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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Michael Sleigh @msleigh.io · 12d

This Flight Tonight - the songs of Joni Mitchell. Loved this, highly recommended www.zervaspepperjonitribute.com

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 16d

It’s too much liquid going into the baby!

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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21d

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

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 21d

To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 24d

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/...

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

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · 26d

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...

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MultiXscale @multixscale.bsky.social · 28d

👥 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

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 25d

This government needs to grow a spine, a stomach, and a sense of moral purpose right now. Yes, I know that is vanishingly unlikely.

Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25d

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.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25d

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

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 29d

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”.

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Robin Hogan @robinjhogan.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Sep 3

'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

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Sep 1

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...

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

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 25

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.

No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

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The Register @theregister.com · Aug 21

The UK Online Safety Act is about censorship, not safety

US policymakers should take heed, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion Implementation of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act is giving internet users around the globe – including those in U.S. states moving to enact their own age verification laws – real-time proof that such laws impinge on everyone's rights to speak, read, and view freely. …

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 21

‘The belief that full-time education is the gold standard destination for all young people needs revising. Decent work with training is more beneficial for some.’ @gavin-kelly.bsky.social challenges some orthodoxies
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Let’s not forget the young people without GCSEs

We should realise that training alongside decent work is a better next step for some 16-year-olds

on.ft.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Aug 9

UK regulation of the internet continues to be mind-numbing stupid.

Ministers have spent years passing laws giving the power to fine tech companies billions if they don’t moderate legal content that could harm certain audiences. Now they’re threatening fines of billions if they moderate it ‘wrong’.

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Michael Sleigh @msleigh.io · Aug 7

www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/d...

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About | Techdirt

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

www.techdirt.com

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Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just one chart from the @metoffice.gov.uk State of the UK climate report published today. We get used to focusing on the record highs and how 35C has gone from being rare to routine. But just look at all those summers which never got to 30C even in my lifetime. It’s a different UK now.

A plot of the maximum temperature (as red dots) reached in the UK each year from 1950 showing a large scatter but strong upward trend

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · Jul 1

We have taken the ensemble version of the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (#AIFS) into operations!

It will run side by side with the traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS).

Find out more here
➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · Jun 30

Our Annual Report 2024 is out now, highlighting progress from across ECMWF, including:

• #AIFS #MachineLearning model
• Socio-economic value of #ERA5
• Collaborative research through externally funded projects

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Extract from cover of ECMWF annual report 2024 depicting globe with digital network nodes and machine learning elements. Text: “Annual Report 2024. www.ecmwf.int.”

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · Apr 4

Next week, we will mark our 50th anniversary in Bonn, Germany, with a series of events:
• Annual Seminar
• @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social workshop
• Workshop on ancillary data
• Workshop on surface process coupling
• Workshop on data assimilation
More detail ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
#OneECMWF

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · Apr 3

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

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