Citizens' Rights Project @citzrights.bsky.social Information, support, and advice on citizens' rights for EU/EEA/Swiss nationals, and their families, living in Scotland.
https://citizensrightsproject.org
Lena Simet @lenasimet.bsky.social Senior Economic Justice Researcher @Human Rights Watch | Author of Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America @Routledge
SpokesLothian @spokes.org.uk Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign:
fights for better conditions for everyday journeys by bike, particularly Edinburgh & Lothian. Also lobby Scot Gov.
We also encourage more councils, govt depts, politicians, professionals etc to move to bsky!
Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social Imagining a Scottish Democracy since 2007.
Bylines at the Guardian, Open Democracy, Herald, DeSmog, Bella Caledonia, Sunday National.
ourpower.bsky.social @ourpower.scot Campaigning to make sure people in Scotland get a fair share of our renewable energy wealth.
https://www.ourpower.scot/
New Organising Conference (NOC) @neworganising.bsky.social www.neworganisingconference.com
Uniting struggles to build collective power for all working people: NOC brings people together from across the movement to organise & fight for justice, in workplaces & communities across the UK & beyond.
Our AI Collective CIC @our-ai-collective.bsky.social We empower communities to shape AI's future. Our AI Collective is working to strengthen civic power in the age of AI. Another world is possible.
www.our-ai-collective.info
Scotland's Economics Festival @scoteconfest.bsky.social Taking place in Leith, 19th- 21st March 2026. Scotland’s Economics Festival: Bringing Big Economic Ideas to Scotland. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/scotlandseconomicsfestival
Joe Sullivan @joesullivanjourno.bsky.social Reporter and Subeditor at The National | joe.sullivan@newsquest.co.uk
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
Migrants Justice Edinburgh @migrantsjusticedin.bsky.social 
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social Workplace linguistic ethnographer | Socialist & unionist - current USyd NTEU branch committee member | EAP teacher. "Capire. Per meglio colpire" - Tronti. They/he
Daniel Milligan (he/him) 🇵🇸 @dmilligan.bsky.social Partial to life on this planet.
🚲 🌳 🦦 ⚧️ 💚 🍠 ⬅️♾️ 📛 📸
Resist fascism always.
Scottish Greens.
In Edinburgh with a bit of 🏴 / 🇫🇮 / 🇪🇬
Opinions are my own
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
Blair Matthews @blairteacher.bsky.social Digital Education | TESOL | International Education | Teacher Education | Everton
About me: linktr.ee/blairteacher
divijualsuspect @divijualsuspect.bsky.social "wow...everything is computer"
tech and political economy researcher. lawyer. tired.
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divij.me
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer. 
Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social 🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
Newsletter: tomhumberstone.com/newsletter
Ulises Navarro Aguiar @ulissess.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg.
https://ulisesnavarro.com
Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social A non-partisan think tank that aims to create a new economy that is democratic, sustainable and just.
https://www.futureeconomy.scot
The Robertson Trust @therobertsontrust.bsky.social We are here to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland, funding, supporting, and influencing solutions to drive social change.
Corra Foundation @corra.scot Corra Foundation is a Scottish grant-making charity that is about strengthening and amplifying people’s voices and their power to make change.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
Roz Foyer @rozfoyer.bsky.social General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress
Chris Speed @chrisspeed.bsky.social 
Participatory Grantmaking Community @pgmcommunity.bsky.social We're a global collective working to share knowledge and practice in order to improve #ParticipatoryGrantmaking and encourage its use, with the goal of #ShiftingPower in philanthropy www.participatorygrantmaking.org
Andy Hyde @futurejourneys.bsky.social 
Leah Black @leahblack.bsky.social Co-Head of Regenerative Futures Fund, Edinburgh working in the team at Foundation Scotland. Into things like - funding, philanthropy, communities, culture, equality, futures and resourcing system change over the long term.
Regenerative Futures Fund @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social Aala, Andy (@futurejourneys.bsky.social) and Leah (@leahblack.bsky.social) at the Regenerative Futures Fund - a ten-year community fund for Edinburgh that shifts decision-making power to those most often excluded https://regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk 
Gavin Abercrombie @gavina.bsky.social natural language things @ https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/
gavinabercrombie.github.io
Euskaldun berria
Tha beagan Gàidhlig agam
@spurtle.bsky.social @spurtle.bsky.social Broughton's free, independent stirrer for hyperlocal news, views, history & culture in north/central Edinburgh since 1994. Monthly print issue. Online at www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk. No party-political/faith affiliations. Not-for-profit. Run by volunteers.
Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics |
brocku.ca/lsavage
Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social CLJE is Harvard Law School's hub of collaborative research, policy, and strategies to empower working people to build an equitable economy and democracy. Visit us: https://clje.law.harvard.edu/
Andy Hodder @hodderandy.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Birmingham, UK. Co-EiC: @ntwejournal.bsky.social. Posts about work, employment research (focus primarily on unions in the UK). With occasional posts on and music and football!
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Stefano Piemontese @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social Social anthropologist researching youth, mobilities, race, inequalities, and irregular migration at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social. I use collaborative and audiovisual methodologies whenever possible. Current project https://i-claim.eu/.
I-CLAIM Project @iclaimeu.bsky.social I-CLAIM is a research project studying the living and working conditions of migrants with insecure legal status across six European countries.
Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social GM @reveliolabs.bsky.social, MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics
Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk Exploring how technology is transforming the way we live, work and govern.
Muslim Trade Union Network @muslimtunetwork.bsky.social Muslim Trade Union Network
Bringing together Muslim trade union members, reps and activists to build solidarity and strengthen workers’ voices.
The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social Independent research institute rethinking economies in an age of crisis.
Consultancy: helping firms run and evaluate shorter working week trials.
@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social The new name for Sustrans. We are the charity making it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle. Because it changes everything. Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world.
Custodians of the National Cycle Network.
Gerry McCartney @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social Professor of Wellbeing Economy
Consultant in Public Health
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 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.
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social Prof in Parma. Interested in African science and innovation, sustainable transitions, global health, and helping young people do great things, all around the world.
Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Benjamin Shestakofsky @bshestakofsky.bsky.social Sociologist @cornellbowers.bsky.social studying work, technology, organizations, and political economy | Author of Behind the Startup: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/behind-the-startup/paper
Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
Salman Khan @salmankhilji.bsky.social Sociologist and cultural geographer. Research Fellow @ Uni of Manchester. Extended Reality (XR), privacy, wearable AI, platformisation, algorithmic management, affect, racialisation.
Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant, equalities & environment rep, @ducu.bsky.social.
Under the pavement, the forest! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social Associate Professor @ UW
Computational Social Science
rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in toronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab.
amuse|muse|use|us|u
pfp: me holding up both my middle fingers
banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9. Quark is jealous gf, marx is new hottie.
S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Jim Doran @jim-m-doran.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching trade unions, union renewal, organising, data.
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social Researcher, academic, teacher, occasional musician. Prof in Arts & Media Practice at the University of the West of Scotland. Personal views, nothing to do with my employer! https://linktr.ee/grahamjeffery
Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social Scotland editor for the Guardian (currently on sabbatical). A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
Funda Ustek Spilda @fundaustek.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
Digital economy / digital labour / AI & work
Katie J. Wells @katiejwells.bsky.social i study how labor platforms shape the way we live in cities. geographer. senior fellow @ainowinstitute.bsky.social. newish book: DISRUPTING D.C. (Princeton Univ Press 2023 and 2025 paperback)
Worker Info Exchange @workerinfox.bsky.social Demanding transparency and accountability from platforms on algorithmic practices and worker rights violations
www.workerinfoexchange.org
Smart Data Research UK @sdruk.bsky.social The UK’s national programme for smart data research, home to six data services. Our mission is to unlock the power of data to improve lives. Funded by UKRI: www.sdruk.ukri.org. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://bit.ly/44bEXBN.
ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social An ESRC-funded, £4 million research network building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.
digitalgood.net
Sign up to our newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/idhmon
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS
Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity
https://www.nandosigona.info
https://www.i-claim.eu
podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/
#runner
CRISP @crispsurv.bsky.social Centre for Research into Information Surveillance and Privacy. Collaboration between Stirling, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Southampton and Coventry Universities. CRISP@stir.ac.uk
https://www.crisp-surveillance.com
Data Workers’ Inquiry @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
European Trade Unions @etuc-ces.bsky.social The voice of working people in Europe - together for quality jobs, higher wages and a just transition.
@jaywiggan.bsky.social @jaywiggan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in social policy. All things employment and social security policy.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-unemployment-policy-in-britain 
Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social Political Economist & Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter in 〓〓 | Centre for Public Understanding of Defence & Security | Critical Minerals Challenge Centre | Centre for Sociodigital Futures
British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social 
Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Boyan @bkarb.bsky.social 
🚲 edi.bike | weekly news digest @edi.bike https://edi.bike - Edinburgh’s weekly cycling digest, covering local campaigns, path progress, events & more.
Tag posts with #EdTravCyc to share route, road and path issues and follow our custom feed: https://bsky.app/profile/edi.bike/feed/edtravcyc
Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social We’re a charity helping migrants and disadvantaged Brits access employment justice and improve social mobility. Our evidence-based campaigns drive systemic change.
https://www.workrightscentre.org/
Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social Initiative of Penn State's Department of English, directed by Matt Tierney, supporting critical, speculative, and historical scholarship on cultures and media of computerized society. https://dcmi.la.psu.edu
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
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)
The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org Scotland’s anti-poverty network. With justice and compassion we can build a future free from poverty.
Data Labelers Association. @datalabelers.bsky.social Advocate for fair treatment and recognition of data labelers. Passionate about AI, mental health support, and professional growth. Join me in empowering the invisible architects of AI!
SGSSS @sgsss.bsky.social Scottish Graduate School of Social Science and Doctoral Training Partnership. Funded by the ESRC and SFC.
Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social Radically rethinking power relationships between digital technologies, society, and the planet | 📍 University of Cambridge | Sign-up to our mailing list ➡️ http://tinyurl.com/minderoocambs | Latest: https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge
Sixteen Films @kenloach16films.bsky.social The production company of Ken Loach and Rebecca O'Brien. Working alongside writer Paul Laverty.
KL from Ken Loach // PL from Paul Laverty // Otherwise from team Sixteen Films
Kathleen Griesbach @kgriesbach.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin. Writing about time, space, & inequality in old & new forms of work in NYC & Texas. (PC: MPIfG/Aydee)
Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. Welfare state, social security, (un)employment, poverty, policy-making. Views own, RTs not endorsements. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/hayley-bennett
Alexandra Mateescu @cariatida.bsky.social RIP Social Media. Researcher @ Data & Society, living in Boston | labor, technology, care | tetrapyloctomy | Labor & Tech newsletter: http://bit.ly/2Fv5xfX | https://acmateescu.com/
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Julia Ticona @jticona.bsky.social Assistant Prof. UPenn Annenberg, Mama, Researcher, Teacher, Writer - Labor, Tech, Women, Care.
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/
Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social Professor, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker. These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.