Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness @fshi.bsky.social Our objectives are to promote and improve social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of the sociology of health and illness.
https://www.shifoundation.org.uk
yasmeen narayan 🪐 @aaaqilah.bsky.social academic with interests in postcolonial theory, transcontinental colonial history, histories of violence, reparative pedagogy, short story writing, kickboxing
Brixton v. Guyana & Pakistan
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005507/yasmeen-narayan
Silvia Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social Professor of Social Anthropology | Violence, Conflict & Genocide | Gender & Sexuality | Biodata Worlds & Futures | Latin America & UK
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Rob Topinka @robtoes.bsky.social Reader in Digital Media & Rhetoric Birkbeck, University of London.
researching reactionary digital politics
and the politics of shitposting (https://tinyurl.com/yc72aaah)
recovering lurker
Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Scott Rodgers @scott-rodgers.bsky.social Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. Into cities, publics, politics, social media, podcasts & journalism. https://linktr.ee/rodgers_scott
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Birkbeck Library @birkbecklibrary.bsky.social The Library at Birkbeck, University of London. Follow for updates about our services & more. Get more support: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/library/
BISA at Birkbeck @bisa-bkk.bsky.social The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London, is a centre of innovative research and teaching, and contributes to public policy.
https://bisa.bbk.ac.uk/
Birkbeck Psychological Sciences @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social Posts from the School of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/school/psychological-sciences
School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Official tweets from the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
UCL Health of the Public @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social We are a virtual school bringing academic disciplines together to solve complex health problems. We work beyond disciplinary borders to improve health for all.
ucl.ac.uk/health-of-public
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social Sociologist at @ucl.ac.uk
Cancelled Futures (PUP): https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691276700/cancelled-futures
Pubs for the People (MUP): https://www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-for-the-people/sivamohan-valluvan/amit-singh/9781526194541
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Progress Educational Trust (PET) @pet-bionews.bsky.social PET is an independent charity that provides impartial and accurate information to people affected by infertility and genomic conditions.
Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social Oh God What Now & More Jam Tomorrow; writer, reviewer (TV & books), editor; author, The Future of Trust (Melville House)
‘The most calming voice in the podcast world’
https://rostaylor.me
https://morejamtomorrow.com
https://rostaylor240051.substack.com
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
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان
Pronounced /nisri:n/ with an s not a z and a long ee ☺️
Professor of Public Health MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Still curious
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
💚 🧿 🌻
Ana-Cristina Santos (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor, Director of Research @ces-uc.bsky.social
2× @ERC_Research winner🏆
President of @ESA_Sociology
Director of Democracy, Justice & Human Rights
Director of Feminist & Queer Studies PhD @ucoimbra 🇵🇹
📚Queer ageing & citizenship 🏳️🌈
LSE Health Policy @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social Official account for the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
➡️ lse.ac.uk/health-policy
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
🇵🇹🇬🇧🌈♾️🪐
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Prof Devi Sridhar @profdevisridhar.bsky.social Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni. Certified Level 3 Personal Trainer. Views own.
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, academic lead of ai@cam, Accelerate Science, author of The Atomic Human, proceedings editor for PMLR.
Jakub Krupa @jakubkrupa.bsky.social Europe Live, Guardian / Board Member Fulham Supporters Trust, in H5. / One stop shop for all things #PolesinUK.
Laura Sochas @laurasochas.bsky.social Tenure-track Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
How social policies and institutions affect health and reproduction inequalities.
ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social We are delighted to announce the launch of #ACAMHLearn - our innovative #OpenAccess resource, bringing together specially commissioned videos from world-leading experts in the field of #CYPMentalHealth. Visit https://bit.ly/3AV958F to learn more!
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
European Society of Health and Medical Sociology @eshms.bsky.social The ESHMS is a group of scientists involved in health and medical sociology research, health policies, health promotion and social epidemiology
https://eshms.eu/
benjamin weil @benvyle.bsky.social writer-researcher-bodybuilder / head of research @thelovetankcic.bsky.social / they/he / insta: @benvyle / ✡️ 🍉
(london, where views are my own)
Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford Uni @ox.ac.uk @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk
Fellow at @kelloggoxford.bsky.social
Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧.
#AcademicSky 🧪
I write books, buy them!
https://linktr.ee/jbagniewska
Dr Katie Gaddini @drkatiegaddini.bsky.social Associate Prof of Sociology
@UCL | Research Fellow @Stanford | 'Esther's Army: The Christian Women Who Power the American Right' June 2026 with @Norton
Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social Suicide researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on suicide prevention, speecialising in LGBTQ+ suicide and qualitative methods. She/her 🏳️🌈
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Stanley Bill @stanleysbill.bsky.social Professor of Polish Studies, University of Cambridge
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social Not an MP.
I’m going on tour: https://www.seetickets.com/tour/rosie-holt
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Social Demography | Fertility, Family, Education & Inequality | PI of ERC StG DIVREP | University of Oxford
www.ewabatyra.com
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).
Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social 📝 ‘Migrants in the Digital Periphery’ for Uni. Of California Press, ‘Resisting Borders+Tech’ @haymarketbooks. Assistant Professor @Cambridge Digital Humanities. Research/advice @Amnesty Tech. Views=own
Jordan Tchilingirian @jstchil.bsky.social Sociologist (Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof) in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences @uniofbath.bsky.social. Researching expertise, knowledge regimes, politics of knowledge, knowledge in politics, think tanks.
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk 🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk
🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts
🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social
➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program
📄 Member @ref2029.bsky.social Sociology
🌐 www.yanghu.co.uk
Robert Dorschel @robertdorschel.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Sociology @ University of Cambridge; researching tech workers, digital economy, class, and culture
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-robert-dorschel
Katherine Twamley @ktwamley.bsky.social Prof of Sociology
@UCL
Chair
@UCLSociology
Areas of expertise: Love, intimacy, gender, families, parental leave
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Cristian Montenegro @crismontenegro.bsky.social "Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrat"
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cristian-montenegro
Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social Researcher | PhD | Ireland
#PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
Alex Kennedy @kennedyalex.bsky.social Policy person at the Health Foundation - working on wider determinants of health, missions etc.
Previous jobs about mental health and homelessness. E17.
Tamsin Ford @tamsinford.bsky.social Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiologist at University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry & Hughes Hall; Honorary Consultant at Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Jo Lysons @jolysons.bsky.social Research Associate at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Tom Witney @twiterney.bsky.social Medical sociologist at UCL interested in sexual health, HIV and relationships 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I am a cat lover and I love to run
Ayo Wahlberg @ayowahlberg.bsky.social Cartographer of historically and ethnographically situated modes of problematisation. Out now: Viral Loads https://bit.ly/302vCxJ, Good Quality http://bit.ly/2NFH1by
https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/ayo-wahlberg
Catherine West MP @catherinewestmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Friern Barnet | UK's Trade Envoy to Pakistan | Mum of two
John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social Marie Curie Associate Professor
Sociologist of dying, palliative and end-of-life care, and bereavement.
https://profiles.warwick.ac.uk/u1772723-john-macartney
LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social We provide outstanding education in the changing social world, and state-of-the-art, public-facing research on social issues ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology
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 Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Rebecca Close @rebecca-close.bsky.social Reproductive politics | STS | Queer Marxism | Artistic research
https://rebeccaclose.net
Editor https://www.them-all-magazine.com
MSCA post-doc at Institut d’Historia de la ciencia (UAB) Barcelona
& @uccresearch.bsky.social
Carlo Sariego @carlosariego.bsky.social PhD candidate @ joint program in Yale Sociology + Gender Studies.
I work on race, reproduction, and state power | Dissertation “critical fertilities” is on the past, present, and future of trans reproduction.
I have a 2 pound Chihuahua named Valentino
Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social Social Anthropologist
Associate Professor @ucl.ac.uk
PI of @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Editor-in-Chief Contemporary Islam
Academic Consultant
Katarzyna Wojnicka @katarzynawojnicka.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg || Editor in-chief for @normajournal.bsky.social || Winner of Emma Goldman Award || Primarily interested in men (and masculinities studies)
Janna Bryson @jannabryson.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ Cambridge Sociology
Researching assisted dying, medicalisation, and moral economies of death
https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/janna-bryson-2022
Sam Miles @sam-miles.bsky.social Reader in Medical Sociology at Barts & the London @qmul.ac.uk; former social scientist @LSHTM.bsky.social & @KCL. Researching queer lives, technology, sexual health, youth, education.
Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern
📝 DMs open
📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social Professor of Higher Education and Fellow of Linacre College, University of Oxford | Editor, British Journal of Sociology of Education
Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social Writer & sociologist. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social Reader | Cardiff University
Sociologist (Disability | Health and Illness | Reproduction | Stigma)
Co-Editor in Chief of 'Sociology of Health and Illness'
He | Him | His
Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social Sociologist of Health & Illness | Lecturer in Co-designing Healthcare Interventions at King's College London.
Lucy van de Wiel @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social Lecturer and Director Reproduction Research Group, GHSM, King's College London. Egg freezing & financialisation of fertility. Author of Freezing Fertility (NYUPress, 2020). #ReproJustice #Abortion #ReproTech
Alex Wood @alexjwoodsociology.bsky.social Cambridge Economic Sociologist. Researching and teaching digital technology, work, power, and capitalism. Book: 'Despotism On Demand' https://academic.oup.com/cornell-scholarship-online/book/37473 https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/alex-wood
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Ellen Annandale @ellenannandale.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of York, UK. The sociology of health and illness, sociology of gender, sociology of organisations and professions. Views are my own.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.