Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
Alan Brennan @alan-brennan.bsky.social Professor of Health Economics & Decision Modelling. SCHARR, University of Sheffield
#healtheconomics
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/people/population-health/alan-brennan
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alan-brennan-1445392b
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Dr Kate Cushing @drkatecushing.bsky.social Doctor, scientist, mum, cat slave.
Public Governor Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust
Long Covid & CCH.
Love Northumberland/Newcastle, owls/wildlife/books/art/music/politics/EU
Wrote Little Orange Book 4 parents of babies & small kids.
Green Party member
Gateshead Council @gatesheadcouncil.bsky.social For customer services telephone 0191 433 3000
In Her Place @inherplace.bsky.social Helping create transport, places and spaces which work better for women and girls in the UK and beyond. https://www.inherplace.co.uk
Kate de Selincourt @katedes.bsky.social Writer - sustainable building and the environment
Play England @playengland.bsky.social England’s national charity for play. Working to restore a play-based childhood for all children by 2035.
Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Can also be found:
Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros
📸 pixelfed.social/respros
🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com Dutch-Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of happier, healthier, more human-scale cities.
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social
https://lauralaker.substack.com
Muted live on Julia Hartley-Brewer's Talk show
Lee @leetaylor.bsky.social 📍Gateshead | 💻 Software Engineer
Place North East @placenortheast.bsky.social North East property news and analysis
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Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
Get in touch with tips: trucker3@pm.me
Tom Forth @tomforth.co.uk Same as @thomasforth on X. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
Telraam @telraam.bsky.social Enabling public authorities, citizens, experts, researchers & companies to generate multimodal traffic counting using a low-cost, accurate AI sensor.
Indoor & outdoor, dashboard and API
#trafficcounts #verkeerstellingen #comptagetrafic
https://telraam.net
Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social I made GameHistory.org and you can too 
Comedy Bang! Bang! World! @cbbworld.bsky.social The official account of Comedy Bang! Bang! and CBB World.
cbbworld.com
British Comedy Guide @britishcomedy.bsky.social Website about UK comedy. www.comedy.co.uk
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
James Milne @jmilnegreen.bsky.social Architectural Psychologist(!) and Technologist.
Newcastle Green Party.
Basically a cat in human form.
Most of my views are stolen, but nobody else should be held responsible for them.
Liam Gregson @lgregson.bsky.social making better places
Cllr Owen Burbidge 🔶 @oburbidge.bsky.social Scientist, Husband, Parent to Crumble the Romanian rescue. Lib Dem councillor for West Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne
🔶🏳️🌈 he/him
Rockstar Games @rockstargames.com 
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
City Infinity @cityinfinity.bsky.social A sustainable mobility design consultancy | Posts by founder, Mark Philpotts @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social | Better streets and places | contact@cityinfinity.co.uk | cityinfinity.co.uk | linkedin.com/company/cityinfinity
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Lonely Tower Film & Media @lonelytower.bsky.social Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - Defiant, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam
📌 North East England
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social The new name for Sustrans. We are the charity making it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle. Because it changes everything. Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world.
Custodians of the National Cycle Network.
Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social Writer and illustrator of silly things.
Kieran - North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social exploring and documenting the North East, one brick at a time (among other things) / Newcastle
northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk / linktr.ee/nehl
Helen @helengreengray.bsky.social Excellent local gov decarbonisation manager, community energy coop director, general eco botherer
Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social obscene low follower count boy
https://youtube.com/@danieldouglas
Tyne and Wear @tyneandwear.bsky.social News and updates for the Tyne and Wear region of the UK - we originally started this service on the 'bird app' in 2012 and now prefer here on Bluesky
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Graham Soult FIPM @grahamsoult.bsky.social Retail Cupid 💘, high street champion, Fellow of the Institute of Place Management (IPM), Durham Business Group chairman. BBC: "The North East's best-known retail expert". Slovenščino se učim! https://www.cannyinsights.com/
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
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Hana Loftus @hanaloftus.bsky.social Planner, designer, co-director at HAT Projects, chair of Creative Colchester. Also food and fungi and music. www.hatprojects.com, some of my journalism at https://muckrack.com/hana-loftus/articles, more writing and podcasting scattered around the internet.
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Michael Wood @michaeldwood74.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Researcher - Sport Management @ Northumbria University, #PhD student - #Sport #Culture, #Places, #Spaces, #People. Future #Lidos co-founder. Frequently #Swimming or #Cycling. Views my own.
The Architectural Heritage Fund @archhfund.org.uk Helping communities across the UK to reuse and regenerate historic buildings, with grants, loans and advice.
https://linktr.ee/ArchHFund
@newcastlene6.bsky.social @newcastlene6.bsky.social 
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.
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Emyr @emyrhjohn.bsky.social 👨🏻🦰 🏴 🏳️🌈
Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social Calder Valley Kite Kollective
Prayer Collector
Dream Broker
📍Bohemia
Newcastle Green Party @nclgreenparty.bsky.social Published and promoted on behalf of the Green Party, at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
Tom Bailey @tynetom.bsky.social personal views only here, stressed family guy, 4 Politics @TynemouthAction , 4 Transport & Technology @Streets.Systems. Making the 🌍 a better place, 1🥾@A⏰
@janeformonument.bsky.social @janeformonument.bsky.social 
@aberesfordpite.bsky.social @aberesfordpite.bsky.social Built environment enthusiast all the time, and working mainly on built heritage stuff by day.
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Paul ツ @lf-p.bsky.social Interested in Architecture, Cities, Public Realm & Urban Transport. Specialist in none of the above. | All views are my own.
Newcastle Gateshead, UK.
https://www.instagram.com/lf_p30/profilecard/?igsh=MTFtOXlqcGs4bmlhMA==
Women in Social Housing (WISH) @wishnetwork.bsky.social The inclusive networking group for professional women in housing and the built environment.
Alan White @alanwhite11.bsky.social Travel enthusiast. Loves life, culture and Liverpool FC ⚽️🔴. Housing professional specialising in fairness and supporting rough sleepers. 🇺🇦
North East PTUG @northeastptug.bsky.social A voluntary organisation in the North East of England campaigning for public transport for social and environmental good. We fight for more attractive, affordable, and accessible sustainable transport (including walking, cycling, bus, metro, and rail).
Urban Design Forum @urbandesignforum.bsky.social Location: UK
UrbanDesignForum.com
Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social Used to be a somebody in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, conlangs, cribbage
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
Andy Redfearn @aredfearn.bsky.social Housing Development Consultant based in Bedford. Company LivShare Housing and Consultancy Ltd.
Other interests include following Derby County.
Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social We campaign for children's everyday freedom and right to play out near home. Founders of the UK-wide play street movement. www.playingout.net
Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social Active travel person of interest. Director at Active Travel England.
Michael Bell @e1potter.bsky.social Stoke supporting, Brompton riding, music loving town planner living in Poynton
AmyBurbidge2 @amyburbi.bsky.social Head of Design & Master development @HomesEngland Keen on streets, play and great places. Opinions my own.
Kai @greenkai.bsky.social He / Him Audhd doing what I can to help unf**k the climate 💚. Focused on transport and GIS in the North East of England.
Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk
Matt Downie @mattdownie.bsky.social Trying this out…desperately seeking sanity.
CEO of Crisis. Chair of London Youth Theatre.
Lee @yourboywillis.bsky.social 
Adam Dalby @ajdalby.bsky.social Architect turned Project Manager - Running, Books, Sports, Politics, and Percy the Whippet - Keeping it eclectic
Harry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social I like wandering around and looking and buildings and cities.
I MIGHT MAKE INANE COMMENTS ABOUT THEM IN CAPS.
Make Space for Girls @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social Campaigning for parks and public spaces designed with girls in mind.
Reg. charity 1193772.
makespaceforgirls.co.uk
Anna Barker @annabarker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminal Justice & Criminology | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies | University of Leeds | Views My Own | PI Safer Parks Project | Co-I @greenaware.bsky.social
Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social Green Party Group Leader, Newcastle City Council. Byker Ward Councillor. My personal tweets, these are not in an official capacity.
Carl Johnson @johnsoncarl.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of North Tyneside 
@space4gosforth.bsky.social @space4gosforth.bsky.social 
Alistair Ford @alistaircford.bsky.social Geospatial lecturer, climate/sustainability researcher, rail enthusiast, music lover, Green activist, beekeeper, lower league footy fan, grower of tiny vegetables, bike rider. Views my own etc.
Peter Cross @pcarchi.bsky.social Architect, interested in urbanism, retrofit, housing abundance 
Neil @neilclasper.bsky.social Posting from London.
David Roberts @davidr-regen.bsky.social Sustainable urban regeneration.
Retired Director @iglooRegen;
NED @DesignForHomes;
Trustee @qualityoflifeuk;
Director QoLF Consulting;
Trustee @Brathay;
Co-founder @TheCommonGoodUK
Still learning...
No longer on X
Gilian Macinnes @gilianmac.bsky.social Town Planner, mother, Pluto owner🐕. Working in and for local government- management, infrastructure planning, Development Contributions. Views own etc and unless they are interesting ones of someone else 😁
Jaimieferg @jaimieferg.bsky.social Urbanism & public realm specialist. Design advice that is straightforward, visionary & accessible. Creative leadership that realises value in place.
Director at www.lucidstudio.co
Geordie now at home in Manchester
https://www.instagram.com/jaimieferg
Stephen Gleave @gleave23.bsky.social Urban Designer. Working less. Still interested. Blue Manchester.
Rob Krzyszowski @robzowski.bsky.social Personal account | Director of Built Environment & Highways, London Borough of Haringey | Place, active travel, climate, diversity | Best Planning Authority 2024! 🏆 www.linkedin.com/in/robzowski
Mark Robinson @mr.place Chair of Fellows at Radix Big Tent - OSP student @lsepbs.bluesky.app - #ABI survivor - urbanist
Writing about later life learning and being a padawan "pracademic" https://markisalwayslearning.substack.com
Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
Hilary Burkitt @hilaryburkitt.bsky.social Housing, poverty, social policy, cats | Housing policy at Independent Age
Jeremy Poulter @jeremypoulter.bsky.social Director at phi Low Carbon and phi Architects. Passivhaus Designer. Cyclist. On and Off road.
Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social I’m an artist working within public spaces of exhibition and publication, thinking about who gets to make art and how, where and why 👀 Professor of Contemporary Art + Co-lead of MFA Arts & Humanities at Royal College of Art 🤡 UCU rep.✊ 🪱
Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social Workingtonian in Liverpool(home)/Manchester(work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Justin Fowler @jmfowl.bsky.social architecture and such
Director, Portland Architecture Program, University of Oregon
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray