Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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George Parker @georgewparker.bsky.social Political Editor Financial Times, former FT bureau chief in Brussels. Presenter R4 Week in Westminster. Crystal Palace and Somerset CCC supporter
David Bradshaw @davidbradshaw52.bsky.social Birding for 60 years in UK and across world. Should be a lot better at it. Write monthly bird round up for Walthamstow Wetlands in London on walthamstowbirders.blogspot.com Fortunate to have birded St Agnes every year since 1981
Campaign Lab @campaign-lab.bsky.social Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.
AI Forensics @aiforensics.org European non-profit
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The Ecosia Blog [Unofficial] @blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy News from Ecosia, the alternative search engine that plants trees. Discover where Ecosia plants trees, and how they tackle climate change and deforestation.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
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Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Rich Bonser @richbonser.bsky.social 
Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds.bsky.social Bird and other wildlife news from Britain and Ireland's newest Bird Observatory, re-accredited in 2023.
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Big Smoke Birding Ltd @bigsmokebirding.bsky.social Experience the magic of urban birding in the Big Smoke! Guided birdwatching tours across London, led by expert birder & guide Magnus Andersson. https://bigsmokebirding.co.uk/
Reece Peck @reecepeck.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @ The Cuny Grad Center & College of Staten Island. Author of Fox Populism (Cambridge, 2019). Populist rhetoric/partisan media/class politics. The Hill, Vice, Salon, Jacobin.
Pivot to AI [Unofficial] @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
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The Political Technologist @poltechnologist.bsky.social An independent multimedia publication by a few
Newspeak House 2024-25 fellow candidates. Covers political technology development and trends. Writing on Substack.
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
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David Morrison @morry57.bsky.social Birder and Local Patcher, Ecologist, London - Met Essex Peregrines and a Rugby Union man- Sarries!
Eugene Dillon-Hooper @eugenedh.bsky.social North London Birder (184) and Norfolk when I can, but mostly KGV Res (130) Member of the Royal Opera Chorus, won't be found without my binoculars.
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social Ancient webcomic dark arts by Nick G, often written with friends
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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.
Sinead Bovell @sineadbovell.bsky.social Founder, WAYE
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com Philosopher in tech, currently at Mistral AI. Doctor of talking machines, now teaching them good behavior.
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
Kathryn Hulick @kathrynhulick.substack.com Science journalist and author of THE UFO FILES (Quarto, 2025). I talk about AI, fascinating research, and walks in the woods. Anything that makes me say “wow!” She/her
Geoffrey Irving @girving.bsky.social Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Resolution. Alignment will be solved eventually, but not necessarily in time. Previously UK AISI, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Surveillance tech & AI reporting in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. Creator of AITrustControl.com podcast. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher NY Mets fan. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
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Opinion @ The i Paper
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PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Johns Hopkins University | Prev: Stanford & EPFL | https://piccardi.me/
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal 
Melissa Heikkilä @melissahei.bsky.social AI Correspondent at the Financial Times. Formerly senior reporter for AI at MIT Technology Review
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.
Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, I founded the Mississippi AI Institute for Teachers, Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi, coauthor of the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. marcwatkins.org, https://marcwatkins.substack.com/
Sharon Goldman @sharongoldman.bsky.social Journalist and founder, Ground Level AI
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harry law @harrylaw.bsky.social Thinking about thinking machines | University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence | Previously Google DeepMind
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com Doing things with web technologies and writing/talking about it. Author of Inclusive Components (https://book.inclusive-components.design/) and producer of Webbed Briefs (https://briefs.video/). Agender. (Avatar by Cole Henley)
Ksenia Se @kseniase.bsky.social Writing TuringPost.com, learning and educating about machine learning and AI.
Working on a book about Citizen Diplomacy.
Living in the woods.
Also - being mom to four boys and one baby girl 🤘🏻
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
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books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
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Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
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Rich Holmes @richeholmes.bsky.social I write about product, tech, AI and more for 48,000+ readers on my Substack: https://departmentofproduct.substack.com/
Ex PM: shutl, ebay, C4, fintech / banking.
Baratunde @baratunde.com host, writer, & speaker exploring interdependence across our relationships with nature, each other, and technology. Latest project is the YouTube podcast "Life With Machines." Other work includes: PBS's America Outdoors, and How To Citizen podcast
Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social Co-founder of the https://www.aitechprivacy.com (1,500+ participants). Author of https://www.luizasnewsletter.com (100,000+ subscribers). Mother of 3.
Timothy B. Lee @binarybits.bsky.social Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
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Board, National Audit Office
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com Data journalist at @data.ft.com. These days mainly thinking about elections data and how to use automation and AI in news. #ddj #dataviz
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
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Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Nicholas C. Zakas @humanwhocodes.com Creator of @eslint.org and @bredbox.app. Author. Speaker. Advisor. Coach. GitHub Star.
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Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
Emily Thornberry MP @emilythornberry.bsky.social Labour MP for Islington South, Finsbury & De Beauvoir.
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
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Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll.org Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
sasha solomon @sachee.dev 🏆 very good at comedian. professional dingus.
powerful + dangerous. queen of graphql. prev tech lead/staff software eng @ twitter, @ medium, @ pierrecomputer. bffs w/ @msol.io
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Ross Lydall @rosslydall.bsky.social Transport Editor and City Hall Editor, The London Standard
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social Taking action to stop the spread of harmful climate misinformation. Get involved: stopfundingheat.info
Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com I make websites and maybe games?
Blogging at http://joshwcomeau.com.
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social Hank of Decline
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Max Hellicar @birdingtothemax.bsky.social Birder • Ringer (BTO Trainer) • Ecologist • MSc in Applied Ecology & Conservation • Long Point Bird Observatory Field Operations Coordinator • maxhellicar.wixsite.com/home
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social Founder of Cognitive Resonance, a new venture dedicated to helping people understand human cognition and generative AI. Advocate for humans.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
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British Voter @britishvoter.bsky.social I'm a bot, posting voters from the latest British Election Study
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Jamie Partridge @jamiepartridge.bsky.social Living under a chalk cliff, birding South East Kent; Dover harbour to South Foreland. MIGRATION , Honey Buzzards in summer & Gulls in winter. Www.perdixbirding.com
Billie Gay Jackson @billiegayjackson.bsky.social Investigations @ourmoh.bsky.social | prev @tbij.bsky.social @theweek.com
West Midlands Ringing Group @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social National Award Winning Bird Ringing Group. Pioneered Thermal Imaging Technology for bird surveys, specialising in Farmland species #thermalimaging #bewareofimitations
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Neil McMahon @northantsbirding.bsky.social Birder, avid bird feeder, Naturetrek.co.uk tour leader, ringer, blogger (Northamptonshirebirding.blogspot.com) and regularly takes a camera for a walk but is certainly no photographer!
Marianna Spring @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent | Radio 4 podcasts | @BBCPanorama & current affairs | #Americast host | ARIAS & British Podcast best host
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
James @j-m.es A Deaf Software Engineer that likes to build front end things and breaks them for a living at @financialtimes.com.
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Little AuDHD they/them flower.
If you bop me on the nose I’ll say beep boop
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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TLDR News @tldrnews.bsky.social The Official Home of TLDR News
Nate Tkacz @nateeeow.bsky.social Prof Digital Media and Culture
Goldsmiths, UoL
Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo.bsky.social Senior researcher in Political Science Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Technopolitics, Geopolitics, Political Parties and Public Opinion.
Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social Our publishing cuts across disciplinary boundaries and blurs the distinctions between theory, practice, fiction and non-fiction
Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
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