Gates Cambridge @gatescambridge.bsky.social International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others. www.gatescambridge.org
CLAS Cambridge @clascam.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Cambridge. MPhil & PhD degrees.
Find us at https://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/
Cambridge Decolonising Criminology Network @cambridgedcn.bsky.social PhD-led initiative at Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, engaging with decolonial thoughts and perspectives. We seek to centre colonialism at the centre of contemporary debates and amplify subaltern, non-Western, and Indigenous voices in criminology.
Vlad Bumatay @vladbumatay.bsky.social PhD student in HPS, King’s College, University of Cambridge | Works in General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy and/in Public Policy, and Epistemology | Film photography enthusiast/amateur | Filipino
Marabel @marabelceline.bsky.social Why study one thing when you can study all the things?
Philosopher of chemistry, postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, PhD from Cambridge HPS (she/her)
Marta Halina @martahalina.bsky.social philosophy of science, comparative cognition, animal minds, artificial minds, AI in scientific practice, HPS Cambridge
Mary Augusta Brazelton @brazelton.bsky.social Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
Olesya Bondarenko @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social Philosopher of science, postdoctoral fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. Previously: PhD at Cambridge HPS. Interested in integrative biosocial research on human behaviour and health.
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo @ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social Historiadora en Cinvestav, Ciudad de México
De sabático en @camhistory.bsky.social
En Comité editorial de @revistacomun.bsky.social
Tuits a título personal
#VivasNosQueremos
https://cinvestav.academia.edu/AriadnaAcevedo/Papers
Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social An interdisciplinary digital humanities research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge.
Visit our website: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/NewsCDH
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Dan Malleck @danmalleck.bsky.social Medical historian specializing in alcohol & drug policy at BrockUniversity. Danmalleck.ca Allergic to acronyms, fyi. And jargon. Posts do not represent my workplace. Often they just represent a current fever dream.
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
R. D. Kent 🍉 @rdk96.bsky.social Research fellow at the University of St Andrews. Working on scientism, aesthetic ideology, and the historiography of scientific crises.
The New Inquiry @newinquiry.bsky.social modern scholarship
Pedro Gerson @elpgerson.bsky.social Chicago-Kent Prof | Criminal & Immigration Law | Sometimes Writing about Mexico | Fan de La Newyorkina & Fan-Fan Doughnuts
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social Ass-Prof of Public Policy at Warwick. Work mostly on wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested in *everything*. Run ePODstemology: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/episodes
Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation.bsky.social
Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social Understanding the past, present and future of science and tech. Subscribe to our newsletter - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-newsletter
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
M Smallman @melaniesmallman.bsky.social Professor of Science & Technology Studies and Director of Scicom @stsucl.bsky.social Author Governance Democracy & Ethics, ex-Chair SERA Labour Environment Campaign. Science & society, tech, inequality & populism, climate change & tech ethics. EASST.
Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social I am a professorial research fellow in philosophy @ U of Vienna and a research associate @ ACEPS, U of Johannesburg (working on: epistemology, SSK, phil. of the social sciences, and HOPOS). I also dabble in music and photography. Photo ©Alex Bachmayer
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org Welcome to Tapuya!📖
This is a peer-reviewed, #OpenAccess journal, published by Taylor&Francis, and affiliated to ESOCITE and 4S. By publishing STS research about and from LatAm & other peripheral regions, Tapuya challenges and expands current scholarship.
Latin American Geographies Research Group @lag-uk.bsky.social We are an RGS-IBG research group based in the UK and elsewhere who work closely with geographical ideas and practices in Latin America. #geography #geosky
karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social once called «Canada's only public intellectual»
drug policy researcher ⁕ historian ⁕ artist ⁕ schemer ⁕ disorganizer ⁕ ephemera
vancouver bc canada
institute for the history of possible futures
https://free-futures-society.org/
Brooklyn Institute @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.
Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social Refugee Solidarity
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Neurodivergent
Books, Books, Books 📚
Class War- Catering & PR dept
Militant Librarian
BLM ✊🏾
Trans Rights are non-negotiable
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Oscar @oscarw.bsky.social Philosophy postdoc at the University of Iceland. PhD from HPS Cambridge. Interested in philosophy of science, logic, language, and pragmatism.
Owen Bowden-Jones @owenbowdenjones.bsky.social CBE / Psychiatrist and Founder, Club Drug Clinic/ Hon Prof, UCL/ Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists/ President, Society for the Study of Addiction/ past-Chair, ACMD 2017-25 / past-Policy Fellow, CSaP, Uni of Cambridge 2023-25/ Personal views only
Black Lives Matter DC @blmdc.bsky.social Centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
NOT PART OF THE NATIONAL BLM ORG!
Black Lives Matter Grassroots @blmgrassroots.bsky.social Black Lives Matter Grassroots IS #BlackLivesMatter! We are 39 frontline chapters & 1000s of organizers who birthed, built & fuel the global movement.
https://linktr.ee/blmgrassrootsorg?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=3e7c3110-16f5-4814-a52b-814c09
CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social Tells the facts, names the names.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Elizabeth Hinton @elizabethkai.bsky.social Historian of U.S. Inequality, Author of America on Fire and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law @Yale
Inquest @inquest.bsky.social National Magazine Award finalist. Cited in Best American Essays. Stillwater Award winner. Focused on ending mass incarceration.
All our links: https://linktr.ee/inquest.org
Can you spare $5?: https://inquest.org/donate/
Benjamin T. Smith @benjamintsmith7.bsky.social History Content Provider at University of Warwick. "If Raymond Chandler had written a history of the drug trade, it would read like the Dope"
Jonathan D. Moreno @jonathanmoreno.bsky.social Penn professor emeritus who specializes in life sciences policy, bioethics and emerging technologies.
Benjamin Breen @resobscura.bsky.social Associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, father of a 3 year old and 1 year old. History of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and empire.
Book: https://benjaminpbreen.com/books/tripping/
Writing at https://resobscura.substack.com
@isaac-campos.bsky.social @isaac-campos.bsky.social
Emily Dufton @emilydufton.bsky.social Drug historian. Author of GRASS ROOTS and host on New Books Network. ADDICTION, INC. coming April 2026
Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social Doing what our name says, holding Big Tech accountable. #ReinInBigTech
accountabletech.org
Design It For Us @designitforus.bsky.social We're a coalition of young activists and organizations fighting for safer social media and online platforms for kids, teens, and young adults.
Zamaan Qureshi @zamaan.bsky.social Campaigns/Policy @designitforus.bsky.social. Alum: @accountabletech.bsky.social, @ausis.bsky.social, Real Facebook Oversight Board, @markey.senate.gov, @casten.house.gov. YNWA | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | he/him | opinions my own
Carl Erik Fisher @drcarlerik.bsky.social Addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, associate professor at Columbia University. | The Urge: Our History of Addiction (Penguin Press, 2022) | Rat Park newsletter--> carlerikfisher.substack.com
American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. #histmed
Rob Ralphs @robralphs.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Social Policy @ Manchester Metropolitan University. He/Him. Mancunian. Interested in all things drug related:Use/Markets/Policy/NPS/IPEDS/Chemsex/Harm Reduction/Trends/ Treatment/Homeless/Pleasure/Prison/Testing etc.
Marie Jauffret-Roustide @marieroustide.bsky.social Research Fellow Inserm CEMS France, Sociology, Political Science, Drug Policy, Harm reduction, Gender studies, Ethnicity, participatory method
Trustee ISDDP, Scientific committee EUDA
Scientific director D3S program EHESS IRESP
Revue Esprit editorial board
Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social PhD-ing University of Cambridge. Interested in the political economy of transitions, environmental regimes and public truth. Previously in LSE Inequalities. Cusqueño 🇵🇪. [español/english]
https://planetarypraxis.org/people/rafael-barrio-de-mendoza-zevallos
Alexis Bedolla @alexisbedolla.bsky.social Sociologist of epidemiology | Decolonial and antiracist STS & HPS | Associated Prof. at UNAM | Inconforme | 🇵🇸
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
Dr Zoë Dubus @zoedubus.bsky.social Docteure en histoire de la médecine. Postdoc au Cermes3, INSERM, CNRS. Psychotropes, psychédéliques, médicaments, XIXe - XXIe siècles.
Site : https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
English profile: https://bsky.app/profile/zoe-dubus.
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
himeshmehta.bsky.social @himeshmehta.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Warwick - Researching the History of the Psychedelic Renaissance in 20th/21st Century Britain
Craig Stafford @craigstafford.bsky.social British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
Zoë Dubus @zoe-dubus.bsky.social English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries.
Totally woke
Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social Sociologist and researcher based at the University of Sheffield
Joanna Kempner @joannakempner.bsky.social Sociologist and Pet Snoozler. Kid Herder and Hobby Hoarder. Award-winning author focused on gender, health, pain, and stigma. New book: Psychedelic Outlaws about pain patients figuring things out on their own. https://bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Deborah Toner @deborahftoner.bsky.social Historian; Food & Alcohol History; Music & Growing Things!
Steve Taylor @stevejtaylor.bsky.social Historian of medicine, long suffering Spurs fan, occasional guitarist
Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social Food historian. Independent Researcher. Drinking studies, material culture, gastronomy. Author of "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).
Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
Lila O'Leary Chambers @lilachambers.bsky.social Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Editorial Board @insurrecthistory.bsky.social
Victoria Afanasyeva @v-afanasyeva.bsky.social Historienne.
Mouvement antialcoolique, établissements de tempérance, projet MALCOF, and so on.
www.france-temperance.com
Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social Historian.
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.com
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social #EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
Dorota Dias-Lewandowska @dorotadias.bsky.social anthropologist/historian: alcohol, drinking culture, excess, addiction, gender. PI in the NCN_PL funded projects www.womenandalcohol.net and www.boundariesofdrinking.pl Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS Warsaw
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Dr James Brown @drjamesbrown.bsky.social Erstwhile early modern historian, now professional services at the Uni of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants; the supernatural, folklore, folk horror; KE/impact; project management; 📸; 🥾; 🏋️. My photography portfolio and blog: https://darkframes.uk/
Jonathan S. Jones @jonathansjones.bsky.social Historian 🗃️ | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | My book *Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America’s First Opioid Crisis* is now out from UNC Press, tinyurl.com/opiumslavery | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. https://www.saraeblack.com/
Natasha Bailey @natashakbailey.bsky.social historian and library worker 📚 researching colonial Mexico, Nahua histories, pulque, plant-human relationships
Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social
| "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
Lewis Jordan @lewisjordan.uk (he/him) Socialist, @acornunion.bsky.social board member, Green. Work in pharmacovigilance systems by day, play pool by night. Spurs, Packers, Mets fan. Join a union today!
Melanie Keene @melaniekeene.bsky.social Historian of science, education, and childhood. Homerton College, Cambridge.
Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca Investigations on the Alberta-led drug war revival: www.drugdatadecoded.ca
✍️ APTN, Alberta Views, The Breach, The Tyee
PhD Microbiology
Banner: Access to information in Alberta
Icon: Headshot of me in blue t-shirt- F Greg Fosco @familypowerlab.bsky.social Prof. Of HDFS @ Penn State; Family Science, Prevention Science; Development. Father/Husband; Hiking and Travel.
Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, PhD @sauyaq.bsky.social Inupiaq, honoring my ancestors, self-determination | Fulbright Arctic ❄️ | Climate advocate | sustainability 🌎| Science Diplomat | Researcher | Evaluator | Speaker | Trainer | futurist 💡| connecting Indigenous Peoples worldwide 🌺 | evidence based policy|🐈
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman.
Here for the books. And dogs. GBR.
Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people in #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org
Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025.
Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing, evidence based policy, measurement.
Professor @hpscambridge.bsky.social
Fellow @kingscollege.bsky.social
Russian Brit
She/her
https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova