Dr Helen Smith @yellowbicyclist.bsky.social R.N., PhD. Earthling.
Bikes, bioethics, AI, cats, cakes, DnB&EDM, sunshine, and (outer) space.
Love a side quest.
Tell your cat I said Hi. #ActuallyAutistic 🌻
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech pragmatic, progressive multidisciplinary creative, data scientist, full stack dev & designer. occasional avid beach goer. always learning.
🔗 https://marko.tech 🏠 https://startyparty.dev
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Tom Preston-Werner @mojombo.bsky.social Inventor. Building Preston-Werner Ventures. Formerly: GitHub cofounder & CEO. Board member at 128 Collective, Gitpod, Hack Club, Mote Hydrogen. Also: Gravatar, Jekyll, SemVer, TOML.
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
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.
Gavin Bell @zzgavin.bsky.social
London based product manager working in Govt.
I make things with electronics and as cosplay.
I’m making short film documentaries around the Lea Valley.
David Thompson @dhwthompson.com 
Bashford @bashford.bsky.social Computer Design | Strategic Music | FRSA | ADHD
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
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
Tom Morris @tommorris.org Eternally damned techno-priest heretic, curly brace balancer, and pesky citation requester.
kottke.org @kottke.org home of fine hypertext products since 1998. https://kottke.org
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
garethr @garethr.bsky.social VP Product @snyksec. @openpolicyagent Conftest maintainer. Developer, designer, product. Open source geek. Devops Weekly. @gdsteam alum. he/him.
fredwilson @fredwilson.xyz i am a vc
Chris @antimega.bsky.social art and courgettes 🌈
https://www.anti-mega.com
Mark Norman Francis @cackhanded.net Internet boffin.
James Aylett @james.tartarus.org He/him. Thinking about books & art & narrative & drama ... and the future. Previously professionally worried about privacy and AI (now only in a personal capacity).
If I don't follow you it doesn't mean I don't like you.
https://tartarus.org/james/
Aanand @aanand.style Inventor of the “Aanand style” of eating pizza
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
Roo Reynolds @rooreynolds.bsky.social Quite tall. Social justice worrier.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Ben Darlow @kapowaz.net Designer/Engineer. Maker of things. Emoji artisan. Keyboard enthusiast (@kapowaz.industries). Coventry City fan. Invented @-replies. Not John Green. Non-American. He/Him.
Ben Wardsloane @benward.uk Web developer. @bffdotfm radio. Music nerd. Brit in San Francisco. he/him.
James Darling @abscond.org http://abscond.org
Richard Rutter @clagnut.com Cofounder of Clearleft, author of Web Typography, rider of bicycles, listener to vinyl, father of two, husband. Not necessarily in that order.
Blog: https://clagnut.com/
Book: https://book.webtypography.net/
Also: https://mastodon.social/@Richr
Dan Webb @danwrong.social CEO Existent, programmer, advisor, sneaker head, hip hop head, bass head, slap head, nerd. Not Fred Durst. https://danwebb.net
Ev @evhead.bsky.social Artist
Dan Cederholm @simplebits.com Danmade type & goods at SimpleBits® since 2002. Designer, author, speaker, and licensed boat captain. Previously co-founder of Dribbble.
https://simplebits.com
Ben Sauer @bensauer.net Author of https://deathbyscreens.co / Speaker / Product+Design Leader / ex-Clearleft, Babylon Health.
Current mission: helping designers tell better stories about their work. https://bensauer.net
Marc Thiele @marcthiele.com Founder/organiser of beyond tellerrand (@beyondtellerrand.com). Co-Founder of Smashing Conference.
Jon Hicks @hicks.design Gentleman Graphic Designer/Artist who wears many hats. Shoegazer, Birder and over-eater of eggs. Works on the Troika music podcast and Supernatural Detective's Field Guide in his spare time.
https://hicks.design
https://supernaturaldetectives.com
Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social 👋 Designer / author / speaker
📗 Fine Specimens
📗 Universal Principles of Typography
👨💻 Adobe Fonts
⌛️ Google Fonts, 8 Faces, Lagom
⚠️ (Views are my own)
🔗 https://elliotjaystocks.com/links
Si Jobling @sijobling.com Engineering manager by day, side project “hustler” the rest. Social media addict. Founder of 🌺 @PETALS.team, 🎧 @housefinesse.com and ⚽️ @derbycounty.bsky.social
Ian | Founder & Firestarter @cubicgarden.com Previously Senior firestarter at BBC RD, emergent technology expert and serial social geek event organiser.
http://www.cubicgarden.com | @cubicgarden@mas.to
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Simon Collison @colly.com Creative director & digital designer, human, etc. Music and art as Site Nonsite: https://bsky.app/profile/sitenonsite.com
Chris Messina @chrismessina.me 😬 Man of the internet; generalist.
#️⃣ Invented the hashtag in ‘07.
🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.
🆕 App updates and snark
🚬 Non-smoker.
Doug Bowman @stopd.bsky.social Designer, advisor, father. Previously led design teams at Twitter, Google, Wired. SF Giants fan. Runner. Lernt Deutsch. Unsure for now how or if I’ll use Bluesky. California. He/him.
Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker.
📺 Creator + host of LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS
🚀 NatGeo Explorer + NASA advisor
🔬 Often filming tardigrades
🔗 https://arielwaldman.com
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Matt Biddulph @biddul.ph AI at io
Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Natalie Downe @natbat.bsky.social Enthusiastic adventurer, artist, potter, conservation technologist, tidepool guide, California naturalist, community organizer & frontend web developer. WU3M 🦇🦭🦀(🐺🐓🐇) #scicomm
Mastodon @natbat@wandering.shop
Twitter @natbat
Instagram @natbat & @natbat.art
Cameron Moll @cameronmoll.bsky.social Leadership + Design ᴇꜱᴛᴅ 1999. Meta alumni, Authentic Jobs (acquired), Pendo, Buzzsprout, Desquared. I love to see the temple. Teller of fine dad jokes.
📍 Sarasota, Florida
✌️ moll.co
Matt Jones @moleitau.bsky.social Petafloptimism.com / views are my own
Thomas Vander Wal @vanderwal.bsky.social Was on Twitter from 2006 and Mastodon from 2016. Mastodon is my primary short sharing space.
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
Tom Armitage @infovore.bsky.social standing at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology, spinning a GOLF SALE sign
Joi Ito @joi.ito.com 
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social Founder & Editor, @pathfounders.bsky.social | Formerly @TechCrunch | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | Pathfounders.com | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Speaker / Moderator | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets | (MBE)
Paul Robert Lloyd @paulrobertlloyd.com Independent graphic designer and web developer · Moving slowly and fixing things
Jason Santa Maria @jasonsantamaria.bsky.social Designer of many rectangles at Loud Room, a funsized design consultancy.
I love and geek out on books, pencils, horror movies, fonts, smart quotes, photography, and games — both video and tabletop. I live and work in Philadelphia under a pile of books.
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.
Ms. Jen @msjen.bsky.social Creator : Maker : Photographer : Writer : MSc, PAW, PPITA, FOA TA
Books: https://books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Jenifer-Hanen
https://msjen.substack.com
https://msjen.com
James Mayes @jamesmayes.bsky.social I do stuff with events, community, product.
Author: https://amzn.eu/d/bQGmUNK
LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmayes
Last gig: Co-founder & CEO Mind The Product. Next is Rodeo. 🤠
Tom Scott @tomscott.com I make things. They’ll probably come back to haunt me in a few years’ time. https://www.tomscott.com/
Paul @paulannett.com UX designer on Firefox.
Dad. Bad puns. Card tricks. EVs. Tired.
Sam Michel @toodlepip.bsky.social Inquisitive. Hopeful. Jovial. Exploring creative industries, immersive, tech, biz, startups & society. In front of a screen or being dragged around by a furry friend. Work: @beyondconference.org @beyondstudio.info but posts just mine
Aegir Hallmundur @aegirthor.bsky.social Looking for new (remote working) opportunities. Currently in EdTech as a designer, researcher and design leader. UK based. Also art and illustration (personal projects)
aegir.org
Dominic Mitchell @dom.happygiraffe.net he/him.
Hacker-at-large.
Occasional Brightonian.
Googler.
@happygiraffe@mastodonapp.uk
https://happygiraffe.net/
DMs unavailable due to OSA, sorry
Andy Hume @andyhume.bsky.social Platform Engineering @ Snyk. Brighton. Ish.
Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com Reading your thoughts, as long as you tell me where you're writing them first this week. https://xoxo.zone/@kevinmarks
Sheffield, UK - Don't try direct messaging as I am blocked by daft UK legislation unless I'm on a VPN.
Matt Lindop @mindimp.bsky.social Tech consultant, interested in AI & education. Dad, rubbish but enthusiastic at sports, nufc Hertfordshire UK. Brother to no man. 
Chris Heilmann @codepo8.bsky.social The robots are coming and we need to make a great example for them. Author, presenter, A11y lover, Online teacher at Skillshare and LinkedIn Learning
Paul Boag @boagworld.bsky.social UX leader and grumpy old man of the web. Author of 6 books on topics such as conversion rate optimisation and design leadership. Speaker, blogger etc. Spends half of the year in an RV.
Mary Nolan @marybnolan.bsky.social Designer & applied behavioural scientist. Originally from Ireland and now living in Sydney, Australia.
shardcore @shardcore.org making art beyond good and evil
DRASS: On The Hill - streaming everywhere 01/04/26 drass.art
shardcore.org
Seedcamp @seedcamp.com Seedcamp.com
Mike Stenhouse @mikesten.bsky.social Product designer. Formerly London and Nova Scotia, now Lisboa. Startups, tech, design, dogs, climbing.
Dive Bel @divebel.bsky.social Scuba diver
Traveller
Animal lover
@politicaldude.bsky.social @politicaldude.bsky.social Tory Hater, Reform Hater, Trump hater and Labour Supporter, Democrat supporter. #FBPE #Socialist #VoteBlue #BlewCrew #VoteLabour
Jemima Kiss @jemimakiss.bsky.social Words @ LoveFrom
Tom Kiss @tomkiss.net Creative Technologist, apparently. Doing things @doublefine.com. Dad, wingman to @dollsticks. Stop burning things! #divest #ActOnClimate
tomkiss.net • dodeca.studio
Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry.com Community builder. Indie founder. Unschooler. 5x Mother. AuDHD . She/her. 🇬🇧
“Don’t let the social networks have all the fun”
🌈 Rosie.land: writing about community building
🪐 Founder & CEO @ministryoftesting.com
Jonathan Markwell @jot.is Product at Urlbox
Advisor & Supporter of B2B SaaS in Sussex, UK.
Coworking at The Skiff
Newsletter: Brighton Dynamic
Building my next SaaS on Rails.
Graham Sherry @grahamsherry.com CTE (Chief Tranquility Engineer) • health • wealth • happiness • dad • grafter •✌🏼&❤️&🥋 #wuwei
#bitsnbobs (tech+finance)
@ministryoftesting.com #ror
Family Office. 🎣 for #QARP
Now: grahamsherry.com/now
Alan Newman @alannewman.bsky.social Freelance Bubble. Indie Hacker.
Family guy, tennis, books, hang with g/f, music & good friends. Brighton, UK
orzoblue.com - Certified Bubble Freelancer
maqoro.com - email to invoice
counterloop.io - dealing with sales objections
Ramy.co @ramy.co Founder of Hovercode.com
Living in Brighton, UK
rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com Smart enough to know he's not smart enough.
🌮
📍Brighton, UK
Miles Sabin @milessabin.com Partner at Underscore, Typelevel cofounder, Scala SIP committee alumnus. Type astronaut, grackle/shapeless/scalac/dotty hacker. He/him. Brighton, UK. Internationalist.
Jeremy Keith @adactio.com Mediocre middle-aged white man from Ireland living in Brighton, England working with Clearleft.
I play traditional Irish music on mandolin and I play slide bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
https://adactio.com
Seb Lee-Delisle @seblee.me Speaker, coder, artist, laser specialist, intermittent YouTuber
seblee.me
liberationlaser.com
Curtis James @oswald808.bsky.social Co founder and member of Class Divide.
Working to make Brighton and Hove (and further afield) the best place to get an education if you come from a lower income family. Through systems and policy change.
www.classdivide.co.uk
Andy Budd @andybudd.bsky.social Design Founder, speaker, start-up advisor & coach. Seedcamp Venture Partner. Formerly Clearleft, LDConf & UXLondon. Ex shark-wrangler. Pilot. He/Him — https://stacklist.app/andybudd
Paul Silver @paulsilver.bsky.social Freelance web developer living near Brighton (UK) with a minor old VW obsession and major notebook addiction. Runs the @brightonfarm.bsky.social freelancers meet ups.
Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them
Andy Croll @andycroll.bsky.social 
TheAmaricanDream.com @itsjustamar.bsky.social 
Jack Tracey @jacktracey.co.uk Azure Landing Zones, Subscription Vending and Azure Verified Modules - Technical Lead @ Microsoft.
bio.link/jacktracey
Cassie Evans @cassiecodes.bsky.social 
Jo Summers @profaniti.bsky.social 💜 Branch Organiser for game workers at IWGB 💜 Ex-Program Manager at Unity 💜 Ex-Tech Producer for Now Play This 💜
Board member: Global Game Jam and Games Anglia 💜 Ex-Rep at UTAW.tech 💜 Drummer in Extinction Rebellion 💜 Volunteer at cowley.club 💜
Dom Christie @domchristie.bsky.social https://domchristie.co.uk
Iestyn Lloyd-Wilkins @iestyn.net BAFTA-winning nerd
Fun: 📸 Photography
Work: 👾 XR games / wearables
📍 Brighton, UK
https://www.instagram.com/iestyn.photo/
Personal account, my views are my own
Ed Silverton @edsilv.com https://edsilv.com