Recently published! Precipitation prediction over the upper Indus Basin from large-scale circulation patterns using Gaussian processes 👉 https://bit.ly/4nojwoo ✍️ @kenzatazi.bsky.social , Andrew Orr, @scotthosking.bsky.social  & Richard E. Turner @theturing.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk   #precipitation

📈Results from our 3B parameter model How well can a small, open-weight language model succeed when using lightweight tools without huge infrastructure? Our 3B model achieved near-frontier reasoning performance on synthetically generated health queries – and is small enough to run on a laptop.

🌤️We are currently recruiting for two new roles in AI for Weather Forecasting, including in West Africa (Project Cumulus) cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/en/ca...

World Economic Forum 2024 global risks report. This graphic really got me: #Misinformation and climate crisis/environmental destruction topping the short- and long-term lists. 1/3

We're hiring! The Aardvark Weather team is looking for a Senior Research Associate in end-to-end AI weather forecasting Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...

We're hiring! The Aardvark Weather team is looking for a Senior Research Associate in end-to-end AI weather forecasting Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...

The Telegraph has just published *yet another* correction to one of its net-zero articles. By my count, that is now the TENTH such correction since Labour won the election (and covers 13 separate articles). I have now added the latest one to my epic thread which is tracking these corrections...

🚨 Episode 3 - not to be missed! 🌊 The way we are exploring our oceans is evolving fast. But how do we ensure innovation is efficient and equitable across global collaborations? Tune in for more from @helenczerski.bsky.social and guests 🎧 www.fmri.ac.uk/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts

"The office in Houston for example... is effectively without its top three management positions. Other offices are struggling to maintain 24/7 operations. Experts with contacts at NOAA told the BBC of battles to get basic maintenance over the line, from computer systems to toilets."

Prof Adam Sobey, at the UK’s Alan Turing Institute, an AI research body, said more transparency was needed on how much energy is consumed by artificial intelligence systems, and how much they could save by helping to make carbon-emitting industries such as transport and energy more efficient.

⛅ A well-written and balanced piece by the FT on how AI is revolutionalising weather forecasting; the need for human experts & democratision of data and models; the disruption to forecasting caused by the US gov; and the new wave in "end-to-end" AI weather forecasting www.ft.com/content/a1b6...

Did the welcome for @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social at the #aiforclimate summit with #khemkafoundation and #turingInstitute hosted at UCL IoE. UCL core themes: “disagree well” and “useful knowledge” pertinent. And @ucl-arc.bsky.social’s craftsperson-and-scholar theme - making it practical.

🌍 3 opportunities with @bas.ac.uk and ARIA Looking for 💪 background in Maths/Engineering/ML 🧊 Ice/Ocean Modeller bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v... 🧊 Ice Modeller/Emulation Scientist bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v... 🧊 Ice Damage Modeller bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

BAS team are back from AI UK! We highlighted IceNet, our AI forecasting sea ice 6 months ahead. Great conversations with fellow innovators tackling environmental challenges @scotthosking.bsky.social #AIUK2025 #AI ➡️Explore IceNet: www.bas.ac.uk/project/icen... 📸credit: Scott Hosking Bryn Ubald BAS

We are witnessing a (second) revolution of weather forecasting

Incredibly excited to see that Aardvark-Weather is finally out in Nature!! An amazing project with a truly fantastic team. The lead authors Anna Allen and Stratis Markou have worked really really hard to make this project happen. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: AI weather forecast project eyes access through desktop computers Aardvark prediction model developers hope system will ‘democratise’ the powerful technology for poorer nations www.ft.com/content/7349... Register here to read some @financialtimes.com articles free: www.ft.com/register

🌤️ Our #AI weather forecasting model has been published today in Nature 🤖 🥇the first AI weather model to learn directly from raw environmental observations 🌎 compared to existing AI models it is cheaper to train, uses less carbon and easier to deploy locally www.turing.ac.uk/news/fully-a...

Spending today at the Alan Turing Institute thinking about the potential of satellite data for policy. @darribas.bsky.social put together a fantastic lineup of expert speakers, including inspiration from @oecdlocal.bsky.social Really good food for thought!

Research at the Earlham Institute and The Alan Turing Institute is bringing together cellular and molecular biologists with #computerscientists, to transform the processing and analysing large scale cellular imaging data. 🖥️ 🧬 https://buff.ly/3ERe6RC #AI #datascience #genomics

Brilliance from @privateeyenews.bsky.social !! @bas.ac.uk ❄️🥼🧪🌊

[🚨🚨🚨 Deadline Extension:] Given some technical issues reported by participants on the submission platform, we are extending the deadline to this Sunday (Feb 2nd, 11:59 pm AoE). If you have any problems, don't hesitate to contact us! 2025.climateinformatics.com.br

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brief escape from the ship to Sky-Blu.

Met Office saying the quiet bit out loud. But 1.5C was an aspiration, not a threshold. 1.6C is better than 1.7C is which better than 1.8C etc.....

The @eds-book.bsky.social is an important tool for reliable, reproducible #datascience for the #environment. This paper reflects upon a challenge @climformatics.bsky.social in which researchers used this computational notebook to interrogate data and code underlying publications: bit.ly/4jmInre

New climate paper alert! 🧪 Thrilled to collaborate with @alejo-coca.bsky.social, @annefouilloux.bsky.social, Andrew McDonald, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao & @scotthosking.bsky.social on #reproducibleresearch for #climatescience. doi.org/10.1017/eds....

There's been increasing attacks on climate action from the Tories and Reform, but it remains the case 80% of Brits are worried about climate change, 68% think it should be a 'high'/'v high' priority for government, and 82% support the use of renewable energy. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Strong pass “Starmer said the “AI industry needs a government that is on their side”. Regulators will be told to “actively support innovation”, setting up a potential clash with people who believe regulators’ primary role should be to protect the public from harm.”

"‘Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer’, says climate scientist" | My full interview today with #Channel4News UK: www.channel4.com/news/__trash...

5 days till #EGU abstract submission deadline. I'm convening Machine Learning for Ocean Sciences, with @aida-alvera.bsky.social @brajard.bsky.social @redouanelg.bsky.social. Very excited to have solicited speaker Julie Deshayes. Send us your abstracts meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

“For me, the biggest barrier is building sustainable research quality software and building in the legacy so that teams can work together..” - scotthosking.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk ⬇️ Read our latest #Accesstodata case study www.ai.cam.ac.uk/blog/breakin...

🚨🚨🚨 2024 was the warmest year on record globally. An astounding 32% of the Earth had it's single warmest year since 1940. 🔥🔥🔥

🌤️The OpenClimateFix and Turing Solar Nowcasting team are finalists in the first ever Manchester Prize - whether we win or not, I'm excited to present our joint research sometime in 2025 ⚡💡🔌

“We are not well prepared for life at 1.3-1.5°C of warming." Important work by @wwattribution.bsky.social documenting how climate change affected people across the world in 2024 Highlights need to a) do everything possible to limit temperature rises and b) invest more in climate adaptation

+++NEW ANALYSIS+++ UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade Highlights: 🏭end of coal power after 142yrs 🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share 🌄renewables at record-high 45% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

That time when antivaxxers thought so hard that they accidentally re-invented vaccines.

Ooohhhh, climate change is real when a golf course is involved but not when 8 billion lives are. Got it.

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.

Unless we get Day After Tomorrow'd in the next 8 hours, a huge number of stations in CONUS just observed their warmest year on record. It was also, yet again, the warmest year on record for the globe

We need to spend way more on adaptation to climate change. None of us can predict the future, but it’s 100% certain that the climate we have today is the best any of us will ever experience. As we continue to emit CO₂, the world will become more dangerous and chaotic. We have to prepare for that.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Just donated to #Wikipedia for the second time in 2024. Thanks for the reminder, #ElonMusk!

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌤️The OpenClimateFix and Turing Solar Nowcasting team are finalists in the first ever Manchester Prize - whether we win or not, I'm excited to present our joint research sometime in 2025 ⚡💡🔌

🎅🏼Eagerly awaiting the traditional pre-christmas AI weather forecasting paper from the good people at @deepmind.google.web.brid.gy 🌲2022 GraphCast 🌲2023 GenCast 🌲2024 ?? Could it be learning directly from raw weather observations similar to Aardvark Weather? arxiv.org/abs/2404.00411

“Governments are underestimating or ignoring the links between 5 key areas: biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change” Agreed! Food production is the #1 global driver of terrestrial biodiversity loss and water use, the #2 driver of climate change, and diets are closely linked to health 🧪