Software Sustainability Institute @softwaresaved.bsky.social The Software Sustainability Institute is the first organisation in the world that was dedicated to improving software in research.
TrainSplit @trainsplit.com Saving you real money by splitting tickets. We also offer Railcards, an interactive Seat Selector for all reservable train operators, a modern, redesigned app - with dark mode! - and a corporate travel solution. https://trainsplit.app https://rail.cards
TPXimpact | B Corp™ @tpximpact.com Supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet.
Register Dynamics @register-dynamics.co.uk Our team of #data, #digital and #technology specialists help the UK Government and startups to get ahead with #data.
https://register-dynamics.co.uk/
Oxford Insights @oxfordinsights.bsky.social Making technology work for the public good.
https://oxfordinsights.com/
Open Data Manchester CIC @opendatamcr.bsky.social Helping individuals, organisations and communities understand and use data in responsible and ethical ways since 2010.
https://www.opendatamanchester.org.uk
Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social Multi CTO, Climate, Data, Governance, Government, NED, advisor, strategist, ex AWS and GDS
Other: Green Party/ADHD/Leadership/Christianity
M: @pauldjohnston@mastodon.green
X: @pauldjohnston
Oscar Seip @oscarseip.bsky.social Research Community Manager at the Software Sustainability Institute (software.ac.uk). Research interest in early modern (visual) methods of information management. Previously at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Herzog August Bibliothek, and John Rylands
@npscience.bsky.social @npscience.bsky.social
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
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
Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us A left-wing podcast for a better world and better tech. Hosted by @parismarx.com. Made in partnership with @thenation.com.
https://techwontsave.us/
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 🏳️⚧️
Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social She/her
Design systems and content design consultant. Reckless shitposter.
amyhupe.co.uk
wearefrankly.co
#DesignSystems #ContentDesign #WriteTheDocs
Roo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
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
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
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 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
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. 🙆🏻♀️
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
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
Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social I think and know about open government and freedom of information. All posts in a personal capacity, RTs ≠ endorsement.
Born at 323 ppm
Tom Taylor @tomtaylor.co.uk Co-founder & CPTO at https://breakroom.cc. Helps run @edinburghgravel.cc. Pushing the bees where they want to go.
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
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
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social People first, organisation consultant. Author of Building Successful Communities of Practice and creator of the Team Onion.
Londoner in Merseyside.
Blog at emilywebber.co.uk
Biz at hellotacit.com
Other websites and projects at ewebber.co.uk
Matt Jones @moleitau.bsky.social Petafloptimism.com / views are my own
Mark Norman Francis @cackhanded.net Internet boffin.
Dave Briggs @da.vebrig.gs Local government loving digital pragmatist.
https://da.vebrig.gs/
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.
Coco @cocochan.bsky.social Product lead in UK gov. Principal percussionist of The Flowers Band (European Champions ‘26). Prolific knitter. She/her
steve @visitmy.website workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
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
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.
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Craig Abbott @craigabbott.co.uk Principal Accessibility Specialist at TetraLogical. Former Head of Accessibility at DWP. Writer. Speaker. Coder. Wildlife Photographer. Cat botherer. ADHD. Autistic. He/They. https://www.craigabbott.co.uk
Nour Sidawi @noursidawi.uk Reflecting on the complexity of systems and making change in government at UK Civil Service. Part of OneTeamGov.
noursidawi.uk
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
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.
Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social Raised gifted; non-practicing.
If your reply doesn't have alt text, I won't see it.
🌐 productpicnic.beehiiv.com 💼 UX Design 🟦 Sick of rectangles 🧑 he/him
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: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
garethr @garethr.bsky.social VP Product @snyksec. @openpolicyagent Conftest maintainer. Developer, designer, product. Open source geek. Devops Weekly. @gdsteam alum. he/him.
Cathy Dutton @cathydutton.co.uk Service Design & Delivery at the Department for Education. CSS enthusiast, Intrinsic Design fan.
www.cathydutton.co.uk
Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
Tom MacInnes @tommacinnes.bsky.social Interim Director of Policy, Citizens Advice. Policy stuff, data, graphs, that kind of thing.
Craig J. Bass @craigjbass.bsky.social Strategy, tech & products to improve society. Principal Software Engineer @madetech.bsky.social (he/him/they/them)
Ignacia Orellana @ignaciaorellana.bsky.social Independent design consultant, specialising in service design and strategy. Mainly works in public sector. Previously: Service Design lead @gdsteam. Chilena en Londres
She/her
https://ignaciaorellana.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
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.
Chris Taylor @chrisftaylor.bsky.social product person | neutral good
Chris King @northernwrites.bsky.social Former knife swallower
Unlikely to be the Chris King you are looking for. Unless I am. Then I am currently unable to take your call.
Piali Das Gupta @pialidg.bsky.social Basically, I'm a lot about #localgov, public services, place, travel, art, culture, photography and London. And sometimes a little bit about Canada too. Migrant and citizen, at the same time.
Chris Keene @ck12.uk Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
Ben Holliday @benholliday.com Design and digital transformation | Chief Design Officer at TPXimpact | UK Lake District
William Perrin @willperrin.bsky.social Trustee at Indigo Trust. Formerly CarnegieUK, Good Things Foundation, TPW, UK Civil Service (No10, Cabinet Office, DtI, DCMS). Defence, tech, online safety, rural, tractors, cats etc.
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social Democracy Programme Lead / Senior Researcher - mySociety/TheyWorkForYou. Also for some reason Postman Pat reviews.
Dominic Campbell @dominiccampbell.bsky.social Partner at Impossible Ideas | Founded FutureGov | Hackney ex-pat | #utb
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk User centred design in government. parkrun tourist A4418. Director of Digital and Tech for Kingston and Sutton councils.
sugaroverflow 🌸 @sugaroverflow.com they say I’m 5’2” with 6’2” energy ✌️🍉
✧ sr dev advocate @ gitlab 🦊
✧ chaos wrangler @ biffud.com 🤔
✧ research - multi agent workflows@newspeak house 🏛️
♡ open source
♡ intersectional feminism
♡ board games
Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz.bsky.social Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Sophie Dennis @sophiedennis.bsky.social Head of User-Centred Design & Product @MadeTech. ex @ukhsa @nhsdigital @cxpartners @dwpdigital. Devon exile in Yorkshire. #sophiesthatux she/her
Jess Bowie @jessbowie.bsky.social Co-editor of @civilserviceworld.bsky.social. Civil servants are my bag.
Henry Cooke @prehensile.bsky.social Creative technlologist, producer, researcher. Occasional artist and artistic collaborator. Tinkerer. Part-time futurist. Kindness enthusiast. Not a kiwi journalist, sorry.
Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at Blogging less than the olden days. Still working to make public services better, now in healthcare regulation.
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/
Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, photography, flippancy, unions.
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com My ideal Starfleet job would be temporal affairs.
Public mechanics, speculative civics, post-HCD, platforms, governance, decision rights. HS 🎾 coach. Asst. Prof. of Practice in Urban Tech, UMich.
ronbronson.com
Anna Goss @annagoss.co Deputy director of Test, Learn & Grow. Otherwise mostly hanging out with my dog.
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Giles Turnbull @gilestur.bsky.social \o/
https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com
James Darling @abscond.org http://abscond.org
James Green @jamesgreen.bsky.social Content Designer in local government.
Interested in digital accessibility.
Like music, books, food, running, cats and shenanigans.
he / him
Anne-Marie Scott @ammienoot.bsky.social My curiosity is not a healthy trait.
Edtech lady leader. Ammie to mes amis.
(She/her)
https://ammienoot.com
Olly Benson @ollybenson.uk NHS Englander. Ex VCSE and BBC.
Mainly interested in volunteering, VCSE sector, public participation and engagement, so stuff around people, building communities, health, power, digital, media etc.
Husband | 🚸 Dad x2 | 💔 #ACHD
🌍 Warwickshire, UK
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
Alex Torrance @alextorrance.co.uk The Idiot
Geri Reid @gerireid.com Everyone’s fave goth Mom.
Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat. Design systems and associated nerdery. Be kind ❤️
gerireid.com
Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol. All views my own, etc.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
Benjamin Welby @bm.wel.by Following Jesus, husbanding and dadding, supporting #bcafc. Displaced Yorkshireman in Croydon. Governor @minsterinfants.bsky.social. Digital government, public service, hope. TBI; formerly DWP, NHS, GDS, OECD. These views are mine.
https://bm.wel.by/
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better.
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.
Jo Roach @joroach.bsky.social C-Level operations, tech and data. Emergent wild thing.
Simon Pearson @simonpearson.bsky.social No valley too deep, no mountain too high
🌈 🏴
Composing / product / LGBTQ chat
Rob Butler @robbutler.com Canada Free Agent - Senior Advisor in Digital Gov
Agentic AI | ProSci Certified Change Management
@natural-resources.canada.ca
#GCDigital #DigitalGov
Let’s connect & make Gov better together!
Views are mine.
Paul Rissen @r4isstatic.com Lead Product Manager for Platforms @ Which?
A geek about metadata, narrative, hyperlinks and technology.
Wrote 'Experiment-Driven Product Development'.
Personal, professional & nonsense posting here. Apologies in advance.
paulrissen.com
Nick Kimber @nick80.bsky.social Director of Public Service Reform at Cabinet Office. Seconded from Camden Council. Was a Policy Fellow at IIPP @ UCL; Policy Associate at Future Governance Forum
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.