🧊 How warm is your office today? Our Senior Research Associate Anna Allen is installing weather stations in Svalbard. Her work includes designing bespoke forecasting systems for low-resource areas. Anna found polar bear tracks next to where she put up one of the weather stations... 🐾

Proposals for the Cambridge Climate & Nature Research Showcase close on Sunday 12 April 👇

☔ Rethinking Weather and Climate Model Parametrisations with Reinforcement Learning You're welcome to join us online for Pritthijit Nath's talk, part of ICCS Journal Club, on Tuesday 21 April from 3pm-4pm UK time. 👉️ Full details:

📢 “Better Code for Better Climate Science” We’re delighted that ICCS’s work is highlighted in the 2025 Schmidt Sciences impact report. ICCS is part of the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software, enabling software engineers to support climate scientists: www.schmidtsciences.org/profile-2025...

⌛ There are just a few more days to go until registration closes for the 2026 ICCS Summer School! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity – a week of collaborative, hands-on learning with tuition and guidance from leading experts. Register here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

💡 We had a fabulous time on Saturday as part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, exploring climate research and AI topics with our local community through the medium of FUN! #CamFest

A big thank you to our Research Software Engineering team for their excellent work as support RSEs at last week's Cross-Community AMD GPU Hackathon in Birmingham, organised through the DiRAC training programme. Great to see such strong collaboration between researchers, RSEs and industry experts.

We're looking forward to the #CambridgeFestival! Come along to the William Gates Building, Cambridge, on Saturday 21 March from 10:30am-4:00pm, where you'll meet some ICCS researchers who are developing AI projects to address climate change. #CamFest Full details:

🌊 Research Software Engineers Jack Franklin and Mikolaj Kowalski from ICCS work on the Oceananigans code at the DiRAC - HPC Hackathon in Birmingham, assisted by Miren Radia and Richard Regan. Photo by Tom Meltzer

The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (in collaboration with ICCS) invites you to join the CCfCS Symposium 2026. ⏰ Thursday 9 April 2026, 10am to 5pm 📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge

🚀 This week's Research Software Engineering seminar, given by @mosegiordano.bsky.social – Principal RSE at @ucl-arc.bsky.social – takes place at 13:00-14:00 on Thursday 12 March: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2... Everyone is welcome! 💻 cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86476117655 Passcode: 788395

☀️ Registration for our 2026 Summer School is open to postgrad students and early career researchers. If you would like to attend and need some support to cover registration and travel costs, please apply to our bursary scheme. ⏰ The deadline is Tuesday 17 March: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

📣 Calling All Cambridge Climate and Nature Researchers Submit your proposal to participate in the Cambridge Climate and Nature Research Showcase 2026. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4u3kaeI #CamShowcase26 #ClimateNatureShowcase26

🧱 NDSL: A Programming Framework for Climate Model Development, or “The Joy of Building Your Own Domain-Specific Software Stack” This week's Research Software Engineering seminar is at 13:00-15:00 on Thursday talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2... Zoom: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8647611765... Passcode: 788395

🇺🇸 Dr Tom Meltzer and Dr Matthew Archer, members of ICCS's Research Software Engineering team, have been busy in the US. The duo were in Seattle for the cross-VISS GenAI meeting, and then visited DataWave in Stanford to hand over their non-local gravity wave project and gave seminars.

🔥 This week's RSE Seminar will be given by ICCS's Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson. FTorch: facilitating hybrid ML-numerical modelling in scientific computing. 13:00-14:00, Thursday 26 Feb: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2... 💻 cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8647611765... Passcode: 788395

🌀 The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science is holding its annual Symposium on 9 April. This will be a conference day of talks and posters showcasing the #ClimateScience happening across the University of Cambridge and @bas.ac.uk. Book your place: www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

💼 We’re hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer! At the Institute of Computing for Climate Science, we're building the next generation of high-performance, high-assurance climate modelling tools and are looking for a Senior Research Software Engineer to join us. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

🌍 How can we strengthen collaboration across climate science? The Cambridge Climate Science Roundtable will explore shared challenges and spark partnerships for future funding opportunities. 🔗 Academics or postdocs can register here: https://bit.ly/4tHcKNY

We're looking forward to the #CambridgeFestival! Come along to the William Gates Building, Cambridge, on Saturday 21 March from 10:30am-4:00pm, where you'll meet some ICCS researchers who are developing AI projects to address climate change. #CamFest Full details:

We have fantastic internship opportunities available in #Cambridge this summer. But don't take our word for it. One of last year's interns, Rishul Karia, gave his verdict. ⏰ The deadline for applications for summer 2026 is Tuesday 24 February. Full details here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

🥳 Registration is OPEN for the ICCS Summer School 2026! It runs from 13-17 July in #Cambridge. The programme will feature a mix of: Keynote speeches Training sessions & technical workshops Scientific presentations Collaborative & social events. iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Today we’re celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Meet Amy Weatherup — one of many women at Cambridge driving innovation in science and technology. Discover how she’s shaping the future of enterprise at the link below👇 https://bit.ly/46L5TJw

🎙️ Tune in to this week's Code for Thought podcast to listen to ICCS's very own Jack Atkinson discussing research software engineering and how it fits into the world of scientific research. Listen here: codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

👋 Could you be one of our 2026 ICCS interns? We’re looking for 5 interns to join us this summer. 3 will work on projects under the supervision of ICCS postdoctoral researchers; 2 will work on projects in collaboration between ICCS + @clr-cambridge.bsky.social Info: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

👋 Could you be one of our 2026 ICCS interns? We’re looking for 5 interns to join us this summer. 3 will work on projects under the supervision of ICCS postdoctoral researchers; 2 will work on projects in collaboration between ICCS + @clr-cambridge.bsky.social Info: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

☔ Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping weather forecasting, opening up new possibilities for predicting extreme temperatures, droughts, floods and storms in a changing world. Read about a recent event we co-organised with @cambridgezero.bsky.social: www.zero.cam.ac.uk/ai-weather

We are thrilled to share that the University of Cambridge has secured a major £36 million government investment to expand our Dawn AI Research Resource supercomputer — increasing its capacity sixfold by spring 2026. 👉 bit.ly/4qZif9j

🌪️ Many thanks to Inigo for hosting us in London for the quarterly InSPIRe (Inigo Storm Prediction and Impact Research) meeting. Cambridge researchers Alison, Robert, Sam, Jack (pictured speaking), Charles and Omer gave an update and we had productive discussions with the Inigo risk scientists.

Excited to celebrate the 6 Feb release of FINDING HARMONY: A KING’S VISION on Amazon Prime, featuring Cambridge alumni HM King Charles III, a Trinity College alumnus; and our Director Prof Emily Shuckburgh, a Trinity alumna and Fellow of @darwincollegecam.bsky.social. @cam.ac.uk

An exciting opportunity for postgrads & postdocs curious about climate entrepreneurship - no experience or team needed! 👇

🦈 ICCS's Dr Laura Cimoli and Cambridge colleague Professor Ali Mashayek are quoted in this article 👇

☀️ A postcard from… sunny Cambridge! Our team members Simon Driscoll, Matthew Archer, Josh Stevens and Annabelle Scott are representing ICCS today at Forecasting the Future: The UK AI for Weather Forecasting Workshop at the Maxwell Centre @cam.ac.uk

🗓️ A date for your diary: the 29th European workshop on automatic differentiation #EuroAD will be held in Cambridge on 29-30 September, hosted by ICCS at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, home of @cambridgemaths.bsky.social More details soon: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/29th-...

Register now for the Q&A Zoom call which is on Thursday this week 👇

⏰ Just 1 week left to submit abstracts to #EGU26! Our Senior Research Software Engineer, Jack Atkinson, will convene a session, Advancing Earth System Models Using Machine Learning, at the EGU @egu.eu General Assembly in May. Find out how to submit: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

❄️ Today, Cambridge shivers... but in July we'll be giving a warm welcome to people attending the ICCS Summer School. What's involved? Find out here and express your interest in joining us: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

❄️ As we all think about powering down for the end of the year, we’ve looked back at some of our achievements during 2025 – it’s been quite a year! 🧵   We hope that you enjoy a break from work over the festive period and we look forward to seeing you in 2026. @schmidtsciences.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

☀️ The 2026 ICCS Summer School will bring together researchers for a week of collaborative, hands-on learning and expert-led sessions supporting their scientific work. 🗓️ When? Monday 13 July to Friday 17 July 2026 📍 Where? Centre for Mathematical Sciences, @cam.ac.uk iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

🍰 ICCS Senior Research Software Engineer Dr Marion Weinzierl is a Co-Investigator of the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE). Sharing knowledge is essential for the computing community – find out what CAKE got up to at #CIUK2025 in Manchester👇 www.cake.ac.uk/news/CIUK25/

💻 You can now watch the recording of this training session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSQ...

🚢 In January, our Research Fellow Dr Laura Cimoli boarded @schmidtocean.bsky.social's RV Falkor to the Bellingshausen Sea off the coast of Antarctica. The mission? To study ocean circulation and impacts of glacial melting. What they saw was spectacular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4e3...

☀️ The 2026 ICCS Summer School will bring together researchers for a week of collaborative, hands-on learning and expert-led sessions supporting their scientific work. 🗓️ When? Monday 13 July to Friday 17 July 2026 📍 Where? Centre for Mathematical Sciences, @cam.ac.uk iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

📡 Last week ICCS Senior Research Software Engineer Jack Atkinson delivered his RSE skills course to researchers at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social. The course teaches key tools and techniques that researchers can start implementing now to improve the quality of their work.

🚢 Lost software, Polar Research Ships, Antarctica, and Doom: Rescuing 30+ years of raw scientific vessel underway data Everyone is welcome to attend this Research Software Engineering Seminar by Claudette Lopez of @bas.ac.uk tomorrow: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

📢 Two ICCS members are planning to convene sessions at the European Geosciences Union @egu.eu General Assembly in May 2026. Read all the details and find out how to submit an abstract (deadline 15 January): iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/iccs-... #EGU26

📅 Next month our Senior Research Software Engineer, Dr Joe Wallwork, will give a talk at the #EuroAD workshop at @cern.bsky.social. He'll share our experience of running a Differentiable Programming course at our 2025 Summer School: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...

Ahead of COP30, explore how our research is addressing the climate and biodiversity crises in the real world 👉 bit.ly/4hQmVdF 🧪 #ClimateAction #Economics #StartUp #Energy

Hurricane Melissa is set to hit Jamaica with devastating windspeeds, 30" of rain and a storm surge. The Inigo Storm Prediction and Impact Research project (InSPIRe) uses the latest in computing and AI to understand how climate change affects the risk of hurricanes: inigoinsurance.com/inigo-partne...

We're proud to say that Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE, the Director of ICCS, has been appointed as the UK Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Emily will remain in her ICCS post while helping the UK to reach #NetZero – bravo!