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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Allison Tait @athenais.bsky.social Dennis I. Belcher Professor of Law, University of Richmond + Author of The House That Family Money Built. Loves cats and pastries. Hates wealth inequality and gender norms. https://www.allisonannatait.com
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Aanor Roland @aanorroland.bsky.social Postdoc at Leuphana University Lüneburg | Political Economy & Economic Sociology | Assetization & Wealth | Horses, Taxation & EU https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipw/academic-staff/aanor-roland/research-on-the-equestrian-world.html
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope. "A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social Left wing journalist. Dad of Léa, Saoirse and Raven. Book ‘Abolish Westminster’ due out with Faber in November. Pre-order at: https://linktr.ee/abolishwestminster. Also at: www.abolishwestminster.substack.com
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP) Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social Academic, educator, rabble-rouser.
Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
Kyle Matthews @kylermatthews.bsky.social I research violent extremism, state security, the Atlas network, free speech/hate speech, and radical social movements across the political spectrum. Currently seeking a teaching or research role. He/him.
Social Media + Society @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social OA, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of social media and its implications for society. Follow for cutting edge trends in this emerging field. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/home/SMS
Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social Political philosopher and inequality economist. Prof @ Utrecht University | Public values (social justice, democracy, sustainability, quality of life). Fair economies, caring societies. #limitarianism
Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social Day job: climate change, heat pumps, energy at Nesta Other stuff: low-fi economics on growth, cities & economic geography, general UK policy, occasional basic charts Bristol, he/him, lots of parenting / caring. Personal account.
Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social https://www.common-wealth.org/ Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/lawrence-mathew
Survation. @survation.bsky.social Insightful, selected, trusted. Waiting for Survation? - we can help, find out more: http://survation.com/our-services/
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6 📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
@adambrichto.bsky.social @adambrichto.bsky.social
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
Paul Stubbs @paul-stubbs.bsky.social Gramscian Sociologist Working on the New International Economic Order and Non Alignment Cricket umpire Liverpool fan Shy and Retiring
Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social Geographer at Uni of Southampton. Research: refusal, tech, cities. Book: Techno-Negative (Uni of Minnesota Press). Films: Breached/Machines in Flames. thomasdekeyser.com // Buy 📖 https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917739/techno-negative/
Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social Teaches media and communication studies at Massey University.
Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe @sosnowskikrabbe.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and part of the DFG funded research group Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk, and Politics in Eastern Europe
hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social I wrote Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). Marx Freud Karaoke
Daniel Stanley @staplejames.bsky.social Executive Director @ Future Narratives Lab fnlab.bsky.social | Director @ Stir to Action | E17 | #THFC South Stand
Céline Henne @celinehenne.bsky.social MSCA Postdoc VU Amsterdam. Previously Unibo and UofT. PhD Cambridge HPS. Agrégée de philosophie. Philosophy of language, philosophy of science, epistemology, pragmatism.
Future Narratives Lab @fnlab.bsky.social Nonprofit research initiative. Making new common sense futurenarrrativeslab.org
Peter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social Director, Narrative and Content at Imperial War Museums. Military historian, museum professional, and frequent explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves @imaginaries.bsky.social Researching on sociotechnical fictions, hype, financialisation and cyberlibertarianism Working on a video essay on venture capital and religion Co-founder of hypestudies.org andreubelsunces.net
Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social Prof of Developmental Psychology at Uni of Edinburgh Dean of Equity Inclusion & Community for my faculty Editor of @journalautism.bsky.social Creator of #AutRes and Edinburgh! feeds Founder of SuperTroop "a loose canon" Queer, cis, she/her
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏 🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk 👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Adele Zeynep Walton @adelewalton.bsky.social Author, online safety campaigner, journalist, hater of tech bros. https://www.adelesnotes.co.uk/
Debbie Ball @debbieball.bsky.social Design features doctoral researcher currently in social media rehab. Eternal music fan. Data and Society lecturer at University of Westminster. Music pr at Create Spark, representing Big Joanie, Andy Bell (Ride), Soft Cell & more.
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch (he/they)
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
James O’Nions @jamesonions.bsky.social “El socialismo puede llegar solo en bicicleta” (José Antonio Viera-Gallo). Head of movement building @globaljusticenow.bsky.social. Ecosocialist in the Green Party (@greensorganise.bsky.social). Posts all my own work.
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social Advocating, informing and empowering. By trans people, for trans people. https://www.transactual.org.uk/ Info: info@transactual.org.uk Press: press@transactual.org.uk Social media policy: http://transactual.org.uk/socials
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable. Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
MeCCSA Women's Network @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social Welcome to the official page for MeCCSA Women's Network for the latest network updates. Register for our speed networking event at MeCCSA 2025: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofsurrey1/1811935
Franziska Windisch @frawin.bsky.social PhD Candidate at University of Vienna
Jonathan Báez Valencia @jbaezvalencia.bsky.social Researcher in Elite Studies and Inequality.
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Miriam Levin @miriamlevin.bsky.social Director of Participatory Programmes @demos; big fan of participatory democracy, co-design & putting people at the heart of policy making
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants & others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services & better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com. Associate: @aliceolilly.bsky.social sotf.org.uk
Changing Realities @changingrealities.bsky.social Participatory project involving parents and carers living on a low income across the UK, Working with researchers, artists and Child Poverty Action Group to improve lives. Thanks to Impact on Urban Health & Robertson Trust. linktr.ee/changingrealities
@melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social
Aaron Shapiro @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social associate professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
kate k @kathrwn.bsky.social design + social + editorial at @scientistsorg.bsky.social | views my own | once and future jeopardy champion
Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social Founder/director of @weownit.org.uk Loves public services. Campaigning for public ownership, against privatisation.
Steve Curati @stevecurati.bsky.social Digital design for good, community energy with @se24.bsky.social, systems change, Arsenal, science & magic, and musical tinkering. Director of @diascreative.bsky.social. From Peckham with love.
SE24 Community Energy @se24.bsky.social Providing community-owned, renewable energy in Lambeth and Southwark (and now Bexley!) https://www.se24.co.uk/
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Ruth Taylor @ruthtaylor.bsky.social Values-led narrative & culture change. Part time @commoncause.bsky.social‬, part time freelance narrative strategist for hire 🌍✨🏳️‍🌈 www.ruthtaylor.org
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com The greatest autism info you will ever find, from autistic people, professionals, and parents. www.ThinkingAutism.com & buttondown.com/TPGA. Pro-neurodiversity. Even more TPGA community discussions on IG and FB.
Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social An International Communication Association journal publishing critical/cultural research and commentary on media, culture and technology. https://linktr.ee/cccjournalica
Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
Alex Rhys-Taylor @alexrhystaylor.bsky.social Cities, sensations and spaces. Open minds and strong stomachs. Sociology, ethnography and social history. Parenting in bulk. Rarely accused of sorcery.
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social Critical AI's new issue is out! https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu Our website and blog: https://criticalai.org/
Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social The Friends of The Women's Library support The Women's Library at LSE in acquisition, preservation and education. https://friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social Author of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism and founding member of Books From Below They/them.
Nina Bandelj @ninabandelj.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine — economic sociology, culture, emotions, work & organizations, comparative political economy — new book, "Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Parening" (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social #SaveOurChildrensRights Parent-led special educational needs and disability #SEND website. UK-based, strategic advocacy, resources, and information to help improve the lives of children & young people with disabilities and their families. Volunteers.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography
Annika Troitzsch @annikate.bsky.social Sociologist, feminist theory, environmental humanities, sts, phd student @tuda.bsky.social and @sfb294.bsky.social, currently working on ecological water security and financialization
Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org We fund research that changes people’s lives. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive monthly updates: https://bit.ly/4pvlPpQ Find our funding opportunities here: https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/funding-for-research
James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Tipping Point UK @tippingpointuk.bsky.social We work with UK grassroots groups to build people power & take action for climate justice 🔗 https://linktr.ee/TippingPointUK #StopRosebank #BankBetter #ClimateReparationsNOW
alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social macroeconomist and computer user at http://www.common-wealth.org, founder at www.continuousvariation.com, fellow at stanford, partisan of the republic of letters, "in this horrible age of abuse and decay / its good to know somebody's looking ok"
Addie McGowan @addiemcgowan.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Data Civics Observatory & @adtechproject.bsky.social. University of Edinburgh (Sociology and EFI). Academic by way of digital marketing strategist. Memphis, TN + Edinburgh, UK.
Kinship Works @kinship.works We help organisations to be more human. Kinship Works is a network supporting more human ways of improving our lives together.
Natasha Whiteman @newhiteman.bsky.social Reader in Media and Communication. Author (with Russell Dudley-Smith) of 📖 Diagramming the Social. Probably thinking about painting.
Ann (she/her) @agvbergin.net Both newts and housing, please. Whole of society approach to looking after each other. Here to solve problems.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London hopeful.technology
Duncan Brown @duncanjbrown.com I make software. i.AI, NHS, DfE https://mechanicalsurvival.com
Andrew Brook @anbrook.bsky.social Senior programme manager at Power2 @power2org.bsky.social. Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality. Ex-teacher and current special school governor. Views mine alone.
Amanda Culpin @utility.bsky.social Freelance design & teaching in London. Learning & practicing all thing circular, sustainable & innovative in the built environment. www.utilityprojects.co.uk
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse
Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities PI: @morphss.bsky.social New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market https://www.samuelmoore.org
Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social Economist (mainly ecological macro, housing, rent theory). Senior Research Associate at Oxford's ECI. Honorary Fellow at UCL's IIPP. Proud to have helped set up the London Renters Union✊. Co-author #LandForTheMany.
Dan Hind @dannyhinduk.bsky.social
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG Outside cat; but more of a dog person really. bodyofwork.in
Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in international political economy at University of Durham and Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Associate, working on neoliberalism, Silicon Valley and psychoanalysis
Martin Lukk @martinlukk.bsky.social Postdoc @ Data Sciences Institute, University of Toronto. Studying how humans and LLMs decide who deserves what. Author of GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding (Stanford University Press). www.martinlukk.com
Jeremy Snyder @jsnyder.bsky.social Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Interested in public health ethics, bioethics, philosophy, crowdfunding, and exploitation, among other things.
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world. connectedbydata.org
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI. Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets. www.jenitennison.com
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024). https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/ https://danhancox.substack.com/
Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social President,The British Academy. Writes about housing and economic inequality. Life Fellow at Girton College, Emerita Honorary Professor in the Dept of Geography, Cambridge University, UK. (Views my own).