All-Island Social Security Network @allislandssn.bsky.social An academic and civil society group that researches and discusses social security systems across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Pipe Runner @iam-piperunner.bsky.social 
williamngomes.bsky.social @williamngomes.bsky.social Freelance journalist, author and human rights advocate | British-Bangladeshi | York, UK | PhD researcher at the University of Essex
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0C1XLCFK6?ingress=0&visitId=96fdbc0f-ea53-4e86-843d-04b56931b3b3
Philip Rathgeb @philiprathgeb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Social Policy at University of Edinburgh. PhD from EUI Florence. New book: "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" with Oxford University Press.
Website: www.philiprathgeb.com. 
Hanna Schwander @hannaschwander.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology and Social Policy
@HumboldtUni | Co-Spokesperson ERU CAP | Progressive Politics Research Network | political preferences, welfare state, climate change, comparative political economy, political sociology.
Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell
Author of The Welfare Workforce (CUP, open-access: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t9hw5)
www.isabelmperera.com
AF @projet-works.bsky.social Public Talk
Dog with a brain on it's shoulders
Jakub Frič @jakubfric.bsky.social 
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out now called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined: social science and socialism'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
Armed Forces & Society Journal @afssage.bsky.social Armed Forces & Society, a quarterly international journal #CivMil, #War & #Peace #Veterans
Follow for latest publications!
journals.sagepub.com/home/afs
Umang Dhingra @umangdhingra.bsky.social Incoming M.Phil. candidate in Sociology and Demography @ University of Oxford | Duke University ‘26 | Interested in families and welfare states
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Lisa Garnham @lisagarnham.bsky.social 
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
@abigailmcknight.bsky.social @abigailmcknight.bsky.social 
WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social The Work and Family Researchers Network is the premier 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association for work-family scholars and leaders.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
ATD Ireland @atdireland.bsky.social We hold a vision of a world without persistent poverty. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, a violation of Human Rights & people in poverty have unique knowledge & experience that can lower the barriers separating people & communities
www.atdireland.ie
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
AI Film @aifilm.bsky.social AI Enhanced UK Film and Research Company
ML AI R&D
FX, Graphics, Storyboard, Logistics, Editing Film Production
British Journal of Hospital Medicine @bjhmoffice.bsky.social BJHM: An open-access monthly journal dedicated to publishing original investigative and clinical research in hospital medicine. We invite your submission!
Impact Factor: 1.7 | Published by IMR Press
Link: https://www.imrpress.com/journal/BJHM
Eliana Munoz @givehope.bsky.social Time to be brave. Nature is our lifeline🐝. We must protect it.
We will all win if we all speak out, not with anger or with fear, but with conviction.
We are fighting for the good in all of us. We are fighting the heart of our nation 🇺🇸 🗽⚖️.
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Alan Tang @alantang1212.bsky.social HKBU BA History🇭🇰 (2021-2025)
LSE MSc International Relations🇬🇧 (2025-2026)
Aimed to Work at IO 🇺🇳 / Any foreign delegation in Taiwan / Hong Kong
HK / UK / US Experience 🇭🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Co-Founder of GeoShock 🇭🇰
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @University of Glasgow & ADR Scotland Theme Lead, Work Welfare & the Economy, part of ADR UK. Social & health inequalities, disability, welfare benefits, labour market dynamics, natural policy experiments, linked administrative data.
Carlos Cabanita @ccabanita.bsky.social Portuguese retired graphic designer
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Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities
Ding-Yi Lai @laidingyi.bsky.social Postdoc, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | political sociology, social inequality, comparative welfare states, comparative authoritarianism, quantitative methods | Website: https://www.laidingyi.com/
Dr Sioned Pearce @sionedps.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Policy at Cardiff University / WISERD. Work, welfare, devolution, civil society and youth unemployment. Views are my own. She / Her
J. Randy Taraborrelli @jrandyt.bsky.social Presidential historian - latest New York Times bestseller, "JFK - Public, Private, Secret" on sale now. TV writer, too. But more importantly - Dad to a very entitled dog named Axel.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jfk+taraborrelli
Flagpie @finecuppacoffee.bsky.social I'm just here to burn Nazi's and chew bubble gum...
and I'm all outta gum.
Peter @peter19a.bsky.social Always in search of feel-good images.
EASP SPA 2025 Conference Official Account @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network – Joint Annual Conference 2025: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy @jicsp.bsky.social JISCP is an international academic journal of the UK Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social.
Editors: @stefankuehner.bsky.social, @aroumpakis.bsky.social, @markusketola.bsky.social, and Ijin Hong
Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social 🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea
SPA Employment policy group @spaemploysocsec.bsky.social We're the Social Policy Association's employment policy group. Account managed by Hayley Bennett. Group convened by Sioned Pearce, Ceri Hughes, and Levana Magnus
Jiaxin Liu @jiaxinliu.bsky.social Lecturer in Social and Public Policy @ University of York
Alexander McColl @amccollbar.bsky.social Barrister at Garden Court North Chambers - housing, homelessness, social security, protest, prisons, judicial review
https://gcnchambers.co.uk/barrister/alexander-mccoll/
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Connor @connorofbfd.bsky.social MRes Public Policy student @uofgussp.bsky.social, exploring lived experience of disability benefits.
Bradford City, class, curry, hardcore punk, hip-hop and social policy. Usually found writing or taking photos. Views my own.
www.medium.com/@connorofbfd
@gmlivingwage.bsky.social @gmlivingwage.bsky.social 
Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Dr Millie Light @milliemaglet.bsky.social Academic researcher on Changing Realities, University of Glasgow and Centre for Arts and Health, Falmouth University. Interested in precarity, critical wellbeing and intersections of social and ecological (in)justice
Changing Realities @changingrealities.bsky.social Participatory project involving parents and carers living on a low income across the UK, Working with researchers, artists and Child Poverty Action Group to improve lives. Thanks to Impact on Urban Health & Robertson Trust. linktr.ee/changingrealities
Jonathan Burton @jonburton.bsky.social Associate Director for Surveys for Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). Working at ISER, University of Essex pretending to be a grown-up.
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/people/jburton
Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social Retired RN.RNM.IBCLC.ANLC.CNS.
She/her. Mum & Mimi.
Amateur astronomer. Winemaker. Married. #nevertrump #blacklivesmatter
🌈Ally.Anti Fascist!
Kate Andersen @katejandersen.bsky.social Social Policy Research Fellow at the University of York.
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Emma McLorie @emmamclorie.bsky.social Research Fellow @LeedsUni working within @LeedsNICHE on the MEND study. All opinions are my own.
https://www.nationalcareforum.org.uk/projects/the-mend-study/
Wenjing Zhang @wenjingzhang.bsky.social Social policy and social care researcher, King’s College London
@ekineren.bsky.social @ekineren.bsky.social 
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
Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado @dkcayado.bsky.social 🧠 Psycholinguist 🧑🏻💻 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow @rhulpsychology.bsky.social interested in morphology, visual word recognition and reading acquisition
https://sites.google.com/view/dk-cayado/about-me
Catherine Hale @catherinehale.bsky.social Founder, Disability Insight. Independent research and policy consultant on disability employment and social security. Founded Chronic Illness Inclusion. #pwME and survivor of medical abuse.
Safety Nets @safety-nets.bsky.social Bringing vital experience of the social security system across all four countries of the UK. Funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org
We are a team of six universities, two policy partners and an Experts by Experience panel. https://safetynets.study/
Sharon Wright @profsharonwright.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
Simone Paci @simonepaci.bsky.social Political Science @ Stanford, PhD from Columbia
Tax Evasion | Redistribution | Comparative Political Economy | Local Politics
https://simonepaci.com/
Nidanur Basturk @nida-basturk.bsky.social PhD candidate @gesisorg.bsky.social | comparative political economy, welfare state institutions, social policy, data harmonisation, social network analysis
she/her
Care Full @carefull.bsky.social Exploring care in a new economy, from @ruthhannan.bsky.social & @hannahwebster.bsky.social.
Get in touch: hello@carefull.uk
www.carefulleconomy.co.uk
Ruth Hannan @ruthhannan.bsky.social Exploring care in a new economy at @carefull.bsky.social with @hannahwebster.bsky.social
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Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
mattpadley.bsky.social @mattpadley.bsky.social Co-Director and Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Research/think/write on poverty, living standards, income, retirement. Running may sneak in now & then.
Patrick BERNARD @29pat.bsky.social @Renaissance
@Renaissance29 @RenaissanceQBO
adore #MacronardsFM !...
Comptes #X (ex-Twitter) : @29Pat2 et @29Pat
Compte #threads : patrickbernardmahe
Compte #instagram: patrickbernardmahe
Compte #Facebook : Patrick Bernard-mahe,
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Families Europe @cofaceeu.bsky.social We are the EU network of family organisations advocating for strong social policies for ALL #families. #disability #genderequality #saferinternet
https://youtube.com/shorts/YbmihnGVJ6w?feature=share
rEUsilience @reusilience.bsky.social Researching families' resilience to socio-economic shocks to build improved welfare states.
Funded by EU's Horizon Europe project no 101060410 and Innovate UK
Minna van Gerven @minnavangerven.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy @HelsinkiUni 🇫🇮🇳🇱
UCL Qualitative Health Research Network @ucl-qhrn.bsky.social We are a transdisciplinary initiative to support the use and development of qualitative research in health, illness and care based @ucl.ac.uk, but events open to all.
Follow for events, seminars & discussion relating to all things qualitative and health!
Rasmus Schjødt @rasmusjs.bsky.social Programme Director at Research & Action for Income Security (RAISE). Interested in all things related to social protection. 
Katie Ellis @drkatieellis.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Researching and advocating for children in care and care leavers.
Social Policy Worldwide @spww.bsky.social 💡 A global forum for information, exchange, and public debate on social policy, inequalities, and social cohesion
📍 Based at @unibremen.bsky.social
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I am Magdi from Gaza @helpmagdy.bsky.social I am Magdi from the Gaza Strip. My situation is very difficult. Can you help me please?
https://chuffed.org/project/184057-help-magdes-6-children-survive-war-injury-hunger-in-gaza
Miroslav Nemčok @miroslavnemcok.bsky.social Researcher in political science at @UniOslo | Comparative politics, public opinion, and public policy. Coffee, food, aviation, and space exploration enthusiast.
www.miroslavnemcok.com
@laoshe.bsky.social @laoshe.bsky.social Wise man …American politics is
Heartbreaking today,let’s hope it will change soon enough ! Keep smiling
La politique française n’est pas plus réjouissante , la pesanteur des ingérences étrangères alourdit partout en Occident le poids des extrêmes droites .
Witch of November 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇨🇺🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️🇬🇱 🇪🇺🌍🐕🦺🐾🍉🐈 @scotiasheppard.bsky.social Kjipuktuk Nova Scotian in Colchester Co. Feral mom to skin kids Heavy D (19) Big Al (15) fur kids Barnacle Bob, Snerf, Minnow & Day-Z. Co-Star to J. Perimenopausal, ADD, cancer & exhausted. Kept artificially upright and upbeat by medication. Solidarity ✊
@namcro00.bsky.social @namcro00.bsky.social 💙🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🖕🏼🍊 no porn! No MAGA AND NO DM! ILLINI BEARS CUBS!
davidcgibson @dcgibson.bsky.social UNESCO Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, jazz pianist for life, in awe of complexity and the evolution of AI. Go blue.