Michael Sleigh
@msleigh.io
Head of Integrated Forecast Systems at ECMWF. Ex-physicist (previously Group Leader for Computational Physics at AWE). Interested in HPC, software, scientific computing, classical guitar, music
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For the sake of European security, Europe's leaders should agree to release Russia’s frozen assets for the support of Ukraine — and clearly state their willingness to defend Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Trump’s 28 point ‘peace plan’ marks Europe’s last chance to stand up for Ukraine
European national leaders have been too slow and cautious in their support for Kyiv. Can they rise to meet this defining moment?
www.chathamhouse.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
For the sake of European security, Europe's leaders should agree to release Russia’s frozen assets for the support of Ukraine — and clearly state their willingness to defend Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
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Amidst all the Budget noise I didn't notice this coming out
www.gov.uk/government/n...
But thanks to the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk live blog, I didn't miss it ...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
But thanks to the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk live blog, I didn't miss it ...
AI to power national renewal as government announces billions of additional investment and new plans to boost UK businesses, jobs and innovation
A major package of new reforms and investment will put AI at heart of government’s mission to drive growth, create jobs and spread prosperity across the country.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Amidst all the Budget noise I didn't notice this coming out
www.gov.uk/government/n...
But thanks to the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk live blog, I didn't miss it ...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
But thanks to the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk live blog, I didn't miss it ...
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
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I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I shared this photo a week or so ago on Mani’s birthday
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
- It never failed to bring a smile to my face - and that was exactly the same for the man himself.
One of the absolute best in every way - such a beautiful friend
Love you Mani x x
Never to be forgotten
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November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
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#hpc #supercomputing #AI Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships www.anl.gov/article/argo...
Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships
www.anl.gov
October 29, 2025 at 6:09 AM
#hpc #supercomputing #AI Argonne expands nation’s AI infrastructure with powerful new supercomputers and public-private partnerships www.anl.gov/article/argo...
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Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
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anyway, some actually useful tips to mitigate any loss: make sure your notifications don't show their content on the lock screen - set them so you have to unlock the phone to see them. Make sure you've got theft detection turned on, which locks the phone if it's snatched.
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
anyway, some actually useful tips to mitigate any loss: make sure your notifications don't show their content on the lock screen - set them so you have to unlock the phone to see them. Make sure you've got theft detection turned on, which locks the phone if it's snatched.
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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What’s worrying here is that the UK government seems absolutely determined to access user private data, no matter the bad press and the consequences. And they’re now willing to do it overtly. Between this and recent moves against encryption in the EU, we’re going to a bad place.
October 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
What’s worrying here is that the UK government seems absolutely determined to access user private data, no matter the bad press and the consequences. And they’re now willing to do it overtly. Between this and recent moves against encryption in the EU, we’re going to a bad place.
This Flight Tonight - the songs of Joni Mitchell. Loved this, highly recommended www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This Flight Tonight - the songs of Joni Mitchell. Loved this, highly recommended www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com
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It’s too much liquid going into the baby!
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It’s too much liquid going into the baby!
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The Radio 4 “In our time” archive is a goldmine and the range is astounding. In the last week or so I’ve listened to the Industrial Revolution (x 2), Typology, Pope Joan and Bacteriophages
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Radio 4 “In our time” archive is a goldmine and the range is astounding. In the last week or so I’ve listened to the Industrial Revolution (x 2), Typology, Pope Joan and Bacteriophages
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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Over time the Labour Party might discover that being seen to be overly submissive towards the Trump administration might go down very badly with core voters that it needs
To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.
September 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Over time the Labour Party might discover that being seen to be overly submissive towards the Trump administration might go down very badly with core voters that it needs
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Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law
@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say
Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law
@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Next week, we will mark our 50th anniversary in Bologna, Italy, with a series of events:
• 21st Workshop on HPC in meteorology
• Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025)
• 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting
• European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop 2025
➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
• 21st Workshop on HPC in meteorology
• Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025)
• 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting
• European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop 2025
➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
September 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Next week, we will mark our 50th anniversary in Bologna, Italy, with a series of events:
• 21st Workshop on HPC in meteorology
• Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025)
• 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting
• European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop 2025
➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
• 21st Workshop on HPC in meteorology
• Using ECMWF's Forecasts (UEF2025)
• 3rd ECMWF Destination Earth Annual Meeting
• European Weather Cloud (EWC) User Workshop 2025
➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
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👥 Join us at #EESSI CI/CD Hackathon, 2 October 2025 in Copenhagen!
Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments.
📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...
@eessi.bsky.social
Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments.
📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...
@eessi.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
👥 Join us at #EESSI CI/CD Hackathon, 2 October 2025 in Copenhagen!
Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments.
📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...
@eessi.bsky.social
Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments.
📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...
@eessi.bsky.social
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This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.
I wrote about this the other day, but I do think it's underappreciated how the lack of interest in government for arguing for a world we might want to live has allowed some of the worst of us to creep in.
sat on a train near some drunk white bloke who, one assumes, was out on the march today and he spent ages physically threatening a black guy but also, for some reason, telling him he was going to rape him? but anyway everything feels great in Britain right now
September 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.
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British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
“We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
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Good science explains unexpected observations, but great science predicts things only later confirmed from observations. Brilliant article from Nadir Jeevanjee on the fundamental correctness of climate models and the incredible work of Syukuro Manabe. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.
theconversation.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Good science explains unexpected observations, but great science predicts things only later confirmed from observations. Brilliant article from Nadir Jeevanjee on the fundamental correctness of climate models and the incredible work of Syukuro Manabe. theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...
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'This country needs migrants'
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
'This country needs migrants'
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, speaks to #BBCBreakfast about his views on immigration
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Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
September 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.