The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature @tolkienlecture.bsky.social Annual lecture on fantasy literature in honour of J.R.R. Tolkien | Pembroke College, Oxford | Est. 2013 | For more info, visit our website 🧙♂️🧝♀️✨
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social Science-based invertebrate conservation nonprofit. Protecting the life that sustains us, since 1971. 🦋🐝🪲 linktr.ee/xercessociety
GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations is a meeting-place for academics, creative writers, and other fantasy-minded folks (we call them fantasts) to come together and discuss fantastical works in a supportive setting.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile:
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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Ireland.
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Pat Murphy @pat-murphy.bsky.social Writer, scientist, and troublemaker. Winner of Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon Awards. My latest novel, The Adventures of Mary Darling, is coming out from Tachyon Publications in May 2025. 
Triangle Tolkienists @triangletolkienists.org A Smial of the Tolkien Society – based in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina. Join us in person or via Discord. triangletolkienists.org
CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social Writer, mostly of novels. She/her. CatieMurphy.com for aaaaalllll the books. Please join my newsletter, too! https://BookHip.com/BZQWLZL
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social An annual contest to pick a winner from hundreds of self-published novels in SF. Currently reading and reviewing for our fifth contest. Web site: https://spsfc.space
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
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📅 August 27-31, 2026
✨️ Adventure Awaits!
Doctor Who Production News @doctorwhopn.bsky.social Unofficial news about Doctor Who production and other Doctor Who news #dwsr I've been on Bluesky since July 4, 2023
Stop! Let's Team-Up! Gallifrey's Most Wanted @jsa4e.bsky.social Ross and Kirby are here to talks about all things Superhero teams and team-ups. two regular features are Opal City Confidential and Zoo Crew Revue
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Ncuts @ncuti-gatwa-news.bsky.social Ncuti Gatwa Fanpage
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Signum University @signumuniversity.bsky.social A non-profit, online higher education institution. Specializing in Tolkien Studies, Imaginative Literature, Germanic Philology, and Classic Literature.
signumuniversity.org
Analysing Doctor Who @analysingdw.bsky.social The podcast that analyses Doctor Who. What we like, what we don’t, and why.
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TJ | Gifatar @the-neej.bsky.social Tolkien on Tap podcast. #1 Finrod fan. Founder of Stans for Finrod™️, Gifatar, and Lord of the Mîms (memes) they/them 🏳️⚧️
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𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖆 🍃 @unquenchablehobbit.bsky.social I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve 🍄✨
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David the Ñoldo @davidthengoldo.bsky.social Tolkien, Comics, Anime, & Cinema.
All power to all the people.
Quenya proponent.
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束=Tolkien abbreviation.
Ñolofinwean solidarity ❄️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️
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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, showrunner, playwright
Sunday Times Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW
The Parkwood Murders: pre-order now for 16 July
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials now on Netflix
Cheddar @fartycheddarcat.bsky.social Fearse zombee fiter #ZSHQ, Gween Ops Ninja, #weeti, #IFC, Sooper Hewo, Ham Luver.
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
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Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe @fantasycafe.bsky.social Kristen (she/her) writes about SFF books at Fantasy Cafe, host of Women in SF&F Month in April. Vermont/Upper Valley. Likes: Myths, wordsmithery, complex characters, dark stories, Baldur's Gate 3, cats, birds.
https://www.fantasybookcafe.com
Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social She/her. U.S. Southerner. Mouthy, but soft. Editor of Intergalactic Mixtape and others: https://heyheyrenay.carrd.co / https://patreon.com/cw/heyheyrenay
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social The internet's definitive source for reliable factually accurate barely news and almost information about science fiction. Inexplicably a six-time Hugo finalist. hugoclub.blogspot.ca
Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/
Seth @ Hugos There Podcast @hugospodcast.com Host of Hugos There (2025 Hugo nominee for Best Fancast), co-host of Take Me To Your Reader. Fan of baseball, dogs, disc golf, books, science, science fiction, theology, cooking, hiking, triathlons.
Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org Seattle wants to invite the Worldcon community to our city (Aug 13-17, 2025) to experience Pacific Northwest fan culture and to continue to build upon and engage with our fandom community of learners, readers, doers, makers, and creators.
Radio Free Skaro 🇨🇦 @radiofreeskaro.bsky.social Popular Canadian #DoctorWho podcast.
Fiona Moore (Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings) @drfionamoore.bsky.social BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings.
https://drfionamoore.com
https://www.fiona-moore.com
Emily Cook @emilyrosina.bsky.social 📺 Development Executive
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🎬 hauntedbarnfilm.com
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
La Fumettista @lafumettista.bsky.social Key West illustrator/cartoonist. 80% curly hair, 30% anxiety, 20% bad at math.
linktr.ee/lafumettista
Daniel Dale @ddale8.bsky.social I’m a senior reporter at CNN.
Tolkien with Friends @tolkienwithfriends.bsky.social A podcast where friends discuss the differences between Tolkien’s works and their adaptations.
Clifford Broadway @quickbeam2000.bsky.social Writer. Voiceover. Producer. #Ringers documentary.
Livestream Host #TORnTuesdays 5PM
@TheOneRingnet Wedding Officiant @GreatOfficiants #WillMarryYou
Michelle Sagara @msagara.bsky.social I write the Chronicles of Elantra (and related books) as Michelle Sagara, and the Sun Sword & House War series as Michelle West, which are much longer.
https://michellesagara.com
Kyle D Anderson @kyledanderson.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, tokusatsu fan, X-Men obsessive, Whovian, Senior Editor Nerdist.com
Minibot Creations @minibotcreations.bsky.social Craft account for @jobot935.bsky.social
Crochet ~ Amigurumi ~ Cross-stitch
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestselling writer. Enjoys Korean dramas, music, movies, video games, pet photos.
The Hocus Pocus Handbook = Sept 1!
she/they
Wrote Enclave & Strange Love. Lots of books here! You should read them. https://linktr.ee/authorannaguirre
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
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Time Team @timeteam.bsky.social The official Time Team! The future of the past!
https://linkin.bio/timeteamofficial
#TimeTeam #Archaeology
Dr. E Grace Veatch @egveatch.bsky.social Paleolithic Zooarchaeologist & Taphonomist
Group Leader in Experimental Archaeology
Cluster of Excellence in Human Origins #Tuebingen
Liang Bua research team #Tikus #Stegodon
she/her
Dr Geoff M Smith @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social #Palaeolithic #Zooarchaeology 🦴🦣 #ZooMS | University of Reading | COEXIST project: https://research.reading.ac.uk/coexist/ | #HumanEvolution and #rstats 🏺Associate Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology, UCL🧪. All views my own.
Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social Bayesian Zooarchaeologist, studying animal domestication and philosophical questions like "how many cows were in this pit?"
GitHub: https://github.com/wolfhagenj
OSF: https://osf.io/va7ye/
Fossile, PhD @thifossile.bsky.social PI of the Defaunation Project funded by CNPq at UFSC • Biologist & Zooarchaeologist interested in vertebrates • Versão brasileira: Herbert Richers • http://linktr.ee/thifossile
Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist based in Worcestershire. Malvern Buzzards Running Club. Cats (well, just the one cat). Power metal
Dr Jim Morris @jimbonesmorris.bsky.social Archaeologist, interested in too many things, mainly anything animals, Iron Age, Romans with a bit of medieval thrown in. Attempting to be a fell runner. Will mainly post pictures of my dog Sansa and the odd thing about archaeology
Christian Meyer @osteoarc.bsky.social OsteoArchaeologist | Dr. ☠️ Bioarchaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Taphonomy, Palaeopathology & Zooarchaeology | All about skeletal remains & their context.
Valeska Becker @valeskabecker.bsky.social Sticks, stones, and broken bones
Archaeology, archaeozoology, general curiosity
Sharon Greene @shazarch.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, writer, mother etc. Interested in early medieval Ireland and beyond, the Atlantic coast, south Kildare, Shackleton’s sisters and more. She/her
Lena Strid @lenamstrid.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on the use of parchment in medieval Scandinavia (2026).- A Alice Wolff @alicewolff.bsky.social Archaeobotanist, medievalist, grad student, cat lover.
Henriette Baron @henriettebaron.bsky.social Head LEIZA Exhibition Department ▪︎
Zooarchaeologist ▪︎ Archaeology, Museum, Animals, and Books ▪︎ Private / Feierabend account, views own ▪︎ For more LEIZA follow me @leizafriends.bsky.social and of course @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Sarah Pleuger @sarahpleuger.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, Scientist, Music-Enthusiast, Favorite Ice Cream: Chocolate-Mint.
Ellen Hambleton @buosteo.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist in Archaeology & Anthropology Dept, Bournemouth University. Bonegeek.
Katie Tardio @ktardio.bsky.social Lover of food and thinking of food 💙 Roman Archaeologist and Mediterranean Zooarchaeologist 🧡 Assistant Professor at Bucknell University
Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social Environmental archaeologist and geographer. Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK.
Nick @zooarchaeology.bsky.social archaeologist. Grad student at the University of British Columbia on occupied Musqueam territory. I like fauna.
Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!
Ric Morris @skull-bloke.bsky.social Welsh border bones enthusiast, photographer, speaker, author of UK mammal bones ID guide, published sometime this decade. Lefty tweeter. Own views, etc!
Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist and Yorkshire import. Owned by a lurcher called Baz. Often baffled.
Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 | 🦣🏺 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist, photog & palaeozoologist #NightOwlChats
Danu Ruadh Teo. 🇮🇪
P/T Senior Res Fellow (Zooarch) ATU Galway
&
Hon. Res Fellow LJMU
Co-PI Castlepook Cave Project
#PALAEO-IRELAND | #IrishCaveBones | 🏺🦣
Co-PI @howlsandhooves.bsky.social
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Kathryn McKenzie @kateemckenzie.bsky.social Zooarchaeology | Human-animal relationships | FAIR + CARE Data | Anthropological Archaeology | Former bean counter | Mama | MA & BSc from @uvicanthro 🧪🦴🏺 🏛️ 🌎
https://kateemckenzie.my.canva.site/mckenzie-archaeodata
(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social Archaeological Scientist. Interested in isotopes, zooarchaeology, dietary reconstruction, animal management, palaeoenvironments, faunal palaeoecology. Senior Lecturer Uni of Lancashire Arch & Anth. Big fan of dogs, walking, wildlife and d&d.
Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.
Archaeological rats @archaeorattus.bsky.social Using rat bones to study trade, urbanism, and disease in medieval Europe and beyond. RATTUS project at BioArCH, University of York.
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/rattus/
Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo @whiterabbit36.bsky.social Paleolithic Archeologists | Reading the past in the bones | Atapuerca Research Team | working at The Institute of Archeology in Mérida (Spanish Research Council -CSIC).
Andreas G. Heiss @andreasgheiss.bsky.social Archaeobotanist (bean counter and charred food enthusiast), Research Group Leader @ OeAW-OeAI. Frenchie papa. Opinions are my own. He/him 🏳️🌈
María Fernanda Martínez-Polanco @mafemapo24.bsky.social Neotropical Zooarchaeology | Dental wear | Cervids | Islands | Intermediate area | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | Bogotá | BiomarkersLab - IPHES | she-her 🇨🇴🦌🌎
Anne Wagemakers @annew98.bsky.social Final year RMSc student (Leiden University, focusing on (medieval) archaeozoology 🐷🐬🐠 🐌🦆🐄 || Currently looking for a PhD position ✨
Dr Nathalie Brusgaard @brusgaard.bsky.social Archaeologist, Prehistorian | All things animal - ancient and modern | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | Posts about animals, archaeology, and travels
Dr. Carly Ameen @carlydigsit.bsky.social Lecturer in Bioarchaeology and Director of SHArD 3D at Exeter. Bringing the ancient past to modern policy. she/her
Harriet Evans Tang @iamharrietjean.bsky.social Project Support Officer at University of York. Researcher working on bears and Animal-Human relations in the medieval north: https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/bears-in-the-north/. Associated with Universities of York and Durham. Mum of 1
Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.
Mikael A. Manninen @mamanninen.bsky.social Senior researcher, Uni. Helsinki, DES. Associate professor of environmental archaeology and archaeology, doing interdisciplinary research of all kinds (ancient technology, aDNA, climate change...you name it). Stream restoration and rewilding. He/him
David @archaeomather.bsky.social Minnesota environmental archaeologist
Dr Alice Rose @alicekensa.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist: archaeology | isotopes | osteology | palaeopathology. Areas of study include medieval plague and diet in early modern Ireland. Currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. All views my own!
Lucas Proctor @archbot44.bsky.social Lecturer at Dartmouth | Environmental archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist | SW Asia, drylands, fuel, and farming | Co-PI of the HERDS in Oman Project | Posts = my own views | send plant pics
Kristina M. Gill @kmgill.bsky.social Archaeobotanist, archaeologist, and historical ecologist working in island and coastal California. Native plant enthusiast 🌼 Lowe Syndrome Mom 🌼- D Dr Cynthia Larbey @drcynthialarbey.bsky.social Archaeobotanist investigating early human plant diet. Archaeologist. Passionate about Nature conservation in environmental change. Grandmother to 7! Explorer with wonderful and understanding husband and Labrador pup
Chelsea M. Cohen @chelmcohenarch.bsky.social Archaeologist of ports, seas, and the ships that plied between them. Occasional archaeobotanist. Museum educator. Penn PhD candidate. Queer bog monster. Big damn nerd.
Don O'Meara @donomeara.bsky.social Archaeologist in North East England, interested in all things archaeobotany, environmental archaeology, and local history and archaeology research. Editor of Archaeologia Aeliana. President of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle.
Matthew Conte @mconte.bsky.social PhD candidate; Seoul National University, Korea
Archaeobotany; millet domestication and diffusion; foraging and/or farming societies in prehistoric East Asia; recently getting into doom and drone metal
Shumon T. Hussain @shumon.bsky.social Hunter-Gatherer and Multispecies Archaeology (Deep Time), Environmental Humanities, More-Than-Human Deep History, Animal-kin, Boardgames & eSports, Politics of Life - PI of ECOLITHIC & ZOOGESTURES @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social Postdoc @SCAPES, Museum of Cultural History/University of Oslo.
Everything Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, currently looking into biases/representativity in our archaeological practices, from excavations to theoretical models and interpretations.
Solène MG @somag.bsky.social (elle/she/her)
PhD. I specialize in the archaeology of foodways, identities, colonial contexts, as well as environmental & historical arch 🐞🍓. Re-learning to have hobbies after academia.
FR/EN
Michael O'Connell @moconnell007.bsky.social Botanist, palaeoecologist. Research interests: long-term environmental change, local and global; also archaeology, geography, history & a spot of photography