Cindy Gallop @cindygallop.bsky.social Founder & CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn. I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.
Sheffield.Digital @sheffield.digital The association for Sheffield’s digital industries.
Membership Community | Tech Jobs Board | Mentoring Scheme | Newsletter | Podcast | Slack Group | Events Calendar | Blog | GeekBrekky every Friday |
🌐https://sheffield.digital/
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Sophia Parker @mssophiaparker.bsky.social “What if what we see of the world around us is really just what we’ve been told to see?… when we start to let our curiosity wander, we start to see there are other ways things can be” — Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
https://www.jrf.org.uk/our-people/sophia-parker
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale.
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Anna Pickard @annapickard.bsky.social Writer, on call Voice & Tone doctor for random tech companies, fan of museums, nerd about words, restless human. Really trying to avoid everyone yelling at each other.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
Stuart Mackenzie @hellostu.xyz - Lover of public services 👩🏼⚕️
- Parkrun enthusiast 🏃♂️🌳
- Amatuer Photographer 📷
- Occasional Podcaster 🎤
- Senior Partner at TPXimpact ✊❤️
- Remembered for my dance moves 🕺🏼
- Proud resident of Dorset 🌊
https://hellostu.xyz/
Random Restaurant Bot @restaurant-bot.bsky.social Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social writing about politics + the internet
formerly: @wired.com, @theverge.com
DMs open, Signal: makenakelly.32
FAQ, Instagram, + everything else at linktr.ee/makenakelly
Skylight Social @skylight.social ✨Join Skylight, report bugs, suggest features:
https://beacons.ai/skylight.social
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Kim Plowright @mildlydiverting.bsky.social Artist, drawing tutor, digital producer. Not entirely sure who she is any more.
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 
Meg Pickard @megp.bsky.social Crafty nerd (nature/textile art/crochet/linoprint/photography/general web geekery) and charity trainer in North Yorkshire. Ex AOL/Guardian/GDS/consultant. Still looking for the place that feels like the old web (but with a faster modem).
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social To inspire people to write handwritten letters to each other. #PostboxSaturday
Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social linktr.ee/sylvanaquafarms for my book (First Generation Farming), meat, poultry, eggs, pet treats, merch, and mutual aid.
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biology at Oxford University; plant chaser; artist; author. Find me on Insta @illustratingbotanist
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. Nat'l leadership team Authors Against Book Bans
www.samiraahmed.com
Esther Addley @estheraddley.bsky.social Guardian senior news writer, Derry Girl. Likes old stones and potatoes. 
Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com.
Project Lead: https://10fconsortium.org
Author: “How to Future” (2020) and “Future Cultures” (2023)
Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social Partner at Changeist.com
Futures adjacent
Project Lead: https://www.10fconsortium.org/
Contributing Editor: “How to Future” (2020)
Author: “Future Cultures” (2023)
Erica Packington @ericajanemp.bsky.social Feminist atheist pelagic-brained handwaver
It depends / context matters / look for the helpers / find my simple / trust the process
Current state: fucking hell, tho
Content Teatime @contentteatime.bsky.social We're a bunch of content designers and strategists based in northern England. We run in-person, hybrid and online meet-ups for anyone interested in content, design and user experience. Come and join us.
I thought about that a lot @allconsuming.bsky.social An advent calendar of 24 essays by 24 authors.
Curated by @amymcnichol.bsky.social, designed by @madebysheppard.bsky.social, @ralphhawkins.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: https://buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
Rianna @vividfax.bsky.social Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography, Treeplanter ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/
@darrylgeorgiou.bsky.social @darrylgeorgiou.bsky.social 
Robert Sharl @sharl.bsky.social Rated PG for occasional adult themes, and some mildly upsetting scenes. Director at Cine Excess. Designer at Futurilla. UX lecturer at BCU. Occasional composer.
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Russell Dornan @russelldornan.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | Dinosaurs | stationery | Britney | design |
🏴 | writing/making/photographing things
JPB @jennpb.bsky.social 
Emma King @emmalking.bsky.social PhD researcher, archives, emotion & family history. Former museum geek. Solo SEND parent. Northerner. Documenting my research at https://substack.com/@emmalking.
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social should be writing a second novel
https://timmaughanbooks.com
https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/infinite-detail
altho I hit a pound of herb/im still nice with the verb/so fuck what you heard
Jonas Heide Smith @jonassmith.dk Let’s think about cultural heritage and how to do digital in museums. Head of Digital at SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). #openglam
Personal web: https://jonassmith.dk
Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk The UK's leading arts management journal and independent voice of the culture sector.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Alyson Webb @alywebb.bsky.social Digital and content strategy and research for cultural organisations.
Seema R / Artlust @artlust.bsky.social Art and not much lust- M Michelle Moon @michellenmoon.bsky.social Place-based public historian, public educator, & interpretive planner. Justice through history. Wrote “Interpreting Food” & “Public History & the Food Movement.” Co-editor Journal of Museum Ed. Jersey girl, beach bum, hiker, beginning Gaeilgeoir.
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Neil Perkin @neilperkin.bsky.social Founder of Only Dead Fish. Author of 'Building the Agile Business', 'Agile Transformation' and 'Agile Marketing'. Curator of Google Firestarters.
The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social A progressive voice for a metropolitan community.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/
Part of the Joe Media Group.
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org We investigate Britain’s foreign policy, military & intelligence agencies and corporations. Please support our work - https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/
Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism from Yorkshire | IMPRESS regulated
To write, edit or help behind the scenes, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Whatsapp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaChEIR4NVidtlOgFu0I
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego
Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk Creative director and playful curator.
Studio lead at Good Afternoon
https://linktr.ee/tigershungry
(a brummie, not an aussie)- A Annette Mees @annettemees.bsky.social Artist, curator and theatre director - specialising in equitable futures, climate, innovation & technology
Working on the Future of Arts & Culture.
Tonya Nelson @tonyanelson.bsky.social Culture Vulture. Executive Director, Enterprise & Innovation at Arts Council England. Trustee of National Gallery and Royal Collection Trust
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Documentally @documental.ly Story making, picture taking, writer & homesteader.
Autotelic prone to random acts of journalism.
(G5DOC)
Documentally.net
[All posts human authored]
#TheBorders #UK
#Writing #Photography #Podcasting #HamRadio #Brompton #MoJo #FieldRecording
Jamie Taylor @jamiethecurator.bsky.social Director of Collections, Programming and Learning at Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Museums are my jam but I’m also into making music, guitars, football and NBA. I was recently into painting minis but I’m not so interested in that now.
Ars Technica @arstechnica.com Original news, reviews, analysis of tech trends, and expert advice on the most fundamental aspects of tech.
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Andrew Martin @andrewmartin.bsky.social Strategy, futures and impact | London | andymartin.net
Firetail @firetail.bsky.social We are a #strategy #consultancy working to achieve #socialprogress. We help impact-driven organisations realise their ambitions for society. #BCorpUK
Henry Lane @talktohenry.bsky.social Strategy consultant specialising in evaluation, foresight/futures & strategy development for social impact organisations @firetail.bsky.social | Strong conviction that cheese, bicycles and cricket are humanity's finest achievements | London, UK
Pete Martin @petemartin.net Social media/digital marketing workhorse. I only really want to work with people making a positive impact.
https://www.petemartin.net
Stanford Social Innovation Review @ssir.org We're a self-funded nonprofit publication with a mission to inform and inspire leaders of social change.
Support us by subscribing at ssir.org.
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Antonia Mochan @antoniamochan.com European official, opsimath.
Job: EU policy lab - innovative policymaking. Life: Knitting, crochet, theatre, my family, my friends and my dogs.
FRSA, Eisenhower Fellow.
#EUsky for EU-related stuff. Don’t DM me, I’m not doing that verification nonsense.
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
David Bull CBE @davidnbull.bsky.social David Bull CBE, ex CEO Unicef UK & Amnesty International UK, leadership coach/mentor, consultant on charity & international development strategy & governance, Dep Chair of The Power of Nutrition, amateur photographer, interested in astronomy and genealogy.
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
Serena Snoad - Good Community @serenas.bsky.social Passionate about connection, culture, and carbs.
Building online communities since 2008. Founder of Good Community: https://goodcommunity.co.uk/links
Fond of London, literature and liminal spaces.
Be excellent to each other.
(Image: SewCream Studios)
Mr Joe Jenkins @mrjoejenkins.bsky.social Charity leader, hubby, dad, spare human for pup; and everything here is all me
Matt Lent @mattlent.bsky.social CEO of youth employment charity - youthcareers.bsky.social and Trustee at Young Barnet Foundation.
Expect posts about young people, education, employment, politics & charity matters.
Rally @lifeatrally.bsky.social We work with organisations fighting for a fairer, healthier, safer, greener, more equal world. We inspire & mobilise people to take action to change the world.
Links: https://linktr.ee/LifeAtRally
Kate Collins @katecollinsuk.bsky.social Chief Exec. Chair. Trustee. Big fan of the things people do for causes they love. Fast talker. Slow runner. To be found in Staffs, North Wales or London…or on a train
www.katecollins.org
Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development
https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
Dominic Ligot @docligot.bsky.social Technologist, Social Impact, Data Ethics, AI
Jack Scriven @jackrs1.bsky.social Working with mission-led organisations and #socents to help with #startup #scaleup #innovation and #impact🚀🫂🌲
Founder VirtuCircle.org
Advisor WYKDigital.com
Fellow onpurpose.uk.com
Living in Camberwell, UK
Sustainability and Social Equity 
Andrew Parle @socialforgood.bsky.social Founder of Social For Good Ireland, a
digital agency for charities and non-profits. We help charities raise money online and more.
Massive rugby and football fan too! 👏
www.socialforgood.ie
Roger Harding @rogerh.bsky.social Director of Round Our Way, a new org for people in the UK paying the price for climate change. Changing how this vital issue is discussed and who is in the debate.
Chair of the Economic Change Unit & Non-Exec Board member of the Future Governance Forum.
Karl Wilding @karlwilding.bsky.social Trying to work out what’s going on in civil society & what to do next. At: @UniKentCfP @MyCakeFinance @1stCommunities @creatingtfuture. Ex-@ncvo. Volunteer.
Jamie Levine Daniel @jamielevdan.bsky.social Prof. of Nonprofit Management and Public Service. Lifelong CLE fan. Co-founder of @GoodTroubleIN. she/her. All views are my own. Tweets? Threads? Posts? Whatever they are on here, they will probably have typos.
Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social Helping put social science to use for society at Stanford Impact Labs
Twitter: @michaeleddy 🏳️🌈
Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social Director, Institute of Public Utilities @ Michigan State University & Associate Professor of Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics • Author: The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom • Fulbrighter (Kenya) • #EnergySky • Views my own