Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social Law Assoc/Prof @AdelaideUni. Judicial Studies/Courts/JusticeTech/Pseudolaw/Dad Jokes
Ross McKay @rossmc11.bsky.social Number of rodeos > 1. Temporarily Manx.
Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social Academic law person at King’s College London. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also medical ethics. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Simon Bowland @simonbowland.bsky.social Award-winning letterer on 2000AD • HEAVY METAL • STUFF OF NIGHTMARES
Previous: BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT • ARCADIA • BAT-MAN: SECOND KNIGHT • THE HAB • SALVATION'S CHILD & more!
AVAILABLE FOR WORK • contact simon@simonbowland.co.uk
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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Public Law, Cambridge. Fellow, Jesus College. Co-Director, Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law. Co-Carer of twins, a blind dog, and a one-toothed cat.
Non-human rights, democratic resilience, constituent power.
Alice Aforethought @aliceaforethought.bsky.social Dragademic alter ego of James Greenwood-Reeves. Never passed the Bar, but often found near one.
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/2132/dr-james-greenwood-reeves
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/study/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
Nathan J @nathanmj.bsky.social Socialist | North Tynesider | Bi | Early Years/Primary Teaching Assistant | OU Criminology/Childhood Studies Student | Chelsea Fan | Football Shirt Collector | 🏴🇵🇸🏳️🌈🎗️
Bylines articles: https://northeastbylines.co.uk/author/nathanjohnston/
ICON•S @icon-s.bsky.social The International Society of Public Law
Jonathan Duffy @sixjbd.bsky.social Barrister
(exclusively criminal defence)
Liverpool
eXiteer
www.7hs.co.uk/personnel/jonathan-duffy/
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
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Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social The antidote to current affairs, sharing the sillier side of the news.
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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social Professor of UK Human Rights Law, UEA: public order/protest/policing/free speech/human rights
Poor but inveterate punster.Converse collector. Law, politics, Derby County, & music
Man of Sussex in exile…still fighting the forced East/West partition of ‘72
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
Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social Athro Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru
Ailsa Henderson @ailsahenderson.bsky.social PoliSci Prof at Edinburgh - run Scottish Election Study, co-run Union survey/Future of England survey
Voting, polling, attitudes to the union
@scotvoting.bsky.social @theunionsurvey.bsky.social
John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com
Stephen Briggs @stephenbriggs.bsky.social Mapper of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Co-author, with him, of a range of titles. Published playwright. Amdram in my spare time. Slowly transitioning from Twitter/X (tho followers seem keen to stay here!)
Association for Citizenship Teaching @acitizenshipt.bsky.social The Association for Citizenship Teaching is the subject association promoting excellence in Citizenship education.
https://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/
Andy Fanton @yourpalfanton.bsky.social Writer and cartoonist, worked with the Beano, Dandy, Viz, Private Eye and BBC Radio. See fanton.co.uk
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Public Law Publications @publiclawpubs.bsky.social A collection of recent publications on UK public and administrative law
Steve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social Award-winning children’s book #illustrator & #animation director - agent https://www.arenaillustration.com/artists/steve-may/
https://linktr.ee/stevemaythe1st
guitar botherer in Cult Figures https://bsky.app/profile/cultfigures.bsky.social
Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social Labour MP for Tipton, Wednesbury and Coseley. Member of the Business and Trade select committee. Proudly repping British industry and the Black Country. Trade unionist, mama, runner, reader
QTs closed, replies open
Constitutional Studies @constlstudies.bsky.social Open access, multilingual journal on the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world | Published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law | constitutionalstudies.org
Yvonne Evans @yvonneevans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Dundee interested in tax law, Scots trusts and succession and legal education.
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Gerard Loughlin @gerardpatrick.bsky.social
Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social A Thomson Reuters journal publishing research on public law: https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/en-gb/products/public-law. This account is maintained by the editors: public.law@durham.ac.uk
Shamira A. Meghani @drmeghani.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Dept of English Studies, Durham University
~ postcolonial, anti-colonial & diaspora, queer, trans & feminist, lit & film ~
Vegan (since 2001!); as low-carbon as I can; often angry, ever hopeful. non-binary (they/them)
Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social Faculty & Research Fellow @ Stanford University Center for Human Rights & International Justice + Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab. Views mine.
Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social #Labour4PR Official Bluesky of:
🌹 Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform (LCER)
🔗 http://labourforelectoralreform.org.uk
✊ Labour for a New Democracy (L4ND)
🔗 https://www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk
Sarah C. Jones @sarahcjones.bsky.social seeker of truth | fan of the Constitution | proponent of community | writer, editor, PageSmythe | aspiring dragon slayer | inclined 2be hopeful | progressive | Episcopalian | fascinated by politics | fond of chickens & cats https://sarahcjones.substack.com
Gavin Phillipson @prof-phillipson.bsky.social Law Professor, Bristol University, all opinions own: free speech, public protest, privacy, ECHR, counter-terror law; platform regulation; UK constitution
Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social Political theory PhD student working on all things Rule of Law. Based in Vienna at CEU (@weareceu.bsky.social)
Website: https://www.matthewhajimichael.com/home
Institutional Page: https://dsps.ceu.edu/people/matthew-haji-michael
@strikedawgs.bsky.social @strikedawgs.bsky.social Extremely good dogs. Dedicated comrades. No fusses like picket fusses. WOOF.
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com Writer. Comics include Bananaman for the Beano and various for 2000 AD. Books include Create Your Own Comics, Peaches’ Creatures, Science of Marvel Superheroes & Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things.
Pic by Wayne Thompson.
Website: www.nedhartley.com
Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social Academic and lawyer ⏳
Jyrose @jyrose.bsky.social Actual human. Potter. Awkward. Artistic. Doing my best to be decent. She/her. Oh, and ttrpgs, I like those.
Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
Made my West End debut as a duck-billed platypus
Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social - H Henry Midgley @henrymidgley.bsky.social Ex NAO now at Durham University interested in public sector financial accountability and other related things! Author Holding Government to Account: Democracy and the National Audit Office
Utrecht Law Review @utrechtlawreview.bsky.social The Utrecht Law Review is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which aims to offer an international academic platform for multidimensional legal research. https://utrechtlawreview.org/
LPLU (Liverpool Public Law Unit) @lplu.bsky.social The Liverpool Public Law Unit (LPLU) draws together wide-ranging expertise in public law, in and between global, European, and UK contexts.
Steering Committee: Michael Gordon, Stephanie Reynolds, Andrew Woodhouse
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Maria Kotsoni @mariakotsoni.bsky.social Legal scholar, Post-doc at Princeton | PhD from EUI_Law | Consultant at European Social Charter | Writes about social rights and constitutional law
Anmol Jain @anmoljain-law.bsky.social Lawyer 🇮🇳. Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School. Advisory Board @Verfassungsblog. In past: Fox International Fellow 2023-24 @UniMelb; LLM @Yale Law School 2022-23.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Anna Jobe @annajobe.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, Newcastle Law School; researching discursive constructions of religious symbols & their regulation; passionate about hot beverages, snuggly blanket-scarves, teaching law and widening participation.
Victoria Lee (née Anns) @victoria-j-lee.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
Focused on young people, disability benefits and Universal Credit fraud reviews.
Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social Work on economic strategy in South Yorkshire | Associate @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk | Raising money for MS at
https://www.justgiving.com/page/not-being-funny
Libro.fm @libro.fm 🎧 The audiobook company that shares profits with independent bookshops
💗 Certified B Corp
🔗 Shop, sign up, find bookshops, & more: www.libro.fm
James Milton @jamesamilton.bsky.social Lecturer at University of York / jurisprudence & public law / WHU ⚒️
"Unusual but not unpleasant"
https://www.york.ac.uk/law/people/james-milton/
Citizens Advice @citizensadvice.bsky.social We are Citizens Advice - the people's champion.
If you need advice, visit our website: citizensadvice.org.uk
Tess Thompson @tessthompsonca.bsky.social Consumer policy @citizensadvice.bsky.social - views my own - she/her
Barend van Leeuwen @barendvanleeuwen.bsky.social Professor of European Union Law at Durham University.
Claire Webster @clairetheqsw.bsky.social Practice Development Consultant @SCIE. MCA geek. Supporting organisations improve outcomes for people drawing on care & support. Work: Autism, Learning Disabilities, MHA & reform, MCA, Safeguarding, Co-Production, Integration
www.scie.org.uk
Views my own.
Emma Cave @emmacave.bsky.social Professor of Healthcare Law, Durham University.
Core member of Health & Social Care Committee Expert Panel.
Member of BMA Medical Ethics Committee.
Expert on informed consent, medical treatment of children and young people and emerging biotechnologies.
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Neal Hockley @nealhockley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics & Policy | land, forests, conservation, equity, Madagasikara, Cymru. Climber, runner. "Trech gwlad nag arglwydd". https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/natural-sciences/neal-hockley-011884/en
The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy @collectivewlp.bsky.social Connecting Womxn
Contributing to Knowledge
https://collectivewlp.wixsite.com/home
Footprint Workers Co-Op @footprintcoop.bsky.social Riso happy radical print co op from Leeds serving the DIY print community since 1997
www.footprinters.co.uk
Footprint@footprinters.co.uk
@footprintworkerscoop
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Ed Bates @edbatesechr.bsky.social Academic interested in human rights, esp the ECHR - christian - (Norwich City fan) - writing in personal capacity. RTs not endorsement.
European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int The European Court of Human Rights is an international court set up in 1959. It rules on individual or State applications alleging violations of the civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.
www.echr.coe.int
Karina Patrício @kpatricio.bsky.social Assistant Professor @lawatleeds.bsky.social • JIEL Editorial Board member • SIEL-Hart and John Jackson Prizes • LPE, global governance and the law of money, finance and sovereign debt
📍London/Yorkshire, UK
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
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
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Oxford JDG @oxfordjdg.bsky.social Since 1997 a lively forum for presenting original work in legal theory at Oxford, Law Faculty.
Convened by Pía Chible, Filipa Paes and Angelo Ryu.
Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights @fau.de & UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
missing persons, border violence, memory laws
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
Dr Woodbury-Smith @kwhyphens.bsky.social Visiting Scholar @ Dept of Philosophy, YorkU, Toronto
Founding Exec. Member, @collectivewlp.bsky.social
Founded @dulegalphil.bsky.social
Fiona Costello @fionacostello.bsky.social ☘️ Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham.
Migration/ EU / Brexit researcher
Fellow @ St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social Leading London law firm renowned for fighting for what's right and providing top-tier personal legal services.
Tel: 0330 822 5788
https://www.hja.net/
The Independent @the-independent.com News, comment and features from The Independent, the world's most free-thinking newspaper.
ECHR Law Review @echr-law-review.bsky.social This is an official account of the ECHR Law Review. Our editors are Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (@dzehtsiarou.bsky.social) and Vassilis Tzevelekos. We are published by BRILL
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Sophie Barrett-Brown @sophiebarrettbrown.bsky.social Senior Partner & Head of UK Practice @ Laura Devine Immigration
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Mariann Sullivan @marisul.bsky.social Co-host of Our Hen House podcast and host of Animal Law Podcast. Lawyer, teacher, animal lover.
Nick McLean @nicholasmclean.bsky.social Assistant professor of law @ William S. Richardson School of Law | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎
Gordon @gordon.bsky.social Everything around me was someone’s lifework.
Ben Warwick @btcwarwick.bsky.social Reader in Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School. Research on #HumanRights law; especially economic and social rights & institutions.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/warwick-ben