Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician.
Steven J Phipps @stevenjphipps.bsky.social Climate scientist working at the intersections of climate change, the energy transition, international relations and humanitarianism. #Australia #Tasmania #Japan #Pacific
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/stevenjphipps/
Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds
Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee @naccomnetwork.bsky.social. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).
Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity.
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social Public Service Fellow - Lawfare
Adjunct Professor - GWU
Former Senior Analyst - CIA
Former Director - NSC
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
@allport.bsky.social @allport.bsky.social Worked in Scottish healthcare. Trying to be a decent inclusive human being. Love the outdoors, hiking, biking, pondering life & trying to help save the natural world.🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Monica Lennon @monicalennon.bsky.social Former Scottish Labour MSP for Central Scotland (May 2016-April 2026)
Free Period Products Act and Ecocide Bill 🏴
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeney.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Piccolo Seaplanes @wildblueponder.bsky.social PT PhD student by night - interested in the representation of military aviators in popular culture. A librarian for the USAF by day. Easily distracted at all times by biathlon, geopolitical arguments, rugby, murder mysteries, or livestreams of airfields.
Ellie MacPherson @eleanormacp.bsky.social I’m Knowledge Exchange Lead in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Focusing on impact, research culture and external engagement
Trans Pride Scotland @transpridescotland.bsky.social 🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Scotland's free annual pride event for trans and non-binary people
NEXT EVENT: STAY TUNED!
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social Working for gender identity and gender reassignment equality and rights in Scotland. Part of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social
https://www.scottishtrans.org/
Lisa Morriss @lisamorriss.bsky.social Academic @ School of Social Sciences Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We are a world-leading department tackling global challenges through research and teaching. Follow us for updates from our SoGE community +
@ecioxford.bsky.social
@tsuoxford.bsky.social
@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
🌍 geog.ox.ac.uk
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Clare Rishbeth @clarerishbeth.bsky.social Landscape architect academic at University of Sheffield. Inclusive urban design, nature connections, migration & place. Chair of Cycling Without Age Sheffield.
Virginia De Biasio @virginiadebiasio.bsky.social Research Associate DERISK (Climate Change) at King’s College London @kingspoltheory.bsky.social
PhD from Uni York
Pablo Fernandez Velasco @pfvelasco.bsky.social British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory.
Working across philosophy and cognitive science.
Exploring disorientation, spatial cognition, and ecological grief.
pablofernandezvelasco.com
Charrlotte @charrlotte.bsky.social charrlotteadelina.de
"yes, I am Charrlotte" | she / her | inequalities and more-than-human ecologies, 🌱🌿, critical urbanism, & other interests that come and go | perpetually suspicious of trends
Jayne Galinsky @jaynegalinsky.bsky.social Research Fellow | Yunus Centre, GCU | Community Wealth Building & Health Inequalities
Helen F Wilson @helenfwilson.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Geography I Kittiwakes I Cities I Human-wildlife relations I Encounter I Avian Geographies. Author of Robin (Reaktion), Editor of Social and Cultural Geography
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Sergio Lo Iacono @sergioloiacono.bsky.social Assistant Professor @universityofessex.bsky.social | Former Max Weber Fellow @eui-eu.bsky.social | Sociologist interested in human cooperation & trust
https://experimentalsociology.github.io/
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/loiac21900/sergio-lo-iacono
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Katy Bullick @katybullick.bsky.social Climate Aware Psychotherapist
Native and Edible Gardener
Protecting + Empowering People + Planet
katybullick.com
katygardens.com
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
Dr Gavin Francis @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social Mostly analogue.
Finishing a book about mental health:
THE UNFRAGILE MIND, Feb '26 @ProfileBooks
contacts & events @ www.gavinfrancis.com
Lotta Leiwo @lottaleiwo.bsky.social Doctoral researcher @helsinki.fi Finnish North Americans, cultural weather studies, women, labour history & settler colonialism. Research is my mental dynamite.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Light O'Clock @lightoclock.bsky.social 🎙️ A science podcast about light and our circadian rhythm hosted by Carolina Guidolin💡🕗 🎧
Delainey Wescott @delaineywescott.bsky.social Sleep & circadian researcher / Clinical scientist / Pitt Psychiatry Postdoc
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social Assistant Political Editor at The Mirror. COYS enthusiast. You can get me at Alexander.brown@reachplc.com
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social By interrogating the assumptions and evidence behind scientific models and characterizing the diversity of scientific practices, we advance our understanding of how the sciences work and decipher what kinds of answers they deliver.
Nikki Paterson @niktheearthling.bsky.social Interdisciplinary PhD at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, York 🌞🌿 — ethnographer exploring the worlds of outdoor swimmers across Yorkshire, thinking about rivers, entanglements, reciprocity, pollution, storytelling and wellbeing
Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social Geographer/planner and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy transitions, urban climate responses, landscape interpretation, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York
States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Research project exploring the experiences and effects of precarious employment within UK higher education geography departments.
Supported by the Royal Geographical Society and Antipode.
www.statesofprecarity.co.uk
Lorna M. Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social Prof of Digital Humanities, Dean for Global Engagement, University of Glasgow. Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure #MDANT
Nobody wins unless everybody wins.
Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Feminist political geographer and drone researcher interested in technological visibilities, volumes, and futures.
Sebastian Koa @sebastiankoa.bsky.social PHDing in Geography at the University of Exeter | Studying nuclear energy and temporalities
Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social Researching the political economy of electricity, urban and environmental planning.
https://garethfearn.com/
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London. Cities, engagement, art, nature, surrealism. Research as practice. Writer and walker www.michaeleades.net
Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social Ranger in the Cairngorms, occasional writer, general evangelist for the great outdoors. Winter's biggest fan and prone to blethering. Definitely my own views!!
Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
Kathryn Cassidy @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social Geographer. Feminist. Abolitionist.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/c/kathryn-cassidy/
Rachel James @rachel-james.bsky.social #UKRIFLF Future Leaders Fellow and Associate Prof at University of Bristol, climate scientist investigating how to improve climate information for adaptation. She/her.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social A collective voice for community landowners throughout Scotland, representing and supporting land reform through community land ownership
Jackie @brandane.bsky.social Community Psychiatric Nurse in NHS Scotland.Psychology graduate.Recently completed IGA Foundation Cert in Group Analysis. Interested in psychoanalysis, clinical research, psychology,mental health. Love cats/rugby.Former Senior Mental Health Research Nurse.
Emily Munro @emilymunro.bsky.social emilymunro.co.uk
Writer, filmmaker, curator
THE LIMITS novel (2027)
Alpine Fellowship runner up; Caledonia Novel Award LL; Best of the Net nom; Winner Briefly Write 10
Nom FOCAL International Award for Living Proof: A Climate Story
IG: @smugafgardening
Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social Transport, Envt, Climate, life long Green Party and Buddhist. Writer at WEST ENGLAND BYLINES. Retd interdisciplinary social sci lecturer incl teaching Abt Climate/Envt/Devt Studies/Euro Studies. Married, parent, grandparent. Passionate Abt folk music.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
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.
Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social “We do this [write] because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning in it” - Sandra Cisneros
Not for profit/For prophecy
https://burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/june-2025-guest-editor-is-john-trefry-theme-inanimism/
Voluntary Health Scotland @vhscotland.bsky.social We are the national intermediary and network for voluntary health organisations in Scotland. We work with our members and partners to tackle health inequalities. We manage the national network for Scotland's community link workers.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Tom Disney @tdisney85.bsky.social Associate Professor and Social Geographer at Northumbria University. My research applies geographical theory and spatial methods to social work and child welfare.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/d/tom-disney/
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
The Scotsman @scotsman.com Subscribe to The Scotsman for news, opinion and expert analysis from Scotland’s national newspaper: http://scotsman.com/subscriptions/
Monica A. Ross @drmonicaross.bsky.social Visiting Scholar @ UC Berkeley CSTMS/OHST. Psychotherapist–writer. Philosophy of science • Philosophy of psychiatry • STS. Interpretation • Classification • Institutional Authority. 🏳️🌈 Website: drmonicaross.com
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Tess Osborne @tessosborne.bsky.social Digital health geographer
Chair of the DGRG & Co-Editor-in-Chief of Digital Geography & Society
An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing.
Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
Iain AF Fleming 🐧 @legalweasel.uk Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker.
Francophile/phone.
Quoad ultra denied
[Clackmannan, Scotland]
Dean Bond @deanbond.bsky.social Historical geographer | Enlightenment and geography | Germanophile
@uoegeosciences.bsky.social @uoegeosciences.bsky.social
NHS Lanarkshire @nhslanarkshire.bsky.social News and health information from NHS Lanarkshire. This feed is not monitored 24/7. For health advice visit NHS Inform, call NHS 24 on 111 or your GP practice.
The Press & Journal @pressandjournal.co.uk Official page of The Press & Journal.
Local journalism worth supporting.
Newcastle University Geography @ncl-geography.bsky.social The Official page for Geography at Newcastle University.
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub @mhpsshub.bsky.social The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub supports the RCRC Movement by providing mental health, psychosocial support, and capacity-building initiatives.
Website: https://mhpsshub.org/
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa.bsky.social Edinburgh-based arts and culture journalist.
Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year - 2026 Scottish Press Awards.
Any views expressed are mine alone.
www.heraldscotland.com
Scottish Recovery Network @scotrecoverynet.bsky.social We bring people, services & organisations across sectors together to create a mental health system that is powered by lived experience. www.scottishrecovery.net
Get help now: https://scottishrecovery.net/contact/get-help-now/
Civic Imaginary Partnerships @civicimaginaries.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded project at University of Glasgow. Bringing together communities, policymakers, researchers & artists to ask what being civic means in the UK right now and how people collectively reimagine and reinvent their places.
Glasgow Changing Futures - University of Glasgow @uofggcf.bsky.social Together for the world | #WorldChangingGlasgow
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/uofggcf
LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography.
We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change.
Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
Cristian Montenegro @crismontenegro.bsky.social "Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat"
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cristian-montenegro
Julia Macintosh @juliamacintosh.bsky.social Director, Centre for Mad Culture UK
find out more on my website at: http://juliamacintosh.online
read my blog at: https://juliamacintosh.substack.com/
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Harriet Bulkeley @harrietbulkeley.bsky.social Professor of Geography, Durham & Sustainability, Utrecht. Environmental politics, esp. all things climate change, energy and urban. Convening www.naturescapes-project.com.
Guy Moreton @guymoreton.bsky.social Deputy Dean & Associate Professor Visual Arts, School of Creative Industries, Southampton Solent University UK.
https://contemporaryartsociety.org/artists/guy-moreton
AAG Black Geographies Specialty Group @blackgeographies.bsky.social https://blackgeographies.org/
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social Sociologist, writer, Northern Europe journalist. 'Drifting North' out now in hardback. 'Journalism in the Anthropocene' in paperback.
Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her
https://www.federica-genovese.com/