James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
Leigh Ferguson @leeighf.bsky.social Millport Glasgow Scotland Birth Marriage Death Celebrant❤️Hair Colour Stylist 💚Garden Earth Music Song 💞Friends Pals Chums 🐩Dyli🐩 World Peace 🕊️Love Is All Around❤️🔥Keep Your Eyes Peeled 👁️👁️
Mary Redmond @maryredmond.bsky.social Artist, based in Glasgow. Self-represented.
www.maryredmond.co.uk
Working to create sustainable food systems.
https://www.propagate.org.uk
Dr Deborah Jackson @debojacko.bsky.social 
Beckett at Reading @beckettreading.bsky.social News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.
Isle of Eigg @isleofeigg.bsky.social 115 or so people on our community-owned, beautiful and welcoming island which generates its own electricity from wind, sun & water. #nature #culture #community
www.isleofeigg.org
Carolyn O'Brien @carolynmanc.bsky.social Historical fiction writer inspired by the north.
Proud Mancunian. Lakeland lover.
Represented by Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown.
Rose & Renzo to be published May 2026.
Martin Herbert @martinherbert.bsky.social Art critic, Berlin. Editor at ArtReview. Dachshund butler. Unfold This Moment, Tell Them I Said No, The Uncertainty Principle pub. Sternberg Press
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
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
@karenlvaughan.bsky.social @karenlvaughan.bsky.social 
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Penny Anderson @pennysculpts.bsky.social Sculptor/installation/funfairs/carousels armchair birder. 
Marc Garrett @mgarrett.bsky.social Buy my Feral Class book. https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561
Researcher in Post-digital Culture, academic, artist, writer, curator, activist, techie, PhD co-founder @furtherfield.bsky.social :-)
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @franceskalbs.bsky.social This is an unofficial placeholder account. If you represent Ms. Albanese, we will hand you this account. Thank you
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social Guardian First Edition writer
contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com
insta: @libbyjbrooks
extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeney.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
CCA Derry~Londonderry @ccadld.bsky.social CCA is a contemporary art centre in Derry~Londonderry. Supported by @artscouncilni, DCSDC & @artfund. Shortlisted for #MuseumoftheYear 2021. #CCADLD
www.ccadld.org
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
@ffionabradley.bsky.social @ffionabradley.bsky.social Director Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. Art, flowers, books, skies and sea
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 
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants contact@themasonsisters.com
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Emily Dickinson Bot @emilydicknsonbot.bsky.social Excerpts from Emily Dickinson's poems and letters.
Twitter: https://x.com/emilydicknsnbot
Instagram: instagram.com/emilydickinsonsgarden
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Max Richter @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social European composer and activist. Co-director of Studio Richter Mahr with Yulia Mahr
Posts by Max & SRM team
https://linktr.ee/MaxRichter
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Neil Scott @neilscott.substack.com Designer, writer, and photographer.
crop.photography
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Lauren Parker @laurenmillar.bsky.social YOU DON’T HAVE TO BRUSH ALL YOUR TEETH — JUST THE ONES YOU WANT TO KEEEEEPPPP
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
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Shop: https://shop.artreview.com
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
South London Gallery @southlondongallery.bsky.social 📍 Contemporary art gallery in south London.
✨ We are free to visit & open Wed-Sun, come and say hello!
https://linktr.ee/southlondongallery
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
Become a subscriber: https://newstatesman.com/subscribe
Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm.bsky.social Channel 4 News, Unreported World, Ways to Change the World, The Fourcast, Class of 2023 on Strictly
Also Chairman of Duchenne UK
Neil Cooper @neilcooper.bsky.social Writer & Critic The Noise of Art - neilcooper.substack.com
coffeetablenotes.blogspot.com
The Herald, The List, The Drouth, Scottish Art News, MAP, Hungry Beat.
Fruitmarket @fruitmarket.bsky.social A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences.
Check out what's happening at Fruitmarket https://linktr.ee/fruitmarket
https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk
Jenny Brownrigg @jennybrownrigg.bsky.social Curator and writer living in Glasgow, Scotland. Exhibitions Director at The Glasgow School of Art. Board member Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Pier Arts Centre. On GSA UCU committee. she/her www.jennybrownrigg.com
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Graham Domke @mirrorinthetext.bsky.social remembering, repeating and working through
John Wilson @johnwilson14.bsky.social 📻 🎙️ 📺 #ThisCulturalLife @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds @BBCNews
Agent - Knight Ayton
Biog http://tinyurl.com/JWbiog
Dr Caroline Douglas @carolinedouglas.bsky.social Artist / Researcher
Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland
2025 Fellow, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2024 PhD Graduate, Royal College of Art, London
www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
Got a story? C4Nstories@itn.co.uk
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Substack: https://channel4news.substack.com
Website: www.channel4.com/news
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Channel4News
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words
writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
David Blandy makes games sometimes @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Artist/TTRPG designer. ECO MOFOS!! || Lost Eons || Solo games ||Weird little modules.
Blog - https://open.substack.com/pub/davidblandy
Zines - https://www.copypastecoop.com
Links - https://linktr.ee/davidblandyrpgs
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
*Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard @iainandjane.com Artists and filmmakers. We made 20,000 Days on Earth about Nick Cave, Broken English about Marianne Faithfull and curated The Horror Show! at Somerset House
Manager/Agent: Josh Varney at 42 / Gallery: Kate MacGarry, London
https://linktr.ee/iainandjane
Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social Irish artist (performance and audio), and writer, ag foghlaim Gaeilge arís, sometimes bird rescuer, they/them, siad/iad, Wexford/Dub
Www.suzannewalsh.ie
Dan Thompson @danthompson33.bsky.social Artist and writer, interested in seaside, empty shops, and peace. Worthing, Ramsgate, Margate, UK.
Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social artist/writer/lecturer (they/them).
co-editor at intergraphia.
'Showily abstruse'
https://linktr.ee/emmabolland?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8cf1d5e1-11dc-4194-80c5-73c01e6e7072
Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 🍩 Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing 📐 Personal account 📎
linktr.ee/karendifranco
Tim Etchells @timetchells.bsky.social Artist. Language. Performance. Forced Entertainment.
www.timetchells.com www.forcedentertainment.com
London.
Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT
Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk
Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38
Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
thomson & craighead @jonthomson.bsky.social thomson & craighead: www.thomson-craighead.net / Making art in someone else's world. also @jonandali on IG and @jonandali@mastodon.scot 
Chris Fite-Wassilak @cfitewassilak.bsky.social writer, critic, editor, mycelial juicebag; writing nonfic book on cheese & hygiene. Associate Editor ArtReview; tutor RCA MA Writing, ‘23-24 London Library Emerging Writer. Books: Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016), The Artist in Time (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social Curator, other things. she/her
CIRCA Art Magazine @circaartmag.bsky.social CIRCA Art Magazine is an independent, artist- and writer-led online art publication. #VisualArts #Ireland #NorthernIreland #ArtIreland #ArtCriticism #ArtWriting #CIRCA
https://circaartmagazine.net/
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Stephen Cornford @stephen-cornford.bsky.social broken media artist http://stephencornford.net/
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art @ Winchester
co-director @ https://criticalinfrastructures.net/
planetary futures / geotechnics / critical minerals / contemporary art / remote sensing / working in academia
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Dr Susan Jones @susandrjonesarts.bsky.social Independent arts researcher and commentator on artists’ livelihoods and arts policy interrelations www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk
Lady Lucy Dr Lucy Woollett @ladylucyart.bsky.social Artist, lecturer, researcher, rollerskater
Neurodivergent
http://www.beingll.com
Using this like a notebook 📓
Paula @paulasmithard.bsky.social Pocket Paula online: art • psychoanalysis • philosophy • higher ed • Course Leader (Fine Art: Painting) UAL• assistant editor JCFAR
co-founder The Edit inclusive bibliography for art students
www.theedit.site
www.forumoflondon.com
www.jcfar.org.uk
Dr Edwin Coomasaru @ecoomasaru.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, race, empire, and ecology.
Akren Ramrek @akren.bsky.social