If I were deliberately trying to cause vulnerable refugees as much distress as possible, this is how I would do it. Constantly shifting the ground underneath them, never allowing them a moment of certainty and stability. This is barbarism.

This is utterly foul. People recognised as refugees will never able to settle and find the long-term security they need to recover, always at risk of being returned if they can’t prove they still *really* deserve to be here. A life lived in permanent limbo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In this new preprint with Jochen Bröcker, we define a generalisation of the signal-to-noise ratio for probabilistic forecasts using proper scoring rules. (1/3) arxiv.org/abs/2510.26809

Solidarity with the Jewish community, especially in Manchester. The murder of two people at worship on the holiest day of the Jewish year is beyond reprehensible.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇

As the mother of a young trans person, Alice, who took her life in 2022 aged just 20, and as an ex-NHS doctor, I am struggling to find the words to express my dismay and sadness at this story. Whatever happened to do no harm? 🧵

Deliberately starving people and shooting them when they seek aid is an industrial and systemic approach to mass murder. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

In #Gaza, people are starving. Families are going without substantial meals for days. Prices have increased by over 4000%. The Israeli Authorities have banned UNRWA from bringing food into Gaza for over 4 months. This is a manmade and politically motivated starvation of a people. Lift the siege.

University of Reading students ‘scared’ to use toilets under new trans-exclusive policy

Tony is a well-respected colleague, a KC and a former legal advisor to the EHRC. Having spoken to constituents and University of Reading students who are concerned about the impact of this guidance, I'm glad to have signed Tony's letter.

Plans to proscribe Palestine Action signal an alarming escalation of the UK govt’s repression of our democratic rights. Branding the group a ‘terrorist organisation’ would render support for the group and its nonviolent tactics a criminal offence, with penalties of up to 14 years’ imprisonment.

Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.

Eviatar Bach, Ricardo Baptista, Edoardo Calvello, Bohan Chen, Andrew Stuart Learning Enhanced Ensemble Filters https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17836

To mark VE day, I am posting an old folder of anti-fascist posters from the Spanish Civil War. I originally started collecting these to try and choose an image for my book cover, and kept going because they're objectively awesome. Lost many in the last laptop migration, but the best remain...

The Israeli authorities have illegally banned all aid and goods into Gaza for two months. This constitutes a genocidal act, a blatant form of unlawful collective punishment, and the war crime of using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.

Disastrous www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The University of Reading is inviting Fellowship applicants to join the AFESP research programme. The closing date for initial expressions of interest is Friday 20 June 2025. Further details and full applicant guidance can be found at research.reading.ac.uk/earth-system...

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Chilling totalitarianism: Trump & Bukele demonstrating their power to imprison (without a trial, a judge, a prosecutor) an innocent person indefinitely. For the sake solely of demonstrating that they can. That they are beyond any system of justice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"We don’t want to just be free to leave, we want to be free to stay. Advocacy for free association and the ability to easily fly away from things we don’t like can make us overlook the necessary institutions and structures that make us free to grow roots." scalemail.substack.com/p/freedom-th...

We are still looking for a student in the Mathematics for Our Future Climate Centre for Doctoral Training for the project "Machine Learning Approaches in Bayesian and Ensemble Data Assimilation" (1/3) www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-st...

London's air pollution has dropped since the ULEZ expansion! 🚗💨⬇️ A new study shows cleaner air benefits for millions. Proof that bold policies can work for people & the planet. 🌍💚 🔗 Read more: www.theguardian.com/environ... #ClimateAction

People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress. The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.

Applications are open for the NCEO/DARC Training Course on Data Assimilation & Machine Learning! Learn how DA integrates models and observations to tackle environmental challenges. Two stages available: ▪ Foundation 9-10 June 25 ▪ Advanced 11-13 June 25 More info: tinyurl.com/5bya85tr

As the egregious imprisonment of Mahmoud Khalil is in the news, here is a good article about the broader context of the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement. Many universities are directly, and shamefully, responsible.

2 PhD studentships are being advertised in the Maths for our Future Climate PhD programme at the Univ of Reading. "Large ensembles of machine learning forecasts for advanced nonlinear filters in atmospheric data assimilation" (See separate post for the other project) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV093/p...

Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

PhD studentship available in our CDT in Mathematics for Future Climate, on using machine learning together with observations to improve weather forecasts. Working with me, @eviatarbach.bsky.social @amoslawless.bsky.social @nceoscience.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV093/p...

This is the product of non-stop demonisation and propaganda over years. Social hostility, barriers to care, and structural discrimination all do harm and kill. The commentariat and political class are complicit in our monstering through their performative hatred, rhetoric, and disinformation.

“If Trump’s goal is to destabilize, humiliate and embarrass the loyal people who have chosen to work for their country and federal government, he is succeeding.”

In this new preprint by the brilliant Caltech undergrad Sydney Vernon, as well as Oliver Dunbar and myself, we investigate the use of Nesterov acceleration for ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI). arxiv.org/abs/2501.08779 (1/4)

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding. (E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?) Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

That Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry and Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman are all walking around free in the most carceral nation in the world is something that demands a reckoning.

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

I have a new fully funded PhD available, open to international students on "Monsoons at the kilometre scale". @ncas-uk.bsky.social University of Reading with CASE support from the Met Office and working with Dr Richard W Jones www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #monsoon #highres

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2/20 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚

Excited for my first post here to be my first PhD paper recently published in Environmental Data Science! We introduce a probabilistic machine learning method to identify the dynamical atmospheric drivers of a local impact of interest. Have a look here bit.ly/3CFtZta.

My book got longlisted for the Dzanc Books prize 🐳 www.dzancbooks.org/blog/prize-f...

University of Reading will have a lot funded PhD places in climate related areas over the next five years. Applications will open soon for some schemes. Watch the university website for details. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Re...

World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say

I have heard and read a lot of postmortems, and this one is the best by far — @keeanga.bsky.social with the sharp analysis as always. https://thedigradio.com/podcast/democratic-dealignment-w-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/

I made a starter pack for those working in or adjacent to Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling! Apologies if I forgot anyone, and feel free to suggest people to add :) go.bsky.app/C5DQNCe