The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Dr Mark Wilsher SFHEA @markwilshernuni.bsky.social Educational Development Coordinator at Norwich University of the Arts, Director of the East Anglian Fine Art Study Centre and host of The Research Studio podcast on practice-led research in the arts.
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social The union for academic and academic-related staff at the University of Edinburgh
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
andrea @andreacleary.bsky.social Researcher & Writer | Culture, Media, Gender & Social Change | PhD Candidate | Aspiring Flâner and/or Bon Vivant
Niamh Ní Charra @niamhnicharra.bsky.social Professional archivist & multi award-winning musician. Chairperson
ARA Ireland (https://araireland.ie/). On ITMA board (www.itma.ie). Gaeilge 7 Fáilte. Sí/í. Opinions my own. Ally.
https://niamhnicharra.com/
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Brian Miller @dadgadguy.bsky.social Musician, folk music research, library director, music teacher, radio presenter
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Sharon Murphy @sharonmurphymusic.bsky.social Musician and Arts & Health practitioner in Co. Kildare, Ireland. If not singing, I'm listening. If not writing, I'm reading. If out walking, it's probably with my dogs.
Favourite word is 'Hope'. Music is life!
https://linktr.ee/sharonmurphymusic
School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social Research into the Celtic languages, literatures and cultures.
Taighde ar na teangacha Ceilteacha agus na litríochtaí agus na cultúir a bhaineann leo. 🔗 https://www.dias.ie/celt/
Gordon Ó Riain @gordonoriain.bsky.social Ollamh, Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
https://www.dias.ie/celt/celt-staff-and-scholars/celt-prof-gordon-o-riain/
Tes Slominski @feralfreelancer.bsky.social Coach and editor for academics | music scholar | fiddler in the Irish tradition
☘️🎻🏳️🌈Author of Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (Wesleyan 2020)
🪑📚🖋️Cohost of No Time to Write Club @notimetowriteclub 
Aoife Granville @aoifeg.bsky.social Lecturer in Folklore/Béaloideas UCC. Musician/Singer. Knitter & GAA enthusiast! Board member Arts Council Ireland. From Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis❤️🤍
Liam Byrne | Viola da Gamba @liambyrne.bsky.social very old and very new music on the viola da gamba
www.liambyrne.net
University of Galway Library Heritage Collections @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social Archives, Special Collections and Digital Collections at the University of Galway Library
Seamas Sheils @seamassheils.bsky.social I edit Fonn, an online magazine dedicated to traditional music and song. www.fonn.online
Ossian @ossianusa.com Retailer of Traditional Irish Music in print, sound & vision. Since 1993.
ossianusa.com
#irishtraditionalmusic #irish #music
Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
@hayesfiddle.bsky.social @hayesfiddle.bsky.social 
Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet @creativeskillnet.bsky.social Established in January 2023 to support skills & talent development for the cultural & creative sectors in Ireland. Animation, VFX, Games, Film, TV, Immersive Technologies, Music, Theatre, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. creativeskillnet.ie
The Rolling Wave @therollingwave.bsky.social Radio programme about all aspects of Irish Traditional Music on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday night at 9pm 
Denis Martin @denisvmartin.bsky.social Director of the Siamsa School of Irish Music in Montreal. Play Irish tin whistle and Button Accordion (C#-D). Enjoy trad sessions and sharing music interests.
Susan O’Regan @susio.bsky.social Pianist - classical, Irish trad. Gardener, nature, particularly birds. Music, books, Author of ‘Music and Society in Cork: 1700-1900’ (Cork UP)
Colm Kelly @colm-kelly.bsky.social Musician, Researcher, Educator, Gaeilgeoir ag feabhsú - PhD Student in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance studying the Identity of Musicians
Dr Hannah Millington @hannahmillington.bsky.social Music historian and #EthelSmyth scholar working at TU Dublin and Chamber Choir Ireland. | Hon Sec of Society for Musicology in Ireland. | Shropshire Lass. Lover of nature. Devourer of books.
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social Where Irish writing comes alive.
https://linktr.ee/molimuseum
The Liminal Review @liminalreview.bsky.social The Liminal Review is a literature and arts journal that is looking for the things that are made in the in-between spaces.
DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities - Creating, connecting and sharing knowledge about culture and society. 
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres @cirishcaceres.bsky.social Irish Studies Center from the EFACIS network established at the University of Extremadura.
https://ciscaceres.weebly.com
https://x.com/cirish_caceres?s=21&t=mSZafaZRsiw_6zj-ekPNug
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Canadian Association for Irish Studies @cais-irish1973.bsky.social The Canadian Association for Irish Studies has been promoting the study of Irish society, politics, history, literature, and culture since 1973.
The Seanchaí Collective @messagetomargaret.bsky.social Learning through lived experience. Celebrating the transformative nature of storytelling. If you have lived you have a story to tell.
Phase 2 of the Message to Margaret Campaign 🇮🇪🍀💚
https://www.seanchaicollective.org/
Dr Maria Butler @mariabbutler.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Cultural Analytics, UCD. Other research interests include Irish studies, commercial fiction and literary activism
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
The Session @thesession.org The Session is a community website dedicated to Irish traditional music.
You can find tunes to play, find sessions to play them in, and join in discussions about the music.
https://thesession.org
TG4 @tg4.bsky.social 💚 Tír gan Teanga - Tír gan Anam
🧿 Súil Eile
📺💻📱TG4.ie
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now! 
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Open University Health and the Arts Research Group @ouhealtharts.bsky.social Academics from across the Open University and beyond. We research the intersections between health, wellbeing, the arts and creativity from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines.
Arts & Humanities Research at TU Dublin @fahresearch.bsky.social Research in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities TU Dublin
https://www.tudublin.ie/explore/faculties-and-schools/arts-humanities/
Health Arts Research Centre @healtharts.bsky.social HARC is a group of learners, researchers and collaborators dedicated to reviving health in northern BC through anti-colonial, community-informed, social sciences and humanities-based approaches.
https://healtharts.ca/
https://healhealthcare.ca
MA Research in Hybrid Arts @mares-ioniogr.bsky.social MARes in Hybrid Arts developed at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Ionian University is a two-semester, low-residency, arts-based research program.
avarts.ionio.gr/mares/
linkedin.com/school/mareshybridarts/
instagram.com/mares.hybridarts/
London Arts-Based Research Centre @labrc.bsky.social Combining research with creativity. Inspiring projects, workshops, conferences & courses. Publishes Indelible Literary Journal.
UNESCO Week of Sound in Edinburgh @weekofsound.bsky.social Hosted by @edincollegeofart.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for the people of Edinburgh.
weekofsound.scot
Dr. Max Lempriere @thephdpeople.com
Posting a #PhDDailyThought every day.
Founder of The PhD People — practical support and motivation for PhD students.
Free One Page #PhD Template: https://linkthread.eu/thephdpeople
Lennart Nacke, PhD @lennartnacke.com 🧠 Tenured brain, fresh daily takes. Maximum citations but sanity questionable. The prof your prof follows for daily advice. University Research Chair & Tenured Full Professor.
The read that returns your rigour ➜ https://go.lennartnacke.com/newsletter
Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
Tara Brabazon @tarabrabazon.bsky.social Prof of Cultural Studies at Flinders University. Pop Cult Obsessive. Fan. Listener. Learner. Teacher. Writer of 22 books. AM.
Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
Amalia Skilton @amaliaskilton.bsky.social I study language learning and use in interaction, esp in the Indigenous Americas. Work 🏴 | Web blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilton | 🇺🇸🏳️🌈😎 she/her
daddy fall down @daddyfalldown.bsky.social Son, brother, husband, father, friend. Into all music, especially ambient/electronic/drone/microtonal/field; iOS music production; cats; coffee.
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Bethann Garramon Merkle (@commnatural elsewhere) @bgmerkle.bsky.social posts autodelete; posts my own views | she/elle
🎧http://MeteorSciComm.org & Meteor #SciComm podcast
📖Teaching & Mentoring Science Writers (From UChicago Press)
✒🎨 https://schoolofgoodtrouble.substack.com
🎓Prof of Practic
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
@daithi-k.bsky.social @daithi-k.bsky.social 
ISM @ism-music.bsky.social We are the Independent Society of Musicians, the UK’s professional body for musicians, representing over 11,000 members.
📩 membership@ism.org 📞020 7221 3499
Thomas Breeze @thomasbreeze.bsky.social Senior lecturer, programme leader for PGCE Music at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Co-presenter, ‘Emma & Tom Talk Teaching’ podcast (@talkteachingpod.bsky.social)
BucknellUPress.bsky.social @bucknellupress.bsky.social Publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences since 1968.
https://linktr.ee/bucknellupress
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.
Sara Jo Cohen @thunderrhoda.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
Oxford University Press @oxunipress.bsky.social 
University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
University of South Carolina Press @uscpress.bsky.social Established in 1944, USC Press is one of the oldest and most distinguished publishing houses in the South!
https://uscpress.com/
Julia Boss @juliaboss.bsky.social Developmental editor working with scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Lapsed historian. Ex-Algonquin Books.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
ITMA - Irish Traditional Music Archive @itmadublin.bsky.social ITMA is home to the largest, most comprehensive collection of Irish traditional music, song, and dance in the world.
Society for Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social Society for Ethnomusicology Business Office
www.ethnomusicology.org
Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute @lahri.bsky.social Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI): initiating and incubating cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research across and beyond the arts and humanities @universityofleeds.bsky.social Website: https://lahri.leeds.ac.uk/
Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth @muahi.bsky.social The Arts and Humanities Institute is Maynooth’s flagship institute for groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research across the arts and humanities. The AHI leads research on one of the University’s five research beacons: Heritage, Language and Culture.
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland.
🌐 Visit our website saha.scot
🎙️ Listen to our podcast #SAHAConversations on Spotify
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
Airea: Arts & Interdisciplinary Research @aireajournal.bsky.social Airea is an open access academic journal hosted by @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social Edinburgh University Library. Website: https://journals.ed.ac.uk/airea/
The Nine Dots Prize @ninedotsprize.org We’re a book prize for a book that hasn’t been written yet. Every two years we ask a thought-provoking question, the best response wins $100,000 + a book deal.
Emma Henderson @publicimagepr.bsky.social Arts publicist, working in festivals and events, based in Edinburgh. Loves big dogs and leaving the house.
TheQR @theqr.bsky.social Reviews, news, and views of the performing, visual and experimental arts, cinema and music. Subscribe now at https://theqr.co.uk/
Hands Up for Trad @handsupfortrad.bsky.social Hands Up for Trad are a Scottish organisation funded by Creative Scotland who work to promote Scottish music, culture and languages throughout the world. https://linktr.ee/handsupfortrad
Scottish Music Centre @scottishmusic.bsky.social Promoting all genres of Scotland's music at home & abroad:
music archive & online shop, talent development, showcasing and events:
Current projects:
HitTheRoadTours, Musicares, Classical Next, Northern Connection ShowcaseScotland, Made in Scotland
Karen Marshalsay @karenclarsach.bsky.social Scottish harper & composer plays in The Cathal McConnell Trio, The Whistlebinkies & solo. Eadarainn a' Chruit : Between Us the Harp CD out 5th September 2025. www.karenmarshalsay.com
Patsy Reid @patsyreid.bsky.social Scottish musician and educator
Founder of Mull Fiddle Week
Love outdoors, dogs, yoga, real food
Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland @traddanceforum.bsky.social Supporting, celebrating and safeguarding Scottish and world traditional dance in Scotland since 2012 through FREE membership and 3 routes: residencies º productions º festivals. Scottish charity SC045085 👉https://www.tdfs.org/
Isabel “Izzy” Black (Joely) @autisticalchemyst.bsky.social I study the anthropology of magic, objects, and people. Moomins. Writing a book about making magical objects in Roman Egypt. I also write fantasy fiction and building a model of the Moomin House. Autistic.
joelyblack.substack.com.
Lucy Shields @lucyrshields.bsky.social Folk music marketer/booking agent/programmer/writer. Runs a newsletter called @thefolkforecast.bsky.social.
Website - lucyshields.com
Comedy writing credits - https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucy-shields/
Live to Your Living Room @livetoyourlr.bsky.social Listen to the artists you love, live from the comfort of your living room. The best of folk, roots, and acoustic music.
Jim Moray @jimmoray.bsky.social Folk singing and guitar man. http://linktr.ee/jimmoray
Julie Fowlis @juliefowlis.bsky.social Singer, musician, voice artist, composer. Gàidhlig/Gaelic. Singer on Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’. TV/radio presenter and creative collaborator. Love the Scottish outdoors and sport.
www.juliefowlis.com / Facebook / Instagram
Coney Island Sound @coneyislandsound.bsky.social Music Making. Portstewart via Belfast, Hull, Gateshead & North Shields. Electronic Music/Archiving/The Sea. www.coneyislandsound.com
or for more https://linktr.ee/coneyislandsound
Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social The Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) is an interdisciplinary research platform to study human interaction, based at Aarhus University.
Director: Prof Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social
See interactingminds.au.dk for more news, videos & podcasts