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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social Archaeologist and photographer. Found in cemeteries or near water.
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https://linktr.ee/annafn
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.
Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
The BMJ @bmj.com The BMJ is patient centred, evidence based, and independent. Help us improve the health of our world with the best science, journalism, education, and comment. 
Lisa | Regency Relatives @regencyrelatives.bsky.social Hello, I'm Lisa. Family historian with a love of the Regency era, strong tea, and research rabbit holes. Honest about the chaos of genealogy. Founder of Regency Relatives: regencyrelatives.co.uk
Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. http://genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of F&SF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.
Jeremy Lent @jeremylent.bsky.social 
Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social Historian, Earth Scientist, Writer, Public Intellectual.
Books: Merchants of Doubt; Collapse of Western Civilization; Science on a Mission; Discerning Experts; Why Trust Science?; The Big Myth. Loves: Chocolate, Red Wine, Skiing, family. Hates: Beets.
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Briar Farm @briarfarm.bsky.social Establishing an agroecological, mixed-use farm on a disused plant nursery in Cambridgeshire, UK
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
Karen Cummings @drkarencummings.bsky.social 📚 Author of 'Genealogy Methods and Techniques - A Practical Guide to Research'
🌳 Professional Genealogist
🧬 Genetic genealogy
🖥️ Owner of Pharos Tutors, online genealogy courses
Joe McGann @joemcgann.bsky.social Actor, writer, caseworker, tutor, teacher, psychotherapist in training, LFC season ticket holder.
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social BuDS Disability Service is a user-led, pan-disability grassroots charity working across England. Formerly Buckinghamshire Disability Service. Registered Charity 1102511 #Fair4All #Reach4Work
Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Amanda Finley Digs All the Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social COVID long-hauler. Former archaeologist, opera, fed employee. Kids & homeless. Feral princess. Topes #WearAMask Comms: @publichealthaction.bsky.social
📍 Ba'al Pit
FB: is.gd/bp2vTA
Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com
YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers
She/her
Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social Climate adaptation for nature and people @ Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington. Surfer/paddler. Settler on Coast Salish land. She/her.
Personal account - views mine.
Janet Few @janetfew.bsky.social Family, social and community historian. Author and educator. Writer of #nonfiction & #histfict. #C17th historical interpreter. Part of the A Few Forgotten Women team. Mostly historical and bookish posts. Sometimes stray posts about #travel and #gardening.
Chris Paton @chrismpaton.bsky.social Genealogist/sloinntear, writer, tutor, happy bunny, Ayrshire based. Have written a good few books. Laphroaig every time. Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thàinig sibh...!
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Lara Wong @larawong.bsky.social Founder of Clinically Vulnerable Families💙💜💗
Former Science Teacher. Views are my own #FBCV
Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social UK Covid-19 Inquiry Core Participant
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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social Improving wildlife habitats and promoting nature in the coast and countryside around Rye in SusseX, UK, where fishing boats show the RX registration.
Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
Of Myths and Moors @cherylquine.bsky.social Hedgerow explorer, wildflower reciter, animal protector, camera wielder, paint splatterer, word wrangler, folklore teller, liminal-space dweller. Usually found where the corvids are.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social On a mission to supercharge UK community energy ⚡
Connect volunteers | Provide funding | Buy clean energy 🤝
Please email together@younity.coop for any enquiries 💚
Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social The Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a non-profit organization that promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves and their role in our world.
nywolf.org
Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social This is the bot for TrumpActionTracker.info - a website that documents the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes.
This bot automatically posts the latest actions.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Marcus C Sarofim @marcusmarcusrc.bsky.social Climate scientist, ex-EPA. Writing climate science & policy at The Saraph Report. Saraph, my name's root, means fire, which is appropriate for climate work. Interested in books, food, and contra dancing when not obsessing over carbon.
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Botanist, conservationist, gardener & author. Endlessly curious about green things. Creator of #NoMowMay.
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Currently with the Species Recovery Trust & BSBI Trustee.
Uncertain Stories @uncertainstories.com www.uncertainstories.com
Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social Biodiversity scientist, focused mainly on pollinators and their interactions with plants. Author of 'Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society' (Pelagic 2021) and 'Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship' (Pelagic 2024).
Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social Co founder @Byline.com and @BylineTimes.bsky.social. “Destructive British media” according to the Kremlin. Six nominations for sanctions from their Mofo MFA! An Oscar record
James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.ghost.io
Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social Environmental journalist. Founder of investigative journalism non-profit https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Bylines: @guardian @thetimes @bbc @SkyNews @itv
Ex: @TheENDSReport @PenguinUKBooks @independent
Rachel.salvidge@watershedinvestigations.com
Kernow Conservation CIC @kernowconservation.bsky.social Working with other conservation organisations, local businesses and landowners to benefit the communities and wildlife of Cornwall.
Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
https://tomjenks.uk/
https://substack.com/@tomjenks
Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social Founding environmental journalist of nonprofit @WATERSHED-i.bsky.social
http://watershedinvestigations.com
Documentary filmmaker: ‘Thirst For Justice’, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirstforjustice
Formerly BBC (18 yrs) & Knight Wallace Fellow (2016).
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Lindsay Littleson @lindsaylittleson.bsky.social Kelpies Prize winner, Carnegie nominated children's author @DiscoverKelpies @CranachanBooks
#SCBWI she/her
Blumineck @blumineck.bsky.social David the Arrow Bard, aka Blumineck.
I do pole dance, archery, and nerdery.
Linktr.ee/blumineck
thethinkingthread @thethinkingthread.bsky.social 
Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social Trees, ponies, art, people
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró, Goffin Lab, Vienna, Austria
PhD^2 and Ninja Biologist.
Animal Behavior and Comparative Cognition.
Human perch for cockatoos.
Also here: twitter.com/BioTay
More about me here: https://osunamascaro.weebly.com/
Dr Heather Browning (Veit) @zoophilosophy.bsky.social Scientist & Philosopher | Former zookeeper, now Lecturer at University of Southampton, specialising in animal welfare, sentience, and ethics
Hayley Webster @hayleythough.bsky.social Author. Editor. Autistic. ADHD. Sea/ trees/ food/ songs/ sky. Jessica Fletcher Adjacent. Many Special Interests. She/ her. Agent: Julia Silk.
Nosy Crow, Trapeze, Usborne books.
Sally Witcher @salwitcher.bsky.social Working for a safe, inclusive world that prioritises people and planet not profit.
Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
Judith Heneghan @judithheneghan.bsky.social Novels SNEGUROCHKA and also BIRDEYE (Salt), rep Lutyens & Rubinstein, leads MA Creative Writing at Winchester Uni, mentor for Jericho Writers, mother of tall ones, out for a walk.
Hannah Persaud @hpersaud.bsky.social Writer, wild swimmer, cyclist. ❤️ all things outdoors. Trying to live the one life fully whilst making a difference.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Kate @crowwriterkate.bsky.social Writer, runner, scone-eater. Lover of animals, wild landscapes, and all things Victorian gothic. Crow botherer. 
The Book Social @thebooksocial.bsky.social Welcome to an inclusive community for all book fans, run by Legend Times. Sign up to our newsletter and receive a free ebook https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXG7xXG-UP4ddJelEvJJJql7HbGZ3ihbfyPcskblZObyh55g/viewform
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Antonia Honeywell @antoniahoneywell.bsky.social Permanently drowning, waves occasionally.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Hannah Vincent (she/her) @hannahvincent22.bsky.social Writer
Suzanne Joinson @suzyjoinson.bsky.social Author (The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things - memoir 2024 + novels) Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Love ink, drawing and typewriters 🖤
https://www.instagram.com/suzyjoinson/
Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London.
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Julie Gardner @juliebird.bsky.social PhD student (NTU), poet, retired primary-school teacher. Avoiding bucket lists. My poetry pamphlet 'Remembering' published by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social September 2024. 
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
Www.jayking.art
Catherine Drea @foxglovelane.bsky.social Earthling 🌿 Lives down a long lane in rural Ireland. Author: 'Solace, life, loss and the healing power of nature.' (O’Brien Press) Columnist: Waterford News and Star.
foxglovelane.com
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social Derry Girls meets mother in Young Sheldon. Writer. Peace worker. Guard Your Heart. Truth Be Told. Is it Friday yet?
Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts.
History, textiles, costume, more history
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social Order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now!
Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: The London Mag, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
The Carnegies @carnegiemedals.bsky.social The UK's best-loved book awards for children & young people, celebrating outstanding writing & illustration; judged by librarians @cilip.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/
Other socials 👉 https://linktr.ee/carnegiemedals
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Jo McMillan @jomcmillan.bsky.social Fan of alphabets and characters - complex and simplified. Have called Beijing, Melaka and London home. Looking for Utopia. Currently in Berlin.
Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social Awarded author, journalist: cybersecurity, privacy, Covid. WIRED, PopSci, Spinoff, Engadget, FT, IFJ. Visiting Scholar at Stout Research Centre, NZ. Black Hat keynote. S/her.
Bio: about.me/violetblue
More: linktr.ee/viblue
News: patreon.com/violetblue
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.