Shane McHugh
Talking about engineering, technology, research security and systems thinking. Fan of cats, Arsenal, weird lit, and both kinds of music.
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A group of UK engineers and allies visible on BlueSky- will update regularly!
@colm.bsky.social
Human Rights. Refugee Resettlement and Community Welcome. Cook. Recipe Development and Cookery Writer. Views expressed are my own. He/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇮🇪
@simontillotson.bsky.social
Known to offer tea or coffee at the end of In Our Time episodes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes Eclectic.
@kjsoar.bsky.social
PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology. Writer for Hellebore. Co-editor of 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press). Editor 'Circles of Stone' and 'Return of the Ancients' (British Library Tales of the Weird). She/her. I have a dog.
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of new book “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads. Occasional Weisenheimer.
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@thepsychologist.bsky.social
Prof of Decision Neuroscience, Sir Henry Dale Fellow & Jacobs Fellow, University of Birmingham @TheCHBH PI http://www.sdn-lab.org. Likes cats, decision-making, social behaviour & brains. Blog: http://tinyurl.com/Helpful-Brain
@edsolomon.bsky.social
Writer/co-writer: The Christophers (2025), The Spot (2026), Full Circle, No Sudden Move, Men in Black, the 3 Bill&Ted movies, Mosaic, Now You See Me 1&2, Charlie's Angels, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Laverne&Shirley. Fiction: Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
@cinemaminddavid.bsky.social
Freelance Horror artist, Illustrator and animator🔞 Clients include Image Comics, Blumhouse Productions, Dimension Games, and Deer Dream Studios.
@dremilygrossman.bsky.social
Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity. AuDHD, she/her 2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover www.emilygrossman.co.uk
@lordshortcake.bsky.social
Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Editor at large, The Bulwark. Director, Defending Democracy Together. Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol. Never Trump.
@eolai.bsky.social
I paint pictures. Cycled across continents. Like walking when not limping. Loved a dog. Writing a book. #art #cyclist #Dublin #efc Liam Daly he/him Website: https://liamdaly.com/ Prints: https://www.redbubble.com/people/eolai/shop?artistUserName=eolai&asc=
@nonlinearlight.bsky.social
Associate Professor & RAEng Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies 📖✒️ Onde Solitarie (NEW!) Unstable Nature Natura Instabile OFC: Trends in Sources and Applications (Ed.)
@stellape12.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Engineering Alloys and Metallurgy, Imperial College London. RAEng Associate Research Fellow. EPSRC Early Career Fellow.
@neilhegarty.bsky.social
Writer, Dublin and Derry. Worlds, words. Novels: The Jewel • Inch Levels. Essays (ed.): Impermanence. Dublin Review • Stinging Fly • Tangerine • Cyphers • Irish Times 📖 & 🌿 & 🏳️🌈 & 🎂 neilhegarty.com
@richardbranson.bsky.social
Screw it, let's do it. Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14 Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
@michaelstipe.bsky.social
the actual vs. real me.🌞 Hello👍Bluesky! 🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨 FYI👋I zombied IG👎
@kartoonistkelly.bsky.social
Legendary Editorial Cartoonist for The Onion for over 50 years. "The Most Powerful Name in Cartooning" (TM) https://linktr.ee/stankelly
@himself.bsky.social
http://www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
@tkingfisher.com
Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
@littlemaddles.bsky.social
Writer, performer, amateur fencer. https://www.madeleinebrettingham.com
@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy with @leviyonit. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE, coming in September 2025
@mishellbaker.bsky.social
Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy etc. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. Currently 32% Novelist 20% Polyglot 48% Dungeon Master Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.
@stsaftaris.bsky.social
Professor in ML & CV at University of Edinburgh, https://vios.science Director of CHAI https://chai.ac.uk Canon Medical/RAEng Chair in Healthcare AI. Fellow ELLIS (Views my own)
@junioreinsteins.bsky.social
Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️Scientist & Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Hands-on, STEM fun to kids Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧Canada 🇨🇦 Join us as Franchise Owners! Licences for universities and corporations junioreinsteinsscienceclub.com
@heawood.bsky.social
Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. Read more on heawood.substack.com
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@laurenmchugh.bsky.social
Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Liverpool, UK. MOF chemist dabbling in glass science. 👩🔬⚛️
@chadbourn.bsky.social
📖Sunday Times bestselling author, 📺TV screenwriter, 📇journalist at The New European, Guardian, Times 📶Economist. ✂️Runs with scissors. LDN, NYC, LA https://www.markchadbourn.co.uk for contact, agents etc
@gileslane.bsky.social
Storymaker + Maker of Mischief • Founder of Proboscis & Bookleteer. FRSA. Principal Consultant, Futures & Dialogue @raeng.org.uk European. Anti-fascist. born at 323ppm
@chriscook.news
ft senior reporter. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @bot.chriscook.news
@sciencemuseum.org.uk
Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
@kimmel.bsky.social
Emmy-Award Winning Supervising Producer of Shark Tank. Co-Founder of AuraNexus. Former Head of Live Video @ BF News.
@sethlazar.org
Philosopher working on normative dimensions of computing and sociotechnical AI safety. Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
@crimegirl.co.uk
“Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council | “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail | “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour | a fo ben, bid bont |🎗️🏴
@annbrunnberg.bsky.social
Daytime job: CCO at Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Also: student of Uppsala University, Albanian language
@rezvanfarahi.bsky.social
Royal Academy of Engineering research fellow at Oxford University. Working on: machine learning + big data fMRI for personalised diagnosis.
@yiannisdemiris.bsky.social
Professor of Human-Centred Robotics at Imperial College London. Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. #robotics, #HRI, #AI, #ML, #CV https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/y.demiris
@anettenovak.bsky.social
CEO at large. Chair, Info Tech Division @Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. 〰 Former CEO Swedish Film Institute, CEO Interactive Institute, DG Swedish Media Council, editor-in-chief & media board pro. #mediafreedom #democracy #innovation
@ltratt.bsky.social
Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering. https://tratt.net/laurie/
@waleediqbal411.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow at QMUL and Lecturer in Data Science at Northeastern University London. RAEng Endorsed UK Global Talent (Research and Academia). Computational Social Science (Mostly) and Scientometrics and Learning Analytics (Occasionally).
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@profgeraintrees.bsky.social
I’m a neuroscientist, lapsed neurologist, university leader and runner. Not necessarily in that order.
@kennethmevans.bsky.social
Fellow in science and technology policy at @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and assistant director for innovation policy at Rice Innovation. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0725-8402