UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social The trade union for staff at the University of Glasgow.
📥 : ucug@glasgow.ac.uk
https://glasgow.web.ucu.org.uk/
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com Univ. of Manchester Prof of Synoptic Meteorology, educator, scientist
Author: Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist
Free online climate course: "Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes"
Tom Vause @cheese12233.bsky.social Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Rob Watts @drrobertbobby.bsky.social Lecturer in Television and Creative Industries, University of Manchester
Editor at Critical Studies in Television: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CST
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear.
(senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Palaeoclimate | Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Exeter (Cornwall) | Marine geology | Micropalaeontology | Geochemistry | IODP | Birding | Parenting small humans
Brenna Dempsey @brennadempsey.bsky.social Higher education professional with a passion for governance and communications.
NTEU Monash Branch Secretary & National Councillor.
Interested in how things work — and how to make them better.
She/Her | Boon Wurrung Country
Jan Süselbeck @jansueselbeck.bsky.social Professor of German Culture, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), #Trondheim
Julia Frost @jufrost.bsky.social Associate Professor Health Services Research, University of Exeter
Charlie Clark @charliethewollie.bsky.social UoE PhD Candidate at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies ✡️✝️☪️
Currently obsessed with φυλακτήρια, קמעין, late-antique Judaism/general religious fun times and museum studies.
Big fan of languages, music, escape rooms, and unnecessarily large shoes
@david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social Disability, mental health, politics, technology.
Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social Historian of South Asia. Refugees, Migration and Borders. 
Kim @professorkhc.bsky.social Theatre Artist/Professor, Shakespeare scholar (early modern performance practices.) Cat 🐈⬛ Dad. Beer 🍺 snob. History geek. New Englander, but really wishing I lived in Old England again.
Is it possible to own too many swords?⚔️
Victoria Stadheim @victoriastadhe1.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Economics @University of Hertfordshire. Research on economic crises, public banking & public water
Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.bsky.social Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things
Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social Athro Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru
Dave Howcroft 🦔 is participating in action short of a strike ✊️ @davehowcroft.com Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them
Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space Professor Bimbo, Astronomer, #SFF Author.
She/They, Trans, Poly, Queer, ADHD.
Repped by Liverpool Literary Agency.
THE POTENT SOLUTION, my debut fantasy novel, IS OUT NOW!!!
Linktr.ee/drashleynova
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/ashleynova
Harriet Palfreyman @harrietpalfreyman.bsky.social she/her.
Lecturer in Science and Health Communication at the University of Manchester. Visual cultures, surgery, sci fi and sickness. Lapsed historian.
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
Adrien Sacchetta @tegeacorymb.bsky.social Quantitative sociology, philosophy, mathematical physics, Americas, institutions, Early Bronze, Chalcolithic Tegean, and Sichem. Key words: architect-urbanist, transdisciplinarity, oscillators, Gregory Bateson, Bertrand Russell, Wien-Prague ⏺️ ISO/IEC 37101
John MacArtney @johnmacartney.bsky.social Marie Curie Associate Professor
Sociologist of dying, palliative and end-of-life care, and bereavement.
https://profiles.warwick.ac.uk/u1772723-john-macartney
Benedict Eastaugh @beastaugh.bsky.social logician at warwick
extralogical.net
the mangosphere @mangmangmang.bsky.social boring machine
Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social Academic (Open University), Quaker, systems thinker, EDI practitioner, cyclist, choral singer, parent, spouse. Introvert, but quite good at committees and networking. Christian-ish, socially progressive, economically soft-left. 🌈
Kevin Riggs @profriggsy.bsky.social Experimental psychologist studying Theory of mind and knowledge processing. Used to be a drummer - still drink beer.
Lexi Breen @lexibreen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, School of health and care sciences, University of Lincoln, co-chair UoL LGBTQIA+ network.
Activist in intersex and trans issues. Trustee of the Klinefelter’s syndrome association and Icon UK, UCU women’s & LGBT committee.
Dr Moé Suzuki @moesz.bsky.social LSE Fellow in interdisciplinary social science w/ PhD in Politics. Interested in: 'humanity', migration, technology, feminism. Currently thinking & writing about “humanisation” of refugees. Views my own.
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Academic, U of Portsmouth, UK: corpus linguistics, lexicology/graphy, semantics, word play. Also interested in French literature & culture. UCU activist ( @ucu.org.uk )
Also likes: cats, singing, LFC, Lancashire cricket, talking too much
Dr Jared Jeyaretnam ⚛️🧪 @jaredjeya.github.io I study non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics from a quantum circuit perspective at the University of Nottingham. Also passionate about science outreach! He/him
🌐 jaredjeya.github.io
PS: All opinions solely my own.
Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social She/her. Feminism, anti-colonialism, critical international development. Liberation theology. Gender, faith and politics.Mother to a grumpy cat. Editorial hats: Culture and Religion (T and F), Conversations IFJP
Dr Emma Bridger @emkbridger.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Uni of Leicester (based in Brum); Researcher in social determinants of mental health and socioeconomic health inequalities - how they arise, how we think about them and how to address them. LGBT+ Equalities Branch Officer
Malte Laub @maltelaub.bsky.social Teaches IPE at the University of Sheffield.
Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com Fuck you
Amy Taggart @amytaggart.eurosky.social PhD Researcher in Food Ethics at Trinity College Dublin’s Environmental Ethics Initiative
https://www.tcd.ie/environmental-ethics/people/
Environmental Ethics | Political Philosophy | Philosophy of Nature
@aicbrn.bsky.social Executive Committee
She/Her
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.
Nicola Darwood @nicdarwood.bsky.social University lecturer in English Literature - fascinated by Elizabeth Bowen and Stella Benson.
Sian 🌻 @siansallpress.bsky.social Researcher (PhD) in football heritage. Visiting lecturer. Archivist. Brentford supporter. I also like films.
Lauri Snellman @laurijosnellman.bsky.social I'm a philosopher and a researcher on the problem of evil. Author of Evil and Intelligibility and An Essay in the Logic of World-views.
Also follow progressive liberalism vs authoritarianism, animal and nature pics on BlueSky. :)
Nadine Zubair @nadinezubair.bsky.social This, that, and the other
Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil @densitypoint.bsky.social A non-binary trans femme (she/they) who's a ukulele-playing, analysis-crazed mathematician. ADHD.
Engaged 💍 21/7/24
https://www.tiktok.com/@densitypoint
https://www.instagram.com/density_point
Lawrence Davies @andrenascotica.bsky.social Music, trees, birds, bees, bicycles. Working on ecological histories of sound amplification. Born at 353ppm.
Green Party councillor for Ouseburn Ward, Newcastle upon Tyne. Promoted by The Green Party at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social Cardiff UCU branch account. For member inquiries, please email UCU@cardiff.ac.uk or phone the office on 02920 874443
Website: cardiffucu.org.uk
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian @ Queen’s Uni Belfast
Author of “Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” (Cornell, 2026) & “After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship” (Boydell, 2019)
🏳️🌈
Jack McGowan @jmcgphd.bsky.social Scottish+Irish/EU citizen. In academia but forever an actor. History/present, Humanities/humanity. 🇪🇺 #DysguCymraeg https://drjackmcgowan.wordpress.com
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Amy Hetherington 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @amyhetherington.bsky.social Museums and digital. Fandoms. Opinions. She/her
Chen Zeng @zengchen.bsky.social PhD candidate in political science at King’s College London
https://zengchen.org
Joe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
Centre of Advanced International Studies @cais-exeter.bsky.social This account posts updates from the Centre of Advanced International Studies at the University of Exeter.
Alex Pavey @alexpavey.bsky.social Supporting inclusive research cultures for doctoral students and supervisors at King’s College London | Karaoke enthusiast | He / him
Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
James Taylor @archaeo-james.bsky.social Archaeologist and Lecturer @University of York. Neolithic Greece and Turkey and beyond, digital methods, GIS, fieldwork, and the creative mess of turning trenches, data, and drawings into knowledge of the past.
Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social Associate Professorial Research Fellow in International Relations (IR) at LSE IDEAS, managing LSE Ukraine programme. Book: Authoritarian Contagion. Find me on SubStack:
https://mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
MK🌈 @leftypawprints.bsky.social EIS Union Rep✊ Aberdonian🩶Proud gay man 🏳️🌈Cat dad.🐈 ENFP🎉 Education 📚 SGP💚 Socialist 🚩 Gaymer🕹️Buddhist ☸️ADHD loading⚡️ Views my own☕️
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
covucu.bsky.social @covucu.bsky.social UCU Coventry University branch
Jamie Addison @jamesrusaddison.bsky.social Literature and theory PhD at the University of Sussex.
David A. McKay @davidamckay.bsky.social Climate & Earth system scientist; Geography Lecturer; sci-comm, inc. climatetippingpoints.info. Into Earth, life, & societies as complex & intertwined systems. More often at https://mstdn.social/@davidamckay
davidarmstrongmckay.com | views mine
Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Dr Sophie Cormack @sophiecormack.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Uni. of Sunderland. Perception of time, procrastination, learning analytics, online learning, cats, travel & happiness.
Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
Adam Golberg @cash4questions.bsky.social Strategic Research Development Manager (Research Growth) @ University of Nottingham. Occasional Research Professional columnist. Bureaucratic realist. Soft Order Muppet. Runner. Blog at socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Kush @kksoodlaw.bsky.social Lawyer, lecturer, still plotting my escape from the grind
Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social Philosophy professor at University of Leeds. Metaethics | academic life | "a satisficer with really high standards" (said by a colleague, fairly). https://vayrynen.org
@lucycragg.bsky.social @lucycragg.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Passionate about engaging young people with science.
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power and bikes & cats | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-1068
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
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.
Heather Herbert is going to go back to sleep. @heatherherbert.uk "absolutely vile" - Susan Smith, For Women Scotland.
I share my dreams with ghosts
I campaign for bodily autonomy for all.
Born 331.36 ppm
Dr Dominique Gracia @graciado.bsky.social Detective fiction, Victorian literature, UK Higher Ed @ucl, and other things in those general spheres!
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Matt Bennett @matt1066.bsky.social Historian: medieval warfare and literature. FSA. FRHS. Rejoin EU.
Paul Graham Morris @greenplanetfish.bsky.social Edinburgh University based academic with interests in nature, values and eco-emotions. Facilitator of Nature Connection Research Group. Health psychologist working on clinical psychology training programme.
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Council for the Defence of British Universities @cdbu.bsky.social The crisis of marketisation has put universities in danger. We believe that it’s time to fight back. Visit our website to become a member 🎓
Chong-Ming Lim @cmlim.eurosky.social Philosopher at the University of Sheffield.
Thinking about political resistance, public commemorations, disability, cats, dogs, naps, etc.
www.cmlim.info
Will 🌞 @wmjones.bsky.social Nerdy guy, interested in computers and technology 🖥️, science 🧪, space 🪐. Casual runner 🏃🏻♂️. I mostly post silly stuff on here.
David Clover @davidclover.bsky.social Librarian and student services manager. 
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University | Co-artistic director of Theatre of the @GentleFuries | researching Athenian forensic oratory & theatrical receptions of myth | she/her | catposting
Kirsten the (ex) Librarian @librarykirsten.bsky.social Formerly Research Intelligence Librarian and NHS librarian. Co-founder of Fair Library Jobs. UCU member. Equity, pedantry, cats. She/her.
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Geth Rees @gethrees.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Interested in understanding the intersection of medicine and criminal justice, but also likely to be talking about Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPGs), running and Star Wars.
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Frances Andrews @fea-sta.bsky.social Medieval Historian; Italianist; Prof at St Andrews
Shoo away! What you're doing IS fascism @sahrataylor.bsky.social Academic, runner, gamer, reader, adhd. Just a girl searching for cool people to hang with
Pathfinder 1e ftw: Fem-Shep is cannon Shep!
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