Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Becky Francis @beckyfrancis.bsky.social Educationalist, sometime academic, committed to supporting social justice and evidence-led policymaking and practice in education.
CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation. Chaired the Curriculum and Assessment Review (2024-2025) but now back at the EEF
Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida specializing in American elections
Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social Home educator, data nerd, home ed exams specialist, ex-Chair of Governors and one time computer programmer. Expect eclectic thoughts.
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.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile
James Handscombe @jameshandscombe.bsky.social Executive Principal, Mathematician, Teacher, Wordsmith not necessarily in that order.
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
Newsletter: https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/
Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social Seasoned edu bore. Kendalian. Cantona devotee. History Teacher in Exile. He/Him.
All views are mine all mine.
La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social Singing , writing, pilates, gardening, wife, mother, grandmother . Centre left 🌹🌹🌹🌹Labour voting tree hugger who has earned the right to swagger a bit.
Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
https://www.carlhendrick.com/
Grodaeu @groda.eu So much for the tolerant left
Andrew Levi @andrewprlevi.bsky.social Tech investor ▫️Ex diplomat, econ & nat sec official, Fortune 100 tech VP▫️“Top” NYT▫️“Leading”Spiegel▫️“Senior” BBC▫️“Valued” FT▫️“Persona non grata” V Putin
Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us | Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy | www.thisistheplan.com
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social god created him and demanded that he die
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
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
Matt Farrow @mattfatmarrow.bsky.social UE5 generalist and game dev, currently working on a multi-genre adventure game called "Rewriter". UK & EP patent attorney. Pro photographer once (weddings, festivals). Writes bad sci fi. Give ☕ pls.
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Bluesky’s only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | 🇺🇸 via 🇨🇦. Not 🏴. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
📍 CLT
Ed @notdred.bsky.social Did not meet our criteria for publication
Boston, MA
Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social HF trader and manager. Former sell side and NYSE. Views are mine and not my employers or investment advice. NFL owner. #girldad
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
No DMs
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social UMBC political scientist, NYT bestselling co-author of White Rural Rage, diehard Washington Caps fan, peripatetic. Longtime DC denizen, Albany, NY, native.
Tim Dowse @timdowse.bsky.social Consultant, after 40 years with FCO, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury. Specialties: national security, defence, geopolitical analysis.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader.
schumer.senate.gov
Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader.
Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
Larry Friedman @customslawblog.bsky.social Customs and trade law, export controls, cycling, Chicago, good food.
Always talking about tariffs, one way or another.
Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social Écrasons l'infâme
Obama / HRC quant and qual. 2x Ironman plus a half. Brother of the second greatest banjo player on earth.
www.impactresearch.com
Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Wendy Michallat @wmichallat.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Arts & Humanities, Sheffield. Writing a book about northern working class women & languages education in inter-war Britain. Detectorist, allotmenteer, cyclist. Rheumatoid Arthritis doesn't slow me down 😄 🚴♀️👨🌾
Mo’ @mocent0.bsky.social W.C.Boggs & Son affiliated account.
Pete Mckee @petemckee.bsky.social Painter of paintings
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Joel Kenyon @joel120193.substack.com Teacher 👨🏫 | Head of Science 🧑🔬 | Hinterland Lover ⚛️ | Source Provider 📝 | Subscribe on Substack https://joel120193.substack.com/ 🖋️ |
Genevieve Marshall @genmarshall.bsky.social Head of Development and Engagement, International Astronomical Union
@ Leiden Observatory
Stargazer ✨ Gender equity. Mental health.
Scottish/Dutch. Gamer. Avid fantasy nerd. Views own.
Art: Gerry Arthur @gerryart.bsky.social
Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social
Love arts, science, history, travel, dogs, books, tech, coffee, Europe - the lot! Refugee from the bird site @londoner_007
@oldandcrippled.bsky.social @oldandcrippled.bsky.social Teacher 20 years, lots of different jobs before that. Can't afford to retire. Still interested in life.
Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social AI will bleed us dry until it has no more use for us.
Why are we feeding it?
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk Where the House of Commons and the House of Lords scrutinise the work of the Government. Learn more about Parliament, its people and our unique heritage.
linktr.ee/ukparliament
Dawn Cox @missdcox.bsky.social Education. Education. Education.
Secondary, Teaching, Learning, Religious Education, Assessment…
Devil’s advocate. Still not who you think I am.
Greg Scullion | Heading Abroad @gregscullion.bsky.social Teacher and School Leader
🇰🇪 International School in Kenya
Committed to our Core Values
🫂 BELONG 🧭 EXPLORE ⭐️ SHINE
Start with kindness and open-mindedness.
Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social Recent emigrant from the Other Place. 
Matt Smith ❌👑 @genericuser258.bsky.social Engineer, ISS, Space Shuttles, nuke electrician, newest docent at the Galveston Naval Museum; trying to figure out where I'm wrong, and to fix it.
ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social It’s all just rather a lot lately. Tell me to post some nice pictures if I’m getting boring.
Declan @dskews.bsky.social Science and maths, finance, politics, and I will like/share art until my fingers fall off. Sometimes obsess about weird bits of regulation. The RNLI are amongst the best of us.
Would you like some solar panels? I know a guy.
Opinions my own etc.
Xennial in Oz @xennia1.bsky.social 🏠 🇪🇺🇬🇧➡️🇪🇸➡️🇮🇪➡️🇦🇺
📍Naarm | Melbourne
🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸
🇬🇧➡️🇪🇺Rejoiner 🗣️Linguist
🌍 Traveller 🗳️ Psephologist
🗡️ Dumnonia born
🦘 #AusPol
❤️ #OxfordComma
Felix Trayhurn @felixt.bsky.social Based on true events
Shatner's bassoon @whosthedadaist.bsky.social Bearer of the mark of shame
Material/reality
Alistair @perivale.bsky.social Ex-astronomer, now cybersecurity consultant, millennial Londoner back in London. “The horrors persist but so do I” - someone in 2023 apparently
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
Iain MacGilleBhràith @aeonmach.bsky.social I LIKE a *lot* of shit: sci & tech (my day job!), environment & energy (ecomodernism), politics (~moderate, social-liberalism), culture & language(s), outdoors (mountains, cycling/MTB, sailing), travel, nuance & irony.
I HATE black-&-white simplism!
Eric Redman @ericredman.bsky.social Climate & Energy professional. Senior Policy Fellow teaching grad students at UCSD's School of Global Policy & Strategy in the Deep Decarbonization Initiative (D2I). Author of DANCE OF LEGISLATION + Hawai'i murder mysteries BONES OF HILO and DEATH IN HILO.
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social Actor, Writer & Broadcaster 
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
Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, co-author of Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
Website: https://fas.org/initiative/nuclear-information-project/
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social Tyrants are my enemies | Si vis pacem para bellum |🇩🇪🇪🇺| Das Böse triumphiert allein dadurch, dass gute Menschen nichts unternehmen |Military & History
Kirill Shamiev @kirland.bsky.social Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
T Pascoe-Matthews (M Ed , NPQH) @pascoed.bsky.social Advisory Board -UCL Centre for Inclusive Education.
AHT -Inclusion
Level 7 Specialist Assessor
Author of The Biggest Surprise (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Biggest-Surprise-Jadon-Talking-Trains/dp/B08GB4HX4Y)
Mother of two amazing autistic boys ❤️❤️.
Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
@suffolkbear.bsky.social @suffolkbear.bsky.social Teacher.
Bluesky Thunk: ...there is no X in Truth.
Alex J-W @alexjw.bsky.social Maths educator. Often confused by the world. Follow me if you are interested in maths and stats education or professional development in general.
@eggalison.bsky.social @eggalison.bsky.social 
Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social 🎙️ Co-Host @sicherheitspod.de
🤓 Head of Research @metis.unibw.de
🐦 https://twitter.com/drfranksauer/ 👈 inactive
🦣 http://mastodontech.de/@drfranksauer 👈 bridged
Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
Weekly analysis of missile tech, nuclear strategy, and European deterrence 👇
https://missilematters.substack.com/subscribe
Elizabeth Carr @egcarr.bsky.social History teacher, Humanities subject leader, Curriculum senior leader, Historical Association editor and course leader.
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. (All skeets here are my views alone.) Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net He/Him, Podcaster, Award Winner, Liberal Lefty Humanist, Husband and Dad, Dancing Animal, 75% caffeine. Best Selling Author etc.
richardnicholls.net/links
Lee D @leedon1982.bsky.social Father, husband, teacher educator, hospice trustee, MAT member, dogsbody to an expensive dog.
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Ross Andersen @rossandersen.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic // Working on a book for Random House // Rep’d by Elyse Cheney // ross@theatlantic.com
Shan Wang @shansquared.bsky.social programming director at the atlantic | swang@theatlantic.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Amy Weiss-Meyer @amyweissmeyer.bsky.social senior editor at The Atlantic
Olga Khazan @olgakhazan.bsky.social Atlantic writer, ME, BUT BETTER available now: https://www.amazon.com/Me-But-Better-Science-Personality/dp/1668012545
Substack: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/
elise hannum @elisehannum.bsky.social she/her - associate ed @ the atlantic, meme czar @ the atlantic union
Ellen @elcush.bsky.social let's go mets
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ellen-cushing/
https://bsky.app/profile/hits-diff.bsky.social
Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social Human, executive editor of The Atlantic
Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social Deputy Executive Editor, The Atlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/stuck-by-yoni-appelbaum/
Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social Senior editor, The Atlantic