Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
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Library of Innerpeffray @innerpeffray.bsky.social Scotland's first free, public lending library - a treasure in the Perthshire countryside. History of reading, stories of the borrowers, rare books and fun stuff!
Aberfeldy Development Trust @aberfeldydevttrust.bsky.social The Aberfeldy Development trust (ADT) is a community owned and led organization.
Committed to the economic, social, cultural and environmental prosperity of our community
David McCann @davidmccann1.bsky.social Deputy editor of The Times and Sunday Times, Scotland
Carla Jenkins @carlajenkins.bsky.social Audience Editor The Times Scotland • Saturday food news column in Alba & words everywhere • writer, reader, Joycean • lover of words & red lippy •
Library of Mistakes @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social A free public library in Edinburgh for the study of financial and business history. Our aim is to improve understanding, one mistake at a time.
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Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
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.
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Kirsty Lockwood @kirstystrickland.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID publishing with Orion in February 2026 ✨📚
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Angus Robertson @angusrobertson.bsky.social 🏴SNP MSP Candidate for Edinburgh Central (SNP) 🏛️Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture 2021-26
Vicky Allan @vickyallan.bsky.social Journalist and author, writing about climate, green energy, environment for Herald. Books about wild swimming, trees and more...
Amie Flett @amieflett.bsky.social Multimedia Journalist for STV News | Get in touch: amie.flett@stv.tv
Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social Editor of The National 🏴
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Eraic Lyrios @shutupmisskiki.bsky.social Donna Tartt’s adopted son 
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
Niall Murphy @murphyniallgla.bsky.social If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
Ailsa Sheldon @ailsasheldon.bsky.social Scottish travel, food and drink journalist. Freelance. Bylines include The Herald, The Guardian and National Geographic. Also parent of teens, big reader, constantly cooking.
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Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social The Signet Library in Edinburgh, the home of the WS Society, is a world class centre of knowledge and learning in law and the history and culture of Scotland.
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Lesley-Anne Kelly @l-a-kelly.bsky.social International award winning data editor📊
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Gordon Barr @gordonbarr.scot Buildings/heritage/tech/Muppets fan, ex-scientist.
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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Harry @harrymould.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇯🇲🏴 Writer and Wellbeing Facilitator @UnitedAgents & @PFDAgents. Finalist: Studio21 Drama Series '23, Merky Book Prize '24, PFD Queer Literary Fiction '24. Royal Court Intro to Playwriting 2025. They/she.
Nicola Meighan @nicolameighan.bsky.social Arts Writer & Broadcaster 🏳️⚧️
Friday Afternoons, BBC Radio Scotland
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akickupthearts.org
Interviews: Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Martha Reeves, Joan Collins 
Alice Strang @alicestrangart.bsky.social Modern & Contemporary Art Specialist & Art Historian
A Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland
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Glasgow West End Today @glasgowwestend.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland’s greatest city in words and pictures, and our 10th anniversary in 2026.
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The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social Bringing communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change, in Scotland and beyond.
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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).
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Graeme Armstrong @graemearmstrong.bsky.social ✦ RAVEHEART ✦ available now! Times bestseller. THE YOUNG TEAM. Granta Best Young British Novelist. PhD at @UniStrathclyde.bsky.social @BlakeFriedmann.bsky.social
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Shayma Bakht @shaymabakht.bsky.social Journalist, The Times.
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Constance Kampfner @constancekampfner.bsky.social Political Correspondent at The Times
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Young journalist of the year (2022, Scottish Press Awards)
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Charlie Parker @charliehparker.bsky.social News Reporter at The Times 🖋️
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social News reporter at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
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Jane Bradley @janekbradley.bsky.social Arts correspondent at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday newspapers in Edinburgh.
Also write about figure skating.
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Kirsteen Paterson @kirsteenpaterson.bsky.social Journalist @holyroodmag.bsky.social - always looking for stories. Politics/social justice/culture/communities/environment/innovation. Posts all mine.
Andrew Learmonth @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social Political Editor of the world's longest-running national newspaper @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeney.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
Louise Wilson @louisewilso.bsky.social Political Editor ✍🏻 Holyrood magazine 🏴
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Rebecca McCurdy @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, The Herald.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Alistair Carmichael MP @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland. Chair of the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.
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Charlotte Tobitt @charlottetobitt.bsky.social News, features and analysis about the news media business. UK editor at @pressgazette.co.uk - get me on charlotte.tobitt@pressgazette.co.uk
Cat Thomson @catthomsonwrites.bsky.social Freelance words and a spot of PR. I write about food, drink & travel, plus a monthly hen column in The Scotsman Magazine.
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
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Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org We provide world-class investigative training and promote investigative journalism worldwide. https://linktr.ee/cijournalismuk
Audrey Gillan @audreygillan.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
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Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
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Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social 📚 Home to brilliant fiction & non-fiction.
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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social PhD candidate, modern German architecture | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine | New Orleans (for now)
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social International art & lit magazine. One of the world's biggest prizes for a poem. Short story, nature writing & art prizes. Also: @thecaterpillarmag
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
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Bianca Bexton @biancabexton.bsky.social Editorial Director, Non-Fiction | Headline Press, Hachette UK
Jen Stout @jenstout.bsky.social 🏴 Author of NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA (2024, Polygon). Winner 'First Book', Saltire Society Literary Awards 2024. Journalist, photographer. Ex-BBC.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
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Talat Yaqoob @talatyaqoob.bsky.social Consultant, campaigner, commentator focused on public participation in politics and policy design. All about feminism, anti-racism, and intersectionality.
Sometimes funny, always tired.
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Rebecca Smith @rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
Karin Goodwin @karingoodwin.bsky.social Journalist |Co-editor of theferret.scot |Co-founder of Govanhill's Community Newsroom| Migration, housing, justice, people power and planet |Always up for dancin'
Jude Barber @judebarber.bsky.social Architect & Director at Collective Architecture, Scotland. Also co-creator of The Empire Cafe with writer Louise Welsh. Our podcast 'Who owns the Clyde?' is now live. Co-run 'Voices of Experience' with Suzanne Ewing & Nicola Mclachlan too.
Blue Kirkhope @bluekirkhope.bsky.social Writer. Trudging through the bog, always heading northwards.
Glasgow, Scotland | (she/they)
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Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
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Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round.
North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
Assa Samaké-Roman @assasr.bsky.social That specsy French journalist & author 🦄 in Scotland (@RFI @ScotNational etc). Also @Ecosse_Toujours + @revueecossaise. Mum, wife, sister, friend. She/her.
Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social Comms and freelance journalism. Bylines in the FT, Guardian, the Times, Big Issue, the Herald, Scotsman etc. Still trying to convince the people of Nigeria to forgive Dundee United.
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms. 
Cohousing Scotland @cohousingscotland.bsky.social We're a charity supporting innovative housing solutions. We believe in cooperative housing that is run by the residents themselves.
https://cohousing.scot
Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more.
Author of Make Bosses Pay. 2x Orwell Prize nominee. She/her.
📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com
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Dominic Hinde @dominicmhinde.bsky.social Sociologist, writer, Northern Europe journalist. 'Drifting North' out now in hardback. 'Journalism in the Anthropocene' in paperback.
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