kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
mhairi-aitken.bsky.social @mhairi-aitken.bsky.social Co-Founder and Director at Our AI Collective | TEDx speaker | Children and AI | AI Ethics
PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social Award-winning, fearless indy coverage of the UN/foreign affairs. Tips: Signal: passblue.22 or info@passblue.com www.passblue.com
Unofficial Andy @unofficialandy.bsky.social This is a completely unofficial Bluesky account that collates links to Andy Burnham's Instagram and TikTok accounts. It's maintained by @bowsy.co.uk (David Durant).
Bez Martin @bezmartin.bsky.social Head of Participation at Anna Freud.
The Lundy Model Network Lead.
One sixth of #MessageToMargaret
Founder and Director #TheSeanchaíCollective - Learning through Lived Experience
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Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. Parliamentary candidate for the Clacton By-Election, 2026. Sane.
Promoted by Count Binface, at PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9 9YF
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.
Geraldine Coggins @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social Green candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester
Councillor for Altrincham
Leader of Green Party in Trafford
Promoted by Helen Heathfield on behalf of Geraldine Coggins and the Green Party of England and Wales all at PO Box 78066, SE 16 9 GQ
Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens.
Davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Martha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social Co-founder and director at Foxglove, former Reprieve & Open Rights Group.
Common Good Gloucestershire @commongoodglos.uk An exploration of thriving civil society in the county of Gloucestershire, UK. What does civil society mean to you? https://commongoodglos.uk
Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social Scrappy podcast about radical environmental & #anticapitalist politics. Hosted by @sparki1969.bsky.social & @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social Breakthrough AI to solve the world's biggest problems.
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social Queer in AI 🏳️🌈 | postdoc at cmu HCII | ostem |william-agnew.com | views my own | he/they
Tech @ Public First @publicfirsttech.bsky.social The Tech, Media & Telecomms team @ Public First.
Combining opinion research, policy and economic insight to explore how tech shapes public life. For TMT research hot off the press check out https://substack.com/@publicfirsttech
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Partnership on AI @partnershipai.bsky.social A non-profit bringing together academic, civil society, industry, & media organizations to address the most important and difficult questions concerning AI.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Roa Powell @roapowell.bsky.social senior research fellow at IPPR working on AI.
Thom @thomkaye.bsky.social Helping defend digital rights as Chief Security Officer w/ @accessnow & @rightscon | Prev protecting activists w/ @anticorruption | former aid worker safety| Berlin/UK | posts personal
Brett Solomon @brettsolomon.bsky.social Fellow, Human Rights Center, Berkeley |
Founder RightsCon | Co-founder Access Now
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) @mtlaiethics.bsky.social International non-profit org democratizing AI ethics literacy.
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social A mix of stuff: mainly #opendata, #FOI, #dataprotection, #geospatial, #openweb, #genAI, #techpolicy. Half-formed thoughts posted for my own amusement. Still on X/Twitter at @owenboswarva. Sites www.owenboswarva.com (with blog) + www.datadaptive.com. He/him
Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social BBC Midlands Today producer by day, Online features writer by night... MoC of WM News Online NUJ chapel. Coffee, cats and Coventry mainly, with a few gigs thrown in.
https://muckrack.com/vanessa-pearce
Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social Writer.
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Data and Research Center @dataresearchcenter.bsky.social At the Data and Research Center (DARC), we provide expert-driven, flexible research and data solutions tailored to the unique needs of journalists, NGOs, civil society organizations, and select corporate clients.
https://dataresearchcenter.org/
Open Data Services Co-operative @opendataservices.coop
Myles Lewando @codemacabre.com Director and data visualisation developer at @opendataservices.coop. Fond of arthropods, maps, and taking long walks in graveyards.
codemacabre.com
He/him
Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social Older than average PhD student, mum x 2, former English teacher, Green Party member, climate activist, japanophile. #freepalestine. Happiest outdoors. 🌳⛰️🚵♂️ 🍄🏞️
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.org.uk News, events & info from Stroud District Green Party 💚
https://linktr.ee/stroudgreens
Promoted by Rob Brookes on behalf of Stroud District Green Party at 17 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5QT.
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants and others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services and better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com.
sotf.org.uk
Christian Klass @christianklass.eurosky.social Tech geek, father, DEI supporter, tree hugger. Product Manager of https://3DMark.com at UL Futuremark. A long time ago: Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of http://Golem.de. Personal account + opinion.
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com
Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca Clinical director of intensive mental health services for children and youth in Canada (ret.). Believer in Truth and Reconciliation. Denier of Denialism. Student of semantics and statistics. "AI" too.
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social Le plus grand centre de recherche universitaire en apprentissage profond — The world's largest academic research center in deep learning.
MLCommons @mlcommons.org MLCommons is an AI engineering consortium, built on a philosophy of open collaboration to improve AI systems. Through our collective engineering efforts, we continually measure and improve AI technologies' accuracy, safety, speed, and efficiency.
Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social A multistakeholder collaboration working to protect & advance freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector.
Gina Helfrich @ginahelfrich.bsky.social Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Texan. Feminist.
I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
Joël Gombin @joelgombin.fr Extimité, social data et démocratie chez http://opsci.ai, Lab IA à La Plateforme, ex cofondateur de Datactivist. Marseille.
Starling Centre @starlingcentre.bsky.social The Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies I Ethics & Tech I Data Justice I Right to Repair I Anti-Technofascist I Public Education
starlingcentre.ca
Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
https://starkcontrast.co/
https://starlingcentre.ca/
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
Sreekanth Mukku @sree-mukku.bsky.social PhD-ing on Global AI Race @Ifp-ude.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social I Critical AI/Tech Policy researcher I Initiator and researcher networkedfutures.org I Interested in International Political Economy of Tech, Sustainability of AI & STS.
Peter Cranie @petercranie.bsky.social Father, husband, UCU Branch Chair, Liverpool Green Party Exec member, Scottish Green Party, University Lecturer (Education) - Prospective Council Candidate, Smithdown ward
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com (He/Him) Folk Technologist • anthony.moser@gmail.com • N4EJ • http://www.BetterDataPortal.com • baker in The FOIA Bakery • http://publicdatatools.com • http://deseguys.com • #1 on hackernews when you search for "hater" • anthonymoser.github.io/writing/
John Paddington @padders123.bsky.social Transport technology, Birmingham and some other stuff.
Occasional photos of Travel Basil to promote St Basils homeless charity that works with young people in Birmingham.
Dr. Jenny Alexander @drjennya.bsky.social Lectures in Media & Politics UK (views own not employer's). Teaches Enviro Comms. Born 325ppm CO2, Loves human-created art > AI, LGB w the T 🏳️🌈
divijualsuspect @divijualsuspect.bsky.social "wow...everything is computer"
tech and political economy researcher. lawyer. tired.
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divij.me
Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.
michel verstrepen @gpmt1.bsky.social Retired, former Information Analyst : KM, CoP, AI, ICT, DigComp and edtech
Wallon (Belgique - Europe) impliqué dans la formation (TIC, ICC, DigComp) et passionné d' l'IA générative (https://miver.org et https://miver.fr https://sup.miver.fr )
Leo Botinelly @leo.sylin.org Lots of hats: father, husband, architect, coder, writer · APIs, microservices, cloud, AI/ML · https://sylin.org/
Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social #nerdpatient0
craigslist founder
https://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/
Tim Squirrell @tmsqrll.bsky.social Professional abyss gazer. Tech horrors in 57 varieties, head of strategy @foxglovelegal.bsky.social but my views are shared only by the demented and damned. I also have a PhD in Online, so that’s Dr 🐿️ to you
Edward Saperia @edsaperia.bsky.social Dean of The London College of Political Technology https://newspeak.house
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds 🏃🏼♀️🔧🐾
Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social Head of Elections & Deputy CEO @greenparty.org.uk
Working to #GetGreensElected + replace Labour and defeat Reform
Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
Cornishman in Barcelona. He / him.
More: @kittylyst@mastodon.social
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social Labour’s MP for Stroud and GP.
For help and support for constituents email me at simon.opher.mp@parliament.uk
Abusive/irrelevant comments may be hidden and those who post them blocked.
www.simonopher.org
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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium @pairs.site A space to share research and practice that puts affected communities at the heart of AI development and governance. More at https://pairs.site
Joran 🟥 @joranjongerling.bsky.social Assistant-Professor in Methods & Statistics at Tilburg University | TESC (@tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social) Director
Specialization: Intensive Longitudinal Methods & Analysis, Psychometrics
Emma Darcy @darcyprior.bsky.social Director of Technology for Learning at EduFuturists Secondary School of the Year Denbigh High in Luton. Global EdTech and Gold Teaching Award Winner. Trustee at Apps For Good, Digital Futures Group member, Bett UK 2026 EdTech 10 Winner
steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social government policy, health policy, evidence, statistics and sometimes other topics
Mark Shilton @markshilton.bsky.social Data @ ev.energy, cycling, music.
Simon H @simonbim.bsky.social Innovate UK & UKRI Head of Supply Chain & Cyber Systems Resilience. Delivering R&D in Digital & Tech @InnovateUK, wrangling startups and policymakers. Personal views.
Jesse Wright @jeswr.bsky.social Solid Lead @ The Open Data Institute | PhD on the Web and AI @ University of Oxford | Graduate Scholar | Software Architect
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics/statistics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
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
Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician.
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.
George Bangham @georgebangham.bsky.social Head of Social Policy @neweconomics.bsky.social
Ex HM Treasury/No10/Resolution Foundation
Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
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Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk We are an independent health think tank aiming to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research & policy analysis.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
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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
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