Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Matthias Hoernes @matthiashoernes.bsky.social Mediterranean archaeologist | passionate about the funerary archaeology of pre-Roman southern Italy, food (in archaeology and in real life), university collections, and much more | researching, teaching and learning @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 30s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) professional Jewish women who spoke to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator.
Naomi Petropoulos @n-petropoulos.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast PhD History Candidate specialising in the history of Derry and its shirt-making industry.
Views expressed are my own.
sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social archaeologist, feminist, PhD in prehistory - digs and studies prehistoric beads, bodies, identities - Visiting Lecturer at Kadir Has University & Postdoc at Bilkent University - occasionally writes stuff @pre-identity.bsky.social and www.serayelozer.com
Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social DCERC is a highly interdisciplinary research centre using evolutionary models to study cultural change and diversity. Based at Durham University, England.
Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social Doctoral student & Normalien in cognitive neuroscience at the École Normale Supérieure Paris - PSL University, Human Reinforcement Learning Team | Interested in decision modeling & photography
Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social ECR | Medieval(ism)ist | Old Norse, North Atlantic Islands, Place and Travel Writing | Access and Engagement | She/Her.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social caregiver
header: painted birdhouses mounted on top of a wooden swingset, backgrounded by a very blue sky
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
💤 @callmezero.bsky.social paleoarch, kpop, and pierce the veil 🤓
26 🇸🇻🇭🇳 american. they/them
Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 (BC)Archaeologist & PhD candidate: Brother XII & the Aquarian Foundation | archaeology of conspirituality | landscape archaeology | pseudoarchaeology | far-right pseudo/archaeology (she/her)
https://bonesstonesandbooks.com/publication
Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social Sociologist at Stirling Uni. Interests in social network analysis, social stratification, disadvantage, health egonets, quantitative methods and some other stuff.
Natasha Anson @natashaanson.bsky.social Collaborative PhD student (Durham) & museum person (Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory 🪩 she/her, views own, sporadic skeeter
Richard Nevell @richardnevell.bsky.social I'm a medieval archaeologist who works with open knowledge. Posts will inevitably descend into castles, cricket, and Star Trek.
Banner photo is Pevensey Castle in Sussex. It's one of my favourite castles. The photo is mine and licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Gerben Zaagsma @gerbenzaagsma.eurosky.social Historian working on the history, politics and censorship of #digitalhistory and #heritage; background in Jewish/Yiddish history, teaching genocide studies, digital public & music history.
More info: https://gerbenzaagsma.org/
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social Historian interested in media & memory.
Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Göttingen
Project coordinator (PhotoTogo) @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social
@evilonion.bsky.social @evilonion.bsky.social
Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social Studies is a cultural journal of the Irish Jesuit province, founded and in continuous publication since 1912. It examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic affairs.
www.studiesirishreview.ie
Instagram: @studiesirishreview
Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social Quantitative Methods, Prehistoric Demography, Cultural Evolution and random stuff. Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social https://ercrema.github.io/
Helena Arose @helenaarose.bsky.social Archaeologist | Director of Programs, Antiquities Coalition | Researcher of antiquities trafficking + cultural heritage protection | Personal account
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
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & women’s health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚♀️
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com Cultural evolution researcher at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus), UK. I study human social learning and culture using evolutionary theory.
Past President of the Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
Website: alexmesoudi.com
Cam Laforest @camlaforest.bsky.social (He/Him) Settler in Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6
Libraries, Education, Labour, & Abolition
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Steven Oliver @steven-oliver.bsky.social Recovering public health academic (retired)
Now mainly: natural world | history | prison education | research ethics
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social Official account of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
at the University of Edinburgh. Study with us! linktr.ee/hcaatedinburgh
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social geographies | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Alisa Maksimova @alisamaks.bsky.social
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
Dr. Felicia Fricke @feliciafricke.bsky.social Archaeologist | Osteologist | Historian | British/Dutch | Assistant Professor
@inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social | 1800s Eastern Caribbean
Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general.
Now migrated to eurosky.social on here.
Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
Jeremy Huggett @blkheathhopper.introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com Digital archaeologist; Ducatista and 60's Triumphs on the side;
https://introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/
Split between here and Mastodon 🐘 https://archaeo.social/@BlckheathHopper
Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social Assistant Professor in New Testament and Early Christianity at Dublin City University. Writing about early Christian exegesis, exegetical culture, and notions of "home" in Christian Late Antiquity. she/her
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past