Giles Turnbull
@gilestur.bsky.social
\o/ https://gilest.org • https://usethehumanvoice.com
if you were one of the people who grabbed one of these -- thank you! i'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback or you know, you could write me a letter (seriously: dm me for address)
Undermanager@undermanager.bsky.social · last wk.All gone. Thank you for playing.
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How to write a letter
A limited edition of 50. A single sheet of A4, written, typed and hand photocopied by Giles Turnbull I wrote a blog post about it: "Giles and I were swapping postcards a while ago. Middle-aged affecta...
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This will be good
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3mo agoInaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/05... bacon.boutique
Sourcefeed creates standalone RSS feeds: No website, no newsletter. Just your words, delivered to your readers’ rss reader. It’s an appealing, if eccentric idea, explained more in a blog post. https://ift.tt/3CRsqEm
It’s been 10 years since I published Building Successful Communities of practice…. To celebrate I’ve published a second edition. Currently at a special price to pre-order (UK only) hellotacit.com/building-suc...
Building Successful Communities of Practice Second Edition (pre-order)
Pre-order the second edition of Building Successful Communities of Practice.
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And a new website to boot - www.opensafely.org
OpenSAFELY - A platform for analysing large, sensitive datasets
OpenSAFELY is a platform for analysing large, sensitive datasets – safely and securely. OpenSAFELY is built by a team at the Bennett Institute.
opensafely.org
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 5mo agoOpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
Did not expect a capybara explaining brexit to be so affecting
someone gave me an amaryllis so consider this the first of a new potato update style series
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...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
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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 :)
listening to my copies this evening, hurrah \o/
Burning Shed@burningshed.com · 10mo agoThe Lilac Time Looking For A Day In The Night (2025 reissue) and Live CD / vinyl preorders shipped, now in stock including exclusive blue vinyl: https://burningshed.com/store/needlemythology #TheLilacTime #LookingForADayInTheNight #IndieMusic #LiveAlbum #Music #MusicSky #VinylSky
Stop what you're doing and go buy a copy of The Cords debut album, chock full of jingly-jangly riffs, soft harmonies, la la las, and enough 80s indie nostalgia to storm to the top of the Festive Fifty. thecordsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
The Cords, by The Cords
13 track album
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COME TO OUR CONFERENCE! Lots of people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet... Until now! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford. www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-...
2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
The two-day 2025 Bennett Institute Medicines Symposium will take place at Jesus College in Oxford on 10–11 December 2025.
bennett.ox.ac.uk
Cutting my lunchtime sandwich into triangles. I deserve it.
This might be useful: Signboard, a simple desktop kanban app that stores its data in Markdown files cdevroe.com/2025/09/16/s...
Signboard - A kanban app that writes Markdown files
I've wanted this for a long time - a kanban style productivity desktop app that writes Markdown files to disk. And that is what Signboard is. It looks like this. Signboard 0.2.1 And here is
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New theory: eventually, all first names will be used as AI product names giles.app
Giles® - Home
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To anyone that was sad that they missed out on the hard copy of the Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net) - be ready, you can have another chance! At: 10am ET (US) 4pm/16:00 CET (Europe) ..this page is to stop frowning, and allow you to place an order: livingweb.metalabel.com/internetphon...
Internet Phone Book
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Pu...
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had some stuff to get off my chest about strategies ~ gilest.org/notes/strate...
gilest.org: The strategy is enquiry
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Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio
Note to Self by Gina Trapani
A blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.
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An oldie from the archives: some tweets that Pretend Office might have sent... gilest.org/shoebox/pret...
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