Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views my own.
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
Fintan Smith (Mac Gabhann) @fintan-smith.bsky.social Previously: Polling things at YouGov, Labour
Now: Co-founder of polling and market research company @convergent-opinion.bsky.social
Often confused with a dog called Fenton https://youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
@joshemden.bsky.social @joshemden.bsky.social 
Janis Wong @janiswong.org ✨ data protection, governance, ethics & policy across law + tech
🖥️ currently leading tech policy at The Law Society
🧩 elsewhere & past: janiswong.org
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).
Ben Glover @ben-glover.bsky.social Head of Policy Analysis, Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com "A blend of tech insights, dad humor, and existential musings... Bonus points if you can explain data portability over bourbon."
http://mchrisriley.com (... of course)
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
+ history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
Tom McGrath @tsjmcgrath.co.uk Tech policy person. Have also written about tax and ramble about Doctor Who. He/they. Bi.
Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Imogen Parker @imogen-parker.bsky.social Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy.
Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society.
image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY 
Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law & Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, IALS, University of London; Expert in privacy, data protection, human rights; Joint Editor-in-Chief, International Data Privacy Law; Author: EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime (OUP)
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Jannik Jansen @jannikjansen.bsky.social Senior Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School, Berlin | Think-tanking on social cohesion & just transition in the EU
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Phil Swatton @philswatton.bsky.social Work as a senior data scientist at the Alan Turing Institute, background in political science. Views my own and not necessarily shared by my employer.
https://philswatton.github.io/
Sean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social Interested in how government works and how it can work better
🏳️🌈
Adam Leon Smith @adamleonsmith.substack.com Technology product safety advocate. AI standards expert. Chair of AIQI. Chair of BCS F-TAG. NoLeFa-84.
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Shakeel @shakeelhashim.com Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London.
https://transformernews.ai
Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social Longtime policy wonk, consultant, researcher and speaker about the impact of data driven tech and AI.
immersed in researching young people’s digital lives and AI in education. Previously biometrics, online harms, digital ID, online privacy
Emily Darlington MP @emily4mk.bsky.social Labour MP for MK Central 🌹Email for casework and invitations Emily.darlington.mp@parliament.uk
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Dan Howl @danhowl.bsky.social Director of Policy and Public Affairs, BCS | former Labour HQ | #AVFC | https://danhowl.substack.com | www.linkedin.com/in/dan-howl/
Abby Gilbert @agkg1.bsky.social Political economy. AI.
Director, IFOW
Research associate, Digit
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social Professor of Law, Northumbria University. Interested in law, technology, #AI policing, law enforcement & national security (& art, detective fiction). Chair, West Midlands PCC/Police data ethics committee, Hon FRSS #academicsky
Mackenzie Jorgensen, PhD @mackenziej.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northumbria University
Research Volunteer for CETaS, The Alan Turing Institute
Prev: King’s College London, Algorithm Audit, UK DSIT, HURIDOCS, Villanova University
she/her
https://mjorgen1.github.io
Jamie O'Halloran @jamie-ohalloran.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at IPPR | PhD from University of Southern Denmark | Labour market, inequalities and health | Views are my own
Sebastian Rees @sebrees1.bsky.social Head of Health at the IPPR
Charlotte Tobitt @charlottetobitt.bsky.social News, features and analysis about the news media business. UK editor at @pressgazette.co.uk - get me on charlotte.tobitt@pressgazette.co.uk
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Joseph Evans @josephevans.bsky.social Research Fellow @ippr.org
Sophia Knight @sophiaaknight.bsky.social DPhil (/PhD) Researcher @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social working on podcasts, political communication & computational social science
Former Research Lead for Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D and Senior Tech Policy Researcher @demos-uk.bsky.social
Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.ifow.org/newsletter
Laurel Boxall @laurelboxall.bsky.social Tech Policy @ Public First, prev Labour Together
Dig Hum @ Cambridge
English Lit @ Oxford
She/her
Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social AI slop cannon
Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social Political Reporter for PoliticsHome and writing for The House magazine
🖊️ about education (and a few other things) | prev Reporter @ Tes
📧matilda.martin@politicshome.com
(she/her)
Stephen Boyd @stephenboydippr.bsky.social Director IPPR Scotland
Views my own
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.
Patrick English @patrick-pme.bsky.social YouGov guy earning paychecks by researching public opinion, projecting elections, doing MRPs, running campaign and comms testing and development, figuring out how AI can help measure public opinion, and being a talking head in the media.
Sofie Pultz @sofiepultz.bsky.social 🇩🇰 in 🇬🇧
💭🌍 Spending my time thinking about geopolitics and international policy at IPPR
Pranesh Narayanan @praneshippr.bsky.social Senior research Fellow at IPPR thinking about a fairer, sustainable and more productive economy
Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
https://www.admonymous.co/elliot-jones
Adam Cantwell-Corn @adamc-c.bsky.social Campaigning to shift power on data and AI with @Connectedbydata.org and the Trades Union Congress @the-tuc.bsky.social
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Ismael K.G. 🇩🇿🇨🇦🇪🇸🧀 @hermeneuticist.bsky.social AI Ethics & Research Governance consultant at Kairoi (kairoi.co), working remotely since 2020. Co-leading the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN; rain.ngo). Promoting AI literacy with @WeandAI.bsky.social
esme harrington @esmeharrington.bsky.social digital rights, ai & tech policy @awoagency.bsky.social | sign-up for Algorithm Governance Roundup https://www.awo.agency/algorithm-governance-new | london 🏳️🌈
Jamie Hancock @j-hancock.bsky.social Digital policy @demos-uk.bsky.social
Tech, rights, info environments, privacy, labour
(Views are my own; read at your own risk)
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Melissa Heikkilä @melissahei.bsky.social AI Correspondent at the Financial Times. Formerly senior reporter for AI at MIT Technology Review
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
Subscribe on Substack: Arguably.uk
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
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
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social Economics, politics, boxing. Tech @ TBI. "optimistic & ambitious for British tech". ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
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
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
Areeq Chowdhury @areeq.bsky.social Policy, politics, artificial intelligence.
Sasjkia Otto @sasjkia.bsky.social Lead on work and tech at Fabian Society. Prev data, digital, tech in what's now DSIT. Civic tech founder. 2024 Parliamentary candidate.
"That's a powerful and forward-thinking proposal"
"You are showing strength and softness in the same breath"
- ChatGPT
Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social Data optimist.
Data, infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc.
Director of Research & Policy @ OpenMined.
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
William Ellis @willellisecon.bsky.social Senior Economist at IPPR, focussing on the macro economy. Ex-HMT and Oxford Economics. Special interest in macro and AI/Automation. All views are my own.
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player. 
Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
Chris Bick @jchrisbick.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at IPPR; working on democratic reform, youth politics, and political parties
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
Hannah Perry @hannahperry.bsky.social Associate Director, Information ecosystems at Demos
Interested in: info ecosystems, digital rights, socio-digital inequalities and inclusion, media education, digital democracy and participation.
Sofia Ropek Hewson @sofiahewson.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in democracy and politics team at IPPR.
Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social South West native, currently co-lead economy & climate team @IPPR - (views mine)
Industrial strategy | Bazball | @BristolBears
Aditi Sriram @aditisriram.bsky.social Economist @ IPPR
Broderick James McDonald @broderickjames.bsky.social NatSec x Online Harms | Director at Oxford Advisory | Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | The Alan Turing Institute CETaS Fellow | ex-GOV, UN
Lara Groves @laragroves.bsky.social Senior Researcher in AI accountability @AdaLovelaceInstitute | likes participatory methods & research, civic tech, cycling, beer |
Josh Cowls @joshcowls.bsky.social Tech policy person (Google), PhD in app store governance (Oxford). Views own. Repost signals interest. Expect miscellany.
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
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.
Joseph Bambridge @jbambridge.bsky.social U.K. Tech and Trade @ POLITICO
David Lawrence @davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social Shooting for UK growth & progress with @britishprogress.org
Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate.
Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!