Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Plant-Human Quarterly @planthumanq.bsky.social Manifesting relationships to the botanical world and attempting communication across boundaries to approach a plant’s-eye-view of the world.
Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 shortlisted, Laurel Prize 2024 longlisted poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' published by Seren Books: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon/
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation @arc-trust.bsky.social #Amphibian and #Reptile #Conservation (ARC) - help us give a voice to the UK's disappearing #frogs, #toads, #newts, #snakes and #lizards 🐸🦎🐍
Visit our website at www.arc-trust.org
AmphibiaWeb @amphibiaweb.org All amphibians, all the time! Sharing information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy since 2000 through sheer passion, informatics, & science! (photo William Flaxington)
Amphibians Every Day @amphibianeveryday.bsky.social A Python-based bot that posts a unique amphibian species every day, sourced from the comprehensive AmphibiaWeb dataset. Each post includes the species' scientific name, common name, IUCN status, and a picture from the @amphibiaweb.bsky.social website.
Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social Captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered frogs. Research to mitigate the amphibian chytrid fungus. Partnership with the Smithsonian National Zoo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Zoo New England and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Herpetology.
old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun I’m a bot that posts random images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (unaffiliated). Support -> https://library.si.edu/donate/bhl-donation
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social •writer•vegan•sick for a living🌈🍀💙
debut collection available for preorder now from Nine Arches Press https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/like-starlings-falling
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Michelle Penn @michpenn.bsky.social Poet
RETABLO FOR A DOOR (shearsmanbooks, 2026)
PAPER CRUSADE (arachnepress, 2022)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A DIVINER, FAILING (paper_swans_press, 2018)
michellepennwriter.com
@spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social 
@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social 
Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine - trespass - just published
Please see website for order details.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
YAbookscentral @yabookscentral.bsky.social Website devoted to YA, Middle-Grade, and Kids books.
We offer book reviews, blog content featuring author Q&A, guest posts, excerpts, cover reveals, and giveaways!
Authors- Check out how to advertise your book with YABC!
Literature Works @literatureworks.bsky.social We are a charity in South West England using words and stories to support creativity and wellbeing. We connect people and communities, nurture talent, and champion the power of storytelling, writing and reading. 📖
literatureworks.org.uk
Festival of Nature @festofnature.bsky.social The UK's largest celebration of the natural world, in Bristol, Bath & online every June. Stay with us all year round to discover wildlife on your doorstep and take action for nature 🔎🦔🌱🐝
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
Candlestick Press @candlestickpress.bsky.social Unique ‘Instead of a card’ poetry (and prose) pamphlets supplied in eco pack with envelope and bookmark. Publisher/editor @dislaney.bsky.social
Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social The home of Kew Science 👩🔬
🌱Collections
📚Archives
🍄Applied research
🤝Partnerships
🥼Training
👉More: linktr.ee/kewscience
Anna Sulan Masing @annasulan.bsky.social Writer. Pls buy - or borrow from the library - my book Chinese And Any Other Asian. Or preorder the paperback, it’s cheaper! Thanks 😘
Jellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social Book candy for readers, software candy for publishers and bookshops.
Vidyan Ravinthiran @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social Prof and poet, author of Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir and Avidya. Posting poems you may not have read.
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
Orchids @orchids.bsky.social I grow orchids, but I kill them
📍Southern California 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇦🇱
Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
Di Slaney @dislaney.bsky.social Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. New collection Hard Graft out 21.09.26
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Juniper @juniperpoetry.bsky.social An online poetry journal, founded in 2017.
Have you read our current issue? Selected poems from Juniper have appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology.
juniperpoetry.com
Susannah Dickey @susannahdickey.bsky.social does books
Tennis Lessons (2020)
Common Decency (2022)
ISDAL (2023)
Forthcoming: to pieces (2026) 
Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
@losslit.bsky.social @losslit.bsky.social 
Forthwrite @forthwrite.bsky.social Creative writing with, for and by women.
🎧podcast
📝workshops
🗣️events
Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social We are a migrant-led national organisation empowering migrants to speak out, challenge perceptions and change public debate, in the media and to policymakers. Offices in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social One of the largest university-owned botanic gardens in the world, CUBG's diverse collection of 8,000+ plant species supports leading scientific research. Welcoming 350,000+ visitors annually, it also inspires a love of plants, learning & horticulture.
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social Studying, appreciating, recording and conserving our wild plants, and supporting the botanists who care about them.
bsbi.org
#PlantAtlas2020
#100Plants2026
#WildFlowerHour
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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com Lyra runs Bristol's Poetry Festival, City Poet, Young City Poet & community collabs. Festival supported by ACE.
Next Festival: 17 - 26 April
www.lyrafest.com
Sarah Cave @cavepoet.bsky.social Writer, artist, experimenter, ordinand, hedgeling.
Poetry Dr @Prayer.
The Book of Yona (Shearsman, April, 2024)
Editor (Guillemot Press) PhD/AuDHD
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social Poet and Teacher.
Book: 'The Point Is You Are Alive'
Pamphlets: 'Tree' and 'Shadow Dogs'
Anthropocene Magazine @anthropocenemag.bsky.social Nonprofit journalism dedicated to creating a Human Age we actually want to live in.
Newsletters: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/newsletters/
Will George @willgeorge.bsky.social Naturalist with a particular interest in the true bugs, Heteroptera, but fascinated by pretty much all insects and nature. He/Him. https://www.flickr.com/photos/runnerwill/
Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social Nature watching poodle companion. Mothing and wildlife gardening enthusiast. 
Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social Naturalist: lichens, moths, beetles, bugs and anything else that catches my eye. “What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.”
James Emerson @norwichbirder.bsky.social Naturalist living in Norfolk (UK) - particularly interested in birds, fungi, psyllids and shieldbugs (also real ale, Forteana etc) Local patch = Whitlingham C.P. and the wider Norwich area.
Sporadically updated blog: http://jamesbirdsandbeer.blogspot.com/
Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing
Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social All-taxa naturalist, on a journey to understand what biodiversity really means. Freelance ecological consultant. Norfolk Sawfly Recorder. BUBO founder. Pan-species Lister.
DB @arnoldtortoise.bsky.social Amateur naturalist - parasitic wasps (and other tiny insects) specialising in UK Trichogrammatidae and Mymaridae. All posts are my own finds, and all are found in Sussex (unless otherwise stated).
Proud supporter of the RNLI.
Jim Horsfall @jimhorsfall.bsky.social A naturalist, conservationist, Yorkshireman, father and more. A slacker who can't sit still.
Particularly interested in plants, water beetles, fungi and moths.
Prone to spelling mistakes.
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social Flies/sawflies mostly; mostly from Yorkshire, UK.
Run the UK Heleomyzid Recording Scheme...
https://dipterists.org.uk/heleomyzid-scheme/home
...and Yorkshire County Recorder for Sawflies
https://www.ynu.org.uk/recording-sections/sections/insects/sawflies
Andrew Green @naturespotter.bsky.social Coordinator for Sawfly Recording Scheme of Great Britain. County Recorder of Sawflies for Bedfordshire. sawflies.org.uk
George Tordoff @gmtord.bsky.social Moth botherer and county bryophyte recorder for Glamorgan
Ireland's Incredible Invertebrates! @microwild.bsky.social TL;DR: All things about Irish insects and invertebrates.
An Irish naturalist sharing experiences, education and enthusiasm.
Harvestman validator for the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Founder of https://microwild.org
Call me: Brian 
Andrew Douglas @andydouglas1967.bsky.social Spiders, inverts, botany, birds, wine, beer, food, pottery, aircraft. Not necessarily in that order. See @andydouglas1967-IT.bsky.social for IT/Computer Science stuff. West Norfolk and South Northamptonshire.
Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social Freelance botanist / plant ecologist / naturalist - supporting nature recovery in Cambs and Lincs. Keen photographer sharing stories and images from the natural world. BSBI recorder for South Lincolnshire and leader for Wildlife Travel.
Andy Symes @andysymes.bsky.social Up the hill past 694
At the stone wall make a left.
Richard Moyse @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social Kent-based naturalist, with a particular affection for plants, Orthopterans, aculeates, birds. Retired after a career in conservation. I'm here for wildlife, but can't promise not to repost the occasional political piece.
Rhona Watson @seawaves.bsky.social Librarian and naturalist. Interested in all wildlife, particularly in lepidoptera and biological recording. Cambridge Natural History Society.
Sam Thomas @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social Naturalist, botanist and entomologist. He/him.
England Officer @bsbibotany.bsky.social views my own
Dave Appleton @applewildlife.bsky.social Interested in pretty much any wildlife, especially birds, moths and a host of other insect groups. Norfolk county recorder for lacewings and allied insects.
Based in North Elmham, Norfolk, UK.
Dave Brice @davebriceflies.bsky.social Fascinated by insects, especially flies, studies Sphaeroceridae. Diptera identification services, morphological illustrations, and high-quality imaging. Bespoke identification training is also available.
Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social Mostly insects and biological recording, UK-based (he/him)
https://linktr.ee/kitenet
AJCann @ajcann.bsky.social Gentleman Scientist, ancora imparo.
Trustee of NatureSpot: https://www.naturespot.org
LLPS Natural History Section: https://www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk/Natural-History-Section
#Arachnids #Bugs #Environment #Hemiptera #Hymenoptera #Leicester
Natalie 🦇 @natsabin.bsky.social A bat specialist ecologist in the UK 🦇. I'm also a botanist, a birder, a gamer, a cat and baby servant, a gardener, a feminist, a nerd, a naturalist, an ADHDer, and a curious human. Host of Across The Ages sweary history podcast. Distracts others.
@wrennaturalist.bsky.social @wrennaturalist.bsky.social A naturalist interested in moths, particularly the early stages of micro moths. Also birds, galls, flies and lichens, in fact pretty much everything in the natural world
Gail Ashton @gailashton.bsky.social bug lover / nature nerd
photographer / author / illustrator
www.gailashton.co.uk
Books available here:
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/gail-ashton-nature
Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
Brian Eversham @brianecambs.bsky.social Wildlife enthusiast, photographer, elms/lichens/beetles/molluscs/protozoa and much else. CEO of Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, occasional leader for Wildlife Travel, visiting prof., Cranfield Uni. Views my own. He/him
Pond Watcher @watcherpond.bsky.social Interested in natural history, particularly ponds. Yorkshire based.
Liz Goodyear @lizgoodyear.bsky.social Butterflies, moths, boats and railways. Based in Hertfordshire. Can you see the Swallowtail in my banner image?
Denise Wawman @denisewawman.bsky.social Bird ringer. Birder. UK Hippoboscidae Recorder (flat flies/louse flies/keds). Former NHS GP, studying flat flies & keds role as vectors and avian diseases. Bird related side projects. Natural history. Based in Oxford and on Exmoor.
Mike Hetherington @mikemoths.bsky.social Moths, birds, herps & other wildlife. My own photos.
Dorset, UK or travelling.
MSc Biological Recording
Dorset Moths https://www.dorsetmoths.co.uk/
Wildlife blog https://vitrealis.blogspot.com/
FSC Associate Tutor
RSPB, BTO & ARC volunteer.
Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social Ecologist in pursuit of butterflies. Postdoc at the University of Exeter, Cornwall working on nature recovery and species' responses to climate change. Chair of Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. He/Him
Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
Duerden Cormack @duerden.bsky.social Glos pan-species lister living in Cambs. Research Assistant at RSPB Hope Farm.
https://panspecieslisting.com/view-list.html?list_id=50250
Adrian Dutton @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social Paid to hunt Beetles, what more could a man want from a working life?
Simon Knott @sjbknott.bsky.social Birds, Chess, Coleoptera, Flora, Moths, R&I, Syrphidae, Stratiomyidae et al.
Slowly rewilding Herts garden & trying to photograph its fauna & flora.
Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social Artist, naturalist, author, cyclist. Loves insects/invertebrates especially solitary bees & harvestmen. County Recorder for Harvestmen and Pseudoscorpions. Hefted to Norfolk.
Website https://arthropedia.co.uk/
Liam Crowley @liamcrowley.bsky.social Entomology and ecologist. Currently a post doctoral research associate at the University of Oxford. Interested in wasps, bees, species ID, biodiversity monitoring and pollination ecology.
Owen Beckett @obeckett98.bsky.social Entomologist with the National Biodiversity Data Centre 🐝🐞🦋
Ireland
Richard Wilson @ecology-digest.bsky.social #Invertebrate ecologist; CIEEM & RoyEntSoc member.
British Arachnological Society & Yorks. Naturalists' Union & NE England #spider recorder.
Occasional tweets on biodiversity policy.
Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social Fae Dundee 🏴 but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... 🤔
#WildflowerHour
All my posts from X came too.
https://linktr.ee/naturelark