Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social Worked over 2 decades with Human Rights Watch & International Crisis Group. Subscribe to my free newsletter, "International Affairs for Normal People": https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/andrewstroehlein
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
James Sibley @jdsibley.bsky.social Public affairs in trade association land. Politics, cycling, gardening, and cats. #ITFC and Essex CCC fan. 
Chris @chrisbham.bsky.social Birmingham UK
Interests: Ontology for Data integration, Rail Data, Stage lighting, learning Italian and cycling.
Work for University of Birmingham and MoniRail
Liza G @lizag.bsky.social Cats, nice things and Arsenal mainly. Trying to avoid the politics for now.😊
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.
Alex Watson @aj-watson.bsky.social Head of Involvement, Coproduction and Partnerships. West London NHS Trust.
Passionate about patient voice, Clarins and cats.
Views my own
Anna Botting @annabotting.bsky.social Journalist & Broadcaster
Chief Presenter, Sky News
Press Preview #skypapers
& Sky News at Ten
Bryony Rudkin @bryony1963.bsky.social Councillor. PhD at 63. Swimmer. Mother in law. Take your pick.
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Cathy Brown @cathyab.bsky.social Economic Justice Woman. SiFi & comics nerd. Tea drinker. Podcast host for Engage Business Media. Social Enterprise expert. Midlander & proud Brummie ex pat. Vintage brooch enthusiast (for now). Retired Morris dancer #AuDHD #Derbyshire
Bruce @davisonbruce.bsky.social posting random stuff on cycling, climate change, sustainability, west London, Leeds United and occasional photography. Day job involves orchestrating the provision of data, currently environmental data
Ciara Murphy @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social Escaping from the other place…Lecturer in Drama at TU Dublin | Lead Researcher on Safe to Create (she/her)
Read my book: https://www.routledge.com/Performing-Social-Change-on-the-Island-of-Ireland-From-Republic-to-Pandemic/Murphy/p/book/9781032078151?srsl
Liz Zachary | Non-fiction editor @brightoneditorial.bsky.social I provide editorial services to individuals and organisations around the world: www.brightoneditorial.com
Joined the RNLI as a volunteer lifeboat press officer in October 2024.
Likely to post pictures of flowers and seascapes.
Matt Skinner @skinnerm.bsky.social CEO at Care City CIC supporting innovation across health and social care #ageing #localgov #socialcare #health #opendata #digital #design #tech 🌈 https://www.carecity.org/
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Liz Vande Putte @aaa-liz.bsky.social Neurodivergent neurodiversity trainer, writer, forager, quizzer, avid collector of National Trust pencils. Squirrel enthusiast.
www.ActuallyAutisticAdult.com
Paolo Fruitini @paolofruitini.bsky.social Meme Distribution Executive
(Just sitting here quietly, memeing into the void...)
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Christian Spence @christianspence.co.uk Economics · Data Science · Public Policy
Founder & Chief Economist @economic-analytics.co.uk
Economic Data Lead @open-innovations.org
Chief Economist & Fellow @insplacemanagement.bsky.social
#EconSky #Rstats #Rshiny
András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social Hungarian-born British screenwriter.
Same hat size as Ralph Fiennes, same shoe size as Anthony Eden
As seen on the Bird App
A national security threat, according to Donald Trump
IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3416508
Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Gill Kirk @gillkirk.bsky.social A constellation: pol comms strategist (restricted), playwright/screenwriter & tutor, media law & Norsk student, on/off French horn player & proud Glaswegian. Ex SW1, now Trumpton (Bath). All fab. www.gillkirk.com
Vincenzo DM @vincenzodm.bsky.social International politics i/t ´Brussels Bubble´. Historian (16th c. diplomacy). Also Teaching Assistant @VUBrussel (UK history). Belgian. My views are my own.
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Jens Hanefeld @germanambusa.bsky.social German Ambassador-appointed to the US since August 2025. Previous posts not my own. Reposts not endorsements. Views are my own.
www.germany.info
Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur @agatumilowicz.bsky.social Scholar & Writer ✍🏻
Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature
I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia.
Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, CEU Review of Books, Apofenie, etc
C'est du Belge @polbegov.skyfleet.blue Compte veille politique/econ/région
🆘 @skyfleet.blue
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
Dr Simon Perkins 🇪🇺🌻🌊🌈 ally #FBPE @simonperkins.bsky.social 🇪🇺 🇳🇿 Pākehā/Tauiwi living in the UK - the largest British region of *Europe*
I am an academic with research centring on 'affective economies' http://trigg.gr/
I was previously on X/Twitter from 2007 https://twitter.com/SimonPerkins (before the mass exodus)
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
PermaConfused @permaconfused.bsky.social Journo/analyst covering transnational security, cyber, research. Lives with wife, chickens and ducks.
Tony Bennett @obadiah99.bsky.social Ex-civil servant, Cornishman, European, likely to post on politics, wine, cricket, music, history etc.
Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net Table games, murder acrobatics, emotional rhythms, water magicks
Play, magick, coins and graps
Solidarity, creativity, love and hope
Queer, trans, autistic, ADHD, fatigued
campsite.bio/avafoxfort
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Evil Uncle Tim @evil-uncle-tim.bsky.social Ex-bookseller, now shed-lovin' retiree.
Moved from London to Warwickshire in 2024.
Not missing London (nasty, smelly place)
Missing the people (even the nasty, smelly ones...)
Simon Huddlestone @huddy99.bsky.social Interested in all sorts. Including weather, trains, UK politics & current affairs, old cars, maps, history, ships, planes, computers, cycling, public transport, nostalgia, Yorkshire & jokes!
Clare McEwen @claremcwrites.bsky.social Author of She Can Kick It - the fast-paced, easy-read history of women's football.
Substack: https://theaccidentalcoach.substack.com
📚 https://shecankickit.com/book
TNWSM: thenewwomenssportmagazine.com
Alix Kroeger @alixkroeger.bsky.social Text editor at the Associated Press, London. Previously BBC News website and BBC na srpskom. Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024. Ukraine, Balkans, climate change, bicycles and the rest. 
John C Wheeler @hayseed-dixie.com Frontman of Hayseed Dixie. Singer of Country-Funk Soul-Punk. Working class elitist. Conservatively liberal. Opining and listening on music, philosophy, and geopolitics in English and/or Deutsch.
Dominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social Researcher, facilitator & cultural strategist passionate about social causes and meaningful change. I work across systemic boundaries whenever possible to build bridges, nurture relationships, and aim for better outcomes for people. Glasgow based
@suitcasetrains.bsky.social @suitcasetrains.bsky.social 
Ali Stoddart @alistoddart.bsky.social Democracy and Participation. Work at The Scottish Parliament. Formerly of Demsoc. All Blue Sky thinking my own…
Femke Halsema @femkehalsema.bsky.social 
Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social Polish-Scottish woman, Glasgow/Brussels. Lampshade. Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary. (she/elle/ona)
Rachel @dorsetrachel.bsky.social Amazon. Livid since 2016. 💚🤍💜
www.dorset.rachel@wordpress.com
Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social Digitalisation, Democracy and anti-Disinformation. European Parliament 2019-2024. Danish diplomat 2005-2017. https://karenmelchior.eu/
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social Words in Unherd, Guardian, Politico, New Statesman, The Spectator, New Humanist, The Fence, The Critic, The Daily Mash, Jamestown Foundation. Usually about Russia-Ukraine. Voice/face on BBC radio/TV and Times Radio.
Michelle @michellebrook.bsky.social Cornish, currently living in Cheshire.
Environment, data, tech, policy and community.
Reads a lot, loves silly adventures. 
Mumko69 @mumko.bsky.social #COYS
#TheExpanse
#DiscWorld
#MurderBotDiaries
Posting about ⚽️ a lot
I don’t just follow back
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com 🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice
Buy my book: www.TheOwnedContinent.eu
Read my Substack: https://DaveKeating.Substack.com/
Watch my reporting: www.DaveKeating.net
Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Mike Knell @blat.at Middle-aged 🇬🇧🇦🇹 SRE, he/him. Wiener. In a love-hate relationship with amateur radio since 1985. Drummer. Cat staff member. Big fan of diversity, inclusion, empathy and humanity in general. Not a fan of bigots.
IsabelSuzy @isabelsuzy.bsky.social East Yorkshire, Brussels, Teaching - not all at once
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Rebecca Thorne @rebeccathorne.bsky.social USA Today, Sunday Times, Indie bestselling author!
I write badass lesbians and talk publishing.
https://rebeccathorne.net/links/
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 78/100
📚 Graveyard Gladiators
📺 Skeleton Knight In Another World
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Pieter-Jan Maesen @pieterjanmaesen.bsky.social Economist, forever-scout, artist, and a big nerd about tabletop RPGs, video games, history and tanks.
Garret Beggan 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @garretbeggan.bsky.social Personal: Dublin 1966, Galway 1971, Birmingham 1988, Málaga 2019.
Political: Irredeemable Centrist. Bite me.
Professional: PMO, Governance & ERP stuff. Yay! 🤓
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
Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social Irish writer, Brussels based.
Writes on food and drink, travel, keeps an urban diary at Brussels Notes
https://www.brusselsnotes.substack.com
Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights.
No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Negatywiec @negatywiec.bsky.social I wonder.
Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social UK & Welsh politics/social policy. Occasional regional broadcaster. Data person at large UK charity.
Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social Shitposter, persistent typoer, Microsoft Paint user, uncomfortably English | Former journalist once called “The Attenborough of women's football"
https://ko-fi.com/lawsonsv
Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Politics: Crude Marxist
PSA: I have an itchy block finger
Helen Jerome @helenjerome.bsky.social writing. football - women’s and men’s. theatre. music. film. telly. books. comedy. food. cider. opera. all with a passion. carpe diem.
editor of https://thenewwomenssportmagazine.com/
Azamat Junisbai @azamatistan.bsky.social almaty native - california transplant - sociology professor - views are my own - 🇰🇿🇺🇦
Petit Dictionnaire @petitdictionnaire.bsky.social Divorce warrior, uncloseted romantic, language teacher, bookish mum of three boys. From 🇳🇱 living in 🇫🇷. Definitely not single.
Studying 🇸🇪. Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️.
Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social Professor of European Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Posts on EU, Balkans and International Politics.
Author: The Eastern Enlargement of the EU.
Director, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/europe
Blauer Teddy @blauerteddy.bsky.social For a strong, free and democratic Europe. Proud to be a German. Fella.
Married, retired, with a house full of happiness, books, movies and cats.
Passionate about traveling and photography.
C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Iain MacGilleBhràith @aeonmach.bsky.social I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
@tatilujan.bsky.social @tatilujan.bsky.social 
Iain @iainl7.bsky.social Internet Old Man, sorry. Films, music, games, photography, cats. Frequently fails to quit that politics addiction.
Post Rock, Ergo Propter Rock
Owen Michael @owenwmichael.bsky.social Welsh and European. Biromantic Asexual. @UKLabour, @unisontheunion, and @thefabians. Data person and all round geek. He/him/o
Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social I am a man with many hats and outfits, having adventures everywhere...
I admire the bowler hatted man from 52 Festive Road.
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine. 
Sean Goulding Carroll @sgcarroll.bsky.social EU politics reporter with Contexte. Formerly, FORESIGHT Climate & Energy and Euractiv.
Get in touch: scarroll@contexte.com
Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social Birmingham Spokesperson for Mums for Lungs
Mum of 3 👩👧👦 | Clean air & safe streets advocate
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org 🌱
#ActiveTravel 🚶♀️🚲 | #SafeStreets
📍 Birmingham
Pascal Freson @pascalfreson.bsky.social Débattre, apprendre, partager, comprendre, construire. Avec humour et bienveillance. Suit uniquement des personnes avec le même état d'esprit.
Steven Van de Walle @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social Professor, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute. Public services, public management, public sector reform, public sector innovation http://www.instituutvoordeoverheid.be
https://pioneer-master.eu/ - MSc Public Sector Innovation & eGovernance
Charlotte Smith @charsmiffy.bsky.social Climate comms and all things German/ ex BBC/CNN/DWTV Journo. Currently clean on OPSEC
Monika Gause @vektorgarten.bsky.social graphic designer, technical writer, educator with a love for all things vector, zebras, type, trains & public transport (in no particular order). english & german she/her
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Stef Aerts @stefaerts.bsky.social Actief in het hoger wonderwijs aan Odisee, UGent en KU Leuven. | All things ethiek en dieren. En ingenieurstoestanden | Bierfluencer na de uren
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/