Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Arcadia absolutely wonderful at @oldvictheatre.bsky.social last night. Fantastic production of a masterpiece.

I am thrilled to co‑organise Visualising Climate with colleagues from Copernicus/ECMWF, BSC, BC3 and the University of Miami—the first global conference at the intersection of climate change and data visualisation, at a moment when clear, actionable communication is essential. #dataviz #datavis

Adrian Edmondson is 69. Here he is on Desert Island Discs, talking about Rik Mayall. If you’re lucky, you have at least one friend like Rik. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy Birthday Adrian Edmondson

As National Security Adviser, I was often at the UK’s HQ in Helmand, Camp Bastion. Too often, the tannoy would announce medevac helicopters inbound. The huge base w’d fall silent, out of respect for the young men or women who were fighting for their lives. No, they had not stayed a little back.

EPCC is hiring! We have the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager for the UK AI Factory Antenna Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4oZHnuw Applications Developers Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/491r4HA Applications Consultants Closes 15 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4j0dXeq

#BBCNews - Trump's Venezuela raid has created chaos - and that is a risk for China too www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Det kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skeivdr under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base". www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Anyone understand the logic for Bluesky now requiring age verification (in UK) before you can mute words? Realised my muted words list is suddenly empty and I can’t add new words. Change VPN to a different country and it’s restored.

On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Going through old photos and found this gem from when I was into skateboard photography. I think this might be Steve Caballero, circa 1998 @vanswarpedtour.bsky.social @transworldskate.bsky.social #ShotOnFilm

Next week, we will mark our 50th anniversary in Reading, UK, following events earlier in the year at our sites in Germany and Italy. Join us online on 3 December for the Showcase of European capabilities in machine learning and weather forecasting. For details ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

For the sake of European security, Europe's leaders should agree to release Russia’s frozen assets for the support of Ukraine — and clearly state their willingness to defend Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.

A useful taxonomy I think www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/wh...

Amidst all the Budget noise I didn't notice this coming out www.gov.uk/government/n... But thanks to the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk live blog, I didn't miss it ...

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday - It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself. One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend Love you Mani x x Never to be forgotten

R.I.P. Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, bassist of #TheStoneRoses and #PrimalScream buff.ly/qN3AvUA

We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.

#hpc #supercomputing #AI Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships www.anl.gov/article/argo...

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anyway, some actually useful tips to mitigate any loss: make sure your notifications don't show their content on the lock screen - set them so you have to unlock the phone to see them. Make sure you've got theft detection turned on, which locks the phone if it's snatched.

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

What’s worrying here is that the UK government seems absolutely determined to access user private data, no matter the bad press and the consequences. And they’re now willing to do it overtly. Between this and recent moves against encryption in the EU, we’re going to a bad place.

This Flight Tonight - the songs of Joni Mitchell. Loved this, highly recommended www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com

It’s too much liquid going into the baby!

The Radio 4 “In our time” archive is a goldmine and the range is astounding. In the last week or so I’ve listened to the Industrial Revolution (x 2), Typology, Pope Joan and Bacteriophages www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Over time the Labour Party might discover that being seen to be overly submissive towards the Trump administration might go down very badly with core voters that it needs

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Next week, we will mark our 50th anniversary in Bologna, Italy, with a series of events: • 21st Workshop on HPC in meteorology • Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025) • 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting • European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop 2025 ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

👥 Join us at #EESSI CI/CD Hackathon, 2 October 2025 in Copenhagen! Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments. 📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin... @eessi.bsky.social

This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Good science explains unexpected observations, but great science predicts things only later confirmed from observations. Brilliant article from Nadir Jeevanjee on the fundamental correctness of climate models and the incredible work of Syukuro Manabe. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

'This country needs migrants' Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration

Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK. The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of  15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July. No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

‘The belief that full-time education is the gold standard destination for all young people needs revising. Decent work with training is more beneficial for some.’ @gavin-kelly.bsky.social challenges some orthodoxies on.ft.com/3UCfUCA

UK regulation of the internet continues to be mind-numbing stupid. Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.

Just one chart from the @metoffice.gov.uk State of the UK climate report published today. We get used to focusing on the record highs and how 35C has gone from being rare to routine. But just look at all those summers which never got to 30C even in my lifetime. It’s a different UK now.

We have taken the ensemble version of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (#AIFS) into operations! It will run side by side with the traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS). Find out more here ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...