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!

I think @kevinclimate.bsky.social echoes something many people feel - deeper, more transformative and more beneficial climate action remains wholly imperative, whether the IPCC is right or James Hansen is right. climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...

2 weeks till the abstract deadline for IEEE CLOUD 2025: services.conferences.computer.org/2025/cloud/ Tell your colleagues!

IEEE Cluster is going to be in Edinburgh later this year, with a call for papers (and workshops & tutorials) currently out

Another 11 days to prepare a short or long workshop paper for the third #TDIS workshop, as we have now extended the deadline to 4 February AoE! Also: The fantastic Thaleia Dimitra Doudali will give a keynote on testing predictive models for cloud resource management! See tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/

❗️There's Still Time❗️ 📅The deadline to apply to DiveIn's fully funded PhD opportunity is next Friday! ➡️You can find all the relevant application information on our website at www.divein.org.uk/apply/ 📩If you have any questions email us at [email protected], we are always happy to help!

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Three more work weeks to prepare a short or long workshop paper (4 or 6 pages) for our #TDIS2025 workshop at EuroSys/ASPLOS end of March: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/ 💻🔬🏙️📰📉

Good visualisation of what UK needs to get built in next 5 years to hit govt pledge of decarbonising power system Beyond obvious wind, solar & batteries, there are big jobs to do on demand side flexibility & long duration storage - neither fully technology mature www.ft.com/content/0eb4...

This is amazing: it’s incredibly windy in the UK right now, so only about 10% of the National Grid is currently being powered by fossil fuels.

Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded

Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals. Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:

1: We are organizing our International Workshop on Testing Distributed IoT Systems (#TDIS2025) again! For the third time now and this time with #EuroSys and #ASPLOS next year at the end of March in Rotterdam! 🏙️ 🖥️ 🎛️ 📡 💻 🔬 📉

It’s been two weeks since we held the 1st International Workshop on Low-Carbon Computing (LOCO), and I'm still buzzing. It was so good to see this community come together, hear about all the interesting ideas and early results, and witness how many care deeply about computer system sustainability! 🧵

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

✍️Working on your DiveIn application? 👩‍💻Join our online drop in sessions to learn more or ask any questions✋ 📅18th December⌛️1-2pm 📅9th January ⌛️ 11-12pm 📅14th January⌛️2-3pm Link to join: www.divein.org.uk/apply/

Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it

With 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year. Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.

It's been great so far!

Full room at our first hybrid workshop on Low Carbon Computing #LOCO2024 at @uofglasgow.bsky.social, hopefully the first of many gatherings of a community working together for low-carbon and sustainable computing. Registration is still open if you want to join online: www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco2024/

Students need to be told to create a website. Not a LinkedIn. Not a github account. Not an instagram. Not some other thing. A website. HTML. HTTP. Doesn't have to be fancy--a picture, your name, your contact info and a list of your papers.

Our Low Carbon Computing workshop #LOCO2024 is taking place now in Glasgow and online! We already had a nice keynote chat with Anne Currie and now we are in the first regular session on Energy Efficiency! 💻🔬🌱

Just a few days now till #LOCO2024 – the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing! 💻 🔬 🌱 The final programme for the whole of Tuesday 3 December is now available on our workshop website, www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...

Couldn't find a Starter Pack for green computing, so gave it a go! 🌱💻 No doubt it's missing many great ones... please add! Hoping to include anyone discussing environmental impacts of compute (not just pure CompSci), the broader the perspectives the better! #greencomputing go.bsky.app/CCE1mJe