Ella Watson (formerly Botting) @ellabottywatty.bsky.social Hello world. My old account got hacked (?) so I'm starting again. I currently do user research on a contractual basis, typically for the UK government (ok always for the UK government). I love Crystal Palace, my cat bubu & Lebanese food in particular
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
DSIT Answers @dsit-answers.bsky.social Bot account posting whenever the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology answers or corrects an answer to a written parliamentary question. Monitored by librarians in the House of Commons Library
Laura Yarrow @laurayarrow.bsky.social Head of Design for GOV.UK at GDS. Ex HM Land Registry. Public speaker. Observer of humans. Crisp connoisseur. Yarn hoarder. Northerner.
David Eaves @eaves.ca Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
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.
Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com Empowering Neurodivergent professionals to thrive at work
Coach, Facilitator & public speaker. ADHDer, rescue dog servant, carer, #vanlife, South West is best. http://21cmindset.com
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
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
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
The School of Good Services @theschoolofgood.bsky.social We help organisations get better at designing and delivering services that work for their users
Run by Sarah Drummond and Lou Downe
good.services
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Sally Meecham @sallymeecham.bsky.social Better public services. Inclusion. Wales 🏴
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
.
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
@callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social Feminist. Not the fun kind. [UK]
Low tolerance of misogynists and homophobes, particularly from the US.
Compliance is not consent.
Kate Ivey-Williams @kateiw.bsky.social Head of Service Design for the Open University, ex GOV.UK. Van life, plants, dancing etc.
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
roysmith4717.bsky.social @roysmith4717.bsky.social Letlovelead
Rob Chambers @robchamberspfc.bsky.social Product manager again after playing a Solution architect for a bit. At TPXimpact helping government publish open stats and data - or whatever else I can help with.
Formerly Swirrl and ONS
Likes a cognac. Likes a second cognac.
Adam Silver @adamsilverhq.bsky.social Designer with engineering background. I talk about designing products that are intuitive, accessible and delightful to use.
Design newsletter:
https://adamsilver.io/newsletter
Good Design Crash Course (free):
https://adamsilver.io/gdcc
@paulpistorius.bsky.social @paulpistorius.bsky.social Designing public services during the week. Cycling at weekends.
Monika Swiatek @monikasw.bsky.social Driving open working and user‑centred change across Wales.
Service design | public sector | healthcare | UCD | surfing. She/her 🏴
Alex Torrance @alextorrance.co.uk The Idiot
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social 
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
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com 
Mike Gallagher @mikegallagher.bsky.social I dunno. Also: Lead designer for the NHS App.
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 🏳️⚧️
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Jeffrey Allen @jallen300.bsky.social I evangelise service design at the UK Ministry of Justice and work with policy teams to apply user-centred design to complex challenges. I care about #servicedesign #govdesign #media4good
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.
dxw @dxw.com We design, build and run digital public services that make people's lives better.
dxw is employee owned.
Find out more about us 👉 https://linktr.ee/_dxw
Tero Väänänen @teropsv.bsky.social Head of Design at NHS England, photographer, artist, school governor, martial artist, writer of speculative fiction. He/him
Rochelle Gold @rochellegold.bsky.social Head of User Research @NHSEngland
(formerly @NHSDigital) and Head of UCD for Digital Primary Care. Cancer and genetics awareness advocate and patient representative..
Views my own.
She/her.
James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social Head of Product for NHS App at NHS England. Expect digital health + culture + cricket + games + low-res puns. 
Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social Deputy Director, Chief AI Office @ HM Revenue & Customs + Quantum of Sollazzo data newsletter
www.puntofisso.net
www.quantumofsollazzo.com
Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat.bsky.social Director of Digital, Data & Technology at UK’s Dept for Business & Trade 🏛 / ❤️ public service / All views my own! 📢 / https://jasonkitcat.com
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
Sarah Drummond @rufflemuffin.bsky.social Filmmaker / Directing #section28film
Founder: anthrobricolage.com
Director: good.services @theschoolofgood
DR of Design, once ran
@wearesnook
Made cycling easier with @cycle_hack
GOOD Magazine #100
Board member at @lomondtrossachs
She/they
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social Co-founder of https://www.ff.studio/
I find LinkedIn a bit inhumane, so lets try this place. All my thinking out loud is my own.
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.
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
Graham Francis @gkfrancis.bsky.social Digital identity policy lead, DSIT
Alice Ainsworth @aliceainsworth1.bsky.social Digitising Social Care, DHSC and NHSE. Mum to two small boys
Sarah Luxford @sarahrecruiter.bsky.social Keen community builder, tech enthusiast, cheer-leader of others, supporting public sector as a headhunter for DDaT roles through one hire at a time, mum, strictly come dancing wannabe
Matilda Gosling @matildagosling.bsky.social Independent social researcher and non-fiction author. Teenagers: The Evidence Base and Evidence-Based Parenting (both Swift Press) are out now.
Judith Green @tybilalper.bsky.social Co-founder and director @womansplaceuk.bsky.social
Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social Freelance Academic: Sport Policy. Feminist Philosophy.
Ex. Senior Lecturer, Uni. of Cumbria. Ex. Sec. British Phil. of Sport Assn. Labour Party.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cathy-Devine-2/research
DMs not in use as won't upload personal ID.
Kiri Tunks @kiritunks.bsky.social Another world is possible.
Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorfkc.bsky.social Employment, discrimination & human rights barrister at Cloisters Chambers | LSE Law Visiting Senior Fellow | Legal Business UK Barrister of the Year 2023 | Chambers & Partners Employment Junior of the Year 2022
@anyabike.bsky.social @anyabike.bsky.social 
Woman’s Place UK @womansplaceuk.bsky.social Violence against women and sex discrimination still exist. Women need reserved places, separate spaces and distinct services.
Join our campaign to keep them.
Link 🌳 https://linktr.ee/womansplaceuk
Lisa Mackenzie @lisamackenzie.bsky.social Policy analyst, crisp addict, unconvinced by this platform (hence absence)
murrayblackburnmackenzie.org
Susan Dalgety @susandalgety.bsky.social Co-editor of Sunday Times bestseller The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht. Columnist at The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News. Feminist. 
Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones.bsky.social Writer. Philosopher. Radical materialist feminist. Anti-fascist.
#ProfessionalAntiBullshitMerchant
https://culturewarblues.substack.com/
FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social Building Sisterhood and Solidarity, Amplifying the Voices of Women, Defending Women’s Human Rights
#FiLiA2027 is in Blackpool, Lancashire
Tickets and so much more @ https://linktr.ee/filiauk
Professor Alice Sullivan @profalices.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at UCL.
http://profalices.co.uk/
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social Guardian journalist; author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Londoner
Victoria Smith @glosswitch.bsky.social Feminist. Author of Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-aged Women and Unkind: How 'Be Kind' Entrenched Sexism. Totally cheery apart from all that.
Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee.bsky.social Associate Editor & Writer @NewStatesman; Author, Baillie Gifford & Orwell shortlisted “Time to Think” http://bit.ly/TimetoThinkBook; Formerly @bbcnewsnight
Laura Pascal @pascallaura.bsky.social
Head of Public Affairs at FiLiA.
Former civil servant (DHSC and DfE) and Labour Party hack
Also interested in adult social care & childcare markets
Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social Accessibility, inclusive design research #A11y #UX
Loves swimming in nature, rocks in rivers, mint tea, gelato, trees. Art, music, play!
Grew up in the West Country, left to explore cognition & behaviour, returned ND 🌈 she
Paintings in Hospitals @paintingshospitals.bsky.social As the UK's first art in health charity, Paintings in Hospitals support the health and wellbeing of people who need it the most through the life-enriching power of art.
www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk/@paintingsinhospitals
Tom Adams @sonofswiss.bsky.social Head of user research at Department for Education. Will try and moan less about the trains on here than I did on twitter.
Angela Hilton @ange2.bsky.social Doing Product things in the wild.
Currently working on joining up public services, making data better and probably a slide deck.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman.bsky.social Architect for #openstandards, the Web and barcodes of all types. Tech policy. Ex-UK gov. Active in GS1, NHS & W3C. @hadleybeeman@w3c.social
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
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.
James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social Bring us together,
make things better.
@janethughes.bsky.social's husband (-:
Senior delivery manager at @tpximpact.com
https://www.cattell.com
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.
Victoria Wray @vicwray.bsky.social 
Dr Matt Thompson @docmattthompson.bsky.social Data strategy, data maturity and applied linguistics.
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 :-)
Ben Proctor @benproctor.co.uk Some time folk singer. Freelance data consultant.
LibDem Herefordshire & Hereford City Councillor for College Ward (promoted by Sam Potts on behalf of the Liberal Democrats all at 54 St Owen St Hereford HR12PU) more at https://linktr.ee/ben4college
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer 
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.
Harry Harrold @harryharrold.bsky.social Medium-sized fat bloke. #ukcharitycamp Helps build web stuff @neontribe. Tries to be agile and user-centered. Proud resident of the Fine City of Norwich. Has never been a TV producer. (He/they)
Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
Sarah Mount @snim2.org Service Lead at dxw | author | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | recovering academic
steve @visitmy.website workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
Dan Barrett @dasbarrett.bsky.social Hello friend it’s sandwiches alright 🥪 Also baking, learning to make guitar effects pedals, shrine to The Incredible Hulk like a normal person, houseplants, and data and AI at Citizens Advice 📊 🤖
He / Him
zuz @zuz.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 ok
🇰🇷 최선을 다하겠습니다
https://techforevil.tumblr.com
My DMs are NOT ON.
I do agile product delivery stuff for work but this account is just cat photos and various nonsense.
they/she
London, UK. Pero quiero vivir en Madrid. 🙆🏻♀️
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Amanda 🏳️🌈🔮 @ayymanduh.bsky.social All things data, digital, design, communities, leadership, justice & open culture.
Vibe: 🏳️🌈🔮💀💃🏼⚽️🌞🥦🪩🍾🧘🏼♀️⚖️☮️
leanne griffin mchugh @leannemgriff.bsky.social freelance community designer, writer, facilitator, connector, mum. based in worthing, west sussex.
Paul Barber @pbarber.github.io Data/software/guitars/dad jokes
https://pbarber.github.io
Pretend Cato @pretendcato.bsky.social Democracy things as COO/Director at Delib. She/her. Not all work. Rhymes with potato.
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.
Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social Delivery @ http://createchange.io - Digital Transformation, UCD, Agile methods.
He/Him. I don't speak for my clients.
Organiser Agile Manchester, Agile Cambridge, Lean Agile Scotland, Ripples: Bristol, UX Scotland, SDinGov, Lean Agile Exchange