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Dafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 14/05/2026
There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...
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AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector
Guidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.
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ADHD Pathfinding @handle.invalid · 20/01/2026
We're looking for two part-time volunteers with lived experience of ADHD: a Content Designer and Graphic Designer. Both roles are flexible (4–6 hours/week). Want to help us prototype a guidance service and build our new website and visual identity? Email: adhdpathfinding@googlegroups.com
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Why does your change initiative stall even when everyone nods along in the meeting? Based on a talk given by Katherine Wastell and Alexander Blandford at Camp Digital 2025, our blog post shows you how to actually move things forward when the organisation resists. public.digital/pd-insights/...
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
2025 was a landmark year for our team. We were proud to welcome 29 new colleagues to support our growing business. As we step into 2026, we’re excited to keep that momentum going with a fresh group of starters joining us this January. Welcome to the team! public.digital/about-pd/our...
Headshots of PD's 29 new starters in 2025.
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UK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 05/01/2026
As well as sorting out the last minute details for GovCamp 2026 we're also planning for the long term. We want to set up GovCamp as an official non-profit company. To do that we need a Board of Trustees. We've previously asked for volunteers but, while good people, they're all straight white men.
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Watch our Business Development Lead, Jack Hughes, reflect on some of PD's 2025 highlights in our video Year Note. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZu7...
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Public Digital's 2025 Year Note, with Jack Hughes
YouTube video by Public Digital
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just as your services adapt to users, your organisation must adapt to exponential market change. public.digital/dynamic-oper...
An image with a dark grey background and a pattern of small grey diamonds. Text reads: "Just as your services adapt to users your organisation must adapt to exponential market change."
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Most of the time we’re not designing the products and services – we’re designing the system to put users at the heart of it." Design Week interviews PD's Senior Director Katherine Wastell. www.designweek.co.uk/there-is-no-...
Public Digital's Senior Design Director Katherine Wastell.
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zuz @zuz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We're delighted to welcome Olivia Elson to Public Digital as a Director in the Global Impact team. public.digital/about-pd/our...
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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Follow @adhdpathfinding.org.uk to hear about this new volunteer group helping people with “undiagnosed” #ADHD in the UK Background: - millions of us - mostly unsupported/no access to helpful meds - waiting lists years long - access to lists denied for older people
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Maryblessing @ukdevv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I'm hosting an unconference for community professionals in Lagos, Nigeria on July 12, 2025. If you enjoy having an open and honest conversation around the messy and grey areas of building a community regardless of the industry, you should plan to attend! Link in thread 👇
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Ian Ames @ames.world · 30/06/2025
It's looking likely I'll be back helping to deliver services in the #NHS again soon. It's been 3 years since my last stint with the awesome #111online team and I'm trying to get the lay of the land, what's changed, what hasn't? Let me know in the comments or drop me a DM if you're up for a chat 👍
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How do we repair the mess Trump & the tech titan have made? Public servants who know how to build things can tell us. Here’s @merici.bsky.social, who built IRS Direct File AND helped launched the beloved CFPB on @cnn.com with @philmattingly.bsky.social transcripts.cnn.com/show/cg/date...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A piece of career advice I give people I mentor is to go where you are valued. It means it’s important to be in a role where you are respected, recognized and rewarded. Sometimes despite tenure, it’s better to leave and accelerate your career trajectory versus staying where you’ve been written off.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”
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Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity
JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools
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Ian Ames @ames.world · 23/05/2025
I am going to buy 2 places on @ewebber.bsky.social's fantastic new self paced learning course, for people traditionally marginalised in the #digital industry if you're interested, or know someone let me know 👍 (inspired by @deanvipond.bsky.social recent offer for UCD folks ❤️)
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Building Successful Communities of Practice in organisations
Take this self-paced course to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Learn about the benefits for members and organisations, how to build them and ...
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Bookmarking this
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 14/05/2025
AI is doing the coursework. AI is writing the resume based on the coursework that AI did. AI is reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did. AI is doing the jobs gotten by AI reading the resumes that AI wrote that were based on the coursework that AI did.
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Join us in Westminster on 7 May for Data Bites #55. Speakers include: 🔹 Alex Blandford (Public Digital & Oxford) 🔹 Laura Gilbert (Ellison Institute) 🔹 Ed Humpherson on data, trust & regulation 🔹 MHCLG on Local Digital & AI 📍Broadway House, London SW1H
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Data Bites #55
Data Bites #55
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Exciting news! I'm launching my brand new online self-paced course very soon. With videos, reading, and hands-on activities, learn how to identify, form, grow, and supercharge communities of practice in and across organisations. Sign up now to receive a discount at launch tacit.pub/onlinecourse
Building Successful Communites of Practice with Emily Webber

Coming soon, sign up now for a discount at launch.

Learn how to form, grow, supercharge and measure communities of practice in or across organisations 

An online self-paced course at https://tacit.pub/onlinecourse
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 16/04/2025
If you're an #HTML nerd, I would love your help. I've released a new Pretty-Printer for PHP 8.4's Dom\HTMLDocument class. Could you please go to shkspr.mobi/blog/random and hit view source in your browser. Does everything look OK? Anything weird? It should all be formatted nicely. THANKS!
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 31/03/2025
A special edition of my newsletter focused on the Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team vacancies (and principles). @karakane-kk.bsky.social newsletter.digitalbydefault.jobs/internet-of-...
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - Test/Learn/Grow
This is a special edition supporting the Cabinet Office's Test, Learn and Grow team with their recruitment campaign. I have nothing to do with the team in any capacity and nobody asked me to do it but...
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Sharon Dale (she/they) @pixlz.com · 24/03/2025
If you have some training budget you would like to use up before the end of the financial year, I have some availability for coaching sessions. Make an inquiry here, let me know your timescales and anything else important and I will be in touch. 21cmindset.com/inquiry/
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Inquiry | 21st Century Mindset
Please complete this form to make an inquiry. I will be in touch A.S.A.P.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/03/2025
Blog entry: "It’s important that we reconsider how much to government software development outsource. I don’t mean what percentage of development, I mean the extent of each project that is handed off to a vendor. What might it look like to reduce the outsourced extent, if that would reduce risk?"
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Don’t outsource control.
Agencies often outsource projects so thoroughly that they give up their ability to control the projects’ outcomes. What does it look like to retain control?
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Kara Kane @karakane-kk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team are hiring 11 roles across product, delivery management, data analysis and design. Come work with us on public sector reform! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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Quick Check NeededGOV.UK
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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 12/03/2025
Do you use an API? Do you run an API? Then I'd love to hear from you! I'm supporting the ONS with some work looking at the current API landscape and best practice (esp government, and esp stats) We have a short survey - v grateful for thoughts, and please share! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FISUES/
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API users survey March 2025
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 05/03/2025
This is a very good piece of writing.
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Governments must design digital services that work for everyone, not just the digitally connected. 🌍 Public Digital’s Head of Africa, @abisola.bsky.social explored the importance of inclusive digital transformation on our blog. This week, ICT Works featured it on their site. Read it here: 🔗
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3 Examples: Inclusive Digital Transformation Government Services - ICTworks
digital transformation efforts address inclusive, user-centred digital government services that meet citizens where they are in 3 countries
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 02/03/2025
#18F site wiped from internet. Some parts have been saved & reposted. Dug Falby has the Methods pages goodlookslikethis.com/guides.18f.g... #GovDesign #ServiceDesign
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methods homepage | 18F Methods
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When we pick up the pieces in the future of a broken humanity, will we look back on social media timeline algorithms as a major contributor to our collective demise?
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Rich Blake @richblake.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
👀 Mid level and Senior Developers in Bristol, London and Manchester Last week GOV.UK Pay completed £38.80m in payments safely, securely and accessibly. 💸 We are recruiting permanent roles until 24th February 2025. Apply now www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi....
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Mid-level and Senior Developers - Products and Services - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK
Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A really interesting take. Thanks for sharing Dan.
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Merici @merici.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Direct File is live and you can now choose to import your tax information directly from the IRS. 💥 Direct File is a free, secure, accurate product from the IRS - and it is available in 25 states. Visit DirectFile.irs.gov to check eligibility and learn more.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is big, bold, impressive stuff from the government of Manitoba under Wab Kinew. They plan to eliminate homeless encampments in the province one-by-one, not with police force, but by going in and giving them housing based on their needs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba plans to shut down homeless encampments one at a time, finding housing for each person | CBC News
Premier Wab Kinew has released a long-awaited plan — involving municipal and Indigenous governments and non-profit organizations — to end chronic homelessness by methodically decommissioning encampmen...
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James Arthur Cattell @jacattell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Hello 🙂 I'm looking for my next public sector role and would appreciate your support. Let me know if you hear of anything or wanna catch up. #OpenToWork 💼 Preferably agile delivery manager. 📜 Open to contract, permanent or temporary roles. 🌎 Remote or based in Manchester, London or Sheffield.
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Good shout
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I really like this
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Abisola @abisola.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Good to see it’s working.
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