All-Island Social Security Network @allislandssn.bsky.social An academic and civil society group that researches and discusses social security systems across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.🍉
📚 Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
GLOBAL Visibility aéPiot - by aePiot.ro @globalvisibility.bsky.social SEMANTIC WEB - https://aePiot.ro - https://allGraph.ro - https://aePiot.com - https://Headlines-World.com - INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC INFRASTRUCTURE Web 4.0 where knowledge is generated locally, shared freely, and never collected, tracked, or controlled.
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ ✍️ 📷 TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
📚💻🎬 PUBLICIST-producer-actor imdb.com/name/nm5117722/
💂♀️ LONDON's Bluesky PACK (90+) bsky.app/starter-pack/phelimkellycom.bsky.social/3lr44hozfo225
Cumbria Europe Faroe Hungary Ireland Spain
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
SavannahLee @savannahleea.bsky.social One of the biggest reasons to use Blue Sky is that I can finally get news in an environment with less advertising interference.
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
Zoey @zoeydeer.bsky.social MSc in Digital Sociology | University of Edinburgh
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social Senior researcher @mpifg.bsky.social, studying private wealth, finance & the state in the climate crisis. #privatewealth | #impinv | #greenfinance | #strandedassets
Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social Professor in Social Policy & Sustainability, Lund University: Capitalist development & its social, environmental and policy implications; #degrowth, sustainable #welfare. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/max-koch
Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social Build Housing-Protect All Workers-Organize
Construction labor union research analyst and campaigner since 2003. Research finds that union membership, collective bargaining & quality jobs are good for people and society, actually. Now covering CA, OR, & WA!
Creatrix Cymraes @creatrixcymraes.bsky.social Artist, maker and mother (Creatrix) from Caerdydd, Cymru (Cymraes) ✨
Queer, disabled, siaradwyr 🏴♿️🏳️🌈
Join me for collage club events at Unstable Arts in Roath!
Following ≠ support; I’m doing social outreach at the moment x
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social Social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy (and elsewhere).
Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
Culture is bad for you http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164
Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out now called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined: social science and socialism'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
Luciano Latouche @lucianolatouche.bsky.social I'm a language teacher and writer on Medium.com. I write about languages, language learning, and linguistics.
Read my stories here: https://medium.com/@latoucheluciano1
Gabriele Mari @gmari.bsky.social Sociologist @Erasmus University Rotterdam
Social security, families, income/wealth
https://sites.google.com/view/marigabriele/home
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
SPA Housing Policy Group @spahousingpolicy.bsky.social This is the Bluesky account for the Social Policy Association Housing Policy Group. We will post updates on our activities, events, and publications. Please tag along. The account is managed by @profcolinclark.bsky.social on behalf of the group.
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Michael Tobin @michaeltobin.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Policy, SETU.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
@incitefulpod.bsky.social @incitefulpod.bsky.social 
Tom O'Grady @drtomdog.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, UCL. Studying political economy, welfare reforms, public opinion, European and British politics. He/him 🏳️🌈
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Ray Griffin @raygriffin.bsky.social Researching the organisation of labour markets | SETU Ireland Lecturer in Management + Organisations
GG2 news @gg2news.bsky.social https://www.gg2.net/
GG2 is a UK-based news website. It mainly covers politics, community news, and South Asian stories.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Welfare Scotland (welfare.scot) @welfare.scot Advancing a fairer Scotland by championing social security, human rights and real and meaningful social progress. We work with partners to help identify the root causes of poverty, drive advocacy for change and promote equitable living standards for all.
Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
@skyjjii.bsky.social @skyjjii.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/Linktrjjii
@ianpace.bsky.social @ianpace.bsky.social 
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
Juliet Stone @drjulietstone.bsky.social Research Fellow at CRSP, Loughborough University. Stats geek researching social policy and inequality, poverty, and living standards.
UCU Commons @ucucommons.org UCU Commons is a broad activist community working within and alongside the University and College Union (UCU). We are also on http://UCUCommons.org #UCUCommons
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
ATD Ireland @atdireland.bsky.social We hold a vision of a world without persistent poverty. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, a violation of Human Rights & people in poverty have unique knowledge & experience that can lower the barriers separating people & communities
www.atdireland.ie
Peter Whiteford @peterwhiteford.bsky.social Interested in most aspects of social policy in Australia & internationally (also certain literary genres and restricted musical choices); also history (art too)
ANU, Canberra crawford.anu.edu.au/crawford_peopl…
Mikko Kuisma @drmkuisma.bsky.social Political scientist, Program Lead and Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Tübingen. Media Editor, SPA journals.
Welfare states and social citizenship || ideas and institutions || populism || social democracy || Nordic / British / European politics
Eastern Eye News @easterneye.bsky.social https://www.easterneye.biz/
Eastern Eye is Britain’s best known and most respected Asian weekly newspaper with national coverage.
ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) is a research centre hosted at King's College London and supported by the ONS.
We provide research on economic statistics for the modern economy. 📈
Levana Magnus @levanamagnus.bsky.social Research associate at University of Bristol. Researching un/under/employment, social in/security, and the value of care
Sarah Hadfield @drsarahhadfield.bsky.social Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice.
John Stuart Mill Institute @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social Independent radical liberal think tank based in the UK. Our latest book, When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis, is being published this February.
Jagna Olejniczak @jagnaolejniczak.bsky.social Senior Policy Researcher at @citizensadvice.bsky.social, previously @publiclawproject.bsky.social & Government Legal Department
Hannah Randolph @hlrandolph.bsky.social Applied microeconomist working on social policy, labour market, and immigration @fraserofallander.bsky.social (University of Strathclyde) (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social I am a Prof of Comp Sci at Uni of Manchester, UK. UCU NEC disabled member rep (2023-24). UCUCommons. All posts are my own behalf alone. He/him/they.
David O'Connell @daviduk.bsky.social 🍞⚘️
तत्त्वमसि
PhD | Trade Unionist | Global Labour University Alum | Occasional Jacobin Contributor | Writing on Employee Ownership, Supply Chain Industrial Relations, Philosophy
📍Germany based
https://global-labour-university.org/
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
Eliana Munoz @givehope.bsky.social Time to be brave. Nature is our lifeline🐝. We must protect it.
We will all win if we all speak out, not with anger or with fear, but with conviction.
We are fighting for the good in all of us. We are fighting the heart of our nation 🇺🇸 🗽⚖️.
The Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org We are a collective of platform workers and researchers challenging conditions in self-employed and gig work.
🗺️ Edinburgh, Scotland
Thomas Prosser @prossertj.bsky.social Professor of European political economy, Cardiff University. Essayist. Dislikes partisans, likes paradoxes. Author of two books with Manchester University Press.
Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics, University of Lincoln. Parliament, the intelligence services, a little bit of social policy.
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Nancy Evans @nancycevans.bsky.social Sociologist. Senior lecturer & course leader at Uni of Chester. Part of @socjustice-uoc.bsky.social. Qualitative & participatory research. Poverty, social (in)security, stigma, & social harm. Navigating academia & life with ADHD.
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Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Carlos Cabanita @ccabanita.bsky.social Portuguese retired graphic designer
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J. Randy Taraborrelli @jrandyt.bsky.social Presidential historian - latest New York Times bestseller, "JFK - Public, Private, Secret" on sale now. TV writer, too. But more importantly - Dad to a very entitled dog named Axel.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jfk+taraborrelli
Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Flagpie @finecuppacoffee.bsky.social I'm just here to burn Nazi's and chew bubble gum...
and I'm all outta gum.
Peter @peter19a.bsky.social Always in search of feel-good images.