2 zero waste plastic- and panic-free shops (Digbeth & Bournville) open in Birmingham with sensible precautions and plenty of stock :). Just remember to take your containers and wash your hands on way in!

Here's everything you need to know about how to join us live online for #TICTeC next week. Please spread the word! mysociety.org/2020/03/18/tic…

South Brummies, get your bike tuned up to take some safe exercise in the weeks ahead! Pop down to the excellent Birmingham Bike Foundry co-op in Stirchley. They'll meet you outside to keep social distance & sort your bike expertly and speedily. "Solidarity in separation" :).

One of our young Windows on the World makers will be on BBC Birmingham & Black Country at 10:15 tomorrow am talking about the project! #WotW

ODSC wish to extend a happy International Workers Day to all :-) We have been a worker-owned organisation from the very start and we've recently turned five! Check out our birthday blog post to learn more about our journey: medium.com/opendatacoop/o…

For community data projects to be useful, we need to think about the challenges they face: getting good data and keeping it fresh. @jarofgreen has shared his tips for doing this work well 👇 medium.com/opendatacoop/c…

Hello (lovely) nerds. I'm trying to build a list of tech companies and projects that are doing non-evil, actively good things. Tell me about some? Also, RT for a bigger sample set, if it's not a bother 💖

Pleased to see National Data Strategy flags forthcoming work on data standards across govt. 3 open data standards we work on (OCDS, IATI & 360Giving) are now official UK govt data standards. We look forward to feeding in more to the strategy gov.uk/government/con…. (by dr pindec)

Fantastic work all! It's been great over the past few months to collaborate with Presidential Hackathon teams across the world to get them up and running with OCDS & OC4IDS.

It’s #CoopFortnight! This year Co-operatives UK are encouraging people to #JoinACoop. We'll be hiring soon – so sign up to our jobs newsletter and we’ll keep you in the loop when we publish new opportunities to join our co-operative. opendatacoop.medium.com/heads-up-were-…

📢 We're hiring! We’re looking data analysts to provide open data publisher support. You will work with a wide variety of organisations to help them publish and use open data using specific open data standards. Head to our jobs page for more details 👇 opendataservices.coop/jobs/

Go work *with* not *for* these lovely people if you want interesting, ethical "data for good" work. It's a co-op so you get to co-own and co-run the company with profit sharing and a flat hierarchy! ❤️

Fantastic to see a focus on female scientists at the #UKHSA22 conference

Turns out if you buy a lovely print from Kate at thecraftybrum.com you also get a beautiful hand written message :)

My friend Stephen is a horological genius, and here's his ace talk on what drives him to magic up new watch mechanisms, including why he doesn't enjoy it much despite winning the watch oscars, the joy/pain of detail and sewage pumping stations youtube.com/live/J1xQWripj…

Assembling slides for a talk about Open Data Standards and why they're awesome, needed a fictional person as an example, went with little Bobby Tables :) xkcd.com/327/

Chatting to llama3 pretending to be the orang-utan Librarian from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, thanks to ollama making local install super-easy. Was expecting a few more "ooks" :).

"We are the asteroid *and* we are the dinosaur", but "the beauty is in the pattern recognition". Jeanette Winterson on AI. Art. You. at KCL :)