Kit Macleod

📢 Applications open soon for a FREE online course on Data-driven Approaches to Hydrological Science. Running in July, this is for postgrad students, ECRs and professionals in consultancies, monitoring agencies & related industries seeking to strengthen skills. 🧪 hydro-jules.org/data-driven-...

Key findings: • 42% loss of rough grassland, heath and wetland since 1930 • Pastures and meadows reduced by 29% • Arable land up by one third by 1990 • Urban areas rose from 13% to 20% A fresh perspective on how our landscapes changed over 90 years www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c... 3/ #LandUse

We did it! A successful Crowdfunder will see the development our table-top game Drones & Droids.🤖 As well as being available to anyone to buy after we've honoured our fundraiser commitments, copies of the game will be given to local schools. www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...

Maybe Climate Action Tracker updates could be required reading for all. Complicated information clearly presented. There is hope, see what has been achieved since 2015. A long way to go before a sustainable future is achieved @climateactiontracker.org climateactiontracker.org/publications...

We were pleased to have been part of #CaSTCo, helping advance collaborative river monitoring across England and Wales. As well as the new Impact Report, a companion document offers an ambitious vision for the future: castco.org/roadmap #RiverRecovery 3/3

The #CaSTCo project shows how community data can drive decisions on river management in England & Wales. UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science. 🔗 castco.org/impact-report 🧪 1/

I enjoyed working with the #CaSTCo #citizen-science community to learn about their needs (related to data; from collection to use). One of our outputs, was a set of data governance principles. Read more in impact report. @theriverstrust.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social castco.org/impact-report/

Great to see UK river #citizen-science impact report #CaSTCo published. Telling all about the community's achievements. @ukceh.bsky.social @waterrangers.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social castco.org/impact-report/

Learn from Simon about impressive #FDRI efforts to provide quality controlled near-real time data on how our catchments/rivers are responding hydrologically.

📣 Great news for UK hydrology! The UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has announced release of two new datasets: UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2. They provide access to sub-daily river flow and hydrometeorological data across 100s of UK catchments 🔗 fdri.org.uk/news/new-hyd... 1/ 🧪

🎥 Our new webinar introduces UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2 and shares what’s next for FDRI data. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/JMZYzlLA_h8 Thanks to all the partners and the community effort making these datasets possible 👏🏼 #FDRI #Hydrology #EnvironmentalScience

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Thanks to these key individuals to helping #FDRI improving knowledge of floods and droughts.

NEW – Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/AQ99WCO

Learning about a wide range of meteorological and soil sensor systems from members of the excellent @ukceh.bsky.social #FDRI team.

An enjoyable day with @ukceh.bsky.social Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure #FDRI field and digital colleagues exploring data collection on the banks of the River Thames.

Coming soon on Counting the Earth... 🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service. 🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!

Is the term "vibe engineering" kind of stupid, leaning into the gatekeeping distinction between "coders" and "real software engineers" It absolutely is. That's why I think it might stick!

"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."

🌍🔥 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

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

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

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-...

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

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

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

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

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.

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-... 2/ #StateOfWater

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.

🐍 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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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/...

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

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...

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

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

Impressive STAC stack, great work.

Useful read about responsible AI for people and the planet

Many of the keynote speeches at #RSS2025 have been very insightful to over 900 attendees, from over 50 countries. Claire Miller, from @uofglasgow.bsky.social talked about working with @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social to transform Glasgow into a climate resilient city. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On my way (train, bus, ferry...) to the @climatecocentre.bsky.social annual meeting. Looking forward to catching up with a range of colleagues incl @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social and enjoy a couple of nights in Belfast.

📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change. A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation. 🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

What are stakeholders' visions for positive lake futures in the English Lake District? A new blog post from #UKCEH_AquaEco: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪🌊🐟🚣‍♀️ #freshwater #lake @ukceh.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I'm up to 124 little mostly-vibe-coded apps on my tools.simonwillison.net site and most of them are trivial but some of them aren't, so I wrote up this guide to the ones I think are most worth checking out simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/h...