A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

Exciting to finally announce the first Green DiSC awardees!

⏰ Last couple of days to apply to join my group @Cambridge as a postdoc and work on the environmental (un)sustainability of AI! ⏳ Closing September 16th. ✏️ Apply here: tinyurl.com/2ukkp8yx Or learn more about what we do at www.lannelongue-group.org Initial examples of research projects below 👇

📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791... You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁

@hasanga.bsky.social from @mikeinouye.bsky.social / @cambridgebaker.bsky.social @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social sharing new results for local-ancestry effects on CAD risk loci. #ESHG2025

My 3rd SSI Collaboration Workshop last week, an amazing & energising event as always! This one felt extra special: this time I actually had my own group to bring along! Team building + sustainable software, all in one 🌱 #newPI Thanks @softwaresaved.bsky.social !

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social #cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors

Come work with us! It's a great team and exciting research 🌱

📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱 🚨Closing June 5th www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/ Topics below 👇 #AcademicSky #GreenSky

Excited to announce that I will be at #CHI2025 presenting the paper I co-authored with Bran Knowles and Adrian Friday 🌱 The paper describes the outcomes of a case study with energy professionals, revealing several "ironies of energy system automation". Session: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Welcoming a new member of the lab (this is Newton!) and turning 30, it’s been a busy week here! But excited to see what the next decade has in store 🌱 *PSA: expect delayed emails and puppy appearances in Zoom calls*

Our work on metabolic reaction fluxes as amplifiers and buffers of risk alleles for coronary artery disease is finally out in @molsystbiol.org ! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... A short thread on our key findings 🧵👇

English edition [EN] #code4thought: @loiclnlg.bsky.social, @kirstypringle.bsky.social & Andy Turner tell us, why we should care about the energy consumption of our computers & programs. And what can we do about it? Out on your podcast apps, YouTube podcast or codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Grant writing in the Cambridgeshire sun, not the worst way to do it! (I do have to periodically throw the ball, today’s research assistant is quite strict on that 🐕)

Google doc apparently has inbuilt AI now. Seeing an unfamiliar vertical line, I hovered over it. It suggested that I make some corrections to the blurb I was writing. The first one was to change "Dr. Devezer" to "He". Thank you, AGI.

At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week and next week: message me if you’re around an want to chat about all things sustainable AI! 🌱 (or if you are at AI Fringe in London on Wed)

This is mind-boggling… you would have thought that “not contravening international law and human rights” was a no brainer as a starting point. Apparently not. Scary.

⏰ Deadline is tomorrow to apply to this reaearch role in Cambridge to work with me to make scientific computing more environmentally sustainable 🌱 part of the very cool (in my totally unbiased opinion) Green Algorithms Initiative

What is scientists' attitude towards the carbon footprint of their simulations? A mixed bag according to this survey in fluid dynamics: low awareness and low priority, but researchers know it can and should be improved. Really great work here! @official-uom.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09314

AI needs so much power, it's making yours worse. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... Based on this preprint, one could also hypothesise it's making your health worse as well... clear important research gap here arxiv.org/abs/2412.06288

🚨🌱 Interested in making scientific computing greener? Here is a chance to do just that in Cambridge: 2 open research roles to work with me and the Green Algorithms project. More details about the roles below👇 and at www.lannelongue-group.org/join/ ⏳ Closing: Feb 4 for one, Feb 17 for the other

It made our lab think about our own environmental footprints. How could we fight climate change? Thats where the Green Algorithms Initiative started, now led by the amazing @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.green-algorithms.org In the end, it's not what happens to you, but how you react to it, that matters

The LA wildfires have been so triggering but very relieved its calmed a bit. Back in 2019-20, just before COVID, my Australian lab and people I knew were hit by the Black Summer. I still recall masking up & stuffing plastic wrap around our windows to keep out smoke en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Unofficial Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) @softwaresaved.bsky.social Starter Pack is a list of #SSI #Fellows, #researchers, #collaborators, and others who are passionate about #research and #software. If you would like to be added, contact me. Sharing is appreciated go.bsky.app/Us38Nbx

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships are a fantastic way to get your foot in the funding door and pursue proper high risk, high reward research. Check them out here: www.embo.org/funding/fell... Next deadline: Feb 14th Very happy to support any prospective applicants, but do get in touch early! 😊

That’s good news, for better or worse this is an important part of academic metrics and useful to early-career researchers in particular

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

In Glasgow for #LOCO2024 An incredibly exciting programme to look forward to 🌱

🎙️Check out the latest podcast where @ewels.bsky.social discusses highlights from the @nextflow.io Summit with the team at @seqera.io! 👉 Listen now: hubs.la/Q02ZN8l20

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

⏰ Last day to apply to work with me in Cambridge on the Green Algorithms Initiative!🌱 5 roles open: 💫 Software Engineer Lead 💫 3 Research roles (postdocs or research assistants) focusing on green computing 💫 Community manager/project coordinator #AcademicSky #SciSky #Sustainability #hiring

A useful reminder that net zero is not the end goal 👇

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

⏳ Just one more week to apply! 5 roles open in my group working on the Green Algorithms project: 3 research, a Software Engineer Lead and a Community manager/project coordinator 🌱 More details and links to all adverts there: www.green-algorithms.org/join-us/ Closing 25/11 #AcademicSky #SciSky

Happy to announce that the latest UniProt NAR paper is now out. Find out what we've been up to here academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

📢 A reminder that I am looking for a capable and ambitious researcher for my #EPSRC #NIA #project on Carbon-Aware Scalable Processing from early next year. Applications for the #PDRA/#RA position are due on 21-Nov-2024 at 23:45h UK time: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKI680/r... 📢 #hiring #researcher

"Why are electricity prices so high if renewables break generation records and are so cheap?" I have been asked. The main reason: Gas still sets the price 63% of the time in wholesale electricity markets in EU27 & >90% in some countries. The graphic is from the Draghi Report.

Fancy peeking behind the curtain of Generative AI? I really love this cartography of genAI by the Estampa Collective... absolutely fascinating, but fair warning, I may have lost track of time... cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Great @techcrunch.com article on Bluesky! Very nice intro article to send to friends and share around. I love that they articulate the differences with other platforms in a nontechnical way, and provide pointers on good ways to get started. techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/h...

Announcing version 3.2.0 of the ukbnmr R package now available on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... This is a major update that makes the package compatible with the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform and shows removal of technical variation on the full NMR data release coming Jan 2025

Interesting to compare renewable share with power outage… curious whether the state of infrastructure in 2006 vs 2024 can also contribute to this trend?

Back in Jan 2020, even before COVID-19, our Melbourne lab was masked up & staying at home due to horrific wildfires This environmental disaster made us ask what are *we* doing to address climate change? Today, our Green Algorithms Initiative is recruiting. Please join us 🌱 bsky.app/profile/loic...

🚨We're recruiting! Interested in making science and computing more environmentally friendly? Now's the time! Very excited to build a research group at Cambridge Uni to expand our Green Algorithms work thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust www.green-algorithms.org/join-us #AcademicSky #SciSky

Six exciting preprints from the lab that we are hoping to publish in the next few months. A 🧵 of 🙏🤞 and 🤷🏻‍♂️... 1. Cardiovascular risk prediction using metabolomic biomarkers and polygenic risk scores: A cohort study and modelling analyses www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

London -> Barcelona by train ✅ (surprisingly easy! 🚄) Just arrived for the 2024 Nextflow Summit, very excited to be delivering the keynote tonight on this mildly intimidating stage (tech tests ✔️, Segrada Familia ✔️ … we’re ready to roll)

“Higher Education Rankings as Profit Centers”. Great insights from rankings legends, Ellen Hazelkorn and Philip Altbach, on the conflicts of interest posed by the QS, THE & ARWU rankings. ihe.bc.edu/pub/6nf0v9ku...

Deep learning for polygenic prediction: The role of heritability, interaction type and sample size www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We try to find the specific conditions under which deep learning out performs other basic polygenic prediction methods. tldr: They are rare.

UK "Minister for Science, Research and Innovation should implement “Plan U”, mandating the publication of all taxpayer-funded research as “preprints” before they are submitted to academic journals" ukdayone.org/briefings/re... ht @jacoates.bsky.social

Quite amazing to have a look at the original charter book of The Royal Society dating back to 1660… and a chance to search for some famous signatures (swipe for Newton and Darwin) #PairingScheme24 royalsociety.org/news/2024/03...