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Kaja Larsen Østerud @kajaosterud.bsky.social PhD in social work and social policy / researcher at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University / sociology, social policy and disability studies / qualitative methods / vegan since 2008
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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social X-ray radiographer • Doctoral researcher (@crra3g.bsky.social, City St George's, University of London) - striving to improve emergency departments for #autistic, #ADHD & #AuDHD people.
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Nicola Gaston @nicgaston.bsky.social Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
John Forbes @redshiftless.bsky.social Astronomer in Aotearoa/New Zealand at the University of Canterbury.
Pusher of pixels, pens, arrays, and computer keys.
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Chris McMillan @itschrismcmillan.bsky.social Sociologist of sport at the University of Auckland, working at the intersection of sport, climate change and capitalism
Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social Kāi Tahu diaspora nb (he/him) left communist/ communal anarchist
Kia kotahi rā te Moana Nui a Kiwa 🌊
Sarah @sarahnz.bsky.social Post grad student, (former but no doubt I'll be back) teacher, parent
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Scotty - I’m the CEO - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social Kiwi in Aotearoa who is proudly left-of, left-of centre. Comments are my own and probably dodgy.
Concerned about climate change and inequality and votes accordingly.
Proud supporter of Te Reo and toitu Te Tiriti.
Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social General-purpose activist + writer. Pākehā in Aotearoa. Disabled. Brilliant + Amazing. Human rights, politics, feminism, community building, books, parenting, Jesus. 
D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social Enthusiastic amateur gardener. Westie. Dalmatian. Croatian. Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Parent. Partner. Baba. Teta. Cis. She/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Frole @stueyfro.bsky.social 'Dangerous far left commie', apparently. ✊️
Punk rock and podcasts 🤘
Neurodiverse 💪
Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Asbestos hunter 🎯- M Mike Keefe @mikekeefe.com infrequent bluesky user, creator of tubele.app
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
Rowena @wijsgeer.bsky.social I like to cook for people
I am chaotic, welcoming, atheist but not against religion, cis. Go on walls with my plush companion, Monkey. I do like GIFs!
Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social 36| Sociologist & Black furry (he/his/him) |#FursofColor #BlackFurries ✊🏾🐇| Advocate of CRF (Critical Race Furryism)|pfp by @straysketches.bsky.social
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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social Citizen scientist, Brit in Sweden, endless maker of soup for babies. Galaxy Zoo turned me into a penguin. Always looking for more galaxies.
Prof. Shirley Lin @profshirleylin.bsky.social Professor of Law @brooklynlaw. Work law, CRT & social movements. Board member @disstudies.bsky.social. (she/her) Opinions = own. Research = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1398227
Raine Hananui @whakatipu.bsky.social Kāi Tahu & Pākehā, Master of Wildlife Management student at Otago Uni. Passionate about Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu ecosystems and species, and the interface between te ao Māori and Western science. they/them
@scilion.bsky.social @scilion.bsky.social Master of Science with Distinction (Biochemistry)
Kāi Tahu / Pakeha
She/Her/Ia 🏳️🌈
I will continue being "political" for at least as long as mere existence remains political. Thoughts are my own not any employers.
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
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Laura-Elseplace @laura-elseplace.bsky.social I bake and knit and sew and grow edible things and live quietly and am happily married and will believe in egalitarian freedom til my last breath.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social Clinical psychologist in an NHS hospital.
Relationships & humanity in healthcare.
What's going on under the surface?
Listening.
Dad.
Bristol.
Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social Health researcher interested in public health, trans healthcare, medical education #TransHealth (they/them) tangata tiriti/white immigrant living in Aotearoa New Zealand
😷🥄 was MyMiniRants on Twitter
J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social Ph.D. in social psychology. Former researcher in pandemic behavioral risk reduction (non-pharma intervention).
Healthcare & public health; psych.; ed.; disability rights; women's rights; environmental issues; politics/activism.
MetService NZ @metservice.com New Zealand's weather service. Helping Kiwis be ready, whatever the weather.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social doing some stuff, sometimes
~Bread & Roses: Rest & Free Time Under Disabling Capitalism~
Glasgow
Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue Just a vibe, you know?
From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland.
Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun.
Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.
One Less Car Auckland @onelesscarakl.bsky.social Onelesscarauckland.co.nz
Practical guides to using buses, trains, ferries, cycling, walking, and carshare in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Disability Arts Online @disabilityarts.bsky.social Sharing Disability Arts and Culture with the world since 2004. Follow for our latest news, reviews, events and blogs.
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social Self-taught watchmaker, ex-editor @socreview.bsky.social
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/cmcgwatchmaking
https://utterwokesense.substack.com
Andy Morwood @morwoo.bsky.social These days I mostly just sit down a lot 🦥 | He/Him
Stone Cold Jane Austen @woolbotherer.bsky.social Bothers wool. Thinks animals are ok.
Reads a lot.
Dreams of boats and land trains.
Might one day get my shit together.
Like some felt art?
https://woolbotherer.sumupstore.com/
Fuck AI
She/her
Yecid Ortega (he/his/el) @yecidortega.bsky.social Pluriversal Applied Linguistics #PlurALx | TransKnowleding | del Sur | Soft Madness | Slow Scholarship | Buen Vivir | Sentipensador y Accionador Latin[x]
https://linktr.ee/drortega
Hazel Godfrey @drhazelgodfrey.bsky.social She/her | Science, education and lived experience of pain, and many other aspects of the mind | Writing weaving academic and personal experience of chronic pain at pinchesofpain.com 
The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social Aotearoa based. Mostly bonsai with my coffee is all I seek.
Started Bonsai 2020 = new to it. Also into aviation/space/science/geopolitics/wildlife/helpful tech stuff.
Bonsai feed
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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social Am a Dr. Not the useful kind. Teach Evidence Law, International Human Rights, Gender & the Law at UC.
Researching online abuse, human rights, law. ASD-Dyspraxia 🌈
Instagram: @legally.feminist
Views are my own.
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
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Soma Basu @somabasu.com Anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans.
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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social Lotographia on various other social networks.
Person of Pōneke, Aotearoa. They/He (in that order). Green Party supporter & volunteer. Lego collector. Trying to build a website and write a book and failing at both.
"David Thomsen".
KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Laura Wattie @lyrafay.bsky.social Avid reader, mythology and folklore lover, music fiend and comic connoisseur!! From 🇳🇿
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence @amendproject.bsky.social Researching neurodivergence in early modern literature and how neurodivergent people relate to it! Based at Swansea University and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social The other “Susie” Wiles AKA NZ’s “COVID lady/Pink Terror”. Microbiologist & science communicator, lover of bioluminescence & Lego. Becoming slightly obsessed with reusable period products despite being perimenopausal. She/her.
NZPT Bot @nzpt.cjs.nz Hi 👋 I am a bot 🤖 that posts news 🗞️ and updates 🚨 from the New Zealand Politics Toolbox (NZPT). Report issues and abuse to @cjs.nz (creator).
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Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social 黃吉贊 (he/any) | Queer Cantonese 🏳️🌈 researcher working on responsible computational social science using language data. Te Pūnaha Matatini / Fulbright Scholar (US 24/25), Aotearoa NZ.
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
Tof Eklund @tofeklund.bsky.social "anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist." Looking good for a cabbage in it's 40's. AuDHD nonbinary antiauthoritarian queer parent and scholar. I 💖 queer and indie comics and games. No "AI." Until we all are free, none of us are free. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦
🏳️⚧️ Poli @hellopoli.bsky.social "Postmodernist Neo-Marxist". Queer. Fat. Lapsed medieval art historian. Current day job in data analysis. EN/PL/FR/IT/DE
they/them 🏳️⚧️
Warsaw/Gdańsk 🇵🇱
Dr Aimée Fletcher (@aimee_speaks) @aimeespeaks.bsky.social Autistic autism researcher, passionate about making museums (and all of society) accessible. Lover of photography, stained glass window making, and music.
Participation Coordinator at Scottish Autism. Working to ensure all autistic people are listened to.
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
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🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
Erin 🏳️⚧️ @queerjoy.nz Tangata Tiriti, student, organiser, troublemaker. ✌🏻🍃
Black feminists taught me. 🖤
None of us is free until all of us are free 🫶🏻 🍉
See also @wxhbxh@mastodon.nzoss.nz
Guinevere 🎲🎲 @guineverecryptic.bsky.social Love cryptic crosswords, long time solver, now honoured to be a setter! ADHD and Mensa member - owning the wonderful US ’twice exceptional’ label 🥰 🏴🎲🎲
Dice: Guardian
Kybos: Times QC
Anonymous: Times
Guinevere: Most other places!
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social New Zealand's liberal blog.
@norightturnnz@mastodon.social
That PGP key expired a long time ago
Anndra @anndra.bsky.social Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based
He/him/e
Te Pūnaha Matatini @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social The Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. From complexity to possibility.
Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social Lecturer in public policy, STS sociologist, tangata tiriti, feminist, geek, coffee-addict, lesbian, urbanist, electric motorcyclist, ex-Chicago, half Dutch, wannabe Carol Danvers/Clarke Griffin/Kate Kane. She/her 🇳🇿🇳🇱
https://about.me/sarahhendricabickerton/
The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social The Sociological Quarterly is the official journal of the Midwest Sociological Society. Editor: Jonathan S. Coley. Publisher: Taylor & Francis.
Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social Disability advocate | Journalist | Author | Public speaker | Community organiser | Rep'd by Curtis Brown | My first book, THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, a very personal memoir of ableism and sexism, is out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
@benjaminthatcher.bsky.social @benjaminthatcher.bsky.social 
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social Former maths extraordinaire. (he/him)
OzAutismNews (bot) @australianautismnews.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sharing articles about autism in Australia
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@AustralianAutismNews on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Kate Peaks @izzyway.bsky.social Outraged elderly feminist who fought for Roe v Wade. Loathe Trump and what he is doing to our world. Anti GOP, SCOTUS, fascism, assault weapons, far right religious zealots and the brutality and stupidity of ICE. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽
Kev Lucky,unashamedly wobbly.. @kev-lucky.bsky.social Big fan of #NZPol
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865
Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com
Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️⚧️
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Nicole Dempsey @ndempseyinco14.bsky.social Director of SEND and Safeguarding
Dixons Academies Trust
Deputy Regional SEND Lead
Whole School SEND
David Ekdahl @ekdahlprimafacie.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Aarhus University.
Online spaces, embodiment, neurodiversity
Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social A/Prof Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy & Psychology (ctsy), National University of Singapore. Director, Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society. Co-Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
belén muñoz @belvelvet.bsky.social Linguistics @ PUCP 🎓🇵🇪| Conversation Analysis 💬 #EMCA & Critical Applied Linguistics | CogSci enthusiast
QPOC • disabled • fr/eng/esp
(she/they) 🍉
Peter Crosbie @petercrosbie.bsky.social 
Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Jim Lauder @mrjlauder.bsky.social Work at Dixons Academies. Schools as civic institutions - ensuring our communities have a voice and power. Building place based partnerships. Views my own.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimlauder
xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social dolly -- lower-case 'd' is an intentional orthographic choice. please use it.
ethnomethodological conversation analyst; recovering angel; frustrated autist; horny mystic.
https://www.dolly-net.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elle-Henderson-2
Siobhan @shiveringsiobhan.bsky.social Stochastic pirouetting. Powered primarily by doubt and denial. 🇮🇪 in London. She/her
Sonja @sonbon.bsky.social Hi I'm new here
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
teal, Normalposting Adept @teal.lines.ink but it's my birthday! i'm a special and beloved boy!!!
i am 30 or 40 years old
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Liam Stanley @liamstanley.bsky.social I teach and research politics and political economy at the University of Sheffield. I am currently researching global culture wars, the radical right, and neurodiversity politics.
Jennifer @jennifilm.nz Queer & trans writer, photographer, and advocate from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Gender villain, woke ideological feral, extremist lefty loser, party witch, etc.
I ako tonu au i te reo Māori - mehemea ka hē au, kia pai mai!
jenniferkshields.nz
AoNZ Voter Bot @aonzvoter.bsky.social I'm a bot, created by @danwaterfield.bsky.social.
Posts NZES 2023 respondent profiles every 12 hours. Data: New Zealand Election Study. #NZES2023
https://github.com/danwaterfield/voterbot-pacific-public
Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social Pākehā | Tāngata Tiriti | Waikato | Aotearoa