Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social SPA: the professional association for lecturers, researchers and students of social policy in the UK and internationally.
https://social-policy.org.uk/
Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social 2025-26 Harkness Fellow @Brown School of Public Health and Boston College | GP and global public health doctor | Clarendon Scholar @UniofOxford | Commissioner on the @BMJ Future of the NHS | Member @RCGP | Honorary Member @FPH.
@soledadobrien.bsky.social @soledadobrien.bsky.social 
Kelli Caldwell @kellicaldwell.bsky.social My essay "Mom's Last Gun" @ The Marshall Project | Mental health and GV advocate | Substack: kellicaldwell | Award-winning Songwriter | Kids' music profile is @kelliwellikids | Grammy voter | JLSC Grand Prize | ISC Win | JMA Win
Matt Gannon @mattygannon.bsky.social JD/PhD student at Harvard University and Yale Law School • I research housing insecurity and social mobility.
matthewtgannon.com
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov Former public defender, now U.S. Congresswoman, proudly serving the good people of Texas’ 30th Congressional District. ✊🏾 
Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social Researchers at LSHTM, University of Edinburgh and others. We research the tobacco, alcohol, food, fossil fuel and others. We also research cross-industry playbooks and industry misinformation.
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/cdrg
Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester
I do research on policing, legal cynicism, procedural justice, and social inequality. I like quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data, and analytical sociology.
thiagoroliveira.com
Amiya Bhatia @amiyabhatia.bsky.social Associate Prof, Dept of Social Policy and Intervention. Social epidemiology, mixed methods, inclusive pedagogy. Listening to young people and health data to study violence and child protection, health inequalities and the structural determinants of health.
colleen, phd @colleensw.bsky.social postdoc @vupeabody.bsky.social running miles and analyses🏃🏻♀️👩🏻💻📊 researching #GunViolencePrevention because kids are worth it.
Track & field enthusiast 🏃🏻♀️
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. Author of the forthcoming HOW RUSSIA WON and the OUR LAND newsletter. Go to davidcorn.com. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
Jon Jay (he/him) @jonjaytweets.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health • PI, RISE Lab https://sites.bu.edu/riselab/
Beth Hardie @bethhardie.bsky.social Academic. PI @SATNAVproject for schools. Managing Editor European Journal of Criminology. Senior Research & Innovation Assoc, PADS+, Centre for Analytic Crim, University of Cambridge. www.bethhardie.me
Katrin Hohl OBE @katrinhohl.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at City St George‘s, University of London.
Independent advisor to the UK government.
Researches and writes about police & criminal justice responses to sexual violence and domestic abuse.
Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter and global managing editor with DeSmog. Author of THE PETROLEUM PAPERS, named a best book of the year by The Washington Post.
Emily J Gertz @ejgertz.bsky.social Journalist, author, knitter.
"If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it. It's total information collapse." — Carole Cadwalladr
Lindsey J. Smith @ljswrites.bsky.social Freelance climate journalist / Managing Editor at DeSmog / 2022 Kiplinger Fellow and Brown Handler Resident / she, her, hers
Rachel Sherrington @rachelsherrington.bsky.social Investigative researcher and reporter with DeSmog. Writing about climate and food politics. Work covered in the Guardian, Vice News, FT, The Hill & others
https://www.desmog.com/user/rachel-sherrington/
Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social Journalist
News Reporter at DeSmog, Columns for Big Issue, The Lead & Byline Times
Substack: The Definite Article
https://linktr.ee/adambarnettwriter
Joe Fassler @joefassler.bsky.social Program Director, Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. Author of The Sky Was Ours and Light the Dark.
joefassler.net
Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social Investigative Journalist at DeSmog - climate, food and farming | Work covered by the BBC, Guardian, FT, Al Jazeera | She/her
Ashley Braun @ashleybraun.bsky.social Science + Environmental Journalist, Sr. Editor @ DeSmog, Fact-checker. Seattle, WA. ashleybraun.com
Brigitte Wear @brigitte-whl.bsky.social Investigative researcher @desmog.bsky.social | Data, OSINT, supply chains | Paris, she/her.
Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com Independent journalist
Public historian
Born to raise hell
taylornoakes.com
canaduh.substack.com
Send tips securely to taylornoakes@protonmail.com
Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social Investigative Climate Journalist for @desmog.com in Berlin
All my posts are very serious and important
Phoebe Cooke @phoebecooke.bsky.social Investigative journalist, co-deputy editor at DeSmog UK @desmog.bsky.social | she/her
Aline Nippert @alinenippert.bsky.social Journaliste énergie, transport et fin du monde // autrice de Hydrogène mania au @passagerclandestin.bsky.social // j'écris surtout pour @contexte.com et Enerpresse // @journalismarena.eu fellow, @journalismfund.bsky.social grantee
TJ Jordan @tjjordan.bsky.social Investigative reporter in Paris | Climate + social justice | Investigations in The Guardian, Financial Times, Semafor + | Tips to tj.j0rdan@protonmail.com
Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Author "Brought To You By" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social Climate Action Against Disinformation
A global coalition of 120+ climate and anti-disinformation organisations.
https://caad.info/
Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social Independent Investigative Reporter
Write about environmental crisis, criminalization
Editor at Drilled
Labor organizing with: https://freelancesolidarity.org/
Newsletter (Subscribe!)
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Tips
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Dani Paradis @daniparadis.bsky.social Journalist and assistant professor. DeSmog contributor. Citizen of the Alberta Métis Nation. Former high school goth.
Podcast: The Place that Thaws
Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social Reporter for Gas Outlook, covering oil and gas industry. Previously at DeSmog.
Portland, Oregon
https://nickcunningham.blog/
https://gasoutlook.com/authors/nicholas-cunningham/
https://www.desmog.com/user/nick-cunningham/
Sara Sneath @sarasneath.bsky.social Reporting on climate justice for the Guardian US. Past: Journalist-in-residence at University of Miami’s Climate Accountability Lab. Big fan of bike rides | she/her | https://sneathfreelance.com
Mat Hope @matjhope.bsky.social Director, Zero Carbon Analytics (zerocarbon-analytics.org)
Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social Covering fossil fuel disinfo & climate accountability for a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. read/subscribe at exxonknews.org; new details to come. signal: @emilysanders.91
she/her
Rebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social investigating the fossil fuel industry. board member of Society of Environmental Journalists.
molly taft @mollytaft.com disaster dyke on the apocalypse beat @wired.com . very tall with a very short dog. they/them. molly_taft@wired.com, signal: @mollytaft.99. mollytaft.com
Hilary Beaumont @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social Investigative journalist covering the climate crisis
📝 The Guardian, WIRED, Grist & more
Signal hilarybeaumont.38
IG @hilarybeaumont
https://www.hilarybeaumont.com/
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06- D dharna noor @dharna.bsky.social fossil fuels reporter at the guardian
Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social Global climate justice reporter
@DrilledMedia.bsky.com
Before: Guardian, Independent
Author: Who killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads & an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
Contributor: Gaza. The story of a genocide
Ex-mental health nurse.
Dana Drugmand @danad1012.bsky.social Climate/enviro journalist covering climate accountability & litigation. New England native & citizen of 🌎
Sharon Kelly @sharonkelly.bsky.social Deputy director of strategic analysis, Center for Asset Retirement Accountability. Former investigative reporter covering climate, energy, antitrust.
Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social Investigative climate reporter, writer and award-winning documentary film maker. Freelance. Lead author, The Fraud of "Clean" Natural Gas (July 2026) for Center for Climate Integrity.
Natalie McLendon @nataliemclendon.bsky.social Southwest Louisiana Investigative Reporter
https://linktr.ee/nataliemclendon
Delaney Nolan @delaneynolan.bsky.social Journalist for @thelensnola. Work in The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, Fortune, Sierra, etc
Debut novel HAPPY BAD out now!
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327/happy-bad-by-delaney-nolan/9781662603280/
Kieran Walshe @kieranwalshe.bsky.social Professor of health policy and management at University of Manchester, UK. Research health reform, governance, workforce, quality, evidence - ideas not ideologies. Ultrarunner. Citizen of UK, Ireland & Europe. Son of an immigrant. He/him.
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Hacker Briefs @hackerbriefs.bsky.social Hi there! I'm an aggregation reader that shares articles from hacker news and discusses the community's thoughts!
Author/Tech Support: @timchinenov.bsky.social
Tips Appreciated!: https://ko-fi.com/hackerbriefs
Unofficial Central Command @unofccentcom.bsky.social This account is archived. Official central command updates can be found here -> https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Bill Miller @billmiller-epi.bsky.social ID Epidemiology, mostly STIs, HIV, substance use. Editor--in-Chief of STD. Past president of SER. Teacher of scientific writing. Pizza maker. Bread baker. Human dad. Cat dad.
Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social Professor Emeritus University of Cambridge. Professor Malmö universitet. Situational Action Theory (SAT) its development, testing and policy & prevention application.
Short Bio; https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-per-olof-wikstrom
Public Health Jobs UK @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social Share posts to this account to promote UK based public health jobs in practice, commissioning and academia. Run by Scott Lloyd and others in our spare time (!).
Eliza Fawcett @elizafawcett.bsky.social reporter
European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies @obshealth.bsky.social The Observatory is a WHO Europe-hosted partnership supporting evidence-informed health policy-making across Europe.
Website: https://eurohealthobservatory.who.int
Subscribe: tinyurl.com/SubscribeOBS
Prof Gemma Carey, PhD MMedSci @gemcarey.bsky.social @UNSW (& non academic author side hustle). Public administration, social policy+public health scholar .Lots of NDIS. Vax injury, but pro vax
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
Dirk Witteveen @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social Sociologist @ University of Oxford & Nuffield College | Senior Lecturer in Social Policy @ Department of Social Policy and Intervention | PhD CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.dirkwitteveen.com/
UC Davis Centers for Violence Prevention @ucdaviscvp.bsky.social Advancing violence prevention through actionable research and education. Sharing the work of the Violence Prevention Research Program and the California Firearm Violence Research Center.
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it
Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social "Our capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but our inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
https://buymeacoffee.com/justjack1
NEJM.org @nejm.org Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the New England Journal of Medicine. Follow for high-quality, peer-reviewed research and clinical content from the world’s leading medical journal, online at NEJM.org.
Follow @ai.nejm.org for medical AI content.
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
Rockefeller Institute of Government @rockefellerinst.bsky.social The public policy research arm of the State University of New York. We conduct rigorous, nonpartisan research to promote better policymaking.
Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social Co-Founder AH Datalytics. NOLA kid. Longhorn. Former CIA officer. 2004 Intramural Softball Champion (C-League). Not a criminologist!
Newsletter: https://jasher.substack.com/
Jasher@ahdatalytics.com
"Some genius, Jeff Asher" - Ann Coulter
Richard Shaw @richardshaw.bsky.social Lecturer @ University of Glasgow, UK. Epidemiologist interested in mental-health and wellbeing, health inequalities, administrative data, education.
Trying to learn Italian and Spanish.
Gillian Shorter PhD @gwshorter.bsky.social Reader in Psychology @QUBelfast
President @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social
Alcohol/other drugs, #HarmReduction, drug consumption rooms, OPCs, SCS #AddictionSci
Loves: dogs, dance, run, sea, joy
Views own (she/her) bi #BeMoreLyra
In my own time and space
Adam Briggs @admbriggs.bsky.social Public health doctor. Oxfordshire County Council; The Health Foundation; University of Southampton/NIHR.
Health/public health policy, sustainability. And bits of music, nature, stuff. Views own.
Ben Scher @ben-scher.bsky.social Lecturer/Postdoc in Global Health @Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing | Research Affiliate @DSPI_Oxford | Drug Policy, Harm Reduction, OPCs, Low-Barrier Housing
Rosanna Smart @rosannasmart.bsky.social Economist @ RAND studying guns, drugs, and how regulations shape risky behaviors; personal account, opinions are my own
Daniel Webster @daniel-webster.bsky.social Gun violence researcher & professor @ Johns Hopkins | baseball nerd and Orioles & Nationals fan | dog lover
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law - Houston. Academic research now focuses on firearms regulation. I won't follow accounts or reply to their posts if I can't tell who they are IRL. #Housky #lawsky #gvp #gvr
Dave Swedler @daveswedler.bsky.social Public health statistician (PhD, MPH) currently working for Chicago DPH. All opinions are my own. Dog photos will be posted.
Chicago. He/him.
Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social Public health statistics and adolescent health. Harvard: AB, Physics; AM, Statistics; PhD, Health Policy with concentration in Statistics and Evaluative Sciences; Johns Hopkins: Postdoc, Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. Former CDC Director and New York City health commissioner. Focused on partnering with communities around the world to save lives.
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.* 
Andrew Morral @andrewmorral.bsky.social Greenwald Chair in Gun Policy at RAND.
Director of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: https://www.ncgvr.org
Co-Director of RAND’s Gun Policy In America initiative: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
UK & Ireland Public Health Science conference @ukphsci.bsky.social A national conference dedicated to new research in Public Health in the UK and Ireland https://ukpublichealthscience.org/
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Naomi Creutzfeldt @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social Professor of Law and Society at the University of Kent. Access to justice, vulnerability, marginalised groups, ADR, digitalisation & AI in civil and admin justice systems.
Lindsey Hines @lindseyahines.bsky.social Psychology Lecturer at University of Bath, researching cannabis use, adolescent drug use and mental health through epidemiology | psychology | data analysis.
easily enthused. low-key dyspraxic.
she/her
Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social Peer-reviewed research on alcohol, illicit drugs, nicotine and tobacco, behavioural addictions. Owned by the Society for the Study of Addiction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13600443
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Early Career Qualitative Health Reasercher Network @echqrn.bsky.social We are a UK-based, inclusive and accessible network of early career qualitative health researchers, aiming to help each other navigate academia. Find/join us here: https://sites.google.com/view/ecqhrn
Society for Social Medicine & Population Health @socsocmed.bsky.social Advancing knowledge for population health https://socsocmed.org.uk/member-registration/
Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Ben Bradford @benbradford.bsky.social Professor of Global City Policing at University College London
Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social * Chair in Criminology, University of Liverpool
* Founder, The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social & The Loop Australia
* Yoga & meditation instructor, Yoga Alliance Professionals
* Manchester, UK
* Also @FMeasham on X
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Prof Andy Newton @profanewton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Policing, Co-Director Safety & Sustainability @NTU | Academic Advisor to Notts Violence Reduction Partnership | Interests: crime, policing, transport, violence prevention, policy evaluation | data science | problem solving | EBP