Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Martha Ford @martha-ford.bsky.social Research assistant, public finances @instituteforgovernment.org.uk
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. 
Thomas Pope @tompope.bsky.social Chief Economist @instituteforgov.bsky.social
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. 🏳️🌈
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
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polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social EFF Executive Director | All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law | 2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU |
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
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
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social I post daily(ish) facts about toads! My profile photo is an Anaxyrus americanus by Simon Pierre Barrette! Also find us at @toadfacts@toad.social on Mastodon!
Martin Bracken - FRAS -CitySpaceAstro @cityspaceastro.bsky.social
Martin Bracken FRAS,
STEM ambassador, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomer and Astrophotographer imaging the cosmos from my backgarden in Chelmsford UK. Published Images in Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Sky at Night & Astronomy Now Magazine
Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy, University of Manchester. Science & innovation policy, regional economic growth, polymer physics.
www.softmachines.org
Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Mongabay @mongabay.com Award-winning nonprofit media outlet publishing global environmental science & news in 8 languages via bureaus in India, Brazil, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia & US: https://mongabay.com
Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social Lift the pedosadist / trafficking networks and the entire global oligarchy will be in the net. - Heather Marsh, 2014 #OpDeathEaters #Anonymous
Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social Head of Policy at Britain Remade.
Nicholas Merrill @nickcalyx.bsky.social Founder, @Phreeli.com; Founder, Calyx Institute; Plaintiff in Doe v. Ashcroft; Founder, CalyxOS;
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism, 'Contractor'.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social Stories that reveal and inspire, challenging expectations.
Weekdays 7-8pm on Channel 4.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Director of CPS, editor-in-chief of CapX, columnist for The Sunday Times, author of The Great Acceleration. Politics, policy and parenting.
Paul Scully @scullyps.bsky.social Various business roles, political commentator, former MP & Minster for London, Tech, Small Biz & Unintended Consequences
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
David Lidington @davidlidington.bsky.social Chair: RUSI, Conservative European Forum, Koenigswinter Conference & Aurora Forum. Trustee, Institute for Govt. History, singing & hill walking enthusiast. Ex-Minister & MP.
Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social Britain's oldest political think tank. The future of the left since 1884.
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social Exclusive stories and insight from Westminster via PoliticsHome and The House magazine. Read our reporting at https://www.politicshome.com and subscribe to The Rundown podcast: http://bit.ly/3M8d963
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
More in Common UK @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
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📩 Free editions every Monday & Thursday.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social Global Editorial Director at WIRED.
Board member @freedom.press
Speaker at UTA
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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.
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
Automotive News Europe @autonewseurope.bsky.social Official BlueSky account for Automotive News Europe, the leading news source for European auto executives. Part of the Automotive News network
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
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 🏳️🌈
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
https://weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/donate
Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on social security, poverty and living standards
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
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social A comedyish science podcast hosted by @alieward. Asking smart ologists not-smart questions about their professional obsessions. Every Tuesday. May be NSFW. https://linktr.ee/alieward
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, Author, Lover of Sicily. Purveyor of a “righteous-but-rational vibe”
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
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.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
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!
Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR (Co-Author)
@PIIE.com (Senior Fellow)
@Trade--Talks.bsky.social (Podcast Host)
I think about trade and policy. Probably too much
Book: https://tinyurl.com/4ckmn3vp
Me: https://www.chadpbown.com/
Pod: https://tradetalkspodcast.com/
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
@granitestatelobsta.bsky.social @granitestatelobsta.bsky.social 
@fi-oh-nah.bsky.social @fi-oh-nah.bsky.social 
@beep47.bsky.social @beep47.bsky.social 
Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Sue Hawley @suehawley.bsky.social Exec Director at Spotlight on Corruption - working on fostering political integrity and ending the UK's role as a hub for kleptocratic assets
https://linktr.ee/endcorruptionuk
www.spotlightcorruption.org
@spotlightcorruption.org
Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social Lead Politics Presenter, Sky News
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Matt Chorley @mattchorley.bsky.social 📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm
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🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025
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Paul Johnson @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Sebastian Payne @sebastianpayne.bsky.social Leader writer and columnist @thetimes.com
Previously seen at Onward and FT. Author of Broken Heartlands and The Fall of Boris Johnson.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
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
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
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute