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
Denys Pikus @pikusd.bsky.social 🇺🇦 | PhD'ing Social Policy at University of Oxford, Nuffield College.
Housing-education nexus; housing insecurity; life course effects of social policies
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) is a research centre hosted at King's College London and supported by the ONS.
We provide research on economic statistics for the modern economy. 📈
Keren Horn @kerenhorn.bsky.social Economics Faculty @UMassBoston Thinking about cities, housing and labor. Teaching #UrbanEcon. Living in #Dorchester, #Boston. #YIMBY #MAPoli kerenhornecon.com kerenmertenshorn.substack.com
Peter Levell @peterlevell.bsky.social Economist. Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social.
https://sites.google.com/view/peter-levell/home
Jena Hunt - Homes in Daybreak @homesindaybreak.bsky.social Luxury Daybreak homes. Local insight, private tours, bespoke marketing. Buy • Sell • Invest with a neighborhood expert. Start here: https://jenahunt.com/community/daybreak/
Focus Ireland @focusireland.ie Challenging homelessness. Changing lives.
Focus Ireland Charity Number CHY 7220
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Daniel Jordan @danifesto.bsky.social 📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
quintinbradley.bsky.social @quintinbradley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Housing and Planning at Leeds Beckett University. I write on issues of housing justice, community planning and urban social movements.
https://criticalplace.org.uk/
Martin Wheatley @martinhwheatley.bsky.social Public service reform, housing, environment, active travel
@angelag65.bsky.social @angelag65.bsky.social 
Dr Tom Simcock @tomjsimcock.bsky.social Chair of the Housing Studies Association. Research Fellow at University of Huddersfield.
Alison McCandlish @crenellatedarts.bsky.social Lecturer of City Planning at the University of Glasgow. Occasional consultant. #SoTL Heritage, planning, art, design, creativity. Books, cycling, dogs, cats and nature. Personal views.
Housing Studies Association @housing-studies.bsky.social Leading forum for the promotion of housing studies in the UK, embracing the inter-disciplinary & cross-sector interests of researchers, students & practitioners.
Find us at: https://www.housing-studies-association.org
Darren Pullman @darrenpullman.bsky.social Pro EU, Solar powered EV driver.
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow @uofgshw.bsky.social Leading research; improving health; tackling inequalities
gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing
Byres Community Hub @byreshub.bsky.social
Tianyi Tang @tianyitang.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Urban Studies at University of Glasgow | Research on urban sustainability, gentrification, and environmental justice | Speak indigenous Shanghainese
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home. 
Adriana Soaita @adrianasoaita.bsky.social Researcher | Author | Writer | Honorary at the University of Glasgow and Bucharest | MSCA fellow | AFFECTIVE-PRS
Charlotte Morris @cbocomms.bsky.social Comms Manager for the University of Glasgow's College of Social Sciences. Fuelled by ☕️ 
Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social Researcher at LISER (Luxembourg) interested in (shared) housing provision (for young people), housing hyper-commodification, mixed-use development, live-work pathways, urban governance, institutional frameworks
Rebeka Balogh @rbkblgh.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Glasgow, interested in how things like work, employment and wealth affect health and health inequalities
Stuart Macdonald @smacdonaldsm.bsky.social Creative communications specialist in UK social and affordable housing. Managing Director of See Media PR
Jo Fang @jo-fang.bsky.social Policy person at Shelter. Often drinking tea, mostly figuring things out
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
Michael Holms Coats @m-holms-coats.bsky.social architect, educator, European citizen. politics cannot be avoided. respecting named people, blocking misinformation.
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
@lwdsc @lwdsc.bsky.social Academic/barrister specialising in housing/homelessness law and policy; instinctively socio-legal and interdisciplinary; love my cats; proudly atheist Jew.
Blog about Welsh housing law and policy: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/housing-law-wales/
Marc L. Bernstein @marclesbernstein61.bsky.social Born 1961 - Lifelong Neutral observer of Politics & Current Affairs UK, USA & World. Love Audio Books, Podcasts, stand up Comedy, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Message me if you want to be friends.
Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social Geographer. New book, HOUSE SOCIETY, forthcoming in Feb 2027 (with Allen Lane)
Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social Social research - wider / social determinants of health, health inequalities, and housing
Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
Gauthier Dulout @gauthierdulout.bsky.social 
Graeme Young @graemewyoung.bsky.social Lecturer in Social and Public Policy, University of Glasgow
Substack: https://graemewyoung.substack.com/
Emily @et93.bsky.social Interested in Social Housing and Policy 🎉🏡
Scottish Housing Day 2026 @scothousingday.bsky.social Scottish Housing Day is an annual event which aims to raise awareness of the challenges and successes in Scotland’s housing sector.
@jmilnee.bsky.social @jmilnee.bsky.social 
Homeless Network Scotland @homelessnetwork.scot We believe a future without homelessness is possible. Homeless Network Scotland is the national membership body of organisations and individuals committed to this future. homelessnetwork.scot
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Méabh Temple @meabhtemple.bsky.social Housing justice & property law.
PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin
Sí/í
Dr Jamie Sims @jamiesims.bsky.social Academic @oxford_brookes. Researching, consulting, advocating epidemiology of health behaviour & green space, social cohesion, regenerative building, natural materials & environmental exposures.
Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/shou20
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/housingtheory/
Dr David Mckendrick @davidmckendrick.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University. Coughing up fire.
Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.🍉
📚 Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Alan White @alanwhite11.bsky.social Travel enthusiast. Loves life, culture and Liverpool FC ⚽️🔴. Housing professional specialising in fairness and supporting rough sleepers. 🇺🇦
Housing Sector @housingsector.bsky.social “Championing collaboration between residents and housing providers | Advocating for fairness, transparency, and sustainable solutions in the UK housing sector | Building bridges for better communities.”
Tony Robinson @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social Actor. Writer. TV Presenter
https://linktr.ee/TheHouseOfWolf
Resonance @resonance.ltd.uk Resonance | Social impact property fund manager | Connecting capital to social enterprise since 2002 | Driving positive change through impact investment | #BCorp #SocialImpact #ImpactInvestment #homelessness
https://resonance.ltd.uk
Kirsty Major @kmaj0r.bsky.social Editor and writer at The Guardian
Hanna Wheatley @hannawheatley.bsky.social Senior Economist at Future Economy Scotland
@futureeconscot.bsky.social
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
Gary Hartin @garyhfdtn.bsky.social Foundation Programme Manager at the Nationwide Foundation www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Andrew Robert Watson @housingopinion.bsky.social Interested in Housing Economics, Housing Investment, FM, PPP, Real Estate and All Other Things Property!
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social Unlocking town centre buildings for amazing ideas 🔑
Co-founding partners: High Streets Task Force, Power to Change, British Property Federation, New Local, Radix, Shoosmiths
https://www.platformplaces.com/
Jan M. Jasinski @janjasin.ski PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde's Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation.
Working to make smart energy benefit everyone.
Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities PhD Associate.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Alison Watson @alisonwatson.bsky.social Director of Shelter Scotland. Trustee of Change Mental Health.
Andy Redfearn @aredfearn.bsky.social Housing Development Consultant based in Bedford. Company LivShare Housing and Consultancy Ltd.
Other interests include following Derby County.
Fiona Clandillon @plandillon.bsky.social Head of Development in Scotland’s Fastest Growing Local AuthorityTM. Affordable housing. Civic spaces. Sustainable, accessible places.
🇮🇪 in 🏴
🚴, 📖 and Point Break are some of my other interests. Views my own etc.
Michael Howcroft @michaelhowcroft.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
@civicimaginaries.bsky.social
University of Glasgow, Urban Studies and Social Policy.
Austin (A.T.) Harrison @at-harrison.bsky.social Scholar. Organizer. Urban Studies Prof. Houser.
https://www.atharrison.com/
Patricia Maguire @patriciamaguire.bsky.social #ParticipatoryActionResearch & #Feminisms - podcaster, activist, gender justice, feminist, repurposed professor emeritus - WNMU. Returned to beloved #NewMexico. Doing Democracy. Tiny little worker bee in asylum & refugee dignity space.
Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk Open is a Verb
Pride is a Riot
He/Him/They
There are many more of us than you
Glasgow, Topical Paradise
Housing Today @housingtoday.bsky.social 🏠Housing Today is a new media brand that has been launched to help housing professionals navigate a rapidly changing housing landscape.
Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social Journalist interested in anything connected with housing. Which means just about everything. Doctorate in housing since the financial crisis 
Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social We produce research and organise around accountability, information rights & local democracy. Currently: democratic effects of #LocalGov financial crisis. A worker co-operative. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/47xnyb37
Gerry McCartney @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of Glasgow, Co-I & Leadership Group member @the Scottish Centre for Admin Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR UK. Formerly @Nuffield College, Oxford University. Social & health inequalities, labour market & welfare benefits.
Nationwide Foundation @nationwidefdtn.bsky.social We're a charitable funder with a vision for everyone in the UK to have access to a decent, affordable home. We're taking a systemic approach to make the housing system work for all, now and for generations to come.
www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk
Theo Koutmeridis @theokoutmeridis.bsky.social Addressing inequalities, poverty and crime | Glasgow Uni | ARC | IZA | #RunForCharity #MarathonRunner Athens 2021, Thessaloniki 2022, Edinburgh 2023
Faye Sanders @fayesanders.bsky.social PhD at University of Bath, UK.
Housing for Health, Sustainable Mobility, Epigenetics 🏙️🧬🔬
Economics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social Daily answers to economic questions. Policy briefings, writing & data masterclasses & a new data hub.
CIH Scotland @cihscotland.bsky.social Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland is a professional body for people working in the housing sector with around 2,500 members in Scotland.
Alison Wallace @alisonwyork.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York
Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy
Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social UK & world-leading centre for research on #cities #planning #socialpolicy #data #analytics #realestate #publicpolicy at @glasgow.ac.uk.
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/uofg_ussp
Emma Congreve @emmanomics.bsky.social 
@michael-s-marshall.bsky.social @michael-s-marshall.bsky.social 
Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University. 
Anton Muscatelli @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Chair, Royal Economic Society. Economist. President, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Inter Milan fan. Opinions mine.
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social Professor in Economics & Finance @iipp-ucl.bsky.social | macroeconomic policy, sustainable finance, land & housing | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/64753 
Edinburgh Tenants Federation @edinburghtenants.bsky.social Edinburgh Tenants Federation is a tenant-led charity that supports
tenants across Edinburgh to understand their housing rights, have their
voices heard, and influence decisions about housing and other related
services locally, city wide, and nationally