Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social helenohara-violin.com
Violinist - Dexys Midnight Runners, Dexys, Tanita Tikaram, Tim Burgess.
Author - ‘What’s She Like’ - a memoir.
Signed copies available at route-online.com
Wild Belfast @wildbelfast.bsky.social Wildlife group working to protect, celebrate and enhance Belfast's biodiversity and improve placemaking 🌳🌼🌱🦢🐥🦋🐞🐝
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https://www.wildbelfast.org/
Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
David McCann @dmcbfs.bsky.social Lecture, Write & Commentate about Politics & Elections. Columnist with @irish_news All musings are my own.
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Robin Wilson @robintw.bsky.social Freelance geospatial software engineer and data scientist. PhD in satellite imaging.
Blogger (https://blog.rtwilson.com/) author of the FreeGISData site (https://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/) & the British Placename Mapper (https://placenames.rtwilson.com/)
Rob Fry @fryford.bsky.social Data viz, and all that jazz
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE
https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
NHS Hack Day @nhshackday.com Official account of the health and care themed hackathon event "NHS Hack Day"
FactCheckNI @factcheckni.bsky.social FactCheckNI is Northern Ireland’s first and only dedicated not for profit fact checking and training service. Accuracy matters.
nigel holmes @nigelblue.bsky.social explanation graphics; author (latest: let’s get Infografit, 2025); happy to be alive! working on a book about visual language…perhaps ready in 2026
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Zoë Conway @zoeconway.bsky.social Fiddler, singer, curator of old & composer of new Irish music and song.
Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Architect // #DataViz storyteller // tech wrangler. Making useful stuff with #OpenData at the ONS. Occasionally #PalOpenMaps. Views my own. Portfolio @ ahmadbarclay.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Agustina Martire @agusmartire.bsky.social Urbanist. Reader in Architecture Queen's University Belfast. #StreetSpace. Author of Everyday Streets book
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
@bridgetjanejones.bsky.social @bridgetjanejones.bsky.social Centre-left, birder, photographer, hater of any injustice, especially if it's aimed at me. Ex Stone Roses PA - I was always on their side NOT THE MANAGEMENT!!
Wesley Johnston 🇺🇦 @niroads.bsky.social Interested in the history and development of the Northern Ireland road network, as well as planned road developments. Sometimes tweet about Ukraine. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Mark Allan @markxa.com Learn, Do, Teach, Repeat | Belfast but with Manchester roots | Tech is how I live, art is why I live | Masked scoundrel | Evolving | Microsoft MVP alumnus | NIDC founder | Non-militant cyclist | He/him | markxa.com
IdeaspaceNI @ideaspaceni.bsky.social Ideas for Belfast/NI. Infrastructure plans, public realm ideas, innovative ideas for a better future. Repost interesting articles on environment & development.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Elizabeth Farries @elizabethfarries.bsky.social Director, UCD Digital Policy Centre @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social, https://digitalpolicy.ie/
Coordinator, @forsee-research.bsky.social
Director, Digital Policy Education https://digitalpolicy.ie/education/
Asst Prof, ICS @ucdischool.bsky.social
@braaannigan.bsky.social @braaannigan.bsky.social 
Conor Graham @geoconor.bsky.social Geography Jedi, GIS, Survey, Geomatics and Mapping. Geographer, MTBr and Moto rider. CO2BN 331ppm A real gone kid. 🌍🛰️🌋🚴🏻♀️ Centre for GIS & Geomatics #QUB #Belfast #BikeisBest #drones4good #badcartographer maps@ https://geo-graphica.com/
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Tristan Sturm @tristansturm.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast
Research: apocalypse; geopolitics; Palestine-Israel; Christian Zionists; conspiracy theories; climate change
https://www.apocalypticgeopolitics.com/
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Base Arcade Belfast 🕹️ @basearcade.bsky.social Located @bananablockni📍
Belfast's retro arcade & pinball experience. Estd. 2022
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Author of the Rivers of London Series
Lizzy Bell @lizzybell.bsky.social Leading the digital team at the Crown Prosecution Service. Old lag of digital government. Ex DHSC, DfE, Ofsted
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
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
helenmakesmaps @helenmakesmaps.bsky.social Cartographer, data visualizer, beans on toast defender.
helenmakesmaps.com for tutorials
Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social James Webb - Everything That's Hot 🔥
jwstfeed.com
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
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently postdoctoral research associate Yale Digital Ethics Center.- B bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com run by @oracularhades.com | @ or DM this account with suggestions
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/ 
Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)
Jess Figueras @jessfigueras.bsky.social Cybersecurity, data, risk & governance, civil society. Co-founder @ Cyber Governance for Boards (CxB). Governor @ University of Westminster
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Running, Breadmaking ... https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social Professor of Alcohol Policy in the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (@SARG-SCHARR), graph drawer, data botherer, cake eater, incompetent cyclist and intermittent birder.
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
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: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
he/him.
Get my opinionated take on AWS news: http://lastweekinaws.com/t/
Signal: 833-AWS-BILL (833-297-2455)
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving. // Previously at Our World in Data.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
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Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/amanda.ie
Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social Belfast-based Photographer.
Do good, die great.
https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social Belfast based spreadsheet guy
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Did I mention I wrote a book...?
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
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
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