Paul Johnson @ptwiddle.bsky.social American mathematician in the UK. Mellowing in middle age.
He/Him.
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol Life is weird - let’s laugh at it before it eats us. Not waving but drowning.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Rafael Reyes III @rafaelr3.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of imagination, process philosophy, and religious pluralism | thoughts and ideas are my own
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social "Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Hope Projects @hopeprojects.bsky.social 🌍 Hope Projects | Fighting Destitution & Homelessness
💙 Supporting asylum seekers in UK
🏠 Providing housing, legal advice & advocacy
#hopeforall
linktr.ee/hopeprojects
Claydem @claydem.bsky.social Learning Designer at the University of Kent & SFHEA.
- Focus: Curriculum design, employability, internationalisation, leadership
- Passionate about coaching and mentoring
- Lover of films, dancing, hiking and being out in nature
Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social Solar physicist, adult educator, human. Scottish. Retired; hopefully not yet moribund. Prog, jazz and indeed, surprising though it might be to the younger me, folk. Cycling
Christina Turner @ndstina.bsky.social Equity. Justice. I punch up.
Data scientist. Lover of LEGO.
Currently @ [redacted]
she/they
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
Janne Hämäläinen @janne.hamalainen.social Computer security architect specializing in healthcare, big data, and AI. An economist by training. I strive to understand the world and help others do the same through my volunteer work as a Rotarian.
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
https://linktr.ee/aecral
Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat.
Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion.
beside/toward/above
🏳️🌈
Ken Wilson @therealkenwilson.bsky.social Writer, walker, lover of native grassland.
My book, Walking the Bypass: Notes On Place From the Side of the Road, is available now from University of Regina Press in Canada and New York University Press in the US.
readingandwalking.ca
kenwilsonwriter.ca
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Penny Welch @pennywelch2025.bsky.social Retired university teacher and UCU activist. Co-editor of Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
vancitylor @lorialeo.bsky.social Product mgmt professional and tech/media researcher. Unpopular views m'own.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lorian-Leong
York St John University @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Welcome to the official Blue Sky account for York St John University.
Join us for a daily slice of YSJ life. We'll share our research, upcoming events, and other news from across the University. 
Notts For Europe @notts4europe.bsky.social Home of the Nottinghamshire branch of the European Movement #FBPE #RejoinEU
David Brax @davidbrax.bsky.social Utredare vid Göteborgs Universitet. Filosof, pappa, forskningspolitisk influencer.
@e-karakaya.bsky.social @e-karakaya.bsky.social #PHYSİCS #STEMToo
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” Maya Angelou
Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience.
Not strictly qualified for most arguments, but I do read a lot.
Stockport, UK
Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social Proud rodeo mom, soccer mom, baseball mom, hockey mom, constitutional conservative.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Daniyal Javed (PSP, Oxon) @daniyal1986.bsky.social - Alum: University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government
- University of Syracuse, Maxwell School of Citizenship
- Chevening Fellow, Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, Police Officer.
Justice not enforcement
old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue i post public domain photographs from the john margolies roadside america archive in the library of congress. unaffiliated. built by @xor.blue
Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu French guy in sarf London, standing at a slight angle to the universe: current affairs, politics, photos, typos, and some sillyness. he/they 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
▪︎Deputy Editor for a trade mag
▪︎Photography, short stories, and more: www.zefrog.eu
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation. 
Laura Murphy @lauratmurphy.bsky.social Today: prof at Sheffield Hallam U, Senior Associate at CSIS;
Previously: Policy Advisor at Department of Homeland Security in Biden admin
Always: researcher on forced labor
Decoherence Media @decoherence.media Decoherence Media investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Website: https://decoherence.media/
FashyLeaks: https://fashyleaks.com/
Epstein Network: https://epstein.photos/
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Council for the Defence of British Universities @cdbu.bsky.social The crisis of marketisation has put universities in danger. We believe that it’s time to fight back. Visit our website to become a member 🎓
Snopes @snopes.com Official Snopes profile
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Martyn Brunt @skybluebrunty.bsky.social Former Team GB swimmer and triathlete, and one time runner for England (literally one time). Greenway builder, hedgehog fosterer, wild gardener, ageing punk, book author, francophile, and if I can't bring my dogs, I'm not coming.
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Kian Aspinall @caan2.bsky.social Writing on racial capitalism and fascism. Reader of WEB Du Bois, Cedric J. Robinson, Sylvia Wynter and the histories of fascism and race. PhD @ WSU, postdoc @cambridgesociology ☘️
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Xinyue Long @xylong.bsky.social PhDing @nottingham
Former research fellow in intercultural communication @unnc
Queer linguistics, (sub)culture, (digital) spacetime
they/she
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025, "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
@drdavehindley.bsky.social @drdavehindley.bsky.social This September I am running the Robin Hood Half Marathon to raise funds for Nottingham Refugee Forum.
http://bit.ly/4wtJQSH
Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social Senior Editor at @plosbiology.org; Scientist, Humanist, Optimist and Recovering Academic. All opinions my own.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Martin McQuillan @mgmcquillan.bsky.social Blue Sky’s first media baron | senior entertainment correspondent at Research Professional News | The Lonely Arts Club podcast | Director of the Institute for Creative Enterprise, Edge Hill University | Twenty-One Media
Emrah Karakilic @emrahkarakilic.bsky.social human, all too human…
Mike Williamson @bigredmike.bsky.social Socialist, union full timer, living rent member, Edinburgh via Merseyside. livingrent.org/join
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
Barold @barrytsprout.bsky.social Socialist, Scientist, Sophist.
Chris Woodard @utiliwood.bsky.social Moral and political philosophy, University of Nottingham
christopherwoodard.org
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
Paul Ashwin @paulashwin.bsky.social I teach and research about higher education
Dr Rosie Miles @rosiemilespoet.bsky.social Poet. Former English Literature academic who has retrained as a gardener.
Nige Healey @nigel-healey.bsky.social Higher education researcher and sometime consultant
angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social Socio-legal academic of data & tech
Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture
Between Awabakal land & Alba, often out and about
Likes clean air
Own views
She/her
www.angeladaly.wordpress.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social An academic in critical university studies, exploring authorship, representation & transformation against oppression.
(Posts own; email me rather than DM)
SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social The official account of the President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate, SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of English Bruce Simon, 7/1/2025-6/30/2027. Fund, price, staff, and govern higher ed as the indispensable public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social Teaching in Higher Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal (Taylor & Francis) focusing on critical higher education studies.
Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social International peer reviewed journal of the Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia. Published by @TandFResearch.bsky.social.
#HigherEducation #SoTL #Universities
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cher20
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social #Safety and #wellbeing advocate and creator of the #PEEPSS Model.
Social Psychologist. #Methodologist. Sometime #AgonyAunt. Advice giving as praxis. Critical #MentalHealth. Lives by the sea.
Come for a #ResearchTip, maybe ask a question, stay for cat pics
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
Anna McKie @annamckie.bsky.social Freelance journalist and editorial consultant
Bylines in @resprofnews.bsky.social @nature.com @wired.com
Previously reporter @timeshighered.bsky.social
Dr Yvonne Couch @dryvonnecouch.bsky.social Associate Prof - University of Oxford | Neuroimmunologist interested in stroke, brain injury, brain metabolism, extracellular vesicles | Dogs | Gardening | Food | Travel
Cylcia Bolibaugh @cbolibaugh.bsky.social Assoc prof @DeptEdYork. Language processing & acquisition, open research @irisdatabase.bsky.social | @oasisdatabase.bsky.social
Stella Sibbit (she/her) @stellainscotland.bsky.social Posting in a personal capacity mostly on international education. #TeamUofG. Kiwi in Scotland. Parent of two. Lover of a good flat white.
Will Garrett-Petts @wfgp.bsky.social New to Bluesky! Professor of English, Rhetoric & Canadian Studies, interested in sharing and learning about community-engaged research, undergraduate research, & all forms of critical #cartography, especially #cultural #mapping. https://wgp.trubox.ca
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen @karinwahlj.bsky.social Journalism professor, Cardiff University. President-Elect, International Communication Association. Interested in media and democracy. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/wahl-jorgensenk 🏴🇩🇰
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Matthew Barr @matthewbarr.co.uk Head of Education & Practice, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. Co-director, Games & Gaming Lab. Director, Ada Scotland Festival.
Pauline Couper @paulinecouper.bsky.social Prof of Geographical Thought & Practice, York St John Uni, UK.
Philosophy of geog, epistemic pluralism, geomorphology, higher ed.
FRGS, PFHEA, CGeog.
Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own 
Ana de Medeiros @anademedeiros.bsky.social Academic, global citizen, working with languages and cultures @King's College London
Paul Foulkes @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of York, UK
/pɔːl faʊks/ ~ [pʰɔːɫ faʊks]
https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/paulfoulkes/
Stuart Green @stuartgreen.bsky.social Professor Emeritus @ University of Reading. Research: construction sector policy. Latest book: ‘Making Sense of Construction Improvement’ (Routledge, 2024). Website: stuartdavidgreen.com Northerner, hillwalker, history buff, European 🇪🇺 UTC
Students and Politics @studentspolitics.bsky.social ESRC-funded research project (2025-28) answering the question: Does higher education politicise today's students?
Run by @rachelbrooks.bsky.social, @rilleraaper.bsky.social & Tom Fryer
Project website: https://tinyurl.com/StudentsPolitics