Zoe Cormack @zoecormack.bsky.social Curator at a national museum. Recovering academic and sporadic user of this site. Views my own.
Sasha Smith @sashasmith.bsky.social History teacher. Assistant Headteacher for T&L/SCITT/ECT. SHP PATHS Council. SHP Regional Representative. Committee for Lincoln HA. Objects of Empire Project. ESIS Campaign History Chair. Views my own.
Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
Scott Pilkington @spil030.bsky.social campanologist, museologist, science communicator, historian, anthropologist, dancer, fibrecrafter, gin drinker, higher ed specialist, bi. he/him/they/ia 🏳️🌈🇳🇿
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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social President, Botanical Society of America.
#PUI Prof + Herbarium Director
Doc Martine and the Botaneers
https://www.chrismartine.com/
#PlantsareCoolToo: https://tinyurl.com/mr3nv85w
#iamabotanist #Botany2026 #botany #plantpeopleFTW
Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.
Advolly Richmond FLS @advollyr.bsky.social Plant/garden/social historian & author🪻 Lecturer, radio & Tv presenter. Podcast host.🌿 Powered by prosecco & snacks, lurks in libraries,archives & shrubberies 📚
www.advolly.co.uk
Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. Recent interest: history of peatland restoration. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & RCC fellow
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Julia Hanmer BSBI 🍁 @moschatel.bsky.social Chief Executive of @bsbibotany.bsky.social. Views my own. Wildlife, conservation, plants, bats, forest school, learning.
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences @hsnatsci.bsky.social HSNS is an academic journal devoted to the history of science. Our papers reveal the "diverse histories and practices of technical, professional, and vernacular knowledge as they have developed since the 18th century." https://online.ucpress.edu/hsns
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) fosters international communication among environmental history organizations and #EnvHist scholars.
Website: https://iceho.org
Beverley Glover @beverleycubg.bsky.social Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution. Researching flower development and evolution.
Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social Professor of History of Science, University of Leeds. History of print, science and religion, life and earth sciences, Britain 1790-1840. Award-winning new book: "Reading the Book of Nature" bit.ly/Book-of-Nature
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/143/
Phil Gilmartin @pmgilmartin.bsky.social Eclectic posts from a retired Professor of Plant Molecular Genetics, now enjoying life house renovating, dog walking, gardening, & travelling.
Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social I write. I read. Environmental defender. Bird fanatic. Born in London. Oxford alumna. Lived in Kingston 38 years. Remigrated. My blog: petchary.wordpress.com. Green Party Hastings. 💚 Global Voices community and on Substack. #StopDeepSeaMining #Arsenal
BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social Digitising Australia's biodiversity heritage literature to provide free #openaccess online (the Australian branch of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social; a collaboration with the Atlas of Living Australia @csiro.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
Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social Botany Senior Specialist at Natural England | BSBI referee & meetings secretary | critical genera | plant & butterfly conservation & reintros | botany tours | Punk | #Norfolk #Iamabotanist attempting to meet all GB plant taxa: 107 to go. Views own 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🇬🇧
Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
Geoff Bil @geoffbil.bsky.social Historian of science, assistant professor, University of Victoria. Interests: botany, anthropology, Indigenous history, IP, colonialism, environmental history.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Science History Institute @sciencehistory.org Sharing the stories of science! 🧬 🔬
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@scihistoryorg- J Jon Drori @jondrori.bsky.social This account is now at @jondrori.co.uk See you there! Jon
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Darren Crayn @dcrayn.bsky.social Director Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Editor in Chief Australian Systematic Botany, #systematics #genomics #collections #conservation #ecology #taxonomy #botany #tropics #ozwild #ozflora terrible guitarist...opinions owned
Alison Lullfitz @ali-lullfitz.bsky.social Cross-cultural ecologist, living on southern Noongar Boodja, Lecturer @ UWA Albany Campus
Ethan Bass @ethanbass.bsky.social chemical ecologist
Sophie Starrenburg @s-starrenburg.bsky.social Assistant prof of public international law in Leiden • cultural heritage, human rights & environmental law • previously LLM at Leiden & Cambridge, PhD at Leiden & postdoc at Tilburg • @s_starrenburg over on Twitter.
Cássia Bitencourt @latincassia.bsky.social evolutionary biogeographer #plants #Apocynaceae #outcrops #Amazon | RS NIF alumni | Research Fellow #KewScience
Xena Lunastitch (AKA Raylene) @xenalunastitch.bsky.social Ethnobiologist, heritage and historic preservation compliance oversight on public lands, photographer, naturalist in the Rocky Mountain, Great Basin, Sierra Nevada, and Pacific Coast West. Pivoting to science communications as an act of resistance.
Marcin Kotowski @ethnobiology.bsky.social Etnobiolog. Fan przetworów, staroci, ściółki i drożdży.
British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social Internationally renowned for conducting world-class research and collaborations in #Türkiye and #BlackSea region in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Diamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social professor of law, University of Birmingham | labour, EU, equality, race & colonialism | editor, European Law Open | FAcSS | fixed-term member, Matrix Chambers | trustee, Black Cultural Archives
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-8853
Didi van Trijp @dvantrijp.bsky.social Solidair met WO in Actie 🟥 // historica, conservator, cultuur, wetenschap
Dr. Kathryn G. Turner @ktinvasion.bsky.social Assoc professor @IdahoStateU. Evolutionary ecologist fixated on humans moving plants around. I'm Sherlock Holmes and #InvasiveSpecies are my Moriarty. #Ethnobotany nerd. #Herbarium superfan.
Plot to shop @plot2shop.bsky.social We are a community group based at Surrey Docks Farm where adults with learning disabilities learn how to grow plants and vegetables that we then sell in the farm shop. We love growing delicious veg and being part of a working mixed city farm
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social Scholar & Writer ✍🏻
Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature
I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia.
Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, CEU Review of Books, Apofenie, etc
Eleanor le Jeune (James) @eleanorlejeune.bsky.social Archaeologist with an interest in ceramics, Communications coordinator for Finds Research Group. QA Officer on the Science Collections Digitisation Project at Kew Gardens
@plantsforpeople.bsky.social @plantsforpeople.bsky.social
Richard Dowling @dowlingwildlife.bsky.social UK Amateur Naturalist & Wildlife Gardener / Photographer. Tofu Eating Wokerati. Interested in Nature, Sustainability, Biodiversity, Bumblebees & Climate 🟩 Ⓥ
Marco Pellegrini @moopellegrini.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇧🇷♿️non-binary, mixed-race LatinX, botanist, 👨🏽🤝👨🏻@The_Al_meida, lots of typos, cats, queer stuff, and arts. Opinions my own. #Commelinales
Rosalie Hermans @rosaliehermans.bsky.social PhD Researcher @AMGC @VrijeUniversiteitBrussel
archaeologist, passionate about working with phytoliths (cool and intriguing plant microfossils)
Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉
Views my own
Samuel Vanden Abeele @samuelvdabeele.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences & BopCo || Evolutionary biologist || Species delimitation, phylogeography, population genetics, kinship analysis
Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea AM @mveg001.bsky.social Executive, NED | Strategy, Leadership, Advocacy | Industry-Academia-Gov | Deputy Director, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute | DEI, STEM Workforce | Consultant, Career Coach | she/her | #Wurundjeri #Australia
Henk Serfontein @henkserfontein.bsky.social Visual artist. Occasional writer. Community Arts facilitator. Charcoal and dirty feet. Fragile flora.
📍Cape Town. South-Africa.🇿🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jerome Ros @jerome-ros.bsky.social 🔍CNRS researcher
🫒Archaeobotanist at @isemevol.bsky.social
🔬Medievalist, working on agriculture and forests in medieval France, Spain and Morocco (@Isemaproject)
https://cv.hal.science/jerome-ros
Ben Nyberg @benbotanical.bsky.social Plant Conservation 🌿 Island Biodiversity 🏝️
Cliff Ecosystems ⛰️ Drones 🚁
National Tropical Botanical Garden 🪴
Hawaiian Islands 🌺
Vida Svahnström @vidasplants.bsky.social mostly botany, conservation, and orchids; PhD student at Kew Gardens & Imperial College London 🌿
Miles Nesbit @nesbit-sci.bsky.social SSCP DTP student at Imperial College London researching pathogen spillover in pollinator communities. Graystock Lab 🐝
Ana Rita Simões @anaritagsimoes.bsky.social Research Botanist (West Africa)
Missouri Botanical Garden - Africa and Madagascar Department
Preshonnature @preshonnature.bsky.social ||Taxonomy||•||Systematics||•||Biodiversity Conservation||.
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
Lucie Buchi @lucieabuchi.bsky.social Researcher in crop ecology and field crop systems at the Natural Resources Institute, UK
Posts and comments are mine
Garden History Research Foundation (NZ) @gardhistnz.bsky.social The Garden History Research Foundation's purpose is to ‘promote an understanding of the context, meaning and history of gardens’ in New Zealand. #gardenhistory
gardenhistoryresearchfoundation.com
Alex McAlvay @alexmcalvay.bsky.social Scientist at New York Botanical Garden 🥬 Food security/sovereignty 🌿 Climate resilience 🌾 Community-directed research to preserve and revitalize cultural plant knowledge 🌳 He/him
Bat Maria Vorontsova @vorontsovams.bsky.social Grass taxonomist at Kew https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/people/bat-vorontsova
Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social Writer/Journalist/Storyteller/ On an adventure. Bylines featured on The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC, The New Humanitarian, New Humanist. Podcaster and Newsletter Writer at Have You Thought About. Public Speaker and more. www.dhrutishah.com
PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net Open-access, peer-reviewed journal in systematic botany.
Publishes new taxa, revisions, checklists, data papers & more from any geological age and any part of the world.
Published by @pensoft.net. Powered by @arphahub.com.
Website: phytokeys.pensoft.net
EveleenMc @eveleenm.bsky.social Interested in the environment, botany, history, architecture, opera, classical music, the EU, and lots more. Please don't follow me if you're already following thousands!
iaptglobal @iaptglobal.bsky.social International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) - Promoting studies in evolution, classification, and naming of algae, fungi, and plants. 🪸🍄🌱🔍🔬💻📚
@aurora189.bsky.social @aurora189.bsky.social
Camille Lesouef @camillelesouef.bsky.social Garden and landscape studies | art history | cultural history
Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes
nicky nicolson @nickynicolson.bsky.social 👋 Software developer turned biodiversity informatics researcher: I use collaborative #OpenScience practices to build tools, analyse & mobilise natural history specimen data - at Kew & with partners worldwide. Fellow at Software Sustainability Institute.
Michael Pirie @piriemike.bsky.social Systematic botanist, curator at the Bergen University Gardens. #EricaGCC
Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social Archaeologist, Traveler, Fulbrighter, Slovak, Mother, lover of Cyprus, Slovakia, history, plants, historic preservation
Jimena Mateo Martín @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social 🌳 Ethnobotanist 👩🌾
PhD student at UAM, Spain 📚 Spanish Traditional Knowledge - Distribution and Evolution
Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social PhD Fellow in Arctic plant diversity 🌿🌼 & pollination networks 🪰🐝, Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen🇩🇰. APECS❄️. Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (🇸🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇴). 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 Born @360ppm. Fieldwork in Kalaallit Nunaat Greenland🇬🇱.
Anna Sharman @annasharmanrd.bsky.social Researcher developer at a UK independent research organisation. Former director of Cofactor. Interested in #ResearcherDevelopment #ResearchCulture #AcademicCareers #Inclusion #Conferencing #Biology #OpenScience #Neurodiversity
Thomas Haevermans @euphorbiaman.bsky.social Botanist, Associate Professor at the French Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Institut de Systématique Évolution Biodiversité.
#botanist #taxonomist #herbarium #macroecology #bamboos #gingers #euphorbia #mnhn #plant #systematics
Alexandra Raptis @alexandraraptis.bsky.social PhD-Student @uni-hamburg.de | Historian | Colonialism | History of Collecting | History of Knowledge | History of Education
Rachel Ehrenberg @rachelscience.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @KnowableMag, @KSJatMIT, @ScienceNews alum; lapsed botanist, Vermont ex-pat
Natalia Przelomska @natalia-asp.bsky.social Lecturer in Bioinformatics @ University of Portsmouth 🧬
Affiliate researcher RBG Kew 🌿 and Smithsonian’s NMNH 🏛️
ancient DNA, botany, ornithology, collections-based research, genomics, occasional archaeologist
michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social Dad of 2 wonderful people. #Archaeology videos and other content. #Science & #Nature. Smiling. #Writing #Learning and leading with #AI & #edTech
Christie Vogler @voguearchaeology.bsky.social Ancient Mediterranean archaeologist & scholar (Ph.D in Anthro). I study women's roles in ancient medicine. Co-host of the podcast Movies We Dig (@movieswedig.bsky.social). She/Her
https://linktr.ee/voglercm
Jessica Nitschke @jessnitschke.bsky.social Archaeologist and Historian. Editor of The Ancient Near East Today. https://anetoday.org/. Japanophile. Lives in Cape Town.
The Egypt Exploration Society @theees.bsky.social Explore everything #Egypt with the EES! We promote Egyptian #archaeology and #heritage, because we envisage #Egyptian cultural heritage preserved for posterity!
Carl Graves @cgraves88.bsky.social Egyptologist and charity CEO. Director of the Egypt Exploration Society. Views are my own.
Dr Edward Scrivens @edwardscrivens.bsky.social Egyptologist (Development Manager at the Egypt Exploration Society / @theees.bsky.social - views here my own), occasional improv comedian and drag artist. I research goddesses, and sometimes I am one. 🏳️🌈He/Him.
Museums Showoff @museumsshowoff.bsky.social A cabaret-style night for people who love museums, libraries, archives and heritage. Masterminded by @RachelSouhami. gigs.museumsshowoff.org.uk
Isabelle Vella Gregory @ivg.bsky.social Archaeologist. Sudan. Malta. UCL. Cambridge. https://thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/
https://m.facebook.com/JebelMoya
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Dr Amara Thornton @amalexathorn.bsky.social Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the UCL Institute of Archaeology one of the largest & most highly regarded centres for #Archaeology, #Heritage & #Museum studies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
📸 (c) James Tye
Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com Advocate for arts and humanities. I believe in the importance of sharing the stories of research to create impact outside of universities. Comms professional and history postgrad researching Anubis in the Roman World. 🏛️🐍
He/him
Catriona Wilson @catrionacurator.bsky.social Head of Petrie Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, UCL | Trustee BGI/National Videogame Museum | Membership secretary, University Museums Group | ACE Designation panel member | Mental health first aider
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
Becky Peters @beckypeters.bsky.social Head of Engagement: University of Bristol - Passionate about arts, culture, libraries, museums, history, nature & the cosmos.
Alice Stevenson @alicestevenson.bsky.social Archaeologist that digs museums & archives. Professor of Museum Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Co-editor Museum Anthropology
Ipswich Museums @ipswichmuseums.bsky.social From mammoths to masterpieces, we’re wild for history, buzzing about art, and all about adventure! Explore Christchurch Mansion and (in 2026) Ipswich Museum & Ipswich Art Gallery. 🖼️🦣
Angie Bolton @angiembolton.bsky.social Curator of Archaeology, parent, ex-Finds Liaison Officer, co-Sec of @SocMusArch, curious person, Jackapoo & Staffie owner, glass half full. All opinions my own.