Matt Donnelly
@colddatamatt.bsky.social
Oceanographer, data manager, civil servant, expertise in open data and open government.
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We’re excited to welcome Brazil & Steph Muchai as OGP’s Co-Chairs and to spotlight UK & Laura Neuman, who will follow in 26–27.
Brazil & Steph’s Co-Chair Agenda sets bold priorities for #opengov.
opengovpartnership.org/news/brazil-and-steph-muchai-to-co-chair-the-ogp-steering-committee/
Brazil & Steph’s Co-Chair Agenda sets bold priorities for #opengov.
opengovpartnership.org/news/brazil-and-steph-muchai-to-co-chair-the-ogp-steering-committee/
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We’re excited to welcome Brazil & Steph Muchai as OGP’s Co-Chairs and to spotlight UK & Laura Neuman, who will follow in 26–27.
Brazil & Steph’s Co-Chair Agenda sets bold priorities for #opengov.
opengovpartnership.org/news/brazil-and-steph-muchai-to-co-chair-the-ogp-steering-committee/
Brazil & Steph’s Co-Chair Agenda sets bold priorities for #opengov.
opengovpartnership.org/news/brazil-and-steph-muchai-to-co-chair-the-ogp-steering-committee/
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Since it's coming up again in the Discourse: GPS (GNSS) is a passive system and does not itself actually track anything. The satellites just shout out their own position & time.
Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.
Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Since it's coming up again in the Discourse: GPS (GNSS) is a passive system and does not itself actually track anything. The satellites just shout out their own position & time.
Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.
Your device just listens to that, works out its position, and may store or transmit that data through a phone connection.
Dip-test question: without looking it up, what do you think "open government" is?
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Dip-test question: without looking it up, what do you think "open government" is?
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🚨 Job Alert – Data Manager BGC-Argo
📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time)
💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale)
👉 Contact: raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr
👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time)
💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale)
👉 Contact: raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr
👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 Job Alert – Data Manager BGC-Argo
📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time)
💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale)
👉 Contact: raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr
👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
📅 Contract: 12-month renewable (full-time)
💶 Salary: from €2200 gross/month (CNRS scale)
👉 Contact: raphaelle.sauzede@imev-mer.fr
👉 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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🌊 New paper!
Deep Argo floats don’t just profile the deep ocean, they now improve global seafloor maps!
📈 Adding Deep Argo data to GEBCO boosts the Seabed 2030 effort.
🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#DeepArgo #OneArgo #Bathymetry #Seabed2030
Deep Argo floats don’t just profile the deep ocean, they now improve global seafloor maps!
📈 Adding Deep Argo data to GEBCO boosts the Seabed 2030 effort.
🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#DeepArgo #OneArgo #Bathymetry #Seabed2030
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🌊 New paper!
Deep Argo floats don’t just profile the deep ocean, they now improve global seafloor maps!
📈 Adding Deep Argo data to GEBCO boosts the Seabed 2030 effort.
🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#DeepArgo #OneArgo #Bathymetry #Seabed2030
Deep Argo floats don’t just profile the deep ocean, they now improve global seafloor maps!
📈 Adding Deep Argo data to GEBCO boosts the Seabed 2030 effort.
🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#DeepArgo #OneArgo #Bathymetry #Seabed2030
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
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🌊 8th Euro-Argo Science Meeting – Save the Date! 🌍
Join us in Crete (HCMR), Sept 23-25, 2025, for the latest in Argo science! 🌐 Online access available. Plus:
📌 Sept 22: Argopy training
📌 Sept 25: Mediterranean Argo workshop
Stay tuned! #OceanScience #Argofloats
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
Join us in Crete (HCMR), Sept 23-25, 2025, for the latest in Argo science! 🌐 Online access available. Plus:
📌 Sept 22: Argopy training
📌 Sept 25: Mediterranean Argo workshop
Stay tuned! #OceanScience #Argofloats
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
March 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🌊 8th Euro-Argo Science Meeting – Save the Date! 🌍
Join us in Crete (HCMR), Sept 23-25, 2025, for the latest in Argo science! 🌐 Online access available. Plus:
📌 Sept 22: Argopy training
📌 Sept 25: Mediterranean Argo workshop
Stay tuned! #OceanScience #Argofloats
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
Join us in Crete (HCMR), Sept 23-25, 2025, for the latest in Argo science! 🌐 Online access available. Plus:
📌 Sept 22: Argopy training
📌 Sept 25: Mediterranean Argo workshop
Stay tuned! #OceanScience #Argofloats
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
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Incredible work from @ptfretwell.bsky.social, Hamish Pritchard, and the Bedmap team...!
So much depends on the topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the future of sea level rise across the planet - and this new work will really help us understand and prepare.
@bas.ac.uk
🧪🌊❄️🥼
So much depends on the topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the future of sea level rise across the planet - and this new work will really help us understand and prepare.
@bas.ac.uk
🧪🌊❄️🥼
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Incredible work from @ptfretwell.bsky.social, Hamish Pritchard, and the Bedmap team...!
So much depends on the topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the future of sea level rise across the planet - and this new work will really help us understand and prepare.
@bas.ac.uk
🧪🌊❄️🥼
So much depends on the topography beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet, including the future of sea level rise across the planet - and this new work will really help us understand and prepare.
@bas.ac.uk
🧪🌊❄️🥼
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👋 Euro-Argo ERIC is hiring!🌊
Join us as a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer to analyse ocean Dissolved Oxygen data and develop regional ISASO2 configurations for European seas.
Start: Sept 2025 | 📍 Plouzané, France | ⏳ Apply by April 30, 2025
#OceanData #Hiring
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
Join us as a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer to analyse ocean Dissolved Oxygen data and develop regional ISASO2 configurations for European seas.
Start: Sept 2025 | 📍 Plouzané, France | ⏳ Apply by April 30, 2025
#OceanData #Hiring
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
Job offer for a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer (M/F)
Fixed term 12-month, full time
www.euro-argo.eu
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
👋 Euro-Argo ERIC is hiring!🌊
Join us as a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer to analyse ocean Dissolved Oxygen data and develop regional ISASO2 configurations for European seas.
Start: Sept 2025 | 📍 Plouzané, France | ⏳ Apply by April 30, 2025
#OceanData #Hiring
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
Join us as a Scientific Data Analysis Engineer to analyse ocean Dissolved Oxygen data and develop regional ISASO2 configurations for European seas.
Start: Sept 2025 | 📍 Plouzané, France | ⏳ Apply by April 30, 2025
#OceanData #Hiring
www.euro-argo.eu/News-Meeting...
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Picard management tip: Run crisis drills when all is well. A real calamity is not a good time for training.
January 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Picard management tip: Run crisis drills when all is well. A real calamity is not a good time for training.
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It’s 10 days into the new year & @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social & @soccomproject.bsky.social have already deployed 10 new @bgc-argo.bsky.social profiling floats. 410 in the water, 70 with chem & 332 have chem/bio sensors - O2, pH, NO3, & bio-optics. They sample the upper 2 km
every 10 days. 🌊⛴️🌡🧪
every 10 days. 🌊⛴️🌡🧪
January 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s 10 days into the new year & @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social & @soccomproject.bsky.social have already deployed 10 new @bgc-argo.bsky.social profiling floats. 410 in the water, 70 with chem & 332 have chem/bio sensors - O2, pH, NO3, & bio-optics. They sample the upper 2 km
every 10 days. 🌊⛴️🌡🧪
every 10 days. 🌊⛴️🌡🧪
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🌊🧪@bgc-argo.bsky.social Float of the Month. WMO 7900823 deployed nearly 80 south in the Ross Sea has done 2 years under ice. Here's the data plot (all data freely available @soccomproject.bsky.social). No bloom this year! Too much ice melt, no deep mixing, and no iron to feed plankton - IMO.
January 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🌊🧪@bgc-argo.bsky.social Float of the Month. WMO 7900823 deployed nearly 80 south in the Ross Sea has done 2 years under ice. Here's the data plot (all data freely available @soccomproject.bsky.social). No bloom this year! Too much ice melt, no deep mixing, and no iron to feed plankton - IMO.
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Got out on the water today, in glorious weather, to sample seawater and water particles, all to understand glaciers, nutrients and biology in Antarctic coastal waters @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Got out on the water today, in glorious weather, to sample seawater and water particles, all to understand glaciers, nutrients and biology in Antarctic coastal waters @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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🎉 @bgc-argo.bsky.social ends the year on a high note with a record-breaking milestone! 234 deployments, including 114 floats with 5+ sensors!💪
2025 is already looking promising with 122 deployments planned.
Thanks to our partners for making it all possible! #OneArgo #Argo #BiogeoChemicalArgo
2025 is already looking promising with 122 deployments planned.
Thanks to our partners for making it all possible! #OneArgo #Argo #BiogeoChemicalArgo
December 18, 2024 at 9:55 AM
🎉 @bgc-argo.bsky.social ends the year on a high note with a record-breaking milestone! 234 deployments, including 114 floats with 5+ sensors!💪
2025 is already looking promising with 122 deployments planned.
Thanks to our partners for making it all possible! #OneArgo #Argo #BiogeoChemicalArgo
2025 is already looking promising with 122 deployments planned.
Thanks to our partners for making it all possible! #OneArgo #Argo #BiogeoChemicalArgo
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Save the Date: UK Coastal Research Conference, Liverpool, 1st-3rd July. For academia, policy makers, practitioners and industry professionals, the aim being to connect researchers with those involved in managing our coasts.
@nocnews.bsky.social
More here: noc-events.co.uk/save-date-uk...
@nocnews.bsky.social
More here: noc-events.co.uk/save-date-uk...
Save the Date - UKCRC 2025 | NOC EventsListBasket
noc-events.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Save the Date: UK Coastal Research Conference, Liverpool, 1st-3rd July. For academia, policy makers, practitioners and industry professionals, the aim being to connect researchers with those involved in managing our coasts.
@nocnews.bsky.social
More here: noc-events.co.uk/save-date-uk...
@nocnews.bsky.social
More here: noc-events.co.uk/save-date-uk...
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Relativist: the cup is half full if it is being filled, or half empty if it is being emptied.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Relativist: the cup is half full if it is being filled, or half empty if it is being emptied.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physicist: the cup is both full and empty until you lift it to your lips to start drinking
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Physicist: the cup is both full and empty until you lift it to your lips to start drinking
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Realist: The cup is half full but it’s contaminated with PFAS
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Realist: The cup is half full but it’s contaminated with PFAS
November 24, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Relativist: the cup is half full if it is being filled, or half empty if it is being emptied.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Relativist: the cup is half full if it is being filled, or half empty if it is being emptied.
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At the covid inquiry today, Matt Hancock was forced to look in our direction as we held up pictures of our lost loved ones. He was also forced to look at a photograph of our beautiful wall, displayed in the hearing room, where nearly a quarter million of our beloved covid dead are remembered. ♥️
November 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM
At the covid inquiry today, Matt Hancock was forced to look in our direction as we held up pictures of our lost loved ones. He was also forced to look at a photograph of our beautiful wall, displayed in the hearing room, where nearly a quarter million of our beloved covid dead are remembered. ♥️
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A brief history of climate science:
1822 - Joseph Fourier suggests the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse
1857 - Eunice Foote suggests that CO₂ is the gas responsible
1861 - John Tyndall identifies the main greenhouse gases which absorb infrared radiation: H₂O, CO₂, CH₄
1822 - Joseph Fourier suggests the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse
1857 - Eunice Foote suggests that CO₂ is the gas responsible
1861 - John Tyndall identifies the main greenhouse gases which absorb infrared radiation: H₂O, CO₂, CH₄
November 12, 2024 at 11:29 AM
A brief history of climate science:
1822 - Joseph Fourier suggests the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse
1857 - Eunice Foote suggests that CO₂ is the gas responsible
1861 - John Tyndall identifies the main greenhouse gases which absorb infrared radiation: H₂O, CO₂, CH₄
1822 - Joseph Fourier suggests the atmosphere behaves like a greenhouse
1857 - Eunice Foote suggests that CO₂ is the gas responsible
1861 - John Tyndall identifies the main greenhouse gases which absorb infrared radiation: H₂O, CO₂, CH₄
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Interested in working with climate models to understand the ocean’s role in climate?
Here are two postdoc positions in France with JB Sallée and colleagues!
1. Global ocean overturning circulation
2. Ocean-sea ice-atmosphere feedbacks affecting Antarctic sea ice
www.iapsoecs.org/2024-11-04-p...
Here are two postdoc positions in France with JB Sallée and colleagues!
1. Global ocean overturning circulation
2. Ocean-sea ice-atmosphere feedbacks affecting Antarctic sea ice
www.iapsoecs.org/2024-11-04-p...
Two postdoc positions in climate science (Toulouse, France)
CNRM Climate Center
www.iapsoecs.org
November 7, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Interested in working with climate models to understand the ocean’s role in climate?
Here are two postdoc positions in France with JB Sallée and colleagues!
1. Global ocean overturning circulation
2. Ocean-sea ice-atmosphere feedbacks affecting Antarctic sea ice
www.iapsoecs.org/2024-11-04-p...
Here are two postdoc positions in France with JB Sallée and colleagues!
1. Global ocean overturning circulation
2. Ocean-sea ice-atmosphere feedbacks affecting Antarctic sea ice
www.iapsoecs.org/2024-11-04-p...
Just met my neice for the first time, who is less than two weeks old, and it struck me that she is already infinitely better at understanding the world around her than the best GenAI.
October 27, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Just met my neice for the first time, who is less than two weeks old, and it struck me that she is already infinitely better at understanding the world around her than the best GenAI.
Sometimes it feels like COVID was a bad dream. I was tucked away home working throughout focusing on delivering in my own area of work. This evidence lays bear the reality for those on the front line of the NHS. It's a difficult watch listening to Prof Fong. youtu.be/XV3fjaQdAy4?...
UK Covid 19 Inquiry - Module 3 Hearing - 26 September 2024 AM
YouTube video by UK Covid-19 Inquiry
youtu.be
September 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Sometimes it feels like COVID was a bad dream. I was tucked away home working throughout focusing on delivering in my own area of work. This evidence lays bear the reality for those on the front line of the NHS. It's a difficult watch listening to Prof Fong. youtu.be/XV3fjaQdAy4?...
Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full
Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty
Contextualist: whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on whether it is being filled or emptied.
Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty
Contextualist: whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on whether it is being filled or emptied.
Optimist: the cup is ½ full
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Oceanographers: the amount of water is not the issue…
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Oceanographers: the amount of water is not the issue…
Optimist: the cup is ½ full
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Land and climate expert trained in counterfactuals: ok, how much water was in the cup yesterday? How much was in the cup last year? And how much was originally in the cup before humans started altering it for drinking purposes?
Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty
Land and climate expert trained in counterfactuals: ok, how much water was in the cup yesterday? How much was in the cup last year? And how much was originally in the cup before humans started altering it for drinking purposes?
September 3, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full
Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty
Contextualist: whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on whether it is being filled or emptied.
Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty
Contextualist: whether the cup is half full or half empty depends on whether it is being filled or emptied.
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It's June 8th, so Happy World Ocean Day! (although of course we live on an ocean planet and every day is an ocean day)
Look for a live event near you:
Greenwich, London: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...
Southampton: noc.ac.uk/education/op...
Global list:
worldoceanday.org?post_type=tr...
#ocean
Look for a live event near you:
Greenwich, London: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...
Southampton: noc.ac.uk/education/op...
Global list:
worldoceanday.org?post_type=tr...
#ocean
June 8, 2024 at 8:24 AM
It's June 8th, so Happy World Ocean Day! (although of course we live on an ocean planet and every day is an ocean day)
Look for a live event near you:
Greenwich, London: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...
Southampton: noc.ac.uk/education/op...
Global list:
worldoceanday.org?post_type=tr...
#ocean
Look for a live event near you:
Greenwich, London: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...
Southampton: noc.ac.uk/education/op...
Global list:
worldoceanday.org?post_type=tr...
#ocean
My first major output as a civil servant - I coordinated the co-creation and publication of the UK National Action Plan for Open Goverment 2024-2025 (otherwise known as NAP6) www.gov.uk/government/p...
UK National Action Plan for Open Government 2024-2025
The sixth National Action Plan (NAP) makes commitments to increase transparency, accountability, and public participation in government.
www.gov.uk
December 19, 2023 at 3:09 PM
My first major output as a civil servant - I coordinated the co-creation and publication of the UK National Action Plan for Open Goverment 2024-2025 (otherwise known as NAP6) www.gov.uk/government/p...