State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Partnership on AI @partnershipai.bsky.social A non-profit bringing together academic, civil society, industry, & media organizations to address the most important and difficult questions concerning AI.
M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She 🏳️🌈
www.crockettlab.org
@rowlandmanthorpe.bsky.social @rowlandmanthorpe.bsky.social 
Hugh Wallace @tumshie.me Tech / gov / design / occasional snark. Usually found queuing for coffee ☕️ Digital and data for public good ✊
CIO @rds-scotland.bsky.social
Chair @cfgsocial.bsky.social
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Jonty @fairless.xyz Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift.
📍Edinburgh 🏴
Dawn G W @bajoranengineer.bsky.social (She/her) DevRel + Community Advocacy Dir @ Anaconda, ex-Microsoft, The PSF, WagtailCMS, Djangonaut Space. #BlackSky 🌈
Phoebe Davis @phoebeivy.bsky.social Reporter | Formerly The Observer/ Tortoise Media
Mostly ✍🏻 about gender, sometimes writing about music 🎵
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/her
Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social Longtime policy wonk, consultant, researcher and speaker about the impact of data driven tech and AI.
immersed in researching young people’s digital lives and AI in education. Previously biometrics, online harms, digital ID, online privacy
Prof Viv Hope @vivprof.bsky.social Professor of Public Health at PHI, LJMU, UK.
* drug use & harm reduction
* LGBTQI+ well-being
* preventing infections
* reducing health inequalities
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11344-vivian-hope
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Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social Folk devil ¦ wonkish agitator for climate @Transition-Network and trans lib @TransActualUK/TMW ¦ busy touching grass ¦ gamemaster, gardener, bookworm ¦ does other things but don't worry about it ¦ views not mine either ¦ pronounced like cane ¦ they/them
VicGrimwood @vicgrimwood.bsky.social Social Worker & PhD student, Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Policy Institute, KCL. Researching the bettering of data for ASC & Social Work. Critical Data Studies & Data Justice lens. NIHR DLAF hosted by Camden. Own views, occasionally.
Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social Quantitative Methods Lecturer & researcher in survey representation of LGBTI+ populations
https://kenglish95.github.io
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium @pairs.site A space to share research and practice that puts affected communities at the heart of AI development and governance. More at https://pairs.site
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
Josh Simons MP @joshsimonsmp.bsky.social Dad, Husband, and MP for Makerfield | Author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Algorithms-People-Democracy-Age-AI/ | josh.simons.mp@parliament.uk
Ian Murray @ianmurraymp.bsky.social MP for Edinburgh South and Minister of State at DCMS and DSIT
Contact me: https://linktr.ee/ianmurraymp
Promoted by Kate Watson, Scottish General Secretary, on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party, Donald Dewar House, 139 Norfolk Street, Glasgow, G5 9EA.
The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com Be a Trans Advocate! | http://patreon.com/transadvocate | https://transadvocate.com/
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Indy @indy.bsky.social Coach. Strategy, AI-Human and more.
Politics Somewhat Meta
(if you know, you know)
Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy. New net.wars posting every Friday at https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net. Based London. Folksinger. 2024 CD: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/lasttriphome.htm. Not age-verified here; no DMs.
Elspeth Kirkman @karminker.bsky.social Exhausted mother. Shark enthusiast. Works at Nesta. Gabs on TikTok. Fellow at @uniofexeter.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Formerly at the Behavioural Insights Team.
📚Buy my books!📚 https://bit.ly/EKirkmanBooks
Adam Briggle @abriggle.bsky.social Professor, dad
Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social A think tank that develops strategies and policies for cultivating #DigitalCommons.
https://openfuture.eu/
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Transparent Action @transparentaction.bsky.social We are parents of trans loved ones, united in love and action for dignity, safety and equality for all trans people.
✍️ Sign our pledge: tinyurl.com/TransparentAction
Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat Cat furniture, cool auntie, and algorithmic witch. Digital rights, and IP law.
Personal account and talks about everything. I usually follow back if you reply or like my post.
Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social Emeritus Fellow of Digital Rights. Editor of book series on all aspects of digital citizenship and digital authoritarianism. Free typo with every post.
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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 ✡️.
Jakob Mökander @jakobmokander.bsky.social Director of science & tech policy at the Tony Blair Institute. International research fellow at Yale Digital Ethics Center. Views my own
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.
Kevin Keith @kevkeith.bsky.social Passionate about building trust. Chair, opengovernment.org.uk; Co-Chair, UK Multi-Stakeholder Forum; Writer, published articles on KevKeith.com; Governor Warrington & Halton NHS Trust; Trustee, homelessness charity, The Papercup Project. LFC #YNWA
Aleks Turobov, PhD @alturobov.bsky.social Political Scientist with a love for technology. Assistant Professor. Research lead AI & Geopolitics Project @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk, @cam.ac.uk.
AI | Security | Digital Sovereignty
Fionntán @fionntan.bsky.social 
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
Gus H @gushosein.bsky.social 
EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air. (Sylvia Plath with Thanks to Lydia Faithfull for showing me this poem).
Shell @risu.bsky.social edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
Upol Ehsan | hiring PhD students Fall'26 @upolehsan.bsky.social 🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI
💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society
🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, Microsoft} Research
🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy
☕ F1, memes
🌐 upolehsan.com
David Nolan @dmnolan.bsky.social Investigative Researcher, Tech and Human Rights, Amnesty Tech
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Undermanager @undermanager.bsky.social As disappointed as you are
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social Habitual CS line-stepper.
Bull City, Gen X, and unserious as hell.
"I am Nina and Roberta, the one you love but ain't heard of."-Rapsody
Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
Work @eff.org, teach at College of Europe Natolin, sing and play 🎷 in a band, live in London, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about
Views are mine alone.
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
😷🏳️🌈
🎙️ thedatafix.net
📝 heliotropejournal.net
🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social researcher @ ucla • dominatrix in nyc
writing a book on sex work & surveillance @ucpress.bsky.social
words @wired.com @thenation.com @chronicle.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @slate.com @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social etc • she/her
doctrixsnow.com
Ellen Judson @ellenejudson.bsky.social Disinformation investigator, tech policy nerd, philosophy, human rights, climate. Views my own. She/her
Also on https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-judson-75918241/
Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government
Just Em 🏳️⚧️ [illegal lesbian] @agirlcalleddave.bsky.social They can scream "woke" until their lungs give out, but I woke up the moment I came out. Fierce trans rights activists, muscular dystrophy sufferer, parent of two grown kids, grandmother to two. tacc.org.uk
Sycamore Collective @sycamore-collective.org https://sycamore-collective.org
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people.
https://www.transactual.org.uk/
Info: info@transactual.org.uk
Press: press@transactual.org.uk
Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
TACC @tacc.org.uk TACC is an intersectional organisation started in 2024, dedicated to advocating for trans rights, addressing transphobia, and unofficial EHRC watchdog.
❤️Donate: http://alturl.com/ipg2h
🌴 https://linktr.ee/tacc_uk
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Kaitlin (Kay) Thaney @kaythaney.bsky.social executive director, Invest in Open. cares a lot about governance + infrastructure. makes things out of clay.
Jamie Hancock @j-hancock.bsky.social Digital policy @demos-uk.bsky.social
Tech, rights, info environments, privacy, labour
(Views are my own; read at your own risk)
Shannon Dosemagen @sdosemagen.bsky.social Builder, researcher, and organizer connecting people and institutions around participatory science, open tech, and community-led climate/environment work.
https://linktr.ee/shannondosemagen
Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him
NEON @neonuk.bsky.social Neon supports, strengthens, and helps social justice movements win. We do it through programmes, resources, support and networks.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Ravi Naik @ravinaik.bsky.social Radio and podcast producer. I make the Law Show and Rethink for BBC Radio 4. Writer and Journalist. Come for the writing, stay for the dad jokes.
Elena Simperl @elenasimperl.bsky.social Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
Good Things Foundation @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social Powering the National Databank, National Device Bank and our free online digital skills platform, Learn My Way. Supporting the National Digital Inclusion Network.
Header image text reads: "Fixing the digital divide - for good."
Jamie Whyte @northernjamie.bsky.social Data; Data visualisation; Education and schools data; Technology; Academy Trustee; Manchester
Nick Stenning @nickstenning.bsky.social Infrastructure, humans, production operations, security. Oh, and dogs.
We and AI @weandai.bsky.social Non-profit organisation. Critical AI literacy - critical thinking about AI and better narratives about AI for public power. Powered by volunteers
Our websites:
BetterImagesofAI.org
WeandAI.org
Victoria Collins MP @victoria-collins.bsky.social MP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted, Spokesperson for Science, Innovation & Technology, Liberal Democrat Vice President.
https://linktr.ee/victoria.collins.mp
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Soizic Pénicaud @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social Researcher and activist based in France. I focus on public sector tech + algorithms (especially in digital welfare) and technology-facilitated violence. Co-founder odap.fr. ex-Etalab
Publish What You Fund @publishwhatyoufund.bsky.social The global campaign for aid and development transparency. Producers of the Aid Transparency Index and DFI Transparency Index. Also working on localisation, private capital mobilisation, gender, development finance and philanthropies. #aidtransparency
International Aid Transparency Initiative - IATI @iatistandard.org International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) aims to make information about development & humanitarian spending easier to access, use and understand | #IATI
Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social I work at the House of Commons. Currently: Science, Innovation and Technology select committee. Previously: Public Accounts and Brexit committees.
Apart from that, I'm mostly being a dad and cycling. My views.
Gavin Starks @dgen.net Biog: https://dgen.net/biog
All social media connections: https://dgen.net/0/connect/ 
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Luis Villa @lu.is Programmer-turned-lawyer, trying to build human(e) futures.
Day job: SonarSource. Boards: Creative Commons, OpenET (open water data), CA Housing Defense. Also: 415, dad. Past: Wikipedia, Moz, 305
Also: https://lu.is + https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief
radio3 @radio3.bsky.social Telling you what's playing on BBC Radio 3. #radio3 #nowplaying #bot
- #6music version at @6music.bsky.social
- #radio1 version at @radio-1.bsky.social
📻 Made by @cheersderek.com / https://ko-fi.com/itsderek
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social she/her (not a work account)
Ivan Herman @iherman.bsky.social Retired computer scientist from CWI in Amsterdam; emeritus team member of W3C; also interested in history, arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), photography, international politics, literature, music (mostly classical). Lives in south of France.
Tania Duarte @taniaduarte.bsky.social Critical AI literacy. Runs WeandAI.org and BetterImagesofAI.org
TLA Tech for Disability and RSA RAIN, AI and Ethics Journal, 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2021, Computer Weekly Women in UK Tech Rising Star
Pssst the Broligarchs don’t care about us
Luke Marshall-Waterfield @lukewaterfield.bsky.social Deputy Chief Digital Officer for the Mayor of London.
Beck Strickland @beckstrickland.bsky.social Data geek. Book festival organiser. Craft addict.
burnhambookfest.co.uk
Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social Public sector digital/strategy consultant. UK based, though frequent visitor to Ankh Morpork. Mother of two small humans, servant to one large cat.
Ellen Broad @ellenbroad.bsky.social Current: Deputy Chief of Staff to Minister Ed Husic. Usual: AI researcher and writer.
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