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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff. Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: abundancepod.com Free the Postcode Address File!
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social Migration and asylum policy. Plus often human rights & democratic participation. Trustee of Care Rights UK.
Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social Development Economics AP @ Rice University ← Postdoc @ UChicago ← PhD student @Brown_Economics on the 2025/26 Academic Job Market. Previously RA @Princeton/@BusaraCenter ← MPhil @UniofOxford ← BSc @MaastrichtU 🚣🏻‍♀️🤾🏻‍♂️📷🌻 www.moritz-poll.com
Peter Holmes @pholmes8.bsky.social Semi-retired trade economist, Emeritus @ UKTPO Sussex. Posts about Brexit, Freeports, WTO and anything else that catches my fancy. Migrating across from other place. Tweeted as @pholmes8. Blogs with others at https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/blog/
Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social Education and global development, Adelaide University | UNESCO Network on Education, Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/prachi.srivastava
David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social Does stuff at University of Pennsylvania: https://sites.google.com/view/davidpowell/
James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists. Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Leila Gautham @leilagautham.bsky.social Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leeds. PhD from UMass Amherst. Labour economist. Inequality, care, gender, and time use. https://sites.google.com/view/leilagautham/research https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1580/dr-leila-gautham
Lukas Schlogl @schl.bsky.social Senior Researcher @oefse.at • Global Development, Development Policy and Finance, Economic Transformation • Posts EN/DE, views my own.
Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010. More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Owen Barder @owen.org Economist. ex No10, Treasury, CGD, PxD. Former visiting Professor @ LSE. Development Drums podcast. Team GB triathlete age-grouper. Olympic volunteer. Feminist, internationalist. Set up the first UK Government website. Helped invent AMCs.
Benjamin Soskis @bensoskis.bsky.social History of philanthropy and civil society; Philly sports; Irish trad music. Views my own.
Stefano Fiorin @stefanofiorin.bsky.social Econ AP @Unibocconi. Postdoc @UCSD, PhD @UCLA. #FirstGen middle school grad. Behavioral economics, Development Economics and Political Economy.
Julio Solís Arce @juliosolis.bsky.social PhD student at @harvardgovdept.bsky.social. Studying political development, collective choice, and culture in Africa. https://juliosolisar.github.io/
Nina Obermeier @ninaobermeier.com Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics at King's College London. International political economy, European politics, globalization, immigration, populism, and Eurovision (which combines all of the above). www.ninaobermeier.com
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social Professor of economics at UWE Bristol. Chair of Post-Keynesian Economics Society. Progressive Economy Forum council member. Interested in macro, finance, banking, climate change, inequality, demographics. https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/JoMichell
Patrick Blanchenay @pblanchenay.bsky.social
Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social education and development economist at University at Buffalo @ubuffalo.bsky.social, dad, Red Sox fan
Nancy Birdsall @nbirdsall.bsky.social development economist, president emerita Center for Global Development (@cgdev.org), hoping some of my Twitter followers move over to BlueSky
Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics. Engineer, then academic, now engineer again. Daytime is AI/ML research. I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator. Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart. A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️‍🌈
@rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social
Dr. Donna J. Drucker @histofsex.bsky.social Research development by day, history of sex, reproduction, & technology by night. Books at U of Pittsburgh Press, Springer, MIT Press, & Reaktion (future). Black cat, cold takes. NYC. No employer opinions. #histsex #histmed #histtech
Kate @k8c.bsky.social MSP/ABQ Librarian, Greyhound Person, Intimidating Gooose. #uglydogs, #skyhounds Information literacy for all!
Sam Harsimony @harsimony.bsky.social I write about opportunities in science, space, and policy here: https://splittinginfinity.substack.com/
Elisa Xi Chen @elisaxchen.bsky.social Artist cursed to be a female economist in this life. PhD student @Harvard. Building a Roman Empire: Labor, AI, Education, Development, Gender https://elisaxchen.github.io/
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
Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. New podcast: Collateral Damage Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
James Igoe Walsh @jamesigoewalsh.com Professor of Political Science, Data Science, & Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Formerly US National Science Foundation. https://www.jamesigoewalsh.com
Andrew Little @anthlittle.bsky.social Prof at UC Berkeley. Formal theory, political beliefs, democracy. Associate Editor at ‪@ajpseditor.bsky.social‬ https://anthlittle.github.io/
Paul Musgrave @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social Is all about New Labour, #nffc, #threelions, #veganism, Brett Anderson, Morrissey, physics, Star Trek, @lordshortcake.bsky.social, and thinking tea, lovely tea, solves most ills
Luis Garicano @lugaricano.bsky.social Economist. Professor @LSE SPP My webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/luisgaricano/ Substack (innovation, econ., Europe): SiliconContinent.com My book on the Euro is out on June 2025.
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Views my own
Avi Ahuja @avi-ahuja.bsky.social PhD candidate at NYU Politics. I study development, aid, political behavior & governance in Africa.
Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social I post mainly about politics, especially immigration and asylum, and the arts, especially music and sometimes poetry. Ex-civil service and volsec. HO Asylum Director 1996-2000, plus ça change.
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social Instructor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, health economist studying development and adoption of medical technology. alexeverhartphd.com
J James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Angadh Nanjangud @angadh.com 🇮🇳🇬🇧 peripatetic space technologist Space Engineering Lecturer @qmul.bsky.social Meditations angadh.com
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@marleymorris.bsky.social @marleymorris.bsky.social
Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social Where we came from, and where we may be heading. I post about technology, innovation, space, earth observation, heritage, and bread. MBA (Tech Mgmt) from Open University.
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Ricky @paddington82.bsky.social 🇵🇪🇺🇸📍Londres
Jordan Dworkin @jdworkin.bsky.social Innovation policy at Coefficient Giving. Previously metascience @scientistsorg, and neuroimaging statistics in a past life
Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale. We are developing the science behind scaling up policy interventions. https://yrise.yale.edu/
Ryan Hauser @ryanhauser.bsky.social Research Fellow @ GMU | AI Governance + PPE + HPS | Studying @ VT machineculture.io | ryanhauser.carrd.co | ◁▷◁
Ellen Pasternack @ellenpasternack.bsky.social I work at ESRC - the government body that funds economics and social science. Interested in data, policy, metascience, progress studies, urbanism, & UK politics.
Spencer Williams @swilliams1918.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington Information School. Studying science communication and social media.
Danny Maupin @dmaupin.bsky.social 🔬Research Fellow in Health Science University of Surrey 🩺Specialist Vestibular Physiotherapist
D David N Lang @davidnlang.bsky.social Economist and computational social scientist Views do not represent those of my employer
Sam Peak @sampeak.bsky.social Immigration and Labor Mobility at the Economic Innovation Group.
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge PhD in Economic History, LSE. nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography. Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility. Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Apparently I can "f*** right off". Qué arte tienes.
Mike Brewer @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social Deputy Chief Executive Resolution Foundation, CPAG Trustee & Visiting Prof in Practice at LSE Social Policy. 'Calm, Measured, Withering' http://tinyurl.com/y6wxlxhj). 'Cool, calm analysis' (More or Less, 8/10/25). He/him
Lucy Leon @lucyleon.bsky.social Researcher, Global Exchange on Migration at @compasoxford.bsky.social Previously at @CCoMstudy and @childsocpol https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/lucy-leon
J [deactivated account] @jmelville.science
Will Klemperer @will-klemperer.bsky.social
Ross McKenzie @rmckenzie.bsky.social Econ Lecturer at University of Dundee | Applied Micro | Labour & Migration https://sites.google.com/view/rossmckenzie/home
Reva J. Resstack @rresstack.bsky.social Economics PhD student studying Migration & Displacement | former CGD, WOLA, Immigration Law | she/her
FaunaFi @faunafi.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/faunaandfi Sofiia F 🔸️ Biology . Musicals . Animals . Disability Trying to help others and read books
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics. email max@kennerlylaw.com
John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social Prof. Dr. John P. de New -- Economist, Melbourne Institute, Uni Melbourne. GLabor, IZA. Via CarletonU, UToronto, UMünchen-LMU. Private posts in EN DE FR, @GrapheneOS.org @Signal.org Part owner of Canada #Never51
Kristen McCollum @kris10mccollum.bsky.social impact evaluation of humanitarian interventions | evidence on (forced) migration | social networks | https://sites.google.com/view/kristen-mccollum DPhil at University of Oxford’s COMPAS @compasoxford.bsky.social
Steven Bosworth @sjbeconobot.bsky.social Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading He/him, autistic
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert1.bsky.social I love to read. I especially enjoy history. Author of HEYERWOOD: A Novel and A RATIONAL ATTACHMENT, both set in the Regency era. Closed door romance. Currently working on a non-fiction book about 7 women.
Rafael Ruiz @rafaelruiz.bsky.social Effective Altruist. PhD Student at @LSEPhilosophy interested in Moral Progress/Epistemology/Psychology/Metaethics. Worried about AI. Tweets mostly jokes. More often on Twitter than here (sorry!)
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Book writer ("How to Win a Trade War") Economics columnist at the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/soumaya-keynes Host of The Economics Show podcast https://link.chtbl.com/economicsshow Singer-songwriter http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
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.
Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
Renaissance Philanthropy @renphil21.bsky.social Fueling a 21st century renaissance by increasing the ambition of philanthropists, scientists, and innovators.
Elizabeth Cooper @liz-cooper.bsky.social Executive Director at Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative.
Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social Mostly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/misha-teplitskiy
Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social Metascientist @ uidaho. Behavioral sciences, stats, modeling, phil of science. Cat slave, cook, sailor (see: https://bsky.app/profile/kumrusails.bsky.social), photographer, clarinet student, adventurer, nature lover. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us Doctor, pathologist, and medical journalist. This is a personal account. http://www.mazer.us https://www.theatlantic.com/author/benjamin-mazer/
Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Epidemiologist/mathematician. Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Author of The Rules of Contagion and The Perfect Bet. Views own. New book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty available now: proof.kucharski.io
Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social Assistant prof at Utrecht University, trying to make science as reproducible as non-scientists think it is. Blogs at @the100ci.
Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social Scientist (PhD she/her), writer, cartoonist. 🦘 Blogging & Newsletter: Living With Evidence https://hildabastian.wordpress.com/ Mastodon enthusiast: @hildabast@mastodon.online
colin r meyer @colinrmeyer.bsky.social fluids, ice, snow mechanician. assoc prof at Dartmouth College
Hillary Vipond @hillaryvipond.bsky.social Economic History, LSE || Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain || Postdoc @CSH Vienna. Senior @atlanticfellows
Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci Bayescurious evidence enthusiast at the100.ci Topics: evolution, ovulation, mutation, intelligence, personality, sexuality, R, open science & source tools. https://rubenarslan.github.io/
Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social I spend too much money on books. And too much time writing them. 🇦🇺🇨🇦. https://rohanalexander.com http://tellingstorieswithdata.com
@openphil.bsky.social @openphil.bsky.social
@sarahconstantin.bsky.social @sarahconstantin.bsky.social
Janeen Madan Keller @jmadankeller.bsky.social Policy Fellow & Deputy Director @CGDev.org All things global health & development economics. Washington DC via Mumbai. Views my own.