Kit Macleod
Environmental researcher 🌍 | data engineer | software engineer
Digital Tool Specialist @ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ceh.ac.uk
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- Reposted by Kit MacleodKey findings: • 42% loss of rough grassland, heath and wetland since 1930 • Pastures and meadows reduced by 29% • Arable land up by one third by 1990 • Urban areas rose from 13% to 20% A fresh perspective on how our landscapes changed over 90 years www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c... 3/ #LandUse
- Reposted by Kit MacleodWe did it! A successful Crowdfunder will see the development our table-top game Drones & Droids.🤖 As well as being available to anyone to buy after we've honoured our fundraiser commitments, copies of the game will be given to local schools. www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...
- 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...
- Reposted by Kit MacleodWe were pleased to have been part of #CaSTCo, helping advance collaborative river monitoring across England and Wales. As well as the new Impact Report, a companion document offers an ambitious vision for the future: castco.org/roadmap #RiverRecovery 3/3
- Reposted by Kit MacleodThe #CaSTCo project shows how community data can drive decisions on river management in England & Wales. UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science. 🔗 castco.org/impact-report 🧪 1/
- 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/
- Great to see UK river #citizen-science impact report #CaSTCo published. Telling all about the community's achievements. @ukceh.bsky.social @waterrangers.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social castco.org/impact-report/
- Learn from Simon about impressive #FDRI efforts to provide quality controlled near-real time data on how our catchments/rivers are responding hydrologically.
- Live data from the Upper Severn, Upper Tweed and Chess catchments will help tackle floods and droughts as part of #FDRI 💧 Simon Stanley from UKCEH explains what happens to FDRI data once it's captured in the field. Check out our video!
- Reposted by Kit Macleod📣 Great news for UK hydrology! The UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has announced release of two new datasets: UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2. They provide access to sub-daily river flow and hydrometeorological data across 100s of UK catchments 🔗 fdri.org.uk/news/new-hyd... 1/ 🧪
- Reposted by Kit Macleod🎥 Our new webinar introduces UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2 and shares what’s next for FDRI data. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/JMZYzlLA_h8 Thanks to all the partners and the community effort making these datasets possible 👏🏼 #FDRI #Hydrology #EnvironmentalScience
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- Thanks to these key individuals to helping #FDRI improving knowledge of floods and droughts.
- Meet the FDRI catchment champions! This Flood Action Week we're pleased to introduce our catchment champions for the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure. 🎥 See how they're working in communities across the UK to increase national resilience to floods. youtu.be/aXvio-NQXjE 🧪
- Reposted by Kit MacleodNEW – Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/AQ99WCO
- Learning about a wide range of meteorological and soil sensor systems from members of the excellent @ukceh.bsky.social #FDRI team.
- 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.
- Reposted by Kit MacleodComing soon on Counting the Earth... 🔥 We discuss the changing nature of wildfires with UKCEH fire scientist Dr Doug Kelley. And we're at Holt Heath in Dorset, scene of a devastating wildfire in August, to talk to Dorset & Wiltshire Fire Service. 🎧🧪 Subscribe on your favourite #podcast provider!
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- "We will produce actionable guidance, including a white paper and updated tools, to help repositories, funders, and policymakers strengthen data infrastructure and build resilience against future crises."
- 🎉 We're thrilled to share that ESIP has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support our work on making data repositories stronger. 🙌 Huge thank you to the Sloan Foundation! Data stability is key. 💡 Let's make it stronger together! ➡️ Learn more: www.esipfed.org/repository-r...
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- Reposted by Kit MacleodNew Lonboard release and new demo! Integrating marimo and Apache DataFusion to visualize the NYC taxi dataset. developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...
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- Learning about UK flood hydrology roadmap at #HydroJULES @ukceh.bsky.social Royal Society meeting.
- Panel about "Whose data we can trust?" Great to hear different perspectives on challenges and needs. #CaSTCo river citizen science data.
- Alfie and Josh talking about the challenges of community citizen science data #CaSTCo @odihq.bsky.social
- Lots of sharing citizen science experiences from across the individual river trusts @theriverstrust.bsky.social #CaSTCo
- 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.
- Reposted by Kit MacleodThe report stresses the cascading impacts of too much or too little water on economies and society. Future reports will include more data, supported by initiatives like the Global Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS), coordinated by UKCEH. 🔗 wmo.int/publication-... 2/ #StateOfWater
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- Reposted by Kit Macleod🐍 Scaling up biodiversity data access ✨#VertNet launches a GBIF hosted portal! Run by a dedicated volunteer network, VertNet plays a vital role in mobilizing biodiversity datasets worldwide. 🌍 🔗 Explore the new portal: gbif.link/VertNet
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- 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.
- A glorious time with friends and family including Brexit (dog) in the Cairngorms.
- 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.
- Gore on how Chine has taken ober from US on environmental transition through listent to their scientists techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/a...
- A lovely setting for @climatecocentre.bsky.social meeting in Belfast
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- David Wallace-Wells "Paris has given way to something much more old-fashioned:an atavistic age of competition, renewed rivalry and the increasingly naked logic of national self-interest, on energy and warming as with everything else" Me: not what future generations need in terms of a stable climate
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Meet the team behind a decade of global climate updates, from scientists to analysts and technical experts. These are the people transforming climate data into actionable insight in the monthly #C3S Climate Bulletin. Read the article climate.copernicus.eu/ten-years-c3... - @wilsonchan.bsky.social presenting @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social early work with water utility stakeholders
- 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
- Impressive STAC stack, great work.
- We built stac-map, a lightweight, map-first prototype for exploring STAC GeoParquet in your browser. Built w/ DuckDB, geoarrow, & semantic STAC search, explore STAC GeoParquet files directly in the browser. Try it: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ Blog: ds.io/stac-map @gadom.ski @indraneel.org
- Useful read about responsible AI for people and the planet
- Read their Responsible AI Principles: www.wri.org/insights/ai-...
- Reposted by Kit MacleodMany of the keynote speeches at #RSS2025 have been very insightful to over 900 attendees, from over 50 countries. Claire Miller, from @uofglasgow.bsky.social talked about working with @glasgowcitycouncil.bsky.social to transform Glasgow into a climate resilient city. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- On my way (train, bus, ferry...) to the @climatecocentre.bsky.social annual meeting. Looking forward to catching up with a range of colleagues incl @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social and enjoy a couple of nights in Belfast.
- Reposted by Kit Macleod📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change. A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation. 🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Kit MacleodI am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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- "In this part, we’ll focus on what it means to talk to an LLM. We’ll cover crafting prompts to parsing responses, and everything in between. "
- Reposted by Kit Macleod📣 Closing soon! Senior Research Associate (2 yrs) at @bristoluni.bsky.social with the UK Floods & Droughts Research Infrastructure. Lead the Early Adopters Programme & help shape FDRI monitoring with UKCEH, @bgs.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Apply by 17 Sep 🧪: tinyurl.com/4hfhe93m
- Reposted by Kit Macleod🌊 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook: Normal to below normal river flows likely in southern & eastern areas over the next 3 months, with low flows for the time of year persisting in some catchments. River flows in northwestern areas likely shifting towards normal to above normal by November. 🧵🧪 1/
- Check out their slides: "What tooling can we develop to help developers move faster, avoid vendor lock in..."
- Last Friday, our PM Stefan French spoke at AI_dev Summit about @mozilla.ai's open-source projects: Blueprints and any-suite libraries. We aim to help devs adopt open-source AI with confidence, innovate faster, and avoid vendor lock-in. Check out our slides: static.sched.com/hosted_files...
- Great to see mozilla.ai and others efforts exploring what is possible and highlighting the limitations, there are many usecases for effective small LMs run locally in your browser.
- What if AI agents ran entirely in your browser? Baris Guler takes that idea seriously in our first-ever guest post on the Mozilla.ai blog: 🧱 WebLLM + WASM + WebWorkers 💻 Rust, Go, Python, JS 🔒 Fully local. No API calls. Read the post here: blog.mozilla.ai/3w-for-in-br...
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- Reposted by Kit MacleodBack from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter! 🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map 🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss 🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores 🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring and more! 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN
- Reposted by Kit Macleod⌛ One week to register! Join us at the Royal Society, London for 'Land and Water in a Changing Climate'. This one-day event on 24 September will bring together modellers, industry experts & practitioners to share new developments and visions for the future.
- If you want to learn about databases then Andy's course must be one of the best youtube.com/watch?v=7NPI...
- A useful set of principles
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- A fascinating map of highest summer mean temperature.
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- "No one should doubt that human-caused climate change is real, is already producing potentially dangerous impacts, and that humanity is on track for a geologically enormous amount of warming"
- Reposted by Kit MacleodWe just launched the “DuckDB in Science” site, a curated collection of papers, lectures and podcasts about DuckDB in research: duckdb.org/science/ 🎡 If you would like to learn more about DuckDB in Science, consider joining our meetup in London this Thursday: www.meetup.com/duckdb/event...
- 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...
- Reposted by Kit MacleodIntroducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats! A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data. Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it: 🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu... ⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...
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- Reposted by Kit MacleodDon't miss our three amazing keynote speakers at the Land and Water in a Changing Climate event at the Royal Society in London on 24 September! Register now to join modellers, industry and practitioners across hydrology to share insights and knowledge. 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/8OdfwQc
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- Thanks Michael @talkpython.fm for another excellent episode - shareing Matt's and your experiences and advice on Agentic Al Programming with Python incl "Mindset: most developers are lifelong learners, so treat agents as another tool to master" talkpython.fm/episodes/sho...
- Reposted by Kit Macleod🌟 We're excited to have our water science director Dr Glenn Watts as a keynote speaker at next month's Hydro-JULES conference, Land and water in a changing climate, at the Royal Society. 🖱️ Book your place! enterprise.mitingu.com/ceh-events/l... 🧪
- Thank's Armin for sharing your experiences and views on the state of play and what others may need to consider.
- Worth watching Tom Nicholas & Tom White vision for science at scale www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUFY...
- If interested in web development and increasing number of AI features. Vercel is making this easier incl V0, sandbox, AI SDK 5 etc. Overview here (filter out the marketing) vercel.com/blog/vercel-... and useful tutorial Building agents with the AI SDK www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bx-...
- A useful read about past, present, and future support for policy making.
- Several great geospatial examples of what is possible with new technologies and tools...a common thread is increased accessibility and ease of use.
- The latest Groundwork is live on the blog! We’re experimenting with: • Rust CQL2 playground • DuckDB+GeoParquet spatial analysis in-browser • Semantic STAC search • Zarr visualizations • DB-free STAC search Read more + join in the fun: ds.io/groundwork-03
- Examples of small changes in code for GPU speed ups developer.nvidia.com/blog/7-drop-...
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- A wise summary of an excellent resource. One of the greatest challenges is knowing what packages and functions to use. Enabling more people to have the awareness of an expert is one are of future development. I am a fan of what the Tidyverse has brought to the adhoc and approaches to R packages.
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- Two interesting innovations in coding tools like Claude Code and Reflection's Assimov are how they interact with your code base (different to RAG) and how related individual and team knowledge is stored and reused in Claude's memory files and Assimov's memories files youtube.com/watch?v=G4yZ...
- Always a pleasure to listen to Scott, this session about vibe coding and its limits www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaK...
- Great to see protomaps go from strength to strength with handy open source viewer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qn3...
- Great to see these introductions to LLMs
- Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl! Part 1: "What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don't)" breaks down complex concepts like transformers, hallucinations, and RAG in simple terms. Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #LLM #PythonProgramming
- Amazing what you can do with Marimo, VSC, and an old IoT board and sensors youtu.be/mp22rpd6qPE?...
- Impressive overview of how VirtualiZarr and Icechunk work together when handling large numbers of files e.g. NetCDF youtu.be/rD3eeK56tJY?... @tegnicholas.bsky.social
- Great to see mybinder evolve and tackle reliability. Impressive 10x reduction in costs moving away from hyperscalers e.g. AWS to cheaper options e.g. Hetzner youtu.be/7c7Vpu5GBwY?...
- Looking forward to exploring use cases related to: Geometries and Vector Data Cubes with xvec.GeometryIndex — sphinx_book_theme documentation xarray-indexes.readthedocs.io/earth/xvec.h...
- This new Xarray feature is going to help integrate model forecasts into user applications, thanks. xarray-indexes.readthedocs.io/earth/foreca... @xarray.bsky.social
