Please help me get this story out to a wider audience. Please share everywhere. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]

Gender-affirming care saves lives

The BBC was founded to “provide impartial news”. If it's going to be the UK's biggest media organisation, it has to do its job right. Hold the BBC to account 👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/tell-the-BBC-to-stop-attacking-trans-people?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=socials

🚨🚨 " The BBC is far from perfect but it remains the most trusted news source in the world. To live up to its promises, it needs more independence, not less. More secure funding, not less. It needs to be set free, not shackled; defended, not attacked." Great stuff by @chrischirp.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

Worth noting that the flu jab at Superdrug is only £9.95 if you sign up for their loyalty card.

This is an amazingly useful analysis of what is happening in US under Trump - and spilling into the rest of the world. Thank you for your time and expertise, @chrischirp.bsky.social The Trump Action Tracker has had an update! open.substack.com/pub/christin...

it's just so so mad and evil, as I pointed out yesterday! Clearly, I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.

From 5–11 October, we’ll be celebrating the books that have been banned, challenged or censored, and celebrating the people who write, publish and share them. We believe everyone deserves the right to read freely. View our curated list of #bannedbooks at: librarian.syndetics.com/syn.../lp/78...

OpenUK needs some additional Non-Executive Board members to join our strategic Board at a critical time in the future of open technology. Find out more openuk.uk/openukboard/... #openuk #boardrecruitment

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

For those horrified by the increasing blatant anti-immigrant rhetoric, and who are able to, supporting Refugees at Home either financially or hosting refugees in your spare room while they find their feet (and accommodation) is one way to resist. We are expecting our latest guest later today!

Thanks for listening to my list of OpenAPI changes for 3.2 #apidayslondon ! The slides are available here noti.st/lornajane/G3...

I don’t miss Twitter in my real life, but I still feel its absence at tech events. Did we just stop telling speakers we enjoyed their talks, stop connecting with the people we cross paths with, and stop carrying on the conversation in digital space? I do miss that.

Today I’m a very proud and happy open standards maintainer: OpenAPI 3.2 is now available! The release notes are a good place to find out what’s new (it’s a lot!) github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-... Huge thanks to our contributor community, you are amazing!!

Politicians are using fear about trans+ people to distract from the systemic issues that actually harm women — underfunded services, economic and health inequalities, and male violence (predominantly perpetrated by men that women already know). Don't approve? Sign our letter 👉 change.org/nion_women

API Design Reviews Don't Have to be Hard apisyouwonthate.com/blog/api-des... chose this article for #linkTuesday as it has been an API reviews kind of a week! Checklists are where it starts, automation is where it goes next.

This science story has everything: - a superheroic scientist who has the condition she is battling to drive work on - a riveting scientific breakthrough story (I was gasping) - an absolute gutpunch about whether her work will be defunded www.science.org/content/arti...

⚠️ Women in the UK don’t need to be told what danger looks like — we live it every day. ⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023) ⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023). It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.

I've returned a few times to this article and find something fresh each time! "these generalists can dissect unfamiliar challenges, spot first-principles patterns, and make confident design decisions". Expert Generalists martinfowler.com/articles/exp... #linkTuesday

Calling a trans woman a man/male is transphobic. Calling a trans man a woman/female is transphobic. Calling a non-binary individual by their birth sex is transphobic.

🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...

We mostly do OpenAPI meetings in US-centric timezones but this week I’m doing a EU morning slot in case anyone wants to come and talk API things! Please share with any API friends who will be awake at this time?

I thought it might be helpful to do a more general immunology explainer which I can then build on for example when I discuss specific papers or political actions. Do let me know if its useful and other topics if so. This first one is a general one about how we tackle infections... 🧪 #ImmunoSky

We urge all rights-focused orgs to: ❌ Stop working with the EHRC ❌ Reject its guidance ✅ Stand with trans & non-binary communities Until it serves all citizens, the EHRC serves none. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #EHRC #Equality #LGBTQ — Feminist Gender Equality Network" bit.ly/4me1X9Z 2/2

I've been thinking a lot about this post on Lead Developer about hiring force multipliers and how those people operate in the workplace. Read the article, and the links, I couldn't pick just one quote to share! leaddev.com/hiring/how-h... #linkTuesday (thanks @jkriggins and @leaddev!)

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

Nominate yourself or a colleague in the OpenUK Awards 2025 Open Source Software category sponsored by Red Badger 💫 openuk.uk/awards Shortlist September #software #openukawards #opensource 🏆🌟

Why are there so few women in the tech industry? If you think you know the answer, read the report wearetechwomen.com/2025-lovelac... and then tell me if you were right? Then share it with a friend or colleague. #linkTuesday

I could never have imagined, before I started doing this work, that I would come to believe what I now do: in the sheer ugliness, venality and dishonesty, of Britain's media and institutions and politicians. They literally do not give a fuck. Sorry to those who know I should have got here sooner.

we've already sold 1000 copies of The Secret Rules of the Terminal since it came out on Tuesday!! so to celebrate I'm giving away 1000 copies to anyone who can't afford to buy one. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy if $12 USD is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

It’s new job time! Yesterday was my first day with www.tmforum.org where I’ll be helping publish Open API standards (described by OpenAPI, I know it’s confusing!) that can be adopted across industries. First impressions: Enterprise software tools are a very different world!

Nobody should be tracking periods with cloud-based tools right now, anywhere. Use a paper diary, mislabel the data, and make sure to add a lot of other “habit tracking” noise and cutesy stickers there. And tell your friends.

How to continue to do the right thing for your trans colleagues and customers, from the brilliant folks at Gendered Intelligence. ow.ly/3g6350VZZqa

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

Reminder that this time tomorrow (noon London time, Wednesday 21st May), it's the digital OpenUK meetup. Our topic is "digital sovereignty" which seems ... timely - and we have two great speakers. Open to everyone, hope you can make it! Details and sign up here: www.meetup.com/openuk/event...

Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance. In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj

I'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: skamille.medium.com/things-i-cur... @skamille.themanagerswrath.com is a thoughtful read #linkTuesday

We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act. (And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...

I'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking smallsheds.garden/blog/2025/fi... #linkTuesday Which level do you use?

Your open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. lornajane.net/posts/2025/j... Bring the basics, instantly benefit your project, and also create a space for future contributions!

"We get better at being who we actually are" is an excellent summary of my experience of trans people. They've thought a lot longer and harder about who they want to grow up to be than most of us have.

Also, Allies, don't forget to write to your MP. Tell them you don't support this attack on trans people's rights to be free from discrimination, to privacy, to access to the workplace and public life.

Thread -please read all of it 1/8 An extraordinary day in London. Many thousands. The police seemed blindsided by the way we completely filled Parliament Sq & later the surrounding streets and then St James’ Park. And wow did we need it. But…

In this post "Consent-Based Computing", I think Heidi Waterhouse is articulating some my own feelings, reflections and choices about the tools around us today and the tradeoffs I'm prepared to make. heidiwaterhouse.com/consent-base... #linkTuesday