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
ninapryce.bsky.social @ninapryce.bsky.social covering tech, culture and entertainment @ http://yespress.io
TJStamp @tjstamp.co.uk If I’m not riding a bicycle or a bearded gentleman, then I’m probably day dreaming about riding a bicycle or a bearded gentleman.
Pro-EU, British, Green Party, IT Specialist, Socialist, Geek, Gaymer. Cis, Gay, He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/tjstamp
Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social
https://lauralaker.substack.com
Muted by Julia Hartley-Brewer
Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
]|[nquisitor S. (Lexicanum) @inquisitors.bsky.social Co-founder of the #Lexicanum
Bureaucrat & Sysop of the Warhammer 40,000 Lexicanum
Administrative caretaker of the Warhammer Fantasy Lexicanum
Also available on the wiki
Steph Nicolle @stephnicolle.bsky.social Analyst working at the intersection of AI and tech + social impact + evidence-informed policy. Creator of the Digital ID Risk Registry: https://linkly.link/2enXl
Ian Moss @ian.allenmoss.co.uk Politics, policy, music and blah.
https://www.thestory-network.com/ ,ex Senior Civil Servant, ex Labour Advisor
From Stoke on Trent to the Sussex countryside.
Raphaël Guintoli @raphaelguintoli.fr Digital - Media - Adtech
Interested in digital / ad tech
Alumni of LinkedIn (MSFT), Accenture
Newsletter Raphaelguintoli.fr
X.com/raphaelguintoli
LinkedIn.com/in/raphaelguintoli
https://github.com/RaphaelGuintoli
contact@raphaelguintoli.fr
AbBeBlue @abbeblue.bsky.social 
@felixdie.bsky.social @felixdie.bsky.social 
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social 
Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com Videogames PR and consulting. 3MA panelist at large and volunteer tall ship sailor. A bit of voiceover, occasionally.
Gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight
📍The spacious Philadelphia suburb of Delaware
👾 www.twitch.tv/eenbou
ianboudreau.com
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Research and teaching on urban mobilities, economies, and inequalities. Very sceptical of AI in HE. Titular Associate Professor at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her
Sally Meecham @sallymeecham.bsky.social Better public services. Inclusion. Wales 🏴
@datavandals.bsky.social @datavandals.bsky.social https://datavandals.com
The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.
Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social Working in data viz and generative design. Data Visualisation & Information Design Lead, City Intelligence Unit, London City Hall. Also @mikebrondbjerg@vis.social
Martine Wauben @mhwauben.bsky.social Data science and infrastructure for public good in London and civil service.
Good Things Foundation @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social Powering the National Databank, National Device Bank and our free online digital skills platform, Learn My Way. Supporting the National Digital Inclusion Network.
Header image text reads: "Fixing the digital divide - for good."
Helen Milner @helenmilner.bsky.social Champion for Digital Inclusion. Group CEO Good Things Foundation. Chair Subak. Sheffield - London - Sydney. UK + Australia
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Omar Salem @omarsalem.com Climb every mountain. Founder of @BetterDaddies.com. Labour activist. Views personal. 🎾📸
Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social I think and know about open government and freedom of information. All posts in a personal capacity, RTs ≠ endorsement.
Born at 323 ppm 
Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social The UK's professional membership body for #publichealth. We work with our members to protect and improve health for all. www.fph.org.uk
Tom Symons @tomsymons.bsky.social Head of Policy Insights at @thefea.bsky.social
Education, innovation, government, tech, policy and the unrelenting woes of Southampton Football Club. May contain cats. All views my own.
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now.
he/him
https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections
The former KarenDotCom @karendotcom.bsky.social Software engineer, dog runner, plant person, mastering the art of the deconstructed mint falafel over spinach in tahini dressing
Jennifer Sandford @jennifersandford.bsky.social A Londoner specialising in comms and policy. I lead the Lib Dem office at City Hall. Interested in transport, policing, housing and the environment. Proud/knackered Mum to two opinionated girls.
Nic Teeman @teeman.co.uk Former @Nic_Teeman on X
Delivery Lead at BJSS working on NHS Website and NHS App
Director at Connetix IT
Previously: Hippo Digital, Hackney Council and Agilisys
Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social economist // former Charlottesville state rep 🏛️ // UVa prof // election reform 🇺🇸 // I write about bright lights for democracy ✨
Zag Daily @zagdaily.com Indispensable source of industry news, insight & intelligence for the new mobility movement. Stories: newsdesk@zagdaily.com
https://zagdaily.com
Georgina Watts @georginawatts.bsky.social Striving to achieve better outcomes for citizens. Happiest at the intersection of policy and delivery.
Principal consultant @Create/Change. Recently ex-Civil Service.- K KP @kpnylon.bsky.social Shocked by how fast things are moving.
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.
Nick Bowes @nickbowes.bsky.social Northerner in SE London
Politics. Football. Cats. Tinned Red Salmon. Baking. Accordion. Travel. Alan Partridge. HP Sauce. Gardening. Vintage shops. Yorkshire Tea.
Let’s disagree but do so politely and with humour
James Cracknell @jollyjourno.bsky.social The only full-time local journalist dedicated to covering Enfield, North London.
Editor of Enfield Dispatch and editor-in-chief for publisher Social Spider CIC. Supporter of Ipswich Town. Also a big fan of democracy.
Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social Your 2025/26 Premier League champions.
Until Arsenal joins Bluesky, I will try to fill the void by manually sharing content only from their official channels.
I have no affiliation with the club and seek no partnerships, promos, or monetary gain.
Luke Marshall-Waterfield @lukewaterfield.bsky.social Deputy Chief Digital Officer for the Mayor of London.
Zoe Philpott @zoephilpott.bsky.social Director, Philpott Design | Co-creator of the FAIR Process Framework | Creator Ada.Ada.Ada | Human-Centred Design Architect | Public Speaker | Mentor | Innovation & Engagement Expert | Storyteller | #DE&I #WomenInTech
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01
Davey Barker @dvy.io Creative technologist in London.
Design / React / Laravel / AI / Data / Mental Health / MChem
https://dvy.io
@dvyio on Twitter.
Graham Moore grahammoore11.bsky.social @grahammoore11.bsky.social Slava Ukraini "Don't look at me in that tone of voice" : "Tell him I was too fucking busy - or vice versa" - Dorothy Parker - Seriously Annoying
[Banner - detail from Pieter Bruegel I (1526/1530 - 1569) - The Wedding Dance (c 1566)]
London Ambulance Service @londonambulance.nhs.uk Official Bluesky account for London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, the capital's emergency and urgent care responders. Please go to 111 for urgent health advice and call 999 for life-threatening emergencies.
🔗➡️ https://linktr.ee/ldn_ambulance
Sarah Luxford @sarahrecruiter.bsky.social Keen community builder, tech enthusiast, cheer-leader of others, supporting public sector as a headhunter for DDaT roles through one hire at a time, mum, strictly come dancing wannabe
Better Homes Enfield @betterhomesenfield.bsky.social Enfield residents who want homes built in Enfield to be happy and safe places to live.
https://betterhomes-enfield.org/
Rebecca Evans @rrrebeccaevans.bsky.social Head of infrastructure, Ing Media
Infrastructure, construction, housing, real estate. Place, people, policy. Music and words. South London enthusiast.
Matt @mattzcarey.com ex pro windsurfer 🇲🇹 🌊 AI engineer. I work on streamlining access to large data sources, agents and retrieval - other interests in mech interp and data efficient fine-tuning.
Rachel Dixon @justalltherach.bsky.social Kentucky-fried chick now living in London. 🐣🏙️
Civil Society Data & Policy Officer for the Greater London Authority’s Community Engagement Team.
All views my own.
Callum Alexander @callumalexander.bsky.social Senior Strategic Planning Advisor | Healthcare Improvement Scotland | Public Health Masters with interest in social deprivation and health service improvement
Palmers Green Community @pgweb.uk News, events and discussions for Palmers Green and nearby places
Rhys Morgan @rhysm.wales Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Alexander Iosad @iosad.fyi Progress, policy, practice. Past: TBI, edtech VC, history of science DPhil.
AI & tech optimist, not solutionist. Fan of universities, state capacity, 🏏. School governor, occasionally. Diasporan ✡️.
Carly Walker-Dawson @carlywd.bsky.social Advocate for participatory democracy and striving for a more equitable society • Grad @LSEgovernment • Former IFM-SEI SecGen • Proud Geordie • She/her 🌹🌈 •
Dr Tina Basi @tinabasi.bsky.social Sociologist. Wellness Ethnographer. Founder of Roam Within. Notts Forest fan. University of Cambridge.
Matt Jewell @mj0.bsky.social Data Protection and Information Security Consultant → assurestart.co
Gerard Fox @gerardfox.bsky.social Design Educator + Researcher: Strategic Design. Open Source Systems Thinking. Collective Capacity. Citizen Participation. Positive Storytelling. Social Technology. [Co-]Creation. The Common Good. Us not Them. We not Me.
Ed Howarth @edhowarth.bsky.social Co-Director @Climate Barometer https://climatebarometer.org/, Co-Director of Tech4Good SW - https://tech4goodsouthwest.org/. Previously, Power to Change and Bath Social&Development Research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-howarth-74136178. Bristol based.
Louis Gillies @louisgillies.co.uk Cofounder - Developing software products in Devon, UK
🚧 Ordaloca.com - local commerce platform
🚧 Uselimits.com - centralised access control
Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social Director, Libraries at Arts Council England. Data, emerging tech, literacies, reading for pleasure and the joy of libraries. ‘Libraries gave us power.’ Personal views only.
Nick Nugent @nugent.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Univ. of Tennessee. I teach Cybersecurity, Computer Crime, IP, AI, and Property. Computer scientist and former in-house counsel for Amazon and Microsoft.
Darryl Sparey 📈 @darrylsparey.bsky.social Hudson & Halia's Dad | MD of Hard Numbers | Co-founder The Family Group | PRCA/CIPR Fellow | #giletfluencer 📈
Jen Lowthrop @jlowthrop.bsky.social Nature facilitator, charity consultant, hiking travel blogger, Coworking space founder and wannabe (more!) activist. Avid reader and dog mama. Chair of Peak District Foundation.
Michael Škvrňák @skvrnami.bsky.social east european data plumber // Czech Academy of Sciences & PAQ Research
Andy @andycso.bsky.social Specialist in Online Harms/Online Child Safety/Trust & Safety
Understanding the landscape of complexity, challenges and nuances
Global reach and believer in collabaoration
Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social Tech communicator, speaker, author, thereminist, early electronic music nerd.
Weekly tech & AI insights: https://rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social Assistant Professor Game Design, Iowa State University Gamer, scholar, author, hobbyist dev. Research interests include game cultures, video game history, and archeogaming. Gen AI is theft. 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️⚧️
Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social Head of Audience Development @australia.theguardian.com. SEO, social media, community, analytics, newsletters etc. All the digital news things
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
- expert of miscellany
- writer
- Senior Fellow
- Oracle at Dead ass
@unbreaking.org
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
v buckenham @v21.bsky.social hello again
made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use
also i have a website: v21.io
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social wrote a couple books including the novel WRONG WAY
joannemcneil.com
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
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
Charlton McIlwain @cmcilwain.bsky.social Higher Ed Leader. BBQ junkie. Author. NYU Professor. CR+DS. Board Pres.@ Data & Society. Race+Tech.
Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
https://www.dorothy-berry.com
Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Science Communication | Award-winning science writer | Screen Time | Social Media | Smartphones | Video games | https://linktr.ee/unlockedbook
Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social Writing, game design, etc. Adelaide, London. Wrote a novel called “The Husbands”.
book: https://lnk.to/thehusbands
newsletter: https://buttondown.email/holly
info: http://hollygramazio.net
ig: https://www.instagram.com/holly_gramazio/
pic: Diana Patient
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)
Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com