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Strategy, data & capability building | Founding partner of Corrick, Wales & Partners @corrickwales.bsky.social | associate at Icebreaker One | Interim CxO #netzero #data #culture #collaboration Based in France. https://kathryncorrick.fr
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Wow. Incredible new interactive tool showing major methane emissions from fossil-fuel extraction around the world over past 12 months. Striking how intense the hotspots are from, say, COP29 hosts Azerbaijan. And Russia, China, US and India. via @oceanterra.org and @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

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Very off topic, but wondering if the Guardian fashion editors have ever seen the back pages of the Telegraph (and similar) Magazine* at any point over the last few decades? www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025... *For the uninitiated there's always smart, comfy (aka elasticated) trousers advertised.

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Easily overlooked but potentially historic news in the latest CCC report, confirming the EV boom means transport emissions are finally falling. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

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Can you help us raise £10,000? 🌡️ We have just launched a match-funded crowdfunder to support councils & campaigners to use the Action Scorecards in their climate campaigning and to reduce carbon emissions locally. 🌳 Please consider donating🌻 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/council-cl...

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China now has 1 terawatt of solar capacity. For reference, the entire US power grid has 1.3TW of capacity.

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It's a taken a while* but some good news from Flickr**! blog.flickr.net/en/2025/06/1... * CC 4.0 was introduced around 2014. It's a very much established open license. ** And yes, some of us are still there.

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Oh for the days when this might have been headline news. www.wired.com/story/openin... It, "is expected to reveal some 20 billion galaxies, 17 billion stars in the Milky Way, 10 million supernovas, and millions of smaller objects within the solar system." Perspective. Quite astounding.

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A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

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Quite amazing.

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Part two of my investigation into England's water resources. In short, the system is outdated, under-monitored, economically skewed, and environmentally risky, with reforms needed to avoid long-term water shortages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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In the 1930s-1940s, the Bicycle Dealers Association of Southern California organized a number of Cycle Trains, which took riders and their bikes from Los Angeles to other cities for a change of scenery. LIFE magazine followed one from Los Angeles to San Diego on August 11, 1946. 🧵

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When you realise U2 is still lurking on your phone, because of _that_ deal with Apple years ago, and you have no idea where.

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Job – Chief Data Officer, across UK Government (but really GDS within DSIT), location Bristol, London, Manchester www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi... #govtech #datapolicy in theory

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There’s always a risk with any product that it gets used for things that it wasn’t designed for. This is rit large with the current trend of “stick AI on it” feature development. Mostly that trend is creating useless but physically harmless (although not to the environment) features. This however…

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Awesome postdoc opportunity 👇👇👇

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New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

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UK and EU/EEA citizens you can 'Object to your information being used for AI at Meta' by going to www.facebook.com/help/contact... or to www.facebook.com/privacy/genai then selecting 'Your right to object'. #datarights #dataprotection #gdpr

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We have one website volunteer for @vilocalhistory.bsky.social and they spend the majority of their time thwarting AI scrapers. What’s on our website? Transcribed historical documents and blog posts that took many hundreds of staff and volunteers hours to produce.

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"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

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The body that oversees official stats has recommended that a full census be carried out in 2031 Given questions about how an admin data-based census would work and the well-documented challenges the ONS is experiencing, this seems the right call uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/uk-stat...

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HMRC emails: You have a message Me: Aha, that'll be the statement for June. Logs in, goes to the message. HMRC: Here's your latest statement, dated 15 June. Me: Hmmm, no mention of what I owe. Checks dates, searches around. Goes to 'At a glance' just in case. HMRC: You have £XXX due 31 July. ?!?

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