Energy & Environment Group, Cambridge Computer Science
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We are the Energy and Environment research group at Cambridge Computer Science. You can find our homepage at https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/research/eeg, and all videos from our seminar series at https://watch.eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk
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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!
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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!
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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...
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 ...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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
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
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function | Department of Zoology
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function Supervisor: Professor Rob Fletcher The world is facing several global challenges that are transform...
www.zoo.cam.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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
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
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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... 🌍
Programming for the Planet at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
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October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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... 🌍
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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
A Roundup of ICFP/SPLASH 2025 happenings
anil.recoil.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
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Completely full house for our OxCaml tutorial at #icfpsplash25! conf.researchr.org/details/icfp...
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Completely full house for our OxCaml tutorial at #icfpsplash25! conf.researchr.org/details/icfp...
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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...
[ICFP/SPLASH'25] Peony NE - PROPL (Oct 12th)
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
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October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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...
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📢 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
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
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢 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
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
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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 🌍
Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter
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September 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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 🌍
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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...
September 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
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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
Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R
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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...
September 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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...
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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/
September 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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/
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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... 🌍
September 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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... 🌍
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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/...
Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis
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August 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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/...
Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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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
@sccscambridge.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
For more information, see:
www.sccs-cam.org
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.
www.sccs-cam.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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
@sccscambridge.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
For more information, see:
www.sccs-cam.org
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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...
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...
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Our piece on the poisoning of the literature. Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? 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...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our piece on the poisoning of the literature. Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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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
July 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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
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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...
June 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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...
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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
June 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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
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Congratulations to Prof Srinivasan Keshav on receiving the inuagural #ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award for his "pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy." energy.acm.org/sigenergy-ac...
June 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congratulations to Prof Srinivasan Keshav on receiving the inuagural #ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award for his "pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy." energy.acm.org/sigenergy-ac...
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My learnings from attending the recent @nationalacademies.org and
@royalsociety.org scientific meeting on measuring global biodiversity anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs... 🧪🌍
@royalsociety.org scientific meeting on measuring global biodiversity anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs... 🧪🌍
What I learnt at the National Academy of Sciences US-UK Forum on Biodiversity
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May 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My learnings from attending the recent @nationalacademies.org and
@royalsociety.org scientific meeting on measuring global biodiversity anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs... 🧪🌍
@royalsociety.org scientific meeting on measuring global biodiversity anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs... 🧪🌍
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We trained 10 large language models with 6 retrieval strategies then compared all of these with our experts with access to literature. Well-trained LLMs won! General LLMs without extra training are likely to perform poorly and misinform decision-makers
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Careful design of Large Language Model pipelines enables expert-level retrieval of evidence-based information from syntheses and databases
Wise use of evidence to support efficient conservation action is key to tackling biodiversity loss with limited time and resources. Evidence syntheses provide key recommendations for conservation deci...
journals.plos.org
May 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
We trained 10 large language models with 6 retrieval strategies then compared all of these with our experts with access to literature. Well-trained LLMs won! General LLMs without extra training are likely to perform poorly and misinform decision-makers
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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New paper out today on how the careful design of LLMs is crucial for expert-level evidence retrieval in conservation (but with implications for any evidence synthesis pipeline across other fields) 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour... and anil.recoil.org/news/2024-ce... for a summary
Careful design of Large Language Model pipelines enables expert-level retrieval of evidence-based information from syntheses and databases
Wise use of evidence to support efficient conservation action is key to tackling biodiversity loss with limited time and resources. Evidence syntheses provide key recommendations for conservation deci...
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New paper out today on how the careful design of LLMs is crucial for expert-level evidence retrieval in conservation (but with implications for any evidence synthesis pipeline across other fields) 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour... and anil.recoil.org/news/2024-ce... for a summary