Mareike Jenner @mareikejenner.bsky.social She/her. Lieber Linker Spinner als Rechter Spinner.
Author: American TV Detective Dramas, Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television (ed 1 & 2), Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics
Geoffrey D. Henry, Ph.D. @ghenry2.bsky.social Ph.D. in Communication - Film from Georgia State University (GSU). Moving Image Studies track.Former graduate teaching/research assistant in the School of Film, Media, & Theatre at GSU. Primary scholarly interest: TV mystery/detective shows. He/his/him
Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Social Worker | Anti-Trafficking campaigner | Socialist
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
James Harvey @jch987.bsky.social Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire | John Akomfrah (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dr Heather McKnight @nanoutopia.bsky.social Researcher with Magnetic Ideals Collective, Berlin. Working on utopian studies, precarity and climate crisis, activist, becoming utopian wherever possible! 💚🌿💚🌿🪄 she/her/✨ www.magneticideals.org
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Ada Özduran @sailorjello.bsky.social Ada Özduran 🧜♀️ Wild Man Wizard 🧙♂️ International Ambassador of the Nicolas Cage Collective🐣
Celia Graham-Dixon @celiagrahamdixon.bsky.social Feminist writer, researcher, curator working across media, performance, visual studies
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Film, Theatre and Television & Visiting Research Fellow, Samuel Beckett Research Centre @uniofreading.bsky.social
Beccy Collings @sawcuts.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher interested in comedy, aesthetics of the body, professional wrestling, and action films. All at once.
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Going out to steal a movie. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social Medieval Historian and UCU branch officer. Senior lecturer at Winchester University. Research on popular protest, political culture, warfare, rumour/conspiracy theories in England and Scotland, c.1300-1600. Views also on union stuff and politics
@mhfestival.bsky.social @mhfestival.bsky.social
The TV Foundation @thetvfoundation.bsky.social Making the TV Industry Accessible For All! 📺💙
We're the charity behind @edinburghtvfest.bsky.social
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social Aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham exploring representations of asexuality on television and their impacts on asexual communities 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom.
FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr
United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk
Helen Wheatley (she/her) @helenwheatley.bsky.social Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Dannii Shorthouse @notdannii.bsky.social Sensitive creative rat | Media alum, aspiring to move into psychology 🧠 | Interested in trauma representation in film & TV | She / Her 🍉
In a world of Trunchbulls, be Miss Honey
Letterboxd.com/NotDannii
Literature/Film Quarterly @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social
You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social A podcast for expanding screen studies knowledge, one recommendation at a time. Available wherever you get fine audio.
#BilkentUniversity COMD
Hosts @cbkenkar.bsky.social @sailorjello.bsky.social & Wickham Flannagan
Producer: @taylanakil.bsky.social
Eddie O’Keeffe @eddieopodcasts.bsky.social Podcast Producer / Editor for Budgens and Dragons (budgensanddragons.bsky.social)
Sonic The Hedgehog The Fanfic The Podcast (SonicTHTFTP.bsky.social)
Improv teacher and performer
Available for freelance work filming, editing and improv! HIRE ME COWARDS
Dariusz Galasiński @dgalasinski.bsky.social Immigrant. Professor (Uni Wroclaw), linguist. Research on masculinity, suicide, illness, and communication about wine. Here often comments on wine and wine communication.
https://dariuszgalasinski.com
Judy (is drawing) @ignatzhoch.bsky.social Multifunctional artist + busy little bee (she) ⚧️
https://linktr.ee/judymoore
Tom Hemingway @tomhemingway.bsky.social Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick. Usually at a gig.
Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
Rebecca E. Raddatz @reraddatz.bsky.social PhD Student and Research Assistant in English Cultural and Media Studies @University of Passau | Editor @Adaptationtoday.bsky.social | Researching adaptations, intermediality, folk narratives & AI
Dr Rosemary 'Rosy' Alexander-Jones @rosemaryaj.bsky.social Teaching Fellow (Inquiry and Research Skills) at Warwick University. Specialisms include heritage media, historical filming locations and understanding authenticity in heritage media.
Bisexual Brunch @bisexualbrunch.bsky.social Regular show (podcast) for Bi/pan people the world over produced by MIM Productions. In the podcast top 10%. Recently named best LGBT podcast in the UK. Help us by going to https://buymeacoffee.com/info59
Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social https://fragments.video/
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social An interdisciplinary network at the University of Birmingham for researchers working on phenomenology and mental health
https://birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
Duncan Cowles @duncancowles.bsky.social Documentary / Non-Fiction Filmmaker.
I made feature doc SILENT MEN and BBC TV series SCARY ADULT THINGS + some award winning shorts...
Film in Mind @filminmind.bsky.social Therapeutic support for the film industry
@rob-lawson.bsky.social @rob-lawson.bsky.social
ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network @rolesbham.bsky.social A postgraduate led and focused network for those researching in Sexuality and Gender Studies. Led by students at the University of Birmingham, but open to all researching in these areas, at any level!
https://rolesbham.wixsite.com/home/contact
Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social Intellect is a fiercely independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
@iainrobertsmith.bsky.social @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social
Dr Sarah Lahm (she/her) @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social Lecturer in Media, Communication & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, writing a book about self-replacement x time loops x parallel realities x the severance procedure <3
@polinazelm.bsky.social @polinazelm.bsky.social Warwick Film TV PhD • Researching sex on screen in the #MeToo era • 🏳️🌈
Sarah Thomas @sarah-thomas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at UoL. Co-director of Centre for Converged Screen Media & Entertainment (COSME). Stardom and screen performance. Hollywood. Artificial Intelligence and immersive technologies.
Victoria Nunn @viva-victoria.bsky.social North East mum of 5 | ADHD, Autism, BPD, Depression, C-PTSD | PhD Student: VCSE Contribution to Health Research | Sr Research Assistant | Lived Experience Consultant | Project Coordinator/Evaluator | Charity Comms | Film, Running, History, True Crime
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
Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD @rmhartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social Official account for the BAFTSS conference 2025, held at the University of Warwick on 26-28 March 2025. #BAFTSS2025
Centre for Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway @cvc-rhul.bsky.social We are the Centre for Visual Cultures, an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London. Posting here about events, podcasts, projects, exhibitions and publications.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Jiří Anger @jirianger.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ Queen Mary University of London
Media theory ~ archival studies ~ videographic criticism
Author of Towards a Film Theory from Below
https://qmul.academia.edu/JiriAnger
Elke Weissmann @tellyelk.bsky.social Reader in TV, who watches TV and sometimes makes some with her students at Edge Hill University. Interested in the role of media in communicating climate change. Also interested in questions of inequality and television. Also posts pretty pictures.
Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography in Scotland.
Research = mental health/missing people/seasonal affective disorder/geohumanities/CC.
Not travelling to USA anytime soon.
Human 🦋
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/livingwithsad/winteringwell/resources/
Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc on EPIC and @uobphenomenal.bsky.social, Uni of Birmingham
Main quest: investigating epistemic injustice among young people with psychosis
Side quest: roleplaying games and mental health!
jodie-russell.co.uk
Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Miranda Wolpert @mirandawolpert.bsky.social Director of Mental Health Wellcome and Professor UCL
Dr Francesca Lewis @drflewis.bsky.social Monograph “New Materialist Encounters with the Borderline: Unstable Knowledges” forthcoming with Routledge - coming in October! https://www.routledge.com/New-Materialist-Encounters-with-the-Borderline-Unstable-Knowledges/Lewis/p/book/9781041018223
Katharine Murphy @katharinemurphy.bsky.social PI for AHRC Reading Bodies project: https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/ @readingbodies.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter
Spanish Modernism, gender and the body, Medical Humanities
Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities @asmedhum.bsky.social Association for Medical and Healthcare Humanities - Promoting critical dialogues between humanities and healthcare.
http://amh.ac.uk/
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Hel Spandler @hspandler.bsky.social Editor, Asylum the radical mental health magazine. Prof at University of Lancashire. Ambivalent mental health politics. Mad Studies. Madzines. They/them. ❤️🐶 🌈
Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University. Views mine.
UCL Health Humanities Centre @uclhhcentre.bsky.social The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Jonathan Metzl @jonathanmetzl.bsky.social Director, Medicine Health and Society
@VanderbiltU; Author http://dyingofwhiteness.com
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity
(she/her) #Autistic #NB
https://brandyschillace.com/
@thejimfleury.bsky.social @thejimfleury.bsky.social
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Adaptation Today @adaptationtoday.bsky.social adaptive and responsive resource for adaptation studies scholars, as well as scholars in film, media studies, literary studies, and beyond!!
BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies #BAFTSS2026
Gerald Jordan @geraldjordan.bsky.social Assistant Professor - University of Birmingham - School of Psychology - Institute for Mental Health
Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) University of Birmingham @imh-uob.bsky.social The Institute for Mental Health (IMH) through interdisciplinary research and collaboration with NHS partners works to improve the outcomes and care for young people with mental health problems.
@danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social Human
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializing Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter.
Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day.
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk
#FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
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.
Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social Professor of Health Psychology, Author, Podcaster, Journal Editor, Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab @UofGlasgow, www.suicideresearch.info
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social
Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social [gɑːbɔːr gɛrgɛj] Associate Professor of Film | Photo of Simplon Cinema courtesy of Fortepan/Preisich Family
I refuse to consent to any use of any text by me or any image of or by me in the training of or in interaction with any AI applications.
Justin Smith @justintpsmith.bsky.social Cultural historian. Prof of Cinema and Television History and Director of Research and Innovation Institute of Arts, Design and Performance at De Montfort University.
Aaron Taylor @aarontaylorphd.bsky.social Professor of Cinema, University of Lethbridge.
Researches screen acting, cognitive media theory, and comics.
Recirculated received wisdom aside, opinions are my own.
Abi Rhodes @abirhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Language and Communication at UoB. Researching social movement and grassroots communications. Co-convenor of PSA MPG. Trustee of Journey to Justice. Living kidney donor(She/her)
https://www.abirhodes.co.uk/
BoltonsMotors @boltonsmotors.bsky.social Film, philosophy and phenomenology; movies, rabbits and bubbles. COYI
Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Matthew Ruddle @matthewruddle.bsky.social Social Media Manager/Head Tweeter for PlayStation UK. He/Him. Opinions my own.
Brennan Ballard @brennanmoline.bsky.social Free Palestine 🇵🇸
"I don't have the slightest idea who I am, and I'm supposed to explain it to you?" -- sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Trans academic (he/him) studying masculinity in American media.
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Zoë Viney Burgess @zoevb.bsky.social Film Curator @ Wessex Film & Sound Archive | Research Women amateur filmmakers | Neighbours Fandom | 9.5mm film geek | Senior Research Fellow UWL | All views are my own | She/her
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies