A workshop we're running at ECMWF in November - and very much not just for the weather/climate crowd. There are five confirmed keynote speakers from JCSDA, DKRZ, Météo-France, RMIB, and the Met Office. If you work with large/complex scientific codebases anywhere (CFD, materials, plasma, astro […]

ECMWF's OpenIFS weather forecasting model is now fully open source on GitHub. OpenIFS is a version of the same system used to produce our operational forecasts. After 15 years of licensed access, it's now genuinely open - publicly available with an Apache 2 licence […]

«The whole thing is a mess and yet another embarrassment for the UK. And they were all warned about it, while insisting these concerns were exaggerations. But this isn’t just about the UK—it’s a cautionary tale for every democracy grappling with how to regulate the internet» Go UK, "yet another […]

#libdems opposition to the #onlinesafetyact is beginning to snowball Quite rightly, they are asking for suspension and a rethink. Where is the opposition within Labour, Jeremy Corbyn's new grouping and the UK Green Parties? I hope they can also speak out against this car crash […]

Things are definitely changing. Someone suggested a WhatsApp group for our Antarctic expedition, I asked if we could make it an @signalapp group instead and everyone instantly agreed. Most people already had #signal on their phones too. #endustech

Given the bad weather, if some of you want to avoid US based internet services, EU has just issued a list of usable such services (web search, mail, web servers, cloud services, etc...) : https://european-alternatives.eu/ #fascism

Please share: Our Max Planck Institute recently left X and is present here on Mastodon. Give them a follow! Beautiful pictures from the science of light! #mastodon #physics #science #light #quantum #optics #photonics #pictures @maxplanckgesellschaft From: @MPI_ScienceOfLight […]

A quick newsletter article on how we're substantially modernising the IFS weather forecasting code (the "European model" to those across the pond), to make it sustainable for the long term: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/182/computing/modernisation-integrated-forecasting-system

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If you’re at #ams2025 and interested in research-to-operations, Martin Suttie will be presenting our talk on ‘R2O at ECMWF’ 9am Tuesday morning: https://ams.confex.com/ams/105ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/453418

My excellent colleague Ioan Hadade participating in this session at #sc24 on Tuesday: Building a Global Data Streaming Community: Lessons Learnt, Potential Tools, Challenges and Opportunities. Tuesday, 19 November 2024 5:15pm - 6:45pm EST […]

We're looking for a Scientific #softwareengineer to work in Bonn on our ERA5 #climate reanalysis tools. The job is to maintain and improve key systems for monitoring ERA5 (and soon ERA6). Salary EUR 86,824 net, 3-year contract with possible extension. Last chance to apply today! […]

The deadline to apply for this role working on the ERA5 #climate reanalysis is today. Still time to apply!

🚨The next major upgrade of ECMWF’s weather forecasting system will be on 12 November 2024. We’ll upgrade to Cycle 49r1 of the IFS. Much more information at https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/FCST/Implementation+of+IFS+Cycle+49r1

Aphex Twin just announced "Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition)", coming in October. This expanded edition has 15 new tracks, including "# 19", which you can listen to know on #bandcamp […]

Eldest once said they couldn’t be bothered to understand what my job actually was, so when anyone asked they just said I’m a ‘massive fucking nerd’. Not so funny now is it?

Bit niche this, I suspect (even for Mastodon...), but do any #grammar obsessives here have access to or know how to find online "SPE Tract XV" (1923)? SPE is the "Society for Pure English" (which I don't think is as sinister as it sounds, btw). I can […]

Not at #pasc, but if you are, two members of my team have a mini-symposium coming up: "What the #fortran? Lost in Formula Translation": "...the emergence of GPUs, needing significant refactoring, often beyond simple addition of pragmas, to achieve good performance on established vectorised CPU…

Youngest casting around for a topic for a school speech, and wants to do something on the negative sides of the Internet. Casually suggested she looks up #enshittification, and now she’s streaming Doctorow lectures and is really not best pleased about what’s going on, I can tell you.

If you're interested in ECMWF weather forecast data, there's a webinar tomorrow at 9am (UTC) on what's new in our next forecast-system upgrade, due later this year. More details: https://events.ecmwf.int/event/415/

Tried bridging this account to Bluesky with #bridgy and it seems to have worked: https://bsky.app/profile/msleigh.mast.hpc.social.ap.brid.gy. No past posts visible, so guessing only new ones get bridged.