Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social www.discontinuednotes.com
poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social Former poète maudit, RIP 2021.
2024-25 Pushcart nominee for most Proustean heartbreak.
Montalean longing, Lorca pinning.
I have to give you up again
And I can't.
I am after the lost sign, the single
pledge you graced me with.
And hell is certain
Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social Posts on:
#BareNakedBirding (no longer carry bins/scope - just camera for pics for posts on here.)
#climate
#LowCarbon Happily exploring n/ne #Kent by #train #bus #bike, centred on #Medway towns/ estuary
#Allotment holder
Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social The sweet sweet taste of manchineel.
"Four oysters? Pointless"
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
❤️Donate: http://alturl.com/ipg2h
🌴 https://linktr.ee/tacc_uk
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional
Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social Host of Tangible Vibe Shift
Research Consulting @researchconsulting.bsky.social Research Consulting is a specialist consultancy firm focused on research
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.
Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social German, English, Spanish
Sociology, Medicine, General Practice
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Julian Thomas @julianthomas19.bsky.social Birder in Somerset. Tern freak.
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Stop Calderdale Wind Farm @protectourpeat.bsky.social We’re campaigning to stop what would be England’s largest onshore wind farm from being built on the highly protected moor (SPA, SAC, SSSI) between Hebden Bridge and Top Withens aka Wuthering Heights. Wind farms don’t need to be built on protected peatland!
oehlkers @oehlkers.bsky.social college prof (media & com) in Salem, Mass.
Oriole philologist. Wild bird advocacy historian. Production editor, Bird Observer. archive.org/details/@profoehlkers https://peteroehlkers.podbean.com/
Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social Anthropology professor with a weird little book about human evolution coming to science shelves in 2027. https://hollydunsworth.blogspot.com/ & https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/
BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social Britain's leading website for birders. Live sightings, breaking news and trusted content.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Vidyan Ravinthiran @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social Prof and poet, author of Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir and Avidya. Posting poems you may not have read.
Sarah Cave @cavepoet.bsky.social Writer, artist, experimenter, ordinand, hedgeling.
Poetry Dr @Prayer.
The Book of Yona (Shearsman, April, 2024)
Editor (Guillemot Press) PhD/AuDHD
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Darcy Moore @darcy1968.bsky.social Independent scholar. Traveller. Bibliomaniac. Flâneur. List-maker. Interested in AI. Orwellian. Researching Orwell’s Anglo-Indian family. Recently received the Peter Davison Award for scholarship. https://www.darcymoore.net/
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Daniel Duggan @danieldugganwriter.bsky.social Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders- U UK Industrial Fusion Solutions @ukifs.bsky.social
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) @ukaeaofficial.bsky.social We are harnessing the power of the sun to develop the ultimate energy source, fusion energy 🌞
STEP Fusion @steptofusion.bsky.social The STEP programme will build a prototype fusion energy plant and create a UK-led fusion industry. We'll catalyse new ideas and technologies that will help secure our future on this planet.
https://linktr.ee/steptofusion
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social Photographer, landscape, travel and nature. Loves books, reading and poetry. Well known for images of Iron Men Crosby.
Confront-Eugenics @confronteugenics.bsky.social Public history project: www.confront-eugenics.org
Patricia Murray @pmurray65.bsky.social Stem cell biologist and ex-nurse. Interested in research integrity. Views my own.
Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social By day data geek and research and innovation management guru. By night, usually asleep. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.
Jane @localnotail.bsky.social local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant
English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.
Fair Witness.
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC 🦊, England⚽️🏏, walks, photos, words; husband, father, generally curious
https://substack.com/@jembenson
📍 Leicestershire, UK
Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social Editor-at-large, World Politics Review. Spent more than a year in Provence. Used to be an American in Paris. Currently bringing coal to Newcastle.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/
@wpr.bsky.social
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
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
Rob Watts (RobWords) @robwords.com YouTube word nerd. Host of RobWords and Words Unravelled.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Lesser Spot Network @lesserspotnet.bsky.social Lesser Spotted Woodpecker conservation project supporting birdwatching volunteers to find & record Lesser Spots, their nests & breeding outcomes. Posts by Ken & Linda Smith, website www.woodpecker-network.org.uk 
William Odz. 🦖🦕🙀 @wodz.bsky.social I arrive as a person, not a label; writing frequently, mostly poetry, probably too much grimdark. Occasionally published on dead trees and electric screens, more often ignored.
Welcome to my nightmare.
@birdsinmuseums.com @birdsinmuseums.com 
David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social Philosopher (Uehiro Oxford), Author (Wittgenstein's Poker, Would You Kill The Fat Man, Parfit, etc.), Podcaster (Philosophy Bites, Social Science Bites). Journalist. Latest book, Death In A Shallow Pond.
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social Poet, reader, workshop leader, weather watcher, moon gazer. Pre-Raphaelite Society Poet-in-Residence. Widely published, inc. Something so wild and new... (2021) & (m)othersongs (2023), V. Press.
Web: sarahdoyle.co.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetsarahdoyle
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. Working on ‘The Empire of German Idealism’. As one does.
Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social The former Conservative MP for Dorset East.🇬🇧
David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social Likes #biophysics and #statistics, especially stochastic processes, dislikes pseudo-science.
Twitter refugee: undecided between BlueSky and Mastodon @david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
Blog: https://www.dcscience.net/
Work: https://onemol.org.uk/
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
The Lead @theleaduk.bsky.social The Lead is a lean, mean mag on politics, culture and everything in between.- A Hervé Garrault @arthurlegrave.bsky.social
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University
Also: @bart@akademieNL.social
Richard Winspear @boggy-on-trent.bsky.social Birder, conservationist and immature naturalist emotionally tied to the Derbyshire Trent Valley
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Jim Dixon @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social Write for The Times, my book is Scattering Plenty, work with brilliant conservation charities & I sell books. Progressive liberal, never very impressed by political right. Represented by Northbank. Leisure time by rivers and immersed in culture and nature
Scarthin Books @scarthinbooks.bsky.social A bookshop for the majority of minorities in the historic village of Cromford, Derbyshire, UK.
100,000 books, 13 rooms, one vegan/vegetarian café and someone else's cat.
For all enquiries please ☎️ or email.
Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social An independent project connecting archaeologists, heritage researchers, and members of the public committed to challenging rising misuse and misrepresentation of the past by the far-right. UK-based, ECR-led. https://archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/
Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath
David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
The Air Current @theaircurrent.com The Air Current is a subscription-based aviation news service that combines the highest standards of journalism with the level of technical detail and rigor expected by a sophisticated industry audience. Standby for news…
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com A project of The Center For Scientific Integrity https://centerforscientificintegrity.org/
Daily newsletter http://eepurl.com/bNRlUn
Database http://retractiondatabase.org
Tips team@retractionwatch.com (better than @ replies)
John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social (Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk 
Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social The Labour right wing in all their glory, from Mandelson to McSweeney. The staffers, the lobbyists, the revolving door. See how they lobby for privateer corporations, cash in via disaster capitalism etc 🥀
❉ labourrightwatch.wordpress.com ❉
Ben Wilkinson @benwilko85.bsky.social Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social The Book Bird Cometh
https://www.printrunpodcast.com/
https://patreon.com/printrun?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Charnwood Forest Geopark @charnwoodforest.bsky.social 🌳🦌🦊 Explore Britain’s Unexpected Upland: an Aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark set in the beautiful countryside of Leicestershire
Funded through National Lottery Heritage Fund
Galling, @galling.bsky.social The British Plant Gall Society Bluesky feed. See also our X feed @britgalls, our Facebbok site, British Plant Galls (in association with BPGS), and our website britishplantgallsociety.org
Faquin @faquin.bsky.social Biophysicist - Physico-chemist | 🎥 Youtube : Le Malin Génie | Anti race science - Antiracist
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.
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
St Aldhelms Birder @staldhelmsbirder.bsky.social Lifelong birder in the historic Isle of Purbeck esp. St Aldhelms & Studland, unless I can get abroad. Also into 🐬& 🐳. All photos mine, except retweets
IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz If you want something done right, do it yourself.
[Bob Vylan chant]
Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social arm the scroungers
St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social Collector of strange books. In an inexplicable relationship with the late Frank Harris. He/him.
Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina. Sicily, mafia, Italian justice system.
Mafia Chronicles: nicholaswhithorn.substack.com
Yoshinari Yoshida @yoshinariyoshida.bsky.social Marie Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Philosophy of science, especially of developmental biology | Amateur artist (digital painting) https://yoshinariyoshida.com/
Wordorigins.org @wordorigins.bsky.social Focusing on the origins of words and phrases and their cultural context since 1997, plus astrophotography and dog pics/videos. Run by Dave Wilton (he/him).
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
——
Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social Stop Trump. Stop Trumpism. We still resist.
https://stoptrump.org.uk/