CEU colleagues working on Environmentally Sustainable Computing led by @loiclnlg.bsky.social have launched a digital sustainability certification scheme called Green DiSC with the first Bronze Certifications awarded 🎉 Find out more about the first Bronze Certification awardees tinyurl.com/2jt389s8

Green DiSC@green-disc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The first six teams across three institutions in the UK and Europe have completed the Bronze certification earlier this year, so we thought we’d celebrate these pioneers! 🎉 Check out the @softwaresaved.bsky.social’s coverage to learn about this first round of certification: lnkd.in/efPKdKpr

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in ‘dramatic freefall’

Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise

theguardian.com

Exciting to finally announce the first Green DiSC awardees!

Green DiSC@green-disc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The first six teams across three institutions in the UK and Europe have completed the Bronze certification earlier this year, so we thought we’d celebrate these pioneers! 🎉 Check out the @softwaresaved.bsky.social’s coverage to learn about this first round of certification: lnkd.in/efPKdKpr

⏰ Last couple of days to apply to join my group @Cambridge as a postdoc and work on the environmental (un)sustainability of AI! ⏳ Closing September 16th. ✏️ Apply here: tinyurl.com/2ukkp8yx Or learn more about what we do at www.lannelongue-group.org Initial examples of research projects below 👇

📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791... You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁

@hasanga.bsky.social from @mikeinouye.bsky.social / @cambridgebaker.bsky.social @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social sharing new results for local-ancestry effects on CAD risk loci. #ESHG2025

My 3rd SSI Collaboration Workshop last week, an amazing & energising event as always! This one felt extra special: this time I actually had my own group to bring along! Team building + sustainable software, all in one 🌱 #newPI Thanks @softwaresaved.bsky.social !

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social #cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors

Come work with us! It's a great team and exciting research 🌱

Loïc Lannelongue@loiclnlg.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱 🚨Closing June 5th www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/ Topics below 👇 #AcademicSky #GreenSky

📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱 🚨Closing June 5th www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/ Topics below 👇 #AcademicSky #GreenSky

Excited to announce that I will be at #CHI2025 presenting the paper I co-authored with Bran Knowles and Adrian Friday 🌱 The paper describes the outcomes of a case study with energy professionals, revealing several "ironies of energy system automation". Session: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Welcoming a new member of the lab (this is Newton!) and turning 30, it’s been a busy week here! But excited to see what the next decade has in store 🌱 *PSA: expect delayed emails and puppy appearances in Zoom calls*

Our work on metabolic reaction fluxes as amplifiers and buffers of risk alleles for coronary artery disease is finally out in @molsystbiol.org ! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... A short thread on our key findings 🧵👇

Metabolic reaction fluxes as amplifiers and buffers of risk alleles for coronary artery disease | Molecular Systems Biology

imageimageUsing genetically predicted metabolic reaction fluxes, the authors identify reactions that can amplify or buffer the effect of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk alleles on disease susceptib...

embopress.org

English edition [EN] #code4thought: @loiclnlg.bsky.social, @kirstypringle.bsky.social & Andy Turner tell us, why we should care about the energy consumption of our computers & programs. And what can we do about it? Out on your podcast apps, YouTube podcast or codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Code for Thought

Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it.  Languages: English, German, French

codeforthought.buzzsprout.com

Grant writing in the Cambridgeshire sun, not the worst way to do it! (I do have to periodically throw the ball, today’s research assistant is quite strict on that 🐕)

Google doc apparently has inbuilt AI now. Seeing an unfamiliar vertical line, I hovered over it. It suggested that I make some corrections to the blurb I was writing. The first one was to change "Dr. Devezer" to "He". Thank you, AGI.

At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week and next week: message me if you’re around an want to chat about all things sustainable AI! 🌱 (or if you are at AI Fringe in London on Wed)

This is mind-boggling… you would have thought that “not contravening international law and human rights” was a no brainer as a starting point. Apparently not. Scary.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 2y ago

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...

⏰ Deadline is tomorrow to apply to this reaearch role in Cambridge to work with me to make scientific computing more environmentally sustainable 🌱 part of the very cool (in my totally unbiased opinion) Green Algorithms Initiative

Loïc Lannelongue@loiclnlg.bsky.social · 2y ago

💫 The first role is about understanding computers' energy usage to improve carbon footprint monitoring, studying different computing equipment and tasks (simulations, AI...). A good understanding of computer science (hardware in particular) is a plus! ⏳Closing Feb 4 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49117/

What is scientists' attitude towards the carbon footprint of their simulations? A mixed bag according to this survey in fluid dynamics: low awareness and low priority, but researchers know it can and should be improved. Really great work here! @official-uom.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09314

AI needs so much power, it's making yours worse. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... Based on this preprint, one could also hypothesise it's making your health worse as well... clear important research gap here arxiv.org/abs/2412.06288

AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

bloomberg.com

🚨🌱 Interested in making scientific computing greener? Here is a chance to do just that in Cambridge: 2 open research roles to work with me and the Green Algorithms project. More details about the roles below👇 and at www.lannelongue-group.org/join/ ⏳ Closing: Feb 4 for one, Feb 17 for the other

It made our lab think about our own environmental footprints. How could we fight climate change? Thats where the Green Algorithms Initiative started, now led by the amazing @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.green-algorithms.org In the end, it's not what happens to you, but how you react to it, that matters

Green Algorithms

Towards environmentally sustainable computational science

green-algorithms.org

The LA wildfires have been so triggering but very relieved its calmed a bit. Back in 2019-20, just before COVID, my Australian lab and people I knew were hit by the Black Summer. I still recall masking up & stuffing plastic wrap around our windows to keep out smoke en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Unofficial Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) @softwaresaved.bsky.social Starter Pack is a list of #SSI #Fellows, #researchers, #collaborators, and others who are passionate about #research and #software. If you would like to be added, contact me. Sharing is appreciated go.bsky.app/Us38Nbx

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships are a fantastic way to get your foot in the funding door and pursue proper high risk, high reward research. Check them out here: www.embo.org/funding/fell... Next deadline: Feb 14th Very happy to support any prospective applicants, but do get in touch early! 😊

Postdoctoral Fellowships – Benefits – EMBO

EMBO provides grants for host institutions in EMBC Member States to issue employment contracts to EMBO Fellows. Fellows working in other countries than EMBC Member States will receive a stipend.

embo.org

That’s good news, for better or worse this is an important part of academic metrics and useful to early-career researchers in particular

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y ago

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y ago

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

In Glasgow for #LOCO2024 An incredibly exciting programme to look forward to 🌱

Lauritz Thamsen@lauritzthamsen.org · 2y ago

Just a few days now till #LOCO2024 – the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing! 💻 🔬 🌱 The final programme for the whole of Tuesday 3 December is now available on our workshop website, www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...