Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 nyc
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Chloé Germaine @illmare.bsky.social UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Claire Reynolds @clairereynolds.bsky.social DFA Researcher in Creative Writing UofG
Co-host of the podcast Let Them Eat Books!
Highly commended Scottish Podcast Awards 2026
in Food,Drink & Hospitality 🍽️📚
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/let-them-eat-books/id1816662384
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social Cultural historian of extinction at work on DINOSTALGIA, a book about how dinosaurs became cultural artifacts, consumer goods, and spokes-creatures for consumption | History faculty @ San José State University
https://www.alisonlaurence.com
Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Heritage. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. Norwegian forest cat 😂 and newly diagnosed coeliac posts 😭
Megan Woodward @megan-woodward.bsky.social Occupational bookworm
PhD exploring Child-oriented & post/nonhuman temporalities in British dystopias @ Uni of York.
Research network admin, 'Reproduction and the Humanities' (York).
University of Leeds alum and former Faculty Student Success Officer
𝚆𝚢𝚛𝚖 @wyrmology.bsky.social Artist ✸ reptile enthusiast ✸ turtle guardian ✸
31 ✸ She/her
Naomi Pollock @naomilpollock.bsky.social Membrane protein biochemist, apprentice biophysicist and SMALP enthusiast; Lecturer in Biosciences at Aston University, UK. 
Kate Lancaster @drkatel.bsky.social All about lasers/plasmas/fusion/bread/miscellany. Professor in physics. She/Her
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
Yuqi “Anna” Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Liz Hide @themuseumofliz.bsky.social fossil botherer, museum nerd, equality fanatic 🏳️🌈
Director, @SedgwickMuseum.bsky.social Cambridge
Trustee, Whitchurch Silk Mill
https://linktr.ee/themuseumofliz- P Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social Giving this another try...
Teaching at the University of Stirling.
Stuff at https://crowdedmouth.com/ and https://abolitionscifi.org/
Sword and Sorcery Books @swordandsorcery.bsky.social Lover of S&S, heroic fantasy and fantasy books. Conan the Barbarian, Elric of Melniboné, Imaro, Geralt of Rivia, Wulfric the Wanderer, Wrathgar, and more. Pronouns: Sword/Sorcery
sophie | PhD student @sophiecairns.bsky.social AHRC english lit PhD researcher | glasgow | she/her
research interests: long 19thC literature, travel literature, romanticism, history of empire & imperialism
usually found playing Baldur’s Gate 3 somewhere
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Lapworth Museum of Geology @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social From dinosaurs to volcanoes, we engage all ages & backgrounds with 4.6 billion years of Earth history and evolution 🌋🦕
Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people. 
Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Meghan Flaherty @msmeghanbean.bsky.social TANGO LESSONS (Mariner)
I write prose. I like sheep. I’m much better on instagram.
Lecturer in Creative Writing University of Glasgow
mbflaherty.com
msmeghanbean.substack.com
she/her
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie @dretaylorpirie.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Culture | Medical Humanities | Gut Health | Author of “Empire Under the Microscope" (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | lover of books, dogs, slow news, and the oxford comma. | vibe: 📚🔬🦟🐕👶🏻👶🏻🌱
GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations is a meeting-place for academics, creative writers, and other fantasy-minded folks (we call them fantasts) to come together and discuss fantastical works in a supportive setting.
#GIFCon2026
Oxford Poetry Library @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social Community-powered poetry in Oxford. Workshops, events, open mics and a lending library of poetry open on Saturdays from 12pm-3pm. Entirely volunteer-run. Currently based at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, OX1 1HU
https://linktr.ee/oxfordpoetrylibrary
Alice Dillon @alicedillon.bsky.social Singer of folk songs and reader of books.
https://youtube.com/@alicedillon
https://youtube.com/@peeriefaeries
https://lanternsandhardbacks.wordpress.com/
Peasant Magazine @peasantmagazine.bsky.social A fantasy & historical fiction literary magazine for lovers of short stories by indie authors. Learn more at: http://fiction.charlesmoffat.com/peasantmagazine/
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social on hiatus...
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
Dr Elsa Panciroli @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social NERC Independent Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland. Studies fossils, writes books, hikes mountains, drinks tea, knits jumpers. Ex-chair of Scottish Geology Trust, Secretary of PalSoc 🏳️🌈
https://elsapanciroli.wordpress.com/
@nathbramald.bsky.social @nathbramald.bsky.social 
Hannah Bond @hannahbond.bsky.social Freelance editor, cake person.
The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk
Conor Reid @cedreid.bsky.social Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
🍎Eleni Argyrò trying her best @eleni-argyro.bsky.social Stuck in an ongoing existential crisis.
Reviewing books for fun and the occasional ramble by contributing on https://beforewegoblog.com/ & https://fanfiaddict.com/links/
Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social A Pole in Hong Kong. Posts about Museums, Pterosaurs and History of Palaeontology 🦴 Dinosaur Doodler 🦖
Mark Wilden @markwilden.bsky.social Musician and barrister, not always in that order.
Vinay Patel @vinaypatel.bsky.social Writes scripts, feeds cats, tries to not fuck up that thing you love | Murdered By My Father, Doctor Who, One Day | Associate Playwright, Royal Court Theatre
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
Ben Smith @ben-smith-writer.bsky.social Author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing @exeter.ac.uk
Doggerland (4th Estate)
Writing, reading, surfing (in any order…)
Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Henry Ivry @henryivry.bsky.social Infrastructure, ecology, techno, pugs丨Reading, teaching, and occasionally writing at University of Glasgow丨Bandwagon hopping bylines at RA, DJ Mag, Bandcamp, etc. 
James Bell @jamesbellcentral.net you’re goddamn right I hate waffles
Dr. Autumn Brown @drfairytalesci.bsky.social Science & Culture//Art-Science//Informal Science Learning // Vicious ginger// Previously @WHOI & @EdinburghUni// Currently Trinity College Dublin 
Mary L. Shannon @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cambridge University. Dissertation: “‘They’re Following Our Script’: 70 Years of Disney & Outer Space”. She/her.
https://www.rowenasquires.com
Dr. Adelle Bricking 🌼 @archaedelle.bsky.social Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
Will Moran @will-moran.bsky.social Editorial Assistant at Jessica Kingsley Publishers | they/them
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs @chasmosaurs.bsky.social Exploring the Mesozoic world through art, science, and pop culture since 2009.
George ✨ @gorgosaurus.bsky.social (She/Her)
a bisexual millennial walks into a new social media platform and has no idea what’s going on
Marijke Valk @marijkevalk.bsky.social M4C/AHRC funded PhD student in English literature at the University of Birmingham, working on the representation of alchemy in late-Victorian fiction. Supernatural, occult, and (pseudo-)scientific fiction.
Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social Dinosaur researcher & Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Birmingham. Honorary Research Affiliate, NHM London. Believer in the importance of fundamental field, taxonomic & collections-based research. Current projects in 🏴 🏴 🇲🇦 🇰🇬 🇨🇦 🇷🇴 🇭🇺
Judith Schofield @judithschofield.bsky.social She/her, academic publishing, fantasy and horror scholar, Glasgow based
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Dr Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @anjirbaguette.bsky.social UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
Insta: @michelle_anya; www.michelleanjirbag.com
Rachel Fountain Eames @rfeames.bsky.social Author & bookseller @ Hart Books (www.eBay.co.uk/str/hartbooks) - Author of ‘Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde’ - writer, gamer, cat mom, frog enthusiast. 🐸😌 #LongCovid / ME/CFS endurer (she/her)
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@thelloydjenkins.bsky.social @thelloydjenkins.bsky.social 
Dr. Billie Gavurin @bgavurin.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture
Interested in 19th/early 20thC connections between myth, folklore, & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️
She/her
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social The largest museum in Canada - we showcase art, culture, and nature from around the world and across the ages.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
La Brea Tar Pits & Museum @tarpits.org TEMPORARILY CLOSED. The Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research at La Brea Tar Pits will reopen in 2028.
🐾 http://linktr.ee/thelabreatarpits
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Dr Jordan Kistler @jordankistler.bsky.social Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.- E Eva (E.C.McLean) @evamcleanart.bsky.social mlitt uofg grad | she/her 🎨 scribbling and sketching over on evamcleanart | writer, artist and researcher of the eco humanities, the fantastic and aesthetics 🍄🌳🍁
words in @seasidegothic.com | @glyphlitmag.bsky.social | @typewronger.bsky.social
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
The Glasgow Wrap @theglasgowwrap.bsky.social The best way to stay updated on Glasgow's local news: ad, clickbait & clutter-free curateed newsletter delivered to your inbox at 7am daily 💌
Edited by @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social
Laurence Talairach @laurence-talairach.bsky.social Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture | Hist. of med & science | Natural history museums & collections | Literature & Science |Gothic studies | Children's lit
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Katherine Priddy @katherinepriddy.bsky.social UK Singer | Songwriter | Guitarist.
The new album 'These Frightening Machines' - out now. 🔥
https://linktr.ee/katherinepriddy
Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social Fantasy books, films, anime, comics, Early Modern Literature, life. He/him. I blog at The City of Lost Books. Come and see! https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Dr. Mareike Spychala @spychalam.bsky.social "I'm a Doctor of Philosopy, Jim, not medicine, dammit."
Nerd. Feminist. I write about women at war, 19th-century Gothic poetry, and sometimes SFF (especially #StarTrek).
She/her
Emily Alder @emilyalder.bsky.social 
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Editor & nonfiction writer: fantasy, queerness, theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Secretary of Govanhill Voices. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do. 
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
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. Matriarchy now. Seattle Insight she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social Author of The Night Circus (2011) & The Starless Sea (2019), creator of The Phantomwise Tarot (2022). she/her. Ask me about my cat. https://linktr.ee/erinmorgenstern
Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.