Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313
Home town, Llanelli (South Wales) - lives in the wonderful Peak District
Website: billmcguire.co.uk
Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social That environmental writer. Editor of The New Climate medium.com/the-new-climate. Author of The Last Drop https://a.co/d/i5grqa9 & Clearing the Air https://a.co/d/6AynmFZ. Climate columnist for @prospectmagazine.co.uk https://shorturl.at/eCU5h.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social Still raging about the abject moral abomination of Brexitism.
Nick Beales @nickbeales.bsky.social Head of Campaigning at Refugee and Migrant Justice
Views own (or nabbed from others)
Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I cover democracy, campaigning, and Britain's media.
Followers can reply to posts (ask to DM me). Open to news tips.
'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson.
Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Apparently I can "f*** right off". Qué arte tienes.
Relationships Project @rshipsproject.bsky.social We believe everything works better when relationships work well. That's why it's our mission to help spread and embed relationship-centred practice across our systems, organisations and communities. www.relationshipsproject.org
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Peter Matejic @statspeter.bsky.social Chief Analyst, Insights and Analysis, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation working to solve UK Poverty
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Queen's University Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Official account of Queen's University Belfast.
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ExChange Wales @exchangewales.bsky.social An all-Wales network that brings together workers, researchers & those who use services to share experiences and expertise & learn from one another.
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CASCADE @cascaderesearch.bsky.social Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) based at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
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Kinship Works @kinship.works We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
AshfromEnfield @ashfromenfield.bsky.social A Lyrical Badman. Animal Lover…Music & Movies..Foodie 💙NHS .. I ❤️Dogs & Cats. Wildlife/Nature Lover Despise #ManUnkind. Elvis is the King. #COYS Fan. #PTSD. Ska/Reggae/Hip Hop/George Michael/Amy Winehouse .. It’s a London Ting and we are ALL ANTIFA 👍🏽👊🏼😎
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
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*Absolute Shower
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social Sharing the wonders of flowers and nature, gardening, plant history, folklore, art, and poetry. Bedfordshire photographer for the National Garden Scheme charity. #SolaceInNature #DailyBotanicalBeauty
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh 
Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social An academic in critical university studies, exploring authorship, representation & transformation against oppression.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
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Blue Cabin @bluecabin.bsky.social Blue Cabin helps care-experienced children build better, stronger relationships through artist-led creativity.
Dr Debra Kidd @debrakidd.bsky.social Teacher, doctor, author, Leader of Learning and Teaching at the British School of Brussels.
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com I write about tech + humans + philosophy
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Matthew Gibson @matthewgibson79.bsky.social Associate professor in social work; shame and emotions researcher; grounded in the humane project for the profession
JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social Community Worker, Tomato Grower, and Ageing Hippy/Biker. Yesterday's centrist Dad, today's angry young man. Also @jonglue.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy - follow @ap.brid.gy and interact🌱
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
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New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Active in research relating to children in care, care leavers and care experienced adults. 
The Relational Social Work Podcast @relationalsw.bsky.social The Relational Social Work Podcast is available on all major podcast platforms and aimed at social workers and others who work in the children and families social work sector, focussing on the importance of relationships in social work.
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Sharon Inglis @shazzipants.bsky.social Director of Circles Training & Consultancy Ltd. Working with families, communities and organisations to support the implementation of restorative and relational approaches, including family group conferences.
Carolyne Willow @carolynewillow.bsky.social Family and Public Law Barrister. Honorary Doctor of Laws (2024) and longtime children’s rights advocate. My own views here, obvs.
@profbethneil.bsky.social @profbethneil.bsky.social 
King's Political Theory Research Group @kingspoltheory.bsky.social News from the Political Theory Group in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/political-theory-research-group-dpe
@ellalottie.bsky.social @ellalottie.bsky.social Social Worker in Children’s Services/Service Manager/BA Hons Social work/ BA Joint Hons Early Childhood Studies with Psychology
Judith Vickress @judev.bsky.social Specialist domestic abuse & VAWG consultant & trainer. Creative Initiatives to Tackle Abuse. Churchill Fellow 2023.
25 years in this sector & passionate about driving change. J.vickress@creativeinitiativesta.com
Malcolm Payne @malcolmp25.bsky.social Social work academic: social work history, theory, social policy, end-of-life care. Hon Prof, Kingston University, formerly St Christopher's Hospice Director, Psychosocial & Spiritual Care.
Sinead Whiting, PhD @sineadwhiting.bsky.social Assistant Professor Social Work Trinity College Dublin | Practice Education Coordinator | Research and teaching interests incl: Experiences of permanence in foster care, youth transitions, care leaving and practice education / student placement experiences
Deepa (pronounced Dīpā) Shah @deepashah.bsky.social Postgraduate researcher at the University of Sussex (Faculty of Social Sciences), researching social work with young people seeking asylum in the UK, i.e., those who arrived as unaccompanied children and are now care leavers aged 18-25.
Niamh Flanagan @niamhatmu.bsky.social Head of the Department of Applied Social Studies at Maynooth University. Interests: countering child trafficking; countering human trafficking; child policy; nexus of policy & practice.
Trish Hafford-Letchfield @trishhaffordletch.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Social Work, cats, nature, human rights and aesthetics.
Holistic Health Visitor @holistichv.bsky.social 🇬🇧Holistic, inclusive, trauma-informed, neurodivergent experience and inequalities aware, paediatric Nurse, Health Visitor &researcher (with lived experience of ADHD, hEDS,CRPS & SEND parenting).
Think KPI (not ✅ box)- Keeping People Included!
Views my own.
Frances Hamilton @franham.bsky.social Reader, critical thinker, third sector employee, MSc student, mother of boys. Dog walker, hen feeder, cat lover, vegetable grower, jam maker.
Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social Very concerned that right-wing pluto-populists are degrading our lives and our planet (🌱)
Stephen Vincent @chelseaman.bsky.social Literature and Philosophy, and in the real world a Bakunin style anarchist
Married to @pkalways.sheshed.rocks 💝
Philosophy @ Tampere University @tamperephilosophy.bsky.social This is the account of the philosophy department at Tampere University. We'll try to think of at least somewhat better description at some point later. (The profile pic features Raili Kauppi, appointed as professor of philosophy @ Tampere in 1969.)
Professor Karen Broadhurst OBE @karenb-2.bsky.social Lancaster University
Co-Director, Centre for Child and Family Justice.
Inequality, social justice, family preservation, gender and justice. All views my own
Jade @jdsw20.bsky.social Mental Health Practitioner (Social Worker) and MA Social Research Student. Research interests: Mental Health, Social Care and Carers.
https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/53/3/1784/7162405
Journal of Applied Philosophy @the-joap.bsky.social International academic journal owned by the Society for Applied Philosophy.
Submissions welcome here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14685930
Policy & Politics @policy-politics.bsky.social Advancing knowledge in public and social policy and politics. Edited by @berglundoscar.bsky.social, Claire Dunlop, @eakoebele.bsky.social, Kristin Taylor, @cmweible.bsky.social w/ @allegrafullerton.bsky.social
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/pp
Sabine Voigt 🇪🇺 @mohnkuchenfan.bsky.social An EU citizen with a British passport. Woke. She/Her. Trying to save the planet. Sick and tired of fascists. Loved Twitter. Closing account on X.
#brexodus #FBPE #rejoin #climatecrisis #parkrun #schulhund 🐶🐶🇺🇦🌻💙🇪🇺
simone brauchli @simonebrauchli.bsky.social Research in the field of social work in juvenile justice and child protection in Switzerland, parenting, family and vulnerability, personal autonomy, qualitative research, esp. ethnography
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
Calvin Swords PhD @calvinswords.bsky.social PhD, MSW, BSocSc | Lecturer in Social Work, UCC |
Former Irish research PhD scholar @swsp_tcd | Social Scientist |
All views my own.
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Angela Clarke @anjclarke.bsky.social Haven’t quite worked out what to do here yet…Bristol citizen, music lover, social worker, childless cat lady, currently leading the Centre for Family Safeguarding Practice (Hertfordshire)
John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social 
@paulamcfadden.bsky.social @paulamcfadden.bsky.social Professor in social work at Ulster University
Interested in workforce well-being, retention and turnover research
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It) 
Ruth Butterworth @rebutterworth.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist in neonatal, perinatal and family mental health. Passionate about supporting compassionate and relationship-focused practice in healthcare systems. Also likes cake
Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research @cswir.bsky.social A research centre community for professionals, students, academics, and people with lived experience dedicated to social work research and practice innovation.
https://t.co/JdLAlOFt5X
Ruth Scotten @ruthscotten.bsky.social Therapeutic Social Worker & Life Story Work practitioner, Adopter. Working to improve first family support to keep more families together and reducing the trauma of adoption for all involved.
UK based (Cambridgeshire) 🇬🇧
@julielongworth.bsky.social @julielongworth.bsky.social Public Servant - Director Children's Services Leeds
Prof Janet Melville-Wiseman #CEP @profwiseman.bsky.social Care Experienced Professor of Social Work
Marie 🦋 @blossom123.bsky.social Proud Social Worker, Practice Consultant, ASYE assessor and Practice Teacher. Children’s Services. East of England. Passionate about equality, driven by empathy & acceptance. Thinking critically, fact-checking; never following blindly.
Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music, art. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
Nathalie Huegler @nhuegler.bsky.social Researcher interested in transitions, sustainability, systems change and social justice. #TransitionalSafeguarding #Climate #Digitalsustainability
Birmingham School of Social Policy & Society @birminghamschool.bsky.social Based at the @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, our shared purpose is to understand the world and work collaboratively to make it better #AcademicSky #Sociology #BritishCulturalStudies #Criminology #SocialPolicy #SocialWork #HealthManagement #SocialCare
Colin Turbett @colinturbett.bsky.social Former UNISON TU activist. Writer on social history & social work matters. Website: colinturbett.co.uk . Strong supporter of Ukraine's resistance to Russian aggression 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
Prof. Michelle Lefevre @michellelefevre.bsky.social #socialwork academic researching #innovation, relationship-based practice, adolescent #safeguarding, #kindness, #socialcare. I lead @theinnovateproject.bsky.social -but gardening is my greatest love 🌈 https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
Dr Linda Cusworth @drlcusworth.bsky.social Research Fellow in Centre for Child and Family Justice Research, Lancaster University Law School. Interested in family law and policy, kinship care, looked after children. Research and impact. Views my own.
Rachel Larkin @rachellsw99.bsky.social Social Work Academic @ Sussex Uni - researches child & youth migration particularly #girlhood and LGBT+. 🏳️🌈 She/Her. Loves creative approaches to almost everything 
Kristi Langhoff @klanghoff.bsky.social Professor of Social Work, interested in young people’s experiences of extra familial harm, creative + participatory research methods, coffee