Nathan James Wain @njwain-linguistics.bsky.social Linguist specialising in Welsh linguistics, theolinguistics, & historical linguistics | BA (Hons) English Language & Linguistics (Sheffield) | Currently studying MA Celtic Studies (Welsh-medium) at PCYDDS/UWTSD
Danielle McCool🟥 @dmccool.bsky.social Postdoc @ Utrecht University working with smart surveys, data donation, missing data, sensors, and spatial stuff.
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social The Heriot Watt branch of UCU
Militant Menagerie✊️
https://heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/
Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social Epistemic justice warrior. Crazy aunt. Rootless cosmopolitan. Disaster bi. Running on amphetamines & wrath.
My cyborg uprising will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
EN: they/themself, Mx./Dr.
PT: ela, Dra./Sra.
YI: זי - HE: היא - EO: ri/tiu
wiskeyjac @wiskeyjac.bsky.social Não equilíbrio, balança
Linda Cronin @gingerreb3l.bsky.social
Brian P @brianpatton.bsky.social Scientist based in Scotland. Photography, sci-fi and who knows what else may make an appearance here.
Dan Green @seeinggreen.co.uk PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Vice President of @hwucu.bsky.social
Disabled Members' Standing Committee Member for @ucu.org.uk
🏳️🌈♿
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
UCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social Calling for solidarity across UCU branches. We are fighting against cuts, casualisation and marketised education!
Alexis Wear @alexiswear.bsky.social Political economist, business historian
Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social Lancaster University and College Union (UCU) branch
https://lancasterucu.home.blog/
@naomihetherington.bsky.social @naomihetherington.bsky.social
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social ~ sounding kinships & muddy listening & sonic pedagogies ~
artist, musician, pedagogue, writer, agitator
Lecturer @ Anglia Ruskin University | PhD @ CRiSAP, LCC:UAL | UCU Rep @ both
(all views my own) 🇨🇾 🍉
Paul Johnson @ptwiddle.bsky.social American mathematician in the UK. Mellowing in middle age.
He/Him.
Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Forthcoming book: Diaspora Governance in Practice (Bristol).
Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social open research / open access / academic publishing / unions / queer stuff / parenting / usually found in and around Sheffield (she/they)
@richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social Snr Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy.
The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.
https://substack.com/@richsulley
Sustainability, bikes, birds, grumpiness
Colin Bingle @colinbingle.bsky.social Ageing (recently retired) academic with an inherent interest in biology (biomedical, comparative, molecular).
No politics or sniping about the state of things but I can tell you
I cycle for cake.
Darren Webb @dlcwebb.bsky.social University worker. No views my own.
Ronnie Barnsley @ronniebarnsley.bsky.social Lecturer global literature, Sheffield Uni
Researching childhood, birth & midwifery narratives, reproductive justice
Sidehussle in journalism - running, fitness, outdoor adventure 🏃♀️⛰️ 🚴
Fiction writer 📝
She/her
Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social Mainly philosophy and cricket
Katherine Ebury @kebury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. I have a good dog. She/they.
AC Davidson @acdavidson.bsky.social Human geographer
@bazchelt.bsky.social @bazchelt.bsky.social
Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social Trade union for academic/related staff at Goldsmiths, University of London
https://goldsmithsucu.org/
Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social Reader in Sociolinguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies.
https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-kasstan/home
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
Ellen Shobrook @ellensho.bsky.social UCU, University of Birmingham. Here for building connection and community for positive change. Resisting the temptation to despair (mostly). All views my own (is this still a thing we have to say?). Profile pic is at least a decade old.
David Hayes @davidhayes4.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, School of Law, researching criminal justice and law's relationship to mythology. Branch President of Sheffield UCU. Vegan, wears orange, has beard, ferments. Other personality traits TBD.
Rosie @plaguedbylassitude.bsky.social I'm just a silly potato.
Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social Mum, trade unionist, lecturer, Ed D student | Chair of BCU UCU, Vice Chair West Mids UCU, UCU NEC | Social reproduction feminism, reproductive labour, education activism.
V tired.
Englicious - Free English Language Resources for Schools @engliciousucl.bsky.social Englicious is an entirely free online library of original English language teaching resources!
Posts by Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social
and Luke Pearce @lpearcelearning.bsky.social
Josh Armstrong @sick-puppy303.bsky.social Sheffield University. UCU. Antifa
Andrew Barr @andrewbarr.bsky.social Research Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social • 💥 Explosions , 〰️ stress waves, and 🏗 geotechnics • 🚴 Active travel fan • 🥔 Made in Northern Ireland
Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social Professor in Economics & Finance @iipp-ucl.bsky.social | macroeconomic policy, sustainable finance, land & housing | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64753
Catherine Gegout @catherinegegout.eurosky.social Researching European foreign policy and the global South. PhD in Politics and International Relations, EUI, Firenze. Author of: Why Europe Intervenes in Africa (Hurst 2017, OUP 2018); European Foreign and Security Policy (University of Toronto Press 2010).
Katie @katiemariamne.bsky.social Doctoral researcher in clinical trials methodology and research associate in health services research. Previous MSc in human osteology and all things anatomy. 🇨🇾🧿🕊️💫
Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, critical race & social media research at the University of Leeds. she/her
Whose Uni? poster available here https://shorturl.at/7GcJr
@in-gloves.bsky.social @in-gloves.bsky.social - P s @pngcvlv.bsky.social
Kath Henderson @kathhenderson.bsky.social
Molecular Microbiology, University of Sheffield @molmicrosheffield.bsky.social A multi-disciplinary research cluster studying the machinery of microbial life - from their fine molecular structure to interactions with their hosts and the environment.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/research/areas/molecular-microbiology
@el1234.bsky.social @el1234.bsky.social
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment.
Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social Social work and trade union stuff.
Personal account which certainly does not reflect the views of my employer.
Mark Taylor-Batty @cupofassam.bsky.social I’m a father, not a dancer. Emeritus Professor. Exploring retirement. Saltaire-Burgher. Translator of Artaud. UCU NEC and USS advisory board member.
Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social Researcher. Voluntary & community action: history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board. Former trade union bureaucrat & policy wonk. Brand: charity archives, institutional theory, campaigning, communities, disability, Godzilla. All snark mine.
Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist, anti-fascist, archivist | UCU | rs21 | he/him
Chloe Wallace @chloejwallace.bsky.social Interested in critical and creative pedagogies, innovation and change, internationalising (legal) education, stories, language and more...she/her🏳️⚧️
School of Law, University of Leeds
Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social Academic-related staff in HE, UCU member, Trustee, Eyam Museum.
Would rather be in Wales, Berlin and/or out of Higher Education.
Joss @josstified.bsky.social Former USS negotiator
Still quite interested in pensions
"Mad politics"
Knitter, potter & trainee basket weaver
Hill walker & path stomper
Dog & guineapig facilitator
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property. Lefty migrant
Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
Ben Purvis @benpurvis42.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
(they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social Linguist & Research Associate @dhishef.bsky.social. 2026 Fellow of the Institute for Research Software. Currently researching the impact of machine learning and critical AI on medieval studies, linguistics, digital editing and pedagogy. She/her. 🏳️🌈
DrPrernaVohra @drprernavohra.bsky.social Lecturer in Microbiology, Uni of Edinburgh. Gut bacteria. Vaccines. Illustrator. Cyclist. Feminist. She/her.
Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social I listen to stories and I think about them. Head of Research Culture & Researcher Development, Co-Director of Lab for Academic Culture. PFHEA. National Teaching Fellow. UCU
🆒 Papers here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ris/staff/kayguccione/#publications
Alex Best @bestieboy.bsky.social Maths lecturer, disease modeller, EDI empowerer, amateur percussion player, very amateur baseball player.
Riannon Davies-Parsons @ridavies.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD student @ UoN • interested in LGBTQ+ youth identity in digital spaces…and lots of other things 🏳️🌈 she/her
@emudd.bsky.social @emudd.bsky.social
James Morley @jamesmorley.bsky.social 🐿 Linguistics BA + MPhil @ Queens' College, Cambridge. Generative syntax enjoyer. Amateur 20th century Spanish history enjoyer.
Ali Riley @aliriley.bsky.social Sheffield-based HE Education Developer and Adviser. Interests #ESD and #EntEd. Ex-archaeologist. Bit deaf. Living with Endometriosis. Chapter maggot.
Sam Marsh @sam-marsh.bsky.social Mathematician, trade unionist, pension scheme trustee and novice diver from Sheffield. Sometimes wrong, but usually not in isolation.
Ranjan Sen @ranjsen.bsky.social Sheffield linguist. Historical phonology, theories of change. Latin and historical English (UK and US) 🏛️. Reconstructing voices of the past for heritage and entertainment 🎭
Núria Bosch @nbosch03.bsky.social Linguistics PhD student (St John’s College, Cambridge), interested in syntax, acquisition & change | #LongCovid (Jan 2022) | she/her
https://nuria-bosch.github.io
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
Caleb Day @calebday.bsky.social Created autistic, kinetic. Made Christian, neurodivergent, depressed, disabled, parent, trade unionist, he/him, among other things. Theological ethics, @ducu.bsky.social, @uniteucu.bsky.social. NZer in North Shields. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-0282
Matt Bishop @matthewlbishop.bsky.social Political economist @Sheffield. Co-Director @ODI Resilient & Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI). Home: Yorkshire. Heart: T&T. Does development, small states, drug policy. Co-presents Small Islands, Big Picture pod. Occasionally plays electronic records.
Dr Vicky Randall @vrandall.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.
Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @jibs-journal.bsky.social JIBS is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing cutting edge articles that embody interdisciplinary, social justice-oriented, feminist, queer, trans-inclusive and innovative biblical scholarship. Find us at https://jibs.hcommons.org/
Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies @scibs-sheffield.bsky.social Teaching & researching innovative, interdisciplinary biblical studies. PG applications welcome.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scibs
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.com
Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social ♥️education ♥️unions ♥️democracy
Widening Participation @ Leeds Uni
UCU NEC, negotiator, Educ'n Comm Chair, Climate+Ecological Emergency Comm Co-chair
@leedsucu Branch Sec
vickyblakeucu.uk
Neurodivergent, LC
#EduSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #CleanTheAir
Iain Lindsey @iainlindsey.bsky.social Academic: youth and community sport, sport for development, policy. Beware: I will post my own stuff.
Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social doing some stuff, sometimes
~Bread & Roses: Rest & Free Time Under Disabling Capitalism~
Glasgow- M @motykatzman.bsky.social @motykatzman.bsky.social
K. Huds @hudsonkate.bsky.social I love dumb things. A lot. Bylines at a few places including Time, Bustle and The Mary Sue
Jon @jawb.xyz 📍 Sheffield, UK | he/him 🏳️🌈 | 🗣️ 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇸
🏃♂️ Ultra runner
🚩 @revsoc21.uk MUC | @unionworkersunion.org- A @akirbyreynolds.bsky.social @akirbyreynolds.bsky.social