Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social Edinburgh Diamond is the University of Edinburgh's Library Publishing Partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals that are led by our academics, professional staff and students.
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
ERC Nudgers @erc-nudgers.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant exploring creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century. PI Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social, Charles University, Prague
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
@lorna-literacy.bsky.social @lorna-literacy.bsky.social 
@mister-chiply.bsky.social @mister-chiply.bsky.social 
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
TheBookDuke @bookduke.bsky.social Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. #AmReading #AmWriting #BookPromo #BookTWT
Twitter: BookDuke
(No DMs please)
Rebecca Wojturska @beckywojturska.bsky.social Open Access Publishing Officer for Edinburgh Diamond. All things Diamond OA, TTRPG and board games, and Gothic/horror literature and films.
scot17thcentury.bsky.social @scot17thcentury.bsky.social PGR-led research group focused on Scottish 17th century studies. Hosting a symposium event at the University of Glasgow on 11 June 2026.
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Pat @swottypat.bsky.social SGSAH funded PhD researcher in early modern Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow.
I've been known to knit. Whiles I cook. I sometimes take pictures. But mostly I read.
Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature
https://linktr.ee/HelenMcClory
https://helenmcclory.com/
Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
@candylion99.bsky.social @candylion99.bsky.social Edinburgh immigrant avoiding proper job via fitful online engagement
Librarianth @librarianth.bsky.social University of York Acquisitions Librarian. Professional Northerner. Bang on about armchair politics, books, ebooks, coffee, & Boro. Views/opinions personal. UTB
Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social Community college librarian in Portland, OR. Solidarity, unions, slow librarianship, spoonie, autoimmune, still masking, disability justice. Blogging at Information Wants to be Free since 2004: meredith.wolfwater.com. 😷 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸
Fromas Thank @fromas-thank.bsky.social Top performing Spurs manager of the 2025/26 season, ever! #ComeOnYourSpurs
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Janneke Adema @openreflections.bsky.social Cultural and media theorist ~ books, open access, critical theory, experimental publishing. She/her
https://www.openreflections.org/
Laura Cooijmans-Keizer @lmckeizer.bsky.social Curator (Early Modern Era) at the National Library of Scotland | Passionate about archives, libraries, and museums in any shape or form | she/her | views own
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca PKP, a Core Facility of SFU, is a community-governed organization dedicated to increasing the quality, access, and reach of non-commercial #ScholarlyPublishing — the trusted and original home of #OpenJournalSystems (#OJS), OMP, and OPS: https://pkp.sfu.ca
Sarah Mackay @smgthomson.bsky.social Curator @natlibscot.bsky.social 📚
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
The Elegy Project @elegyproject.bsky.social poems in public places
reach us at: https://theelegyproject.org
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
©️ All rights reserved. | Est. 2025
Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social 👋🏽 Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks. Developed under the remit of @copim.bsky.social, we're now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK.
🐘: https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata
🕸: https://thoth.pub
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.
B.J./Mayim Pnina @killearnan.bsky.social Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
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
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
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
HappyMuseum Project @happymuseum.bsky.social Re-imagining museums for the wellbeing of people, place and planet.
Posts via @hilaryjennings
Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social 🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here do not represent the views of my cats.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w
BooksfromScotland.com @booksfromscotland.bsky.social A website from @publishingscotland.bsky.social dedicated to championing the best new writing in Scotland.
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter: https://booksfromscotland.com/subscribe/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/BooksfromScotland
@shiverydug.bsky.social @shiverydug.bsky.social Image hunter....hurtling through space.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Heather Staines @heatherstaines.bsky.social Scholcomm consultant, world traveler, dog mom, human mom, Nima, karaoke singer!
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
@theweewritinglass.bsky.social @theweewritinglass.bsky.social 
Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
https://railthing.blogspot.com/?m=1
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project funded by Arcadia.
https://maeasam.org
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
Katya King @katyavdgk.bsky.social Tech, research, law, teaching & AI - plus a lot of other stuff.
M.Ed, PGDL, LLM, (looking for alt online LLM+tech)
UK/FR
@katyavdgk@mas.to
@katyavdgk.bsky.social
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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.
H S Purtymun @hspurtymun.bsky.social Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom 🌈
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social Head of Artes at KU Leuven Libraries and Associate Professor of Open Research. Scholarly Communications & Cultures in the Humanities with a pinch of 16thC humanism.
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social Istanbul University Faculty of Political Science, professor |
global intellectual history | Marxism | Lukács
Will not follow back anonymous accounts.
https://atesuslu.com/en
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social iPRES 2025 is in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 3-7 November 2025
Follow us for news and updates on the premiere international digital preservation conference.
All the details are at ipres2025.nz
Tom J. Smyth @smythbound.bsky.social Manager, Web and Social Media Preservation Program and the Government of Canada Web Archive, Library and Archives Canada. Posts Mine. #webarchiving | #digitalpreservation | #digipres | #webarchives | #webarchivewednesday | #DigitalHumanities
@bierce1678.bsky.social @bierce1678.bsky.social