Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social Retired professor of physics and former Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Interested in science policy, skills, education and EDI issues; author of Not Just for the Boys; blogging at https://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/
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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social Senior editor at Research Professional News, mainly editing European research, innovation and higher education policy news
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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social Official account of the 2026 International School and Conference on Network Science in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. June 1-5, 2026. Official hashtag: #NetSci2026
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social Experienced Higher Education professional, blogger and commentator. Personal views on higher ed stuff, rankings, regulation, #ncfc & True Crime on Campus. Also podcast: https://audioboom.com/channels/5093607-my-imaginary-university
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Causal inference researcher and trainer. Based at @lida-leeds.bsky.social
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We identify and disseminate effective practice in widening access and participation.
Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him
🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/
@duetosymmetry everywhere
Luke Drury @luke-drury.mastodon.dias.ie.ap.brid.gy Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in DIAS, member and former president of the Royal Irish Academy, former VP of ALLEA. Interested in open science and the […]
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
William Barter @wjbarter.bsky.social Particle Physicist, Academic, Reader, Walker, Talker.
Home: Edinburgh, CERN
Pronouns: He/Him
Web: https://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~wbarter/
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Ben Johnson @ersatzben.com Co-Director, Science Works. Professor at University of Strathclyde. Former UK govt adviser on science and tech policy. Personal views.
Tara Shears @tarashears.bsky.social Particle Physicist, own views.
Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social Award-winning education journalist. Senior editor, Research Professional News. Formerly Times Higher Education.
Non-award-winning musician. 
Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social Physicist and Professor at a university in Chicago. I study black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. Rocky Top, Tar Heel. Reposts are spooky action at a distance.
My views, not my employer's.
https://jacobi.luc.edu
https://mcnees.github.io
Arttu Rajantie @artturajantie.bsky.social Finnish cosmologist and particle physicist with two passports. Professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College. Chair of the Finnish Science Society in the UK. School governor. Rejoiner. #RejoinEU #FBPE
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.rajantie
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/
Tim O'Brien @proftimob.bsky.social Astrophysics professor, Director Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement, exploding stars, science bluedot festival, red, two dogs rule the roost.
Isaac Barbosa @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social Journalist at Research Professional News
John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social Editor (acting), @resprofnews.bsky.social
Phil Uttley @philuttley.bsky.social Astrophysicist. Timer of black holes. Brit in NL. Proto-Butlerian.
Jonathan Pritchard @pritchardjr.bsky.social Bewildered vagabond and student of the stars. Professor of uncertain opinions. Radio cosmologist at MPIfR.
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Andy Lawrence @e-astronomer.bsky.social Active Galaxy Nut and Space Environmentalist.
Read Losing The Sky at Amazon, Apple Books, or Google Play.
More grooviness at https://andyxlastro.me 
Lucien Heurtier @lucienheurtier.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist at King's Coll. London @KCL_Physics #cosmology, #particles, #Universe, #darkmatter, #blackholes. Write fast, the Universe expands...
https://lheurtier.github.io/index.html
Anne Green @ultrawimp.bsky.social I used to run ultras and search for WIMPs.
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Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social Gravitational-wave astrophysicist. University of Glasgow Senior Lecturer. Science, education, LEGO & cake. May contain traces of nuts
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Malcolm Fairbairn @malcfairbairn.bsky.social Physics Professor KCL - particle physics and cosmology theory. Views appear to be my own (free will?) either way are not those of King's College London. Deranged leftist.
John Womersley @johnwomersley.bsky.social Special Advisor, University of Edinburgh. Former Director General of European Spallation Source and CEO of Science and Technology Facilities Council. Physicist and cynic. Posting in a personal capcity.
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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. Too frequent appearances on YouTube. All my own views.
Eugene Lim @tukohbin.bsky.social Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration and UK Numerical Relativity. Views my own. Penang-lang. YNWA
Frances Jones @francesjones.bsky.social Reporter at Times Higher Education. Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year 2025 @ABSW.
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British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
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Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social Neuroscientist
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
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Visiting Professor, Kings College London
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Heather Harrington @haharrington.bsky.social Mathematician interested in data & biology. Max Planck Institute & TU Dresden. Oxford Maths Institute & St John’s College, Oxford. Previously Imperial College London & Umass Amherst.
Mathew Bullimore @mathewbullimore.bsky.social Professor @ Durham University | Mathematical and Theoretical Physics
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/mathew-r-bullimore/
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Rachael P 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 @rachael-p.bsky.social Suffolk-based retired Cambridge physicist. Born 313.2 ppm. Trans woman.
Catless mad catlady (she/her)
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Andrew Jaffe @defjaf.bsky.social Astrophysics, cosmology, Bayesian inference, parenthood, politics, rock ’n’ roll, & more. Professor at Imperial College. andrewjaffe.net He/him/his
The Random Universe—available now!
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300250503/the-random-universe/
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social Mathematics professor at Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social Theoretical astrophysicist specializing in the Universe and all that surrounds it. Based in Ireland. Personal account. Call me old-fashioned but I don't like fascists. He/him/his.
Blog: telescoper.blog
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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social Economist, Prof at Columbia University.
Chief Economist: Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group).
Co-editor: Journal of Public Economics.
1st gen, 🏴
https://www.rmetcalfe.net/
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Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change 
Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford
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