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The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

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🏙️How can data science & AI accelerate our progress to net zero?

Through our Sustainability mission, we’re partnering with @lloydsregister.bsky.social to harness AI & data-centric engineering expertise to reduce carbon emissions.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3N179Bv
🌐Turing researchers at the world's largest aerospace R&D event

This week, researchers from Project Bluebird, an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership between NATS, @exeter.ac.uk & the Turing, presented 8 papers at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2026.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/45x3tOn
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
📢Calling PhD researchers: Turing Internship Network applications open for 3–12 month paid internships.

6 opportunities across justice, AI safety & environment & sustainability sectors.

Deadline to apply: 17 February 2026

💡 Learn more: bit.ly/4pzY2VJ
Apply to the Turing Internship Network
2026 Internship offering In this new round of recruitment, we are offering a range of new internship opportunities in
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January 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
📢New report: State of AI for Decarbonisation 2025

This report examines the progress made in applying AI to address decarbonisation challenges over the past year, incl. across:
💡Energy networks
🏭Manufacturing
🌱Agriculture
🚗Transport

Read it now: https://bit.ly/4jCOEzx
State of AI for Decarbonisation 2025
AI has been constantly in the headlines this year. Jaw-droppingly large investments in AI data centres underpinned US economic growth.
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January 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
❄️ How is IceNet helping to protect endangered caribou in Arctic migration?

IceNet is a deep learning sea ice forecasting system, led by @bas.ac.uk & the Alan Turing Institute, and is helping to prevent ice-breaking vessels from disrupting migration routes.

🔎 Learn more: bit.ly/4s0OdCK
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
🏙️How can data science & AI accelerate our progress to net zero?

Through our Sustainability mission, we’re partnering with @lloydsregister.bsky.social to harness AI & data-centric engineering expertise to reduce carbon emissions.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3N179Bv
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
💻State of AI for Decarbonisation: what should you be thinking about in 2026?

Hear from experts to understand how UK applications of AI to decarbonisation challenges matured in 2025 & what's expected in 2026.

📅13 Jan, 10:00–11:00
➡️Secure your place: https://bit.ly/4jvIL78
State of AI for Decarbonisation 2025: Cutting through the hype
From jaw-droppingly large investments in AI data centres to exciting AI applications in many sectors, AI has been constantly in the news in 2025.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
🌍Creating a sustainable world w/ data science & AI

Through our Sustainability mission, we’re partnering with @lloydsregister.bsky.social to create safe pathways to net zero through data-centric engineering in maritime, digital manufacturing & critical infrastructure.

Learn more: bit.ly/3N179Bv
January 5, 2026 at 1:26 PM
🛡️Protecting the UK’s vital systems: our AI tools aim to provide a new line of defence

Explore how our researchers are tackling the rising cyber threats facing the UK's critical national infrastructure (CNI): https://bit.ly/3J7xL2c
The UK’s critical infrastructure is at risk from cyber-attacks. Our AI tools will provide a new line of defence
The Turing’s Critical National Infrastructure mission is working to protect the systems that underpin society
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January 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
❄️Navigating Change: AI in Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting

Learn how AI is revolutionising our approach to urgent environmental challenges in the latest Turing Podcast.

Hear about how AI models like IceNet are predicting sea ice conditions and aiding conservation efforts: https://bit.ly/4nF3PZi
The Turing Podcast
Episode archive
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December 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
⚠️The realities of data poisoning

We worked w/ Anthropic & the AI Security Institute to understand the realities of data poisoning

We found that as few as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size & training data grow

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4n0mH4t
LLMs may be more vulnerable to data poisoning than we thought
A Turing collaboration with the AI Security Institute and Anthropic will help to protect AI models from misuse
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December 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
💻 How far can we push small language models?

This summer, our Project t0 team showed that small, open-weight language models can achieve near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks.
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Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
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December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
❄️Great to see IceNet featured on "Steve Backshall's Royal Arctic Challenge" last week

IceNet is a deep learning sea ice forecasting system, led by @bas.ac.uk & the Alan Turing Institute, and is helping to protect caribou in Arctic migration.

🔎 Learn more:https://bit.ly/4s0OdCK
New AI tool aids caribou conservation in a changing Arctic
Artificial intelligence sea ice forecasting systems could help predict and protect the migration routes of endangered caribou in the Canadian Arctic, accordi
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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🛰️ New AI-powered tool to identify threats in space and improve national security

We’re working with @unibirmingham.bsky.social to create an AI-powered satellite radar system aimed at improving space security.

Learn more about Project Aemelia: bit.ly/4s5av6u
New AI-powered tool to identify threats in space and improve national security
The University of Birmingham and the Alan Turing Institute have won a £610,000 grant to create an AI-powered satellite radar system aimed at improving space
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December 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🔓 Enabling research with sensitive data on AI supercomputers

We're working with @ucl.ac.uk, University of Cambridge & @bristoluni.bsky.social to enable researchers to carry out safe, secure & efficient AI research on sensitive data using the UK’s most powerful computers.

Learn more: bit.ly/4qdG6kC
How we’re enabling research with sensitive data on AI supercomputers
Our FRIDGE project is helping to safely unlock the full benefits of frontier AI
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December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We’re proud to join the @nro-group.bsky.social

This is a new alliance uniting the UK's foremost research agencies and institutes in #MakingResearchMatter.

Together we will help ensure science-based insights benefit people, communities and the economy.

Learn more: nrogroup.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🔎 New CETaS snapshot report

While AI is accelerating discovery – from autonomous labs to breakthroughs relevant to national security – the UK’s long-term competitiveness will hinge on its ability to verify, certify and scale the materials it discovers.

https://bit.ly/4a88mjP
AI and Advanced Materials: Strategic and Security Implications
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December 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🌧️ AI is helping to protect against future water shortages

We’re working with the Environment Agency to identify early signs of drought. This is crucial to help improve how the country plans for and responds to water scarcity.

Learn more about our work: https://bit.ly/3X99JqK
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📢 Last chance to register for the next Cyber Threat Observatory workshop

📅Wed 10 Dec, 09:00–12:15
📍Zoom
🎫Register:
https://bit.ly/4iexWWq

Join us to:
➡️ Explore new findings
➡️ Discuss threat reporting and fraud management
➡️ Hear insights from experts across 6 continents
Workshop: Cyber Threat Observatory for national identity systems
This series of workshops bring together experts from various countries and national governments, spanning 6 continents, to discuss the urgent need to treat d
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December 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📡 Our new AI model demonstrates for the first time that high-accuracy Synthetic Aperture Radar vessel detection can run autonomously on low-power hardware suitable for satellites.

This will enhance our abilities to monitor & intercept illicit activities.

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New AI model could enable real-time maritime surveillance onboard satellites
Conferences, workshops, and other events from around the Turing Network
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December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
👥 How can police forces harness the power of the crowd?

In a new CETaS Expert Analysis, Martin Wright explores the ways in which virtual volunteers can help solve crime problems to the benefit of communities:
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Blue Light Thinking: Virtual Volunteers and Crowd-sourced Solutions to Crime
Dr Martin Wright
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December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📊How are financial institutions navigating the risks and rewards of AI?

In partnership with Accenture, BNY, HSBC, Aviva and Mastercard, our collaborative research project with PAIF investigated how to manage generative AI applications: bit.ly/4pLDH0n
Research explores risks of using AI in the financial sector
Researchers have identified new risks of using AI in finance, and how financial institutions can ensure it is managed in a reliable and transparent way, in a
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌐 Defending Critical National Infrastructure: Emulating industrial networks to safely expose malware

Last week, we joined Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s “Research Amplified” event to share our work on developing an AI-powered sandbox for analysing malware that targets industrial control systems.
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
❓How is AI challenging and reshaping copyright in the UK?

Our new report explores the domains of ethics, law, technical standards and hybrid stakeholders to assess how the rapid evolution of AI models is pushing these areas into grey zones.

Read the report: https://bit.ly/48pxTCz
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🧩Exploring how AI can offer accurate & trustworthy predictions even when data is limited/uncertain

Announced today, our new research project will develop models that are purposefully designed to learn effectively from noisy, fragmented or small datasets.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pw1Is1
Turing researchers pioneering data-efficient AI to accelerate scientific discovery
The Alan Turing Institute has received a research grant from UKRI Engineering and
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November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📊 New project announced: building AI tools to enhance security analyst capabilities

We're convening experts from leading UK universities & gov security partners to enhance intelligence analysts’ assessment capabilities.

Learn more about the project: https://bit.ly/49xVROl
New research consortium will use AI to support and enhance intelligence analysis for national security
The Alan Turing Institute has been awarded a £1m research grant to develop AI methods to support and enhance intelligence analysis for national security and
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM