Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD โ https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social Academic, writer, and editor at Rosa Press. Poetry and poetics; gender, sexuality, and the family form; prisons and policing; contemporary art and media.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but Iโm 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social Author/historian (Duke Ellington's America, Who's In The Money?) musician/songwriter, Yankee in London, Senior Lecturer.
In so many ways, a Culture Hack...and democracy champion.
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social Sociologist / New Book - Unraveling the American Mafia: Angelo Lonardo, Carmen Zagaria, and the Beginning of the End in Cleveland (Bloomsbury, 2027)
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC๐ฐ/COYP
Lanre Bakare @lanre-bakare.bsky.social Culture writer, debut non-fiction WE WERE THERE out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942/we-were-there-by-bakare-lanre/9781847927477
Jordan Hinton @psychjordy23.bsky.social Social psych early-career research officer exploring LGBTQ+ identity, health, stigma, sex, and relationships.
Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) based
๐ค https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan-Hinton-3
He/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Views are my own
Martin Myers @martinmyers.bsky.social Sociologist of education, writer, researcher, poet.
Ricky Karlson @morinus.bsky.social ๐คฉ Yo!
๐ธ๐ช Swedish โข ๐ 29 โข ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Gay
๐ค Nerd โข ๐ช Fitness โข โ๏ธ Triumph
โจ https://www.instagram.com/ricky_karlson โจ
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
// melissagiragrant.com
ยป melissa@melissagira.com
ยป tips (encrypted): melissagira.01 on Signal
@nyguild.bsky.social member
Heather Berg @drheatherberg.bsky.social Socialist feminist writing on sex, work, and everyday struggle. Author of Porn Work (2021) and Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (forthcoming in fall 2026) https://www.drheatherberg.com
Views my own
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer โข FEMMEPHILIA โข ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION โข patreon.com/reproutopia โข Full Surrogacy Now โข Abolish the Family โข essays @ LRB, Harper's etc โข octopus essay @ n+1 โข "recovering academic"
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Progressive Economy Forum council member. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics.
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social Stay-at-home mother of none
Proton @proton.me Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
๐ฉ๐ผโ๐ป https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
Ollie Randall @ollie-randall.bsky.social Writer and cartoonist. Author of Writers in Whites: https://fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers-in-whites/
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social Professor of Sociology. Health & Wellbeing, Medical Sociology, Sexualities ๐ฎ
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / ๐ฌ on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
@kelvinblunt.bsky.social @kelvinblunt.bsky.social Writer exploring queer history, masculinity, class, and sexual subcultures. Essays, audio, and research via Str8 No Chaser.
str8nochaser.substack.com
Petra Korleviฤ @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs ๐ฆ
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
๐ญ๐ท expat in ๐ฌ๐ง
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
My blog: https://asocial.substack.com/
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First ๐ Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
Penny Horwood @pennyhorwood3.bsky.social Technology journalist at https://www.computing.co.uk with strong interest in tech sustainability and workforce diversity.
Mother of three. Difficult. Often cross.
Opinions all my own, and I have plenty.
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassiaโs resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social Liberal internationalist ๐ช๐บ feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. โค๏ธs running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual ๐ฌ๐ง/๐ฉ๐ช citizen (personal account)
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social Lecturer at QMUL โข editor at Historical Materialism โข author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025)
https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social Him off of @Wonkhe. Sky Cards Rare Master.
Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social Political Scientist | British Politics and History | PhD on political salaries (Exeter) | Mst. Modern British and European History (Oxford) | DMs closed, email me @n.dickinson3@exeter.ac.uk
Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk Political Scientist at the University of Manchester
Co-Director of the British Election Study
https://www.jack-bailey.co.uk
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
@fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social Cyber War. Huh. What is it good for?
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe ๐ญ๐บ๐ต๐ฑ๐ธ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฟ at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, ๐ท๐บ and ๐จ๐ณ meddling.
๐ buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi
๐ panyiszabolcs.substack.com
๐๏ธ vsquare.org/newsletter
โ๏ธ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social American Studies Teacher, Gossip Researcher, Pop Culture Enthusiast
Here for #Gender #Queer #Archives #DH
Prof @UniGreifswald
Leehee Rothschild @leehee-rothschild.bsky.social Recently approved, PhD, in sociology, in MMU. Queer, poly, feminist, activist, vegan, leftist, aerialist. (They/them)
Adam Drummond @adamdrummond.bsky.social Head of Quant Research at Public First. Professional collector of other people's opinions
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
kadhim @kadhim.bsky.social head of investigations @ financial times / email: kadhim@ft.com / signal: @kadhim.01
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social "if that's the strangest thing you ever seen in your life, I'd say you haven't done much"
Shannon Philip @shannonphilip.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender and Sexuality and Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Researching youth, masculinities, sexualities, race, gender, violence and urbanisation in India and South Africa
Richard Vytniorgu @rvytniorgu.bsky.social Researcher / writer / lecturer. LGBT+ belonging | gay culture, sexual identity & wellbeing | autobiography & narrative. Author of Effeminate Belonging.
bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social national security adviser at popeyes louisiana kitchen | aka revrrlewis | he/him/๐ณ๏ธโ๐ |๐nyc
David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social cnn senior pop culture writer/reporter. noted idiot
Ex-BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia)
Writing in Slate, Rolling Stone, NY Mag, NY Times, Bustle, The Daily Beast. Yahoo, MSNBC.
Signal: davidmackau.07
Wigbertson Julian Isenia @julianisenia.bsky.social assistant prof in anthro Queer/Postcolonial/LGBTQ politics @uva_amsterdam Cocurator #nostei #houseofhiv he/they ๐จ๐ผ
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Prof Becky Muradรกs-Taylor @drbeckymt.bsky.social Prof of languages and linguistics, Director of programme design, LCS Uni of Leeds | Autistic, LGBTQ, adoptive parent | L2 phon, language education, ๆฅๆฌ่ช, espaรฑol
Tristan Oscar Smith ๐ฆ๐ @tristanoscars.bsky.social Writer, editor, and general goth nuisance. Lover of all things queer, spooky, and strange. He/him.
tristanoscarsmith.com
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) ๐ Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Emily Jones @emilyjones.bsky.social NUAcT Fellow at Newcastle Law School, UK.
International law, environment, feminist & queer theory, posthuman theory. She/her/they/them
Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @QMUL Law. Crim law and justice, laypersons and professionalism, conspiracy theories, law + performance. Director of QMUL Criminal Justice Centre. I wrote a book about LiPs. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/leader.html
Molly (they/them) ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @epi-nymph.bsky.social ๐ ๐ฟ๐โโฌ๐๐ท ๐ ๐ค ๐ ๐ค ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian @ Queenโs Uni Belfast
Author of โBelfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberationโ (Cornell, 2026) & โAfter the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenshipโ (Boydell, 2019)
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social โ tylerhoran.org
Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social Retired barrister (England + Wales) https://www.5sblaw.com/news/all-at-5-stone-buildings-wish-barbara-rich-well-on-her-retirement-from-practice/ law, legal history, public understanding of law. Londoner
https://bleakhouserevisited.substack.com
Judith Lehmann @judithlehmann.bsky.social Postdoc at Bamberg University | Sociologist | Research interests: social inequality, stigma, discrimination, health, family, LGBT, body weight | my personality is tea, cats, and books
Sam Chan ้ณๅๆทฑ @liksamchan.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of ๐๐ค๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ผ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ | ๐ญ๐ฐ
Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social University of Manchester Sociology Department | Digital Media & Tech, Digital Methods, Gender & Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbtโฌ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Trans ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Intersectional feminist โ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Prof Catherine Happer @catherinehapper.bsky.social Director, Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) @gu-mg.bsky.social Sociologist charting the entanglement of media & communications with capitalist power. Climate, cost of living, crisis. Author of 'The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age', MUP.
Michael J. Murphy @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social โขProf., Gender & Sexuality Stds., U. Illinois Springfield uis.edu/wgs
โขFounding member, UIS United Faculty uisufinfo.wordpress.com/
โขLGBTQIA+ studies, critical men's/masculinity studies, U.S. art/visual culture history.
Flic French @justflic.bsky.social She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Archivist, librarian, lesbian (not necessarily in that order). Queering collections is the new gay agenda.
Nyika @puzzledbyadream.bsky.social PhD student studying neurodivergent culture and the neoliberal standard of โnormalโ within universities. Neurodivergent, pan, sea enjoyer, lady-in-waiting to Astrid and Fin the cats. Belle and Sebastian fan, 6music Dad. Tangata Tiriti in-progress.
Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
Francesca Chiu @francescachiu.bsky.social Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, migration and social mobility in Southeast Asia.
Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social Sociologist. Postdoctoral Researcher @mpifg.bsky.social. Incoming Lecturer @uomsociology.bsky.social. Labour, culture & elites.
Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Nick O'Donovan @nickod.bsky.social Political scientist and occasional policy wonk, interested in big tech, the digital economy, taxation and inequality. Author of Pursuing the Knowledge Economy: https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/pursuing-the-knowledge-economy/?k=9781788215145
@DrNickOD
Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social Known for other things but mainly use this to talk about video games to be honest with you.
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter