Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com Software Design Loudmouth. Works for Thoughtworks. Also hikes, watches theater, and plays modern board games. He/him.
host of https://martinfowler.com
nicole forsgren @nicolefv.bsky.social valkyrie. love tacos, flowers, and Diet Coke. 
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
Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (paperback out now) and Crippled.
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social Big fan of big ideas about big issues. Mostly public services, civil service and civic governance.
Ex-Cabinet Office, DHSC and RSA. Now freelance.
Dave Penman @fdagensec.bsky.social General Secretary FDA union. ACAS Council member. TUC Trustee, General Council and Executive Committee member. Chair Unions21
Hannah White @drhannahwhite.bsky.social CEO of the Institute for Government
Joe Lanman @joelanman.com Design Lead on data.gov.uk at the UK Government Digital Service
Projects include Register to Vote, Petition Parliament, GovWifi and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit
https://joelanman.com
Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com Consulting, writing and speaking on comms, collaboration & future of work. Cofounder, Lithos Partners. Author, Digital Communications at Work. Gym bore. Gets about a bit.
Amy Charlotte Kean @amycharlottekean.bsky.social Small town girl with a heart of gold and a passion for leading cults.
Psychosociologist, bestselling author, tycoon, satirist and lover of 90s advertising jingles. Maybe she's born with it.
Liz Lutgendorff @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social Doing digital transformation.
I love data, tea and comics. Thoughts all my own.
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Lee Porte @leeporte.co.uk Systems geek that rides motorcycles with a penchant for experimentation
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.
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
Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk I help people report broken street lights, find out their bin day, plan train travel, manage an orchestra, locate the nearest postbox, research old theatre productions, keep time in a choir, and occasionally play board games | https://dracos.co.uk
Rob Miller @robmiller31.bsky.social Senior Director @ Public Digital, but these views are just mine. Also at @robmiller31@mastodon.social and occasionally blogging at bytherye.com/about-me/. Have quit the Bad Place.
Beth Walton @bethgracewalton.bsky.social Lead content designer at TPXimpact. Lurking to read government digital and design stuff.
Joe McKendrick @joemckendrick.bsky.social Pondering innovation and disruption in tech and in life — with optimism and skepticism. Forbes, ZDNet, Harvard Business Review, Database Trends. Temple U., Army brat
Jason Cox @jasonacox.bsky.social Maker, Learner, Engineer, Writer - ❤️ OSS, GenAI, SRE, DevSecOps - Co-Author of Investments Unlimited
Matthew Skelton @matthewskelton.com CEO at Conflux | Exec Advisory | Operating Models | Capability Design | Co-author of 'Team Topologies' and 'Adapt Together'
Dominik Panzer @dominikpanzer.bsky.social helping people to develop better software, software craftsperson, doing some magic stuff with SAP, also: hobby nephrologist 🥷🤓👍
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.
cantlin @cantlin.bsky.social Product Manager at ∞ Meta.
🗽 NYC via 🇬🇧 LDN.
Likes: trees, poems, waiting for things to dry.
Judy Rees @judyrees.bsky.social #UnlockingConversations #RichmondYorks #CleanLanguage
Geir @plusonetesting.com Quality Investigator / Software Therapist / Interactive Rubber Duck
João Craveiro ("Cravvie") @jcraveiro.com He/him, geek, dad ×2. Product + Professor + Author, from Lisbon to the world. Opinions my own.
I actually don't hang out here much, so you might want to Follow me on LinkedIn instead:
💼 linkedin.com/in/jpgcc
#prodmgmt #product (mostly B2B and platform)
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Sooner Safer Happier @bvssh.com Better Value Sooner Safer Happier #BVSSH
soonersaferhappier.com
Jon Smart @jon.bvssh.com Better Value Sooner Safer Happier #BVSSH
Lead Author of ‘Sooner Safer Happier’, winner of Business Book award in Leadership category.
soonersaferhappier.com
Randy Shoup @randyshoup.bsky.social Dad | Cook | Speaker | Engineering Leader (Thrive Market, eBay, Google). He/him. 🖖🌊🏃🏻♂️💻
Emma @emulholland.bsky.social 📍 Belfast, Northern Ireland
🤓 Passionate product person, and dog mum. Into hiking, running, community groups, and live music.
👩💻 Product Lead @FlaxandTeal, Trainer @Mind the Product, Coach @Catalyst CoFounders, Product Management Coach & Trainer
Stamanfar @stamanfar.bsky.social Service designer, DHSC. It's more than what you bargained for but it's a little less than what you paid for.
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com #TeamFT, Unhedged pod, E17, gardening, plazzy Scouser.
I never give investment advice. Beware scammers impersonating me to sell crypto etc.
FT "Free to read" = 300 free clicks.
*Stop the pervert glasses*
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Terry Makewell @terrymakewell.com Gov CDTO | Evelyn Glennie Foundation Trustee | Prev Gov CTO, CDO & NHS | Accessibility | Ménière's disease
Exeter, Devon
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
PJ Bryant @pjbryant.bsky.social Also: @pjbryant@mastodon.social; @pjbryant on X Freelance IT Consultant. Reborn cyclist for Help 4 Heroes. Marillion & King Crimson fan. 
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Carrie Anne Philbin MBE @missphilbin.bsky.social Computer Science Education PhD student at the @Raspberry_pi #computing education research centre, University of Cambridge. Host of @thecrashcourse Computer Science, author, and maker.
Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social Tired but doting computer operator.
Posts tech for good jobs, cursed pottery and haunted looking cats.
Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social Staff Developer, Lean/Agile coach, speaker, blogger, pattern hunter, poet, writer, complexity thinker, free will skeptic, Londoner, Goth, she/her.
Caroline @cvodb.bsky.social Product Owner @ Dutch Labour Union. Web & Social for Gavin Friday & Virgin Prunes. Travel, Art, Architecture, Photography. Learning Japanese. She/her.
Team Topologies @teamtopologies.com High-impact team-of-teams organizations for IT and knowledge work.
https://teamtopologies.com/
Matt Hobbs (he/him) @therealnooshu.bsky.social • ex-Head of Frontend Development @ Government Digital Service (GDS).
• Passionate about #webperf & F1.
• Cancer survivor (grade 3 brain cancer, I named Gary).
• Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.
• https://hachyderm.io/@TheRealNooshu
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Lauren Kahn @laurenkahn.bsky.social Director of Strategy & Research at https://public.digital/. Previously DFID, GDS, BT Group. Digital transformation for global impact.
#inclusive #responsible #sustainable #digital #impact
Cara Bermingham @berms.bsky.social Work wise I coach teams to deliver better products and services. A side sleeper with neck pain. Newly located in Helsinki
James Marwood @marwoodchap.bsky.social Head of Transformation for BetterGov (views my own)
Public Sector Transformation | Digitally-enabled Change | Delivery Excellence
Durham/London
He/Him
BetterGov.co.uk | speakingsoftly.com
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
Anne-Marie Imafidon @aimafidon.bsky.social I love Maths, Tech and helping others. Founder of Stemettes. Author of She's in CTRL. Trustee at Institute for the Future of Work. Leader, Presenter & Speaker.
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
Professor Sue Black OBE @drblack.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science and Tech Evangelist at Durham University; International Keynote Speaker; #womenintech, #100moments tech #podcast host and so much more… https://linktr.ee/drsueblack
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Those Nerdy Girls @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social A team of women & non-binary scientists & clinicians here to empower people to better navigate science & health info. Creators of Dear Pandemic.
#publichealth #scicomm #WomenInStem
https://thosenerdygirls.org/
https://thosenerdygirls.substack.com/
Jez Humble @jezhumble.net Works on my machine! Author of some books on software, MTS @ Anthropic, portfolio @ continuousdelivery.com. Previously lecturer @ UC Berkeley, 18F, ThoughtWorks, Google. All tweets fictional. He / him. Ⓥ- S snowded.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social
LJ Rich | AI For Good | Musical Keynote Speaker | TV Presenter @ljrich.bsky.social Music creativity technology presenter - ITU #AIForGood Global Summit host and co curator. Stage walker and show runner.
Professional Pianist, singer/improv songwriter. Lover of coasters, data, Rubik’s cubes & all sound.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Katy Arnold @katyarnie.bsky.social Previously building and leading #UCD at Home Office Digital, now helping organisations with user research and digital transformation. Musician, feminist, wild swimmer, camper van owner. She/her.
Philippa @philippanewis.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. 
Cate McLaurin @madebycatem.bsky.social Director @publicdigitalhq, feminist, fond of swimming in cold water, alumni @IIPP
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
Katherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social Helping organisations create better customer and colleague experiences through service design and digital transformation.
Senior Design Director at public.digital. Ex Co-op Digital, BBC.
katherinewastell.com
Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social 
Matt Harrington @mattharrington.bsky.social Director at Public Digital. Ex GDS, Dept of Health, NHS Digital, Doctorlink and accuRx
Amanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk Geek. Cymru. Digital technology specialist. Consulting Practice CTO at Public Digital. Independent Member for Digital at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. Co-founder of GDS. Views my own.
Matilde Migliorero @matildemigliorero.bsky.social Urbanist/City nerd 🏙️
Program Manager at Public Digital
UCL
Abisola @abisola.bsky.social Aspiring human
Angie Kenny @angelitakenny.bsky.social 
Emma Gawen @egawen.bsky.social Partner @publicdigital
Chris Fleming @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social Partner and healthcare lead @publicdigital.bsky.social Walthamstow via Durham.
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
John Cutler @johncutle.fish I like the beautiful mess of product development.| newsletter: https://cutlefish.substack.com
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social Consultant at Public Digital. Interested in technology, innovation, science, society, better government, better charities.
Lisa Jeffery @lisajeffery.bsky.social Hello. I'm a public sector connector and digital human. Always learning. I'm interested in design, culture and change 🌱
Tim Paul @timpaul.co.uk Head of Creative and Design at The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), GDS. He/him. Views his own, not his employers.
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Ross Ferg @rossferg.bsky.social Technology in the service of people. Director with Public Digital.
David Heath @davidheath.org Trying to make things work better
Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social We're a specialist digital transformation consultancy. We help governments, businesses and companies change their ways of working and thrive in the digital era.
https://public.digital/
Janet Hughes @janethughes.bsky.social Director General Reform and Efficiency, UK Cabinet Office
Allotmenteer, reader, over-enthusiast.
Here to learn and make things work better.
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
Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social Burkey with the good hair. My woke take brings all the c*n*s to the yard. Profile pic by Nancy fancy pants contact@themasonsisters.com
Ashleigh Roberts Collacott @itsashleighhyo.bsky.social Women In Tech Advocate | Driving innovation and transformation across Defence, Government and Policing