James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social I write about collisions between human ambition and the natural world: The Golden Spruce, The Tiger, The Jaguar's Children,
FIRE WEATHER: @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
10 Best Books: @nytimes.com
https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/john-vailla
Go Higher – University of Liverpool @gohigherliverpool.bsky.social Go Higher at the University of Liverpool: a supportive, part-time route into higher education for adults returning to study. Build confidence, develop academic skills and discover what comes next.
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org Inorganic Chemistry || University of Liverpool || Education || Blogging || Textbooks || www.michaeloneill.org || PERIODically Podcast supporter
Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social War, robots, & bad futures but imagining better. I edit @cipolicy.bsky.social's International Policy Journal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymay.bsky.social & father of 2.
Front takes towards enemies.
Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
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.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Nick Hillman @nickhillmanuk.bsky.social Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, Dad
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social Independent military history author and researcher. If you find my writings interesting or useful, any tips are appreciated: http://ko-fi.com/chrisowiki 
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Digital Scholar @digitalscholar.bsky.social Making Methods Modern since 2009
Designed by historians, our software and services make research, publishing, and cultural heritage work possible.
Zotero | Omeka | Tropy | Sourcery | PressForward | DHNow
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
We're not age verified (!) so we can't see DMs.
Relayed from Mastodon by Skymoth
Zotero @zotero.org I’m the free, easy-to-use tool that helps you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources. 
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social Higher Education. All of it. All around the world. Also: snark, sumo, Winnipeg Jets triumphalism and bitching about Toronto FC.
I blog here: https://higheredstrategy.com/blog/
I podcast here: https://worlded.transistor.fm/
People Selling Mirrors @sellingamirror.bsky.social Sometimes when people sell mirrors online, they can't figure out how to get out of the way.
If you've found a good pic @ me if you'd like the credit; or DM to remain anon. Happy hunting!
Noelle Cook @noellecook.com Author of The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Associate Producer + Researcher, The Conspiracists (2024) | https://linktr.ee/NoelleCook | noellecook.com
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com Education policy analyst. Host of 'Inside Your Ed' podcast (www.insideyoured.com). Former teacher, think tank director and government advisor. Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/tomrichmond
Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Cultural geographies of mobilities, affect, embodiment, habit, automation, labour
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/792958-david-bissell
Social & Cultural Geography @scgrg.bsky.social Committee of the Social & Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Tweeting and retweeting geographical things
AAUP @aaup.org The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
aaup.org
Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY 
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social For 20 years, ISD has led the way in detecting, exposing and combatting terrorism, extremism, foreign interference and authoritarianism.
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
David Sturrock @david-sturrock.bsky.social Economist
Peter Levell @peterlevell.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social.
https://sites.google.com/view/peter-levell/home
@josh-freeman.bsky.social @josh-freeman.bsky.social Policy Manager, Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI). Formerly Teach First Maths & Politics.
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social Politics, policy, education inequality, cycling, football. Social mobility researcher. Views own etc.
If you're wondering whether I'm trying to make a joke then I probably am.
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social Britain’s leading cross-party think tank, with a mission to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society.
https://www.smf.co.uk/ | Also on LinkedIn, X and TikTok
Kevin Latham @kevinlatham.bsky.social Research and Policy Manager at the Sutton Trust; former secondary teacher (Social Sciences) and university lecturer (anthropology/sociology)
Centre for London @centreforlondon.bsky.social We are London’s think tank. A voice for all London is, and could be. Follow us for urban policy updates, London policy discourse and insight into our research.
https://centreforlondon.org/
Centre for Ageing Better @ageingbetter.bsky.social At the Centre for Ageing Better we are pioneering ways to make ageing better a reality for everyone. Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.
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
IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social We're the leading think-tank based in the North丨Developing bold, progressive ideas to empower England’s regions丨21 years of independent research & influence
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Harry QP @harryqp.bsky.social Director of IPPR. Progressive policy and politics. Non-Exec Director at West London NHS Trust.
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social An Urban Planner taking the World on one bite at a time.
Director, SFU City Program + Assoc Prof of Professional Practice, Urban Studies
My thoughts are my own.
IG: publicyan | Twitter: ayan604
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/about/city-program
Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social Progressive Urbanism thoughts related to India || Slums || Transit || Cycling || Pedestrians || Housing Shortage || Rental Discrimination || Climate Change ||
Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Architecture Prof. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold🥇2024
On Gadigal country
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation. Pedagogy and rsearch methods nerd. SLO and Tahoe. "Tare-uh", She/her.
Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social Professor IAE-Paris1 Sorbonne
French Academy of Technologies
Happy Proximities pionneer
15-Minute City concept creator
22 books in 13 languages
MultiAwarded 🏅🏆
Sigma Xi Scientific research honor society Fellow
Since 1 July 2024 ❌X/Twitter
Fr En Es It
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Lost Supper
Words: NYTimes NatGeo Smithsonian
⬇️ Train travel + politics of transit ⬇️
https://www.highspeed.blog
Talks: https://taras-grescoe.com/contact
IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
tamika l. butler @tamikabutler.bsky.social Nebraska Always.
@StanfordLaw alum. Fighting racism, poverty & injustice. @UCLA Urban planning PhD. Mobility justice & dignity all day. All tweets/views my own.
Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social Hi! I'm John Simmerman, founder of Active Towns, a channel dedicated to profiling the people, places, and programs promoting a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities." Learn more 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@activetowns
Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social Ancienne Maire de Paris
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
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
University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
https://liverpool.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/livuni
Martin Thorley @methorley.bsky.social Book on UK-China shadow international relations: http://tinyurl.com/3ny5c5ee
Senior Analyst at GI-TOC: developing concept of geocriminality.
PhD on shadow international relations. Previously academia. Views my own. Erstwhile 北漂儿
Jane Duckett @j-duckett.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Chinese politics, local government, social and health policy.
Javier Borràs Arumí @jborrasarumi.bsky.social Researcher at CIDOB
Europe - technology - geopolitics - China
https://javierborras.substack.com/
Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Jason Jianzhi Zhao @jasonjianzhizhao.bsky.social China, Global Policy, and International Political Economy. University of Exeter. www.jianzhizhao.org. All views are my own.
Mark Parker Young @markparkeryoung.bsky.social Principal analyst at Google's Threat Intelligence Group. Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and senior nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council. Views my own.
https://markparkeryoung.net
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Lu Chen @luchen.bsky.social lu.chen@manchester.ac.uk
History of medicine & global health
https://luchengh.com
Research associate
@dhm-manchester.bsky.social
@hcrinstitute.bsky.social
@manchester.ac.uk
Isaac Kardon @ibkardon.bsky.social Study China maritime strategy & int’l security policy
Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Book: China’s Law of the Sea yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256475/chinas-law-of-the-sea/
Sabine Mokry @drmokry.bsky.social IR & China | Researcher at IFSH, previously Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program | PhD from Leiden University | passionate about teaching IR and foreign policy | academic mom of 2
Ilaria Carrozza 李文雅 @ilariacarrozza.bsky.social Senior researcher at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). SOAS and LSE alumna. Working on China, digi tech & AI, democracy-autocracy, security, international order, geopolitics, China-Africa & more.
Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy
at the U.S. Army War College. Indo-Pacific & Eurasian Security, Strategy, and Development Politics.
William Hurst @wjhurst.bsky.social Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Co-Director, Centre for Geopolitics
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
@rusi.bsky.social 
Shahar Hameiri @shaharhameiri.bsky.social Professor @POLSIS University of Queensland. Political economist. Asia & Pacific security & development; the 'Second Cold War'; good hummus; bad puns. Unusual disclaimers apply. https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/13942 
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies @fairbankcenter.bsky.social A world-leading center on Greater China at Harvard University. Dedicated to advancing scholarship and research for over 65 years.
John Culver @johnculver689.bsky.social Fmr National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, retired CIA analyst. Views solely my own. Likes/reposts are not an endorsement.
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Ya Zuo 左娅 @zuoya.bsky.social Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Francesca Ghiretti @fraghi.bsky.social Economic security and China
Research Leader China and Economic Security at Rand Europe; Non-resident Fellow at Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies @CSIS; host of the podcast Geoeconomic Competition. Former MERICS, IAI
Jacob Stokes @jacobstokes.bsky.social Senior Fellow & Deputy Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Previously White House & U.S. Congress. China, East Asian security, US foreign policy. Views mine.
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.