Magnetic North @magnorththeatre.bsky.social Transforming the landscape of theatre. We collaborate with a range of artforms to create new work, and run a renowned artist development programme. magneticnorth.org.uk
Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
@calumgrewar.bsky.social @calumgrewar.bsky.social 
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
CCGlasgow @ccglasgow.bsky.social Used to be errol_flynn_ over on that other place
Adam Higginbotham @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social Writer. Author of New York Times bestsellers Midnight in Chernobyl and Challenger. www.adamhigginbotham.com
Chris Sharratt @chrissharratt.bsky.social Writer and editor, Glasgow via Manchester via Wolverhampton.
https://chrissharratt.wordpress.com
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
@c-e-rose.bsky.social @c-e-rose.bsky.social 
Polaris Koi @polariskoi.bsky.social Asst Prof of Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland
Co-founder of Ronroo
Mental health, agency, cogsci, decision-making, neurodiversity, ethics
Out & proud queer trans man 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧
www.polariskoi.com
The Crop @crop.photography The Crop is a weekly newsletter on the impact of photography. It is edited by Neil Scott, a writer, designer, and photographer based in Glasgow. https://crop.photography/
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
Adam Turner 🏳️🌈 @awjt.bsky.social Just a big, queer ADHDer who plans and designs places. Views are my own. He/him.
📍 Glasgow, Scotland
Fraser McGowan @drmcgowan.bsky.social Historian • Postdoctoral Researcher • Ph.D. on the early history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council • Interests: intelligence, 19-20thC history & culture, film, theatre and football • Glasgow, UK • Here since Aug '24 🌅
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright 
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
SNACK magazine @snackmag.bsky.social Independent arts and culture magazine for Scotland and beyond
Art | Noise | Community
hello@snackmag.co.uk 💛
snackmag.co.uk + https://linktr.ee/SNACKmag
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social Author: “STRANGERS & INTIMATES: the rise and fall of private life” Out Now! @picadorbooks. (Also: “Keeping Their Marbles” @ouphistory) Trustee,
@britishmuseum https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
🧬🔬🚀🤖🧠🪐🦿
#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
Luke Devlin @lukedevlin.bsky.social Human ecologist, interfaith restorative justice, theology and more. Based in Glasgow, Scotland
Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social Halfway between the South Downs and the sea. Photographer with a gallery on Brighton beach, come and say hello.
www.brightonphotography.com
finnhopson.substack.com
Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot Buildings/heritage/tech/Muppets fan, ex-scientist.
Works @archhfund.org.uk Scotland
50% of @ScottishCinemas.org
33% of @glasgowgardenfestival.org
Also at @gordonbarr@mastodon.scot
Gair Dunlop @gair.bsky.social Artist in but not necessarily about Scotland.
Video photography and text.
"It's a Sign!" exhibition and book crowdfunder
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/its-a-sign
www.atomtown.org
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
Jeannette Cooperman @jcooperman.bsky.social Essayist, reporter, long-ago philosophy major still trying to figure out the world
Ray Monk @raymodraco.bsky.social I've written biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and Robert J. Oppenheimer and am currently preoccupied with climate change. My passions include music and ancient churches. I am proud to be a volunteer tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral.
Alison Thewliss @thewliss.bsky.social SNP MSP for Glasgow Central
Promoted by Angus Millar on behalf of Alison Thewliss, both at 68 St Vincent Terrace, Glasgow, G3 8DX
NickyCBird @nickycbird.bsky.social Artist, archive, community, photography. My work investigates the contemporary relevance of ‘found’ artefacts, their archives and specific sites.
www.nickybird.com 
Joel White @joeljoel.bsky.social Friends In Common out now, come say hi on the tour : https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon @friendsincommon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🍉
GLARC tapes / Communal Leisure
Writing about solidarity, Islamophobia, antiracist & Queer history, No Borders, music.
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social 
Jack Nurse @jacknurse.bsky.social Theatre Director and Co-Artistic Director of Wonder Fools.
Jonathon Shafi @jonathonshafi.bsky.social Socialist. Co-editor: www.conter.scot. Writing on Scottish politics: https://jonathonshafi.substack.com. Columnist: The National (https://www.thenational.scot/author/profile/81309.Jonathon_Shafi)
ConterScot @conterscot.bsky.social 
Paul Shaw @paulshaww.bsky.social Scientist
Campaigns officer for Get Glasgow Moving
Better Buses for Strathclyde
Let Glasgow flourish!
https://www.getglasgowmoving.org/support/join/
My Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulshaw94ps?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1v3syx
Elina Bry @elinabry.bsky.social ✍️📽️🍓 Artist - Filmmaker - Strawberry
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE (Del Rey) OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468338/the-inn-at-the-foot-of-mount-vengeance-by-bullen-chiara/9781529953251
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert @jshphotog.bsky.social Photographer, based in Glasgow, Scotland. Documenting Scotland for over 30yrs. Archive held StAndrews Univ.
Available for assignments.
Clients: Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Mag., Greenpeace, & many more.
www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com
Christopher Tayler @mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social Writer and editor. New York Review of Books, Harper's, London Review of Books, Financial Times, Guardian etc. Robert Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism 2025. Paul the Psychic Octopus Memorial Award 2021.
Tim Chipping @timchipping.bsky.social Was in a band, and a film, went on the telly and the radio, wrote about music and films for different things, worked in telly, put out some records by other people. Still doing the records bit. They're very good.
ReadingThePictures @readingthepictures.bsky.social The analysis of news photos & media images. (Originally BagNewsNotes.) Subscribe to our Substack at: http://ReadingThePictures.media.
Neil Milton @lionelsmint.neilmilton.scot From the river to the sea…🇵🇸 | 1312
he/him 🏴 street photographer, mostly.
Leftist/Anticapitalist/Insufferable
I’m a @scotsabroadforindy.bsky.social
WAW/GLA | neilmilton.scot/linktree
Mike Bonsall @mbonsall.bsky.social Ballardian | digitizer | concordancer | code art
https://fentonville.co.uk/digital-ballard/
Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social Writer and critic ✨ linktr.ee/bramegieben ✨ Author of THE DARKEST TIMELINE and CRISIS MASCULINITY. Host of Strange Exiles. Editor at Revol Press.
angeladaly @nidhalaigh.bsky.social Socio-legal academic of data & tech
Digital rights/commons, environment, & art/culture
Between Awabakal land & Alba, often out and about
Likes clean air
Own views
She/her
www.angeladaly.wordpress.com
Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social Glasgow Germanist working on remediations of architecture in film and literature | DEFA | Kleist | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Transnationalism | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him
Dr Andrew Hoolachan MRTPI @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban & Regional Planning | Community Councillor | 90s pop culture enthusiast | Occasional Agitator
Sue Smith @suesmith.lol 🤡 Lefty Glaswegian smartarse
🎏 Helps folk learn how to code
💅🏻 Still petty after cancer
https://www.suesmith.dev
New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsociety.bsky.social Aiming to promote, encourage and stimulate public interest in, and care for, the beauty, history and character of the city of Glasgow and its surroundings.
Thierry Lye @thierrylye.bsky.social Malaysian | Glasgow | Architect | Views are my own
Alicia Bruce @aliciabruce.bsky.social Scottish artist, photographer, community collaborator
Member of Women Photograph
Teaching Fellow, eca
Founder Portobello Photography School
Book ‘I Burn But I Am Not Consumed’ (Daylight Books USA) celebrates a Scottish community who stood up to Trump
@francismckee.bsky.social @francismckee.bsky.social lecturer at glasgow school of art - photography, writing, contemporary art, blues, jazz, curating, krazy kat
Andrew Eberlin @eberlin.co.uk Professional website designer, enthusiastic photographer of modern buildings and writer of The Monthly Jotter.
www.brighterside.co.uk/link-tree
Serden @serdensalih.com Working in theatre & film (Freelance Marketing & Communications Manager with 10+ years experience across the creative arts).
Marketing Manager | Theatremaker | Filmmaker | Artist | Writer | Film Historian 🏳️🌈
www.serdensalih.com
📍 Scotland
Amparo Fortuny @amparofortuny.bsky.social Film, TV, documentary, grotesque, comic.
@thenextdayfilms.com
@cinemaupcollect
www.thenextdayfilms.com
📍Scotland/Spain
Seán Elder @seanelderw.bsky.social gender ambivalent writer and curator
Robbie Gordon @robbiegordon.bsky.social Theatre Maker and Co-Artistic Director of Wonder Fools.
Wonder Fools @wonderfools.org 🎭 Creating exceptional arts experiences for all.
Alright Sunshine ☀️ 01-24 Aug, 16:20 @ Pleasance (Jack Dome). Secure your tickets below 👇
Registered Scottish Charity: SC047673
www.wonderfools.org
Duncan Stephen @duncanstephen.net I lead teams and organisations to make human-centred decisions.
Lead content designer and information architect at the Scottish Government.
he/him
https://duncanstephen.net/
Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social Radically inauthentic green communist sex witch. Digs occult androgyny & shamanic ecoporn. Skyclad for a ludic revolution. Member International Communist Coven. LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/stewarthome
Lauren Tormey @ltormey.bsky.social Senior Content Designer at University of Edinburgh. Runner. Immigrant (turned dual citizen) wanting to change the system. She/her. I write about life: https://ltormey.medium.com and running: https://laurunning.blogspot.com.
Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social Human ecologist and Quaker, I share on social justice, environment, land reform, nonviolence and spirituality. Books include Soil and Soul, Poacher's Pilgrimage & Riders on the Storm. Honorary prof Glasgow Uni.
Hebrides and Govan.
www.AlastairMcIntosh.com
Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social • Co-founder/all-rounder @glasgowbell.bsky.social 🔔
• Audio producer: BBC 📻
• Bylines: Vittles, Nat Geo, Noble Rot, Pellicle, Guardian, The Fence 🗞️
• https://linktr.ee/robbiearmstrong
• https://robbiearmstrong.com
Simon Crofts @simoncrofts.bsky.social Photographer & filmmaker living in Edinburgh with long term special interest (and friends & family) in Ukraine.
www.simoncroftsphoto.com
www.croandkow.com
Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social Artist working with photography. Fan of surrealism, ancient mythology and tearing up expensive prints. Born in Poland based in Scotland. A human slave to a dachshund.
www.sylwiakowalczyk.com
Marissa MacWhirter @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social Columnist, The Herald & Editor, The Glasgow Wrap
🆇 @marissaamayy1
IG @marissaamayy
The Glasgow Wrap @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social The best way to stay updated on Glasgow's local news: ad, clickbait & clutter-free curateed newsletter delivered to your inbox at 7am daily 💌
Edited by @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social
Jack Osborne @jackosborne.com 
Emma Lennox @lennoxia.bsky.social Writer of TV, a graphic novel, and sometimes a substack. I like history but am a fan of not repeating it. Unrealist. 
Lewis Wardrop @lewiswardrop.bsky.social Film producer / music producer based in Scotland.
www.linktr.ee/lewis.wardrop
Marcel Borgstijn @marcelborgstijn.bsky.social Conceptual photographer. Publisher of Darkrooms Magazine & Newsletter
Newsletter https://marcelborgstijn.substack.com
Magazine https://darkroomsmagazine.com
All https://borgstijn.nl/linktree
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
Wesley Verhoeve @readprocess.co Photographer, independent curator (formerly ICP), photo book maker, newsletter writer.
Published by New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, etc.
ReadProcess.co — newsletter
NewStyle.co — my new book
Wesley.co — portfolio
@grahamfagen.bsky.social @grahamfagen.bsky.social 
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
The Martial Arts @themartialarts.bsky.social Linktr.ee/TheMartialArts
Paul Kelly
I collab with / am alumni of Carla J Easton / BMX Bandits / Raveloe / The Primary 5 / TeenCanteen
(and I make pop music as THE Martial Arts)
AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with LambLex, @GordonBarr.scot & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
(Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0)
http://www.glasgowgardenfestival.org
RIAS Bookshop @riasbookshop.bsky.social Scotland's Architecture Bookshop offering wide range of contracts, books and gifts. Part of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
bookshop.rias.org.uk
uk.bookshop.org/shop/RIASBookshop
eventbrite.co.uk/cc/bookshoplates-1351289
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
The Glasgow Bell @glasgowbell.bsky.social Glasgow's new quality newspaper. Join our free mailing list 📨
Got a pitch or tip? Give us a bell: editor@glasgowbell.co.uk
Jess @khawajia.bsky.social Writer, humanitarian education nerd, bat enthusiast.
Dialectographer (Mitch Miller) @dialectographer.bsky.social Artist-illustrator, teacher. Words and Pictures from the edges of this and that. Off 'The Shows'/post-industrial nomad mostly located in Glasgow, Scotland. Find me at: www.dialectograms.com, www.recollective.org.uk and https://preferredfictions.substack.co
@chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social 
Alison Irvine @alisonirvine.bsky.social Writer
Barrowland: the inside story of Glasgow's beloved ballroom (Luath)
Cat Step (Dead Ink) This Road is Red (Luath)
www.recollective.org.uk
Rep: Millie Hoskins, United Agents
Alasdair Watson Photography @alasdairwatson.bsky.social Scottish photographer creating photos of people, communities, connections & passions
Big ND softie/punk/artist telling your story, creating, and connecting.
The Tenementals @tenementals.bsky.social Debut album, 'Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) out now! Check out the video for the opening track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FffdSfynIBc. And check out our website for more info, merch etc. www.tenementals.com
Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social ‘You’re only as good as your last trick,’ (so said my late mum, and I’ve found no reason to disagree).
Scottish journalist and art lover. Writing Book Two. Founder member & former co-chair Women in Journalism Scotland
Rose George @rosegeorge.bsky.social Adult human Yorkshire lass. Author, fell runner. Likes bogs. http://rosegeorge.substack.com
Stephanie Smith @smithsj.bsky.social Mother. Artist. Works in collaboration with Eddie Stewart SMITH/STEWART.
Glasgow based Mancunian.
Instagram @studiosmithstewart
www.smithstewart.co.uk 
John Robinson (@thranjax) @thranjax.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Technologies / Writer for OutsideLeft.com music / film / tv review/ At fifteenpeople.com a blog about the musician Momus and Writer of Famous For Fifteen People / Writer of Folktronics. 
Bob Hardy @bobhardy.bsky.social Bassist in Franz Ferdinand, Bradfordian, naturalised Scot, Glasgow School of Art painting graduate, photo-taker, formerly at Blockbuster Video
Zara Gladman @zanyzaz.bsky.social Comedy, mostly. Secretly a rat. “West end mum.” Watch “Good for Her” on iPlayer.
she/her
https://linktr.ee/zanyzaz
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
Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social Professional nosy parker | Enthusiastic Glaswegian | Qual sociology & interdisciplinary repro health | Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group @openuniversity.bsky.social | She/her