Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
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@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social 
Scornflake Grrrl @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social Economic migrant, cries in Procurement
Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social something nice with flowers or cats
Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social 
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com Investigations Correspondent, The Guardian | Tips: henry.dyer@theguardian.com/henrydyer.01 (Signal) | Interested in Politics/Media/🚂/CofE
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/henry-dyer
http://direthoughts.com
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me? 
Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk Ex Merchant Navy officer and now Merchant Navy teacher and creator of online training courses.
Author of the Series "The Hormuz Crisis" - Volume 1 The Illusion of Open Seas e-book on Amazon now.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-oro
https://ashoro.co.uk/
Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social The voice of private renters. We campaign to make our homes safe, secure and affordable. Team behind #VentYourRent and #HomesNotHotels
https://linktr.ee/GenerationRentUK
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Meredith Rawls @merrdiff.bsky.social Astronomer at UW, data pipeline wrangler for Rubin Observatory, satellite mitigation leader via IAU CPS SatHub, mom, violist, Ballardite (Seattle), family cargo e-bike evangelist, Episcopalian, etc. Opinions all mine
Simon MacEwan @theblastedheath.bsky.social Hopeless dilettante
Picker-up of unconsidered trifles
Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy.
Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/
Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
Donate: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/donate
@bbcrosatkins.bsky.social @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social 
Gina @perilinpink.bsky.social Whenwolf
Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social Head of Zoology and Science Collections at UCL based at the Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Nature, science, art, music.
Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social Team America. Economic Patriotism: America's Next New Deal. Medicare for All, Tax the Billionaires, No Foreign Wars. No aid to Israel. (650) 999-9610
Text me: (650) 999-9610
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
senatefinance.bsky.social
wydenpress.bsky.social
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Annatomix @annatomix.bsky.social International Mural Painter and Fine Artist, since 2011
Based in Birmingham, UK. Open for bookings worldwide 🌐
Available works on the website 👇
Email - anna.atomic@gmail.com
Shop - www.annatomix.com
Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/annatomix
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Danny Blanchflower @dannyblanchy.bsky.social Prof of econ dartmouth and ex MPC Bank of England working a lot now on the declining wellbeing of the young around the world I am here https://sites.dartmouth.edu/blanchflower/
And now grandad of eleven
Blanchflower@dartmouth.edu
Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Press Gazette energy & environment journalist of the year 2022
Highly commended:
Society of Editors 2025
Shortlisted:
Press Awards 2025
Press Gazette 2025
AOP 2025
Deputy Ed + Snr Policy Ed, Carbon Brief
simon.evans@carbonbrief.org
Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org Award-winning journalism focused on #climatechange, science, energy and policy. Subscribe to our free newsletters: http://bit.ly/CBnewsletters or visit our website: https://www.carbonbrief.org/
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.com/
Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social Deputy editor at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him. feygeleh & proud 🦩
newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich
contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Banner by Sara Qaed
danaelkurd.com to contact
India Bourke @indiabourke.bsky.social BBC enviro journalist, writing & editing for Future and Earth. Reviews in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social . Prev @newstatesman.com , AFP & others. (Recently returned from mat leave)
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social Science journalist writing for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic, Guardian Books, BBC Future, Washington Post Opinions, Prospect Magazine.
Passionate reader. #PoetryIsMedicine #ClimateCrisis She/Her
Sarah Manavis @sarahmanavis.bsky.social american author of TELL ME ABOUT MYSELF (2027) on the rise and impact of psychotherapy, HarperCollins (UK) + Simon & Schuster (US). writer at the Observer + elsewhere
sarahmanavis.com / she/her
Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social work in progressive comms, occasional journalist and writer 🌿
hothouse bookclub co-organiser
email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com
website: diyorashadijanova.xyz
she/they
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social Polling editor at CNN, keeping (cross)tabs on public opinion and the news. I like puns.
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Jo Murray @jmurr.bsky.social 
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals...
Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review...
https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
Patricia Clarke @paticlarke.bsky.social Technology editor at The Observer | AI Fellow at the Pulitzer Center
Got a story? Email me or message me on Signal: patriciaclarke.19
patricia-clarke.com
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Palestinian-American digital-internet pioneer. Non-profit, NGO founder. Scholar, analyst, consultant, lecturer. Humanist. MENA Peace and Reconciliation. Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies. Campari enthusiast. Dawg Mom. Yankees & Giants Fan.
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Katharine Swindells @kathyswinds.bsky.social deputy features editor at inside housing • also seen in new statesman, guardian, inews, boston globe, teen vogue • kath.swindells@insidehousing.co.uk • she/her
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Nicola Fulton @nicolafulton.bsky.social Strategic engagement lead at www.genomicsengland.co.uk, on a secondment from www.ons.gov.uk. Ex-NHS England digital team.
Data, health, social care, autism, LD, caring, travel, gigs, coffee. A Scot who 💙s living in SE London.
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Lucy Caldicott @lucycaldicott.bsky.social Executive coach and consultant | Proud West Midlander | Road safety campaigner
Toxic workplaces, career transitions, helping people figure out what comes next | 🎬 @LucyOnLife on YouTube and weekly newsletter at changeout.org
📍Birmingham.
FFS @h2022.bsky.social Hater of all things unjust. Lover of books.
Developer of systems for change.
Recovering ex- Big Tech; ex-MSM; ex-broadcast; ex-showbiz.
Digital, content and social media pioneer.
Swearing all my own
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Imaan Irfan @imaanirfan.bsky.social Assistant editor @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Produces the Prospect Podcast
"The most fun interview I've done in ages" - Count Binface
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Em Hilton ✡️💇🏼♀️🔥 @emhilton.bsky.social Organiser and Campaigner | Co-Founder @naamoduk | words in @vogue @972Mag and elsewhere | LDN | She/Her
Leah Hazard @leahhazard.bsky.social NHS midwife, activist, author of Womb (NYT Editors’ Choice), Hard Pushed (UK Sunday Times bestseller) and Birth Wars (coming 2027 from Allen Lane/Penguin Press). Trustee, Amma Birth Companions. www.leahhazard.co.uk. All views my own.
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, AL-MONITOR | Professor, GWU
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/china-middle-east-briefing-7305587918826319872/
Daniella Peled @daniellapeled.bsky.social Managing editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Sophie McBain @sophiemcbain.bsky.social Award-winning features writer and book reviewer for the Guardian, the Times and New Statesman magazine. Portfolio & contact info: sophiemcbain.com
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social Human rights here in Israel-Palestine and beyond.
Spreading signs of HOPE whenever I can.
Also Executive Director of HaMoked.org
ג'סיקה מונטל
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
📚 Buy my book 'Abortion' at prh.com/abortion
Abortion, Every Day | Jessica Valenti | Substack [Unofficial] @jessica.substack.com.web.brid.gy All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community. Click to read Abortion, Every Day, a Substack publication.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://jessica.substack.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/jessica.substack.com
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Númenorean Zhang Jue 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social the Russian Empire is already fallen; the Promethean sky will soon rise.
when the year is bǐngwǔ, there shall be prosperity under Heaven!
he/him
Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Kill the boy, and let the woman be born.
If I detatched your quote, it’s because you annoyed me but I didn’t want you to be dogpiled
(30 | trans | British | left-liberal | disabled | she/her)
https://backloggd.com/u/Julianna/
Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 - transport - politics - flying
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social Policy, Public Affairs and Electoral Analysis (and occasionally Photography)
'Political Analyst' - Aaron H. Ellis
Views my own
Writes at https://thepartyanimal.substack.com/
Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social I post cool charts about markets and investing. Scottish and into running. Head of Strategic Research @Schroders. Not investment advice
Duncan Stott 🏗️🇺🇦 @duncanstott.bsky.social Geeky YIMBY liberal
Housing, politics, liberalism and growth
Oxford UK
Only lurking here for now
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social Probably the only Wisła Kraków fan on bluesky.
Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social British social democrat, here for UK/US politics. Masochistic Arsenal, Fiorentina and SF Giants fan. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Tom James @tacj.bsky.social Pretty standard really.
Chris McKeon @cjmckeon.bsky.social Political correspondent for PA, former local journalist, amateur sportsman, ex-historian, other things
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social Nobody very important. Ferrets, greyhounds, poorly thought-through opinions. Englishman living in rural Northern Ireland. he/him
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social New name, same pastry face, emigrating from The Bad Place
Pierre Landry Kabore enjoyer 🇧🇫🏴🇱🇻