Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Writer.
Met David Sedaris once. I don't think he enjoyed it.
(they/them)
sephhallow.com
Former journalist running for Congress (IL-09) because we deserve Democrats who actually do something | katforillinois.com
TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Night news editor of HuffPost. Editor of A Bit of Good News, The End Files & The Moonlight Reader Society. Past: NYTimes, AP, Apple News (via Magnit) & CNN 5 Things (via Creative Circle). She/her
Philosopher (Uehiro Oxford), Author (Wittgenstein's Poker, Would You Kill The Fat Man, Parfit, etc.), Podcaster (Philosophy Bites, Social Science Bites). Journalist. Latest book, Death In A Shallow Pond.
Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
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
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A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce. No DMs please (email instead).
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Rebellion Developments 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based
He/him/e
The only living Björn Friðgeir in the world.
Nerd. Programmer. Afper. Icelandic.
Solidly middle-aged.
May tweet about football with #boltinn #djöflarnir or #EuroVikes so please block those hashtags if that's not for you.
I am a tiny Insignificant, bit of carbon. I have one life on this beautiful wee blue marble travelling at 67,000 mph.
www.ronniecowan.com
Cryptic/dry utterances, appalling puns, sci-fi stuff, and sundry other things. Swiftie, I've realized. ❤️ Chappell Roan. D&D, She/they. Newly obsessed with Hazbin Hotel, which is reminding me I love musicals.
by transfemmes. for transfemmes. about transfemmes. | @transjournalists.org member | thetransfemininereview.com | ed. Bethany Karsten
Science fiction writer.
nealasher.co.uk
we call ourselves 'post-nowists' which means anything to get over the perpetual hypermoment of old world consensus culture.
Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Campaigning for separation of religion and state, challenging religious privilege and promoting equality between all citizens regardless of religion or belief.
#Secularism #Secular
ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Web & city map for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
Discord:
https://EdinburghSFF.com/community
Podcast "Terrifying Questions and How not to be Terrified by Them" -- book"Does Santa Exist?" -- tv shows-- Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, Big Bang Theory, Malcom in the Middle, Krapopolis &c.! blog ericlinuskaplan.wordpress.com He/Him
Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Climate scientist and writer. Theoretical astrophysicist by training. Avowed Earth supremacist. Yes, that's my real name. You should read my book, it's good https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland. #PictCon October 17 2026, Perth 🏴
PictCon.com
Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked. 🇨🇦
Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Oak Park Village Trustee, "boring suburban dad," attorney.
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
I'm Jon, I have a YouTube channel focused on collecting, reading and chatting about science fiction books old and new. I plan to do the same on here.
https://youtube.com/@scifiscavenger
London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. His podcast with Violet Blue is Raised By Horror.
Dogs, Broadcasting, Writing, Mountains.
Writer, environmental researcher, educator, author. PhD in environmental science from UMass Boston. Former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. My Substack is The Nature We Make, https://substack.tnwm.net/. My website is https://www.strangestsea.com/
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Just a bunch of crabs in a trench coat, but also a professional marine biologist. My social media is separate from, and does not represent, my employer. Please bring croissants 🥐
https://linktr.ee/rebeccarhelm
Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
The Rationalist Society of Australia is Australia's oldest freethought organisation, promoting reason, secularism and evidence-based policy.
Check out our website: rationalist.com.au
Read our online magazine: rationalemagazine.com
Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Director of the German Centre for Cosmological Lensing, RUB. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.
The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Weird Spy Satellite Imagery. A speculative surveillance bot by @samplereality.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Washington University in St. Louis • Planetary Data System Geosciences Node Director • Planetary Bastard • he/him/Sir
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Author of non-human space opera THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, published by Solaris. Repped by Ed Wilson
Also known as that weirdo Tom Toner, author of the Amaranthine Spectrum
https://linktr.ee/caspargeon
Preorder: https://geni.us/immeasurable
Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Founded in 1971, the BSFG is a non-profit-making organisation that meets monthly and provides an informal atmosphere in which SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field.
www.birminghamsfgroup.org.uk
contact@brumsfgroup.org.uk
Ecologist & Evolutionary Biologist. 🐝
DPhil @ Oxford
Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?”
Grogsquad, MUP Professor, a Good Friend of J.E. and More
Working for a fascism-free, habitable Earth and for Scottish independence. #MECFS #BasicIncome WGBer
I spend more time on Mastodon, the ethical platform. You can follow my bridge from there at: @LillyHerself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
BlueSky broke DMs.
Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.
"Sundman figures it out!" : https://johnsundman.substack.com/
JohnSundman.com
Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
Available for personal and commercial work.
Illustrator, artist, and writer from the UK. Yorkshireman. Spaceships, robots, & imaginary places. Creator of the Weird Field World. Find me here - https://linktr.ee/thisnorthernboy
Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
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Marxist. Interested in Kautskyism before he became a renegade, Eurocommunism before it liquidated, and a democratic anti-monopoly alliance before it is too late
anselleade.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/anselleade
Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him. Professor!
News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad
LIFE GOAL: GAMING STUPID SYSTEMS
Regulation, justice, climate - are among things I work on.
Science fiction, Baroque music, Frank Zappa are things I don't work on and enjoy very much.
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Neurodivergent and bipolar (FTW!)
Irredeemably woke
World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
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Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Writes SF and F, author of the Deverry series among many other books. Certified Old Bat, still radical leftist.
https://www.patreon.com/KatharineKerr I have a Patreon page, where I do post regularly. Here's the URL.
He/Him
Socialist
Anti-zionist
Dedicated to #hardscifi authors and readers. Featuring author interviews and hard science fiction stories and essays. https://oxygenleaks.com
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
I used to be famous on the internet. Have a blog.
https://eschatonblog.com
Currently near Toon
Independent left publisher since 1936
lwbooks.co.uk
An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
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.
Old school hacker, amateur astronomer and photographer. Woke AF. Ally.
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." - Alasdair Gray.
Ecosocialism or Barbarism !
#art #music #poetry #stargazing #Cinema #Theatre #Dancing
Let’s build a World where all our Children are Cherished
Writer, editor of sf newsletter Ansible, co-editor with John Clute of the SF Encyclopedia, publisher as Ansible Editions. See https://ansible.uk/ -- Ansible Editions, https://ae.ansible.uk/ -- Ansible website with all back issues, https://news.ansible.uk.
Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
https://liverpool.academia.edu/RobertKnox
(He/him)
No one took 'Pashukanis', but the 'T' is my brand.
SL in Law @ Uni of Liverpool. Editor @histmat.bsky.social, LRIL and @legalform.bsky.social. Opinions mine.
Marxist
I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Thinker about old stuff at Duke University. I have a website and this is a link to it: https://www.jenniferlwhyte.com/
Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
CompSci, security, SF/F, UK/US politics, feminism, disability, collies. May also contain dangerous levels of Snark. Formerly @deborah_c at the bird place. Librarian groupie and tea drinker
Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 4 out now. https://remains.uk
Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Author of 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘊𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 (Tor 2017) and 𝘐𝘵 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 (webcomic). Plays many musical instruments and takes pictures of every bird. She/her.
