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Novelist, essayist, and lover of words. I write about identity, culture, and the complexities of human connection. Author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, among others.
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Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
Everywhere he went, including here, he did against his better judgement.
He/Him
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Director of Policy and Research at Centre for Cities, working on Housing, Planning, Devolution. Stuff on Ukraine + Eastern Europe and Japan + East Asia too. YIMBY. Views own etc. 🥑🇺🇦
chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Cambridge Vice Mayor and Founder of Abundant Housing MA
I make socialist and progressive videos
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Author.
Prof of Math Bio and Public Engagement.
Member of Independent Sage since October 2020.
@Kit_Yates_Maths on twitter
Books -
Math(s) of Life and Death
How to Expect the Unexpected
Get them here: https://tinyurl.com/37rx2yuv
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🌹 Labour MP for Earley and Woodley, covering Shinfield & Whitley
📈 Member of the Treasury Select Committee
📚 Chair of the APPG for Social Science and Policy
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Editor of PoliticsHome. Sometimes heard on our weekly podcast, The Rundown. Contact me: adam.payne@politicshome.com & DMs.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse and Wandering the Land
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Nuffield College, Oxford
Co-Director, British Election Study
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Associate Prof of Politics at UVA. Author of Constraining Dictatorship. Authoritarian Politics & Democratic Erosion. http://www.annemeng.com/
Economist, UNCG PhD, "serial millennial myth debunker," labor, housing and time use researcher, AU adjunct prof. Views are my own and not any employer's.
Presidential historian. American History Columnist @NYTBR. Senior Fellow @NewAmerica. NYT bestselling author of (almost!) 3 books.
Mayor of Greater Manchester
"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Professor of Social Policy, Inequality, and Opportunity at University of Oxford. Director, Inequality Programme at INET Oxford. Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.
Public policy research, teaching and engagement, enabling the right kind of growth, fairly shared. bennettschool.cam.ac.uk
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Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Economist at the IFS (@theifs.bsky.social). Interested in firms, productivity, markets, management and growth. Previously at the CMA, ONS, Nuffield College Oxford. All views my own.
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Economist @theifs.bsky.social. Research on early years, education and health.
Research Economist at the IFS working on the public finances and education
Economist at Institute for Fiscal Studies, interested in low-paying labour market and the tax and benefit system.
Economist at IFS | PhD student in Economics at UCL
Associate prof Queen Mary University of London, Associate Director Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Co-editor, Journal of Public Economics
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Senior Research Economist IFS and Research Affiliate UCLEcon and IZA | Development Economist
https://antonellabancalari.wixsite.com/website
Economist at the IFS working on health and social care, public spending and public sector productivity https://ifs.org.uk/people/max-warner
Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms.
LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast
Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Assistant professor of international relations and international law | sometime political advisor | All views mine alone | find me on Twitter at @yuanyi_z
Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Political science PhD student. Former starfish. World’s third best Bigfoot colonial governance simulation expert. Trans. She/her
Not actually a Teen Titan or neocon.
"Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
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Economist at the IFS. Interested in inequality, labour markets and economic geography. Views my own.
Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth
https://www.eurasiagroup.net
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Labour MP Leicester West. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Actor, Writer & Broadcaster
Political Editor, New Statesman
FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch and The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace podcasts on BBC Sounds.
Economist. Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, theifs.bsky.social
Fellow @NuffieldTrust - mostly musing about social care & health policy
Politics, policy, education inequality, cycling, football. Social mobility researcher. Views own etc.
If you're wondering whether I'm trying to make a joke then I probably am.
Research team @Suttontrust.bsky.social and COSMO
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Research Director at cross-party think tank @smfthinktank.bsky.social, prev @suttontrust.bsky.social. Expert on educational inequality/social mobility.
Trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social. MH campaigner in memory of mum. Views own. linktr.ee/beckymontacute
Chief Executive, Resolution Foundation
Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Rates and bikes. Wholly unable to deal with Thibaut Pinot’s retirement. “Gilt guru” and “ethereal bond vigilante” by day, elite level idiot with Bengali Dad energy at all other times. Baked goods and fried chicken enthusiast.
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
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Author of Hired and Lost Boys (June 2025). Writing on Substack: https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1786499797/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
Poster of posts. Comparative politics, memes, and the occasional update about my ducks. Bluesky's premier advocate for Bushidoliberalism 🫡 🗡️⛩️
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Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
🌹 Economist MP who loves the pub
Department for Business and Trade PPS
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Co-Director @roundourwayUK.bsky.social // formerly of @ippr.org @neweconomics.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social // @PersuasionUK.bsky.social & @lcefuk.bsky.social advisory boards // nerd's nerd // wheaton's law // eat pizza.have guts🍕🎉
Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
https://www.benchu.co.uk/
Author of "Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails", published May 2025
https://linktr.ee/exileeconomics
Assistant Professor of Sport Management, University of Georgia. WVU Econ alum.
Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
From August, Provost, The Queen’s College, Oxford. Previously director, Institute for Fiscal Studies. Author “Follow the Money”
Wall Street Journal economics reporter
People have argued over this for centuries but pretty sure I can crack this today on bluesky via sarcasm.
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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.
Guardian senior political correspondent. New book, Stress tested, out now: https://tinyurl.com/mhn82a7m
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Writing for The Economist—mostly on the US economy, with occasional forays elsewhere. Recreational Britain-watcher. Previous lives in macro investing and polling.
Substack at: https://notes.archie-hall.com/
Former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ex-Council of Economic Advisers, Census, Treasury. Current: Distinguished policy fellow at Stanford/SIEPR. Opinions my own.
Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock. God forbid a woman collect things.
Creative Director in audio.
Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, APA, Signal and Ed Murrow Awards.
Toy soldier enthusiast.
Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Memes, merch, music, and publishing.
Est. 2020.
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Posts by @voxpopple.bsky.social
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Jewish. Deputy Editor of Jewish News. Resh Galuta of Bluesky. Regular entrant on the NY Times Bestseller List of Unpublished Books. All opinions are mine.
Economist @MonashWarwick
Project Leader @RF_Berlin
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First gen high school grad
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UK political historian, lecturer and writer;
Co-founder of the Centre for Opposition Studies.
Cake, campery & historical/constitutional trivia. 🍰🏳️🌈 📖 🇬🇧
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