Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful
Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Proud Labour MP for Houghton & Sunderland South
Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social Digitalisation, Democracy and anti-Disinformation. European Parliament 2019-2024. Danish diplomat 2005-2017. https://karenmelchior.eu/
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
TITHE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q6REDKBBVUJLU
Charise Johnson @charise.bsky.social 
Second Mentions @secondmentions.com The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
George A. Constantinides @gconstantinides.bsky.social Prof Digital Computation @imperialcollege, Director of the Early Career Researcher Institute. Vice Chair @iclmathsschool. Views own. http://constantinides.net.
Gitika Saksena @gitika-saksena.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at SOAS.
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Jen McParland @jenmcp.bsky.social Lecturer in Higher Education Practice. Optimistic digital educationalist, love learning design and inclusive pedagogical stuff-hate pronouncing it. #SFHEA #CMALT
Nick Tordoff @briandrian.eurosky.social A probably retired Health Informatician (bless you!). Hand holder of a community hydro energy scheme. Late on set sailor. My opinions are usually someone elses passed off as my own. Born at 315.34 ppm
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
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).
@mirosifra.bsky.social @mirosifra.bsky.social 
mikayla @mikayla.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🪩🪷🐈
Cat Cutmore @catcutmore.bsky.social Marketing & Events Manager at @Nexer_Digital
We run #CampDigital
https://www.nexerdigital.com/camp-digital/2026/
Edinburgh-based
Matt Tutt @matttutt.me Working as an SEO consultant & trying to find a way to slowly transition to a non-bullshit job.
Organising the No To Big Tech movement - https://notobigtech.org/
Not active here, but you can follow me here: https://mastodon.social/@matttutt
Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter
Involved with @hopeful.technology
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
@adastra8.bsky.social @adastra8.bsky.social 
Laurence D @laurencediver.net AI strategy at the FCA. Views mine and only mine.
Recovering academic (Legal {tech, philosophy}, hci, regulation, responsible innovation, and whatnot). Diver rhymes with river (it's an anglicisation of the Gaelic Duibhir).
tbh I'd rather be in Assynt
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social Responsible strategy, data & innovation consultant
Loves teaching
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Member, Society of Hopeful Technologists
#opendata #netzero
France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Alex Wrottesley @lexonic.bsky.social 📍 Maps, Data & Technology
👾 Games / SciFi / Tinkering
🛠️ Aiming for General Availability
He/Him https://linktr.ee/lexonic
Rick @ricksmith.co.uk I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
Andy Piper @andypiper.org Developer Relations @matrix
freelance technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
• co-runner of #Maker meetup 🛠️ […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://macaw.social/@andypiper, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD of Our AI Collective. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
https://dompates.medium.com
James @jamesg.blog Hello! I'm James (he/him/his) ✨
I'm a writer, art history student, and Taylor Swift fan.
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social
Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
✍️ Sign up to my newsletter: https://tumshie.me
Yellows Forum @yellowsforum.bsky.social THE unofficial Oxford United forum. Posting content from the forum you might have missed or find useful.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Olly Glover, MP 🔶 @ollyglover.bsky.social Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Didcot and Wantage.
I can be contacted at olly.glover.MP@parliament.uk
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
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
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Did I mention I wrote a book...?
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
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/
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
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
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Cara Thompson @cararthompson.bsky.social Data visualisation consultant with an academic background, helping others maximise the impact of their expertise
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Rage Online @rageonline.bsky.social Oxford United fanzine and database.
Find us at www.rageonline.co.uk
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Oxblogger @oxblogger.bsky.social 
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social “Cyber Security Ace” - Daily Star
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
amy brown @amybrown.xyz writer / parent x2 / not a dog irl
"the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing” - KATSEYE
amybrown.xyz ✨
Robin Dunford @robindunford.bsky.social Facebook refugee, Oxford United and Somerset cricket fan, long-distance walker, recovering grammar pedant
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Oxford Mail @theoxfordmail.bsky.social Covering local news from across Oxfordshire
Have a story email news@nqo.com or call 01865 425500.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com Writer, Field Maneuvers boss, PT, comedy, 50+ ultra marathons, west Wales knotweed farmer
I was the Secret Tory
Substack: https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/henrymorrispt
OUFC @everythingoufc.bsky.social All X OUFC content | NOT AFFILIATED WITH OUFC |🟡 | 23/11/24 (H) vs Middlesbrough | @oufcsp.bsky.social
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
Own views; Adult language
Rugby columnist, author & therapist
Trustee of charity Women in Sport.
Current affairs, culture, sport, & sarcasm
Pre-order The Second Half https://linktr.ee/TheSecondHalfBrianMoore 
Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist 
The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social Anthony Richardson & Mark Davison Sports Horn http://lnk.to/SportsHorn Buy us a coffee! http://ko-fi.com/explodingheads explodingheads@unitedagents.co.uk
James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
Currently reading Andrew Graham-Dixon / Vermeer
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/
Has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture
Contact email is w.cooling[at]gmail.com
All opinions his own & not of any employer
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social Always ask yourself, what would Lord Diplock think?
https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶
Western suburbs of Paris
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
ProfBrianCox @profbriancox.bsky.social Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science
Unofficial OUFC News @oufc-unofficial.bsky.social Bot to post OUFC News from the OUFC, Oxford Mail and BBC Oxford websites on Bluesky. If you think it's missed anything, feel free to DM.
This is a fan account and is not affiliated with any of those organisations.
SwissYellow @swissyellow.bsky.social Creator of Nutmeg! CO-Founder of Secret Mode. Star Wars Galactic Racer, Videogames, Oxford United, Ice Hockey, Whales. You know the rest.
Jonny Biscuits @jonnybiscuits.co.uk Mostly OUFC, video game and snack content.
Once took a photo of Sonic the Hedgehog with Michael Duberry.
He/him
George Elek @georgeelek.bsky.social “You can change your Twitter bio to FSA award winner” - Victoria Derbyshire
Myles @mylesoufc.bsky.social Fan of Oxford United, Arizona Cardinals, live music, gin, and Oxford commas. 
Dan Curtis @dancurtis1972.bsky.social OUFC, cricket, video, silly jokes, falafel.
Anything else purely accidental. Half of @YouaremyOxfordpodcast
Joe Citrone @joe-citrone.bsky.social 
Caroline Lucas @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 🌎
@moneybox.bsky.social @moneybox.bsky.social 
andrew ⓕ lyons @andrewfordlyons.net NGO boffin. Data packet smuggler. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
Alice Goldman @alicegoldman.bsky.social Government digital, public policy design and a one-woman crusade to stop AI engines being given female names
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Dario Perkins @darioperkins.bsky.social MD Global Macro, macro themes/research/risks, central-bank specialist, started career at HM Treasury in late 90s, ex ABN AMRO, AC Milan fan