Knowledge Hub @knowledge-hub.bsky.social A network of leaders and teachers running teaching and leadership courses for school professionals seeking practical solutions to everyday school challenges.
toto @toto68086883.bsky.social Eyfs Leader & Reception teacher, wife, parent to 2 amazing kids, permanently shattered. Enjoy a good wander around a castle, avid reader (when I have the time!) & a huge interest in Plantagenet history. Very proud Latics fan!
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social Latest special Late Bloomer is on Netflix (not UK & IRE) & Channel4.com (UK & IRE) now.
Also part of the Standard Issue podcast team
Replies ending TSM are by my team.
https://linktr.ee/thesarahmillican
Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social Trains, boats and planes. And music. And wildlife, geology, genealogy, astronomy...
All the right things, just not necessarily in the right order
Flickr: owenthesignal (rail & transport) wildspaces (photography)
Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social Eurostar Train Manager, ale and photography fan. Posts when operational duties allow. Contact eurostar for customer support. Bon voyage! #TrainsNotPlanes
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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social Recently retired Primary Teacher in 🏴 teaching since 2009 in a wide range of roles & schools. Hoping to make you smile, increase your positivity & find your focus.
Often answers to Sarah, Mum or coffee
My views.
#EduSky #ScotEdu #UKEdu #EduSkyPrimary
Department for Education (bluesky crossposter) @departmentforedu.bsky.social Posting everything from @educationgovuk on bluesky
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Paul Waugh MP @paulwaughmp.bsky.social Labour and Co-operative MP for Rochdale
paulwaugh.co.uk
Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Jeremy Williams @jeremywilliams.bsky.social Climate solutions journalist, climate action advisor to schools, author of children's fiction & adult non-fiction - possibly too many hats for a sensible bio🧢 www.earthbound.report
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
@alienwife99.bsky.social @alienwife99.bsky.social Newly retired primary headteacher. Lover of family, The West Wing, Star Wars (original trilogy obviously), musicals, Iceland and reading.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social Bioacoustician & PhD candidate using sound to study baleen whale movement ecology 🐋 Wildlife photographer, birder, nature nerd 🪶
IG: instagram.com/daryllmariephotos
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/daryllmarie
Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social Nature photographer, public defender representing young people, lover of burrowing owls. RPCV Niger.
Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes, I chase polar bears and belugas. #scicomm #sciart http://www.discoversecondnature.ca
Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social past life of limnology & aquatic ecology |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
“pathologically optimistic” |
“irredeemable nerd” |
always a scientist |
Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social When I'm not writing #kidlit, I'm taking #wildlife photos.
https://linktr.ee/laurelgale
ABSOLUTELY NO WORRIES is out now!
#birds #nature
Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social No genAI - our human brains need to create one word at a time.
... if only Schrödinger had posited a tardigrade in a box ...
Photos taken close to home - Cincinnati, Ohio
Molly Bangles @mollybangles.bsky.social stage manager, night owler
she/her
mostly birds and nature here,
mostly on a Sony RX10 IV
pictures and videos are mine unless otherwise noted
arts & crafts: https://mollybangles.etsy.com
SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social Nature lover-San Diego ✌🏻 𓅃 🐬🌎 🦑🦉🪶🌿🐍 conservationist, amateur photographer 📸 (pix mine), birder, independent leftist, advocate single payer healthcare, Abolish 🧊. Anti-war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Fiona - Play Scotland @fiplayscotland.bsky.social Play Pedagogy Lead @Play Scotland. Championing children’s right to play in Scotland, inspiring & supporting educators to embrace play-based learning in schools. MEd student, bookworm, and cake lover. ❤️ All views my own! 🙈🙉🙊
Steplab @steplab.bsky.social Steplab is a complete professional development platform for sustainable, whole-school CPD with tools, resources, videos & analytics.
Learn more 👉 steplab.co/book-a-demo
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
John Tomsett @johntomsett.bsky.social Education author/blogger and consultant. Co-founder of Huh with Mary Myatt. Trainer for WalkThrus. Erstwhile headteacher of Huntington School, York. Contact: jtomsett@hotmail.com
Tom Sherrington @teacherhead.bsky.social Director @walkthrus.bsky.social walkthrus.co.uk
Author of WalkThrus with @olicav.bsky.social
Blogs/podcast/youtube via teacherhead.com
Currently on sabbatical in Australia/Indonesia. Back in action from March ‘25.
Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social Science teacher
Education Director at Carousel Learning
Teacher Trainer
Series Editor: Springboard Science
Christopher Such @suchmo83.bsky.social Experienced primary teacher, school leader and author.
Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading or just free advice.
Emma Turner FCCT @emmaturner75.bsky.social SIP, LA Edu Advisor, CPD & Author by day.
Chaos Coordinator of 3 chn by night. Curriculum, CogSci,Maths, Leadership, Flexible Working .
27 yrs primary,21 yrs SLT, HT, MAT Leadership & SIP.
Co chair of Govs
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/
Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social Diagrams, etc. Author, cycling cartoonist.
Best work is in my free newsletter: https://diagramclub.substack.com/
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
The Cuisenaire Company @cuisenaireco.bsky.social The Original Manufacturer of Cuisenaire Rods® since 1954, the exclusive UK trademark holder. Supporting the teaching of mathematics and literacy
www.cuisenaire.co.uk
#cuisenaire #cuisenairerods
UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social We boost UK prosperity, understand the Universe, and protect our planet and outer space. gov.uk/ukspaceagency.
Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
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. 🌍
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Ofcom @ofcom.bsky.social Official account for Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator.
ofcom.org.uk
Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social Author of crime for kids.
#KidnapatMidnight a Malory Towers Mystery out in September with Hachette
West Country UK
- she/her.
#kidlituk
@AgentKateShaw.bsky.social
Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Catherine Johnson @catwrote.bsky.social Boiler suit addict, writer, seasider
Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social Childish writer. 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇺. Carnegie-nominated.
Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
My type on paper
YA: Splinters 🪞 Electric Life ⚡
MG: Last Hope Highway, Day of the Whale, Mort the Meek, Animal Rescue
School talks / workshops KS1-KS3
www.racheldelahaye.com
Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social Author | Photographer
In the middle of writing a book…
https://www.louabercrombie.com
https://mybook.to/LouAbercrombieBooks
Jason Rohan @jasonrohanauthor.bsky.social 
Alastair Chisholm @alastairc.com Author: 🚀OrionLost ☁️REEK 🐲OneHungryDragon 🐉DragonStorm
🐺#IAMWOLF out now! 🤖 #BLITZERS out now!
Rep: https://www.rupertcrew.co.uk. He/him. Likes biscuits.
More: https://alastairc.com/links
#KidLitUK
Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social Award-winning author. 0.4% potassium. Books include ESCAPE ROOM, BLACK HOLE CINEMA CLUB, ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO and FEAR FILES: HIDE AND SEEK. “A writer of genuine originality.” The Guardian https://rb.gy/l2ynyx
Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
Alice Oseman @aliceoseman.bsky.social author, illustrator, screenwriter, creator of HEARTSTOPPER 🍂
Katharine Orton @katharineorton.bsky.social Author, human, quite sleepy.
www.katharineorton.com
Yvonne Banham @eviewriter.bsky.social Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie
Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
Sarah Crossan @sarahcrossan.bsky.social Writer based in Sussex.
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Dan Smith @dansmithauthor.bsky.social Author. Scaring and exciting readers of all ages. Repped by
@elladkahn at @DKWLit
https://t.co/kzpcnxfxWz
Lucy Powrie @lucythereader.bsky.social Autistic author writing happily ever afters 🌊💕
Real When I'm With you, out now!
Chair of the Brontë Society | YouTube.com/lucythereader 📚
🏳️🌈
Emma Read she/her @emmaread.bsky.social Children’s author-The Housetrap & the Milton Series (Chicken House) | editor at EmDashED | WriteMentor | socially awkward weirdo science nerd
Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more!
www.simonjamesgreen.com
Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.
JP ROSE AKA JACQUI ROSE @jprosewriter.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
Joel/JJ Arcanjo @joelarcanjo.bsky.social Author of the Crookhaven series http://geni.us/Crookhaven
Maria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social 📚Author of the Kòkú Akànbí series based on Nigerian mythology, rep’d by H.G Literary
🎓PhD student in African Art at the University of Birmingham
💃🏾part-time Nollywood Vixen
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
A. M. Dassu (Az) @amdassu.bsky.social Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR
Instagram: @a.m.dassu
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social they/them and mayhem
writing kidlit and romcoms. queer disabled joy always. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️🏴 audhd
📚 Reality Check, Make You Mine This Christmas, Under the Mistletoe With You, Hits Different, Vivi Conway
www.lizziehuxleyjones.com
https://linktr.ee/littlehux
Lucy Hope @lucyhope.bsky.social Children’s author. FLEDGLING and WREN, both published by Nosy Crow. Dog lover without a dog. Cat lover without a cat. Writing the next book and eating cake to fill the whiskery void. Rep @joannamoult
Lisa Williamson @lwilliamsonauthor.bsky.social MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Tia Fisher @tiafisher.bsky.social Writer for children, eater of chocolate, library worker. CROSSING THE LINE (Hot Key Books, 2023) Shadower's Choice Carnegie Medal 2024. Upcoming NOT GOING TO PLAN (2025) and OPERATION DOODLEBUG (2026) #MAWFYP She/her tiafisher.com, repped by Eve White.
H S Norup @hsnorup.bsky.social Children’s author of
💚🧚 THE CHANGELING CHILD
💙🧚 INTO THE FAERIE HILL
🥢👻 THE HUNGRY GHOST
❄️⛷️ THE MISSING BARBEGAZI
@PushkinPress | #SCBWI | Reader | She/Her | first name: Helle | 🇩🇰 in🇨🇭via 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇬🇦🇹
www.hsnorup.com
Liz Hyder @londonbessie.bsky.social Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
Lu Hersey @luwrites.bsky.social I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.lu-hersey.com/ https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic
Finbar Hawkins @finbarhawkins.bsky.social Writer, Director, Illustrator
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
Mel Darbon @meldarbon.bsky.social Award winning author:ROSIE LOVES JACK: Honour Book Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature: Sunday Times YA Book of the Year: Shortlisted Best Book 2022 Netherlands
WHAT THE WORLD DOESN'T SEE: March 2023 NeuroDiversity
Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social Author. Latest book is Carnegie shortlisted THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian. RLF Writing Fellow.
Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA
www.clarefurniss.com
Photo: Tom Pilston
Lis Jardine @lisjardine.bsky.social Children’s novelist. ‘The Detention Detectives 3: Talent for Trouble’ out Jan 25! MAWYP. Rep @lucyirvine93
Chronic. School librarian. Vegan. Tired.
Bali Rai @balirai.bsky.social Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.
Savita Kalhan/S R Krish @savitakalhan.bsky.social Writer for teens, reader of everything, chilli-grower extraordinaire. The Lost Name Society by S R Krish aka me, out now! #folkhorror #darkacademia
Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social Author of books inc 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Leaving the House' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal. Profile pic by Ellie Snowden.
Gill Lewis @gill-lewis.bsky.social Children’s author - wild scribbler - trying to protect seals and seabirds in local bay from disturbance
Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social Books, poems and trees 😌
Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡
📍Donegal
meg-grehan.com
Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social Author in the Highlands 🏴, for kids, teens and adults. Next adult book: THE FROG PRINCE, Summer 2027 🐸👑
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Jo Cotterill/Kenrick @jocotterillbook.bsky.social Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlistee 2023. She/her.
jocotterill.com
Chris Vick @chrisvickwrites.bsky.social Carnegie shortlisted author
Pub: @ZephyrBooks Rep: CatherineClarke -felicitybryan
Works Whales.org
Part of Authors4Oceans
Web: www.chrisvickwrites.com