Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
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@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Jenny @casper2109.bsky.social Edinburgh Fifer. HE Lifer. (Yes, that rhymes)
Girly swot. Feminist. Into rugby, swimming, red pandas, cheese, travel & puffins. Mixed travel, sport, HE, tv & general nonsense. All views & thoughts my own
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social - Alum: University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government
- University of Syracuse, Maxwell School of Citizenship
- Chevening Fellow, Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, Police Officer.
Justice not enforcement
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Calton Hill Conservation Trust @caltonhill.bsky.social Working to make Calton Hill a cleaner, safer & more beautiful place through conservation, volunteering & community action | Join us as a member or volunteer: caltonhilltrust.org
Dr Maria Gonzalez Aguado @mariagonagua.bsky.social 
David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social deprofessionalised intellectual * co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (Zer0, 2024) * co-editor of Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici (Pluto, 2019) * Omnia Sunt Communia * he/him
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
David Bretherton @dtbretherton.bsky.social “Hyper-woke academic with blue hair” (GB News) • He/him • Join a union! • Mostly dogs • Occasionally music theory, musicology & queer studies • Trade union rep
Niall Anderson @nialla.bsky.social Academic, amateur traditional musician, cyclist and dad. 
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research project co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention. Based at the University of Edinburgh, University of Lincoln + Mind in Camden, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
🌐 https://discovering-liveability.ed.ac.uk/
Bruce Mason (Deleriad) @deleriad.bsky.social Cats, Edinburgh, games, Babylon 5 and even more besides.
he/him
This account is for a mix of personal and professional interests. Current research is in ageing, autism and assistive technology.
Harry Willliams @harryjwilliams.bsky.social Edinburgh mode
Www.city-scope.co.uk
Stop Propaganda/Hype News - Redress the Balance @stoppropagandahype.bsky.social THIS IS NOT SPAM! challenging the media’s relentless political hype/propaganda & calling for plurality so that all parties get rightful share of coverage. Our democracy is at stake. Please sign this petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713798
Sean Murphy @murphyslaw1987.bsky.social Philosopher w/ focus on disease causation (esp. clusters). I completed Mark Purdey’s research project by identifying the true environmental causes (oil pollution, pesticides, mercury, & mycotoxins) of “Huntington’s Disease” at Lake Maracaibo.
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Caroline E Brett @cebretthealth.bsky.social Health psychologist and wellbeing researcher. Social prescribing, wellbeing in students and older adults, motivation and behaviour change.
Currently lecturer at University of Edinburgh, previously at Liverpool John Moores.
Fatimah @fatimahwobi.bsky.social Researcher in Public Health and Social Development. Interested in grassroots health initiatives | Social Prescribing Outcomes #PhD✨
Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social Reader | Cardiff University
Sociologist (Disability | Health and Illness | Reproduction | Stigma)
Co-Editor in Chief of 'Sociology of Health and Illness'
He | Him | His
Foundational Thoughts @druidorbital.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🌈🛰️✈️🚆⚓️🛳️⛴️
Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social Crip Filipinx philosopher and dissemination consultant. RA on WAARC at the University of Sheffield. Views my own. Research podcast: Massively Disabled
Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social Sociologist of Health & Illness | Lecturer in Co-designing Healthcare Interventions at King's College London.
Joana Formosinho @jformosinho.bsky.social Social and philosophical dimensions of biology. Organisms and their biosocialities. Multispecies worlds, holobionts, naturecultures, art-science. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS), University of Edinburgh. #sts #hpbio #synbio
Janice McLaughlin @janicemcl.bsky.social Academic working on disability, particularly in childhood, also a primary carer. 
Carl May @carlrmay.bsky.social Implementation Science (Normalization Process Theory), Medical Sociology (Burden of Treatment Theory), gardening (Hemerocallis), cooking (risotto with Langoustines), Professor (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra @agomoni.bsky.social Generally angry. Bioethicist. Academic. Writer. Theatre and Dance
photo credit:Chris Scott
Ellen Annandale @ellenannandale.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York, UK. The sociology of health and illness, sociology of gender, sociology of organisations and professions. Views are my own.
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Karissa Robyn Patton @karissapatton.bsky.social she/her | historian | feminist | dog mom | co-editor of Bucking Conservatism | part of the CIHR project Pelvic Health & Public Health | Research Fellow University of Edinburgh 
Claire Graf @samhengi.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🩰🧧🦁🐉🕳️🏔️🦔🛩️✈️🎶🐾
Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social Real time comments about UK politics, media & news.
https://politicsintheuk.substack.com/profile/posts
Ben Purvis @benpurvis42.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
(they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
Gill Haddow @ghaddow.bsky.social Sociologist of Medicine, Embodiment and Technology|University of Edinburgh|From everyday cyborgs to disability, illness and pain.
Caroline Proctor @caggles.bsky.social UCU NEC member (Midlands), UCU Commons member, interested in higher education, food, LARP, meteorology, Sea Cadets and naval history. Occasional Arma3 content because we all need a hobby.
Tracey Collett @traceycollett.bsky.social Sociologist in and of health professions education based at Peninsula Medical School UK. Co chair BeSST UK.
B.J./Mayim Pnina @killearnan.bsky.social Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social Hourly images - 3 minutes early - of Scotland's capital city (and beyond) in all seasons, all sorts of weather & even its foulest mood. Run by Tom Duffin, @TomDuffinPhotos.bsky.social, www.tomduffin.com, and weekly newsletter tomduffin.substack.com
Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social Pro photographer in Edinburgh posting landscapes & other work. Regular free newsletter at https://tomduffin.substack.com/ I'd be delighted to be contacted at tom@tomduffin.com to ask about photography work.
Thomas J Woodbury @tomwoodbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Portsmouth. All views my own.
Cath Montgomery @cathm.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Science, Technology & Innovation Studies (STIS)
Eleanor Kashouris @ekashouris.bsky.social ⚪️Qual researcher @Northumbria
⚪️Sociologist of health and illness
⚪️Work on UTI ~ AMR ~ sociology of diagnosis ~ critical public health ~ and new to stroke research!
SW20ed #Edinburgh @sw20.info South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods
📍#Edinburgh
Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. #streetsNOTroads
🚲FREE e-bike & e-cargobike hire: sw20.info
🛠️Tool Library: @sw20etl
🏃♀️Helped setup: Kids Park Run @ Hailes Quarry Park
Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social Professional nosy parker | Enthusiastic Glaswegian | Qual sociology & interdisciplinary repro health | Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group @openuniversity.bsky.social | She/her
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social Sociologist of sexual health. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏴 he/him
Gareth S. Brown @garethsbrown.bsky.social Musician with Death-Static, The Declining Winter, Your Good Selves (formerly with Memory Drawings, Hood, Canvas, etc)
Game designer for Red Plenty Games
Employee at University and College Union
Member of Leeds Surrealist Group
He/Him
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
STIS Edinburgh @stis-uoe.bsky.social Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/science-technology-and-innovation-studies 
Neil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social Researcher at University of Nottingham & NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands.
Interested in dementia, inequalities & digital
ORCID: 0000-0003-1368-7983
#publichealthsky #gerontology
Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social Researcher | PhD | Ireland
#PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
Sasha Scambler @sashascambler.bsky.social Professor of Medical Sociology at KCL, interested in health, disability, social theory, oral health and lots of other things. 
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Centre for Health Policy @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social The new BlueSky home of The University of Strathclyde's Centre for Health Policy, led by ProfKatSmith.bsky.social and Lee Knifton
https://tinyurl.com/ynvf2hj8- eventbrite for book launch
www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/centreforhealthpolicy
Julie Roberts @drjulieroberts.bsky.social Research Fellow, Sapphire, University of Leicester.
Sociologist, Qualitative health researcher interested in maternity and neonatal care, visual culture of reproduction, PPIE, qualitative research methods
Claire Niedzwiedz @drcenz.bsky.social Mental health, wellbeing, health inequalities and relationships with climate change.
Graham Scambler @grahamscambler.bsky.social Sociologist: philosophy, theory, politics, health & sport. #sociology #health
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK
New: ‘The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer’ (Routledge, 2026)
www.grahamscambler.com
Ingrid Young @ingridkyoung.bsky.social Cdn settler in Scotland. Carer. Immigrant.
Sociologist researching social cultural & ethical issues in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, biotech & chronic illness. Reader @UofEdinburgh
She/her
www.disabilityfutures.uk medicinewithoutdoctors.org
Katie Coveney @katiecoveney.bsky.social New here, no idea what I’m doing!
Medical Sociologist at Loughborough University, UK. Working on disability, ageing & care, also writing about sociology of reproduction, sleep & technology.
Sociology of Health & Illness editorial board
Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social Medical anthropologist @newcastleuni.bsky.social research focuses on health equity, social justice, community involvement, and coastal towns. Talk too much about my dog! Can also be found posting photos from fieldwork on Instagram @north_southdivide 
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Dr Claire Marris @clairemarris.bsky.social STS scholar | join a trade union | Grady4GS | UCU Commons | trans ally | ceasefire now | she/they
Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better