Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
Dr Kathleen McIlvenna @kathleenmcil.bsky.social A lecturer and historian. I work on histories of work and welfare including occupational pensions, occupational heath and family, specialising on 19th century post office and civil service. Currently working on a book looking at retirement before 1930.
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social 📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality.
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
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/
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Mark A. Spencer @fungiflowers.bsky.social Consultant & forensic botanist. BSBI/LNHS. Urban plants, INNS, climate change, natural history museology. Criminal (missing persons, deposition scenes, trace evidence) & Civil procedures Expert Witness. LGBTQIA+, Sister of Perpetual indulgence, trans ally.
Science and Empire Commission @sciemp.bsky.social Official account of the Science and Empire Commission - SCIEMP
> A Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) | https://scienceandempire.com/
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social UK project to raise awareness and interest in plants, highlighting species interactions (plants and inverts, galls, fungi etc) & encouraging plant recording during the Big Meadow Search (1st June-31st Aug). All welcome #nature #plants bigmeadowsearch.co.uk
Tomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social 
Scientific Instrument Society @sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social International society promoting the study and preservation of scientific instruments; publisher of the Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
https://scientificinstrumentsociety.org/
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
Dr Siabhainn Russell @siabhainn.bsky.social Political scientist, permanent wheelchair user with helpful household robots. Researcher working for @oxpop.bsky.social Opinions are my own.
London Natural History Society @lnhs.bsky.social We foster the appreciation and study of London's wildlife and assist in the conservation of wildlife in the London area
lnhs.org.uk
#LondonWildlife #LondonBirds
(managed by @ankemarsh.bsky.social and Pete Mantle)
Joyce Dixon @joycedixon.bsky.social 
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Views etc, my own.
Anna-Maria Sichani @amsichani.bsky.social BRAID fellow | Research Associate , Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study University of London | Programming Historian Trustee | Software Sustainability Institute fellow | early morning bird
John Lidwell-Durnin @johnlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Exeter. Agriculture, environment, resource extraction, and the natural world in eighteenth-century Britain. Currently developing a new project on the history of mining. New book out with OUP.
King's CHoSTM @kingschostm.bsky.social Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at King's History.
More about research and what’s on ➡️ www.kingschostm.com
About the Hans Rausing Scholarship ➡️ www.kingschostm.com/funding-opportunities
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
Like/repost/follow≠endorsement
No bio or posts, no follow back.
https://t.co/f5xOlVyLoc
Cath Skinner @cathskinner.bsky.social Sci-fi, screenwriter, AI & quantum policy in UK govt, escaped academic & start-up founder, maker of things.
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social electrical native - prof #sociology & #sts - director of the center for the sociology of innovation (mines paris)
New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press)
Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city
Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson expected fall '27 from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
Bionomia @bionomia.net Link natural history specimens to the world's collectors. https://bionomia.net. Posts by @dshorthouse.bsky.social and bot.
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social Harold Johnson. Maine (from away!). Bookseller. Pilgrim. Word Guy. Skeptic. History & Archaeology. Tolkien. Trek. Italy. Old English. Used to make YouTubes, now I make typos. 19th C antiquarian — Sideburns included! 🏺📖🧙🏻♂️
Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social Science-led NGO restoring & conserving Norfolk's ponds. Pioneers of #ghostpond resurrection & farm pond restoration. Crucian carp, eels, stoneworts, birds, bats, pollinators. Come yew orn: www.norfolkponds.org
ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social Academic society promoting research in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine. Founded 1989. Interdisciplinary network worldwide. More info: www.ishpssb.org
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social Privileged to work for the world's migratory birds via RSPB & BirdLife International. Love snorkelling; from English chalk streams to coral. Views here are mine alone & do not necessarily reflect the views of the RSPB. www.youtube.com/@NicolaCrockford
Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. High-Tech Britain out March 2026!
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.- C Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
Adam Hedgecoe @adamhedgecoe.bsky.social Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ethnographer, historian(ish). STS, Genomics, research regulation (RECs/IRBs) 
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
sts classics bot @stsbot.bsky.social Posting random classic STS papers or books. What are the classics, you ask?? Let us know your suggestions or thoughts in the replies!
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social We're all ghosts now. Curated by @pastpostcard.bsky.social. Represented by http://morgangreencreatives.com
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Kieron Flanagan @kieronflanagan.bsky.social Prof of Science & Tech Policy @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @mioir.bsky.social. Views own, RTs not. 🐝🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
Dr Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social History/STS/Lived Experience Research/Mental Health/Central & Eastern Europe. Birkbeck, University of London. 
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social Retired scientist. Niche natural history interests 🌱🦅🦋🪲🪨 Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Suffolk Breckland, TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton.
❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Alison Boyle @ali-boyle.bsky.social Gallery Director at RCSI, Dublin; Honorary Research Associate at Science Museum and UCL STS, London; Galwegian. Own views.
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
Helene Scott @hscottfordsmand.bsky.social Philosophy-medicine-bodies | working on messy categories in clinical enquiry @STSucl | previously @camHPS & @ClareHall | PhD from Medical Museion (@UCPH)
Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) @hptsociety.bsky.social The Society for the History of the Philosophy of Technology (HPT) is dedicated to the study of how we think about technology in all its facets. #philtech #histtech
Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities.
Brazilian. She/Ela
https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/
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HANYANG XU @hanani-xu.bsky.social - F @feltjam.bsky.social @feltjam.bsky.social
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
David Sepkoski @hallucigenia.bsky.social Historian of Science, author, eukaryote, synth dabbler, Radical Leftist™
Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social I'm an editor/correspondent for NPR. Mostly smart on the radio. Mostly stupid on everywhere else.
ChatGPT describes me as: "Aerospace sleuth, nuclear nerd and NPR Superfan — with a side of surreal humor."
Signal: gbrumfiel.13
https://geoffbrumfiel.net/
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Mattin Biglari @mattinbiglari.bsky.social Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History at the University of Bristol. Oil and environmental justice; decolonisation; labour; infrastructure; technopolitics; STS; energy humanities
Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry @shacorg.bsky.social The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (f. 1935) supports scholarship through grants, awards, events & the scholarly journal AMBIX
ambix.org
http://linktr.ee/SHACorg
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social Historian of science, medicine, and material knowledge.
Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social working on the rise of herbal medicine research in Ghana.
Co-curator of 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained'
Book Reviews Editor @advancesjournal.bsky.social
Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social Germany’s finest neon.
A project of @berlintypography.bsky.social
Edward Jones-Imhotep @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social Historian of science and technology | Professor @ University of Toronto | Director @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social | New book - The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self @mitpress.bsky.social
Whipple Museum @whipplemuseum.bsky.social We're Cambridge University's home for the history of science.
Open Mon-Fri, 13.00-17.00 & Sat, 10.00-17.00.
Richard Noakes @rjnoakes.bsky.social Historian of science and technology at the University of Exeter. Bit of an amateur astronomer and even more amateur at playing the clarinet and piano. Very proud dad.
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Gregory T Cushman @guanoguy.bsky.social Global environmental historian; Pacific World & Andean ethnohistorian; historian of climate & environmental sciences; scholar of all things foul and ugly, all creatures short and squat--at the University of Arizona
Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social Professor of Economic Geography, UCL. Also CEP, IZA. Cities, economics, innovation, diversity, and public policy. Views here are mine, not those of UCL, funders, data providers, etc.
https://max-nathan.github.io
Cian O’Donovan @cianooo.bsky.social Director, UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation. ➕ at large @ UCL STS.
Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social Prof Emeritus, University of Manchester.
Research: foresight, innovation, services, soc change...
HE/HIM -don't mind, but dislike those who find pronouns offensive
No interest in sport
I love music, speculative fiction, play with words and colours....
@jaspreetcrowson.bsky.social @jaspreetcrowson.bsky.social 
Dr Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social Research Associate in histories of wild swimming @ Newcastle University
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social The Animal History Group (🌐 animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history.
Posts currently by @leafyhistory.bsky.social.
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
Emma Tobin @emmatobin.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy of Science, UCL, Science and Technology Studies 
Emily Winterburn @arntem.bsky.social Occasional writer. Visiting fellow at univ of Leeds. Primary TA. Interested in #histsci #histed #histastro. Specifically Herschel, objects & astronomy. #quietlyautistic
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Joanna Chataway @joannachataway.bsky.social Prof of Science and Technology Policy in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL. Mostly waving not drowning. 
Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
Tip? robin.bisson@clarivate.com
Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social writer - researcher - nerd | professor of science, politics and culture at UCL | queer STS | social justice and science | co-dir. research centre for gender and sexual diversity | he/they | views my own | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Andrew Riley @andrewriley-001.bsky.social Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Dr Michael Weatherburn @mrweatherburn.bsky.social Field Leader and Academic Fellow at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Works on history, strategy, data.
Founder: Project Hindsight www.projecthindsight.org. Lots more 👉 www.michaelweatherburn.com.
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Neil Stephens @neilstephens.bsky.social STS at University of Birmingham, only just joined the app, will see how it goes
Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social Space and planetary historian, and tricontinental European history professor at New York University and NYU Shanghai. 2026 Fellow at Hanse-Institute for Advanced Study in northern Germany
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/
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com