Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social Textile artist, mostly knitting, mostly inspired by mathematics, space exploration and science fiction. Lapsed science communicator. Also, occasional writer and photographer.
Trying not to shout into the void.
www.madeleineshepherd.co.uk
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social Retired professor of physics and former Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Interested in science policy, skills, education and EDI issues; author of Not Just for the Boys; blogging at https://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/
Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social I write about, and for, the UK civil service and regulators. Author 'How to be a Civil Servant' and 'How to Succeed in the Senior Civil Service'. Previously Business Department and CMA.
Helen Packer @helenpacker.bsky.social Reporter at Times Higher Education 🎓
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social Experienced Higher Education professional, blogger and commentator. Personal views on higher ed stuff, rankings, regulation, #ncfc & True Crime on Campus. Also podcast: https://audioboom.com/channels/5093607-my-imaginary-university
Ben Sparks @sparksmaths.bsky.social Mathematician, Musician, Speaker, Teacher, Author.
Freelance & MEI & Uni of Bath
MEI: Maths into AI
Uni of Bath: Communicating Maths module
Also Numberphile & Maths Inspiration
On YouTube @SparksMaths
Book a talk or workshop:
www.bensparks.co.uk
James Grime @jamesgrime.com From the internet.
numberphile/singingbanana
I do talks about maths. Book me via jamesgrime.com
Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social 📚 Innovation Research Associate and Engagement Lead at CAMaCS, University of Warwick
➕ MathsComm on Twitch
🎩 Wearer of Hats
💙💜🩷 She/They
Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social https://kasprzyk.work
Algebraic Geometry • Combinatorics • Mirror Symmetry • Machine Learning
Mathematician at the University of Warwick.
Editor-in-Chief for “Experimental Mathematics”.
Member of EPSRC’s Math Strategic Advisory Team.
@lancastercc.bsky.social @lancastercc.bsky.social
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
LEC Reefs @lec-reefs.bsky.social Research group @ Lancaster Environment Centre, UK. We study coral reefs, fisheries, aquatic foods, environmental justice, animal behaviour, ecology, and climate change. 🐠 🐟 🎣 🪸
https://lec-reefs.org/
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Dr Krystal Wilkinson @drkryswilkinson.bsky.social Academic (work-life & wellbeing at work). Author. Co-founder of The Parent Experience. Ambassador for the Maternal Mental Health Alliance. MCIPD
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-krystal-wilkinson
National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social Open Book Publishers • Copim • Open Access Books Network • ScholarLed • All things open access books • Also on Mastodon (@alittleroad@hcommons.social) & LinkedIn (lucy-barnes-01670473) • She/her
Rupert Gatti @rupertgatti.bsky.social Fellow in Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Open Access advocate, co-founder/director of several non-profit enterprises incl. @openbookpublish.bsky.social, @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social.
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. ❤️ 🐕 🍩 🍨 ☀️ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
Maya Ellis MP @mayaellismp.bsky.social MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire.
Day job = Trying to make life easier for working families 🧑🧑🧒🧒
Real job = family & flowers 🌻
This world works better when we all contribute what we can ☺️
Casework: Maya.Ellis.casework@parliament.uk
Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk World's #1 matchbox fan
Ayliean @ayliean.bsky.social Mathemactivist and Craftamatician.
Constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! 🌈✨
I do nerdy things on the internet, and “real life”
Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social Maths communicator and education consultant based in the East of England. Keen crafter. Autistic, Queer, They/Them
Chris Nho @nhoskee.bsky.social 🤝 Director of Community Partnerships at MathHappens
🌊 San Diego
🔳 artmath
Peter Rowlett @peterrowlett.net I teach maths and computing at a UK university and work as a maths communicator. Sheffield/Nottingham based. Editor, The Mathematical Gazette. Aperiodical blog, Mathematical Objects podcast. Part of http://finitegroup.co.uk
peterrowlett.net
Katie Steckles @steckl.es Mathematician, robot fan, auntie and unstoppable thingdoer from Manchester. she/her
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Katherine Mathieson @kathmath.bsky.social Science, innovation, sci-comm, charity sector, London
Director: Royal Institution
Trustee: Pilotlight, Enthuse Trust
Allison Stratford @uoscommsallison.bsky.social Proud Associate Director Corporate Communications at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Tweeting about the place and the people. I love latte and 🥕 cake.
Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |🏳️🌈🏴
Geek: Star Trek | Doctor Who
I make nerdy rainbow pin badges that have raised £35k for homeless LGBTQ+ people
https://linktr.ee/Jamiebgall
New Scientist @newscientist.com The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
https://openbookcollective.org/
Louise Cook @louisemilnecook.bsky.social Blessed or cursed with a brain that sees connections everywhere. Always looking for the bigger picture. Should be practicing my viola.
Hope you're enjoying the coolest summer of the rest of your life.
https://louisemilnecook.substack.com/
Stephen Fletcher @mrfletcher1308.bsky.social Trust Behaviour Lead | Senior Vice Principal | Salford | NPQH | Atherton LR Girls U11s Coach
Lancaster University Library @lulibrary.bsky.social Supporting teaching, learning and research at Lancaster University
Marcus du Sautoy @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social I am the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. https://bio.to/Blueprints
Julia Unwin @juliaunwin.bsky.social Chair Charity Commission England and Wales. Chair of #CivilSocietyFutures 2018. CEO of Jospeh Rowntree Foundation 2006-20016.. Www.juliaunwin.com
Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
The Bugle @thebugle.bsky.social The Bugle, as in The Bugle podcast
Keble College @kebleoxford.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of Keble College, Oxford 🧱
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Prof Jim Wild @jim-wild.bsky.social President of the Royal Astronomical Society, Professor of Space Physics at Lancaster University and lover of all things spacey. Fell-runner, EV enthusiast, film/soundtrack geek and curry fan. My own views etc.
Cambridge Maths School @cammathsschool.bsky.social We’re a specialist sixth form developed in association with the University of Cambridge – we opened in September 2023 with a focus on pioneering learning and increasing diversity in the field of maths.
The University Maths Schools Network @umathsnetwork.bsky.social U-Maths, the University Maths Schools Network, exists to facilitate the success of the maths school programme in England.
Axiom Maths @axiommaths.bsky.social We help pupils with the heart and head for maths realise the potential of their power. The backbone of our approach is maths circles - small groups of pupils who meet weekly to tackle a curriculum of challenging and satisfying maths. https://axiommaths.com
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.
@sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Anton Muscatelli @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Chair, Royal Economic Society. Economist. President, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Inter Milan fan. Opinions mine.
Lancaster University Business and Innovation @lancsunibusiness.bsky.social
Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social Leading Open Access publisher of high-quality academic books. Non-profit, scholar-led. Part of @copim.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social. Find us here: https://lnk.bio/openbookpublishers
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Universities UK @universities-uk.bsky.social The voice of UK universities
John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social Still active as an Author and Lecturer! Former CNN contributor, former Justia’s VERDICT columnist, former Nixon White House Counsel, former Goldwater Chair at Az State Un., but remain a Senior Fellow, CCLP, Annenberg USC. Just can’t retire. :-)
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@harkinjames.bsky.social @harkinjames.bsky.social
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Threatening Music Notation @musicnotation.bsky.social Cataloguing threatening music notation.
Reposting from the original account.
Convergent Research @convergentresearch.bsky.social A mission control for frontier technology.
To learn more about FROs, visit convergentresearch.org.
Lean Focused Research Organization @lean-lang.org Supporting the Formal Mathematics revolution
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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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.
@researcherjess.bsky.social @researcherjess.bsky.social
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
American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social The American Mathematical Society is dedicated to advancing research and connecting the diverse global mathematical community.
Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
Amanda Ross @amandaross21bs.bsky.social Lancaster University Science and Technology Marketing Manager, Coach, Musician and Wellbeing Leader.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
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
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do.
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
The Association of National Teaching Fellows @ntfellows.bsky.social The ANTF vision is “To enhance and embed the impact of National Teaching Fellows in promoting excellence in teaching and learning.” https://ntf-association.com/
Cat Smith @catsmithmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Lancaster and Wyre.
Chair of Procedure Committee in House of Commons.
Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
London Mathematical Society @londmathsoc.bsky.social The London Mathematical Society (LMS), founded in 1865, is the UK's learned society for the advancement, dissemination and promotion of #mathematics.
Alex Hemingway @alexhemingway.bsky.social Science-specialist TV producer/director, podcaster, bass player
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
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Mathematics Faculty, University of Cambridge @cambridgemaths.bsky.social News and updates from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
Oxford University Press @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social Economics editor at the Guardian. Former political editor, former Observer economics editor. Londoner, Mum.
heather.stewart@theguardian.com
Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social Founder of Trade and Borders. Customs and Trade Facilitation. Brexit veteran
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social Asst Prof in Roman Archaeology at Durham. Likes all things Roman Britain/Gaul/Germany and Roman religion, with a side helping of art and epigraphy. Also likes trees and hills.
Ofsted @ofstednews.bsky.social We inspect and regulate the care of children & young people, and education & skills for all.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government