jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Lynn Wyeth @lynnwyeth.bsky.social Leicester. Views own. She/Her #LCFC. Foxes Trust. Cub Leader. Foodbank trustee. Cat lady. Loves Eurovision & 🇫🇮. Yorkshire born. Of the zombie #FOI request fame.
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • Hamilton / MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com
Open Government Partnership @opengovpartnership.org 73 national & 136 local governments, alongside thousands of civil society groups, working together to improve people's lives. #OpenGov
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
Gus H @gushosein.bsky.social 
InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social Information Law & Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
javierruiz @ruizmacpherson.com 
Wikimedia UK @wikimediauk.bsky.social Supporting Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community in the UK.
Open knowledge for everyone, powered by people.
Join the movement ↓
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
David Erdos @daviderdos.bsky.social Trinity Hall Fellow, Professor of Law & Open Society & CIPIL Co-Director Cambridge University. Interested in #dataprotection #GDPR information law, legal history & public and private international law. Viewpoints personal & RT≠endorsement
Open Justice Court of Protection Project @openjusticecop.bsky.social Promoting Transparency in the Court of Protection
#NotSecretCourt
By @kitzingercelia.bsky.social @gillloomesquinn.bsky.social @clarkdaniel.bsky.social @amandaaphill.bsky.social + @doccmartin.bsky.social
Website: https://openjusticecourtofprotection.org
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage. French-born, London-based cosmopolite. Literary #Archives & #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI
www.lisejaillant.com
Dr Mark Leiser @lawbhoy.bsky.social AI, Digital, Legal, and Platform Regulation; DigiData.UK
The legal guy behind DECEPTIVE.DESIGN, Article 5(1)(a) and (b) of the AI Act
Visiting Professor at the RGSL, Mosbach.
The Justice Gap (www.thejusticegap.com) @justicegap.bsky.social An online magazine about the law and justice - and the difference between the two. Buy PROOF magazine, support the Justice Gap: www.thejusticegap.com/shop. Editors: Jon Robins and Sam Dulieu
Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex (UK) (migration, asylum, media, voice, recognition, citizenship) https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p349998-rob-sharp
Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social @ucllaws.bsky.social
@11KBW
#EASTWESTSTREET
#THERATLINE
#THELASTCOLONY
#38LONDRESSTREET
John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social Academic,newspaper columnist (Observer), blogger (johnnaughton.substack.com), photographer, optimist (despite current state of world), author, co-founder of Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (mctd.ac.uk) at Cambridge
Rachel Extance @rachelextance.bsky.social Making complex work accessible for mission-driven organisations. Editorial strategy & communications architecture. Former local government correspondent. Host of Rachel’s Writing Club. https://rachelextance.com/blog
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Nina Jorden @ninajorden.bsky.social Researcher @ Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Posting about work, productivity, wellbeing and sometimes emergency management.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more: https://www.newlocal.org.uk
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
Jessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social Always searching for good coffee.- L Laura Diaz Anadon @lauradiazanadon.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy Cambridge U. | CEENRG Director | IPCC | EU Sci. Board on CC | Fellow St John's College | CRI & Cambridge Enterprise Board | Affiliate Harvard https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-laura-diaz-anadon
Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy. Please follow us on our new handle: @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
Lawrence McNamara @lawrencemcn.bsky.social Law things. Music things. Other things.
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
EPSU @epsu.bsky.social The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe.
Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins!
General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Criminology & Social Justice Research Cluster @ Strathclyde @crimsocjust.bsky.social We are the Criminology & Social Justice Research Cluster, Department of Social Work & Social Policy at Strathclyde University, and a partner in http://sccjr.ac.uk
Kate O'Riordan @kathleenor.bsky.social Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK. 
Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk www.sussexbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism: contributing to a connected society, combatting political polarisation editor@sussexbylines.co.uk
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros.
https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
@egertonneto.bsky.social @egertonneto.bsky.social Head of Programs at the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).
Been also to LSE, Oxford, UFPE, Aspen Institute and Connected by Data. You'll have my attention if you show me a map or a drag queen.
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Jenny Kitzinger @jennykitzinger.bsky.social Law, medicine, ethics, journalism.
Improving care & decision-making Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness - Co-director cdoc.org.uk Research centre, Cardiff University 
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Currently on maternity leave
Daniel Sandford @bbcdaniels.bsky.social I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
Jess Glass @jesspglass.bsky.social Press Association Law Editor by day | GDL student by night | probably asking for a skeleton argument or talking about DnD | NUJ rep | they/them | stories and docs to jess.glass@pa.media
Nacro @nacro.bsky.social Our housing, justice, substance misuse and education services work alongside people to help them succeed. And we campaign together to create lasting change.
Find us online at nacro.org.uk
Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social Women's Justice Board member
BBC New Generation Thinker
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
Family law/ criminal law intersections. Children's rights. Procedural Justice
Creative public engagement. Once upon a time I was a barrister
Kirsty Brimelow KC @kirstybrimelow.bsky.social Human rights, criminal & international law barrister Doughty Street Chambers. Chair Bar Council 2026. Chair Criminal Bar Association 2022-2023. Chair Bar Human Rights Committee 2012-2018. Bencher Gray’s Inn. Trustee of WWF-UK.
Penelope Gibbs @penelopegibbs.bsky.social My passion is to improve UK justice. Lead charity www.transformjustice.org.uk (email there). Also visiting fellow
https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/ and chair www.appropriateadult.org.uk
Criminal Justice Alliance @cjalliance.bsky.social We are a network of 200+ organisations and academics working towards a fair and effective criminal justice system.
Charity No. 1143038 / Company No. 06331413
HJA Civil Liberties @hjacivillibs.bsky.social A dedicated feed from the Civil Liberties & Human Rights team at Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors. Protecting rights is our priority. https://www.hja.net/legal-services/civil-liberties-and-human-rights/ Tel: 0330 822 5788
@policefoundationuk.bsky.social @policefoundationuk.bsky.social The only independent think tank in the UK focused on improving policing. Hosted the Strategic Review of Policing https://www.police-foundation.org.uk/
Francis FitzGibbon @ffkc.bsky.social King's Counsel, 23ES and Trinity Chambers (Newcastle), criminal advocate, once a classicist, occasional LRB contributor, mostly human.
Tom Blackburn @tomblackburn88.bsky.social Solicitor Advocate. I specialise in criminal law. Also player of games and baker of goods, when time allows.
Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner.bsky.social Courts Editor for the Press Association
Michelle Heeley KC @brummybar.bsky.social Head of No 5 Chambers. Leader of the Midland Circuit 2021-24, Criminal Silk, wife, mother to two boys, and chief tummy tickler to our dog Clemmie
Matthew Buckland @thebarwithmb.bsky.social Member of the Criminal Bar.
www.mountfordchambers.com
Views all my own and mostly wrong.
@crimecounsel.bsky.social @crimecounsel.bsky.social Has wig. Will travel.
Barrister at Exchange Chambers, Leeds
CrimeLine @crimeline.co.uk Digital knowledge platform for criminal law & regulatory professionals, government & Judiciary. Andrew Keogh, Barrister www.CrimeLine.co.uk 
Chris Stacey @chrisstacey.bsky.social Proud chief executive of Prisoners Abroad. Trustee YMCA Lincolnshire. Ex director at Clinks and Unlock. Churchill fellow. Husband. Dad of 2. Views my own.
Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) offers distance learning courses and advice and guidance to people in prison. We use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education.
Support us here: prisonerseducation.org.uk/donate
Nick Mann @nick-mann.bsky.social Director of Comms at Prison Advice and Care Trust. Interested in anything politics, criminal justice and charity. Camberwell, SE London.
www.prisonadvice.org.uk
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
omemiserum2 @omemiserum2.bsky.social Criminal Solicitor with probably more time in than you have lived. Very grumpy. Remembers when cases were prepared properly. @omemiserum@mstdn.social
Dr Cody Porter @drcodyporter.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol | Psychologist
Investigative interviewing & lie detection, mental health in the Criminal Justice System, employment and criminal records | Editor for II-RP
Dorothy Newbury-Birch @dottyb.bsky.social I am a mother, grandmother and wife. I am also Professor of social Justice and Public Policy at Teesside University. After 12 years on Twitter I am starting again here.
Jonathan @6jbd.bsky.social
Dad.
Evertonian.
93%
🌱
eXiteer
Jeff Swales @jeffs63.bsky.social Yorkshire based regulatory solicitor. Progessive. Likes dogs, real ale and rugby league (Hull FC). Treat others as you would wish to be treated. Personal account. Views are my own. No DMs please.
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social The Centre is a collaboration between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier and Strathclyde. SCCJR aims to produce research that informs policy and practice and advances our understanding of justice.
https://linktr.ee/sccjr
Jonathan Duffy @sixjbd.bsky.social Barrister
(exclusively criminal defence)
Liverpool
eXiteer
www.7hs.co.uk/personnel/jonathan-duffy/
UNGRIPP @ungripp.bsky.social UNGRIPP campaigns on behalf of everyone affected by the Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) in England and Wales.
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Emma McClure @emma-mcclure.bsky.social Parole Solicitor @SL5
Criminal Justice & Critical Thinking
Association of Prison Lawyers Committee
Former YLAL Co-Chair
She/Her
Agenda Alliance @agenda-alliance.bsky.social We are bold, ambitious feminists, working to end the cycle of harm so all women and girls can thrive.
Our mission is to change systems and services to better support women and girls at the sharpest edge of adversity.
https://www.agendaalliance.org
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Sign up for my weekly newsletter here: https://observer.co.uk/newsletters
Revolving Doors @revdoors.bsky.social National charity working to end the revolving door of crisis & crime. Posts from the team.
Website: https://revolving-doors.org.uk/
Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4fnnrcns
Work with us: https://revolving-doors.org.uk/work-with-us/
Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator |
Kalisher Trust Trustee
Blogs, lectures, podcasts, profiles here:
https://linktr.ee/MaxJLHardy
Dr Caroline J Bald @carolinejbald.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Work. The Open University, UK. Research: #justice social work, braininjury, AI
education. RSW prev Probation.[BISWG.co.uk chair & BASW Criminal Justice Co-chair]. Founding Co-Chair ESWRA SW Crime & CJ SIG https://linktr.ee/CarolineJBald
Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social C4 Community Catapult Research Fellow with interests in youth culture, communities, systemic violence, and intergenerational psychosocial trauma. Scholar of Buckfast Tonic Marxism. 🍾
Andrew Sperling @sperls.bsky.social Public lawyer and parole specialist. Director of SL5 Legal.
https://www.SL5Legal.co.uk
Gus Silverman @gus-silverman.bsky.social Civil liberties solicitor. Heads the Bristol Actions Against Public Authorities team at @dpg_law. Views my own.
https://dpglaw.co.uk/lawyers/gus-silverman/
Ella Rabaiotti @ellarabaiotti.bsky.social Co-Head of Department for Criminology, Sociology & Social Policy, Swansea University | Former Probation Officer | Convenor of Wales Probation Development Group at Wales Centre for Crime & Social Justice
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4179-499X
Jane Ball @dialogjane.bsky.social Dialogue for systemic change, humanising and connecting. Social change - prison reform - dialogic education - climate 💚 🏳️🌈
dialogue-associates.com apfpd.org
#fbpe
JENGbA 🦋 @jengba.bsky.social Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association. Common Law used against common people that makes no common sense. Official website www.jengba.co.uk
HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social Independent inspectorate reporting on conditions for and treatment of those in prisons, young offender institutions and immigration detention facilities.
Learn more at: https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/
Rick Muir @rickmuirbskysocial.bsky.social Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.
Deborah Coles @debcoles13.bsky.social Director @INQUEST_org expertise on contentious deaths & their investigation. Social justice research & policy. Feminist. Abolitionist. Advisor @cleanbrk
Laura Janes @laurajanes.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, lecturer etc: laurakjanes.co.uk
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
The Cat From Greece @acatfromgreece.bsky.social …joined the police. Pig in a wig: full time criminal barrister, part time response cop. Once described as 'quite personable'.
Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social TAFKA NightJack - Orwell Prize Winner - Library Volunteer - Labour Party & GMB member - Retired Agent of Karma - 33 Minute Podcaster - Snivelling Minion.
Lindsey Bampton @lindseybampton.bsky.social Safeguarding Adults Board & Safeguarding Children Partnership Manager. CofE National Safeguarding Panel member. Ex Probation Officer.
✅ Hiking, baking, afternoon naps, frozen margaritas, chess
❎ TV involving real life police or hospitals, liquorice
Angela Cossins @angelacossins.bsky.social Personal account . Probation Director, HMPPS … & I love to cook
Katie Kempen @katiekempenvs.bsky.social Criminal justice, books, CEO of Victim Support.
Jon Collins @jonbcollins.bsky.social Chief Executive of Prisoners’ Education Trust (@prisonersed.bsky.social) and criminal justice nerd.