Dr. Olaf Bachmann @falo2.bsky.social War Studies PhD KCL, MA War in the Modern World, now retired from African Leadership Centre King's College London and Nairobi, but still consultant on governance of security, Africa and Middle East. German and French citizen, resident in Spain.
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/
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
Michel Camerotto @michelcamerotto.bsky.social De omnia bona
DocConnor @docconnor.bsky.social Gamer, wine w*nker, foodie, dad, sport, emotion and military culture academic. C₈H₁₀N₄O₂ addict. My (co-authored) book on abuse within the ADF is out now https://www.mup.com.au/books/warrior-soldier-brigand/9780522879360
James Nairne @drawingpad.bsky.social Drawing and painting. Christian.
www.jamesnairne.co.uk
Jen @jenillustrates.bsky.social Traditional artist who wafts pencils across paper, dabbles at watercolouring-in & refuses to get the scary bush pen out. Can be found stress crocheting in a corner most evenings
Support human made art
No AI
Ko-fi.com/jenillustrates
Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & the Luftwaffe between 1935-45. Working on Bristol Beauforts & WW1 U-boats.
https://linktr.ee/jerijerod14
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
Wilson’s Mothman & Monsters🇺🇦 @garagekit.bsky.social 🚫Slop🚫Crypto🚫Tyrants
Retired know-it-all who now knows they know no-thing.
Kit bashing, diorama making.
Makes wyrd, horror, monsters & scifi vignettes.
👽🛸🦖🦕🐺👻👹👣🧌
Love Scale Model Making
I still drink paint water
#ScaleModels
#Dioramas
#HistScaleModels
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. Will block on tone.
He/him
office@danielabraham.com
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Sammy Flex the Unproblematic King @sammyflex.bsky.social Amateur historian, temporarily exiled from Paris 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
(Cover image: 6e Régiment de Tirailleurs Marocains, Viticuso, Italy, Feb. 1944)
Pater Practicus @paterpracticus.bsky.social Practical dad, Brendan – maker, mender and modeller. Always curious, always learning. Sharing project videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@paterpracticus
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social In admiration of the greatest and cosiest of fictitious detectives, inspectors, sleuths and investigators ☕️ 🔍📺 📚 Poirot, Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Morse, Sherlock and the rest!
Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University.
Hook'em.
Italian Military Archives @ima-naval-history.bsky.social 📚 History of the Italian Navy on YouTube
📺 https://youtube.com/@italianmilitaryarchives_navalh?si=RcUvQWFDDHRsCcoO
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
Zorg the Conqueror @zorgtheconqueror.bsky.social Scale models, gaming, cooking, guitar, fundraising, education, Golden Age b3tan, databases, little bit of politics for the kids... otherwise rabid koala threatening planetary conquest.
Doug really - 2026 version @sensiblearchie.eurosky.social Ongoing child, much too late to grow up now, books, films, toys, pets, music. 🏴 🇦🇺
Currently Scottish, still undecided whether -5° here is better than 42° in Canberra.
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
Josef Petrák @jspetrak.name 🇨🇿, Principal Partner at @bileto.com, Partner at @dinarica.cz, e-Resident of Estonia 🇪🇪, spotter, scale modeller, snooker player, PC gamer, military enthusiast
Mokanaman @mokanaman.bsky.social Scale modeller, youtuber and owner of Salt Mine Hobby Shop. Content mostly around hobby tutorials and finished plastic scale model kits, Gunpla and Anime GK. 
François-Nicolas Robinne @fnrobinne.bsky.social #Forest #Hydrologist at the Government of #Alberta | #geographer and #rewilding believer | #forests, #wildfire, & #water security | Husband, father, baker, #ScaleModels, omnivorous, loud sneezer!
Curatorm @mickaelca.bsky.social 
bandwevil @bandwevil.bsky.social 
JC @jcwoodman.bsky.social Progressive Anti Fascist Democrat, US Army Vetran (11 Bravo), Pug Wrangler & Scale Model Creator🙂🇺🇦💙🏳️🌈🇺🇲🌊🌊🌊 🏴☠️ally😈 Never ⛔️Felon 47 maga⛔️
⛔️No sexytime DM BS⛔️ No crypto⛔️
Sorry, I don't want to see you naked.Probably😏
#Resist
#StandWithUkraine
#Histscalemodels
Retrocrantz and Guildenstream @labcoatgundam.bsky.social "Why don't you read some science fiction?" - Hideo Azuma
He/they. IE-based amateur ASCII artist, tuxedo cat fanatic and modeling enthusiast at https://pogesoft.itch.io/. PFP by self.
AI-hostile. Interacts with NSFW accounts. Swearing expected.
Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social Reading, writing, researching, editing.
She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
www.alexiswolf.co.uk
KLP Publishing @klppublishing.bsky.social Publisher of scale modelling build guides in eBook format.
Rowan Thompson @rowan-thompson.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain out now: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/organised-militarism-in-interwar-britain/
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. https://nathanhobby.com
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
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!
Morningcoffee @earlymorningcoffee.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Just a snail-paced scale modelling logbook
-Away for a while, hope to be back shortly-
Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Laserpferd @laserpferd.dtun.de Kraut Space Magic. Enjoyer of video games 🕹️, scale modeling newbie🛩️, sci-fi enthusiast🛸, OSINT lurker🔍.
Steve Cook @steviecook1975.bsky.social Proud member of the Independent Company, CWGC Volunteer and Part-time MA History student at Wolverhampton University. Lover of books, sport, music and travel. Hater of Fascism.
frank squarerig @franksqrig.bsky.social retired seafarer & naval aviator. Master square rigged sail training ships from 80 to 800 GT, now consultant & maritime historian. FLY NAVY
Tao of Airfix @taoofairfix.bsky.social Everything I know about life I learned from model aeroplanes.
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
@ricmadeira.bsky.social @ricmadeira.bsky.social Eu é mais bolos... quero dizer, Mastodon: https://wandering.shop/@ricmadeira
Mas de vez em quando também venho aqui espreitar.
Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast @scb250.bsky.social He/Him | Late 20s
AJC @xyzzy.cryptoanarchy.network married to @torsosquirrel.bsky.social
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Just a cishet autistic white guy trying to listen to the world and be kind. I do DevOps for work, walk and photography for fun. I ask stupid questions, I know and I'm sorry.
KGVAlum 📎 @staceyryn.bsky.social I talk a lot about aviation and law. Firm believer in democracy. Not ready to live in a dipshitocracy (credit to anon Bluesky user). Southern California based. Too many dogs and a loving spouse.
The Forgotten War Pod: Burma Campaign WW2 @forgottenwarpod.bsky.social The definitive podcast about the Burma Campaign of WW2. Robert Lyman & Jack Bowsher take you through the incredible & often brutal war in SE Asia, out Feb 2025
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin.
Please repost any you like.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/microsff
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/microsff
Books: https://microsff.com/books
Koffiart37 @koffiimageworks.bsky.social
Visdev / BG painter/Concept art/ comic book artist with decade of working in animation and game industry
https://linktr.ee/koffiart37
https://koffiart37.gumroad.com/l/hpignh
#NoAi
Susan Mossman @searcherout.bsky.social Curious about so much….won’t be boxed in….archaeology/ materials science/museology my particular interests…others too…own views. UK.
Derek Fulton @thylacinedjf.bsky.social Gentleman Ludologist (retired), Incorrigible, Apprentice Goatherder.
JMcN @jmcn.bsky.social Books, motorcycles, and dog sitter. IC #36- O @openspotter.bsky.social @openspotter.bsky.social For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. Capturing the icons of the sky - from the Queen of the Skies to the Skunk Works legends.
Join us at: https://www.openspotter.org
Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social Historian. Authored 40-page journal article on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 12 visits to Westchester County. Led successful campaigns to preserve/protect a historic riding stable and a former train station.
#publichistory
Westchester County, New York
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social Boring Australian suburban dad. Recipient of participation awards for Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and a few other things and places.
Mark 8:36
Shane B @elshanerino.bsky.social Focused on the future of work in aviation/aerospace maintenance and engineering. Former AirTran/Southwest. I never fail, I only win or learn. World's okayest dad. ✈️ 🛠️💪
Posts are not shared, supported, or endorsed by my employer. 🙃
Drewe @drewe.bsky.social Remoaning left leaning catloving simplaying modelbuilding metallistening oldfeeling greyhairedlooking politicsfollowing twitterranting bloke.
@ishigaya.bsky.social @ishigaya.bsky.social Aviation
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Doctor Historianess @historianess.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy Rebecca Anne Goetz, Associate Professor of History, NYU. Opinions are mine; facts and evidence belong to everybody. If I'm not in the library I probably […]
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Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social Historian, filmmaker, author. Leeds.
https://youtube.com/@CatherineWarr
Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. previously DPhil @ Oxford: insect social evolution 🐝
Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
Michael Smith @mcsmith.bsky.social Lawyer dad in Marshall, Texas, mostly federal courts & patent litigation. Interested in WW II, scale modeling, history, books, & learning. Scale fundamentalist - only 1/700, 1/200 & 1/72. Extremely fond of the rule of law and almost as fond of Canadians.
@clarec2310.bsky.social @clarec2310.bsky.social I love to photograph all types of aviation, but particularly those which fall into the vintage category...also enjoy nature photography too.
Instagram and Twitter @clarec2310
Errol Cavit @errolnz.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy I'm interested in vintage and #warbird #aviation, aviation photography, and history in general. Plus SciFi and plausible what-ifs. #AvGeek
Wrangle financial info […]
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The Vintage Aviation Echo @vintageavecho.bsky.social A high-quality biannual historic aviation journal - www.vintageaviationecho.com
Dr Kirsten Banks @astrokirsten.bsky.social Wiradjuri Astrophysicist 🌌 Science Communicator 🚀 PhD in Astrophysics 📚 Boring Machine 😂 Relatable Intellectual 🧑🔬
The Aviation Historian @aviationhistorian.bsky.social UK-based aviation history journal and book publisher launched in 2012 by former Aeroplane Monthly editorial team of Michael Oakey and Nick Stroud. Aviation history for grown-ups....
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
Andrew Appleton @andrewapp.bsky.social 
Just Alpal @justalpal.bsky.social Obligatory cat hair in pics.
There may be some Hot Wheels.
I'm just havin' a good time!
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Retired Archdeacon
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Snootacamund @snootacamund.bsky.social Lover of dusty libraries 
New Hwiccan @newhwiccan.bsky.social One of the Twitter diaspora. Aviation geek, PPL, quarter womble, previously a 🐕 slave. Detests Brexit & neo-liberal dogma. Bugger, what happens now?
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 67-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024.
The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
David M.Vanderhoof 🚁 🛫 @dmvanderhoof.bsky.social Exhibit design @amerhelimuseum Co-host of @uavdigest and @airplanegeeks Kidney recipient November 2025
Supermarine Seaplane S.5 @supermarines5.bsky.social Supermarine Seaplane - a British Legend Reborn 🇬🇧
Building a full scale Supermarine S.5!
Registered Charity No. 1190836
https://www.supermarineseaplane.co.uk/
Liz @lizmtwt.bsky.social Mostly playing about in sketchbooks.
Queensland Australia
@angerj.eurosky.social @angerj.eurosky.social Once a bookseller, always booky, so you'll see some of that here. Also trained in horticulture. Now making art among other things. UK
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Jen Jilany_Editor @jenjeditor.bsky.social Certified Professional Editor, Up Style Editing.
Fiction and Memoir. 📚
Editors Canada Executive.
www.upstyleediting.ca
AWEROK @awerok.com Brad Young - Pilot | Aviation Enthusiast | Tech Expert | Drone Services | Technology Consulting | Let's Go Flying!
https://awerok.com/links/awesome
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jackie Curtis @jcurtisart.bsky.social A printmaker based in Somerset producing original innovative monoprints, collagraphs, linocuts and woodblocks. Walking pathways taking a lot of photographs.
Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com Professional idiot.
The guy who draws instagram.com/instachaaz
Shop here: instachaaz.shop
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Rep: Watson Little Ltd
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
@maggyn.bsky.social @maggyn.bsky.social 
Vivienne M @viviennem.bsky.social 
Corinne Demas @corinnedemas.bsky.social Author of 39 books. Adults: The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle, Eleven Stories High. Kids: The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu) New novel, DAUGHTERS. Mt.Holyoke College emerita professor. MR fiction editor. Miniature donkey fan.
RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social • goth daria • muppet enthusiast • maker of threads • thehappiestsadgrlcollection on whatnot •
• help me live the dream: https://gofund.me/d9bf1cd80 •
• tips and things: https://linktr.ee/riotgrlerin •
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com