Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social Pro Carrot Cake. This account is mostly paintings, plants, birds & jokes. U.S. should use the metric system. UK should drive on the right side of the road.
There's a Starter Pack just for fun.
Block early & often.
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NovemberVivi (Claire) @novembervivi.bsky.social Still persistent, still irritating
Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
But we do need cupboards, bookcases and display cabinets. Because we collects, we does, my preciouses. Shells and stones, twigs and bones, 17th century shiny things and .. running shoes!
🇬🇧🌈🇪🇺 He/ Him
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE @priorartdaily.bsky.social Your everyday problems have historical receipts.
Surprising parallels in old letters, books, and newspapers.
Sourced English quote posts.
David Milliken @davidmilliken.bsky.social Reuters economics reporter covering the Bank of England, HM Treasury, bond markets and UK data.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams @hoooaw.bsky.social Books: Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe, Tide, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century, Periodic Tales and other things. And some exhibitions.
Nick Anstead @nickanstead.bsky.social Associate Professor at LSE, researching political communications and the role of ideas in politics. More on me and my research: https://linktr.ee/NickAnstead
Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social Producer for factual TV (Evolution, Walking with Dinosaurs 2025, Earth), science communicator, paleoartist, paleontology enthusiast (she/they) 🏳️⚧️
https://kakapojay.com/
Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
@ianwinwood.bsky.social @ianwinwood.bsky.social Bodies: Life & Death In Music published by Faber & Faber. Contributing Editor at The New World magazine. Supports Barnsley FC, New York Mets, New Jersey Devils. Lives in Camden Town, London.
Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth wickedproblems.earth
Shar pei with opposable thumbs. Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est. Pronouns: y’all/yer man
quitedo @q1t3d0.eurosky.social minor irritation vibes
Red tickseed @redtickseed.bsky.social Art Criminal. Disney Lynch.
He/him
PFP by the incredibly talented moltotrasho
Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social Astrophysicist at Imperial College. Extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology, astrobiology. Writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody. Science for Fiction podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyNyNI115W3kgqZAku?si=jK0XQYAyS1ubvzD76spbEg
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Sylvaine Tuncer @sylvainet.bsky.social Social scientist, anti-fascist, raver, runner, in London. Electronic music and all things culture lover.
Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social Director and Chief Curator of Futures Imagined. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.
Dr Kobotic @kobotic.bsky.social Doing AI management and governance for a long time (way before it was cool), container ships, democracy and dachshunds. Sometimes sailing. www.kobileins.com
Kate Bower @katebower.bsky.social Consumer and digital rights advocate | Privacy | Data Rights | Fair and safe AI
Melbourne, 🇦🇺
Catherine Regis @catherineregis.bsky.social Law professor at Université de Montréal, Canada CIFAR Chair in AI and Human Rights, Canada research chair in Health Law and Policy, Academic Member at Mila, Director of social innovation and international policy at IVADO
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Serge Stinckwich @sergestinckwich.bsky.social Complex Systems Modelling and AI to Leave No One Behind | Responsible Computer Scientist
Sarah Porter @saraheporter.bsky.social Founder/CEO InspiredMinds | World Summit AI | United Nations AI advisor | UK / USA AI advisor | Ambassador Women and Girls | Endurance swimmer / trail runner ⚡️views are my own.
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social Still raging about the abject moral abomination of Brexitism.
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Alan Fresco @alanf.bsky.social An opinionated Edinburger mainly interested in the outdoors, science and politics.
Currently raging against the dying of the light.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social Traffic island castaway.
https://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/
Bobby Seagull MBE @bobbyseagull.bsky.social School teacher, Maths Appeal podcast, FT & the i newspaper columnist, West Ham ambassador, author Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
showplanr.com/show/bobby-seagulls-escape-from
Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social 
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social weary papa
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
@kojokoram.bsky.social @kojokoram.bsky.social 
@Maxine David.bsky.social.com @maxinedavid.bsky.social Brit abroad. Critical friend of the EU. Foreign Policy analyst (EU, Russia, UK, US) at Leiden University. Teaching = my way of not despairing about the world. Of course they're my views.
Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat.
Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester
Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion.
beside/toward/above
🏳️🌈
Crawford Spence @profcrawfordspence.bsky.social Professor at King's College London: accounting, financial markets, economic sociology, financial expertise
Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is Designing for the last earth • Opinions are my own, I think...
(he/him/hän)
📌 Helsinki • 🇫🇮 (from 🇬🇷)
Portfolio: https://arn.is/
Cofounder: @jointfrontiers.com
Practice: https://mesa.fi
Thoughts: https://collectivefutures.blog
Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social Londoner in Norn Iron | Data Communicator | Humanist | Dad of girls | Glastonbury Pilgrim | Strange Loop | Runner | ENTP
Author of @believethedata.org
Co-founder of @pfie.bsky.social
Oisín Murphy-Lawless @bikesnbukes.eurosky.social LLM in Human Rights. Opinions are my own, reposts not an endorsement. Cyclist, da, flatmate to Finrod (friend to man). Cat pics, Phillies, some law, tech and internet policy (day job), the odd Bucky/Klaes gif. Oh! And RPG stuff (mainly Call of Cthulhu).
Sarah Wiseman @swiseman.bsky.social Maker
Baker
Last slice of cake taker
(Researcher and reckoner)
Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.social Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
Hitchin Hackspace @hackhitchin.bsky.social An innovative space for makers to create using state of the art tools, in a transformed former public toilet. Come join us to do something out of the ordinary!
Kat Five @katfive.bsky.social Electronica with bite, Emergency Start out now!
Music. Tech. Change.
aka Terry Tyldesley / Feral Five
https://linktr.ee/katfive
https://feralfive.bandcamp.com/track/truth-is-the-new-gold
Andy Powell @p0welly.bsky.social Marketing Consultant & Trainer, helping SMEs make the most from their budgets, WordPress Specialist, scruffy looking nerd herder & maker of things
Froggy @froggymakes.bsky.social Mini painter, DM and maker.
Martin @martinburch.com Data research and computer history
Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org Postdisciplinary games academic: Make/study/teach the playful, weird, wonderful and radical. (he/him)
#criticaldesign #speculativedesign #designfiction #gamedesign
Projects:
https://ben.kirman.org
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Martin O'Leary @mewo2.bsky.social Luddite. Head of @pmstudiouk.bsky.social
Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social PhD student in Informatics: AIAI: Automated Reasoning, Agents, Data Intensive Research, Knowledge Management. No, I don't know why the title is so long. Also Affiliate of the Center for Technomoral Futures. Views are my own.
TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry intersectional feminist. Writer/EIC @ Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PhD, media/politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, storytelling
No DMs please, I'm British
Books at https://payhip.com/NefariousBatPress/collection/tc-parker
Dr Lindsay de Wal @drlindsaydewal.bsky.social BA,MA,PhD|UK’s 1st NHS Humanist Head of Chaplaincy|Director Humanist-Existential Care [EHSN]|Head of Pastoral Care [NRPSN]|Thoughts are my own|Published Author|
W: https://living-your-values.com
W: https://humanist-existential-care.trainercentralsite.eu
Sam Bond-Taylor @sambondtaylor.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Microsoft Research Health Futures. Previously PhD in deep generative models at Durham University.
Bevis Halsey-Perry @be7is.bsky.social 21st Century Handyman
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Signal @signal.org Signal is a nonprofit end-to-end encrypted communications app. Privacy isn’t an optional mode, it’s the way Signal works. Every message, every call, every time. https://signal.org/donate/
@RosesRebellion🌹🪐🌺🌸 🥀 @rosesrebellion.bsky.social Forget your sing-a-longs and your lullabies
Surrender to the city of the fireflies
Dance to the devil in beat with the band
To hell with all of you, hand-in-hand
But now it's time to be gone❤️
John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social writer / filmmaker / human rights / Wikipedia / Turkish stuff / he/him / PhD @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social / investigatinglambeth.substack.com
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
David Ealey @ealeyd.bsky.social Retired HE professional,now trying to relive my youth by going to lots of gigs and listening to, and buying, lots of music. Will mostly mutter about ITFC, HE mismanagement, data, music and other random stuff. Very personal views
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
Alan Paxton @alanpx.bsky.social Cyclist, software person, interested amateur, servant of Labrador 
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com Defend Digital Me | Consultant to AI & Ed working group Council of Europe | part-time MSc Global Public Policy | human rights and digital in education | privacy and data laws | public sector and EdTech | #UNCRC | #research | bees & baking
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com Strange but not a stranger. I’m an ordinary guy.
https://www.todayontrail.com
https://www.todayintabs.com
John McDonnell MP @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social Elected Labour Member of Parliament for Hayes & Harlington, former Shadow Chancellor.
The Association of Photographers (AOP) @the-aop.org Protect, Promote, Inspire
We are a trade association for professional image-makers and our mission is to be the guiding force for those creatives, on matters relating to business practice in still and moving image.
NUJ London Freelance @nujlfb.bsky.social @NUJOfficial London Freelance Branch. Supporting indie journalists with our magazine, creative opps, training and events | Meets: 2nd Mon/mo. Run by @nikatalbot.bsky.social
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social Neurogeneticist interested in the relations between genes, brains, and minds. Author of INNATE (2018) and FREE AGENTS (2023)
Orçun Can @aorcuncan.bsky.social Writer, academic, dungeon master. EN/TR. Lecturer in Digital Economy @kingsdh.bsky.social. King's College London.
Mark McCormack @markmccormack.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor. Focus on sexualities, transgressive leisure and society. Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Posts are in a personal capacity. I volunteer with The Loop, read and play badminton.
John Hill @jpjhill.bsky.social Writer, with other bits attached
Sistacrumpet @sistacrumpet.bsky.social Making bios for every site is exhausting :/
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Jack Lowe @jackalowe.bsky.social A geographer who makes games and interactive stories.
Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: https://pinthetale.co.uk/
jackalowe.co.uk
🖐️ DrAlanT 🎬 📚 📎 @dralant.bsky.social Great-grandpa Allan: 1835, Ireland. Me: since Balliol College, Oxford &
@education.ox.ac.uk
- chalkface teacher to professor: 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇿🇦 🇧🇬
☄️ 'We must be still and still moving.' T. S. Eliot.
@ Linktr.ee/dralant
😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social ACADEMIC PERSON
@UoNComputerSci, @UniOfNottingham, @TheOfficialMRL +
@HorizonDER
❑ RESEARCH COMBINES HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (#HCI) + ETHNOMETHODOLOGY (#EMCA)
Techno-Optimism Archive @technooptimismarch.bsky.social Documenting the long history of technological hype.
technooptimism.org
Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social Executive Publisher at T&F. ❤️ 🐕 🍩 🍨 ☀️ #scicomm #physicalsciences #mathematics #statistics #datascience #history #science #STS
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
Submission? DM me
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John Blake @johndavidblake.bsky.social Director, The Post 18 Project // Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy at University of Salford // musical theatre obsessive
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
RuelFox @ruelfox.bsky.social Norwich City / REM / Old Labour
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
https://rupertbarretttaylor.com
Carrie Jenkins @carriejenkins.net Philosophy prof. Author of What Love Is and What It Could Be, Sad Love, Victoria Sees It, and some other things. Sphynx cat staff. On unceded land. she/they
www.carriejenkins.net
Michael Morris @michaelmorrisphil.bsky.social Philosopher (emeritus prof) of language, art, and metaphysics, plus Plato and Wittgenstein. Also interested in music, visual art, photography, and walking (when fit).
Sandy Leaton Gray @drleatongray.bsky.social Professor of Education Futures at UCL. Personal account, posts represent my own opinions and not those of my institution.
Jake Browning @jake-browning.bsky.social Philosophy of AI and Mind, but with a historical bent. Baruch College.
My dog is better than your dog.
https://www.jacob-browning.com/
Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social Evolution: it's nothing personal. (Sorry if I ask too many questions... Share nicely!)
I'm here because you're here.
http://pabloredux.wordpress.com/
(Profile photo: a faint shadow of me cast across a weathered lichen-marked stone wall by the sea.)
Kevin Riggs @profriggsy.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, cognitive science, drumming, beer.