Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social FT investigations. Previously defence & security editor, political and home affairs correspondent. Get in touch: helen.warrell@ft.com
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet. Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad.
Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com Medieval Latinist · Postdoc in the History of Maths, Logic and Philosophy, working on Cardano, the impossible and the medievals: https://i2erc.wordpress.com
Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify, BBC
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviours from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks. Join now: https://account.yougov.com
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Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social Author The Great University Gamble.
University funding & financing.
But also chess, shogi and tai chi.
andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social The official Bluesky thinking page of the Icelandic Cricket Association. Birthplace of cricket (911 CE). Merchandise: https://s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Website: krikket.is
UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Here until Downing Street setup an official account. I also run @royalfamilyuk.bsky.social.
Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social Classic cinema, music and television — from Hollywood and beyond — with flashes forward in between.
Curated by David (@dav1drush.bsky.social).
Twitter/X: @TheOldHollywood
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
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The Nitrate Diva @nitratediva.bsky.social Classic movies. Vintage pop culture. Cats.
Elspeth Van Veeren @evanveeren.bsky.social Associate Prof in Global Politics, Bristol (US security cultures, secrecy studies, visual politics)
Co-ordinating @researchspin.bsky.social Secrecy, Power and Ignorance research Network www.secrecyresearch.com
Owner of a moody teenager and a dog.
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social Exeter branch for the UCU. #DefendExeterUni. https://linktr.ee/DefendExeterUni
Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA
Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP);
on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP)
Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening
Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism
www.nomiclairelazar.com
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Human Rights; Terrorism; AI; Pop Culture;
'"An aging, angry woman, laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
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Lydia Mizon @lydiamizon.bsky.social QI Elf. Writer and researcher. Always seeing you do cool stuff.
Deborah Friedell @deborahfriedell.bsky.social
Cory Hazlehurst @coryhazlehurst.bsky.social
Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Simplifying public health with data-driven insights
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becca @boodleoops.bsky.social Underneath that dress, her heart was really made of stone
Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social Tech investor ▫️Ex diplomat, econ & nat sec official, Fortune 100 tech VP▫️“Top” NYT▫️“Leading”Spiegel▫️“Senior” BBC▫️“Valued” FT▫️“Persona non grata” V Putin
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
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Tijana Okić @yutopiaba.bsky.social Sarajevan by birth, internationalist by conviction التهافت |
Marksistkinja meka srca i čvrstih uvjerenja.
“De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace . . . . "
Stephanie @stephanieoffer.bsky.social Researching links between the Church of England in Croydon &the slave trade
Have ME, FM &mental health problems. Christian
Also into knitting, gardening #TheArchers
She/her
Formerly known as foggyknitter
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.- S @stockfttp.bsky.social @stockfttp.bsky.social Energy, Transition, Maritime & occasional Politics.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Helen Bailey @blackbirdsing.bsky.social Still pondering
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social Global Historian of early modern Europe. PI UKRI FLF “Migration, Adaptation, Innovation, 1500-1800”. East India Companies, Capitalism, Global Trade, Enlightenment, Political Economy. Trying to be a half decent human being. Sometimes. Starting tomorrow.
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Adam S. Rust @asrust.bsky.social Lawyer, writes on law things, writings have appeared in Liberal Currents and Balls & Strikes, based in the SF Bay Area.
Ian Stewart @stewartian.bsky.social I wrote a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222516/the-celts?srsltid=AfmBOorQvQJyyJARlZquwqfL1UdsDYDrOFbYrbzGJbAcMxEvaZZkl5CV
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Elizabeth Cooper @elizabethcooper.bsky.social Housing Policy Analyst @ The Fiscal Policy Institute. North Jersey DSA Turbowonk. Interested in social (re) production and (in) formal institutions. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social Bowdoin College professor of political science; affiliated with UCL's Centre on US Politics and UVa's Miller Center. Feed includes posts on presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and carping about Boston sports and European football
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Kenneth Novis @saditious.bsky.social Philosophy DPhil (PhD) @PhilFacOx | Researching Spinoza, Bayle, and early modern atheism | Post-Kantian Philosophy and Critical Theory | 27 | he/him
https://linktr.ee/saditious
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Hugo Drochon @hdrochon.bsky.social Political Theorist @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (Princeton 2026)
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social
Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social Associate professor of economics, John Jay College-CUNY; senior fellow, Groundwork Collaborative. Writing at jwmason.org. Study economics with me: https://johnjayeconomics.org. Anti-war Keynesian, liberal socialist, Brooklyn dad. From the river to the sea.
Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
Chris Meckstroth @chrismeckstroth.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of History, University of Cambridge. Writer on the history of democracy. Hailing from Normal, Illinois
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social Senior researcher & journalist. @splcunion.bsky.social. Former internet person at @thebaffler.com. hannahgais@proton.me Signal: 334-315-8634 http://seedisclaimer.com. Newsletter: https://postsfromunderground.ghost.io/
Georgios Varouxakis @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social Editor at large for Commonweal magazine; writing at https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/users/mollie-wilson-oreilly-0 and sometimes other places, too. Currently making rooting for the NY Liberty my whole personality. She/her.
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social Prof @TuftsPoliSci. Post-communism, nationalism, identity, citizenship, memory, religion. 2024 book: 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 : Entangled Histories, Diverging States. https://tinyurl.com/5y8nvemb
Arthur Ghins @arthurghins.bsky.social Historian of political thought @ulbruxelles.bsky.social.
"The People's Two Powers" out with CUP.
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social The Barbara Woodhouse of llamas. Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Tim Edmunds @edmundsprof.bsky.social Prof of International Security and Head of School, Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol. Co-Director, SafeSeas. Working on maritime security and ocean governance.
Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Editor at large, The Bulwark.
Director, Defending Democracy Together.
Host, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
Never Trump.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Marie Tidball @marietidball.bsky.social Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. Mum. Disability Activist. Jo Cox Women in Leadership. Yorkshirewoman.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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:
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Jennie Ikuta @jennieci.bsky.social assoc prof of political theory • moral psychology & democracy • 📚: ‘contesting conformity’ (oxford UP) • views my own, not my employer’s • reposts ≠ endorsements •
Lila O'Leary Chambers @lilachambers.bsky.social Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Editorial Board @insurrecthistory.bsky.social
Sean Irving @seanirving.bsky.social Popular Power, Institutional Political Economy, Organization and Governance https://essex.academia.edu/SeanIrving
Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
https://press.princeton.edu/our-people/rebecca-brennan
darold cuba @daroldcuba.bsky.social #LandedBlackness as #PostEmancipationMarronage at @CamHistory.bsky.social
#HarvestAsMarronage in Routledge’s The Many Ways To Think About Harvest https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003699248-8/harvest-marronage-darold-cuba
Cambridge World History @camworldhistory.bsky.social #WorldHistory at @Cam.ac.uk’s @CamHistory.bsky.social. All about our diverse subject group, our renowned MPhil, and all things global 🌎🌍🌏 #CamWorldHistory
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).
Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social Blog: IrishPhilosophy.com
Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Jason Miklian @jasonmiklian.com Research Professor, University of Oslo.
Business & Peace | ESG | Climate & Conflict
Book: The Vortex amzn.to/40lzIeW
Book: CRISIS - a Case Primer https://a.co/d/0PeXI7P
Gav Jacobson @gavjacobson.bsky.social Founding editor, equator.org
Stephen H. Jones @stphnhwrdjns.bsky.social Social scientist. Writes about religion and prejudice, society and politics. Teaches sociology and criminology. Rides bikes.
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Robin @robinbunce.bsky.social Some New Romantic searching for the TV sound.
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
Subscribe here: https://renewal.org.uk/
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC