Ian Bellchambers

Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social

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Knowledge Curation Done Well. Non-Profit. Podcasts, videos, books, academic articles, and more. Subscribe: https://www.the-syllabus.com/

Dean of The London College of Political Technology https://newspeak.house

Making data & AI work for people & society. Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe

The Maybe is a media studio, collective, and consultancy challenging the power and politics of tech. Home to the Computer Says Maybe podcast.

PhD I Member of the European Parliament, ITRE Committee I @kokoomus 🇫🇮 @epp.📍Focus on Europe’s competitiveness, technological sovereignty and defense.

Community, Management, and Compliance – #FOSSBack is a two-day conference focused on #FLOSS governance and open collaboration. The next edition of FOSS Backstage will take place on March 16-17, 2026. https://foss-backstage.de/

Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA #UNOpenSourceWeek

Crafting element.io and evangelizing matrix.org

The European Open Source Software Business Association

Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca

Professor Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL. Fellow, Stiftung Mercator. New European Bauhaus, European Commission. Former CTO Barcelona. http://francescabria.com

Economist, antitrust expert, econ/tech policy commentator, keynote speaker, convener CEPR Competition RPN, EscapeForward podcaster and conference host/ producer, Hon.Prof. UCL, DG Grow Fellow 2026, founder/lead EuroStack Industry Initiative

Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks

presents Oh God What Now, The Bunker and More Jam Tomorrow; writer & editor; author, The Future of Trust (Melville House). ‘The most calming voice in the podcast world’ https://rostaylor.me https://morejamtomorrow.com https://rostaylor240051.substack.com

- Artist - A selection of Originals & Print https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/flowerboxorguk Exhibition: Two Doors Studio https://www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/post/city-of-fire-beautiful-bricks

I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine

American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media TheAmericanVandal.substack.com MattSeybold.com buymeacoffee.com/americanvandalpod

Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now. https://sirenscallbook.com/

PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social

I'm that YouTuber who taught you how dishwashers work. Guess I'm tryin' out the whole Bluesky thing now. he/him https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections

Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️ Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚

Taking a leisurely stroll through my vinyl record collection to share a few of my favourite Jamaican tunes and trivia, just like I used to do a few years ago in the House of Reggae podcast... https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/houseofreggae

Design engineer playing with AI and hacky prototypes @githubnext.com Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com

Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan 'King of obscurity' - KFC

Climate scientist, journalist, YouTuber, Adam 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.youtube.com/ClimateAdam/ https://www.climateadam.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

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.

Director / Investigations BylineTimes.com Founder AgeofTransformation.com New book: ALT REICH: THE NETWORK WAR TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY FROM WITHIN https://alt-reich.com

Rarely bite and quite useless off the web.

Producer | Lecturer | Ambient Owl Core | Tectonic Particles out now via Quiet Details. https://www.kaylapainter.com/instagram

Announcing new open source releases, exploring projects, sharing how we approach FOSS, and supporting communities around the world.

Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.

Creator earth.nullschool.net and nullschool.app Born at 331 ppm.

Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine. https://asharangappa.substack.com

Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. Personal account. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu

We are ProPublica’s union. We are the workers at America’s biggest investigative newsroom. www.propublicaguild.org

Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. MSNBC commentator. Author of AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS and other NYT bestsellers. On Signal: DavidCorn.99

An alliance of hundreds of civil society organisations representing 7 million people. Join us on 28 March in Central London against the far right. https://linktr.ee/togetheralliance

Writer & highwayman. Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk

Bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • blog: https://berjon.com/ • fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs • he/him/Ishmael • Signal robin.77

Check if you have an email address or password that has been compromised in a data breach. Created and maintained by @troyhunt.com.

Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her. Check your boobs. Views mine. https://medium.com/@niacampbell

I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’, available weekly via Backlisted patreon.com/backlisted. I don’t only like books. No DM please.

Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.

Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance. she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com

We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.

Programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G, advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. What's in that new world order?

Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.

Co - Founder @CIVIC_SQUARE, prev aka Impact Hub Birmingham || @TEDxBrum 2012 - 2017 || Hon Doc. @AstonUniversity ||

Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […] [bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally martinjordan.com

Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety. Work with me. lauraparker.design

Associate Director, Ada Lovelace Institute. Mainly posting about AI, society and social policy. Previously IPPR, Citizens Advice, 5Rights, Fabian Society. image cred: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI 2.0 / CC-BY

Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice. We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms. www.defendourjuries.net

Professional labor photographer. Unions for all. Birds. Whales. Cats. Hydration. Maybe a dash of democratic socialism. Not necessarily in that order. Too much optimism for the current moment. Cute content skeeted often, not with the news cycle

A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good. https://www.publicgood.tech/

Fighter. Neo-Swoletariat. Ex-Washington Post. Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social

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Trying to reinvent local journalism

Cartoonist, illustrator, writer, ranter, poet & cook

FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.

Political editor @ The New World Opinion @ The i Paper Fellow @ Tech Policy Press Fellow @ Demos PhD researcher @ UCL Laws newsletter @ techtris Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.jamesrball.com/

Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1.

Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol

Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC, Blueskyism. Cache-misere. Postmaxxing. Special Envoy for the Shield of Bluesky.

Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers

Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/

Founder/Editor-in-Chief, @stereogum.com

The #1 community to discover slow travel Book your 2026 journey by land and sea now👇 https://linktr.ee/byway.travel

Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.

Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield

Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm. 🔗 theflytrapmedia.com

Choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Start protecting your personal information online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Drive, Proton Pass, Proton Wallet, and Lumo: https://proton.me/

Chair and Founder of Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty @fossiltreaty.bsky.social | International Program Director @stand.earth 📍Vancouver, BC https://bio.site/tzeporah

The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.

Cybernetics • AI Resistance • Dialectics • Film Noir • https://monroelab.com • vdgasjournal.com • https://padlet.com/verdigris21/verdigris-kjopwvgquczhyt06

Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos PREORDER MY NEXT BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Blog: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽

Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy

developer / CRM architect. public speaker. attempting to be a published author. skeets do not represent my employer.

Creative writing & lit prof, querying romance author, AI refuser, lover of books & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. 💗

Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | against epistemicide | he/they

"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposure to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people" - Weizenbaum 1976 Weekly newsletter on AI and teaching and more(nl/en): www.felienne.nl

Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff. https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ https://softwarecrisis.dev/

Philosophy professor @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social Author of #NihilismAndTechnology (RLI 2018), #Nihilism (MIT 2019), #PhilosophyOfWarAndExile (Palgrave 2014) https://www.nolengertz.com #Philsky #Philtech #Existentialism #Phenomenology #Filmsky

Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn Press, forthcoming). http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)

A workshop series where we make zines that answer the question: what happens when we imagine otherwise? Run by @dylnbkr.bsky.social and @paulinewee.bsky.social from @dairinstitute.bsky.social Sign up for workshops: >>> https://linktr.ee/dair.futures <<<

Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ 🏳️‍⚧️ she/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social

AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately. Website: http://dair-institute.org Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/

Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria

For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power. https://privacyinternational.org

Climatologist & Weather Historian. www.mherrera.org/temp.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maxcrc Weather news. Climatic statistics and records. By M. Herrera @extremetemps in all networks

Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent