Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge @eng.cam.ac.uk
Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
Addressing the world's most pressing challenges with science and technology.
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Lisa Owens @lamowens.bsky.social writer & screenwriter
Books: NOT WORKING (Picador, 2016) & NATURAL DISASTER (Virago, coming summer 2026)
Film: DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (2019)
Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social Climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former candidate for Congress. Expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
www.MESOSCALENEWS.com
https://linktr.ee/georebekah
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
Tawfique Hasan @tawfiquehasan.bsky.social Prof of NanoEngineering @ Cambridge Uni Engineering Department. Fellow @ChurchillCol . OPTICA Fellow. 🇧🇩🇬🇧 Personal account.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
FT econ columnist
Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast
Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism. Don't have a podcast.
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
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
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
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
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views.
🇬🇧🇧🇪🇮🇱
📍LDN/BX
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Anthony Wells @anthonyjwells.bsky.social Global Head of Politics at YouGov. Dartfordian. Hates agree-disagree statements.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: barrister, cross-bench peer; HL Justice & Home Aff Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-Indept Reviewer Terrorism, Prevent Commr, AFPS; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK’s leading research centre on constitutional change. Informing policy-making and public debate about the constitution and democracy.
Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.
Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social Comics, music, books, film, photos, paintings & cartoons! Humanism & ASD too. A Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure. Hurrah!
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Graeme Cowie @woodstockjag.bsky.social Constitutional pedant, Partick Thistle-supporting masochist, atrocious recreational golfer.
Director and Secretary @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social
Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com 📰 Writer-at-Large, The Nightly | London
📧 Subscribe to me at www.latikambourke.com
🎙️ Latika Takes: The Podcast on all apps
CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Shane McHugh @shanemchugh.bsky.social Talking about engineering, technology, research security and systems thinking. Fan of cats, Arsenal, weird lit, and both kinds of music.
Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social Materials scientist & engineer; Director of the UCL Institute of Making; Author of New York Times best selling book Stuff Matters and others; Occasional BBC TV/radio presenter.
Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
Marlène Mengoni @mengomarlene.bsky.social A/Prof of Computational Medical Engineering, School of MechEng at U. of Leeds; EPSRC/OpenFellow; FHEA; working in joint biomechanics, particularly spine; council of Eur Soc Biomech; open science; she/her; Belgian in the UK
Martijn Zwijnenburg @zwijcompchem.bsky.social Engineer pretending to be a Computational Chemist working on how light and stuff interact at University College London - husband of @jelfschem.bsky.social - all views are my own 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
Fi Daisy G @fidaisyg.bsky.social Engineering Academic, Chartered Structural Engineer, Open University Staff Tutor, global citizen living in UK, Mum, she/her.
Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry, Inclusive Research, Better Research, Community Builder 🇫🇷 in 🏴
Jo Sharp @jofeanelwa.bsky.social Materials Scientist & transmission electron microscopist, between institutions while I apply for a fellowship. Dyspraxic.
Nicola @engineernic.bsky.social Engineer turned museum person. Conservation, energy efficiency & decarbonisation at SS Great Britain. STEM stuff. Childless plant lady. Bristol 🇬🇧
David Fairén🔻☮ @davidfairen.bsky.social Molecular Engineering at Cambridge. Materials discovery, monolithic metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), energy transition, drug delivery, RNA, and more. Linking academia and industry. Founder of Immaterial and Vector Bioscience
Viv Kendon @quantumviv.bsky.social I design quantum computers @physicsstrath.bsky.social and @ccp-qc.bsky.social
https://kendon.info/viv
Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social Materials scientist, mum, mountain-biker.
Colin Church @drcolinchurch.bsky.social CEO of IOM3, the global materials network. CETF Chair. Former CEO of CIWM, civil servant. All my own views though!
Alastair Somerville @acuity.design Clarity and kindness as foundations for work. Information perception in physical & digital places. Facilitation and workshop design for codesign and civic assemblies. Public prototyping on BlueSky. He/him
David Joffe @davidjoffe.bsky.social Expert adviser, Clean Power Unit, DESNZ. Visiting Prof @ CEP, Strathclyde. Ex: CCC Director of Net Zero. Opinions mine unless someone else’s. Joffe rhymes with coffee. #COYS
Dr Iain Staffell @iain-staffell.bsky.social Reader in Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London
https://renewables.ninja 🌍
https://electricinsights.co.uk 📈
https://climatewedges.com 🍰
http://energystorage.ninja 🔋
Filippo Pecci @filippopecci.bsky.social Optimization and modeling of macro-energy systems. Scientist at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment.
Adam Duncan @adamduncan.bsky.social Interested in all things Energy and Climate! PhD student at UCL looking at grid resilience, formally a technical engineer. Opinions my own (He/Him)
Abigail Dombey @abigaildombey.bsky.social Energy & Sustainability Engineer.
Working in decarbonisation & sustainable infrastructure. Climate, energy, net zero.
She / her.
Jeff Hardy @energyfuture.bsky.social Sustainable energy geek, regulatory wonk, bad drummer, Liverpool fan. All opinions are my own (except where they are really good ones from other people).
Director of www.energyfuture.uk
Tim Green @otherprofgreen.bsky.social Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at Imperial College researching control of zero-carbon grids.
Known to get distracted by old trains and industrial heritage.
Drivel that follows comprised entirely of personal views.
He/Him
Alison Tomlin @alisontomlin.bsky.social Emeritus Prof @ Leeds Uni in energy & environment. For clean air, net zero, trees, Latin drumming & exercising my right to roam. Suspect professional Northerner.
Dr Imogen Rattle @imogenrattle.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in industrial decarbonisation strategy at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK
Presently based in Birmingham.
Climate. Energy. Policy. Industry. Place.
Views own
Gabriel Cavalli @gabrielcavallip.bsky.social Professor of Science and Engineering Education. Director of LITE (Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence, https://teachingexcellence.leeds.ac.uk ). Views my own (blah blah).
Leon Black @drleonblack.bsky.social Professor of Infrastructure Materials at the University of Leeds.
Posting about materials, resilience, circular economy, green stuff, and whatever else I stumble on that I find interesting.
No DMs, unless they're size 12 cherry reds.
Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science and Tech Evangelist at Durham University; International Keynote Speaker; #womenintech, #100moments tech #podcast host and so much more… https://linktr.ee/drsueblack
Anne-Marie Imafidon @aimafidon.bsky.social I love Maths, Tech and helping others. Founder of Stemettes. Author of She's in CTRL. Trustee at Institute for the Future of Work. Leader, Presenter & Speaker.
Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson.bsky.social Family roboticist/STEM engagement academic/digital tinkerer/film maker/general-purpose geek. Enthusiastic about (but not necessarily good at): bicycles, photography, sustainability, kites, parenting. Newcastle, UK.
Tom Dunlop @tomdunlop.bsky.social Materials scientist & engineer; Technical Specialist in materials characterisation at Swansea University; and an all round green energy and sustainability enthusiast.
Sarah-Jane Dunlop-Potts @drsjpotts.bsky.social Lecturer for Mechanical Engineering at Swansea University| Sustainable Energy Solutions |STEM Outreach enthusiast 👩🔬 | Project Reimagine Energy🛝⚙️⚡ | Member of UK Young Academy |Views my own
Stefan Bon 🏳️🌈🎸🐕 @bonlab.info Prof. in Polymer and Colloid Chemical Engineering at the University of Warwick (UK), LGBTQ+ Advocate, Dutch origin, Gen X, Educator. Maker of small plastics. He/him, https://bonlab.info 🏳️🌈 🎸🐕
Reid Derby @reid24hrs.bsky.social Engineer, Super-connector, Ecosystem Builder, Director @CyNam, Aegis Professor of Innovation @BristolUniEng, ADHD is my superpower, BEng MA MSc CEng FIET FRSA
Mike Pitts @pittso.bsky.social Deputy Director at Innovate UK for Clean Energy. Welsh. Chemist. Hypenotic. ChesterSciBar. Catalyst Science Discovery Centre. Passionate about the power of stories and innovation. Some whimsy. Opinions own.
Prof Cath Noakes @cathnoakes.bsky.social Pro Dean Research and Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences at Leeds University. Indoor air, ventilation, infection risks, fluid dynamics, academia, EDI in science and a few cats. Views my own. #academicsky
Dr Orla Williams @drorlawilliams.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Dept M3 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social: Milling expert researching low carbon fuels, mechanochemistry, critical raw materials and life cycle analysis. Rocket science is simple; it's the engineering that's hard
The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining @iom3.bsky.social The global network advancing materials, minerals and mining through innovation and excellence for an inclusive, sustainable and circular future.
Many disciplines
One community
Shaping the future
#WeAreIOM3
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Natasha McCarthy @ntshmccrthy.bsky.social Policy, philosophy, ethics in and for engineering, tech, science and AI. Assoc Director of the National Engineering Policy Centre. Hon Prof of Practice @ UCL Dept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy.
Jo-ho-ho @jobrodie.bsky.social London, scicomm, pylons, aircraft, techy stuff (digital enthusiast), blogging, sound, bunting, QMUL, trees, big ships, science talks, film music, the designs of Iznik pottery and William De Morgan. Recently re-watched #Seinfeld :-)