Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social Informative and sexy at the same time!
Writes for Horrible Histories, Dogs In Space, Amazing World of Gumball; also talks a lot on podcasts (Taskmaster The People's Podcast, Football Book Club)
he/him
UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social Official feed of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) providing regular news updates on the work of the organisation.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@gilliosa.bsky.social @gilliosa.bsky.social
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Wrexham AFC @wrexhamafc.co.uk The world's third oldest professional football club.
Clwb pêl-droed proffesiynol trydydd hynaf y byd 🏴
Professor Georgina V Long AO @gvlongphdmd.bsky.social Medical Oncologist & Immunotherapist, Clinical Trialist, Cancer Drug Developer, Translational Researcher University of Sydney, Medical Director Melanoma Institute Australia, Joint Australian of Year 2024, Fulbright Alumnus, Fellow AAS & AAHMS
Professor Richard Scolyer AO @richardscolyer.bsky.social Surgical Pathologist Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Prof Sydney University. 2024 Joint Australian of Year. Editor WHO Skin Tumour Classification (4th ed). American Joint Committee on Cancer, Vice Chair Melanoma Expert Panel. All posts/comments are personal.
@paulyd1107.bsky.social @paulyd1107.bsky.social
Red Imp Comedy Club @redimpcomedy.bsky.social Big names in an intimate venue Ye Olde Rose & Crown Hoe St Walthamstow E17
Our summer venue is Trades Hall www.redimpcomedy.com all tickets https://wegottickets.com/RedImp
European Medicines Agency @ema.europa.eu EU regulatory authority working for public and animal health.
We ensure that all medicines available on the EU market are high quality, safe and effective. Based in Amsterdam.
https://www.ema.europa.eu/
Kate Bod @katebod.bsky.social Book #Editor, #Writer and #Lipspeaker (@se-lipspeakers.bsky.social)
NEJM.org @nejm.org Welcome to the official Bluesky account for the New England Journal of Medicine. Follow for high-quality, peer-reviewed research and clinical content from the world’s leading medical journal, online at NEJM.org.
Follow @ai.nejm.org for medical AI content.
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk Charitable Trust set up by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham CBE (1912-2004) a leading 20th century British artist.
Melanoma Focus @melanomafocus.bsky.social The UK’s leading #melanoma charity funding research, services and information for patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
Melanoma Helpline: 0808 801 0777
https://melanomafocus.org/
@v600e.bsky.social @v600e.bsky.social Melanoma patient, now NED. Using this account to follow news about melanoma.
Claire Scott-Shala @clairebelle73.bsky.social
Chris Bryant @chrisbryant1962.bsky.social Labour MP for Rhondda and Ogmore and Minister for Creative Industries Arts and Tourism; and Telecoms, Space, Dats and Digital Inclusion
Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social •Hon University Fellow- Fac Health
•Founder The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
•Patient Safety
•Hoping for a Social Media Platform where everyone can live together peacefully
#Oliverscampaign
Danny McGuinness @dannymcg.bsky.social Divisional Director for Medicine, Newham University Hospital. Consultant Nephrologist & General Physician, Barts Health NHS Trust. 🎵, 🚴, #NFFC
#E17
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Rebecca @itsneverbecky.bsky.social Let’s try that again, shall we?
Ferry-Louper
@angusfranz.bsky.social @angusfranz.bsky.social Walthamstow based person, escaping from twitter.
I like music and art and stuff.
http://www.littlevisions.co.uk
Rhodri Jones @rhodrijones.bsky.social C4 News type. Walthamstow, Wales and and Gray’s Inn Road. There cannot be two skies.
Esther @estherase.bsky.social Been here a while, never used it. Might start. Might forget. It’s a 50/50 gamble.- M Karen van Gorp @melanomamum.bsky.social D/Chair @Melanoma Patients Australia, Chair @Cancer Voices SA Senior Policy @South Australian Business Chamber Mum of 3, #melanoma #supportivecare #cancer #immunotherapy #survivorship #cancerresearch #clinicaltrials #prevention #HTA
Jess Smith @jesslsmith.bsky.social Medical Oncologist and passionate about medical education
Colin Murray @colinmurray1.bsky.social 👋 I present Countdown(Channel 4)🕰️ + radio(5live)📻
Insta:mrcolinmurray
‘It’s only love, with a little bit of rain.’ Nick Cave, 2021
Shelagh Fogarty @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social Broadcaster, Journalist, lover of swimming.
Find me @LBC 1-4pm or anytime @globalplayer. For work enquiries contact yellowpoppymedia.com …
Dru Masters @drumasters.com Composer/Producer in London Uk
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
Dr Liz O’Riordan @lizoriordan.bsky.social Professional Speaker - Author - Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer
www.liz.oriordan.co.uk
Becky Sunshine @becky-sunshine.bsky.social Design, interiors, travel, lifestyle writer
Francesca Rizzollo @francirizz.bsky.social PhD student at VIB-CCB 👩🏻🔬 Cancer biology, cell death, and chasing little organelles 🔬 Food and music lover, professional singer in the shower 🍕
@luisancampo.bsky.social @luisancampo.bsky.social Professor at @UMU studying cancer and therapies. Former RyC researcher/postdoc at @UniofOxford @Ludwig_Cancer /PhD @UMU
Annie Tivey @anntivey.bsky.social Clinical PhD Fellow/Specialist Registrar in Medical Oncology at Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre/University of Manchester. Interests in melanoma, liquid biopsy (and Gloucester Rugby...)
Channel 4 @channel4tv.bsky.social Channel 4 Altogether Different since 1982.
Difference starts conversations, it makes us laugh, makes us feel. It triggers change.
Dave Adams @davidjadams.bsky.social Cancer scientist. Gene editing. Dog lover. Australian in the UK.
Together4Cancer @together4cancer.bsky.social Empowering self-advocacy through cancer awareness. Knowledge and tools for risk reduction, early detection, and smarter, informed choices. Join us!
Sarah Danson @sdanson1.bsky.social Professor of Medical Oncology (melanoma and early phase), Ex vivo Clinical Lead & School Director of Research, Sheffield, UK
ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social Growth is overrated and occasionally fatal
Emma Scutt @emmascuttart.bsky.social Artist & illustrator, paid to watch paint dry. Guardian-reading tofu-eating wokerati.
www.emmascutt.co.uk
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EmmaScuttArt?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=1311719714&from_page=listing
Dr Claire Harris @drclaireharris.bsky.social #Palaeolithic and #Intertidal Archaeologist 🦣🏺⚓
Public Engagement and Impact | MOLA/QM/BBK | she/her
#Thames #TalkingBallast #LegacyWaste
MrMustard @mrmustard.bsky.social Fully paid up member of the Wokerati. Drinks beer to dull the pain of every team he supports being hopeless.
Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social Author and Professor of Maths and Public Engagement.
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
You Don't Know What You're missing
https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
He/Him
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social Foul-mouthed, bleeding heart, blinkered socialist scum/lefty ex-Twitter bore. Fully paid up member of the tofu eating wokerati luxury beliefs brigade blob. Proud European. Loves cats. Hates Tories/Reform/Restore and every fash/racist group that exist.
Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social Guaranteed relatable content from award-winning local author/ tired person
Rosie Niven @rosieniven.bsky.social Originally from north east England, now in north east London. I work in comms when not retracing lost ferry routes. Previously a journalist for digital, print & broadcast media. Views all my own.
Work: UCL | Ferry project: www.rosieniven.com
Fred Enock @fredenock.bsky.social Entomology + Bovril = Bio-Insecticide.
Louise Mitchell @elsieeemm.bsky.social E17 dweller.
All my teams still play in red.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
@joncrossley.bsky.social @joncrossley.bsky.social
@pix007.bsky.social @pix007.bsky.social
Marita K @maritak2024.bsky.social Born in Germany but living in Walthamstow, East London for 30+ years.
Love food, nature, travelling & meeting nice people. Missing my dog, the daily walks & characters we met along the way.
Believing that most people are kind but worried about the future.
Rachel Summers @curiouswilds.bsky.social Often muddy, kind, chaotic, finds the world endlessly interesting. Ordained pioneer, married to a lovely man with many hats. Mum to five awesome kids. Loves London, the forest, swimming in the sea, arguing for a kinder system for SEND kids.
Greavsie of KW17 @greavsie.bsky.social Did I tell you about the time Lucy Porter said my name on Radio 4?
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
Charlie Brooker @charliebrooker.bsky.social Underwhelmist.
JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP.
Sali Hughes @salihughes.bsky.social Journalist & Author.
Bang in to clothes, films, cults.
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Tim Minchin @timminchin.bsky.social Songwriter singer pianist actor writer comedian producer speaker poet wanker reader runner worrier.
https://linktr.ee/timminchin
Posts on this account are posted for me by my webfairy, Shell🧚♀️
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social BAFTA for best writer lol.
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Hal Cruttenden @halcruttenden.bsky.social Comedian and actor on tour in 2025!!!! I don’t have much time for work as my whole day is spent on social media, laughing and crying.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Waltham Forest Echo @walthamforestecho.bsky.social Waltham Forest Echo is the only print newspaper focused on the London borough of Waltham Forest. Established in 2014 as an independent not-for-profit community newspaper by Social Spider Community News. New stories daily https://walthamforestecho.co.uk/
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social Sitting on the sidelines is for Waldorf and Statler. Promoted by Tim Dexter on behalf of Labour both at 23 Orford Rd E17 9NL.
Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com Founded MoneySavingExpert, @moneyandmentalhealth.org, (ish) the Martin Lewis Money Show ITV & Martin Lewis Podcast
Bob Mortimer @bobmort.bsky.social
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Julian Francis-Lawton @anothergreenworld.bsky.social Roadie for @Twee17 - will add more when I think about it.
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social Spaced / Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / Scott Pilgrim Vs The World / The World’s End / Baby Driver / The Sparks Brothers / Last Night In Soho / The Running Man
Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social New book THE CASTLE can be preordered now! Things Fell Apart, Debutante, 🦋 Effect, Okja, Shamed, Frank, Psychopath📋, Kubricks 📦, Lost at 🌊, 🧔🏼😶🐐, Them Jonronson.com
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday
Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social Welcome to my head. Please excuse the mess.
https://ko-fi.com/pandamoanimum
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Jo Severs @josevers.bsky.social Music, gigs, theatre and things. Out, and out, a lot. Soft light does me well.
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats
Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social Melanoma oncologist at The Christie. Wellcome early career fellow at University of Manchester, The Francis Crick and UCL. Interested in tumour local and systemic immune changes, metastasis, ctdna and cancer evolution. Music, art, politics, hiking.
Bettina Ryll @bettinaryll.bsky.social Melanoma patient advocate. Special interest: advanced disease (my husband died of it, so it's personal). Founder of the Melanoma Patient Network Europe. MD/ PhD
Bryn Jones @bryndlewindle.bsky.social pharmaceutical physician #welsh #londoner #viewsmyown
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryn-jones-68bb391/
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social We host great author events and have a podcast called Music Maps @musicmaps.bsky.social
https://rocknrollbookclub.co.uk/
Walthamstow, London and beyond…
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. 💙💙
Glad to be over here from the "other place"😂
It's like breathing clean air again 👍🏼
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
Rachel Lampard @rachellampard.bsky.social Helping churches engage with social justice and social action. School governor and trustee.