Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Miles Powell @milespowell.bsky.social Environmental Historian. Author of Shark Hunt: How the Oceans' Most Infamous Predators Became Prey (Harvard UP, 2027), and Vanishing America (Harvard UP, 2016).
Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social Film, and classic film noir neckwear, baby.
You keep the martinis dry. I’ll be back.
she/her
#moviesky #filmnoir #filmsky #NoirAlley #thenoircollective #oldhollywood #silents #TCM
Sarah(‘s new account) @harriet-vane1.bsky.social Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
STARLOG @starlogmedia.bsky.social STARLOG, the legendary sci-fi magazine, returns–exploring the intersection of science fiction, technology & culture.
Podcast | Newsletter | Magazine Coming Late 2026
50 Years. Since 1976
https://thelodestar.starlog.com/
Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social Dad, philosopher, chronically ill person.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/people/sam-clark
Views my own.
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
manes @michaelanes.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱
US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad '24 in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Dave Price @prof-price.bsky.social Let’s solve the climate crisis.
SUNY adjunct teaching comp and intro lit. PhD. 2018 dissertation on Joyce, Pound, Yeats (transcendence and deconstruction). If I post my opinion, it’s my view, not an institution I might happen to work for or associated w.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
Pam Forster @pamelaforster.bsky.social British Academy ECR Network Project Manager (North West & North Wales), PhD student in Linguistics, carer, and cat Mum
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Alzbeta Manova @alzbetam.bsky.social 🎓 PhD student @ University of Aberdeen | 📈 Math + 🧠 Psych + 🤖 ML.
🐕 Dog parent | 🧩 Puzzle solver
🏴🇨🇿🏳️🌈
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
The Whale Pod @thewhale1851.bsky.social A podcast about a book about a man who really hates a fish.
https://patreon.com/thewhalepod
Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social Writer, Vintage SFF Reviews editor @strangehorizons. Stealth publisher peachfieldpress.uk. New novel: Radical Magic! https://peachfield-press.sumupstore.com/product/radical-magic. Archaeological recorder, knitter, grandmother of frogs.
Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for North East Scotland | Rector of Dundee University | Eco-Socialist & Intersectional Feminist | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/maggiechapman
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Magnus Watt @magnuswatt.bsky.social Urban fantasy author from the Scottish Highlands, now in Boro
Soon Enough: A Thin Places Novel and
Stories about folklore, belonging, and things that live in the dark
https://mybook.to/soon
https://mybook.to/Otherside
https://mybook.to/thinplaceswinter
Daphne @daphnereads.bsky.social Probably reading or petting a dog. She/her.
Richard Cooper @richardhcooper.bsky.social Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 42. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I’m on the Spectrum. I have an MA. Socialism or barbarism.
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social Unprofessional writer, author of "Down to Earth" published by Stairwell Books and also "Stupid Stories for Tough Times" published by Renard Press, Secretary of the W S Gilbert Society, brunch liberal, and twit
Bradford, Yorkshire 
Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat
Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴
https://pod.link/1865430519
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
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
Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social UCSL brings together Scotland’s universities in support of the study of Scottish writing old and new. We award the Ross Roy Prize and the Scottish Literary Studies Prize. https://ucsl-scotland.com/
A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the ‘psy disciplines’ and horror fiction in British culture.
Heather Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social Research Fellow at Loughborough University // contemporary lit, ecocriticism, and American culture // writing a book called Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press) // she/her
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Eveline de Smalen @evelinedesmalen.bsky.social Environmental humanities scholar and ecocritic. PhD from Rachel Carson Center. Tresoar Fellow and postdoc at KNAW NL-Lab/Fryske Akademy. Researches smell heritage in Friesland and literature and the Wadden Sea. She/zij.
www.waddensealiterature.com
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Stefanie John @stjohn1819.bsky.social Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
• the fin de siècle • literature and material culture • textiles • decorative arts • environmental humanities
Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social The Animal History Group (🌐 animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history.
Posts currently by @leafyhistory.bsky.social.
Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo @angelariviz.bsky.social PhD in Literature and Gender Studies. Currently working at the University of Granada, Spain.
Kevin Corstorphine @drkevcorstorphine.bsky.social Lecturer in English. Gothic, horror, weird.
Gemma Curto @gemmacurto.bsky.social Affiliated Researcher @Sheffield Uni, PhD English Literature ∣Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems ∣Climate&Energy ∣ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer ∣#envhum #envlit #litsci
Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
Genevieve Carver @gen-carver.bsky.social ✍️ Writer of poetry and children’s fiction
🦀 Keep writing about sea creatures and storms
🐬 Latest collection Birds / Humans / Machines / Dolphins from Guillemot Press, shortlisted for Highland Book Prize
🖥️ www.genevievecarver.com
Josephine Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social Researcher and lecturer: Energy culture, nonhuman worlds, and gender.
Brighton life 🌈.Beyond Gender Collective 🛸. Life, love and rage with bipolar 🌼💖
Bethany Davison @bethanydavison.bsky.social doctoral researcher at uni of lincoln — environmental humanities, sometimes scottish fiction, music and energy cultures etc etc etc
Balfron Book Festival @balfronbooks.bsky.social A celebration of books and storytelling in the Scottish Stirlingshire village of Balfron.
3rd to 6th September 2026
www.balfronbookfestival.com
Tamara Radak @tamararadak.bsky.social post-doc researcher (feminist media activism Ireland & UK) @univie | former member of @DistantReading | PhD on modernism & closure - she/her
Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social #Sustainability scholar @northumbriauni.bsky.social #EnvironmentalEducation #SustainableBusiness #Biodiversity #Animals #Climate Wary of polarization, viral slogans & echo chambers https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=pE0rWdgAAAAJ&hl=nl
Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Helena Ifill @helenaifill.bsky.social 
Alex David Jones @alexdjones.bsky.social [Note to self, write profile later (make funny)] | skirmishes.substack.com | he/him
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh; views my own.
she/her
Please don't DM me - I can't access them anymore.
João Seixas @joaoseixas.bsky.social Flâneur in Brussels.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social 
Rebecca Alexander @rfalexander.bsky.social eng/scot literature phd researcher, uni of glasgow: deindustrialisation and the fictional novel 📖
📍glasgow/newcastle
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Courtney Morales @courtneymorales.bsky.social she/her
Senior Acquisitions Editor at Bloomsbury
women's, gender, and sexuality studies & environmental studies
courtney.morales@bloomsbury.com
Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_
co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social
LNER superuser
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Mairéad Nic Craith @maireadnc.bsky.social Irish, Gaeilgeoir, writer, academic, interested in folklore, nature and environmental humanities. Love reading, playing the piano, Tai ‘Chi
Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social Just completed a PhD @ Uni of Bham (genre fiction, copyright + folk music). She/her 🏳️🌈
https://lnk.bio/georgie_blythe
The Brattle Theatre @brattletheatre.bsky.social Celebrating 25 years as a non-profit! Boston's Unofficial Film School since 1953. Learn more and see what's playing at brattlefilm.org. We are located at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge MA
Marta Bagüés @martabagues.bsky.social PhD candidate @www.unizar.es 📚 Literature Of(f) Limits: Pluriversal Cosmologies and Relational Identities in Present-Day Writing in English
she/her
Giorgia Garilli @giorgiagarilli.bsky.social 
Max Shirley @maxrshirley.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at a London uni. Research/write on avant-gardes, contemporary lit, the politics of form.
M. John Henry / Martin John Henry @mjohnhenry.bsky.social Martin from M. John Henry, Whin, Jewel Scheme, RTFCL PRSN. Ex-De Rosa. Songwiter, singer, guitarist. He/him
New album 'Early Songs, Of Late' out now!
https://linktr.ee/mjohnhenry
Booking: mjohnhenry@outlook.com
bis @bistheband.bsky.social We are bis from Glasgow, Scotland
The Delgados @the-delgados.bsky.social Glasgow band (1994-2005 & 2022-?)
Have a label: @chemunderground.bsky.social
Emily Scott @chrysanthsmusic.bsky.social Sing, compose, play instruments as Chrysanths, Modern Studies and more.
https://chrysanthsmusic.com
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Maud Woolf @maudwoolf.bsky.social Scottish sci fi author represented by Lina Langlee at the North Lit Agency. Debut novel THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK now shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2025
Nadia Kiwan @nadiakiwan.bsky.social Francophone Studies; Decolonial Theory; Migration and Critical Border Studies - University of Aberdeen