Sortition Foundation @sortitionnow.bsky.social Sign the petition: www.858.org.uk/house-of-citizens-petition
It's been over 858 years since King Henry II introduced juries.
Finish the job: Replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens.
www.858.org.uk
www.sortitionfoundation.org
Involve @involveuk.bsky.social The UK's public participation charity. We work to create a healthier & more vibrant democracy, with people at the heart of decision making.
Danny Sriskandarajah @dhnnjyn.bsky.social Chief Exec of @neweconomics.bsky.social
Author of "Power to the People" (Headline Press, 2024) https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/danny-sriskandarajah/power-to-the-people/9781035414277/
Jane Suiter @janesuit.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication, Democracy at Dublin C Uni || Director FuJo Future Media Democracy Society || Deliberation || Citizens Assembly|| Disinformation
Nicole Curato @nicolecurato.bsky.social Examining the intersections of deliberative democracy, craft gin, and Taylor Swift.
Thorsten Sterk @thorstensterk.bsky.social It‘s the democracy, stupid!
www.buergerrat.de/en
Rebecca Willis @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social Climate & energy governance; citizen engagement. Prof at Lancaster Uni; expert adviser to the Climate Change Committee. Mostly climate stuff, occasional forays into runs, swims, mountains, dogs. Book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/too-hot-to-handle
Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account.
Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social Associate Prof & Author at Uni of Southampton; USSR-born; speaker of ENG/ESP/CAT/AZ/RUS/FR/TR/...
www.lalamuradova.com
Empathy in Politics • Democracy • Climate Change • Democratic Innovations • Emotions • Deliberation • Autocracies
🏋♀️📚⛰️🕺
Participedia @participedia.bsky.social We are a global research community and crowdsourcing platform (participedia.net) sharing knowledge and stories about participatory democracy and democratic innovations.
Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Rich Wilson @richwil.bsky.social People power & democracy obsessive. CEO Iswe.org, trustee localtrust.org.uk, founder involve.org.uk, irregular writer https://www.theguardian.com/profile/richardwilson
Lucy Reid @lucyreid.bsky.social Wannabe Brummie | I need more tea | Like dancing in kitchens and making things happen | COO @DemocracyNext | Chair @MoseleyRoadBaths | Previously @NationalTrust | Own views
Sonia Bussu @sbussu.bsky.social Assoc Professor in Public Policy @University of Birmingham #participatorydemocracy #participatoryresearch #democraticinnovations #participatoryarts
Ruth Lightbody @drruthlightbody.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University. Research: perinatal mental health & playgroups, community engagement & deliberative democracy, experts & evidence giving
Reema Patel @reemaspatel.bsky.social Inclusive policy, research, design and practice, using participatory and deliberative methods. I work with @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social on including public voices in AI, and @iswe-foundation.bsky.social on a permanent global climate assembly.
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
Claudia Chwalisz @cchwalisz.bsky.social Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext (www.demnext.org)
Tim Hughes @timjhughes.bsky.social All things democracy, open gov & participation, with a sprinkling of climbing, photography & Ipswich Town.
Democracy & Participation Lead at Open Government Partnership, trustee at MySociety, & former exec director at Involve.
Democracy International e.V. @democracyintl.bsky.social Empowering to shape democracy 🌱 Sharing tools & stories of participation
10+ years of democracy expertise 🌱 Connect & get active - start here 👇
🔗democracy-international.org
Iswe @iswe-foundation.bsky.social Iswe is a democracy innovation centre. Our mission is to make governance systems work for people and planet. We believe that when ‘I’ (an individual) recognises themselves as ‘we’ (part of the collective), the results are transformational | www.iswe.org
Canning Malkin @clmalkin.bsky.social Deliberative and innovative democracy @iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @glocan.bsky.social, climate governance, American politics, and some other bits. she/her
Joanne Sansome @joannesansome.bsky.social Disability Activist/Campaigner/Social Researcher/Published Author. Interested/involved in Co-production/Deliberative Democracy. I love dogs🐾 and football ⚽️Posts are my own, RP’s are not. 
Shared Future @sharedfuture.bsky.social Committed to community empowerment, the social economy and democratic participation.
We design and deliver citizens' juries and assemblies and participatory budgeting processes.
Find out more: 🔗 sharedfuturecic.org.uk
Jez Hall @jezsfcic.bsky.social Director at Shared Future CIC, passionate about #participatorybudgeting, #citizensassemblies and #deliberativedemocracy. Follow us @sharedfuture.bsky.social
Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social Scientist: physics, energy systems, maths | researcher @PIK_Climate | prev PhD physics @Cambridge_Uni | deliberation & sortition expert @SortitionNow | Website: philipp.verpoort.online
Journal of Deliberative Democracy @delibdemjournal.bsky.social Forum for the latest thinking, emerging debates, alternative perspectives and critical views on deliberative democracy.
Democratic Society @handle.invalid People making European democracy work better since 2006.
Rod Dacombe @rod-dacombe.bsky.social Head of the School of Politics and Economics at KCL. Researching conspiracy theories and democracy. Former 🚒🚑
Gary Austin @circleindigo.bsky.social Engagement Lead - Training at Involve.org.uk
Certified Professional Facilitator - Master (CPF-M)
Ruth Hubbard @itsourcity1.bsky.social local democracy & governance activist, new municipalism, for citizens & communities working together across difference. Founder It’s Our City! & SOS (Sheffield Oversight & Scrutiny). itsoursheffield.co.uk & sos-sheffield.org.uk
Hans Asenbaum @hansasenbaum.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni Canberra. He/him 🏳️🌈 Author of The Politics of Becoming. Open Access https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-becoming-9780192858870?cc=us&lang=en&
Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social Associate Professor in Politics and Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures at Southampton University.
Visiting Professor at Democratic Innovations Research Unit, Frankfurt University.
https://rikkidean.com/
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 🫶
Martin Schwarz @schwarz-martin.bsky.social #Theologian, #Protestant #Pastor, #Diakonia professional, #Facilitator, #ArtOfHosting (er/ihm; he/him)
It all starts with conversations that matter
@schwarz_martin@mastodon.social
Mehr Demokratie @mehrdemokratie.bsky.social Initiative für direkte Demokratie, Bürgerräte, faires Wahlrecht & Transparenz in der Politik. | Newsletter abonnieren: http://mehr-demokratie.de/newsletter
Bürgerrat @buergerrat.bsky.social Alle Menschen sollten die gleiche Chance auf politische Beteiligung haben - zufällig geloste Bürgerräte machen es möglich. Redaktion: Mehr Demokratie e.V.
https://www.buergerrat.de/
Rowan Harris @rowanharris.bsky.social Deliberative Democracy @ Shared Future CIC | Climate Change and Water Security | Archaeology and History Enthusiast
Ruth Egeressy @ruthsustainable.bsky.social sustainability and behaviour change MSc🌏 #CitizensAssemblies l #ClimateAssembly participatory and deliberative democracy 🌱Democratic Innovation for a better world 🌱 #ClimateFresk and 🧘🏻♂️Yoga
Ciaran Cummins @ciarancummins.bsky.social Engagement Lead, Involve. Writing a book on public philosophy and the space for reflection in our lives: https://www.thepubliclifeofthemind.co.uk/
Antonin Lacelle-Webster @antolw.bsky.social External Postdoctoral Associate ISPS Yale | PhD Political Theory (UBC) | Democratic innovation, democratic theory, and the politics of hope and disappointment
Michael Donnelly @micdonnelly.bsky.social Co-Director of Future Search Network. Working to bring the concept of "whole system in the room" to leaders in every sector everywhere. Lives in Northern Ireland.
Stefan Roch @stefan2710.bsky.social Projectmanager NewDemocracy project @BertelsmannStiftung
> (Digital) Democracy
> (Innovative) Citizen Participation
> (Geeky) Boardgames
The Belligerent Optimist @sharestuff.bsky.social Doing democracy, civic tech, policy, transparency, participation and space things. Occasionally at the same time.
Also writing scifi.
https://thebelligerentoptimist.civian.online
IDIC🖖
The Innovation in Politics Institute @innovationinpolitics.eu We apply innovation in politics to strengthen #democracy in Europe and beyond #PoliticsAwards
📌 @capitalofdemocracy.eu
🔗 innovationinpolitics.eu
Crossroads Rhode Island @crossroadsri.bsky.social 
⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) @patcon.bsky.social & this is the wonder that keeps the stars apart. #complexity #plurality #democracy #civictech @CivicTechTO cfndr. @g0vtw fan. early pol.is cntrbtr. ex: biochemst @enviroDGI @HyphaCoop @nwspk @gc_talent
🏡 SF/Tkaronto/NOLA/London
🔗 nodescription.net/notes
Society Speaks @societyspeaks.bsky.social Join a new kind of public discussion platform where nuanced debate leads to better understanding and real policy solutions.
https://societyspeaks.io/
Raúl Speroni @raulsperoni.me Ya fuí de todo. 🇺🇾🏳️🌈🏊🏽🚲🏃🏽♂️👨🏽💻
Exploring the intersection between #democracy and #technology
https://raulsperoni.me
Collective Intelligence Project @cip.org We're on a mission to steer transformative technology for the collective good.
cip.org
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social 
Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social how shall we live together?
societal impacts researcher at Anthropic
saffronhuang.com
Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca 
Nathan @handle.invalid Geopolitics, prediction markets. FLF Fellow. Capital case tweets are literal, others less. I like most people when I meet them.
Timour Kosters @timour.bsky.social Founder, Edge City
Puja Ohlhaver @pujaohlhaver.bsky.social Law, economics, computation www.pujaohlhaver.com
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Julien Cornebise @jcornebise.bsky.social Hon. Associate Professor UCL CS | Ex-Dir. Research AI for Good & Head of Element AI London Office | Ex-DeepMind. He/Him | https://cornebise.com
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social PhD Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social - podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Research Lead in Civic & Democratic Participation Online at Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D
Visiting Researcher @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Shu @sylin.bsky.social ex PDIS vTaiwan
Joseph Gubbels @josephgubbels.bsky.social New Democrat
PhD student in political theory & CanPoli at McGill
Working on participatory + deliberative democracy
Substack: josephgubbels.substack.com
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Andy Paice @andypaice.bsky.social Londoner with a passion for public participation and #WiseDemocracy http://andypaice.net http://co-intelligence.institute
Jay Baxter @jayb.bsky.social Community Notes / Birdwatch ML @Birdsite
Adam Markakis @takebackthecity.bsky.social Building Astylab. Writing about cities at Take Back the City.
About Me: http://adammarkakis.notion.site
Substack: https://www.takebackthecity.gr/
Projects: https://www.astylab.gr/projects
Liz Barry @lizbarry.bsky.social ⚡️methods for the madness ⚡️
Executive Director @metagov.bsky.social
lizbarry.net
Shiran Dudy @shirandudy.bsky.social A research scientist @Northeastern #AIEthics, #ResponsibleAI (she/her)
Work on amplifying voices that we should hear more. My research is on cultural representation and perspective communication in AI. https://www.shirandudy.com
Nicolas Gimenez @nicobao.dev Building @agoracitizen.network, https://github.com/polis-community/red-dwarf & dds.xyz
Other online presence:
https://linkedin.com/in/nicobao/
https://x.com/nicobaogim
https://fosstodon.org/@nicobao
https://github.com/nicobao
Agora Citizen Network @agoracitizen.network Pro-social, open-source, designed for meaningful civic dialogues. Soon on AT Protocol.
https://www.agoracitizen.network
Yuting Jiang 江雨婷 @yutingjiang.com Cofounder & CEO @agoracitizen.network
https://linktr.ee/yuting_jiang
Hadjar @hadjarhomaei.com CTO @ compdemocracy.org, pol.is | scientist surrealist pragmatist punk | AI/ML, HCI, ECON, NSFW!- R Ted Suzman @roboteddy.bsky.social
Giorgos Georgiadis @beyond.bsky.social Distributed systems & algorithms expert, joined the Dark Side (=Mgmt). Previously philosopher-activist in flat org culture, currently guerilla bureaucrat.
Michiel Bakker @michielbak.bsky.social 
Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UW iSchool. Interested in computational social science, social networks & causal inference.
http://martinsaveski.com
Soham De @sohamde.in 🎓 PhD student @ischool.uw.edu (he/him)
🤝 Interested in pluralistic alignment & scalable oversight in the context of social media algorithms
Academic Website: https://sohamde.in/ | 📍Seattle, WA
Jean-Lou Fourquet @apreslabiere.fr Co-auteur "La dictature des algorithmes" : https://www.tallandier.com/livre/la-dictature-des-algorithmes/
Des vidéos : https://www.youtube.com/@ApresLaBiere
Des articles : http://apreslabiere.fr 
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Meduza in English @meduza.io Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
Subscribe here: https://www.theverge.com/subscribe
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social Vietnamese American • Los Angeles🌴 ➡️ Providence ⚓️ • Transit rider & advocate 🚌🚇🚈🚆 • Family Caretaker ❤️ • Views are my own!! • he/him.
Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com Rhode Islander, education union data organizer and Democratic ward committee member. Recovering comms pro, RI's leading vexillologist (probably). Occasionally blogs at riliberator.com
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app