We produce research and organise around accountability, information rights & local democracy. Currently: democratic effects of #LocalGov financial crisis. A worker co-operative. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/47xnyb37
Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
Email: peter.walker@theguardian.com Secure email if needed: peter.walker.guardian@protonmail.com
Policy & Strategy Analytics academic at Loughborough University; Member, Independent SAGE; Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Guardian data projects editor. Previously at Sky News and several media in Chile and Spain
Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
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
Former CEO of NGA, just written The Power of Governance to record the changes. For yrs worked in anti-poverty orgs mainly in 3rd sector. Now chair of Action21 local environmental charity, a passion as are books, pictures, theatre, laughs & social justice
Anticorruption @TransparencyUK.BSky.social. Views mine
AI policy researcher exploring data centres, copyright frameworks and the future of open source AI at @smfthinktank.bsky.social
Charities, charts, cats.
Director of Policy, Communications and Research at Lloyds Bank Foundation. She/her🏳️🌈
The official Bluesky page of the world’s longest-running national newspaper.
Join us online and in print for expert opinion, news and unrivalled insight.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/
Workingtonian in Liverpool (home)/Manchester (work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Editorial Data Scientist @financialtimes.com
Freelance journalist
✍️ The Times, Financial Times, The New European, the i, etc
Read my investigation into the future of weight loss drugs: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/lucy-kenningham-ozempic-and-the-weight-of-expectation/
PhD Candidate Political Science, LSE @lse-ei.bsky.social | Representation and political parties | Research Coordinator Dahrendorf Programme, St Antony’s College, Oxford | Previously: MPhil Oxford + BA Hons KCL | Town Councillor, Eschwege 🇩🇪
With Bloomberg in Zurich, here private, not yet without hope l Bylines at FAZ, FR, ARD, ZDF l Philosophy & Economics Vienna, Frankfurt
Research, policy, strategy. Construction, business, education, health. Coffee, hockey, family and friends. Peak District.
Author of State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory (Routledge 2022). Writing on intelligence history on substack. https://intelligencehistory.substack.com
We inspire and support UK council climate action, enabling communities and councils to reach net zero at the scale and pace needed - measured by our Council Climate Action Scorecards - https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/
https://climateemergency.uk/
I'm a voter bot 🤖 posting voters from BES 2024 data. Beep boop.
Programmed by @jacobweinbren.bsky.social
With guidance from @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @cjterry.bsky.social
Code and FAQ: https://github.com/JacobWeinbren/Voter-Bots/tree/main/Britain
Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust.
Writer and broadcaster. Previously New Statesman senior editor.
Manchester's quality newspaper. Sign up now - we only publish via email.
Send tips to our reporters @ophiraophira.bsky.social, @jackdulhanty.bsky.social and @lucymclaughlin.bsky.social
Demos is a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
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Lead Researcher at Demos / Lead Researcher @ Reddit forums of reality TV shows
Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Head of Policy and Research @powertochange.org.uk - former co-operator and community wealth builder. About growing power ⚡ and plants 🌱 (she/her) All views my own.
I ❤️ Star Trek, every incarnation of it. Period. Don't try to read any negativity in my posts - it's simply not there.
#StarTrekPicard Research Assistant
https://linktr.ee/gaghyogi49
Political scientist @official-uom.bsky.social studying elections and immigration, education and parties
Policy Analyst, House of Lords European Affairs Committee - so, here mainly to post on the Committee's work @lordseuroaffairs.parliament.uk & see what others are doing/saying/publishing, re: mainly UK, EU, UK-EU politics, economics, policy, IR, nat sec
Researcher on the civil service team at the Institute for Government, formerly worked in public sector digital delivery and strategy. Views my own.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle | 158th Speaker of the UK House of Commons. Father, grandfather and animal lover.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
We bring together experts and policy-makers to engage in genuine dialogue and address the most complex global challenges.
An Executive Agency of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
wiltonpark.org.uk
Data reporter @bloomberg.com. Previously @financialtimes.com. I also run @journocoders.bsky.social. Views are my own. mharlow4@bloomberg.net
Research Assistant @LSE IR. Teaching Fellow @SOAS. Interested in international and political theory and the normative and historical sources of international order with a focus on Turkey/MENA/eastern Mediterranean.
Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
Labour. Former BCC councillor and cabinet member. Know too much about bins. All views my own. RTs may not be. Work for Jess Phillips MP. Promoted by Yardley Labour Party on behalf of John O'Shea, both at 62 Yardley Road, Acocks Green, B27 6HH.
Executive member, Labour’s Environment Campaign - @serauk, UK Advisor to @fossiltreaty campaign. RT not an endorsement.
Director Arena for Journalism in Europe https://journalismarena.eu/,
Journalist http://www.alfter.dk/
Posting on journalism, Europe, collaborative journalism
@ScottishLabour & @ScotCoopParty Cllr for Irvine East ▪️ Unpaid Carer ▪️ Socialist ▪️ Trustee ▪️ 3rd Sector Project Manager ▪️ Personal Acc▪️ FRSA ▪ (He/Him)
Frequently wrong. Please correct (effort involved appreciated).
Experiments with Data Visualisation:
https://github.com/MariosRichards/BES_analysis_code
https://medium.com/@mariosrichards
https://mariosrichards.substack.com/
Pro-social, open-source, designed for meaningful civic dialogues. Polis-like alternative. Soon on AT Protocol.
https://www.agoracitizen.network
Cofounder & CEO @agoracitizen.network
https://linktr.ee/yuting_jiang
Media and Politics Specialist Group of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/media-and-politics
Co-convenors: @katyjparry, @jameswilldennis, @abirhodes, @ellenfelicity, and Jen Birks
The official account of The Scottish Parliament:
https://www.parliament.scot
An ESRC-funded academic study of voting in Scotland
👩🏻💻 https://scottishelections.ac.uk
The Union Survey is a long-running, 360° survey of constitutional attitudes in each of the UK’s four component parts.
Led by Profs Ailsa Henderson (@ailsahenderson.bsky.social) and Richard Wyn Jones (@richardwynjones.bsky.social).
We are Scotland’s progressive think tank. We are dedicated to supporting and improving public policy, working tirelessly to achieve a progressive Scotland.
Prof of Political Representation at University of Glasgow - studies US and Scottish politics, elections and public opinion, esp political compromise. Sometime attends polisci conferences and/or punk & ska gigs. In spare time watches the seals in Loch Fyne
Associate Director for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
We empower diverse voices across the UK to engage in politics.
Everyone benefits from a representative democracy.
Director: Eddie Barnes
🔗 www.johnsmithcentre.com
📍 University of Glasgow
Co-director @FutureEconScot.bsky.social Fellow UCL IIPP and the Democracy Collaborative. Co-author ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’
Associate Director, @uofgpolicy.bsky.social. Prof University of Glasgow. Trustee of Shelter and Oversight Board Member of The Promise. Writes for The Courier, Talks for Times Radio.
Policy Engagement | @uofgpolicy.bsky.social | Views mine (She/her) 🌞
Possibly talking about Glasgow, politics or podcasts 🌝
Public law @Strathclyde Law School; adviser @CEEAC Committee of Scottish Parliament; steering group @Scottish Public Law Group; public law analysis editor @Edinburgh Law Review.
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/
Journalist and writer
Former English teacher & lecturer | Author of 'Class Rules: the Truth about Scottish Schools' & 'A Scottish Journey' | Fond of FOI, motorbikes, La Gomera, and all things education
www.jamesmcenaney.co.uk
Making clean energy work against poverty, inequality and injustice. Believer in big ideas. Working class bairn at heart.
Scottish/UK, climate, energy, people power, class and justice.
The Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde is an independent economic research unit providing expert analysis and insight on the Scottish economy. fraserofallander.org
CEO at The Robertson Trust, an independent funder for Scotland on Poverty and Trauma. Also on LinkedIn. No longer on the site known for tweets. All things solving poverty. Likes: walks by water, music, film, Morton FC. In Glasgow, born Dublin. Joined 08/24
First all-Scotland international relations institute.
Hub for collaborative policy-relevant research & home for informed, non-partisan debate on foreign policy.
scga.scot
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Prof of Public Policy & Governance at Uni of Glasgow. Director @uofgpolicy.bsky.social. Research devolution & constitutional politics, multi-level government & public policy.
Politics lecturer in Dundee. Public Policy oriented - Teaching Scottish, British and EU Politics.
Politics Lecturer Cardiff University & Fellow Edinburgh University.
Political Psychology 🧠 & Public Opinion.
https://jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/
UK Politics Impact Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford
Voting, public opinion, longitudinal methods, nice graphs
Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK. Past my best. Photo 11 years out of date.
https://paulcairney.wordpress.com/cv/
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
TV lecturer, researcher, writer.
'Archiving the Referendum: BBC Scotland's TV Archive and Indyref 2014', Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
Research Associate ReCARE TV: Reality Television, Working Practices and Duties of Care, Aston University.
General economics journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Scottish Economic Society.
David A. Jaeger (@davidajaeger.bsky.social), Editor
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679485
Scotland's independent non-party think tank
A public policy institute which works to promote increased economic prosperity, opportunity for all & more effective public services. Enlighten is independent of all political parties.
Director IPPR Scotland
Views my own
Associate Director of External Affairs for CLES丨former Mayor of Selby in God's own country丨Social justice, campaigns & comms 丨Toddler mum
Co-Director, Scottish Council on Global Affairs.
Chair and Professor of Global Security, University of Glasgow.
International History, Security and Basketball. All views my own etc.
Professor of Foreign Policy, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews; Founding Co-Director Scottish Council on Global Affairs
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-relations/people/jbk1/
mostly international law — sometimes maps — occasionally football
🌍 Lecturer in International Relations
📝 Writing about politics & culture
☢️ Author of Unparalleled Catastrophe
Senior Lecturer in Public Administration. co-EiC @journalpad.bsky.social.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4622-298X
#Publicadmin #leadership #localgov #academicsky #PASky #PolicySky #academic #research #Scotland. All views my own etc
Political scientist, lecturer UofG. Parties, elections, Spanish & Scottish politics. Consensus democracy at any cost. Views my own.
Social researcher, interested in people, politics, and nerdy methods stuff. Works at Ipsos but views own etc.
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Edinburgh. Nationalism, the state, capitalism, socialism, in a blender. Wrote The Symbolic State: https://tinyurl.com/3jb7juez. Writing Capitalists against Nationalism. https://www.karlobasta.com/
Senior Lecturer in Territorial Politics, University of Edinburgh
Co-director of @ccc-research.bsky.social
Lead editor of @regfedst.bsky.social
Chair of @ecprfederalism.bsky.social
Views are my own.
Writer commentator academic. Books Editor, Bella Caledonia; Co-founder Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival; Co-editor, 'Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope & Labour's Challenge', pub. Nov. 28 2024.
Criminologist and academic | Associate Director @thesccjr.bsky.social | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics & policy #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
📍 Scotland 🏴
Lecturer in Politics at the University of Aberdeen.
Professor of European Governance @UWS | Director, Sustainable Policy Analysis Research Centre (SPARC) 🌍 | Cyclist 🚴♂️ | U14 Girls Football Coach ⚽
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Stirling. Assistant Editor (Communications) of Regional & Federal Studies.
CEO, Carnegie UK - the wellbeing policy foundation. Hon Prof at Centre for Public Policy at Glasgow University. Chair of WEvolution Scotland.
Scottish elections and polling data. Not my polls. OG 'Britain Elects but Scottish'. PR fan account. Trans rights are human rights.
Donate; http://liberapay.com/ballotboxscot
A range of simple tools to create your own results of the Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and London Elections 🗳️
https://devolvedelections.co.uk/
Donate: https://buymeacoffee.com/devolvedelections
Politics PhD and lead of the Polling London project at Queen Mary University of London. Interested in elections and political behaviour.
Co-Founder of DevolvedElections.co.uk & IrishElections.ie
@devolvedelections.bsky.social @irishelection.bsky.social
HowTheyVote.eu makes vote results of the European Parliament transparent and accessible – for citizens, journalists, researchers, and activists.
This account posts development updates, articles using HowTheyVote data, and news from plenary sessions.
Journalist mostly covering inequalities for Guardian, Observer, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC & more.
Author of Make Bosses Pay. Orwell Prize nominee. She/her.
📧 evelivingstonjournalist@gmail.com
🔗 everebeccalivingston.com
📸 eve__rebecca
freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
