Morag Macpherson @momacp.bsky.social Creativity, culture, communities, cycling, music, urbanism, coproduction & connection. Views are personal.
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social Smile Scotland ... you're on camera
Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron.bsky.social Plays guitar. Hates fascists. Just confused by life.
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Monorail Music @monorailmusic.bsky.social Glasgow-based independent record shop.
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Scottish Post-Punk @scotspostpunk.bsky.social Nae bams or fascists!
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
NorthLan Heritage @nlheritage.bsky.social Connecting you with North Lanarkshire's industrial & social heritage | Explore museum, archive & local studies collections | Visit our museums & search rooms
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social Artist in but not necessarily about Scotland.
Video photography and text.
"It's a Sign!" exhibition and book crowdfunder
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign
www.atomtown.org
Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social Reader in Architectural History, University of Edinburgh. C20 architecture in Britain. New towns. Theatres. Book 'Building Modern Scotland' available open access. Own views. No age ID so no DMs but I can do e-mail!
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk Glasgow then and now
Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social a guy
Broken Chanter @brokenchanter.bsky.social existential dread/decent tunes. new album ‘This Could be Us, You, Or Anybody Else’ out on @chemunderground.bsky.social now.
https://linktr.ee/brokenchanter
he/him.
📍Glasgow, Republic of Scotland
Joe McAlinden @joemcalinden.bsky.social ジョー・マカリンデン
DIY Musician / Cult Hero™️
Bands: Superstar, Boy Hairdressers, Linden, Groovy Little Numbers, BMX Bandits.
Collabs: Teenage Fanclub, Rod Stewart, Edwyn Collins, Alex Chilton, Jim Lambie, Alan Warner, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Captain America.
Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social 'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', Leverhulme Trust-funded project at University of Glasgow
PI Prof Rhona Brown.
Chemikal Underground @chemunderground.bsky.social Independent record label est. 1995 in Glasgow. We’ve released albums by Mogwai, Arab Strap, The Delgados, The Phantom Band, Adrian Crowley, RM Hubbert, Broken Chanter, Chrysanths to name a few.
https://linktr.ee/chemikalunderground
RM Hubbert @rmhubbert.com Retired tea towel salesman.
https://rockaction.scot/collections/aidan-moffat-rm-hubbert
https://chemikal.co.uk/artists/rm-hubbert
https://elhombretrajeado.bandcamp.com
Glasgow Film Festival @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social The film festival for audiences.
#GFF26
25 February - 8 March 2026
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
ScottishCinemas.org @scottishcinemas.org Visit http://www.scottishcinemas.org for 1000s of current & archive pictures of 100s of cinemas across Scotland.
Run by @GordonBarr.scot and
@garypainter74.bksy.social
since 2001.
National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social On stage, on screen, on tour
flakebelly @flakebelly.bsky.social Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.
Audio Plugin Developer: fBox Audio
https://flakebelly.com/
Grant Mason @grantmason.bsky.social Chief Executive PACE Theatre (http://www.pacetheatre.com @pacetheatre.com). Opening a new theatre for young people (http://www.exchangetheatre.org)
Archaeology Scotland @archscot.bsky.social Inspiring people to discover, explore, care for and enjoy Scotland's archaeological heritage! We are an independent charity: https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk
john // OB // IC @johnjnicol.bsky.social Graphic designer who loves nature (especially fungi + slime molds), seldom visited places, mountain biking and writing about weird music.
Scotland (he/him)
Reviews + mixes: https://obladada.com
Graphic Design: https://industrycottage.co.uk
Company of Wolves @companyofwolves.org Scotland's leading laboratory theatre company
Performance / Training / Community
The Bacchae 2026 Tour - On Sale: https://companyofwolves.org/projects/the-bacchae
K I N B R A E @kinbraemusic.bsky.social Sound / visual project of Scottish twins Andy & Mike Truscott
https://linktr.ee/Kinbrae
Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️⚧️
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright 
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social Scottish Landscape Photographer and Deputy Picture Editor at the Herald,Times & National. Prints and enquiries at www.damianshields.com
Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
Wiebke McGhee @wiebkemcghee.bsky.social Archivist, North Lanarkshire - history, nature, literature - auch auf Deutsch
Dylan Nardini @dylannardini.com Scottish Landscape Photographer
www.dylannardini.co.uk
Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year 2021, British Photography Awards Landscape Category Winner 2021.
Also known to dunk toast in my tea/coffee.
CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, University of Glasgow
SNACK magazine @snackmag.bsky.social Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
Art | Noise | Community
hello@snackmag.co.uk 💛
snackmag.co.uk + https://linktr.ee/SNACKmag
Neil Cooper @neilcooper.bsky.social Writer & Critic The Noise of Art - neilcooper.substack.com
coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com
The Herald, The List, The Drouth, Scottish Art News, MAP, Hungry Beat.
Andrew Reid @ajreid93.bsky.social Applied Games Researcher & Lecturer in Games Production, @abertayuni.bsky.social.
Member, @royalsoced.bsky.social Young Academy of Scotland.
Mentor, @mcrpathways.bsky.social.
Views my own.
https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-reid/
Katie Hughes (Alba Astro) 🔭 📷 @albaastro.bsky.social Award winning Astro Photographer, living in Loch Lomond, Scotland General Photographer. Lover of the night sky. Member of STELA and 1/3 of Scotslasstro Admin of Astronomy Scotland
Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography Landscape Photographer and Architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
www.linktr.ee/grantbulloch
www.bulloch.photography
UK LPOTY shortlisted 2021 & 22
British Photo Awards finalist 2022, 23 & 26
Scottish LPOTY shortlisted 2017-24
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com 🐉 Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
📍 Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
📚 quindriepress.com
✉️ quindriepress@gmail.com
📢 Closing December 2026
Live Music Now Scotland @livemusicnowscot.bsky.social LMNS brings high-quality live music to people who wouldn't normally have access to it, while supporting the careers of outstanding emerging musicians.
Read more about our work:
🌐 livemusicnow.scot
Veryan Music @veryanmusic.bsky.social Female electronic musician based in the West Coast of Scotland. Latest album 'One Universal Breath' available at https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com
veryan.bandcamp.com
https://youtube.com/@VeryanMusic
https://instagram.com
Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds 
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Hubworld Scotland @hubworld.bsky.social Open community network for the Scottish games industry • The gang behind the #DundeeGamesMeetup #HubQuiz #Playapalooza #XPExchange We run events every month! Join the club!
enquiries ✉️ info@hubworldscotland.com
Jim Ross 🏴🎞 @jimgr.com Professional cynic, but my heart's not in it • Scottish, part-time film critic • Editor-in-Chief @TAKEONECinema.net • ✍️ Vague Visages, Film Inquiry, Cultured Vultures, Little White Lies & ++ •🎙️📻 Co-producer Cinetopia on EH-FM • he/him
Chris Kumar @chriskumar.bsky.social Glasgow Film Festival // Film Programmer
Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre @scotco-ophistory.bsky.social Project based in the old bake house in West Calder to create a new home for the history of the Scottish Co-operative Movement. 
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Dominic Corr @dominiccorr.bsky.social Film and Theatre Critic 🎭
Sarcasm is the default setting.
Editor of https://corrblimey.uk freelance writer and critic for The List, BBC Radio Scotland, Reviews Hub, In Their Own League. Film Critics UK and Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland judge
Scottish Games Network @scottishgames.bsky.social The only community dedicated to Scotland’s games ecosystem.
Harry @harrymould.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇯🇲🏴 Writer and Wellbeing Facilitator @UnitedAgents & @PFDAgents. Finalist: Studio21 Drama Series '23, Merky Book Prize '24, PFD Queer Literary Fiction '24. Royal Court Intro to Playwriting 2025. They/she.
Callum Waiana Madge @calluminium.bsky.social Performance stuff in Scotland. Access Manager for Edinburgh International Festival. Always thinking three meals ahead.
https://callumwaianamadge.contactin.bio/
(He/ him)
Leslie Hills @skylinefilm.bsky.social Film producer. Book 10 Scotland Street - an opinionated history of one house over two centuries now out in paperback
Nicola Walls @nicolawalls.bsky.social Architect, Art Explorer, Board Member for Tron Theatre Glasgow tron.co.uk & WASPS waspsstudios.org.uk Assistant Design Manager at University of Edinburgh Estates Department ed.ac.uk/estates promoting #InclusiveDesign 
Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social Rector of University of Aberdeen 🎓 Scottish singer | MG ALBA Musician of the Year | @rcstweets alumna | Join my Patreon for exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/ionafyfe
POST | Aberdeen Culture @postabdn.com Celebrating Aberdeen's rich culture, creative community, and remarkable people.
Visit us at: https://postabdn.com
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Dr Margaret Maitland @margaretmaitland.bsky.social Egyptologist by training. Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Researching inequality in ancient Egypt and histories of excavation/collecting/museums. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/eloquentpeasant
Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social Galloway Hoard Researcher at National Museums Scotland. Author of Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom and other archaeology content. https://www.nms.ac.uk/profile/dr-adrian-maldonado See also @almostarch.bsky.social
RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social News, events and stories from the library, archive and museum at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/ #histmed #libraries #archives #museums
Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire.
Website: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/
Nicola Meighan @nicolameighan.bsky.social Arts Writer & Broadcaster 🏳️⚧️
Friday Afternoons, BBC Radio Scotland
A Kick Up The Arts podcast
akickupthearts.org
Interviews: Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Martha Reeves, Joan Collins 
Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, musician from Shetland. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). RSL Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024. Midder tongues, folklore, islandness, illness.
What We Do in the Winter @wwditw.bsky.social A podcast about the lives of the people of Mull, Iona, Ulva, Gometra, Erraid & Little Colonsay off the West Coast of Scotland. Oral history podcasts and films. Hosted by Alasdair Satchel 
Paul MacDonald-Taylor @pauldtaylor.bsky.social Film watcher. Cinema programmer for Eden Court Theatre and the Inverness Film Festival.
Casiomtb @casiomt.bsky.social Pop electronica or lofi ambient depending on mood & weather outside Edinburgh tenement. Was/am in/on/did the Mirry album.
Spotify: casiomtb, mirry, tantrum, fake tan.
linktr.ee/casiomtb
Floppyrecords.co.uk
Number Stations @numberstations.bsky.social Number Stations make haunted electronica and future-rock noise in the wintry depths of Scotland. They take their name from the enigmatic broadcasts that haunt shortwave radio.
https://number-stations.bandcamp.com/
Alasdair Satchel @alsatch.bsky.social Arts, education and community creative sort. Part of Screen Argyll. Host of What We Do In The Winter - a podcast about life in remote and rural locations. Co-host of Down the Back of the Seats. Tha Gàidhlig agam. 
Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. https://lnk.bio/scotbpocwriters
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
Chris Lau Manson 阿劉 @chrislaumanson.bsky.social Mixed Scottish-Chinese (Hakka) Comic creator, writer and illustrator based in Glasgow. 🏴🇭🇰🎨📝 He/Him/佢
📧: hello@chrislaumanson.co.uk
#comic | #art | #illustration
www.chrislaumanson.co.uk
The Ferret @theferret.scot Scotland's award-winning investigative news and fact-checking co-op.
Contact us here: https://theferret.scot/contact/
Find out more: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/theferretscot
CreepingBent @creepingbent.bsky.social Art, Music, Literature, Film.
Hidden Door @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social Transforming forgotten and disused spaces with visual art, music, performances and more.
https://hiddendoorarts.org
Scotland Loves Anime @lovesanimation.bsky.social Celebrating 15 years of the UK's longest-running film festival celebrating Japanese animation. November 1st - 18th 2024!
Glasgow: 1st - 3rd Nov | Edinburgh: 4th - 10th Nov
TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling Festival
https://tagsfest.co.uk/
🏷️ 17th October 2026
📌 Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh
✉️ hello@tagsfest.co.uk
🏴 Run by @smallpress.scot
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
The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social Chaidh Comhairle nan Leabhraichean a stèidheachadh gus leughadh, sgrìobhadh agus litreachas na Gàidhlig a leudachadh.
Sign-up to our newsletter for the latest Gaelic book news and events: https://tr.ee/XfEBJf
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh
Dùn Èideann 
@edwyncollins.bsky.social @edwyncollins.bsky.social 
Dundee Culture @dundeeculture.bsky.social 🏴❤️ Showcasing Dundee to the world by promoting cultural news, stories & events fae oor bonnie wee city! #APlaceOfNewHope
The Tenementals @tenementals.bsky.social Glasgow band.
www.tenementals.com
https://linktr.ee/tenementals
The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social Stunning Viking-Age sculpture collection from the early medieval kingdom of Strathclyde, held in A-listed Govan Old ⏰️ OPEN 7 DAYS, 11am to 4pm 🎟 FREE entry!
Glasgow Print Studio @glasgowprintstudio.bsky.social Promoting contemporary and innovative printmaking.
What's On Glasgow @whatsonglasgow.bsky.social Your essential guide to what's on in Glasgow and beyond www.whatsonglasgow.co.uk
Add your event for free at www.whatsonnetwork.co.uk
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
Sarah Kudirka @sarahkudirka.bsky.social Artist | she/her | also curator, gardener + stitcher | Glasgow | #standwithukraine
#freepalestine🇵🇸Instagram: @sarahkkd | Scotland🏴 www.sarahkudirka.com
PACE Theatre @pacetheatre.com We make theatre for young people and families and run the UK's largest youth theatre. To donate £10 text PACE to 70191. We're building a new theatre venue for Paisley! Find out more at http://exchangetheatre.org