Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
UK Data Service Census @ukds-census.bsky.social Home for census data from all parts of the UK from 1961 through to 2021. Funded by UKRI through the ESRC. ukdataservice.ac.uk
UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social The UK’s largest collection of UK and international social, economic and population data. Funded by UKRI through the ESRC. https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/
Royal Institution @rigb.org We're an independent charity connecting people of all ages and backgrounds with science.
📺 Home of the #XmasLectures
💥 Weekly science talks online/in person
🌐 rigb.org
Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social Demographer and economist.
population dynamics | mortality | population ageing | fertility | public policy
https://sites.google.com/view/tothgcs
Ben Brindle @benbrindle.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford. #itfc fan, for my sins.
For media enquiries, please contact Rob McNeil.
Population Data Science at Swansea University @popdatascisu.bsky.social The science of data about people. We are proud to be pioneering this science across a range of data-intensive initiatives. Find out more about us on our website https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk
UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Awesome micro:bit @awesomemicrobit.bsky.social 📤🦋 Sharing the latest entries to the Awesome micro:bit repository,
a curated list of BBC #microbit resources: https://git.io/awesome-microbit
🤖 Bot maintained by @carlosperate.bsky.social
Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell.bsky.social Economic data scientist and author. Currently @ No10, formerly ONS & Bank. Book on nuclear fusion, 'The Star Builders', out now with S&S/W&N. Views my own.
Website: www.aeturrell.com
Michael Topping @michaeltopping.bsky.social T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan Population Studies Center. Sociology Ph.D. from UW-Madison | Trained at UW CDE and CDHA
Interested in Demography, Aging and the Life Course, Inequality, and much more!
https://www.michael-topping.com
@jsmiths.bsky.social @jsmiths.bsky.social
John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social Economics, data, tech. Data scientist working in London (ex
@nesta_uk @deliveroo data science teams). Creative & digital economy. Views my own. https://johnardavies.github.io/
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
John Marais @jmmarais.bsky.social Beer, family, friends, food and travel, no more is needed.
Rainbow Head @thebigoz.bsky.social Eats mangoes, drinks Vimto. Bangladesh Tigers-supporting Salford Red. Wishes the Force was with him. Walthamstow via Salford.
ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations @cpc-cg.bsky.social Improving understanding of the drivers & implications of population change & intergenerational connectivity. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) UKRI, incl. Unis of Southampton, St Andrews, Stirling, Oxford, and Resolution Foundation.
Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
The original Dr Demography!
@DrDemography on X and Insta
Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social Latest news about Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, author of books and other publications:
https://linktr.ee/dannydorling
Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social Prof of Demography & Population Health @oxforddemsci.bsky.social | Mortality, Epidemiology, Infections/Immunity, Biosocial science, COVID-19. | Science Communicator 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧.
Substack: https://jenndowd.substack.com
Sarah Christison @sarahchristison.bsky.social Research Fellow at University of St Andrews working on fertility, migration and residential mobility
UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social CLS is home to a unique series of UK national cohort studies. We conduct research and produce policy evidence to improve lives.
We are based at UCL Institute of Education. We are funded by the ESRC.
https://cls.ucl.ac.uk
Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social The Network of Europe's Leading Demographic Research Centres: https://population-europe.eu
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) @bspsuk.bsky.social We study human populations. BSPS is supported by the Population Investigation Committee, who run Population Studies - a journal of demography http://popstudies.net
Find out about BSPS Conference, Awards, Grants & more at http://www.bsps.org.uk/bsps
Heather Porter @itshporter.bsky.social Geospatial Information Specialist - CGeog - former Mentorship Programme Lead for Women+ in Geospatial - (she/her)
Carl Baker @carlbaker.bsky.social Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. Personal account for posts on stats, maps, dataviz, games, travel, and misc.
Micro:bit Educational Foundation @microbit.org 🧑🏫Transforming the way we teach technology to children one micro:bit at a time.
👉Follow and tag us to share your micro:bit and micro:bit CreateAI stories.
#microbit
#EdTech
#STEMeducation
#ComputerScience
#coding
UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social Supporting the impact of the UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social
Data Impact blog: http://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk
Other impact activities: https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/impact/
Email us at: ukdsimpact@jisc.ac.uk
Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social Professor of Population Information; UCL Dept of Information Studies
Census Service Director @ UK Data Service
MA/MSc Digital Humanities programme
Gerry Nicolaas @gerrynicolaas.bsky.social Director of Methods at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen.ac.uk). Posting about research methodology and related topics, in a personal capacity.
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
Chris Morris @morrischris.bsky.social CEO, Full Fact
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Catherine Bromley @catbrom.bsky.social Statistics | Public Health | Cats | Cricket | Scotland - all the essential ingredients for a good life
Ken Roy @kenroystats.bsky.social Occasionally contemplating and scribbling on the topic of Official Statistics
Andy Garrett @andygarrett.bsky.social Past President Royal Statistical Society. Mostly Medical and Social Science with an interest in climate change and AI. Views my own.
Michelle Bowen @stattymichelle.bsky.social Date Geek| Coffee Addict ☕️| Bookworm 📚| Lover of the outdoors 🦅☀️| Government Analyst| RSS Statistical Ambassador| Views my own
Prof. Jennifer Visser-Rogers @statsjen.bsky.social Chief Scientific Officer, Coronado Research | CStat | Twenty Women in Data and Tech, 2024 | HealthSense UK Award, 2020 | VP, International Biometrics Society BIR | TEDx speaker | Vice Chair, Florence Nightingale Museum
@sophiebays.bsky.social @sophiebays.bsky.social
RichP @richpereira.bsky.social Statistician and nerd. Deputy Director for Demography, ONS. All views my own.
FactCheckNI @factcheckni.bsky.social FactCheckNI is Northern Ireland’s first and only dedicated not for profit fact checking and training service. Accuracy matters.- A Alan Manning @alanmanning4.bsky.social Labour market economist at CEP and LSE. Personal views only
Thomas House @tah-sci.com Professor of Mathematical Sciences, working mainly on epidemiology although partial to a bit of non-commutative algebra, social science and basic biology.
https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/thomas.house/about.html
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social Statistics expert and author of 'Sum of Us' (2025) and 'Bad Data' (2022). Research Affiliate at the Oxford Migration Observatory.
Formerly of the House of Commons Library. Now writing and podcasting on Substack https://georginasturge.substack.com/
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Timandra Harkness @timandraharkness.bsky.social Writer, presenter, student of philosophy, lapsed comedian.
Author: ‘Technology is Not the Problem’ & ‘Big Data: does size matter?’
Bayesian in the streets, Kantian in the sheets.
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Miles Fletcher @milesfletcher.bsky.social Media and PR at UK Office for National Statistics
Stian Westlake @stianwestlake.bsky.social Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. Metascience, evidence, data infrastructures, economic growth.
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Evan Davis @evanhd.bsky.social The bloke who presents the BBC Radio 4 PM programme as well as the Bottom Line. And Dragons Den on BBC1. I try to be reasonable, but it is sometimes a struggle.
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social @kinship.works @transformgovtalks.bsky.social @policycamp.bsky.social
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com Economics Commentator, Financial Times; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab
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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck and Data News Editor at Channel 4 News. I cover UK and US politics, economics, the NHS, crime and justice, the environment, immigration, Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia, and misinformation.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Robin Linacre @robinlinacre.bsky.social Lead developer of Splink. Data scientist at Ministry of Justice. Trustee, GiveDirectly UK. Pledgee, http://givingwhatwecan.org. All views my own.
Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social Dork.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Tom Whipple @whippletom.bsky.social Science at The Times
My book, about the radio war: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787634132?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_NPXKFD6KQ3B2P603N1ZN
Kevin McConway @kevmcc.bsky.social Emeritus professor of statistics, inhabits Milton Keynes (UK) and sometimes Paris (FR), perpetually puzzled person, interested in anything interesting.
Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025) FMRS, FacSS etc
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social Official account for Britain’s leading independent economic research institute. https://ifs.org.uk/
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social
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
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Scott Heald @scottheald72.bsky.social Director, Public Health Scotland
Loves all things data and statistics
Have a great taste in cheesy music and love Doctor Who
Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social We're a membership body for statisticians and data professionals, promoting a world with data at the heart of understanding and decision-making.
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social 📊 #DataViz specialist.
💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3.
🎨 Generative artist.
🏃♀️ Runner.
Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/
She/her. Views my own.
Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis on UK migration.
Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social A conference for maths communicators. Every two years in the UK. Next conference Aug 2025, Warwick University. More info: talkingmathsinpublic.uk
Esther Roughsedge @eroughsedge.bsky.social Head of Demographic Statistics at National Records of Scotland. She/her.
Madeleine Sumption @msumption.bsky.social Director of Migration Observatory @ University of Oxford. I research migration policy, mostly in the UK
Census State Data Centers @censussdc.bsky.social Crunching the numbers in the states & US territories. SDC members provide guidance & access to #CensusData.
Same @censusSDC handle at X🐦 and 🐘 https://sciences.social/@censusSDC
Robert Cuffe @robertcuffe.bsky.social BBC News’s statistician. Number nerd 24-7-365.2425
ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) is a research centre hosted at King's College London and supported by the ONS.
We provide research on economic statistics for the modern economy. 📈
Grant Fitzner @grantfitzner.bsky.social Personal account. Chief economist, Director macroeconomics & environment @ONS “Sobersides.” Support evidence-based policy. Retweets are not endorsements.
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
David Smith @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social Economics Editor, The Sunday Times.
Liz McKeown @lizmckeown.bsky.social Director, Economic Statistics at ONS. Former Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office. All views my own.
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