Charlie Ball @lmicharlie.bsky.social Jisc's Head of Labour Market Intelligence, based in Manchester. Specialist on the labour market for post-18 learners in the UK, posts about work, study, regional labour markets, county cricket. Find my work (mostly) at https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.
Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity @equalise.bsky.social Research centre led from University College London focused on tackling and reducing health inequalities. Supported by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and a wide range of health equity focused advocacy groups.
Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social Co-Author of Keeping Workers Off the Ballot (Oct. 2026)
Author of White-Collar Government and The Cash Ceiling
Co-Editor of The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe 1 & 2
Bio/Foster/Adoptive Parent
Boycott "a.i."
Opinions my own (not my employer's)
Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Connor @connorofbfd.bsky.social MRes Public Policy student @uofgussp.bsky.social, exploring lived experience of disability benefits.
Bradford City, class, curry, hardcore punk, hip-hop and social policy. Usually found writing or taking photos. Views my own.
www.medium.com/@connorofbfd
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
The Exchange @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social West Yorkshire’s new independent newsroom 📰
Backed by readers. Built for the region.
Part of @millmedia.bsky.social
Send tips to our reporters @braddeasjourno.bsky.social and @miajankowicz.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is.
Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
𝔾𝕦𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖 🥑 @davidtaylornyc.bsky.social Causing chaos wherever I unplug things.
YEG, GP, and occasional cameo in NJ. Biochemist/Electrician/Superforecaster. Look for me on F24, AJ, DW + BBC.
Described as an unpetite, walking liability.
Nicolò Bagarin 🔮 404_NOT_FOUND @404notfound404.bsky.social Superforecaster® with Good Judgment Inc
Emily Conte @scholarandcat.bsky.social Mom to a special needs child. Attorney. Gardner. Photographer. Avid Reader. Good Judgment Superforecaster. Mobile, AL. Currently making a 100+ year-old house into a home.
Michael Kowalski @roaringdeep.com Freelance software developer. Superforecaster with Good Judgment Inc.
Just Curious @just-curious.bsky.social Climate, AI, water, ag, health, edu, science, Covid, preparedness; PhD, Neuroscience; a Superforecaster® with Good Judgment Inc.
Jonathan Mann @jonathanmann.bsky.social I'm a forecasting professional with Good Judgment (Superforecaster), RAND (INFER Pro), and Samotsvety. I currently work as a Security Architect and was previously a Data Scientist on Wall Street. I also teach computer science as adjunct faculty at NYU.
Robert de Neufville @deneufville.bsky.social Superforecaster. Professional forecaster w/ Good Judgment, Metaculus, and The Swift Centre. I write Telling the Future (https://tellingthefuture.substack.com) and host Talking About the Future (https://tellingthefuture.substack.com/podcast).
john @curiousjohn.bsky.social outlier, not always in the direction I want
superforecaster, techie, expat
@john_henry elsewhere
generally delighted to receive correspondence at curiousjohn@letterboxes.org
Boz @bloggingsbyboz.bsky.social Founder of Hxagon. Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Weekly Columnist at World Politics Review. SuperForecaster at GJI. Probably a few other things too. Mostly writing about Latin America.
Tolga Bilge @tolgabilge.bsky.social AI policy researcher @controlai.com | aitreaty.org & taisc.org | Superforecaster
linkedin.com/in/tolga-bilge
newsletter.tolgabilge.com
Vidur Kapur @vidurkapur.bsky.social Superforecaster at Good Judgment. Also forecasting at Swift Centre, Samotsvety, RAND and a hedge fund.
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Inclusion London @inclusionlondon.bsky.social Disability equality organisation run by and for Disabled people. Policy, campaigning & capacity-building support for Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations.
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
King's Social Science & Public Policy @kingssocialscience.bsky.social World-leading social science expertise from the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King's College London.
Linked In: http://bit.ly/3tbhnVJ
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social More passion. Less shouting.
A Cooler Heads podcast by Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social, Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social, and Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social.
Support us on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
https://quietriotpod.com
Rob de Vries @rob-devries.bsky.social Quantitative Sociologist at the University of Kent.
Author: Critical Statistics - Seeing Beyond the Headlines (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-statistics-9781137609793/)
albertward.bsky.social @albertward.bsky.social Senior Fellow @ More in Common, PhD political science from Oxford, views my own (+new on here)
Damon Beres @damonberes.com Journalist focused on the effects of technology on people and the planet, senior editor at The Atlantic //
Writing EASY MODE, a book on tech, humanity, and the value of friction, for Scribner
SIGNAL: Damon.63
📨 dberes@theatlantic.com
✴️ damonberes.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Brent W. Roberts @bwroberts.bsky.social Respirating carbon-based life form. Pit of despair dweller. Bread maker. Sometimes personality psychologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
Julian Jessop @julianhjessop.bsky.social Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
Bob Melling @bobmelling.bsky.social Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social Building personalized Bluesky feeds for academics! Pin Paper Skygest, which serves posts about papers from accounts you're following: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest. By @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and @nkgarg.bsky.social
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
London Inequality Network (LIN) @londoninequality.bsky.social A network of London-based scholars interested in socio-economic inequality. Sign up and join our events: http://london-inequality-network.co.uk
Coordinated by @cmtneztt.bsky.social, @marcoranaldi.bsky.social, @zparolin.bsky.social and @yonatanberman.com
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
Julia Diniz @juliadelldiniz.bsky.social Economist at Resolution Foundation
PhD in labour economics from Cardiff Uni
Martin Meyer @m-meyer.bsky.social A psychology graduate student studying belief systems
EPPI Centre @eppicentre.bsky.social Based at University College London, we aim to produce, support, and promote the use of collaborative, rigorous evidence for a more just and equitable world
🔗 https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/
🌍 London, UK
Population Mental Health @popmhuk.bsky.social Creating new opportunities for population-based improvements in mental health across the UK, focusing on children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention and multiple long-term conditions. www.phiuk.org/population-mental-health
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Liz McKeown @lizmckeown.bsky.social Director, Economic Statistics at ONS. Former Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office. All views my own.
Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social He/They
Dissident. Pondering an anti-social model of disability?!?!
If I ever get the time and energy I like to compose odd music.
Otherwise - Ask me about my initialisms: GMCDP, MDPAC, RITB, CSMH, DBW, CSS, DPHRN.
Mainstream @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social The home for Labour’s radical realists - united by values, driven by change.
Join us to unlock the transformative potential of the Labour Party.
http://mainstreamlabour.org/
Håvard Aaslund @havaas.bsky.social Social worker, teaching and researching at OsloMet.
Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
Hannah Slaughter @hannahslaughter.bsky.social Principal economist at the Resolution Foundation, covering the labour market and living standards.
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Charlie McCurdy @charliemccurdy.bsky.social Economist @ resolution foundation covering jobs, demographic change and regional inequalities.
@jedmeers.bsky.social @jedmeers.bsky.social 
Changing Realities @changingrealities.bsky.social Participatory project involving parents and carers living on a low income across the UK, Working with researchers, artists and Child Poverty Action Group to improve lives. Thanks to Impact on Urban Health & Robertson Trust. linktr.ee/changingrealities
Vicky Foxcroft MP @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Lewisham North & Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DCMS.
Please send all enquiries to vicky.foxcroft.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/vickyfoxcroftmp
Scott Compton @scottcompton.bsky.social Senior policy advisor at Action for Children
Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social Consultant in Public Health. Recovering civil servant. Lapsed neuroscientist. Ex-paper boy and former donut stand operator. Ultracrepidarian. Elaborate food pipe. Denizen of West Yorkshire. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social Vice Dean and Professor at the IE School of Economics, Politics and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid (she/her)
www.catherinedevries.eu
Respect the Marble Substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
Richard Dorsett @rdorsett.bsky.social Professor of Economic Evaluation, University of Westminster
Economics - labour, education, crime.
Causal inference.
richarddorsett.com
Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social Professor of Economic Geography, UCL. Also CEP, IZA. Cities, economics, innovation, diversity, and public policy. Views here are mine, not those of UCL, funders, data providers, etc.
https://max-nathan.github.io
Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk Faith community grounded in stillness. We believe in working together to create a more just, equal and peaceful world.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ.
www.quaker.org.uk
Albert Toth @alb-toth.bsky.social Audience Reporter at The Independent | Welfare, housing, cost of living | Get in touch: albert.toth@independent.co.uk
https://www.justgiving.com/page/albert-toth
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/albert-toth
Becca Stacey @beccastacey.bsky.social Financial security and terminal illness @mariecurieuk.bsky.social | Social security and devolution @safety-nets.bsky.social | Views my own
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Sharon Wright @profsharonwright.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
More in Common UK @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social Visiting Fellow #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social #FamilyFinances @uofgussp.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Love strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social Social security law and its neighbours. Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/tom-royston/
AXSChat @axschat.bsky.social Podcast & social media chat focused on disability, accessibility, innovation & social good.
https://www.axschat.com/
Building bridges & creating inclusive communities online for the last decade.
Banner: Bridge with hands supporting - Aleks Barsukov
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Eduin Latimer @eduinlatimer.bsky.social Economist at Institute for Fiscal Studies, interested in low-paying labour market and the tax and benefit system. 
Debbie Abrahams MP @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth. Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Former NHS Trust Chair & PH academic. Tackling inequalities and fighting for fairness. 
Morgan Bestwick @morganbestwick.bsky.social 
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
rEUsilience @reusilience.bsky.social Researching families' resilience to socio-economic shocks to build improved welfare states.
Funded by EU's Horizon Europe project no 101060410 and Innovate UK
ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social Launched in 2020, the ESRC Centre at King's College London aims to transform understanding of how social, economic and cultural changes affect mental health.
UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
Ugo Gentilini @ugentilini.bsky.social Social protection evidence & practice; weekly newsletter: www.ugogentilini.net; new book: “Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People Money” https://academic.oup.com/book/58850.
socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org The posts and links shared do not necessarily reflect the views of http://socialprotection.org, but rather from their authors and organisations. Become a member!
Rasmus Schjødt @rasmusjs.bsky.social Programme Director at Research & Action for Income Security (RAISE). Interested in all things related to social protection. 
Clare McNeil @claremcneil.bsky.social Chief Executive, Timewise | Co-founder, Workwhile | Associate Fellow and former Associate Director, IPPR
the WelfareExperiences project @welfare-experience.bsky.social 
Social Policy Worldwide @spww.bsky.social 💡 A global forum for information, exchange, and public debate on social policy, inequalities, and social cohesion
📍 Based at @unibremen.bsky.social
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Rachel Statham @rachelstatham.bsky.social Policy advisor, toddler mum ☕️. Found in deepest whitehall or south wales.
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of Glasgow, Co-I & Leadership Group member @the Scottish Centre for Admin Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR UK. Formerly @Nuffield College, Oxford University. Social & health inequalities, labour market & welfare benefits.
Karen Rowlingson @karenrowlingson.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and Dean of Social Sciences, University of York, UK
Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com Philosopher (Birmingham/Ferrara). Founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden. Editor of Philosophical Psychology. More at: lisabortolotti.com
Heather Rolfe @heather-rolfe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes