Juan Acevedo @juanacevedo.bsky.social Mostly trying to understand the #Timaeus.
Warburgian, #Begriffsgeschichte, #alphanumeric systems ( علم الحروف، ابجد), diagrams, armillary stuff, #medieval #mss, Graeco-Arabica, #Islamic studies…to the tune of #BWV988 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social #CIUHCT
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Simon Pulleyn @simonpulleyn.bsky.social Read LitHum at Balliol, Oxford. Sometime Lecturer in Classics at Merton, Oxford. Honorary Research Fellow at Dept of Greek and Latin, UCL. Retired solicitor, non-practising. Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Beatrice Bottomley @beatricebottomley.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - History of Science, University of Bologna ⚗️📜 🐦🔥 medieval and early modern Arabic texts and techniques, with a special place in my heart for animals, plants, and minerals 🐾 🌱 💎www.unibo.it/sitoweb/beatrice.bottomley/en
Krisztina Ilko @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social Junior Research Fellow @queens.cam.ac.uk and Affiliated Lecturer @camhistory.bsky.social. ~> Chess & Global Middle Ages.
Katherine Harvey @katherineharvey.bsky.social Historian and writer.
https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Economic and Social Research. PhD from King’s College London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.- C Corinne Roughley @croughley.bsky.social Lecturer on the Cambridge Foundation Year; landscape archaeologist; passionate about data literacy and natural history
Fr David Goode @frdavidgoode.bsky.social Master of narrowboat Grumpy in The Fens. Amateur photographer. Priest in the Old Catholic Apostolic Church and the Order of the Holy Spirit. Police Chaplain. Hospital chaplain. Fellow and Praelector of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
Luis Iturriaga @neurathic.bsky.social Historian of science and technology in the Spanish empire (among other things). Previously HPS Mphil (cantab) and BA (vind).
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. NEW BOOK: Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Divna Manolova @dulila.bsky.social The optimistic Byzantinist
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
OFF Movement @off-movement.bsky.social Mobilising Humanity Against Tech Alienation
https://www.offm.org/en/off-february
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social Archaeology & ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility, kinship & identity in the ancient Mediterranean 🏺
Humans, megafauna & environments of the Upper Paleolithic 🧊
https://mootspoints.blogspot.com/
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. New book, Wildly Different, about women and the wild is out in the wild!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Wrestling another one
Never use AI
Stéphanie Swarbreck @stephaniemswarbre.bsky.social Plant scientist passionate about securing a sustainable and nutritious food supply, reducing agriculture’s environmental impact, and teaching and mentoring the next generation of scientists.
Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org We are the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants. Caring for nature reserves, inspiring people to love wildlife and making our three counties wilder. Join us! www.wildlifebcn.org/join
The Wildlife Trusts @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social Sharing nature stuff, stories & news from The Wildlife Trusts - our goal is nature's recovery on land and at sea. Posts by The Wildlife Trusts comms team.
Lottie Thompson @charrathompson.bsky.social Medievalist | PhD on Lawrence of Durham | classical reception, intellectual history, Anglo-Latin literature | plant eater, coffee drinker🌱
Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (currently: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
Saavik ‘Impaired Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
Hidden in Plain Sight @hips-project.bsky.social Hidden in Plain Sight is a collaboration between @qmul.ac.uk, @QMUL_HSS, @theul.bsky.social, @MAACambridge, @NLWales, and other leading libraries.
Website: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/inplainsight/
Cambridge Medieval @camedieval.bsky.social Official account for the medieval history subject group at the University of Cambridge. Posting about all things medieval
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Tim Schmalz @timschmalz.bsky.social Head of History, Deputy Housemaster and Rowing Coach | Cambridge PhD | Historian of Interwar Europe
James Sumner @sumner77.bsky.social Has acquired on this platform the handle Twitter so cruelly denied me in 2013
Marta C. Lourenço @martahazevoet.bsky.social Director of MUHNAC-University of Lisbon
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social environmental historian at ULB (BE) working on water in colonial Suriname💧| previously architectural historian at Bern (CH) and PhD, MPhil, BA history student at Cambridge (UK) 📚| former primary school teacher 👨🏫| civis europeus 🇪🇺
@charusingh.bsky.social @charusingh.bsky.social 
Dr Ian Mortimer @ianmortimer.bsky.social English historian. Author of the Time Traveller's Guides. Lives on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, with 6,000 books, 2,500 records, 8 guitars, 3 cats and one wife. 
Alison Boyle @ali-boyle.bsky.social Gallery Director at RCSI, Dublin; Honorary Research Associate at Science Museum and UCL STS, London; Galwegian. Own views.
Jasmine Elmer @jasmineelmer.bsky.social 📖 Author | Goddess with a Thousand Faces & Slay (2026)
🌙 Myth, history, magic & the feminine reimagined
🔥 Feminist rants likely
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
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
Yijie Huang @yijiehuang.bsky.social Historian of medicine and science. Postdoc @HeidelbergHistory, PhD @CambridgeHPS. Exploring pre-modern body and healing. Writing on pulse, fever, and more.
Dr Emily Grossman 🧬✍️🎤✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♾️🐱 @dremilygrossman.bsky.social Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Rachel Hewitt @rachelhewitt.bsky.social Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Cambridge Peregrines @camperegrines.bsky.social Cambridge city centre pair of Peregrine Falcons, often seen on the old Emmanuel United Reformed Church and King's College Chapel spires. See "Archived from" dates in posts for accurate date information.
https://camperegrines.wordpress.com
Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social Writer and legal academic. International law, critical and Marxist legal theory.
Dr Agata Zielinska @aizielinska.bsky.social Finally migrated. Medievalist-emerita, currently conducting research among living people.
UCL History & LAHP PhD, 2021: Institutions & Territories of the Latin Church in Poland 1198-1357.
Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com Medieval Latinist · Postdoc in the History of Maths, Logic and Philosophy, working on Cardano, the impossible and the medievals: https://i2erc.wordpress.com
Elisabeth Kendall @elisabethkendall.bsky.social "The Mistress" / President of Girton College, Cambridge University. Arabist, Middle East specialist (militant jihad; Yemen; Arabic poetry). No ivory towers here...
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Seattle Insight Meditation she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
Whipple Museum @whipplemuseum.bsky.social We're Cambridge University's home for the history of science.
Open Mon-Fri, 12.30-16.30 & Sat, 10.00-17.00.
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Girton College, University of Cambridge @girtoncollege.bsky.social Fearless pioneers since 1869.
Meet our vibrant community; See our beautiful campus; Discover our world-class research.
www.girton.cam.ac.uk- U @uniofcam.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Carly Richardson @carlyannrichardson.bsky.social Software and Digital in #GLAM ✨
#histsci and material culture studies (big love for volvelles 🤩)
MCR 🐝 she/her
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Craig M Nakashian @themedievalprof.bsky.social A Baystate medievalist in the Lone Star State.
Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social 
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
Dr Marina Escolano-Poveda 🌊🪔 @hypatiaheuresis.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Senior Lecturer in Classics/AncHist & Egyptology, University of Liverpool
📚 PhD Egyptology, Johns Hopkins University
🏛️ Fellowships: Fulbright, FAvH, FRHistS, FHEA, HRF Rylands Library
📜🔍 Graeco-Roman Egypt, Papyrology, Ancient Science
💙 Books, Astrolabes
Laura Kalas @laurakalas.bsky.social Literary historian, author, cultural critic, intersectional feminist, Senior Lecturer @swanseauni. Medieval literature, women, medicine, religion, science. All views own etc.
Karoliina Pulkkinen @kj-pulkkinen.bsky.social Philosopher and occasional historian of science. You can find me @ Aleksanteri institute, University of Helsinki. (she/her)
Luís Ribeiro @luiscamposribeiro.bsky.social 
samuel gessner @sgessner.bsky.social 
Sven Dupré @svendupre.bsky.social Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam; Professor of Heritage, Technology and Conservation Studies @uvahumanities.bsky.social; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for the History of Knowledge @jhokjournal.bsky.social
Chester Beatty @chesterbeatty.bsky.social World-renowned museum of European, East Asian and Islamic art, books and manuscripts in Dublin. Building closed until January 2027.
Check us out events and digital collections here: www.chesterbeatty.ie
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
Clelia Crialesi @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social Premodern philosophy & mathematics
🇪🇺 🇫🇷 MSCA fellow @cnrs.fr SPHERE
www.mathematicalia.com
Karen Desmond @karendesmond.bsky.social Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon
Dr Hannah Lucas @hannahalucas.bsky.social Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow @mpiwg.bsky.social / @tuberlin.bsky.social.
Medieval lit, mysticism, medical hums. Sometime yoga teacher. IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY @columbiaup.bsky.social. She/her.
hannahalucas.com
Henry Gough-Cooper @henrywgc.bsky.social Semi-retired farmer. Early career medievalist (annalistic chronicles of Britain and Ireland). Lapsed trombonist. Occasional dogwalker.
Graham Kings @grahamkings.bsky.social Bishop, theologian & poet, enjoying retirement in Cambridge, grandchildren & writing. Hon Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Ely, & Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. https://www.grahamkings.org/ https://www.cccw.cam.ac.uk
Nicola Polloni | 濮若一 @hylonico.bsky.social Medieval philosophy professor at University of Messina (IT) | Seeker of elusive entities populating premodern ontologies | Boldly looking for ways to defeat academic compartmentalism
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social Professor of Education Futures at UCL. Personal account, posts represent my own opinions and not those of my institution.
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️🌈
Kristine Rose-Beers @iamkristine.bsky.social Head of Conservation & Heritage for Cambridge University Libraries.
All views my own 🇪🇺
#CULconservation
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social Where Irish writing comes alive.
https://linktr.ee/molimuseum
Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social Award-winning author #PlatypusMatters & #NaturesMemory. Assistant Director of @ZoologyMuseum.bsky.social at Cambridge Uni. President of the Society for the History of Natural History. Australian mammal nerd. He/him. Own views.
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Co-runner @medvintagevault.bsky.social - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'