Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Tom Barrett @plannertomb.bsky.social Town Planner what does policy stuff. Based in Northern England.
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Jimmy Reid Foundation @reidfoundation.bsky.social Scottish think tank founded in memory of trade unionist Jimmy Reid, to continue his legacy of radical political thinking and action. His words still echo.
neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social Writer and researcher based in Glasgow. Urban theory and politics, housing, miscellania. 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy' (forthcoming, 2026). https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-over-the-city
@drkirsteen.bsky.social @drkirsteen.bsky.social 
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK's leading research centre on constitutional change, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more.
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EU Court of Justice @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social Official account of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Please see our social media policy here: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/P_91153/
Isla Kinnear @islakinnear.bsky.social Final year Economic History PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow researching community participation and benefit in energy projects.
Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities @uos-sisc.bsky.social Research exploring pathways to a fair and sustainable future, where communities are represented, empowered and enriched.
www.strath.ac.uk/business/huntercentreforentrepreneurship/sisc/
South of Scotland Community Housing @soscommhousing.bsky.social 
Gavin Newsom @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Husband and father. 40th Governor of California. Former Lt. Governor of California. Former San Francisco Mayor. Personal account.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Abundance @abundance-org.bsky.social We are an action-research organisation developing bold public-common strategies that shift power, democratise the economy, and realise a just socio-ecological transition.
www.in-abundance.org
Chris Dalglish @cdalglish.bsky.social Community led housing and development. Partnership & Learning Manager, South of Scotland Community Housing (https://sosch.org). Trustee, European Community Land Trust Network (www.clteurope.org)
Rum Deer Research @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social Research findings and news from a long-term study of Red Deer on the Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve, Scotland. https://rumdeer.bio.ed.ac.uk/ #isleofrum #deer #reddeer #cervuselaphus #science #reddeerresearch 
Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Sharing the stories of Scotland and beyond, past, present and future. Home to TRACS with Scottish Storytelling Forum & Traditional Music Forum.
https://linktr.ee/scottishstorytellingcentre
@bwce.bsky.social @bwce.bsky.social 
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
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.
Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Alex in Portland @nydahl.bsky.social Risky biz
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Democrat. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.
Ailean Beaton @aileanbeaton.bsky.social Journalist | Neach-naidheachd @ BBC.
Glasgow/Skye
Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Municipal Enquiry @municipal-enquiry.bsky.social Supporting democratic forms of community development & new municipalism
Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Calum MacLeod @calummacleod.bsky.social Hebridean. Sustainable Development Consultant. MG ALBA Board Member. http://calummacleod.info
SRUC Rural Policy Centre @srucruralpolicy.bsky.social We examine impacts of policies on rural economies and communities, and provide knowledge for future policy development.
https://www.sruc.ac.uk/research/research-impact/rural-policy-centre/
www.ruralexchange.scot
Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Can also be found:
Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros
📸 pixelfed.social/respros
🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social Education, research and consulting at the heart of our natural economy- with campuses and facilities across Scotland. Follow for the latest news, research and updates. 🌱
Mairi Gougeon @mairigougeon.bsky.social 
Kirsty Tait @kirstymtait.bsky.social Director for Scotland - Food Farming and Countryside Commission https://ffcc.co.uk/ finding the balance *human rights* land rights *nature rights. Writer/Photographer/Filmmaker Weeflee Productions
Deb Roberts @debroberts.bsky.social Rural Economist. Deputy CEO & Director of Science, James Hutton Institute. Scottish Land Commissioner. Views my own. She/her
The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk World-leading scientific organisation encompassing a distinctive range of integrated strengths in land, crop, water, environmental and socio-economic science.
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
Arlington Baths Club @arlingtonbaths.co.uk Health, history and heritage combined in Europe's oldest swimming club. Run by members for members since 1870. A welcoming sanctuary in the heart of Glasgow.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
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Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com Nonprofit, independent newsroom telling stories that matter for a dynamic, evolving state.
News: https://coloradosun.com
Support: https://coloradosun.com/support
Newsletters: https://coloradosun.com/newsletters
Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social News we need. Join us at http://capitalbnews.org. Local newsrooms in Gary and Atlanta:
@capitalbgary.bsky.social & @capitalbatl.bsky.social
High Country News @highcountrynews.org Independent journalism dedicated to shining a light on all the complexities of the Western U.S since 1970.
https://bit.ly/HCNLinks
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
The Isle of Rùm @isleofrum.bsky.social The largest of the Small Isles.
Wildlife, community ownership, dark skies, and our own breed of pony.
40 odd people trying really hard.
Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social Campaigning to unlock access to nature in England & Wales. 🥾🌿🔓
get in touch: hello@righttoroam.org.uk
find out more: righttoroam.org.uk
Craig McLaren @craigmclaren.bsky.social I’m Scotland’s National Planning Improvement Champion, based in the Improvement Service. Planning, placemaking, public service reform and, occasionally, punk rock.
Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️
Satwat Rehman @satwatr.bsky.social Chief Executive of One Parent Families Scotland. Co-chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission (Posting here in a personal capacity.
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
Dan Brockington @danbrockington.bsky.social ICREA Research Professor at ICTA-UAB. Posts on Open Science; Political Ecology; Data Justice; Conservation; Children's Fiction. More at www.danbrockington.com and www.samtiand.com
POLLEN - Political Ecology Network @pollenetwork.bsky.social A political ecology network that unites multiple voices in environmental justice and resource struggles.
🔗 https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/
Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures |
Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landscapes
Madeleine Fairbairn @landstuff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSC. Author of: "Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush" (2020, Cornell University Press). Sociology of agriculture, land justice, agri-food tech, financialization. 
Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social kentuckian in ATL, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, etc. etc.
Levi Van Sant @levivansant.bsky.social Geography, property, environmental justice, and all things Georgia/Virginia/US South
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Planning Democracy @plandemoc.bsky.social We're a Scotland based, grassroots organisation campaigning for a fairer planning system that works for both people and planet.
https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk
Graeme Beale @midfyffe.bsky.social Works in @RESAS in the Scottish Government. Head of the Strategic Research Programme - Rural/Environment. Quaker. Writer of sub-par cat poems and other things.
Community Ownership Support Service (COSS) @communityownership.bsky.social Delivering Scotland-wide, the Community Ownership Support Service supports communities and public bodies in the sustainable transfer of assets into community ownership.
coss@dtascot.org.uk - www.dtascommunityownership.org.uk
Angus Hardie @angushardie.bsky.social Retired. Would like Scotland to have more community ownership, some truly radical land reform and local democracy worthy of the name.
Naomi Mason @naomimason.bsky.social Passionate about economic transformation for people & planet.
Lover of books & yoga.
The views I express are mine & may not reflect the views of my employer
Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social I like complicated conversations about rewilding, housing, localism and sustainable transport. Fuelled by rage about the nature crisis. Sustained by all the people doing something about it.
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
Chair and trustee of South Seeds (charity)
Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social Human ecologist and Quaker, I share on social justice, environment, land reform, nonviolence and spirituality. Books include Soil and Soul, Poacher's Pilgrimage & Riders on the Storm. Honorary prof Glasgow Uni.
Hebrides and Govan.
www.AlastairMcIntosh.com
Hanna Wheatley @hannawheatley.bsky.social Senior Economist at Future Economy Scotland
@futureeconscot.bsky.social
James MacKessack-Leitch @jamesmackl.bsky.social Policy & Practice Lead at the Scottish Land Commission - land rights, law, philosophy, and governance. Farmers loon and foodie!
linkedin.com/in/james-mackessack-leitch/
Karen Adam MSP @karenadamsnp.bsky.social Scottish Independence activist. SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for Banffshire and Buchan Coast. Convener of the Scottish Human Rights Committee. Columnist for The National newspaper.
Community Land Scotland @communitylandsc.bsky.social A collective voice for community landowners throughout Scotland, representing and supporting land reform through community land ownership
System Crash @handle.invalid A tech news podcast to help you sort through the wreckage.
Hosted by @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social. Music by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. Production by @ericwickham.ca.
Michael Russell @feorlean.bsky.social Argyll, Scotland. Writes, takes pictures . Used to do more. Chair, Scottish Land Commission from 02/24. Hon Professor , Glasgow University. President SNP 2020 - 2023. Former MSP for Argyll & Bute and Minister/ Cabinet Secretary in Scottish Government
Josh Einsle @jeinsle.bsky.social #Minerals
#Microstructre
#MachineLearning
some times #Magnetism
also surfing, climbing, and some dog content
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social Prof of Human Geography, FAcSS, University College London, UK
PI: ERC Adv Grant https://www.regionalfutures.org
Researching #digitalisation #urbanisation #futures #globalsouth
Editor: urbangeography.bsky.social
Web: https://ayonadatta.com
MichaelLondonSF @michaellondonsf.bsky.social semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk
I don't follow people with empty bios.
Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Urban Studies
Cities, Affordable/Fair Housing, Urban Policy, Urban Political Economy, Community Development
DET-> CHI->ATL->CHI and a few others in between
Opinions my own.
Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social Lecturer Geography // political ecology, green transition // From the Bog to the Cloud. Dependency and Eco-modernity in Ireland (2025)
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity.
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social Env + insurgent planning & human geography, urban social + env justice, radical spatial politics, abolitionist planning. Co-producer of @radioreversal.bsky.social, co-convenor Brisbane Free University. White settler on unceded Jagera & Turrbal Country
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Environment and Planning D: Society & Space @societyandspace.bsky.social We publish articles, essays, interviews, forums, and book reviews that examine social struggles over access to and control of space, place, territory, region, and resources.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EPD/current
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd
Leslie Kern @lellyk.bsky.social Author of Feminist City and Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies
Rowland Atkinson @qurbanist.bsky.social Chair in Inclusive Societies, University of Sheffield
Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Julie Ren @julieren.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam and University of Basel. Book Forum Editor, Urban Geography. SNSF Starting Grant research about aspirational urbanism (2025-2029)
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/