Moths in a human suit (they/them) @lycomorpha.bsky.social A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing or making paint. In my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Moths, paint-making, disability, & art sh*t-posting. lycomorpha.etsy.com & mothsinahumansuit.uk
John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social Wildlife artist and ecologist based in Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK
Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography Landscape Photographer and Architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
www.linktr.ee/grantbulloch
www.bulloch.photography
UK LPOTY shortlisted 2021 & 22
British Photo Awards finalist 2022 & 23
Scottish LPOTY shortlisted 2017-24
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social Old bloke in Yorkshire, interested in wildlife, gardening, books, classical music, archaeology, cats. Often muddy. Born at 313ppm. Opinions my own.- J Jonathan Blackmore @jonathanblackmore.wsocial.eu If you invite Nazis into your bar, it becomes a Nazi bar.
W-social is not the place I'd hoped it would be.
I have left but this account can remain so that you can see there are empty seats here.
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Ruskin Society @ruskinsociety.bsky.social Founded in 1997, the Ruskin Society celebrates the life, work and legacy of the Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin. ruskinsociety.uk
Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social Hi, I’m a keen amateur photographer that’s here to share my pics & gain inspiration from others. You’ll see I’m somewhat addicted to photographing birds in flight. Thanks for looking 😊
Lea Elm @leaelm.bsky.social Photographer and writer living by the sea. Always looking for places to photograph and books to read. Won't say no to a hike either.
www.leaelm.com
Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social ASWLA. North Yorks based wildlife and landscape artist. Gilling East studio. Writer. Naturalist. Swift and house martin conservation, author of On Crescent Wings. Birdscapes Art for Conservation award 2023. Website
https://jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com/
David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social Habitual doodler and street artist, wrangling ephemerality and finding uplift underfoot.
John Van Hoesen, Ph.D. @jvh-vt.bsky.social I share thoughts on geology, maps, data visualization, and history. Currently exploring stories around the natural and human history of slate.
Former Geology Prof | Fulbright Scholar | Vermont
Tim Allott @timallott.bsky.social Physical geographer. Mostly retired. Partial to bogs, landscape photography, mountains, golf and whisky. Not always in that order.
Roger Cox @outdoorscots.bsky.social Outdoors writer on The Scotsman newspaper, surf, snow etc, see https://www.scotsman.com/author/roger-cox-outdoors-columnist
Book of surf scribblings available here: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-view-from-the-shoulder/
Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social climate scientist | extreme temperatures, atmospheric dynamics, water cycle | Reader @ U. St Andrews, PhD from MIT | he/him | 🇮🇪 in 🏴
https://sites.google.com/view/climate-dynamics-lab
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
@grahamaskew.bsky.social @grahamaskew.bsky.social
Vojta Hybl @vojtahybl.com 🎨 mixed media illustrator, writer, educator
🪨 geology • nature • timefulness
📍 Cairngorms NP
🏴🇨🇿🏳️🌈 he/him
My debut book ROCKS out now: https://geni.us/Rocks
Website + shop: vojtahybl.com/links
Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel.
Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social
Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/
Archaeological things here - https://www.digitaldigging.net/
David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social Writer, biologist
🌻How Flowers Made our World, now in bookstores!
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓 @earthpainter.bsky.social Visual artist, watercolour, printmaking, paint maker, occasional weaver and musician. Passionate about nature, rocks, prehistory, landscape, and a deep love and respect for our home, the Earth. Based in the far west of Cornwall, UK.
Please no NFT or DM
Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦
Friends of the Dales @friendsofthedales.bsky.social We are the leading voice campaigning for a sustainable future for the Yorkshire Dales.
#EyesontheSkies is our latest campaign - learn more at: www.friendsofthedales.org.uk
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social For 80 years our charity has protected and restored Yorkshire's wildlife and its home in Yorkshire.🦉🦔🐬🌱🌷
www.ywt.org.uk
A regional voice in The Wildlife Trusts federation. Become a member, volunteer or join our campaigns.
Michelle Hughes Printmaker @michellehughes.bsky.social Original linocut prints inspired by nature, Yorkshire countryside & beyond • Linocut printing workshops in York & online courses www.michellehughes.co.uk
Steve Peel @steve-peel.bsky.social Climate change, grassland, soil, nature, farming, food, humanism, transparency, fairness!
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Author of ‘Hartlepool’s Seaside Birds’. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social An obsession with moods and mountains
x.com/pauljwillson
instagram.com/pauljwillson
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571226489089
Paul Chamberlain @paulchamberlain.bsky.social Tolstachaolais Isle of Lewis here for news / views
https://www.paulchamberlain.photography/
Website for images
Callanish / butt of Lewis / Gearrannan / West coast of Lewis
Sarah Clarkson @sarahclarksonart.bsky.social Based in Edinburgh
Striving for sustainability
HND Contemporary Art student
https://www.sarahclarksonart.com/
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social Author, birder, naturalist (he/him).
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com
The Grove Bookshop @grovebookshop.bsky.social One of the North of England's best-known independent bookshops, situated in Ilkley, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
Linktr.ee/Grovebookshop
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Nichola Scrutton @nicholascrutton.bsky.social Composer, artist, performer, facilitator. Dr Nic. Also @nic_scrutton at IG.
nicholascrutton.co.uk
Current album - https://nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-from-the-blue
News: http://eepurl.com/gihZh9
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Andy Gell @andygell.bsky.social
#Yorkshire #birdwatching (especially raptors) and occasional #phonescoping.
Art,Space and other stuff.
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 living in God's own county.
Former RAF & airline pilot.
Location:
https://w3w.co/beyond.gigabytes.mayhem
Leslie Hills @skylinefilm.bsky.social Film producer. Book 10 Scotland Street - an opinionated history of one house over two centuries now out in paperback
Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social UW prof and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. WA State Seismologist. All about subduction zones and very messed up rocks.
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social Archaeology Art
Ash Routen @ashrouten.com Adventure journalist and editor of 'At the Edge of the Map', covering expeditions and adventure globally. By-lines include ExWeb, Nat Geo, Sidetracked, and Outside. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
ashrouten.com
Pål Henni @paulhenni.bsky.social Be nice.
Human. Immigrant. Humanist. Republican (Anti-Monarchy). Jambo.
Anti- /racist /misogynist /anti-Semitism /Islamophobia /transphobia /homophobia
Mainly BW photo in Scotland w Lynn Henni as @henniphoto.bsky.social & www.henni.photo
MDANT🎖 #MDANT
BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet.🦜 125 Partners in 120 Countries.📍🌍 Follow us to join the flock!
Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds and biodiversity. birds.cornell.edu/home/
(White-breasted Nuthatch by Hannah Criswell / Macaulay Library)
Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social (they/she) Artist-small business owner. Consultant on equity + ethics. Build resilient ecosystems for artists and communities. 🍉🕊️
jenie.org
linktr.ee/jeniegao
instagram.com/jeniegao
cara.app/jeniegao
SHOP: jenie.studio
LeedsBirder @leedsbirder.bsky.social Birder and #phonescoping fanatic. Working to conserve and share Leeds and Bradford #Peregrine Falcons and with Leeds Swifts. #kowa ambassador. Check my free guide to phonescoping: Phonescoping.org
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social Artist, island ranger, curator of feathers.
Mal Cowie @malcowie.bsky.social Central Scotland based painter and printmaker. Love my local landscapes and trees with attitude. Dog lover.
www.malcowieart.com
Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social What is your city built from? This account is all about building and decorative stones and accessible geology in the built environment. londonpavementgeology.co.uk
https://www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/
Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melaine-Le-Roy-2?ev=hdr_xprf
J Marshall @basculetheteller.bsky.social Photography, digital, education, healthcare, science, outdoors… too many marbles!
Paul Rickard Printmaker @paul-rickard.bsky.social I am a printmaker creating original, handmade relief, intaglio & lithographic prints in my mid-Wales studio.
www.paulrickard.art
Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social Research professor at UT Austin | geology | sedimentology | rivers | python | mountains | running | opinions are my own | he/him
zsylvester.github.io
Dave A @batworker.bsky.social Bat ecologist working in the North of England. Ex Museum Curator. Researching use of caves, mines and lime kilns by bats in the Forest of Bowland and Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Mariekeaneart @mariekeaneart.bsky.social Artist printmaker living and working in Derbyshire UK. Brought up in Birmingham. Inspired by local wildlife, flora and fauna, using handprinting techniques. Love tea, wine, visiting cities and living in a rural village.
#linoprinting #wildlife #blockprinti
Kai McBride @kaimcbride.com Living off-grid in the high desert of New Mexico, teaching photography, and dabbling with electronics, acoustic guitars, typewriters, woodworking, ping-pong, and cycling, while keeping my '96 tacoma running. https://kaimcbride.com
One Hike A Week | John @onehikeaweek.com Let's journey through the captivating beauty of the Pacific Northwest together weekly! 🌈️️️
onehikeaweek.com/trips @dogsonhikes.com
每週一行 | 約翰《賽德克美國黑人同志》
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Gaby Rodriguez-Barrera @gabbirdz.bsky.social Biologist working to conserve biodiversity and advocate for progressive social change
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social Making the Outdoors Great for over 40 years, we are Britain's original outdoor magazine. Skills & routes advice, long form stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things & the most experienced gear team in Britain. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/40fvlTG
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.
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk We're the UK's polar research institute 👋 Uncovering the secrets of Earth's frozen places, doing science for a sustainable planet.
Looking for a seriously remote job? https://bas.ac.uk/vacancies
Printmakers of Scotland @printersofscotland.bsky.social A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking.
Festival of Printmaking 14-16 Aug 2026 University of Stirling.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
@steveferrier.bsky.social @steveferrier.bsky.social
Blue Kirkhope @bluekirkhope.bsky.social Writer. Trudging through the bog, always heading northwards.
Glasgow, Scotland | (she/they)
www.bluekirkhope.com
Tom Duxbury @tomduxbury.bsky.social Illustrator & printmaker
Wandering the moors 🌲
www.artistpartners.com/portfolios/tom-duxbury/
Steve Tompkins @tomsk59.bsky.social
Painting in Cumbria and NW Scotland
cofounder
www.haworthtompkins.com
www.architectsdeclare.com
MBE
Born at 316ppm
Sarah Coomer @sarahcoomer.bsky.social Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
Shona Grant @monde.bsky.social Artist, photographer & maker of artists' books. Pro member of Society of Scottish Artists. Consumer of crisps. Cocker spaniel owner. Learning to get by in French.
www.ShonaGrantsArt.com
Fidra Fine Art @fidrafineart.bsky.social Traditional and Contemporary Scottish Art. Based in Gullane, East Lothian EH31 2AD. Open 11-4 Tues-Sat, 12-4 Sun, closed Monday.
Richard Geraint Evans @gpstrees.bsky.social I find a tree, I draw it. I include its GPS coordinates – so you can visit it.
All content originated by RGE. No AI.
http://gpstrees.com
Shin Hanga Daily @shinhangadaily.bsky.social Mostly woodblock prints, mainly from the shin-hanga movement and descendants. Key artists: Kawase Hasui, Hiroshi Yoshida. For more information, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-hanga and https://www.artelino.com/articles/shin_hanga.asp
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Yvette Schoenmakers - Printmaker @studioschoenmakers.bsky.social Dutch linocut & wildlife artist based in Weesp.
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I offer handprinted linocuts inspired by Dutch nature & moments of bliss. I also host lino workshops.
www.studioschoenmakers.nl
https://studioschoenmakers.etsy.com
Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social Insects, especially butterflies; conservation, global change, mountains; working at natural sciences museum in Madrid; Ecological Entomology editor; gone birdwatching with my dog.
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Kirsten van Schreven RBA @kirstenvanschreven.bsky.social Printmaker/draughtsperson. MA Fine Art Printmaking, Chelsea School of Art. Spyro the Dragon. RBA, Discerning Eye, Wells Art Contemp, Derwent Art Prize 2024, RA Summer Exhib 2016/19/24/25, Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize 2025, Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist 2025.
Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social Rewilding the Scottish Highlands. Hopeful and bold, we are committed to creating nature-rich landscapes that include and support people.
See rewilding in action @visitdundreggan.bsky.social
Stuart Grieve @sgrieve.bsky.social Geomorphologist, trade union member, tired.
Laura Boswell Printmaker @lauraboswellprint.bsky.social Printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut. Teacher and Writer.
https://www.lauraboswell.co.uk/
Anne @ctrlaltham.bsky.social