Andy Piper @andypiper.me most active on Mastodon, for bridged AT acct see @andypiper.org
DevRel at The Matrix.org Foundation
Maker at forgeandcraft.co.uk
Podcaster at gamesatwork.biz
Pen plotter artist, public speaker, Fediverse builder.
Derek Alton @derekalton.bsky.social Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical 
Freddie Johnson @playawfulthings.bsky.social Advocate for the social web and tech policy.
Chat to me about the social web, dogs, comics, history & politics.
Mo @momorgan.com Strategist, healthtech co-founder and charity trustee.
Co-founder at hellolumino.com building inclusive digital therapeutics. Current R&D: sovereign AI in health.
Trustee at bristolmind.org.uk
Peter Thomas @peterdt847.bsky.social Director of civilservicereformuk.com at Peter Thomas Ltd. Leading research to change the conversation about successful civil service reform. Taking a different view of impact, and focusing on the practice of reformers.
Edward Saperia @edsaperia.bsky.social Dean of The London College of Political Technology https://newspeak.house
Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.
Society for Hopeful Technologists @hopeful.technology We are a solidarity network that: strengthens and activates Hopeful Technologists, demystifies tech, and makes it easy for more technologists to be hopeful
Find out more: https://societyforhopefultechnologists.org/
Chelsea Kelly-Reif @chelseakr.bsky.social femme in davis ca ๐ป @lovelemmai.bsky.social's fiancรฉe ๐ olive & miko's mom ๐โ๐ฆบ๐โโฌ caffeine dependent โ๏ธ trans dyke lit ๐ public interest tech eng leadership๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป chelseakr.com
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirensโ Call: How Attention Became the Worldโs Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / ๐ฌ on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
Gitika Saksena @gitika-saksena.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at SOAS.
Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social Blog: https://argmin.substack.com/
Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social Staff writer on science, tech, and health at The Atlantic covering AI. Signal @matteowong.52
Andrew Doran @andrewdoran.uk He/him. Husband, dad of two teenage boys, Technology person working in Financial Services, over-enthusiastic, geek.
๐ถ Co-founder of Album Club (https://albumclub.info), meeting every month since 2011.
โ๏ธ Blogging since 2004.
๐ https://andrewdoran.uk
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ช๐บ๐ฌ๐ง
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Paul S-H @pauls-h.bsky.social Founder of parkrun
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
mikayla (dusty) @mikayla.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ชฉ๐ชท๐
Nick Tordoff @briandrian.eurosky.social A probably retired Health Informatician (bless you!). Hand holder of a community hydro energy scheme. Late on set sailor. My opinions are usually someone elses passed off as my own. Born at 315.34 ppm
Matt Tutt @matttutt.me Working as an SEO consultant & trying to find a way to slowly transition to a non-bullshit job.
Organising the No To Big Tech movement - https://notobigtech.org/
Not active here, but you can follow me here: https://mastodon.social/@matttutt
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Alastair Wilcox @awilcox.chalmere.com IT by profession. Interested in education, politics, economics and sport. Based in South Oxfordshire, UK, originally from the Wirral.
@adastra8.bsky.social @adastra8.bsky.social 
Laurence D @laurencediver.net AI strategy at the FCA. Views mine and only mine.
Recovering academic (Legal {tech, philosophy}, hci, compsci, regulation, responsible innovation). Diver rhymes with river (it's an anglicisation of the Gaelic Duibhir).
tbh I'd rather be in Assynt
Alex Wrottesley @lexonic.bsky.social ๐ Maps, Data & Technology โจ๐พ Games / SciFi / Tinkering โจ๐ ๏ธ Aiming for General Availability
He/Him https://linktr.ee/lexonic
Rick @ricksmith.co.uk I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social Educational Technologist, in HE. Father/husband. Writer. Brightonian/ex-Tokyoite. DJ/podcaster. European. Transitionist. (Occasional) Musician. Not necessarily in that order?
https://dompates.medium.com
James @jamesg.blog Hello! I'm James (he/him/his) โจ
I'm a writer, art history student, and Taylor Swift fan.
Andy Piper @andypiper.org Developer Relations @matrix
freelance technologist & #PenPlotter artist.
I do things with code, & tinker with gadgets
โข co-runner of #Maker meetup ๐ ๏ธ [โฆ]
๐ bridged from โ https://macaw.social/@andypiper, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Emily Macaulay @emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data.
#RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal.
Trustee: Honeyscribe, Reading List Foundation and Open Door Taunton. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ She/Her.
https://linktr.ee/emilyjmacaulay
Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat.bsky.social Director of Digital, Data & Technology at UKโs Dept for Business & Trade ๐ / โค๏ธ public service / All views my own! ๐ข / https://jasonkitcat.com
Transform Wales @transform.wales Trawsnewid gwasanaethau cyhoeddus ar gyfer Cymru fodern. Cynllun ar gyfer cyflawni cyn #Senedd2026.
Transforming public services for a modern Wales. A blueprint for delivery ahead of #Senedd2026.
https://transform.wales
Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Political Science. http://www.antonstrezhnev.com
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants & others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services & better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com. Associate: @aliceolilly.bsky.social
sotf.org.uk
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social ๐ Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Jonty @fairless.xyz Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift.
๐Edinburgh ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Anthony Dhanendran @dhanendran.co.uk Iโm a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, photography, music, food, cricket, London - was @phowax on Twitter
Involved with @hopeful.technology
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
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
James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
Before: Head of Global Education Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children & Theirworld; advocacy at White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
๐๐พ https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu
๐ Buy History's Most Epic FIBS & FAILS!
๐ง Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate
๐บ youtube.com/@innitfactory
Charlie Young @charlienotold.bsky.social Journalist, Researcher: Tech, Power, Human Ecology //
Current work @ the Nerve //
Author of Spinning Out (Longlisted for Bread & Roses Award)
Linktr.ee/CharlieY0ung
Alex Coley @alexrcoley.bsky.social Data Strategy & Design Leader
Passionate about the power of data to help organisations make a positive difference in the world. Director at Epimorphics Ltd, former Deputy Director for Data at Defra. Based in South Wales, UK. With #aphantasia
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*
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commissionโs Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
GovCamp Cymru @govcampcymru.bsky.social Anghynhadledd i bobl sydd รข diddordeb mewn gwella gwasanaethau cyhoeddus Cymru
The unconference for people interested in government & public services in Wales ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
https://www.govcamp.cymru/
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend itโs sandwiches alright ๐ฅช Also baking, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data and AI at Citizens Advice ๐ ๐ค
He / Him
Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social Thinking, Writing, Reading, (English) Teaching.
https://www.juliangirdham.com
The Fortnightly newsletter is now at 200+ editions: https://www.juliangirdham.com/the-fortnightly.
https://linktr.ee/juliangirdham
#edchatie
Amy Webb @amywebb.bsky.social CEO of Future Today Strategy Group. Quantitative Futurist. Prof NYU Stern. Author. Cyclist.
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello๐Bluesky
happy to be here!
๐๐๐๐๐ชจ๐ชจ๐ชจ
FYI๐I zombied IG๐
Zarino Zappia @zarino.co.uk Designer, coder, bell ringer, lego geek ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Product chap at @mysociety.org. Formerly of ScraperWiki, @oii.ox.ac.uk, and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social.
โ ๏ธ twitter.com/zarino
๐ linkedin.com/in/zarino
๐ zarino.co.uk
Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
Cรฉsar de la Fuente @delafuentelab.bsky.social Presidential Associate Professor @upenn.edu - using AI to reimagine antibiotic discovery and peptide design. Previously @MIT, @UBC
๐ https://delafuentelab.seas.upenn.edu
Ali @aligeorge.bsky.social Work on Digital Content in the Heritage Sector, read (and sometimes write) kidlit, mostly lurking just now. Beautiful parent of two lucky children. A cat also lives here. she/her
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.
Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social Tech communicator, speaker, author, thereminist, early electronic music nerd.
Weekly tech & AI insights: https://rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
FringeReview @fringereview.bsky.social Passionate about theatre
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Sam Edwards @espressam.bsky.social 
Rachel C @rachelsc92.bsky.social gainfully employed millennial
beckymiller @beckymiller33.bsky.social Dreamer, doer, cyclist, human being, Planet Earth. Policy and service designer at Defra. New here...
https://beckymiller.co.uk
Becky Colley, UX Designer @beckycolley.bsky.social Lead UX Consultant. Woman in STEM. Adobe UX Designer to Watch. I like exploring places, befriending dogs, and solving problems. Here to chat about work stuff but views all mine. Manchester, UK ๐
Emma Maree @emaree.bsky.social Tea Demon Emma โ #a11y accessibility specialist. Writes very Scottish sci-fi/fantasy books, repped by @johnj, Codexian. She/her๐ณ๏ธโ๐ #LGBWithTheT // www.emmamaree.com
James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
Senior delivery manager at @tpximpact.com
https://www.cattell.com
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de
๐ https://www.harald-klinke.de/
๐ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88130-5
#DigitalTransformation #DataScience #AI #Munich
Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social Senior editor at New Scientist
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Brian Corcoran @briancorcoran.bsky.social Connecting people @ turingfest.com
@turingfest.bsky.social
Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com Reporter at ICIJ.org and author. GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY is out in paperback Sept. 2026.
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
Paul Rowe @armchair-caver.bsky.social Cultural heritage / collection management software / data access / occasionally seen caving. CEO, Vernon Systems.
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social Political commentary. Over 3 billion views on YouTube. #1 NYT bestselling author. Past: MSNBC
https://linktr.ee/briantylercohen
Joshua Mouldey @joshuamouldey.bsky.social Product @scotgov. That and other gubbins. 
Lori Regattieri @followlori.bsky.social Advisor Green Screen Coalition โข PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) โข Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla โข Climate Justice โข Political economy of AI โข Espรญrito Santo/Brasรญlia, Brasil https://olink.ai/eco-midia
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com Defend Digital Me | Consultant to AI & Ed working group Council of Europe | part-time MSc Global Public Policy | human rights and digital in education | privacy and data laws | public sector and EdTech | #UNCRC | #research | bees & baking
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Brendan Arnold @brendanarnold.bsky.social #CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
Ewan @ewanmccowen.bsky.social Business geek, fly fisher, lover, lurker (all mutually exclusive) 
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social I dunno. Also: Lead designer for the NHS App.
Anne Jonas ๐ป @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
SULSA @sulsa.bsky.social SULSA is an alliance of twelve Scottish Universities and one Research Institute that aims to advance Scotlandโs research and innovation in the life sciences through strategic collaboration across institutions, disciplines and sectors
Michal ฤudrnรกk @michalcudrnak.bsky.social Museums, architecture, digital, music, politics (in no particular order)
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Reppโd by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine