Tag: academia
.plan-26-33: Zarro rides out and evidence papers pour in
TESSERA 1.0 is now fully available as Zarr with global RGB previews, a weather downscaling preprint, and Evidence TAP gets a public website with progress on the downloader and parser.
.plan-26-32: Finally a use for serverless and found the Forester for the trees
GETMobile micro-NPU article and package calculus published, TESSERA embeddings conversion using Fargate Spot, and starting to shift to Forester for teaching.
.plan-26-31: Sorting out Tessera and Evidence TAP infrastructure
A petabyte of TESSERA embeddings moves to Source Cooperative, and Taposaur's GROBID metadata index and capability-based downloader take shape for Evidence TAP, while Eio gets some native Windows support.
.plan-26-30: Bananas ripen, models open, and OxCaml releases
An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.
.plan-26-29: Perfect weather, imperfectly measured, precisely predicted
My first viva in Law, a TESSERA stall at the House of Lords, downscaling the weather with embeddings, moving terabytes onto Source Cooperative, the Pembroke garden party, and a from-scratch shell makes progress.
.plan-26-28: What fun papers piled up while I was out at sea
Back from the Arctic into a heatwave, hacking on Eio for the TESSERA sync engine, the Conservation Evidence team demoing at Parliament, and TESSERA on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris.
Turley on “White Time” “Scholarship”
Jonathan Turley, a notable constitutional scholar and law professor, runs a popular law blog where he covers legal matters and other topics. On the matter of other topics, we have “White Time”: Dutch Professor Argues that Time Itself is Racist, a look at some thought-provoking scholarslop coming out of the Netherlands. Before discussing the chronological-racial...
.plan-26-26: Gelato, geospatial, and players of games
Spoke at CHIA's annual conference on AI for a changing world, as well as the first Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum outside the US, and started moving TESSERA's embeddings onto Source Cooperative.
.plan-26-25: Planetary scale plans, Windows file-descriptor scale problems
Ten years of the CCI with Sir David Attenborough, Andrew's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, and the third PROPL at PLDI, while wrapping a local DeepSeek agent in OCaml and a first stab at getting Eio fleshed out on Windows.
The Royal Society Environmental Prize lecture on feeding the world without costing the earth
Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land sparing is the key to slowing the extinction crisis.
Diverse intelligences, alien intelligences
Last Wednesday (2026-05-06) I gave a short presentation at DIVSOL, the Diversity in Society and Life research community at the University of Helsinki. In the talk I explain how the research I’ve done over the past decade or so relates to the general theme of diversity in science and society.
Academic Atmosphere
Hi everyone, I'm Simone and this is my first Leaflet post. I recently discovered this ecosystem and I literally fell in love with it. Each account has its own data repository that, eventually, can be even self-hosted (as I do), and it feels like magic.
The Liebox That Wears Our Words
A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.
The machines are not, in fact, fine.
"Claude, write me a viral debut blog post using these three sources, make no mistakes."
Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references
We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?
Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism
What the survival of Harvard tells us about Harvard.