David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly. 
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Nepal Adventure Trail @nepaladventuretral.bsky.social 🏔️ Govt-licensed Kathmandu trekking company
Everest | Annapurna | Manaslu | Langtang
✅ Certified guides ✅ Custom itineraries
💬 Free trip planning:
wa.me/9779851410929
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
David Miller @davidmiller-photo.bsky.social Photographer - Weymouth, UK.
Prints Available.
https://www.instagram.com/davidmiller.photography/
Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
Dr Thomas Chambers @drthomaschambers.bsky.social I am a Senior Lecturer in Social/Cultural Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and the Editor in Chief of the academic journal Contemporary South Asia.
Research interests = labour, migration, marginalisation, inequality, ethnography, gender, urbanity
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social Peasant Anthropologist @ LSE | China, Wa, Argentina | co-editor Social Analysis
Christopher Goddard @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social Cartographer, writer, artist, long distance walker, DJ, fell runner
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social Parody account. Here to take the piss out of the full time grifter and part time MP who leads Reform UK. Enjoy – and feel free to encourage my coffee habit: ⬇️
https://ko-fi.com/:parody_pm
PSA Parliaments @psa-parliaments.bsky.social We are the Parliaments specialist group of the UK's Political Studies Association.
@Cross_theIine @cross-theline.bsky.social The Human race has a serious Control Freak problem
@Cross_theline and YOU are going to resolve that
I support the Iranian people 🇮🇷
#EndWar #EndTyranny #Cross_theline
Contemporary South Asia Journal @csajournal.bsky.social South Asia is internally diverse and part of global flows of people, goods and ideas. Contemporary South Asia seeks to address the issues of the region by presenting research and analysis which is both cross-regional and multi-disciplinary.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
Iain Dale @iaindale.bsky.social LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social Co-director of Right to Roam 🥾
Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
https://linktr.ee/jonathanmoses
Dara McAnulty @naturalistdara.bsky.social 20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social Outdoor writer & photographer, passionate about wild places, long distance walking, & rewilding. https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com
Ash Routen @ashrouten.com Adventure journalist and editor of 'At the Edge of the Map', covering expeditions and adventure globally. By-lines include ExWeb, Nat Geo, Sidetracked, and Outside. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
ashrouten.com
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Marek Bidwell @marekbidwell.bsky.social Book: #SkyeLine Backpacking the Original Skye Trail
Nature | Wild camping | Northumberland | Cumbria | Scotland
Read about my outdoor adventures on Substack at https://substack.com/search/marekbidwell
Freelance Environmental Consultant. IEMA Fellow
Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
Tom Wall @tomwall.bsky.social Journalist. News and investigations for the Guardian, BBC and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
✉️ t.wall@outlook.com
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Kevin Cummins @kcmanc.bsky.social Photographer /// London Instagram: KCMANC Oasis book can be ordered here https://linktr.ee/oasismasterplan
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social News and events from the History Department in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies @SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk and the SOAS History Blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/
SOAS South Asia Institute @southasiainstitute.bsky.social The SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI) is the forum for South Asian-related research activities at SOAS, University of London.
Sara Doctors @saradoctors.bsky.social Food anthropologist. Festivals, books, food, plants, arts, culture & general malarkey. Wheelchair massive. Not very online. Not a doctor.
SOAS Gallery, London @soasgallery.bsky.social A university museum & gallery that hosts a programme of changing contemporary and historical exhibitions from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Free Admission.
Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social Medieval Military Medicine-from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Sixteenth Century
Available at Pen & Sword Books and Amazon
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Medieval-Military-Medicine-From-the-Late-Middle-Ages-to-the-Early-Sixteenth-Century-Hardback/p/61863
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale.
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Franziska Fay @franzifa.bsky.social Professor of Political Anthropology @ JGU Mainz
gender justice|child protection|TZ
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/disputing-discipline/9781978821736/
www.franziskafay.com • https://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/mitarbeiterinnen-jun-prof-dr-franziska-fay/
Lord Norton of Louth @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social Professor of Government, University of Hull. Devoted to the study of the Constitution, Parliament, and the Conservative Party.- R Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸
https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Stephen Holden Bates @stephenholdenbates.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Birmingham, UK.
Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social European political economy and geoeconomics commentator. Publisher of the Wealth of Nations newsletter. Previously chief Europe commentator @WSJ, chief leader writer @TheTimes. Runner, cold water swimmer, aspiring chef.
https://nixons.substack.com/
James Moran @jamesjmoran.bsky.social Community Fellow, SOAS, University of London
Academic Writing Consultant
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
AK @akondakor.bsky.social Left leaning, father, husband, daft dog owner. living atop a hill in Sheffield UK.
Concerns: Climate and biodiversity crisis, rise of fascism, poverty, misogyny and the dystopian future we are building for our children.
Teresa Winstead @drteresa-winst.bsky.social Applied anthropologist, Sr Res Scientist & Affil Assoc Prof ~ PNW Med Sch. Focused on healthcare as human rt & harm reduction ❤️🔥 & indigenous sovereignty (& ❤️ dogs & dessert, but not dogs 4 dessert). Opinions mine, of course.
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social South Yorkshire and Derbyshire residents working to bring local grouse moors into community ownership
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social I write the Expecting Goals newsletter (expectinggoals.com) and I'm gonna try to bring soccer analytics to bluesky. Let's see if it works. He/him.
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Saskia @saskiakezia.com Head of Social & Community with the Newsmast Foundation - knowledge for all, across social platforms 🧡
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Sheffield Migration Research Group @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Matt Oliver @mattoliverphoto.bsky.social Peak District Landscape photographer.
Www.mattoliverphotography.com
Eyeye @eyeyeopticians.bsky.social One of the few fully independent opticians - ethical approach
Mike Buckley @mdbuckley.bsky.social Director, Independent Commission on UK EU Relations. Writer. Commentator. Yorkshireman. Labour. Former aid worker. 🇺🇦 ukeucommission.org
Clive Swinsco @cliveswinsco.bsky.social Ageing Activist
Today is a Good Day for Action
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
@bobberzins.bsky.social @bobberzins.bsky.social Environmental campaigner and author. Time UK uplands were in public ownership and managed for the benefit of our communities
Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley
George Lindars-Hammond @georgesheffield.bsky.social 🌟 Health policy & social care advocate. ⚕️
⚽ Sheffield Wednesday FC fan. 🦉
🗳️ Politics enthusiast. 🗣️
Martin Phipps @martinphipps13.bsky.social 
Lloyd Russell-Moyle @russell-moyle.co.uk former Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven MP.
lloyd@russell-moyle.co.uk Twitter/X: @lloyd_rm
"retweets"/“likes” are not endorsements they‘re highlighted views (sometimes disagreeable).
Labour Hub @labour-hub.bsky.social For a radical, transformative Labour government for the 21st century.
#UKPolitics #UK
Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social Green MP for Bristol Central.
Former Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her.
Need to get in touch?
📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/carladenyer
Cllr Minesh Parekh 🌹 @mineshparekh.bsky.social 🌹 Labour and Co-operative councillor for Crookes and Crosspool
🚩 eco-socialist
📍Sheffield
More active on Instagram.
mineshparekh.org.uk
Promoted by Jude Powell on behalf of Minesh Parekh, both at Sheffield Trades and Labour Club, Talbot Street, S2 2TG.
alula @alula.bsky.social 
David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
davidhprice.com
Nathaniel Sablan @nathanielsablan.bsky.social PhD Student researching Select Committees in the House of Lords 🇬🇺🇬🇧
Would go to war for Ruben Neves 🐺
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social The Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about-soas/colleges-schools-and-departments/department-anthropology-and-sociology
Bolaji Balogun @bobi24.bsky.social Lecturer @SOASanthro. Author: Race and the Colour-Line. Visiting scholar: @UEK_Krakow and @Columbia
@minasol71.bsky.social @minasol71.bsky.social Anthrogossipy, peripheral ways of being and learning - not posting anything, just a fly on the digital wall!
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Ricky Kumar T @rickykumart.bsky.social Creative design, podcaster, community connecter, red+green socialist, runner, PTSD awareness, NUFC fan, classic introvert! 🔰
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
James Ethan Byrne @jamesethanbyrne.bsky.social Director at Curriculum Press 📚 | Global Development & Economics at SOAS 🌳 | The SOAS Spirit Writer 🗞️ | Chatham House Member 🌎 | rambling on substack…
https://substack.com/@jamesethanbyrne
HelpSheffield @helpsheffield.co.uk Doing what we have done, on the other place, for the last 14 years. Ask us a #Sheffield question & we (or our followers) will answer it.
Next Sheffield Socials at Portland House 24th of September from 6.30pm. Meet n chat. No agenda. Any Qs ask.
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator