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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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/

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Check out their slides: "What tooling can we develop to help developers move faster, avoid vendor lock in..."

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Impressive talk (+Q&A) by @posit.co's ‪Joe Cheng (hugely experienced provider of open source data science tools): what is possible when using LLMs for data science. Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research. Thanks @scipyconf.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3x...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Great start to water innovation festival about "What is trust?"

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Learning about Earthwatch's citizen science data ecosystem

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Michelle (The Rivers Trust) and ODI colleagues taking us through data ecosystem modelling for Eutrophication weight of evidence tool.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Colleagues at #ODI data ecosystem mapping task on citizen science data. #waterinnovation2025

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Fascinating sprint by Ofwat funded Stream on improving trust in citizen science data

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Inspirational talk by Simon Reeve about how humans are altering our planet, incredible stories about people and communities trying to make a difference and prosper.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

In Newcastle for #NWG25 festival of water innovation...great setting. Enjoyed visiting last year as part of #CaSTCo citizen science river/catchment data project

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Eva Ivits @eea.europa.eu highlighting the complexity of climate risk assessments and the need for #DestinE to enable quantitative local scale impacts, focus on solutions, need timely data/action, and enable people to explore what-ifs and scenarios.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Eva Ivits @eea.europa.eu higlighting that Europe is the fastest heating continent and we are not sufficently prepared for rapidly increasing climate risks. #DestinE #DestinationEarth

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Key principles of data lake: federation over monolithic approaches; interoperability using well-defined APIs; harmonised data access enabling users to access data independently of its location and protocol; ‘bringing-users-to-the-data’ paradigm; commonly used technologies; favouring open source.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The data engineering that sits behind #DestinE is impressive, so that end users can use various platforms/services.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The value of fine spatial resolution simulations highlighted here by Irina. In the UK this is important for many of our coastal and island areas, which are often poorly served by some existing coarse datasets. #DestinE

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Advancing DestinE’s Digital Twins and the Digital Twin Engine Irina Sandu ( #ECMWF ). Impressive simulations of extreme events #DestinE.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Useful @esa.int to see different #DestinE user journeys

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

One aspect I think is key is the provision of these key platform management services (meeting many non-functional requirements; and so others are not having to reinvent/implement). #DestinE @ecmwf.int

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Importance of co-design of services that are useful, operable, usable, scalable, and sustainable #DestinE @ecmwf.int

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Overview of phase 1 services #DestinE, my perspective is the challenge of making services relevant to end users but not swamping with many services they do not know where to start or each has its's own learning curve. Some early educational user engagement has highlighted this issue.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

An impressive range of projects harnessing the potential of #DestinE to demonstrate what is possible and meet end user needs.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The added value of the greater spatial resolution is to see thermal gradients within cities #DestinE @ecmwf.int

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A great example of how crowd sourced/volunteer/ #citizenscience data (here met observations) can be used to improve current forecasts #DestinE.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

What is needed and one of the largest challenges for #DestinE (and all other approaches) is making it locally relevant and scalable (EU level at least). If achieved so many benefits for consistent and integrated assessments.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Ana Patrícia Oliveira setting out user personas (from a Portugese perspctive) #DestinE. Requirements: fit for purpose, need to like to use it (not a struggle) and be cost efficient.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Fascinating keynote Ana Patrícia Oliveira (CTO for Space at +ATLANTIC) Impacts are not homogenous, higher latitudes and coastal areas have highest relative increase. Global scale changes, local scale impacts. Hazards are local but forecasts are not. 4th Destination Earth ( #DestinE ) User eXchange

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

An impressive range of horizon scanning activities, with a large number of Scottish Government staff and many others, have fed into these reports (trend pack is a fascinating read) Future Trends for Scotland-Findings from the 2024-25 Horizon Scanning Project - gov.scot www.gov.scot/publications...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

My family has several generations of talented artists (I am not, yet, one of them). I like to practice when I am in beautiful settings like these.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Including a picnic by the Thames.

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Big changes are coming to the ways you can access #USGS water data in 2025. A number of our legacy products and services will be turned off and we’re excited to unveil the next generation APIs and user interface of the USGS Water Data for the Nation ecosystem." waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/wdfn-up...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Our perspective on how remote sensing and citizen science can be combined through machine learning to provide high quality, near real-time reporting on habitat condition. This could be transformative for environmental reporting." www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @ukceh.bsky.social

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If you are interested in what has happened in LLM space over the past 6 months - listen to @simonwillison.net www.youtube.com/live/z4zXicO...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

@swyx.io useful steps for producing AI news and more generally for AI intensive applications. AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 - Day 1 Keynotes & MCP track ft. Anthropic MCP team - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4zX...

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Kit Macleod @kitmacleod.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thx @opencholmes.bsky.social: Shared geospatial data is key to address challenges, we need a much more complete understanding of what is happening in the world than exists today. And to get that understanding we need the right ecosystem for the creation of that data+tools to make the data accessible

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