ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) is a research centre hosted at King's College London and supported by the ONS.
We provide research on economic statistics for the modern economy. 📈
Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office, now working in community energy. Occasionally politics
Exeter, UK
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Jacob @jacobweinbren.bsky.social על נהרות בבל שם ישבנו גם בכינו בזכרנו את ציון
https://kafkaesque.blog
Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social Legitimate businessman
https://ko-fi.com/philmcduff
https://open.substack.com/pub/philmcduff
@mcduff.75 on Signal
Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty. Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
Nicola Sykes @nicolasykes.bsky.social Senior Education Officer #CommunityLearningandDevelopment (CLD) #ParentalEngagement & #FamilyLearning with Education Scotland #LifelongLearner #SocialJustice #BecauseOfCLD #Gardener #LoveNature
Laura Rayner @lerayner.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at Zoe Institute for Future-Fit Economies. Previously European Policy Centre, European Parliament. Mum of three. Currently resident in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social I write the newsletter, Lines To Take, bringing you one big story of the day, every day.
Sign up for free: https://www.linestotake.com/
I like human rights and French cuisine.
Joanna Mack @joannamack.bsky.social Pioneering poverty researcher, research fellow the Open University, Consulting editor Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, author 'Impoverished: how to fix Britain's poverty problem' to be published March 2026
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Pam Barrett @pambarrett.bsky.social Director at Better Places / Be Buckfastleigh / Devon / rural inequalities / democracy / fungi
CELCIS @celcis.org Official account. We are CELCIS, the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection, based at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. www.celcis.org
Turn2us @turn2us.org.uk Turn2us is a national charity tackling financial insecurity together. Use our Benefits Calculator, Grants Search and PIP Helper. Monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
https://brewl.ink/turn2us_org
Cara Leavey @caraleavey.bsky.social Public health PhD at Newcastle Uni // Interested in young people, work and health inequalities
Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in politics at the University of Bristol.
Investigating the effect of education on political attitudes and behaviour, among other things.
ralphscott.co.uk
Bee Boileau @beeboileau.bsky.social Economist at the IFS
Barry Hill @bishopbarry.bsky.social Hope, grace, life. #bhafc. Bishop of Whitby. Serving across the Diocese of York, especially from #Middlesbrough & the Tees to the Vale of Pickering, & Thirsk to Whitby. Chair of Board of Education. Geriatric millennial.
Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social Freelance writer @the-independent.com @inews.co.uk @theguardian.com @theleaduk.bsky.social @therevealer.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social @newhumanist.bsky.social
✉️ elliebroughton@gmail.com
Richard Miller @richard-miller1.bsky.social Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys.
Policy and public affairs, working on online safety, culture, mental health.
Welcare @welcareuk.bsky.social Southwark Diocesan Welcare is a family support charity working with families and children up to the age of 13 in South London and East Surrey.
Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social ✊🏼 Co-founder and committee member of https://feministgreens.greenparty
📢 Independent Engagement Advisor - VAWG/CSA/ACE/GRT/LGBTIQA+
🌍 Londoner and fan of Clean Air
💊 Former Head of Patient Services and Head of Policy - GenderGP
Views mine
☸️ 🇷🇪 🏳️🌈 🇮🇪
Laura Aznar @lauraaznarh.bsky.social Public Affairs at Fair By Design. Working to end the #PovertyPremium in the UK. Views my own. (she/her)
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
Concetta Gigante @concettagigante.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economics @liverpooluni.bsky.social funded by @ukri.org ESRC, previously Visiting Scholar @UW-Madison, MRes @qmul.bsky.social, MPhil @cam.ac.uk | Macroeconomics. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/concettagigante/concetta-gigante
Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
Every day massive, life changing, decisions are made by those in power without us
Together, people like us can use the power of collective action to bring about change
Join us
https://squarepegsuk.substack.com
Mikko Kuisma @drmkuisma.bsky.social Political scientist, Program Lead and Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Tübingen. Media Editor, SPA journals.
Welfare states and social citizenship || ideas and institutions || populism || social democracy || Nordic / British / European politics
Niamh Redgate @niamhredgate.bsky.social Welfare Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice
Views my own
Nick Hopkinson @copddoc.bsky.social Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP
#LungSky, Social justice 🫁 🚭 #NHS He/him cis Born at 323ppm
https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/n.hopkinson
#MedSky #NHS #LungSky
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Hopkinson+NS&sort=date&size=100
Social Policy Blog @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social Companion blog to the Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and the Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, published by Cambridge University Press for the Social Policy Association.
🔗 www.socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Beverley @talktobeverley.bsky.social People puzzle me more each day that passes.
Join a union. #SocialJustice #Unions #Left #EqualityforAll #Carer
Be kind, wear a smile; it feels good.
❤️NE - My home; my heritage.
Leeds University alumna.
Refugee from dead-bird. People, why do you stay?
Mary J Berry @56jaytee.bsky.social Retired Paralegal, as such, I keep an open mind until ALL the FACTS are in, proved true; crack researcher; Politics; Books❤️
History Always Repeats;
MSM Corporate Oligarchy LIES;
Liberal/Democratic; Married 54 yrs
#BlueCrew #Resist 🦋 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Carey Oppenheim @careyoppenheim.bsky.social Working at the Nuffield Foundation on Young People, Early Childhood, former CEO, Early Intervention Foundation. Views my own.
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Eddy Canfor-Dumas @ec-d.bsky.social Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org, Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', Green Party ADRC, @samaritans.bsky.social, Woodland Trust.
@pran1.bsky.social @pran1.bsky.social PRAN is an an independent advocacy network that aims to change popular and stigmatising discourses on poverty and exclusion that hinder social progress.
Anika Sharma @anikasharmavibe.bsky.social Advancing the future of fintech 💸 | Digital Finance Expert | Empowering the next generation of financial solutions
📍Project Finovate/Global
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Emily Elżbieta Chomicz | QLR @queerloveriot.com 💼 Keeping up with Westminster and the North West.. IT Software Consultant, Project Manager and Current Affairs Investigator.
📰 Queer Love Riot: queerloveriot.com
📚 My Memoir: transitioninagony.com
🌈 Pride: wythenshawepride.com
🔗 Website: emilychomicz.com
Heather Buckingham @heather-buckingham.bsky.social Interested in everyone having enough and working out what it takes to bring that about – relationally, politically, and through business. Social Change Advisor at Trussell. Visiting lecturer at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Bayes Business School.
Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social I'm a PhD student that researches surveillance technologies used in mental health wards. I look at the organisation of time, and how it contributes to iatrogenic harm.
Marc L. Bernstein @marclesbernstein61.bsky.social Born 1961 - Lifelong Neutral observer of Politics & Current Affairs UK, USA & World. Love Audio Books, Podcasts, stand up Comedy, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Message me if you want to be friends.
Fintan Smith (Mac Gabhann) @fintan-smith.bsky.social Previously: Polling things at YouGov, Labour
Now: Founder of polling and market research company @convergent-opinion.bsky.social
Often confused with a dog called Fenton https://youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Dylan Spielman @dylanspielman.bsky.social Co-founder of http://convergent-opinion.com. Previously managed data science and polling for the Labour Party.
Leftback @leftback.bsky.social Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
GCVS @glasgowcvs.bsky.social Glasgow's Council for the Voluntary Sector
💡Support, Training, Resources, News
🫶 Subscribe to our newsletter at gcvs.org.uk
Fiona King @feeking.bsky.social Policy & Public Affairs Manager @savechildrensco.bsky.social - views my own, of course. Some politics, some food, some sea #LFC
Liam K McGrath @liammcgrath.bsky.social Forecasting & modelling for sustainable cities Transport for London🚇 Director at Leathermarket CBS affordable housing 🏢 Director se1.solar Community Energy ☀️ Urban history podcast yeoldeguide.com
Personal opinions
liamkmcgrath.com
Early Years Scotland @eyscotland.bsky.social Early Years Scotland is a charity which exists to make a real, positive difference to the lives of our youngest children.
earlyyearsscotland.org
John Hudson @johnhudson.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and Academic Director of The York Policy Engine at the University of York, UK.
Social security, the politics of social policy, attitudes to welfare, devolution
Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) @malguk.bsky.social The only UK membership organisation with a reach across the whole debt landscape - working together to improve the lives of people in debt https://malg.org.uk/
Dr Filipa Figueira @filipafigueira.bsky.social Lecturer in European Public Policy @UCL @UCLSSEES. Public Policy, #EU 🇪🇺, #BoundedRationality, #Homelessness, #Housing, Post-#Brexit EU-UK relations, #Populism #CEE 
Saf @safprojects.bsky.social Children’s Literature Researcher.📚 Mental Health & Oracy advocate. Girlguiding Leader. Sociologist interested in Education Policy. 🌎 #edusky
Daniel Reast @danreast.bsky.social Senior Research Officer at Centre for London. Views my own. Local government, planning, housing, local economies and much more. Also found in Metro, Big Issue, Independent, Mirror et al.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sharon Wright @profsharonwright.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
Safety Nets @safety-nets.bsky.social Bringing vital experience of the social security system across all four countries of the UK. Funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org
We are a team of six universities, two policy partners and an Experts by Experience panel. https://safetynets.study/
Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social CEO @archhfund.bsky.social | communities, built environment & social infrastructure | interested in all kinds of places | music and running most of the rest of the time
Sarah Sharp @sarah5harp.bsky.social PhD researcher on representations female popular musicians and mental ill-health. PGR mentor and mental health first aider. Volunteer at West Kent Mind. Fellow at the RSA. I love cats and books. Dyslexic thinker. AuDHD.
Chris Guiton @chrisguiton.bsky.social Retired copywriter. But words still matter. The right words matter most of all. Eco-socialist. Also available for general chit-chat about the arts, culture and all the crazy stuff that makes the world go round.
Rachel Casey @rachelcasey.bsky.social Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
Posting about poverty, inequality, communities and places.
From the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent, views my own.
Heidi Karjalainen @heidikarj.bsky.social Economist at the IFS
James Prentice @jamespren.bsky.social Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
Mike Wild @mikewildmacc.bsky.social CEO at Manchester Community Central, supporting local charities, community orgs and social enterprises to make more good things happen. (Also TV and music geekery) [he/him]
Spencer Paul Thompson @spencerpt-econ.bsky.social 
Professor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy
Academic Lead (Interim) Social Innovation Institute
University of Salford, UK
FAcSS
Money and Mental Health @moneyandmentalhealth.org Independent research & campaigning charity 📣 Our mission? To break the link between financial difficulty & mental health problems 💜
Founded by @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com in 2016. Led by @helenundy.bsky.social.
🔗 www.moneyandmentalhealth.org
Rosie Fogden @rosiefogden.bsky.social Deputy Director at the Growth and Reform Network (formerly @centrepropolicy)
Interested in all things economics and policy
Emma @epickirbz.bsky.social Supporting people with 🔵 ME/CFS, 🟣 Fibromyalgia & 🟢🩶 Long Covid |✊ Unapologetically Socialist | ⚖️ Benefits Wizardry in action | ♿ Disabled & Proud | 🧠 SpLD + ADHD | ⚡ Endometriosis | 🌀 Hypermobile | 🐈 Ginger cat sidekick |📍 Sheffield based | ❤️ Leeds made
Withalittleluck @withalittleluck.bsky.social And all the world is biscuit shaped
Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social Imprint of @brisunipress.bsky.social. Independent, not-for-profit social science publisher. Celebrating 25 years of publishing with a purpose.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social Working to change food policy and business practice to ensure everyone in the UK can afford and access healthy and sustainable food
🍏🗣️🫘📊📢🛒💚 - https://linktr.ee/FoodFoundation
Annabel Smith @annabel-smith.bsky.social Director, Growth and Reform Network. Working with places across UK for a more inclusive economy. New to Bluesky.
Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social Visiting Fellow #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social #FamilyFinances @uofgussp.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Love strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
Dr Tom Porter @tomporter1.bsky.social Researching health services, social security, and care. Disability, health/illness, ageing. University of Bristol. PhD. UTV
Martinbook@bsky @martinbook.bsky.social Interests: History, Philosophy, lefty pol, ND, Autism & ADHD. Anti racist. Brexit is utter folly. Likes mountains and nature, daft jokes and puns etc. - J John Furlong @john-furlong.bsky.social Cerebra Legal Rights Service manager - providing support and information to the families of disabled children about social care. Some policy stuff. All views my own.
LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
Maarten Hermans @mhermans.net Sociologist, researcher, member @denktankminerva.be & @brispo-vub.bsky.social: labour relations, quality of work & open source data analysis.
Tamsin Cox @tamsincox.bsky.social Researcher, novice spinner, lapsed lifter, tired parent.
Alasdair Stewart @abestew.bsky.social Sociologist | Socialist | Neurodivergent | Linux & FLOSS advocate | he/they
Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social Associate Professor of Social Care Law and Policy, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies. Socio-legal research on: disability, legal capacity, human rights, sovereignty, governmentality and other stuff. Small Places Blog.
laura @lauradymphna.bsky.social occupational justice • inclusion health • jew for palestine • everything we do is music • embrace nothing • LDN
m.soundcloud.com/lauradymphna
We're Right Here @right-here.org The campaign for community power. Driving forward landmark legislation that will give everyone the right to shape the place they live. https://www.right-here.org/
Innate Needs @innateneeds.bsky.social We have created a comprehensive free-to-use map of support services for UK residents facing hunger and hardship due to poverty.
https://www.innateneeds.org/
@rafaelmelchor.bsky.social @rafaelmelchor.bsky.social #AuDHD
#Dyslexia
#Humanism🕊
#Vegan🌱
Seeker of wisdom,wit,wonder,knowledge,truths inspiration,serenity & Glory;
MUFC⚽️
My dog loves me🐶🐾🤓
Say it with’Gifs’©️😊🌱🕊
https://youtu.be/NucJk8TxyRg
@anitabellows.bsky.social @anitabellows.bsky.social 
Anne Pardoe @annepardoe.bsky.social Head of Policy at Citizens Advice (consumer, debt and postal services) 
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Richard Thwaites @thwaites.bsky.social NHS CBT Therapist/Clinical Psychologist
Cumbria, UK
Views own.
tCBT Editor-in-Chief @BABCPJournals
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-cognitive-behaviour-therapist
THB Ipswich @thbipswich.bsky.social Grass roots community initiative that collects & distributes hygiene/personal care items in #Ipswich and the surrounding areas.
linktr.ee/thehygienebank_ipswich
#Suffolk #EndHygienePoverty #shoplocalgivelocal
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
@invertebratesrule.bsky.social @invertebratesrule.bsky.social Beekeeper,and lover of invertebrates and the natural world, ecology/ecoactivism/social justice
Also mum to 2 newfoundlands, 2 cats and 3 excellent humans.
Plus esoterica, occult, books, old things, organic gardening, and humanity where it still exists
LaIslaBonita @laislabonita.bsky.social ❤️ music, arts, literature, poetry, travel, health, co-pro, PPI, equality, spirituality, theology, psychology, cats, nature. Celt, Christian, socialist, activist. Up for new adventures albeit small ones. Woke & proud!
Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social she/her
Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Discovering Liveability
Suicide Cultures
Sea to Spruce
Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
@david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social Disability, mental health, politics, technology.
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com