Philosophy Playdate @philosophyplaydate.bsky.social Kids' impossible questions addressed with serious philosophy from ancient history to current research. As a podcast.
Brought to you by @drstevex.bsky.social and Christabel Cane
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James Connolly @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (13 performances so far).
@curatorpolly.bsky.social @curatorpolly.bsky.social 
Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
Dr Sheona Shankland @sheonashankland.bsky.social Anatomist🫀
Lecturer @glasgow.ac.uk
Raman & Bone 🦴 @Lancasteruni.bsky.social & @MaryRoseMuseum.bsky.social
Anatomical Society councillor
Paleoanthropology, archaeology & forensics.
My views. She/Her
Pippa Hough @pippahough.bsky.social I manage the events programme at the Horniman Museum, London. My views are my own, or stolen from others.
Emma Canterbury @emmac-panther.bsky.social Museum Director @RoystonMuseum.bsky.social, Trustee at St Neots Museum, Scout Leader, and Mum to 2 amazing boys.
All views my own (she/her)
Joan Chang @tranejoan.bsky.social Chasing the👩🏻🔬dream: HKG-EDI-LDN-CPH-RDU-MAN| Matrix/⏰ biology | Disease microenvironment | MRC CDA Fellow @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social @mcf-uom.bsky.social, University of Manchester | Mass Spec aficionado
Kate Slade @katedoingscience.bsky.social Psychology Lecturer at Lancaster Medical School & researcher into ears, ageing, brains, listening🦻🧠 co-host Drs Confess pod 🎤
she/her
https://linktr.ee/kateslade
Declan @sholingdex.bsky.social ‘Mature’ student at the OU studying astronomy ‘we’re all in the gutter but some of us are looking at stars’
#SaintsFC fan, lager enthusiast
🇮🇪 🇵🇸
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Dr Sarah Jones @sarahejones.bsky.social Research Co-ordinator for the LEMONTREE Project, Imperial College London
Claire Bithell @clairebithell.bsky.social Northerner living in East London. Loves nature, art, good food & my neurodivergent family. E17.
Comms consultant, formerly comms at Academy of Medical Sciences, Science Media Centre, Institute of Cancer Research. Ex Times Health Commission.
She/her.
Julie Hoffman, EdD @hoffiecup.bsky.social She/her Educator. Reader. Writer. Poet. Researcher. Vegan. Abolitionist. Radical listener. NCTE. NAACP. Illinois Reading Council. Shattering barriers. Building bridges.
Actually, it’s Dr. Hoffman.
Terence Eden @edent.tel Longer hair than you.
Chaotic Good.
Doesn't work for The Man™ any more.
If you're involved in Blockchain or Crypto you will be blocked on sight.
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Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog
Public Engagement Unit @ UniofBath @uniofbathpeu.bsky.social We're a central team working across the University of Bath to support high-quality involvement and engagement with research
CarsmileSteve @carsmilesteve.bsky.social Beer, wrestling, socialism, trying to avoid doing too much harrumphing about the world in general.
ANY joke/punne that makes me actually groan out loud will be reposted. He/him.
Ian Bowkett @ianbowkett.bsky.social I write musicals (The Sam Neill Experience/Sisyphus: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Musical) and I write about musicals (Musical Theatre Review). Also 👨🔬+📸 person. Host of The Mayor of Musical Theatre podcast. (he/him)
Iszi Lawrence @iszi.com I research the truth and lie to children about it. Author of Historical Fiction for Kids. (You might have heard me on Radio 4 or World Service or seen me pop up on BBC2, Sky History or Netflix)
Co-host of Terrible Lizards Podcast
iszi.com
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Dr Anna Ploszajski @annaploszajski.bsky.social Materials scientist👩🔧| Storyteller🏰| Author ✏| Presenter 🎥 | Trainer 👩🏫 | Speaker 🎤 | Channel swimmer🧜♀ | “Por-shy-ski"👍| she/her |🏳🌈
Director of Storyology Ltd - storytelling training for scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people
Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social 📊 #DataViz specialist.
💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3.
🎨 Generative artist.
🏃♀️ Runner.
Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/
She/her. Views my own.
New Scientist @newscientist.com The best place to find out what’s new in science – and why it matters.
Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org We’re the world's leading independent cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, influence and information.
linktr.ee/cr_uk
Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org With the future of the world in the balance, everyone has a role to play in making it better. How will you join in?
🌐 Website: www.rsc.org
Dr Emma Jenks @emmajenks.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Bristol, with research interests in neurodiversity and inclusive education 😊
Dr Dave Hone @davehone.bsky.social Palaeontologist specialising in the behaviour of dinosaurs and biology of pterosaurs. Reader in Zoology @QMUL. Author of several books, podcaster, general sci-commer. Thoughts my own. He / him. davehone.co.uk 
Jemma Kerns @drjemmakerns.bsky.social Scientist, spectroscopist, passionate about research culture and improving women's health.
Louise Sutherland @lsutherland.bsky.social 📍Lives in The North.
💼 Head of Engagement, North @ The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
❤️Likes Bowie, Gin, Museums, Heritage, Culture, Nail Polish & PokemonGO. Unapologetically Gen X.
👉Follows/reposts not endorsements.
📝Views & skeets very much mine.
Terri Dendy @terridendy.bsky.social Find me in museum stores, previously opinionated blogger @ Ministry of Curiosity.
Known for looking angry at objects - but really obsessed with them
Also over here: https://www.instagram.com/terri.dendy
Lucy Harper @lucyharper.bsky.social Chief Exec., Applied Microbiology International www.appliedmicrobiology.org @amiposts.bsky.social (my views, not theirs) Scientist, strategist, charity leader, parent, spouse, pianist, yogi, runner and cat lover. She/her/hers.
Dr. Gemma Angel @gemma-angel.bsky.social #Interdisciplinary #academic #teaching #MuseumStudies at Leicester. Misanthropic #anthropologist. #Historian of niche things. World expert on preserved #tattoos. Hands-on researcher. Professional #cat Mum. #Neurospicy. She/they, as in pl.
Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social Academic Researcher in Inclusive Design @ Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London. she/her.
Runs @toiletmap.bsky.social 🚽. Wrote a book https://tinyurl.com/y3ra4y4f. Does not have a PhD.
British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social A charity with a vision for science to be more relevant, representative, and connected to society. Founded in 1831.
www.britishscienceassociation.org
www.britishsciencefestival.org
www.britishscienceweek.org
www.crestawards.org
Phoebe Reynolds @pheereynolds.bsky.social Postdoc at FMI • PhD at KCL • Interested in senses ➡️ behaviour. Science communication. 🧠👩🔬🐟
📸 steve_x
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
Les Carr @lescarr.bsky.social 60 year old nerdy guy with a job researching AI and the science of online life at the University of Southampton, and a side hustle in standup comedy.
Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social Palaeobotany | Scicomm | Associate Prof in Plant Science, Nottingham, UK | Vogon poet | Views my own | She/her
Kat Phillips @katdoesmaths.bsky.social 📚 Innovation Research Associate and Engagement Lead at CAMaCS, University of Warwick
➕ MathsComm on Twitch
🎩 Wearer of Hats
💙💜🩷 She/They
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
James Brown @jcwbrown.bsky.social Science, Festivals, and Science Festivals
Head of Festivals at British Science Association and Director of the British Science Festival
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Can ride a bike. Likes a good film.
(he/him/his)
Shamini Bundell @shamini.bsky.social "joyfully energetic nerd" - Science & TTRPGs - London based creative.
- Creating nerdy ttrpg actual play with @RPGeeksDnD
- Award winning video journalist for @Nature
- Performer, improviser, GM
- She/her and it rhymes with 'harmony'
LisaVamp @lisavamp.bsky.social Bitch Goddess-Warrior. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊 PA Democrat #AuDHD #ChildlessCatLady #LBGTQ+ #BLM #Resist. Nerd. Tea freak. True crime buff. OG Punk/Goth. MS Soc Psych
Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social Head of Zoology and Science Collections at UCL based at the Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Nature, science, art, music.
Glassjarofmoles @glassjarofmoles.bsky.social We many moles proudly reside at
@GrantMuseum. A disparate lot, our interests lie in adventure, science, equality, educational disadvantage, history & worms.
Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social Philosophy and history of medicine. Many other things. Autrice "Pilules Roses", julietteferrydanini.com
Ian Lane @toxicshamesquadron.bsky.social Stand-up, DJ, Worms speedrunner (RuffledBricks), and YouTube’s first Remix Review Guy. Proud member of the Toxic Shame Squadron.
https://linktr.ee/toxicshamesquadron
Olivier Usher @ojusher.com Technology | Innovation prizes | Director of Development at Challenge Works, a @nestauk.bsky.social enterprise | ojusher.com
reluctant anchorite @vaneharriet.bsky.social ex-homeschool kid • ex-fundamentalist • ex-Saskatooner • ex-academic • mom to a non-speaking autistic teen • unlearning it as I go
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… TV & Podcast producer / writer / host. Director of HistFest.
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Seb Falk @sebfalk.com Historian of science ||
Admissions Tutor at Girton College, University of Cambridge ||
Singer, sailor, runner, father ||
"Always generous" – The New Yorker
Dan Schreiber @schreiberland.bsky.social Host of QI’s No Such Thing As A Fish / Author of The Theory Of Everything Else / co-founder of BBC’s The Museum of Curiosity
UK TOUR: ‘This Changes Everything’ starts this October
History Hack @historyhack.bsky.social Fun history podcast recommended by the BBC.
Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk 🎧🎙 Award-winning presenter: Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast (independent - arts/science) | Event host | Podcaster | Broadcaster | Love theatre, history, space
🌐 https://jodurrant.co.uk/
🌐 https://jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/
Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social Award-nominated Historian & Author FRHistS
WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty
Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
@15minutebook.club 🎧
www.istoriatravel.org ✈️
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
https://achurchill.substack.com
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social Military and 20thC Historian and Battlefield Tour Guide. Co-founder of the Great War Group.
http://historyandmoore.com - history blogs, media work, talk requests and more
Disney/Sweet Treats/WBA
Black Country wench now transplanted into Shropshire
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Archives & Pathology Museum, City St George's, UoL @citystgeorgesarch.bsky.social Archives & Special Collections and Pathology Museum at City St George's, University of London. Custodians of Jenner's cow Blossom 
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology 
Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social Criminal Psychologist 🎙️ TV & Audio Presenter 📚 Author. Next book: GREEN CRIME, on the psychology of environmental crime, out now. drjuliashaw.com
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps.
There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome.
Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Science Grrl @science-grrl.bsky.social A UK grassroots network celebrating women and non-binary people in science: local connections with a national voice. Because science is for everyone.
www.sciencegrrl.co.uk
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
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social I'm Raven Baxter, Ph.D. I'm molecular biologist and science educator who loves sharing science with the world! thesciencemaven.com
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social Fellow of the Royal Historical Society • HWA Book judge • Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor https://amzn.to/4e499k9 • A Chronicle of Dragon & Cats https://bit.ly/48klsaQ • Events & Talks https://linktr.ee/nathenamin • Welsh-Kashmiri
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social Costumier, dress historian and film producer for Crow’s Eye Productions 🌍🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇸🇪🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺
Martin Blacklock @martin54.bsky.social Apparently not nerdy enough. Likes a good museum. And long walks.
Ok with spiders.
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
linktr.ee/museumbums
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Tim Eveleigh @timeveleigh.bsky.social Numquam suffragium Conservativum
20 scrabble points
Performer https://www.timeveleigh.co.uk
Promoter https://www.getartmore.org.uk
Programmer https://www.evinsol.co.uk
Podcaster https://www.freedomexpression.co.uk
Pundit https://www.carrot.org.uk
Punter
Sam Smith. Not That One. @scsmith4.bsky.social She/her. DO NOT HUG. Tea, books, baking, bicycles. Chocolate. #OU Astronomy student. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈
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'
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile