Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
Humber Speculative Fiction @humbersff.bsky.social 
Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social Associate General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union. Skeets are my opinions and not NTEU’s.
W&_ Law, Dartmouth
he/him
profile image from Openclipart
banner from Grumpy Monkey
Sarah Collins @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social Commissioning editor and journalist at Prospect Magazine. Writer for The Week, The Guardian, The i paper etc
https://authory.com/SarahCollins
Agent: @annapallai.bsky.social
Signal: sarahcollinswrites.94
Pablo Torre @pablo.show 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/@pablotorrefindsout
🎧 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486
📩 www.pablo.show/about
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
@sortedfood.bsky.social @sortedfood.bsky.social 
Sejal Sukhadwala @sejalsukhadwala.bsky.social London food writer. Author of The Philosophy Of Curry (British Library Publishing, 2022). Working on an Indian food dictionary for the past decade or so. I often write about Indian food history, culture and restaurants.
Radhika Howarth | Radikal Kitchen @radhikahowarth.bsky.social Author | Food Culture Researcher | Speaker & Culinary Storyteller
Talks • Cooking Demos • Teaching
📖 Flavours Without Borders
📺 Amazon Prime & Channel 4
Founder, Flavours Without Borders Circle
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Round Our Way @roundourwayuk.bsky.social A new organisation for people in the UK paying the price for climate change. We support people across the UK to tell stories about how they are being impacted by climate change.
Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Educator, Speaker, Builder, Activist. Regenerative construction.
That #strawhouse guy.
Fixing mistakes @ built environment. Independent #Bauwende construction revolution advocacy, english & german word salad, enjoy! https://linktr.ee/michaelburchert
Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social Architect living in rural Herefordshire. UK support for ecococon.eu straw wall panels and Ecological Building Systems. Rides bikes.
Living in a 100% electric bio-based passivhaus with zero energy bills, see the blog: oldholloway.wordpress.com
pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social just another angry glaswegian leftie
she/her
Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social I blog about premodern history, religions and myth, languages and literature, and gender and sexuality. BA history and classical studies @IUBloomington, MA @BrandeisCLAS, she/her.
Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social Artist/Illustrator/Educator
Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Winner, Hugo Loser
I make pictures of spooky girls and cute cats
https://linktr.ee/Tristan.Elwell
András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social Hungarian-born British screenwriter.
Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden
As seen on the Bird App
A national security threat, according to Donald Trump
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508
🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social She/her 🩷🏳️⚧️
Star Trek, Monster High, writing credits: http://birdguest.com
Trans Tuesdays: http://tillystranstuesdays.com
Contact tillysbridges@gmail.com
Manager: Noah Jones FWRD MGMT
Lit Rep: D. Ellis Wilson at LGLM
https://ko-fi.com/tillybridges
Susan Bridges @susanlbridges.bsky.social She/her. I write TV & games & comics with my wife Tilly Bridges | Monster High | Star Trek Prodigy | Star Trek Voyager: Homecoming (IDW) | livin in the dream grinder
https://bookshop.org/p/books/just-another-summer-tilly-susan-bridges/c86f00f37ea1fa15
Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | Dept. of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence | @Iris@scholar.social on 🦣 | http://irisvanrooijcogsci.com | she/they 🏳️🌈
🦇🤘 Miscreant Jennie 🔶️🏳️🌈 @rigg.lgbt Senior Queer. Bi Chaos Gremlin.
🦇🤘🔶️🏳️🌈 🐝🍆 💙💜💖 🦀🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵🦀
Autistic. Arthritic. Boozy. Polyamorous. Mother. Yorkshire. Cinephile (esp Horror). Whovian (6). Atheist. Occultist. Foodie. Metalhead. Lib dem. Reluctant accepter of the label "goth".
Often Sweary
Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social Embroidery artist, singer and mother. Inspired by nature, the arts & literature. Original©️hand stitched artworks🧵🌿🌺📚 www.thesewingsongbird.co.uk
Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social scots. telly writer/director he/him/his
first show: "the rockford files" 1994
last show: "mobland" 2025
next show: "slow horses" 2026
i'm against ai owned by billionaires.
i purge my posts but meant what i said.
a: hobo
b: chimp wi' a megaphone (getty)
Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professor of marine biology. My social media does not represent my employer. No AI. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
copy of Georgia_final_v2 (FINAL!!) @georgiaiacovou.com I write about technology politics. Please read Horrific/Terrific for anti-capitalist analyses of tech & society https://www.horrific-terrific.tech/
I also produce Computer Says Maybe: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
georgiaiacovou.com
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social Please consider donating to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund —> https://www.pcrf.net
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon.bsky.social no thanks
Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social Creator of anthropeum.com (daily artifact guessing game) Coin collector. UW ’27.
History + fishtanks + code
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social Scottish SFF writer and podcaster. Hugo Award finalist. Author of The Politics of Doctor Who. Telefantasy Time Jump co-host: https://www.patreon.com/TelefantasyTimeJump. Writes a lot of Doctor Who things. Likes trebuchets.
https://lizbethmyles.com/
Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin Porcine things. Bring about an anarcho-syndicalist world. Move slow & make tasty things; with hob & knife & bubbling ferments. Missing Kent seas. CO₂ 314.8ppm. Sober since 1st Sep '24
“We are all Palestine Action". Help Gaza https://www.map.org.uk
DinoCon @dinoconuk.bsky.social DinoCon is the UK’s largest Palaeontology themed convention celebrating all things prehistoric. Dino may be in our name, but we welcome all aspects of palaeontology, not just dinosaurs!
https://www.dinocon.co.uk/ 
Hull What's On @hullwhatson.bsky.social Not live just yet so you can follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and more until we are!
Amy Dallen @enthusiamy.bsky.social Always wanted to live in stories. Surprisingly close! Chapters: WOTC, DC, G&S, 📚! Comics forever. She/her.
Art:Russ Heath
amydalleninfo@ gmail
linktr.ee/enthusiamy
Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan
<Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>
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
Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social Folk musician, freelance writer at Country Walking Magazine, Right to Roam Sheffield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Songlines
www.johnnycampbell.co.uk
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
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.
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
Seána @grantsana.bsky.social Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown.
Inkcap @inkcapjournal.bsky.social Journalism about nature in Britain.
www.inkcap.co.uk
Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social Co-director of Right to Roam 🥾
Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
https://linktr.ee/jonathanmoses
Maintenance Phase @maintenancephase.bsky.social Wellness and weight loss, debunked and decoded. A podcast hosted by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social.
maintenancephase.com
patreon.com/maintenancephase
Freedom Festival @freedomfesthull.bsky.social Producers of extraordinary cultural experiences!
www.freedomfestival.co.uk
We Are Creative (WAC) @wearecreative.bsky.social We Are Creative (WAC) is a networking organisation for creative practitioners living and/or working in Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire.
East Yorkshire Long Distance Walkers Association @handle.invalid Representing the Long Distance Walkers Association at local level in East Yorkshire.
https://ldwa.org.uk/EastYorkshire
Jo Makel @jomakel.bsky.social Reporter and presenter for BBC in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Yorkshire Victor Meldrew and his dog📎 @yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social Disabled, anti Tory,just want everyone to be treated equally,love dogs, love any Motorsport especially F1, BTCC, MotoGP. Be kind ♥️
Hepworth's Arcade @hepworthsarcade.bsky.social Hepworth's Arcade is a rare L-shaped, Grade II listed Victorian building in Hull's Old Town. It is also full of a wide range of independent traders - be sure to visit when you come to East Yorkshire.
James Marsters @earlofbeverley.bsky.social Comedian on stage and online. Normal person otherwise. You liked that thing I said once. He/him 🏳️🌈
Beverley/Hull, Yorkshire, UK
Paul Murphy @bbcpaulmurphy.bsky.social BBC Correspondent, based in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the UK. Environment, energy and climate interests.
Stories to firstname.lastname@bbc.co.uk
File uploads: https://yourls.paulmurphy.synology.me/paul
Chris Blacksell @chrisblacksell.bsky.social Chair Visit Hull & East Yorkshire, Chair TribuneTrust, Retired UK Fire Chief/CEO/LRF Chair. Deputy Lieutenant East Riding of Yorkshire, Patron Family Burns Club. President 1324 Sqn Air Cadets
Family, Autism Aware, Hull City, Bass 🎸, 🏌🏼♂️ & 🏂 Vegan 🌱
Mike Ross @cllrmikeross.bsky.social Lib Dem Cllr in Hull and leader of the council.
J. E. Books @jebookshull.bsky.social Indie bookshop in Hull's Old Town. 12 Hepworth's Arcade, Hull, HU1 1JU. Email jlellam@hotmail.co.uk if you'd like to order books from me. DMs not working, sorry. Home delivery or collect in store. Open 10.30 to 4, Tues to Sat
uk.bookshop.org/shop/JEBooks
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Louise Houghton @louisehoughton.bsky.social Co-founder of the Bylines Network and Yorkshire Bylines
Dave Windass @davewin.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Producer. Mover. Shaker. Dancer. Prancer. Destroyer of closed doors. Plays ‘n’ that. To be found most weekdays at Humber Street Gallery. Hull, UK, Europe. https://linktr.ee/davewindass
Emma Hardy @emmahardymp.bsky.social #Labour MP for #Hull West and Haltemprice. Water and Flooding Minister in DEFRA. Mum of 2. Methodist. Once a teacher…
Sam Hawcroft @hawkeditorial.bsky.social Holderness Gazette co-owner, writer/designer The Hull Story, contributing editor BusinessWorks, H&E publisher, crazy cat lady, ancient-Skoda-driving #hcafc and darts fan. Also sings a bit, aka Sam Martyn
Nick Evans @nicholasevans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull.
Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Hull Anti-Raids @hullantiraids.bsky.social A grassroots group, building community resistance against immigration raids in Hull.
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Paul Drake-Davis @pauldrakedavis.bsky.social Brentford FC fan & Lib Dem councillor in Hull
Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social 🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
🇺🇸 Public schools 🤝 Democracy
🫧 Got it, got it?
Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
Amanda Rutter @alrutter.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Solaris Books. Owned by three hellhounds. Talks a lot about politics, sports, books and dogs. Knitter, crocheter and lover of loud music.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Sarah Lord @potsofhistory.bsky.social Historic potter at Potted History 
Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social 
🦇Daeva Darksimz 💀 @darksimz.bsky.social 🦇She/her 🖤Occult Sims fan🖤 Building connoisseur 🦇
I play the sims, all of them, all of the time.
💀 Gallery ID : Darksimzzz
🦉#thesims #NoNazis
Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social Postdoc at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩🎓 Cats 🐈⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her https://linktr.ee/tabithastanmore
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice. Reimagining public credit creation and building intersectional solidarity in and beyond Middlesbrough, UK: https://wherecreditsdue.org
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
Paul Johstono @profpaulj.bsky.social Ancient Military Historian
@DukeU PhD; @FurmanU
My opinions only
Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social Actor, collectible, Planetary Society Board Member and AI since the 90s .
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, reviewer. @anathemamagazine.bsky.social co-founder. Publisher at @huldrahouse.bsky.social. Trans. (She/They)
https://kayaskovdatter.wordpress.com/
https://mathesonfreelancing.com/
https://www.huldrahouse.com
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
zoë bread @zoebread.bsky.social sklomolp
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.