Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out later in 2026 called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Ana Luisa Maffini @anamaffini.bsky.social Researcher • Urban and Regional Planning • Urban Studies • GIS • GeoAI • Spatial Data Science • Python • Complex Systems • Open Science
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation.
Joanna Fröhlich @joannafroehlich.bsky.social Sociologist University of Osnabrück
migration, mixed methods, social inequality and social stratification
Rishabh Tyagi @rishabhtyagi10.bsky.social Researcher @cedar Umea University
PhD student in Labor demography MPIDR @mpidr.bsky.social & University of Oslo @uio.no .
Labour market, Uncertainty, family and health.
Robert Vief @robertvief.bsky.social sociologist, Postdoc @goetheuni.bsky.social. Ph.D from @humboldtuni.bsky.social
interested in: educational decisions & stratification, neighborhoods, segregation, spatial data/mapping
CV: https://tinygu.de/RobertVief-CV-en
Kerstin Ostermann @kostermann.bsky.social What has place to do with social inequality? PostDoc in Sociology @University Bielefeld & @IAB | neighborhoods | local labor markets | quantitative methods | spatial norms
https://sites.google.com/view/kerstin-ostermann/start
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
Brienna Perelli-Harris @bperelli-harris.bsky.social Professor of Demography at the University of Southampton with interests in family change, cohabitation and marriage, fertility, and forced displacement in Ukraine.
@chloeohanlon.bsky.social @chloeohanlon.bsky.social
Mairead Gallagher @maireadgall.bsky.social Social Work | @UCC Graduate | Interests include human rights, children's rights, social justice, trauma-informed care | All views expressed are my own. 🏳️🌈
Azeez Adewale HAMZAT @azeezhamzat.bsky.social PhD student at TCD-TUD Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM)
Journal of Comparative Family Studies @journalcfs.bsky.social JCFS is an independent Journal celebrating 56 years of publication. We welcome manuscripts on traditional research, methods, theory, reviews & comparative and/or treatments of the cultural aspects of families & close relationships. 🇨🇦
Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto 🍁 | PhD from UW-Madison 🦡 | Immigration, aging, and health
www.leafiaye.com
Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social Sociologist & Demographer | Family & Singlehood | Gender & Life course | US & EU | PI of SINGLE (ERC StG 2025-2030)
@ercsingle.bsky.social
https://arianeophir.wixsite.com/arianeophir
Joonghyun Kwak @joonghyun.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin | Globalisation, social inequalities, meritocracy, sustainable development
Population Data Science at Swansea University @popdatascisu.bsky.social The science of data about people. We are proud to be pioneering this science across a range of data-intensive initiatives. Find out more about us on our website https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk
Vero Jimeno @verojimeno.bsky.social Professor of Victimology at University of Castilla-La Mancha /
Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence (G-PIVIA)
Member of the Criminology Research Center (UCLM)
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social Quantitative Social Science at C3S Frankfurt. Climate Change, Environmental + Urban Sociology, Spatial Demography and Methods, with ❤️ for Fixed Effects and 🚴
Kasimir Dederichs @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at @NuffieldCollege @UniofOxford | social integration, voluntary organizations, residential segregation, intermarriage
@daria-dodan.bsky.social @daria-dodan.bsky.social
Dolores Fernández Pérez @doloresfernandez.bsky.social Psychologist | Assistant Professor (PhD) in Criminology at UCLM (Spain)| Criminology Research Center 🎓🔍 | Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence | Passionate about human behavior, plot twists & dark minds 🎬🕵️♀️
Spitfire News @spitfirenews.com A newsletter from @kattenbarge.bsky.social about internet culture, politics, and media. Subscribe today for free!
Şeyma Çelik @seymacelik.bsky.social Researcher at @invest-flagship.bsky.social @utu.fi | PhD @tcddublin.bsky.social | Interested in adolescent development and well-being, social inequalities, digital media
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Isabelle Nic Craith 🌻⭕️ @iniccraith.bsky.social Avid fan of 🌊📚🎬🎨 | Social-Developmental Psychologist & @researchireland.ie funded PhD researcher studying children’s 🇪🇺🇮🇪 identities & inclusion of minorities👫
📍Helping Kids! Lab, UCD, Ireland
https://isabelleniccraith.owlstown.net
@szehra745.bsky.social @szehra745.bsky.social
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Family Carers Ireland @carersireland.bsky.social We are the national charity supporting Ireland's 500,000+ family carers.
Rethink Food @rethinkfooduk.bsky.social Nonprofit on a mission to create a generation of healthy, food-literate, and environmentally conscious young people; fighting food insecurity and food waste in our communities.
Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics.
Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
Katie Higgins @katiehiggins.bsky.social Lecturer, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
Book reviews editor, The British Journal of Sociology
Co-convenor, BSA Sociology of Elites Study Group / Elite Studies Working Group
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Sofia Lindström Sol @lindstromsofia.bsky.social Associate professor/Reader (Docent), Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. Research interests: cultural policy, welfare, and marginalisation. Occasional poster of cat pics.
Opinions are my own.
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Ryan McNeil @ryanmcneil.bsky.social Associate Professor (Medicine/Public Health/Anthro) at Yale | opinions own
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Maude Pugliese @maudepugliese.bsky.social Sociologist | Holder, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Family Financial Experiences & Wealth Inequality https://chairepatrimoine.inrs.ca/ 🇨🇦 | Associate Prof. @inrsciences.bsky.social, Montréal | Director, PRFM https://partenariat-familles.inrs.ca/
Robert Saint Lawrence @robertsaintlawrence.bandcamp.com #4R: Resist, Reveal, Reimagine, Revolt
⟁ Culture is code.
No kings. No masters.
Build. Disrupt. Fuel the future.
→ https://linktr.ee/RobertSaintLawrence
#FDT
Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social Writer/ethnographer/professor, author of “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (DUP 2019) she/her/free Palestine 🍉
https://www.maurafinkelstein.com
Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social Irish Science Communicator. Bleeding heart lefty.
Views are those of the parasitic alien attached to my brainstem.
I won't follow back if you're not using alt text.
Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social Sociologist @Goethe-University Frankfurt and @Federal Institute for Population Research. www.nilswitte.com
Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social #VID | Ein Institut der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften #ÖAW | Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/oeaw/impressum
Social Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social The official account of the Social Democrats - a new force for change in Irish Society. Our Values: Equality. Democracy. Sustainability. Progress #SocDems
Central Statistics Office Ireland @csoireland.bsky.social We collect and collate the facts & data that help guide more informed decisions about Ireland’s people, society, & economy.
Gaeilge: https://bsky.app/profile/postaidrimh.bsky.social
www.cso.ie
Ombudsman for Children's Office @ocoireland.bsky.social This is our account about our work as a human rights body working to protect children’s rights in Ireland.
Consent is obtained from all children and young people that feature on our social media channels.
https://www.oco.ie/library/social-media-policy/
Olga Leshchenko @olgaleshchenko.bsky.social Postdoc in Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany
Work-family, labor market, gender inequalities
olgaleshchenko.com
Lauren Mallon @lauren-mallon.bsky.social PhD Researcher | Geographer, Intersectional Feminist, Planner & Policy Nerd | Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) | RT /= endorsement
📍Belfast
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Marina Schenkel @marinaschenkel.bsky.social PhD in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin | Postdoctoral Researcher at the TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines (SOHAM) | Research on public policy, health politics and computational social science
Dom Weinberg @domweinberg.bsky.social Freelance researcher | Youth, mental health, inequality, injustice, civil society, evidence | Formerly UK youth charity sector (YMCA George Williams College / NCVYS) Dutch academia (Utrecht Uni / Erasmus) | he/him
Leah Natasha Glassow @lnglassow.bsky.social Torontonian in Sweden 🇨🇦🇸🇪
lecturer @ University of Gothenburg.
education policy | teachers | inequality
Øyvind Wiborg @oyvindw.bsky.social Fresh at Bluesky, escaping the X. Professor of Sociology. University of Oslo. Social stratification researcher. Currently a visiting researcher at DIW Berlin. Dedicated cat dad for 16 years
Ozan Aksoy @aksoyundan.bsky.social Professorial Fellow @ Nuffield College & Associate Professor in Sociology @ University of Oxford. PhD Uni Utrecht, BA Bogazici Uni | (Natural) Experimental Methods, Stats, Politics and Religion
https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/ozan-aksoy/
Arvid Lindh @arvidlindh.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociology at SOFI, Stockholm University. Social class, social policy, inequality, politics, sustainable wellbeing, networks, working life
Luca Maria Pesando @lucampesando.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Social Research & Public Policy | Demography, family, education, poverty & inequality, technology, policy | NYU Abu Dhabi | Jacobs Foundation
https://www.lucamariapesando.com/
Albert Arcarons Feixas @aarcarons.bsky.social Sociologist | Senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) | Interested in poverty, inequality and migration 🍉
“Is this how hope is lost, […] by becoming indifferent to the truth?” L.Y.
👨🏻💻 https://me.eui.eu/albert-arcarons
Said Hassan @saidhassan.bsky.social postdoctoral prize research fellow, nuffield college, oxford www.saidhassan.net
Dr Robert Muller @robertmuller.bsky.social On Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. PhD Thesis Editor; Sociologist; Founding Board Member TruthBombSocial: https://www.truthbombsocial.org/; Research on grey zone warfare, democratic & community resilience, disinformation. https://drrobmuller.com
Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk 🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk
🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts
🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social
➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program
📄 Member @ref2029.bsky.social Sociology
🌐 www.yanghu.co.uk
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) @esri.ie Advancing evidence-based policymaking that supports economic sustainability and social progress in Ireland | ESRI.ie
Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching infidelity & intimacy | https://simone-schneider.github.io
Quentin Maire @qmaire.bsky.social Sociology, history and education at the University of Melbourne
Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social Sociologist at @gesis.org working with EU-SILC in @fdzgml.bsky.social. Research interests: econometrics, survey methodology, sociology of wealth, family sociology, integration/migration, ethnic segregation.🚩🏴🌻Typos galore
ATD Ireland @atdireland.bsky.social We hold a vision of a world without persistent poverty. Poverty is an affront to human dignity, a violation of Human Rights & people in poverty have unique knowledge & experience that can lower the barriers separating people & communities
www.atdireland.ie
ChildLives @childlives.bsky.social The UKRI-funded ChildLives project investigates the trends, inequalities, and consequences of family complexity across children’s lives in Europe.
PI @jmikolai.bsky.social https://childlives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Research Elements @reselements.bsky.social Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Malte Blas @malteblas.bsky.social Communications Associate at the UNHCR Regional Bureau for Europe
Dr Gemma Hamilton @drgemmahamilton.bsky.social ARC DECRA and Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies RMIT | Associate Editor: Legal & Criminological Psychology| Researching sexual violence, family violence, police responses, investigative interviewing, victim-survivor perspectives
Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
📍Bristol 🇬🇧
Posts on: Bristol, community cohesion & social inclusion, climate & nature, deliberative democracy, public engagement and positive news.
Views my own.
Prof Lucie Middlemiss @luciemidd.bsky.social Environmental social scientist from University of Leeds
sustainable consumption, community, energy poverty, social relations of retrofit, just transitions, inclusion
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
LCID @labourcid.bsky.social Labour Campaign for International Development is run by Labour supporters, keen to push international development to top of the Party's agenda. Please join!
Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading independent academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields.
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Sven Ehmes @svenehmes.bsky.social PhD candidate in sociology | @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social | interested in inequality, stratification, labour markets, life course, social policy
Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social Professor, LSE | Head of the Department of Government | Exec Council of EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social | Chair of EES @eesresearch.bsky.social | Co-Director of POAL @poalab.bsky.social | Fellow of the British Academy | Author of Tribal Politics (OUP)
Toni Juuti @tonijuuti.bsky.social Researcher: Entrepreneurship, Collective Bargaining, Inequality
Labore & Tampere University, Finland
https://sites.google.com/view/tonijuuti/home
Ohto Kanninen @ohto-kanninen.bsky.social Economic researcher at the Labour Institute for Economic Research. Tweets in Finnish and English. Truth seeker.
Frank Martela @frankmartela.bsky.social How to live a good life? Assistant professor @ Aalto University exploring meaning in life, well-being, motivation, and what makes life good. And how organizations and societies can support human flourishing. Psychology, philosophy, organizational research.
Lena Näre @lnare.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at University of
Helsinki. Currently leading research on precarious and informal work and irregular migration.
Loves reading, mushroom foraging, birdwatching and boxing
Paula Saikkonen @paulasai.bsky.social Research Manager, THL
YP-lehti, vt. päätoimittaja
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Educational Review @edreview.bsky.social General education research journal published by Routledge. SSCI Listed.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cedr20
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social Chief researcher at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Research interests: inequality, intergenerational mechanisms, poverty, mental health and social sustainability. Leader of SustAgeable consortium.
Ronan Lyons @ronanlyons.bsky.social Housing, cities, history. Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Data Lead at CEPH. Dad of 3, husband of 1, soccer coach, rugby fan. ronanlyons.com and ronanlyons.substack.com.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Matthias Dilling @matthiasdilling.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Pol Scie @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social & co-convenor PSA German Politics | prev. Oxford, Swansea, PhD Oxford (Nuffield College) | Studying how and why political parties change & what this means for democracy | Book: https://t.co/1vvjasFYfD
EAPN Ireland @eapnireland.bsky.social A network of groups and individuals working for an end to poverty. Tweets for info and debate & don't necessarily mean endorsement.