Emily Macaulay
@emilyjmacaulay.bsky.social
Head of Delivery & Operations for Connected by Data. #RunningIsFunning, fundraiser for Jane Tomlinson Appeal, Trustee: LGBT+ Consortium & Reading List Foundation. 🏳️🌈 She/Her.
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A soul-filling, learning & inspiring day yesterday with some of the WRKWLL collective (in person & online🦉).
I feel lucky to work with such an incredible, diverse group of people bringing a depth & breadth of skills, knowledge & lived experiences together to have meaningful impact on social change.
I feel lucky to work with such an incredible, diverse group of people bringing a depth & breadth of skills, knowledge & lived experiences together to have meaningful impact on social change.
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A soul-filling, learning & inspiring day yesterday with some of the WRKWLL collective (in person & online🦉).
I feel lucky to work with such an incredible, diverse group of people bringing a depth & breadth of skills, knowledge & lived experiences together to have meaningful impact on social change.
I feel lucky to work with such an incredible, diverse group of people bringing a depth & breadth of skills, knowledge & lived experiences together to have meaningful impact on social change.
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FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including an interest in “Queer AI for the Ally” and “Will AI take my job?”
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Emily Weeknotes
What I’ve been doing
The busy-ness of the last couple of weeks has mainly been around the DfE work that we (well Tim really) is doing. I’ve helped with a bid of admin and been learning/playing with th...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including an interest in “Queer AI for the Ally” and “Will AI take my job?”
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The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
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Any ideas? 👇
We @connectedbydata.org are planning a conference next year (early March, in Manchester) about people, power and participation in (public sector) data and AI.
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
If you were coming, who would you really like to hear from as a keynote speaker to kick off the day?
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Any ideas? 👇
#FinishedWatching Moana 2
A good follow up to the first, had a little tear on my cheek at the end.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1362...
A good follow up to the first, had a little tear on my cheek at the end.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1362...
Moana 2 (2024) ⭐ 6.3 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
1h 40m | PG
m.imdb.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#FinishedWatching Moana 2
A good follow up to the first, had a little tear on my cheek at the end.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1362...
A good follow up to the first, had a little tear on my cheek at the end.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1362...
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Had the induction today to be a ranger with London National Park City. Unreasonably excited. What a brilliant movement. You can read more here: nationalparkcity.london
Welcome to London National Park City
London National Park City is the long-term grassroots movement for everyone making our city greener, healthier and wilder.
nationalparkcity.london
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Had the induction today to be a ranger with London National Park City. Unreasonably excited. What a brilliant movement. You can read more here: nationalparkcity.london
I have five tickets for Starlight Express TODAY at 14:30 (theatre is near Wembley). If you can use all / any please shout - would love them not to go to waste. 🚂💫
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I have five tickets for Starlight Express TODAY at 14:30 (theatre is near Wembley). If you can use all / any please shout - would love them not to go to waste. 🚂💫
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Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare.
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
Donate to Help me get some trans healthcare!!!, organized by A ER
Hi there!
I am a 29-year-old trans woman living in the UK (rip) and I need some healthca… A ER needs your support for Help me get some trans healthcare!!!
www.gofundme.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare.
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare.
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
Donate to Help me get some trans healthcare!!!, organized by A ER
Hi there!
I am a 29-year-old trans woman living in the UK (rip) and I need some healthca… A ER needs your support for Help me get some trans healthcare!!!
www.gofundme.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pleased to be able to be able support this young trans woman try and get some healthcare.
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
She (along with many many many others) are being let down by our health service (largely due to our Government and the trans hate rhetoric).
If you’d like to help too: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ge...
#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including wondering how non-experts can support experts with heavy workloads, reading for pleasure and learning life lessons from dogs.
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Emily Weeknotes
What I’ve been doing
I took a couple of days leave last week so with only one working day there’s been a bit of catch up this week. We’ve got a bit of a pressure point with one of our projects and it ...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#Weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org including wondering how non-experts can support experts with heavy workloads, reading for pleasure and learning life lessons from dogs.
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If you need some extra hands to work on topics like futures of work, the digital welfare state, relational services & technology, tech ethics, public service reform - hit me up!
I have a bit of space before Christmas and lots in 2026, and I'm pretty nice and quite good 😁
🙏Would 💗 a repost too
I have a bit of space before Christmas and lots in 2026, and I'm pretty nice and quite good 😁
🙏Would 💗 a repost too
Expertise, skills and services from Anna Dent — ABD Consultancy
Advice, expertise and research leadership by Anna Dent. Social research; strategic analysis and advice; policy analysis and development; expert commentary and opinion; thought leadership and writing.
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www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you need some extra hands to work on topics like futures of work, the digital welfare state, relational services & technology, tech ethics, public service reform - hit me up!
I have a bit of space before Christmas and lots in 2026, and I'm pretty nice and quite good 😁
🙏Would 💗 a repost too
I have a bit of space before Christmas and lots in 2026, and I'm pretty nice and quite good 😁
🙏Would 💗 a repost too
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It's a lovely sunny day!
If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org
We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org
We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
It's a lovely sunny day!
If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org
We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
If you're out for a walk, please take some photos of memorial benches and add them to openbenches.org
We're *very* close to thirty-nine *thousand* benches mapped 😃
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“But you don’t look ill”.
@jgluck.bsky.social writes about living long term with cancer. Much of cancer is popular narratives. Living long term with it is a prime example - you don’t hear these stories.
I cannot ditto this article enough. Incredible & a bit emotional.
🔗 nymag.com/intelligence...
@jgluck.bsky.social writes about living long term with cancer. Much of cancer is popular narratives. Living long term with it is a prime example - you don’t hear these stories.
I cannot ditto this article enough. Incredible & a bit emotional.
🔗 nymag.com/intelligence...
What’s It Like to Have Cancer for 20 Years?
In An Exercise in Uncertainty, Jon Gluck traces decades of waiting, watching, enduring experimental treatment, and miraculously beating the odds.
nymag.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“But you don’t look ill”.
@jgluck.bsky.social writes about living long term with cancer. Much of cancer is popular narratives. Living long term with it is a prime example - you don’t hear these stories.
I cannot ditto this article enough. Incredible & a bit emotional.
🔗 nymag.com/intelligence...
@jgluck.bsky.social writes about living long term with cancer. Much of cancer is popular narratives. Living long term with it is a prime example - you don’t hear these stories.
I cannot ditto this article enough. Incredible & a bit emotional.
🔗 nymag.com/intelligence...
#Archive or Family History or #Genealogy folks (or anyone). I’ve come into possession of a small number of papers (inc Will & death certificate) & a photo of someone who died in London (mother lived in Exmouth). No family relation to me (loose connection).
What can I respectfully do with them?
What can I respectfully do with them?
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#Archive or Family History or #Genealogy folks (or anyone). I’ve come into possession of a small number of papers (inc Will & death certificate) & a photo of someone who died in London (mother lived in Exmouth). No family relation to me (loose connection).
What can I respectfully do with them?
What can I respectfully do with them?
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Did you know that, for every £100 donated to charity across the UK each year, just 10p reaches LGBT+ non-profits? That's simply not enough. We can't stand by and watch these vital organisations struggle and go unheard. We need you, more than ever, to help us change this heart-breaking reality.
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Did you know that, for every £100 donated to charity across the UK each year, just 10p reaches LGBT+ non-profits? That's simply not enough. We can't stand by and watch these vital organisations struggle and go unheard. We need you, more than ever, to help us change this heart-breaking reality.
A day of fun with @tabisw enjoying a steam train on the West Somerset Railway (and ice cream in the rain!).
October 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A day of fun with @tabisw enjoying a steam train on the West Somerset Railway (and ice cream in the rain!).
A wonderful long weekend, for @tabisw.bsky.social’s birthday, staying in our own castle (technically folly). We find we’re well suited to it 😉
Barely got out of our onesies other than for an incredible dinner at Acleaf. Delicious food and attentive experience.
Barely got out of our onesies other than for an incredible dinner at Acleaf. Delicious food and attentive experience.
October 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A wonderful long weekend, for @tabisw.bsky.social’s birthday, staying in our own castle (technically folly). We find we’re well suited to it 😉
Barely got out of our onesies other than for an incredible dinner at Acleaf. Delicious food and attentive experience.
Barely got out of our onesies other than for an incredible dinner at Acleaf. Delicious food and attentive experience.
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
Incredibly lucky to get a place with to attend the Tottenham Hotspur FC Fan Forum 2025.
Doubly lucky to then win the ballot for a golden ticket to meet the panel afterwards. 🤍
Doubly lucky to then win the ballot for a golden ticket to meet the panel afterwards. 🤍
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Incredibly lucky to get a place with to attend the Tottenham Hotspur FC Fan Forum 2025.
Doubly lucky to then win the ballot for a golden ticket to meet the panel afterwards. 🤍
Doubly lucky to then win the ballot for a golden ticket to meet the panel afterwards. 🤍
My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org - though actually this time it’s a reflective piece about yesterday’s #DecelerationAssembly from The Decelerator including grief, peer learning and planning for organisational endings.
connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...
Photo thanks to The Decelerator.
connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...
Photo thanks to The Decelerator.
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My #weeknotes for @connectedbydata.org - though actually this time it’s a reflective piece about yesterday’s #DecelerationAssembly from The Decelerator including grief, peer learning and planning for organisational endings.
connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...
Photo thanks to The Decelerator.
connectedbydata.org/weeknotes/20...
Photo thanks to The Decelerator.
I worked from a London library today. In the 4 hours I was there I chatted with a chap that has nowhere to live, “paid it forward” at the cafe and loaned my phone charger to a chap for whom English wasn’t a first language.
Libraries are such important civic spaces. My heart is full. #LoveLibraries
Libraries are such important civic spaces. My heart is full. #LoveLibraries
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I worked from a London library today. In the 4 hours I was there I chatted with a chap that has nowhere to live, “paid it forward” at the cafe and loaned my phone charger to a chap for whom English wasn’t a first language.
Libraries are such important civic spaces. My heart is full. #LoveLibraries
Libraries are such important civic spaces. My heart is full. #LoveLibraries
A wonderful weekend in the North West starting with Crosby Parkrun, followed by brunch with good friends in “Emily’s at Formby’s”.
An evening of Strictly with family before a sub-hour finish at the Wirral 10K and seeing the Jane Tomlinson Appeal Run For All team too. #RunningIsFunning
An evening of Strictly with family before a sub-hour finish at the Wirral 10K and seeing the Jane Tomlinson Appeal Run For All team too. #RunningIsFunning
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A wonderful weekend in the North West starting with Crosby Parkrun, followed by brunch with good friends in “Emily’s at Formby’s”.
An evening of Strictly with family before a sub-hour finish at the Wirral 10K and seeing the Jane Tomlinson Appeal Run For All team too. #RunningIsFunning
An evening of Strictly with family before a sub-hour finish at the Wirral 10K and seeing the Jane Tomlinson Appeal Run For All team too. #RunningIsFunning