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Alejandro Coca-Castro

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Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute | PhD #geography | Building disruptive tech #machinelearning #earthsciences tools with social impact #openscience | He/Him

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NOAA @noaa.gov · Apr 22

Today is the big day! Happy #EarthDay from NOAA!

Check out noaa.gov/Earthday, & visit noaa.gov any time for the latest Earth science news, scientific research discoveries & ways you can get involved to help our home planet.

A doodled graphic of the Earth with the text “Every day is Earth Day” on it. The Earth is surrounded by drawings of nature including a desert, tropics, tundra, marine and deep sea environments, mountains, forests, rivers, and hills. Credit: Kaleigh Ballantine/NOAA.

A NOAA small boat returns to ship under a rainbow after collecting water samples and deploying scientific instruments in the Pacific’s Kure Atoll. Credit: James Morioka/NOAA.

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Scott Hosking @scotthosking.bsky.social · Mar 20

🌤️ Our #AI weather forecasting model has been published today in Nature 🤖

🥇the first AI weather model to learn directly from raw environmental observations

🌎 compared to existing AI models it is cheaper to train, uses less carbon and easier to deploy locally

www.turing.ac.uk/news/fully-a...

Fully AI driven weather prediction system could start revolution in forecasting

A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power t

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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · Jan 23

The UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize is open for nominations until midnight of Sunday 26 January 2025!

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

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Marc Rußwurm @marccoru.bsky.social · Jan 13

🚨📢 Call for short and tiny Papers 🚨📢

for the third Machine Learning for Remote Sensing workshop at ICLR 2025 in Singapore!

Deadline in 3 weeks on February 3rd!

Check the website ⬇️ for submission details
ml-for-rs.github.io/iclr2025/

@iclr-conf.bsky.social

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Alejandro Coca-Castro @alejo-coca.bsky.social · Dec 18

What does Artifact Evaluation mean for the computational #climatescience community? The blog post below summarises a pioneering initiative that some of us in @climformatics.bsky.social embarked on to embed more #reproducibility and #fairsoftware in climate research.

Please share 🙏

Dominic Orchard @dorchard.bsky.social · Dec 18

This year the Climate Informatics conference @climformatics.bsky.social embarked on an 'artifact evaluation' procedure to assess the software associated with accepted papers (opt in) modelled after similar approaches in computer science. New blog post about the process iccs.cam.ac.uk/news/artifac...

Artifact Evaluation at this years' Climate Informatics 2024 | Institute of Computing for Climate Science

(blog post co-authored by ICCS members, Dominic Orchard, Marion Weinzierl, Roly Perera, and also Alejandro Coca-Castro from The Alan Turing Institute) Capsule In 2024, the Climate Informatics conferen...

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Kirstie Whitaker @kirstiejane.bsky.social · Dec 12

Celebrating a fantastic year of @turingway.bsky.social!

Let me see if I can get a thread going from our #TuringWayCommunityForum event...

Starting with celebrating @arielleb.bsky.social being promoted to Senior Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute!

book.the-turing-way.org/afterword/co...

A slide with a picture of Arielle - a white woman with dark hair slicked back and red lipstick - and text on the left hand side.

Text reads: Arielle appointed a Senior Researcher - Open Source Practices. Will be spending my time split between the Practitioner’s Hub delivery, JupyterHub EOSS work, and own work on open source practices. For day-to-day community not much will change! However look forward to being more visible and getting to know other aspects of community.

There's a link on the slide which is also in the skeet.

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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · Dec 11

New opinion piece from me on why we're failing on climate... too much compliance, not enough resistance. The AGU ought to be ashamed #AGU2024
bit.ly/3VzOTQO

Climate Science and Big Oil Need to Go Their Separate Ways | Opinion

The American Geophysical Union has a long history of taking fossil fuel money, and has not pledged to stop.

bit.ly

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Ricardo Barros Lourenço @rblourenco.bsky.social · Dec 11

If you are developing #openscience / #reproducibleresearch in the geosciences with #python @pangeo.io is now here. Please give them a follow 😉

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EDS Book | fosstodon.org/@eds_book @eds-book.bsky.social · Dec 9

🎉 Let’s celebrate a fresh notebook contribution for the EDS book Gallery!

🐮 Cam Appel from Queen Mary University navigates the effectiveness of fine-tuning and #opendata for boosting a pre-trained model to accurately detect livestock in aerial imagery.

🚀Launch
edsbook.org/notebooks/ga...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Nov 25

New blogpost:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society

The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Nov 20

The AI for High-Precision Weather Forecasting Showcase event last week demonstrates the crucial role AI technology is playing in addressing environmental challenges and improving our understanding of weather systems and the changing climate.

More details here 👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2024/ai...

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Scott Hosking @scotthosking.bsky.social · Nov 20

My first starter pack - please do suggest people to join

go.bsky.app/9T8hneP

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