Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
MCFC Fans Foodbank Support @mcfcfoodbank.bsky.social #MCFC fans supporting our local foodbank - donate on weekend matchdays | mcfcfoodbank@gmail.com | Not one step back | #hungerdoesntwearclubcolours #RightToFood
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Sociologists for Palestine @soc4pal.bsky.social Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) is a democratic and plural collective of sociologists who support the cause of Palestinian liberation.
sociologistsforpalestine.org
Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social Sociologist. Ethnography, cities, practices of belonging, walking. Research consultancy, evaluation and training.
Irene Lebrusán @irenelebrusan.bsky.social Doctora en Sociología. Las profesiones guays ya estaban cogidas
neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social Writer and researcher based in Glasgow. Urban theory and politics, housing, miscellania. 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy' (forthcoming, 2026). https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-over-the-city
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Sheffield Uni Management School. Asset managers, wealth chains, housing, uneven development. 
@drdavidyatesphd.bsky.social @drdavidyatesphd.bsky.social 
Pileus Media @pileusmedia.bsky.social We started our page in 2016 to support Jeremy Corbyn. 9 years later we're still going! We've made quote memes that have gone viral & videos that have been well shared! 2017 to 2019, our Facebook page was among the most influential political pages online!
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Ben Purvis @benpurvis42.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching in and around the politics and philosophy of sustainability assessment. Some sort of Eco-Marxist. Perpetual Research Associate. Branch Secretary @SheffieldUCU.bsky.social
(they/he) 🏳️⚧️🍉
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.
Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social Ex-Whitehall type still with views on public policy, but now local historian in Cambridge (UK) blogging at https://lostcambridge.com/ - also writing about the future of the city on The Cambridge Town Owl.
Adam Leaver @adamleaver.bsky.social Prof of Accounting & Society; Assoc Dean of Research & Innovation @ Sheffield Uni Mgt School, Director of CRAFiC & The Audit Reform Lab; veteran soulboy.
The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social We're a QS World Ranking Top 100 University changing lives through education and research since 1905.
linktr.ee/sheffield
Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social Femme the city! Exploring the (re)production/labor/work/care in/of/for/as the city
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Vauxhall Community Law & Information Centre @vlcliverpool.bsky.social Defending legal rights on Welfare Benefits & Housing. Represent at Tribunal Contact:- advice@vauxhalllawcentre.org.uk or 0151 360 7777
No queries via DMs please
Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social Updates from the University of Sheffield branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: join.ucu.org.uk
Website: ucu.group.shef.ac.uk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uosucu/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sheffield-ucu-399b5240a
Digital Commons Cooperative @digitalcommons.bsky.social We build tech tools for social change by working alongside social movements to turn data into knowledge. 🌱 🌍 https://linktr.ee/digitalcommonscoop
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social A collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians
socispal@proton.me
https://socispal.wordpress.com/about/
Dylan Law @dylanmlaw.bsky.social Green Party candidate for Deputy Mayor of Hackney
Dr Uisce Jordan @uiscejordan.bsky.social Research Associate working on @safety-nets.bsky.social & @changingrealities.bsky.social at University of Glasgow 🌞 (she/her)
John Mollenkopf @jomoko.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center political science, sociology, Center for Urban Research. Race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, political geography and demography, New York in comparative perspective. Bicyclist, cook, sailor, explorer. Brooklynite.
David Webber 🇵🇸 @drdavewebber.bsky.social #6MusicDad to Daniel, Evie, and Reuben. A lifelong Red playing on the Left. Thinks a lot and writes a bit on the political economy of football.
@gibolfc.bsky.social @gibolfc.bsky.social 
Coco Khan @cocobyname.bsky.social Host, Pod Save the UK; freelance writer (mostly Guardian). Books: The Good Immigrant (and more). Repped by: Aitken Alexander(📚) and Soho Agency (🎤🎬)
@valspacepower.bsky.social @valspacepower.bsky.social 
Sheffield University Management School @uosmanagement.bsky.social 
Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, trade unionist and socialist
https://inews.co.uk/author/andrew-fisher
Joshua Davies @jdavies92.bsky.social Programme Manager @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social and Trustee
at https://www.thebondboard.org.uk/. Working to transform the private rented sector and our housing system. Views my own.
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Sander van Lanen @sanvanlan.bsky.social cultural geography; urban poverty & inequality.
🎓 university of groningen; young academy groningen, faculty of spatial sciences
✒️ austerity, youth, neighbourhoods
🔎 urban inequality, social infrastructure, exclusion.
Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers
Thessaloniki Tenants Union @enoikiasthess.bsky.social Tenants Union of Thessaloniki Metro Area
Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing. 
Marieke Riethof @mariekeriethof.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics. Amsterdam-Liverpool. Cold War solidarity in Latin America, Brazilian politics & IR/IPE. President Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social in 2023-25.
Radical Housing Journal @radicalhousing.bsky.social An open-access international journal dedicated to radical housing struggles and research | Issue 8.1 is out in June 2026!
https://radicalhousingjournal.org/
Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation (GCHU) @gchuoxford.bsky.social The GCHU is a research centre at Kellogg College, University of Oxford that seeks to make urban centres environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable, and to provide an environment that supports and sustains health and wellbeing. www.GCHU.org.uk
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh 
Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social Reader in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social Research Committee 21 Urban and Regional Development, International Sociological Association.
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
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.
Albert Toth @alb-toth.bsky.social Audience Reporter at The Independent | Welfare, housing, cost of living | Get in touch: albert.toth@independent.co.uk
https://www.justgiving.com/page/albert-toth
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/albert-toth
Alex Coupe @accoupe.bsky.social Lecturer in theatre and performance. Currently working on Ireland and the English literary imagination from post-war to Brexit. @ucu.org.uk rep. ‘Views own'. he/him
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me? 
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social SHAC is a campaign group linking tenants, renters, shared owners, and leaseholders living in homes owned by social and private landlords. Together we campaign for more public housing & to improve housing conditions.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Institute for Urban Research (IUR) @iurmalmo.bsky.social We bring together all urban research at Malmö University and engage with questions, researchers, and stakeholders internationally to co-create with society and establish “the people’s urban studies.”
www.iuresearch.se
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
LiLBaz @lilbazza.bsky.social peacenik. anti-racist. anti-fascist. trans ally. read some effing freud 🍉 🏳️⚧️
Jane MacNeil @janemacneil.bsky.social Liverpool Photographer & Collage Artist
www.janemacneil.co.uk
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory).
Senior Research Associate at Oxford's ECI. Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP.
Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Union✊.
Co-author #LandForTheMany.
@danelroberto.bsky.social @danelroberto.bsky.social 
Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.
@ishtomineynevado.bsky.social @ishtomineynevado.bsky.social PhD researcher on social reproduction, work and illness at Uni of Manchester
Inclusion London @inclusionlondon.bsky.social Disability equality organisation run by and for Disabled people. Policy, campaigning & capacity-building support for Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations.
Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Chair Transport Committee. Highbury Cllr 2014-26. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Brian Robson @brianrobson.bsky.social I want more people to live in a decent, affordable home. Don't you?
Work: Director Housing & Homelessness, @oak-foundation.bsky.social
Life: Dad, bookworm, sedate cyclist | Mackem in North Yorks | Trustee @thetcpa.bsky.social | Views mine, gan canny.
Mark-Bean @yesbno.bsky.social solarpunk anarchist, neuroqueer, genderqueer trans, demi
they/them/theirs
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Alan Kelly @scouse-red.bsky.social Socialist, music and football fan. Sick and tired of injustice, poverty, war, Starmer, genocide and weaponising of anti-semitism. Community activist and volunteer.
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
Laura Smith @lsmitthh.bsky.social Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.
PhD Researcher exploring Everyday Peace, Gender and Intimacy in Northern Ireland.
Previously University of Leeds, and Queen Mary UoL
Views my own
School of Law & Social Justice at University of Liverpool @livunislsj.bsky.social The home of Law, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.
Liverpool Residents Action @lraction.uk We are a grassroots collective of Liverpool residents fighting for housing and related needs through direct action, political education & campaigning.
https://linktr.ee/lraction
@eamoon-og.bsky.social @eamoon-og.bsky.social 
The Institute for Economic and Social Inclusion (IESI) @iesi.bsky.social The IESI conducts community centred interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange to build a more inclusive society @ the University of Sunderland
Food and Solidarity @foodandsolidarity.bsky.social A democratic, non-profit, and member-led organisation for low/no to moderate income people – fighting for our members utilising direct action! Tel: 07393 101018
www.foodandsolidarity.org/join
Kirsty Major @kmaj0r.bsky.social Editor and writer at The Guardian
Living Wage Foundation @livingwageuk.bsky.social We’re the leading movement at the heart of fairer, better work.
Championing fair pay, secure hours & enough to live on in retirement.
Join the movement of over 16,000 employers in the UK.
Let's make work that works for everyone
www.livingwage.org.uk
Gavin Daly @gavinjdaly.bsky.social
Planner, Geographer, PhD Environmental Sciences
Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social Legitimate businessman
https://ko-fi.com/philmcduff
https://open.substack.com/pub/philmcduff
@mcduff.75 on Signal
Alex King @alexdpking.bsky.social Senior reporter at Planning Magazine | freelance words in the Guardian, Politico, Novara Media, the Bristol Cable etc | Tips, coffees: alex.king@haymarket.com
Research and Partnerships team, UoL @livunirpteam.bsky.social Our team works with the academic community and external collaborators to: advance new research initiatives, facilitate cross-sector partnerships, support bid development, elevate research outputs, fuel interdisciplinary research, and more
School of Law & Social Justice Research @LivUni @livunilawsj.bsky.social Academic research in Law, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology from the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.
Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social my son is also named bort
words about the music and the arts in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social, @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, @redpeppermag.bsky.social and @newsocialist.bsky.social
he/him
timjl.substack.com
linktr.ee/TimJL
Richard MacDonald @tourguideliverp.bsky.social Heritage/conservation/public engagement/Conservation & Design Planner/Blue Badge Guide/British European. Opinions my own. Too sweary.
Alistair Sisson @alistairsisson.bsky.social cities & housing • Gadigal/Wangal land • he/him
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alistair-sisson
Craig Gurney @craiggurney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer #HousingStudies @UofGlasgow.bsky.social Researching & teaching #Housing #home #Sotl #socialharm #Housing&Health TedX Speaker, Vice-chair Housing Studies Association; Board Member CIH Scotland; Groundhopper; Swindon Town supporter. Own views
Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social Social scientist interested in questions of power at the intersection of housing, land, tech and finance.
King's College London / London School of Economics
www.timwhite.work
Shut Out The Light Films @sotl-films.bsky.social Independent film company. Five feature documentaries released in the UK to date. Current project: Iron Ladies.
Liz Davies @lizdsocialist.bsky.social Proud activist lawyer (retired) Honorary Vice President Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, all views my own.
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social Urban geographer | he/him | views my own, repost ≠ endorsement
UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social UCL Sociology Network is a creative space and intellectual home for sociological staff and doctoral students at UCL.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network 
Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social Sheffield Urbanism is an initiative that brings together the urban research community across the University of Sheffield: a dynamic, productive and innovative centre for world-leading interdisciplinary urban research. 
NEON @neonuk.bsky.social Neon supports, strengthens, and helps social justice movements win. We do it through programmes, resources, support and networks.
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social Political Geographer.
Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺
Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
Owen Dowling @owenjdowling.bsky.social PhD @camhistory.bsky.social | International solidarity campaigns and the British left, 1960-1990 | Words in Tribune and Jacobin
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/owen-dowling