Katie Cross @drkatiecross.bsky.social Lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen. She/Her 👩🏻🏫🏴🇨🇾 https://linktr.ee/drkatiecross
@christinapaine.bsky.social @christinapaine.bsky.social
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
Cecile Menard @cecilebm.bsky.social Precarious academic and UCU rep.
Peter J Woods @awasteofredmeat.bsky.social “Noise guy” in Nottingham via Milwaukee. Ex-FTAM Productions, amongst other things. Also an education researcher.
"Learning Through Noise," my first book, available now from Palgrave Macmillan.
http://peterjwoods.com
https://linktr.ee/PeterJWoods
Gareth S. Brown @garethsbrown.bsky.social Musician with Death-Static, The Declining Winter, Your Good Selves (formerly with Memory Drawings, Hood, Canvas, etc)
Game designer for Red Plenty Games
Employee at University and College Union
Member of Leeds Surrealist Group
He/Him
Allison Owens @allisonowens.bsky.social Operations Assistant | Sometime Linguist | she/they
Callum Salfield @calsal.bsky.social Organiser at Lboro UCU.
Ben Purvis @benpurvis42.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
(they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
Caren Frosch @froschlein.bsky.social Psychology, JDM, running, UCU, personal views
Alexis Wear @alexiswear.bsky.social Political economist, business historian
Waltham Forest SUTR @sutrwalthamforest.bsky.social Standing up to racism, anti semitism and islamaphobia
UCU Capital City Colleges @ucucapitalcitycoll.bsky.social
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
@yas-ben.bsky.social @yas-ben.bsky.social
Dr Nicola Sugden @nicolasugden.bsky.social Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
Regine Pilling @regipilling.bsky.social She / Her. I teach Politics at Capital City College and I'm also the UCU Branch Sec and on UCU NEC for London & East FE.
Campaign against Climate Change trade union group @cacctu.bsky.social As part of the Campaign against Climate Change, we work with UK trade unions at a national and grassroots level. We believe the labour movement is a crucial part of the fight to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown and achieve a just transformation.
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
wfswp @wfswp.bsky.social ✊ Socialist Workers Party - Waltham Forest Branch
🔎 Revolutionary Socialists
🔥 Challenging Oppression 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Fight for a better future⬇️
Carla Busuttil @carlabusuttil.bsky.social Artist and educator. Birmingham, UK @ingotstudio @spectralkaraoke @waystowardssomething
carlabusuttil.com
William Astle @wjastle.bsky.social Statistician at MRC BSU and NHSBT, Cambridge UCU Membership Secretary and elected member of Cambridge University Council
Ian Higham @highamian.bsky.social Research Fellow at London School of Economics. Climate change, human rights, international law, global governance. PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. Chair @lseucu.bsky.social Views mine, ibland på svenska. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸 | ✊🏻🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
George A. Constantinides @gconstantinides.bsky.social Prof Digital Computation @imperialcollege, Director of the Early Career Researcher Institute. Vice Chair @iclmathsschool. Views own. http://constantinides.net.
Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
UCU Imperial College @ucuimperial.bsky.social The official BlueSky account of the Imperial College branch of UCU.
Brunel UCU #nocompulsoryredundancies @brunelucu.bsky.social Brunel University Branch of UCU - fighting compulsory redundancies
York St John University @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Welcome to the official Blue Sky account for York St John University.
Join us for a daily slice of YSJ life. We'll share our research, upcoming events, and other news from across the University.
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social 🎓Lecturer @BristolUni @BILT (curriculum, pedagogy, SFHEA, sustainability, AI, qual research) UCU WIASN Higher Education
🏺 Archaeologist @archsengage.bsky.social Archaeology
👩🎨Crafter, TephraArts https://tephraarts.etsy.com
📍Bristol ☘️ she/her
UCU Solidarity Movement @ucu-solidarity.bsky.social Calling for solidarity across UCU branches. We are fighting against cuts, casualisation and marketised education!
UHI UCU @uhiucu.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social branch of @ucuscotland.bsky.social | FB - https://www.facebook.com/uhiucu | Insta - https://www.instagram.com/uhi_ucu/ | X - https://x.com/UHI_UCU | Linktree - https://linktr.ee/uhiucu | Join - www.ucu.org.uk/join |
William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social ~ sounding kinships & muddy listening & sonic pedagogies ~
artist, musician, pedagogue, writer, agitator
Lecturer @ Anglia Ruskin University | PhD @ CRiSAP, LCC:UAL | UCU Rep @ both
(all views my own) 🇨🇾 🍉
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Daragh O’Reilly @daraghwriting.bsky.social I’m a writer, based in Sheffield. For further info, please click daraghoreilly.com.
Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social UK & world-leading centre for research on #cities #planning #socialpolicy #data #analytics #realestate #publicpolicy at @glasgow.ac.uk.
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/uofg_ussp
Penelope Anthias @penelopeanthias.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Human Geography at Durham. Research on territory, extractivism, Indigenous rights in Bolivia (Chaco). New documentary filmmaker
Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, critical race & social media research at the University of Leeds. she/her
Whose Uni? poster available here https://shorturl.at/7GcJr
Scott Alexander @scottalexander.bsky.social Eat plants
Lift heavy
Jamie Callahan @profjamiec.bsky.social Storytelling feminist - learning, gender, emotion & activism. Equity Challenge Project creator. USAF Veteran. Former Co-EIC of @IJMR_BAM. She|Her
Prof Debby Cotton @profdcotton.bsky.social Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Plymouth Marjon University, UK. Interested in all things HE. Sustainability education and behaviour change researcher. Accidental AI expert. NTF.
Generic white guy SysAdmin @westbynoreaster.bsky.social #HPC #SysAdmin & aspiring #DevOps headed to Charlotte in the new year. #dHTC evangelist, and labor history nerd. #BLM! Opinions my own. he/him
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Glaswegian philosopher based at the University of Edinburgh, mostly working on issues in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Co-editor of Hypatia, research associate at ACEPS, University of Johannesburg. He/him. https://sites.google.com/site/aidanmcglynn
Simon Waldman @simon-on-energy.bsky.social Teaching & research on renewable energy with @heriotwattuni.bsky.social, #Orkney. #UCU member. #Energy, #oceanography, & #academia, all in personal capacity. Born at 334ppm. Also at @simon_on_energy@fediscience.org. he/him
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Universities UK @universities-uk.bsky.social The voice of UK universities
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
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
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social Associate Prof of Middle Eastern History (Palestine, earthquakes, archaeology, labour). Gobby feminist, inky, cyclist, cat rehabber, born at 331. She/her. #actuallyautistic. Ed. of @contemplevant.bsky.social. Defender of post-92s, union member.
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Russell Group @russellgroup.bsky.social The Russell Group represents 24 universities located across the UK.
We work to advance and champion the positive economic, societal & cultural impacts of UK research-intensive universities.
russellgroup.ac.uk
Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔
Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social We are an independent academic society working to strengthen Danish research at the intersection between Marxism and other traditions of radical scholarship. For news about our annual conference → http://marxistiskestudier.com/
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Ric Crossman @riccrossman.bsky.social Statistician. Educator. Union man. Occasional pop culture critic for ATB Publishing (and himself). Just wants everyone to be happy, a fact that has made a number of people EXTREMELY angry. He/him/Comrade.
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Andy in Scotland @andyrewscotland.bsky.social Loves working in HE, hates the b******t.
Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social Social work and trade union stuff.
Personal account which certainly does not reflect the views of my employer.
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social Viruses, Evolution, Education, Trade Unions, things like that. Prof at Uni of Oxford, NEC member for UCU. Posts mine, reposts not.
Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property. Lefty migrant
Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine
JohnNarayan.bsky.social @johnnarayan.bsky.social
Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; environment rep, @ducu.bsky.social.
Under the pavement, the forest! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
Rita Mahli @ritamahli.bsky.social Socialist and trade unionist. Chingford & Woodford Green Community Independents
Scott Hurrell @scottalexander19.bsky.social Work & employment academic, trade unionist, and social scientist. Love to wonder at the world but increasingly screaming at it. Sports nut (esp. ⚽️ ⛷️& 🏏).
Views my own (if the self exists 🤷🏼♂️).
Scott Inglis He/Him/His @unionscott.bsky.social Trade unionist, recovering academic, nurse & nerd
Kate Hardy @katerhardy.bsky.social Professor of Global Labour. Co-Editor in Chief - New Technology Work and Employment.
Interests include: Marxist-Feminism, sex work, feminist activism, self-employment, work and technology, gender, decolonial theory.
SaladinMeckled @saladinmeckled.bsky.social Human Rights Academic; UCLUCU Vice President; Author and researcher; political philosophy
All posts are in my personal capacity only.
Re-posting does not necessarily imply approval.
Sami Pinarbasi @samihistorian.bsky.social Chaotic good, historian/digital humanist of British slavery & abolition/American Early Republic, horror & sci fi fan, guitar, pc gamer, historical #GIS #dataviz
John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social Retired academic, but a professional photographer a long time ago. He/Him.
This account will include photographs of various sorts, at least until Bluesky combusts.
Xanthe Whittaker @xanthewhittaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Work & Employment Relations | Future of work | AI & data tech at work | Inequalities at work | Care work | Dancer | Skater 🛼
London/Leeds
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Pete Wood @peterrhwood.bsky.social Sustainability, mobility, devolution, government reform. OU Assoc Lecturer & Freelance Researcher. UCU Climate and Ecological Emergency Ctte & OU Branch President. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrhwood
HWUCU @hwucu.bsky.social The Heriot Watt branch of UCU
Militant Menagerie✊️
https://heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/
Dr Aisha Walker 🎶 @aiwal.bsky.social Past President UCU Leeds, European, musician, knitter, cyclist, #JoinAUnion, posting in a personal capacity 🇪🇺 #FPBE
Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social Nothing but a buck private of the far-left.
Marxist.
Internationalist.
Revolutionary.
Globalist.
Hackney SWP.
I stand with Palestine.
#Onlacherien ☭
Joseph Choonara @jchoonara.bsky.social Author: "Reader's Guide to Capital"; "Insecurity, Precarious Work & Labour Markets"; "Unravelling Capitalism". Editor: International Socialism. UCU activist. Posts in personal capacity.
Swansea UCU PGR Working Group @swansea-ucu-pgr.bsky.social A working group in Swansea University's UCU branch for PGR students who work alongside their studies.
https://swansea-ucu-pgr.gitlab.io
Sam Marsh @sam-marsh.bsky.social Mathematician, trade unionist, pension scheme trustee and novice diver from Sheffield. Sometimes wrong, but usually not in isolation.
Emilio Zucchetti @emizuc.bsky.social Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi🏳️🌈, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades 🍉; MINOTAUR; my opinions, not my employer's
Dr Jeff Pocock @drjeffpocock.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. MacIntyrean.