Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Jess Perriam @jessamyp.bsky.social Digital sociologist, cybernaut, Senior Lecturer (ANU Cybernetics), Associate Professor (ITU Technologies in Practice).
Researching public sector tech.
Recent writing: Digitalization in Practice: intersections, implications and interventions (DeGruyter)
EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social Scottish photographer with a cat, 8 dogs and 3 wonderful kids :)
Kit bag: Nikon Z8 I 85mm f1.2 | 100 - 400 VR S | 105mm Macro | 40mm f2 | Gitzo Carbon Fibre with Benro S8 Pro Fluid Head
Fujifilm X100VI
Sci Fi obsessed.
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Annie Abrahams @anniea.bsky.social artist, performer, net art and poetry, likes to dance
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Kevin Jones @stairwaytokevin13.bsky.social Privacy/tech lawyer by day, film noir aficionado by night. CIPP/US, CIPP/E & AIGP. Living the beach life between Wilmington, NC & Racine, WI.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1SGFN
Lee Williamson @lee-emma.bsky.social Demographer, stats geek & feminist against inequality. Researcher with SLS-DSU & @scadrdata.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
AJ, foraging edition @uisgebeatha.bsky.social Writer @lothianlife.bsky.social. Duolingo nerd (NB/SV/FI/ZH). TV shitposter/ @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social podcaster. Runs #COVIDEO film club on Discord. Gymbro. Forager. #Sjögrens. Bi. Nonbinary (they/them).
Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social Writer, actor, comedian. Listen to my award-winning sketch comedy show Crowley Time: crowleytime.com
Juliet J. Fall @julietjfall.bsky.social Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025, "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024
Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster. Brixton via Birr.
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
Patrick Wright @patrickxwright.bsky.social 
Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com
by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich
Prof Zoe Strachan @zoestrachan.bsky.social Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art.
Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow.
Books, cats, coffee.
Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery
https://paulhearn.neocities.org/
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
Beyond the Book Festival @beyondbookfest.bsky.social A book and writing festival curated by Brighton authors. Early bird tickets available now for a limited time. COMING 10 MAY 2025.
https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social Official news page for the Agatha Christie Festival, taking place between 12 and 20 September 2026 #AgathaFestival
Murder One International Crime Writing Festival @murderonefest.bsky.social Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival, based in the LexIcon Library, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin and supported by the Arts Council, DLR Libraries & Dubray Books. 🔊 15-18 Oct 2026 www.murderone.ie
St Andrew’s Book Festival London @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social 27-30 Nov 25. We bring Scottish writers, Scottish themes and Scottish connections to London. Https://StAndrewsBookFestival.org/
Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
South Warwickshire Literary Festival @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social The Local Festival for Local Authors
Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival @chilternkills.bsky.social The UK’s biggest one-day crime writing festival, just 18 minutes out of London and featuring some of the biggest names in UK crime fiction.
Every penny of every ticket sold goes to help Centrepoint end youth homelessness in the UK.
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Sign up for the festival newsletter to hear news about what's coming!
Manly Writers' Festival @manlywritersfest.bsky.social Stories Across Manly. A literary festival for readers, writers, and thinkers. March 18-21, 2027. Gayamagal & Garigal Land, Manly (Sydney).
www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Vicki Squire @vickisquire.bsky.social Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Lynda Clark @lyndac.bsky.social Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Christopher Silver @silverscribed.bsky.social Recovering freelance journalist/embattled early career academic: researching journalism, culture and place. 🏳️🌈🏴✊
https://www.christopher-silver.com/
Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded network for all those interested in fables, nonhumans & multispecies storytelling
https://www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/
Dr Richard Scriven @richardscriven.bsky.social Cultural Geographer focusing on disability, human rights, heritage, and pilgrimage, also a Scout
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Dr Jamie Arathoon @jamiearathoon.bsky.social Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️🌈
Leo Johnson @leojohnsonphoto.bsky.social Photographer and filmmaker based in Glasgow, working across the UK & Europe.
https://www.leojohnsonphotography.com/
Lost Edinburgh @lostedinburgh.bsky.social A page dedicated to documenting the ever-changing face of Edinburgh down the decades | Account run by former The Scotsman journalist David McLean
Chris Wright @scotssong.bsky.social Ethnologist/Folklorist. Scots Songs & Ballads. Street literature. All views here are personal. Follows/Reposts not necessarily endorsements.
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Diarmid Mogg @diarmidmogg.bsky.social Mostly Edinburgh history, tenement life stories and the like. Current project - Tenement Town; Previous project - Small Town Noir.
Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society @UniUtrecht. Co-director @UU_GDS. Research: Platformization, platform studies,
@appstudies, @digitalmethods, web history.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies ~ femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, crushes. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual, wannabe poet. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️
www.hannahmccann.com.au
Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social associate prof TU Delft; design+ai; relational prototyping; positive and critical; art+science; laptop musicking. https://dave.murray-rust.org
Simone van der Hof @joix.bsky.social Professor of Regulating Digital Technologies | Privacy, Data Protection, Commercial Exploitation, Digital Play, Digital Child Rights | Center for Law & Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden University
James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Nothing should be inferred from the absence of unnecessary disclaimers on this profile.
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Edinburgh Festival Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social The greatest platform for creative freedom in the world 🌎
Join us 06 - 30 Aug 2027.
#edfringe
edfringe.com
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre promoting research and public engagement with digital culture. Based at King's College London.
LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography.
We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change.
Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social | 🌊 Leith’s Independent Bookshop - Est.2021
| 🗓️ Open 7 Days a Week
| 🕰️ Sun-Thurs: 10:00-18:00/Fri-Sat: 10:00-20:00
| 📍 15-17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8LN
| 🌐 argonautbooks.co.uk
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social Author, Writer etc- M @markdaniels.bsky.social @markdaniels.bsky.social
Kevin Mclean @kevoutloud.bsky.social Creative Director I Am Loud Productions,
Spoken Word Artist, Wrestling Fan. Socialist.
Email: kevin@iamloud.co
He/Him
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social Serious Actor.
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
The Gargle @thegargle.bsky.social Weekly satirical news podcast with strictly no politics! Hosted by Alice Fraser, we are the sonic glossy magazine to The Bugle.
Alice is joined by two brilliant comedians every week to cover everything from crypto crashes to evil tech and weird nature.
National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social On stage, on screen, on tour
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social Our 3 million strong audience shows this is the place to read real local news with great photos all day every day. Got a tip?
Contact us - https://bit.ly/46DeluF
Website: https://bit.ly/4eOIisV
Subscribe: https://bit.ly/4gq7cRT
Newspapers: bit.ly/41UDBtS
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
@edbookfest.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social 
Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social Edinburgh geek.
Foxdog Studios @foxdogstudios.bsky.social Computer comedy boys.
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, musician from Shetland. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). RSL Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024. Midder tongues, folklore, islandness, illness.
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Noelle Cobden @noellecobden.bsky.social Communities Programme Director @edbookfest | Board Member @ptsd_uk | fmr @horsecrossperth @traversetheatre @WHALE_arts @The_globe
All thoughts my own
She/her
Chris Scott (he/him) @chrisdonia.bsky.social I'm mostly around Edinburgh, often lurking in corners with a camera at cultural events.
linktr.ee/chrisdonia
Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social An interdisciplinary research group and master’s programme at UoE exploring design from, with and by data.
Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social Artist & Writer + PhD student - Digital Humanities - Resisting AI. Also a living donor (kidney).
DylanOrchard.com
📍South East London
Bev Townsend @bevt.bsky.social BRAID Research fellow. AI, Autonomous systems, law and ethics, data protection. Exploring medical AI and sociotechnical harm
London, York.
Gavin Leuzzi @gleu.bsky.social learning piano, calisthenics, Italian / business development executive on responsible AI (BRAID) / supporter of arts & humanities research
Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social We are creating an environment where data-driven research can grow and thrive. Join us! #EdCDCS #DataLedResearch
www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk
Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social Data/AI policy @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social
(Political) philosophy of tech @lsegovernment.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social
Views my own 🔮✨
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci