Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share 
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/
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that. 
HORG @occlupanid.bsky.social Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
http://www.horg.com/
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
Signal: @emorwee.06
Chad @kitation.co.uk They/he. Queer (nonbinary/pan), autistic, disabled. User researcher, accessibility advocate. Talks about disability, gender, gaming.
Matt Knight @mattinwales.bsky.social New here. 
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
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
Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social Public servant in search of a better future. Communities and service users first. Desires to unbuild walls.
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
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
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
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
dr. rehemat 👩🏽💻👩🏽🔬 @rehemat24.bsky.social Ocean science🌊, nature♻️, strategy💡, partnerships🤝 & engagement ✨enthusiast • 🧗🏽♀️ •🏄🏽♀️• 🏂• 🎻•🦄•🐈 •🇹🇿• views my own• she/her
Alex Yedigaroff @alexyedigaroff.bsky.social Director of Data and Product @dxw
Ex GDS, PDS, MoJ, Home Office, Southwark and HS2
Here for all things data, design and software for the people
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Chris Pitcher @cpitcher.bsky.social Data Engineer at Chelsea and Westminster hospital. Interested in building things, data, coding, and public policy. Previously an apprenticeship coach, school data manager and teacher.
Craig J. Bass @craigjbass.bsky.social Strategy, tech & products to improve society. Principal Software Engineer @madetech.bsky.social (he/him/they/them)
David Heath @davidheath.org Trying to make things work better
Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing.org.uk Man of many talents—some of them useful. Multiple monomaniac. Author, 'Pink Floyd: The Music & The Mystery'.
Also Wikipedia, Wikidata &c. OpenStreetMap. Birds. Birmingham. Open data. FoI. Art. Architecture. History. FRSA.
Everything is interesting.
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
Giuseppe Sollazzo @puntofisso.bsky.social Deputy Director, Chief AI Office @ HM Revenue & Customs + Quantum of Sollazzo data newsletter
www.puntofisso.net
www.quantumofsollazzo.com
UK Gov Comms (NON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT) @ukgovcomms.bsky.social *Not* a government account.
A Bluesky account for sharing best practice of government communications in the UK. Run by @bowsy.co.uk.
Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social Pareidolia is the tendency to see faces or other patterns in random images.
Account operated by Paolette (Frenchie adopted by the US during Obama presidency) 🔵 in 🟥 state #Impeach & #BringBackDecency... Please!
Derek Alton @derekalton.bsky.social Community Insights Lead for Apolitical by day, Civic Punk by night. Passionate about helping make government work better. Obsessed with all things digital/open government and Public Sector Reform. Community Insights Lead for Apolitical 
Katy Beale @katybeale.bsky.social Cycling, running, raving.
Ceramics.
Local gov, tech for good & public purpose.
Design and digital.
🏳️🌈
Currently: CDEO, Westminster City Council
Previously: Hackney Council, DHSC, Equal Experts, Yodomo, Caper.
Ross Cairns @rc1.bsky.social Creative Engineer / Technologist / Designer seeks an alt-Twitter for reminiscing MySpace vibes.
Currently exploring Generative AI tools with Google. Previously world AR with Snap, Mixed Reality with Microsoft, and The Workers.
https://rosscairns.com/
Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely.
Professor of Sociolinguistics 🇨🇭🏴🇺🇸
Currently studying varieties of Welsh English
She/her
Monika Swiatek @monikasw.bsky.social Driving open working and user‑centred change across Wales.
Service design | public sector | healthcare | UCD | surfing. She/her 🏴
Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com Data/govt etc freelancer gavinfreeguard.com
Starting @sotf.org.uk
@connectedbydata.org, Data Bites, @instituteforgovernment.org.uk @thinkdigitalptns.bsky.social @kinship.works @transformgovtalks.bsky.social @policycamp.bsky.social
Pic @paulclarke.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
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social 📍Bristol, England / 🌿 Green councillor for St George West on Bristol City Council / 🧩 Green Group Organiser (Whip) / 🅿️ Chair of Kerbside and Parking Strategy Task and Finish Group / 🏷 Agnostic, agonist, English, left populist, republican, secularist
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
Mike Rose @mikerose.co.uk I am often found talking about *intellectual property rights* and how they manifest in *digital* and *data* stuff.
I also often share dog and Dorset photos!
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Dave Burton @ideasintheround.bsky.social Product person in central government, and part of OneTeamGov.
Co-founded Glean, a design agency for international development.
Manchester now, previously Birmingham, Dhaka and Phnom Penh. Good people doing good work together is my jam.
Clara Greo @claragt.bsky.social Community, capability & equity in design and UCD. Not white. she/her. Grieving. Resting.✊🏿🏳️⚧️🍉🌏
Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
HAL David 9000 @lubes.bsky.social Content accessibility, love is love, music is music, Luddite, tax the rich, vote Green for rent controls. “My god, it’s full of stars” 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️🐝
Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com Talking about how cities achieve contentious change with strategic engagement and communications. Consulting and training: https://strategic-cities.com/
Sydney | London 🚲🌳🌈
(Personal thoughts from Mark A - often astride a bicycle.)
Dean Vipond @deanvipond.bsky.social Design leadership and human-centred stuff in general. Previously lead designer at NHS Digital and lots of other things. He/Him.
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Andrew Doran @andrewdoran.uk He/him. Husband, dad of two teenage boys, Technology person working in Financial Services, over-enthusiastic, geek.
🎶 Co-founder of Album Club (https://albumclub.info), meeting every month since 2011.
✍️ Blogging since 2004.
🌐 https://andrewdoran.uk
Sarah Prescott @sprescott.bsky.social Recovering accountant. Curious person
Ideas 💡 / Housing 🏡/ Business / Science / Rugby 🏉 / Wales 🏴 / Women’s Sport 🏃♀️/ Slow runner
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
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO, Zinc Innovation Partners - helping turn science into real-world change. Fomerly Demos, UAL, MMHPI, No10. Adviser at Future Governance Forum, Family Business UK, Door10 Recruitment. Writes at https://howtorunacountry.substack.com/
Will Callaghan @willguv.bsky.social Tech for good, collaborations, co-ops, cats, watches #frsa
localgovdrupal.bsky.social
techresort.bsky.social
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
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
Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social Accidentally responsible
Also http://chaos.social/@jonty
Previously http://twitter.com/jonty
Always http://jonty.co.uk
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Adrián Ortega 🗺️🧭 @adrianortega.bsky.social Existential holistic detective 🇪🇸
User-centred Design @ Digital Public Services Wales (DPSW) 🏴
Views my own, and all that.
www.adrianortega.co.uk
Gail Brodholt @gailbrodholt.bsky.social London based artist printmaker, mostly #linocuts #prints #London
www.gailbrodholt.com
Gemma Trickey ✷ Printmaker @gemmatrickey.bsky.social Print shop: www.gemmatrickey.com
Newsletter: https://gemmatrickey.com/pages/newsletter
Printmaker and tea drinker in the West Country, UK.
Nick Desbarats @nickdesb.bsky.social Independent instructor and best-selling author, data visualization and dashboard design.
Books, videos, articles, training workshops to level up your dataviz or dashboard design chops: www.practicalreporting.com
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
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.
Matt Edgar @mattedgar.social.coop.ap.brid.gy #Digital director in the #NHS, #SocialHousing non-exec, and history botherer in my spare time. I quit newspapers for new media in 1997. "You can always come back," […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@mattedgar, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Make Space for Girls @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social Campaigning for parks and public spaces designed with girls in mind.
Reg. charity 1193772.
makespaceforgirls.co.uk
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Dr Dave McKenna @drdavemckenna.bsky.social Not that kind of a doctor.
Jonathan Flowers @jonathanflowers.bsky.social Chair/NED/Adviser #localgov, "digital", governance, strategy, democracy, data, operational research. Militant optimism. Slightly retired so also: travel, theatre, WRU :-( , F1, politics-watcher, Wingnut and CFA superfan. Harpenden. #dysgwyr
Marie Brousseau-Navarro @mariebrousseaunava.bsky.social Deputy Commissioner and Director for Health at the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. Former Honorary Consul of France in Wales
🏴Ade @515mm.bsky.social Hello there 🙂
Eater of food, taster of wines, rider of bicycles, dispenser of Bespeisungswonne, spectator of rugby, listener of music, watcher of film & reader of books. Not necessarily in that order. Many shoes.
Roger Swannell @rogerswannell.com Usually wrong. Never done.
rogerswannell.com
Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social Strategic Design, Futures, Wildlife.
Expect hedgehogs.
Works @ smithery.com
Makes https://artefactshop.com
Writes https://buttondown.com/artefacts
Convenes https://lu.ma/stepscollective
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnvwillshire
David Durant @bowsy.co.uk I've been in the gov tech and transformation communitiy since 2009. I've worked for mySociety, the GLA, HackIT and GDS. I'm on the committees for GovCamp, Policy Camp, TransformGov Talks, the National Strategy Project and the UK Polyamory Association.
NHS Hack Day @nhshackday.com Official account of the health and care themed hackathon event "NHS Hack Day"
Simon Wardley. @swardley.bsky.social Mapper. I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice.
Benjy Stanton @benjystanton.co.uk Contract interaction and service designer. User-centred design in gov. Accessibility. Music fan. https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/ He/him
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
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
www.marhicks.com
Simon Morgan-Wilson @officeofwilson.com Actual life: Wanderings! Art, design! Buildings! Bridges! Running! Music! GTFC! etc etc!
Work: Product and service person.
📍From Grimsby
🏠 Saltaire, W Yorkshire, UK
Previously just Simon Wilson, then married @texmac.bsky.social
www.officeofwilson.com
Iain Broome @iainbroome.com Freelance content designer currently working with NHS England. Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Sender of newsletters. 💌
Freelance work: verymeta.com
Fiction: iainbroome.com
Blog and newsletter: clearlanguage.club
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Watershed @wshed.bsky.social Cultural cinema, talent development and creative technology in Bristol.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
WeCanMake @wecanmake.bsky.social Neighbourhood test-space imagining and making low carbon homes, social infrastructure and building community wealth in the process.
📍Knowle West, Bristol
WeCanMake.org
A National Data Library? @datalibrary.bsky.social What is the National Data Library? Who knows!
Probably unfunny half-parody account. May or may not say useful stuff too.
Andy Gordon @andy-gordon.bsky.social Bristol | Head of Design & Innovation @ Torchbox.
Dad. Husband. Designer.
All things Design, Innovation, Complexity, Creativity & positive change.
He/him.
Laura Parker @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social Senior content designer in UK government. Creator of accessiblenumbers.com. Dyscalculia Network adult advisor. Writes and talks about living with #dyscalculia and maths anxiety.
Work with me. lauraparker.design
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
Oli @gyromancy.bsky.social 
Chris Bolton @chrisbolton-wtp.bsky.social Still doing https://whatsthepont.blog stuff.
Into Coops, Cynefin and Tin Sheds.
From Old South Wales.
Also.
Listing things that interest me under #TIL (Today I Learned)
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 :-)
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz