ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
Jane Baston @janebaston.bsky.social 💚 Green Party Councillor & trade unionist
📍 Bournbrook & Selly Park, Birmingham
Promoted by C. Busuttil on behalf of Jane Baston (Green Party) Unit 3 Block 2 Wednesbury Trading Estate WS10 7JN
@canhandlebars.bsky.social @canhandlebars.bsky.social 
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
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Kate Collier @positivelyplayful.bsky.social (she/her) Play and playfulness. Cycles to get places. Worcester, UK
Howard Winant @hwinant.bsky.social Father, partner of DR, Saba, race/racism scholar, Marx, new left, secular Jew. Parents were refugees.
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social Investigative and policy reporter at Remapping Debate. Previously at CityLab, SF Examiner. Author of "The Unfinished Metropolis": https://shorturl.at/PInVb
dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Former Guardian, Village Voice & SciAm. He/him
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
https://holly-bird.co.uk/
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ . Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban & Regional Planning | Community Councillor | 90s pop culture enthusiast | Occasional Agitator
Replace the M8 @replacethem8.bsky.social Campaign to remove the motorway from Glasgow city centre and replace it with something better 
Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man.
http://www.noraloreto.ca- H harpernunes.bsky.social @harpernunes.bsky.social
Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org Professional Development | Knowledge Transfer | Strategic Advising
Our mission is to serve, teach, and inspire current and future urban professionals in our quest for actionable steps towards safe, inclusive, active mobility.
Stephen Wittek @swittek.bsky.social I'm an Associate Professor and Director of the Literary and Cultural Studies program in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University. I work on Shakespeare, early modern drama, wit, news, publics, conversion, computational humanities, and VR.
Transform Scotland @transform.scot We are the national alliance for sustainable transport – we campaign for better, fairer and greener transport in Scotland.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com Dutch-Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of happier, healthier, more human-scale cities.
James Dunbar @jamesad.bsky.social architect, phd student (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), traveler, photographer, future architectural historian, part-time punk (semi-retired), critiques of ISM
Friends of Spark Green Park @sparkgreenpark.bsky.social A community volunteer group which loves nature and cares for Spark Green Park, Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B128EH. We aim to reduce litter, restore nature and increase biodiversity. Let's make it sparkle and green again for all to enjoy!💚🌍🌳🐝
Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social 🇵🇸 ✊🏾 (posts by Bhakti Shringarpure)
https://radicalbookscollective.substack.com/
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social Exec Director & founder, Uplift; "provocative and not entirely without merit" according to Energy Voice, Standard disclaimers, incl. that all views are my own.
Gersh Kuntzman @realgershkuntzman.bsky.social Editor of Streetsblog NYC and a New Yorker who bikes. First, Fourth and 21st Amendment absolutist. And from the lawyers: “Organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only.”
Jane @localnotail.bsky.social local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant
English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.
Fair Witness.
Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social Health & Transformative Justice
Radical pedagogy & creative methods
Sociology Prof.
Suburban Dad.
www.ourpublicsafety.ca
www.imaginingfutures.ca
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love
Joanne Barker @joannebarker62.bsky.social Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians). Writer, artist, cat staffer, grumpy prof, anti-imperialist, sci-fi nerd. Rebellions are built on hope. Everything else requires tequila and chocolate. Art page: https://artofjoannebarker.squarespace.com
Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com Running for reelection as City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
Steve Hewitt @stevehewitt.bsky.social A repatriated Canadian settler living in Birmingham, UK, with an interest in security and intelligence in the past and present and in a US-Canada-UK context. I also follow politics in those countries as well as the strange world of academia. Plus, I run.
Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social Founder, Studio Divercity & StreetSmart | Helping replace car-centric urban sprawl with people-centred, water-sensitive & nature-positive cities
Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social living and working on unceded Dharug lands| BEc| LLB| PhD| ACAB| she/her| abolition feminist| Banner pic: tops of 4 bolted concrete panels against a deep Blue Sky (Apartheid Wall, 2008) Free Palestine🇵🇸
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Aditi Sriram @aditisriram.bsky.social Economist @ IPPR
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social Journalist, writer etc — but mostly her dad. AuDHD. Library socialist. Luddite.
Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social
Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net
Archives: https://eliaayoub.com
From 🇱🇧. In Brighton, UK
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social Utility cycling & active travel advocate. Passionate about ending car dependency (not banning cars), reducing urban sprawl + how bikes are the easiest and most cost effective way to achieve that. Former journalist turned software developer. r/fuckcars mod
Jillean McCommons @jilleanmc.bsky.social Memory worker. Assistant professor. Writing about Black activism in Appalachia.
Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social 💥 Join our active, growing branch and be part of the campaign for a safer, fairer university: ucu.org.uk/join · birminghamucu.org
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Apeike Umolu @apeikeumolu.bsky.social University of Cambridge
Historian of 19th Century Political Thought
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social Film & documentary composer | cellist | BAFTA Connect | 'Orchard Street: The Opera' | Bristol-based
Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social I post Jewish things. Sometimes other things. Like sports. But mostly Jewish things. Senior Jewish Educator for Judaism Unbound/The UnYeshiva. www.judaismunbound.com
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Robin Chase @rmchase.bsky.social sustainable urban transportation. Co-founder Zipcar, NUMO #climate #cities #transport #justice #bikes. Also knitter, gardener, parent
Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social For a Scottish Socialist Republic
#AutisticLiberation
https://mohkohn.co.uk
he/him
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Phil Jones @phil-pja.bsky.social Engineer, transport planner, whatever. Sylfanwr www.pja.co.uk. Coming at you from Tŷ Bach Twt. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Easy on the palate. Toffs are reckless.
Dr. CBS @drcbs.bsky.social Rodneyist. Black Studies. Black Alliance for Peace. Pre-order Black Scare/Red Scare: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo207945104.html
Dashed Lines @dashed-lines.bsky.social Design, cycling/transport, health/sport. Glasgow/Edinburgh
Chris Lavelle @chrisplavelle.bsky.social Senior Project Manager at Uni of Glasgow | Chair of Glasgow Eco Trust | Drumchapel Ladies Coach | Green Party Socialist | Views own |
I also ramble at https://horizonglasgow.uk/
Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social 
Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Cycling | CEO Urban Cycling Institute
UK American Studies Against the Genocide! @uk-usstudies4pal.bsky.social A network of scholars in American Studies working to address the omission of Palestine in our field in the UK academy. We are hosting a symposium on the 9th May 2026 in Central London. Registration now open: https://www.ticketsource.com/uk-am-studies-4-pal
Aaron Lecklider @aaronlecklider.bsky.social Professor of American Studies and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture (UC Press)
Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social Vancouver-based writer, editor, non-profit worker & volunteer, community advocate, democratic socialist, husband, dad.
Alia ElKattan @aliaelkattan.com researcher, co-founder @decifer.tech, 🛹 , ⚽ , 🎵, etc.
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social 
Carfree Cities Alliance @carfree-cities.bsky.social We're open! We used to be on Twitter (X) and now hope to be a wonderful presence on Bluesky where we can show you why cities without cars are the best!
Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social Lecturer Geography // political ecology, green transition // From the Bog to the Cloud. Dependency and Eco-modernity in Ireland (2025)
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social Geographer at Simon Fraser University. Policy mobilities; urban politics; harm reduction; social movements. Managing editor, EPC: Politics & Space (journals.sagepub.com/home/epc). Host, 'Minor Revisions' podcast (http://bit.ly/3suN9ur). Views my own.
@sarrarabhi.bsky.social @sarrarabhi.bsky.social 
Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm a teacher 🇺🇸 of English living in Slovakia.
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social Urban Planner•PanAfrican•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner• #newwest Library Trustee📚
🏗️cities/‘hoods are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them
Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social 
Patrick Miner @pdbminer.bsky.social Geographer at University of Edinburgh. Studying cities, mobilities, transport, & land use in the context of safety, social justice, health, & climate. he/him
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social Chicago
PRO biking/walking for transportation
ANTI car-dominated streets
PRO cities/housing/flâneusing
Violin/guitar/art/weather/travel
1st generation American 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
#northDLSD #bikeCHI #ClarkStCorridor
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle @theangrynoodle.com Afro Boricua 🇵🇷. Founder of sci-fi/fantasy/writing blog, The Angry Noodle. Reading stuff, crocheting silly little guys. 🧶She/her.
Profile pic by @gaudipern!
https://theangrynoodle.com/
https://linktr.ee/brya23456
editors@theangrynoodle.com
Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social Social/Climate Justice
Environmental Protection
Green/Just Transition Now
fossilfueltreaty.org
XR
JSO
Defend our Juries
Quakers
Go Vegan
Boycott Palm Oil
palmoildetectives.com
Universal Education/Healthcare
Local Economies
Biodiversity
Citizens Assembliesk
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
@kennettaperry.bsky.social @kennettaperry.bsky.social Writer, teacher, historian, thinker
Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social Data analyst/scientist making data analysis software, #datavis, #datascience , etc, nature photography, some creativity and hobbyist personal complex medical research . ( Did I miss anything?... well, #mecfs ;)
miskaknapek.eu
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social MF Pride of the Tyne
🏳️🌈 🚲 😷
She/her.
pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social Cycle campaigner and comms professional • Former TV Producer • Award-winning cycle campaigner • Former clown, expect jokes.
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City