British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
Dr Ioannis Valasakis @wizofe.uk PhD Neuroscience, King’s College London ⊹ Senior RSE, University of Glasgow ⟁ ECG clinical interpretation algorithms × explainable deep learning · AF · arrhythmias · signal quality ∿ lavta · mandolin · Greek sun / Glasgow rain
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social Disability history's my thing.
https://www.tuni.fi/en/people/daniel-blackie
Disability in the Industrial Revolution (OA): https://tinyurl.com/yxv23zpk
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social ‘The view from the column is ever distant’
Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
#Sociology #History
Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
George Bangham @georgebangham.bsky.social Head of Social Policy @neweconomics.bsky.social
Ex HM Treasury/No10/Resolution Foundation
Katharine Quarmby @katharineq.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist: https://muckrack.com/katharine-quarmby; Shortlisted, New Angle Prize for Literature 2025, for historical novel The Low Road; literary agent, non-fiction, Andrew Lownie; website: katharinequarmby.com.
Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social Football Finance Writer at The Athletic UK | Will write about money for football | Views are not someone else's
𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦/𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗦: 📧 cweatherspoon@theathletic.com
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/chris-weatherspoon/
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
Jake Goldsmith @jgoldsmith.bsky.social Author. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/authors/jake_goldsmith/
Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.
Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://barbellionprize.org
https://www.jakegoldsmithauthor.com
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Article 39 children's rights charity @article39.bsky.social We fight for children's rights in institutional settings. Executive Director - Jodie Wickers.
Brought as much as we could when we left the other platform. More on our website: https://article39.org.uk
Giovanni Picker @giopicker.bsky.social scholar, author, educator @uofgsociology.bsky.social. he/him
https://shorturl.at/ZXxzk
Heather Wardle @shwardle.bsky.social Professor of Gambling Research and Policy at the University of Glasgow. Co-chair of the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling. 
Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social Reader & Sociology Subject Co-Lead, @UofGSociology.bsky.social University of Glasgow. Global queer politics, sexualities & genders, human rights, decolonizing, genocide. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites/- S Dr. Susan A. Batchelor @susan-batchelor.bsky.social Subject Group Lead, Criminology
University of Glasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/susanbatchelor/
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
STUART TODD @stuarttodd01.bsky.social Prof in Intellectual Disability Research at the University of South Wales. I am currently leading the Marie Curie funded READY study https://www.readystudy.uk/home - a study of the last year of life of people with learning disabilities.
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
Gerry McCartney @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
Louise Bringselius @bringselius.bsky.social Associate Professor in Management Studies, Stockholm School of Economics. Keynote speaker, author and columnist. Trust expert.
Paul Cochrane @paulcochrane87.bsky.social Global Services Manager @ Hyland | Passionate about services, healthcare, digital health, AI & cloud | BSc, PRINCE2, MSP, L6σ Green Belt | Opinions are my own | https://linktr.ee/paulcochrane
Nordregio @nordregio.bsky.social International research centre for regional development and planning located in the heart of Stockholm. We are bridging policy and research for a thriving, sustainable Nordic region and beyond.
Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social pianist, composer, writer
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy @jicsp.bsky.social JISCP is an international academic journal of the UK Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social.
Editors: @stefankuehner.bsky.social, @aroumpakis.bsky.social, @markusketola.bsky.social, and Ijin Hong
NOVA / Norwegian Social Research @nova-oslomet.bsky.social Velferdsforskningsinstituttet NOVA ved OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet / A research institute at Oslo Metropolitan University
Forskning – tett på – gjennom hele livsløpet!
Meld deg på nyhetsbrevet vårt: https://www.oslomet.no/nyhetsbrev/nova
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social doing some stuff, sometimes
~Bread & Roses: Rest & Free Time Under Disabling Capitalism~
Glasgow
Marina Politis @marinadpol.bsky.social FY1 Doctor interested in primary care and health inequalities | Passionate about the gender health gap and queer health | Climate crisis = health crisis | Likes to Run | Free Palestine 🍉
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Emmaq @betaburns.bsky.social Mother of mongrels. Postdoc researcher of disability justice, esp. advocacy, political participation, DPOs, repro justice. Autistic community organiser. Lover of bogs, stray dogs and odd sods. #Tipperary #SpéirGorm She/they/yer wan. Fly your flags ♾️🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social Programme Director – Transformation and Recovery
Ali Fraser @crmnlgy.bsky.social 
Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Criminologist interested mainly in punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration… increasingly explored via creative methods. Also a singer-songwriter, when I can find the time.
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Alex Murray @ahemurray.bsky.social Research Fellow at the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck. I research disability, welfare/social security law and courts and tribunals. Autistic and chronically ill but still outrageously fabulous…
Nina Danon @ninadanon.bsky.social Composer & lecturer • AHRC CHASE PhD student researching neurodivergence in composition and musical neuroqueering • Co-founder of the Neurodivergent Music Network • Kinetic (ADHD) Autistic, Neurodivergent, Disabled • she/they
https://linktr.ee/ncdanon
Nicola Burns @nickyburns.bsky.social Curious about lots of things. Research and teach about disability, migration, health and human rights. Enjoy a good natter, tai chi, gardening. ‘Heid full of magic’
Callum McSorley @callummcsorley.bsky.social Author / RAT RACE out 7th May/ Squeaky Clean / Winner of The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023 / Represented by Emily MacDonald at 42mp
Sarah Wootton @sarahwootton.bsky.social Choice at the end - and beginning - of life. CEO @dignityindying.org.uk @compassionindying.bsky.social
#YesToDignity
Lori Delaney Robertson @loridelrob.bsky.social Theatre Maker, Watcher, Mummy. Doctoral Researcher @SGSAH @ahrcpress @UofGArts challenging BC narratives through performance. She/Her
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Guardian: visiting journalism lecturer at City St George’s University. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbatty
DrKChurch @dockc-70.bsky.social Canadian first. Toronto Metropolitan University retiree in Calgary, sociologist in disability studies, mad studies and other valuable disciplines of critical thought.
DonaldRedwood 🇯🇲🇺🇸 @donaldredwood.bsky.social #Veteran, #Retired Prison Warden, #Chief Inspector, #Soccer, #Cricket, #NFL, #Government, #Track & Field, #Music, #Blue Is My Favorite Color, #Movie, #Kung Fu, #Boxer, #Climate Change, #Taurus
Sharon Wright @profsharonwright.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social She/her, chronically ill, writer.
BA degree in Disability Studies
Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air.
RFK Jr & MAHA hater
Free Palestine
Dee Heddon @deeheddon.bsky.social James Arnott Chair in Drama, Uni of Glasgow, walking, forests, live art. 🏳️🌈
Prof. Andrew (‘Andy’) Power @apower-geog.bsky.social Disability and supported living researcher; Geographer at University of Southampton.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Paul Smith @ketchuppaul.bsky.social Nurse lecturer mental health, University of Dundee
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Ursula Naue @unaue.bsky.social Politikwissenschaft | Disability Studies
@elsclark.bsky.social @elsclark.bsky.social Occupational Therapist| Researcher - in-Residence | PhD Candidate | Funded by ESRC & South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP)| Research interests - Belonging, and people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
Sam Jennings @samflower.bsky.social #DisabledByTheRailway
Powerchair user exposing inaccessibility & encouraging others to do the same! Love live music, hate steps.
www.DisabledByTheRailway.com
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social Liberal leftie, political and football chat. 
Social Inclusion @cogitatiosi.bsky.social Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed open access journal providing everyone with a forum to discuss a more socially inclusive society.
2023 Impact Factor: 1.4
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion
Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Effective participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
Joe Chrisp @joechrisp.bsky.social Research Associate @ Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath
Political economy, comparative politics, welfare states, basic income
Rasmus Schjødt @rasmusjs.bsky.social Programme Director at Research & Action for Income Security (RAISE). Interested in all things related to social protection. 
Serena Pattaro @serena-pattaro.bsky.social Research Fellow @University of Glasgow, Co-I & Leadership Group member @the Scottish Centre for Admin Data Research (SCADR), part of ADR UK. Formerly @Nuffield College, Oxford University. Social & health inequalities, labour market & welfare benefits.
Social Policy Worldwide @spww.bsky.social 💡 A global forum for information, exchange, and public debate on social policy, inequalities, and social cohesion
📍 Based at @unibremen.bsky.social
ℹ️ RT =/= endorsement
Jason Marcus @jasonmarcus.bsky.social Writer/Comedian/Twin Dad/Autism Advocate ▪️Native American TV Lab and Showrunner Program ▪️NBC Late Night Writers Workshop. Repped by Zero Gravity
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Jenny @ Random Scottish History 🏴📜⚔️🏰 @flikenoir.bsky.social #NoToYes - Brought up a no-voting Tory, voted Yes in 2014 - A little information goes a long way 🦄🏴💜
https://RSH.scot
https://YouTube.com/RandomScottishHistory
For everything RSH - https://linktr.ee/flikenoir
EPSU @epsu.bsky.social The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe.
Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins!
General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
Amar Pawar 🧑🦯 @amarpawar.bsky.social PhD Research Scholar at CPS, JNU, New Delhi, India. I study contemporary Disability discourse in India through the concepts of rights, welfare & charity. I love to read, reflect & write on Socio-legal developments impacting marginalised communities
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social Disrupting Extremism, Defending Democracy.
A project of People For the American Way.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch
El Watson @elenwh0re.bsky.social 
Gill Porter @gillskap.bsky.social Disabled Postgraduate Researcher (Centre for Disability Studies, Uni of Leeds) & HE Study Skills Tutor. Quals research on ableism & postgraduate 'belonging' in UK universities. Coffee drinker, cat lover, veggie, nature/cities, can be a bit sweary. She/her.
Dionne Mackison @dionnemackison.bsky.social Head of Medicines Policy @scotgov. Registered (Public Health) Nutritionist. All views my own.
Fraser of Allander Institute @fraserofallander.org The Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde is an independent economic research unit providing expert analysis and insight on the Scottish economy. fraserofallander.org
Jim McCormick @jimmccormick.bsky.social CEO at The Robertson Trust, an independent funder for Scotland on Poverty and Trauma. Also on LinkedIn. No longer on the site known for tweets. All things solving poverty. Likes: walks by water, music, film, Morton FC. In Glasgow, born Dublin. Joined 08/24
Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. Welfare state, social security, (un)employment, poverty, policy-making. Views own, RTs not endorsements. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/hayley-bennett
Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social Imprint of @brisunipress.bsky.social. Independent, not-for-profit social science publisher. Celebrating 25 years of publishing with a purpose.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Merrily Em @2ez4mez.bsky.social 
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Colin Lindsay @clindsaystrath.bsky.social Employment & social policy researcher…
Leads ESRC PrOPEL Hub… https://propelhub.org/
Researcher ESRC InterAct Network… https://interact-hub.org/
Anna Landre @annalandre.com Part woman, part machine / Disability justice + more / #DisabilityPower100, Vogue #21Under21 💋🦾
Fmr Washington DC Commissioner, now in London📍
annalandre.com
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Andréa Paulus @andreadpaulus.bsky.social Environmental sciences MSc 🌏 at University of Geneva
#disabilitystudies #embodiment #climateadaptation | patient partner at HUG🏥| @GreenRightsCo.bsky.social ambassador | @healthyenvcoe.bsky.social🌱| art herstory & poetry lover | she/her | views my own.
Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. 🏳️🌈
Compost the rich.
https://linktr.ee/dremmasheppard
The Arc of Pennsylvania @thearcofpa.bsky.social Our Mission:
The Arc of PA’s mission is to advocate with and for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to promote and secure their rights
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.