Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
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/
David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social Mixing up a spot of bewigged law with some quality lounging, #pvfc, awkward puns and tireless pedantry.
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
folkjs @folkjs.org A research lab by @orionreed.com and @chrisshank.com exploring radically different directions that we can interface with the web.
Website: https://folkjs.org/
Github: https://github.com/folk-js
Sponsor our work: https://github.com/sponsors/folk-js
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social Historian, Professor, Munk School, Toronto, CA. Author "The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution"; "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism"; "Caviar and Ashes".
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.
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- A Alan Manning @alanmanning4.bsky.social Labour market economist at CEP and LSE. Personal views only
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/
Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social Mathematized philosophy of literature
peligrietzer.github.io
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Tim Leunig @timleunig.bsky.social Policy thoughts: http://timleunig.substack.com Chief Economist Nesta, Director Econ PublicFirst, Vis Prof LSE Sch Public Policy, Vis Fellow Inst for Govt
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
William Ellis @willellisecon.bsky.social Senior Economist at IPPR, focussing on the macro economy. Ex-HMT and Oxford Economics. Special interest in macro and AI/Automation. All views are my own.
Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.
CBI Economics @cbieconomics.bsky.social Posts from the economics directorate of the CBI. Follow us for updates and analysis on the UK economy, tax & fiscal policy, our business surveys, and consulting projects.
Martin Sartorius @martinsartorius.bsky.social Lead Economist at the CBI. Views are my own
Patrick Maguire @patrickmaguire.bsky.social Chief political commentator, The Times
Tony Onodi @tonyonodi.bsky.social Developer of numpad.io and meridianapp.co
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.
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
Camden Town Policing @ticklegrass-ward.bsky.social Automated posts from UK Police API • New incidents & outcome updates • Promoting local transparency • Not police-operated
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper, author - Beyond Brexit: A new deal for Britain, Ukraine and Europe.
(possibly a parody - who can even say)
Democracy Technologies @demtech.bsky.social Democracy Technologies is the first comprehensive online magazine offering news, background, evaluation and networking around – covering online participation in politics, e-voting and party technologies.
Powered by the Innovation in Politics Institute.
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
Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social Applied economist working in international development policy
🇹🇴🇸🇧🇻🇺🇫🇯🇦🇺🇲🇲 (etc),
Mostly memes.
Sometimes post about #publicpolicy, research, data science, #PFM and #Rstats
Economist | Independent Consultant
All views my own
Stephan Ewen @stephanewen.bsky.social Building distributed systems and data infra.
Previously co-creator of Apache Flink (https://flink.apache.org/),
now building Restate (https://restate.dev/) to make distributed apps more easily resilient and scalable.
Till Rohrmann @tillrohrmann.bsky.social Co-founder @restate.dev: Building resilient applications made easy! Apache Flink Committer and PMC member. Previously @ververica.com
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
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.
Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social Econ prof at Oxford.
Machine learning, politics, econometrics, inequality, random reading recs.
maxkasy.github.io/home/
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government
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
Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social CNRS researcher at ENS
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Sander Dieleman @sedielem.bsky.social Blog: https://sander.ai/
🐦: https://x.com/sedielem
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Imagen 3, Veo, ...). I tweet about deep learning (research + software), music, generative models (personal account).
Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com Math videos
Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social Zealous modeler. Annoying statistician. Reluctant geometer. Support my writing at http://patreon.com/betanalpha. He/him.
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Simon J.D. Prince @simonprinceai.bsky.social Author of "Understanding Deep Learning". http://udlbook.com
Valentin De Bortoli @vdebortoli.bsky.social messing up with gaussians
Arnaud Doucet @arnauddoucet.bsky.social Senior Staff Research Scientist @Google DeepMind
https://arnauddoucet.github.io/
Toby Ord @tobyord.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
tobyord.com
Johannes Brandstetter @jobrandstetter.bsky.social Co-Founder & Chief Scientist @ Emmi AI. Ass. Prof / Group Lead @jkulinz. Former MSFTResearch, UvA_Amsterdam, CERN, TU_Wien
Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social Mathematics professor at Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge.
Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social I don’t know man, I just don’t know.
Samuel Colvin @sa.muelcolvin.com Building Pydantic Logfire - uncomplicated observability for Python. Sequoia Scout.
Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social The premier research center for #ComplexSystems #science.
santafe.edu
linktr.ee/sfiscience
Experimental History @exp-history.blogsky.venki.dev 1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday.
Automated feed of https://www.experimental-history.com/, discover more at @blogsky.venki.dev
Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social Philosopher, writer.
Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org Computational neuroscientist at Imperial College. I like spikes and making science better (Neuromatch, Brian spiking neural network simulator, SNUFA annual workshop on spiking neurons).
🧪 https://neural-reckoning.org/
📷 https://adobe.ly/3On5B29
Martin Stanley @ukcivilservant.bsky.social I write about, and for, the UK civil service and regulators. Author 'How to be a Civil Servant' and 'How to Succeed in the Senior Civil Service'. Previously Business Department and CMA.
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social Machine learning
Google DeepMind
Paris
Re:State @re-state.bsky.social Formerly Reform think tank. Re:State is an independent, cross-party public services think tank. We don’t want to tweak, we want to transform.
Leland McInnes @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social A Mathematician dabbling in Data Science, especially unsupervised learning and data exploration. UMAP, HDBSCAN, PyNNDescent, DataMapPlot. (He/Him)
ICLR Conference @iclr-conf.bsky.social International Conference on Learning Representations https://iclr.cc/
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk ai@cam is Cambridge University's flagship mission to develop AI for the benefit of science, citizens, and society.
🔗 www.ai.cam.ac.uk
Iolo Jones @iolo-jones.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in geometry / geometric data analysis and ML
at Oxford
www.iolojones.co.uk- L Laurence Aitchison @laurenceai.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Bristol.
probabilistic ML, optimisation, interpretability, LLM evals.
Zico Kolter @zicokolter.bsky.social Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. Board member OpenAI. Chief Technical Advisor Gray Swan AI. Chief Expert Bosch Research.
Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social Research Scientist at DeepMind. Opinions my own. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org . Founding chairman of www.publichealthactionnetwork.org
Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar.bsky.social Distinguished Scientist at Google. Computational Imaging, Machine Learning, and Vision. Posts are personal opinions. May change or disappear over time.
http://milanfar.org
Taco Cohen @taco-cohen.bsky.social Deep learner at FAIR. Into codegen, RL, equivariance, generative models. Spent time at Qualcomm, Scyfer (acquired), UvA, Deepmind, OpenAI.
Kevin Murphy @sirbayes.bsky.social Probabilistic ML researcher at Google Deepmind
David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social Machine learning prof at U Toronto. Working on evals and AGI governance.
Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social Lecturer in Maths & Stats at Bristol. Interested in probabilistic + numerical computation, statistical modelling + inference. (he / him).
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/sp-monte-carlo
Seminar: https://sites.google.com/view/monte-carlo-semina
Arno Solin @arnosolin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Machine Learning, Aalto University. ELLIS Scholar.
http://arno.solin.fi
Andreas Krause @arkrause.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich
Martin Trapp @trappmartin.eurosky.social Assistant Prof in Prob ML @ KTH 🇸🇪
WASP Fellow & ELLIS Member
Ex: Aalto Uni 🇫🇮, TU Graz 🇦🇹, originally 🇩🇪.
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https://trappmartin.github.io/
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Reliable ML | UQ | Bayesian DL | tractability & PCs
Neil Lawrence @lawrennd.bsky.social Professor of Machine Learning, University of Cambridge, academic lead of ai@cam, Accelerate Science, author of The Atomic Human, proceedings editor for PMLR.
Marc Deisenroth @deisenroth.bsky.social Machine learning, environmental modeling, sustainability, robotics
Research Director @ Google DeepMind, Professor @ UCL
He/him
Philipp Hennig @philipphennig.bsky.social Professor for AI/ML Methods in Tübingen. Posts about Probabilistic Numerics, Bayesian ML, AI for Science. Computations are data, Algorithms make assumptions.
Mathieu Blondel @mblondel.bsky.social Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Durk Kingma @dpkingma.bsky.social Research scientist at Anthropic. Prev. Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD. Website: dpkingma.com
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Jakob Foerster @jfoerst.bsky.social Jakob 
Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
@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]
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social Australian philosopher. Emeritus Bertrand Russell Professor & Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. Early roles in @cser.bsky.social and
@cfi-cambridge.bsky.social. More: prce.hu/w
Magnus Rattray @mrattray.bsky.social Professor of Computational & Systems Biology at University of Manchester. Applies machine learning and modelling to help understand the complexity of biology. idsai.manchester.ac.uk, https://www.ellismcr.org, @official-uom.bsky.social
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social Professor in computational Bayesian modeling, Aalto University, Finland. Co-author of Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd ed, Regression and Other Stories, Active Statistics and Bayesian Workflow. #mcmc_stan and #arviz developer.
https://users.aalto.fi/ave/
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford