Sleater-Kinney @sleater-kinney.bsky.social 'Little Rope (Deluxe)' out now linktr.ee/sleaterkinney
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
David Pearson @dj-pearson.bsky.social Librarian at SOAS Library
Anthropology, Linguistics, Migration, Food Studies, Teaching, HEIs
https://soas.libguides.com/
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Hélène Blaszkiewicz @hblaszki.bsky.social PhD in geography : logistics, trade, infrastructure and industrialization in African contexts.
Beekeeper
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Nick Banks @therealnickbanks.bsky.social Hits things for a living.
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social Husband, dad and best bud of Trent the Lurcher. R&D Policy, @matrixni.bsky.social, Innovation (especially public sector), open data, History, Archaeology, and food. https://wordpress.com/post/eoinmcfaddenwordpress.wordpress.com/4
Mike Prior-Jones @drmikepj.bsky.social Glaciologist and electronic engineer at Cardiff University. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.
🏳️🌈(he,him)
Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social 🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | reposts & likes≠endorsements |
London Reconnections @lonrec.bsky.social Transport analysis for London and occasionally beyond.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social Former BBC foreign correspondent reporting from
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, N-Ireland, Pakistan, India, South Africa.
Book: http://hughsykes.substack.com
Biog: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pnq3d
Archive: https://soundcloud.com/hughsykes
Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social
https://www.rebeccasear.org/
레온 로차 @acupunctureuss.bsky.social Views and aesthetics are my own.
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Maurits Ertsen @mauritsertsen.bsky.social Interdisciplinary water scholar. And cats...
Director of Studies of the MSc program Environmental Engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Mohamed Elnakep @mohamedelnakep.bsky.social
lecture of Islamic history, Mansoura University. PhD in Imāmī Shīʿīs at Universität (Göttingen, Hamburg). Member of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO).
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Joumana Medlej @majnouna.com Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Interest in material culture & things real. Beirut émigré in Oxford. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey…
Links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
The Newberry @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Curating curiosity for all since 1887. The Newberry Library is an independent research library located in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood. Cover photo: Oak Street Beach postcard from Curt Teich Postcard Collection.
Giles Martin @gilesdrmartin.bsky.social School of Education at Bath Spa. Higher Education Practice and Educational Development. Mathematical physicist (retired), life long learner, water baby! SFHEA, FSEDA, SEDA PDF Vice-Chair
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en& 
Dr. Tamara L. Siuda @tamarasiuda.com she/they🏳️🌈| author & editor | Egypt: Coptic Studies (martyrology, music); Egyptology (TIP, AE religion) | Indigenous (reconnecting Haudenosaunee & Métis) | Haiti/Vodou | tech & its (mis)use | religion | RS≠endorsement | linktree/tamarasiuda | patreon/tsiuda
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social Archaeologist researching the US Southwest, professor, museum professional. My website: https://michelle-turner.owlstown.net/
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
International Organization @iojournal.bsky.social International Organization is peer-reviewed journal, covering a wide range of topics in international relations and global politics.
Editorial team: @bashleyleeds.bsky.social @laynamosley.bsky.social @peterrosendorff.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com Financial Investigations Editor at the Financial Times.
Have a tip? Email: robert.smith@ft.com / robert.smith.ft@proton.me | Signal: robert_smith_ft.55
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk From (in order of height): The Cuban Boys, Rikki & Daz, Eurovision 2006, Spray, Helen Love, Pound Shop Boys amongst others.
ALFsplaining: @alfsplaining.bsky.social
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg0GIhxvZitldPsZKvgmbIylxanx9rLP1&si=b7B6AM8jfRI_Xar6
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Dr Lindsay Lennie @historicshopfronts.bsky.social Historic shopfronts, tiles and building conservation. Also here for gardening tips. Reputedly retired. Formerly Trust Manager @Stirlingcht.bsky.social
Trustee at Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust.
Expert panel member for Heritage Network in Scotland
John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social Artisanal bureaucrat. Faceless, unelected. Ex-Whitehall, now does apocalypse preparation for the European Commission.
David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
davidhprice.com
lewisryder.bsky.social @lewisryder.bsky.social Historian of collecting, museums and colonialism. Currently a Leverhulme ECF researching emotional politics of British colonial loot c.1750-1914.
Nahyan Fancy @fancynahyan.bsky.social Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
Halbert Jones @halbertjones.bsky.social Historian of Mexico and US-Latin American relations. A North Carolinian in 🇬🇧. Following US and UK politics, academia and higher education, and UK borders and immigration.
John Nott @jdnott.bsky.social Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
Prof GS Gilbert @profgsgilbert.bsky.social Prof @ University of Essex. Focusing on forced displacement in international law, photography and Everton
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.
Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social Evolutionary anthropologist, researcher with BirthRites at MPI-EVA Leipzig. Reproduction, postnatal depression, infant feeding, cooperative childrearing, FGMC.
Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social Europe Editor, New Lines Magazine (newlinesmag.com). Also quite a bit about the Middle East.
lgoldman@newlinesmag.com
Edward Guimont @eguimont.bsky.social Historian, focus on science, colonialism, and pseudoscience.
The Power of the Flat Earth Idea, out now from Palgrave Macmillan!
Co-author of When the Stars are Right: H. P. Lovecraft and Astronomy (Hippocampus Press, 2023)
IHC @ihchistory.bsky.social IHC - Institute of Contemporary History
Multidisciplinary research institute in modern and contemporary history located at NOVA University Lisbon and at the University of Évora. Member of IN2PAST.
Founded in 1990.
Header: our logotype
Avatar: our symbol
Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy, UBC
Faculty Member, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program, UBC
Philosophy of Science
History of Philosophy of Science
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
@georgebodie.bsky.social @georgebodie.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Historian of Internationalism, Germany, Socialism, and the Cold War.
Neil Stewart @neilstewart.bsky.social Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.
Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social Political Reporter for PoliticsHome and writing for The House magazine
🖊️ about education (and a few other things) | prev Reporter @ Tes
📧matilda.martin@politicshome.com
(she/her)
Erik Isberg @erikisberg.bsky.social Historian of science, ideas and environment｜Postdoc University of Copenhagen｜Currently working on geophysics, oil and the planetary scale in the interwar period｜Skriver grejer på svenska emellanåt
Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher @benjerrit.bsky.social Chartered Teacher (CTeach) 2023. #HistoryTeacher
Former #HeadofDept, current #Headofyear. Mark scheme enjoyer.
I work in a busy #Boardingschool in SE England (Boarding Practitioner Level 3). Keen to learn new pedagogical ideas.
#Educator #UKTeaching #UKEd
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Uni of Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor of IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Book forthcoming with MUP.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
Mekhola Gomes @oldthingsarefun.bsky.social medieval historian of south and southeast asia (epigraphy nerd)| assistant professor @ amherst college | loves sci fi
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social 100+ years as a leading international relations journal.
Published by @chathamhouse.org & @oxunipress.bsky.social. Views individual not institutional.
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Geoff Marshall @geofftech.bsky.social If I had more time, I would have edited you a shorter video.
Transport Filmmaker : bit.ly/2TBWFsX
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
Lambeth Liberal Democrats @lambethlibdems.bsky.social Your opposition group on Lambeth Council.
Enquires to: hello@lambethlibdems.org.uk
www.lambethlibdems.org.uk
Promoted by D Kane and P Truesdale, all at the Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6AU.
Wendy Nicholls @drwendynicholls.bsky.social Helping academics build sustainable careers so they can progress with autonomy, intellectual challenge and impact.
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Rehnuma Sazzad @rsazzad.bsky.social Research & Associate Fellow (IES & ICwS), External Lecturer (University of Regensburg), AE & RE, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, BAMS & SCS, Committee Member: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-rehnuma-sazzad
stuart @stuartp.bsky.social do not explain anything to me
I am probably recycling content from the other place here
you can find me @punished_stu on elons paedo submarine
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social Director, Humanities, Arts, and Culture Programs and Humanities Indicators (http://bit.ly/1vcZlh4) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Quotes and RTs ≠ opinions.
Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social Writes twice-weekly On London Extra newsletter, available from https://davehillonlondon.substack.com/. Publishes and edits https://www.onlondon.co.uk/. Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@DaveHillOnLondon/videos. Busy.
Stacy Boldrick @stacybold.bsky.social Iconoclasm, medieval and contemporary art history. Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social Reporter focusing on water and climate change, Los Angeles Times. ian.james@latimes.com
Signal: ianjames.77
Sarah Lee @essexsarahlee.bsky.social Nurse. Academic (Retired) Procrastinator.
Passionate about hyperbole
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social Prof in Parma. Interested in African science and innovation, sustainable transitions, global health, and helping young people do great things, all around the world.