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a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
@harryjwilliams.bsky.social
Planning bot powered by www.city-scope.co.uk
Edinburgh mode
Www.city-scope.co.uk
Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
Here to connect with other family historians, genealogists, and people with a passion for Glasgow's past. Drop in to our Glasgow West End research centre or visit us online! Registered Scottish charity. gwsfhs.org.uk
2 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy.
ULTIMATE X-MEN, CONAN, MtG, ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI
www.zackdavisson.com
Fan account of Hokusai, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.
1760-1849
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Discover the treasures of The Met! The METsky bot brings you stunning public-domain artworks from the Met Museum’s vast collection curated over 151 years—thanks to their open access initiative. New post every 3rd hour. Not affiliated with The Met.
Pets, modernism, feminist rage, etc. Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland. Writing in Architectural Digest, NYT, Antiques, and elsewhere.
https://www.sarah-archer.com/
Author + Artist
'This, That, and The Other' novels 📚 written with Zel Cariad
find me on Medium ➡️ https://remydean.medium.com/
linktree 🌐 https://linktr.ee/remydean
interests include film & TV, art & music, science & fantasy, 咬人猫 & 宅舞
Curator, historian, collector of stuff, pots, stories, museums, buildings.
Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Working to protect and improve Edinburgh's river, for the benefit of wildlife and our community.
A healthy river cared for by its community
Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) and organiser with Living Rent (Leith Branch). Wants rent controls now. https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. https://www.heraldscotland.com
Shop based @ Waverley Market
Blog/shop http://avalancherecords.co.uk
https://discogs.com/seller/AvalancheWaverley/profile
Edinburgh Evening News column every Saturday
Archivist. Based in Leith. Interests in history, nature, local goings on. She/her
A bookshop, events space, and risograph print studio in the heart of Edinburgh, run as a not-for-profit company 📚
Find us here 👉 www.typewronger.com
Art gallery and cafe bar located in central Edinburgh, Scotland.
Open Wed-Sun, late Fri & Sat for vinyl grooves & drinks.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boro_edinburgh/
Web: http://www.boroed.com
Composer
www.daifujikura.com
The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged. Guardian, Architects' Journal, whatever, Grandpa, STATE PENSIONER.
Historian of early modern global connections and objects
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Came to Japan for a year or two in 1994. Still here. Scottish. English school owner.
Director V&A Dundee, Scotlands design museum
Honorary Professor of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
Trustee Edinburgh International Festival
We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, except Tuesdays, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with LambLex, @GordonBarr.scot & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
(Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0)
http://www.glasgowgardenfestival.org
Buildings/heritage/tech/Muppets fan, ex-scientist.
Works @archhfund.org.uk Scotland
50% of @ScottishCinemas.org
33% of @glasgowgardenfestival.org
Also at @gordonbarr@mastodon.scot
At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, The Hunterian connects people with stories, individuals and ideas.
Glasgow girl, but ALWAYS dreaming of Japan.
Opinionated
Anxious
Adore CHVRCHΞS
BBC Radio Scotland's Gary's beard.
She/her.
In a different dimension.
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
PHD candidate at Flinders University. 19th century Anglo-Japanese relations; British communities in Japan; imperialism.
Historian in training focussing on 19th century Japan 🌸 | Masters student at University of Erfurt | Bun dad | Tea enthusiast 🌿 | he/him 🫐
Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
Embarked on the adventure of my lifetime, learning to brew, studying and attempting to establish a small, sustainable craft beer brewery in rural Japan.
Dedicated dad, amateur cook, home-brewer, craft beer and single malt whisky fan.
East Coast USA 🇺🇸 to East Asia🌏
Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture.
Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
Welcoming guests to our two teahouses and kimono studio in Kyōto. Join us as we explore Japanese culture, tea and history!
Website: https://tea-kyoto.com/
You can also find us over on...
insta: http://camellia.kyoto &
@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
Lecturer and researcher, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Archaeology, heritage, art, nature, picturebooks, digital stuff, museums. 🖼️📚🏞️🌲🌿🎨👾
Scottish-based literary agency representing literary fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction & writing for children.
Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/
Botany, bryology, lichens, habitat classification, ecology, biodiversity (http://www.benandalisonaveris.co.uk/), art (http://www.benaverisart.co.uk/), music, poetry... Lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Writer, environmentalist & gardener. I'll be mostly posting about wildlife, growing things, and green stuff.
Writer. Music fan.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scottish Highlands.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
I like all wildlife, I'm butterfly recorder for VC95, Moray & Scottish co-ordinator for Garden Moth Scheme. As well as being active in BC Highland Branch, I lead the occasional botany walk for Inverness Botany Group. I do a bit of Pan-species listing too.
Policy and Campaigns Officer Walking Scotland. Botany at University of Aberdeen. Scottish Environment LINK, Sustaining Dunbar, Ramblers Scotland, RSPB. Living in Fife. Likes to walk.
📍Peebles, Scottish Borders - Director of Tweed Ecology - 30 years experience of protected species/habitat surveys, Ecological Impact Assessment, Ecological Clerk of Works. Botany, Lepidoptera.
Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Residents association for the 100+ householders along Lower Granton Road overlooking Wardie Bay.
Promoting top research on Japanese visual culture | Affiliated with UEA | 🎖️ Japan Foundation Award 2024 | Art, history & culture
https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Author of action/adventure fantasy and Scottish Gothic urban fantasy. Published by Elsewhen Press. Repped by John Jarrold Literary Agency. he/him
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/david-craig/
The Japan you don't learn about in anime. News and social issues from Japan. Visiting Japan soon? Check out our tours service!
https://unseenjapan.start.page/
CONNECTING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL.
Working on Hokusai publication. Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Art History, University of Zurich. Japanese arts, prints and digital humanities specialist.
Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
News about recent historical research, media, entertainment, and info-posts about samurai history in general — from any region/language, in English.
Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter 💌 Food and travel features writer🍝Yeovil Literary Prize winner 🏆 The Pyjama Myth 📖 Cats 🐾 Potatoes 🍟 she/her 💕 https://freelancewritingjobs.substack.com
We give out almost £1million in funding each year to help people in Glasgow protect, repair and promote the city's historic buildings and places.
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Prof of 20th century European history, University of Glasgow.
Mum.
Left feminist.
Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss.
Thalassophile.
A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Singer, songwriter, writer
Author, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag. Patron #JohnClare Countryside Project, Fellow British Naturalists' Assoc. MA PGCE. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes
LAND BENEATH THE WAVES: https://shorturl.at/LOt7x
linktr.ee/nicwilsonauthor
Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: RIVER SONG
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust, and @wildlifebcn.org. Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (January 2026). Owner of a dog/servant to a cat. She/her.
Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'
Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land.
Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life | Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy.
🦆🌱🚲🏳️🌈📚
themarshtit.com
Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
Butterfly and moth enthusiast, working to conserve these lovely insects in Europe and beyond. Advisor to Butterfly Conservation Europe and author of ‘Butterflies’ published by Bloomsbury.
Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
Writer of creative nonfiction; researcher in the environmental humanities. Based in Sheffield, lover of allotments and trees. joannaclaredobson.com
https://wreckageandshimmer.substack.com/
Author, birder, naturalist (he/him).
BEASTLY: The Epic 40,000-Year Story of Animals & Us. (Wainwright SL 2023)
DADLAND. Costa Biog Award 2016.
QUICKSAND TALES. 'a tonic for the tortured and cursed' 2019
keggiecarew.co.uk
Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShetlandKeepsakes
https://ko-fi.com/catherinemunro
