Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Elia Kabanov @kabanov.bsky.social Science writer and data journalist making sense of cities, nature and technology. Easily distracted by local history. 📨 My newsletter: kabanov.org/hyper
deptford.org
Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social law professor / computer scientist / other things
I write about tech, law, speech, and suicide
Jmiers@uakron.edu
@romanbritain.bsky.social @romanbritain.bsky.social "The Britons live in such a state of independence
that they do not obey
even their own chiefs
except by their own good pleasure."
Cassius Dio
#Archaeology #History of #RomanBritain
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Sim Elliott PSL TQ2611 @tq2611.bsky.social Pan species listing of species in monad TQ2611. Devil's Dyke & Poynings West Sussex. VC 13
https://tq2611-pan-species-listing-s-elliott.blogspot.com
https://simelliottnaturenotes.blog/
Nigel Stewart @nigelstewartbooks.bsky.social Writer…
Smalls Scenes in the Scheme of Things
Colouring In
Secrets We Hide From Ourselves
“A genius” according to @birdfeed of off BlueSky
https://nigelstewartbooks.co.uk
The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social The void, shouting back.
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Eloise Kane @eloi.se Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares.
📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026)
Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects.
Foxes, owls, stones and bones
I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts
https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social | Climate | Environment | Wildness | 🏴 🌍 |
Work: Decarbonisation and circularity
Life: Making a small patch of North Wales wilder. Often found outdoors.
There will also be politics. Because everything comes back to politics.
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Ian Carter @iancarter67.bsky.social Galloway-based naturalist and author: Rhythms of Nature | Human, Nature | The Red Kite | The Red Kite’s Year | The Hen Harrier’s Year | Wild Galloway
https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/ian-carter
https://www.whittlespublishing.com/Wild_Galloway
Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social Avid book collector/Dreamer/ Recent MA graduate. Half-English / Half-Greek
Posts:Archaeology/Ancient History/Classics🏺🏛 Expect typos and photos of sheep 😊🐑
Chris Perera @chrispwriter.bsky.social Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him www.chrisperera.co.uk
Captain Cabinets @samebattime.bsky.social A fixation with TV, Film and Horror nostalgia and creating images to amuse myself and others of a like mind
Bath Nature @bathnature.bsky.social Mike Williams - Naturalist, Landscape Historian & Photographer from Bath, UK
https://www.instagram.com/bath_nature
https://ecoevo.social/@BathNature
https://www.youtube.com/@bathnature
Geology Disco @geologydisco.bsky.social Music creator. Lover of folklore, horror, stones, occult, obscure.
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/celebrating-the-bat-chapter-2-into-the-night
https://folkloretapes.bandcamp.com/album/ceremonial-county-series-vol-xvii-bristol-hertfords
Dave Newcombe @belperbirder.bsky.social Moths from VC57. Birds, hoverflies, bees, and just about anything in the natural world. Local patch is Wyver Lane DWT. Derbyshire. https://www.derbyshiremoths.org/
BirdOnTheWire3 @birdonthewire3.bsky.social Rejoiner.#LeedsforEurope.European. ‘All things hang like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass’FBPPR. Love Scotland . No DM’s. Will not reply. 💙📚🫖
martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social Butterfly and moth enthusiast, working to conserve these lovely insects in Europe and beyond. Advisor to Butterfly Conservation Europe and author of ‘Butterflies’ published by Bloomsbury.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Rob Boyd @robboyd.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Visiting Scientist at UK CEH. Associate Editor for Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Into biodiversity monitoring, sampling theory, missing data theory, and causal inference
Amanda Tuke @amandatuke.bsky.social Nature writer, urban naturalist, 30-minute Birder columnist in Bird Watching Magazine. Author of #WildPavements. Order here https://lnk.to/WildPavements
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Kat Dahl @wildkatdahl.bsky.social Freelance ecologist & entomologist focusing on nature conservation/restoration & public engagement, based in Sussex. Wildlife guide @kneppwilding.bsky.social @greenwingstours.bsky.social
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Bird campaigner. Nature author of #Fledgling about how I rescued raised & released 2 wild birds: one made nests in my hair for 84 days AND Nature Needs You -The Fight To Save Our Swifts about my swift brick campaign to save birds reliant on our 🏡 to breed🪶
AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff
Clinging to the funny aspects of dystopia
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
Carrie Comfort @carriecomfort.bsky.social Londoner, Quaker, tree-hugger, consumer of cakes & poems. Art (inc. photography) illuminates my existence, and I'm fascinated by how people recover. Trying to balance the attention I give politics. New to blue-sky.
Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://WanderingGaia.com
Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social Local Government ecologist, Hampshire, UK.
Essex + Wessex.
BSBI recorder, South Hampshire
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Lloyd Cole @lloydcole.bsky.social Him. Recording Artist. Rattlesnakes to On Pain.
Priceratops @rikkiprice.bsky.social A flibbertigibbet, a will-o‘-the-wisp, a clown
Chris' Wildlife Sightings & Photography @southdevonbirds.bsky.social Birder | Naturalist | Amateur Wildlife Photographer | Dartmoor local patch | Plym/SE Cornwall 10km patch
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
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joeharkness.bsky.social @joeharkness.bsky.social Father. Special School Leader. Naturalist. Author of Bird Therapy, Inside/Outside and Neurodivergent, by Nature.
Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social Professor, University of Bergen
Pollinator Stewardship
Coordinator of https://butterfly-europe.eu
Sustainability, actionable knowledge, precautionary principle, uncertainty, post-normal science, resilience, insect decline, pollinator loss
Martine Fenn @martinefenn.bsky.social Nature lover, especially Birds, Bugs, Beetles, Butterflies and the rest. Keeper of a small wild garden. I love Sheep too. All pics posted are taken by my other half, Pete Fenn. 
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
E D G E L A N D S @edgelands.bsky.social Vintage books, postcards, photographs, maps, music & other delights!
Visit our Etsy shop:
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Fact-first reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global affairs.
Read: onestnetwork.com
Videos: youtube.com/@onestnetwork
Support my work: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY3cw7QS8Wy4kM04Le3e01?ref=onestnetwork.com
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Andrea Hart @andreahart.bsky.social Head of Library Special Collections @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Love all things paper & vellum, the natural world & its history, mudskippers, running and drinking tea.
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
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
Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
John F Leonard @johnfleonard.bsky.social Freelance writer and #author of #darkfiction & #apocalypse stories - basically, I mess with words and like scary stuff : )
Books available on #KindleUnlimited #Audible - linktr.ee/johnfleonard
John Daly @johdal.bsky.social Books, film, art history, improvised music. 
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Whitewalls • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Eva Crane Trust @evacranetrust.bsky.social A grant giving Trust, aiming to advance the understanding of bees and beekeeping.
The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
@lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social @lloydsofkewbooks.bsky.social 
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Jeff Noon @jeffnoon.bsky.social Writer of Science Fiction and Crime Novels
Oxford History of the Book @bkhistoxford.bsky.social Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Curiouser
https://linktr.ee/ColemanDesign
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Kerria @kerria.bsky.social Mystery and Folklore. TBA: Folkish Podcast. KerriaSeabrooke.com Host: #BookChatWeekly & #BookologyThursday #SCBWI #SINC @bookcat.bsky.social
BookCat @bookcat.bsky.social Join #BookChatWeekly to share daily posts on Books & Lore. Host @Kerria.bsky.social
Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social Here's to spread the Wyrd - join us for a different theme every #WyrdWednesday! Please don't post anything AI generated, we will not share these 🚫🤖
Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social #HorizonEU project. We aim to enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline.
🌐 https://butterfly-europe.eu/
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist & ornithologist, postdoc Ohio State | PhD UIUC, MSc Kansas State | SciComm, birding, and nature photography | certified Lawn Hater, Cowbird Apologist, Stress Physiology Enthusiast, Typo Lover | they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | skwinnicki.com
Tom K @gctom.bsky.social Elementary school teacher. Cognitive science and how brains learn. Baltimore Orioles
https://give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate
iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social The place where your nature photos impact science & conservation around the world. Free, nonprofit, & community-powered. 🪲🐌🌿
Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social Storyteller and Mother of #WyrdWednesday
For those of you who feel artsy or litsy - find my blog here:
https://wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is one of the UK's largest & most important natural history collections. Thousands of specimens on display including one of the world's most complete dodo skeletons.
www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social Ghost-related posts every Sunday - words, art, folklore, popular culture, haunted places etc. Just use the #SpookySunday tag. All relevant contributions will be welcome and reposted. (Up to FOUR posts/reposts pp please). Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Marzena Majcher @marzenamajcher.bsky.social Composer of classical, electroacoustic and film music.
https://marzenamajchercomposer.manifo.com/
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sHN6iLyhZVMg5w5t7Kdsj?si=wzIYOEbOQteaUP6gn-74rg
Bandcamp
https://marzenamajcher.bandcamp.com/
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
Bloomsbury Wildlife @chiffchat.bsky.social 📚Natural history from Bloomsbury Publishing
🌳Nature writing, field guides & more
🍃Imprints include Bloomsbury Wildlife, Helm and Poyser
🦇👻🎃April🎃👻🦇 @squooshiebunny.bsky.social I like creepy things, cute things, and creepycute things. Mama. Reader. Introvert. Weirdo. Incurably awkward. Be nice or leave.
♉☀️♍🌙♒ ⬆️ 🩷💜💙
the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social “senior” “writer” @wired.com
miles_klee@wired.com
signal: millionbear.44
book: https://asterismbooks.com/product/double-black-diamond-mads-gobbo-miles-klee
⚠️ user has been kicked out of Musso & Frank for wearing a tank top
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Waterfox @waterfox.net A privacy focused browser built for power users who value customization and control over their online experience
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/