madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
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Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social Professor of Health Economics & Decision Modelling. SCHARR, University of Sheffield
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
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Ness of Brodgar @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social Ongoing project investigating a monumental Neolithic complex in Orkney, Scotland.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins @terryandrob.bsky.social …although it’s mostly Rob these days.
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Creator of Sonja Blue and (accidentally) Urban Fantasy
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Laura Hadland @morrighani.bsky.social Drinks writer and printmaker. The Susanna Forbes Cider Communicator of the Year. My latest book, 'Beer Festivals', is out now.
Charlotte @sleepydog1967.bsky.social Anti-fascist.
Hate Tories & Reform.
Proud to work for the NHS.
Hate Trump.
Feminist. Left wing.
Neurodivergent.
Married Mum to twin boys.
Cancer survivor.
‘Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted’
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
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Jamie L. Molaro @spacejammie.bsky.social Planetary Scientist, Artist, Musician, D&D Nerd, Epic Poet. hEDS, Bi ♿️🏳️🌈
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Balance North East @balancene.bsky.social Working to reduce the harm from alcohol: to health, to families and to society. www.reducemyrisk.tv
Tractor Boy🚜 #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @tommoitfc.bsky.social Family first. Four generations of ITFC. Psychotherapist & Support Worker for the autustic and vulnerable. ZP/Green Party✅ Trans rights .Zero tolerance for racists and fascists. Anti Zionist. Save NHS. PR not FPTP. Justice for Palestine. Save Ukraine.
Sheila Gilheany @sheilagilheany.bsky.social CEO Alcohol Action Ireland
Advocate for public health, education, science, autism. Love the night sky. Views my own.
Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social Professor at the University of York researching pubs and pub consumers! Some travelling (pubs/beer included) and the odd Border Terrier picture!
St Mungo's @stmungos.bsky.social Ending homelessness, rebuilding lives
🏡Supported 28,000 people last year
📢Use our clients' voices to influence change
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account for Carole King. Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Author
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Brian Burton #FBPE @bodgerb.bsky.social 77 years old Socialist ex Labour
I left when Sir became leader, what socialist would accept a knighthood?
39 years in the NHS
We need to get rid of:-
The monarchy (organised crime)
The church (brain washing)
The military (futile)
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@mervemolla.bsky.social @mervemolla.bsky.social Lecturer @sheffielduni and part of Sheffield Addiction Research Group
@SSA_Addiction funded PhD @UniofExeter
Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social Susceptible to archaeology/art/landscape/wildlife/environment/nature/history/photography/old buildings/old stuff/books/beauty/cake/worry
Chester, UK
One foot in the past...
Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social Founding partner. US and UK employment, discrimination and sexual assault/abuse law. KC Hons. Feminist. She/Her.
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social DPH Sheffield Council.
President ADPHUK.
Barely active climber and below average cyclist. Fond of - 80s thrash metal.
Blog - https://gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social ER doc, public health professional, researcher, and former chief medical officer at the CDC. Working to improve health in communities while figuring out what is next for me
Siobhan @nhsactivistrn.bsky.social Nurse, Activist, Socialist
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Roselyn Peterson, PhD @roselynpetersonphd.bsky.social Incoming Faculty @bryantuniversity.bsky.social | T32 Postdoc at CAAS in the School of Public Health at Brown University
Pilar Garcia-Vello @pilargvello.bsky.social Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology
Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF
Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship
#AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
Olga Lainidi @lndo.bsky.social Psychologist, PhD student @University of Leeds
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social Arts & Crafts art & architecture, Italian Renaissance art, books and beer. Family history addict. Train traveller. Environmentally conscious. Former librarian. Stratford for Europe. Green Party member. Manchester City supporter
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
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https://medium.com/@info_28174
Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social Psychologist. Author. Research Illuminator. Director at InnerDrive
New Diplomacy Project @newdiplomacy.bsky.social An independent not-for-profit think tank that aims to support the development of a progressive foreign policy for the future 21st century. https://www.newdiplomacy.uk/
Jennifer Merrill @jenmerrillphd.bsky.social Professor at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Portraits of Recovery @porecovery.bsky.social The UK's only recovery-based visual arts charity.
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
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Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social Dementia Community is a Charitable Community Benefit Society, a membership cooperative that provides learning and networking opportunities for the dementia care community. For more information please visit our website: journalofdementiacare.co.uk
@villasuzette.bsky.social @villasuzette.bsky.social from the Silent Generation. Ex community support worker now making an art form out of housework, cooking from fresh and thinking about things.
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Team-Alpha @team-alpha.bsky.social We are members of Team-Alpha at Teesside University working on the intersection between criminal justice and public health and ALWAYS include communities in our work
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK @aha-uk.bsky.social
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
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James Morris @jamesmorris24.bsky.social Research interests: alcohol, addiction, stigma, framing.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=FHUc5jkAAAAJ&hl=en
The Alcohol Problem Podcast host
https://alcoholpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social Award-winning* author, podcaster & cook of British food from the past.
*Guild Food Writers Awards: 2023 Best First Book (A Dark History of Sugar); 2024 Best Food Book (Before Mrs Beeton)
Women & Alcohol (DSN Research Cluster) @womenandalcohol.bsky.social Account for @NCN_PL funded project on 19th C representations of female drinking in Polish and British public discourses led by @diasdorota & @pamplemoussepam
Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com I write threads about how Labour is fixing Britain. Councillor and ex-political journalist.
Administrative Justice Activist UK @activistuk.bsky.social 376 AD: Rome brings 'no one is judge in their own cause' to Britain. Government still acts as judge and jury in its own cause—to obstruct justice and evade accountability. Scales of justice aren't broken—they were never meant to balance in the first place.
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social Working on disaster justice & the climate crisis. Emergency Management PhD. Author of 📚DISASTEROLOGY 📚 she/her
Amanda Coleman @amandacomms.bsky.social Crisis communication consultant, business owner and author of three books on crisis, issues and reputation management. Find me at www.amandacolemancomms.co.uk
Mike O'Mara @mikeomara.bsky.social MAPS Co-ordinator in Manchester.
Manc now residing in the High Peak.
A very occasional player of records.
Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Addiction Recovery Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Education/Religion & Worldviews. Poetry, Cymru, Kingfishers, Corncrakes, Curlew, Coastguarding. She/her. www.wedossett.com
Jan Mayor @janmayor.bsky.social Harm Reductionist, Social Justice Activist & Compassion Practitioner. Queer. Dog mum. Aspiring Triathlete. (She/her).
Views are my own
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Guy Jordan @arthistoryguy.bsky.social Art History Prof; Quizzing Enthusiast; Philly Sports Fan; a follow is not an endorsement; posts and opinions here are my own and not those of my employer (or my cat) (or my other cat).
Hannah Carver @drhannahcarver.bsky.social Associate Professor in Substance Use/Co-Director SACASR, Uni of Stirling. Interested in substance use, public health, inequalities, qualitative research.
Lenny Henry @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social Actor, writer, comedian and producer- L Historical Research Collective @lfcr.bsky.social Articles & Conversation ||
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Crew: mind altering @crew2000.bsky.social Edinburgh, Scotland | Charity est 1992 (SC021500) | Reduces harm and stigma associated with drugs (including alcohol)| Neither condemn/condone; we give info, advice, support to reduce risks and harms.
Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social GP, medical educator, writer (BMJ columnist, Dr Helen in 'Take a Break') Independent SAGE, BMA Council.
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Half Man Half Biscuit Information Service @hmhbinfo.bsky.social Irregular info, news, articles, images, vids and lyrics etc re: Wirral's finest musical satirists. Not official.
Prof Rebecca Monk @rebeccalmonk.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
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Etal Training @etaltraining.bsky.social Training Motivational Interviewing, NHS Healthchecks and CVD
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Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) @sarnalcohol.bsky.social The Scottish Alcohol Research Network (SARN) is a network of researchers, practitioners, third sector partners, policymakers, and those interested in alcohol research.
Nazir Afzal @nazirafzal.bsky.social Former Chief Prosecutor, Current Chancellor of Manchester University, member of numerous boards & patron of 9 women led charities protecting the vulnerable
All views my own
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
@ybuck.bsky.social @ybuck.bsky.social
Dr Claire Davey @clairedavey.bsky.social Researcher of women’s alcohol (non-) consumption and online recovery modalities, particularly women's use of online sobriety communities. Currently writing a book about it.
Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social Usually found with a coffee cup in hand
Landscape Photographer
My opinions are my own but I'm not afraid of hearing those of others & I'm willing to change all be it after a struggle
Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social #Socialcare guy at The King's Fund. Early riser. Available in stereo on Twitter/X.
Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social Senior Scientist | Vaccine Research & Development | NIH | NIAID | VRC | 🧬🧫🦠🔬💉🥼🥽 | 🏳️🌈 | @coralchimera.bsky.social 💍 | @phoenixnest.bsky.social & @multicolorbark.com & @likeapalette.com 🧵🪡
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Antonio Tova de Llano @psicologotova.bsky.social Psicólogo especializado en adicciones.
A Coruña/Galicia/España
www.antoniotovapsicologo.com
David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social Fine words butter no parsnips.
Once and future bookseller, currently based in deepest Nottinghamshire.
@Simplerdave on all decent social media - find me here, there and almost everywhere...
Campbell Stevenson @campbells.bsky.social Long in the tooth, short of attention, neither rough nor rowdy. Ex-Observer hack
Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social A progressive voice for a metropolitan community.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/
Part of the Joe Media Group.
@stella-salmen.bsky.social @stella-salmen.bsky.social New Orleans Tour Guide, Musician, and... Um... human bean. 😉
Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (DARC) at Middlesex University @darc-mdx.bsky.social We are a multidisciplinary centre for cutting edge drug and alcohol research based at Middlesex University, London, UK.
Website: http://drugandalcoholresearchcentre.org/