Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Eloise @liminalbirdies.bsky.social I teach Politics and watch birds. Sometimes those things converge.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social Occasional philosopher working on citizenship, displacement, women in philosophy, and other random thoughts that pop into my head
The Philosopher Queens (2020/2027) and The Way Out (2026)
https://rebeccasbuxton.wixsite.com/mysite
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Jake Benford @jbenford-berlin.bsky.social Europe in a geopolitical world @Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin. Interested in EU external partnerships, Germany’s Europe & foreign policy, UK politics and society, EU-UK relations
Daily Deep Dive Podcast @dddpod.bsky.social AI discusses human affairs.
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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social love is the plan the plan is death
Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social Narrative Director for videogames at discoglobe.ca. MFA Creative Non-Fic student at UKC. Luddite in the historical sense. She/They www.jillmurray.com
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Jimmy Lenman (吉明） @lenmanj.bsky.social 
Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social associate professor of political science at Ohio State University // global justice, supply chains, populism, climate change, critical theory, etc // all tweets (skeets?) produced accidentally by having my phone in a pants pocket while I walk the dog
No Pun Included @nopunincluded.com Proudly independent board game reviewers.
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Playing Bridge on the sidewalk
Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social Adam, Cohost @acidhorizon.bsky.social
(He/Him)
Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape (2023) and The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy (2024). Upcoming: Hegel's Exorcism: The Insurrectionary Thought of Max Stirner.
James Holroyd @jamesholroyd.bsky.social He/him. Was doing a philosophy of health sciences PhD at Nottingham, but now taking a break due to long covid. I have started designing t-shirts as this is something I have enough energy for: https://revolutionrock.teemill.com/
Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Nottingham. Keenly interested in the philosophy of mental health and the philosophy of psychotherapy! Other interests include: Badgers, Elton John, UFOs.
www.pomhnottingham.org
www.craigfrench.xyz
#philosophy #philsky
Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK.
https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577
Views my own
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social Oh God What Now & More Jam Tomorrow; writer, reviewer (TV & books), editor; author, The Future of Trust (Melville House)
‘The most calming voice in the podcast world’
https://rostaylor.me
https://morejamtomorrow.com
https://rostaylor240051.substack.com
Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social Small Language Model. Discontent Provider. Group Editor of @PodmastersUK, home of Oh God What Now?, Bunker and more podcasts. Inventor of landfill indie. Social media binfluencer.
Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Mediamedia comms boss, Quiet Riot podcast bod, media trainer, PR adviser ... you'll find me anywhere I can play with words and pictures. Cars, whisky, mountains, cats also welcome
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social Technology / Creativity / Experience - Lecturer and Researcher - Cambridge and London, UK
Lanyardian Jihad @dismalchips.bsky.social This is a place of honour. Highly-esteemed deeds are commemorated here.
Julian Jessop @julianhjessop.bsky.social Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
David Clark @david-k-clark.bsky.social Ex-Foreign Office adviser to Robin Cook. Politics, foreign policy, football. Scottish 🏴. Firmly left. HMFC🇱🇻MUFC🇾🇪.
Dr. Matt Loten @intheinaka.bsky.social Japanese Political Communication PhD | Working in Linguistic Validation by day; posting about politics on the internet by night
Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social Researcher of UK-EU relations, euroscepticism and learning & teaching. Open University and formerly UK in a Changing Europe. Renowned for my bubbly personality, I imagine.
Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social Notoriously tired.
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
@imissnormal.bsky.social @imissnormal.bsky.social Likes guitars, cats, accountable politicians, an end to genocide and maybe even freedom of movement and EU markets if we're lucky
Chris Dickenson @cpdickenson.bsky.social Ancient historian/archaeologist. British. Live in the Netherlands. Hobbies: reading (obviously!), writing fiction, music (pop/Classical), painting miniatures. Tentatively getting back into blogging: https://thefourthsophistic.wordpress.com
Bob Melling @bobmelling.bsky.social Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social UK Politics 🇬🇧 | US Politics 🇺🇸
Anti-Tory Anti-Reform Anti-Republican
Political commentary
Challenging right-wing narratives
Stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Substack: https://substack.com/@neverevertory
Threads: @neverevertory
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social Seamus Heaney
it’s time to swim/out on your own & fill the element /with signatures on your own frequency/echosoundings,searches, probes, allurements/elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea
Socialist
☆no gods☆no kings☆no fascists☆
#whatwoulddollydo
Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social Dislike Tories & Reform 🚫. Politics, law & the odd funny are welcome 🤓. Rejoin EU 🇪🇺. Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini 🌻.
Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/
Has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture
Contact email is w.cooling[at]gmail.com
All opinions his own & not of any employer
UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social Based at the University of Glasgow, we exist to help prepare the next generation of policymakers by sharing evidence, nurturing skills and creating spaces for fresh thinking.
Website 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/publicpolicy
Spotlight podcast 💡 www.uofgspotlight.com
Devolved Election Projections @devolvedelections.bsky.social A range of simple tools to create your own results of the Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and London Elections 🗳️
https://devolvedelections.co.uk/
Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/devolvedelections
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
David Thompson @djt1million.bsky.social Gay, beardy, lefty with occasional nerdy tendencies, cautiously re-dipping his toes into social media & sometimes regretting their decision.
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:
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Tony Bird @tonybirdlondon.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 💚 Sequin socialist. HIV+ he/him
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Mark Schroeder @philosophymark.bsky.social Writer, philosopher, teacher, dad, lapsed runner, wannabe guitar player. Interested in where the deepest questions in philosophy bump up against the most mundane experiences in ordinary life. www.markschroeder.net
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) focuses on #logic and #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences • https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky
Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social Queer feminist. Super political. I like cats, books, TTRPGs, tea, and smashing the patriarchy. Adult human mutant. They/them
WNBA: Chicago Sky (For my sins)
Unrivaled: Rose
NWSL: Chicago Stars (For my sins)
International soccer: USWNT
David Hunter @dhunterto.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). I paddle my own canoe. To find my publications, visit PhilPeople. https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-hunter
House of The People @hotpofficial.bsky.social Houseofthepeople.com is a platform where every UK citizen can vote on every bill and law ever debated in Parliament.
100,000 public votes and counting.
Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social Philosopher
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Debbie Roberts @djr1138.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Edinburgh.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Bristol University Library @bristolunilib.bsky.social Official account for @universityofbristol library services 👋 We're here to support your research, teaching and studies and connect with the academic community. Also expect beautiful library photos and the occasional cat.
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social public opinion, behaviour, attitudes, &c.
Associate Prof, @sotonpolitics.bsky.social
Co-Editor, @electoralstudies.bsky.social
ColU, Pompey, music, books, & pubs
https://djdevine.org
Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: hannah.al-othman@theguardian.com. DM for WhatsApp/Signal
Will Moorfoot @moorfootwill.bsky.social Associate Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London. Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind.
Website: https://willmoorfoot.weebly.com/
PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/will-moorfoot
Robert Schwarzkopff @testanera.bsky.social I used to be an academic philosopher that dabbled in linguistics. Then I worked at the Philosophy Department in Hamburg. Now I work in politics.
Yannic Kappes @yannickappes.bsky.social Philosopher @univie.ac.at and @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
Researching metaphysics, explanation, and what matters 🐾✊
yannickappes.wordpress.com
Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social Buy my book, A PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a Marketplace and Scientific American pick for 2025!
science writer/author
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José Morales @jose-morales.bsky.social Filosofía, psicoanálisis y educación.
https://sooosolaraaar.wordpress.com/
Susanna Schellenberg @sschellenberg.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Guggenheim Fellow, Author of The Unity of Perception (OUP 2018), http://tinyurl.com/2p8ttuux
perception, cognition, self-governance in biological and AI systems.🤖🧠👩🔬🧪
http://susannaschellenberg.org
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Stephan Torre @stephantorre.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Aberdeen
Website: https://stephantorre.com/
"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes." -Cher
Catharine Diehl @catharinelizabeth.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent), Theoretical Philosophy, Leiden University
I work primarily on metaphysics and the philosophy of logic. 
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social We aim to publish papers that break new ground, from diverse philosophical traditions, on topics that are of wide interest.
Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician. 
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Chloe Thurston @chloethurston.bsky.social Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief. 
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
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