Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
cones @coneshotline.bsky.social cones (elizabeth) | 33 | she/her | "a special kind of degenerate" - some guy on twitter
@oxfordstudentt.bsky.social @oxfordstudentt.bsky.social 
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
flamboyant wrecker
goddess of uselessness
[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
https://lukemckernan.com 
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist.
Chair, Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction judges 2026.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
@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
Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social ⚗️ teaching science @ SUNY Fashion Institute 🧼 researching waste-derived materials 🌈
from RSC Books: How and Why Soap Works
#pigments #inks #mordants #paper #gardenindicators
https://sites.google.com/view/sustainable-materials-lab/home
Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social Chemist, 🧲 spectroscopist, mother, (Teaching) Professor of Chemistry at University of Denver. Loves reading romance and nonfiction 💖📚, currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on spectroscopy🚨Opinions and thoughts and posts are my own!
Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿.
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
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social Numismatics. Ancient History. ANS Fellow. Professor of History and Classics, CUNY. Typo-Queen.
I treat this space like the office water cooler.
Blogging at livyarrow.org
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social Parent, librarian, public servant, person in Boston
Reuters @reuters.com 
Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me InDesign in the streets, Photoshop in the sheets. Creative Director at @wildebeest.design
Londoner, via Vancouver, Seattle, and Sheffield.
Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social FT features writer, focus on work/workplace/whatevs
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Cornwall Archaeological Society @cornwallarch.bsky.social Archaeology in Cornwall
Dr Carolyn La Rocco 🏺🍃 @carrielarocco.bsky.social Classicist / early medieval research fellow at Oxford. Female patronage in the late antique west; Roman + Visigothic Iberia; religion and ‘magic’; epigraphy; mosaics; Classical reception in film / video games. Sometimes I make Roman recipes :) ♾️
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.
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social Millionaires fighting inequality. To move money from the rich & create political economies where wealth does not mean power. UK sister of Patriotic Millionaires
patrioticmillionaires.uk
Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social ICU Charge Nurse. Proctors' Bulldog.
I don't add much.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Voices of Britain Under and After Rome @voicesofbritain.bsky.social AHRC project Voices of Britain Under and After Rome 2026-2030. PI Alex Mullen (Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics). https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/research-on-early-british-voices-and-identities
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social 
Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social AP in political theory at University of Michigan working at the intersection of disability studies, feminist theory, and democratic theory. she/hers.
www.annheffernan.net
Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social managing editor at The City Reporter (@thecity.nyc) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • tell me something good: rsmith@thecityreporter.nyc // @rachelholliday.77 on Signal
📍 queens / fun hell
LFG - Lime Finishes Group @limefinishesgroup1.bsky.social A collective, advocating for the use and reintroduction of a range of lime finishes.
Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social - Activist, artist, gamer ♡
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com Free-Range Archivist at the Internet Archive. TEXTFILES.COM guy. Documentary and Podcast creator. Troublemaker.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social cnn senior pop culture writer/reporter. noted idiot
Ex-BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia)
Writing in Slate, Rolling Stone, NY Mag, NY Times, Bustle, The Daily Beast. Yahoo, MSNBC.
Signal: davidmackau.07
Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social Why things evolve into crabs. Evolutionary biologist (species alive today AND fossils, and how to study them together). Canadian at UCSB and Harvard (she/her)
My science: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CKqoVjEAAAAJ&hl=en
Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Writer, Director, Actor, Producer and failed Dairy Farmer.
www.melbrooks.com
Francesca Hong 홍윤정 @francescahongwi.bsky.social State Representative. Single mom. Restaurant worker. Fighter for the working class. Candidate for WI Governor.
franhong.com/gotv
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social The world’s first mountaineering club, founded in the UK in 1857. At the leading edge of worldwide mountaineering & exploration.
Cover 📷 George Cave
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
www.politico.com
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social Mostly grumpy.
Quite likes climbing rocks.
London.
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social What if we created the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling and horse-riding network for Britain and Ireland? Up for helping?
linktr.ee/slowwaysuk
www.slowways.org
Tortoise @tortoisemedia.bsky.social Slow news, without the noise 🐢
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Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
UKClimbing @ukclimbing.com UKClimbing is the definitive source for all Climbing and Mountain related activity.
ukclimbing.com
Kendal Mountain Festival @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social The world's largest cultural gathering for the Outdoor sector.
FILMS • SPEAKERS • BOOKS • ART• PHOTOGRAPHY• WORKSHOPS • BASECAMP BRAND VILLAGE • SPORTS ACTIVITIES
Festival dates: 20 – 23 Nov 2025
Watch Festival films online via – Kendal Mountain Player
walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk The website for enjoying Scotland’s Great Outdoors, on foot. Views are not ours - they belong to everyone.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/
Peak District National Park @peakdistrict.bsky.social The latest from PDNP. Account & email not monitored 24/7. No emergency use. Press via media@peakdistrict.gov.uk only.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melaine-Le-Roy-2?ev=hdr_xprf
British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk We're the UK's polar research institute 👋 Uncovering the secrets of Earth's frozen places, doing science for a sustainable planet.
Looking for a seriously remote job? https://bas.ac.uk/vacancies
Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social Author, historian, cyclist, hiker, occasional climber, idiot adventurer with unrealistic goals and expectations.
Senedd Wales @senedd.wales Where voices from all communities are represented to make decisions for Wales. Your Senedd, Your Voice, Our future 🏴 Yn Gymraeg 👉 @senedd.cymru
Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.
matthewbarnfield.co.uk
Dan Bailey @danbaileyukc.bsky.social Editor, UKHillwalking.com
Gear Editor, UKClimbing.com and UKHillwalking.com
Guidebook author
Hillwalker, climber
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Curated
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
@profpitches.bsky.social
#MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
UCL Archaeology South-East @archsoutheast.bsky.social ASE is part of the UCL Institute of Archaeology. We provide expert advice and services to communities and clients in need of heritage protection and archaeological research.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social Grinnell, IA. He/his. From Peru, American, Palestinian.
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
UCL Institute of Communications and Connected Systems @ucliccs.bsky.social Bringing together world-leading academic experts and state-of-the-art facilities to advance the future technologies of a connected world.
Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker.
❤️🏕⛰🏜 w/ @Xenolith & Z.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Conor Pope @popeconor.bsky.social 
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW.
MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they
no crypto, no nfts, no ai
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
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If you don't want to buy my book, you could buy me a coffee👇
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Mads Korsager @madskorsager.bsky.social Defence correspondent | Danmarks Radio - Danish Broadcasting Corp. | Afghanistan veteran | 👉 mkor@dr.dk
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Simon Lee @simonleewx.com Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, University of St Andrews. Large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere and its role in weather and climate variability, predictability and change. FRMetS. simonleewx.com
James Peacock @peacockreports.bsky.social Head Meteorologist at MetSwift, working to revolutionise delivery of weather information.
LinkedIn: https://t.co/pUCAQfAfRP
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Birdie Tam @birdietam.art I draw cute stuff and make pottery!
Based in Sweden 🇸🇪
Check out my shop if you like cute animal stuff :D
www.birdietam.art
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social Medieval historian and charismatic megafauna enthusiast at the University of Tübingen. Blogs at https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/
Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social Freelance science writer and editor. Formerly senior editor at Scientific American. I write about human origins, animals past and present, wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution. Birder.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com