Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social Author of BEYOND BELIEF (2026) | Senior Editor at Nature | Honorary Professor of Practice at UCL | science journalist, author, speaker
Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social
Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social Award-winning investigative journalist with the Halifax Examiner. Horsewoman. Birder. Unapologetically driven. Opinions expressed here are my own.
She/her
Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy.
Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
@glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social
Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social Retired after almost 40 years chasing news. Equal parts passionate, despondent about politics today and the state of our democracy. Like Bruce Cockburn, I believe you've "got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight."
Poppy Balser @poppybalser.bsky.social Watercolour and oil painter. I paint outside when I can.
I’m inspired by the sea and natural landscapes of the Canadian Maritimes
See my work here: www.poppybalser.com
Banner: oil painting of a sailboat
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Stoo Metz 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social 📸 - Full Time Pro Photographer ➡️ @stoo.ca
They/Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Radically ProTransgender🏳️⚧️
#Halifax #SoberLife #HaliSky #Mi'kma'ki #Kjipuktuk
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
Dalhousie CPDME @dalcpdme.bsky.social Dalhousie University | Continuing Professional Development & Medical Education - Fostering medical education research and evidence-informed learning to advance excellence in medical education and clinical care for health professionals across the Maritimes.
Gerry McCartney @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
Ecology Action Centre @ecologyaction.bsky.social The EAC is an environmental charity in Mi'kma'ki / Nova Scotia taking leadership on critical issues from biodiversity to climate change to environmental justice. Visit us at www.ecologyaction.ca 🌱
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social Empowering citizens to advocate for pollution pricing and climate-aligned finance. Building a liveable world since September 2010. Focus is our superpower.
canada.citizensclimatelobby.org
BikeHfx stats @stats.hfx.bike Halifax bike stats, curated by robots.
https://hfx.bike/bikehfxstats
Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social Professor, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Senior Editor, Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Born at 324 in 🇬🇧
#plasticpollution #singleuseplastic #microplastics #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #ClimateChange #SciComm #SciPol
Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Housing maximalist. Reviewer of local bike lanes and urbanism opiner at HFX By Bike: https://youtube.com/@hfxbybike
Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social A broken man on a Halifax pier. Founder of HalifaxExaminer.ca. Opinions are my own, and not necessarily shared by my colleagues.
Grace Arnot @gracearnot.bsky.social Living on stolen Wurundjeri and Bunurong Country. Researching youth engagement, climate justice and political & commercial determinants of health
David Trueman @davidwtrueman.bsky.social I'm Co-Chair of Halifax Cycling Coalition, working hard to make cycling in Halifax safer, more convenient and more joyful. In this role, I focus first and foremost on the 60% of the population who would cycle more if it felt safe.
Halifax Cycling Coalition @cyclehalifax.ca The Halifax Cycling Coalition is dedicated to making Kjipuktuk / Halifax a better place to ride a bike. We are committed to equity & anti-oppression.
linktr.ee/cyclehalifax
BikePortland @bikeportland.org A platform for bike-minded Portlanders since 2005.
Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social She/her. Retired (first) Bicycle Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Disabled. Mobility justice. #KidicalMassHfx
hfx.bike
Grand Parade Newspaper @grandparade.bsky.social An independent Halifax city hall newspaper. An actual paper. Available weekly on Mondays, starting May 5, 2025. Check us out online at www.grandparade.news
Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Sunaina Chopra @sunainamoudgill.bsky.social Continuously learning as an MPT/PhD Candidate at UBC - sustained by home-baked goods, reading binges, hockey nights, and sci-fi adventures ✨
She/Her | Views are my own
Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social Feminist geographer and cargo bike mom.
Volunteer: Bike Ottawa VP, For Our Kids, Kidical Mass championing safe, sustainable, fun, and equitable spaces especially for kids.
Work: Transportation strategy and solutions with EnviroCentre. Views my own.
Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University @brettsmithprof.bsky.social - Moving Social Work http://bit.ly/4mexJU4. https://bit.ly/3ZAC635
- CMOs Physical Activity & Disability Lead bit.ly/34jX9xb
- Coproduction http://bit.ly/3L1NGdI
- ResearchGate: Qualitative & PA disability papers https://bit.ly/436DsF7
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
PHE Canada @phecanada.bsky.social National organization that champions healthy, active kids by promoting & advancing quality #Health and #PhysEd opportunities & healthy learning environments.
FR: @eps-canada.bsky.social
Lucy Westerman @lucywesterman.bsky.social Scrutinising determinants of health - especially social and commercial factors around #NCDs, focused on prevention, health promotion & teaching health communications.
Joined bsky 07/23
Australia / UK / Global / lewest on X
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Nova Scotia - What's New? @ns-wn.bsky.social "Nova Scotia - What's New?" is not a media outlet or affiliated with the Government of NS. No journalists/original content. Share open-source info from public channels, don't verify third-party materials. Images auto-added.
Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social The UK's professional membership body for #publichealth. We work with our members to protect and improve health for all. www.fph.org.uk
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca In a world drowning in conflict and grief, we crave what keeps us alive: joy—our daily bread; hope—our living water; kindness—the roof over our souls.
Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social Halifax Regional Municipality Councillor
District 5 Dartmouth Centre
Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net Moral & political philosophy, climate econ, bioethics
Author of *The Social Cost of Carbon* (OUP 2025) | Posting in personal capacity
Likes: Boston Celtics ☘️, Maine (from whence I come), bouldering, ebikes, funding public ed.
paulkelleher.net
Jim Abraham @yhzweatherguy.bsky.social Meteorologist. Started Canada’s hurricane research and forecast program. Past-President CMOS: https://www.cmos.ca/site/about/cmos?nav=sidebar
Born 314ppm CO2; we're now 425ppm!
Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social Nova Scotia-based reporter covering provincial politics. Posts non-work photos at www.michaelgorman.xyz
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social Author, independent investigative journalist, member ICIJ global network - environment, climate, and corporate capture my obsessions - allergic to hypocrisy, propaganda and greenwashing grifters. Still writing after all these years. Opinions my own.
Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social Senior housing researcher, University of Toronto School of Cities. Author, “Clara at the Door with a Revolver”(2023), “Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis” ( 2024).
Bryan Crockett 🇨🇦 @bryancrockett.bsky.social He/him · Métis · @westcat.ca | Paralegal, ex–Parliament Hill staffer, other things too probably idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✉️ bryan.crockett@westcat.ca
📍 BC, Canada
Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social she/her. Newfoundlander in Nova Scotia. Can be found trying to stay alive while cycling and walking in Kjipuktuk. 🚲 🐶🫐
The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Becky Feicht @beckyfeicht.bsky.social Health Promotion faculty at Dal, lover of dogs, books, playing outside, and sewing plus other crafty things ☀️🌱🐶📚🧵
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social Associate Professor, The University of Sydney | Center to End Corporate Harm | Industry Influence on Science | Environmental Health | | Plastics | Ultra-processed foods | Tweets are my own
iCandy-0 @cr8tivecandy.bsky.social Writer, laugh track fan. Opinions are my own. We are all made of stardust. #halisky
Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
James Shedden @jshedden.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. https://simonchapman6.com/about/
Amber van den Akker @ambervandenakker.bsky.social Research associate at the University of Bath | Researching commercial influence on public health policy and multi-stakeholder partnerships.
@galaxylover.bsky.social @galaxylover.bsky.social
Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social Researcher | PhD | Ireland
#PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com adventurer
Jenn 🌮 @jenno32.bsky.social nurse, haligonian, mom, opportunist in: petting animals, free food, communicating in memes/gifs/song lyrics, making you sing “all star” by smashmouth. some BODY
Woody The Xmas Tree @woodyxmastree.bsky.social 🦋 account for chatty coniferous with a penchant for seasonal small talk with the young & young at heart. Views expressed are not of Mall or dude inside me
Vélo Canada Bikes @velocanadabikes.bsky.social Providing a strong national voice for everyday cycling in Canada. We envision a Canada where people of all ages and abilities can cycle safely, conveniently, and enjoyably to/from/within any community in the country.
https://velocanadabikes.org/
Caroline Cerny @carolinecerny.bsky.social Deputy CE @ASHUK.org, previous Bite Back, @OHA-updates, CRUK
Views my own or from someone more articulate than me.
Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social Chairman @EurasiaGroup. Board Director WWF. Climate, technology, and geopolitics. Priors: Principal Secretary to PM of Canada and Premier of Ontario, CEO WWF.
Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social Posts by Martyn on Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People.
Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Your least favourite person's least favourite award-winning journalist✨
Follow for short-form videos on issues that matter! 💅
SUBSCRIBE: rachelgilmore.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/rachel_gilmore
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social Hong Kong / Halifax, urban & transportation things (he/him)
Prof. Emma Boyland @emmaboyland.bsky.social Professor of Food Marketing and Child Health, Department of Psychology.
Deputy Executive Dean, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool.
Interested in food marketing exposure, persuasive power, behavioural impact, & public health policy.
Kieran Holland | HealthPathways @kieranholland.bsky.social Learning health systems embrace warranted variation. HealthPathways Network - Clinical Director of Research. Integrated care pathways. Argentine tango addict.
healthpathwayscommunity.org
Canterbury, New Zealand
Twitter: x.com/kieranholland
Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social Organizational psychologist @Wharton. #1 NYT bestseller: THINK AGAIN. Podcasts: Re:Thinking & WorkLife. Diver. Arguing like I’m right, listening like I’m wrong.
Dr Mélissa Mialon @melissamialon.bsky.social Research Chair (France) & Trinity College Dublin/HRB Research Fellow (Ireland) | Commercial determinants of health, Corporate Political Activity| Epistemic Justice | Feminist | French & Mauritian
https://www.sante-pouvoirs.fr/en/
Health Promotion International @healthpromint.bsky.social HPI contains original articles, perspectives, policy pieces, and editorials relating to contemporary themes in health promotion. EIC @docsamantha.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/heapro Posts by @simonemccarthy.bsky.social
Prof Samantha Thomas @docsamantha.bsky.social Professor of Public Health @ Deakin, Australia. Editor-in-Chief @healthpromint.bsky.social @ottawacharter40.bsky.social Commercial and political determinants of health with current projects on: gambling, fossil fuels, menopause, conflicts of interest.
LaUra Schmidt @laura3schmidt.bsky.social Founding Director: Good Grief Network; Author of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate
Human Animal
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Policy Sciences Journal @policysciences.bsky.social With an interdisciplinary and international focus, Policy Sciences encourages a diversity of perspectives. The editors especially welcome conceptual and empirical innovation, together with the potential richness and insight of comparative orientation.
Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social Supporting Directors of Public Health (DsPH) across the UK to promote and protect good health and wellbeing, prevent ill-health and reduce inequalities.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu Health, dignity, and justice for every human. This is the official account for #HarvardChan: hsph.harvard.edu
Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social 🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
Order your copy today ⬇️
www.catherinemckenna.ca
📩 contact@climateandnature.com
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Eric Kennedy @ericbkennedy.bsky.social Associate Prof of Disaster & Emergency Management at York University. Trying to improve use of evidence, science, data, and wisdom in wildfire. Editor of Canadian Journal of Emergency Management.
Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com climate scientist
posts 100% my own
🇨🇦 is my home
distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech
chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy
board member, Smithsonian NMNH
advisor, Lawson Climate Inst UofT
alumna, UToronto and UIUC
author, Saving Us
Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors.
Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social Lecturer in Public Policy at Edinburgh Uni researching corporate power and planetary health - currently global plastics treaty | ‘most improved PhD student’ 2017-18 | part-time Kieran Tierney Ultra
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It)
Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK. Past my best. Photo 11 years out of date.
https://paulcairney.wordpress.com/cv/
Ben Wood @benjaminmwood.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Deakin University, researching the corporate and economic determinants of health (in)equities
Upstream Public Health @upstreampublichealth.com Working in partnership with communities to transform public health through community organizing, policy advocacy, education, and developing the next generation of public health leaders. Upstream Public Health is proud to be weight inclusive.
📍 Oregon, US
Anna Brook @ph-anna.bsky.social Yorkshire Public Health. Love collaboration, running, family, friends & reading. Less keen on climate breakdown, conflict & injustice Pronouns: she/her
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Krystal @halfcupofawesome.bsky.social She/her Cis Mama living in Mi'kma'ki. Knitting, crochet, books, sailing, and data nerd stuff.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social Journalist at The Globe and Mail, based in Vancouver.
AndreaWoo@globeandmail.com
instagram.com/andreawoo
Samantha Edwards @samedwards.bsky.social Online culture reporter at the Globe and Mail
Sal Farooqui @salfarooqui.bsky.social Globe and Mail reporter covering personal finance, mortgages and rent. Snowboarder, climber, cyclist
Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social National health journalist for The Globe and Mail, 🇨🇦’s national newspaper.
Based in Ottawa.
Contact: kkirkup@globeandmail.com.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/kristy-kirkup/
John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social Writer and journalist: The Duel, Stephen Harper, The Landing. With Darrell Bricker: Breaking Point (this Oct.), Empty Planet, The Big Shift.