Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. Views my own. Shligo woman. Sí / í. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/61791-hannah-k-smyth
UCL Arts and Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social The @ucl.ac.uk Faculty of Arts and Humanities is recognised globally for teaching & research excellence. Arts and Humanities subjects ranked 7th in world Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 by subject.
Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) @popgeog-rgsibg.bsky.social The Population Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
UCL Arts & Sciences @uclartssciences.bsky.social UCL's Arts and Sciences department. Home of the BASc Arts and Sciences, MASc Creative Health & BA Creative Arts and Humanities programmes. #art #science #interdisciplinary
The Data City @thedatacity.bsky.social We tell you what companies do. Real-time data on companies and emerging sectors. thedatacity.com
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
@step-up.bsky.social @step-up.bsky.social
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
Notepad++ @notepad-plus-plus.org I hate reading other people's code. So I wrote mine, made it as open source project, and watch others suffer.
Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta @obumbratta.com
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
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.
Lee Williamson @lee-emma.bsky.social Demographer, stats geek & feminist against inequality. Researcher with SLS-DSU & @scadrdata.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Andrea Tilstra @andreatilstra.bsky.social Demographer & Sociologist | Social Inequalities in Population Health | Senior Researcher at Oxford 🇬🇧, PhD from Boulder ⛰️ | she/her
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social Professor of Work&Employment &Director of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership at KCL, views my own
Interests Flexible Working, digitalisation/future of work, labour market (gender/race) inequalities, welfare state/gender role attitudes 한국인
@eshistdemo.bsky.social @eshistdemo.bsky.social
Parth Pandya @parthpandya.bsky.social Researcher @resolutionfoundation.org looking at intergenerational fairness, demography and pensions. PhD @migrantlife.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social.
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
Ken Roy @kenroystats.bsky.social Occasionally contemplating and scribbling on the topic of Official Statistics
@pdqnorman.bsky.social @pdqnorman.bsky.social
Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social Local news bore. Editor @kentcurrent.news @localauthority.news // He/him.
📍 Medway, UK
Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social Singer, Actress and Philanthropist.
www.lyndacarter.com
Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
Political Commentary.
Pisstaking.
Satire.
Dystopia Warner.
Writer.
Hate Tories? You’ll love me.
Woke as fuck.
YouTube https://youtube.com/@supertanskiii?si=4VUI_s-l7bfc1obT
You can shout a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/supertanskiii
Population Research UK (PRUK) @popres-uk.bsky.social We are an initiative dedicated to unlocking the potential of the UK’s longitudinal population studies across social, economic, and biomedical research.
National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) delivers training in #ResearchMethods. Visit: www.ncrm.ac.uk
NCRM is a partnership between the University of Southampton and The University of Manchester.
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social Associate Professor, Library and Information Studies @ucldis. Editor in Chief @jinfolit. information literacy researcher | european | she/hers/ella
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
16 Sunsets Podcast @16sunsets.bsky.social The story of Space Shuttle from the award-winning team behind #13MinutestotheMoon and @telltaleindustries More at: www.SixteenSunsets.com
Alice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com Mad Scientist and Necromancer, she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
AuADHD creature of elemental internet
collector of keysmashes
used to be called Foone, before the war
Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social I teach politics at a university in the UK. I'm interested in electoral systems, public opinion, and the politics of non-majoritarian institutions like courts and regulators.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8932-9405
Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com Curator of Nice Guys™, WTFs, & Trash Takes
Submission? DM me
DMs are subject to the public
Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/askaubry
Follow≠endorse
TL=TW
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, misc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Becca Lacey @rebeccalacey.bsky.social Reader in Social and Lifecourse Epidemiology, City St George's, University of London
Deputy Director of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
Childhood adversities, young carers, mental health
Lover of all things longitudinal and trains
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
Music critic, ex-Independent/Melody Maker.
Podcaster with Chart Music
History Of Pop lecturer.
DJ at Spellbound
He/Him.
Welsh.
https://linktr.ee/simonprice
Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social I support women's wrongs
(she/her)
#WoTSkies #Mincefluencers #StealthShard #BarsOnTopOfThings
Jon Minton @jonminton.bsky.social Senior Statistician. Eclectic public and population health background. Very reluctant Twitter refugee. Distant memories of academia. “Evidence informed contrarian”
Meg Westbury @megwestbury.bsky.social Associate Lecturer @UCLDIS | Former librarian @Cambridge_Uni | Managing Editor @JInfoLit | Wannabe potter | Watcher of cheesy sci-fi flicks 🚀🪐| She/her/Dr.
Simon Mahony @simonmahony.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL). Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Management, Peking University.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczcsbm
Alyce Raybould @alyceraybould.bsky.social Research Fellow and Survey Manager @clscohorts.bsky.social developing the new Early Life Cohort.
Demographer interested in fertility intentions and outcomes.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
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.
Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in embroidery, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
Population Studies Group, LSHTM @psglshtm.bsky.social Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - psg.lshtm.ac.uk
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org Labor econ. Formerly White House CEA senior economist for labor, UMN prof, union organizer, bike courier, dishwasher. Minneapolis. Posts mine, not employer's (@upjohninstitute.bsky.social). Fellow @iza.org
aaronsojourner.org
Be kind. Work hard. Have fun.
Rich Fry @rich-fry.bsky.social Professor of Environment and Health at Swansea University, Co-Director of HDRUK Wales. Senior Research Leader, Health and Care Research Wales. Quite fond of a map!
https://magentaresearch.org
Laura Dietz @loradeets.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
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
Matt Churchill @mattchurchill.co.uk WatfordFC // Social Media // Firebird Union🪶🪶 // LGRC
https://linktr.ee/geetarchurchy
Anna Powell-Smith @annapowellsmith.bsky.social nerd / https://anna.ps
Esther Roughsedge @eroughsedge.bsky.social Head of Demographic Statistics at National Records of Scotland. She/her.
International Journal of Population Data Science (IJPDS) @ijpds.bsky.social 'The Science of Data About People'
Open access - Peer Reviewed - Large Scale Population Data
Publishing research, development and evaluation connected with data about people and populations.
Access for Free Here: www.ijpds.org
Dr Cara Booker @cbooker.bsky.social Social epidemiology, University of Essex. US expat in 🇬🇧 Love good food, 🍷 and 🐈. She/her/they
Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social Director of the Leverhulme Trust and Fellow of British Academy. Formerly Professor of Education. All views are my own and retweets do not suggest endorsement.
Louise Capener @capenerlouise.bsky.social Research Associate, Computational Social Science
UK Data Service
University of Manchester
Jen Buckley @jen-buckley.bsky.social University of Manchester, UK Data Service.
Data literacy, teaching and learning, social surveys.
Laia Bécares @inequalccsr.bsky.social Researching how health inequities are driven by social injustice.
she/her 🏳️🌈
CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research @closer-uk.bsky.social Our mission is to increase the visibility, use and impact of longitudinal population studies, data and research. We are funded by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council.
Rob Davies @robdavies.bsky.social Head of Policy & Dialogue (CLOSER/UCL), Policy Fellow (CAPE), Co-Chair ARI Subcommittee (UPEN)
Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social Advancing trust in data.
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/
Jennifer Boag @jenniferbgnk.bsky.social
Paul Brownbill @paulbrownbill.bsky.social @Paully232000 on Twitter
Insight Lead-Waythrough #mentalhealth charity.
Research Wales PhD UniSouthWales #dementia & #communityhospitals. #socialwork
Data, qualitative & quantitative. #PowerBI Visualisation lover. Language & #ethnomethodology #EMCA
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
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
https://www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/
@gillukds.bsky.social @gillukds.bsky.social Administrator @UKDataService based at CMI, University of Manchester. Views are my own.
@rodneyukds.bsky.social @rodneyukds.bsky.social
Alle Bloom @allebloom.bsky.social Training and User Support Team, UK Data Service, University of Manchester.
Interested in surveys, disability data, and how we teach data skills. #DeathPositive.
Proud contributor to the National Moth Recording Scheme #MothsMatter
All views my own.
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Emma Green @emmagreenukds.bsky.social University of Manchester, UK Data Service
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/
Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social Columnist for Family Tree Magazine, avid family tree researcher and blogger, local history writer and a full time Lego builder
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
Vanessa Higgins @vanessahiggins.bsky.social Professor of Data Literacy in the Social Sciences
Director of Training and User Support, UK Data Service
Department of Social Statistics & Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester
Research: data literacy; health inequalities.
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
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
Gail Ramster @gaillyk.bsky.social Academic Researcher in Inclusive Design @ Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, London. she/her.
Runs @toiletmap.bsky.social 🚽. Wrote a book https://tinyurl.com/y3ra4y4f. Does not have a PhD.
Mary Gregory @marygregory.bsky.social Executive Director, Population, Census and Social Statistics, Office for National Statistics. National Numeracy Trustee. All views my own.
Camlann 🔥| Season 2 Coming 2027! @camlannpod.bsky.social A post-apocalyptic fiction podcast inspired by Arthuriana. Three friends and a dog in Wales, surviving. From @gejwatts.bsky.social and @tincanaudio.co.uk
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.
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian, National Library of Scotland
Here for the digital humanities, open research and the long nineteenth century
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
St Andrews Population & Health Research Group @phrg-standrews.bsky.social We are one of the largest groups in the UK researching the geographies of population, health and housing. Our group is part of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
https://populationandhealth.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/