Ru Briant's Starter Pack
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@theguardian.com
The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@theatlantic.com
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
@newsagents.bsky.social
Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond. With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player. .
@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain. My Book! https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 Calendars! https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2025-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
@gennhutchison.bsky.social
Writer. Breaking Bad. The Strain. Better Call Saul. The Rings of Power.
@adamcsharp.bsky.social
1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/) 2. Obsessed with lists 3. COMMON PEOPLE 4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS 5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
@carolinelucas.bsky.social
Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader & Co-Leader of @greenparty.org.uk.Co-President of the European Movement. Mum of 2, plus puppy Nell. Author, Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story. Still writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎
@kitdewaal.com
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Henry Allen. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
@shaunlintern.bsky.social
Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety 📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern 📝 DMs open 📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
@warontherocks.bsky.social
Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
@sophiegilbert.bsky.social
Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. My book, GIRL ON GIRL, is coming in April 2025. https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
@markstout.bsky.social
Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
@doctoroxford.com
Palliative care doctor 🩺 Author (The Story of a Heart, Breathtaking, Dear Life etc) 📚 Co-founder Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝 www.doctoroxford.com
@tbij.bsky.social
The UK’s largest not-for-profit newsroom. Exposing injustice and sparking change 💪
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@natashaloder.bsky.social
Health Editor, The Economist. #Science #medicine #health, aspiring optimist, omnivorous information eater, mother of dragons. Free words at: Overmatter.substack.com
@aadip.bsky.social
It’s gonna be mostly politics until we get our country back. I make lots of lists. I write, and hit the drums. Emmy nom. WGA. BAFTA. Fuck bullies. Neurospiky, Spoonie. Certified Human Rights Consultant.
@danewen.bsky.social
Writer, producer, straight-edge vegan from Athens, GA. "Clean Slate" on Prime. Paramount's DEAR SANTA.
@ryanmcbeth.bsky.social
Author, journalist, Army Vet, OSINT Intelligence Analyst, Programmer, Cyber guy. http://Ryanmcbeth.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgramming
@samirashackle.bsky.social
Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle. Currently on maternity leave!
@louisstaples.bsky.social
Journalist: The Guardian, New York Times, NYMag, BBC, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone. Rep'd by United Agents 📚 ✉️: louis-staples@hotmail.com
@sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social
I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
@astrokatie.com
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.
@benjaminckinney.com
SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc. He/him. Rep: Marisa Cleveland. Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, handedness
@hey.paris
Writer. Narrative games/Producer @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev. President @TasGameMakers.com Historian, PhD in CS. Tech books. @themartianlife.com’s husband. Chihuahua butler. 📍 lutruwita
@juleshoward.bsky.social
Zoology, science/nature writer, author. BBC Radio 4 / Guardian / Observer. Books: 'Infinite Life' / 'Choose Your Own Evolution' / 'The Martian Museum of Earth Animals' and many more.
@jeffreyhoward33.bsky.social
Writer of Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass and the forthcoming Wytches.
@lydiakang.bsky.social
Professional snacker. Internal med MD. Utterly incapable of staying in one literary lane. (she/her) 📙Pseudoscience (Nonfic/Hachette, 2/2025) 📕K-Jane (YA/ Harper Collins, 10/2025) https://linktr.ee/lydiakang
@coldwarpod.bsky.social
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
@greenparty.org.uk
💚 Real hope. Real change. greenparty.org.uk Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
@jenniferhenke.bsky.social
PhD & PD | anglophone literatures & cultures | 2nd book on reproduction in c18 (Routledge, forthc.) | on the job hunt | #LitSci | #MedHum | #FirstGen | #IchBinHanna in solidarity w. #IchBinReyhan | #DogContent | typos mine
@jamesmoran.com
📝 Screenwriter 🎬 Severance, Cockneys Vs Zombies, Tower Block 📺 Doctor Who, Torchwood, Spooks, Crusoe, Crossing Lines, Eve, Dave Spud, & more 👋 He/him www.jamesmoran.com
@ashleighfurlong.bsky.social
Health reporter at Bloomberg Previously POLITICO and GroundUp News Opinions my own
@nerysevans.bsky.social
Creative Director Scripted, Expectation TV. Alma's Not Normal, In My Skin, Guilt, The Change, Intelligence.
@claregs.bsky.social
Impact at the RCA ∣ Policy consultant ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
@andreamann.bsky.social
Frequent writer, occasional musician, landlocked yacht rock-lover. UK. She/her www.andreamann.com
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@katiewardwriter.bsky.social
Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk #WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/
@jamestopham.bsky.social
Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner. https://james-topham.com
@fairness.bsky.social
Making the moral, political and policy arguments for tackling inequality in the UK. Weekly substack at http://faircomment.co.uk. Website at https://fairnessfoundation.com.
@specificityarchives.com
Filmmaker Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist. Sloth on the run www.specificityarchives.com
@gibbzer.bsky.social
Short Scottish Screenwriter. Fidget. Ne'er do well #MDANT🥉 'Mayflies' 'Elizabeth Is Missing' 'Miss Austen' on BBC and iPlayer now.
@robedmunds.bsky.social
I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🏴 ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
@rubriant.bsky.social
Screenwriter & A+E Doctor | Rep: Clare Israel @ David Higham Associates