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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social 
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Charzea @charzea.bsky.social Hello! 🇱🇹
i'm every kind of character artist! (Anthro, animal, mech, human)
commissions: https://charzea.carrd.co/
i stream: https://www.twitch.tv/charzea
Cat Hobaiter @nakedprimate.bsky.social Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social Space Artist, sky observer and photographer. Processor of space images. Interested in Astronomy, Planetary Geology, history and in what the future may bring. 
HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social 'Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences'; our interdisciplinary Vienna-based research network explores human biological and cultural evolution. HEAS is funded by the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and supported by the NHM Wien.
National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social Last November top UK experts briefed leaders on the latest science to galvanise genuine emergency action on the climate & nature. The film version of this landmark event launched 7.04.26.
Find a screening near you
https://www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
Wild Card @wildcard.land We’re a grassroots campaign group of ordinary people, campaigners and experts.
Britain’s nature is in crisis. We're calling on the UK’s largest landowners to rewild!
https://wildcard.land/
Bence Viola @benceviola.bsky.social 
Laboratory for the Study of Human Cultural Evolution @hcelab.bsky.social ▪️Paleolithic archaeology
⛏️ Excavations
▪️Population interactions & human behaviors during the early/middle paleolithic
📍Levant and Central Asia
▪️Head; Prof. Yossi Zaidner
🏛️ Hebrew University of Jerusalem
www.hcelabhuji.com
www.tinshemetcave.com
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Benjamin Vernot @benvernot.bsky.social Scientist living in Vienna. Two^H^H^H Three loud kids, population genetics, sediment DNA. New Prof. @ Uni Vienna / Group leader @ MPI EVA. ERC CoG UNEARTH.
Eloise Kane @eloi.se Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares.
📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026)
Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social Bringing the medieval Islamicate East to the forefront of research. @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk
Project site: invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk
Digital corpus: https://invisible-east.org
Funded by EU's ERC Horizon 2020 R&I programme (851607).
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social Director of Language & Genetics at Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen.
Tracing the complex connections between genes, brains, speech & language.
Website: https://www.mpi.nl/people/fisher-simon-e
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-1996
Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social Museums, Archaeology, Romans, Corduroy
All views are my wife's
#SundayHuxley
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social Primatologist | Chimpanzees, Colobus | Prof at Université de Montréal | SMBC to 💫 AuDHD kid | Still figuring out what I’m doing here 🌍🏳️🌈🖤
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social Behavioral ecologist studying cooperation & intergroup dynamics in wild apes | Emmy Noether & Research Group Leader @ MPI-EVA
HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social 
Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social Boldly exploring our unknown Ocean
ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour is located in Faro, PT, and aims to build and share an integrative understanding of the origins and evolution of human behaviour, through rigorous and innovative research.
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Archaeological Proteomics Lab @archaeoprotein.bsky.social Lab at University of Reading using #archsci #Palaeoproteomics #ZooMS and #Zooarchaeology 🦌🦏🦴🐂 to study past human behaviour; home to project COEXIST. PI Karen Ruebens.
National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social Fighting disinformation in the science classroom. ncse.ngo
Paul Davis @pauldavisfossil.bsky.social Palaeontologist & Curator at Lyme Regis Museum. Mary Anning and early history of palaeontology enthusiast and fanatic about the Lower Jurassic palaeontology & stratigraphy. Palaeontological preparator and conservator (in my spare time).
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
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).
Alex Langlands @ajlanglands.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, rarely crafting and with a tradition of historic farming (Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, etc.). Environmentalist. @swanseahistory
Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social Artist and crofter, inspired by my environment, and always looking to the North
www.janerushton.co.uk
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
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Dr. Emma E. Bird @dremmabird.bsky.social Palaeoanthropologist : British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Natural History Museum, London. Interested in skeletal markers of behaviour in the upper limb of modern humans and hominins
Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social Biological anthropologist at the University of Calgary
https://www.vivekvenkataraman.com/
Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social Science at The Times
My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN
Helen M. Roberts @helenrobertsosl.bsky.social Professor at Aberystwyth University, shedding a little light on the past through the development & application of luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Amanda Hills Podany @ahpodany.bsky.social Author of Weavers, Scribes, and Kings, Professor Emeritus of History at Cal Poly Pomona, Assyriologist, and occasional bass player
Katharina Fuchs @ktfx.bsky.social Bones & Zen |
Head of the Human Osteology Laboratory, Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology @ Kiel University
Kiona N. Smith @kionasmith07.bsky.social Science reporter and author. Also knitter, crocheter, cross-stitcher, tabletop gamer, Pokemon Go player, and #NAFOFella. Actually 2 goblins and a magpie in a trenchcoat. She/they. https://linktr.ee/kionasmith
Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com
Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist http://childhoodbioarchaeology.org | http://facebook.com/childhoodanth/ | Co-Editor of Bioarchaeology International. Mother.
British Academy Global Professor at Durham University and Professor at University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka
Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social ANSOC is creating a new vision of the Bronze Age with animals as active participants in past social worlds
https://ansoc.net
Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin
Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social Professor of Volcanology. Waffle about volcanoes, HigherEd, tea and occasional running. SFHEA & STEM ambassador. She/her.
Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
UCL-Birkbeck Planetary Science @ucl-bbk-cps.bsky.social News and activities from the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, a leading centre for planetary science in the UK. With experts from UCL depts of Earth Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, Space & Climate Physics (MSSL) and Birkbeck Natural Sciences.
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is a centre of advanced research, debate and dialogue across any kind of boundary, intellectual or institutional.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.
https://davidgraeber.institute
Tim O'Neill - History for Atheists @timoneill.bsky.social History writer, medievalist, blogger, atheist, sceptic and expatriate Tasmanian. http://linktr.ee/timoneill
Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Michaela Ecker @isotopesrule.bsky.social Past Environments & Human Evolution. Emmy Noether Research Group Leader of "Kgalagadi Human Origins" Project (@khoproject.bsky.social) at @uni-kiel.de. She/her. Views my own.
Fereidoun Biglari @fbiglari.bsky.social Paleolithic archaeologist, Head of Paleolithic Department, National Museum of Iran.
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology @bhajournal.bsky.social Established in 1991, the BHA is a peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal focused on global histories of archaeology, published by Ubiquity Press.
See more at https://archaeologybulletin.org/, and follow us here for updates on articles, research, & events!
Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social Professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. Creator, "The Climate Chronicles." Author of the new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." Interested in all things climate change, outer space, existential risk, and past for present.
The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social @ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
@johnhenryphillips.bsky.social @johnhenryphillips.bsky.social 
Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk Dictionary of Old Norse Prose - Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog.
A random word of the day with a defined citation, the previous day’s Wordle solution, plus occasional updates from the editors.
https://onp.ku.dk/
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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA
Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 🇮🇪
ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM, DiAgnostic, Ancient Celtic ⁊rl.
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https://www.dias.ie/
School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social #Archaeology @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk
All the big ideas in time.
Try our 'School on Bluesky' starter pack: go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k - Toot ☥ come in!
Natasha Reynolds @natasha-reynolds.bsky.social Archaeologist (retired).
Gutsick Gibbon: A Gentle and Modern Ape @gutsickgibbon.bsky.social Loser ape with a poor grip on self control
Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/GutsickGibbon
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Helen Hampton @helenshampton.bsky.social PhD student, University of York, UK: researching Neanderthal adaptation to cold climates; MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology, UCL; Events Assistant, Lithics Studies Society.
Dr Thomas Halliday @tjdhalliday.bsky.social Author of OTHERLANDS (Foyle's BOTY 2022) and its illustrated counterpart (Foyle's Children's BOTY 2025), currently writing a second adult book. Palaeontologist, sometime TV quizzer, international croquet player, lapsed choral singer.
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.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social PhD, University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25), IHR. Research on Norman Invasion in 1066, maritime and riverine environments, 11th-c. maritime connections in the North Sea world
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
Rob St John @robsaintjohn.bsky.social Scribbles and sounds | robstjohn.co.uk
Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social Archaeology, ancient biomolecules and Ice Age beasts
Steve Witherden MP @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social Dad, husband, teacher. Welsh Labour MP for Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr.
Any casework or questions please email me directly at steve.witherden.mp@parliament.uk
Useful links: https://linktr.ee/stevewitherdenmp
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social Cultural historian of extinction at work on DINOSTALGIA, a book about how dinosaurs became cultural artifacts, consumer goods, and spokes-creatures for consumption | History faculty @ San José State University
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Videogame Beaches🏳️⚧️ @videogamebeach.bsky.social I try to post a videogame beach with the name of the game everyday, and underwater ones sometimes. And also Fridays are Pool Days!
If you want more info about a game ask! Everybody is welcome here!
Lene She/Her 🏳️⚧️
@nwilkinbm.bsky.social @nwilkinbm.bsky.social 
Eva Rosenstock @evarosenstock.bsky.social Prehistoric Archaeologist (broadly construed); Neolithic; Anatolia; Europe; Scientific coordinator/lecturer @unibonn.bsky.social for @bocas-news.bsky.social and @limesundlegion.bsky.social
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
Pre-order here! http://bit.ly/4y4DMkB
Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social Freelance Writer│Magazine Editor│VG & Anime Historian│🦈 fur │UK│Trans woman she/her│AuDHD │❤️ : @kitnibbles.bsky.social │Business Enq: curicuricreations@protonmail.com
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Dr Anjana Khatwa @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social Earth Scientist, Writer, Presenter. 📗 #WhispersOfRock, 4 Sept Little Brown (UK), 4 Nov Basic Books (US). Own views. Likes ≠ Endorsement.
Agents: 📺 Knight Ayton Management 📚 C&W
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Kennis&Kennis Reconstructions @adriekennis.bsky.social Adrie and Alfons Kennis, based in The Netherlands, working on reconstructions of our ancestors www.kenniskennis.com
Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social Joint Director, UK National Climate Science Partnership
Professorial Fellow in Oceanography, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Science Leader, British Antarctic Survey
Coordinating Lead Author, IPCC Ocean & Cryosphere
Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social Palaeoartist, palaeontologist, author, documentary consultant and creature designer. Affiliated with the University of Portsmouth, UK; views and opinions are my own.
More about me at markwitton.co.uk.
Support my work at www.patreon.com/markwitton