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
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Jordan Daniel @jordandaniel06.bsky.social
@alhearts.bsky.social @alhearts.bsky.social Bit of football, bit of politics.
Increasingly exasperated by how unkind the world is becoming.
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
@jaywiggan.bsky.social @jaywiggan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in social policy. All things employment and social security policy.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-unemployment-policy-in-britain
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
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
Ray Griffin @raygriffin.bsky.social Researching the organisation of labour markets | SETU Ireland Lecturer in Management + Organisations
Mathieu O'Neil @mathieuon.bsky.social Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Annika Bergman Rosamond @a-bergman-rosamond.bsky.social Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in IR and Gender, University of Edinburgh. Director of Students, School of Social & Political Science. Co-convenor Gender and Politics Research Group, UoE. Former Chair of FTGS & Co-convenor GIRWG;FFP; autism advocate
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social Professor of Social Science at University College London | UCL Social Research Institute | Chair of Release | Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences | Interested in: drug policy, social science, critical theory, history, law and society | www.tobyseddon.com
Annika Troitzsch @annikate.bsky.social Sociologist, feminist theory, environmental humanities, sts, phd student @tuda.bsky.social and @sfb294.bsky.social, currently working on ecological water security and financialization
Open Education at The University of Edinburgh @openededinburgh.bsky.social Open Education and Wikimedian In Residence services at The University of Edinburgh.
https://open.ed.ac.uk/contact-us/
https://information-services.ed.ac.uk/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia
#OER #OpenEducation #Wikipedia activities & initiatives.
Iain Bennett @iainbe.bsky.social Creative alchemist
The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) @skape-ed.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Edinburgh that explores the relationship / intersection between different types of science and knowledge on policy
Currently directed by Markus Ketola and Rob Ralston
https://www.skape.ed.ac.uk/
John Cobb @jcobb.coppermont.com Principal Advisor at @coppermont.com. Strategic advisory, market intelligence, and performance-based growth for founders, boards, and investors across the Americas and Lusophone Africa.
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/
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
Curious Minds @curiousminds.org.uk We dream of a future where being creative and experiencing brilliant culture is a regular part of every child’s learning and life.
Beth Hughes @figroly.bsky.social Freelance contemporary art curator
PhD student at Manchester University
Curator for Lubaina Himid
Living between London & Manchester
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
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
Journal for Social Thought @jst-journal.bsky.social JST (The Journal for Social Thought) is a peer-reviewed academic journal run by graduate students in the department of sociology @WesternU
Read the issues at: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/jst/index
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships @crfr.bsky.social Connecting policy makers, practitioners and academics
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
What’s on? Rethinking class in the television industry. @whatsontvclass.bsky.social Understanding who produces, what is made, and how class is represented on television. AHRC-funded project at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social The University of Leeds - 2023-26. shorturl.at/uIkTP
@oli6er.bsky.social @oli6er.bsky.social
Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net ⏳ Futures Theorist
🎙 Host, FUTURESPodcast.net
🎓 Studying Humanoid Robots at University of Warwick
💡 Discover More: LukeRobertMason.net
🧬🔬🚀🤖🧠🪐🦿
#Science #Technology #Podcasting #Space #Future
Peter Nedergaard @peternedergaard.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
Lee Williamson @lee-emma.bsky.social Demographer, stats geek & feminist against inequality. Researcher with SLS-DSU & @scadrdata.bsky.social at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Daniel Jordan @danifesto.bsky.social 📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social Researching and teaching about the creative and media industries and cultural policy at the University of Warwick since 1999. Part of the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC).
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Dave Griffiths @drdavegriffiths.bsky.social Sociologist at Stirling Uni. Interests in social network analysis, social stratification, disadvantage, health egonets, quantitative methods and some other stuff.
Harry Willliams @harryjwilliams.bsky.social Edinburgh mode
Www.city-scope.co.uk
The Autistics' Orphanage Uganda @ugandanorphanage.bsky.social We are a small orphanage for both Autistic and Disabled children. It's an institution that was founded to take care of children with special needs.
Sotiria Grek @sotiriagrek.bsky.social Professor in Science, Knowledge and Public Policy
University of Glasgow
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Kevin Darton @kevdarton.bsky.social Designer, educator and Evertonian.
Interested in all things creative industries and creative skills policy. More of a reader than a poster for now so big thanks to those that do.
Tim Evans @tim-evans.bsky.social I make theatre.
SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social We stand together with these nations and the people of these nations 🇨🇦🇬🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇦 #NAFO #FAFO .
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Laser @stefanlaser.bsky.social I am an academic ✒ on 🚯🚆🐮💾. #sts #sociology #ecology #waste #energy
Plus, Fujifilm #photography
I post POSSE style: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Many things Asia, VN.
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser
https://stefanlaser.net
Carin Runciman @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Johannesburg. Editor-in-Chief at The Sociological Review
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Mark Banks @markoliverbanks.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Economy & Head of Cultural Industries, University of Glasgow
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/
Laura Taggart @drlaurataggart.bsky.social Precarious academic. Interested in social policy, cultural value, and everyday practices, amongst other things. Increasingly into birds as I hurtle towards 40.
Holly Patrick-Thomson @drhpatrick.bsky.social BAM SIG Chair for Cultural and Creative Industries
Interested in the future of creative and craft work
📍Fife, Scotland
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Mathilde Provansal @mathildeprovansal.bsky.social
Sam @williamssam.bsky.social
Kirsten Lloyd @klloyd.bsky.social Writer, curator, Senior Lecturer History of Art (The University of Edinburgh) https://kirstenlloyd.co.uk/
Tony Robertson @tonyrobertson82.bsky.social Researcher, Teacher and Activist focused on tackling #HealthInequalities via the University of Glasgow and the People's Health Movement Scotland (@phmscotland on here)
My shit tastes displayed on the 'Gram @twotone82
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
Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social Director IPPR Scotland
Views my own
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Nat Loftus @natloftus.bsky.social Visual artist / Musician (aka Nat Johnson)
Whitley Bay
Rosie Stancliffe @rosiestancliffe.bsky.social Actor | Voice Coach | Geordie | Temperamental hugger | Neurodivergent | she/her
rosiestancliffe.com
spotlight.com/0930-5642-4233
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social UCL Sociology Network is a creative space and intellectual home for sociological staff and doctoral students at UCL.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network
Sofia Cotrona @sofiacotrona.bsky.social Socially engaged curator, art writer, researcher in cultural democracy & museum studies |AHRC PhD at IWM & UCA on the social impact of co-curation.
📍Turin- Edinburgh- London
@keithsmith20.bsky.social @keithsmith20.bsky.social
Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social Interested in how people learn with digital technologies and data. Pro Vice Provost (Data Empowered Societies GC) at University College London.
Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social public interest x journalism x information ecosystems x tech/AI accountability vs information inequality
linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania
#COYS #FRSA
Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social Senior lecturer at University of York, researching sexual misconduct in HE and CCIs and inequalities in music education. Founder and co-director of The 1752 Group. Cats. www.1752group.com
Anna Goulding @annagoulding.bsky.social Academic interested in the arts and health
@cbramen.bsky.social @cbramen.bsky.social
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Scot Hunter @scothunter.bsky.social Analyst @ Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Sociology PhD Univ. Stirling (2019-2024). Interested in communities and place, health inequalities and ethnic labour market penalties.
Mark Longo @squirreldad12.bsky.social 🌈
@derrickjesse.bsky.social @derrickjesse.bsky.social
United Independents (ANTI-FASCIST) (ANTI-COMMIE) Party💜❤️🔥 @unitedi.org HITLER 2.0 IS NOW HERE, FIGHT BACK LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT BECAUSE IT DOES NOW!! Let's get United for a better World! Not a political party, yet. #resister #nevergiveup #fightfascism #equalrightsforall
💜❤️🔥 I AM here. Connecting you to other HUMANS❤️🔥💜
@alexrobinson4.bsky.social @alexrobinson4.bsky.social
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Yosha Wijngaarden @yoshaw.bsky.social Assistant prof Media & Creative Industries @ Erasmus University Rotterdam