Dr Madeline Hough✨✊🏻🖤 @dr-madeline-hough.bsky.social Dr Madeline Hough (PhD)| Founder, HOUGH 🖤 Sociologist, race scholar & activist. Anti-racist. Decolonial. Pro-Black. Institutional transformation, reparative governance & structural reform. Confronting racism. Redistributing power.
🦉naked alien🪐 @pinealgasm.bsky.social #feral #jaded #cynical #nonconformist #imaginalcell #stardust #artist. professional #spamscamscum #bully annihilator. #outgrowcapitalism.
https://undetectablelight.substack.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/theozzcause
Tawny S. Sverdlin @tscarleski.bsky.social #IA #highed #civictech #developer #contentstrategy #writer who lives somewhere on the border of Nevada and California with two elderly little dogs. Following My Growing Substack: https://shorturl.at/zFqml
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
IAC - Information Architecture Conference @theiaconf.bsky.social Leading gathering for IAs, UXers, and Content Strategists since 2000 • April 14th - 17th, 2027 in Philadelphia • #IAC27 • https://linktr.ee/theiaconf
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
©️ All rights reserved. | Est. 2025
Llibertat UK (Katrina) @llibertatuk.bsky.social Design for humans. End to end, front to back, user-centred digital services with real impact for the public, private and third sectors globally. Led by former GOV.UK Head of Content Padma Gillen. Accessible by design. Posts by Katrina (she/her)
Wildlife Clothing @wildlifeclothing.bsky.social Birds, Mammals, Marine Life, Wildlife Tee Shirts & Clothing, Sustainably sourced through Teemill..
Wildlife.teemill.co.uk
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
mb baker @bethmaru.ca She/Her/Elle
Canadian.
Curious.
Contrarian.
Contentious.
Contrasts.
Zack @zachario.bsky.social
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.
Helen Milner @helenmilner.bsky.social Champion for Digital Inclusion. Group CEO Good Things Foundation. Chair Subak. Sheffield - London - Sydney. UK + Australia
John Bourne @johnbourne.bsky.social Farm dwelling, veg growing, guitar playing, chess playing, football coaching, digital product managering in the HE sectoring kind of person.
INCLUDE+ @include-plus.bsky.social Exploring how social and digital environments can be built, shaped, and sustained to enable all people to thrive.
Funded by EPSRC
https://includeplus.org/
David Dawes @dawescoding.eurosky.social NHS Data Architect - Clinical Classifications, Terminologies, and Interoperability - Posting and Replying in an unofficial capacity
Justin Darley @justindarley.bsky.social Co-lead UX and Content at Nexer Digital
Latecomer to video game addiction
ADHD
Occasional poet
Music lover
Plastic Brummie
Hater of writing these things
Grumpy old man
Yes bab
Júlia 🍉 @juliguli.bsky.social Content design, languages, books, cats. She/her.
Community Libraries Network @communitylibs.bsky.social The Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network helps CMLs to run effectively and successfully by sharing ideas, learning, experiences and inspiration. communitylibrariesnetwork.org
Lighthouse Policy Design @lighthousepd.bsky.social Amplifying diverse voices and equipping teams with the tools and methods to create impactful, inclusive policies.
https://www.lighthousepolicydesign.co.uk/- M Mizan Syed @mizansyed.bsky.social Head of Development at UK Prime Minister's Office & Cabinet Office. Code wrangler. Views expressed here are my own. Also on X @mizansyed
irenewarnermack @irenewarnermack.bsky.social Part of Team Mhor Collective. Thinks about digital inequality a lot.
Likes a good beach and a good coffee.
https://www.mhorcollective.com
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.
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
Kylie Noble @ksen12.bsky.social Irish journalist living in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Interests: healthcare, sexual health, public health, gender, queerness, relationships, society...
Aunt, plays football and enjoys Star Trek. AuDHD.
Scott Trust and Washington Ireland alum.
Sara Smith @mntechwriter.bsky.social Writer. Content designer. Knitter of words and yarns. Part-time AI whisperer, full-time skeptic. Obsessed with making the complex simple, except when it’s crochet patterns—those stay chaotic.
Shell Little @shellelittle.bsky.social ✨Officially building my 'WCAG for Designers' courses✨
Actually 3 Raccoons in a Trench-coat 🦝
Accessibility & Inclusive Design Specialist
#A11y, #GameA11y, #CogDis Educator & Keynote Speaker
AuDHD/hEDS/MCAS (she/they)
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
Marian Avery @madebymarian.bsky.social Content design and #accessibility specialist. Based in Ireland. Disabled. Ex GDS, Scottish Gov, DfE and Defra. Posts about my cat, #A11y and #DigitalInclusion. She/her
Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
Dan Craddock @slowburnweb.bsky.social Wurundjeri land. He/him/his. I help make government digital services better. I like and post about good design, rock’n’roll, cricket, and general silliness. Views are my own.
Snowball @snowballcommunity.bsky.social
What’s is Snowball??…Think TripAdvisor for the disabled community.
Apple https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/snowball-community/id1624679548
Android https://play.google.com/store/search?q=snowball+community&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US
Ben Collier @bencollier.uk Keen techie & dad, currently Head of Cloud & Engineering at Made Tech. Retrocomputing enthusiast, home brewer, chorister and maker of curries.
Julian B 🏴 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🔶(He/Him) @julianb77.bsky.social #UserCentred #ServiceDesign #Digital #SystemsThinking #Humanism #SocialPurpose #SDGs #Neurodivergent ❤️ GIG/NHS. Any views expressed are my own.
🤿🏋️♀️🎶
Pip @piprees.dev He / Him | Software Engineer & Product Designer from Wales 🏴
Prev UX Lead, Frontend Dev, and Graphic Designer.
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UX, UI, Graphics, Design Systems, Typography, Motion, Web Development, Accessibility, Serverless, and Hacky fixes.
https://piprees.dev
Tina Reynolds @tinareynolds.bsky.social Chartered librarian. Interests include legal tech & innovation, KM, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
SLA Europe @slaeurope.bsky.social We're a community of information professionals & librarians across Europe. Proud to be part of the Special Library Association (SLA) global network - join us!
Website: https://www.sla-europe.org
@jo-scho.bsky.social @jo-scho.bsky.social Content design and strategy.
Daniel Masterson @danielmasterson.bsky.social Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Skövde, Sweden
#Coproduction #Codesign #Cocreation
#healthpsychology #healthcommunication
#healthyurbanplanning #behaviourchange
www.co-produce.com- J @janinesheridan.bsky.social @janinesheridan.bsky.social
Chris Yiu @yiu.co.uk Technology and public policy · https://yiu.co.uk
Aoife @chiefbreenie.bsky.social product manager
disabled and liver transplant recipient
whippet owner/servant
she/her
/dev/mash @mash85.bsky.social Principal Software Developer. Civil Servant. Drummer. Gamer. Runner. Cyclist. Humanist. Dopamine enthusiast. Views my own.
Rebekah Barry @rebekahbarry.bsky.social Content and strategy consultant.
Author of Considerate Content - How to make your content more inclusive and accessible, with a focus on neurodivergence and health conditions.
https://contentdesign.london/shop/considerate-content-by-rebekah-barry
Jonathan Cairns-Terry @jayseatea.bsky.social Dep. Dir. of Insight Products at the Care Quality Commission, applying a product approach to analytics interfaces. South West-based.
Husband, father, Christian, school governor, sports fan. Adopted Aussie.
Views my own.
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.
Dani @danisg.bsky.social brummie down south. head of brand, marketing & comms at @power2org.bsky.social, previously Good Things Foundation.
interests: content design, digital comms, youth development, social justice
striving to elevate the voices of systemically excluded people
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
Craig J. Bass @craigjbass.bsky.social Strategy, tech & products to improve society. Principal Software Engineer @madetech.bsky.social (he/him/they/them)
Kate kate @katehannah.bsky.social
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Judi @judi.graysky.social Suffolk mum and CEO of St Elizabeth Hospice. Passionate about health equity and encouraging Compassionate Communities to support one another. Posting mostly personal but bit of work too, opinions are all my own.
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
Rumman Amin @rumman.bsky.social Delivery in Gov @ Softwire. Currently working w/ MHCLG & UKEF | Prev. Head of Delivery at Homes England | Ex GDS
rummanamin.co.uk
Ian Ames @ames.world I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred way.
Anagram of Amnesia.
Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social #Research & #Design at @merlan.bsky.social ⟹ Narrow of purpose, wide of vision. ツ
Jonty @fairless.xyz Service designer for the climate emergency, mechanic, & cargobike charity trustee. Used to work night shift.
📍Edinburgh 🏴
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
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.
Martha Edwards @maredwards.bsky.social Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
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
Dan Spicer @danspicer.bsky.social Work on local government policy and strategy - mostly health related, also currently working on engagement and participation. Curious about pretty much everything else. Some singing. Cats. (Politically restricted)
Debbie Blanchard @debblanch44.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams, lover of theatre, drinker of gin...
Government Product Person and community builder
Volunteer @guidedogs.
Tailender.
School governor, Enterprise Advisor
She/her
Jukesie @jukes.ie Bristolian | internet of public service person | comic book collector | street art seeker | Adidas obsessive | 50s | UK
https://jukes.ie
Tom Steel @tomsteel.co.uk Doing digital things for the public sector https://iam.tomsteel.co.uk
Chris Bush @chrisbush.bsky.social Head of Design Group @ Nexer
Bit of a geek.
Loves all things inclusion.
Very antiracist.
https://gather.human.cx (Resources)
https://www.human.cx (Personal site)
https://www.nexergroup.com
Drunk @drunkstudent.bsky.social I'm Mike Smith. Banned by twitter for drunk twits.
Lagom Strategy @lagomstrategy.bsky.social We are Lagom Strategy, a small user research and service design agency, helping people make smart, user-centred decisions about digital services.
https://www.lagomstrategy.net/
Ros (she/her) @rosboyes.bsky.social Lead Interaction Designer at HMCTS
Jayne Hilditch @jayne.eurosky.social Working the dream. Living in the Alps purealps.com - fractional FD at wearearrival.com and basis.co.uk - NED at dxw.com - growing veg - cycling - skiing - language learning 🇫🇷
Nia Campbell @niacampbell.bsky.social Work: NHS Wales App. Member: @transform.wales
Eternal optimist. Goofball. Cymraes. She/her.
Check your boobs. Views mine.
https://medium.com/@niacampbell
Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com Freelance interaction designer. X-GOVUK contributor. London dad. Car-free cities. Working for NHS England.
https://www.frankieroberto.com
Charlotte Claussen @cphcharli.bsky.social Professional pessimist.
Word nerd, chocolate addict, and wannabe salsa dancer.
Content Folks @contentfolks.bsky.social Content Folks has now ended. Thanks to everyone who helped build it into a brilliant community for content designers! www.content-folks.com
Paul Smith @paulmsmith.bsky.social Lead Interaction Designer at NHS England. Generally designing, prototyping, coding & problem solving. Often drinking a disproportionate amount of tea in rainy Manchester.
Victoria Stead @victoriastead.bsky.social Service Designer in HE, Natural Voice Leader, inclusive singing circles and workshops.
Sarah Lay @sarahlay.bsky.social Music writer. Record label owner. Novelist. And also Local Gov UX/Content Designer 💜
Alex Hall @waysanddreams.bsky.social Systems design, design systems.
Design, strategy, systems, content, politics.
Interested in everything. Everything is connected.
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.
Rachel Edwards @rachelanne.bsky.social Content designer, gardener, baker and bad crafter. Badger mad. My dog is my best feature.
Gwen Henderson @gwenderson.bsky.social Freelance content designer/consultant, writer, actor/voice actor and musician. Dysgu Cymraeg. Based in Bristol.
Lisa Matthews, PhD @poetech.bsky.social Poet & Creative Writing academic • Asemics & sculpture • Deer @ copper.hart • Collage @voila_ici • @Tine.Studios co-founder • Latest book “Hartsongs” with BlueprintPress. UK civil servant by day, digital content designer, UX writer and ND-inclusive #UCD.
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social Content/UX and contemporary archaeology. Human/dog mom. She/her.
Allergic to unwanted advice.
Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social Content strategy and content design for charities and arts orgs. Also: Brighton, plants, my dog, typos.
Tom Youll @tomyoull.bsky.social A vinyl record buyer, a coffee drinker, a wearer of caps, a drinker of beer, a holder of opinions, he/him/they/them.
Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca Open Standards & Practices lead at @CivicActions.com | #Drupal #Accessibility | Digital Services Coalition Board | @w3c Invited Expert #SustainableWeb #ARRM | http://ox.ca | #SolarPunk #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian #WebAlmanac #IAAPCPWA
#UNOpenSourceWeek