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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social Was: Facilitation & organisational culture nerd for do-gooders; climate & sustainability. Healthy, athletic; MTB, ski, mountaineering, outdoors. Everything on pause: Long Covid is brutal.
A lot funnier IRL
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social Accidental International Political Economist, Deputy Associate Dean PGR Faculty of Humanities University of Manchester. Director Methods NorthWest
Research: regional development banks, Gramsci
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James @mcjamesz.bsky.social I got lost somewhere along the way.
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Alex Otway @alexotway.bsky.social Head of Data, the Labour Party. Views my own.
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Abi Whistance @abi-whist.bsky.social Investigative journalist and editor of The Liverpool Post. Paul Foot & BJA shortlist 2025. Got a story? DMs are open βοΈ
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Alison Wren @alilovessport.bsky.social Love sport, rubbish at doing it. Advocate for #HerGameToo Cricket. Walking London Marathon 2025 for Osteoporosis. Also crafts & cats. Views my own
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Charlie Ball @lmicharlie.bsky.social Jisc's Head of Labour Market Intelligence, based in Manchester. Specialist on the labour market for post-18 learners in the UK, posts about work, study, regional labour markets, county cricket. Find my work (mostly) at https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/
Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social Archivist. Book reader. Persistent.
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James Gilmour @cadastral.bsky.social Economist/writer; cities, devolution and maps π
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social π Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
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Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester @aifunmcr.bsky.social Centre for AI Fundamentals
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Christian Doyle @samurairabbit.bsky.social Manc video man. Occasionally makes #BoardGames vids at: https://www.youtube.com/dicehard
Used to write about video games. Now making a game (more details soon... ish)
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Whittmann @whittmann.bsky.social Software Engineer, Writer, curious about distributed social media applications
The Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research @thomasashtoninst.bsky.social A unique partnership between the University of Manchester and the Health and Safety Executive to deliver research, learning and regulatory insights that widen the global conversation to enable a better working world.
https://www.ashtoninstitute.ac.uk/
Better Britain @betterbritain.bsky.social Better Britain is a toy 'think tank' publishing reports and micro-sites/explorers about modern Britain.
We're learning how to responsibly and effectively use automation and gen AI around reporting and governance systems.
betterbritain.org.uk
Jo @joella.bsky.social Knowledge management specialist with a magpie brain. Fluid feminist. Exactly as autistic as that sounds. Everybody's free to feel good. 
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Emma Balkind @emmabalkind.bsky.social Recent projects at https://eblknd.leaflet.pub
Becky Colley, UX Designer @beckycolley.bsky.social Lead UX Consultant. Woman in STEM. Adobe UX Designer to Watch. I like exploring places, befriending dogs, and solving problems. Here to chat about work stuff but views all mine. Manchester, UK π
Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
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Sam Milsom @sammilsom.bsky.social Senior Digital Strategy Officer | Manchester City Council
Joe @shiny.diamonds Ex graphic designer pretending to be a web developer // Manchester UK // jpgb.uk
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Josh Strife Hayes @joshstrifehayes.bsky.social Youtube and Twitch guy.
Worst MMO Ever.
Was it good?
Dan Mannock @dmannock.bsky.social Consumer of tasty food, hungry for knowledge, Software Dev, trying to make things better...going to eat that?
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Rob Whiting π @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social βΉ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. γ
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
James Kemp @jamesmkemp.bsky.social Public servant, delivering change mostly. Have worked in many departments. Based in Scotland. #GovPDC Explorer Scout Leader, sometimes gamer & writer
Enrique Noriega @enoriega.info Into applications of AI, NLP and LLMs
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Neil Hewitt @neilhewitt.bsky.social I'm a fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan trying to be less fat and more sarcastic. I write code (mostly C#) and manage teams. All opinions are mine.
Pat Daly @patpr4.bsky.social 
Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com Green Party councillor for Old Moat, Manchester. Active travel troublemaker. Wizened software engineer. Own views. He/Him
Promoted by Sean Duggan on behalf of Sam Easterby-Smith (Green Party), at 36 Manchester Road, Manchester. M21 9PH
Bobby Bobak π΅π± @pbobak.bsky.social Creator of the Filtru appβ¦ coffee app for the people! Making specialty coffee more accessible! Swift, 3D design, Rails, Golang
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Paul D'Ambra @pauldambra.dev gives a whole new meaning to the term "spaghetti code"
Leading a bunch of teams @posthog.com
ex @coopdigital @footclicksus
swears too much, draws rubbish diagrams
(he/him/his)
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Dan @danjdavies.bsky.social https://goalsofwales.dan-davies.co.uk/index.php
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Shaf @shaftag.bsky.social Cofounder of The Riz Test
Andy Powell @p0welly.bsky.social Marketing Consultant & Trainer, helping SMEs make the most from their budgets, WordPress Specialist, scruffy looking nerd herder & maker of things
Steph Gray @lesteph.com Digital, woodworking and eco dad living (repair cafe, EV, solar, heat pump) in south London. Work-wise now: still celebrating Railway200, mapping the world in 1776 and troubleshooting tech/supplier/team issues. https://stephgray.com/now
Lisa Hornung @lisahornung.bsky.social Data Viz Lead @healthfoundation.bsky.social π©βπ» Mostly talk about data, #dataviz, #opendata, #maps, #python and #data4good π Into cycling, yoga, sourdough, puns and more. Views my own.
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Valerie Parham-Thompson @dataindataout.bsky.social database architect Β· database architecture for teams ready to launch and scale Β· speaker & writer
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frogfather @frogfather.bsky.social Books, running, general nonsense probably
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Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social Dev Advocate // I make fun things for the web // More awks than Mordor // πPickle πPuff // She/her π
Julian @julianlstar.bsky.social CEO of Open Data Manchester, liker of the outside and outsiders, prone to disagreement. Views expressed may change within the space of a few seconds. Optimistic mostly
Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk Director of Architecture @ fintech
Consultant. Author.
Rum, Alt Culture, Games & Metal.
C#, TypeScript, OSS, MVP DevTechnologies.
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@david_whitney on Twitter, when that helps the inevitable migration tools.
ryan @ryangough.com parent, pragmatist, programmer, phlebotomists dream
Martin @martinrue.bsky.social ππ»ββοΈ I build things on the internet
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