State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants & others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services & better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com. Associate: @aliceolilly.bsky.social
sotf.org.uk
Abby @yabbya.bsky.social Loitering with good intent in Aotearoa NZ. I like big books and I cannot lie (actually, any kind is fine). I say very little here. Pics are mine & not AI. Hope you're well.
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk Political Scientist at the University of Manchester
Co-Director of the British Election Study
https://www.jack-bailey.co.uk
Harriet Marsden @harriet1marsden.bsky.social Senior staff writer and podcast panellist at The Week. Formerly journalist at The Guardian, The Times, The Independent & others. Writes our free weekly newsletter, Global Digest: https://theweek.com/globaldigest
Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social knyght full of thought and slepy • musician (harrison lemke, brother android, dragon warrior) • game dev (boots quest dx) • he/him
OPEC Kühlschrank @opeckuehlschrank.bsky.social > Fünf-Jahre-Garantie
> Frostfrei
> 1.2 Mio Barrel Öläquivalent pro Jahr
Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social Campaign Director @greaterauckland.bsky.social and #1 light rail fan
'Unaffiliated Individual' - NZ Infrastructure Commission
Officially more popular than a Real Housewife of Auckland
Views my own
https://linktr.ee/ConnorSharp
Michael @mykl.sparkle.blue Just a vibe, you know?
From the UK, jetzt in Deutschland.
Used to wrangle code, coders, and customers for a living. Now just for fun.
Interested in complex systems and how they fail us. Oh, and jokes.
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
Juan Incognito @juanincognito.bsky.social Leaning against a wall, with the other elders
“Muppet” ≠ insult @grahammoonie.bsky.social Union comms, nouveau nerd and D&D player, he/him/Muppet of a man
Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social urbanism, governance, photography.
Director Greater Auckland
AKL city centre advisory panel
@greaterauckland.bsky.social
www.patrickreynolds.co.nz
Yells Incoherently @yellsonpolitics.bsky.social Campaigning for the union of France and GB, and the redefinition of the inch to 25.6mm
Elsie Monty @elsiemonty.bsky.social NZer in Portugal via London 
Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social We advocate to make our great city of Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland an even greater place to live, move around, and connect with each other.
About us: https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/about-greater-auckland/
Matt Roser @mattroser.bsky.social Cognitive neuropsychologist at the University of Plymouth and the Brain Research and Imaging Centre @bricplymouth.bsky.social https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/psychology/brain-research-and-imaging-centre
Formerly @MattNeuropsych at that other site.
Cruiser Destroyer & Typhon Frigate Enthusiast @scb250.bsky.social He/Him | Late 20s
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
Tristram Shandy 2026 @tristramshandy2026.bsky.social A very distinguished gentleman with very distinguishing opinions. . .
A page dedicated to the CUNY Graduate Center’s Tristram Shandy 2026 reading group.
Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social Scriptwritist
Ian Dunn @iandunn.bsky.social A man who has made a lot of mistakes but is still jolly.
Georgia L. Gilholy @llggeorgia.bsky.social 16th c. cameo enthusiast
@ddhitchens.bsky.social @ddhitchens.bsky.social 
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Cars&Crime #OpenResearch #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities.
jmpinasanchez.github.io/
Chris Hewson @chrishewson.bsky.social Head of Policy Engagement, University of Huddersfield; sociology PhD; advocate of knowledge exchange; co-chair Universities Policy Engagement Network; appreciator of reasonably priced fine wine; understander of the power of football to ruin your weekend.
Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Sofia Hauck @shauck.bsky.social Data scientist working with patient data (previously railways & farming); genomics PhD from Oxford Zoology; science enthusiast, cycling advocate, illustration fan and keen traveller. 🇧🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺
@lennypcover.bsky.social @lennypcover.bsky.social 
James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org Founder - https://FieldLevelTech.org - A better world is possible.
Be heroic, pragmatic and effective.
We win in the next few years or AI will render labour entirely at the mercy of capital.
Drop me an email to chat. (Work out Email from my @)
Tom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social Social liberal unaligned political type of mixed ethnicity; international human of limited mystery.
Work: Outside In, ex-Global Counsel (left 2022 fwiw), ex-OCCRP, worked for Lib Dem MPs, etc.
I like the arts, and people. And cricket (Plastics CC).
Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social biostatistician @ University of Melbourne Statistical Consulting Centre. enjoyer of multiple imputation, RCTs, and DAGs. always graph your data. also runs, bikes, hikes, etc. he/him #BiInSci 🏳️🌈
https://cameronpatrick.com/
@paultreadaway.bsky.social @paultreadaway.bsky.social 
Sophia @0ldoini.bsky.social Here reluctantly 
Patrick Holden @patrickholden.bsky.social Irish academic at the University of Plymouth, IR/ Political Economy/EU Policy.
Jessie Sun @jessiesun.bsky.social Lecturer at Auckland Uni enthusiastically researching social interactions, well-being, and morality. Vegan effective altruist, Brazilian Zouk addict, classical singer, aspiring handpan fairy.
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
Dave, flying letter @flyingletter.bsky.social Lecturer in philosophy. I blog about crime, disorder, and low status men @ flyingletter.substack.com
Anna Fifield @annafifield.bsky.social Independent New Zealand journalist and foreign affairs analyst.
Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social Senior editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Books, menswear, parenting, politics, religion. Post the posts you want to see in the world.
Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social limited wit & the worst lines in Pundom | za’atar & insulin enthusiast | sporadically @singlesjukebox.bsky.social | MTL expat in Toronto with bagel opinions & T1D | crim appellate law | Jew for a Free Palestine | DuJour means seatbelts | 39🏳️🌈✡️
Ben Zalin @benzalin.bsky.social NHS doctor. Pedant
Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social Fix your hearts or die
PhD student of Scottish mountaineering history and culture.
He/Him
https://medium.com/@GreedyRunner
Jan Petříček @janpetricek.bsky.social nefilozof, takypřekladatel
Ushma Kriplani @ushmakriplani.bsky.social She/her
#Decarbonization; #Climatetech; #energytransition; #TransRights = HumanRights; US manufacturing and supply chains; deep tech entrepreneurship. Physicist.
San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, Dubai occasionall
Ruairí @ruairim95.bsky.social Librarian | Liberal Socialist | He/Him | 🇮🇪
Naomi Thompson @nmcthompson.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Bristol working mostly in metaphysics (inc. social metaphysics). Also: climbing; parenting; craft beer; vegan food; politics (not necessarily in that order).
CatholicGeekery @catholicgeekery.bsky.social Mechanical engineer of allegedly papistical views. Interested in theology, politics, and roleplaying games. Citizen of the UK, for my sins ("but our commonwealth is in heaven"). He/Him.
Paul Pod @paulpod.bsky.social Designer. Ex GOV, NHS, startups. Lives in Wales, London @paulpod on most things
🏴 website: Neuromantics.net
📨 signal: paulpod.404
michael lascarides @mlascarides.bsky.social Art tinkerer, library dweller, immigrant. Thinking a lot about how to prove libraries are worth keeping around. Ōtepoti.
Adam Quinn @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social Associate Prof at University of Birmingham. Politics analyser. Host of Political Worldview podcast (on Apple, SoundCloud, Spotify). Noir reader and watcher. Guinness drinker.
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Elizabeth Thomson @peregryn.eurosky.social Provincial Director of Ordinands for the SEC. Lives in Edinburgh. Curiouse peregryne and unproffitable questions.
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
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/
Daniel Gover @danielgover.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London. Researching parliaments and UK politics.
London, UK | https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/goverdaniel.html
Claudia Quinta @claudiaquinta.bsky.social Watching the world go by.
Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Researching and writing about AI and other topics from a broadly effective altruist perspective. On a grant from Coefficient Giving.
andymasley.com
Peter Taylor @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social 40, he/him 🧙
Narrative Designer for Sports Interactive on Football Manager 27 ⚽
IWGB & Lib Dem member ✊🔶
Views solely mine, etc. 😉
https://ctrl-the-narrative.com ✍️
Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social Academic and curator. Globes, maps, zines, William Blake. Author: "William Blake" (Tate Publishing, 2024), "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination" (Palgrave, 2025). Views my own.
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social centre left politics and pop culture like everyone else on bluesky. probably to be found libbing out somewhere.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social Irishposting, shitposting and seriousposting
Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.
Matt Morris @matthewmorris.bsky.social A sometime mathematician and software engineer who should arguably have done something else instead.
A convert to Bluesky's block-heavy approach: "But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other."
Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in politics at the University of Bristol.
Investigating the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour, among other things.
ralphscott.co.uk
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Captain Bionic @captainbionic.eurosky.social fully bionic | sing John Ball | she/her
James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social Uphold Thucydidian-Clausewitzian-Hegelian-Fukuyamist thought.
https://othermeans.substack.com/
James @threepeacesweet.bsky.social London via Accrington
Just trying to get by 
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social Trans-Pacific spin doctor. Technology industry sub-creature. Crisis junkie. Head of global media relations at TSMC, a company that makes computer chips. San Francisco, Singapore and Taiwan.
@stewartdompe.bsky.social @stewartdompe.bsky.social 
Ilan @iboock.bsky.social Lives in Auckland NZ, previously Osaka Japan, Hertzelya, Manchester, Sydney. Where next?
I am a reducer, I still eat meat but only occasionally.
On most network one can find me as iboock
Ash @ashrae1.bsky.social politics and pop culture. she/her. all views my own.
@tobysaul.bsky.social @tobysaul.bsky.social 
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social New Zealand mathematician, writing on climate & the environment at http://planetaryecology.org
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social Podcaster and newsletter writer about housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa. Free and paid versions here: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka?r=akd4&utm_medium=ios
Erin @fujoshi.bsky.social 
Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
very sane ai newsletter: verysane.ai
all writing: https://segyges.github.io/
also @antiantiai.bsky.social
Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social Author of 'Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists
Currently researching climate disinformation in alt-media
But I seem to mostly post about movies
Newsletter: feijoadispatch.nz
buy me a coffee http://ko-fi.com/byroncclark
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social Author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism and founding member of Books From Below
They/them.
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. https://skymarchini.net/
JohnQFugly @johnqfugly.bsky.social 
Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Lucy Powell @ljpowell.bsky.social I used to be a structuralist, but now I'm not Saussure. Bad puns/ good books/ eighteenth-century material culture/ feathers & prisons and their constitutive meanings/ global enlightenments. Trinity College, Oxf/ Leverhulme ECR / BBC new gen thinker. Tired.
Zoë 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 @zoesomelastname.eurosky.social ever so normal (she/her)