Gore on how Chine has taken ober from US on environmental transition through listent to their scientists techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/a...

A lovely setting for @climatecocentre.bsky.social meeting in Belfast

A flurry of new releases from OpenAI today under the Codex brand, including a new GPT-5-Codex speciality coding model simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/...

David Wallace-Wells "Paris has given way to something much more old-fashioned:an atavistic age of competition, renewed rivalry and the increasingly naked logic of national self-interest, on energy and warming as with everything else" Me: not what future generations need in terms of a stable climate

Meet the team behind a decade of global climate updates, from scientists to analysts and technical experts. These are the people transforming climate data into actionable insight in the monthly #C3S Climate Bulletin. Read the article climate.copernicus.eu/ten-years-c3...

@wilsonchan.bsky.social presenting @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social early work with water utility stakeholders

Hearing about the importance of research and evidence to support Northern Ireland policies, and key role of @climatecocentre.bsky.social . @ukceh.bsky.social colleagues are part of the Co-Centre community

Impressive STAC stack, great work.

Useful read about responsible AI for people and the planet

Many of the keynote speeches at #RSS2025 have been very insightful to over 900 attendees, from over 50 countries. Claire Miller, from @uofglasgow.bsky.social talked about working with @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social to transform Glasgow into a climate resilient city. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On my way (train, bus, ferry...) to the @climatecocentre.bsky.social annual meeting. Looking forward to catching up with a range of colleagues incl @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social and enjoy a couple of nights in Belfast.

📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change. A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation. 🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

What are stakeholders' visions for positive lake futures in the English Lake District? A new blog post from #UKCEH_AquaEco: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪🌊🐟🚣‍♀️ #freshwater #lake @ukceh.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I'm up to 124 little mostly-vibe-coded apps on my tools.simonwillison.net site and most of them are trivial but some of them aren't, so I wrote up this guide to the ones I think are most worth checking out simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/h...

"In this part, we’ll focus on what it means to talk to an LLM. We’ll cover crafting prompts to parsing responses, and everything in between. "

📣 Closing soon! Senior Research Associate (2 yrs) at @bristoluni.bsky.social with the UK Floods & Droughts Research Infrastructure. Lead the Early Adopters Programme & help shape FDRI monitoring with UKCEH, @bgs.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Apply by 17 Sep 🧪: tinyurl.com/4hfhe93m

🌊 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook: Normal to below normal river flows likely in southern & eastern areas over the next 3 months, with low flows for the time of year persisting in some catchments. River flows in northwestern areas likely shifting towards normal to above normal by November. 🧵🧪 1/

Check out their slides: "What tooling can we develop to help developers move faster, avoid vendor lock in..."

Great to see mozilla.ai and others efforts exploring what is possible and highlighting the limitations, there are many usecases for effective small LMs run locally in your browser.

New Open Table Formats keep being added. www.ssp.sh/brain/data-l...

Back from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter! 🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map 🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss 🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores 🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring and more! 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN

⌛ One week to register! Join us at the Royal Society, London for 'Land and Water in a Changing Climate'. This one-day event on 24 September will bring together modellers, industry experts & practitioners to share new developments and visions for the future.

If you want to learn about databases then Andy's course must be one of the best youtube.com/watch?v=7NPI...

A useful set of principles

📄 We are inviting members of the research software and data communities to contribute as writers or reviewers for a new set of guides. These are paid positions: writers will receive £600 per guide and reviewers will receive £210 per guide. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/call-wr...

A fascinating map of highest summer mean temperature.

Apply by 14 Oct 2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/c3s2523-llm-...

"No one should doubt that human-caused climate change is real, is already producing potentially dangerous impacts, and that humanity is on track for a geologically enormous amount of warming"

We just launched the “DuckDB in Science” site, a curated collection of papers, lectures and podcasts about DuckDB in research: duckdb.org/science/ 🎡 If you would like to learn more about DuckDB in Science, consider joining our meetup in London this Thursday: www.meetup.com/duckdb/event...

Impressive talk (+Q&A) by @posit.co's ‪Joe Cheng (hugely experienced provider of open source data science tools): what is possible when using LLMs for data science. Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research. Thanks @scipyconf.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3x...

Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats! A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data. Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it: 🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu... ⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...

So stoked to share about the first release of the Posit AI Newsletter! @sara-altman.bsky.social and I have been working on a pilot of this newsletter internally for a few months now—an opinionated and pragmatic snapshot of AI news released every two weeks. First edition: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? ✍️ Jamie Hannaford, @wilsonchan.bsky.social, Lucy Barker, Stephen Turner ➡️ Read here: buff.ly/boBB8nU

Don't miss our three amazing keynote speakers at the Land and Water in a Changing Climate event at the Royal Society in London on 24 September! Register now to join modellers, industry and practitioners across hydrology to share insights and knowledge. 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/8OdfwQc

Today's AWS isn't the AWS of even 2020. www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...

Thanks Michael @talkpython.fm for another excellent episode - shareing Matt's and your experiences and advice on Agentic Al Programming with Python incl "Mindset: most developers are lifelong learners, so treat agents as another tool to master" talkpython.fm/episodes/sho...

🌟 We're excited to have our water science director Dr Glenn Watts as a keynote speaker at next month's Hydro-JULES conference, Land and water in a changing climate, at the Royal Society. 🖱️ Book your place! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l... 🧪

Thank's Armin for sharing your experiences and views on the state of play and what others may need to consider.

Worth watching Tom Nicholas & Tom White vision for science at scale www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUFY...

If interested in web development and increasing number of AI features. Vercel is making this easier incl V0, sandbox, AI SDK 5 etc. Overview here (filter out the marketing) vercel.com/blog/vercel-... and useful tutorial Building agents with the AI SDK www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bx-...

A useful read about past, present, and future support for policy making.

Several great geospatial examples of what is possible with new technologies and tools...a common thread is increased accessibility and ease of use.

Examples of small changes in code for GPU speed ups developer.nvidia.com/blog/7-drop-...

Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync. Based on a TypeScript implementation of differential dataflow, it's type-safe, declarative, incrementally adoptable and insanely fast.

A wise summary of an excellent resource. One of the greatest challenges is knowing what packages and functions to use. Enabling more people to have the awareness of an expert is one are of future development. I am a fan of what the Tidyverse has brought to the adhoc and approaches to R packages.

IIASA, @ukri.org and @royalsociety.org are bringing together scientific leaders to strengthen engagement across science, policy, and diplomacy. Join us as we identify opportunities to drive lasting solutions to global challenges! 📅 9 September 2025 ✍️ Register: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2...

Two interesting innovations in coding tools like Claude Code and Reflection's Assimov are how they interact with your code base (different to RAG) and how related individual and team knowledge is stored and reused in Claude's memory files and Assimov's memories files youtube.com/watch?v=G4yZ...

Always a pleasure to listen to Scott, this session about vibe coding and its limits www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaK...