Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Heidi Stöckl @heidistoeckl.bsky.social Professor of Public Health Evaluation, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany
Maalus @maalus.com Illustrator and graphic designer. Creator and maker. Purveyor of the strange and fantastic.
On art hiatus. Open for graphic design jobs - specialist in print design.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Posts here on anime, manga, poetry, costume, writing, Japan. Also posts @glider.bsky.social for politics, history, rants, random records etc.
Website helenmccarthy.net
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Chin @lighthealing.bsky.social Performer/singer/songwriter/minimalist guitarist. Aspiring novelist. Healer. Dreamer. Feminist. Overthinker. Laugher. Laughed-at. Idiot
https://fb.watch/8E1wf
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social Engineer. Recovering Xitter user.
Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change.
Posts may contain traces of withering scorn.
Slava Ukraini!
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social Historian of crime and London;
Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
Andrew Furlow @andrewfurlow.bsky.social Book publishing person, formerly of Harper North, @iconbooks & @greystonebooks.
Always on the lookout for new book ideas & authors, esp. in history / politics / music / culture
Tales from the Enchanted Forest @fromenchanted.bsky.social Podcasters and Storytellers dedicated to sharing fairy tales, myths, legends, folktales from all around the world! Tune in for folklore!
Show notes and research on our website: www.talesfromtheenchantedforest.com
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.
Suitcase Genealogist @suitcasegen.bsky.social @hjarmstrong.bsky.social's eventual genealogy, heritage, history and preservation travel project. Also building @yoretravel.bsky.social.
Humbled daily by my ancestors. Neurodivergent and a misfit.
Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social Family History Researcher from Kent now living in Shropshire via Gloucestershire.
@stefanwigele.bsky.social @stefanwigele.bsky.social 
The Night Monitor @thenightmonitor.bsky.social Soundtracking unexplained phenomena.
https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com
Tiollamp @tiollamp.bsky.social Rojo perdido. Antitaurino. Animalista y defensor del cambio climático. NO FASCISMO NI ULTRADERECHA 🇸🇩🇺🇦. TRUMP 💩💩
textually flawed 📚📚📚 @judishka.bsky.social reader; writer; editor; word junkie; lover of linguistics, rhetoric, narrative & literature; poet; thinker; learner. unapologetically pro democracy, science, the humanities, critical thinking and creativity. reading = breathing | (she/her/elle) 🇨🇦
Jo Cottrell @cotch11.bsky.social Art Historian, PhD, HIIT enthusiast, liberal.
Share UK @share-uk.bsky.social Retrieving women from the dustbin of history. ✊✨ Join the movement!
https://linktr.ee/shareuk
Nikki Vieler @nikkivieler.bsky.social Autonomous & Visual Product Designer- WdKA, MA Research Architecture - Forensic Architecture Studio & Oxford University - Views are of own voice & volition & ongezouten mening with an attempt to be civil. People, Animals and Planet person...🍉🇪🇺🦊💚🧡😸
Janet Chapman @janetchapman.bsky.social Chair of Tanzania Development Trust and Hackney Society, founder of Hackney History Festival. 
Hackney History Festival @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social Hackney Society, Hackney Archives, Sutton House & many more host Hackney History Festival each May. Get in touch to help shape future events!
Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social London based filmmaker working on folk horror, weird shit, punk sci-fi satire and stuff that exudes a cosmic darkness. Progressive humane human. Obsessed with phantasmagoria, perpetually dreich. Sometimes a numpty, always the odd one out. He/him.
@philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social ATHEIST / ARDENT FEMINIST / Put Women In Charge Now / I voted for her / Vaxxed / Secular Humanist / Progressive Liberal Dem / Blue Crew /Eat the Rich / Pro Union / Pro choice /Far Left / Woke AF / Ally / Tax Religion / 8647 /Antifa/ Resister
Dan Conaway @dconaway99.bsky.social Literary Agent
All In The Telling - The Ghost Story Network @allinthetelling.bsky.social Shining a lantern on the finest ghost story performers.
#ghoststories #gothic #horror #storytelling #folklore #folkhorror #weirdfiction
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
The Hackney Society @hackney-society.bsky.social We work to preserve Hackney's unique heritage and built environment, and make the area a better place in which to live and work. Founded in 1967
Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order ✍️ Lydia Maria Child | WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe ✦ Writing about women who rethought the world ✦Currently: 20C women rethinking war & peace ✦ 2026-7 Fellow at Harvard's Transcendentalism Initiative
Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social Reader in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
ᚃᚓᚏᚌᚐᚂ ᚋᚐᚉᚉᚒ ᚌᚐᚇᚆᚏᚐ @storzundbickel.eurosky.social Reader, writer, vegetarian, photo taker, music listener, banjo player, Gaeilgeoir, hispanohablante. Enthusiast of natural scenery, travelling, visual arts, culture, cannabis. Combined-type ADHD. https://mas.to/@FOG90 | https://gram.social/FOG90
Johnny Johnson @johnnyjohnson.bsky.social Raised by ghosts, married the sea, died alone, and came from the future — unprofessional practitioner of various arts
Incognita Nom de Plume @shiralee.bsky.social Collector of dust, bones and regrets. Fan of cemeteries, museums, and ruins.
I block anyone posting AI slop.
Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social Husband, father, lover of animals, wargaming, music, history, HR tech, overweight, balding. Man, that list started so well.
Dr Russell Glasson @russellglasson.com Interests: digital things and real things, books and eTexts - Dyslexic academic - more nuance please - #UBI to support creativity in all- solar/wind/wave/water to sustain life. russellglasson.com
pinkprincessinthecity •🌸🌃🧳•👩🏻🎨👩🏻🔬🕵🏻♀️👩🏻🏫👩🏻💻👩🏻🍳•🏮🧧🎍• @pinkprincess.bsky.social •sweet🍯&spicy🌶️ autistic geek nerd in NYC🗽
•tea🍵&chocolate🍫 bibliophile📚
•love design,food,languages, photography,traveling🌎🌍🌏
•in cultural heritage-art🎨,architecture🏛️, science🧪,law&policy⚖️
(conservation,education,securitization)
•into gaming🎮🃏♟️and kawaii💕
Sommer Rheazy @sommerrhea.bsky.social Mental Health practitioner, Community Health advocate, American football fanatic, Animal lover.
Megantron-🦇-Rose @rosexeno.bsky.social Shy. Easily spooked. She/her. Sold her soul to sea of thieves...
Sara Colognesi @saracolognesi.bsky.social Spoonie and Affirmative pychologist psychotherapist from Italy
www.saracolognesi.it
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Dr Sarina Wakefield @sarinawakefield.bsky.social Lecturer in Museum Studies, Dean of Internationalisation, University of Leicester. Research focus on Gulf Museums and Heritage & transnationalism.
Director, Museums in Arabia. Routledge Series Editor: Cultural Heritage, Art and Museums in the Middle East
Livia Rita @liviarita.bsky.social 𝕊𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕝𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙🦇
๑ soft nature creature ༒
I offer u portals of Mყʂƚιƈ Eƈσ-Pσρ
I design ⲀRⲧ𝓕ⲁ𝛓ⲏⲓⲟⲛ ꧂
My debut album 千ㄩᎶ卂 千ㄩㄒㄩ尺卂 is out ♫
Squiddy @dr-squiddy.bsky.social Undercover museum curator, actual certified doctor of museum stuff, accidental catalyst for change, educator, newt botherer, and spooky idiot. She/Her
Morgen Jahnke @morgenjahnke.bsky.social Writer, autistic mama, Saskatoon moon watcher. Nerd for nature, poetry, politics. Poetry: Grain, Prairie Fire
Thomas Vye @thomasvye.bsky.social Medical Historian MA Medical Humanities
Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
MartynJS @cllrmartynjs.bsky.social Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Dave Fischer @wustlphd.bsky.social Tsundoku practitioner; retired cell/molecular biologist, recombinant protein expression, genome editing; conservation of wolves, prairies, democracy; fan of dogs, old movies, maps, music (rock & classical)
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Antiggy1998 @antiggy1998.bsky.social My Basenji Puppy was the Model for the Bed. It was for the cover of Forbes FYI. Rescuing Horses & other Animals since 1995. NO DMs Calls or Chats. I block fake Gazans.
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
@lilbitwytchie.bsky.social @lilbitwytchie.bsky.social "Several miles over the madness horizon and accelerating..." (Terry Pratchett)
Likes crafting, gardening, reading, music. Geek. Socialist. She/Her. 🏴
Prearranged DMs only please.
Lucy Hyde @lucyformaldehyde.bsky.social Chaos maker, Anatomy Lecturer and Medical Artist at Bristol University
With a keen fondness for inside jokes, the facial nerve, and cheese of all shapes and sizes.....
Opinions sadly all my own doing
Katie McKissick @katiemckissick.bsky.social AKA Beatrice the Biologist. Science illustrations, comics, and books. Lover of science and nature. She/her. 
Kat Martinez, MA @violetbluebird.bsky.social Historical Linguist. Word nerd. Early Modern science & visual culture. Language evolution. Palaeography, Astrophysics, Film Noir. German speaker.
I like cake.
L.A./London
Dragon @dragonsky96.bsky.social She/Her pronouns. Artist and lover of books, nature, fantasy/sci-fi, dragon ball, etc. I mostly lurk and reblog posts that make me happy or that I feel are important (like information on climate change and social justice). 🚫 No GenAI or NFT 🚫
Ann K. @piquant00.bsky.social NASA's Trans flag Day of Visibilty
Be nice but sarcastic. Fan of Linux, Science, Movies, Horror, Houseplants, Books, Svengoolie, Democracy, Equality. LGBTQIA+
Bleeding heart liberal, yellow dog Democrat
Mastodon, Counter.Social
8647 just a number
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Go4Know @go4know.com 🔥 Blog by Dariusz Majgier. AI, fun facts, science & brilliant ideas:
👉 https://patreon.com/go4know
🔥 Get prompts, art styles & tutorials. Learn how to create ChatGPT & Midjourney images!
👉 Join me: https://patreon.com/ai_art_tutorials
Lexicons Unbound @lexicons-unbound.bsky.social From medieval monsters to modern memes, Lexicons Unbound traces the folklore in your feed. Pull up a chair and press play. www.podpage.com/lexicons-unbound
Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social Independent researcher, archivist and librarian researching in the fields of conspiracy theories and death studies. Always open to discussing new projects and collaborations.
https://www.robert-spinelli.com
winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends
In the distant past, an archaeologist
Haikuist and storyteller
Three score years and ten
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Lauren Smith, PhD @lkmsmith.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow; Associate Faculty @ RRU
Climate, emotions, behaviour change, gender, planetary (and death) care
She/They 🌈🍁
Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social Feminist (not a TERF) cat botherer, reader of books. Bringer of cake.
A beautiful snowflake/neurodivergent little weirdo. 🏴 She/her
Fen Inkwright 🌿 @rosdottir.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🌻 Illustrator, author, folklorist, D&D designer 🌿 Author of Botanical Curses & Poisons and the Citadel Oracle Deck 🌿 Owner @CrowCrownStudio.bsky.social
https://rosdottir.carrd.co
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Robert Fleming @flemingrob.bsky.social FRGS AMA | Principal Maps Research Specialist @ The National Archives. Historian of armies, empire, espionage, cartography & cricket.
London & lutruwita/Tasmania | Born on the traditional lands of the Palawa/Pakana people.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
ResistanceGirl @meredithcolorado.bsky.social Works in healthcare and is passionate about care and protection for all marginalized communities.
Part of the resistance and am 100% here to fight for our democracy. ❤️🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Lynn Hardaker @lynn-hardaker.bsky.social Canadian artist & writer living in a mediaeval German town.
Love nature, art, & literature. Currently working on two MG novels: one an 18th century fantasy, the other a 1920s cozy mystery. 
David Bishop CTeach 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @libraryrinth.bsky.social Hardest working man in teaching. Book reading, quiz teaming woke art lover. He/him. No AI. #Booksky #Edusky
libraryrinth.substack.com
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Susan Feldkamp @susanfeldkamp.bsky.social Science enthusiast and hardcore omnivorous reader. Freelance writer and editor. Democrat. Beto forever. 
Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com books, bugs, bolitics 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/cavatica
Matt Gilbert @richlyevocative.bsky.social Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
Danny Snow @dannysnow.bsky.social PhD candidate @ucdischool.bsky.social , posthumous data. Bass @wearevillagers.bsky.social
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Snows of Yesteryear @snowsofyesteryear.scot Glasgow alt-folk three-piece. Featured on BBC Introducing, Scotsman Sessions, Under the Radar. Debut Album Out Now:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/snows-of-yesteryear/1698079931
https://snowsofyes.bandcamp.com/album/snows-of-yesteryear
Salt & Mirrors & Cats @saltmirrorscats.bsky.social Literary zine with stories, poems and art about superstitions 🧂🪞🐈 Founded by Superstition Sam with artwork by PrairieBones.
DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social Deathwork sisters, Dr KV & artist LV. Creative approaches to mortality education. Your eco-funeral guides. Ceremony. Stories. Legacy. Zines & ltd edition merch
Puny Mortal Podcast 💀 The Mortal Portal
Sunderland & Macc, UK
https://linktr.ee/deadgoodlegacies
Megan Rosenbloom @libraryatnight.bsky.social Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
Arve Aksnes @arveaksnes75.bsky.social Physicist (PhD in Space Physics), High-School Science Teacher in Bergen/Norway, Big Fan of @meidastouch.bsky.social 🇺🇸. Go Ukraine 🇺🇦! Supporter of the best football team in the world - Brann 🇳🇴❤️ 
Tina Hodgkinson @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social Reads, gives talks & writes about Agatha Christie
Loves London, history, gothic, great disabled access
Works at The London Archives https://tinahodgkinson.com/
Isidor @isidor.rs I make Extremely detailed music! Immerse yourself into my futuristic soundscapes, I am a boundarypushing synthwave producer at #NewRetroWave Your own music guide!
Supported by Reveal Sound!
DM for mix and master!⬇️
My music
https://hyperfollow.com/Isidor
Liz Danner @lizdanner.bsky.social Researcher, educator and public engagement practitioner passionate about making science and heritage accessible. All views (and spelling mistakes) my own, etc.
Beth K Crane @bethkcrane.bsky.social Writer, voice actor, editor, laser wrangler. Linktr.ee/bethkcrane