Andy Cox @andy-cox.bsky.social Detective Chief Superintendent, Northamptonshire Police (Head of Crime & Criminal Justice portfolio). Gold Commander. Firearms Commander. Road danger reduction advocate.
Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner
Working with the Mayor, TfL & boroughs to build a safer, greener & healthier city.
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
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Dr J Robert Branston @robbranston.bsky.social Associate Professor in Business Economics in the School of Management and Co-Director of Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG), University of Bath, UK. Senior Editor at Tobacco Control. Regulation, Tobacco Taxation & Profitability, Micro-Firms.
STC @blobbystc.bsky.social build wind farms
and
solar arrays
write bad poetry
RT *everything*
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Tom Woodcock @drtomwoodcock.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London School of Public Health. Interested in Data Science, Research Methods, Statistical Process Control, Quality Improvement, Epidemiology.
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/thomas.woodcock99/about
Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social Former baby and aspiring ghost. Writes about tech for WSJ. Author of two books, both of which people seem to like and are worth looking up.
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality, worried about the survival of democracy. Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
Ruth! @ruthholliday.bsky.social #MDANT 🏅 UCUCommons ✊ (she/they) *EndTheGenocide* No DMs please, Bit face blind so won’t recognize you out of context!
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Ed Plowden @edplowden.bsky.social Green Party Councillor for Windmill Hill in Bristol, with Lisa Stone
Chair of @bristolcouncil Transport Committee
MSc, CMILT, MCIHT
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Els Torreele @elstorreele.bsky.social Interested in Shifting Powers towards Health Equity, Economic Justice, post-Finance Capitalism, Climate Justice, Equitable Access to Medicines and Vaccines, and a better future for all of us. Founding Director of æqua.
Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social Research Fellow at @clscohorts.bsky.social
epidemiology, causal inference, methods, meta-science
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
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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
Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social Political scientist @ Texas A&M Bush School of Government. Interests: business politics/corruption, Middle East, measurement, Bayesian statistics
The Bayesian Hitman: https://a.co/d/e4QmtKo
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social Author of The Psychology of Software Teams: https://www.drcathicks.com/#book
Applied behavioral science in complex technical systems
she/her 🏳️🌈
Catharsis: https://catharsisinsight.com/
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Alex Nurse @alexnurse.bsky.social Reader in Urban Governance and Planning at the University of Liverpool.
Researching: Cities and City-Regions, Cycling
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Likes are usually bookmarks (or it might mean I like it!)
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Dr Steve Westlake @steveclimate.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Bath researching the effects of leading by example with low-carbon behaviour. Particular interest in politicians, celebrities & CEOs.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 physicist, philosopher, lead https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/, author of Climate InJustice https://greystonebooks.com/collections/current-affairs-politics/products/climate-injustice, she/her
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics.
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at LSHTM.
Run IDDjobs.org
Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social Head of Campaigns & Community Development, London Cycling Campaign. #ActiveTravel #HipHop #Veggie #Dad If I'm an idiot here, it's my fault.
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/
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social Director of the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities
Prof of Sustainable Energy Business and Policy at Strathclyde Business School
Co-founder and host of Local Zero Podcast
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Deb Cohen @debscohen.bsky.social Broadcaster and writer | Senior visiting fellow, LSE | Escapee medic | Former health correspondent, BBC Newsnight | Science editor, ITV News | Investigations editor, BMJ | Scouse
https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=16769
Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer @tricyclemayor.bsky.social research fellow @active-ata.bsky.social | active travel | public transport | crit dis | pedestrian every day, tricycling often | Trustee @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk | Ambassador for Activity Alliance | views are Frida's 🐕
https://linktr.ee/tricyclemayor
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social Geoscientist | Occassionally on 📺 & 📻 talking about geoscience | I 🏃🏾♂️🚴🏾♂️ 🧗🏾♀️🎸🍺| he/him | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| “Self-declared King of Geotwitter” (Palin, 2022) | Professional (East)Midlander 😎
Ian Sample @iansample.bsky.social Guardian Science Editor and co-host at Science Weekly. Author of Massive | Sony Gold Award | PhD in Biomedical Materials
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social Human geneticist turned data scientist in Seattle. Supporting clinicians at a large hospital. Human first. Kindness, standing up for people, sailing, climbing mountains, making a ruckus when necessary. Enduring optimist often tested to the limit.
Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social Founder & Principal, Crosscurrent Capital. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” -
@t0nyyates. Starting something new. tomas.hirst[at]crosscurrentcapitallimited.com
https://crosscurrentcapitallimited.com/
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Urban Transport Group @utg-uk.bsky.social We are the UK’s network of transport authorities.
Charles Tallack @charlestallack.bsky.social Ex-director of analysis @HealthFdn,ex-Whitehall civil servant & NHS England.
Love ideas, numbers, analysis, evidence, debate and challenge. Views my own.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social Cofounder National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis www.nebriefing.org | Science communicator | former manufacturing CEO & business consultant | Moog 🎹
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
Raj Patel @rajpatel.org Research Prof at U Texas,, author of "Stuffed and Starved", co-director of "The Ants & The Grasshopper" http://antsandgrasshopper.org, co-author "Inflamed", out now!
Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social Professor of Population Health | University of Oxford | Sustainable Healthy Diets & Transformers
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social Immunologist & science communicator based at UoM fascinated by our immune response to threats (pathogens, pollution) & microbiome & how this exposome affects health. Also quite likely to share random dog and nature pics 🧪👩🔬 #AcademicSky #SciCom
IPES-Food @ipes-food.org We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) : a global think-tank guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world.🌍
🌱 Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate.
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Julia Thrift @juliathrift.bsky.social People, places, public health
Lives in south London, interested in the world...
My own views, sometimes here: https://authory.com/juliathrift
Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Chair Transport Committee. Highbury Cllr 2014-26. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
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Mile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social We are @qmul.bsky.social's leading institute for British politics, political history and policymaking. Keep updated with news about our latest events, opinion polling and research by signing up to our mailing list!
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor, Green Party, UK. Loves cycling, trees, circular fashion, car-sharing, local business, community initiatives.
(Obligatory political imprint: promoted by David Newman at 12A Merlin Road, Oxford OX4 6EP).
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Causal inference researcher and trainer. Based at @lida-leeds.bsky.social
See my Intro to Causal Inference Course: https://www.causal.training/
See the Causal Inference Interest Group: https://ciig-seminar.github.io
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
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
@tracyparr.bsky.social @tracyparr.bsky.social Programme Director London Tobacco Alliance and Stop Smoking London. All views are personal
Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab.bsky.social Research for better policies and a healthier world.
🌐 https://linktr.ee/gstrategylab
Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds.
Co-Chair, Independent SAGE
Adam Brown @adamlbrown.bsky.social Economist, formerly a physicist. Head of UK Economic Policy & Modelling @ Cambridge Econometrics, Visiting Researcher in Innovation Systems @ Oxford Brookes, & Associate @ CityREDI. Also interested in cricket, baseball and metal. Displaced Salopian. Vmo
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Lou Hurst @louhurst.bsky.social Public Health/Mental Health/Inequalities/Running/Music (not necessarily in that order)
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social Writer, plant-lover, water-baby, #healthpolicy nerd. Ex-OpenDemocracy UK editor. NUJ/Unite/Green. Grew up on free school meals. Stroud-based. caroline.molloy@cantab.net
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social Unofficial Kneecap account that I hope the lads will come and claim. Let's build a following here in advance, folks! GRMA
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social Global health, medical anthropology, co-design for health equity. @Emory U, working in Guatemala and beyond. Loves sightings of the absurd and compassion.
Catherine Lovegrove @celovegrove.bsky.social Clinical lecturer, University of Glasgow.
Urology registrar, West of Scotland.
Investigating the genetic and metabolic basis of kidney stone disease.
Happiest on a hill by foot or by pedal🏴🚵🏼 🏃🏼♀️ ✟
George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social Time expired epidemiologist
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.