Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social Prof of Accounting & Society; Assoc Dean of Research & Innovation @ Sheffield Uni Mgt School, Director of CRAFiC & The Audit Reform Lab; veteran soulboy.
cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social Increasingly part-time comic printer (still the best tho). Increasingly full time dad/carer. S-tier trash talker. If you followed for the printing stuff get ready to see a lot about how society fails SEN kids instead. rich@comicprintinguk.com
Get This Party Started @parties-started.bsky.social Skeeting every attempt to register a new UK political party.
Bot by @jonty.bsky.social.
Fediverse: https://bot.country/@parties_started
Registrations: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-registration-and-regulation
CultInformatics @cultinformatics.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research focusing on computing, visual and graphics technologies in cultural heritage based at the University of Brighton.
Roxanne Connelly @roxanneconnelly.bsky.social Sociologist
University of Edinburgh
Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social Workingtonian in Liverpool(home)/Manchester(work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Kirsty Finn @kirsty-finn-mcr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education (Sociology) at MIE UoM. My views not my employers, obviously. Part of the ESRC Transforming Working Lives ‘L-earning’ project, researching education, work, gender, social class.
Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Second Mentions @secondmentions.com The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Creative industries & Director of Liberal Arts, Uni of York. New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, April 2026).
What’s on? Rethinking class in the television industry. @whatsontvclass.bsky.social Understanding who produces, what is made, and how class is represented on television. AHRC-funded project at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social The University of Leeds - 2023-26. shorturl.at/uIkTP
Curious Minds @curiousminds.org.uk We dream of a future where being creative and experiencing brilliant culture is a regular part of every child’s learning and life.
Beth Hughes @figroly.bsky.social Freelance contemporary art curator
PhD student at Manchester University
Curator for Lubaina Himid
Living between London & Manchester
Beef And Dairy Network Podcast @beefanddairy.bsky.social
Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
Samuel Coavoux @scoavoux.bsky.social Sociologist. Assistant Prof @ENSAE & @crestsociology.bsky.social, Paris. I study cultural inequalities & digital technologies. https://scoavoux.github.io/
Hannah G. @hannahagnc.bsky.social A citizen that pays attention to politics, history, arts, media, and culture in Greensboro NC.
Simon K Jones @simonkjones.bsky.social Writer of serial fiction. Read it over on the Write More newsletter: https://simonkjones.substack.com/
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | Critical Data Studies @ EFI | https://workersobservatory.org
Rose Robbins @roserobbins.bsky.social Author/Illustrator/Drawer/Hobby-haver
https://linktr.ee/Roserobbins
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Patrick English @patrick-pme.bsky.social YouGov guy earning paychecks by researching public opinion, projecting elections, doing MRPs, running campaign and comms testing and development, figuring out how AI can help measure public opinion, and being a talking head in the media.
Nicole Martin @nspmartin.bsky.social Political scientist @official-uom.bsky.social studying elections and immigration, education and parties
Joanne Garde-Hansen @joannegh.bsky.social Media and Memory and Water and Women and Ageing and AI
@leedsunimedia.bsky.social
@JoanneGH on other platforms
http://linkedin.com/in/jo-garde-hansen-aa99a231
Book on protestmemory here!
Ben Pine @yafizicist.bsky.social Electromagnetic simulations, mostly magnets, sometimes superconducting. C++, Python, Fortran. Gadgets. Coffee. Not recovering runner. Fantasy and science fiction.
Tam @tamdent.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour & Cultural Work at King's College London. Member of the MeCCSA Executive Board. I research work in the creative economy. My academic profile and publications list are here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tamsyn-dent
Daniel Jordan @danifesto.bsky.social 📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social Researching and teaching about the creative and media industries and cultural policy at the University of Warwick since 1999. Part of the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC).
Stuart @aforlornhope.bsky.social Mainly music, politics and cricket.
Also local Lewisham history project @longlazylewisham.bsky.social
Graham Hitchen @grahamhitchen.bsky.social Director Loughborough University Policy Unit & Director of Policy CoSTAR creative technologies Foresight Lab. #policy #london #football #creativeindustries
Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher. Views my own
Cultural Trends Journal @ctjournal.bsky.social Cultural Trends is a peer-reviewed journal analysing cultural policy and the arts sector, publishing rigorous research connecting scholars, practitioners and policymakers worldwide.
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Dr Jenny van Hooff @jennyvanhooff.com Sociologist at Manchester Met University. Intimacy, couples, friendship. Rhymes with loaf.
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
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
Mark Robinson @thinkingpractice.bsky.social Writer, researcher, adviser, coach etc. cultural sector and intersections. Thinking Practice. / www.thinkingpractice.co.uk
Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
Sofia Cotrona @sofiacotrona.bsky.social Socially engaged curator, art writer, researcher in cultural democracy & museum studies |AHRC PhD at IWM & UCA on the social impact of co-curation.
📍Turin- Edinburgh- London
Adam Campbell @ac-revolution.bsky.social Program Manager
Co-founder @ pocplay.org
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Kathryn Telling @kathryn-telling.bsky.social Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Higher education, elitism and moral sociology.
Sofia Lindström Sol @lindstromsofia.bsky.social Associate professor/Reader (Docent), Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. Research interests: cultural policy, welfare, and marginalisation. Occasional poster of cat pics.
Opinions are my own.
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social dissin' your fly girl
yoinkin' your memes
(not the guy from twitter)
Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado
https://www.madisontrusolino.com
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Victor Alonso-Berbel @alonso-berbel.com Guionista y director. Las historias cambian el mundo. Profesor en @upf.edu. Escribo para Perdición Films y The Mediapro Studio. Ahora: 'Ciudad sin sueño'. Pronto: 'Moderación'.
Benjamin Duester @benjaminduester.bsky.social cultural sociologist 國立中正大學
www.benjaminduester.com
Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury) coming May 2025:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tomorrow-on-cassette-9798765105962/
Dr Beth Johnson @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social Academic, feminist, TV lover, researcher. Interested in the ordinary and the everyday. Prof of TV, film and media at University of Leeds. Opinions my own.
Ana Méndez de Andés @anamandes.bsky.social commons or barbarism
she/her
Rich Shepherd @richs90.bsky.social Social research. Pop culture junkie. United and Raiders endurer. Terminally online. What would Springsteen do?
Aaron @amoss12000.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 He/Him/His
🏡 Canberra, AU (Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country)
👔 Law (chiefly, public law)
Pop Music | Eurovision | General Shenanigans | Recovering Tasmanian
Personal Profile | Views My Own | Likes/Links/Follows/Shares ≠ Endorsements
Leila Jancovich @leilajancovich.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Policy and Participation at University of Leeds. Currently researching how we can better identify, acknowledge and learn from failure https://failspaceproject.co.uk. Also keen gardener as antidote to despair at our political system!
jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social
Erica H-W @ericaholtwhite.bsky.social Research team @Suttontrust.bsky.social and COSMO
Dieter Vandebroeck @dvandebroeck.bsky.social Sociologist. Academic fun: childhood & socialization, class analysis, cognitive sociology. Non-academic fun: cooking and light construction work. Research Director @ Childhood, Culture & Cognition (https://shorturl.at/4jZGv). Chair ECCI (www.eucci.eu)
Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social Sociologist. Post-Doctoral Researcher @mpifg.bsky.social. Labour, culture & elites. Ethnographer of butlers.
Dr Raphaël Nowak @raphahead.bsky.social Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Jilly Boyce Kay @jillybkay.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University
Feminism, cultural studies, politics
Rachael Healy @rachaelhealy.bsky.social Journalist/lapsed mackem | Features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture. Currently reporter @theobserveruk.bsky.social (plus bits in @theguardian.com) | British Journalism Awards winner 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachael-healy
TOM @tomwalker.bsky.social I host the Great Australian Bake-Off. Check out twitch.tv/TomWalker and the podcast “BigSoftTitty.png” with my cool wife Demi
Will Howells @willhowells.org.uk Work in digital sexual health. Play in acting/writing/directing, running, quizzing, quiz hosting, whippet walking, Eurovisioning, cult TVing and inventing gerunds.
Been on some quiz shows 🏳️🌈
My Eurovision site: sixonstage.com
Charlotte Elliston @charlotteelliston.bsky.social Co-Director of Sweet 'Art. Work at London Museum. Personal account to follow arts and culture stuff. She/Her
Josh Siepel @joshsiepel.bsky.social Associate Professor at SPRU, University of Sussex Business School
Research Lead at Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Views are my own.
Cassie Kill @cassiekill.bsky.social Researching complexities of participation, inclusion & voice in culture, education & work. Interests in youth, disability, gender and participatory/ethnographic/creative method/ologies.
Research Associate: Ableism in the Academy at Uni of Sheffield
David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwinacm.bsky.social Lecturer in arts management and Human Resources at University of Melbourne. Specialist in careers, employability, HR and organisational behaviour in the arts and cultural sector.
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country.
Sam de Boise @samdeboise.bsky.social Sociologist who does musicology. Lecturer at School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden. Focus on music and extremism.
Editor at NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rnor20
Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social Documents, markup (https://xml.silmaril.ie/), typesetting (https://latex.silmaril.ie/) • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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/
dermot daly @dermotdaly.bsky.social actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; doctor; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Ewan Mackenzie @ewanmackenzie.bsky.social Lecturer/researcher in work and employment, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Also a musician. Sociology of work(ing), inequalities, creative/cultural work, public sectors and healthcare. Views my own.
Paul Long @paullongmedia.bsky.social Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University researching homemade, amateur and DIY creativity with thoughts about healthy cultures - see @HADIY.creative UTV
David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social Founder & CEO of Canada’s most sought-after and influential polling firm, Abacus Data.
Prof at Carleton University.
Davidcoletto.substack.com
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@drjamiecoates.bsky.social @drjamiecoates.bsky.social
Dr James Weinberg @jamesweinberg1.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Science, University of Sheffield • Author of 'Who Enters Politics and Why?' & 'Governing in an Age of Distrust' • Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales
Website: www.jamesweinberg.co.uk
Dr John Wright @johnwrightart.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Leeds (he/him). Interested in place, culture, policy and ecological thinking.
David Lee @drdavidlee.bsky.social Media academic researching television, creative labour, and cultural inequalities. Lover of documentaries, long walks, and Yorkshire tea (sometimes). https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/staff/330/dr-david-lee
Contact @contactmcr.bsky.social 🎭Manchester Arts Centre
🎟️Theatre•Art•Music•Events
🥂Food•Drink•Co-working•Hires
👉DMs not monitored 24/7, email boxoffice@contactmcr.com
Doug Specht @dougspecht.bsky.social Chartered Geographer | Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication & Head of School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster | doug.specht.co.uk
michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
@willsteeno.bsky.social @willsteeno.bsky.social
Dr Ellie Tomsett @ellietomsett.bsky.social Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up
Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
Deborah Stevenson @dstevenson.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society. Sociologist researching cultural policy and planning, and cities and urban cultures.
Potato Gun Kelly @mkay.wtf He/him. Jew-ish. Brown. Alphabet Mafia. Cries in art galleries. Loves: books, records, cooking, TTRPGs, old cameras, my cat. Trans rights are human rights
Susan Oman @suoman.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Data, AI, & Society.
AI & In/equality Lead for Centre for Machine Intelligence.
Social, cultural & digital policy.
Author of Understanding Well-being Data: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72937-0
Josie @josebmcg.bsky.social Supporter of arts, humanities and social sciences with a hefty sprinkle of data. Particularly interested in creative health and health inequalities.
Big fan of horror and corvids.
Enjoyer of beaches and woodlands.
Intersectional feminist. She/her.
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sarah @sorrygrateful.bsky.social researcher in voice theatre and community
everton fc
Heritiana Ranaivoson (he/him) @hranaivoson.bsky.social Professor@imec-SMIT-VUB. Media economics & policy, diversity, recommender systems, platforms, music. @hranaivoson@mastodon.social @hranaivoson