Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social Edinburgh Correspondent The Herald #StandFree ✝️🦅
josh.pizzuto-pomaco@newsquest.co.uk
Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social Disabled, northerner, book hoarder, foreign language enthusiast, trade unionist, Green, and unabashed cat lady.
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social 4x SFSA ‘Best Writer’ winner. Writing, podcasts, radio, live shows. Anti-your-team agenda.
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Courtney MacPhee @cmacphee.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Stanford History; interested in C17 empire and nonconformity in the Atlantic world; she/her
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social A podcast for lovers of literature since 2015. Find us at historyofliterature.com.
Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social Prolixity from Dr Andrew Tickell. Law & Scottish politics. Senior lecturer in law at GCU Law, Jacobin scribbler, Sunday National columnist, and jaded flâneur.
Barbara Jane van der Meulen @growteachers.bsky.social FHEA | Teacher and teacher-educator | Researcher and lead author of
education reform policy research https://rse.org.uk/how-does-the-education-reform-agenda-align-wit-scotlands-biggest-priorities/
| Dutch-Scottish hybrid | Views own
The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
Scottish Seabird Centre @seabirdcentre.bsky.social Marine conservation and education charity supported by an award-winning visitor attraction in the stunning coastal town of North Berwick.
For 25 years we have been helping people connect with Scotland’s amazing marine wildlife, habitats & iconic seabirds.
Victoria Wang @vmywang.bsky.social Perpetual student. Constantly confused and/or curious. Currently in Scotland, doing a PhD in philosophy.
Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval)
She/her/ella
Jamie Fairbairn @drfairbairn.bsky.social Scots Language, Geography, Music, outdoors, drams, family, writing, films, fun. 4 x winner Scots Language Awards. SQA Senior Verifier Scots. OU tutor. Teacher. 
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Dundee City Archives @dundeecityarchives.bsky.social Official account of Dundee City Archives, part of Dundee City Council (@dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social). Email archives@dundeecity.gov.uk to book.
For info on visiting and more see https://linktr.ee/DundeeCityArchives
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
Robert Munro @bobbymunro.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Film / Hibs / People's Republic of Leith
'The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself'
~ Henry Miller
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Conor McCabe @conormccabe.bsky.social Lost & Early Writings James Connolly - https://bit.ly/4h7I2r5
Money (UCC Press) - https://www.corkuniversitypress.com/9781782052821/money/
Sins of the Father - https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/sins-of-the-father/
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
barbara b. @lunazuna.bsky.social ...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? | Vincent Willem van Gogh
Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for North East Scotland | Rector of Dundee University | Eco-Socialist & Intersectional Feminist | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/maggiechapman
The Scottish Parliament @parliament.scot The official account of The Scottish Parliament:
https://www.parliament.scot
Lorna Slater @lornaslater.bsky.social Edinburgh Central MSP | Scottish Greens | She/Her | DMs not open.
@leith-walker.bsky.social @leith-walker.bsky.social 📖 🚶🏻♀️🧑🧒 🪴🏴 📵♟️
nothing to win and nothing left to lose
and you give yourself away
Mo @silverwifie.bsky.social Like music, Aberdeen FC, reading, keeping fit. Retired
Haunted Shores @hauntedshores.bsky.social Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic
https://haunted-shores.com/
intertextual.bible @intertextualbible.bsky.social ANE, Hebrew Bible, LXX, Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan, Pseudepigrapha, Deuterocanon, Classics, New Testament, Targum, Rabbinic, & Patristic literary relationships
@suchichoudhury.bsky.social @suchichoudhury.bsky.social 
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly.
Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social
Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Karin Bosshard @karinbosshard.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh, PhD Translation Studies (2023), Translator (EN/FR-DE)
Carantes @carantes.bsky.social Celtic AntiRacist ANTifascist Egalitarian Society.
Fighting fascism and fostering inclusivity in Celtic Studies.
Newsletter at caranteswg@proton.me
Logo by Forfeda
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Derek Alan Meins @derekalanmeins.bsky.social PhD researcher at Glasgow University looking into James Hogg’s influence on the modern Scottish novel. Retired crooner. Director @ Lancaster Musicians Co-op.
Ian Gorrie @iangorrie.bsky.social 35 years in Telecoms. Scot living in England = British. Dundee Angus & Redditch Worcestershire Uk. Interested in Technology, Aviation, History, local culture, military history, politics for the people. Aviation Museum volunteer. Tone deaf pedants blocked.
Dr. Stuart J. Taylor @stuartjtaylor.bsky.social PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University.
#ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
Magnus Watt @magnuswatt.bsky.social Urban fantasy author from the Scottish Highlands, now in Boro
Soon Enough: A Thin Places Novel and
Stories about folklore, belonging, and things that live in the dark
https://mybook.to/soon
https://mybook.to/Otherside
https://mybook.to/thinplaceswinter
EIS @eisunion.bsky.social Scotland's Largest Teaching Union. Posts Mon-Fri, 9-5. Zero tolerance of abuse. Posts are for info only: contact your Rep, LA, AO for advice.
https://www.eis.org.uk/
What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social Scientist, conservationist (emeritus professor), mountain-lover, artist. Happiest outdoors.
Climate change and biodiversity crises are real.
Live in N. England. Often in Scotland.
All photos and other artwork mine. No AI
https://johnaltringham.co.uk
Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round.
North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her
Stephen Kelman @stephenkelman.bsky.social Author of the novels Pigeon English (Booker Prize shortlist, AQA GCSE set text) and Man on Fire. New stuff on the way.
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social 2 hypooneiric 2 curiolatrous
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Ann Walker @annwalker.bsky.social Enthusiast for lifelong learning, books, trivia and the Isle of Lewis (Niseach).
NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
Scott Hames @hinesjumpedup.bsky.social Scottish literature, politics, magazines, research policy and er, youth baseball https://hinesjumpedup.com/projects @studyscotlit.bsky.social
Association for Welsh Writing in English @awwe.bsky.social Cymdeithas Llên Saesneg Cymru - scholarly association for the anglophone literatures of Wales.
AWWE.org
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Ms Marchmont @msmarchmont.bsky.social Seeking solace in scenes of Marchmont, The Meadows, Edinburgh and occasionally beyond.
Knitter.
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴
https://pod.link/1865430519
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
WildPhotoScot @wildphotoscot.bsky.social Amateur wildlife photographer, photographing anything from whelks to whales. Twitter escapee. Website richardwellsphotography.com. Wildlife cards on sale at the Water of Leith visitor centre in Edinburgh.
Imagined Spaces @imaginedspaces.bsky.social We see writing as making & thinking, & thinking as a means of making writing. We value exchanges, initiating conversations with artists and writers & people from all walks of life to explore what it means to be alive today. Website: imaginedspaces.org
Emily Munro @emilymunro.bsky.social emilymunro.co.uk
Writer, filmmaker, curator
THE LIMITS novel (2027)
Alpine Fellowship runner up; Caledonia Novel Award LL; Best of the Net nom; Winner Briefly Write 10
Nom FOCAL International Award for Living Proof: A Climate Story
IG: @smugafgardening
Michael A Cox @shin-mc.bsky.social Reading & writing about weird fiction, forteana, spooky shit • blogs about William Hope Hodgson at @hodgsoniana.bsky.social • guit & vox in @pkbats.neocities.org • used to run an arcade
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social Protecting wildlife and restoring ecosystems across Scotland's land and seas.
https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/
#WordsOfTheWild
Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire.
Website: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
EASSH @eassh.bsky.social European Alliance for Social Sciences & Humanities. Our main aim is to promote #research on #socialsciences & #humanities as a resource for Europe & the world.
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social UCSL brings together Scotland’s universities in support of the study of Scottish writing old and new. We award the Ross Roy Prize and the Scottish Literary Studies Prize. https://ucsl-scotland.com/
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Nicola Wilson-Torch @nicolawilsontorch.bsky.social AHRC SGSAH PhD researcher looking at social media and the publishing ecosystem. Also interested in literary history, platform economies and digital culture. Usually found talking about disability awareness, food, books or 00s TV
Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
http://sarahwallis.net/
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
2026: Gutter, Stand, Full Mood, Ampersand
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Tom Newlands @newlands.bsky.social Something Like Happiness 🌟
Publishing 13th August 26
Only Here, Only Now 💫
Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2025