Pete Wood @peterrhwood.bsky.social Sustainability, mobility, devolution, government reform. OU Assoc Lecturer & Freelance Researcher. UCU Climate and Ecological Emergency Ctte & OU Branch President. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrhwood
Ruairí Cullen @ruairicullen.bsky.social HE policy @ The British Academy.
David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social Him off of @Wonkhe. Sky Cards Rare Master.
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
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Monica B. Pearl @mbpearl.bsky.social teacher reader expat/immigrant newyorker in Manchester UK
monicapearl.com
Merle Kartscher @merlekar.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Harvard. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Taiwan and China; women‘s and gender history.
KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social Official account of King's College London University and College Union. The purpose of a union is to empower members with voice + votes at work. Our values are democracy, equality, inclusion, fairness and justice.
UCU LSBU @uculsbu.bsky.social LSBU Branch of the University and College Union
21 Group @21group.bsky.social The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now! 
Peter Cranie @petercranie.bsky.social Father, husband, UCU Branch Chair, Liverpool Green Party Exec member, Scottish Green Party, University Lecturer (Education) - Prospective Council Candidate, Smithdown ward
Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network https://transsafety.network/
Monitoring organised harm against trans people in the UK.
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
QAA @qaa.ac.uk The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) is the UK's expert quality body for tertiary education.
🖥️ https://www.qaa.ac.uk/
(Community guidelines: http://ow.ly/PAxJ50iko8T)
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/ , now promoting https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- free the press!
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social Professor, Vascular Biologist, Past President British Microcirculation and Vascular BiologySociety, Co-Chair Interdisciplinary Partnership on Health Inequalities and Race, President UoNUCU.
Brian "Dr." White @androidacademia.bsky.social Asst Prof of Japanese. SF, discourse, and subjectivity. Nerd for games of all stripes. He/him/あいつ. Do not quote the old skeets at me, witch. I was there when they were written. 🚫AI 日本SF、言説、主体性を研究している教師。TTRPG、ボードゲーム好き。投稿はほぼ英語で。
Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social Head of the School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Lincoln. Research on propaganda, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy & soft power. Lover of all things literary. Living with Crohn’s Disease. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Andrea Zappalaglio @anzapp.bsky.social Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law (University of Leeds); formerly University of Sheffield and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. Oxford DPhil. He/Him.
For everything about me: www.zappalaglio.com
David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester.
Associate editor for Nationalities Papers.
Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
Omar Al-Ghazzi @omarghazzi.bsky.social Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social Dad, philosopher, chronically ill person.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/people/sam-clark
Views my own.
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Meng Zhang @mrrsoybean.bsky.social Historian of medicine, public health and colonialism in modern China and East Asia. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.
Kavita Ramakrishnan @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social Unruly geographer at the University of East Anglia.
Eviction, resettlement, informality and migration. Currently thinking about embodied experiences of extreme heat.
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Kevin Morgan @drkevinmorgan.bsky.social Father, Husband, Son #ChemEd #CER Chem+Chem Eng Academic at QUB (views my own) Like/Repost is not endorsement National Teaching Fellow #MIEExpert #PFHEA Member of Queen’s University Belfast Senate, Chair RSC Education Community Ireland
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Academic, U of Portsmouth, UK: corpus linguistics, lexicology/graphy, semantics, word play. Also interested in French literature & culture. UCU activist ( @ucu.org.uk )
Also likes: cats, singing, LFC, Lancashire cricket, talking too much
FE Week @feweek.bsky.social Leading the way in further education, skills & apprenticeships news, views and investigations. Published by EducationScape
Nick Bingham @nickbi.bsky.social Geographer at The Open University, UK
thinking materialities :: with :: care
(not necessarily in that order)
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Ungovernable academic and freelance film critic (Sight&Sound, BBC, etc.). Writing a book *A Star Wars World: The Land, Labour, and Wild Lives that Make a Media Empire* - due May 2027. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
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
President Greater Manchester Association TUC @presidentgmatuc.bsky.social Bringing together all the Trades Councils of Greater Manchester
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Dr Chris ODonnell @choochod.bsky.social Academic, head of psychology and social work, activist, UCU trade union. 
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 🏴 @johnbarnes.org I’m a freelance who reads the network news on BBC Radio 5 Live and the 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & morris dancer.
Former academic but still a geek.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social Professor @UCL • Author 'When States Come Out' @CambridgeUP • Co-Editor @EJPGjournal • PhD @Cornell • IR/CP, Europe, LGBTI Rights, Movements, Norms • 🏳️🌈 he/him
Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social Political Sociologist - citizen engagement, digital politics, young people, future of work, advocacy, & popular culture.
But prefers dogs, coffee, chocolate
From Sydney 🇦🇺 now living in Glasgow 🏴
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social Editor, @timeshighered.bsky.social
Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social Author The Great University Gamble.
University funding & financing.
But also chess, shogi and tai chi.
andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social 
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right
https://aurelmondon.com/
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social 🏛️ Archaeology PhD Candidate at Cambridge University
🗾 Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies 2022, researching translation/interpretation at Japanese WWII heritage sites
🎙️ #BeyondJapan podcast host
🌈 he/him
📚 Publications: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8397-2826
TUC North West @tucnorthwest.bsky.social Representing affiliated trade unions and over 800,000 trade union members across the region, and changing the world of work for good
Stephanie Lynnette @stephanielynnette.bsky.social #maycontaintransfats
Trans+ Healthcare Worker | LGBTQ+ Activist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Event/Project Manager - London Trans+ Pride
Founder/Director - Ask Awareness
enquiries@stephanielynnette.co.uk
文学通信 @bungakureport.bsky.social 日本語・日本文学の研究書を中心に人文学書全般を刊行する出版社、文学通信。webでも積極的に活動することで、多様な情報をつなげ、多くの「問い」を世に生み出していきます。
公式サイト
https://bungaku-report.com/
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social Research analyst, ASRA. PhD candidate at Cardiff University researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Climate communications.
Joss @josstified.bsky.social Former USS negotiator
Still quite interested in pensions
"Mad politics"
Knitter, potter & trainee basket weaver
Hill walker & path stomper
Dog & guineapig facilitator
Dan Green @seeinggreen.co.uk PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Vice President of @hwucu.bsky.social
Disabled Members' Standing Committee Member for @ucu.org.uk
🏳️🌈♿
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
Rahmeen @rahmeenrahman.bsky.social PhD human genetics and immunology
Imperial College London
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧🇧🇩🇪🇺
📚 🎥 🎭 📺 🧬 📊 🧫🧣🥭
🧀 🍕🍰 ☕️🍷 🍺 🌃 🧸 💀 🤷🏻♂️
Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social Historian at University of Bristol, but not representing my employer etc etc etc 
Sarah Fisher @sarahafisher.bsky.social Trying to make sense of the chaos. Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University.
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality.
I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
Nadine Zubair @nadinezubair.bsky.social This, that, and the other
Susan Board, PhD @suseboard.bsky.social Open University associate lecturer (the environment, global devt, international relations). Not afraid of science: global heating is accelerating; Covid is airborne. Cyclist. Yogi. Not at the same time. 💚
Thorwald Stein @thmstein.bsky.social I study (physical) clouds and thunderstorms for a living. 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🌦️
👨🏻🏫 University of Reading
🏡 Poole, Dorset, UK
These words are my own (and sometimes not) and do not represent my employer or hometown.
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Dr Luke Walker @drlukewalker.com 🌻 Campaigner @bhgreens.bsky.social
📚 Writer on William Blake & Allen Ginsberg
✏️ Freelance editor, proofreader, indexer
💻 drlukewalker.com
"The people have the power
To redeem the work of fools"
– Patti Smith
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights- Y @yumiur.bsky.social @yumiur.bsky.social
APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social All Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections. Parliament's largest APPG.
Chair: @alexsobel.co.uk
Secretariat: @makevotesmatter.bsky.social & @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social
🔗 https://fairelections.org.uk
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social Academic, (outer) Space Governance at Northumbria University. Legal geography and environmental humanities of space governance (space resources, planetary protection, astrobiology, settlement etc). Working on project 'Life the Ultimate Frontier'. He/him.
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social glamourphonic electronic disco baby ❤️🏳️🌈
Neurodivergent queer trade unionist yarn fan gamer I guess!
✨♾️🌈✊🧶🎮
Community Garden Radio Wiki-lover
Igor Rogelja @igorrogelja.bsky.social Academic working on global China, infrastructure and coal. Associate Professor in Global Politics at UCL 🇨🇳🇹🇼🏳️🌈🚃🏗️🏭
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Marc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social Eclectic, inert, nerdish, a collection of spare parts. Niche Doctor Who references a forte. Masquerades as an academic with a political bent, tho mostly moans about how and why the current system doesn't work. Once wrote something something resilience.
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Nina Obermeier @ninaobermeier.com Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics at King's College London. International political economy, European politics, globalization, immigration, populism, and Eurovision (which combines all of the above). www.ninaobermeier.com 
Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social I listen to stories and I think about them. Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development, Co-Director of Lab for Academic Culture. PFHEA. National Teaching Fellow. UCU
🆒 Papers here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ris/staff/kayguccione/#publications
Anthony Phillips @aephillips.bsky.social Crystallographer ❄ and materials chemist ⚗️ pretending to be a condensed matter physicist ⚛️, or possibly vice versa. Aussie, Jewish, gay.
Kush @kksoodlaw.bsky.social Lawyer, lecturer, still plotting my escape from the grind
Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social Philosophy professor at University of Leeds. Metaethics | academic life | "a satisficer with really high standards" (said by a colleague, fairly). https://vayrynen.org