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.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated
Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.
.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins
Evidence synthesis at the DEFRA science conference, TESSERA transcoding and building a new SPA, OpenStreetMap/DuckDB bindings in OxCaml, and early thoughts on vibecoding etiquette.
Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum
Summary of the Nine Recommendations and Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework papers from the NAS/Royal Society US-UK Forum in summer 2025, and how they connect to my work on collective knowledge systems, TESSERA, and evidence synthesis.
.plan-26-08: At AI summit, Shriram's PL opinions, Zarr hacking
TESSERA paper accepted at CVPR 2026, went to the AI Impact Summit, OCaml Zarr hacking, Shriram's talk on human factors of formal methods, and discussions on teaching OxCaml to agents.
At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress
Trip report from the Indian AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, covering the massive expo, a conversation with Yann LeCun, a hackathon/talk at IIT-Delhi, networking at the British High Commission, and reflections on the summit declaration's shift from safety to progress and equitable access.
Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making
Our new paper in Biological Conservation demonstrates how the LIFE extinction risk metric can be applied across five diverse case studies, from real-time tropical deforestation monitoring to evaluating conservation project effectiveness.
Happy new year and my fave readings of the year
My favourite books, podcasts and recommendations from 2025, covering moral ambition, maps, wolves, AI dystopias, geopolitics, Chennai history, and the best tech podcasts.
Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
Design principles for collective knowledge systems—permanence, provenance, permission, and placement—that enable robust networks for evidence-based decision making.
On the path to the UK/India AI Summit with OpenUK and the ATI
Reflections on UK-India AI collaboration from meetings at the Alan Turing Institute and OpenUK, discussing ethical AI deployment, open source infrastructure, and the challenges of building community in the age of AI-assisted coding.
Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter
Open letter to UN Article 6.4 supervisory body advocating for nature-based climate solutions alongside durable carbon sequestration technologies.
What I learnt at the National Academy of Sciences US-UK Forum on Biodiversity
Report from NAS/Royal Society forum on standardized biodiversity measurement technologies covering foundation models, eDNA and evidence synthesis.
Learnings from the Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Committee
Insights from Cambridge University's Environmental Sustainability Strategy Committee on carbon reduction, biodiversity, and operational sustainability progress.
Humans are the ones that will save nature, helped by AI
Discussion of responsible AI adoption in conservation, emphasizing human agency and equity over technological solutions.
Technology needs to unite conservation, not divide it
Response to critique of AI in conservation emphasizing participatory design, open source tools and equitable capacity building in Global South.
Talks from LOCO24 are now available online
LOCO24 conference talks now available on self-hosted video platforms with peer-to-peer redundancy.