Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It's pronounced "juggernaut" without the "jug"
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social Director of Programmes for Whistledown Productions. Latest: "Derailed: The Story of HS2" for BBC Radio 4 and "Versuchslabor Kinderheim" for Deutschlandfunk. Audio Journalist in Berlin
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home. 
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Official account of Queen's University Belfast.
One of the Russell Group’s leading research-intensive universities.
We provide world-class education & research.
RT≠Endorsement.
More: www.qub.ac.uk
House Rules: ow.ly/APC750YZAnz
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social Econ prof at Oxford.
Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs.
maxkasy.github.io/home/
Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social Lecturer (Assist. Prof.) in British Art @manchester.ac.uk | c19 Horror/Occultism @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art & science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | they/she 👻🔮
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social Queer history (imperial and soviet).
DPhil, Oxon.
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Richard Hammond @rjhammond215.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
@drjoshmeyers.bsky.social @drjoshmeyers.bsky.social 
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Brigid O'Keeffe @brigidok.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & the Soviet Union. Professor. Writer of non-fiction and devoted reader of fiction. Ask me about my dog! Loves to write about those otherwise forgotten, overlooked, and dismissed.
Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social Writer
unamullally.com
www.sliverpress.com
Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social Sincerely Anonymous • Open mind • Robust disputation • Politics/History/Economics/Art/Sociology/Human Rights • Gaeilge nó Béarla • Éire💡🕊️
📕📖📚 Read the essays:
🔗 https://forlouth.medium.com
Rajiv @jiffington.bsky.social Upstanding pillar of the community
kelly @earley.bsky.social co-host of For Tech's Sake & columnist at The Journal
personal writing: kellysrubbish.substack.com
Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. Views my own. Shligo woman. Sí / í. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/61791-hannah-k-smyth
International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social Established in 1935, the IISH is an archival and research institute on labour and social movements. iisg.amsterdam
Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann @museumofchildhood.bsky.social museumofchildhood.ie Est 2018. Groundbreaking first for Ireland. Award winning Historic to contemporary, Islandwide and Diaspora, museum of children and childhood. Championing every child. Charity: 20205452 #SeenAndHeard #CherishingAllTheChildren
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
The Kennan Institute @kennaninstitute.bsky.social The Kennan Institute is an independent, non-partisan institute for research on Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and the post-Soviet states.
Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social Promoting the study of economic and social history in Ireland since 1970.
www.eshsi.org
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
KateW @kateweb.bsky.social Often found in front of a stage or a screen.
Shed | Morveren | Play it by ear @BigTellyNI | @CriTheatre New Writing She/her
Dublin City Heritage Office @dublincityheritage.bsky.social Implementing the Strategic Heritage Plan 2024-29 @dubcitycouncil.
Proud to be part of the @heritagecouncil.ie's Heritage Officer Network.
Email: heritage@dublincity.ie
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Seána @grantsana.bsky.social Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown.
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co Narrative @inkle.co he/him
Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst @PRAEyesRight. I write and train on antisemitism, white Christian nationalism, the MAGA Right, Israel/Palestine, Christian Zionism. Co-author Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. benlorber.com
A Profound Waste of Time @apwot.bsky.social Award winning indie magazine, celebrating games as an art form. 📚 Est. 2016
www.apwot.com
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
Jelena Đureinović @jelenadj.bsky.social Historian. University of Vienna. Antifascism, anticolonialism & veterans’ internationalism between Yugoslavia & Africa in the global Cold War. Memory studies. Football.
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Yejun (Erica) Zou @ericazou.bsky.social Associate Professor in German at Sun Yat-sen University. DDR and China, Comparative Literature. https://fls.sysu.edu.cn/teacher/3593. she/her. likes cats
The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social 📖🎙️📺 New writing and conversations on capitalism, nature and the climate 🌎 Hosted by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social I explore my adopted home of Japan, looking for fun and weird mascots (and other costumed characters).
Three Castles Burning @3castlesburning.bsky.social The Dublin History Podcast.
New Buke: The Dublin Pub:A Social and Cultural History (October 10)
Simon Hall @simonhallwriter.bsky.social Historian and writer. Author of the forthcoming Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. Previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt and Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social Postdoc in modern history @liu.se, currently working on Scandinavian childhoods and the Cold War.
20th century Scandinavia| Childhood, civil society and political cultures| History education and teacher training
@omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social 
Mark Burman @markburman.bsky.social Radio head, Gooner & Grandad.
Antain Mac Lochlainn @antainmac.bsky.social Scríbhneoir agus aistritheoir.
Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Brian Rogers @briggsrogers.bsky.social 🌱 Coding for climate action and difficult bike holidays.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Dad Lander. Former Councilmember Lander. Former Comptroller Lander. Running for Congress because we need to fight, not fold. 🥊
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social CEO @Vizlegal.bsky.social | Co-founder @righttoknow.bsky.social | #FOIA, #legaltech, journalism, OSINT, urban design | Fmr Innovation Dir @Storyful |
"Very Irish" 🇮🇪 https://gav.substack.com
Cork, Ireland.
Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social "Chill Commie." Professor of History at Illinois State University. Intellectual historian. I write books about US history, Karl Marx, culture wars, history of education. 
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Researcher and author, words in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today. Writing about Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society 1890-1914 on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Nicole Albrecht @nalbrecht.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Georgetown University; Historian of Internationalism| Eastern Europe|Yugoslavia|Socialism|Social Medicine|Technical Expertise
matt @therockisdead.bsky.social Some sort of unqualified historian (Ireland & Cuba). Do a podcast also @casementsleftovers.bsky.social The rest is nonsense.
https://therockisdead.substack.com/
James Ryan @yasharyan.bsky.social Historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union.
Reader (Associate Professor) in Modern European History,
Cardiff University.
Currently writing an intellectual history of inter-war Soviet state violence.
Rūta Kazlauskaitė @rutakazlauskaite.bsky.social Researcher, PhD, University of Helsinki. Memory politics, VR/XR, emotions, propaganda, populism.
Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social Yankee Londoner, feminist, Holocaust historian, all-purpose nerd
Interests: archives, gender, public history, research ethics, coffee, books, music, etc.
Co-Director @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
https://christineeschmidt.com
Belfast Cycle Campaign @belfastcyclecam.bsky.social We want to change the culture of Belfast cycling, from purely a fair-weather, leisure or exercise pursuit, to an everyday way of getting where you want to go.
Website: belfastcyclecampaign.com
Irish Left Archive @leftarchive.ie
Digital collection of political material from and about the left in Ireland.
🔗 Website: https://www.leftarchive.ie
🎙️ Podcast: https://podcast.leftarchive.ie
💬 Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@LeftArchive
Molly Hennigan @mollyh.bsky.social Writer | The Celestial Realm
Writer in Residence University of Galway
Banshee nonfiction editor
Michel Krielaars @zelensky1961.bsky.social Journalist, historian, writer, rower
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History, UoN, UK | Anglo-German-Polish relations | displaced persons | post-war history | UNRRA | Queer Displacement | Hidden Histories.
Dogs, cats, coffee, and bad puns welcome.
She/Her
Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social #Historian, #football enthusiast and participating observer. Lecturer in Modern European History. Opinions here strictly my own!
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
See what's new at akpress.org!
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Research fellow International Institute of Social History | Labour and social historian | History of labor, socialism, and internationalism | Latin America |
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lucas-poy
Eilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social Writing, editing, and translating stories about Russia, Ukraine, and beyond. Former @meduza.io deputy editor, best known for The Beet. DM for 📧 or📱