Rob Cawston
Design | Content | Data | Culture | Thoughts
Digital Director @ National Library of Scotland. Cambridge United fan.
@veryfinelibrary.bsky.social
Info wrangler. Lifelong learner. Casual blogger https://veryfinelibrary.wordpress.com #Sustainability #Libraries #GreenLibraries #Skybrarians No DMs
@ashwhiffin.bsky.social
🪲 Entomologist, bonkers about beetles 🏛 Museum Curator 🏴 Usually found turning over logs/stones or poking in dead stuff. (she/her) 🔗 https://linktr.ee/Ash_Whiffin
@jamesmkemp.bsky.social
Public servant, delivering change mostly. Have worked in many departments. Based in Scotland. #GovPDC Explorer Scout Leader, sometimes gamer & writer
@watty62.bsky.social
Open Data advocate. Charity founder and trustee. Wikimedia UK trainer. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python, LLMs etc. Enthusiastic reader. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen
@hilaryonline.bsky.social
MD @Nexerdigital.bsky.social. Interests veer wildly from pop culture and TV/film nostalgia, to LGBTQ+, Eurovision and digital inclusion. Cumbrian. LWithTheT
@roblancefield.bsky.social
Working with people + museum content | information | technology, now retired and still engaged with how people, collections, and digital technologies intersect. #MuseTech, #OpenContent, #Repatriation, #Ethnomusicology, more.
@theandrewtf.bsky.social
Senior Developer at FAMSF, museum technologist, history geek, occasional ukulelist, sometime Minecrafter, guinea pig herder, dad to two well above average kids, Cal alumnus — Go Bears!
@louise-cole.bsky.social
Production Director at Cogapp @cogapp.bsky.social Agency for digital projects, building a better online world. www.cogapp.com
@farrah-nazir.bsky.social
📊 EDI Insights & Learning Lead at @wellcometrust.bsky.social 🔥 Cofounder New Fables Collective https://newfablescollective.com ✨ “What we cannot imagine cannot come into being” bell hooks ✍🏽 https://farrah-nazir.medium.com/
@taras.net
Author, "Nuclear War in the UK" (Four Corners Books, 2019) / "Apocalypse Ready" (Thames & Hudson, 2022). Does marketing for designers. Not really here.
@joostvervoort.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Connecting serious action with deep playfulness. Futures, politics, video games, art, activism. Working on ALL WILL RISE. Singer in Terzij de Horde. Insta: @joost.vervoort_artwork
@oonaghtweets.bsky.social
Work at the intersection of AI and Culture - BRAID Responsible AI Fellow at Arts Council England. Turing Fellow. Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths. www.oonaghmurphy.com
@daghensten.bsky.social
Senior adviser in digital stuff at Nasjonalmuseet, Norway GLAM data, IIIF, APIs, Linked data - and more!
@thewhynotlab.com
Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance, data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏 www.thewhynotlab.com
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected]
@triketora.com
founder & ceo @blockpartyapp.com: helping you deep clean your socials and live a better online life harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
@jennschiffer.com
alpha goblin, candlemaker jennschiffer.com bugsrock.online livelaugh.blog
@infovore.bsky.social
standing at the intersection of the liberal arts and technology, spinning a GOLF SALE sign
@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
@couldrynick.bsky.social
I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
@lainenooney.bsky.social
💾 associate prof of computers + video games @ MCC @ NYU 🕹️ managing ed of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social https://romchip.org 🍎 The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal https://linktr.ee/lainenooney they/them
@hadleybeeman.bsky.social
Architect for #openstandards & the Web. Tech policy. Co-founder of 300Seconds. Data & security geek. Active in NHS, UK gov & W3C. @[email protected]
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@abpowell.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/ Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
@smithsam.bsky.social
Believes in better data with informed privacy for all. Day job @medconfidential amongst other things. he/him http://is.gd/samblog 🧘♂️ #FILDI Cambridge
@wesleygoatley.bsky.social
Critical artist + researcher. Analysing AI's impact on climate, art, and technopolitics. PhD in critical tech & art. Programme Director of Interaction Design and Visual Communication at University of the Arts London. http://lnk.bio/wesleygoatley
@yasminibison.bsky.social
Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities, place + technology she/her Views my own.
@annapendergrast.bsky.social
Writing about tech, data and infrastructure + their impacts on people and planet. Occasional posts about buildings and food. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand.
@ndkane.bsky.social
Curator of Digital Design at V&A. Trustee - The National Videogame Museum. Advisory board, Society for Computers and Law. Curator - Design and Disability, opening June 2025. she/they ndkane.com IM SORRY ILL FIX IT
@tigershungry.co.uk
Creative director and playful curator. Rethinking exhibitions & experiential design. Studio lead at http://goodafternoon.uk you might also recognise me from W/Mild Rumpus, the V&A, a party in a shared google doc & the grannies
@orbenamy.bsky.social
tech + teens + better science @ http://digitalmentalhealth.group // Group Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge // Fellow + Director of Studies, St. John's College // 📸 marcus ginns
@dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. I am, ashamedly, a curator now too Digital Curator @ National Museum of AfAm History and Culture but all opinions my own, not my employer's www.dorothy-berry.com
@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
@crystaljjlee.com
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼 crystaljjlee.com
@carolinesinders.bsky.social
Human rights centered design, art, and policy https://www.convocation.design/ New Orleans and London
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@nathwself.bsky.social
Works @Promocymru Development, Digital, Design. Writes a fair bit. Moving through dog walking, climbing, BJJ.
@jessbutler.bsky.social
Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian + Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen Trying to do useful things with big, messy, high-security data. Huge nerd for open science and public health https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/people/profiles/jessicabutler
@hmajewski.bsky.social
Digitizing museum collections and building collections databases since 2015. 3D scans stuff. Entomology and paleontology adjacent. Fungi are great. Would still love you if you were a worm.
@dzorich.bsky.social
Lapsed anthropologist. All things cultural heritage + digital. Thoughts expressed are my own. (Not the Connecticut-based realtor who shares my name, and sadly, my features.)
@alywebb.bsky.social
Digital and content strategy and research for cultural organisations.
@fredner.org
Digital humanities, C19-20 US literature, data about literary cultures This fall: Assistant Prof. of Digital Humanities and Literature at Oregon State https://fredner.org