Dr Chris Macdonald @drchrismacdonald.bsky.social 👨🔬 Scientist | Founder | Author
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📍 University of Cambridge
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social IYKYK
MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
Tyrell Corp Testing Lead @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social Ngāti Kahungunu Te Wairoa
Writer/Cartoonist, Pōneke punk in DARTZ
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Emily @emilywrites.co.nz 
૮⍝• ᴥ •⍝ა @eggsfordogs.com professional schemer, like a fever. showruiner at @1of200.bsky.social
NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social My mother survived walking through Hiroshima the day after as a 13 year old, so I have a fair idea of what a nuclear holocaust looks and feels like
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com 🇬🇧🥝🇳🇿
Old man yelling at long white clouds in Aotearoa NZ
✅ https://vote.nz
▶️ https://youtube.com/@nzpomdotcom
✊🏼 https://union.org.nz/find-your-union/
💚 https://www.greens.org.nz/join
⚽️Nottingham Forest
Toitū Te Tiriti
#taxtherich
Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
AndrewPaulWood @andrewpaulwood.bsky.social Cultural mercenary. Mostly harmless. 🇳🇿
https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/shadow-worlds/
Zoë Meager @zoemeager.bsky.social 
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
Nicky Andrews @poidivision.bsky.social I write poems and work in a library. Full-length debut OVERSEAS EXPERIRENCE available now: https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/overseas-experience
Moderately Salty @melszymanik.bsky.social Writer of fiction for children, puzzler, poet, imposter, spy, fan of hot chips, champagne and chocolate
Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social Horror gameslinger @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & BigMouth Voices. Freelance writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵
https://linktr.ee/harrietprebble
Talia Marshall @princesstehangi.bsky.social failed poet
Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
Greg Jackson NZ @realgregjack.bsky.social Poet, parent, partner, grandparent.Multiple careers including advertising copywriter, award winning journalist, political reporter, campaign manager, speechwriter, strategic advisor.Now writing and on perpetual garden leave.
K.R. Byggdin (they/them) @krbyggdin.bsky.social Tired queer hanging in here. Author of WONDER WORLD.📍Kjipuktuk / Halifax, NS. krbyggdin.com
Stephenjohn Holgate @mistaholgate.bsky.social Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA from the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
Anna Woods @annawoodsauthor.bsky.social Award winning author.
LIT out now, at all good bookstores.
www.annawoodsauthor.com
hysterical hobbit @haydenp.bsky.social Dad in both jokes and bod. Mahi is in the family violence sector, #itsnotok.
I also occasionally write like poetry and shit. West Aucks via Kirikiriroa via Iuropi
Kim Fulton @kimjfulton.bsky.social I kind of thought the alpacas were a metaphor until we got there
📚✍🏻🐹🏏🌷🇳🇿
kimjfulton.com
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Melissa Ren @melisfluous.bsky.social SFF & literary | Chinese-Canadian
Tin House | senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social
linktr.ee/MelissaRen
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz Te Arawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui, Pākehā. Kaituhi Māori. Author of “Kurangaituku”.
Writer of things. Popular emotional cheese dish.
She/her/ia.
www.whitihereaka.co.nz
Profile photo by Tabitha Arthur
@newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social He/him
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
Maria Samuela @rarodonuts.bsky.social Books and stuff.
Tim Jones @timjonesbooks.bsky.social Writer. Climate justice & environmental activist. Cricket fan. Unexpected metalhead. He/him. My 2023 climate fiction novel "Emergency Weather", set in Wellington, is looking all too relevant right now. #ToituTeTiriti
Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Hinemoana Baker @hinemoana.bsky.social Poet, sound enthusiast, occasionally hilarious!
Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social mrjeffhowell.substack.com
Kirikiriroa. Gully adjacent. Airbnb valet. Serial pedaler of te Awa. Political opinionator.
My other car is a canal boat.
Dr Gary Payinda @garypayinda.bsky.social Emergency doctor and your Labour Candidate for Whangārei.
People come first.
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Ella @ellashepston.bsky.social law nerd // open water swimmer // ABBA fan
often talking about abortion
Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social Pōneke based Pākehā.
#NZPol
Humanist. We can make everyone’s lives better with deliberate choices.
Toitū Te Tiriti.
This is the worst government ever.
⚠️ Bad fucking language warning.
Sarah @notsailingalone.bsky.social He tangata tiriti ahau
Te Tau Ihu Aotearoa
Former Californian
a pessimistic optimist or an optimistic pessimist
she/her
library person
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com I make TV and film. I write stuff. I was on #TheTraitorsNZ. Wrote FAKE BELIEVE (http://bit.ly/fakebelieve). Made TICKLED documentary. He/Him. dylanreeve@protonmail.com
Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social Am a Dr. Not the useful kind. Teach Evidence Law, International Human Rights, Gender & the Law at UC.
Researching online abuse, human rights, law. ASD-Dyspraxia 🌈
Instagram: @legally.feminist
Views are my own.
Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social Writer; PhD student. Dog & book lover. 'Damn leftie'
Māori/Irish/Scottish/Proud Kiwi
Shakespeare/mātauranga passionate
www.tkroxborogh.com
🚫DMs (unless I know you) 🚫 $$$ or date requests
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Jessian Choy ("she" not "guys" or "girl" :) @funanddraconian.com That person who mailed menstrual🩲to a professor who found toxic PFAS in it. Be happy, equitable, green & vegan based on studies: articles, podcasts, videos, breathwork, dreamwork, energywork, hypnosis, meditation, sound. FunAndDraconian.com/jessian-choy
Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social Work in local govt. Widow, artist, partner. Living my best life despite tricky health! Well vaxxed.
Áine @ainekc.bsky.social Pākehā, disabled. They/them. Researcher, story-teller, organiser - scheming in disability community for climate justice, migrant rights, Tiriti justice. PhD student University of Otago.
https://linktr.ee/ainekc/
Auckland Women's Centre @akwomenscentre.bsky.social Empowering wāhine Māori & women in Auckland with support, education, counselling, community kōrero & safe space. Trans women are women.
Tāmaki Makaurau awc.org.nz
Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social Angry at Facebook. Poet. PhD. Creator / Founder / Director / Facilitator of Mana Moana - an indigenous knowledge / decol leadership programme for Pacific peoples. Activist. Artist. Māmā. Former academic. Currently writing three books.
Eliot @tucano.bsky.social Mildly anarchist Eco activism, Capoeira Angola, from Whanganui a Tara to Tāmaki
Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social ALRANZ has been advocating for reproductive justice since 1970 and we aren't going anywhere ✊🏽
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social AuDHD Boomer, tangata Tiriti, LGBTQIA+ ally, spending my professional life working on wellbeing - and Toitū te Tiriti.
acid corbyn dallas @acidcorbyn.bsky.social 
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
Dillon Pentz @hatetosayit.com NZ person now living in Australia. "Professionally Gamer Adjacent".
Developer for @supportclass.net, @gamesdonequick.com and @vodbox.co. Maintain https://policepolicy.nz with @curly.kiwi. Formerly @obsproject.com.
AuDHD. Somewhat obnoxious. Sorry. he/him
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
massive continuity of ducks @secretbeetle.bsky.social I have learned no lessons and will never change
free palestine
toitū te tiriti
tangata te tiriti
pākehā
any pronouns
BC @a-shady-clark.bsky.social Bird nerd and local f****t
Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Canterbury, NZ. Fellow @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. Math modelling in biology and epidemiology. Bicycles make the world a better place. He/him
https://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~m.plank/
Dr Sharon Bell @sharonbell.bsky.social she/her, Pākehā/white, Aotearoa NZ. PhD on health system development & EAOs in Myanmar. Currently working on climate resilience in Myanmar & the Blue Pacific Continent. 🍉✊🕊️
Bryce @brycepearce.bsky.social Tāmaki Makaurau
Surf Lifeguard
Film and TV Safety Officer
Sometimes rides a bike
Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social Software developer, Green, resident in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Coley @coleytangerina.bsky.social I’m terribly bad at remembering I have an account here.
Steph Phi @freestylesteph.bsky.social Standing for Whakatū Nelson Council . Architect with Interest in social justice, creative arts & creating a better society for all. Aotearoa. Whakatū Tangata Te Tiriti
Jo @phdwahine.bsky.social Ngati Porou ki Wairarapa 
Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social Labour Candidate for Wellington Bays in 2026. CTU Economist, Unionist, and believer in a better Aotearoa.
https://linktr.ee/craigrenney.official
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views. 
Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social Pom. Kiwi. Leftie, Union activist.
Linguistics, biblical studies, politics. And silliness, if at all possible. Posts mostly in English; little bit of Japanese or Norwegian because why not.
Winnie2609 🥝🇳🇿🫘 @winnie2609.bsky.social Left and woke, NZer interested in NZ politics and because it matters, USA politics. Legumiati, Books, Art and Food. I Follow Back. Totally Against 🍊💨 DONT ask for money or show me your ass. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED 🚫.
Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space The Wellington Skellington (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Pākehā). He/him/ia. Biscuit Tin Enthusiast. Aotearoa New Zealand.
DMcGregor @brownponcho.bsky.social Lapsed lawyer, retrodoodle fan, eater of hot sauce
Crafty māmā 🍉🌷🧵🧶🐈⬛ | ❤️🤍🖤 @kelsew.bsky.social Embracing my inner sloth. Fuelled by coffee, chocolate and gin. Crafty as. Winter is for hibernating.
#ToitūTeTiriti
Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social Pākehā/Tangata Tiriti; critical psych, health/disability, feminism/gender/politics, bodies, equity & social justice. #ThematicAnalysis #QualitativeResearch!
www.thematicanalysis.net
www.storycompletion.net
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/
@poemtoday.bsky.social @poemtoday.bsky.social 
🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚 @catespice.bsky.social Semper Femina. From Aotearoa. C.M. Scandreth on the NoSleep Podcast.
Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social Left leaning Kiwi in Australia watching the world. If being woke means caring about people then I’ll wear that as a badge of honour #BHN #auspol #nzpol #NZpolitics #USPolitics #ukpol #Naarm #Melbourne #MelbourneWeather☀️🌧️⛈️💨🥝🦜🐼🐴🐶😻🇳🇿🇦🇺🦘
Elise A @erunswild.bsky.social Ecologist, runner, lefty. Tāngata Tiriti. She/her. Ōtautahi based. 
Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social Woke socialist, stray cat magnet, Tūī feeder, she/her/ia. Living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.
Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira. Indigenous sociologist at large. Doing stuff on political violence. ND. Posting in personal capacity
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
Nicola Hope @nicolahope.bsky.social Lefty cat lover from NZ 🐱🌱
Emissary Janus @blacktonystark.bsky.social 小红书：blacktonystark
Ham radio, jazz piano, computers.
I block people who stan war criminal politicians without warning. Do better.
🇺🇸 ✈️ 🇳🇿
Richard Easther @rjme.bsky.social Father, husband, scientist, Kiwi diaspora returnee, prof @aucklanduni.bsky.social - opinions mine. He/Him
Science: https://cosmology.auckland.ac.nz
Blog: https://excursionset.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/excursionset
Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social buymeacoffee.com/foxygodmother
Artist
I am cis lesbian she/her
Bipolar including psychosis, medicated 16 years
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
RNZ - NZ News, Current Affairs, Audio On Demand [Unofficial] @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy New Zealand's public broadcaster, providing comprehensive NZ news and current affairs, specialist audio features and documentaries.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://rnz.co.nz/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/rnz.co.nz
Samuel @samboy.bsky.social 🖋 Law, 🏑 hockey, 🏳️🌈 advocacy, 📑 governance, 🐕🦺 dog step-dad. All views are those of my employer.
Chair at @rainbowwellington.bsky.social
David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social Global industry campaign manager at Oil Change International | Chair of Greenpeace International | Likes bikes, just transitions & renewable energy | he/him || Views my own
czernie @czernie.bsky.social Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
Digital inequality, critical education, HE for Good
Citizen of the world, living at the sea in Africa.
Bones in the lake @benebones.bsky.social 33, sober poet, leftie gardener.
Based out of Wānaka, Aotearoa.
Tāngata Tiriti. #pinksky
Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social Data plumber/word baker