Phil Archer @philarcher.bsky.social I mostly talk about reading & collecting books here, especially first editions. At work I'm resident Web geek at GS1. Formerly at W3C. Suffolk based with a tendency to visit Wales, especially Trefdraeth. Radio 3 & 4, LBC listener.
Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social Long girl in wrong century. Compromise candidate. Bit of this, bit of the other. I like mustelids and I cannot lie. 🇺🇦
Nick Halliday @nickmhalliday.bsky.social Keen on Ancient history, Latin, Greek; running, sailing, Harlequins season ticket. Country music
Brian Kardell @bkardell.com Brian, you know, from the Internet. Dev Advocate at Igalia | Co-author Extensible Web Manifesto | Standards Dude (Igalia AC/OpenJS) https://bkardell.com/links | he/him
Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
Anthony Wilson @arboviral.bsky.social Epidemiology and risk of foodborne + (formerly) vector-borne diseases. Dad and husband. Ex-academic. Values equality, diversity & inclusion. Terrible tapdancer, occasional viking. He/him. Views are my own.
Heather Flanagan @sphericalcowconsulting.com Digital identity & standards geek | Principal @ Spherical Cow Consulting 🐄 | Blogger, speaker, and cat herder of the Internet’s geekiest corners | Might be obsessed with knitting, spinning, weaving, and trashy romance novels | Intrepid world traveler
Rejected Petitions @rejectpetitions.bsky.social Skeeting every UK Parliament petition rejection.
A bot by @jonty.bsky.social.
Fediverse: https://bot.country/@rejectpetitions
Petitions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=rejected
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
State of the Future @sotf.org.uk A new think tank for public servants & others who believe data, digital, openness and innovation can deliver better policy, better services & better outcomes for people. Established by @gavinfreeguard.com. Associate: @aliceolilly.bsky.social
sotf.org.uk
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social FT opiner. "Sinecured oaf", “mutton-headed fellow”-two satisfied readers. Globalisation/trade/econ/snark. Cestrian, Londoner, Brit, European. RT≠👍 Views own. alan.beattie@ft.com. Sign up to my FT Trade Secrets newsletter https://www.ft.com/trade-secrets.
UK Health Camp @ukhealthcamp.bsky.social The free ‘unconference’ for everyone interested in digital, design, technology and data for health and care.- S Seb Tallents @sebtallents.bsky.social Former physicist, relapsed public servant, recovering management consultant. Currently working in NHS England on digital & technology standards.
Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2028.
Website: emfcamp.org
Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org
Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
tef @tef.bsky.social previously: failed mathematician, youtube one hit wonder, blogger, crow photographer, former programmer
currently: unemployed and very tired. tef all lowercase, they/them thank you
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Alice Ainsworth @aliceainsworth1.bsky.social Digitising Social Care, DHSC and NHSE. Mum to two small boys
Tracey Williams Allred @traceya.bsky.social Public sector digital/strategy consultant. UK based, though frequent visitor to Ankh Morpork. Mother of two small humans, servant to one large cat.
Roo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy. New net.wars posting every Friday at https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net. Based London. Folksinger. 2024 CD: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/lasttriphome.htm. Not age-verified here; no DMs.
L. David Baron @dbaron.org Engineer on Google Chrome. Involved in CSS, W3C, and WHATWG standards. Previously Mozilla (2003-2020), W3C TAG (2015-2021). Massachusetts, USA.
GIF with a soft G, Gerrymander with a hard G.
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
Marcus Baw @marcusbaw.com NHS General Hacktitioner GP, NHS IT, Software Dev
Everything Digital Health everythingdigitalhealth.com
RCPCH Digital Growth Charts https://growth.rcpch.ac.uk/
Freelance Health Tech and Discourse Forum syadmin https://bawmedical.co.uk/
#CliniciansWhoCode
Peter Hicks @poggs.com Director of OpenTrainTimes, vaccinator, phlebotomist, vegan, considerate cyclist, Open Data advocate, Dad-joke teller, cat and Italian Greyhound lap provider. Probably contains Java.
As seen on TV. Also not a goose. Or pipe smoker.
Steve Marshall @stevemarshall.com I wanna be a mighty pirate! In the meantime, I'm director of engineering for Firefox Desktop at Mozilla. Formerly: Ministry of Justice UK, Expedia, and Yahoo.
Cennydd Bowles @cennydd.com Philosopher · Thinking and writing about ethics, technology, design, the future, sport · See also @cennyddchess.bsky.social.
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS); Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social Surgeon, Chief Medical Information Officer, Cyclist, Grandfather. Married to the more famous @LizORiordan.bsky.social and long may that continue!
#surgery #DigitalHealth
Matt Stibbs @mattstibbs.bsky.social Technical product person. Love data, interop, tech plumbing ❤️. Organiser of @nhshackday and @ukhealthcamp
Also at @mattstibbs@mastodon.social and @mattstibbs@x.com
John Bevan @bevangelist.bsky.social Now, I'm not an expert but...
Founding Member We Are Open Coop
http://weareopen.coop
or perhaps know you from dotcomrades, mozilla, bbc, rewiredstate, guardian, human made
Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social Inventor of WWW
Co-founder & CTO Inrupt.com | Lead, Solidproject.org
Co-founder WebFoundation.org & theODI.org
Founder w3.org
My memoir ‘This is for Everyone’ https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/
Follow me on Mastodon https://w3c.social/@timbl
Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social Deputy Director, Chief AI Office @ HM Revenue & Customs + Quantum of Sollazzo data newsletter
www.puntofisso.net
www.quantumofsollazzo.com
Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social We're a membership body for statisticians and data professionals, promoting a world with data at the heart of understanding and decision-making.
Anne Cooper @anniecoops.bsky.social Chair at Ethical Healthcare Consulting, non-Executive Director at Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Fascinated by data and health tech but trying hard to wind down! Cat lover, baker, flower grower, carer.
Trying to create the golden days of ‘the other place’
Mark Norman Francis @cackhanded.net Internet boffin.
Policy Sketchbook @policysketch.bsky.social A blog on UK public policy.
https://policysketchbook.wordpress.com/
Anne Marie Cunningham @amcunningham.bsky.social GP, Digital health. Living in the Mournes in Co. Down with Chris and Bonny the sprocker. Working for a sustainable, equitable society. Always learning. Previously 20 years in lovely Wales :-)
Anna Powell-Smith @annapowellsmith.bsky.social nerd / https://anna.ps
John Sheridan @johnlsheridan.bsky.social I’m a Civil Servant, with a keen interest in many things including computers, data, law, digital preservation and archives. You’ll find me at The National Archives, helping to look after the digital archive, web archive, legislation.gov.uk etc.
Carl Haggerty @carlhaggerty.bsky.social Head of Transformation and Digital @ Somerset Council || FRSA || Family || Cycling || Minecraft
Terry Makewell @terrymakewell.com Gov CDTO | Evelyn Glennie Foundation Trustee | Prev Gov CTO, CDO & NHS | Accessibility | Ménière's disease
Exeter, Devon
Laurel Boxall @laurelboxall.bsky.social Tech Policy @ Public First, prev Labour Together
Dig Hum @ Cambridge
English Lit @ Oxford
She/her
Gavin @gavinbeckett.bsky.social Director at Public Digital, supporting organisations through radical transformation. Spent 20+ year in UK LocalGov, and 6 years at Placecube working with councils to co-design and develop an open source SaaS digital platform.
Harry Metcalfe @harrym.com Entrepreneur, problem solver, technical person. Believer that tech can and should make things better. Erstwhile prodder of government. PhD dropout. Founder of dxw, advisor to Tradecraft. Quietly poly 🐦
harry_m on Mastodon.social.
Eurovision Drinking Game @eurovisiondrinking.com “You’re gonna need a bigger glass.” This is the fault of Terry Wogan and Graham Norton. A little fun made by @cackhanded.net
eurovisiondrinking.com
Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about
Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science person, more... I run http://bennett.ox.ac.uk making tools+papers from data http://OpenSAFELY.org http://OpenPrescribing.net
Maeve Walsh @maevewalsh.bsky.social Policy & Govt Relations consultant | Director, #OnlineSafetyAct Network | Trustee | Ex-Civil Servant | #FRSA | London-Irish
I thought about that a lot @allconsuming.bsky.social An advent calendar of 24 essays by 24 authors.
Curated by @amymcnichol.bsky.social, designed by @madebysheppard.bsky.social, @ralphhawkins.bsky.social
Be consumed: ithoughtaboutthatalot.com
Subscribe: https://buttondown.email/ithoughtalot
Jeegar Kakkad @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social Economics, politics, boxing. Tech @ TBI. "optimistic & ambitious for British tech". ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
Reid Derby @reid24hrs.bsky.social Engineer, Super-connector, Ecosystem Builder, Director @CyNam, Aegis Professor of Innovation @BristolUniEng, ADHD is my superpower, BEng MA MSc CEng FIET FRSA
Leonora Merry @leonoramerry.bsky.social Director of Comms & External Affairs at Nuffield Trust (@nuffieldtrust.org.uk). Advisory Group, Science Media Centre. Co-founder WonkComms (https://bsky.app/profile/wonkcomms.bsky.social). Mum of 👧🧒 👦. SE Londoner. Views: mine!
Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social Expert by experience in healthcare management & policy, Chair National Voices, Trustee RVS, NED PHIN. Also cook, wine drinker, reader, gardener, walker, armchair art critic.- B Mark @bsky.ms
Paul Curry @cr3ative.co.uk I trick computers in to doing what people want. I skeet badly, and only in a personal capacity.
https://www.cr3ative.co.uk
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites @publicdigital.bsky.social, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk, Think Digital Partners, @kinship.works, @transformgovtalks.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.com
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social Unofficial bot account posting whenever the House of Commons Library publishes new research and analysis.
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Simon Everest @simoneverest.bsky.social Head of Product and Experience at @DCMS . Trying to do less better. All views my own, not my employer's. RT and likes not endorsements.
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
Sarah Winters @escmum.bsky.social Founder and CEO of Content Design London
Cat person with a dog. (And a cat, horse, hamster and fish.)
Really hoping this takes over from the other place.
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Institute for Government and still doing bits for UK in a Changing Europe. Cricket fan and (not very good) tennis player.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
+ history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
James Ball @jamesrball.com 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/
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
📰 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/shaun-lintern
📝 DMs open
📨 shaun.lintern@sundaytimes.co.uk
Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social Freelance journalist: writes about health policy and politics of the English NHS in weekly column (£) ‘Cowper’s Cut’ on www.healthpolicyinsight.com.
Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social Virologist - Influenza and Coronaviruses
Meaghan Kall @kallmemeg.bsky.social Epidemiologist, public health trainee, mom, wife. Formerly @UKHSA. Disability advocate. Born 🇺🇸 Migrated 🇬🇧. 🏳️🌈 Personal account.
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Chris Fleming @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social Partner and healthcare lead @publicdigital.bsky.social Walthamstow via Durham.
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social
John @gothwin.bsky.social Saganist, lapsed mathematician/theoretical physicist and lapsed goth. PhD in time travel. Mostly post about science, sci-fi and 'alternative' music. Favourite bands: New Model Army, Heilung, Wardruna, ACTORS, The Sisters of Mercy, Paradise Lost…
Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Amy van der Hiel @amyvdh.bsky.social she/her (not a work account)
Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.eurosky.social You may know me from such hashtags as #tuttle #wewillgather #c4cc #PLATE and #blackelephant
Sings with a non-hashtagged ukulele.
Blog (like this only bigger chunks) at https://perfectpath.co.uk
Dan Slee @danslee.bsky.social Comms, PR, cricket and Stoke City. Takes slightly wonky pictures.
Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape, fascinated by online identity and trust. Uczę się języka polskiego. paulclarke.com
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social Working the dream. Living in the Alps purealps.com - fractional FD at wearearrival.com and basis.co.uk - NED at dxw.com - growing veg - cycling - skiing - language learning 🇫🇷