Speech and Language UK @speechandlanguk.bsky.social We are Speech and Language UK – we want every child to face the future with confidence. Your donations will go where the money is needed most.
Find out more about our work and get involved here: https://linktr.ee/SpeechAndLangUK
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Bob Dylan Center @bobdylancenter.bsky.social The Bob Dylan Center is dedicated to the study and appreciation of renowned American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his cultural significance.
bobdylancenter.com
Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social 🦖 Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (charity no. 1165231)
Since 2013, promoting the long-term conservation of the Victorian palaeontological statues + the Geological Court at Crystal Palace Park
📧 info@cpdinosaurs.org
https://linktr.ee/cpdinosaurs
AlexisemmaSLT @alexisemmaslt.bsky.social Highly specialist speech and language therapist supporting children and young people with SEMH (AP Taskforce & Youth Justice). Passionate about raising awareness of DLD. Ex- SENCo #SLT #DevLangDis #DLD #bskySPEECHIES
Josh Horowitz @joshuahorowitz.bsky.social Social media is killing us but apparently I have a death wish.
Susan Guthrie Phd @susanguthrieslt.bsky.social SLT clinician researcher working in Leeds & York. Interested in communication and swallowing difficulties and experiences of adults with mental illness. #SLTsinMH, #MeAtMealtimes study. Also on Researchgate: Susan_Guthrie2
Rachel Brown @rachelb-slt.bsky.social SE Surrey Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Gillian Rudd @gillianrudd.bsky.social Speech & Language Therapist; Joint Course Lead MSc SLT at BCU; DHealth candidate (#WaitUpSLT); Lily Mae Foundation Trustee; Parent.Views own. #bskySPEECHIES
Professor Cristina McKean @cristina-mckean.bsky.social Speech and Language Therapist - Professor of Child Language Development and Disorders - fascinated by child development and passionate about tackling inequalities childhood experiences
Melissa Prendergast @melissapren.bsky.social DHT Sheringham Nursery School & Children's Centre ➡️ building 🧠 Strategic lead @elresearchsch.bsky.social & @abrighterstart.bsky.social ➡️ supporting evidence into action. Mum to a few impressive adults & a cockerpoo. New foster mum. NPQH spring 25 cohort.
Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social Please do check out my tennis writing, BOUNCES, at benrothenberg.com
The Association of Mental Health in Education @mentalhealthined.bsky.social AMHIE ~ supporting compliance and professional development throughout the sector ~ Follow us for news, advice, blogs and more!
Prof Nat Munro @natmunro.bsky.social Dr Natalie (Nat) Munro is Professor of Speech Pathology at Southern Cross University. Nat is a certified practising speech-language pathologist & Fellow of SPA. Her research spans paediatric speech & language disorders. Nat is a Senior Fellow of the HEA.
Dr Hannah Hobson @hannahhobson.bsky.social Director of the York EMERALD Lab, researching language and emotional health, DLD and autism. Based at Uni of York.
David Law @davidlawtennis.bsky.social Co-host of The Tennis Podcast. BBC Radio tennis commentator. WBA fan.
Catherine Whitaker @cawhitaker.bsky.social I talk about tennis
The Body Serve @thebodyserve.bsky.social Awful. Woke. Full of bias.
Hatching and Snatching since 2015
Hosted by @elliottjmr.bsky.social and @tennisjon.bsky.social
The Tennis Podcast @tennispodcast.bsky.social Catherine Whitaker, Matt Roberts and David Law talk tennis weekly, and daily during the Grand Slams - https://podfollow.com/the-tennis-podcast
John Lavender @johnlavender.bsky.social Independent consultant, trainer & specialist teacher for language & communication needs in CYP: www.lexeo.co.uk |MSc (Distin) LACIC, University of Sheffield |PhD applicant/ candidate 2025 University of Sheffield| Interest: SEMH/BESD- SLCN - Literacy
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Lorraine Bamblett @bammo44.bsky.social Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy at Keele University. Specialist in Children’s Speech Sound Disorders #childspeechdis, #childapraxiaspeech and #devlangdis. Research interests in adults with DLD, CAS and diagnostic decision making.
Michelle St Clair @michellestclair.bsky.social Director of Engage with Developmental Language Disorder, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Bath. Passionate about increasing #DevLangDis research.
She/Her
#DevLangDis
Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
NAPLIC @naplic.bsky.social UK charity for all professionals who work with children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder.
#SLCN #DevLangDis #SEND #oracy naplic.org.uk
Imperial CAMH Research @imperial-camh.bsky.social All the latest news and information from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) psychiatry research team at Imperial College London.
Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social She/her. Senior lecturer, researcher and SLT at City St George’s University of London, focusing on early language and communication development, autism and increased likelihood children. Owner of a crazy westie.
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
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/
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
FT econ columnist
Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast
Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
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.
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social He must not be replaced by an otter.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
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
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
+ history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views.
🇬🇧🇧🇪🇮🇱
📍LDN/BX
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
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
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Anthony Wells @anthonyjwells.bsky.social Global Head of Politics at YouGov. Dartfordian. Hates agree-disagree statements.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: barrister, cross-bench peer; HL Justice & Home Aff Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-Indept Reviewer Terrorism, Prevent Commr, AFPS; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK’s leading research centre on constitutional change. Informing policy-making and public debate about the constitution and democracy.
Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Graeme Cowie @woodstockjag.bsky.social Constitutional pedant, Partick Thistle-supporting masochist, atrocious recreational golfer.
Director and Secretary @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social
Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com 📰 Writer-at-Large, The Nightly | London
📧 Subscribe to me at www.latikambourke.com
🎙️ Latika Takes: The Podcast on all apps
CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social Senior Postdoc @ Oxford Psychiatry & Fulford Junior Research Fellow @ Somerville College. Researching children & young people's mental health, with a focus on the intersections of mental health & education 🌻
(she/her)
Tamsin Ford @tamsinford.bsky.social Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiologist at University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry & Hughes Hall; Honorary Consultant at Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cathy Creswell @cathycreswell.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology and lead of the TOPIC multigroup research group at the University of Oxford, UK. Views my own.
Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social Researching adolescent mental health mechanisms & inequality | Mixed methods | Senior Lecturer, Psychology of Education | University of Manchester | She/her | 🐝🌱📚🏳️🌈🐈
@neilhumphrey.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social
Jack Andrews @jackandrews.bsky.social Psychologist | Wellcome Fellow | University of Oxford | Social influence, mental health & adolescence | https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/social-mental-health
Helen Manley @hmanley.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher| University of Oxford| STAR-CAT Study| Supporting children’s mental health in primary schools| Qualitative methods| Participatory research| Implementation| Parent partnership
Runner. Crocheter. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
Amy Knight @amyknight.bsky.social Doctoral researcher and tutor exploring school mental health; qualified teacher; interested in creative and participatory research
Rachel Hayes @rahayes.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter, Children and Young People’s Mental Health
Willem Kuyken @willemkuyken.bsky.social Scientist, father, author, teacher and kite flyer.
Pleased to share my new book Mindfulness for Life
=> https://bit.ly/m/MindfulnessforLife
Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist, Professor & Researcher at University of Bath - passionate about helping young people live thrive #singlesessioninterventions #scalable #LMICs
Zoe Ryan @ladyzoia.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford setting up a mental health research network for schools in England. PhD Research Exploring the construct of Intolerance of Uncertainty, and developmental associations with anxiety.
Margarita Panayiotou @margaritap.bsky.social I think psychometrics is cool and sometimes I draw about it osf.io/czxht. Looking into the measurement of adolescent social media www.so-me-study.org
Senior lecturer at Uni of Manchester
Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social Medical Research Foundation & Arthritis UK Fellow in Psychiatry @UniofOxford.
Research Fellow | Green Templeton College | University of Oxford
Interested in adolescent mental health | suicide prevention | chronic pain | psychological methods.
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, FBA FMedSci FRS. Adolescent brain development. Views my own. Book: http://amazon.co.uk/dp/1784161349
Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan.bsky.social Founder of edpsy.org.uk, Senior Lecturer @ University of Bristol, Educational Psychologist, bits and bobs for British Psychological Society. Interests in climate, environment, sci-comm, community building.
JANE @janemichelle.bsky.social Mum to teen, dogs, piggies and ponies. NHS Clinical Lead .... 💙 NHS. Humanist. Always happy to call out 'bolloxology' 🙃
Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social Director Social Prescribing Youth Network, Deputy Director National Centre for Social Prescribing and Analysis, Senior Research Fellow @UCL_SBB
UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/44018-daniel-hayes
Flo 🌷 @floavery.bsky.social PhD student looking at Adverse Childhood Experiences. Interested in education, psychology, social justice and public health. Learning lots about mixed methods and coproduction in research at the moment, all whilst parenting a 1 year old. Swansea & Bristol
John McMullen @jdmcmullen.bsky.social Programme Director of the Doctorate in Educational, Child and Adolescent Psychology at QUB. Research/intervention with war-affected children (DRC, Uganda, Palestine, NI)
Mark Boyes @me-boyo.bsky.social #MentalHealth Professor at Curtin University, folk music & rugby union fanatic, and occasional quaffer of real ale (he/him). www.markboyes.com