ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

What started from a bedroom in Govanhill during the pandemic has now received international recognition. Greater Govanhill has won the European category at the 2026 AMIC International Awards for Local Media in Barcelona. www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/great...

EU proposes end to ‘five tabs, three apps and a prayer’ for cross-border train bookings

A long but good read. www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Let's take a huge sip of coffee and check in on how tech companies are going with their climate targets.... fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1/3: Very happy that LOCO, the International #Workshop on #Low #Carbon #Computing we started two years ago, is going to take place again! Adrian Friday and team will host #LOCO2026 in Lancaster and online on September 10 and 11 this year! 💻 🌱 lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/

Breaking: New study using observational constraints projects that the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC will weaken ~50% by 2100, even for medium emissions and without Greenland melting. 🌊 More realistic models means stronger weakening - not entirely unexpected. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

More evidence that Big Tech is locking us into a new generation of fossil fuel infrastructure and destabilizing our climate: the 5 largest hyperscalers have announced 16GW of power deals this year, and only 3GW have been for clean power.

At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...

Happy to share the details of the keynote talks and accepted papers that will make up the program of the 4th International Workshop on Testing Distributed Internet of Things Systems #TDIS2026, which will take place on 27 April with ACM #EuroSys 2026 in Edinburgh! More info: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis26/

When I started working on UK energy in 2007, fossil fuels provided ~78% of electricity. Coal alone: 34%. Wind & solar: less than 2%. Today: wind & solar 33%, fossil fuels 28%, coal 0%. The chart below tells the story better than words can.

🔈 Deadline extended to 19 February (AoE)!

Submissions for #TDIS2026 are due in 3.5 weeks. If you have new ideas, methods, or tools around how #experimentation with #IoT or #edge systems could be improved, please take a look at our CfP. We are looking for workshop papers (4/6 pages) by 5 Feb to be presented in #Edinburgh on 27 Apr. 📱 🖥️ 🛰️ 🚉 ⚡

1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!

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Could you be our next Head of School? We're seeking an innovative, forward-thinking leader to join us in this academic leadership role, accountable for providing a coherent academic vision and direction for the School. Apply by 30 November: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo...

Part 1 covers the 2nd Programming for the Planet conference (@propl.dev) organised by @kcsrk.info @dorchard.bsky.social and me. There were talks, demos and discussions about what we can do as computer scientists to avert the climate and biodiversity crises anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25... 🌍

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Thinking about a PhD in Computing Science? Join us on 12 Nov at 12:30 PM in the Sir Alwyn Williams Building (Room 422/423, Level 4) for our PhD information session! Come along and ask questions, get advice, and network with academics and current PhD students. @uofgcompsci.bsky.social

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Are you a computer science postgraduate research student at a Scottish university? Would you like £500 to help with your conference travel? If so then please apply to the @sicsa-scotland.bsky.social travel fund sicsa.ac.uk/sga/phd-trav...

PROPL '25: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming for the Planet. Now online: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... Looking forward to the workshop next week @icfp-conference.bsky.social/SPLASH

We had a fantastic away day as the Carbon-Conscious Computing lab (lauritzthamsen.org/lab/) of the University of Glasgow last week! 💻 ☁️ 🌱 In keeping with our mission, we took our bikes out for a ride around the Isle of Bute! 🚉 ⛴️ 🌊

If you speak two languages well, have you tried counting to 10 in alternating languages? I found it surprisingly mind-bending.

I had a great time at IEEE #ICDCS 2025. First time that I attended a conference without a talk or helping to organize, so this was a new experience! Of course, also rather nice to attend a top conference after 10 minutes on public transport (and after dropping off the wee one at nursery too ☺️)

Due to the world being a little unpredictable right now, we've extended the submission deadline for PROPL by a few days, so it's now 8th July 2025 AoE! conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

Very happy to share that I won the Early-Career #Teaching Excellence #Award of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow! ☺️👨‍🏫🏰🎓✨ Longer post: www.linkedin.com/posts/laurit... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak. Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

1/4: If you are at #IEEE #CCGrid 2025 in #Tromsø next week, catch Jonathan, Fabian, and Kathleen (@westkath.bsky.social) presenting joint work! 📰🧵👇 #CCGrid #distributed #sustainable #cloud #computing #research #Spark #Nextflow

Apparently some folks are still confused about how much CO2 in the air has grown due to human activities. It's increased by more than 50%, which means over one third of all CO2 in the air is due to us.

2. The biggest problem is that AI is now good at the introductory problems, across every discipline. But introductory problems are necessary for learning.

Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱 Bids due: 13 May (AoE) Notifications by: 4 June Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202... #lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research

The talk recordings from #LOCO2024 are online now: www.youtube.com/@loco-workshop 💻🔬🌱 There are 19 talks across 7 sessions covering energy efficiency, carbon awareness, frugal computing, sustainable software engineering, and the related fields of computing for climate science & energy informatics!

Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱 Bids due: 13 May (AoE) Notifications by: 4 June Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202... #lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

PROPL, the workshop that inspired us to organize LOCO, is back! This time it'll take place with both ICFP and SPLASH. Have a look at the website if programming/computing as a force for good is something you care about! 💻🌍🌱📄👇

The 2nd Programming for the Planet workshop will be hybrid and co-located with ICFP/SPLASH in October in Singapore! Our call for papers is out at conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp..., submission deadline 3rd July 2025.

Happening right now at ACM EuroSys 2025 in Rotterdam! 🙂🔊💬 Program details below and on the website: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/ Open access proceedings: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

(1) Robert Bayer (with Ties Robroek) has been working on a new benchmarking framework that can represent more complex end-to-end deep learning pipelines and different scales of edge computing. He will present this work at TDIS workshop, and the short paper is now out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

"At the center of this work of forming the whole human person is the indispensable relationship between teacher and student. Teachers do more than convey knowledge; they model essential human qualities and inspire the joy of discovery." 1/3

Blà Bheinn from Elgol, Isle of Skye #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Very happy to share the program of the 3rd edition of our Distributed IoT Systems Testing Workshop #TDIS2025, as it will take place at the end of this month with ACM EuroSys and ASPLOS. Come along, if you will be around, for the five paper presentations and two keynote talks! 💻📡🚐🚆🏙️🎛️

Next week, around #Neurodiversity #Celebration #Week 2025, a few colleagues from UofG's CoSE College and I are offering #Disability Office Hours. Have a look here, lnkd.in/ePS2hpHN, if you're a CoSE student or staff and you'd like to take up this offer for a friendly, supportive chat! 🙂

Exciting times, the next GWiCS Seminar is coming soon! Next week on Wednesday at 3pm Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas @ilyena.bsky.social and Dr Xianghua (Sharon) Ding will talk to us about their experiences establishing new groups as research leaders. Come join us in SAWB room 423 or on Zoom!