Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely.
Professor of Sociolinguistics 🇨🇭🏴🇺🇸
Currently studying varieties of Welsh English
She/her
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her.
Photo © Nane Diehl
annalisa dinnella @annalisadinn.bsky.social TV writer #TheHack, #SexEducation #CallTheMidwife
visually impaired, she/her 
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Side @sidegallery.bsky.social Est. in 1977: Side is dedicated to lens-based documentary. We are home to the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
Sidegallery.co.uk
Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social so hard to photograph but
incredible to see
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
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.
Penny Joelson @pennyjoelson.bsky.social Award winning Author of YA thrillers, protagonists have disabilities/health issues. @EMTeenFiction @SourcebooksFire. Rep by @AnneClarkLit
Tutor @citylit
Sewage Data Alerts @alerts.sewagedata.co.uk Automated alerts when water companies start discharging sewage in the United Kingdom. An @deveroonie.co.uk project
GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social A care and support network for people who work with communities in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social Librarian and digital scholarship/data person working in cultural heritage. Also a former journalist and current local journalism booster in #Brooklyn / #NYC
I work for the largest library in the world but all skeets and thoughts here are my own
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Sebastian Majstorovic @storytracer.com Managing Director of datovis.com. Open Data Consultant for @eleutherai.bsky.social. Technical Director of @datarescueproject.org. Personal website: storytracer.com.
Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers …
I'm English ... not an American.
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Michael Maggs @michaelmaggs.bsky.social Wikipedian, photographer, Librivoxer, retired patent attorney. Chair of Frome Museum in Somerset.
Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social 🦖 Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (charity no. 1165231)
Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues + the Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park
📧 info@cpdinosaurs.org
https://linktr.ee/cpdinosaurs
Elanor @gingerelanor.bsky.social Just me. Theatre, plants, grumbling about stuff. 🌈
toto @toto68086883.bsky.social Eyfs Leader & Reception teacher, wife, parent to 2 amazing kids, permanently shattered. Enjoy a good wander around a castle, avid reader (when I have the time!) & a huge interest in Plantagenet history. Very proud Latics fan!
Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Co-founder and lead analyst, Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air; senior fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute: tracking & accelerating progress from polluting energy to clean air, with research and evidence.
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Tami Swenson @tamiswenson.bsky.social Endowed Chair in Population Health, UWSP
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Ryn @thatryn.bsky.social Person.
Ruth Harley @ruthh.bsky.social Vicar in Newcastle. PhD student at York St John: feminist ecclesiology and women's vocations. Apparently I'm "surprisingly orthodox"!
JenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com Exploring the country using every station as a gateway to lesser known places, sharing my journey via YouTube | parkrun addict | https://youtube.com/@JenOnTheMove | she/her
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly @catclassquarterly.bsky.social CCQ publishes research on all aspects of bibliographic organization including library cataloging, classification, metadata, indexing, and information management. 📚 https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wccq20
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Genny G @cobralingus.bsky.social Definitely a librarian but only sometimes evil. Trans inclusion or GTFO. All opinions my own and not those of my employer. She/her
WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screenshots and videos of websites, apps, software, and Flash games from the 1990s to the late 2000s.
Camus @camusfolk.bsky.social We’re a five-piece trad folk band: Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, melodeon, guitar, keys. Evergreen veterans! www.camusmusic.net
National Literacy Trust @literacytrust.org.uk We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life.
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Mary @marty82.bsky.social I used to do lots of things, now I mostly attempt to keep small boys in one piece and get bossed around by a tiny cat.
IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social Trans people should expect no fair treatment or justice in the UK - the 22nd safest country in Europe to be LGBT. Biological Female 🏳️⚧️ Anti Free Speech.
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice
ORCID 0009-0005-5220-0914
Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social Used to be a somebody in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, conlangs, cribbage
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social Australian author of strangely hopeful fantasy & science fiction. Independently published for over a decade.
Storyteller. Creator of Caldryn Parliament - Golden Age Mysteries in the Realm of Science Fiction & Fantasy https://caldryn.com/
Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social Urban librarian, storyteller, wikimedian, all things GLAM 
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Beth W @doodlebeth.com Creator of Doodlecats. Rainbow wizard artist. Likes drawing birds.
Autistic, ME/CFS EDS. She/they
https://buymeacoffee.com/u7mrtlvve6
https://linktr.ee/doodlecatsshop
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter
Dr Rebecca Linnett (she/her) @rebeccalinnett.bsky.social Senior Research Associate for Norwich Clinical Trials Unit. Interested in health, psychology, and clinical trial accessibility.
Bit of a methods geek.
Disabled | Socialist | Queer | Bread witch.
Views my own. Not a medical doctor.
The Crack Magazine @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social THE CRACK is a music, art and culture listings magazine/website that resides in the North-East of England
LKS for NHS Ambulance Services in England @lksase.bsky.social LKS ASE is the virtual Library & Knowledge Service for NHS Ambulance Services in England. The Library Manager is Matt Holland. Like, Repost or Follow is not an endorsement. Want to know more, visit https://ambulance.libguides.com.
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory
Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • method
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social Producer, Casting Agent and Founder of Past Preservers, representing experts, speakers & researchers.
Northerner, lapsed Archaeologist, lives in Cairo and The Lake District.
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Stuart Langridge @sil.kryogenix.org Builds stuff for computers, advises other people how to do so, plays PBP D&D, makes the occasional solo game, eats sandwiches. Part of Open Web Advocacy. Runner of the Critical Role transcript search. In the People’s Republic of Brum. https://kryogenix.org
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries @m25consortium.bsky.social We are a collaborative organisation of 58 members of Higher Education, & scholarly libraries across M25, East & South East. We provide events & training through our cpd25 programme and services & resources for library staff #M25ConsortiumConf25
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Fiona @fionadean.bsky.social Always busy doing something
parkrun ED, crochet, Archie the springer spaniel, nature, word games, church & choir, gardening, Mum of teen, drinking wine, let me know if I missed anything!
Midsomer Murders plots @moremidsomerplots.bsky.social The continuing (and randomly generated) investigations of Britain's most murderous county.
Content created by @patrickstokes.com and Anonymous. Generate your own: midsomerplots.net
ARA SAM @araarchmus.bsky.social Archives & Records Association Special Interest Group providing professional support, guidance & training for those working in #Archives & #Museums.
tangi (metadata incomplete) @tangiearls.com i organize things for fun and (hopefully) profit. reader. plant mom. vinyl collector.
tangiearls.com
@suespins.bsky.social @suespins.bsky.social Gardener, plant nerd. Plays with fibre - spins, knits, crochets and weaves. Has had an 'interesting career path' - now retired!
Current postgrad student at UHI, Viking Studies.
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social Academic law person at King’s College London. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also medical ethics. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
Flirty The Service Mini Horse @flirtythesh.bsky.social Sassy and opinionated American Miniature Horse, working as a service animal for Abrea (she/her)
Melissa's Library Life @melissaslibrary.bsky.social I'm the Director of Library and Archives at the #MarshallFoundationLibrary; the happiest librarian in the world, but also a lone arranger.
I love baking, books, Big Band, baseball. Aspiring knitter and experienced crocheter. Gardener #spacenerd 
Rosie Niven @rosieniven.bsky.social Originally from north east England, now in north east London. I work in comms when not retracing lost ferry routes. Previously a journalist for digital, print & broadcast media. Views all my own.
Work: UCL | Ferry project: www.rosieniven.com
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
Save ASSL @saveassl.bsky.social Cardiff University want to rip out the second floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library.
Sign the petition here -
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-second-floor-of-cardiff-university-s-arts-and-social-studies-library-assl
Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social Politically neutral campaign to regulate electoral ads. Labour, Lib Dem, Green + 3 other 2024 London mayoral candidates signed our Ad Code. Burnham too.
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
https://www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/news
https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
Website is https://marcdavenant.com
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social MF Pride of the Tyne
🏳️🌈 🚲 😷
She/her.
pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social Leaving other site & moving in here. Same person with cool ebikes I like to create. Been a returnee to cycling despite disability for some years & now my ebikes are my mobility aids.
Been complaints I ain't thankful for crap cycle infra, why should I?
Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social Husband, Father, Son and Ex Local Liberal Democrat Councillor for, Ouseburn Ward in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Released from public service by the electorate. If you need me, I'll be on the bike, or away in the campervan.
Frith 🐉 An Odd Type of Dragon @oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social #sewing and clothing commissions, UK cargo bike life, fandom, two-mum parenting 👩👩👧
https://www.instagram.com/oddtypeofdragon
https://folksy.com/shops/anoddtypeofdragon
DMs closed, email anoddtypeofdragon at gmail dot com.
@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social The new name for Sustrans. We are the charity making it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle. Because it changes everything. Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world.
Custodians of the National Cycle Network.
Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social PROTECT THE NHS. SAVE LIVES. RIDE BIKES.
Fewer cars not newer cars!
A Moulton and Brompton riding linux-loving cyclist geek. Cos small wheeled bikes rock!
I block helmet compulsionists and evangelists.
sarahcoulbeck.bsky.social @sarahcoulbeck.bsky.social Librarian | Vegetarian | Learning to crochet
Pl 🌻 An 🌻 Xty @planxty.bsky.social I take pictures of very old books and put them on the internet. Also, sometimes I draw.
I play a mushroom (and a human) on @binarybreak.bsky.social
💾🌻🏳️🌈
They/them, or whatever. Atlanta baby
Narriman Ajdiri-Beim @narr1man.bsky.social EdTech, psychological thriller and cat enthusiast 📚🕵🏻♀️😸
snapplify.bsky.social @snapplify.bsky.social Snapplify is a global edtech company, specialising in enabling digital learning. Endorsed by UNESCO.
Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social Liberal internationalist 🇪🇺 feminist, antiracist & LGBTQ+ ally. Yorkshire/London. Ex LibDem MEP. LD Friends of Cycling/Primary Care WG. Works in health policy. ❤️s running, cooking, cycling & yoga. Mum of 1. Dual 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 citizen (personal account)
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Pete Rutherford @asneakypete.bsky.social ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think.
Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social ...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly...
www.crimebookgirl.com
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social Cities, cycling, planning and play. Often on a bike or in a museum.
Co-host - activetravelcafe.org.uk
Trustee - historictownstrust.uk
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
James Milne @jmilnegreen.bsky.social Architectural Psychologist(!) and Technologist.
Newcastle Green Party.
Basically a cat in human form.
Most of my views are stolen, but nobody else should be held responsible for them.
Alexander Clifford @alexclifford.bsky.social Research & write on 30s Britain, Spain, Germany. Britain's Iron Chancellor out now!
Author of Hindenburg, Ludendorff & Hitler, Fighting for Spain, The People's Army and of the introduction to new release Britain's Iron Chancellor
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social PhD in physical chemistry, research experience in thin‑film dynamics, surface forces, wetting, and rheology. Served 11 yrs as an NHS hospital public governor with two trusts.
With airborne pathogens, clean indoor air is vital.
mstdn.science/@JoePajak