About

I’m Gabrielle Josling, a data scientist interested in how institutions use data and how responsibility often gets lost along the way. I hold a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Melbourne and have worked across research, government, and the not-for-profit sector, including at CSIRO and Red Cross Lifeblood.

This blog is about how data systems operate in practice: how information moves through organisations, how models interact with the world, and how harm can emerge without clearly belonging to anyone. I’m particularly interested in the gaps between technical systems, regulatory oversight, and organisational decision-making.

Much of my recent work has focused on the Australian charity sector’s use of commercial data profiling tools, which was covered in Crikey. I’m currently interested in how freedom of information requests can make institutional data practices more legible, and am building FOI Forest to make Australian FOI releases actually work as a public record.

You can reach me at gabrielle@mindyourowndata.org.

All views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.