Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social https://kasprzyk.work
Algebraic Geometry • Combinatorics • Mirror Symmetry • Machine Learning
Mathematician at the University of Warwick.
Editor-in-Chief for “Experimental Mathematics”.
Member of EPSRC’s Math Strategic Advisory Team.
Angus Miller @geowalks.scot Walks & holidays exploring Scotland's geology, and its influence on landscape & people. Edinburgh Uni Teaching Fellow, founding Trustee Scottish Geology Trust.
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
레온 로차 @acupunctureuss.bsky.social Views and aesthetics are my own.
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
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social Trans medicine, AI, bioethics, philosophy and everything in-between. @hcde.uw.edu PhD, @uml-online.bsky.social Postdoc, @bostonfleet.com obsessive. https://ironholds.org/
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org Emerging Technology & Open Education Librarian. My work focuses on protecting students from the harms of ed tech surveillance. I defend freedom of expression, access to information, algorithmic transparency, open privacy knowledge, and fair dealing rights.
Srravya @srravya.bsky.social researching data work, AI production networks
interested in critical data/AI studies, tech + labour, feminist STS, HCI
currently research fellow, planetary AI project @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social Digital librarian. Crossword person. Cross wordperson.
I reskeet your puzzles
j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social #histmed, pharma, public health, drugs. Sometimes IP, bioethics, critical med ed, pedagogies of care. Gardening. N Florida. a small axe. also, a swear bear. personal account, obviously
xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com Professor & department head, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I study higher ed finance, accountability, and financial aid. Washington Monthly rankings data editor. Dad, gardener, and baker. Personal account.
https://robertkelchen.com/
Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social Views and speech are mine alone. Might delete.
Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social Widely somewhat respected. Co-editor, Dissent Magazine. Teach history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. New book coming at end of 2026: Poverty of the Imagination: The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social Paleontologist and professor at University of Edinburgh, dinosaur enthusiast and writer. Free born man of the USA. Immigrant. Husband & father. (views mine)
Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social New Yorker. Historian of Science and Technology. Space. Music. Soviet History. Comics
Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social Scottish Green Party MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East region. Contact me on kate.nevens.msp@parliament.scot
Content promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Kate Nevens, both at 19b Graham Street, Ed, EH6 5QN
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
jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social jonathanbeecherfield.net
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
James Garforth @jamesgarforth.bsky.social Lecturer in Ethics, Society and Professionalism in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Proud associate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures.
Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for North East Scotland | Rector of Dundee University | Eco-Socialist & Intersectional Feminist | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/maggiechapman
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Katie Steckles @steckl.es Mathematician, robot fan, auntie and unstoppable thingdoer from Manchester. she/her
Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social Ex maths lecturer. Now classics postgrad (MA) @ClassicsWarwick. Also @RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz, mostly maths there. Mostly lurking for the moment, haven't yet given up on Twitter completely.
Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social Pro photographer in Edinburgh posting landscapes & other work. Regular free newsletter at https://tomduffin.substack.com/ I'd be delighted to be contacted at tom@tomduffin.com to ask about photography work.
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
James Galbraith @gulbruth.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist, Luddite, coffee addict. Postdoc at University of Edinburgh researching the evolution of weird chromosomes and sex determination in insects, opinions my own, he/him.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Rowena Ball @rowena-mathscieng.bsky.social Professor in mathematical sciences, Indigenous and non-Western mathematics, Origin of life, Cross-disciplinary interests in all STEM, Railways, Country pub lunches
She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 5 grandchildren
Hendrik De Bie @debiehendrik.bsky.social Mathematician. Professor at UGent.
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine. 
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social i’m a linguist. he/him https://jofrhwld.github.io/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Mike Ananny @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Drama researcher in theatre for babies & relaxed performance. Deputy Director of IASH, University of Edinburgh. Trustee of Newcastle Theatre Royal. He/him
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Tyler Marghetis @tylermarghetis.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UC Merced, formerly Santa Fe Institute | cognition, complexity, culture, creativity, communication | ❤️b{ooks/ourbon/ikes} | former athlete 🤼♂️ | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 | (www.tylermarghetis.com)
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Emily Klancher Merchant @emilymerchant.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, and medicine. Author of Building the Population Bomb (Oxford 2021). Currently researching the sordid history of behavior genetics.
Ehud @duhe.bsky.social Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com 
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
| Co-Editor History of Education
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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social Digital archivist at Swarthmore College. Testing out bluesky; more active on Mastodon.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
https://jamestruitt.com/
Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social Writer I Speaker I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. I Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture; Prof. HST/STS, U of MN
Co-Edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk srs. Research-Social Study of AI, Privacy/Sec., Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Physics Today @physicstoday.aip.org The world's most popular physics magazine.
physicstoday.aip.org
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Megan Raby @meganraby.bsky.social Historian of science and environment. Giving bluesky a chance...
Council for the Defence of British Universities @cdbu.bsky.social The crisis of marketisation has put universities in danger. We believe that it’s time to fight back. Visit our website to become a member 🎓
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS.
Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere.
VP, @litsciarts.org
📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF.
☭.
Not a professional account.
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social Architect, historian, writer, mother, traveller between worlds. Currently reading, writing, researching and mentoring @khiflorenz.bsky.social and @kit.edu.
Engineering Life @engineeringlife.bsky.social We are the Engineering Life group of STS researchers at the University of Edinburgh -- Jane Calvert, Reuben Message, Rob Smith & Sophie Stone
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social It's me again! **This is my only public social media account**
Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
Richard Budd @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social He/Him, Lecturer in HE, Lancaster University, UK
HE, in particular social justice, lived experience (esp. students), decolonising, policy, geographies, organisational cultures.
(This account is dormant, find me in LinkedIn!)
Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social I've written biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert J. Oppenheimer and am currently preoccupied with climate change. My passions include music and ancient churches. I am proud to be a volunteer tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral.
Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social Planetary astronomer, studying piles of rock in space. Reader of books. Drinker of tea. He/him. This is a personal account. To bigotry no sanction.
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Jillian Foley @jillianefoley.com historian of cryptography, computers, and information; doing mom stuff and writing in chicago
occasional newsletter @ jillianefoley.com
Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company. NYU/ITP alum
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology
She/her
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Prof. Tommy J. Curry @proftjcurry.bsky.social Philosopher and Black Male Studies scholar @ the University of Edinburgh
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social | Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel
thetechbubble.substack.com
alc @andrealongchu.bsky.social pulitzer? i barely know her!
Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social Historian & Darwin aficionado. Editor, John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Father & advocate for connecting children to nature (natureplaysign.com). He/him/his. Portland, OR.
Phillip H. Roth @preprintculture.bsky.social Postdoc @core-rwth.bsky.social / media sociology / science studies / interested in the socio-cultural history of communication infrastructures / currently writing a history of preprints in physics: https://preprint-culture.net / also: modular synthesis
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 (2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com