Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social Authoress kazcooke.com.au
New book, Spooky Ladies out Oct 27! Also: Up The Duff; Girl Stuffs 8-12 & 13+; Ada; You’re Doing It Wrong: a History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women; ‘It’s The Menopause’. Further palaver as it comes to hand.
Muppet GIF of the Day @gifs-of-puppets.bsky.social Celebrating 50 years of The Muppet Show with 50 Days of Muppet Show GIFs! Run by @essaeem.bsky.social. (Not affiliated with Disney, Sesame Workshop, or The Jim Henson Company)
https://gifsofpuppets.wordpress.com
RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social Unofficial RSS news feeds from Radio New Zealand brought to you by @kylebarrow.com.
Hope to hand this over to RNZ whenever they decide to officially join Bluesky.
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social I write.
Ash Hickey آشلي @ordinaryash.bsky.social She/Her. Aspiring medical historian with an interest in how respectability/morality is applied to the body/illness. Based in Aotearoa. Harm reduction advocate. Dog lover. Flower afficionado. Knows how to throw together a meal. Shoddy crafter. Hot mess.
Radish Doodles @radishdoodles.bsky.social Three crows in a trench coat (she/her)
Illustrator/character designer, knife admirer, butt admirer. Clotting adverse.
Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social (She/Her) Artist, writer, general nerd.
te reo word of the day @te-reo-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy te reo bot - word of the day in Māori language. Made and curated by: @Amirzing
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@te_reo_bot on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Karen Tanenbaum @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social Pottery, pets, parenting, and progessive politics. Speculative fiction reader and writer with @mothmother.com
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social The official bluesky account of Foxes In Love!
Book Haven @bookhavennz.bsky.social Book Haven is an independent second-hand bookshop (with some new books) in Newtown, Te-Whanganui-A-Tara/Wellington. We co-share the space with the Freedom Shop, a local info-shop. If you're in town, drop by & browse https://bookhaven.co.nz
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social Scholarly Communication - all of it, Open Research, research assessment, research culture, research integrity. They are parts of the same whole.
Kate @knhannah.bsky.social Feminist/co-captain Team Hannah| Here for hope & justice-building| We live in a society| She/her| Most likely making dinner.
These are 💯 my personal opinions.
Damia “Danÿa” Vergnet 🏳️⚧️ @damiav.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ (en) She/Her / (fr) Elle / (eo) Ŝi
Trans rights are human rights 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Trains, linguistics, and heels lover
Wiki contributor since 2017
Professional software engineer and genAI hater
My links: https://linksta.cc/@Danÿa
(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social I draw Political/Editorial Cartoons
Last cartoon for The Post, Waikato Times & The Press 21st July 2026
https://linktr.ee/creativeelc
Can be quite Sweary.
Origin Londoner, now Aotearoa 🇳🇿 forever. Kikorangi
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
Lee Rowe @leerowe.bsky.social Granny. Librarian. Pākehā. Born Ōpunake. Live Tauranga Moana, Aotearoa. Toitū Tiriti. Free Palestine. My hobbies include not giving way to men on the footpath. Bit sweary & live with anxiety but generally happy. Also: lanyard wearing woke lefty loser.
Science Figures That Look Like Shitposts @science-shitpost.bsky.social This was a classic account on science twitter but it never made it to bsky so I rebooted it.
Submit figs at science.shitpost@fastmail.ca
Katie Furze @katiefurze.bsky.social Kidlit writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Books include: KEKENO CURIOUS EXPLORER (2026), PEKAPEKA SECRET FOREST BAT (2025), RURU NIGHT HUNTER (2024), TUATARA A LIVING TREASURE (2023) from Scholastic NZ. #STEM #12x12PB #SCBWI https://www.katiefurze.com
shambolika @shambolika.bsky.social Bookish. Tuneful. Humourous. Poetic. Erratic.
Pākehā, Rangitāne, Ngati Kahungunu: Euronesian. Aroreretini (it's not a deficit, but a partitioning, of attention)
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
@lukewigram.bsky.social @lukewigram.bsky.social Kapiti coast poet, now South Island based. PRIME Nurse and long time health advocate.
Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social Author of ‘Hush’ from Ugly Hill Press out now.
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at @modernletters.bsky.social
Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social SFF writer, disability comms person. Likes: knitting🧶 board games🎲 sea creatures🐙 reading📚 cheese🧀. Lives: Te Awakairangi ki Tai | Lower Hutt. Pronouns: they/them. 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♾️
https://linktr.ee/andiwrites
Cassie/Nova @cassiehart.bsky.social Award winning Māori/Pakeha queer writer of speculative fiction, editor, and mentor from Aotearoa New Zealand.
she/they/ia
Kāi Tahu/Kāti Māmoe
Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti
Mikaela Nyman @miknyman.bsky.social Beach walker, ocean dweller. Writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English and Swedish.
Hinemoana Baker @hinemoana.bsky.social Poet, sound enthusiast, occasionally hilarious!
Kōtuku Titihuia (she/they) @nettlebeading.bsky.social mostly here for reading recs tbh. You can find my book "Tauhou" from Te Herenga Waka Press (AUS/NZ) and House of Anansi Press (US/CAN). (te ātiawa / ngāti tūwharetoa / W̱SÁNEĆ)
Paula Morris @pjkmorris.bsky.social Writer, traveller, Cass Beer spokesmodel, former Miss Venezuela, www.koreaseen.com
Moderately Salty @melszymanik.bsky.social Writer of fiction for children, puzzler, poet, imposter, spy, fan of hot chips, champagne and chocolate
English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social Sharing news and events from the English Literatures & Creative Communication Programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
Whitireia Publishing @publishingwhiti.bsky.social Home to Aotearoa New Zealand's Whitireia Publishing Programme
https://www.whitireiaweltec.ac.nz/study-programmes/creativity/creative-writing-and-publishing/
NZSA.bsky.social @nzsa.bsky.social The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) represents Aotearoa New Zealand writers. Protecting basic rights to freedom of expression, working to improve income and conditions, promoting writing and literary culture.
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction for my story collection Home Theatre. My novel Mincemeat is out in November 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social Author & editor. Billy Bird (Penguin Random, 2016). To the Occupant (OUP, 2019). The Pink Jumpsuit (QWP, 2021). Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP, 2024).Author pic by Caroline Davies. Cover photo art work by Sharon Singer.
Wendy Parkins @wendmyway.bsky.social Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti.
Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā. Kaituhi Māori. Author of “Kurangaituku”.
Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur
Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
Steph Matuku @stephm1.bsky.social Māori, Mum, 'Decent writer'
🇳🇿
I write books and tv. Should get a proper job but I like working in my pj's.
she/her/ia
My YA novel 'Migration' is out now! It's a Storylines Notable book, NZ Booklovers winner, and NZCYA finalist🏆💕
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
te kootahekore ranapiri @ired0mi.bsky.social essa may ranapiri / they/ia / Ngaati Wehi Wehi / Ngaati Puukeko / Ngaati Rangiwewehi / Torere / Clan Gunn / kootuku maa / author of ransack & ECHIDNA
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social Feral cryptid from the void writing well bent SFF. they/them causing may/hem.
“The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”: http://books2read.com/u/3kpE6L
"No Man's Land": currently unavailable.
Website: ajfitzwater.com
Repped by: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
swapnahaddow.com
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social Spills ink, rolls dice:
hicksvillecomics.com
hicksvillepress.com
Teaches about both:
visualnarrativelab.com
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com Eisner, Ringo, and Harvey-nominated author/artist/adventurer behind Banned Book Club, Student Ambassador, No Rules Tonight, Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit. Worked on Garfield, Star Trek, Popeye. Repped by Janine Kamouh at WME. Find me at ryanestrada.com
Open Access Australasia @oaaustralasia.bsky.social Open Access Australasia (OAA) leads #OpenScholarship advocacy in Australasia, driving innovative change in scholarly communication to promote #equity and #bibliodiversity #OpenAccess
Website: https://oaaustralasia.org/
The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social Website dedicated to celebrating Aotearoa-New Zealand literature for children and young adults. With editors Harriet, Faith & Nida. Pitches welcome!
Bioeconomy Science Institute @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social Science with impact 🌱 Growing a sustainable bioeconomy for Aotearoa and the world.
The Bioeconomy Science Institute brings together AgResearch, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Plant & Food Research and Scion into a single organisation.
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social An initiative to support and enhance humanities research through the use of innovative digital methods.
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/home
American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org Official page of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Open daily, 10 am–5:30 pm.
https://linktr.ee/amnh
Hundred Heroines Museum 🏛️ @hundredheroines.org Celebrating women in photography. #Museum 🏛️ and Gallery based at Unit 19, Nailsworth Mills, Nailsworth, Glos. GL6 0BS. #Charity. Open Thurs - Sat 11:00 - 16:00
https://hundredheroines.org
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery is one of the oldest museums in Kent, founded in 1836. Free Entry.
Our blog page: https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/Blog/Blog-Home.aspx 
Art Collection, University of Stirling @artatstirling.bsky.social Making arts and culture a part of daily life for staff, students and visitors to the University of Stirling through exhibitions, events and workshops. Based in Pathfoot Building.
https://t.co/mbETTqX3Mb 
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social Sharing treasures from our Special Collections, Rare Books and Archives.
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Enquiries: specialcollections@reading.ac.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unirdg_collections
Durham University Collections @ducollections.bsky.social Collections from @durham-university.bsky.social museums, art collection, biosciences, archives and special collections. Not monitored 24/7. @dulib.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/DUCollections 
Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.
bit.ly/LULGWebsite
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Wakefield Museums and Castles @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social Wakefield Council Museums and Castles team. Follow us for news about our museums and castles across the district and stories from our collections.
National Science and Media Museum @mediamuseum.bsky.social Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @picturevillecinema.bsky.social. Based in Bradford. 🎥
Plan your next visit: scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
University of Cambridge Museums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Eight University of Cambridge Museums & the Botanic Garden | Five million marvellous objects to discover | Come on in! museums.cam.ac.uk
Musée d'Orsay @museeorsay.bsky.social 
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Anna Svab✨ @svanha.bsky.social ✏️sketch artist (posting daily sketches) | 📚book illustrator | 🚫no NFT or AI
For business inquiries please use email - svanha@gmail.com
https://svanha.carrd.co/
Grow From Here @growfromhere.bsky.social A small gardening and landscaping business that is about getting you into the garden www.growfromhere.co.nz
Kaye Reardon
Andrew Chen @andrewtychen.bsky.social Digital technology and AI ethics, early-stage science and deep tech start-ups, cats. Always learning, opinions own.
🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social Personal account. Botanist. #TropicalBotany. 🌴 Author of "A Gardener's Guide to Botany.” 🐶 Henry's 2nd favorite dad. IG: Scott.Zona. Posting from the 📐, North Carolina, USA. Trapped in Trumpistan. #IamaBotanist
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Dr Alex Hedley - Labour Candidate for Napier @alexfornapier.bsky.social Labour Candidate for Napier
Public Health Medicine Doctor
Join our Campaign in the link ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/alexfornapier
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social NZ politics professor at Uni of Canterbury, NZ, political scientist: youth & climate, sustainability, democracy, urban resilience (IPCC author/co-ordinating author AR6, RE for cities & climate special report AR7)
DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research and researcher assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
Zev! || COMMS OPEN @zevmaximus.bsky.social 33 - They/Them - Plural - Psychonaut
Amateur artist and author of your next favorite book.
This account has content not suitable for children.
Married to @sophlin.bsky.social
Commissions: OPEN
Info: https://zevmaximus.carrd.co/
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK