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)
Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social Science journalist, bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
Frances Jones @francesjones.bsky.social Reporter at Times Higher Education.
Shortlisted as newcomer of 2025 at ABSW and best science writer 2026 at BSME awards.
frances.jones@timeshighereducation.com
Science Media Centre UK @smclondon.bsky.social An independent press office helping to ensure that the public have access to the best scientific evidence and expertise through the news media
www.sciencemediacentre.org
European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) @enets.org The European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) is the first and longest-standing organisation dedicated to advancing NET research and care. Established in 2004, ENETS brings together over 1,500 members globally, driving progress in the NET community.
Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social UK News Editor, @resprofnews.bsky.social.
Mostly #researchpolicy, #researchfunding, #highered.
British Journalism Awards finalist.
Once likened to Tintin.
Also into rivers.
Tip? robin.bisson@clarivate.com
George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social Prof of Population Health & Statistics at UCL @sriucl.bsky.social | Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS @clscohorts.bsky.social
Generational health drift | Lifecourse origins of adult health and mortality | Population mental health
Nikki Shure @nikkishure.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 Professor of Economics and Social Policy at UCL Social Research Institute and Research Fellow at IZA interested in gender and socioeconomic inequality in access to higher education and the labo(u)r market
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social Survey Research Center is an international leader in research involving the collection and analysis of sample surveys, administrative and other non-survey data. https://src.isr.umich.edu/
Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Thomas Pope @tompope.bsky.social Chief Economist @instituteforgov.bsky.social
Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social Cartographer, full-time north-easterner, SAFC, James the Band, Doctor Who, old telly, beer, football etc. Chairman of a football club, no really. Has a knackered back.
A walking corpse that won’t play dead.
Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social visualization librarian | philosophy, media, cyberwar, stats | Deconstruction Machines (UMN Press, 2018) | Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism (Verso, 2022) | my views are yours
David Smith @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social Economics Editor, The Sunday Times.
Jostein Hauge @haugejostein.bsky.social Political economist • Assistant Professor at Cambridge • Book: The Future of the Factory • Newsletter: http://theglobalcurrents.com • Email: jlh202@cam.ac.uk
CITP @thecitp.bsky.social The Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, funded by the ESRC is built on the precept that trade policy should be inclusive in both policy formulation and outcomes
Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Richard Dubourg @richarddubourg.bsky.social Economist. Academic, then consultant, then UK government, then EU regulator, now consultant again. Environment, health, crime. Mostly chemicals these days.
Woke. Remain. Proportional representation.
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Syd E @syd-e13.bsky.social Programmer; Swiftie (Paris N1); the other one from @crickether.com.
Probably somewhere to your left.
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
Re:State @re-state.bsky.social Formerly Reform think tank. Re:State is an independent, cross-party public services think tank. We don’t want to tweak, we want to transform.
Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social 📊 Quant social & political science | 💼 Associate Advisory Director @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social | Assorted other stuff
International Longevity Centre UK @ilcuk.bsky.social Looks at impact of ageing populations on society. Small team, huge agenda. Easily distracted by wealth of stories in data. Interested in health, income, communities & solutions for better long lives.
Posts by Team ILC. For more info: https://ilcuk.org.uk
Dave Penman @fdagensec.bsky.social General Secretary FDA union. ACAS Council member. TUC Trustee, General Council and Executive Committee member. Chair Unions21
OURCs Racedesk @racedesk.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the Oxford University Rowing Clubs Racedesk. Currently running #summereights26
OURCs @ourcs.bsky.social Oxford University Rowing Clubs.
Currently providing commentary on #eights26.
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Kirsty Park @kirstyjpark.bsky.social Professor @StirUni , interested in ecology, biodiversity, restoration, conservation and science in general. Have a particularly soft spot for bats. University webpage: stir.ac.uk/people/256433
Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social Director of IT and Digital Strategy at @whiteheadinstitute.bsky.social, MIT. PhD in CS. Turning data into discoveries. Fan of practical tech that works. Tea drinker, research enabler, innovation chaser. Views are my own. He/him.
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Manchester
I do research on policing, legal cynicism, procedural justice, and social inequality. I like quantitative methods, causal inference, longitudinal data, and analytical sociology.
thiagoroliveira.com
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (https://www.crisesnotes.com/)
Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books
email: crisesnotes@gmail(dot)com
Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
Chris Prosser @caprosser.com Political scientist | Co-director British Election Study | Election number crunching for ITV | Trustee McDougall Trust
caprosser.com
Monevator @monevator.bsky.social All about money and investing
https://monevator.com/
ADR Community Catalyst: Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes @childrenatrisk.bsky.social Community of researchers & data experts providing national strategic leadership for admin data & research, focusing on children supported by early intervention.
Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social Head of transport policy at Stonehaven consulting. Ex-civil servant who used to play with roads, trains, e-scooters, parking apps and a lot of government plumbing. May have made your driving test harder, and threw some cones in your way at least once
Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social Data optimist.
Data, infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc.
Director of Research & Policy @ OpenMined.
Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU. Core Faculty, CSMaP. Research Fellow Oxford Sociology. Computational social science, Methods, Conflict, Communication. Webpage: https://www.cjbarrie.com/
Sendhil Mullainathan @sendhil.bsky.social 
Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change @misoc-essex.bsky.social Based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research since 1989, MiSoC is a multi-disciplinary research centre providing crucial evidence for policy makers on how our lives are impacted by change
Catherine Bromley @catbrom.bsky.social Statistics | Public Health | Cats | Cricket | Scotland - all the essential ingredients for a good life 
Bruce Hayward @brucehayward.bsky.social Retired social survey person. Living in Ealing with Sarah.
Smart Data Research UK @sdruk.bsky.social The UK’s national programme for smart data research, home to six data services. Our mission is to unlock the power of data to improve lives. Funded by UKRI: www.sdruk.ukri.org. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/44bEXBN.
Kathryn Oliver @oliver-kathryn.bsky.social Evidence, policy, systems
Prof at LSHTM
Co-Director of Transforming Evidence with Annette Boaz
Gerry Nicolaas @gerrynicolaas.bsky.social Director of Methods at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen.ac.uk). Posting about research methodology and related topics, in a personal capacity.
Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social Sociology & Demography, and some (a lot) active travel | Family, Health, Mortality, Social Inequalities | Migrant worker at the University of Oxford | UK NL LV
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Miriam Sorace @miriamsorace.bsky.social Associate Professor in Comparative Politics - University of Reading; Co-Director @poalab.bsky.social; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow;
Visiting: DSI-London School of Economics. Web: https://miriamsorace.github.io
Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social Writer & editor, past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties. New writing at UKjazznews.com and @theartsdesk.bsky.social
jonturney.wordpress.com
See also https://bristoljazzlive.co.uk
@edwyncollins.bsky.social @edwyncollins.bsky.social 
Andrew Russell @prfandrwrssll.bsky.social Professor of Pols & ex Head University of Liverpool. ex-Poliblogmanc. Pols, parlm, elections, Roma in Europe. Coventry City & England cricket. Seldom succinct. Views own.
Annette @annettebramley.bsky.social 
James Kanagasooriam @jameskanag.bsky.social Pollster. Chief Research Officer of @focaldata.bsky.social and Honorary Professor @UofGlasgow.bsky.social
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
🇬🇧 How is Britain doing? 👉 thetimes.com/data
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
📧 thomas.calver@the-times.co.uk
Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social Researcher, UCalgary
PhD, Political Science
Dr. Cronk, Historian of Complaints. I've written a book, The Press Gallery (release TBD).
Headline of the Year! Lots going on.
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Louise Arseneault @larseneault.bsky.social Professor of Developmental Psychology at KCL IoPPN. Never fits in. Fellow of @acmedsci + @AcadSocSciences
https://linktr.ee/l_arseneault
Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025) FMRS, FacSS etc
CAGE Research Centre @cagewarwick.bsky.social ESRC research centre based at the University of Warwick delivering policy-driven economics research informed by culture, history and behaviour.
www.warwick.ac.uk/cage 
Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social Leadership hub for behavioural research funded by UK Research & Innovation @ESRC. Involving eight Universities & partners in government, charities & business. Learn more www.br-uk.ac.uk
Jennifer Maggs @jennifermaggs.bsky.social Prof of Human Development | Study alcohol, nicotine, cannabis use in youth | Developmental EPI | Believe in using science for prevention | Mentor early career researchers | Share postdoc jobs mostly ➡️ http://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-maggs
David Bowkett @davidbowkett.bsky.social Head of Productivity and Growth at ESRC. I am interesting in new technologies, how they are used, how people interact with them, and how they lead to economic growth. I like also happily talk to you about cricket, bikes and heat pumps He/him. Views my own
Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Blogs on lawyers https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/ and PO Scandal https://richardmoorhead.substack.com/
Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie.
OBE
Charlotte O'Brien @cobrien.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of York (she/her). Social security; EU law; discrimination; migration; social justice.
Anne McMunn @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social Professor of Social Epidemiology at UCL, Co-Director of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK’s leading research centre on constitutional change. Informing policy-making and public debate about the constitution and democracy.
Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.
Yvonne Kelly @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social Professor of Lifecourse Epidemiology at University College London
Co-Director of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
Liverpool FC, good food - cooking and eating, music
UCL Policy Lab @uclpolicylab.bsky.social Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
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.
Natasha McCarthy @ntshmccrthy.bsky.social Policy, philosophy, ethics in and for engineering, tech, science and AI. Assoc Director of the National Engineering Policy Centre. Hon Prof of Practice @ UCL Dept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy.
Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social Journal entries from 1768-1793 of the pioneering C18th English naturalist, posted on the day of the year they were written. Currently posting 1777.
Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social
See gilbertwhite.org for more info.
Also see @johnclare.bsky.social
James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social Increasingly bionic 🦾🦿 Vice Chair, Patients' Voices Royal College Anaesthetists + Faculty of Pain Medicine | Former int'l civil servant + NGOs on human rights etc | ר׳ ייִד
https://linktr.ee/jamesingram
Centre on Constitutional Change @ccc-research.bsky.social Leading research centre for the study of constitutional change and territorial politics in the UK & beyond.
Researching the issues. Informing the debate.
More at https://www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/
Joe Cuddeford @joecuddeford.bsky.social Director of Smart Data Research UK | https://www.sdruk.ukri.org/ | Our mission is to unlock the power of data to improve lives
Jon Gertner @jongertner.bsky.social Writing about climate, science, and tech at the NYTMagazine; author of The Idea Factory and The Ice at the End of the World. Next book—on NASA’s Voyager mission—out from Random House in 2027.
Alan Wager @dralanwager.bsky.social 
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social Professor of Politics. 
Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social Interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
+ history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Ian Mulheirn @ianmulheirn.bsky.social Economics and policy
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com