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Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social Urban planner in Boston. Housing supply, zoning, and land use at communityscale.com
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Umit Akcay @umitak.bsky.social Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism.
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Ben Platt @benaplatt.bsky.social Teaching Associate in Urban Geography, University of Cambridge
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Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
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Julie Aitken @julieaitken.bsky.social Currently exploring creative approaches to knowledge mobilisation through a PHD at Northumbria University. Alongside that, work as Policy Manager at Corra Foundation.
Dr Jackie Gulland @drjackiegulland.bsky.social Social scientist, social work lecturer. Social justice/sociolegal/ disability/ageing/gender/care and a bit of history. Author award winning 'Gender, Work and Social Control' (2019)
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Antonios Roumpakis @aroumpakis.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Co-editor of Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy. Views my own.
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
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Prof Catherine Happer @catherinehapper.bsky.social Director, Glasgow University Media Group (GUMG) @gu-mg.bsky.social Sociologist charting the entanglement of media & communications with capitalist power. Climate, cost of living, crisis. Author of 'The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age', MUP.
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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social Challenging, inspiring and supporting people to create healthy, sustainable and resilient places that are fair for everyone.
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Ali Fraser @crmnlgy.bsky.social
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social A better tax system that benefits everyone in the UK. Sister organisation of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social
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Hope Steadman @hope-steadman.bsky.social Geography PhD student at University of Oxford researching digital mediations of rivers
Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🎓 School of Media and Communication | We cannot fully understand modern societies without understanding media and communication | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media | linkedin.com/company/school-of-media-and-communication🎓
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James Morrison @morrison-james.bsky.social PhD student at ICTA-UAB. Working on link between inequality and climate change and green industrial policy. Interested in pol econ of climate change and transitions.
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social Geographer at UBC; https://blogs.ubc.ca/peck/
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Rachel Humphris @rachelhumphris.bsky.social Professor of Political Anthropology & Director Centre for Study of Migration @QMUL. PI ERC Starting Grant Digital Welfare Borders (DigiWeB)
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
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Radical Film Network @radicalfilmnetwork.bsky.social The Radical Film Network is the largest network for activist and experimental film in the world. Free to join and run by and for its members, the RFN supports progressive film culture in all its forms across the globe.
MiReKoc @mirekoc.bsky.social Migration Research Center at Koc University - Koç Üniversitesi Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi
UCU Left @uculeft.bsky.social Fighting for an active-member led trade union.
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UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social The trade union for staff at the University of Glasgow.
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Jago Dodson @urbanizationist.bsky.social Professor of Urban Policy, Melbourne, posting/following mostly academically on housing, transport, planning, infrastructure, energy, governance, geography, and climate.
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Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social Human geographer & historian. Research on solidarity, labour, social movements etc.
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Pod Save the UK @podsavetheuk.crooked.com Bringing humour and hope to UK Politics since 2023, with hosts @mrnishkumar.bsky.social and @cocobyname.bsky.social. A Crooked Media production.
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michael mezzatesta @michaelmezz.bsky.social economics, climate, finance & culture ✨ ☿
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social Political Scientist, Providence College
Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute
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Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019)
Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
Giovanni Picker @giopicker.bsky.social scholar, author, educator @uofgsociology.bsky.social. he/him
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Campaigning on and off the water to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and for freedom of movement for all Palestinians.
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
Sotiria Grek @sotiriagrek.bsky.social Professor in Science, Knowledge and Public Policy
University of Glasgow
Iago Martínez @autonauta.bsky.social Cousas urbanas. Agora no Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia (IDEGA), na Universidade de Santiago. Grupo ANTE - Análise Territorial. Municipalista.
Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance.
#BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
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.
Bernadette Hanlon @bhanlonurban.bsky.social Professor City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University | Editor-in-Chief Journal of Urban Affairs |
Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
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Daniel Santini @danielsantini.bsky.social Coordenador na Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo, mestre e doutorando na FAUUSP, autor dos livros Passe Livre: as possibilidades da Tarifa Zero contra a distopia da Uberização (2019) e Sem Catraca: da utopia à realidade da Tarifa Zero (2024).
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Giorgos Kallis @giorgoskallis.bsky.social
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
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#BraveScienceForAChangingWorld
BCNUEJ @bcnuej.bsky.social BCN Lab for Urban Environmental Justice is a research group at
@ICTA_UAB that develops leading research on #climatejustice #urbanjustice #greengentrification to build healthy, sustainable cities accessible to all.
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”
Haris Tsavdaroglou @tsavdaroglou.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam |
critical geography, autonomy of migration, mobile commons, right to the city
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
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Cities, Landscapes & Geoinformatics, GeographyUCPH @humangeographyucph.bsky.social Our research group at the Geography of the Department of Geosciences, University of Copenhagen, studies the processes and drivers of the location and spatial distribution of socioeconomic activities and how they create uneven geographies
Leisure Studies Journal @leisurestudies.bsky.social Leisure Studies is a leading international journal that publishes innovative leisure research in the social sciences.
Stijn Oosterlynck @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social Full Professor in Urban Sociology at University of Antwerp. Interested in poverty and diversity in cities, social innovation, welfare state and civil society.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
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