Voices of Wales
I'm passionate and excited about the future of Wales. This list highlights some of the voices from the world of politics, culture, science, nature, sport and sustainability who are helping shape that future. The list will grow so let me know if you should be part of it.
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@mateoy.bsky.social
@ethanjonesic.bsky.social
Freelance Writer | Published Author | Columnist Bylines Cymru | Green | Welsh politics | Views are my own.
@jimbomed.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Media, Aberystwyth University | Broadcasting history, media policy and regulation, documentary film history | Dad | Arweinydd Addoliad @eglwysfair.bsky.social
@rhydbowphill.bsky.social
#Cymraeg - #Cymru🏴🎙📻📺 Cyflwynydd/Presenter: BBCRadioCymru2, S4C, Cardiff City FC, FAWales.⚽️Bluebird 👰🏼Chel 👶🏼👶🏼Dad-TGBP + JTBP
@markyp1234.bsky.social
#Cardiff #Cymru #SaintsFC 🔴 😇 #runningpunk #dysgu #StiffLittleFingers #Ramones #Clash #Blondie #Undertones #Buzzcocks #NUJ Equal rights & justice for one & all. ✌️
@carwyngraves.bsky.social
Hanes #bwyd a'r dirwedd. #Welshfoodhistory. New book #Tir All about Welsh #apples #afalau Founding trustee of http://www.ceginybobl.co.uk
@jonnytench.bsky.social
Economi llesiant a pholisi bwyd. Wellbeing economy, food policy at Future Generations Commissioner for Wales team 🏴. Not cool enough to be an early adopter but we are where we are. Views mine. Siarad Cymraeg.
@andymiddleton.bsky.social
Climate, biodiversity and systems connector. Helping progressive leaders to calibrate shared ambition against the scale of challenge coming their way. Live in Wales. Radical collaborator & mischief maker.
@jackkellam.bsky.social
Head of Operations at the Autonomy Institute | Cymro 'We were a people, and are so yet'
@swillyams.bsky.social
Communications and digital media lecturer, trainer and consultant. Musician. Environmentalist. Works in Cardiff University, lives in Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Loves playing in woods, mountains and seas.
@laugharneweekend.bsky.social
The Laugharne Weekend - the annual festival of books, music, and comedy in West Wales, which began in 2007. www.thelaugharneweekend.com
@ilovesthediff.bsky.social
Irreverent, award winning I Loves The ‘Diff helps Cardiff to stay lush. Creator of Taffywood gifts, Cardiffornia, the Cardiff Bus Song & Cardiff Underground Map Visit ilovesthediff.com
@gwerngwynfil.bsky.social
Gwleidyddiaeth, Cymru, y traddodiad Celtaidd byw, pendroni am Rhyddfrydiaeth yn yr 21eg Ganrif / politics, 🏴, our living Celtic tradition, musing on Liberalism in the 21st Century (also occasional 📸 from 🏴)
@neilevanshistory.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.
@siriol.bsky.social
Journalist, Wales Editor at The Conversation. Skating, cinema & beachcleaning. Cymraes. 🗣️🏴🇪🇸
@dylanfosterevans.bsky.social
Iaith | Treftadaeth | Adarydda #Cymraeg Language | Heritage | Birding Darlithio yn / Lecturing at: @YsgolyGymraegPC.bsky.social
@nyedavies.bsky.social
Lecturer in Politics at the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University. Studying Welsh Labour, political thought and ideology. Author of two books on Aneurin Bevan: https://www.uwp.co.uk/author/Nye-Davies-3777/
@slaymaker.bsky.social
Bon viveur, raconteur, llanast. BBC Radio Wales's film guru (their words, not mine). Some people are beloved, I'm betolerated...just.
@andyregancdf.bsky.social
A Sustainable Future & Interim Head of Nesta Cymru | Music in Cardiff | Bokononist | Tweets are my online persona’s views
@ashokahir.bsky.social
Punjabi Wulfrunian Cymro • Cadeirydd/Chair @librarywales.bsky.social & @eisteddfod.cymru • #publicservice #Cymru #Wales
@joekrossiter.bsky.social
Co-Director, Policy and External Affairs - Institute of Welsh Affairs. Views my own.
@gentlegood.bsky.social
Cantor / Musician - The Gentle Good - Khasi-Cymru Collective thegentlegood.com
@hananelizabethissa.bsky.social
National Poet of Wales @litwales 💚 ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.com✨I don’t read work-related DM’s✨ All views my own. Rep’d by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
@hiraethpod.bsky.social
Cartref gwleidyddiaeth cyfoes Cymru The home of modern Welsh politics www.walespolitics.com
@janebryngwyn.bsky.social
Passionate about acting on #climate and for #futuregen. Chair, Wales Net Zero 2035. Author of #futuregen:Lessons from a Small Country. Former Welsh Cabinet Minister.
@emilypricejourno.bsky.social
🏴 News editor and journalist based in Wales 🦆 Wildlife lover @NationCymru / @bjtc accredited Got a story? Drop me an email…emily.price@nation.cymru
@reviewwales.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Cultural adventurer. Writes about the arts, art history, opera and the uncanny. PhD researcher in the Gothic. Ghosts and Folklore of Wales podcast. Happiest at Halloween.
@distantpod.bsky.social
Elis James, Mike Bubbins & Steff Garrero discuss classic sports docs, clips & books in their virtual pub. When not getting frequently distracted. distantpod.com/live
@ceritheviking.bsky.social
history, sport, science & politics! green side but more about outcomes than party rosettes. works policy+public affairs. Also podcasting, theatre & ancient glass! Searching - “Dolce far niente”
@mariavbooks.bsky.social
Publishing Sales Manager/Book Trade Historian and Archivist. PhD in Book Trade History. Ex- bookseller. Book History Bite Newsletter info ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/Bookhistorybite?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=944ff8dd-4748-4759-aada-62e395c26ef1
@conorgogarty.bsky.social
Investigations editor at WalesOnline. Specialist journalist of year and scoop of year at '24 UK Regional Press Awards. Email conor.gogarty@walesonline.co.uk
@nspugh.bsky.social
Photographer http://www.nigelpugh.co.uk Environmental / Social Justice Campaigner Urgent economic systems change is required #WellbeingEconomy Masto: https://toot.wales/@nspugh Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nspughphoto/ Work - Coed Cadw own opinions
@martinjohnes.bsky.social
Historian of Wales & the UK. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of sport in Wales.
@davidowensjourno.bsky.social
Features editor, Nation Cymru. All the right words not necessarily in the right order. david.owens@nation.cymru
@gillibrandpeter.bsky.social
Currently BBC Radio 1/1Xtra Newsbeat | BBC Wales News | before @ BBC Newsnight | Previously at Global | Cymro 🏴| Over-keen runner | Guest Lecturer | Views not my employers
@leannewood.bsky.social
Inspired by nature, ideas & the power of people & their communities. Co-Executive Director - Ynni Cymunedol Cymru / Community Energy Wales. Recovering politician. Loves books, painting/art, walking, cold water dipping, family, friends, cakes & gardening
@petefowlerart.bsky.social
Welsh painter, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor. I love to draw, make everything by hand and despise ai slop. Sign up to my patreon, visit my shop, listen to radio shows and more down there. https://linktr.ee/petefowler
@geraintowen.bsky.social
Wales Bureau Editor 🏴, BBC News. Golygydd Newyddion i'r BBC. News and #FPL obsessive (🌍21st in 23/24 if you must ask). A bit of cycling too.
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social
Books . Music. Happy on the end of a rope. Sometimes. Programme radio shows - BBC , and sometimes out and about.
@mikeparker.bsky.social
Writer in the damp Welsh hills. Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell? "No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
@mimosacymru.bsky.social
Scriptwriter, producer, Podlediad Yr Hen Iaith, worker bee. Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth. Cymro, Pontypriddian, Proxy Canadian & Æresdansker 🏴 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 (cyfrif personol/personal account)
@rhianejones.bsky.social
Red bluestocking. Writer, journalist and broadcaster on history, politics and culture. Co-editor @RedPeppermag.bsky.social Welsh. 🥃⚒️ Contact via DM or rhian@redpepper.org.uk. Dispatches: https://substack.com/@rhianejones
@owswills.bsky.social
Cymro digwilydd 🏴 Professionally Welsh —•—•— Social Media practitioner. Agency owner. Broadcaster. Keynote speaker. Small child wrangler. Old dog dragger. Weight lifter. Deceptive runner. School governor. Epic dancer. Doer of stuff. Writer of things.
@waterslee.bsky.social
Welsh Labour Senedd Member for the Llanelli constituency Podcast, The Fifth Floor: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y-pumed-llawr-the-fifth-floor/id1780853972
@calvjones.bsky.social
Regional Economist and sometime troublemaker. Energy, climate, post-growth, guitars, Sci-Fi, bikes, world-systems.
@willhaycardiff.bsky.social
Multi-award winning journalist and author based in Cardiff. I conduct investigative journalism and help people better understand Wales/Cymru. You sign up to my newsletter here: willhaywardwales.substack.com Columnist at The Guardian.
@squidgerugby.bsky.social
Here on the condition people can be normal about Antoine Dupont
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Summer 2025) He/They/Fo/Nhw
@folklorewales.com
Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk folklorewales.com
@fransingh.bsky.social
Homepage editor for the Guardian. London via South Wales. Formerly of the Observer and Politics Home. Here for the cat pics
@archaedelle.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
@deansofcardiff.bsky.social
BBC Wales online political reporter, based in Cardiff. Got a story? Email: david.deans@bbc.co.uk Signal username available on request
@drtobydriver.bsky.social
🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
@welshbollocks.bsky.social
Daily bits of bollocks about Wales from Wales. Support our new book "The Big Book of Welsh Bollocks" https://ko-fi.com/welshbollocks welshbollocks & visit our shop http://bollocks.wales
@meganferinga.bsky.social
says y’all a lot | women’s football/soccer writer at The Athletic
@mateoy.bsky.social
Author of Seascape - Notes from a changing coast published by Calon Books in 2025. Founder of walking site, Tramping, and Executive Nature - biz writing & comms coaching. Also wrote Return to My Trees, Trust Inc. and lots more. matthewyeomans.com