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Jimbob Blinkhorn @jblinkhorn.bsky.social 
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social Bridget Williams Books is an independent publisher focusing on history, Māori experience, contemporary issues and women's studies. Publisher of BWB Texts.
www.bwb.co.nz
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
@dunnersmads.bsky.social @dunnersmads.bsky.social Nature connector, AoNZ
Absolutely no interest in being followed or following fundamentalists, or people who wish to extend their rights at the expense of others or the planet.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social Berserker!
Out now from all good bookshops, and bad ones, and ones in between.
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
Tsenacommacah Chamber of Commerce @archaeomancer.bsky.social Archaeologist. Passionate about history, context, and boring civil process. Slowly becoming the Joker but entirely about participatory democracy. Resident of Tsenacommacah, the densely-settled land. 🏳️🌈 #RVA
Jeff Smith @sumisu3.bsky.social Sauna サウナ, wine, craft beer, 日本酒, BBQ, chilis, hops farmer and home brewer, guitar, French horn, Flügelhorn, jazz, Irish Setters, vinyl & books. 30+ yrs IT. Finnish/German/Chicagoan in NZ via Japan.
@sumisu@famichiki.jp and @sumisu3@mastodon.beer
James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social I write stories about conflict and borders and the people they impact. Just published a book about anarchists at war in Spain, Kurdistan, and Myanmar, previously wrote one about the anti fascist Olympics.Para todos,todo✌️
https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout
Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social Political scientist, co-host of Words Matter podcast, contributor to The Contrarian
Australian Archaeological Association @austarchaeology.bsky.social Australia's largest and most diverse archaeological organisation.
Social media by volunteers, not 24/7.
Web 🔗: https://australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/
Con 🔗: https://www.aaaconference.com.au/
💚💙Ω💙💚
🖤💛❤️
Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
🪬⚒Dr. Vivian A. Laughlin🏺🪬 @vivianlaughlin.bsky.social ⛏️Archaeologist/Anthropologist
🗺️North Africa, West Asia, and Southern Europe
✨’26 Select NHC Summer Resident;’21-22 Andrew W Mellon;’19-21 Fulbright✨
⚧️She/Her/Dr👩🏽🎓 ✨📕🐛✨
🤭My Opinions🤗
https://linktr.ee/vivianlaughlin
Chad Hill @chadhill.bsky.social Archaeologist, photographer, dilettante.
Primarily posting nerdy analogue photography BS: 110-8x10. Photography = catharsis.
Co-Winner, 2022 #ShittyCameraChallenge - InstantRegret
(Avatar is the dad from the awesome kids book “Pokko and the Drum”)
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Melanie Nelson @weavingourworlds.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/weavingourworlds
Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Author of Affection and Mercy (2021) and Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State (2026) ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social Join us at Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group.
https://oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigenous-people.../
Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social Mistress of Science. Transfeminine. Disabled, just like you.
📍🇸🇪Sweden via London
29,272 words #AmWriting @legalminimum.bsky.social Now shamelessly employed but not telling you where (yet).No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
Mihingarangi @mihiforbes.bsky.social Journo, māmā
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
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/
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social Host of Local News International
Non-partisan public data petition: https://usafacts.org/data-we-depend-on/
Bundle: https://trustfnd.com/davejorgenson/c/local-garbage-fire--vSrCPBRkF8C4LhjLJbKo
Support us: http://LNI.media/membership
Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social 
Aunt Benjy 🇳🇿 @auntbenjy.bsky.social Sci tech person.
TTRPG player.
“Fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.” ~ Iain M. Banks
Ace, ally, Pākehā, Tangata Tiriti.
Toitū te Tiriti
She/Her
Don't do DMs
#AoNZ
Debbie Seltzer @dlseltzer.bsky.social historian & philosopher of education (and environmental studies), lover of cats and orchids, foodie
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist, chemist | Nerd, coffee snob, loves fresh air and equality | She/her | Museum lover, but not museum apologist
Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social Wannabe Archaeologist, studying CHRM at UMD.
Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social Professional Landscape Artist
Represented by fine art galleries across Canada
https://monica-morrill.jimdosite.com/ https://monicamorrillart.etsy.com
Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
& Environmentalist
caroleking.komi.io
Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann @mancent.bsky.social Archaeologist and historian. Author. Course Director and lecturer of Independent Adult Education Provider MANCENT. Director Roman Gask Project. Loves all things Roman and Silkroad, and lots and lots of ancient glass. 
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
David Farrier @davidfarrier.com WEBWORM / FLIGHTLESS BIRD / DARK TOURIST / TICKLED / MISTER ORGAN
davidfarrier@protonmail.com | www.webworm.co
Lakeishia @tortellinigoat.bsky.social Ōtepoti Dunedin, originally Hāwera
She/her
Pākehā, left leaning, autistic, medical education
Toitū te Tiriti + Free Palestine.
Karen @kecrane.bsky.social Graphic designer in London.
Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social I have an MA in archaeology and run a blog called Living in the Longue Durée about ancient history and whatever else. This profile is mostly funny observations about history and science.
Blog: https://livinginthelongueduree.com
Ask if you want Discord.
ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social Not so quiet subversive. 'Quirky'. Theremin player. Pigeon fancier. Pocket friends. "Obstinate, headstrong girl!" I contain multitudes. Aotearoa.
Matt Gordon @mattgordon80.bsky.social Kiwi abroad. 1s, 0s and wiggly lines for EVs. Beer league hockey
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
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
Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social New album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, out 9/18 on Nonesuch Records!
Sue Bradford @suebra.bsky.social Activist & educator for social, economic, Te Tiriti & ecological justice. Former Green MP. In solidarity with all who work for a beyond capitalist, beyond colonialist future.
Mash @itismashagain.bsky.social Pointy haired boss. Lapsed mathematician. Live-in domestic staff for my cats.
🏳️⚧️ parent. 🏳️🌈 ally. @vassarcollege alum. Muslim American.🇺🇸/🇧🇩
Joe Biden slaughtered my people.
#NAFO #FreePalestine #AbolishICE
Raquel Blackburn @queenofcobden.bsky.social I look at things. You can look at the things also.
I also rate cats. 
David Stott @davstott.bsky.social Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.
GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.
Not that kind of doctor. Tinkerer. Aspiring bodger.
Glaswegian 🏴🦄 in Jutland 🇩🇰🦢.
Personal account. All views my own etc.
Kate Stavenhagen 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌻🌈 @treetops165.bsky.social Feel like a fool for thinking my fellow citizens would not vote for fascism. Wife of a kind man, mom of 2 sons. Adirondacker. #NY21. Blake for congress! Photo is My Happy Place: Deep River, Ontario. Elbows Up!
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social Ethics R Us.
Cambridge MA
MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social Thief of Joy: A Comedy Special NOW ON YOUTUBE
Host of The Downside Podcast
If I have to post on another one of these things I’m gonna kms
David Stuart Platt, PhD, MLIS @spoilheap.bsky.social Archivist, archaeologist, librarian, historian. 20th century Brit, 21st century USAian. Manc. Was "SmallFind" on the Bird site. Former circuit digger. Roman & rescue archaeology, ruins, libraries & book history, archaeological archives. (GPA+VT)
Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social Historian
Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Canberra
Director, Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific
2026 David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
All views my own
Lurig Drama Cushendall @lurigdrama.bsky.social Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social UW Madison Geography, opinions are mine. Geomorphology, soils, dunes, loess, in the Midwest, Great Plains, northern China. He/him. Living on Ho-Chunk lands.
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
KOMakesThings @komakesthings.bsky.social Kristi O.
I like to make things (she/her)
ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social Family, pets, rugby, cricket, good c*nt (iv&v), politics tragic.
Pākehā, tangata tiriti. Kāpiti Coast, Aotearoa NZ
Information is a virus.
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social Former Mayor. Global Greenie. Political reckons etc etc
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis 
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social MBBS BSc Hons Infectious Diseases 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 Zero COVID Australia NjbBari3@mastodon.social NjbBari3 on X
Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social mrjeffhowell.substack.com
Kirikiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Political opinionator.
My other car is a canal boat.
Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social Research scholar, 17th-19th C. Chinese literature (especially caizi jiaren xiaoshuo 小說). Global history of the novel. Rereading the Stone: https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social
research & updates https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
Ellen @ellenstrickland.bsky.social A lot of animals. A kid. Reckons.
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody @mandykathryn.bsky.social Mandy he/him actor/singer, Kathryn she/her actress/writer and sometimes Gideon he/him - son
https://www.rescue.org
https://lemonada.lnk.to/DontListenToUshs
Welcome refugees, Black Lives Matter, science is real, vaccines save lives, the earth is round etc
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Albuquerque posting @ilyabq.bsky.social I live in Albuquerque. Posting things I find interesting.
News posting ≠ endorsement. Please use alt text.
userpic from River of Lights, banner from Old Town plaza.
Finding my way @missmisocat.bsky.social Hopefully not an arsehole.
Aiming to stay away from cookers on Bluesky.
Tsundoku @adrianhumm.bsky.social "If we consider books as medicine we understand that it’s good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment” - Umberto Eco
Mamho @annamamho.bsky.social Local government nerd. Dog lover. Left leaning but shacked up with a dairy farmer so experienced in seeing both sides. Committed to being a considerate human being.
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
acid corbyn dallas @acidcorbyn.bsky.social 
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
WW2TV Paul Woodadge @ww2tv.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🎙️ YouTuber, battlefield guide and historian in Normandy. All opinions, comments and newsboy caps my own. Quite "Woke" and proud of it. #WW2TV #Normandy #IpswichTown #Rockabilly #Punk 🐈🍺⚽ https://www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV
Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social Teacher, knitter, widower, Phish head, provincial park, strategy puzzle video game, type of volcanic crater, electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, species of moth of the family Tortricidae, ...
Sydney @sjhnstn.bsky.social Not yet weary are my feet🌿
🇨🇦 archaeologist, artifact photographer, lithics.
Greg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social Whose Line, Whose Live, Smartest Man in the World, Greg Proops Film Club, Nightmare Before Christmas
New Album KIDDING. BUT STILL. https://lnk.to/kiddingbutstill
Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos on environmental cleanup, nuclear nonproliferation, and the nuclear fuel cycle.
She/her.
Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Photo: Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
🔜 Soon Lee @soonleenz.bsky.social Malaysian Chinese Aotearoa (New Zealander), geek, food, wine & microbes interest. Best Auckland Restaurant Venn diagram (Onedrive): https://tinyurl.com/AucklandRestaurant TL50
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Simon Phipps @new-brutalism.bsky.social Books: Brutal Wales / Cymru Friwtalaidd. Brutal North. Concrete Poetry. Finding Brutalism. Brutal London. Brutal Outer London
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All photographs by Simon Phipps