Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
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 FRSE.
Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social Historian and writer of books incl. ‘Invention of Nature', ‘Magnificent Rebels’ and soon 'The Traveller' … www.andreawulf.com and I'm also on Instagram @aswulf
Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social Frequently wrong. Please correct (effort involved appreciated).
Experiments with Data Visualisation:
https://github.com/MariosRichards/BES_analysis_code
https://medium.com/@mariosrichards
https://mariosrichards.substack.com/
Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social Writing mostly about health, innovation and people. Britain correspondent at The Economist.
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Peter Ryley @peterryley.bsky.social Published writer on anarchism. Unpublished writer of other stuff. London born, lived longer in the north. Hence supporting Crystal Palace Football Club and Swinton Lions Rugby League. Now based in Greece. Hate Brexit with a passion.
Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) Alliance @prcalliance.bsky.social Working together to share knowledge and accelerate the adoption of the PRC model of scholarly publishing.
https://publish-review-curate.org/
AFKA Weltgeist Redux @wolfgangwalter.bsky.social Mainly politics, philosophy, and pleasure.
Sideshow: Science.
(learned from the statistics gods: just correlate two variables, p < 0.10 is good for your mental health!)
Whoever puts me on whatever list, gets blocked
Lives in Munich.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Roger Rimbaud @rogerday.bsky.social Mostly cats and dogs
Painting and sculpture. Poetry. Photography
Renaissance and Late Medieval History
Military History and Intelligence
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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social Teaching assistant and PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Working on Artificial Intelligence ∩ Mathematics ∩ Science of Science.
Newham Bookshop @newhambookshop.bsky.social Est in 1978, Newham Books is one of east London's leading independent bookshops. With an extensive events programme, check out some of the authors coming up.
www.newhambooks.co.uk
Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social Creator of Like Stories of Old
https://www.youtube.com/@LikeStoriesofOld
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social I paint pictures. Cycled across continents. Like walking when not limping. Loved a dog. Writing a book. #art #cyclist #Dublin #efc Liam Daly he/him
Website: https://liamdaly.com/
Prints: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-liam-daly/shop/prints
Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org Science, tech, and innovation politics/policy incl patents. Author: next book on politics of inclusive innovation in India. #STS. Prof & Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, U of Michigan. Expert Voices columnist, Science. shobitap.org
Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social Medicinal chemist / chemical biologist, author of “In the Pipeline” at http://science.org/blogs/pipeline. derekb.lowe@gmail.com and on Signal at Dblowe.18
All opinions are mine; I don’t speak for my employer in any way.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Alice Donald @alicedonald.bsky.social Professor, School of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, working to inform public debate on human rights. Trustee of @justfairuk.bsky.social. Mancunian Lambeth dweller. MUFC
@eileeno65.bsky.social @eileeno65.bsky.social 
Christine Cardin @christinecardin.bsky.social X-ray crystallographer and nucleic acids fan. Ruthenium is still my favourite element. Still proud mum of two. Pro EU.
Luna Fazio @lunafazio.bsky.social researching research at @i4replication.bsky.social
lunafazio.github.io
Luke Georghiou @lgg13.bsky.social I am a Professor at the University of Manchester. My interests/passions are research and innovation policy and foresight in my city, country, Europe and beyond - studying, advising and doing!
Amy Peace @amypeace.bsky.social Innovation Lead -Circular Economy at Innovate UK
Systems/Sustainability/Engineering/Infographics/QuizMaster/Mum
Born@ 339.2ppmCO2
MIChemE FRSA
My opinions here
Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Mark van Raaij @markvanraaij.eurosky.social Structural biologist, virus proteins, bacteriophages, expresser and purifier, crystallisation, macromolecular crystallography, commissioning editor for Acta Cryst F.
David Dye @davedye.bsky.social Metallurgy Prof at Imperial. Decarbonisation, heat and fabric in buildings; Enerphit, heat pumps. Micromechanics of Ti and Co/Ni in jet engines - because people like to land. Zr in LWRs and TR/WIP MedMn steels. A lot of XFEL, synchrotron and neutron stuff.
Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social Lefty liberal by temperament, exasperated by experience.
Not strictly qualified for most arguments, but I do read a lot.
Stockport, UK
Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social Evolution: it's nothing personal. (Sorry if I ask too many questions... Share nicely!)
I'm here because you're here.
http://pabloredux.wordpress.com/
(Profile photo: a faint shadow of me cast across a weathered lichen-marked stone wall by the sea.)
Sarah Whalley @drsarahwhalley.bsky.social 🌿 Acting Head of Research Strategy & Policy at Queen's University Belfast & Co-Chair of ARMA Insights EWG
📬 Posts: H.E. strategy & policy
🙏Values: anti-racism & inclusivity; motivated to build thriving research environments
🎤All views my own (she/ her)
Octopus Energy @octopus.energy Floating about.
We believe energy should be better - a better experience for customers, better for the planet, and better value for money.
Need help from our social media team? https://octo.ps/bluesky-help
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Fred Bordignon @freddie2310.bsky.social Researcher at LISIS & NanoBubbles team member
Research Integrity Officer & Bibliometrician at École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Blog: carnetist.hypotheses.org
Publications: https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/frederique-bordignon
Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social Open Scholarship, Repetition Research, Research on Research; likes repetition, likes repetition
https://replicationresearch.org/
@geoffmulgan.bsky.social @geoffmulgan.bsky.social 
Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social Lecturer/researcher in phil & neuro.
Éireannach en France/immigrant.
Education, evolution, embodied mind/metaphysiology, memory, deliberation, myside bias, representation, reasoning, perspectivism, pragmatism.
Universités de Bordeaux & Bdx-Montaigne.
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان
Pronounced /nisri:n/ with an s not a z and a long ee ☺️
Professor of Public Health MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Still curious
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
💚 🧿 🌻
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Metascience Alliance @metasci-alliance.bsky.social Connecting the global metascience community. The Metascience Alliance is a new network fostering collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and regions to improve the research system. Learn more or get involved at cos.io/metascience-alliance.
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
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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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist and Evolutionary Ecologist at the University of Oxford - natural history, science, cycling
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
Jonathan Cairns @jonathancairns.bsky.social Data wizard, biostatistician, research scientist, occasional comedian, unexpected series champion of Only Connect. He/him. Views my own.
Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social Computational neuroscientist.
Senior Lecturer at Ulster University in the Great City of Derry, Northern Ireland.
"not articulate enough"
https://odonnellgroup.github.io
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Real Professor Moody @petermoody.bsky.social Macromolecular Crystallography, enzymology, particle accelerators, X-rays, neutrons, protons, electrons, motorcycles.
Chris Stokes @nisaccom.bsky.social 
Jenny Koenig @jennyakoenig.bsky.social Associate Professor Pharmacology @ Nottingham Uni. Fellow of British Pharmacological Society. PhD, SFHEA, PGCE (secondary chemistry).
Pharmacology education, maths education, curriculum, ethnicity. 
Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/
DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social Multipurpose spacecraft wrangler for @esa.int
Opinions my own.
https://x37b.nl
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social Recovering prebiotic chemist. Editor in Chief at Cell Reports Physical Science @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social. Personal account, views not my employer's, etc.
profserious @profserious.bsky.social Technology, Software, Policy, Security, Universities, Art, Antiques, Cats. https://finkelstein.uk
Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social Political and media researcher. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. All views are my own.
Book learnin' –– OSU, GU, KCL
David Matthews @davidmjourno.bsky.social Reporting on science and technology policy. International editor at @sciencebusiness.net. I also write for @nature.com. Based in Berlin.
https://davidjackmatthews.journoportfolio.com
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social Writer/fancy ape
damienowens.com
Latest book, Duffy and Son: https://shorturl.at/6oF6O
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social PhD candidate studying Monte Carlo simulations in the social/behavioral sciences | Meta-Research Center, Tilburg University | Board member at the Platform for Young Meta-Scientists (PYMS) @youngmetascience.bsky.social
Daniel Black @danielsblack.bsky.social Research Director | Planetary Health, Cities, Risk, Decision-Making, Complex Research Operationalisation
Elisa Pannini @elisapannini.bsky.social Lecturer in HRM
CREW Greenwich crew-greenwich.bsky.social
PhD from LSE Management
Employment relations, labour, unions, technology.
Opinions are my own.
Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience 👩🎓
own views 🐙 anastasia.christakou.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4267-3436
children's welfare | science | 🧠 brains & their people
Matt "Winter is here" @mattrobb.bsky.social Politics, Education, Strategy, LFC and FF
No conspiracists, anti-vax, QAnon etc please
"Don’t be obnoxious replying to my posts unless you have data" @drjennings.bsky.social
moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota. Sporadically writing stuff at http://getsyeducated.substack.com
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. He/him. Views my own. Enemy of AI slop. The photo is me, not some random bloke. Background image from Ymer Island, north-East Greenland.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
Marko Hyvönen @markohyvonen.bsky.social Protein jockey at University of Cambridge, CSO at Qkine, Professor Visitante at USP.
Cyclist.
https://hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Rafael Bailo @rafaelbailo.bsky.social www.rafaelbailo.com
Applied mathematician. Assistant professor at TUEindhoven. Previously in Oxford, Lille, Imperial College. 🏳️🌈- M Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/martin-sandbu
Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social Chromatin and cryoEM afficionada. Still a fan of crystallography. Avid Colorado hiker. Will call out ugly nucleosome cartoons. Scrappy quilter. Come for the science, stay for the mountains, quilts, and snark. Opinions and snark are my own.
Andy Extance @andyextance.bsky.social Bag of chemicals posing as a science journalist; member of the board of the Association of British Science Writers; on the organising committee of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2027 in London, activist, widower.
Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social Chemotaxis. Math. Computers. Cells. Machine learning.
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Eddie Mair @eddiemair.bsky.social Lack of Influencer
Natalie Martin @drnataliemartin.bsky.social Ex-BBC, now @NottsPolitics. Democracy and security inc. disordered information in TR, GB and EU. Journalism is NOT a crime. “Her yer Taksim, her yer direniş"
RTs not endorsement https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/natalie.martin1
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Anne Sophie Meincke @asmeincke.bsky.social Philosopher @univie.ac.at, PhD; doing metaphysics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind & action, history of philosophy; particularly fond of process metaphysics; otherwise into writing, singing, dancing, art. https://www.annesophiemeincke.com
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Nick Hillman @nickhillmanuk.bsky.social Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, Dad
Randy Ellis @randalljellis.bsky.social Host of Metascience Matters; Data Scientist
https://youtube.com/@metasciencematters
https://open.spotify.com/show/7coSExbjL2LnlBZh89BDZG?si=V4qEsyWzT4KQ1kCiNbBcIQ
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things" • dylan.difford@yougov.com
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
Subscribe here: https://renewal.org.uk/ 
Nancy Mack, PhD @nancyrmack.bsky.social NIMH F32 Brain Initiative Fellow @ Princeton Neuroscience Institute. 
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
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