Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social I like all things fungi, lichen, and slime mold; and would like to learn more about them. Also bugs! Currently live in Hawaii. All photos are mine, unless otherwise stated.
Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
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Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social Archaeologist in Wales, UK. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Birds, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies & walks in the hills
Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion @josejota.bsky.social Urban Geography - Radical Housing - Everyday Politics | Chilena en UK | she/her
Morag Joss @moragjoss.bsky.social Writer, novels mainly, sometimes libretti. Apprentice grandmother
Bob Hilton @profbobhilton.bsky.social Scientist studying carbon in rivers 🌍| CO2 sequestration 🪨 | Biogeochemistry | Arctic CH4 | Isotopes & Radiocarbon | leading ERC RIV-ESCAPE | Prof at University of Oxford https://riv-escape.weebly.com/
Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social Trade Unionist; Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
@jessstilllife.bsky.social @jessstilllife.bsky.social Still life painter. Interested in dogs, Dartmoor, mountain walking, archaeology, human evolution and small things of the natural world. Left wing tendencies tempered by reading the Economist
Annie Evankow @psoralady.bsky.social Biologist ~ Biodiversity, Nature, Symbiosis, Lichen-ized Life, Mycology, Phycology, Botany, Community Science, Collections... aka Dr. Psora Lady.
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Director of @baysar.bsky.social
Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social
Hold your plans lightly in your hands
Reversing uphill in Devon lanes since time immemorial so you don’t have to
Full of wit. Wit, I said
#95%Dartmoor #5%civilised
#MS #formerlawyer #TheArchers #dementiacarer #FitsofRage™️
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social Prehistory & landscape
Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnythinsta/
Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social Me?
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
John @maenhir.bsky.social Artist
Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social Shropshire
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Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957)
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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social Interested in wildlife, the countryside and all things historic.
Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦
Kate U @kateullman.bsky.social Lives in Cornwall, from West Brom.
Works in SEND education -Assistant HT with a focus on EYFS/complex needs/communication and interaction/multi-agency working.
Volunteers for Cornwall Archaeological Society- area rep for St. Cleer parish.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/
Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Henry Long @henrylong9.bsky.social Postboxes | London | urban architecture and streets | parks and gardens | urban rivers | theatre | opera | art | churches | cricket | Norfolk Terriers | decent beer | RNLI supporter. AI sceptic. All views personal.
Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social Local Gov. Archaeology, Books, Art, Mountains. Birmingham City, Post-Punk, Films. Usually found in the Yorks, Worcs, and Pembs Tri-State area. History and Philosophy @ UWL. https://thefastflowingriver.wordpress.com/
Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social Adventures in a historic landscape. Dark tales and photography from Northern Britain. #Scotland #NorthernBritain #Galloway #history #legend #folklore
Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall).
All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light!
IS IT BIN DAY?
Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
She/her
My opinions are my own.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Pete Crane @petecrane.bsky.social Stravaiging & posting about Scotland's great outdoors, ancient & modern, & other stuff .. inc life in the #Cairngorms
Director Mountaineering Scotland & MBA vmo
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
@chrisull.bsky.social @chrisull.bsky.social Programmer, author, musician (lo-fi),
amateur historian, amateur environmentalist (butterfly transect walker at Golitha Falls), chair of St Cleer Environmental group, runner, running coach and Birmingham City
SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social Poet. Nature, conservation, history, archaeology, art, architecture, politics & the pleasures of reading. Doyenne of #IronworkThursday. Still #yallmasking
Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in Dorset and SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social Postgraduate Admissions Tutor and Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Outreach Coordinator for German at Cambridge. Medievalist (English/German). Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity.
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Maarten Langhendries @mlanghendries.bsky.social
Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I write books, buy them!
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CAST Cornwall @castcornwall.bsky.social CAST is a visual arts organisation, based in Helston, Cornwall. Our programme includes exhibitions of artists’ film, talks, screening events and workshops, as well as learning programmes for schools and creative activities for children and families.
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social Composer. Cricketer. Third thing.
https://linktr.ee/bernardhughes
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
@wrennaturalist.bsky.social @wrennaturalist.bsky.social A naturalist interested in moths, particularly the early stages of micro moths. Also birds, galls, flies and lichens, in fact pretty much everything in the natural world
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social Shetland, Oxford, Italy, Norway, Photographs
https://linktr.ee/rossmackenzie
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
Robson Peisley @robsonpeisley.bsky.social 🌿 Conservation Scientist @ University of Brighton
🦫 Focused on Human-Wildlife Dynamics, Landscape Management, and Species Reintroductions
🌳 Board Member @ South Downs National Park Authority
📍 Brighton, UK
💐 linktr.ee/robsonpeisley
Geoffrey Haigh @geoffrey311.bsky.social Lichen dabbler and photographer, Anapana-practitioner, sky watcher. I'm really here for the #lichens, but keep getting distracted by the wonderful #landscapephotography
And in an age of war and inhumanity, extremism and violence, I repost other things too
Pete Martin @onloughrigg.bsky.social Lichens and other stuff from the beautiful English Lake District and beyond.
Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com Lichenologist - FRGS - Mountain Leader
Working with NTS and RBGE
Blog: www.thevagrantlichenologist.com
Insta: www.instagram.com/cragology/
Web: www.cragology.rocks
Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab Fellow
@scilifelab.se @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social
lichen symbiosis | metagenomics | evolution
Lab website: metalichenlab.github.io
#StandWithUkraine
she/her
Sue @sueinscotland.bsky.social Lichens, botany, gardening, anything that sparks my curiosity
Judith Allinson @judithallinson.bsky.social
Craig Postlethwaite @craigpnature.bsky.social Here for birds, beetles, and lichens mainly. Occasionally gets excited about whisky, rugby and guitars. Very often found fishing.
Treasurer for Paisley Natural History Society.
Licheomancy™ @licheomancy.bsky.social Lichens. Definitely lichens.
Peter Braubach @peterbraubach.bsky.social Pathologist by day and sometimes by night. Dad of 2 👱👱 (03/18, 08/21). Bakes bread 🍞. Cares for a garden 🌻. Bikes to work 🚲. Biodiversity enthusiast. Mainly thinking about lichens here. He/him
葉いろ @hairo-iroha.bsky.social たましいの居場所 𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social #LectionaryPrayers guy. Church of Scotland minister.
https://peterwnimmo.co.uk
https://about.me/peterwnimmo
https://mastodon.scot/@Peternimmo
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Jim Martin @jimspim.bsky.social Publishing Director, Bloomsbury. Pop-science, natural history. Gonzo editor; zoo-LOL-ogist; supplier of bookish news, animal facts, regular swearing. Views my own.
Carla Jack @pocketwildingie.bsky.social Wildlife & horticulture enthusiast in the Irish Midlands. Let's restore Ireland's biodiversity pocket by pocket with whatever resources are at hand. Focusing on knowledge-sharing and often distracted by handi-crafting. Spelling errors included free.
Ingeborg Klarenberg @ingeborgklarenberg.bsky.social Ecologist @ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - RIVM
soil biodiversity | cryptograms | polar regions | eDNA
Former PhD @University of Iceland & @University of Akureyri. Former postdoc @vuamsterdam.
www.ingeborgklarenberg.nl
Matt Wainhouse @funganaught.bsky.social Fungal ecology and conservation. Natural England fungi specialist. Tired parent.
The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk
Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social Naturalist: lichens, moths, beetles, bugs and anything else that catches my eye. “What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.”
Sylvia Davidson @sylviad.bsky.social Wanderer through the Sussex countryside by foot, bus and train. Bit of an obsession with lichens
Chris Cant @chriscant.bsky.social Lichens: the closer you look the more you'll see; zoom out and you'll read the habitat
Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES - Waterstones Book of the Month
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: THE LAST WILD RIVER
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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Minott Kerr @nolomk.bsky.social I do consumable liquids seriously, very seriously. Cultural attaché Sterling Coffee Roasters and Aria Gin. Former: civil servant/server whisperer; medieval architectural historian/archeologist; wildfire fighter.
Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com Lichen surveying, consultancy, training and education. County Lichen Recorder for Suffolk. Posts mainly about lichens, and occasionally other life-forms, especially if they're overlooked. Rocks now and then, too. Founder @anthonyspeca.bsky.social.
Derek McCormack @atmosphericthings.bsky.social Irish. Professor of Cultural Geography. University of Oxford. Mansfield College. Immigrant. Own(ish) views and images. He/him.
Simon Dadson @simondadson.bsky.social Professor of Hydrology at Oxford University and UKCEH
Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social Plant pathologist with an interest in microfungi on plants, lichens, lichenicolous fungi and aquatic hyphomycetes.
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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.org Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings.
https://thrivablescotland.com/
📍Edinburgh, Scotland
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
Dr Martin Coombes @martinacoombes.bsky.social Physical geographer within the Oxford Resilient Buildings and Landscapes (OxRBL) group, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford.
Interests: biogeomorphology, rocky shores, walled gardens & horticulture, heritage + nature interactions.
Chantal Lyons @chantallyons.bsky.social Sci Comms writer & naturalist. Debut non-fic GROUNDBREAKERS on the return of Britain’s wild boar out w/ Bloomsbury 1 Feb 2024!
Rep’d by James Macdonald Lockhart.
Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social #Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
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Dr Rachel Delman @racheldelman.bsky.social Heritage type and historian. Writes about medieval and Tudor women and their buildings. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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