John Lourenze Poquiz @johnlpoquiz.bsky.social Researcher at @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @uniofcam.bsky.social.
PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Interests: Economic Measurement, Productivity, & Innovation.
Opinions & rants are my own.
RT ≠ endorsements.
Daisy Harmer 🌼 @daisyharmer.bsky.social Research, Policy and Storytelling
Supporting the Ecosystem @ UCL Policy Lab 🌱
Love plants, cooking, cats and board games. Climber when not injured. She/her
Currently reading Orbital
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Michael Kane @michaelkane1878.bsky.social Education and Social Policy at Public First..and new to bluesky
Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Roa Powell @roapowell.bsky.social senior research fellow at IPPR working on AI.
Tech @ Public First @publicfirsttech.bsky.social The Tech, Media & Telecomms team @ Public First.
Combining opinion research, policy and economic insight to explore how tech shapes public life. For TMT research hot off the press check out https://substack.com/@publicfirsttech
@harrylunduk.bsky.social @harrylunduk.bsky.social
Dan Mead @danmead.bsky.social Economist at ThinkLabour
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social Higher ed policy wonk @ Public First
Dr. Jo @jorivercar.bsky.social XR researcher | University of Oxford & KCL 🥐
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social #Socialcare guy at The King's Fund. Early riser. Available in stereo on Twitter/X.
Privacy International @privacyinternational.org For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Casey Calista @caseycalista.bsky.social Progressive tech policy is my jam
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social The inside track on Labour party news + debate.
News, tipoffs, op-eds or ideas to share? We're at mail@labourlist.org.
Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk Editor of Politics.co.uk ✍️
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@issyfleming.bsky.social @issyfleming.bsky.social
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Jags Parbha @jagsparbha.bsky.social Head of Digital, Office for Equality and Opportunity, Cabinet Office. Trustee @bodyandsoulcharity.bsky.social
Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social Longtime policy wonk, consultant, researcher and speaker about the impact of data driven tech and AI.
immersed in researching young people’s digital lives and AI in education. Previously biometrics, online harms, digital ID, online privacy
Max Sugarman @maxsugarman.bsky.social Chief Executive of ITS UK, the industry association for transport technology
His Excellency Lord Doug B🏴🇪🇺 @dbann.bsky.social #FBPE 🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #TransAlly 🇪🇦 student 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 EU 🇪🇺 Ex Edinburgh
ex #NHS GP Celtic FC🍀🍀🍀
Liked Twitter Hate X. Anti-Fash. Brexit Disaster. LD/Green. To be found in NYorks or Andalucía
Allotment wanker
Not old enough to know better😀
Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social Pharmacist | MPH | Data
James Browne @jamesbrownetbi.bsky.social Head of Work, Income and Inequality Analysis, Economics and Public Finance Team @InstituteGC. Ex-@theIFS and @OECD_Social. Views my own.
Amanda Curtis @digitalmatcha.bsky.social researching knowledge, creativity, & gaming at OII Oxford & UTokyo 🎮 / JSPS research fellow 🇯🇵 / Women in Games ambassador 🤍 / matcha latte enthusiast 🍵
Corey Cottrell @coreycottrell.bsky.social AI tinkerer and protagonist. Pro-democracy. Resisting fascism. The Singularity is near.
Musician.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Jasneet Samrai @jasneetsamrai.bsky.social Deputy Director of Centre Think Tank.
Also works in health public affairs.
All views are my own.
Sarah Castell @scastell.bsky.social CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social Political economy. AI.
Director, IFOW
Research associate, Digit
Joe Dromey @joedromey.bsky.social General Secretary of The Fabian Society. Formerly IPPR, Learning & Work Institute and Central London Forward. Recovering Cllr. Passionate about good work, inclusive growth & tackling inequality.
Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social Inclusive policy, research, design and practice, using participatory and deliberative methods. I work with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social on including public voices in AI, and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social on a permanent global climate assembly.
Sean Kippin @sekip.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Stirling. Assistant Editor (Communications) of Regional & Federal Studies.
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Louise Murphy @louisemurphy.bsky.social Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on employment, young people and health | views my own
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Barney Stringer @barneystringer.bsky.social Retired. Former Senior Director at Quod
Regeneration, housing, development, economics, demographics, cities, schools and community infrastructure
📍London
http://barneystringer.wordpress.com
Halima Khan @halimakhan.bsky.social CEO Paul Hamlyn Foundation
megan kenyon @meganekenyon.bsky.social political correspondent, new statesman
subscribe to the NS: https://secure.newstatesman.com/I5OXMABN?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21429525497&gbraid=0AAAAACT-7u5
Bec Riley @rileyresearch.bsky.social #Impact #place #policy #data #innovation #research & #relationships. Professor/DPVC West Midlands @City-REDI.bsky.social @lpiphub.bsky.social @uob views my own, sharing not endorsement - sometimes Birmingham and sometimes Manchester (UK) hate the M6.
Jack Newman @jacknewman.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics & Public Admin, Uni of Liverpool • UK Politics • English devo • spatial inequality • place-based policy • healthy urban development • critical realism
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jack-newman
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar @anuradhas.bsky.social Assistant Prof/Lecturer in Politics and Policy at University of East Anglia, UK. I study political elites, "expertise", AI
Author of "The New Experts", Cambridge Uni Press (2024)
anuradhasajjanhar.com
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social historian of modern science and technology
Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social Big fan of big ideas about big issues. Mostly public services, civil service and civic governance.
Ex-Cabinet Office, DHSC and RSA. Now freelance.
Mary Towers @marymayling.bsky.social Tech policy. Employment lawyer. Writer. Collectivist.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social Posting/Re-Posting
UK/EU/US Politics/Opinions/Meme
Unapologeticlly Left Leaning. Opposing Conservatism, Far-Right,Reform/Trump Restore,Farage,Tories,GOP
Racists/Fascists/MAGA
Trolls/Bots/Porn/DMs All Deleted/Blocked.
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
MG Zimeta @mgzimeta.bsky.social Ethio-Brit literary journalist | Geopolitics & society | Former refugee | Recovering philosopher | website mgzimeta.com | For tech policy I'm @TechMilly.bsky.social | I can't view my DMs here because I haven't verified that I'm not a child.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Tanya Goodin @tanyagoodin.bsky.social Entrepreneur • Tech & AI Ethicist • Bestselling author • Founder ethicAI.bsky.social• Founder Time to Log Off • Host ‘It’s Complicated’🎙 📘5th book out now
Emma Burnell @emmaburnell.bsky.social Editor of LabourList. Playwright. Cool aunt.
Labour Growth Group @labourgrowth.bsky.social A group of Labour MPs committed to tearing down the barriers to growth.
We give a platform to bold ideas and practical reforms to promote economic growth.
www.labourgrowth.co.uk
Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social Associate director in public services @Instituteforgov. Passionate about crime.
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY
Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
Duncan Exley @duncanexley.bsky.social Not-for-profits struggle to recruit & get the most out of people from non-middle class backgrounds. I can help: Analysis-&-recommendation &/or training.
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Maudie Johnson-Hunter @maudiejh.bsky.social Economist at Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Views are my own. She/Her
Anna Abela @annaabela.bsky.social
Camilla de Coverly Veale @decoverlyveale.bsky.social Head of AI Policy at Mozilla Foundation, former Policy Director at Startup Coalition. Bear with me while I learn a new platform...
Nathan Davies @nathandavies.bsky.social Thinking about the past and future of digital government @ oxford internet institute
Based at Harvard as an STS fellow 2025-26
Rhiannon Lewis @rhiannonl.bsky.social Coordinator at Labour Together
Jonathan Tanner @jctanner.bsky.social AI/Democracy/Strategic Communication
Peter Hyman @peterhyman.bsky.social Substack - Changing the Story. Former advisor to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer. Former headteacher.
Alex @aocnz.bsky.social
ThinkLabour @thinklabour.bsky.social ThinkLabour is a new strategic force generating bold ideas for Britain | Media enquiries: press@thinklabour.co.uk
James Southern @james.fieldleveltech.org Founder - https://FieldLevelTech.org - A better world is possible.
Be heroic, pragmatic and effective.
We win in the next few years or AI will render labour entirely at the mercy of capital.
Drop me an email to chat. (Work out Email from my @)
Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social Political Reporter for PoliticsHome and writing for The House magazine
🖊️ about education (and a few other things) | prev Reporter @ Tes
📧matilda.martin@politicshome.com
(she/her)
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Jonathan Ashworth @jonashworth.bsky.social Podcaster & campaigner
Cam Vargas @camvargas.bsky.social Work: @arguablymag.bsky.social 🇵🇪🇬🇧 | COYI ⚒️
Fintan Smith (Mac Gabhann) @fintan-smith.bsky.social Previously: Polling things at YouGov, Labour
Now: Co-founder of polling and market research company @convergent-opinion.bsky.social
Often confused with a dog called Fenton https://youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
@jacktshaw.bsky.social @jacktshaw.bsky.social Director of Groundwork Research and Policy Fellow, The Productivity Institute. 'Veteran local government advisor'.
Read my Notes on Local Government Substack: https://substack.com/@notesonlocalgovernment
Eleri Kirkpatrick-Lorente @elerikl.bsky.social
Tom Westgarth @tomwestgarth.bsky.social Head of Growth at AI hardware startup @Fractile-ai.bsky.social. Ex policy in Sovereign AI Unit and TBI. Bridging tech and policy worlds at TxP.
Adrian Goldberg @goldbergradio.bsky.social "Where's The Money Gone? The Battle For The Soul of English Football" out now via Byline Books. Email: @goldbergradio@gmail.com
Ellen Judson @ellenejudson.bsky.social Disinformation investigator, tech policy nerd, philosophy, human rights, climate. Views my own. She/her
Also on https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-judson-75918241/
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Leah Friedlander @lfriedlander.bsky.social Head of Engagement @ Startup Coalition
Just trying to figure out how this app works 🤷♀️
Joseph Bambridge @jbambridge.bsky.social U.K. Tech and Trade @ POLITICO
@jimmyjarvis.bsky.social @jimmyjarvis.bsky.social
Niklas Lindlbauer @niklaslindlbauer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Strategy @ King’s College London | Research Associate @ Cambridge Uni | Studying resource allocation | Interested in inertia, strategic change and org structures
Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta
Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts
Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring.
Personal account.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/