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)
Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app ✊🏾 • Beer • SSF2X • おつまみ大好き • DrinkLocal • Lakers (1981-2026) • Dodgers • 阪神タイガース • Joshi Puroresu • お相撲 • Bleeding Heart 🍻 • Fei Long • 春麗 • Karin Kanzuki • Jamie Siu 🍶
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
Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social Assistant prof at IE University. Previously EUI and Oxford.
Researching what we think is ok to do in a democracy & how that changes.
Book on the normalization of the radical right: https://academic.oup.com/book/57946
More at www.vicentevalentim.com
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community 🟦 Analyst and writer focusing on cognition, politics, religion, technology, and media
🟦 Host, Theory of Change
🟦 Writing @flux.community, and frequently quoted or published in NYT, WaPo, NBC, Variety…
Signal: matthewsheffield.01
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.
Ember @ember-energy.org Global energy think tank accelerating the clean energy transition with data and policy #CleanPower info@ember-energy.org
https://ember-energy.org/
James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social We are a national membership coalition, founded by and for the Irish community in Britain - a progressive voice for community development and representation.
www.irishinbritain.org
Oral history exhibition: https://exhibitions.irishinbritain.org/lookback
Dan Mead @danmead.bsky.social Economist at ThinkLabour
Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com. Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social Black, Jewish, British, mother, friend & everything else beautiful in between. Living with an open heart.
Blewish cockney version of Hillel.
Occasional rants.
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social News reporter at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
Want to talk stories? DM or use yeomans.97 on Signal
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Christian M. Ivey @ageedubb.bsky.social Art Director at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social + Digital Comms at @OBI-Belonging.bsky.social
Stephen Menendian @smenendian.bsky.social Assistant Director @ the Othering & Belonging Institute @UCBerkeley. Vintage & Old School MTG hobbyist.
NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) @npquarterly.bsky.social Journalism for civil society. Reporting on leadership, climate justice, racial justice, health justice, economic justice, philanthropy, and equity issues.
Council on Foundations @councilfoundations.bsky.social The Council cultivates a community of diverse, skilled philanthropic professionals who lead with integrity, serve as ethical stewards, & advocate for progress.
the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley @obi-belonging.bsky.social
Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social Senior fellow @obi-belonging.bsky.social Berkeley. Founding ed at The Lead, co-founder +972 Magazine. Bylines NYT, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Haaretz etc. Exploring long-term future of Israel-Palestine. Dimireider.substack.com.
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the former GOP congressman. Find me here: http://bio.site/mattgertz
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of Oslo | Behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychophysiology, and meta-science 🇦🇺🇨🇴🇳🇴
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Tom Scotson @tomscotson.bsky.social Political Reporter for PoliticsHome
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social Manchester's quality newspaper. Sign up now - we only publish via email.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/
Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social Climate data scientist @metoffice specialising in generating interactive websites and bespoke #dataviz. #climate #maps #GIS #mapping #Rstats
Views are my own
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Sarah Sackman MP @sarahsackman.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green. Minister for Courts and Legal Services 🌹
The Bridge Group @bridgegroup.bsky.social Independent research charity promoting socio-economic inclusion through evidence, insight and collaboration. Our vision is an education system and a labour market where background is no barrier. THEBRIDGEGROUP.ORG.UK
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Centre for Young Lives @cfyounglives.bsky.social We are an independent think tank and delivery unit dedicated to improving the lives of children, young people, and families. www.centreforyounglives.org.uk
Teacher Tapp @teachertapp.bsky.social Join us! 11,000+ teachers on a daily mission to paint an accurate picture of what’s going on in schools (so policymakers can’t ignore you). Download now. (Free!)
EduSky @edusky.bsky.social Update - as Bluesky and #EduSky rapidly expand, Alice has created a team to best support the community! > Please now go follow @Eduskyteam.com
Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
National Institute of Economic and Social Research @niesrorg.bsky.social Founded in 1938, NIESR is Britain’s longest established independent research institute focusing on macroeconomics and social policy.
Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy. Please follow us on our new handle: @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk
UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social CEPEO is a research centre at UCL working to improve education policy and wider practice to equalise opportunities http://ucl.ac.uk/ioe/cepeo
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
FE Week @feweek.bsky.social Leading the way in further education, skills & apprenticeships news, views and investigations. Published by EducationScape
Ed Dorrell @eddorrell.bsky.social Partner at Public First (education, levelling up and Labour). Quant, qual, political comms. Ex-journo at @tes. Still write a lot.
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) @corc-annafreud.bsky.social Experts in using outcome & feedback measurement & data. Enabling more effective child-centred support, services & systems to improve children & young people's mental health & wellbeing.
Free resources, training and various services: www.corc.uk.net.
Kids @kidscharity.bsky.social We’re on the side of over two million children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and their families.
Find out more about our work here: https://www.kids.org.uk/
Kyle Tormey @ktorm-social1.bsky.social Education journalist at Tes. X: @ktormreport Tips: kyle.tormey@tes.com
AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social Keeping teachers up to date with the latest news, events and resources.
For more information about how AQA handles your personal data please visit https://www.aqa.org.uk/about-us/privacy-notice
Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, impartial, and evidence-based research institute that promotes high quality education
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
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Adam Smith Institute @adamsmith.org 🇬🇧 #1 Economics Think Tank 🎓| Promoting markets, liberty, innovation, progress & growth 🚀| Sign-up to our Bulletin 📨 http://adamsmithinstitute.substack.com
Bright Blue @brightblueuk.bsky.social The independent think tank for defending and improving liberal society.
brightblue.org.uk
The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank.bsky.social An independent think-tank, established to put social justice at the heart of British politics.
👉 MEDIA: media-enquiries@centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
Philip Nye @philipnye.bsky.social Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
Luke Raikes @lukeraikes.bsky.social Deputy General Secretary at the Fabian Society | regional economies, devolution, productivity, industrial strategy, employment rights, employment support, transport, politics | Views are my own | 🏴
https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/meet-our-experts/
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
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Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social Research Fellow at IFS, independent consultant, posts about about school funding, education, inequalities and cycling
Becks Fisher @becksfisher.bsky.social Director of Research & Policy @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social, NHS GP, Harkness 22/23, co-founder of Next Generation GP. She/her. Views my own. Usually running.
Carl Cullinane @carlcullinane.bsky.social Politics, policy, education inequality, cycling, football. Social mobility researcher. Views own etc.
If you're wondering whether I'm trying to make a joke then I probably am.
Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social Britain’s leading cross-party think tank, with a mission to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society.
https://www.smf.co.uk/ | Also on LinkedIn, X and TikTok
Kevin Latham @kevinlatham.bsky.social Research and Policy Manager at the Sutton Trust; former secondary teacher (Social Sciences) and university lecturer (anthropology/sociology)
The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Centre for London @centreforlondon.bsky.social We are London’s think tank. A voice for all London is, and could be. Follow us for urban policy updates, London policy discourse and insight into our research.
https://centreforlondon.org/
Centre for Ageing Better @ageingbetter.bsky.social At the Centre for Ageing Better we are pioneering ways to make ageing better a reality for everyone. Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Katie Schmuecker @katieschmuecker.bsky.social Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - UK poverty, social policy, politics, research and data. Occasionally crochet, gigs and nature
IPPR Scotland @ipprscotland.bsky.social We are Scotland’s progressive think tank. We are dedicated to supporting and improving public policy, working tirelessly to achieve a progressive Scotland.
IPPR North @ipprnorth.bsky.social We're the leading think-tank based in the North丨Developing bold, progressive ideas to empower England’s regions丨21 years of independent research & influence
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Harry QP @harryqp.bsky.social Director of IPPR. Progressive policy and politics. Non-Exec Director at West London NHS Trust.
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Nicole Curato @nicolecurato.bsky.social Examining the intersections of deliberative democracy, craft gin, and Taylor Swift.
Tim Hughes @timjhughes.bsky.social All things democracy, open gov & participation, with a sprinkling of climbing, photography & Ipswich Town.
Democracy & Participation Lead at Open Government Partnership, trustee at MySociety, & former exec director at Involve.
Linus Strothmann @linusstrothmann.bsky.social Author on Citizen Assemblies, canoeconcerts@youtube, DIY, future generations
Canning Malkin @clmalkin.bsky.social Deliberative and innovative democracy @iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @glocan.bsky.social, climate governance, American politics, and some other bits. she/her
Joanne Sansome @joannesansome.bsky.social Disability Activist/Campaigner/Social Researcher/Published Author. Interested/involved in Co-production/Deliberative Democracy. I love dogs🐾 and football ⚽️Posts are my own, RP’s are not.
Claudia Chwalisz @cchwalisz.bsky.social Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext (www.demnext.org)
Clodagh Harris @clodaghharris.bsky.social Senior lecturer, University College Cork. Interested in participatory & deliberative democracy, citizens assemblies, climate justice and intergenerational deliberation. Own views.