Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Interested in all things parliament, government, and constitution at the Institute for Government. PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social Red-haired idiot.
@jamiecowling.bsky.social @jamiecowling.bsky.social
Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social Parliamentary Reporter at Press Association. Former news editor and occasional reporter at the Times. Have also written for the Guardian, Observer, Camden New Journal and Ham&High. Own views. Kidderminster Harriers fan.
Jon Butterworth @jonbutterworth.bsky.social Physics prof @UCL, researcher @CERN, author
Jon Ayre @jonayre.uk I've been an engineer, software developer, architect, director & CTO. Now I'm a hands-on consultant doing business and tech strategy. Creator of the business evolution map. Father & Husband. It WILL go wrong & it CAN be fixed. He/him.
Lovejit @lovejitd.bsky.social UK
Frmr journalist now other stuff, Creative Director @ Reel Optimism Film Festival, Podcast Host @MoreDocs. Sometimes wins awards. Has run a marathon - no really. Pls tell me where the mangoes have gone!
www.sharpcuriosity.co.uk
Ben @benhammersley.com Involved from time to time.
The work is mysterious and important.
We do not discuss our purpose or plans.
Recorded for training porpoises.
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Cartwheelcaff, disco hoofer @cartwheelcaff.bsky.social
jaygooby @jaygooby.bsky.social Mostly http://mastodon.social/@jaygooby only here for the journos & the shitposters
💾 https://jay.gooby.org
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UCL.
http://profalices.co.uk/
Adrian Cockle @acockle.bsky.social Work day: Digital strategy for philanthropy.
Other days: Photographer, home barista, cyclist.
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Keri Warbis @keriwarbis.bsky.social Everything is weird
Brighton dweller
(I co-host The Cider Shed podcast)
@sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement with science. Occasional pedantry.
And maybe some menopause jokes.
I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
sit down comedian @sitdowncomedian.bsky.social Making stuff happen
Elected as @greenparty Councillor for Greenwich Peninsula 💚🌳🐝🌊
Promoted by George Edgar on behalf of Green Party all at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
Deceptively Specious @apparentlydull.bsky.social (Mostly) rational human being. Fan of music, science, puns and social justice. Escaped from the other place before it implodes.
Frank Ashwood @frankashwood.bsky.social Soil ecologist & macrophotographer | He/Him |
Author of 'The World Beneath Our Feet', publishing in Aug/Sep '26!
www.frankashwood.com
Stef Lewandowski @stef.io Moving fast and making things. Open source applied AI for social good, data art, rapid prototyping, venture building. UK / Lisbon
#ai #aiforgood #techforgood #startups #education #lisbon
https://stef.io
Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social I'm just this guy yknow. All opinions entirely my own, and probably wrong
Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, general interest nerd.
Octopus Energy @octopus.energy Floating about.
We believe energy should be better - a better experience for customers, better for the planet, and better value for money.
Need help from our social media team? https://octo.ps/bluesky-help
Suw @suw.bsky.social Writer, creative ecologist, owned by Grabbity & Copurrnicus. Currently writing an eco-sitcom podcast, Fieldwork, about four ecologists studying a rewilding project. https://fieldworkpodcast.substack.com/
Peter Jordan @peterbjordan.bsky.social Walking, meditation, transport, geography.
Digital professional. Product mgmt, digital analysis, findability, search, content strategy.
Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Curiouser
https://linktr.ee/ColemanDesign
James Kemp @jamesmkemp.bsky.social Public servant, delivering change mostly. Have worked in many departments. Based in Scotland. #GovPDC Explorer Scout Leader, sometimes gamer & writer
Caspar Aremi @caspar.lol Another gay Scot in London // Dog dad // Work on video stuff at @pinknews.bsky.social // he/him
Jessica Twentyman @jessicatwentyman.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Dog rescuer. Portugal dweller. Surprisingly chipper 50-something. Just happy to be here, really. ❤️
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast
Matt Eason @matteason.me Designer & developer working in digital government
ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk
He/him
Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social History madam. Scribe for hire. Plus art, illustration, culture, fashion, food, friends. Mary Evans Picture Library. Glen of Imaal terrier owner. Mother of 3 people. Crisp addict. Co.Durham born; Wanstead dweller. Will finish my website one day.
littlepurplegoth @littlepurplegoth.bsky.social yes, that one... sorry!
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Rachel Mars @rachelofmars.bsky.social Stage and screen writing, performance, queerness, pickles. FORGE, Blood Play, Your Sexts Are Sh*t, Picklewatch.
www.rachelmars.org
J. Trevor Hughes @jtrevorhughes.bsky.social CEO of the IAPP. Working on privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility. 🇨🇦
Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social IAPP Editorial Director
Host of The Privacy Advisor Podcast
https://iapp.org/news/privacy-advisor-podcast/
My opinions here, not the IAPP’s.
Jason Buck Storyteller @jasonstoryteller.bsky.social Performance storyteller, author, illustrator and curmudgeon.
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Steve Bowbrick @bowbrick.bsky.social GROSS is a materialist history of Hollywood.
Matt Ballantine @ballantine70.bsky.social Sociologist. Musician. Technologist. Dad.
Current side project: randomthebook.com
"Someone called Matt Ballantine"
New Scientist, June 2026
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
The Rhys @rhysofficial.bsky.social Leader of all Rhys in the world.
AKA rhysrunsriot, rhys_isterix, ///RHYS NOIR, DJ Job Interview or DJ Scarf Ace.
Marketing Strategist for Howell & Howell. Owner of Coalition Eracing.
Formerly at MySpace, Xbox, Canyon bikes etc etc
Cymro 🏴
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social Lower value human capital
Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social Associate Director at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk working in our Ministers team with special interest in parliament, ministerial leadership, private office and (sometimes) public inquiries.
Former academic and citizens' assembly organiser 🫶
Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
Alex Yedigaroff @alexyedigaroff.bsky.social Director of Data and Product @dxw
Ex GDS, PDS, MoJ, Home Office, Southwark and HS2
Here for all things data, design and software for the people
Nina @remembersquarish.bsky.social Where are all my old Twitter people at?
emmatonkin.bsky.social @emmatonkin.bsky.social Researcher, sometimes lecture - currently digital health, data ethics, misc other. Charity swimathons. Ink, fiction, occasional yarn. Zombologiste à temps partiel. Citoyenne de nulle part. Franglaise. πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα.
Natalie Shaw @natalieshaw.bsky.social ‘Exuberant and anarchic’
Dirty Martini available from @brokensleepbooks
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/dirty-martini-by-natalie-shaw
Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social KC, mediator and arbitrator specialising in international, commercial, construction and energy law. GB FIS rep. May post about international law, politics and various security issues. Also skis, climbs, dives, fences, reads & writes the odd book.
Bethan Hutton @bethanh.bsky.social I was @yabunonaka1 over there. Books, art, dogs, wildlife, Japan. Ex-journo, still news addict. London, often Wales and Norfolk.
Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub @greenwichskeptics.org Welcome to Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub! We’re a group of critical thinkers who meet on the second Monday of each month at The Plume of Feathers to discuss topics like pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and logic.
Web: https://greenwichskeptics.org/
Sarah Wells @sarahjwells.bsky.social Tech consultant/author. Microservices, board games, cheese, music, swimming, walking.
Gill French @dulwichgirl.bsky.social London via Dublin
Hannah Keenan @hannahkeenan.bsky.social Associate Director at Institute for Government, and former civil servant (cabinet office, dfid).
Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social Founder @OpenInnovates non-profit, mission-led, innovation with data. Co-founder @TheDataCity mapping the world's economy with data.
Also #MDANT
Life is for living - let's get on with it.
Becky Aizen @beckyaizen.bsky.social Melbourne born & bred. 20 years a Londoner. Probably the only person in human history to pinch the title of their PhD from Fran Drescher’s autobiography. Will never not prefer Vegemite.
https://substack.com/@beckyaizen
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social Designer in UK Gov. Made in State School. Haway man, woman man.
Grok Of Shit 🚽 @grokofshit.bsky.social I am a bot that creates fascinating new facts, but not using AI.
Alison B @akbea.bsky.social I twist other people's words for money.
http://rewritten.uk
Anything pre-July 2023 is imported from Twitter; I don't have a time machine. Not that I'd tell you about, anyway.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
M@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social London explorer. Chief pilot of Londonist: Time Machine, a Substack about London History. Follow for lots of geeky observations about London.
Rafferty @rafferty-bs.bsky.social
Mat @mathempell.bsky.social any country with windmills is a loser
John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social Is all about New Labour, #nffc, #threelions, #veganism, Brett Anderson, Morrissey, physics, Star Trek, @lordshortcake.bsky.social, and thinking tea, lovely tea, solves most ills
Jon Topper @topper.me.uk Founder, @scalefactory.com (The AWS SaaS Experts)
AWS Ambassador.
Food enthusiast. Polyam.
Based in Yorkshire, UK
he/him
Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend. Making the world a better place one silly song at a time.
Dan Thornton @danthornton.net Self-employed writer, marketer and SEO for 20+ years, avid sim racer. Interests: sci-fi, motorcycling, classic cars, film, freelancing, tech, music and playing guitar. Co-founder: Digital People in Peterborough / Peterborough STEM Festival
Libster @libbi.bsky.social
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
@mikesilky.bsky.social @mikesilky.bsky.social
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social 📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter (dormant) at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social Creative Director in audio. Ex telly.
Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, Aria, Signal, RTS, Grierson and Ed Murrow Awards.
Toy soldier enthusiast.
Andy Loughran @andylockran.dev Citizen focussed digital worker. Keeps fit, loves #parkrun, and is trying to work out what it means to be a good citizen so that I can be one.
David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com Writes lots of serious whimsy | Wooden Overcoats | Cry Havoc! | Doctor Who | The Tiny Angry Witch | He/Him | would really like a pastry
linktr.ee/davidkbarnes
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social Founder & Editor, @pathfounders.bsky.social | Formerly @TechCrunch | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | Pathfounders.com | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Speaker / Moderator | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets | (MBE)
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of @HansardSociety. Subscribe to our newsletter at: http://hansardsociety.org.uk/connect
Non-parliamentary tweets most likely to be about @BarnsleyFC.
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Zoe @z303.xyz Fallen Bristolian. Ex Londoner. Recovering games coder
Amelia Torode @ameliatorode.bsky.social From Blue Tick (when I think it meant something) to BlueSky. Brands, Culture, Strategy, Words and a bit of Sauna and Swimming.
Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social Vaccine advocate, ducks, Murderbot…
She/her
Matt Round @mattround.com Making the web more fun with vole.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf
https://mattround.com
@str8outtahammrsmth.bsky.social @str8outtahammrsmth.bsky.social Roundhead in Cavalier's clothing.
🏴 🇪🇺 🌍
PA @perveen-akhtar.bsky.social Mancunian living in London
Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social
Likes: Art, Design, History, Archaeology, Architecture, Egyptology, Tiles, Doors, Shiny things, Daft things, LFC.
Muted by hundreds.