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Open Government Partnership @opengovpartnership.org · 01/10/2026

Today marks the start of a new term for the OGP Steering Committee. 🇨🇦 🇿🇦 Welcome to the governments of Canada and South Africa as new members of the Steering Committee! Congratulations to our re-elected members, the Government of Spain and Zukiswa Kota. More: ow.ly/ZrXz50ZTzk8

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Open Data Camp @odcamp.uk · 04/09/2026

Open Data Camp 11 is go! 🎉 📍 Birmingham City Council House 📅 21–22 Nov 2026 First batch of tickets go live at noon today! www.tickettailor.com/events/opend... For all the information about the event, check out the announcement post - www.odcamp.uk/odcamp-11-bi... #odcamp #opendata

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Open Data Camp 11: Birmingham – The Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, Sat 21 Nov 2026 - Sun 22 Nov 2026 - Open Data Camp 11 is coming to Birmingham on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2026...

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Solar eclipse through a colander

Projection of light through a colander during a partial solar eclipse

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

♥️ from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to 🇪🇸

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌊 25 years of Argo and ocean observation records! ▸ 50,000 km: the longest journey ▸ 6,000 m: the greatest depth reached ▸ 16 years: the longest operational lifetime ▸ 3 years: the longest continuous mission beneath sea ice Challenge: can you guess which float achieved each records?!

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📢 Join the next BGC-Argo DMQC Virtual Session on July 7 at 7:00 AM Pacific Time. We'll discuss the impact of missing GPS fixes on BGC DMQC and explore new approaches to improve under-ice float position estimates with Cecile Cabane (CNRS). 🔗 mbari.zoom.us/j/8985119429...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

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Euro-Argo ERIC @euro-argo.eu · 14/04/2026

📢 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟎 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭! Register and submit an abstract before 24 April. 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐨 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 - 18-19 June 2026 in Brest 🇫🇷 👉 www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting... #EAONE #Argofloats #OceanScience @univbrest.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @awi.de

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Who says the North doesn't get any sun?

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Dr Tasha Kitcher @tashakitcher.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 27/01/2026

When it rains, it now rains more. For those experiencing the flooding in south-west England, it is worth remembering that rainfall in winter has increased by about 25% overall. And, the rainfall has also become more intense: when it rains, it now rains more, increasing the risk of flooding.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Very high sea-levels this morning at Newlyn in Cornwall, thanks to this storm coinciding with a (moderate) spring tide.

Tide observations at Newlyn showing a level on the morning of 23rd Jan 2026 peaking at over 6m

BBC weather map for noon today 23rd Jan with a low pressure storm just off Cornwall

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Open Government Partnership @opengovpartnership.org · 25/11/2025

We’re excited to welcome Brazil & Steph Muchai as OGP’s Co-Chairs and to spotlight UK & Laura Neuman, who will follow in 26–27. Brazil & Steph’s Co-Chair Agenda sets bold priorities for #opengov. opengovpartnership.org/news/brazil-and-steph-muchai-to-co-chair-the-ogp-steering-committee/

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Since it's coming up again in the Discourse: GPS (GNSS) is a passive system and does not itself actually track anything. The satellites just shout out their own position & time. Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dip-test question: without looking it up, what do you think "open government" is?

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚨 Job Alert – Data Manager BGC-Argo 📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time) 💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale) 👉 Contact: raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr 👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🌊 New paper! Deep Argo floats don’t just profile the deep ocean, they now improve global seafloor maps! 📈 Adding Deep Argo data to GEBCO boosts the Seabed 2030 effort. 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025... #DeepArgo #OneArgo #Bathymetry #Seabed2030

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Euro-Argo ERIC @euro-argo.eu · 14/03/2025

🌊 8th Euro-Argo Science Meeting – Save the Date! 🌍 Join us in Crete (HCMR), Sept 23-25, 2025, for the latest in Argo science! 🌐 Online access available. Plus: 📌 Sept 22: Argopy training 📌 Sept 25: Mediterranean Argo workshop Stay tuned! #OceanScience #Argofloats www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Incredible work from @ptfretwell.bsky.social, Hamish Pritchard, and the Bedmap team...! So much depends on the topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the future of sea level rise across the planet - and this new work will really help us understand and prepare. @bas.ac.uk 🧪🌊❄️🥼

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Euro-Argo ERIC @euro-argo.eu · 11/03/2025

👋 Euro-Argo ERIC is hiring!🌊 Join us as a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer to analyse ocean Dissolved Oxygen data and develop regional ISASO2 configurations for European seas. Start: Sept 2025 | 📍 Plouzané, France | ⏳ Apply by April 30, 2025 #OceanData #Hiring www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...

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Job offer for a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer (M/F)

Fixed term 12-month, full time

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Picard management tip: Run crisis drills when all is well. A real calamity is not a good time for training.

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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It’s 10 days into the new year & @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social & @soccomproject.bsky.social have already deployed 10 new @bgc-argo.bsky.social profiling floats. 410 in the water, 70 with chem & 332 have chem/bio sensors - O2, pH, NO3, & bio-optics. They sample the upper 2 km every 10 days. 🌊⛴️🌡🧪

The global map of BGC-Argo profiling floats with multiple chemical and biological sensors. The floats sample the upper 2000 m of the water column every 10 days. Data is freely available.

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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🌊🧪@bgc-argo.bsky.social Float of the Month. WMO 7900823 deployed nearly 80 south in the Ross Sea has done 2 years under ice. Here's the data plot (all data freely available @soccomproject.bsky.social). No bloom this year! Too much ice melt, no deep mixing, and no iron to feed plankton - IMO.

8 panels of data showing temperature, salinity (with mixed layer depth overlaid), chlorophyll, optical backscatter (bbp), oxygen, nitrate, pH and computed dissolved inorganic carbon over 2 years and down to 400 m.

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Kate Hendry @krhendry.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Got out on the water today, in glorious weather, to sample seawater and water particles, all to understand glaciers, nutrients and biology in Antarctic coastal waters @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎉 @bgc-argo.bsky.social ends the year on a high note with a record-breaking milestone! 234 deployments, including 114 floats with 5+ sensors!💪 2025 is already looking promising with 122 deployments planned. Thanks to our partners for making it all possible! #OneArgo #Argo #BiogeoChemicalArgo

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Save the Date: UK Coastal Research Conference, Liverpool, 1st-3rd July. For academia, policy makers, practitioners and industry professionals, the aim being to connect researchers with those involved in managing our coasts. @nocnews.bsky.social More here: noc-events.co.uk/save-date-uk...

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Save the Date - UKCRC 2025 | NOC EventsListBasket

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Relativist: the cup is half full if it is being filled, or half empty if it is being emptied.

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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

At the covid inquiry today, Matt Hancock was forced to look in our direction as we held up pictures of our lost loved ones. He was also forced to look at a photograph of our beautiful wall, displayed in the hearing room, where nearly a quarter million of our beloved covid dead are remembered. ♥️

Screen grab of the inquiry proceedings. Matt Hancock is turned away from camera, looking toward a lawyer questioning him. On the wall behind the lawyer is a picture of our beautiful memorial wall.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/11/2024

A brief history of climate science: 1822 - Joseph Fourier suggests the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse 1857 - Eunice Foote suggests that CO₂ is the gas responsible 1861 - John Tyndall identifies the main greenhouse gases which absorb infrared radiation: H₂O, CO₂, CH₄

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Malin Ödalen @malinodalen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Interested in working with climate models to understand the ocean’s role in climate? Here are two postdoc positions in France with JB Sallée and colleagues! 1. Global ocean overturning circulation 2. Ocean-sea ice-atmosphere feedbacks affecting Antarctic sea ice www.iapsoecs.org/2024-11-04-p...

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Two postdoc positions in climate science (Toulouse, France)

CNRM Climate Center

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Just met my neice for the first time, who is less than two weeks old, and it struck me that she is already infinitely better at understanding the world around her than the best GenAI.

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Sometimes it feels like COVID was a bad dream. I was tucked away home working throughout focusing on delivering in my own area of work. This evidence lays bear the reality for those on the front line of the NHS. It's a difficult watch listening to Prof Fong. youtu.be/XV3fjaQdAy4?...

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UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 26 September 2024 AM

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Contextualist: whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on whether it is being filled or emptied.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

It's June 8th, so Happy World Ocean Day! (although of course we live on an ocean planet and every day is an ocean day) Look for a live event near you: Greenwich, London: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre... Southampton: noc.ac.uk/education/op... Global list: worldoceanday.org?post_type=tr... #ocean

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

My first major output as a civil servant - I coordinated the co-creation and publication of the UK National Action Plan for Open Goverment 2024-2025 (otherwise known as NAP6) www.gov.uk/government/p...

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UK National Action Plan for Open Government 2024-2025

The sixth National Action Plan (NAP) makes commitments to increase transparency, accountability, and public participation in government.

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Matt Donnelly @colddatamatt.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I'm edging towards my first major output in the civil service on open government, whilst starting to fire up the next on open data. All that digital and data training and experience in academia is rather handy elsewhere too!

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