Sian Prosser @prossian.bsky.social Medievalist now managing an astronomy library and archive.
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
Gabriel Finkelstein @gabrielfinkelstein.bsky.social Historian of neuroscience, modern Europe, and history.
Currently working on “Scientific History,” a study of Buckle, Taine, and du Bois-Reymond.
https://ucdenver.academia.edu/GabrielFinkelstein #histsci #histSTM
Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺Chicago born Irish-American. History of Science / Cultural Astronomy: Medieval and Native American. USNavy 1961-7. Husband, father, grandfather. Catholic, Democrat, West Virginian.
Patchen Barss @patchenbarss.bsky.social Journalist and author. Science, mathematics. "Smarter Than Us" coming March 2027 “The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius” available now: https://shorturl.at/ixUY9
@cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Lotta Leiwo @lottaleiwo.bsky.social Doctoral researcher @helsinki.fi Finnish North Americans, cultural weather studies, women, labour history & settler colonialism. Research is my mental dynamite.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams @hoooaw.bsky.social Books: Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things. And some exhibitions.
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social Mathematical physicist
53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social Annual Meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
| 8-11 October 2026, Alexandroupolis (Greece)
| https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr/
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Alistair Sponsel @alistairsponsel.bsky.social Historian of science
https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alistair-sponsel/
Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on forbetterscience.com
Read at your own risk, people got sacked for much less. Posts may contain #antifa and #russophobia 🇺🇦
https://forbetterscience.com/
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social Historian of Knowledge and Computational Humanist. Professor @University of Amsterdam. President of Society for History of the Humanities. Academic Activist @WOinActie
@scaliger.bsky.social @scaliger.bsky.social
Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social Public historian:
Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA) https://phillipsacademyarchives.net/
Swimming, hiking | Seacoast NH (she/Dr.)
Interested in #EnvHist
Brian Schefke @brianschefke.bsky.social Historian of biology. Native NCS speaker.
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social Staff writer at Science, specializing in infectious diseases and immunology. Vaccine history geek. Hate outbreaks, love covering them. Serious surf addiction, occasional contributor to the incomparable Surfer's Journal.
Hamza Waseem @quantumfoundations.bsky.social Oxford Physics DPhil (Rhodes Scholar) | Disclaimer: All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.
https://sites.google.com/site/hamzawaseem813/
Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social Studies ancient Greek cultural and social history, BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
Early Modern How-to Books @howtobooks.bsky.social DFG- & AHRC-funded project researching early modern how-to books and the histories of knowledge, science and the book 📖
Based at Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Glasgow University 🇩🇪🤝🏴 Check out our website: howtobook.eu/
ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social ESEH's Next Generation Action Team (NEXTGATe). Representing the Early Career Researchers branch of the European Society for Environmental History. We do events, workshops, etc. aimed at helping scholars navigate murky academic life
Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) @cerl-community.bsky.social A data hub & scholarly network on historic printed books & manuscripts.
www.cerl.org
Metascience @metasciencejournal.bsky.social A review journal publishing high quality, comprehensive reviews of books in the fields of history and philosophy of science, and science and technology studies.
https://link.springer.com/journal/11016
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social Field mycologist with a passion for grassland fungi. Interested in the history of mycology. Bang into biological recording. Located in West Sussex, UK.
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Guy Longworth @guylongworth.bsky.social Philosopher. Also a lion.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/longworth/
Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkehist.bsky.social Wannabee Historian. Studying at University of Greenwich. Political Liberal and Eurofederalist. I always have time for people who are experts in their own field.
Bomin @bonaventura177.bsky.social I love books.
The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social Celebrating Eleven Years of bringing stories of scientific women to light! Our newest book, A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience, is now available! www.wisarchive.com
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Tim O'Neill - History for Atheists @timoneill.bsky.social History writer, medievalist, blogger, atheist, sceptic and expatriate Tasmanian. http://linktr.ee/timoneill
John Naylor @johncnaylor.bsky.social Interested in the physics of sights and sounds in nature.
Author of “Out of the Blue, A 24-hour Skywatcher’s Guide”, “Now Hear This, A Book About Sound” & "The Riddle of the Rainbow"
Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
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Fokko Jan @fokkojan.bsky.social history of knowledge, intellectual omnivore
samuel gessner @sgessner.bsky.social
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
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Noé B. Royer @nbroyer.bsky.social Historian of Earth sciences and natural history from Oxon
Écologiste, collab. santé
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
History of Knowledge @histknowledge.bsky.social History of Knowledge
@histknowledge.bsky.social
Companion to blog at
@GHIWashington.bsky.social
. 🔁 & 🔗 ≠ endorsements. #histknow #histsci #infohistory #bookhistory and more.
Washington, DC
Website: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org
Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage @uolhumanities.bsky.social
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
[Header: Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0320, f.120v]
Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson expected fall '27 from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry @shacorg.bsky.social The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (f. 1935) supports scholarship through grants, awards, events & the scholarly journal AMBIX
ambix.org
http://linktr.ee/SHACorg
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
Stamatina Mastorakou @smasto.bsky.social Historian of Science interested in the history of astronomy and its material culture @ University of Pittsburgh/ Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social An institute of the Max Planck Society, dedicated to the study of the history of science and of scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena.
📍 Berlin, Germany
🔗 https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/data-protection-social-media
European Philosophy of Science Association @epsaphilsci.bsky.social EPSA promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy of science in Europe.
Our website: https://philsci.eu
Our journal: https://link.springer.com/journal/13194
Jordan / oao @cybercityzine.bsky.social Reaching out to aspiring authors and seasoned writers! If you are looking for a community of 400+ people who want to read YOUR writing, come check out the Beta-Reading Bazaar: https://betareaderbazaar.com/
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social Physicist, professor, author of books about science for non-scientists. Longer-form stuff at https://chadorzel.substack.com/
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social Doctor, writer, Canadian Spice, lasso of truth, I speak for no one but me. 2X NYT bestsellers. More thoughts at TheVajenda.com
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Barbara Bienias @bbienias.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Institute for the History of Science (Polish Academy of Sciences)
History of astronomy and astrology in early modern England: the reception of Copernican theory; almanacs; cosmology;
early modern epistemology; history of the book
Common Descent @commondescentpod.bsky.social A podcast about paleontology, evolution, and the history of life on Earth.
Hosted by Will🐊 and David🐍
https://commondescentpodcast.com/
Sylvia Wenmackers @sylviawenmackers.be Philosopher of science stuck between two infinities. ε<🦉<∞
Exploring the scenic route to wisdom. 🍀
Avatar: sketch by former student. Banner: Cousin's 1560 Livre de Perspective.
🦣>🦋 My primary social media account is https://scholar.social/@SylviaFysica
Emily Winterburn @arntem.bsky.social Occasional writer. Visiting fellow at univ of Leeds. Professional Teaching Assistant. Interested in #histsci #histed #histastro. Specifically Herschel. And very occasionally cats. #quietlyautistic
Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social Staff writer @LiveScience.com
Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com
Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove
PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist.
I crochet and bake a lot. Chapel Hill, NC based.
Stephanie Holt @stephholtnh.bsky.social Naturalist & historian specialising in British Wildlife & the history of natural history. Fellow & Trustee of the British Naturalist Association & FLS, MCIEEM. Steering group member for Green Jobs For Nature.
https://linktr.ee/stephanieholtnaturalhistory
Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social Golden Oldie. Likes Social Cognitive Neuroscience. But not only.
De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social Philosophy editors at academic publisher @degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
Connect with us here for information on our latest scholarly publications, news and developments in the field. #philsky
Nice new books -> http://tiny.cc/ldm4001
The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social Mild mannered reviewer of #books on natural philosophy, #naturalhistory, #HistSci, & #HistMed. Gentleman naturalist. Tweedy. Beardy. Has been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters. www.wellreadnaturalist.com
Matthis Krischel @matthiskrischel.bsky.social Historian of Medicine and of the Life Sciences at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf @hhu.de
Clinical Ethicist at University Hospital Düsseldorf
http://matthiskrischel.de/
Matt Tontonoz @mtontonoz.bsky.social PhD candidate, History and Philosophy of Science; Editor at embryo.asu.edu; co-author, Biology for a Changing World; cat dad 🌈
Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Rachel Ehrenberg @rachelscience.bsky.social Journalist. Editor @KnowableMag, @KSJatMIT, @ScienceNews alum; lapsed botanist, Vermont ex-pat
Maria Rentetzi @mrentetzi.bsky.social Professor of Science, Technology, and Gender Studies @FAU; history of nuclear science; science diplomacy; author of children's book https://rentetzi.de
Dr Camilla Mørk ✨✨✨🌙 @drcamillam.bsky.social Art historian. Vegan. Bunnies. Menstruation research. Witch memorial research ✨✨✨✨🌙
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Teru Miyake @terumiyake.bsky.social Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. My work focuses on history and philosophy of the physical sciences, particularly geosciences, astronomy, and physical measurement.
Webpage: www.terumiyake.com
Stephen Pemberton @stephenpemberton.bsky.social Historian of medicine, health, illness /educator / professor / music & art curious / always already peripatetic / a work in progress
CSTMS - Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society @cstms.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of science, technology, medicine & society through interdisciplinary research at UC Berkeley. Community for STS, the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and Medical Humanities. https://cstms.berkeley.edu/
@johnptak.bsky.social @johnptak.bsky.social Science bookseller (rare/significant), display of info, art history, Outsider logic, surreal mundane, baseball.
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/
Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
Eóin Phillips @ephillipshist.bsky.social Computation, infrastructures, economics, 18thc-present.
Observatory of Quantum Technologies (La Salle-URL): https://quantumtechobservatory.com
From Wales.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Forbidden Histories @forbiddenhistories.bsky.social Understanding historical complexities of science-magic relationships. By Dr. Andreas Sommer (occasionally foul-mouthed researcher, formerly at Cambridge University). https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/
European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social Enjoying the history of the European space adventure. Continuing from @ESA_History on Twitter.
See our other channels: https://linktr.ee/european_space_history
Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social The professional body for indexers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. We can help you find an indexer, learn about indexing and train as an indexer. Learn more at https://www.indexers.org.uk/
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.