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Addressing climate change requires collective action 🌍

This #EarthDay, explore how @cam.ac.uk research is contributing to climate and nature solutions: www.cam.ac.uk/climate-and-...

#EarthDay2026 #CambridgeZero

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🌦️ On Tuesday 21 April from 3pm-4pm UK time, Pritthijit Nath will give a seminar titled Rethinking Weather and Climate Model Parametrisations with Reinforcement Learning.

Everyone is welcome to join us online!

Full details: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/iccs-...

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Weather station equipment fixed to a wooden rail on a raised platform. Blue sky and snowy landscape are in the background

A small cabin in the snowy landscape of Svalbard, with warm orange light visible from inside. Behind, green washes of light from the Aurora borealis are visible in a blue and starry sky

Polar bear tracks in the snow - big paw prints and trailing marks where the bear's claws and fur have scuffed the snow

🧊 How warm is your office today? Our Senior Research Associate Anna Allen is installing weather stations in Svalbard. Her work includes designing bespoke forecasting systems for low-resource areas.

Anna found polar bear tracks next to where she put up one of the weather stations... 🐾

Proposals for the Cambridge Climate & Nature Research Showcase close on Sunday 12 April 👇

☔ Rethinking Weather and Climate Model Parametrisations with Reinforcement Learning

You're welcome to join us online for Pritthijit Nath's talk, part of ICCS Journal Club, on Tuesday 21 April from 3pm-4pm UK time.

👉️ Full details:

Better Code for Better Climate Science - Schmidt Sciences Overview

Dr Jack Atkinson explains how we collaborate with scientists:

“So much science involves computing and software, from sophisticated modelling to processing and analysing data. But scientists often don’t receive much formal education in these fields.”

www.schmidtsciences.org/profile-2025...

📢 “Better Code for Better Climate Science”

We’re delighted that ICCS’s work is highlighted in the 2025 Schmidt Sciences impact report.

ICCS is part of the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software, enabling software engineers to support climate scientists: www.schmidtsciences.org/profile-2025...

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⌛ There are just a few more days to go until registration closes for the 2026 ICCS Summer School! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity – a week of collaborative, hands-on learning with tuition and guidance from leading experts.

Register here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Thank you so much to all our lovely visitors, to everyone who volunteered and to our co-organisers: the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, the Cambridge Zettascale Lab, UIS at the University of Cambridge and AI for Environmental Risk.

ICCS volunteers watch as two children play the Planktomania game

A volunteer helps a child with an activity, while behind, others explain to families about the DAWN supercomputer

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💡 We had a fabulous time on Saturday as part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, exploring climate research and AI topics with our local community through the medium of FUN! #CamFest

A big thank you to our Research Software Engineering team for their excellent work as support RSEs at last week's Cross-Community AMD GPU Hackathon in Birmingham, organised through the DiRAC training programme.

Great to see such strong collaboration between researchers, RSEs and industry experts.

ICCS at the Cambridge Festival | Institute of Computing for Climate Science Developing AI solutions for the climate

We're looking forward to the #CambridgeFestival! Come along to the William Gates Building, Cambridge, on Saturday 21 March from 10:30am-4:00pm, where you'll meet some ICCS researchers who are developing AI projects to address climate change. #CamFest

Full details:

Jack Franklin and Mikolaj Kowalski from ICCS work on the Oceanigans code at the DiRAC hackathon in Birmingham, assisted by Miren Radia and Richard Regan.

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🌊 Research Software Engineers Jack Franklin and Mikolaj Kowalski from ICCS work on the Oceananigans code at the DiRAC - HPC Hackathon in Birmingham, assisted by Miren Radia and Richard Regan.

Photo by Tom Meltzer

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science Symposium 2026 | Institute of Computing for Climate Science Thursday 9 April 2026 10am to 5pm

The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (in collaboration with ICCS) invites you to join the CCfCS Symposium 2026.

⏰ Thursday 9 April 2026, 10am to 5pm
📍 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge

🚀 This week's Research Software Engineering seminar, given by @mosegiordano.bsky.social – Principal RSE at @ucl-arc.bsky.social – takes place at 13:00-14:00 on Thursday 12 March: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Everyone is welcome!

💻 cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86476117655
Passcode: 788395

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☀️ Registration for our 2026 Summer School is open to postgrad students and early career researchers.

If you would like to attend and need some support to cover registration and travel costs, please apply to our bursary scheme.

⏰ The deadline is Tuesday 17 March: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

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📣 Calling All Cambridge Climate and Nature Researchers

Submit your proposal to participate in the Cambridge Climate and Nature Research Showcase 2026.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4u3kaeI


#CamShowcase26 #ClimateNatureShowcase26

🧱 NDSL: A Programming Framework for Climate Model Development, or “The Joy of Building Your Own Domain-Specific Software Stack”

This week's Research Software Engineering seminar is at 13:00-15:00 on Thursday
talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

Zoom: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8647611765...
Passcode: 788395

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Attendees of the cross-VISS GenAI meeting

Tom Meltzer, Matt Archer and Colm-cille Caulfield at the eScience Institute

🇺🇸 Dr Tom Meltzer and Dr Matthew Archer, members of ICCS's Research Software Engineering team, have been busy in the US.

The duo were in Seattle for the cross-VISS GenAI meeting, and then visited DataWave in Stanford to hand over their non-local gravity wave project and gave seminars.

🔥 This week's RSE Seminar will be given by ICCS's Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson.

FTorch: facilitating hybrid ML-numerical modelling in scientific computing. 13:00-14:00, Thursday 26 Feb: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

💻 cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8647611765...
Passcode: 788395

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🌀 The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science is holding its annual Symposium on 9 April.

This will be a conference day of talks and posters showcasing the #ClimateScience happening across the University of Cambridge and @bas.ac.uk.

Book your place: www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

We’re recruiting a Senior Research Software Engineer. Closing date 20 March

💼 We’re hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer!

At the Institute of Computing for Climate Science, we're building the next generation of high-performance, high-assurance climate modelling tools and are looking for a Senior Research Software Engineer to join us.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

🌍 How can we strengthen collaboration across climate science?

The Cambridge Climate Science Roundtable will explore shared challenges and spark partnerships for future funding opportunities.

🔗 Academics or postdocs can register here: https://bit.ly/4tHcKNY

ICCS at the Cambridge Festival | Institute of Computing for Climate Science Developing AI solutions for the climate

We're looking forward to the #CambridgeFestival! Come along to the William Gates Building, Cambridge, on Saturday 21 March from 10:30am-4:00pm, where you'll meet some ICCS researchers who are developing AI projects to address climate change. #CamFest

Full details:

Quote from Rishul Karia, 2025 ICCS Summer Intern: "I thoroughly enjoyed my time as an intern at the ICCS. Overall, this experience has been electric, and one I would highly recommend to anyone considering applying in the future!”

We have fantastic internship opportunities available in #Cambridge this summer. But don't take our word for it. One of last year's interns, Rishul Karia, gave his verdict.

⏰ The deadline for applications for summer 2026 is Tuesday 24 February. Full details here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

You'll receive tuition and guidance from leading experts at the University of Cambridge. A limited number of bursaries will be available for PhD students and Early Career Researchers.

Cambridge is a fabulous place to be in July – find out how to apply here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Attendees at ICCS Summer School chatting and working at laptops around a table

🥳 Registration is OPEN for the ICCS Summer School 2026! It runs from 13-17 July in #Cambridge.

The programme will feature a mix of:
Keynote speeches
Training sessions & technical workshops
Scientific presentations
Collaborative & social events.

iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Championing Cambridge innovation For the last two decades Amy Weatherup, successful founder and pillar of the Cambridge Cluster, has been helping students develop their entrepreneurial skills.

Today we’re celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬

Meet Amy Weatherup — one of many women at Cambridge driving innovation in science and technology.

Discover how she’s shaping the future of enterprise at the link below👇

https://bit.ly/46L5TJw

[EN] Making Software Count - Simon Hettrick, Jack Atkinson, Will Swansborough-Aston - Code for Thought English Edition: making software, digital data and other artefacts count in research evaluations has always been a challenge. But there are plenty of people and initiatives like the https://...

🎙️ Tune in to this week's Code for Thought podcast to listen to ICCS's very own Jack Atkinson discussing research software engineering and how it fits into the world of scientific research.

Listen here: codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/epis...

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👋 Could you be one of our 2026 ICCS interns?

We’re looking for 5 interns to join us this summer. 3 will work on projects under the supervision of ICCS postdoctoral researchers; 2 will work on projects in collaboration between ICCS + @clr-cambridge.bsky.social

Info: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...