Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment.
Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle
Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social Forbes Bio Station Director
Wetland Bird/Waterfowl @ Illinois Natural Hist Survey
Posts do not represent my employer
President @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social
Gardening
she/her
aurielfournier.github.io
forbes-bio-station.inhs.illinois.edu
Olivia Wannan @oliviawannan.bsky.social Stuff reporter writing about climate, science and the environment.
Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social Freelance Wikipedian, fan of flightless birds, invented the platypus custard joke that Ricky Gervais stole. Ōtautahi, Dr Him.
0000-0003-1183-2550, Q56458901
Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social Science journalist, contributor @nzgeo.bsky.social, writes mostly about climate engineering, conservation, birds & also science fiction
Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social New Zealand's foremost authority on the Big Fresh Animatronic Fruit & Veggies
📍Te Papa
David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social I like collating data,
and getting thoughts in the brain.
All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him.
He tangata tiriti ahau
Kate Evans @kategevans.bsky.social Nature writer & science journalist
New Zealand Geographic
Www.Kateevans.org
Words also in Scientific American, the New York Times, bioGraphic, among others. Author of FEIJOA: A STORY OF OBSESSION AND BELONGING
New Zealand Geographic @nzgeo.bsky.social The magazine that celebrates our country in all its diversity — its people, places and wildlife. nzgeo.com
Margaret Stanley @ecostanley.bsky.social Professor, University of Auckland: urban ecology, conservation, invasive species. Mum to 2 teenagers. Nature fan. She/her. Aotearoa - New Zealand.
UOA profile: https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/mc-stanley 
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Group @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research is a Group of the Bioeconomy Science Institute.
Science for our land and our future – Ko te pūtaiao mō tō tātou whenua, mō āpōpō.
Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social Ecology | Biodiversity | Biogeography | Conservation
Senior Lecturer at Macquarie U, Sydney, Australia
youtube.com/@EcolClips
https://julianschrader.wordpress.com
https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=vkDBwQEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Chris Niebuhr, PhD @mongoosekiwi.bsky.social Wildlife Disease Ecology. Scientist at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, a Crown Research Institute of Aotearoa / New Zealand.
Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social GrrlScientist: PhD zoology/ornithology, parrot researcher, birder, freelance science reporter & writer
Currently: Forbes
Formerly: The Guardian
Vegan. Atheist.
linktr.ee/grrlscientist
Jenny McKee @jennymckee.bsky.social Research Scientist @ University of Wyoming | PhD @wakeforest.bsky.social with #seabirds | freelance science journalist | she/her
Samantha Hauser, PhD @samshauser.bsky.social Bird Academy Project Manager at Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ornithologist | Conservation genetics | she/her
Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social Protecting our native plants, animals and wild places, on land and in our oceans. Authorised by Forest & Bird, 205 Victoria St, Wellington 6011
Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social Te Kāhui Mātai Manu o Aotearoa | The Ornithological Society of New Zealand - for all things birds in Aotearoa New Zealand. www.birdsnz.org.nz
Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social Science writer & professor in Aotearoa New Zealand: Antarctica, climate, nukes. Tangata tiriti. Latest book, End Times, by @thwupbooks.bsky.social ❄🇦🇶🐧 🌈.
Now writing book about the (melting) Antarctic Ice Sheet & sea level rise
She/her or they/them/ia
Rob Cruickshank @bugblokenz.bsky.social Lecturer @UCNZ | entomologist | ex-librarian | museum junkie | phylogeny nerd | urban iNaturalist | nemophilist (woodland enthusiast) | bug hotelier | maker | cyclist | drummer | koumpounophobe | INFJ | born 322 ppm CO2 | he/him | there's other stuff too
Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social Associate Professor, palaeoecologist, and science communicator @Otago Ancient Ecology Lab Mātai Hauropi Tawhito using ancient DNA and palaeontology to reconstruct past ecosystems.
James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social Kiwi guy living in paradise. Climate scientist, cyclist, woodworker, whisky drinker.
Born at 315ppm carbon dioxide.
Michelle Dickinson @medickinson.bsky.social Nanotechnologist, Kitesurfer, builder of things.
Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social Scientist Interested in all things oceans and climate (esp. carbon cycle). Bike rider, hiker and nature lover. Privileged white feminist. Advocate for diversity.
Farah @kiwifarah.bsky.social Data & longform journalist RNZ In Depth. Trying hard to get the word 'minging' in a headline. Failing. Email: farah.hancock@protonmail.com
Jamie Morton @jamiemorton.bsky.social I write about science for the New Zealand Herald. Email: jamie.morton@nzherald.co.nz
Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social NZ Jazz Historian; Lilburn Fellow 2017; Professional Teaching Fellow Music at Auckland Uni. Come for the music, stay for everything else. Opinions definitely my own! She/her
Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social Professor at University of Otago, NZ; Webster Chair in Virology; Rutherford Discovery Fellow. I like viruses and evolution. 
The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social A view on politics at home & abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably with Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell. Powered by Fuse Energy⚡
https://linktr.ee/RestIsPolitics
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him.
Research: https://euanritchie.org/
The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A
Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Shodan🥋, 🏀, Carlton FC
🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2
Michelle Duff @michelleduff.bsky.social Social issues journalist and fiction writer, Te-Whanganui-a-Tara.
Surplus Women out April 11!
www.michelleduff.com
Words in The Guardian, New Zealand Geographic, Landfall, among others.
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social Scientist and science writer from New Zealand.
BioinfoTools on Twitter.
Traveller. Cycle touring.
More later - I really need to get to that eh? 😄
Toby Morris @xtotl.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, occasional writer and animator 
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Pavel Pipek @pavelpipek.bsky.social Invasion Ecology | Citizen Science | R || @ibotcz.bsky.social, @czechacademy.bsky.social | @depecocu.bsky.social, @sciencecharles.bsky.social, @charlesuni.cuni.cz
Dr Hazel L Richards @p-hazael.bsky.social Vertebrates collection manager at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, ex Museums Victoria, PhD Evans EvoMorph.
Megafauna, marsupials, morphology, CT & 3D imaging. She/her
Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social She/Her
Freelance Science Journalist. Fact Checker.
NatGeo, BBC, SciAm, NBC News, PopSci, WIRED, and others.
Hire me to fact check your book.
I post about Jewish stuff, disability, Star Trek, and The Buffalo Bills.
Jersey girl.
Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com Just be cool, man.
Reporter: science, nature, agriculture, climate. Bylines at Scientific American, PopSci, Sierra, Slate, Fatherly, etc.
He/Him. RTs =/= Endorsement. Opinions solely mine. Old posts delete en masse.
Chicago
www.ethanpfreedman.com
John Hart @farmgeek.bsky.social I’m quite fond of trees.
You can DM me the old fashioned way on farmgeek at gmail dot com
Whakaoriori Masterton, Aotearoa
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Dr Cassandra Raby @cassandraraby.com Conservation biologist: animal behaviour and health.
Studies 🐒 🦔 🐇 🙋 | Stats, GIS, Fieldwork
Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds. FHEA.
Outdoor adventures and allotment grower
she/her (Cass/Cassie)
Mike Bunce @buncedna.bsky.social Genetics, eDNA, biodiversity - aspires to make a difference via science. Views expressed are my own.
Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com science writer / bird nerd / nz / ellenrykers.com
Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social Botanist, retired academic. Author of "He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers" (Auckland University Press, 2025) illustrated with >500 stereo pair photographs. 🎸🌺🌱
Whakatū, Aotearoa. orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-4152
Naomi Arnold @naomiarnold.bsky.social Award-winning science & nature journalist. Author of Northbound, a Te Araroa memoir, and Southern Nights, a history of NZ astronomy.
📍portfolio & contact: www.naomiarnold.net
Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne @zealandia.bsky.social The first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary in the world
📍 Wellington, New Zealand
Sarah Höfler @aquageo.bsky.social Aquatic ecologist, mud, erosion, applied river restoration planning, QGIS, Sediment Sandy, sometimes Austrian and garden stuff, mom
Rachael Shaw @wild-minds.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist who plays games with birds in Aotearoa. Senior Lecturer at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Pākehā, she/her. Toitū Te Tiriti
thinkingbehaviour.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-8283
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Prasad Natarajan @prasadnatarajan.bsky.social Traditional Artist | Illustrator | Birdwatcher | he/him
Featured artist I Times of India I Best Indian illustrators I The Hindu
Contact: info@prasadnatarajan.com
Portfolio: https://prasadnatarajan.com
Store: https://prasadnatarajan.com/shop
Nicky Heard Artist @nickyheardartist.bsky.social UK Professional Wildlife Wool Painting Artist.
Director of Southern Nature Art Exhibition.
Teacher. Work is for sale UK
www.nickyheard.co.uk
Big Hippo 🇮🇪 @bighippoart.bsky.social Wildlife illustrator. Contact: jacekm790@gmail.com
Inprnt shop: https://inprnt.com/gallery/big.hippo.art/
KiwiFeet_inthesoil @kiwifeetinthesoil.bsky.social Bioneer. Learning to see and feel well. Know your food. Save your seeds.
Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social Birdwatcher, conservation scientist and mathematician
plume☆bird @plumep3.bsky.social 鳥好き
時々ご馳走様
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
John Mackay @dnature.bsky.social Molecular diagnostics in New Zealand for whatever interests us - from bee diseases to soil fungi, insect viruses to beer spoilage.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social Environmental Scientist🌏👣🔥💀⌨️🌿🦎🦏🦋🐆🦉🐊🦑🍄🐠🕷️🐨🦘✊🏿Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Tarndanya/Adelaide, Sth Aus, Kaurna-Peramangk-Ngarrindjeri Country @globecoflinders.bsky.social & @ciehf.bsky.social
Anna MacDonald @annamac.bsky.social Uses DNA to study wildlife | plays hockey 🏑 | drinks tea | hikes | adventures with dogs | open heart surgery x2
#conservation #genetics #consgen #eDNA #ecology #Antarctica #biodiversity #seabirds #marsupials #WildOz
Live in lutruwita / Tasmania 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈 she/her
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz Caffeinated Hypermediated Photographer. Sad devotion to Nikon, typefaces, Everton, Canucks, UK indie & NZ roots music. Results may vary depending on caffeine & alcohol intake. Toitū Te Tiriti. 323ppm
https://paullecomtephoto.nz
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Sheila Pankhurst @profpankhurst.bsky.social Followed the science exodus from Twitter. Interested in wildlife conservation, climate change. European at heart. Lucky to live in Cumbria. Banner pic is the Rannerdale bluebells. She/her. #covidisnotover
Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library.
Gam zu l'tova.
Alison Campbell @acampbelteacher.bsky.social Biology educator, science communicator (I'm retired but still doing both!), foodie, dog-lover, avid reader, & somewhat addicted to cycling for pleasure. Occasional blogger: https://blog.waikato.ac.nz/bioblog/
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Eloise Gibson @eloisegibson.bsky.social Climate and energy communicator, NZ
PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com 🇬🇧🥝🇳🇿
Old man yelling at long white clouds in Aotearoa NZ
✅ https://vote.nz
▶️ https://youtube.com/@nzpomdotcom
✊🏼 https://union.org.nz/find-your-union/
💚 https://www.greens.org.nz/join
⚽️Nottingham Forest #nffc
Toitū Te Tiriti
#taxtherich
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social Writer. Books include A Crack in Everything, Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You & Solar System for iPad. See www.marcuschown.com
Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org Climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | MBE | Views own | https://edhawkins.org
Warming Stripes: http://www.ShowYourStripes.info
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Craig Cliff @craigcliff.bsky.social Writer in residence at my house | Climate change mahi at University of Otago | Dad life Ōtepoti
Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Bird campaigner. Nature author of #Fledgling about how I rescued raised & released 2 wild birds: one made nests in my hair for 84 days AND Nature Needs You -The Fight To Save Our Swifts about my swift brick campaign to save birds reliant on our 🏡 to breed🪶
Maja Mielke (she/her) @maja-mielke.bsky.social Biologist, nature artist, science writer & bird enthusiast.
I write 'Beaks & Bones,' a science blog on birds.
Subscribe now 👇 for fascinating bird science stories! 🪶
https://beaksandbones.substack.com
Contact: https://maja.mielke.ws/contact/
simongarlick @simongarlick.net Literally an NPC. Brown, Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Whakaue/Tainui, on Kaurna land. Abnzg. Beach bum, history nerd, gamer, grower of chilli peppers, rescuer of bees, bad writer. Apparently I also compose music for podcasts. Slava Ukraini.
Patrick Morgan @patrickmorgan.bsky.social Person who rides a bike, in New Zealand. Believes we are all better off when more people ride, more often.
Peter Dearden @peterkdearden.bsky.social Geneticist, evolutionary biologist, evolution and development. Working mainly on insects, but also big green budgies and snails. Co Director of Genomics Aotearoa, Deputy Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa. Snarked on Substack.
Steve Walker @walkersteve.bsky.social Ōtepoti / Dunedin City Councillor, JP, Dunedin Wildlife Hospital Trustee, Predator Free Dunedin Trustee. Mad cyclist, hiker, traveller and supporter of social justice / peace / human rights / waste minimisation …. 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🕊️🇺🇦☮️♻️
Joseph Guhlin @josephguhlin.bsky.social (he/him) Computer nerd doing conservation genetics. The Kākāpō Genomics Guy. #Conservation #Bioinformatics #Rust #CompBio 🦀 #genomics #CompBio #popgen #Stats #MachineLearning 🏳️🌈
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social These days mainly I do DIY and chase dogs. I also run a tiny gym with the best view in Aotearoa. Also an academic. Father to a disabled kid so I do the advocacy thing as well. Psychoanalysis; Lacan; MMT. Opinions my own.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
James McCallum @jamesrmccallum1.bsky.social www.jamesmccallum.co.uk
Alan Tennyson @atennyson.bsky.social Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Birds, palaeontology, conservation & general natural history. https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/learn/research/natural-history-research/natural-history-team
Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers.
Paul Francis @paulfrancisnz.bsky.social Photographer, Techguy, human
Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social Birder. Bird surveyor. Butterflies.Moths.RSPB,BTO & Norfolk Museums volunteer, photography mainly natural history & landscapes, I only use my photographs on here except for reposts.Norfolk , UK. No DM’s. No posts or bio and I will block you.🇬🇧
Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social Award runner upping wildlife photographer in Aotearoa.
© Enzo Giordani 2026 – Please ask before using my photos
https://www.instagram.com/532images/
https://birds.photos/
James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social Applied ecologist working on the ecological emergency
Studying ecosystem restoration, rewilding, dispersal, spatial ecology, ecosystem services, agro-ecology, global change. Views are my own & personal/unofficial
Quackery Detector @quackdetector.bsky.social Twitter has become a cesspool of, among other things, quackery
https://x.com/quackdetector
Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social Scientist/nerd. Human to Lilja the floof. Allegedly pissed off too many men on twitter