Dr Andrew Salerno-Garthwaite FRGS @asgtypes.bsky.social Digital Editor, RUSI. Journalist. Photographer. Documentarian. Writer. Designer. Statistician. Past: FT, Condè Nast, GlobalData. Views are my own.
Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social The UK based membership organisation for all those studying, researching and teaching in the field of global development.
For now, you'll find our news posted on LinkedIn and in our monthly newsletter.
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social Award-winning, fearless indy coverage of the UN/foreign affairs. Tips: Signal: passblue.22 or info@passblue.com www.passblue.com
Place Alert Labs @place-alert-lab.bsky.social Place Alert Labs (PALs) at Midlands State University uses geographical intelligence & location-based methods to inform decision making, combining spatial & contextual analysis.
Ghita Chraibi @gchraibi.bsky.social 🔍 Managing the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) - https://www.psdresearchnetwork.com/about/ 📊 Consultant @IFC since 2021. PhD candidate @UVA studying International Political Economy, with a focus on FinTech. 📚 From Casablanca, Morocco.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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REACT Consortium @reactconsortium.bsky.social Resilient and Equitable Health Workforce to Address Climate Threats. A partnership between CESHHAR, Zimbabwe, LSTM, UK, and HERD International, Nepal.
NIHR funded.
reactconsortium.com
Brink @hellobrink.bsky.social Let’s innovate as if people matter. Brink applies bold creative thinking and #behaviouralinnovation to help organisations make big positive change in the world.
Health. Tech. Climate. Education.
GSDRC @gsdrc.org Governance and Social Development Resource Centre https://gsdrc.org/
Rachel M Gisselquist @rgisselquist.bsky.social Professor in Governance and Development @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Director, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre @gsdrc.org
Non-resident Senior Fellow, UNU-WIDER
From Honolulu, via Helsinki and beyond—now in the UK
Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) is dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate. HPG is part of @odi.global, a leading global affairs think tank.
Website: www.odi.org/hpg
Center for Global Development @cgdev.org The leading think-and-do tank for #globaldev🌍 Celebrating 20+ years of independent research & ideas for global prosperity.
mediarelations@cgdev.org
IDDRI @iddri.bsky.social European think tank that facilitates the transition towards sustainable development.
Think tank indépendant qui facilite la transition vers le développement durable.
www.iddri.org
ECDPM 🌍 @ecdpm.org ECDPM is a leading think tank working on international cooperation and sustainable development, particularly Europe-Africa relations
IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) – a renowned research institute and influential think tank for global sustainable development.
| Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
Katie Dominy @katiedominy.bsky.social NGO advocacy and campaigns. Human rights, climate change, international development 🌏
A Scot in London 🏴
Mike Noyes @mikenoyes.eurosky.social Humanitarian aid worker & fuel poverty activist. Londoner, European, Arsenal supporter. Part of a migrant family. Metropolitan liberal values, pro international law, anti fascism, racism & abuse of power.
Peter Jones @peterjonesuk.bsky.social Vice Chair, MAG International. Head of Global Strategies, LSE IDEAS. Distinguished Fellow, Royal United Services Institute. Chair, British Italian Society.
Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social Education and global development, Adelaide University | UNESCO Network on Education, Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons
Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/prachi.srivastava
Ben Simms @bensimms65.bsky.social CEO @globalhealthpart.bsky.social. Health is global. Passionate about overseas aid but looking beyond. Vice-Chair BBC Charity Appeals Committee. Fellow of the RSA.
Stephen @lordbrownof.bsky.social Duvet Enthusiast | Political Advocacy | Sports Lover ⚽️🎾🏎️ #pusb | Social Justice | New York & London 🏳️🌈
Tristan Eagling @teaglingdfid.bsky.social FCDO Climate and Food Security Adviser, general interest in intersection between climate and food systems, currently based in Accra.
Niche interest in metals in plants, both the good (minerals) and the bad (heavy metals) PhD in #biofortification
Danielle Cornish-Spencer @daniellewas.bsky.social Talk about #internationaldevelopment and making #aid safe for all. #womensrights advocate and expert in violence against women and violence against children. Currently leading global work in child #protection & equal #education. Reposts not endorsements.
Fati N'Zi-Hassane @fatihassane.bsky.social Africa Director, Oxfam International
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Hannah Loryman @hannah-loryman.bsky.social Inclusion/climate justice/education/health and where they all crossover. Head of policy at Sightsavers. Doing a doctorate at the University of Bath on climate and education policy. Trustee for UKFIET and Able Child. Plus 🏃♀️🚲🧗♀️⛰️🐱
ODI Trade and Economic Development @odi-trade.bsky.social Expert analysis on trade and economic development at @odi.global, a leading global affairs think tank.
Website: https://odi.org/en/about/our-work/international-economic-development-group/
Sara Pantuliano @sara-pantuliano.bsky.social Chief Executive, @odi.global | Editor-in-Chief, Disasters journal | Independent Eminent Person, 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review | Trustee, Muslim Aid & Center for Disaster Philanthropy | Chair, @BritishFencing.bsky.social | Rollerskater
Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social Behavioral health scientist specializing in tech & infrastructure in international dev/aid. CEO of mWater & Solstice, the world's largest platform for managing water, sanitation, & health.
mwater.co
solsticeinstitute.com
Mom of 3, partner of @jfeighery
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social Formerly a sustainable finance guy who's also not fond of pandemics or genocides or fascists.
On here for as long as it helps us organise a centre left response to the polycrisis.
If we have something in common, feel free to send me a DM.
Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social Head Migration and Displacement Hub @odi.global. Migration and social protection. Baking when not working.
Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social I write and post about accountability, the politics of development, & Bangladesh, but don't let that put you off.
Florencia Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social Consultant & Systems Convener: at the intersection of governance, monitoring, evaluation, research & learning
Co-founder @act4delivery
Collaborating w/#Politeia
Rachel Tolhurst @racheltolhurst.bsky.social Professor in global health equity, urban health, social justice, participatory & qualitative research climate crisis, intersectional feminist & anti-racist, disabled. She/her. All opinions my own and reposts do not constitute endorsement.
Adam Hewitt @adamhewitt198.bsky.social Manchester. Politics, books, board games, films, cats, journalism and music. Views my own.
SDGCounting @sdgcounting.bsky.social Tracking progress on counting and measuring the success of the Sustainable Development Goals.
An initiative of StartingUpGood.
#SDGs #GlobalGoals #Data
LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social LSE International Development promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research.
Jesse Chase-Lubitz @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social Climate journalist @Devex | @Pulitzer grantee | Former editor of @Nature Briefing: Anthropocene | @HLuceFdn scholar | @LSEGeography | @ColumbiaGS
Elissa Miolene @elissamio.bsky.social global development reporter @devex, covering U.S. foreign aid & and more. reach me at elissa.miolene@devex.com
Dave Ainsworth @daveainsworth.bsky.social Journalist writing about international development. Business editor at Devex.
Rob Merrick @robmerrick.bsky.social Political journalist & media consultant. Long-time @LobbyXI football team veteran skipper. Welshman.
Sara Jerving @sarajerving.bsky.social Global health reporter with @Devex.com
https://www.devex.com/news/authors/sara-jerving-1322350
Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) @devgeogsrg.bsky.social Development Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
https://developmentgeographiesrg.org/
UK Trade Policy Observatory @uktpo.org The UK Trade Policy Observatory offers expertise and services to support the reconstruction of the UK's international trading environment post-Brexit.
Jo Howard @johoward-uk.bsky.social Passionate about collaboration, and building communities of participatory researchers. 
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Pablo Arriagada P. @parriagadap.bsky.social Poverty, inequality and + at @ourworldindata.org
marcel gerber @marcelgerber.bsky.social dev @ Our World in Data
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Abby Stoddard @abbystoddard.bsky.social Humanitarian Outcomes
humanitarianoutcomes.org
Aid Worker Security Database
aidworkersecurity.org
Themrise Khan @themrise.bsky.social Ex development aid practitioner now convinced aid skeptic. Migration policy/governance person. Researcher/writer. Pro-peace/anti-war. Independent in all ways. Co editor; White Saviorism in International Development, Daraja Press 2023.🐱lover 🇨🇦🇵🇰
Devex @devex.com We are the world’s leading platform for insider journalism on global development.
Duncan Green @duncangreenlse.bsky.social LSE Prof in Practice & Director of its 'Activism, Influence & Change programme/blog'. Recovering Exfamer. Current passion teaching/training next & current gen of change makers, both at LSE and beyond. Author How Change Happens, From Poverty to Power 
Paula Fray @paulafray.bsky.social African Feminist Storyteller
Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, scholar and investigator. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.
Judith Verweijen @judithverweijen.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social Institute of Development Policy, @UAntwerpen.be, Belgium | Multidisciplinary academic research, education, partnerships, political engagement
👉 https://uantwerpen.be/iob
👉 sign petition here: https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm
The LIGHT Consortium @lightontb.bsky.social A consortium of health research and policy organisations working in Africa and the UK to transform gendered pathways to health for TB. Funded with UK aid.
Visit our website to learn about our work: https://light.lstmed.ac.uk/
| Tuberculosis & Gender | 
Local2Global @local2global.info Supporting locally-led crisis response and mutual aid to change how aid is understood and carried out.
local2global.info
African Cities Research Consortium @africancities.bsky.social Generating new insights and approaches to tackle complex problems in Africa’s rapidly changing cities.
» collaboration » evidence » innovation » progress
💻 https://www.african-cities.org
📩 bit.ly/ACRCnews
🎧 https://africancities.buzzsprout.com/
Urban SHADE @urbanshaderesearch.bsky.social Researchers working in partnership with local communities to guide health service responses to extreme weather events caused by #climatechange
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine @lstmnews.bsky.social LSTM takes a whole-picture view on global health issues and works, in partnership, to develop genuine, sustainable, long-term solutions to save and improve lives in the world's most vulnerable communities. Est. 1898.
Steve Metcalfe @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social Interested in global development, inequality, the climate crisis. And cycling. Head of communications at the Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk / www.ids.ac.uk
Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;
Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social Member, Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
Professorial Fellow,
Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk
Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition & Health Equity, University of Sussex, UK
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.
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social Researcher of activism, labour, accountability, and humanitarianism in the Arab World & elsewhere | co-founder of The Accountability Archive | Personal account, views, especially the bad ones, are my own.
Nathan Oxley @nathanoxley.bsky.social Omnia sunt communia // Research communication - interested in commons, commoning, nature(s), storytelling and creativity.
futurenatures.org / futurenatures.bsky.social
repairproject.org / repairproject.bsky.social
Amber Huff @amberhuff.bsky.social Conservation, political ecology, commons, and value. Research Fellow at @idsglobaldev.bsky.social, mostly doing @futurenatures.bsky.social and @repairproject.bsky.social.
@sophierobinson.bsky.social @sophierobinson.bsky.social 
Jigyasa @jigyasa.bsky.social 💼 External Affairs @ids.ac.uk
Former Journalist.
Views my own
Ben O'Donovan-Iland @beniland.bsky.social Research comms.
No one is illegal
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Dorte Thorsen @dortethorsen.bsky.social Research Fellow at IDS, working on mobilities, learning, gender and family relations in Africa. Special focus on children and youth. Views are mine, not my employer's.
@ianscoones.bsky.social @ianscoones.bsky.social 
Peter Taylor @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social Researcher, fan of participatory and inclusive approaches to global development, Director of Institute of Development Studies, wanabee Celtic and trad musician 
Leah Murphy @leahmb.bsky.social Communications and Digital Marketing Officer @ids.ac.uk | She/Her | All views my own.
Stephen Thompson @stephenthomo.bsky.social Research on development, geography, and inclusion.
Fellow - Institute of Development Studies/University of Sussex
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform @sshap-action.bsky.social We provide social science evidence on demand, capacity-building and networking spaces on emergencies that relate to health, conflict or the environment. Find out more: www.socialscienceinaction.org
#Humanitarian #EmergencyResponse
Future Natures @futurenatures.bsky.social Sharing stories and thinking about the politics & ecologies of crisis, enclosure, commoning and possibilities for building plural futures.
Get involved: futurenatures.org
Podcast: futurenatures.org/podcast
REPAiR Project @repairproject.bsky.social A research project that critically explores how ‘nature-based solutions’ and other approaches are applied in the contexts of Southern Africa’s rangelands.
repairproject.org
Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social The Food Equity Centre exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable.
https://ids.ac.uk/foodequitycentre
Brazil, South Africa, UK
John Gaventa @johngav.bsky.social 
Becky Carter @beckycarter.bsky.social Researcher of social assistance in crisis settings and social protection more broadly. Institute of Development Studies.
Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
Jeremy Allouche @allouche1.bsky.social Professor - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Gauthier Marchais @gauthiermarchais.bsky.social Researcher at the Institute of Development studies. Views are my own. ‘Seule la route connaît le secret’
James Georgalakis @bloggs74.bsky.social Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies and doctoral researcher at University of Bath. Interested in evidence into policy and epistemic communities.
All views my own 
Connecting Citizens to Science Podcast @ccspodcast.bsky.social A global health podcast hosting conversations about current research and debates. bit.ly/Follow_CCS
University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social Official account for the University of Birmingham.
Changing how the world works.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
ReBUILD for Resilience @rebuildconsortium.bsky.social An international research consortium that examines health system resilience in fragile settings experiencing violence, conflict, pandemics and other shocks, including Lebanon, Myanmar, Nepal and Sierra Leone. www.rebuildconsortium.com
UK aid funded
The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Journalism from the heart of crises
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
HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social 🌎 Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute
📚 Humanitarian Research, Teaching & Learning
📍@official-uom.bsky.social
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
ODI Global @odi.global Igniting new ideas to confront global challenges. ODI Global turns bold ideas, evidence, and broad expertise into actionable strategies for a more resilient, just and equitable future.
Website: www.odi.org
Think Change podcast: https://buff.ly/3XAKJJ1