Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
No NFTs. No AI.
http://www.leemadgwick.co.uk
leemadgwickart on instagram
Númenorean Zhang Jue 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social the Russian Empire is already fallen; the Promethean sky will soon rise.
when the year is bǐngwǔ, there shall be prosperity under Heaven!
he/him
Cairngorm Reindeer Herd @cairngormreindeer.bsky.social The UK's only free-ranging reindeer herd in their natural habitat, located in the Cairngorm Mountains.
Trovaĵoj de Vikipedio @hovikipedio.bsky.social Trovaĵoj de la esperanta Vikipedio. Mesaĝoj pri interesaj artikoloj ĉiam bonvenas!
https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedio:Nekutimaj_artikoloj
#Esperanto #Wikipedia
Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu Planning cities that make people smile;
Co-founder @ humankind
Author of The Car That Wanted to be a Bike: http://humankind.city/car
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Gillian Sandstrom @gilliansocial.bsky.social Psychologist studying kindness and #Talking2Strangers. Classical music lover. Outdoor enthusiast. Author of #OnceUponAStranger
linktr.ee/drgilliansandstrom
Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Clarke Award, BSFA, Kavya & Saltire Awards finalist | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social Historian of Antarctica
#Antarctica #STS #envhist #histsci #polar #maritime #oceanhist #exploration
opinions my own
@follyfellowship.bsky.social @follyfellowship.bsky.social 
Ed In Melbourne @edinmelbourne.bsky.social Original founder of @electionmapsuk, and #BirdTheFeckAtHome - easily distracted. I will bring Lib Dem Barcharts to Bluesky soon. Quit twitter for good - it’s a festering hole. Latest obsession is chillies. 🌶️🔥
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.
Mike Sandison - Boards of Canada @mikesandison.bsky.social Official Account
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴
https://pod.link/1865430519
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik.bsky.social Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
Leona @editor.scot book lady 🏴
Lindsey @lindseydanis.bsky.social Queer travel writer. Author of (Out) On the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel (2026), On Queer Homesteading (2026)
https://www.lindseydanis.com
https://www.queeradventurers.com
Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social Mediocre Artist. Putz.
https://www.stuffbymark.co.uk/shop
John Poyner @rothiemoon.bsky.social Wildlife Guide & Birder based in the Scottish Highlands. Highland SOC Bird Recorder. Owner www.highlandnature.co.uk
The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof. It is no more important to count the sands than it is to name the stars.
—
To read all its wit and wisdom, get a copy from a local bookstore or library.
Kenneth Walker @rungichungi.bsky.social Dad of musicians and wt-lifters, husband of artist, fiddler of Bus Shelter.
Former Colorectal Surgeon Inverness, Prof of Surg Ed Innovation RCSEd.
SERI Lab, CoSMoS & NOTSS Intnl gps. Volunteer 🇪🇭 & 🇳🇵.
Faith, marzipan, mountains, sea, whisky, honesty.
Cultarlann Inbhir Nis @cultarlann.bsky.social Ionad Cultar na Gàidhlig ann an Inbhir Nis | Gaelic Cultural Centre in Inverness
📍68 Academy St, Inverness
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇷
DaveHenniker @davehenniker.bsky.social 82 years old, widower since 2016. Website since 1999. Visit henniker.scot for unusual photography including infrared.- G MN @gaelicmichael.bsky.social
alice @alicebennett.bsky.social I live in norway now but when I say “this fucking country” I still mean britain
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Nissa Mitchell @nissamitchell.com Musician, Writer, Designer—Shitposter. She/her.
https://nissamitchell.com/links/
Andy 🏴 @a-ghalldachd.bsky.social Gun robh math agad
Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research & other museumy shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder. She/Her- S sister-ratched.bsky.social @sister-ratched.bsky.social
Justine | Kask Whisky @kaskwhisky.bsky.social 🤓 Scotch whisky history geek
📖 Author of "Opening The Case: The Affairs of Pattisons' Whisky"
🥃 www.kaskwhisky.com
@joncst.bsky.social @joncst.bsky.social Amateur Astronomer, Esperantist.
Por-gxua astronomisto, esperantisto.
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social Public servant by day, illustrator by night. Architecture, Modernism, and the 20th-century. • 📩 artofcysun@gmail.com • 📍 London/Essex
Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social The largest selection of architectural illustration products on the web https://architectural-icons.com artwork by @anfurman.bsky.social
Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social Healthy, sustainable places & physical activity, #cycling, #walking #running #wheeling, #greenspace #bluespace #kidicalmass #playingout #justttransition
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Charlie Todd @charlietodd.com That guy from Improv Everywhere. Advocate for cycling, transit, and walkable cities.
https://charlietodd.com
Rebekah McCabe/ Ríobcha Ní Cába @rebekahmccabe.bsky.social Head of Northern Ireland for Involve. All about democracy, cities, wild places, and people.
Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social Marito e padre. Linguist @ Radboud Universiteit. Lezer. Hoofdredacteur Neerlandistiek. Editor Journal of Linguistics. Prezidanto de Esperanto Nederland kaj membro de la Akademio de Esperanto. פארװאלטונג פון דער יידישער לעקסיקאגראפיע־פא
Glenys Norquay @glenisilla.bsky.social Curious about wildlife and nature, but also photography, books, art, language... all kinds of stuff.
Edinburgh, Scotland
@europebyrail.eu @europebyrail.eu EUROPE BY RAIL: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE. By Nicky Gardner & Susanne Kries. 19th edition published 22 June 2026. #EuropebyRail. Published by @hiddeneurope.eu
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social Transportation data scientist at the University of Toronto, physicist at heart.
I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
@edinburgher.eurosky.social @edinburgher.eurosky.social 
Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social Danish #archaeologist living in in Stavanger, Norway. FLO for Rogaland County, case officer, project coordinator. Working in the trenches of #archaeology. Views are entirely my own and yes, I do tend to spend all my vacations in Scotland.
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art 🗒️ Public affairs & comms in mental health
👍 Keen on sport, rights, & DIY punk rock (see @tiob.diy)
⬅️ Previously EHRC, Open University, Glasgow 2014 & more
🐶 Mostly pics of my dog
🚹 He/him
📍 Glasgow, Scotland.
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Lindalou 🏴 @lindalou077.bsky.social By the sea - Scotland
Richard Collett @traveltrampuk.bsky.social Cartographic curiosities and geopolitical oddities. Award winning travel journalist on a quest to understand the world through its borders.
https://www.travel-tramp.com/
Matt Eason @matteason.me Designer & developer working in digital government
ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk
He/him
The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social I love sharing content that captures the nostalgic, quirky spirit of the old internet and the timeless charm of vintage treasures from simpler times.
Barb 😷🌈✍️🐓☕️📷 📚 🚴🏻♀️ 🚍 🔨 @norfickchick.bsky.social No DMs. AI hater. Walker, writer, photographer, actor, union delegate, Utas English student in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Nerdy introvert. Sunburnable. Menopausal & often injured. Tinnitus & hyperacusis. steppingonthecracks.com
Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social Leeds. Project Manager. Band member. Ex-zine author. 📚 and records. Punk. Cinema. Old stones. Medieval churches. The Long Sixties. Modernism. Weird fiction. Noir…JG Ballard. Otto Dix. Sandy Denny. Harold Pinter…You get the idea
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social Medievalist working on OE, Vikings, ON myth, runes and public history. Professor in the Dept. of English at UCC. Author of creative works 'Norse Myths' and 'Legends of Norse Mythology'.
Sir Twonkalot @dribelad.bsky.social Old enough to know better, daft enough not to care. Never lost just exploring. Never knowingly understood. Fun not fear in the outdoors #StayInside founder😂
http://dribelad.wordpress.com
Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
I block if you have no bio or posts
She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
David Pascoe @greasepaintpeel.bsky.social Bluesky feed for The Smell of the Greasepaint and the Sound of John Peel. Cornish amateur dramatics and John Peel mixtapes, together at last!
https://greasepaintpeel.blogspot.com/
Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social Optimist. Interested in everything. Asks awkward questions.
Artist and nerd. Surprisingly tall.
Felicityinkpen.co.uk
Instagram.com/felicityinkpen
https://substack.com/@felicityinkpen
Franca @applefranca.bsky.social Live in Edinburgh, like dressmaking, knitting, active travel and coffee. Scottish Government researcher working on children and families. 🇩🇪 passport, from 🇱🇺
I still write an occasional personal blog like it's 2005: www.applefranca.com
Edward Tissiman @edtiss.bsky.social From Forres. Live in Edinburgh. Finished the Munros in 2021. Care about cycling and other stuff.
https://medium.com/@edward.tissiman
Fons Moers @zetduivel.bsky.social Graphic design in Rotterdam / zoekt / radio @ Concertzender / thrift shops / vinyl / passion for design, movies & music you & i haven't witnessed yet
Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social Co-Leader of the Scottish Greens.
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland and Lothians West.
Charity costumer. Star Wars enthusiast.
Posts sometimes by staff.
Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social Neighbourhoods, community, social housing, poverty, art, film, humour, puns, photography, cycling, climate
Blurred_Lens @lensblurred.bsky.social Dan. Hobby photographer. Mostly urban decay, graffiti, a vague sense of isolation, graveyards, birds on telegraph poles, or things generally slightly out of place. Posts usually accompanied with a flippant attempt at comedy.
Kent, UK
Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social Co-Director @climatemajority.bsky.social | Emeritus Prof of Philosophy | Author, WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS and TRANSFORMATIVE ADAPTATION | Home-grown dissident | Free thinker | Earthling.
NB Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social Former culture writer, Salon.com. Before that: cofounder, Bitch Media. Forever fan of print magazines. Single mom, dog mom, your mom
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Gavin Corbett @gavincorbett.bsky.social Mountain-going, biking, kayaker with two sons and a pathetic but charming vegetable garden. Former councillor, former SpAd. Working in an outdoor access charity. Current chair of Water of Leith Conservation Trust.
@padraigmacaoidh.bsky.social @padraigmacaoidh.bsky.social 
Paul M @paulmlfc.bsky.social LFC fan since 1970. From Liverpool to London to the far north of Scotland, and now down South. Love stories, hate Tories. invernessred at the dead bird place.
#MDANT
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Writes about electric utilities, prisons, 17th c. England, AI, feminism, etc. Technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Pontisto :vivaldi_red: @pontisto.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy :flag_eo:
Birdo kantas, ne ĉar ĝi havas respondon, sed pro kantenhavantujeco.
Mi bonvenas lingvejn korektojn.
Respondu se vi novan vorton lernis.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Malcolm Cinnamond @thepigguy.bsky.social 20th century sports writer. Veg grower, grandad, Scotland's 34th least successful pig farmer, likes walking up hills (or getting to the top anyway). Wolf ⚽️
Jen Scotney @jenscotney.bsky.social 📕 Author of ‘Running Through the Dark’ a memoir on grief and my ultrarunning adventures
🎙️ Host of Resilience Rising Podcast
💻 Work in Politics | Ex-lawyer
⛰️ Live Scottish Highlands
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
Stewart Davidson @stewartdavidson.bsky.social Franco-Scottish 🏴🇫🇷 dual national, music geek, allotment gardener and sci-fi/dystopian fiction buff. Interested in language learning/teaching. Was an academic in a former life (PhD in environmental political thought).
@ambaile.org.uk @ambaile.org.uk 
John MacPherson @johnmacpherson.bsky.social Mostly a photographer: https://www.john-macpherson-photography.com
I sometimes write: https://www.duckrabbit.info/blog/author/j-macpherson/
Scottish Highlander, left-coast, interested in all sorts of things. I make stuff, some of it even works.