Tom Vause @cheese12233.bsky.social Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Laura Broadbent @laurascupoftea.bsky.social Information seeker, puzzler, dog owner. Business librarian in HE. Past Chair of CILIP YH. I drink too much tea. She/her.
Mike Hackman @inspiredigitaled.bsky.social Co-host of the DigEd Discuss podcast | Founding member of the 'Fun and Games in Learning and Teaching' community of practice | Passionate Learning Designer | Innovative Problem Solver | Senior Fellow of the HEA | Chartered Teacher | Gaming Enthusiast
@heidih14.bsky.social @heidih14.bsky.social 
@isabellegoyette.bsky.social @isabellegoyette.bsky.social 
I answer to Paula or Dichroic @paulakberman.bsky.social 
JR Finch ๐๐๐โฎ๏ธ @jrfinch.bsky.social Chair of CILIP Cymru Wales (CCW). Former Chair, UK CILIP ILIG 2019-2021. My third professional family is the BLA. Chat with me about Wales, libraries, retro gaming, films, and business.
Jackie Oliver @jackieo41.bsky.social A HE librarian based in a University in the NE of England. Interested in AI, digital upskilling and understanding student needs. All views are my own. Transitioning from X.
Andy Priestner @andypriestner.bsky.social Trainer and consultant: UX (user experience), failure and uncertainty, Lego Serious Play, libraries: https://andypriestnertraining.com/
Chair of UX in Libraries: https://uxlib.org/uxlibs2025/
My podcasting alter ego: @andypodding.bsky.social
Prof Pen Holland @anaspene.bsky.social Quantitative ecology (especially seeds, and all who eat them), game-based/playful learning, ducks, cats, flowers, fantasy fiction and storytelling. Views my own.
jj lean @jjlean.bsky.social single dad. academic. manchester. live music, videogames and overthinking. FOT. he/him.
Emma Gillaspy @egillaspy.bsky.social Rebel with a cause to transform education through heutagogy. Playful, creative, collaborative learning & education research are my thing. Reader @UCLan School of Nursing & Midwifery, NTF, CATE, Playful Learning Association Committee Impact Lead
Kiu Sum @kiusum.bsky.social Lecturer in Nutrition| RNutr๐| The Education Burrito Podcast Host๐๏ธ| Student Engagement & pedagogy stuff on the side๐ฃ |Own Views ๐| IG: @kiu_sum_
Dr Jane Secker @jsecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ed Develop. SFHEA. Online learning, info, digital & copyright literacy. Deputy Chair of CILIP Info Lit Group. Head of MA Academic Practice ๐ฑ
Mark Childs @markchilds.bsky.social Durham University Senior Learning Designer. Co-host of Pedagodzilla. DJ on The Thursday Night Show. Posts mainly about comics, cats and kaiju. Chaotic neutral apparently.
Nic Whitton @nicwhitton.bsky.social Professor of Digital Learning and Play at Northumbria University. Likes video games, cryptic crosswords, and otters. All views my own. She/her.
Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk Run workshops on Neurodiversity, play(fullness), creative teaching and more. National Teaching Fellow. Journal of Play in Adulthood Editor.
Neurodivergent. https://playbrarian.uk
Katie Piatt @katiepiatt.bsky.social Tech, Learning & Games
Head of Educational Enhancement
CoChair Playful Learning Association
LGBT+ Ally ๐ณโ๐
she/her
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p541621-katie-piatt
Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social Playful & Game-based learning specialist. Interdisciplinary researcher. Serious games for research skills and researcher development. SFHEA, CeLP, PhD.
Rachelle Emily Rawlinson (O'Brien) @rachelleeobrien.bsky.social Senior Learning Designer at DCAD and PhD student in Computer Science at Northumbria University. Researching: Digital escape rooms and education | #MSc | #SFHEA | #CMALT | #CATE | #NTF | #MIEE AVMO.
Rebecca Ferguson @r3beccaf.bsky.social Open University professor emerita, making the shift over to podcasting, audio drama and fiction.
(The) nearly Dr Puiyin Wong ๐ @puiyin.bsky.social Experienced Digital Education professional in UK HE | ALT Trustee | PhD researcher at Lancaster University | Jisc Community Champion 2024 | ALT Community Choice Award 2024 | Patch the catโs hooman ๐ธ
Jim Thompson @jimt77.bsky.social Designer of objects & games, maker, lecturer, larper.
@rogerjsaunders.bsky.social @rogerjsaunders.bsky.social 
@clairejr.bsky.social @clairejr.bsky.social 
Ali Struthers @dralistruthers.bsky.social Professor of Law at Warwick Law School | SFHEA | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot (167) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
โSurprisingly socially functional for an academic"- G Geraldine Foley @geraldinef.bsky.social
Josh Thorpe @joshthorpe.bsky.social Author of AI for Students (see https://promptlybooks.com) + academic advisor and learning developer at U of Stirling, UK
Ed Chester @chwarae.bsky.social Chartered engineer (space systems are my jam); team/ process/comms facilitator (Lego SeriousPlay is my other jam); chair of school governors (education is my other other jam). Tri-jammed. Erdรถs number is 5, Dijkstra also 5. Does not suffer fools gladly.
Alex Green (ๆๆตฉ่ช) @glexareen.bsky.social Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); (international law, statehood, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise).
Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve
Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
Liz Cable ๐ฒ ๐พ ๐ UKGE @lizcable.bsky.social Game-based learning & community-building
Educator, Author, Experience Designer
ARGs, LARPs, Escape Games
Convener of #GamesInEdu26 at #UKGamesExpo
CfP: https://bit.ly/UKGECFP
web: www.Linktr.ee/lizcable
Start here: https://bit.ly/GamesinEdu
Alex Moseley @alexm11.bsky.social Professor of Playful Learning, Head of Anglia Learning & Teaching, Archaeologist, and fan of dinosaurs, Lego, craft beer and live music
Blayn Parkinson @blayn.bsky.social Educator and Educationalist - Interests: Professional identity, Digital Capabilities + Practice, Pedagogy, TEL, AI in Ed, Personal Learning/Knowledge Management. Games, Gaming, Game-based/Playful Learning, TTRPG, Storytelling, Motorbikes, good Whisk(e)y.
Claire Timmins @clairetimmins.bsky.social Phonetician @StrathSLT | Interested in creative teaching and learning and a bit of music | Senior Teaching Fellow #SFHEA | HASS Associate Dean UG - University of Strathclyde
Alice Cann @alicecann.bsky.social Uni business librarian, Mum, Researcher. #SystematicReview, searching. Books & reading, esp. scifi (& on tv). Hashtag obsessive. Blogger: https://researcherlibrarian.wordpress.com #AliceWrites
Past focuses: left wing politics, aphantasia, gentle parenting
Becky Scott @beckyscott.bsky.social Project Manager: Workforce and Skills at Libraries Connected interested in #LISstaffDevelopment #Mentoring #LISresearch, #SystematicReviews, #NarrativeInquiry, #CreativeMethods
AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellow 2023-24
Lives in South Wales- E @estherarens.bsky.social @estherarens.bsky.social Library systems, content, metadata, acquisition, team work, leadership. Choral music. Running.
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
MommySJ @mommysj.bsky.social (she/her) Unapologetic Librarian. Mom to a human. Servant of 2 cats. Reader. DIYer. Overthinker. Collector of rubber ducks. MN, USA
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Alasdair MacDonald @macdonwald.bsky.social Former university administrator; happily married step-dad to three, and cat-servant to two. Also a โmiddle-class leftie remoaner lunatic" (wtt Dan Wootton). There are places to visit, books to read, guitars to play, and songs to sing.
Ned Potter @nedpotter.bsky.social Right then, this is the one. I'm all in.
Libraries, Higher Ed, communications, and life.
As a freelancer I run workshops on marketing, social media and presentation skills: https://www.ned-potter.com/training
@ruthburns.bsky.social @ruthburns.bsky.social Library person, bibliovore, retro gamer, goth, sporadic crafter
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social Formerly Research Intelligence Librarian and NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU member. Equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Sarah-Jane @porschespider.bsky.social Durham based mam of two small humans in a neurodiverse family. NHS Librarian. Reader, walker, cross stitcher, tea drinker. Perpetually tired but I try. She/Her. Views own etc.
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social Mostly tediously twee nonsense. Sporadic enthusing about flamenco dancing and cycling to see Cardiff Bay's sunrises. Occasional passing references to being a weary, aging academic librarian.
Tina Reynolds @tinareynolds.bsky.social Chartered librarian. Interests include legal tech & innovation, KM, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social Librarian, Knowledge Manager, Data Protection Officer and Records Manager. Let me know if I can be of any further help.
FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social Fair Library Jobs is a group of library workers aiming to improve recruitment & employment practices in libraries in the UK https://linktr.ee/fairlibraryjobs
Samantha (Samanthahalf) @samanthalf.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting & spinning & chatting & sewing & reading & generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject. Tries to be an Ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Andrew Preater @preater.com Always-already librarianing. ๐๐น๐น
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. ๐โโ๏ธ
๐ฆฃ @preater@hcommons.social
Rachel Playforth @archelina.bsky.social The toast in the machine. NHS librarian, crossword compiler (Angel), Unch magazine editorial team, poet. Weekly crossword streams on Twitch @ crypticsunday. I like crime fiction, telly and cold water. She/her.
Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
J @librarywork.bsky.social Clinical librarian, exploring new views and ideas to use in my work.
Lyndsey Goddard @pinklibrarian.bsky.social Librarian. Singer. Writer of pantomimes and murder mysteries. Crime fiction devotee. All views are my own.
AlanFricker @alanfricker.bsky.social Still growing stuff, running and generally interested. Probably library chat will happen. 
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Marie Lancaster @gingergalwales.bsky.social Red head Welsh Librarian, Wife, Mum, Dog Mum. Likes wine, crochet & rugby.
Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social Open Book Collective, #ebookSOS, WikimediaUK, NLISN. Easily swayed by rainbows, cupcakes, cats, Cheetos, unicorns, and all things sparkly and fabulous.
Selena Killick @selenakillick.com Senior User Researcher & Strategist. PhD Researcher. Interested in evidence-led service design, institutional impact, and making research accessible.
Often found watching cricket.
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
Liz White @lizcwhite.bsky.social Book lover. Tea drinker. Incorrigibly plural.
librariannb.bsky.social @librariannb.bsky.social Librarian for Maths, Physics and Computing at Imperial Library. 
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social Librarian | Union rep | Maker | Potterer
Scotland
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary โช@adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Rebecca J @hipporebecca.bsky.social Leopard print is a neutral. Book drunk freak / Punk Ass Book Jockey/ #MedLibs. Collector of social media accounts apparently. She/her
Nicki Clarkson @nickiclarkson.bsky.social Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
Kirsty Wallis (she/her) @kirstywallis.com Head of Research Liaison, UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. Librarian. PhD Student in DIS at UCL. Neurodivergent. Photographer. Anthropologist. Bullet Journal Enthusiast. Baker. Nerd. www.kirstywallis.com
Katherine Burchell (she/her) @katherinehelen.bsky.social Open Access Adviser - theul.bsky.social
MA in Library and Information Service Management - University of Sheffield
Chartered Member of CILIP
Chair of cilipeast.bsky.social & CILIP 125 Recipient
Social Media Editor for camlibgroup.bsky.social
Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social Manchester Metadata Maven
UK Librarian #OpenAccess & #OpenInfras supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
Mike Jones @thatlibraryman.bsky.social Academic librarian with interests in information literacy, library marketing and the impact of AI on the research process!
Jo @octavosaurus.bsky.social Special collections / heritage / libraries / archives, education, Wikimedia, art, UCL, GirlGuiding, neurodiversity, geekery. ๐๐๐ฆโจ
https://linktr.ee/octavosaurus
Colette Townend @colettet.bsky.social Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Vanessa Freedman @vrfreedman.bsky.social Hebrew & Jewish Studies librarian at University College London. Co-convenor, Hebraica Libraries Group. Posts are my own views etc She/her
Hannah James @hannahjames.bsky.social Archives, records, and data protection. Derbyshire lass in exile, Beaver (Scout) leader, Friend, and proud Mummy.
Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social Copyright librarian. Expect much fangirling about books, theatre and Shakespeare here.
Darren Flynn (he/him/his) @patchedelbows.bsky.social Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL.
PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce.
Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs. 
Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social Information manager, Long Covid, dementia care, choral singing. An atheist of Jewish extraction who really likes Anglican churchgoing. She/ Her. 
Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social "I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing but I'm mad as hell" Libraries, vampires and Sherlock Holmes. Very good bad influence. She/Her.
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social Me?
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Helen Clough @helenclough.bsky.social Associate Director at the Open University Library interested in relationship management, strategic planning, and supporting distance and online learners in HE libraries. She/her
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy- S Siobhan @siobhanh.bsky.social Systems & Discovery Manager (Librarian) |
Open Access, Publishing, Diversity, IT, Libraries & (Digital) Collections.
Tech, cooking and moorwalking |
She/Her | Views (unfortunately) my own.
Jess @bookelf.bsky.social I'm a librarian. I also do a lot of crochet and cross stitch. I do a fair bit of stuff but it's mostly around #infolit #critlit etc. Managing Editor for JIL.
Claire Warren @clairewarren.bsky.social Lead learning facilitator (head librarian) for a large UK college. Qualified + chartered librarian, also a freelance independent reading/library consultant. She/her. Pan. www.clairewarrenconsulting.co.uk
Kristofer Keane @kris.scot Library worker! Trade unionist! Pro-independence!
www.kris.scot
Manda Laine @eldelphia.bsky.social She/her. Librarian. Senior library manager. FHEA. Often staff to cats. Lover of tech, gaming, mythology, old places, rock & trashy literature! LGBTQIA+ ally. Mental Health First Aider.
Lilly Evans ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ท๐ธ @alherix.bsky.social Curious, keen follower of current events worldwide, teenager at heart. Multicultural, multinational & multilingual granny/ baba
Recreating community of diverse thinkers and doers. Parish councillor trying her best
She/ her
Jo Cornish @jocornish.bsky.social "Knowledge is justice, and all should be welcome in the temples of taxonomies". Fellow of CILIP, FRSA.
Bridges, baseball, cheese.
That's me.
David Clover @davidclover.bsky.social Librarian and student services manager. 
Julia @lawlibjulia.bsky.social Level 31
๐น Dreaming about books, food, and travel
โ๏ธ Law librarian
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally in all forms
๐ hailing frequencies open
Collector of hobbies: cross-stitch and lover of video games
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
Kathryn Marsh @mrsmarshlibrary.bsky.social NHS Library Assistant, a musician (when the chance arises), former lots of things including Primary School Teacher, School Librarian, Retail Manager, โฅ๏ธ live music, โฅ๏ธ Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Yes, Iโve worn many hats. Currently focusing on marketing and outreach.
Dr Alyson Tyler @alysonresearch.bsky.social Independent researcher, library policy background, formerly Wales now Scotland (https://alysontyler-research.uk/); also web editor at Ethical Consumer, yoga teacher and massage therapist (all jobs p/t). Treehugger. ๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ช๐ญ ๐งโโ๏ธ โฎ๏ธ๐๏ธ