Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Sara B @sarabuschova.bsky.social Artist, writer and …
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com https://trustfnd.com/isabelle.roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Publisher, Democracy for Sale | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, almost 🇺🇸, once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭, forever MIZ 🐯
Jenna Corderoy @jennacorderoy.bsky.social 
Lucas Amin @lucasamin.bsky.social Award-winning investigative reporter working with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @ Democracy for Sale.
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Tom Hegel @hegel.bsky.social Distinguished Threat Researcher, SentinelLABS Research Lead @SentinelOne. Nation-state operations, research systems & applied AI for threat intelligence. Find me at https://TomHegel.com
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Say hi: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social Journalist, parent to two grown-ups, LGBT+ rights campaigner, former night editor of The Times, Scotland. Lives in France. [she/her]
Valentin Kreilinger @vkreilinger.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Political Science, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS). Previously at the Jacques Delors Think Tanks in Paris and Berlin. PhD from Hertie School, MSc from LSE.
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social Sir Jonathan Jones KCB KC (Hon). Ex Treasury Solicitor and private sector lawyer.
Various non-executive, consultancy, academic and charitable roles
Law, constitution, government, cocktails
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
Got a story? C4Nstories@itn.co.uk
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Website: www.channel4.com/news
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
RTÉ News @news.rte.ie RTÉ News and Current Affairs - Irish and International News
Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social 
4 Day Week Foundation @4dayweek.bsky.social Building a world where we work to live, not live to work. Website: 4dayweek.co.uk | Instagram: 4dayweekcampaign
Joe Ryle @joeryle.bsky.social Campaign Director of the 4 Day Week Foundation, Author of The 4 Day Week Handbook: https://www.canburypress.com/products/the-4-day-week-handbook-by-joe-ryle-paperback-isbn-9781914487194
For You Feed @foryou.club Account for the 💖 For You feed: https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you
How it works: For You finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently.
More details at foryou.club
John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net Machine learning researcher, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer.
All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com Computational biologist, data scientist, occasional blogger | https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/ | https://clauswilke.com/ | Opinions are my own and do not represent UT Austin.
Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social NLP, cultural analytics. Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder. Formerly Ai2, Pioneer Centre for AI, Cornell, Microsoft, Twitter. Books, bikes, games, art. https://maria-antoniak.github.io
MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social Neuro and Developmental biologist. PostDoc at day. Supervillain at night. He/him #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@mads100tist@mastodon.social
philpax @philpax.me creative engineer · Rust, gamedev/modding, reverse engineering, writing, AI, XR, etc
a better world is possible · 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
Jules @julso.bsky.social Video Contributor for West England Bylines. Host of the Bylines Network Podcast. He/Him/His.
“The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was”
Peter Randall @thesolarking.bsky.social Retired MD/owner of Solar business. Consultant in Solar and related technologies. Love renewables, sustainable building and refurbishment. Haven't lost my radical streak! Based in Edinburgh.
Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office, now working in community energy. Occasionally politics
Exeter, UK
Rebecca Vincent @rebeccajvincent.bsky.social Deputy Director of The Citizens. Formerly Reporters Without Borders & Big Brother Watch. Human rights campaigner obsessed with holding power to account.
Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social Interested in cognition and artificial intelligence. Researcher at Anthropic; previously DeepMind, cognitive science at Stanford. Posts are mine.
lampinen.github.io
Krzysztof Cieslak @kcieslak.io Artist 🎨 | Photographer 📷 | Globetrotter 🌍 | Speaker 🤹🏻♂️ | Author of Ionide 🚀 | Researcher @ Github Next 🔬| Co-creator of GitHub Copilot, Copilot NES, Agentic Workflows, and Ace | Building the future of software development 💻
Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer Working on:
TormentNexus.social - agentic atmosphere
Hyprstream.com - RL environments for distributed open AI-RSI
Ferruleos.org - hardened Linux sandbox OS
Onionshell.ch - tor from a static website
funferall @funferall.bsky.social tensor topographer 🗺️
shoggoth conspirator 🦑
joyce junkie 📖
David P. Reichert @david-p-reichert.bsky.social AI researcher at Google DeepMind -- views on here are my own.
Interested in cognition & AI, consciousness, ethics, figuring out the future.
Due to various concerns, I'm currently no longer working on advancing AI capabilities.
Discussion > blocking?
Vaishnavh Nagarajan @vaishnavh.bsky.social Foundations of AI. I like simple and minimal examples and creative ideas. I also like thinking about the next token 🧮🧸
Google | PhD, CMU |
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15266 | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06963
vaishnavh.github.io
Doll @dollspace.gay It/Its
Senior Agent Engineer at fieldleveltech.org
Its name is doll. The system is an adult.
Creating ethical and safe AI systems.
EGL Fashion posts!
Chris Peikert @chrispeikert.bsky.social Cryptographer (lattices/post-quantum), Burks Collegiate Professor at U-Michigan Computer Science and Engineering, Chief Scientific Officer at Algorand, PhD from MIT CSAIL. Previously faculty at Georgia Tech School of CS. Here I speak for myself.
tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com A figment of the universe's imagination. Culture ambassador. http://elsewhereunbound.com
@thomasfbloom.bsky.social @thomasfbloom.bsky.social 
Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com I like utilitarianism, consciousness, AI, EA, space, kindness, liberalism, longtermism, progressive rock, economics, and most people. Substack: http://timfduffy.substack.com
Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social Evolutionary cell biology / evolution of morphogenesis / animal origins / choanoflagellates @institutpasteur.bsky.social
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-cell-biology-and-evolution-of-morphogenesis/
Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires
Henry Yuen @henryyuen.bsky.social Complexity, in all its forms.
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
http://www.henryyuen.net
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social charts and graphs
follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/norvid_studies
https://substack.com/@norvidstudies/posts
Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org Editor and director, Carbon Brief
https://bsky.app/profile/carbonbrief.org
Leo C. Stein @duetosymmetry.com Physics Prof @ U of MS. Sloan Fellow. Black holes, gravitational waves, general relativity & beyond. Formerly Caltech MIT Cornell. Need thin pizza + fruity coffee. He/him
🌐 https://duetosymmetry.com/
@duetosymmetry everywhere
David Bessis @davidbessis.bsky.social Rogue mathematician
https://davidbessis.substack.com/
Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social Soon: Reporter @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation. Formerly HuffPost. letsgomathias@protonmail.com. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social 🎮 tech artist/shader sorceress/math dork
🌐 acegikmo.com
🎥 youtube.com/@acegikmo
🏗️ Shader Forge / Shapes / https://half-edge.xyz
📡 ex-founder of Neat Corp
🪡 neoluddite
my kids:
🥪 @toast.acegikmo.com
🥗 @salad.acegikmo.com
🐈⬛ @thor.acegikmo.com
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
David J. Bianco @davidjbianco.bsky.social Threat Hunting, CTI, incident detection & response. Creator of the Pyramid of Pain and lead author of the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework. SANS instructor. Special interest in helping newbies get started. Also happy to talk about other geeky topics. He/Him.
aalekas.bsky.social @aalekas.bsky.social Woman, daughter,sister,mother, human.Archaeologist, Digital heritage educator, interested in Art, Music, theater and people. Passionate climate activist,hard working. 
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
David Leask @leaskyd.bsky.social Reporter, The Times/Sunday Times. Get me at david.leask@thetimes.co.uk.
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK) @epik-ukraine.bsky.social Bringing Ukrainian and European expertise together to advance policy debates on European security, geopolitics, and Ukraine’s EU accession.
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Mared Gwyn @maredgwyn.bsky.social Journalist for Euronews, new on Bluesky
National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social I turn Art into Sports (and vice versa) | NO AI USED | “Everything I didn't know I needed" - follower testimonial
Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social Politics, economics, info-sec(from the outside), history, climate, occasional joke/meme 25% 🇪🇪 75% 🇬🇧 (War time switch)
Tips, to cover sat imagery and certain news sites I pay for and 🍺 usage, are appreciated https://ko-fi.com/svenerikvolberg
András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social Hungarian-born British screenwriter.
Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden
As seen on the Bird App
A national security threat, according to Donald Trump
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508
Green Collective @greencollective.io Daily updates on Irish electricity generation (previously: IrishEnergyBot on Twitter).
Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter:
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@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social I am Whitehall Editor at the Sunday Times. You can read my work here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/gabriel-pogrund?page=1
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton West | Chair APPG on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax
Email: phil.brickell.mp@parliament.uk
Phone: 01204 958 436
Website: www.philbrickellmp.co.uk
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me ✨ wife, writer, engineer, gamer, coaster enthusiast, gymrat, zen existentialist
🦆 cofounder @smol.farm
☀️ @4cor.day - daily puzzle
🎢 @aquacoast.net - theme parks
🍑 @atmomo.xyz - memes & GIFs
Eris @isolyth.dev 💛🤍💜🖤
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help peer. But our task doesn't benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time.
https://eriskii.net/
Stefan Pöhlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social Viruses & Proteases, Head of Infection Biology Unit, Deutsches Primatenzentrum, @primatenzentrum.bsky.social, Decoding viral entry, Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants, https://linktr.ee/snpoehlm, Views are my own
Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: hannah.al-othman@theguardian.com. DM for WhatsApp/Signal
Hillel @hillelwayne.com Developer educator at @antithesis.com. Formal methods, software history, chocolatiering. DMs open. *Logic for Programmers* now out! https://logicforprogrammers.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social Ukrainian perspective on the media worldwide 🌎
Website: https://theukrainianreview.info/
Oops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social Excellence in breakfast cereal. At Any Cost
https://x.com/OA_paperclips
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki 
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher: Tech, Power, Human Ecology //
Current work @ the Nerve //
Author of Spinning Out (Longlisted for Bread & Roses Award)
Linktr.ee/CharlieY0ung
FleetingBits @fleetingbits.bsky.social sf thinkcat
Lucia Osborne-Crowley @luciaoc.bsky.social Award-winning writer and journalist. Author of I Choose Elena (2019), My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) and The Lasting Harm (2024).
Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social Freelance journo/researcher.
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, DeSmog, Byline Times, Computer Weekly, Democracy for Sale, AOAV, The Nerve, Citizens, Good Law Project, Dawn etc.
Email:mcfoiareturns@proton.me
Emma @emmacampaigner.bsky.social Arsenal STH, charity do gooder, pug rescuer, nature lover, mudlarker. Tediously politically correct.Occasionally profane, usually polite. Democratic champion #MakeVotesMatter
Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk Barrister & mediator.
Things I like: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port.
My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk
Please email rather than DM!
Forgive typos.
Jane @localnotail.bsky.social local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant
English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.
Fair Witness.
BlondeMoney @blondemoney.bsky.social Sensible market commentary 
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Arnaud Martin @evolvwing.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at the George Washington University
Interested in Pattern Formation, Evolutionary Tinkering, Genetics,
#lociofevolution #dnacrobatics #evodevo #lepidoptera
dnacrobatics.com
pubs: https://rb.gy/nfg8p
BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social Physician Scientist MDPhD
Infectious Diseases
Academic Medicine
Global Health
Science Communicator
Posts are my opinions, not my employer's and not medical advice
I bet on myself and double down
https://substack.com/@bktitanji
Karen-Anna Eggen @kaeggen.bsky.social Senior Researcher 👉 @IFS_Oslo. Russian strategy, grand strategy, information confrontation & hybrid threats, Nordic region, Arctic, Ukraine, NATO.
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …