Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team Canadian wanderer in Ireland. Trying to make the internet a better place. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety.
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Drunk On Mystery @drunkonmystery.bsky.social "And in all the million ages to come, I will never breathe, or laugh, or twitch again.
So won't you run and play with me here among the teeming mass of humanity? The universe has spared us this moment."
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
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Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Tom Westgarth @tomwestgarth.bsky.social Head of Growth at AI hardware startup @Fractile-ai.bsky.social. Ex policy in Sovereign AI Unit and TBI. Bridging tech and policy worlds at TxP.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com Certified urban planner doing policy stuff at California YIMBY. Posts about housing, skateboarding, and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
📍 San Francisco
Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social Director of BAFTA-winning indie game studio Size Five Games
EARTH MUST DIE | Lair of the Clockwork God | The Swindle | Behold the Kickmen | Ben There, Dan That! | Time Gentlemen, Please! | Gun Monkeys | Privates | Gibbage
www.sizefivegames.com
Rachel Blake MP @rachelblakemp.bsky.social Cities of London & Westminster MP, Labour and Co-operative. Email rachel.blake.mp@parliament.uk
Jesse Kanson-Benanav @jessekb.bsky.social Saying yes to homes for all across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Executive director of @abundanthousingma.org | http://linkedin.com/in/jesse-kb
Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social Big fan of big ideas about big issues. Mostly public services, civil service and civic governance.
Ex-Cabinet Office, DHSC and RSA. Now freelance.
Daniel Poser @danielposer.bsky.social
Simon B. Støvring @simonbs.dev Passionate developer and speaker 🧑💻
Bringing festive lights to your dock with festivitas.app 🎄
Smashing your Mac into bits with https://smashsmash.app 🔨💥
Also building runestone.app, scriptable.app, and more.
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Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
Pritesh Mistry @priteshifg.bsky.social Head of Partnerships - @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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@jamierumbelow.bsky.social @jamierumbelow.bsky.social gradually, then all of a sudden
founder @tract
Harry C. Rushworth @hcrushworth.bsky.social Tech, transport, politics, and planning | Lover of cartography and trains | Own views
Ben Johnson @ersatzben.com Co-Director, Science Works. Professor at University of Strathclyde. Former UK govt adviser on science and tech policy. Personal views.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
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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.
Lucy Rigby MP @lucyrigby.bsky.social Chief Secretary to the Treasury 🇬🇧 | Labour MP for Northampton North | For casework, please contact lucy.rigby.mp@parliament.uk
Ed Balls @officialedballs.bsky.social Dad, cook, pianist, economist, Harvard, King's London, Holocaust Fdn co-Chair, NCFC, podcaster, retired dancer, former Cabinet minister, sometimes on TV & Radio
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social South West native, currently co-lead economy & climate team @IPPR - (views mine)
Industrial strategy | Bazball | @BristolBears
Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social "Former energy czar" - the Guardian. "Energy big brain" - Politico.
Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
Dan Aldridge MP @danaldridgemp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Gordon McKee MP @gordonmckee.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow South and eternal optimist.
Marley Miller @marleygmiller.bsky.social Designing new ways to get affordable housing built, Thriving investments. Former economic adviser to Rachel Reeves and Treasury official.
Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan @rossaokod.bsky.social Research @ Open Philanthropy. Formerly economist at GPI / Nuffield College, Oxford.
Interests: development econ, animal welfare, global catastrophic risks
Sanjush Dalmia @sanjushdalmia.bsky.social Science and Technology Policy | Fellow @britishprogress.org | Member @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One
Manchester / Leeds
Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
Andrew Bennett @droojb.bsky.social trying to scale progress, quickly | @andrewjb_ on twitter
@pedroserodio.com @pedroserodio.com
@cjaworrall.bsky.social @cjaworrall.bsky.social
Alistair Strathern MP @alistrathern.bsky.social Hitchin’s Labour MP | Standing up for our towns & villages.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Anastasia Bektimirova @anastasiabekt.bsky.social science & tech policy, government innovation
https://x.com/anastasiabekt
Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social Senior research fellow, Centre for European Reform. Likes good coffee, long runs, and the Paris Review.
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
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Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Did I mention I wrote a book...?
Anna Valero @asvalero.bsky.social Professor in Practice and Growth Programme Director, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Paul Graham @iampaulgraham.bsky.social
Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Chi Onwurah @chionwurah.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West. Chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.
Emily Fry @emilyfry.bsky.social Economic adviser.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
CaSE @sciencecampaign.bsky.social Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) is the leading independent voice for UK R&D.
www.sciencecampaign.org.uk
ananyo.bsky.social @ananyo.bsky.social Chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 'The Man from the Future', on the unparalleled influence of John von Neumann, available everywhere.
Subscribe to my substack, Confections & Refutations https://ananyo.substack.com
Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social Chief Economist at The Data City. Formerly of Centre for Cities. Posting mainly about economics.
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Laurel Boxall @laurelboxall.bsky.social Tech Policy @ Public First, prev Labour Together
Dig Hum @ Cambridge
English Lit @ Oxford
She/her
John Whitfield @johnwhitfield.bsky.social (Science) journalist and author.
Opinion editor, Research Professional News.
Books: Lost Animals; People Will Talk ; In the Beat of a Heart.
www.johnwhitfield.co.uk
Kir Nuthi @kirtinuthi.bsky.social A London-based policy wonk who loves to chat about AI + encryption. Currently technology trade association-ing. Bookbinder and yogi often found in wild near dogs, yoga mats, and/or art supplies. Smartphone-free.
Ross Mudie @rmudie96.bsky.social Researcher. Currently exploring England with @iconeighbours.bsky.social, former think tanker
Dan Turner @dtturner.bsky.social Sheffield-based researcher. Interested in regional growth, populism and political economy.
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Richard Ngo @richardngo.bsky.social What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? Ex DeepMind, OpenAI
Tom Harwood @tomhfharwood.bsky.social politics and policy
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Sophie Hale @sophiehale.bsky.social Research Director leading on economic growth, trade and intergenerational fairness at the Resolution Foundation.
Alexander Iosad @iosad.fyi Progress, policy, practice. Past: TBI, edtech VC, history of science DPhil.
AI & tech optimist, not solutionist. Fan of universities, state capacity, 🏏. School governor, occasionally. Diasporan ✡️.
Juergen Maier CBE @juergenmaier.co.uk Austro-British Industrialist. Chair of Great British Energy, Co-founder @vocl_uk, Former CEO #Siemens UK. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Phoebe Arslanagić-Little @pmarslanagic.bsky.social Children are good! Working on the birth rate challenge at
Onward & the Boom Campaign | Columnist at City AM | Surname is pronounced: ars-lah-nah-gitch
Seán Keyes @quays.bsky.social Exec Director of Progress Ireland.
Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social Econ prof in Vancouver in Vancouver @ SFU. My research explores how culture and institutions shape long-run development. 👉 guillaumeblanc.com
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
David Milliken @davidmilliken.bsky.social Reuters economics reporter covering the Bank of England, HM Treasury, bond markets and UK data.
Robbie @robbiebowman.com NYC, SWE
@jonathonkitson.bsky.social @jonathonkitson.bsky.social I write a substack on the companies and institutions that have an outsized impact on geopolitics. https://www.kitstack.xyz/
Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social I run The Update newsletter: www.update.news
Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
Maxim @maximharper.bsky.social
John Kroencke @johnkroencke.bsky.social
johnkroencke.com
https://theceme.substack.com/p/private-planning-and-the-great-estates
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Rohan @rohanps.bsky.social Macroeconomist specialising in heterogeneous firms. Previously antitrust.
Retired international sportsman / D1 athlete. Englishman in the US. An actual doctor, not one of those fake medical ones.
https://sites.google.com/view/rohan-shah/home
Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Department of Government. Former minor twitter celebrity/hate figure. https://www.leonardocarella.com/
Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social We are the Mayor’s Fund for London, a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers across the capital.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com Providing an immigrant's perspective on Western politics
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Consultancy network: auroramacro.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
GMB Union @gmb.org.uk Organising and campaigning to #MakeWorkBetter. Winning for members since 1889.
Promoted by GMB union, 22 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HD
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Oliver Roeder @okr.bsky.social commissioning editor, FT weekend magazine @financialtimes.com
website: oliverroeder.com
previously: FT data; nieman fellow; fivethirtyeight
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Cllr Tim Bick @cllrtimbick.bsky.social Liberal Democrat Leader on Cambridge City Council and Market Ward councillor. Casework to Tim.Bick@cambridge.gov.uk please
Luisa Porritt @luisaporritt.bsky.social Communications adviser to global investors. Former Lib Dem politician, once compared to Fleabag by a focus group. Another past life as a journalist.
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.
Jasneet Samrai @jasneetsamrai.bsky.social Deputy Director of Centre Think Tank.
Also works in health public affairs.
All views are my own.
@cosmolupton.bsky.social @cosmolupton.bsky.social Lib Dem Health Adviser
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social Dad, author, teacher, macaroni and cheese maker. PAPA’S COMING HOME is an instant NYT bestseller and on shelves now!
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com