Tomorrow evening! It'll be great!

Hypothesis. The actual migration numbers don't matter *at all*. Instead plot "dissatisfaction with immigration" vs. "how much immigration is headlined in the media". People aren't riled up by new neighbours - but by what the press tells them to be angry about.

When I first moved to Wales, I was told that “nobody understood the Barnett Formula”. We really should - not only is it inherently unfair, but gaming it - whether over HS2 or employers’ NI - is how Westminster routinely denies Welsh Government the resources to discharge its responsibilities.

Imagine the Parliamentary Questions, the Times editorials, if a piece of national scientific infrastructure had been rendered inaccessible. Instead other than an honourable FT weekend piece, no one has paid any attention to the troubles continuing to beset our national library

(and presenters)

Enjoying the introduction to the talks virtually tonight at #pddatabites, shame I couldn't make this one in person.

Isaac will talk about the incredible results and impact of councilclimatescorecards.uk - and I'll whine about how we need to build obscure datasets like "a list of all the local authorities" to do it.

🚨 FULL LINE-UP CONFIRMED 🚨 Tomorrow at 6pm we'll hear from: - Ishmael Burdeau, DWP - @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social - Isaac Beevor @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social, and @alexparsons.bsky.social @mysociety.org - @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social, North London Waste Authority Join us!

Every week we get an email or letter along the lines of "are you looking to sell the company, if so we can help" generally poorly framed, I wonder if these type of emails ever actually generate interest - they don't fill you with a sense of trust in the business

🚨 ONE WEEK TODAY 🚨 Data Bites #54, an environment/sustainability special! With: - DWP's Ishmael Burdeau on digital sustainability - @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social @mysociety.org on climate scorecards - @lizlutgendorff.bsky.social on tracking waste Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-bites...

This has been one of the team's key projects :-)

Looking forward to the SETsquared Bristol: Start up Stories event tonight at the Engine Shed Bristol. It's always great to return to the EngineShed. lnkd.in/eG5tdGVv #startup #incubator #bristol

absolutely no shade on @stokel.bsky.social for an incredible scoop but the fact that this is FOIable is an absolute disaster www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

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/

LLMs Are Getting Better at #SQL if you have a well defined semantic model datamonkeysite.com/2025/03/07/l...

News: #BeneficialOwnership data for millions of companies registered in the UK and 30,000+ overseas entities has been republished in line with the latest version of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) from Open Ownership and Open Data Services. www.openownership.org/en/news/unit...

🚀 Exciting Leadership Opportunity in Data Strategy at GDS! 🚀 ... a great opportunity for a role that can make a meaningful difference. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Since I posted this last night we're now at 71 sign ups. Hope springs eternal 🍃🌼

Travelling to London this morning for some meetings and then @tpximpact.com Power of Data event tomorrow - I'm out of practice of what used to be an almost weekly trip for me! Looking forward to meeting up and discussions with lots of lovely people

📣 News Digest Week 8, 2025! In case you need some distraction and positive news, feel free to browse through the latest news digest, with updates from @fairmat.bsky.social, @nfdi4earth.bsky.social and @nfdi4chem.de. thefairelephant.com/2025/02/24/n... #FAIRElephantNews #FAIRdata #NaturalScience

Thanks for sharing, really interesting paper... one to spend some time think about

UK farmland at risk under system using 1940s data www.cpre.org.uk/news/uk-farm... from CPRE Land use and the Agricultural Land Classification www.cpre.org.uk/resources/la... report by Ellie Brodie Consultation on #landuse in England www.gov.uk/government/n... #soildata #foodsecurity #opendata

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

Saving Public Data Takes More Than Simple Snapshots - Digital archivists combine efforts to preserve complex government sites spectrum.ieee.org/internet-arc... #opendata #data #preservation

@jenitennison.com @connectedbydata.org breaks down what it takes to build public trust in data - from transparent governance to ethical decision-making. 📅 Join Power of Data 2025 for expert insights & exclusive first access to the State of Data report.! Sign up now: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gmRX90

🚀 Exciting News! Join us for Solid World on 24 Feb, our first as stewards of Solid at the ODI! Solid is a web standard from Tim Berners-Lee’s MIT Lab, empowering users to control their data with Personal Online Data Stores. Come along and find out more. https://buff.ly/3QdHYtv

Shocking… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK government has ambitious plans for a National Data Library, and a lot of the important technical choices remain to be made. Together with Wellcome, ESRC is running a Technical White Paper challenge to invite proposals for how to make it work best - more below! wellcome.org/what-we-do/o...

And some past tech talks and other blog posts from the team…

Some of the team’s past projects

Delighted to say that "Failed State" has met the key benchmark of selling more hardback copies than Liz Truss's memoir.

Epimorphics Ltd turned 15 over the weekend. 🎂 We are celebrating another year making a difference with #data - thank you to everyone who's worked with us through that journey. #ConnectedData #DataProjects #DigitalTransformation #DataManagement www.epimorphics.com

This explains a great deal about why minority billionaire interests want to win elections. A world where renewables work at scale is a world where their investments become meaningless.

We're proud to have been assisting the public sector via #GCloud. We've been named as a supplier on the latest iteration of the CCS framework - GCloud14. See www.epimorphics.com/projects for projects or reach out. #DataStrategy #DigitalTransformation #DataManagement

New folks on Bluesky, I *beg* you to fill out your profiles with enough info we can tell you're a real person. I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots. If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.

I’ve been reading some interesting research on Aphantasia… which remains a poorly researched condition. This is something that I went over 40 years not realising I had, I didn’t realise most of you can actually see pictures in your mind!

What a week!

Over the last few weeks we’ve released data updates to the Regulated Products service, to our Agora Concept Store product for client testing, prepared a new release to the FSA Food Alerts editor service and undertaken a number of client workshops www.epimorphics.com #ConnectedData #OpenData

#ThisWeek the team started work on exciting projects with new clients (more soon), had conversations in support of a discovery project, prepped updates to services and updated our technology products. Thanks to everyone we’ve worked with or had conversations with this week. www.epimorphics.com

Spell your name using LandSat images landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

Last weekend before the girls go back to school, and our oldest just wants to watch “24”!!

Viewed more than 700,000 times so far! I really hope it's useful and worth the many hours of painstaking work, and fast tracking my myopia... 🤓

Some more takes on a National Data Library: ADR UK call it 'a brilliant aspiration, if built on solid foundations' www.adruk.org/news-publica... The Digital Twin Hub look at 'Data Sharing Infrastructure' digitaltwinhub.co.uk/data-sharing... (h/t @alexrcoley.bsky.social)

Some mesmerising lava images at night of the latest #eruption, provided by the Icelandic Coast Guard and Meteorological Office. The latest eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula started in the evening, Aug 22 at 9:26 pm, at the Sundhnúks crater series. The fissure is now 4 km long. ⚒️ #Geology 🧪🌋