Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
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
Mona Chalabi @monachalabi.bsky.social 
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.
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
Christopher Carman @cjcarman.bsky.social Prof of Political Representation at University of Glasgow - studies US and Scottish politics, elections and public opinion, esp political compromise. Sometime attends polisci conferences and/or punk & ska gigs. In spare time watches the seals in Loch Fyne
Jan Eichhorn @eichhornjan.bsky.social Research Director of Berlin-based Think Tank d|part & Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at The University of Edinburgh
https://dpart.org/ | https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/jan-eichhorn
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
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.
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)
@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 
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/
Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social // prof & writer 🍉
// words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc.
// podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social
// book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
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/
Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
Sam Robinson @sam-rob.bsky.social AI policy researcher exploring data centres, copyright frameworks and the future of open source AI at @smfthinktank.bsky.social
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
vortex_egg @vortexegg.com Cyberoccult investigator. Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS.
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
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/
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/
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/
Beth Hughes @figroly.bsky.social Freelance contemporary art curator
PhD student at Manchester University
Curator for Lubaina Himid
Living between London & Manchester
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
Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010.
🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪
It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/
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 
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.
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Daniel Jordan @danifesto.bsky.social 📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
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).
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.
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/
Sotiria Grek @sotiriagrek.bsky.social Professor in Science, Knowledge and Public Policy
University of Glasgow
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
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.
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/
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.
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
Sara Houston @sarahouston.bsky.social Professor of Dance at University of Roehampton U.K. Passionate about community arts/socially engaged art/dance and health and arts research. National Teaching Fellow. Wrote a book: Dancing with Parkinson’s
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)
UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social Changing the world for the better through world-class social science research and education. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/ucl-social-research-institute
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 
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.
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 
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
linktr.ee/lucygweir
CeLSIUS @celsiusnews.bsky.social Supporting research and researchers using the ONS Longitudinal Study - the largest longitudinal data resource for England and Wales.
✉️ email - celsius@ucl.ac.uk
🌐 website - https://buff.ly/4hFx9MC
🎙️ podcast - https://buff.ly/4125uQv 
Paul Martin @paul-ed-martin.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social, widening participation and social mobility
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/95210-paul-martin
Balázs Gosztonyi @gosztonyi.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology/Martin Luther University 
Jen Ross @jenr.bsky.social Digital Education, Education Futures, Digital Cultural Heritage & Research Cultures. Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-jen-ross
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
Carla Cebula @carlaonion.bsky.social Lead analyst for Scotland at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social
Background in understanding social inequalities in education, now focused on poverty and inequality.
Mo Hume @mohume.bsky.social Glasgow based academic interested in Latin American Politics | Personal account with usual disclaimers.
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
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
Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
Tam @tamdent.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour & Cultural Work at King's College London. Member of the MeCCSA Executive Board. I research work in the creative economy. My academic profile and publications list are here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tamsyn-dent
Dr Raphaël Nowak @raphahead.bsky.social Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social A career spent in government affairs & media. Now an interested eye on the news. Not always balanced; there aren’t two sides to fascism.
Now on TikTok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@news_eye?_t=ZN-8zwNc7WZeII&_r=1
Please use ALT text :-)
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
Cody Ross Cowan @codycowan.co Leadership~Advocacy~Creative
Live Music Veteran. Austin, TX, USA.
Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
ForThe100 @forthe100.bsky.social Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛
🌐 https://www.forthe100.org.uk/
ForThe100 Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3Q3GD9g
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Gill Haddow @ghaddow.bsky.social Sociologist of Medicine, Embodiment and Technology|University of Edinburgh|From everyday cyborgs to disability, illness and pain.
Cassie Kill @cassiekill.bsky.social Researching complexities of participation, inclusion & voice in culture, education & work. Interests in youth, disability, gender and participatory/ethnographic/creative method/ologies.
Research Associate: Ableism in the Academy at Uni of Sheffield
Richard Wallis @richardwallis.bsky.social Teach and research at The Media School, Bournemouth University in the UK.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-wallis-8161976/
Academic profile: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rwallis
Bożena Wielgoszewska @mebozena.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the Social Research Institute at UCL. Research interests include social mobility, gender, longitudinal data, and statistics. Turning coffee into knowledge since 2007.
Calum M. Paterson @cmpaterson.bsky.social PhD Student in Political Science, University of Edinburgh - Scottish Elections, Regional Voting Behaviour and Multilevel Politics 🗳️
Graph enjoyer 📈
Whitewater kayaker 🛶
Hannah Glover @hannah-glover.bsky.social PhD student in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh researching post-school transitions and career aspirations in Scotland using quantitative methods and the Growing Up in Scotland study.
Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwinacm.bsky.social Lecturer in arts management and Human Resources at University of Melbourne. Specialist in careers, employability, HR and organisational behaviour in the arts and cultural sector.
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country.
Valentina Ausserladscheider @vapunkt.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology, University of Vienna • PhD in Sociology, University of Cambridge • Fields Economic Sociology & Political Economy • Research on institutional change, politics, discourse and climate change
@koraycaliskan.bsky.social @koraycaliskan.bsky.social 
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Cornelius Heimstädt @cheimstaedt.bsky.social Sociology + STS at University of Hamburg studying "sustainable" Startups and Venture Capital | PI of DFG project "The Climatization of Venture Capital" 🌱💸🌱
Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social P/T lecturer 0.2 in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, London, + semi-retired. Views my own. Climate Justice, Stop Ecocide, Critical Management Studies, Solidarity Economy, 💙.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/icce/staff/r-hull/
N🚫 DMs - you WILL be blocked
Mosaik Education @mosaikeducation.bsky.social Supporting refugees to access university.
Only 7% of refugees access university, compared the global average enrolment rate of 42%.
https://mosaik.ngo/
https://linktr.ee/mosaikeducation
Sir Coily, Lord of Springs @citizene.bsky.social Elder Millenial. Arts and letters professional. Many years in niche publishing, publications, and musical side-gigging.
Once I dreamed of America.
⭕️⭕️⭕️ Suspended in the trees
💀🌹🐢🐻🎶 This must be heaven
🏴☠️NJ 🏴☠️
Ian Pollock @ianfpollock.bsky.social New Melburnian, old New Yorker. ANU anthropology PhD, sometime-designer, always Mets fan. Posting on anthro, STS, economics, history, design, SE Asia (especially Indonesia), writing, birds, baseball.