Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Veronika Dornan @dornanv.bsky.social 🔭 Post-doctoral research associate at The University of Edinburgh studying extragalactic globular star clusters (she/her)
dornanv.github.io/
IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Dominik Stoltz @dominiks.bsky.social librarian / rare books / mss / maps / open data //
private account / history / music / miscellanea //
@dominik_stoltz@mas.to
Meg Briers @megbriers.bsky.social Scot abroad, doing my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
I mostly think about women, gender and the physical/mathematical sciences in Victorian Britain. Otherwise, running and drawing are also fun.
https://megbriers.co.uk/
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Dr Libby Jones @anywaythewind.bsky.social Infrared Astronomer 🔭 - space dust and stars in local galaxies.
Webb Fellow @ UK Astronomy Technology Centre
Love sports, history, 🐶 and UK politics.
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social Curator Emeritus at Oxford's History of Science Museum, with interests in instruments and material culture. Current research focus on armillary spheres and astrolabes in medieval Europe. (Disclaimer: focus known to wander.)
Edinburgh Bus Users Group @edinburghbug.bsky.social Looking out for Edinburgh's bus passengers and services. Independent of operators, Councils, Government, political parties etc.
Website https://edinburghbususers.group/
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social Lecturer in Physical Geography @EdinburghUni and Research Associate @TheBotanics focusing on ecology and evolution of tropical savannas. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/jess-rickenback
Email jess.rickenback@ed.ac.uk
She/her. No longer on twitter/X
William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social ... mostly about digital preservation but also everything else too. Works for the Digital Preservation Coalition. Occasionally Professor at Glasgow Univ. Personal opinions.
Digital Preservation Coalition @dpc-chat.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is building a welcoming and inclusive global community, working together to bring about a sustainable future for our […]
[bridged from https://digipres.club/@dpc_chat on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
dsanchezganfornina.bsky.social @dsanchezganfornina.bsky.social I am a PhD student in the Molecular Palaeobotany and Evolution Lab with @sandyheth.bsky.social with a botany and education background - currently very much obsessed with the evolutionary history of plant spiral patterns!
Andy Lawrence @e-astronomer.bsky.social Active Galaxy Nut and Space Environmentalist.
Read Losing The Sky at Amazon, Apple Books, or Google Play.
More grooviness at https://andyxlastro.me 
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Edinburgh O'Clock @edinburghclock.bsky.social Hourly images - 3 minutes early - of Scotland's capital city (and beyond) in all seasons, all sorts of weather & even its foulest mood. Run by Tom Duffin, @TomDuffinPhotos.bsky.social, www.tomduffin.com, and weekly newsletter tomduffin.substack.com
NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social Space news from around the globe, all in one place
Focusing on NASA & ESA Missions
Artemis III 🚀🌕 | 2027
Note we are not NASA just #Spacenerds #Moonjoy
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/
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Scotland Women's Rugby Stories @scotwomensrugby.bsky.social A random fan account trying to bring together stories about the Scotland women's rugby team (once I figure how to use this app!)
Sanne Dijkstra-Downie MSP 🔶 @sannedd.bsky.social Lib Dem MSP, Edinburgh Northern and Cllr for Forth. Mum. Previously fundraiser & face painter. 🔶 🌍
Promoted by S Dijkstra-Downie at 4 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR
Casework: Sanne.Dijkstra-Downie.msp@parliament.scot
UofG Physics & Astronomy @uofgphysastro.bsky.social School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow
David ALBERTO @astrolabe-science.fr French Physics & Chem. teacher. He. Astronomy, sundials.
Prof. phys.-chim. lycée tech.
Astronomie, gnomonique, instruments astro. anciens. Also on Mastodon
💻Python, TeXLaTeX
🗣️ 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹
Assos : UdPPC, SAF, CLEA.
www.astrolabe-science.fr
Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev Official Mirroring APOD BOT for Bluesky.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html
Src:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/astropix.html
Maintained by @shinyakato.dev
Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social Facts, Information, and Images related to Space and Astronomy.
Copyright with respective people and organizations shared for educational purposes.
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Eric Tittley @erictittley.bsky.social Canadian Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
Whisky, curling, hockey, pets, animals (ALL the animals), hiking, cycling, coins, weather, gardening, computing.
Robert Massey @robertmassey.bsky.social Dad, Deputy Director RAS and Honorary Visiting Professor Sussex University. All views my own. Makes 'good' trouble.
Ken Rice @kenrice.bsky.social Interested in #scicomm, in particular about astronomy and climate change. Professor of Computational Astrophysics and Head of Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh. Views own, of course.
Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social www.ras.ac.uk
Daniel Whitmore @dwhitmore79.bsky.social Diptera Curator at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | Editor-in-Chief of @integsyst.bsky.social and The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Dr Alastair Bruce @spacedoot.bsky.social Astronomer. Science Communicator. Planetarium Manager. Fond of all things up. Rather fond of what's down too...
Toni Newell @notverymedieval.bsky.social She / her.
Netball. Space. Guinea pigs. Gannets.
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
Axel Dalberg Poulsen @axelginger.bsky.social A Danish tropical forest botanist currently focusing on plants of the Zingiberales
at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 🫚🫚🫚
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Open Fifth @openfifth.bsky.social Open Fifth Limited (formerly PTFS Europe Limited) is a UK-based company with the vision to make technology easy for libraries. We focus on enabling library users through high-quality, open source software solutions.
Carly Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
Is Lauterjung @islauter.bsky.social Archivist. Interested in history of smell, natural history, and medicine + multisensory approaches to heritage and engagement.
Views are my own.
Pronouns: she/her
The Great British Bake Off @britishbakeoff.bsky.social Avoiding soggy bottoms since 2010.
Tuesdays. 8pm. Channel 4.
Posts by Love Productions.
https://linktr.ee/britishbakeoff
@clirnews.bsky.social @clirnews.bsky.social CLIR forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. 
@flannerm.bsky.social @flannerm.bsky.social 
@finches101.bsky.social @finches101.bsky.social 
Printmakers of Scotland @printersofscotland.bsky.social A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking.
Festival of Printmaking 14-16 Aug 2026 University of Stirling.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
Bex Cartwright @bexcartwright.bsky.social Conservation Projects Manager 🌍 🌱 Wild Pollinators 🐝 🐞🐛 Food and Farming 🌾🚜Gardening/GYO 🍓🌽 🌻Views my own 🏴
Buseum @buseum.bsky.social 
Julia Carretero @unisepala.bsky.social Lifelong learner. #curation of digital collections @rbgkew.bsky.social, ~8m. plants + fungi! #naturalhistory #biodiversity informatics #conservation (she/her) ☮
CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group.
The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters
https://www.cilip.org.uk/mdg
Claire Knowles @cgknowles.bsky.social Acting Director of Library Services, University of Leeds | RLUK Digital Shift | IIIF Executive Committee | Open Research | Research Culture | Digital Creativity | Knowledge Equity | Coffee and Cake | Personal views | ORCID 0000-0002-6969-7382
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
Robert Cubey @rcubey.bsky.social Edinburgh,
Scotland
RBGE
@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social 
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Leonie Paterson @leoniepaterson.bsky.social Archivist at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, but all views are my own.
David Purvis @davidapurvis.bsky.social Botanical Photographer
Marie Briggs @botanistbriggs.bsky.social Curator of natural history science collections, with a particular interest in tropical botany & herbarium specimen curation. I also curate spirit, slide, carpological & diatom (p.p.) collections. Tangy Twiglet, tea & football lover.
Deborah Vaile @deborahvaile.bsky.social Neurospicy Library Worker in the Heritage Sector and a Prospect Trade Union Rep. Owned by a cat called Pedro Machuca. I say the word 'Why?' alot 🏴🏴
Sean McNamara @seanmcnamara81.bsky.social Director of CILIPS, the professional body for library and information workers in Scotland
Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social The campaign to protect Curlews from extinction. Celebrating curlews on World Curlew Day (21 April)
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels @scotsquirrels.bsky.social Transforming hope for Scotland's red squirrels. Partnership project led by @ScotWildlife. Funded by
@NatureScot and @ScotGovNetZero's #NatureRestorationFund
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Emma Nicolson @emmanix.bsky.social Head of Visual Art @CreativeScotland, Founder director @skyeatlas Research associate @RBGE
@cilip-arlg.bsky.social @cilip-arlg.bsky.social 
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Stuart @edinburghnature.bsky.social All aspects of Natural history.
Especially Birds,plants commoner invertebrates found in and around Edinburgh and the Lothian area be it East Mid or West.
Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 
Europeana @europeana.bsky.social - Europe’s cultural heritage online http://europeana.eu
- European data space for cultural heritage https://dataspace-culturalheritage.eu
Funded by the European Union
Wardie Bay Residents Association @wardie-bay.bsky.social Residents association for the 100+ householders along Lower Granton Road overlooking Wardie Bay.
The Great Pottery Throw Down @potterythrow.bsky.social There will be pots. There might be tears.
https://linktr.ee/potterythrow
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Rob Cawston @cawston.bsky.social Design | Content | Data | Culture | Thoughts
Cambridge United fan 🫎 Views my own.
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social 📚Head of Access at @natlibscot.bsky.social 📖Co-Editor of Library & Information History Journal🧾Hon. Treasurer of CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group📓Books, libraries, singing, theatre & food.
@reversethered.bsky.social @reversethered.bsky.social Reverse the Red is a global movement that ignites strategic cooperation and action to ensure the survival of wild species and ecosystems and reverse the negative trend of biodiversity loss. 
Action to Protect Rural Scotland @aprscotland.bsky.social Scotland's countryside charity. Current campaigns on Green Belts, National Parks, and Circular Economy.
Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social Head of Library and Archives at Kew Gardens. Interested in libraries, archives, botanical illustration, gardens, plants, fungi, botany, and mycology.
Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social Botany (and botanicals) loving archivist, and occasional forest school assistant 🌿 All views are own.
@alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social Biodiversity Conservation Network Manager.
World Flora Online & Global Conservation Consortium Rhododendron.
Frae Angus.
All things #Himalayan.- F @felixdriver.bsky.social @felixdriver.bsky.social
Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social ethnobotanist and curator at Kew Gardens. Dipping my toe in...
Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
Scottish Environment LINK @scotlink.bsky.social The voice of Scotland's #environment community. Over 50 organisations working together for the environment.
www.scotlink.org
Lesley Ferguson @elmfer.bsky.social Head of Archives, Historic Environment Scotland
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.
Martin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social Managing Director of IIIF-C: https://iiif.io/ | Exploring Nature: http://inaturalist.org/people/udcmrk | Random thoughts here: http://udc793.org | (he/him)
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
Andrew R Nicoll @andrewrnicoll.bsky.social Archivist. Head of Archives and Libraries, Historic Environment Scotland
William J Nixon @williamjnixon.bsky.social Deputy Executive Director of Research Libraries UK & Ireland (RLUK). Convening, Representing, Supporting, Advocating & Collaborating. Own Views.
@klingstadt.bsky.social @klingstadt.bsky.social Director Library and Academic Services @newcastleuni.bsky.social; All views my own.
Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian, National Library of Scotland
Here for the digital humanities, open research and the long nineteenth century
Theo @earthowned.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Manager in the award winning Library Research Support team at the University of Edinburgh. Will talk about Open Research/Science, running and whimsical fluff.