Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social Director of the Leverhulme Trust and Fellow of British Academy. Formerly Professor of Education. All views are my own and retweets do not suggest endorsement.
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social The new home of progressive ideas and debate.
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Ramsay Hodgson @ramshodgson.bsky.social News reporter - Financial Times
USSR Pictures @ussrpictures.bsky.social Pictures and photographs from Soviet Union. Soviet Posters: https://ussrpictures-shop.fourthwall.com/
Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social FT investigations. Previously defence & security editor, political and home affairs correspondent. Get in touch: helen.warrell@ft.com
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Africa Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…
Weebl (with bits) @mrweebl.bsky.social Animator, Composer, Director, Scriptwriter, Voices.
Odd ideas for a living.
Yes, you should hire me.
YT: https://youtube.com/@weebl
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Duncan MacInnes @dwmacinnes.bsky.social Urban demographics & politics
Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi Unjust society is unsustainable -> democracy is non-negotiable.
Sustainability transition & modeling circular economy @ Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) as a profession; defence of Finland and democracy as a hobby.
Angela Francis @angelaisfranc.bsky.social Green economy champion. Into industrial strategy, trade, innovation and environment policy.
Bit of my heart always in Germany, Derbyshire, Scotland, Canada, East of England, Trinidad, Jamaica and on a rugby pitch. Now in London.
Stephanie Flanders @stephanomics.bsky.social Head of Economics and Politics at Bloomberg and Bloomberg Economics. Also a QPR fan. But my views are my own.
Arun Advani @arunadvani.bsky.social Economist. Director @CenTaxUK.bsky.social, AssocProf
@WarwickEcon.bsky.social, co-chair @DiscoverEcon.bsky.social, ResearchFellow @TheIFS.bsky.social, @cagewarwick.bsky.social, @LSEInequalities.bsky.social
Jannike Wachowiak @jannikewachowiak.bsky.social Researcher at UK in a Changing Europe.
UK-EU relations and European politics.
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Ramandeep Kaur @mumof3amigos.bsky.social Campaigner. Activist, Lived Experience Trainer. MA Social Policy.
#LearningDisabilities #HealthInequalities
Former charity Chair.
Trying to build a better world.
Also love #LFC
Views expressed are my own.
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wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Adrian Joyce @ambulant.bsky.social Multidisciplinary hobbyist, tech worker, infrequent social media poster. SE3.
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
The Bristol Cable @thebristolcable.bsky.social Pioneering investigative local media co-op, owned by thousands of people in Bristol, UK 🗞️
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Tobias Wolf @tosid.bsky.social Berlin-based Economist | Public Policy Enthusiast
Alumnus Freie Universität Berlin 🎓 | PhD in Economics
Facts are the cornerstone of democracy. My interests lie at the intersection of public policy, economics, and subjective well-being.
Posts in EN & DE
Going Underground 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @goingundergrounduk.bsky.social Worked mostly in transport and mining. A nobody here but a legend on LinkedIn! 😀 Posting anon because of work roles. Ronny says hi 🐕 👋
CITP @thecitp.bsky.social The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, funded by the ESRC is built on the precept that trade policy should be inclusive in both policy formulation and outcomes
Tony Barrett @tonybarrett.bsky.social Ex-Bloomberg editor, Pontypridd Observer reporter and NCP carpark ramp sweeper.
Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Prof of European Public Health LSHTM
Co-Director European Observatory on Health Systems & Policy
Member Independent SAGE
Past President BMA & EUPHA
Committed to 🇬🇧 rejoining 🇪🇺
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mckee.martin
Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social AP in Economics @BathUni • Previously: @SAFE_Frankfurt • @WarwickUni • @UniBocconi • Politics, Media & Science
https://www.eleonora-alabrese.com
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Drivelsieve @drivelsieve.bsky.social I once put a stick in a non-stick pan
https://www.youtube.com/@drivelsieve
Robin Potter @robinpotter.bsky.social Academy Associate, UK in the World Programme @chathamhouse.org. Former Labour staffer and civil servant.
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/robinjpotter
Rob Francis @robfranciseu.bsky.social Managing editor and Brussels editor for Borderlex covering EU trade policy and coordinating coverage in across London, Geneva, and much else besides. Recovering lobbyist. Occasional meme maker. Season ticket holder Union Saint-Gilloise and Belgium
Joe Mulhall @joemulhall.bsky.social Director of Research @hopenothate. Writer, historian, journalist, anti-fascist.
Latest book: Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance is out now!
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Patrick Holden @patrickholden.bsky.social Irish academic at the University of Plymouth, IR/ Political Economy/EU Policy.
Eccentrist Dad @slothlydad.bsky.social Vintage 70s frame running GenX OS, patched to woke-1.9.1stable.
Bikes, synths, maps, code, LCC, homegrown, homebrewed, climate, G/green.
Croydon & Sarf London.
Personal views only. Does things you've not heard of for people you have.
advait @advaitarun.bsky.social capital markets & energy finance @ Center for Public Enterprise ☀️🏗️ • fmr US Treasury • bay area / dc • advaitcore.substack.com.
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Richard Appleby @rmappleby.uk Ex-IBMer, currently "economically inactive". Interested in science, technology and the environment. Fan of rational thought, citizenship and the common good.
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
Louis-Philippe Rochon @lprochon.bsky.social Full Professor of Economics, Laurentian University
Editor-in-Chief, Review of Political Economy
Founding Editor, Emeritus, Review of Keynesian Economics
Co-Director, Monetary Policy Institute
Director, @monetaryblog
The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social Informing, educating + entertaining re British broadcasting's origin story: the first firsts of radio, early BBC, interwar bits & pieces + occasional pictures of Reith looking grumpy.
By paulkerensa.bsky.social
Podcast/tour/book: paulkerensa.com/oldradio
Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social Investigations correspondent for The Guardian. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland and The Looting Machine. The truth will out, it just sometimes takes a while.
Stories: theguardian.com/profile/tom-burgis
Books: tomburgis.com
Simon Burgess @profsimonb.bsky.social Researching pupils, teachers and schools. Professor of Economics, University of Bristol. FBA. Views my own.
Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social The real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics. A podcast with Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt.
http://patreon.com/originstorypod
https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
Produced by Podmasters
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Cam Vargas @camvargas.bsky.social Work: @arguablymag.bsky.social 🇵🇪🇬🇧 | COYI ⚒️
The Constitution Society @consoc.bsky.social The Constitution Society is a charity which promotes public understanding of the UK constitution. Founded 2009. www.consoc.org.uk
Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social Affiliate Fellow, studying issues concerning all things (European) energy, climate and clean tech at the Bruegel think tank.
Andreas Georgiou @aageorgiou.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Birmingham Law School | Commercial Law, Financial & Banking Law, EU Law
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social
Shahin Vallée @shahinvallee.bsky.social Economist, think tanker. senior fellow DGAP, board member Observatory Group
Matthieu Favas @mattfavas.bsky.social I lead The Economist's coverage of commodities globally - energy, food and mining - as well as that of economic sanctions, grey/black markets and illicit finance more broadly.
Ben Robins @benrobins.bsky.social Energy, Tech, Transit, Geopol, Economics
UK based small boat arrival from Xhitter
Stands with Ukraine & all fighting tyranny
Arguing is fine; political tribalism = block
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András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, chief editor of Bear Market Brief. Delphi GRC fellow. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism & its limits. My own views.
Здесь вам не Toth.
www.noyardstick.com
minczifra.substack.com
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
Zoe Avison @zoeavison.bsky.social Senior political adviser at Uplift. Fossil fuels, climate change and politics, views my own.
Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
Josef Davies-Coates @josef.is Community & Digital Engagement at @communityenergyengland.org
#CommunityEnergy Starter Pack:
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All my links here: https://ud.coop/jdaviescoates
Build #community, develop #coops, create #commons.
#TogetherWeHaveEverything
David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social Lower value human capital
Rosa Hodgkin @rosahodgkin.bsky.social Researcher at Institute for Government working on climate, energy and resilience policy
Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social Environment Editor at The Times. Clean it Up water campaign. When not working, usually running. Previously New Scientist and Guardian.
adam.vaughan@thetimes.co.uk
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/adamvaughanjournalist
Signal: adamvaughan.53- P David Smith @preoccupations.bsky.social
Ludvig Broomé @ludvigbroome.bsky.social Analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
European defence, geoeconomics, and the transatlantic relationship
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social Dating back to 1830, UCL History sits in the heart of London and welcomes the best researchers and students from around the world 🌎
Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social The official Bluesky thinking page of the Icelandic Cricket Association. Birthplace of cricket (911 CE). Merchandise: https://s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Website: krikket.is
The Brunel Centre @thebrunelcentre.bsky.social Powering devolution and economic growth in the West of England through data and insight.
Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Mark Thissen @thissenm.bsky.social Professor of spatial networks and economic development
Sandy Hendry @sandyhendry.bsky.social Editor for Bloomberg Functions for the Market stories, which show data insights into markets and economies. Opinions are my own.
Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social Chief Europe Correspondent at the South China Morning Post.
Tracking the shifting tectonic plates of global trade and geopolitics.
All posts should be heard in a Fermanagh accent.
Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social Toiling in the heritage vineyards…
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/
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
Robert Lind @roblind.bsky.social
Jennifer Churchill @redjen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Economics UWE Bristol; macro, finance (especially pensions) and also philosophy. Previously dabbled in politics, policy, public affairs
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Taffy Osborne @poppingbubbles.bsky.social UK & Welsh politics/social policy. Occasional regional broadcaster. Data person at large UK charity.- T @tashtash64.bsky.social @tashtash64.bsky.social Humility is the fount of wisdom.
L'humilité est la source de la sagesse.
Demut ist die Quelle der Weisheit.
La humildad es la fuente de la sabiduría.
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social Anonymous opinions written by YOU - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and often niche. Edited by @robmanuel.b3ta.com - add yours: https://bit.ly/addanonopin
Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in politics at the University of Bristol.
Investigating the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour, among other things.
ralphscott.co.uk
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social I'm sorry to be so difficult, but I'm afraid the truth is that I am.
Raphael Fischer @raffers.bsky.social Dangerously enthusiastic about mulling
Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social Proudest of the posts I didn’t send.
Rick Ball @rickball.bsky.social IP, Competition & EU Law, Derby County, LA Rams & wonderful Weymouth are my passions
Heinz Brandenburg @heinzbrandenburg.bsky.social Political scientist, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at UCD Dublin; Dundrum Methodist Church; Royal Irish Academy; Azure Forum, IDSA and Gym Dad. Mix of Mayo, Kerry, West Virginia and suburban Maryland.
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Charles Cavendish @ccavendish.eurosky.social If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social Digital policy strategist and creative technologist. Special interest, European digital sovereignty.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
James Green @james-r-green.bsky.social Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform, Brussels. Tech, innovation, and economic policy. Previously US House of Representatives, US Department of Energy.- M Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/martin-sandbu
Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social Deputy ed at Inside Housing
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman