Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social Leslie Levings makes art, writes, runs a creative retreat, and has a few cats. https://linktr.ee/leslielevings
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social The Royal College of Physicians museum, heritage library, archive & garden in Regent's Park | History, medicine, art & modernist architecture | Exhibitions & events
Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social AKA the accidental ecologist
Fine Artist living on a rewilding farm in Pembrokeshire commissions undertaken worldwide.
Website LizaAdamczewski.art
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Dr. Justine De Young @addressingart.bsky.social Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
EYE MAMA PROJECT @eyemamaproject.bsky.social Award winning Eye on care by photographers worldwide ! Empowerment and visibility platform sharing motherhood truths since 2021 , a curated photographic portfolio ! www.eyemamaproject.com for press News & book ! Rip insta 30k. Founder curator karni Uk
A Guide To Regency Dress @austendress.bsky.social A glossary of fashions inc. men, women, hair, beauty, jewellery, textiles and trimmings.
Books-
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019
Jane Austen's Wardrobe, 2023
By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
Vera Brosgol @verabrosgol.bsky.social books, bread, 'blivion. https://linktr.ee/Verabee
Raúl Esparza Updates @theesparzaupdates.bsky.social Your worldwide source of daily updates on actor Raúl Esparza | Photos, videos and news | We are a fan account and not affiliated with @RaulEEsparza 🤟🏼
Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social I hope you like pictures of bugs.
Curating at CMNH, teaching at CMU, beetling everywhere
Hunterian Museum London @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social At the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Discover the art and science of surgery from ancient times to the present day.
https://hunterianmuseum.org/
Banner Image - Concourse (2) by Barbara Hepworth, 1948, Barbara Hepworth © Bowness
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Sophie Howarth @sophiehowarth.com wildness and wonder, justice and joy
www.sophiehowarth.com
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. 🪲🐌🌿
ReadingThePictures @readingthepictures.bsky.social The analysis of news photos & media images. (Originally BagNewsNotes.) Subscribe to our Substack at: http://ReadingThePictures.media.
Lauren @laurenmallon.bsky.social "I dwell in Possibility - "
she/her
@zsofihome.bsky.social @zsofihome.bsky.social 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Antonina Mamzenko @mamzenko.bsky.social Photographer. Artist. Writer(ish). Mentor. Activist. A perpetual work in progress.
J. MacNeill @jmacneill.bsky.social Sometimes I make pictures https://jmacneillphotography.com/
University of Reading Special Collections @uorspeccoll.bsky.social Sharing treasures from our Special Collections, Rare Books and Archives.
Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/
Enquiries: specialcollections@reading.ac.uk
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/unirdg_collections
Dr Lauren Padgett @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Collections @ Bradford District Museums and Galleries ⚙🏺🖼 🏛 | PhD 🎓 | Historian 📜 | Proud Bradfordian 💪🐗 | Interested in local heritage; bygone times; people from the past; & dusty old things | 📌 🗺 Bradford, Yorkshire | Views my own.
Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social Chief Photo Editor at The White House. Former picture editor at The New York Times, international picture editor of TIME, Director of Photography at WIRED, and Deputy Director of Photography at National Geographic.
https://patrickwitty.substack.com/
@kennonguerry.bsky.social @kennonguerry.bsky.social https://www.kennonguerryphotography.com/
Sarah Pabst @sarahpabst.bsky.social Photographer, Visual Storyteller and National Geographic Explorer. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Member of Ayün Fotógrafas, Women Photograph and Foto Féminas.
www.sarahpabst.com
Hélène La Baleine 🐳 She/they @helenelabaleine.bsky.social French-born, Spanish-blooded, Canada-based.
GenX mom, unschooler, MdDS + a few Autoimmunes, maybe Pagan, always justice-driven.
Systems alchemist at @morrigan-solutions.bsky.social.
Cats, The Sims, and #endchildism ~ Protect All Children🍉
𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋𐀪𐀪
Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social New book "The Urban Naturalist" (MIT Press, 1 Apr. 2025)
Author of 'Darwin Comes to Town' and 'Nature's Nether Regions'
Rubber-stamped 'tweets' on ecology & evolution. TED speaker
http://schilthuizen.com
http://taxonexpeditions.com
Leyden, Netherlands
@missmaryfurlong.bsky.social @missmaryfurlong.bsky.social Artist
Hull Images - Dave Wise @hullimages.bsky.social My Images of Hull & with a HU postcode. Including some off the beaten track, Reflects my interest in local history, Railways, Street art.
"Visit Hull" Partner 2026.
All pictures are mine, except reposts.
I try to use #altText whenever I can.
Beth Chucker Photographer @bethchucha.bsky.social Mother, Artist and Educator.
www.bethchucker.com
www.bethchucker.works #pinksky
https://substack.com/@bethchucker?r=p1f40&utm_medium=ios
Erin Eggenburg @wrenbirdarts.bsky.social she/her Fiber Artist & Small Business Owner
Author: The Mending Directory | Shop: wrenbirdarts.com
Amy Parrish @amyparrish.bsky.social Born in Appalachian foothills, now living in West Bengal, India.
www.amyparrish.com
artist/photographer/writer working with alternative processes, zines and themes of memory, loss & transformation
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Historian of extinction, race & empire. Vanished shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History Extra, Smithsonian and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Alain Laboile @alainlaboile.bsky.social Sculpteur et photographe, parfois l'inverse.
J'ai un autre compte, un peu plus pro ici:
@alainlaboileart.bsky.social
Kerchung! @kerchung.bsky.social Karen Cheung. Artist, designer, ceramicist.
Accessorizing your anger
www.kerchungcreative.com
www.sevinfortier.com
Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social Comics friend.
Linktr.ee/lucyknisley
Jennifer McClure @jmcclurephoto.bsky.social Photographer, teacher, photo editor. NYC.
Founder of WPA @wpanyc
@abcnews @icp @griffinmuseum @mainemedia @la_centerofphoto @womenphotograph
www.jennifermcclure.com
Chrissy LaMaster @cannlamaster.bsky.social 
@rawtaiko.bsky.social @rawtaiko.bsky.social 
Kristine Nyborg @kinepix.bsky.social Photographer, storyteller, educator, motherhood ranter and journalist.
👩🏼💻 www.kristinenyborg.com
🇳🇴in🇨🇦
📍Ottawa
📕 Learning To Speak Bear on Yoffy Press.
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Joshua Best @joshuabest.bsky.social Photojournalist and event photographer based in Toronto, Canada.
I endorse PACBI guidelines
www.joshuabest.ca
Ayun Halliday @east-village-inky.bsky.social Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky zine, Queen of the Apes, The Wayfaring Strangers' washboard player, author, weirdo https://www.ayunhalliday.com/
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Writing (2026) | MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social National Geographic featured artist best known for museum quality suits of armour for cats and mice.
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social Australian sculptor and biological model maker based in Québec. He/him. Anti AI/NFT
Sincere, but not serious.
https://linktr.ee/HellbenderMuseum
@esparzaupdates.bsky.social @esparzaupdates.bsky.social 
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates 
Kim🖤🤍💜 @razzlebery89.bsky.social Fan account for Raúl Esparza and chatting with fellow fans🤩😍😎
Had the honor of seeing and meeting Raúl May and June 2024 while he was playing Galileo. He is such a kind person and so grateful to his fans.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/
Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
Nosy Crow | Children's Books @nosycrow.bsky.social Award-winning children's books
📚 Stories for kids, also in ebook and audiobook
🐦 Find us at nosycrow.com or linktr.ee/nosy_crow
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
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Daily Peter Scanavino @dailyscanavino.bsky.social here to spread the PScan love ❤️
Minimus @minimuslatin.bsky.social Minimus sum, mus sum. (I am Minimus, I am a mouse.) I live at Vindolanda with my Roman family, and in Suffolk with Dr Helen Forte. We like to make Latin fun!
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
Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward
Jodie Louise @veganmama72.bsky.social Vegan mama of two utterly brilliant autistic people ~ Former home educator still supporting the UK home ed community via our group PopArt Home Education ~ Van Dweller for the last decade ~ Interested in Nature, Art, History and saving our planet! 💚
Danielle Fish @flyingfish36.bsky.social I like to watch and play any kind of sports. A fan of Star Wars, Star Trek, Law And Order, Law and Order SVU, Raúl Esparza and a whole lot more
Dr Claire Warrior @clairewarrior.bsky.social Anthropologist and historian. Polar exploration: Erebus, Terror, Scott, Shackleton. Senior Curator National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Trustee UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Sing London Oriana. Views my own.
Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social A Japanese fibre craft artist who lives in Vancouver, Canada.
https://hinemizushima.com
https://www.instagram.com/sheishine
D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art Scientist by day (drummondlab.org), artist by night (dadrummond.art). Sculpture, drawings, and other works. Obsessed with the details of the natural world. Lab posts at @drummondlab.bsky.social 🧪
Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social Not actually Batgirl.
If this account were a book, it would be a spicy, queer manifesto with a side of sarcastic footnotes and a oatmilk Earl Grey latte with lavender syrup.
🖖🏻 #SussexSquad #KHive #Librarian
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
David Cleland @davidcleland.com Documentary Photography. Photos and film from Northern Ireland http://www.davidcleland.com
Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire.
amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Kimya Dawson @kimyadawson.bsky.social Songwriter. Doodler. Parent. Buoyant. https://linktr.ee/kimyadawson
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
Francesco Fragomeni @fragomeni.bsky.social Contemporary daguerreotypist and historian building cameras and working in 19th century photographic processes.
Other apps I barely use:
Instagram.com/FrancescoFragomeni
Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social Explaining Ancient Greek Myth and Literature, one panel at a time 🤟
And now Greek Myth and Roman History Chickens. Because.
#ClassicsTober
Illustrator & Secondary schl teacher✨CA Innovative Pedagogy Award, WC Creative Classicist Award✨ ✍️ lejenksbrown
Catherine Bruton @catherinebruton.bsky.social Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Rebecca Cobb @rebeccacobb.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator and author.
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social NYT Bestselling/Geisel-winning #kidlit author! (Short, loud, goofy… & probably trying to hug wildlife. “NO, AME!”) LATEST 📖: DUCKIE & SNAPS #2: 🍌WE CANNOT BE BRAVE🍌. 6 new 📚 in 2026! (Send coffee! 😂!) Rep.: Tricia Lawrence, Aevitas Creative Management.
Amy Tan @amytan.bsky.social Author of The Joy Luck Club, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and more. AMYTAN.net
Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird.bsky.social Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
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
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Ruth Chan @ohtruth.bsky.social Illustrator, author, comics maker
esparza's pr manager @shellhoed.bsky.social #TONYSTARK ﹔ kiss my iron ass ✨
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Dan Santat @dansantat.bsky.social NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Jasmine Romero @lachilatera.bsky.social Writer. Producer. Maker of things. 
The Royal College of Surgeons of England @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social We support a global membership base of surgeons and dental surgeons throughout their careers. Rcseng.ac.uk.
@rauleesparza.bsky.social @rauleesparza.bsky.social