Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Richard Saich @richardsaich.bsky.social Fellow @lsehistory | History of Globalization, Neoliberalism, Social Movements | 🌱 🏳️🌈 he/him | http://richardsaich.com
Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social Sociologist at Loughborough University researching sport, environmental sustainability, antiracism & refugees. Member of @fanseurope & @britsoci
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Shannon Kneis @shannonkneis.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Sociology at Polity Press https://bsky.app/profile/politybooks.bsky.social
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social A collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians
socispal@proton.me
https://socispal.wordpress.com/about/
Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social Sociologist. Interested in development, human rights, higher education, books, transdisciplinary stuff. Posts personal. #academicsky
Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social A journal centered on social movements and relations, linking educators, artists, & activists in the struggle for social justice.
Read: https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/
Podcast: "Kalfou: Community Centered" on Spotify, Apple, & iHeart.
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs.
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Scarlet Harris @scarletharris.bsky.social Sociologist researching, writing and teaching on state racisms, anti-racism, police/prison abolition, the left. She/her. Forthcoming book out 22nd April 2025: Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British Left.
Benjamin Brundu-Gonzalez @benbrundugonzalez.bsky.social Sociologist | Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics | education · inequality · mixed methods · elites
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
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social Postdoc at Tampere University, Finland, researching queer histories of rurality and DIY / 'ITE' art
I'm a cultural geographer w/ special expertise in visual geographies and geographies of sexualities. Also write on affect, emotion and asexualities.
@dyutic.bsky.social @dyutic.bsky.social 
Myka Abramson @mykaabramson.bsky.social ‘Cartographies of Empire
The Road Novel and American Hegemony’ w/
@stanfordpress, 2025: https://www.sup.org/books/cartographies-empire?tab=1
UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social Official account of the Newcastle university branch of the university and college union
Steph Mulrine @stephmulrine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Medical Sociology. Qualitative researcher interested in care, health inequalities, socially-produced vulnerabilities, social class, and death and bereavement. Activist and Trustee of Thrive Teesside.
(she/her)
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Tabs @tabracadabra.bsky.social museum boy, gelato lover, dog patter
previously london, trying to get to glasgow
they/them
Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social She/Her Assistant Prof in Sociology at Northumbria Uni. Researching migration, reproductive justice, citizenship. My views, not my employers'.
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Hannah D-C 🦐 @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social Political-environmental geographer. Thinking & writing about: oceans and aquatic life, biotech, biobanking, geopolitics, illegal wildlife trade & caviar
Simon Research Fellow @uomseed.bsky.social
Secretary of @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
Dr Aiko Holvikivi @aikoiiris.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LSE Gender, feminist curious about knowledge, pedagogy and (in)security.
Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social Cultural & Historical Geographer | Managing Editor @RGS-IBG (views own) | critical plant studies | 19th C. floriculture
Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social Environmental Geographer QMUL; Author of *Water: abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity* (NYU Press); NEW BOOK: Landlocked: water, energy and planetary politics in Alberta (w/Chicago): https://shorturl.at/aPnVO
Prof. Julian Leyland @profjulianleyland.bsky.social Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
Director of Environmental Sensing @ Southampton
Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social Economic Geographer @ Newcastle University (UK) researching feminist finance, everyday (digital) economies, financial inclusion, housing 'love letters' & the politics of knowledge production // northeast (US) to North East (UK)
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
Naaz Rashid @naazrashid.bsky.social Writer and researcher (recovering academic)
IG drnaazrashid
she/her
Selin Sivis @selinsivis.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Sussex | Interdisciplinary Researcher on Migration, Inequality and Work
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Friends, Families and Travellers @fft.bsky.social A leading national charity working to get a fair deal for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers.
Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social www.threeacresandacow.co.uk
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Jay Todd 🏳️⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. Human geographer. ABBA devotee. Geordie in Glasgow. they/them
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jaytodd/
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
Area @areajournal.bsky.social Area publishes concise papers and commentaries that shape key debates within and beyond the discipline of geography. Area is especially welcoming of work by early career researchers & awards an annual ECR prize.
Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social 📚SL Social Theory (QMUL)🪴Houseplant Lover and Researcher 🌱/ 🐈⬛ Digital Cat Lady/ 🖤Witchy things 🖤🌈
IG @careforplants
Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social doing some stuff, sometimes
~Bread & Roses: Rest & Free Time Under Disabling Capitalism~
Glasgow
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Katy Mathers - Senior Commissioning Editor, Emerald Publishing @katymathers.bsky.social 📚 Senior Book Editor, Sociology & Criminology
🏆 2025 Shortlist - IPG Young Independent Publisher Award
🤍 Based in Yorkshire
📢 All views my own
🌱vegan 🎭 arts 🏃♀️➡️running 🌍 exploring
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social Analysis & commentary on UK law affecting trans people and their rights. Our work is unfortunately suspended at the moment.
Deeply opposed to UKSC/FWS ruling of 16/4/25 & to its blatant exploitation to hurt trans people by the EHRC, the media & others.
Cursed Objects podcast @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social A podcast about pop culture, history and tat - like a cursed show and tell, with @kasiatee.bsky.social and @danhancox.bsky.social
Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @ucddublin.bsky.social | Reviews and Roundtables Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social | Author of 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' (2025) @edinburghup.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/
Strike Map @strikemap.org Putting struggle on the map across Britain and the Island of Ireland. Partnership with @gftu.org.uk. Submit a strike today #strikemap.
All our links: beacons.ai/strikemap
Sam Whewall @drsamwhewall.bsky.social Research Fellow, UCL @UCLGlobalYouth.bsky.social 🌏 | youth studies, sociology, geography | Coastal youth life chances: https://tinyurl.com/mucsrx5 | Runner 🏃🏻♂️ & baker 🥐
Yvette Taylor @yvettetaylor.bsky.social 
Dr Renasha Khan @renasha.bsky.social Lecturer in Religion & Social Sciences @KingsTRS @KCL Documentary PD 📺 and Director @forwardculture (she/her)
Cllr Dr Kindy Sandhu @kindysandhu.bsky.social Labour and Co-op Councillor, Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, Coventry.
Yes I have a PhD!
Academic 
Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social Sociology prof at University of Oslo. Class, culture, politics, theory. Member of The European Center for the Study of Culture & Inequality. Associate editor, European Societies. Editorial board of ASR. Frank Parkin Appreciation Society.
Laura Swift @lauramswift.bsky.social editor / maker / writer / researcher. Free Palestine 🍉
Helping good people make good books.
lauraswift.com
Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, Durham UCU. Writing a book on non-reciprocity.
janabacevic.net
Thi Bogossian (they/them) @thibogossian.bsky.social 
@drlilianamdb.bsky.social @drlilianamdb.bsky.social 
Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social Quantitative Social Science at C3S Frankfurt. Climate Change, Environmental + Urban Sociology, Spatial Demography and Methods, with ❤️ for Fixed Effects and 🚴
Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social A geographer who makes games and interactive stories.
Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: https://pinthetale.co.uk/
jackalowe.co.uk
Ash Watson @awtsn.bsky.social Sociologist, Senior Lecturer + Scientia Fellow @ UNSW Sydney, Fiction Editor @ The Sociological Review 🏳️🌈 she/her awtsn.com
Dr Clare Marie @clarem212.bsky.social Historian of Irish and Asian history. PhD from TCD: Ulstermen and Identity in the Chinese Customs Service. Derry Girl working in HE and EdTech. I love bad movies, good TV, and wrestling.
Alex Eleazar 🇬🇹 @alex-eleazar.bsky.social assistant prof at Hunter College | researching migration, power and identity, & postcolonial legacies 📖 | #Firstgen
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland 
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, and chosen as a 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Mariya Ivancheva 🍉 @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social feminist sociologist & anthropologist of highered & labour in digital era; social/ist mvts; author of #AlternativeUniversity, own views
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Tia Trafford @abolitionary.bsky.social abolition without end(s) | “Everything is Police” (UMinn Press 2024) | “The Empire at Home” (Pluto 2020)
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/
UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
Monica Heilman 석지혜 @writingmonicker.bsky.social sociologist studying race, multiracial identity & whiteness using qualitative & arts-based methods
monicaheilman.com
orcid.org/0000-0001-6491-1434
views my own
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
+972 Magazine @972mag.com Independent news and analysis from Israel-Palestine, home to Palestinian and Israeli journalists committed to equity, justice, and freedom of information.
Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Centre for Museum Cultures @museumsbirkbeck.bsky.social A hub for intellectual exchange and debate relating to all aspects of museology, curation, and heritage. 
Mikaela Dufur @mikaeladufur.bsky.social Sociologist studying kids' social resources and, occasionally, sport at BYU. Living the academic middle management dream. Ohio State alum. Serving the world's best cat.
beckymiller @beckymiller33.bsky.social Dreamer, doer, cyclist, human being, Planet Earth. Policy and service designer at Defra. New here...
https://beckymiller.co.uk
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
Miriam Brett @miriambrett.bsky.social Co-Director Future Economy Scotland | Green New Deal Rising board | My own views | she/her
Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
Tessa @tessapinto.bsky.social ME [+ comorbidities] post-vax in 2021. 100% bedbound since July 2023.
Hope one day to become an advocate for this life destroying disease.
Exponent of patient-led research & advocacy, and the right to try.
M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
Alberto Matarán Ruiz @albertomataran.bsky.social Prof. de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio en la Universidad de Granada. Activista socioambiental. ¡¡Seguimos!!
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Emma Rawlings Smith @geography-emma.bsky.social Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton. Often found reading, writing or walking in the hills.