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Funding Open Source Science Software | The Wellcome Trust

Funding Open Source Science Software is a comprehensive analysis of the funding landscape within open source science software. A lot of scientists need specialist software to do their research, and a lot of that research is open source — and open source software is notoriously difficult to fund. The Wellcome Trust asked me to produce a report to better understand the pain points felt by the scientists using & maintaining open source software for their work. So much of this software is unremarkable on paper, even though it exists as critical infrastructure for much of our digital world. And some of it helped capture the first ever photo of a black hole…

The Wellcome Trust is global charitable foundation established in 1936, working towards a healthier future for everyone.

Gotcha! | Computer Says Maybe

Gotcha!is a miniseries I produced for the Computer Says Maybe podcast. It’s about scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them. As with all episodes I produced in my time at The Maybe, I sourced the guests, prepped questions, prepped the host, and edited the series.

I told the story in four parts: from crypto, to multi-level level marketing, to generative AI — finishing with Cory Doctorow and Enshittification, the final boss of technological scams.

The Maybe are a media organisation & consultancy which challenges the politics and power of technology

Putting Trust in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies | The Royal Society

In this report, Alice Thwaite and I go deep on technologies that are designed to enhance privacy, and assurances that these technologies come with. In order to understand assurance, you need to understand trust — and trust is a confident relationship with the unknown. If you trust that a piece of encryption software will perform effectively, that means you know there’s a chance it will fail. Trust relationships are a hugely important part of building good technologies; as you can imagine, we wrote this report before generative AI came and destroyed everything.

The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity.

Trans Misogyny Online | Computer Says Maybe

Sometimes trans hate proliferates through social media in the form of dogwhistles. So how do you catch it? And how does this effect the work of trans creators? I thought making a podcast episode was the best way to figure this out; I spoke to Jenni Olson from GLAAD, TikTok creator Shivani Dave, Trust & Safety expert Alice Hunsberger, and Emily Cousens, a professor of gender studies at Northeastern. This is a rich, harrowing episode that explores the struggles that trans people face in the UK and online, the history that got us here, and what technical experts and advocates are doing to protect online queer communities.

The Maybe are a media organisation & consultancy which challenges the politics and power of technology

A Content Strategy | AWO

AWO are a strategic litigation firm in the digital rights space. In that sense, they are very good at decentring themselves from their work. This makes a content marketing strategy especially challenging — they thought it might be vulgar to show off about how well they were protecting human rights in the digital age. Fair enough. I convinced them that writing blogs about representing high-profile complainants in very consequential cases brought against huge online platforms was just good business practice, never mind about showing off. As well as the blog, I helped them launch a monthly newsletter on algorithm governance, secure their tone of voice, and adapt a storytelling practice that worked for them.

AWO is a law firm and consultancy that empowers individuals and organisations to uphold data rights, comply with the law and effect change in data protection and digital policy.

A Data & Insight Strategy | Turn2Us

Turn2Us support those in financial hardship by providing digital tools and services; and these of course collect a lot of data. For a charity like Turn2Us, data is massively important to improving the way they support their service-users. Tom Kluge and I put together a Data & Insight Strategy for the digital team at Turn2Us to help them derive better insights from their data. I interviewed both internal and external participants, organised and analysed the data into findings & recommendations, and wrote up the report.

Turn2Us is a national charity providing practical help to people who are struggling financially.

An ongoing storytelling project | Horrific/Terrific

Horrific/Terrific is a publication I founded to conduct investigations into the material harms of Big Tech. I largely focus on two things:

• Internet culture, and how the media, the public, and politicians misunderstand how important it is. Here’s a recent piece about child influencers.
• The promises that AI companies make about the future, and what effect that has on us in the present. Here’s a piece about people who like to use AI to produce and sell entire novels.

Stop touching grass for five minutes and read about how technology is horrific for most and terrific for like, eight billionaires.

Something interactive | You Are Playing a Sad Game Now

Now that you're SICK of reading, here's a game! I made this while working through depression. In it, you embark on a journey where everything and everyone seems to hate you. Those who’ve played it have reached out and said that it taught them things about depression they never knew before. You don't have to be good at gaming to play, and it only takes five minutes. Try it now.