A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

Glad to share our new paper in Nat Ecol Evol, where we present the world’s most accurate model for predicting bird occurrences.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using digital twinning and HPC, we show how even participants without bird ID skills can contribute to real-time biodiversity forecasting.

Hybrid machine learning data assimilation for marine biogeochemistry Abstract. Marine biogeochemistry models are critical for forecasting, as well as estimating ecosystem responses to climate change and human activities. Data assimilation (DA) improves predictions from...

Hybrid machine learning data assimilation for marine biogeochemistry bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/... #jcampubs 🌊

Strategic access to EuroHPC resources granted to OpenEuroLLM!!!

-first AI project granted strategic access across multiple EuroHPC centres
-for over 10 million GPU hours

Thanks
@ec.europa.eu and @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social!

🌍 Digital twins are transforming biodiversity science.

BioDT project, coordinated by CSC, combined advanced modelling, open data, and supercomputing to help Europe respond faster to biodiversity and climate challenges.

Read more 🔗 csc.fi/en/news/digi...

Flyer showing a summary of the RSE-FI meetup in text + Aalto Scientific Computing, Nordic-RSE, Society of RSE and Software Sustainability Institute in the bottom. Includes a QR code leading to the website which includes all information presented on they flyer and more: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/NoBSC/

Are you involved in writing, maintaining or supporting research software and interested in sharing your work / experiences and networking with others like you?

Join us on Feb 2-3 2026 in Espoo! 🇫🇮

We have some travel funding available for people outside the capital region, apply now ♥️

#RSEng

👇

High Performance R - CSC Are you using R but wondering if your R code makes the best use of the computing resources available? Would you like to learn to speed up R analyses by parallel computing, identify bottlenecks in your...

Researchers in Finland: Are your R analyses taking forever or getting stuck with large datasets? Not sure how to get started with R on CSC's supercomputers? 🧑‍💻

Join our hybrid course 'High Performance R’ on 17.-18.11.2025. Register by 9.11., contact me with any questions!

csc.fi/en/training-...

ELLIOT project launched – CSC contributing to the development of European AI expertise - CSC CSC supports the development of European AI by participating in the EU research and innovation project ELLIOT. Read more.

csc.fi/en/news/elli...

New EU Project ELLIOT Aims to Advance Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

The Horizon Europe ELLIOT (European Large Open Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Robust Generalization on Arbitrary Data Streams) has officially launched!

The project, toward which my team @csc.fi will contribute, involves a total of 30 research and industry partners.

ellis.eu/news/new-eu-...

Today am happy to represent @csc.fi, together with @helijuottonen.bsky.social, at the Finnish Society for Bioinformatics 2025 day in Turku. 200 attendees here!

Improved maximum growth rate prediction from microbial genomes by integrating phylogenetic information - Nature Communications Microbial maximum growth rates vary widely across species, and their measurement is challenging, especially for uncultivated organisms. Here, Xu, Zakem & Weissman present Phydon, a framework for g...

Our newest on using genomic and phylogenetic information to predict microbial maximum growth rates www.nature.com/articles/s41... with @liangxu.bsky.social

Air, an extremely fast R formatter We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter.

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

✨The CSC Scientific Computing Ambassadors act as a bridge between researchers and CSC specialists. Read more about the Ambassador program and join the online CSC Research Support Coffee session on 📅 Wednesday 26 February at 14:00, where the program will be introduced 👉 csc.fi/en/blog/csc-...

Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe Europe's leading AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models.

🚀 Europe’s leading #AI companies and research institutions combine their forces and expertise to develop next-generation open-source language models in an unprecedented collaboration to advance European AI capabilities, the #OpenEuroLLM project. Read the press release: csc.fi/en/media-rel...

The LUMI data center in Kajaani, Finland.

Hello HPC community! 👋 The LUMI supercomputer has just joined BlueSky! 🦋 Stay tuned for exciting updates, insights, and all things LUMI! ❄️ We're just getting started here, so bear with us – and don't forget to spread the word!
#hpc #eurohpc #lumisupercomputer

🇫🇮 A new pan-European #supercomputer and a European Union #AIfactory will be placed in Finland and operated by CSC. The investment will ensure Finland’s pioneering position in high-performance computing long into the future.

csc.fi/en/media-rel...

@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social

CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy - Machine Learning Specialist Are you interested in how artificial intelligence and supercomputing can be leveraged for the benefit of society and the environment? Join our rapidly growing group of machine learning specialists, da

My group has an opening for a Machine Learning Specialist position to work on many exciting topics we have in the pipeline. Please consider applying and feel welcome to share this advert among your peers!

cscfi.recruitee.com/o/machine-le...

Interview with Jesse Harrison Listen to this episode from BioDT - The Biodiversity Digial Twin on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of the BioDT Podcast, where host Joanne Ahern engages in an insightful discussion with Jesse H...

This was a nice opportunity to discuss the BioDT project from a scientific coordination perspective, with a thoughtful selection of questions by Joanne Ahern (Trust-IT). The first BioDT podcast is now available on Spotify:

open.spotify.com/episode/0xtM...

Scientific Coordinator Do you want to support the development of tools for science-based decision making for solving some of the today’s grand challenges, such as biodiversity loss and climate change? Join our international

Job alert:

Having accepted a Development Manager position from the start of 2024, my previous role as the Horizon Europe BioDT project lead is now open. I will remain part of the project to assist the new scientific coordinator in their work.

For details, see:

cscfi.recruitee.com/o/scientific...

New paper out from my group - a practical guide to machine learning in microbial ecology. Hope it is useful!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) - Second End-Users Workshop BioDT Workshop Bring Your Own Data (BYOD), the second BioDT end-users workshop, takes place from 23rd to 25th of January, 2024 in Oslo, Norway.

Our second BioDT Bring Your Own Data Workshop will take place in Oslo in January 2024 (23rd - 25th).

“Harnessing Digital Twinning for Sustainable Agriculture: Predictive Characterisation and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives”

Details and registration here:

biodt.eu/events/biodt...

A timeline of bacterial and archaeal diversification in the ocean Phylogenomics reveals the timeline over which marine bacteria and archaea colonized the oceans and shows the geological context of their diversification.

A timeline of bacterial and archaeal diversification in the ocean elifesciences.org/articles/88268 #jcampubs

The cultural ecosystem services DT is one of up to 10 we are developing. Descriptions of our other use cases can be found at: biodt.eu/use-cases

BioDT at the BES Annual Meeting 2023 BioDT to present a paper at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting #BES2023 will take place in the captivating city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from December 12th to 15th, 2023.

Attending ‘23 BES Annual Meeting? Jan Dick/UKCEH will present on our cultural ecosystem services DT:

“In BioDT we have created a digital twin (DT) linking recreational potential in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland with the knowledge of where the biodiversity lives.“

biodt.eu/events/biodt...

BioDT Hackathon: Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) - First End-Users Workshop BioDT Hackathon Bring Your Own Data (BYOD), the first BioDT end-users workshop, takes place from 28th to 30th of November, 2023 in Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.

The first BioDT end-user workshop is taking place on Nov 28-30 ‘23 at UFZ. A milestone for the project!

The event is part of our user-centric approach to developing biodiversity #DigitalTwins, giving invited experts a chance to test and offer feedback on our prototype DTs.

biodt.eu/events/biodt...

Wonderful analysis of career progression for PhD students and postdocs from EMBL elifesciences.org/articles/78706

Announcing projects selected for the second round of the LUMI-G porting program - LUMI We are pleased to announce the selected projects for the second round of the LUMI-G Porting Program. This initiative, aimed at helping research groups and companies to port their scientific software t...

HMSC, a statistical ecology modelling framework also used in the BioDT project, has been selected for the LUMI-G porting programme. The initiative is aimed at helping research groups and companies to port their scientific software to LUMI-G with AMD GPUs.

www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/announcing-p...

Nuoria sekä lintuharrastajia osallistaneet kansalaistiedehankkeet saivat tunnustusta

(Currently only in Finnish)

Haastattelu akatemiaprofessori Otso Ovaskaisen kanssa tarjoaa lisätietoa myös BioDT-projektin datankeruumenetelmänä toimivasta, hiljattain AVOTT-palkinnon saaneesta Muuttolintujen kevät-hankkeesta:

avointiede.fi/fi/ajankohta...

#horizoneurope #erc #muuttolintujenkevat

The Champion of Open Science Award granted to the Spring of Migratory Birds The Champion of Open Science Award 2023 has been granted to the Spring of Migratory Birds initiative. The Champion of Open Science Award was handed over to the collaboration team during the Open Scien...

One of the #digitaltwins in BioDT will use citizen science data for predictive bird distribution modelling. We’ve already collected 3.7 million bird song recordings, with work on the app used for this recently awarded for advancing open science in Finland. Details:

biodt.eu/news/champio...

Biodiversity #digitaltwin project partners at UFZ are organising a session on DTs at the 2024 World #Biodiversity Forum. Please consider submitting your work!

MONMOD_10.9 Digital Twin applications to foster actions for biodiversity conservation

worldbiodiversityforum2024.org/session-prog...

A few photos from the #DestinE 2nd User eXchange, which took place in Bonn yesterday and today. Lots of lively discussions, including around the poster on #BioDT, with over 400 registrations for the event overall!