@alchisholm.bsky.social @alchisholm.bsky.social 
Open Government Partnership @opengovpartnership.org 73 national & 135 local governments, alongside thousands of civil society groups, working together to improve people's lives. #OpenGov
Bridgend Farmhouse @bridgend-farmhouse.bsky.social A vibrant, community-owned hub in South Edinburgh. * Training kitchen & cafe * Venue hire / event space * bikes, woodwork, craft, gardens * Activities, classes & volunteering * Social enterprise partners: Trees & Seas, Very Inclusive Play, A wee pedal
Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist
www.planningfornature.org
Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government
John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social Founder/CEO at @Ghost.org - Geographically restless.
Mostly posting about publishing, media, open source, JavaScript, Laravel, bootstrapping, SaaS, activitypub, and design. 
Ghost @ghost.org Turn your audience into a business. Publishing, newsletters, memberships and subscriptions — all in one place.
Decentralised. Open source. 0% payment fees.
https://ghost.org
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Mike Strang @mikestrang01.bsky.social Chief Executive @ Paddle Scotland | Trustee @ Mindset | Trustee @ Beyond Srebrenica | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning | Smart Justice
Tris Lumley @trisml.bsky.social Open For All & NPC - civil society in the digital commons; Intersticia UK; Ashoka Special Relationship Fellow
Shared Future @sharedfuture.bsky.social Committed to community empowerment, the social economy and democratic participation.
We design and deliver citizens' juries and assemblies and participatory budgeting processes.
Find out more: 🔗 sharedfuturecic.org.uk
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Alexandra D-S @designswarm.bsky.social Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion.
designswarm.com
PSA Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group @psapdd.bsky.social We are the Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/participatory-and-deliberative-democracy
Dimitri Courant @dimitricourant.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at @harvard.edu | PhD. in political science
Focus: Citizens' Assembly, Democracy, Deliberation, Sortition
President of @di-apsa.bsky.social
# https://ash.harvard.edu/people/dimitri-courant/
Helen Bevan @helenbevan.bsky.social Change facilitator, co-designer of change interventions, speaker. Prof. of Practice in Health & Care Improvement at Warwick Business School. Advisor to NHS Horizons. Senior Fellow of Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA. Views are my own.
Sam Saville @samsaville.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, UK.
Human geographer interested in sustainable futures, energy justice, nature-culture relations, climate change, value, processes of change, transformational adaptation...
Kiera Chapman @kierachapman.bsky.social Nature writer, research fellow University of Oxford, Co-I Planning for Nature kierachapman.com / www.planningfornature.org
INSPIRE @horizon-inspire.bsky.social INSPIRE is about fostering a more inclusive and participatory society, which starts from the experience and knowledge of marginalised groups to inform more equitable policies.
https://linktr.ee/inspiredemocracy
Kate Goodwin @matchboxstudio.bsky.social Energy. Climate. Justice. Democracy. Memes. Giving it all a crack. Views mine. She/her.
Lucy J Parry @lucyjparry.bsky.social participatory and deliberative democracy theory & practice | co-editor journal of deliberative democracy & deliberative democracy digest 
leanne griffin mchugh @leannemgriff.bsky.social freelance community designer, writer, facilitator, connector, mum. based in worthing, west sussex.
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social Climate, biodiversity and systems connector. Helping progressive leaders to calibrate shared ambition against the scale of challenge coming their way. Live in Wales. Radical collaborator & mischief maker.
Lucy Beattie @lucybeattie.bsky.social Farmer, parent, and player of music. PhD Academic interest agriculture and #SciComm.
FIDE - North America @north.america.fidemocracy.org We advance Citizens’ Assemblies to collectively solve public problems and build trust between people and government
🌐 https://www.fidemocracy.org/north-america
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
Adam Calo @adamcalo.bsky.social Assistant Professor | land and food governance | Land Food Nexus Newsletter: https://adamcalo.substack.com/about | Landscapes podcast: https://landscapes.libsyn.com/
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/calo-a
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Kathie Pollard @kplanning.bsky.social Works on land reform in Scotland
Scottish Environment LINK @scotlink.bsky.social The voice of Scotland's #environment community. Over 50 organisations working together for the environment.
www.scotlink.org
Megan MacInnes @meganmacinnes.bsky.social Sgiathanach, crofter, mum, Manager of Applecross Community Company & Chair of Community Land Scotland
Land & natural resource rights geek.
Alumni: Scottish Land Commission, Global Witness, SOAS
Deb Roberts @debroberts.bsky.social Rural Economist. Deputy CEO & Director of Science, James Hutton Institute. Scottish Land Commissioner. Views my own. She/her
Leigh Sparks @sparksstirling.bsky.social Professor of Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Chair Scotland's Towns Partnership, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh, Extremely long-suffering Welsh rugby fan, occasional gardener.
Stirlingretail.com
Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.co.uk Devon-dwelling biophiliac. Dog dad. Food systems (Food Studies Masters student at University of Exeter), farming and agroecology, trees, nature connection, cack-handed gardening, movies. Solvitur ambulando.
Edge Fund 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️📢 @edgefund.bsky.social Participatory grant-making body in the UK working to end the imbalances of wealth and power. Run for and by grassroots organisers! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/edge-funds-root-funding-round
Angus Hardie @angushardie.bsky.social Retired. Would like Scotland to have more community ownership, some truly radical land reform and local democracy worthy of the name.
@elliesnape.bsky.social @elliesnape.bsky.social 
Roland Karthaus @rolandk.eurosky.social Bicycle rider, plant eater, open water swimmer, homebrewer
Recovering Architect
Consultant @ Inner Circle
Plastic Dutchman
Chris Pollard @chrisrjpollard.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Climate Outreach
Climate & nature social scientist
Public engagement, behaviour change, systems thinking, environmental conflict & cooperation, policy development
Edinburgh
Alex Smith @alexsmith1982.bsky.social Senior Advisor & Inaugural Fellow, Obama Foundation • Visiting Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School • Trustee & Board Member • Ex: The Cares Family, Ed Miliband, LabourList.
Florencia Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social Consultant & Systems Convener: at the intersection of governance, monitoring, evaluation, research & learning
Co-founder @act4delivery
Collaborating w/#Politeia
Will Friedman @willfriedman.bsky.social Democracy researcher/writer/advocate focused on the idea that we can’t defend democracy without renewing democracy. Former president, Public Agenda. NYC born, Brooklyn based.
Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social Interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Sophie Metcalfe @sophiemetcalfe.bsky.social Senior researcher in policymaking at Institute for Government - especially all things housing, planning and early years
Matthew Fright @matthewfright.bsky.social Associate director - devolution @instituteforgovernment.org.uk formerly @nao.org.uk analyst. PhD on history of national income accounts. Views are my own.
Graeme Beale @midfyffe.bsky.social Works in @RESAS in the Scottish Government. Head of the Strategic Research Programme - Rural/Environment. Quaker. Writer of sub-par cat poems and other things.
Lucy Wallace - arranwildwalks.com @snoweider.bsky.social Mountain Leader, wildlife guide, otter groupie, I love nature, and I love science ♥️🦦🌳🪲🪼🌸🦉🦎🦈
Also a wannabe runner, thwarted cyclist, sometime rock climber, lapsed archaeologist.
The Isle of Arran is my home and I frequently crop up in other places too 😃.
Aiteal Co @aitealco.bsky.social Independent participatory design and facilitation practice. Tending spaces for deep deliberation, insight and action on complex challenges. Sparking community collaboration towards a regenerative future. Based in Scotland.
Ben Dolphin 🏴❄️⛰🌲 @countrysideben.bsky.social Ranger in the Cairngorms, occasional writer, general evangelist for the great outdoors. Winter's biggest fan and prone to blethering. Definitely my own views!!
James Shooter @jamesshooter.bsky.social 📸 Visual Storyteller with Rewilding Europe
🦌 Photographer & Filmmaker
📍 Cairngorms National Park 🏴
🌳 #Rewilding #Storytelling
Cairngorms Connect @cairngormsconnect.bsky.social A wild landscape in the making. For people, wildlife and climate.
https://www.cairngormsconnect.org.uk/
Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
Megan Blake @geofoodie.bsky.social Researcher of #foodscapes, how to repair the effects of food insecurity and transition toward more healthy and just local food systems. Interested in creating impact. Developer of #FoodLadders. #Geography #foodstudies See more on http://geofoodie.org
KerryMP @kerrymp.bsky.social MP for Bristol East.
kerry.mccarthy.mp@parliament.uk
The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social Working to change food policy and business practice to ensure everyone in the UK can afford and access healthy and sustainable food
🍏🗣️🫘📊📢🛒💚 - https://linktr.ee/FoodFoundation
Obesity Health Alliance @oha-updates.bsky.social The Obesity Health Alliance is a coalition of over 70 health organisations who have joined together to advocate for policies to improve population health and address obesity.
Kelly Parsons @kellyparsons.bsky.social Post-doc #foodpolicy researcher. Role of policymaking processes and governance structures in #foodsystems. What's in the policy toolbox for transforming #foodsystems. Food #systemsthinking. Food #policycoherence. Kellyparsons.co.uk. @thefoodrules
Root and Reason (formerly AFN Network+) @rootandreason.bsky.social Shaping change in the UK food system by cultivating informed, system-wide collaboration. We connect policymakers, businesses, front-line services and community groups- linking evidence & practice to design & implement change that works
rootandreason.org.uk
Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social Dietitian & Public Health Nutritionist at Teesside University.
Deputy Director for Fuse https://fuse.ac.uk/
Researching Food Inequalities & Insecurity, Food Environments, Energy Drinks.
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/amelia-lake
IPES-Food @ipes-food.org We are the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) : a global think-tank guiding action for #sustainable #foodsystems around the world.🌍
🌱 Follow us for all things #food, #hunger, #climate.
➡️ https://ipes-food.org
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
David Clyne @davidclyne.bsky.social Enjoying the great outdoors in and around the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
🏴🚲🗻🏃🏊♂️🛶
Neil Reid @cairngormwanderer.bsky.social Hill walker, ex-climber. Love the Cairngorms. Retired editor of Scottish Mountaineer mag, MO & Hon Life Member w MBA & trustee w Bob Scott's Bothy Assoc. High altitude lavvy cleaner at Corrour Bothy. Mountain litter picker.
Cairngorms National Park @cairngormsnews.bsky.social Fàilte! Find out what’s happening across the Cairngorms National Park and be part of a community that’s helping nature and people to thrive together.
https://cairngorms.co.uk/
CairngormsCEO @cairngormsceo.bsky.social Helping to look after the Cairngorms National Park. www.cairngorms.co.uk
Sammy McKinney @sammymckinney.bsky.social PhD student @cambridge | studying democratic theory, democratic innovation, and AI | lover of mountains!
Andy Gordon @andy-gordon.bsky.social Bristol | Head of Design & Innovation @ Torchbox.
Dad. Husband. Designer.
All things Design, Innovation, Complexity, Creativity & positive change.
He/him.
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Nicolai B. Hansen @nbhansen.dk Expert on cool software for cool people, and systems that do cool things. Looking for a new job, check nbhansen.dk and lets have a coffee. Lover of anything #pchardware and #pcgaming.
Carl Whistlecraft @gr8governance.bsky.social Trust is our greatest currency.
Peace, love, truth, music
I am #Notwestminster
Up The Blades
Jonathan Flowers @jonathanflowers.bsky.social Chair/NED/Adviser #localgov, "digital", governance, strategy, democracy, data, operational research. Militant optimism. Slightly retired so also: travel, theatre, WRU :-( , F1, politics-watcher, Wingnut and CFA superfan. Harpenden. #dysgwyr
Centre for Governance and Scrutiny @cfgs.bsky.social As leading charity and national centre of expertise, we are committed to empowering organisations with the tools and knowledge to enhance governance and scrutiny. 
Ásta Helgadóttir @astafish.bsky.social Digital policy and cute doggy content in 1:9 ratio.... Wait, who am I kidding, this is just a golden retriever fan account.
Katariina Kulha @catcoolha.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at University of Turku, Finland. Posts in EN and FI about deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, just transition & politics and society in general.
Helen Manchester @helenmanchester.bsky.social Prof participatory sociodigital futures, ageing, co-design, culture, Bristol, uk
Prof. Peter Madden, OBE @thepmadden.bsky.social Built environment futures. Strategic foresight for urban development with vividfutures.co.uk ; Professor of Practice, Future Cities, Cardiff University; member APF, Future Matters Collective.
Love sci-fi, street art, & football: Brentford FC & BCWFC
Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music, art. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Cassie Robinson @cassierobinson.bsky.social www.cassierobinson.work
🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition.
🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.
Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social UCL Bartlett Professor of Cities and Regions at CASA: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Academician, urban planner, geographer, scientist, film historian, futurist, pro-rail. Believe in creating inclusive future places for all
Timothy J. Dixon @timothyjdixon.bsky.social Emeritus Professor (University of Reading) & Research Associate/Fellow (University of Oxford). Foresight, futures, and sustainable built environment. Co-author 'Urban Futures' (Policy Press). www.timothyjdixon.com
Grace (okanaga) @okanaga.bsky.social 🧙♀️Curious human
Design Futurist & Researcher
✨ Experiential and Participatory Futures
👩🏻🏫 Design Futures @iberodiseno & @iberocentrus
Co-founder @futuresspace
https://linktr.ee/okanaga
Rob Butler @robbutler.com Canada Free Agent - Senior Advisor in Digital Gov
Agentic AI | ProSci Certified Change Management
@natural-resources.canada.ca
#GCDigital #DigitalGov
Let’s connect & make Gov better together!
Views are mine.
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social Leader and advocate for a different AI future which benefits everyone. CEO/MD and Co-Founder of Our AI Collective. Keynote speaker. Failed astrophysicist. Film geek. Parent. Love a GIF
Louise Crow @itscrowbot.bsky.social Chief Exec for @mysociety.org. We run TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow, FixMyStreet and a host of other projects reimagining people power.
Tom Chigbo @tomchigbo.bsky.social Chair of @chapelalabour.bsky.social & @leedsnelabour.bsky.social
Governor at Holy Rosary & St Anne's Primary, Leeds
Previously: @tpximpact.com & @citizensuk.org
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Daniel Stanley @staplejames.bsky.social Executive Director @ Future Narratives Lab fnlab.bsky.social | Director @ Stir to Action | E17 | #THFC South Stand
TJones (Formerly FightFor46) moving 🦋 @thundxrcloud.bsky.social VFX supervisor (ex ILM Pixar DWA), climate visualization advocate and artist, now RT3D workflow product leader in games and industry.
OG #Resister, joined #TheResistance back at the bad place.
Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
Silvio Marcacci @silviomarcacci.bsky.social Senior Director of Communications, @energyinnovation.org. Board Advisor, @theicct.org + @co2bc.bsky.social. Tired dad.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Kathryn Corrick @kcorrick.bsky.social Responsible strategy, data & innovation consultant
Loves teaching
Founding partner, Corrick Wales & Partners
External lecturer, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Member, Society of Hopeful Technologists
#opendata #netzero
France
https://kathryncorrick.fr
Alice el-Wakil @anewq.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Political theory, democracy, referendums, democratic innovation, representation
John Parkinson @jrparkinson.bsky.social Professor of Social & Political Philosophy at Maastricht University. Half Tigger, half Eeyore.