Laura Kirk-Francis @laurakirkfrancis.bsky.social Quite annoying Arsenal fan, cricket lover, 100% unserious, BBC Sport fan contributor, professional amateur doodler
James Cracknell @jollyjourno.bsky.social The only full-time local journalist dedicated to covering Enfield, North London.
Editor of Enfield Dispatch and editor-in-chief for publisher Social Spider CIC. Supporter of Ipswich Town. Also a big fan of democracy.
Gunnerblog @gunnerblog.bsky.social Covering #Arsenal for @TheAthleticFC. #ArsecastExtra with @arseblog.com. Real name @jamesmcnicholas. LEZ DOO DIS 💥
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
Tim Payton @timpayton.bsky.social Sports Communications for work. Also own views on Arsenal’s ownership, finances and governance. AAB. Join the AST
Will Allen @willallennz.bsky.social Sustainable development & co-design practitioner. Supports multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology @ucleye.bsky.social We deliver cutting-edge research and teaching in ophthalmology and biomedical science. Part of the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences.
Amanda Carr @amandajcarr.bsky.social Cell and molecular biologist. Group lead at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Interested in understanding and treating macular diseases
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/ .
The House magazine @thehousemag.bsky.social Parliament's magazine, published bi-weekly when Parliament is in session. Learn more: https://www.politicshome.com/house-magazine.htm
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Cyprus Mail @cyprus-mail.com The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus.
Established in 1945, it is published every day except Monday.
https://cyprus-mail.com/
instagram.com/cyprusmail_official
youtube.com/@cyprusmail1
Andromachi Sophocleous @andromachi.bsky.social 
James Ker-Lindsay @jameskerlindsay.bsky.social Academic and analyst | Former LSE and RUSI |
Now trying my best to make sense of International Relations, conflict and security on YouTube:
http://www.YouTube.com/JamesKerLindsay
Ian Kearns @ianpkearns.bsky.social Former Advisor to UK Parliament on National Security Strategy. Co-Founder, European Leadership Network. Author, Collapse: Europe After the European Union, published by @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social Find me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/iankearns1
Dr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social Ophthalmologist. Comedian. Speaker. Jonathan.
First Steps Nutrition Trust @1stepsnutrition.bsky.social We are a UK NGO providing evidence based information & resources about good nutrition from pre-conception to 5 years. This account is managed by First Steps Director Dr Vicky Sibson
Good Organisation @goodorgcic.bsky.social tourism with a difference…that makes a difference
Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
crooked.com/friends
Jon Favreau @jonfavs.bsky.social The Other One. Crooked Media, Pod Save America, Obama alum. 
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Noel Hatch @noelito7.bsky.social Assistant Director for People and Change at @adurandworthing. Inspired by @francescaalbanese.bsky.social
Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social The political home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future. Powered by members.
https://linktr.ee/CompassOnline
Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social The myths of Ancient Greece still echo and shape the modern world. This is their story.
APPLE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=657111fc0e544740
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Nazir Afzal @nazirafzal.bsky.social Former Chief Prosecutor, Current Chancellor of Manchester University, member of numerous boards & patron of 9 women led charities protecting the vulnerable
All views my own
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author. The Wolf That Chews Rocks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Chews-Rocks-ebook/dp/B0HF8SR6JR?ref_=ast_author_mpb), the Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
https://russelljonesauthor.com/
Ernesto Velasco @ernestovelasco.bsky.social Public management / Open Gov / Public Policy / Deliberative Democracy / Evaluation
David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social NHS Acute Hosp Dr 37 y. GER/GIM. Ex DH Nat Clin Dir. Lapsed Academic. Policy Think Tanker. Ex BGS/RCP Pres/VP
Med Journalism. Byline: @BMJ_latest. Columns: health press newspapers. @mjauk
Manc-in-South. MCFC. Craic, Schlock, Sharing, Learning, Friends
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It) 
Innovation Unit @innovationunit.bsky.social We grow and scale the boldest and best innovations that deliver long-term impact for people across the UK.
Dave McPartlin @davemcpartlin.bsky.social Head of Flakefleet Primary🇬🇧BGT Golden Buzzer http://bit.ly/3FspSO5 📺Social Justice🌹Chair of Future Fleetwood🙏Mental Health🌳Relational Approach🩷Trauma informed🌦️Vulnerability in leadership🔥ADHDer🚨Keynote Speaker🚀BBC Bitesize Teacher⭐️Hartlepool💙#daretodream🌟
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
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Wes Streeting @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social Labour MP for Ilford North. Former Secretary of State for Health & Social Care.
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://demos.co.uk/support/
Angela Eagle @angelaeagle1.bsky.social MP for Wallasey (UK)
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
NHS England @england.nhs.uk 
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social Content Creator 🤓
Photo Video & Drone Pilot 🎥
Entrepreneur & Tech Geek 🤖
Food & Chocolate Judge 😋
And now news as frustrated 👀
Better together: 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Jack Surfleet @jacksurfleet.bsky.social Reporter for BBC News
Posting #TomorrowsPapersToday
Gina Koutsika @koutsikag.bsky.social ❤️ Culture & People | Ashmolean Museum | StEdmundHall | JewishMuseumLDN | StSophiaLondon | Ex V&A Kew Gardens IWM Tate NHM
Science Museum
FionaMullenCY @fionamullency.bsky.social Fiona Mullen, #Cyprus geek: economy, fiscal, energy, #natgas, banks, #cyprob, northern Cyprus, Director Sapienta Economics https://sapientaeconomics.com/about-us/ and on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/sapienta
Alison Leary @alisonleary1.bsky.social Professor of Healthcare and Workforce Modelling
QNI ICNO director
Senior consultant WHO
D.Pres RCN
MBE Modelling safety in football
Ex Millwall FC
"Wrenched Harridan." 
RSPCA (England and Wales) @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social We’re here for every kind, through rescue and rehab, advocacy, education and prevention 🐾📣👨🏫👐
Found an animal in need? Visit our website for advice: https://www.rspca.org.uk/reportaconcern
Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social Freedom of information expert & consultant. Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College politics dept. Author, 'Freedom of Information: A practical guidebook', http://amzn.to/3L2tuKi. ExBBC political journalist & radio producer. https://rosenbaum.org.uk/
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
soniasodha.com
David Baddiel @realbaddiel.bsky.social On here too
Global Citizens' Assembly Network @glocan.bsky.social International research collective on global and transnational public deliberation.
🌐 GloCAN.org
Catriona Ogilvy @catriona-ogilvy.bsky.social Founder The Smallest Things Charity • Award Winning Campaigner • Labour Womens Network Exec. • Children’s Occupational Therapist • SEND, Education & Child Health.
I might occasionally post about my #SouthLondonGarden 🌷… and possibly my black tabby cat 🐈⬛!
BabelColour @babelcolour.bsky.social I'm Stuart Humphryes (known online as BabelColour). I clean, repair, enhance and transform early colour photography.
Brendan Arnold @brendanarnold.bsky.social #CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social Presenter, The Cathy Newman Show, Sky News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
Farrah Nazir @farrah-nazir.bsky.social 📊 EDI Insights & Learning Lead at @wellcometrust.bsky.social
🔥 Cofounder New Fables Collective https://newfablescollective.com
✨ “What we cannot imagine cannot come into being” bell hooks
✍🏽 https://farrah-nazir.medium.com/
@kalypsonicolaidis.bsky.social @kalypsonicolaidis.bsky.social 
Diane Sims @72prufrocks.bsky.social Growing food & community, doing local democracy & digital, building cathedrals & connections. Work: democracy & citizen engagement. Writer, artist, activist, unapologetic idealistic. I am still #Notwestminster
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
People Powered @peoplepowered.org The global hub for participatory democracy.
peoplepowered.org
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social 
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Moorfields @moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social We are an @nihr.bsky.social Biomedical Research Centre partnership between Moorfields Eye Hospital and @ucleye.bsky.social.
Follow us on other platforms: https://linktr.ee/NIHRMoorfieldsBRC
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Johan Galster @johangalster.bsky.social Director and founding partner of We Do Democracy. Expert advisor on deliberative democracy and participation.
Co-founder of Democracy Garage, Denmark’s independent development platform for democratic innovation and deliberation.
www.wedodemocracy.dk
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
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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