Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social Writer/lecturer on Russian influence & information warfare | lead writer of greatpower.us | Be excellent to each other
Hélène Rey @helene-rey.bsky.social Professor of Economics London Business School
Vice President CEPR
President European Economic Association. Views are my own.
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
More at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary
Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
Pulp Librarian @pulplibrarian.bsky.social Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
Hannah @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social The most scandalocious little fish in the sea
Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info 🚇 Was Strategy & Innovation Director Transport for London
🖊️ Freewheeling Blog / Podcast www.freewheeling.info/blog
SUBSTACK: Freewheeling Bitesize: https://freewheelingbitesize.substack.com/ & History of Europe in 75 Railway Journeys http://bit.ly/3EQNOPA
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
Kate Birrell @kamabi.bsky.social Born one of Scotland’s many creative engineers. R Feynman is a hero and an inspiration. Not always obvious.
Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing: viennabriefing.substack.com. Website: liamhoare.com. You can reach me at: contact@liamhoare.com
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
Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone @alicirone.bsky.social Faculty at the London School of Economics;
Co-Director, EMAP/EMPP;
Governance Innovation Council, Meta
Studying lotteries in democracy and tech, participatory tech, HPE, political economy
acirone.com
Alex @m-ttpa.bsky.social 
Hannah Keenan @hannahkeenan.bsky.social Associate Director at Institute for Government, and former civil servant (cabinet office, dfid).
@ulhistory.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social 
History Hub at UCD @historyhub.bsky.social History Hub is based at the School of History, University College Dublin. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history.
https://historyhub.ie
Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com 🙅🏻♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶
Western suburbs of Paris
Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Progressive Economy Forum council member. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics.
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social Award-winning Storyteller of Science. PhD. Founder & Chief Creative Officer at First Create The Media for life science comms strategy & content https://firstcreatethemedia.com/ Views: mine. Book: https://www.rebelcellbook.com.
Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social Environmental journalist. Founder of investigative journalism non-profit https://watershedinvestigations.com/
Bylines: @guardian @thetimes @bbc @SkyNews @itv
Ex: @TheENDSReport @PenguinUKBooks @independent
Rachel.salvidge@watershedinvestigations.com
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social 
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
The Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social Transforming the state to renew the nation.
To stay updated, join our mailing list: https://futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/contact/
David Beech @davidbeech.bsky.social Yorkshire based. Interested in politics. Labour member but not a cultist.
Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Posts here speak only for myself.
Americo-Canadian; liberaltarian; aging geek.
http://jacobtlevy.com
Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social Working class feminist academic. Research epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism, media representations of poverty. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
It's not 'intolerant' to defend women's rights!♀️
Philip Nye @philipnye.bsky.social Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Hannah Summers @hansummers.bsky.social Investigative journalist/ family courts for @tbij.bsky.social |Best specialist journalist 2023 - Freelance Journalism Awards |Media Freedom Awards winner 2025
Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social Journalist, specialising in policing, crime, justice, prisons, security & immigration. Ex-BBC home affairs correspondent & former adviser to Yvette Cooper MP. These are all my views! 
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
@martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social Local authority foster carer, journalist. Sharing news and views about the care system, children and young people. Subscribe to my weekly bulletin via weekincare@gmail.com
post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social mostly politics. some Seahawks.
Normal Man.
oh and one more thing
you aren’t going to like
what comes after America
David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social Mixing up a spot of bewigged law with some quality lounging, #pvfc, awkward puns and tireless pedantry.
Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social 
Carrie Gibson @carriegibson.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Wanderer. My third book – The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas – is out now in the US and 12 Feb in the UK. More info here: linktr.ee/carriegibson76
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Patrick English @patrick-pme.bsky.social YouGov guy earning paychecks by researching public opinion, projecting elections, doing MRPs, running campaign and comms testing and development, figuring out how AI can help measure public opinion, and being a talking head in the media.
David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social Ethics R Us.
Cambridge MA
Zion Lights @zionlights.bsky.social Award-winning Science Communicator. Content creator at Science with Zi. Author of “Energy is Life.”
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
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.
Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk
Sophie Gilbert @sophiegilbert.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic: TV, books, culture, women. GIRL ON GIRL is out now: https://bookshop.org/p/books/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-sophie-gilbert/21683668?ean=9780593656297
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social When you absolutely, positively got to know every "On This Day" in movie history, accept no substitutes.
10+ years & 50,000 followers on Twitter, making a new home for ourselves here. (formerly Dates in Movies)
Charlie Beckett @charliebeckett.bsky.social LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
https://followinghadrian.com/
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social Despite the handle, I research and write about Ireland's brewing history and recreate Irish historical(ish) beers. Also posting food, and nonsense. Seemingly, I'm a 'gloomy beer drinker' who's 'lost in the froth on his pint.'
beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com
History, University of Hull @historyathull.bsky.social News and events from History at the @UniofHull. Ranked 12th in Guardian 2023 rankings of UK History departments. Study with us!
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
Fania Oz-Salzberger @faniaoz-salzberger.bsky.social Historian of ideas, Enlightenment scholar.
Israeli Jew. Doing my best to be liberal, humanist, zionist (two states 🇮🇱🇵🇸), peace seeker.
Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social I'm a history professor at Middle Georgia State University. I hold a PhD in medieval studies and post entirely too much about my cats and hobbies.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
Daisy Dunne @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Associate Editor @carbonbrief.org 🌍
London via 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇦🇹
Sign up to our free weekly climate newsletter: http://carbonbrief.org/debriefed/
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
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.
@katewilliamsme.bsky.social @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
Signal: @sehill.11
Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social Constitutional law, legal history. Assistant Prof in Maynooth University, Ireland.
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ 🗃⚱️📜
Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social Security & geopolitics | Previously based in 🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Capital Germany 40 under 40 | ☕ http://buymeacoffee.com/jberlin | Don’t just get mad, get busy | https://berlinbridge.substack.com/subscribe
Daniel Keohane @keohanedan.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University (DCU) - mostly focused on European security, national strategic cultures in Europe (i.e. France, Germany, UK), European military cooperation, EU, NATO, US strategy
digby @digby56.bsky.social OG blogger at digbysblog.net
columnist for Salon.com 
Luka Ivan Jukic @ljukic.bsky.social Reading and writing
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
University of Reading @uniofreading.bsky.social Official account of the UK's Sustainable University of the Year 2025 (The Times). We're inspiring the next generation of climate and environmental leaders, with world-class research, incredible students achieving their potential + geese. www.reading.ac.uk
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights
#FiLiA2027 is in Blackpool, Lancashire
Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk