Phil @philactive.bsky.social Associate Director of Sport & Community @ Uni of Southampton
Goals an even more active, connected whole university community -inspiring everyday movement to research & supporting our student athletes to excel. #ActiveforAll #WeCanBeActive
University of Southampton News @uosmedia.bsky.social Updates from the University of Southampton media team |
@unisouthampton.bsky.social | Email us at press@soton.ac.uk
Julie Petro @juliepetro.bsky.social Director of Comms @orcid.org. Strategizing the future of scholarly comms by day; navigating Middle-earth and the NWOBHM by night. Devotee of Norse myth, ravens, and all manner of felids. Very dangerous over short distances. 🤘🛡️
Katherine Ahnberg @teach-research.bsky.social Assessment & UX at Princeton University Library| Bay Area expat, found in museums, between trees, and thinking about how to make libraries a place for everyone.
Op-eds my own.
Jill Dye @jilld17.bsky.social 📚Head of Access at @natlibscot.bsky.social 📖Co-Editor of Library & Information History Journal🧾Hon. Treasurer of CILIP Rare Books & Special Collections Group📓Books, libraries, singing, theatre & food.
@johnwholloway.bsky.social @johnwholloway.bsky.social 
Maria Halgund @mhaglund.bsky.social Library Director, KTH Royal Institute of technology. Intrest in open science, research, educaction and library issues. 
Sarah Ormes @sormes.bsky.social Research Analytics Librarian at the University of Bath. Helping academics to demonstrate the impact of their work.
Andy Potter @slimoakheart.bsky.social 📜 Deep in archives, records, digital transformation & policy | And🏔️ deep in the Berkshire Hills with a 🐕 Golden Retriever & a 🚣♂️ kayak
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Richard Feynman
Centre for Research in Inclusion @cri-uos.bsky.social Centre for Research in Inclusion (CRI) at the University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Co-directors @vstrogilos.bsky.social & @achalagupta.bsky.social
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/centre-for-research-in-inclusion
The Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP) @uoschep.bsky.social The University of Southampton's centre for academic professional development for all staff and PGRs across education, research and knowledge exchange & enterprise.
Fran Gonsalves @welshfran.bsky.social Retired but only as a wage slave. Into Life, Literature, nature, gardening and whatever takes my fancy at the time 🧐
Prof Rebecca Hoyle @rebeccahoyle.bsky.social Professor of mathematics, mum, yogi.
Mercian Collaboration @merciancollab.bsky.social The Mercian Collaboration is a professional network of Higher Education libraries in the UK's East & West Midlands.
https://merciancollaboration.org.uk/
Our #Mercian25 Conference will be held in the TechnoCentre in Coventry on 10th September 2025.
@smileyhappyperson.bsky.social @smileyhappyperson.bsky.social 
Kay Grieves @kayg73.bsky.social HE Libraries. Universities. Learning, Teaching Research. Impact and Engagement. Travel. Plants and Growing things.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries @library.cmu.edu The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries is your destination for discovery. As a central gathering space for the university, with physical and digital spaces for everyone to meet, study, and grow, we're at the heart of the work of CMU.
Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com Learning Programs Manager, Western Sydney University Library | PhD, Active Researcher | she/her | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚
Research: mis/dis info, social media
www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X
Niamh Tumelty @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Director of LSE Library, Managing Director of LSE Press, Programme Director for LIBER Emerging Leaders. Cláirseach, gaeilge agus suathaireacht spóirt, here in personal capacity. Pronounced Nee-uv, it makes sense in Irish! Not on here much these days
Library Think Tank #ALATT @librarythinktank.bsky.social The BlueSky account for the Library Think Tank, unofficially associated with the American Library Association. Originated on Facebook, now here on BlueSky!
?s to group, use #askLTT
Use #librarythinktank, #ALATT, #skybrary, #librarysky, #skybrarians
NIHR ARC Wessex @arcwessex.bsky.social NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex 1 of 10 ARCs supporting applied health & care research in England https://linktr.ee/ARCWessex
#Lifechangingresearchfundedbythepublic
Andrew Sayer @andrewsayerbcu.bsky.social Retired Librarian, trying to make the most of my time. History, pizzas and Middlesbrough F.C.
Oliver Blake @olblake.bsky.social Project Manager for Open Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam | www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-blake-812883211 | Opinions my own
Research Information @researchinfo.bsky.social Scholarly Communications publication – the essential link for librarians, researchers and publishers. Editor: Tim Gillett. Commercial director: Jon Hunt
www.researchinformation.info
SUBSCRIBE to our Newsline: https://www.researchinformation.info/subscribe
Dr Laura Molloy @lmhatii.bsky.social FRSA. Artist. Senior research lead @CODATA-ISC, Paris. PhD @OIIOxford & @TheRuskin; visual art, archives, open research data, digital preservation & curation. Opinions mine. 🏴🇪🇺 Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@LM_HATII
Researcher to Reader Conference @r2rconf.bsky.social The premier meeting for discussion of the international scholarly communications ecosystem — bringing knowledge from the Researcher to the Reader. In London every February.
Terry Bucknell @terrybucknell.bsky.social Sales at overton.io (policy impact, grey lit discovery and that kind of thing). Ex-librarian. The Fall. Essex boy who pretends to be a northerner. Daughter says he’s posh.
Marshall Breeding @mbreeding.bsky.social Independent consultant, speaker, and author. Editor of Library Technology Guides. 
Lesley English @lesley-e.bsky.social Head of Academic Engagement & Teaching Services at Man Met Uni. Posts about HE libraries, EDI, wellbeing & belonging. Views my own.
Richard Blackman 🔶 @richardblackman.bsky.social Lib Dem Cllr for Bassett, Southampton, Lib Dem Group Leader on SCC. Pluralist. European Citizen at heart. Generation X. Interests include languages and nature.
Mark Hughes @mark-h-cymru.bsky.social Librarian, currently Head of Libraries at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Gaming / fiction / sci-fi geek in my spare time. Shares the sofa at home with 2 rescue Greyhounds
Opinions expressed here are personal ones, and should only be taken as such
katrina @katreeeena.bsky.social Associate Director Digital Services @ USYD Library | Into libraries, museums, history, F1, tech, privacy, security, copyright, policy | Trying to read more books, take more walks, post less | Australia | Send me your cat pics
she/her
Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social Poet, academic library scholar, chronic illness life. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), more. See www.colleensharris.com
Kris R.B. @krbranco.bsky.social Dean of the Library, Loyola Marymount University. Co-director, IMLS-funded "Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Online;" PI, DOE-funded "OER for Social Justice." Research focus: factors affecting research productivity of academic librarians.
Art Libraries Society of North America @arlisna.bsky.social ARLIS/NA is a dynamic organization of over 1,000 individuals devoted to fostering excellence in art and design librarianship and image management. https://linktr.ee/arlisna
Theo @earthowned.bsky.social Scholarly Communications Manager in the award winning Library Research Support team at the University of Edinburgh. Will talk about Open Research/Science, running and whimsical fluff.
Librarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social She/her. Iowa. Libraries. Dog Mom. Crafty. Sometimes serious. Sometimes silly.
Personal account, obviously.
https://librarianbyday.net/
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Irish Open Access Publishers @ioap.bsky.social The IOAP is a national community of practice which aims to advance Diamond Open Access Publishing in Ireland. 
Jackie Oliver @jackieo41.bsky.social A HE librarian based in a University in the NE of England. Interested in AI, digital upskilling and understanding student needs. All views are my own. Transitioning from X.
Joe Dale @joedale.bsky.social Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant. UK and Irish dual citizen, pro EU and free movement. AI Project Lead for National Consortium for Languages Education and former host of TES MFL forum
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
Michelle Breen @michellebreen.bsky.social Head of a University Library department in Ireland and learning about BlueSky by jumping in, late 2023
UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social Supporting the impact of the UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Data Impact blog: http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk
Other impact activities: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/impact/
Email us at: ukdsimpact@jisc.ac.uk
Helen Williams @helskrw.bsky.social Metadata Manager @LSELibrary. Exploring and developing new ways in which metadata can support research, teaching and learning.
White Rose Libraries @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social The university libraries of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. Supporting shared repositories, White Rose University Press, and innovating through collaboration.
Visit our website: whiteroselibraries.org
Holly Croft @hollycroft.bsky.social Archivist. Owned by a dog and some cats. I work for a public institution in Georgia, but I also make wreaths in my spare time. Good trouble (usually).
She/her.
Mish Dalton @mishdalton.bsky.social Research and Library stuff @ UCD. Views my own
Giraffes! 🦒 Badminton! 🏸 Exclamation marks!
Contentedly discontent. #OABooks #ResearchCulture 
Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social University Librarian at the University of the West of Scotland, Doctoral Student, Historian and Photographer. Researching the impact of public libraries on loneliness and social isolation in communities. SCURL Vice Chair and Director at SUP.
Dave Key @mrtooley.bsky.social was @davegkey and @pocobooc on X
Work: Digital education
Fun: films, reading, writing
Fit: lots of running 26marathons.com
David Vinjamuri @dwv123.bsky.social NYU Professor, Advocate for Libraries
Lucy Langley-Palmer @lglpalmer.bsky.social Film & TV, Music, and Theatre librarian at Bristol University. Union type, writes stuff.
Music/ culture writer often found at Bristol24/7
She/her.
JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Part of the ITHAKA nonprofit family.
More about us: https://about.jstor.org/
Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
https://openbookcollective.org/
Francesc García Grimau @txescu.bsky.social Obrer de la #Documentació. 📑
🐦 @txescu@x.com
🦣 @txescu@mastodont.cat
❌ @txescu@xiuxiuejar.com
Roger Schonfeld @rschon.bsky.social JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Organizational strategy for ITHAKA. Contributor at the Scholarly Kitchen. Former Ithaka S+R.
Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social Head of Education Shakespeare Martineau, LFC, she/her
Ciara McCaffrey @ciaramccaffrey.bsky.social University Librarian & Director of Library & Information Services at the University of Limerick. Current chair of CONUL: Consortium of National & University Libraries in Ireland
Susan Nickerson @nickersonresearch.bsky.social Nickerson Research - Los Angeles. Footage, image, audio, & text research & clearance for movies & docs #History #Archivists #Librarians #Archives #Libraries #Museums #Preservation #RabbitHoles + #Genealogy
Banner: brothers react to Stacy doll gift.
Ypsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org Proudly serving Ypsilanti, Michigan since 1868.
(ip·suh·lan·tee)
Alison Baud @librarychirp.bsky.social Librarian in Bath (city). On the Doric linguistic continuum. A bit of birdwatching and sometimes books.
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social Diversity is strength. Equity is freedom. Inclusion is liberation.
Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Research and teach on reducing damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in nuisance seaweeds, space, cats, and things that make me laugh.
Image: Ed Hawkins 2025
Louisa Scott @louisascott.bsky.social Writer, reader, mum, business founder.
SE Londoner who grew up in Portugal and Gibraltar. I like books, running, theatre, jigsaws, cooking & eating.
Published in Litro.
Catherine O’Sullivan @osullivanc.bsky.social Paediatric doctor. Enthusiastic about immunology, books, football, & films.
Bill and the dog @billandthedog.bsky.social Bill and the dog, Isle of Wight, Southampton or somewhere in-between…
Richard Nurse @richardnurse.bsky.social Librarian at the Open University. Interested in archives, open research, library data, systems and metadata
SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton
14th in the UK for Sociology and 4th for Criminology (Times University Rankings 2026)
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CrimSky #Criminology- L Lucy @lucylambe.bsky.social Open Research Librarian at LSE
Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton unisouthampton.bsky.social tackling the world’s greatest life science challenges.
Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social Lapsed anthropologist. All things cultural heritage + digital. Thoughts expressed are my own. (Not the Connecticut-based realtor who shares my name, and sadly, my features.)
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. She/her or gender neutral pronouns. Power to the people.
Alison McNab @alisonmcnab.bsky.social Retired academic librarian (specialised in research support and econtent). Exiled Scot. Christian. Owned by a greyhound. Chatting about personal & professional stuff, incl #TheArchers
Yann Mahé @yannmahe.bsky.social Managing Director @theebmt.bsky.social - Treasurer and leader of the Open Science Working Group @gf2i.bsky.social
#OpenScience #AI #FAIR
Johan Rooryck @johanrooryck.bsky.social Linguist | Editor | Co-coordinator, European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social, @eudch.bsky.social
Charlie Rapple @charlierapple.bsky.social Co-founder of Kudos (growkudos.com - research communication showcase for broadening reach and impact of research - @growkudos.bsky.social). Scholarly Kitchen blogger. Follow me and other people in scholarly publishing: https://go.bsky.app/FanaExt
Christina Kling @christinakling-phd.bsky.social PhD Biomedical Sciences, Passionate about supporting researchers to do their best work in the best environment possible. 
LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social 🔓 Social sciences publisher. Equitable open access. Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social | press.lse.ac.uk
Selena Killick @selenakillick.com Senior User Researcher & Strategist. PhD Researcher. Interested in evidence-led service design, institutional impact, and making research accessible.
Often found watching cricket.
Andy Priestner @andypriestner.bsky.social Trainer and consultant: UX (user experience), failure and uncertainty, Lego Serious Play, libraries: https://andypriestnertraining.com/
Chair of UX in Libraries: https://uxlib.org/uxlibs2025/
My podcasting alter ego: @andypodding.bsky.social
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
Jenny Jenkin @paretothinker.bsky.social leadership coach, HE commentator, cheerleader for university folk, fan of all things coastal.
#HigherEd #WomeninHE #GenderEquity
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-jenkin-paretothinking
Celine Peignen @celine-peignen.bsky.social Head Librarian,TUS Library Midlands, Open science and OER/OEP in particular
Ben Johnson @ersatzben.com Co-Director, Science Works. Professor at University of Strathclyde. Former UK govt adviser on science and tech policy. Personal views.
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Kevin Stranack @stranack.bsky.social Instructional Designer, Librarian, Open Education, Open Source, AI Literacy, Library Publishing, Information Literacy.
Euan Adie @mrstew.bsky.social Ex-bioinformatician, ex-@nature, founded @altmetric (until 2018) and now CEO @Overtonio (analyzing v large databases of public policy). Part nerd
Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
Director @MSP-Archive.bsky.social
🇨🇵🇮🇪 🇪🇺
- LLM University of Galway
- Blue Shield Ireland @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social
- Transitional Justice, CPP, Human Rights, Conflict and Archives
Emily Sherwood @esherwood.bsky.social university librarian at RIT, problem solver, collaborator, educator, digital humanist, early modernist, feminist, activist, theater geek, runner, dog mom
Megan Gooch @agneatha.bsky.social Does digital library things at Oxford, likes coins a bit too much, visits castles cos they’re cool.
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
GatenbySanderson @gatenbysanderson.bsky.social We find, recruit and develop leaders that shape a better society. Public sector, not for profit and education executive search, interim leadership and leadership & talent consultancy.
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Chris Houghton @dhchris.bsky.social Digital archive enthusiast. Head of Academic Partnerships at Gale. Runs Gale Fellowship program, and always on the lookout for opportunities to support research.
All views my own. He/him