Mark Pendleton
Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). Also into queer stuff. He/him
@groomb.bsky.social
Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
Academic in trans geographies & histories, Glasgow Uni. Non-binary. Leverhulme Fellow exploring trans strategies & spaces for navigating life in the UK, present & historical. they/them translivesintheuk.wordpress.com https://linktr.ee/jaytoddgla
@howl2025.bsky.social
HOWL aims to create a welcoming online home for all oral, written and photographic memories of the Women's Liberation Movement 1969-1990s. We invite all older feminists to contribute! Visit our website to find out more >> https://howl-uk.org/about <<
@translegalproject.bsky.social
TLP analyses and comments on UK law that affects trans people's lives and rights. We can't advise on individual cases. Utterly opposed to The UK Supreme Court ruling of 16/4/25 and to its rampant exploitation subsequently. www.translegalproject.or
@michellecarmody.bsky.social
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🍉| Researching the making of a international organisation and activist movement - Making Amnesty international | 📍 Rotterdam - Footscray | 🌈⚘️🌈⚘️
@davidhayes4.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, School of Law, researching criminal justice and law's relationship to mythology. Vice President at Sheffield UCU. Vegan, wears orange, has beard. Other personality traits TBD.
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
@voxossa.bsky.social
they/she | studying the memorialisation of marginalised people in history | making art | equalities worker | living my best hobbit life
@adamjb.bsky.social
Failed academic, bad anarchist, worse settler. Dogs are my friends. Land back and decolonisation are my goals. Poor decisions are my reality. He/him.
@drchrisharding.bsky.social
Cultural historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh. Writing about Japan, India & East-West encounter. Author of the IlluminAsia substack 👉 IlluminAsia.substack.com 👉 http://christopher-harding.com
@ucuequality.bsky.social
@sophisteria.bsky.social
She/her. Interdisciplinary tourist, gardener, now-settled nomad, committed to building real solidarity across difference through unions and other forms of bottom-up organising. Views my own, not representing my branch or uni. Member of UCU Commons.
@goldsmithsucu.bsky.social
Trade union for academic/related staff at Goldsmiths, University of London https://goldsmithsucu.org/
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social
disaffected glass-half-empty type; starting to think belatedly about more than humans 📚 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@tathamjoanne.bsky.social
I’m an artist working within public spaces of exhibition and publication, thinking about who gets to make art and how, where and why 👀 Reader in Contemporary Art + Co-lead of MFA Arts & Humanities at Royal College of Art 🤡 UCU rep.✊ Dyspraxic composter🪱
@jameyj.bsky.social
PhD Candidate & Vanier Scholar | University of Victoria Trans historian of Indigenous & colonial "North America" https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
@npapadogian.bsky.social
Dad; Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
@jameshadfield.bsky.social
Tokyo-based word mangler. awfuldross@gmail.com I post gig listings and the other drivel at https://tokyodross.blogspot.com/
@parkesland.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (they/them). Fabulous.
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths. British, American, comparative and global politics and culture. Dad; Londoner; Cypriot. Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@tswingard.bsky.social
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @historytcd.bsky.social, researching sex and the Church courts in 14th century England read more about my work: tesswingard.wordpress.com header: bit.ly/3WbQMC5
@manchesterup.bsky.social
We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture. Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders. https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
@historicalmeredith.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
@jinikim.bsky.social
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. PI of the Hematopolitics Project (hematopolitics.org; @hematopolitics.bsky.social).
@mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social
feminist sociologist & anthropologist of highered & labour, social/ist mvts; author of #AlternativeUniversity, own views
@daisyeblack.bsky.social
Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
@asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh https://llc.ed.ac.uk/asian-studies
@criticasianstds.bsky.social
Critical Asian Studies publishes scholarly articles that challenge accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
@dijtokyo.org
German Institute for Japanese Studies ドイツ日本研究所 Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien | research on Japan from Japan | developing scholars | building networks www.dijtokyo.org www.linkedin.com/company/dijtokyo www.youtube.com/c/dijtokyo
@thejapansociety.bsky.social
The Japan Society is the leading independent body in the United Kingdom dedicated to the enhancement of the British-Japanese relationship. www.japansociety.org.uk
@hannahosborne.bsky.social
Japan Foundation Lecturer in Japanese Literature, University of East Anglia
@notchesblog.bsky.social
NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
@amyryall.bsky.social
Academic-related staff in HE, UCU member, Trustee, Eyam Museum. Would rather be in Wales, Berlin and/or out of Higher Education.
@ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social
Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media/Anti-Trans Ideologies). Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
@mcooperk.bsky.social
PhD student in the UK, researching gender, trauma and the supernatural in Japanese (and Mexican!) literature. Horror and the Gothic in Japan. Irish, Queer, Hopeful. Kind is Cool. EN/ES/日本語 OK
@efbond.bsky.social
Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
@glider.bsky.social
Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer. All images and poems mine unless credited elsewise. AI is only acceptable if it's consensual.
@flowerstorm.tech
Writer, editor, accessibility specialist. Loves language learning. Special interest in Japanese religions & traditions. Queer, chronic illness/spoonie. They/them. May not be the same as on Mastodon. Contact: foxds@opayq.com
@tillknaudt.bsky.social
I am a historian of modern Japan, working on anti-imperialism, computers, expositions, and hippies, among other things. Soon back in Germany @Leipzig University.
@sammgreg.bsky.social
Storyteller and civic journalist at @nowthenmag.bsky.social, based in sunny #Sheffield. Particularly interested in inequality, systems change, just transition, built environment. (he / him) 🏳️🌈
@vthuppil.bsky.social
@benpurvis42.bsky.social
Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Comms for @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social (they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
@sylviademars.me
She/her, trans rights are human rights. Legal academic, D&D fanatic. Things I do for work: Brexit & NI, Title IX, sovereignty. President of the Judge Ana Reyes Fanclub. See http://sylviademars.me
@sheffielducu.bsky.social
Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union. Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk Twitter: twitter.com/sheffielducu
@caggles.bsky.social
UCU NEC member (Midlands), UCU Commons member, interested in higher education, food, LARP, meteorology, Sea Cadets and naval history. Occasional Arma3 content because we all need a hobby.
@anomav.bsky.social
Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.