How we did planetary scale training and inference with AMD and Vultr geotessera.org/blog/2026-03...

Two releases of the TESSERA Embedding Explorer (tee.cl.cam.ac.uk) this week: v3.4 adds manual labelling with pin and polygon tools, per-class similarity sliders, and spatial classifiers. v3.5 adds a multi-user login system to the demo site. geotessera.org/blog#tee-v3....

You can also query our dynamic embeddings coverage viewer and request more for your environmental projects geotessera.org/coverage

TESSERA has a shiny new website up at geotessera.org which you can scroll through to get an introduction to geospatial embeddings! You can try the two global explorers, one hosted (tee.cl.cam.ac.uk) and one that streams purely in-browser using Zarr (tze.geotessera.org)

Tessera: A Temporal Foundation Model for Earth Observation with Sadiq Jaffer and Frank Feng

Last week Frank Feng and I joined Robin Cole on his satellite image deep learning podcast to talk about Tessera: how it works, how it differs from existing models, and our future plans. Thanks for hosting us, Robin!

www.satellite-image-deep-learning.com/p/tessera-a-...

It still surprises me you can get good performance with even tiny models on top of TESSERA embeddings. Here's how to find solar farms in the UK with a small ~42k CNN: toao.com/blog/earth-o...

Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right

There has been outrage as the @acm.org rolls out AI generated summaries of papers. This is doing AI exactly wrong by replacing valuable, peer-reviewed content with a possibly inaccurate summary. It's still not too late to correct it though and use AI responsibly... anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai...

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas here at the EEG!

GeoTessera 0.7 out with efficient sampling and Zarr support

geotessera 0.7.1 is out to meet all your planetary geospatial hacking needs. It now has an efficient Parquet registry for the 1.2m+ tiles of CC-BY licensed global embeddings, and Zarr format support for more efficient chunking and distributed processing. Enjoy! 🌍 anil.recoil.org/notes/geotes...

Professor Emily Shuckburgh

We're proud to say that Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE, the Director of ICCS, has been appointed as the UK Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Emily will remain in her ICCS post while helping the UK to reach #NetZero – bravo!

The UK’s future leadership in open source - OpenUK Today OpenUK is sharing our first public update on the work we have been commissioned to undertake by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). This was procured through a competitive tendering process, and ...

The UK *really* needs to set up a sovereign tech fund to support the vibrant open source scene here. Kudos to @openuk.bsky.social for pushing this in their recommendations to @ukri.org openuk.uk/theuksfuture...

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I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information:

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Programming for the Planet at ICFP/SPLASH 2025

Part 1 covers the 2nd Programming for the Planet conference (@propl.dev) organised by @kcsrk.info @dorchard.bsky.social and me. There were talks, demos and discussions about what we can do as computer scientists to avert the climate and biodiversity crises anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25... 🌍

A Roundup of ICFP/SPLASH 2025 happenings

A five part roundup of my @icfp-conference.bsky.social experience, covering chairing @propl.dev, holding an OxCaml tutorial, speaking about Docker, and what I learnt from everyone! anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25; above all, huge thanks to @ilyasergey.bsky.social for making this ICFP/SPLASH so good

Completely full house for our OxCaml tutorial at #icfpsplash25! conf.researchr.org/details/icfp...

[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 12th) YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

The 2nd PROPL is today, and will be livestreaming from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRJ... in an hour! Full program here conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp... and an overview of the program at dl.acm.org/action/showF...

How can we ... use machine learning to enhance anti-poaching measures? Features a quote and photo of Charles Emogor. Read the blog post to find out more.

📢 New blog! @charlesemogor.bsky.social uses machine learning to enhance anti-poaching across sub-Saharan Africa.

Working with @anil.recoil.org, @fletcherecology.bsky.social and @milindtambe-ai.bsky.social, he is developing models to help rangers patrol effectively.

Find out more: bit.ly/4mMs3Av

Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter

I've signed an open letter to the UN Article 4.6 supervisory body to not rule out nature from climate action targets anil.recoil.org/notes/do-not...; read the letter here docs.google.com/document/d/1... and sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... if you agree 🌍

Here's the official report from the NAS now, following my notes a few months ago about our 'big biodiversity meetup' in Washington DC anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs...

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis.

Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

As for biodiversity, a brand new study also confirms what's well established: overall ruminant meat, especially from grazing animals (which require more land, entailing more carbon & biodiversity opportunity costs) has the biggest 'extinction footprint' of all foods: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I also knocked up a fun interactive global explorer where you can check out your favorite country and food choices to compare risks quantifyearth.github.io/food-globe/

Choosing where we source the food that we eat makes a difference to the environment, but how much? After churning through 100s of petabytes of data, we now know the answer varies by three orders of magnitude for species extinction risks! Paper out in Nature Food: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🌍

Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis

New paper on making the Internet more resilient.
Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

Excited to announce the 25th Student Conservation in Conservation Science will be held in Cambridge 31 March-2 April 2026.

@sccscambridge.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

For more information, see:
www.sccs-cam.org

The most incredibly fun part of this Nature comment on evidence synthesis we published today is that the cartoonist (David Parkins) also did Beano and Dennis the Menace (!) A true legend. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synth...

Our piece on the poisoning of the literature. Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Three caterpillars, coloured in bright yellow and black stripes, feeding on a plant in front of a brick wall

One way in which AI enriches my life is that I can go from “ooh, that’s a funky looking caterpillar” to a fun Wikipedia rabbithole in a few seconds, thanks to iOS’s automatic plant and animal detection in photos. This is a cinnabar moth caterpillar, apparently

Due to the world being a little unpredictable right now, we've extended the submission deadline for PROPL by a few days, so it's now 8th July 2025 AoE! conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

A reminder that our submission deadline is coming up in just over a week on the 3rd July AOE! Get your short papers in, or talk proposals, or a short provocation what's needed for programming languages research to contribute to addressing the climate crisis. propl.dev