James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Jonathan Jansen @jonathanjansen.bsky.social
Lola Germs @lolagerms.bsky.social public health & biomedicine scicomm
Anirudh Kumar @anirudh-kumar.bsky.social He/Him | Geriatric Medicine Reg | BGS Trainee E&T Rep | SMF Mentor | Motorsport and Tech Geek |
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
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Social Theory on Film @socialtheoryonfilm.bsky.social Short films about Sociology, intended to welcome newcomers to the discipline, help students and entertain Sociologists | Committed to Public Sociology | Sociology lecturer based in Leeds, UK.
https://youtube.com/@socialtheoryonfilm?si=I2drpF7ww45l9PKr
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought @contemporarycriticalthought.org An independent forum for intellectual and artistic study and experimentation, devoted to the speculative and critical exploration of potentials in the fissures of the planetary present.
https://www.contemporarycriticalthought.org/
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
Noura Rizk @nourarzk.bsky.social PhD student at The University of Leeds | Interested in health inequities in palliative and end of life care and working across disciplines
ally pax arcari mair @goodgriefgoodlife.bsky.social Advocate, Researcher & Educator 👩🔬
PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Edinburgh Uni 🎓
Researching neurodivergent experiences of grief and loss 🧠
Championing compassion and neuroinclusivity in grief support and palliative care 🌻
all views are my own
Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community.
Authenticity is our purest freedom.
Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic and cultural relations, states and governance, & much more.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Dr Barry Jones @barryjmjones.bsky.social Chair of CATA - the Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance representing at least 65,000 HCWs in Module 3 of Public Inquiry. Covid lead for BAPEN and BSG member.
UK Covid-19 Inquiry @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. An independent and public inquiry, examining the UK's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
🌐 https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inquiry
Hull York Medical School @hyms.ac.uk Officially Top 3 in the UK for Medicine (Guardian 2026). Passionate about exceptional medical and postgraduate education, and groundbreaking research.
Dr. Elli Wilson @elliwilson.bsky.social Dr. Elli Wilson - Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. UK.
Qualitative researcher, palliative+end of life care, MND, complex homecare
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/eleanor.wilson
Views are my own
@davidgillanders.bsky.social @davidgillanders.bsky.social
Disabled Students UK @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social Using disabled-led expertise to improve accessibility in Higher Education. Thrice recognised in #DisabilityPower100.
⛓️💥 https://linktr.ee/DisabledStudentsUK
National Centre for Creative Health @ncch.bsky.social Helping foster the conditions for creative health to be integral to health and social care and wider systems. ncch.org.uk
States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social Research project exploring the experiences and effects of precarious employment within UK higher education geography departments.
Supported by the Royal Geographical Society and Antipode.
www.statesofprecarity.co.uk
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
Views own
she/her
Mollie Etheridge @mol-etheridge.bsky.social Sociologist of care; living the precarious ECR life, one short-term contract at a time; interested in parenthood, care work and care obfuscations.
Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social An alliance of 500+ organisations representing over 15 million people.
Be part of what's next: togetheralliance.org.uk
Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social University Disability Practitioner and Manager, NADP Senior Accredited member, NADP Director, AAPHE founder. Accidental competence standards nerd. Pronouns: she/her. Views entirely my own.
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Anna Wilde @annawilde.bsky.social PhD student at University of Birmingham (UK) researching death positivity - https://deathpositiveresearch.com Works at Caring for God's Acre @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social.
Loves dachshunds, fibre arts, cake, poetry, books and lives in the country.
Society for Medical Anthropology @socmedanthro.bsky.social medanthro.net
Producing new understandings of health, disease, illness, treatment, and care.
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social We are the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies & practitioners in social science & the founder of the Campaign for Social Science. We exist to promote social sciences in the UK for public benefit: www.acss.org.uk
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Materiality of AI" (2027, Bristol University Press) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Palliative Care Research Incubator @pri-uk.bsky.social Supporting development of researchers in palliative and end of life care through events, networking and collaborations.
Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49
Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/
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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
Gerry McCartney @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social Research Director of the #Exercise #Technology & #Cognition Lab | #Movement #Neuroscience | Husband | Dad | #MartialArtist | #FlowArtist | #Tennis Teaching Pro | Advocate for Persons with Long Covid
Confront-Eugenics @confronteugenics.bsky.social Public history project: www.confront-eugenics.org
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Arielle Duhaime-Ross @adrs.bsky.social Science Journalist, Podcast & TV Host • Past : VICE News, Vox, The Verge, Altered States • They/Them • www.adrs.blog
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board @nhscovwarksicb.bsky.social Responsible for commissioning health and care services on behalf of people in Coventry and Warwickshire.
https://www.happyhealthylives.uk/
Warwick Medical School @warwickmed.bsky.social Warwick Medical School is at the forefront of cutting-edge research, education, and innovation, driving advancements in healthcare. With a strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, our school fosters a dynamic learning environment for all.
Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge @pcucambridge.bsky.social Working to reduce the burden of ill health through our world class primary care research and teaching. Established in 1997.
https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/research/departmental-research-units/primary-care-unit
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
David M. Berry @berrydm.bsky.social Professor currently researching AI, algorithms, software and the university in a digital age. Part of a research team that recently rediscovered the original Joseph Weizenbaum ELIZA source code.
ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social ESRC Research Centre addressing pressures and inequities in how people experience social care.
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Inclusive New Normal @inclusivenew.bsky.social Sharing international Covid-related new learning, opportunities and creativity; driving good practice towards a safe Inclusive New Normal. Please tag if you have some to share. Thanks!
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Edited by David Grazian with managed editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Max Edward Perry @0404am.bsky.social Social science researcher in Edinburgh.
I look at (and try to write about): medical records, databases, bureaucracy, and clinical knowledge.
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social Professor, Health Promotion, views are my own. Evidence-informed decision-making is important. Integrity matters. N95 wearer. Dog mom. (She/her) 🇨🇦
Becky Evans @drbeckyevans.bsky.social Doctor and Biomedical Science Graduate
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
Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com NYT columnist. Signal: carlzimmer.51
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/carlzimmer/
Web: http://carlzimmer.com
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social 🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
Anonymous Masking Collective @anonmaskzine.bsky.social Taking some time out
@apmeducation.bsky.social @apmeducation.bsky.social
Nancy Malek @n95anaesthetist.bsky.social Anaesthetist in Sydney. Advocates for N95s and clean indoor air. Waiting for Novavax. Believes that doctors have a duty of care to learn about covid.
Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social Professor, Dept of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath | Editor, ST&HV @sthv.bsky.social | Honorary, Burnet Institute & UNSW | STS, health, drugs, outbreak science, viral elimination, planetary change, evidence | @contemporarycriticalthought.org
Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
Email newsletter twice a week: https://oxfordclarion.uk
For stories: news@oxfordclarion.uk
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces. she/her. Views own
Live in Scotland
Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social Sociologist of Health & Illness | Lecturer in Co-designing Healthcare Interventions at King's College London.
UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social Official feed of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) providing regular news updates on the work of the organisation.
Dr. Elreacy Dock @elreacydock.bsky.social Doctor of Behavioral Health, Department Chair and Professor of Thanatology at Capstone University, Certified Grief Educator, and VP of the National Home Funeral Alliance. www.elreacydock.com
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Robert Pralat @robertpralat.bsky.social Researcher and Sociologist
THIS Institute, University of Cambridge
https://www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/about/people/dr-robert-pralat/
My Future Care @myfuturecare.bsky.social Plan for tomorrow and live for today! | #MyFutureCare Handbook, Training & Community Support | 🌐 myfuturecare.org | A project of 🌐 mycarematters.org
Dr Steven Markham...👀 for opportunities @smarkham9.bsky.social Qual Postdoc Research Fellow
Held Mildred Blaxter Fellowship FSHI (2024)
Previously @UniOfOxford @OxPrimaryCare & @SCHARRSheffield
Interests = Community-based health/wellbeing interventions, #MensHealth, #SocialPrescribing, #MensSheds, #Realism
Dr Jody Moore @jodymooreponce.bsky.social Part-time asistant lecturer in the sociology department in University College Cork. Focus on subjective knowledges and in particular 'lived experience'. Incorporating genealogy and theology in the framework of social justice. Let Justice Roll Like A River.
Andrea Bruun @andreabruun.bsky.social Research Fellow at Kingston University📍Palliative care and learning disability 🌻 UCL PhD in prognostication in hospice MDTs 🏛 Conversation Analysis 💬 she/her
@ddd17-2025.bsky.social @ddd17-2025.bsky.social
Dr Naomi Richards @drnaomirichards.bsky.social
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social Truth, justice, accountability, saving lives
7,000 bereaved families
Creators of the Covid Memorial Wall
Press: press@covidfamiliesforjustice.org
Institute of Health Emergencies & Pandemics @uoftpandemics.bsky.social Transforming the future of public health emergency research through interdisciplinary collaboration, building capacity, and driving action.
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor @ University of Strathclyde | migration and diaspora history | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social A public registry of all the worst disinformation peddlers throughout the ongoing pandemic, and their billionaire backers. https://www.panaccindex.info/
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social International learned society, advancing the understanding of Higher Education through research and scholarship.
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Bristol Centre of Grief Research & Engagement @griefcentrebris.bsky.social Increasing understanding of grief, death & loss through collaborative research, education, advocacy & public engagement.
Visit our website: https://griefcentre.bristol.ac.uk
Catherine Waldby @cwaldby.bsky.social Professor ANU. Biopolitics, innovation, reproduction, history.
Hannah Landecker @hannahlandecker.bsky.social Historian and social scientist of the life sciences.
Ayo Wahlberg @ayowahlberg.bsky.social Cartographer of historically and ethnographically situated modes of problematisation. Out now: Viral Loads https://bit.ly/302vCxJ, Good Quality http://bit.ly/2NFH1by
https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/ayo-wahlberg
BioSocieties @biosocieties.bsky.social An interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences. www.biosocieties.org