Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan.
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Nick Plumb @nickplumb.bsky.social Director of Policy and Insight at @powertochange.org.uk
Interests include: UK politics, trust, communities, localism, democratic reform, and inequality.
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.
Nilo @nilo.bsky.social Mentally I’m on the beach.
Railway Electrification
Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Jonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social 
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Paul Bivand @paulbivand.bsky.social Labour market stats wonk: default mode: cynical. Boosts are not endorsements and may be ironic. Also on avian-dinosaur-site @PaulBivand
Julia Diniz @juliadelldiniz.bsky.social Economist at Resolution Foundation
PhD in labour economics from Cardiff Uni
Johnny Runge @johnnyrunge.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King's College London. Research Associate at Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. Interested in economic & financial literacy, education, pay & jobs. I specialise in evaluation & qualitative research.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
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.
Borners @borners.bsky.social Transit Costs Project Researcher
英国基進主義者 English state buildingism.. in the Sino-Japanese).
I crow for the dawn, like this rooster by Kano Sansetsu, my mind in his 10 Snow incidents landscape.
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social Credit risk, infrastructure, productivity, liberalism. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (CSEP) @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk Author & founder @ http://creditcapitaladvisory.com 歐 睿
Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info 🚇 Was Strategy & Innovation Director Transport for London
🖊️ Freewheeling Blog / Podcast www.freewheeling.info/blog
SUBSTACK: Freewheeling Bitesize: https://freewheelingbitesize.substack.com/ & History of Europe in 75 Railway Journeys http://bit.ly/3EQNOPA
Mark Byrne @markobroin.bsky.social Dir of External Affairs at Centre for Cities. Irish in London. Politics, policy, books, cats. Yimby. Trustee at Stonewall Housing 🏳️🌈
Eleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social AP in Economics @BathUni • Previously: @SAFE_Frankfurt • @WarwickUni • @UniBocconi • Politics, Media & Science
https://www.eleonora-alabrese.com
Franziska Veit @franziskaveit.bsky.social PhD candidate @dynamics.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social | labor markets, welfare states, political behavior
https://franziskaveit.github.io/
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social The UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change.
https://www.theccc.org.uk/
Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
Katrin Auspurg @kauspurg.bsky.social Sociologist
Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
https://www.eurasiagroup.net
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social Chief Executive, Nuffield Foundation
Previous lives:
Chief Executive & Exec. Chair, Resolution Foundation
Founding Chair, Living Wage Commission
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Sanjush Dalmia @sanjushdalmia.bsky.social Science and Technology Policy | Fellow @britishprogress.org | Member @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One
Manchester / Leeds
LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 💥A platform for those interested in increasing the impact of academic research. 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/subscribe-via-email/
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
Oliver Cassagneau-Francis @opmc1.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at UCL CEPEO (@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social)
Economics of education, labour, econometrics.
PhD from Sciences Po Paris.
Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, impartial, and evidence-based research institute that promotes high quality education
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Pablo Arriagada P. @parriagadap.bsky.social Poverty, inequality and + at @ourworldindata.org
Henry Lau @henrylau.co.uk Data visualisation @ONS. I used to volunteer at mills (Brixton, Bursledon). SciComm, Baking, Cycling. 📊🧙♂️.
Some code bits at www.henrylau.co.uk
Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social 📊 #DataViz specialist.
💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3.
🎨 Generative artist.
🏃♀️ Runner.
Website: https://nrennie.rbind.io/
She/her. Views my own.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social Dataviz designer & journalist at the Financial Times
Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com
Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social 🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
✉️ Please email if you'd like a reply: yuan.yang.mp@parliament.uk
UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | @thebartlettucl.bsky.social | Website: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa
Yasmin Ibison @yasminibison.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities and place
she/her
Views my own.
David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social Him off of @Wonkhe. Sky Cards Rare Master.
Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social le Logement Collectif* dans tous ses états..Histoire & Mémoire de l'Habitat / Archives ANRU / Rétro Banlieue / Renouvellement Urbain / Urbanisme / HLM 🐈⬛ https://twitter.com/Memoire2cite https://www.facebook.com/memoire.decite
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Smart Data Research UK @sdruk.bsky.social The UK’s national programme for smart data research, home to six data services. Our mission is to unlock the power of data to improve lives. Funded by UKRI: www.sdruk.ukri.org. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/44bEXBN.
David Smith @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social Economics Editor, The Sunday Times.
Viola Pititto @violaviz.bsky.social Making data fun and pretty. Publications and visualisations @ Centre for Cities
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/ 
Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social Head of data journalism at The Economist
Richard Partington @rjpartington.bsky.social Guardian Senior Economics Correspondent
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Sophie Metcalfe @sophiemetcalfe.bsky.social Senior researcher in policymaking at Institute for Government - especially all things housing, planning and early years
Xiaowei Xu @xiaoweixu.bsky.social Economist at the IFS. Interested in inequality, labour markets and economic geography. Views my own.
Michalis Georgiou @m-georgiou.bsky.social Research associate in Quantitative Neighbourhood Analysis, Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow
Olivia Gibson @oliviastella.bsky.social Flâneuse, bit deaf, She/Her.
Robbie Cruikshanks @rcruikshanks.bsky.social Senior Researcher for HE at epi.org.uk
Joe Sarling @joesarling.bsky.social Economist working in capital markets ▪ Big on placemaking, housing, regeneration, land policy ▪ Inspired by systems thinking and servant leadership ▪ FRSA
❤️ cycling & running in the Peak District & on Zwift 🚵🏻♂️🏃
Mercy @mercymuroki.bsky.social Head of work policy @ CSJ think tank |
Columnist and commentator | Former government advisor | Wealth manager in training | Minor gamer
Ben Hopkinson @hopkinsonben.bsky.social Head of Research at Britain Remade
Philip Nye @philipnye.bsky.social Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social Economist at the IFS (@theifs.bsky.social). Interested in firms, productivity, markets, management and growth. Previously at the CMA, ONS, Nuffield College Oxford. All views my own.
www.jakobschneebacher.com
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Julian @julianlstar.bsky.social CEO of Open Data Manchester, liker of the outside and outsiders, prone to disagreement. Views expressed may change within the space of a few seconds. Optimistic mostly
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Adam Corlett @adamcorlett.bsky.social Civil servant on DWP's Pensions Commission, from December 2025 until its final report in 2027. Tweets will be infrequent and objective.
Christine Farquharson @ckfarquharson.bsky.social Economist @theifs.bsky.social. Research on early years, education and health. 
Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social Founder & Principal, Crosscurrent Capital. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” -
@t0nyyates. Starting something new. tomas.hirst[at]crosscurrentcapitallimited.com
https://crosscurrentcapitallimited.com/
Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD – https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
Richard Crabtree @rich-crabtree.bsky.social Transport. Also planning, governance, regional economics, and public policy and joining it all together. Currently working in rail reform.
Ben Ramanauskas @benramanauskas.bsky.social Economist. Dreamweaver. Coconut Water Enjoyer. Very bad at BlueSky.
Lapsed academic (Oxford: Blavatnik School of Government & Said Business School). Erstwhile adviser to the UK government (Trade, HMT, DHSC).
Blog: https://opportunitylost.substack.com/
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
SABRE Maps @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk The largest freely available online archive of twentieth century georeferenced OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland at "road map" scales from 1:25k to 1:633k including One Inch, Half Inch and Quarter Inch mapping.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social Mumbai correspondent at the Economist
Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social writer, comedian, musician based in Walyalup, WA.
The Yeah Nah Review on substack
co-host of The Battler
debut novel NOCK LOOSE out NOW!!!
Daniel Dunford @danieljdunford.bsky.social Senior data journalist at Sky News
https://news.sky.com/author/daniel-dunford-825
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
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I like human rights and French cuisine.
Phil Aldrick @philaldrick.bsky.social Senior economics reporter, Bloomberg
@ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social 
James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social Senior Research Analyst @focaldata.bsky.social
https://jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Ben Baumberg Geiger @benbgeiger.bsky.social Social policy researcher (though sometimes pretends to be a philosopher), Prof co-leading WelfareExperiences project and kcl.ac.uk/csmh work & welfare strand. Was at @BenBaumberg at the other place.
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
Signal: @sehill.11
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
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.