Kate Gardner @noseinabook.co.uk I love words, music, science, food, films, TV, cycling and dogs. 📚🚲
She/her 🏳️🌈
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.
Rob w @rob-w.bsky.social I do native iOS 📱, macOS 🖥️, and Android 🤖 accessibility ♿️ and native iOS development 🛠️.
I post my bad music taste regularly 🎶
Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2809-6
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Andrew Walsh @playbrarian.uk Run workshops on Neurodiversity, play(fullness), creative teaching and more. National Teaching Fellow. Journal of Play in Adulthood Editor.
Neurodivergent. https://playbrarian.uk
Jo Fitzpatrick @jofitz.bsky.social Research Data Manager at Lancaster University and Co-chair of NLISN.org
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 💫
Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
buttondown.com/r4isstatic
Andrew Brown @brownthebook.bsky.social Follower of Jesus Christ. Husband. Father. Professional Librarian.
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
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Mark Kluzek @markkluzek.bsky.social I work at UCL, dealing in Library and Museum systems mainly.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Gill Morris @gillmorris23.bsky.social Document Supply Assistant at Swansea University and WHELF Development Officer.
Librarian, mum to adult children, owner of an unruly small dog.
Elizabeth Sankey @sankles.bsky.social 
Jenny @jennyfisken.bsky.social 
Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com Music & Events: linktr.ee/darrenhaymancatalogue | Mail order = hefnet.com | Art = darrenhaymanart.com | Patreon = patreon.com/darrenhayman | YouTube (updates weekly) = https://youtube.com/@darren.hayman
Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social I write recaps and reviews about British reality TV over at https://ariadnereviews.com/
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Helen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com
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.
Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social #RareBooks librarian working in #histmed, knitter, cellist, bi, feminist, woolly-liberal, terrified about the climate. She/her. 
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/- L Lynne Evans @lynneevs.bsky.social Associate Director: Head of Library Services, University of South Wales
Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social Mum-coded. Books, food and language stuff. I have approximate knowledge of many things. She/her ei/hi.
PP: me as a Lofi Girl. Banner: an empty street from Spirited Away. Faded buildings, red lanterns, and a cloudless blue sky.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social Fair Library Jobs is a group of library workers aiming to improve recruitment & employment practices in libraries in the UK https://linktr.ee/fairlibraryjobs
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
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.
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Esyllt Sears @esylltsears.bsky.social Hot. Opinionated. Hungry.
Jenny Evans @jennye.bsky.social Advocate for recognising all forms of knowledge across the scholarly comms landscape (including embedding them in open standards). Loves 🐈 , playing 🎷, keeping fit and travel. Dual citizen 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Vittles Magazine @vittles.bsky.social A food and culture magazine.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/
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!
Little Wander @littlewander.bsky.social Wales' leading comedy production company.
https://littlewander.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/littlewanderevents
Samantha Walton @samlwalton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature
📚 wrote 'Everybody Needs Beauty' & 'The Living World'
🏳️🌈 she/her
The Second Shelf @thesecondshelf.bsky.social A feminist rare book business in London. More TK. 
alyssa k., mlis (she/her) @lyssbrarian.bsky.social millennial librarian & grad student • profile photo: @/grgikau/X • banner photo: @/diegocarneiro/Unsplash • 100% my opinions • no spam, TERFs, or creeps allowed • don’t be trash (transphobic, racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic)
Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants contact@themasonsisters.com
MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this).
Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af.
https://linktr.ee/meemalee
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MandalayBook
@monstercymru.bsky.social @monstercymru.bsky.social 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Edith S @wiilassie.bsky.social Health library nerd for money | a Complicated Woman / 6 Music dad / Big Man | love SE London, visiting Japan, Nintendo and public transport
she/they
Tina Reynolds @tinareynolds.bsky.social Chartered librarian. Interests include legal tech & innovation, KM, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
Siobhán @sluginkpress.bsky.social artist, art librarian, sentient binbag. Commute whinges, nice artists’ books, photos of bins.
Brighton Scum City//LDN.
Em Nunn @ebnunn.bsky.social open research / open access / academic publishing / unions / queer stuff / parenting / usually found in and around Sheffield (she/they)
Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social Librarina; ITrix.
Answers to 'she' or 'they'.
Don't feed the carp!
Ian @ijclark.com Romantic idiot.
Photographer. Library worker. (He/Him)
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ijclarkphoto
photography website: ijclark.com
Laura Williams @ljwilliams.bsky.social Part-time PhD student researching running, information behaviour and social media. Librarian. Slow runner. Stroke survivor and neurodivergent. Evertonian. Prone to typos.
Andrew Preater @preater.com Always-already librarianing. 🍞🌹🌹
Library director at Goldsmiths, University of London; CILIP & SCONUL board member. Audax cyclist. (he/him)
Personal account: my own views. 💁♂️
🦣 @preater@hcommons.social
Michelle B @michelleab.bsky.social World's okayest librarian. Co- founder of CALC (Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference). Would always rather be travelling. She/her.
sara huws @sarahuws.bsky.social nerd by birth, jock by choice.
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co-founder Every Body Outdoors + East End Women's Museum
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codi pwyse, creu trwbwl
Morwenna @tixylix.bsky.social Art and design librarian taking chances. Work interests: materials literacy, teaching academic skills to creative students, designing learning spaces, artists’ books and generally being interested in everything. Secretary of ARLIS UK & Ireland. SW England.
Rachel Bickley @rachelsbickley.bsky.social British immigrant in Kaurna Country. Acting Senior Manager, Academic Liaison, University of Adelaide Library. Librarian, wanderer, travel blogger, intersectional feminist, runner, vegan, bookworm, Aston Villa fan. Big on Open Access. #ebooksos co-founder.
Journal of Information Literacy @jinfolit.bsky.social The Journal of Information Literacy is the international, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. Our comms do not represent CILIP policy. https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index #InfoLit #OpenAccess 💎🔓
Bryony Ramsden @drbryonyramsden.bsky.social Librarian interested in lots of things: UX, inclusive feminism (trans women are women), making stuff (yarn, paper and pens and paints etc.). @librarygirlknit on the old musky place. She/her.
Rosie Hare @rosiehare.bsky.social Community professional and former librarian working for Jisc. People, education, edtech, collaboration. All opinions my own.🍉
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosiehare/
Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social Associate Professor, Library and Information Studies @ucldis. Editor in Chief @jinfolit. information literacy researcher | european | she/hers/ella
Catherine Finch @cathyfinch1234.bsky.social #Libraries. #Disability #CILIP #Wales #Cymru - originally from Derbyshire.
Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social The Frank Grimes of librarianship. She/her. https://violetbfox.info/
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
@minimorticia @minimorticia.bsky.social Policy and advocacy bod, former librarian, love all things spooky
Dr Jane Secker @jsecker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Ed Develop. SFHEA. Online learning, info, digital & copyright literacy. Trustee of Media and Information Literacy Alliance. Head of MA Academic Practice 🐱
WHELF @whelfed.bsky.social https://whelf.ac.uk/
Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum – promotes collaboration, encourages exchange of ideas, provides forum for mutual support & facilitates new initiatives.
Gourmet Gorro - Ed Gilbert @gourmetgorro.bsky.social Food and drink writer • Blog of the year shortlisted - Wales Media Awards 2022 • Wales expert - Phaidon’s Where To Eat Pizza • Glutton
Dr Karen F. Pierce @darklecat.bsky.social Cataloguing librarian, author, independent researcher, artist, pagan; lover of stone circles, folklore, myth, cats, books & European social dance.
Currently writing a book on the folklore of burial chambers/cromlechs in Wales.
Privilege Cafe @privilegecafe.bsky.social A safe space where we discuss all things white privilege & race, one conversation at a time.
Always use your privilege for good 😊
Alison Harding @alisonharding.bsky.social Invisible woman of a certain age.
Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social The librarian formerly known (on twitter) as @Phdgeek. Into nerdy stuff, open research, EDI campaigning, powerlifting and climbing. 🏳️🌈
Emma Stagg @emmastagg.bsky.social Heritage, Wales and living with teenagers 
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Rep: Harriet Poland at CAA.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social Open access, open peer reviewed journal on all things librar*, established in 2008. New articles published seasonally-ish. There are no Article Processing Charges or any other charges associated with publishing.
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch librarian, photographer
manuschwendener.ch
Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Sarah Nicholas @sarahnicholas.bsky.social Mostly tediously twee nonsense. Sporadic enthusing about flamenco dancing and cycling to see Cardiff Bay's sunrises. Occasional passing references to being a weary, aging academic librarian.
Get The Chance @getthechance.bsky.social Get The Chance is a social enterprise based in South Wales, working to create opportunities for a diverse range of people to experience and respond to sport, arts, culture and live events. https://getthechance.wales/
Ginger Johnson @ginger-johnson.bsky.social Helium balloon in the shape of a woman. 🤡🎈
Drag Race UK Season 5 Winner, baby! 👑🏁
Silly sausage person.🌭
LIVE BOOKINGS: tim@tim-whitehead.com
BROADCAST: Matt Nicholls @Unitedagents
Kate Butch @thekatebutch.bsky.social professional menace to society, lost drag race but won crimewatch somehow
she/they
https://linktr.ee/katebutch
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates 
Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff.
I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru.
You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com
Columnist at The Guardian.
Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge.bsky.social benjaminpartridge.com
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Sarah Phelps @phelpsiesarah.bsky.social Writer. The Christie Quintet that got on some people’s tits. Dublin Murders. A Very British Scandal. Coming soon: The Sixth Commandment. 
Joe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social Professional writer, amateur speller. Spurs fan. #Amadeus #BlackDoves #TheLazarusProject #GiriHaji #HalfBadTheBastardSonAndTheDevilHimself #TheRitual
Helen Blomfield @helenblomfield.bsky.social Research Data Management, Open Research, FAIR Data, Libraries | Allotment grower, cross-stitcher, 35mm film enthusiast and sporadic gig-goer | Leeds She/her
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Nora Thurkle @norathurkle.bsky.social Teacher/writer. Work placed in Aurora, London Magazine, Galley Beggar and Bristol Short Story Prizes, and featured in Motherlore, Lunate, Liars' League etc. Catford Cat fan. 🏳️🌈 she/her
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. Reading, librarian, cups of tea, library advocacy, immunocompromised, pro-choice, scleroderma, interstitial lung disease, organ donation, ADHD and naps. She/her.