacklibrarian.bsky.social Personal account for Cleveland attorney interested in learning Japanese, photography, and running.
Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
Ocean Frontier Institute @oceanfrontier.bsky.social Bringing together researchers, industry and government to solve complex ocean problems. Led by Dalhousie University.
💻 https://www.ofi.ca/
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Stephen Archibald @cove17.bsky.social Did you notice that?
CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org Explore our universe. Map other worlds. Put science in your brain. Home to Escape Velocity Space News, AstronomyCast, 365 Days of Astronomy. Support indie science journalism & community science at patreon.cosmoquest.org
Melanie @meloc.bsky.social Momma 👧🏻👧🏻 Wife. Fur mom 🐕🐹
Hairstylist 💇🏼♀️💇🏻♂️ Plant🌱yoga🧘♀️reading 📘lover.
Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Kindness always 🥰
Dead In Halifax @deadinhalifax.bsky.social Gravestones, memorials and burial places on Canada's East Coast.
Buy the book: https://tinyurl.com/y3sy9j8z
Madiha Mughees @mmughees.bsky.social Halifax Examiner Reporter
Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Nicole Munro @nicolemunro.bsky.social Journalist | Deputy managing editor, The Chronicle Herald.
📍Halifax, N.S.
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Sean @seangorman.bsky.social Saint John NB. School principal, husband, father, Penguins, Steelers, Blue Jays.
Halifax Shipping News @hfxshippingnews.bsky.social Reporting on the comings and goings in Halifax Harbour Since 2008. Twitter Refugee. Russian warship , go fuck yourself🇺🇦
Nick Piers @nickpiers.bsky.social Middle aged Halifax dude who loves biking, yoga, comics, and an assortment of other nerdy stuff.
Currently trying to push through imposter syndrome and get back into writing after a years-long hiatus.
WEBSITE/BLOG: www.nickpiers.com
Pronouns: he/him
Sara the Digital Archivist @sdaythomson.bsky.social No bit left behind 💚 (only preserved or deleted)
@harbourdiscourse.bsky.social @harbourdiscourse.bsky.social train good, ride bikes, have fun, he/him
Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series 🔮🕯️
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼♂️📚
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more
www.ostertag.substack.com
www.leeknoxostertag.com
🚫AI
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Woozles Children’s Bookstore @woozlesbooks.bsky.social Canada’s oldest children’s bookstore
A Place For & About Children
https://www.woozles.com
https://atlanticbooks.ca/NSloyal
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Halifax Transit @hfxtransit.bsky.social Official account for Halifax Transit.
Call 311 or email contactus@311.halifax.ca for customer service. Visit our website at: halifax.ca/transit
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Aubrie McG (they/them) @aubriemcg.bsky.social Chronically curious | data loving | public servant | settler | policy nerd | civic tech | GSP owner | canicross | cyclist, Zwift > roads bc I like being alive | DIY ethos
Darrin White 🌻🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻🏳️🌈 @darrinwhite.bsky.social Dad, ally, fiercely anti-fascist, Access and Privacy Investigator, printmaker, community volunteer, settler in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. My posts are my own & do not represent the Government of Nova Scotia. Living with Granulomatosis with polyangiitis, 🇨🇦 #Halisky
Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency @hfx-fire.bsky.social Official account for Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency, the oldest fire department in Canada. Not monitored 24/7. Call 911 in an emergency.
@salvatoreshfx.bsky.social @salvatoreshfx.bsky.social 
Andy Bowers @evilpez4.bsky.social AndyVent.ca Calendar Wrangler
Recovering Hamburger Helper addict
@evilpez4 on Insta, TikTok, Threads & X
Dr Gillian I Leitch @gilliandoctor.bsky.social Historian, writer, artist, genealogist, popular culture - Co-Chair SFF PCA - Views are my own :) (Identities, 19C QC & ON, immigration history, Science Fiction - Doctor Who, etc)
@leslieweir.bsky.social @leslieweir.bsky.social 
Michael Marlatt @michaelmarlatt.bsky.social PhD, Author, Film Archivist, Archival Producer, Archival Accessibility Consultant
Association of Canadian Archivists @archivistsdotca.bsky.social The Association of Canadian Archivists represents archivists across Canada. Our mission is to provide leadership & community.
www.archivists.ca
Hannah Main @hannahmain.bsky.social Social scientist interested in questions about rural life in Atlantic Canada. Based on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.Trying not to take any of this too seriously!
Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social An independent Halifax city hall newspaper. An actual paper. Available weekly on Mondays, starting May 5, 2025. Check us out online at www.grandparade.news
Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social Won AGT15 Canada,3rd SOYTYCANS16, Coast Awards 2012-24, Profiled in Wall Street Journal & CBC, Wayne Knight stand-in, Canadian National Ed Wood Trivia Contest champion. Failed Politician. Host some cons He/him
John DeMont @coalblackhrt.bsky.social I am a writer of books and articles based in the luminous province of Nova Scotia in the wonderful country of Canada, where I write columns for Halifax’s Chronicle Herald.
Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social Health & Transformative Justice
Radical pedagogy & creative methods
Sociology Prof.
Suburban Dad.
www.ourpublicsafety.ca
www.imaginingfutures.ca
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love
Niki Jabbour @nikijabbour.bsky.social Author of 4 best-selling vegetable gardening books including The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener
Radio host
https://youtube.com/@nikijabbour
SavvyGardening.com.
Halifax, NS
Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com Perfect Tides - http://tinyurl.com/vbf9wzab
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - OUT NOW! https://tinyurl.com/34f4m9jy
Comics @ http://www.octopuspie.com
ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social 
Nocturne: Art at Night @nocturnehalifax.bsky.social Experience Kjipuktuk/Halifax transformed by artists 🌚✨ Nocturne: Embodied City, Curated by Annalise Prodor: Oct 15-18, 2025
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPEN! Visit NocturneHalifax.ca 🔗
🇨🇦 Turtle Island (Canada)
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History @mnhnovascotia.bsky.social Museum of Natural History located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Part of the Nova Scotia Museum family, sharing Nova Scotian natural and cultural history.
@cbcmaritimenoon @cbcmaritimenoon.bsky.social We're all about the Maritimes. If you're talking about it, we are too! Daily phone in 12 - 1 on CBC Radio. To take part in our daily phone-in, the number is 1-800-565-1940. Our email is marnoon@cbc.ca
Nova Scotia Archives @nsarchives.bsky.social Acquiring, preserving, and making available the province's documentary heritage the last 300 years! 📂📜🗃️ 🔍📚🏛️
The ArQuives @arquives.ca Canada’s largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archives
Telling your stories to help preserve history 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
www.arquives.ca
https://linktr.ee/ArQuives
Toronto Zine Library @torontozinelibrary.bsky.social Based at the Tranzac in Toronto.
Open hours: 6-8pm (Tuesdays and Fridays)
Open by appointment too.
All volunteer and donation run. 
Hopkins Medical Archives @jhmedarchives.bsky.social The Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. We collect, preserve, and share the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.
medicalarchives.jhmi.edu
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Sarah O @bluenosegardener.bsky.social GIS, landscape, history, plants, Nova Scotia, cats.
Stephanie @jellyfish-booknerd.bsky.social Came for ofmd🏴☠️🏳️🌈, 📘tok and cosplay🧝🏻♀️, stayed for the fight to preserve democracy. Protect trans kids 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦, bi🏳️🌈, millenial, she/her
sara (talks to crows, and sometimes they talk back) @saratalkstocrows.bsky.social Archivist in Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario. Long slow hikes. Food gardener and permaculture-curious. Bad at the harmonica. Queer & a weirdo. /|\
Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social by @nora.zone, huge thanks to @jewel.andraia.xyz, @bluebotsdonequick.com. it/its
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social phd candidate at @asc.upenn.edu | she/her
studying history, race, colonialism, capitalism & journalism
“the ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.” - michel-rolph trouillot
Wellfleet @kegerton.bsky.social Earthling, poll worker, weaver. Probably biking today. She/her, pro singular they.
Dalhousie Department of History @dalhistory.bsky.social History @ Dal, in Sipekne’katik. Studying the past lets us explore how and why things developed as they did; it also helps us see the present differently, and imagine different futures. https://history.dal.ca
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Clovelac @clovelac.bsky.social Archivist, player of old-time fiddle and banjo, dog lover, and often gloomy.
Alba Fernandez-Keys @albakeys.bsky.social Borderlands Curator//Special Collections. Dogs. Pilates. Art.
s*w*a*c @swac.bsky.social Odd music, old movies, avian friends. FOT.
Emily McEwan @dremilymcewan.bsky.social Gaelic/Gàidhlig in Nova Scotia. Publisher at BradanPress.bsky.social. Author. Blogger at Gaelic.co. Recovering academic. Haligonian. Settler in Mi'kma'ki. She/her/i/ise/i-fhéin. 🍁
Chris Benjamin Nova Scotia Writer @benjaminwrites.bsky.social Writer. My latest is The Art of Forgiveness, from @galleon-books.bsky.social, a collection of linked short stories about three boys growing up (roughly) in the suburbs outside Halifax. I also advocate for sustainable energy. https://chris-benjamin.ca
Russ "Time is fleeting" McMillen @cinevoice.bsky.social Canadian Film, TV, Radio Archivist and conure husband.
The Board Room Game Cafe @theboardroomgc.bsky.social Halifax, NS 🍁
600+ board games to play, award-winning events, game experts, and game shop! With a barista bar, local craft taps, sandwiches, sweet treats, & more!♟🎲
Linktr.ee/theboardroomgc
Ella Yurman @ellayurman.bsky.social writer & comedian (derogatory) | she/her | host of Going Down with Ella Yurman | writer for Some More News | https://linktr.ee/GoingDownTV
Jean-François @meanderingemu.bsky.social #Halisky. meanderer, pilgrim, one step at a time
Kjipuktuk
Liz Mac @lizmacdraws.bsky.social Visual Artist trying to make Dartmouth a little more groovy. Follow for the loud outfits, stay for the cute cats. Samurai keyboard cowboy.
She/Her.
Bryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social He/him · Métis · @westcat.ca | Paralegal, ex–Parliament Hill staffer, other things too probably idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✉️ bryan.crockett@westcat.ca
📍 BC, Canada
Snopes @snopes.com Official Snopes profile
David Stuart Platt, PhD, MLIS @spoilheap.bsky.social Archivist, archaeologist, librarian, historian. 20th century Brit, 21st century USAian. Manc. Was "SmallFind" on the Bird site. Former circuit digger. Roman & rescue archaeology, ruins, libraries & book history, archaeological archives. (GPA+VT)
Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social Salty recovering journalist, lapsed political philosophy student and Nova Scotian/resident of Mi’kma’ki. “Wild-mannered”.
Julie Rosvall @julierosvall.bsky.social Textile artist & printmaker. Textile exploration through minor obsession with transferring pattern & texture to paper. #knit #print Shop www.rosvall.ca Formerly @shipstondesigns
Nova Scotia Webcams 🇨🇦 @nswebcams.novascotia.social We recognize that Nova Scotia is part of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Our live webcams share the beauty of this land from 80+ locations across the province.
Visit us at www.novascotiawebcams.com
PressProgress @pressprogress.ca Award-winning Canadian journalism that:
🔎 Holds the rich & powerful accountable
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Newsletter: PressProgress.ca/Newsletter
Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer delivers vital reporting on the defining crisis of our time: climate change. Through rigorous investigation and compelling storytelling, we expose the forces shaping Canada's climate future.
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Krisp @krisp131.bsky.social Patroness of the arts (big tipper at drag shows).
Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social Halifax Regional Municipality Councillor
District 5 Dartmouth Centre
Anthony Pash (he/him) @anthonypash.bsky.social Academic librarian in Nova Scotia, union negotiator, avid reader, movie buff, news junky, ally, and lover of food and gardens.
Jill the Jovial @jillthejovial.bsky.social Not a bot, I just don’t post a lot
Dan Jewell @dnjwll.bsky.social Quietly humming the Wii shop music
Halifax, NS
Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin.
Please repost any you like.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca
Gina 🫐 @beetleboo.bsky.social Newfoundlander, Stephenville, born and bred.
Ontario for 22 years.
Now back and in Port au Port West.
Can't leave a beach without pockets filled with rocks.
I won't follow back if you have nothing posted or if you have no bio. Sorry.
She/her
Government of Nova Scotia @nsgov.bsky.social Official Nova Scotia Government Bluesky Account.
Idealistic Pragmatist @justip.bsky.social Canadian by choice.📍Halifax. International in outlook. Leftie. Foodie. Queer. Multilingual. Bike person, but pedestrian at heart. Social scientist by trade. Household = me, Partner, two cats. Embracer of reality in an anti-reality world since early 2022.