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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 1d

"We will produce actionable guidance, including a white paper and updated tools, to help repositories, funders, and policymakers strengthen data infrastructure and build resilience against future crises."

ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners @esipfed.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 We're thrilled to share that ESIP has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support our work on making data repositories stronger.
🙌 Huge thank you to the Sloan Foundation!

Data stability is key. 💡 Let's make it stronger together!
➡️ Learn more: www.esipfed.org/repository-r...

Words "repository resilience" over ice and water.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 1d

🌍🔥 Climate change fuels insecurity—from resource conflicts to forced migration.

@unep.org explains how climate adaptation & peacebuilding can go hand in hand to build resilience.

Learn more:https://www.unep.org/topics/disasters-and-conflicts/environment-security/climate-change-and-security-risks

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 2d

Decided to live blog this morning's OpenAI DevDay announcements, since I'm in the audience simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/o...

OpenAI DevDay 2025 live blog

I’m at OpenAI DevDay in Fort Mason, San Francisco today. As I did last year, I’m going to be live blogging the announcements from the kenote. Unlike last year, this …

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Kyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 20d

New Lonboard release and new demo! Integrating marimo and Apache DataFusion to visualize the NYC taxi dataset. developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 7d

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet.
📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/...
📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
SIGMOD 2025

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Learning about UK flood hydrology roadmap at #HydroJULES @ukceh.bsky.social Royal Society meeting.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Panel about "Whose data we can trust?" Great to hear different perspectives on challenges and needs. #CaSTCo river citizen science data.

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Alfie and Josh talking about the challenges of community citizen science data #CaSTCo @odihq.bsky.social

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Lots of sharing citizen science experiences from across the individual river trusts @theriverstrust.bsky.social #CaSTCo

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Fascinating panel about taking #CaSTCo river citizen science data roadmap ahead. Great to the themes in the questions from the audience about funding, lessons learned, trust etc.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 19d

The report stresses the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society.

Future reports will include more data, supported by initiatives like the Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS), coordinated by UKCEH.

🔗 wmo.int/publication-...

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Screengrab from HydroSOS portal with world map on left (shades of red indicate flows lower than normal, blue higher than normal) and on the right a bar chart showing the status of the river Mpanga

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UK Environmental Change Network @ukecn.bsky.social · 19d

The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 20d

We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future

Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...

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Two scientists set up a quadrat for monitoring in a field

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GBIF @gbif.org · 14d

🐍 Scaling up biodiversity data access ✨#VertNet launches a GBIF hosted portal!

Run by a dedicated volunteer network, VertNet plays a vital role in mobilizing biodiversity datasets worldwide. 🌍

🔗 Explore the new portal: gbif.link/VertNet

close-up photograph of a brilliant red and black snake in a field

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · 16d

New science blog: Tim Hewson introduces a new type of forecast map which enables users to visualise the information content of sub-seasonal forecasts like never before.

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

Jesse taking us through the #CaSTCo citizen science roadmap @theriverstrust.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social for national consistent approach to citizen science data as trusted data to support decision making.

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

A glorious time with friends and family including Brexit (dog) in the Cairngorms.

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 14d

A fun day in London (after two days in the Cairngorms), at @theriverstrust.bsky.social CaStCo Citizen Science meeting (here Michelle and other talking about achievements over past 3 years). Then off to @ukceh.bsky.social meeting at the Royal Society.

Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 20d

Gore on how Chine has taken ober from US on environmental transition through listent to their scientists techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/a...

Al Gore on China's climate rise: 'I would not have seen this coming’ | TechCrunch

Al Gore and Lila Preston of Generation Investment Management talked with TechCrunch about recent headlines, including the tech industry's growing appetite for rare earth minerals, how the AI boom's de...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 21d

A lovely setting for @climatecocentre.bsky.social meeting in Belfast

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23d

A flurry of new releases from OpenAI today under the Codex brand, including a new GPT-5-Codex speciality coding model simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/...

GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex

OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it's not yet available ...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 21d

David Wallace-Wells "Paris has given way to something much more old-fashioned:an atavistic age of competition, renewed rivalry and the increasingly naked logic of national self-interest, on energy and warming as with everything else" Me: not what future generations need in terms of a stable climate

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21d

Daily Briefing: Warming kills ‘16,500’ Europeans | EU climate target postponed | Trump UK visit protests

➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/3m7X5S9

➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 23d

Meet the team behind a decade of global climate updates, from scientists to analysts and technical experts. These are the people transforming climate data into actionable insight in the monthly #C3S Climate Bulletin.
Read the article climate.copernicus.eu/ten-years-c3...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 21d

@wilsonchan.bsky.social presenting @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social early work with water utility stakeholders

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 21d

Hearing about the importance of research and evidence to support Northern Ireland policies, and key role of @climatecocentre.bsky.social . @ukceh.bsky.social colleagues are part of the Co-Centre community

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 22d

Impressive STAC stack, great work.

Development Seed @developmentseed.org · 29d

We built stac-map, a lightweight, map-first prototype for exploring STAC GeoParquet in your browser. Built w/ DuckDB, geoarrow, & semantic STAC search, explore STAC GeoParquet files directly in the browser.

Try it: developmentseed.org/stac-map/

Blog: ds.io/stac-map

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