Kieran Leach

The Blue Blazer is wonderful for a pint, though you'll need to look elsewhere for food.

There are lots of exciting #HPC and #AI projects going on at @epcc.bsky.social , with quite a few more to start in 2026. Come join us!

A girl wearing a cardboard costume of a ghost donut

Wasn't sure how to make @neillcameron.bsky.social 's Chalky the Ghost Donut as a costume, but that's what was requested for halloween and I think this works :)

It's really cool to read something like this, and then see a system you work on helped make it happen!

Train 1 of 4 - on my way to #ISC25!

Screenshot of the number of unread emails in outlook, showing 4.29 billion emails

Welp, apparently Outlook thinks I have 4.29 billion emails unread. Best set aside the lifetime of the sun to get through those.

[living on a rock that is moving through an infinite space at sixty seven thousand miles an hour] what should we have for dinner

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Vacancy at EPCC: Director of HPC Services.

This role provides high level, strategic leadership & hands-on management, working with stakeholders to grow the international reputation & standing of EPCC & The University of Edinburgh.
Closes: 20/03/2025, 23:59.
https://buff.ly/40RYyEe

Dear Santa,
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you

This is excellent and makes perfect sense

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Vacancy at EPCC, UK:
Collaboration Manager (Edinburgh International Data Facility).

We seek a project manager to develop collaborations in data science, especially ML, the delivery of MLOps, & provision of flexible data analytics services.

Apply by 12 Dec: edin.ac/3YVWERZ

#HPC

I'm excited to announce ExaGEO, a new #PhD programme that will train the next generation of earth & env scientists to harness the power of Exascale computing to model the complex processes of natural world.
It is co-led by @epcc.bsky.social, Uni Glasgow & Lancaster. edin.ac/3URZzdw #HPC

Not sure if you’d count German/Belgian/Empire biscuits

Kieran's Prostate Cancer UK Great North Run Help Kieran Leach raise money to support PROSTATE CANCER UK

For anyone I haven't already shaken down I'm running the Great North Run in 9 days for Prostate Cancer UK, in memory of my grandfather Donald Leach. Anything anyone feels they can donate would be greatly appreciated.

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Rishi Sunak’s rail plan is policy as performance art From relocating Manchester to ‘illustrative’ new schemes, the replacement for HS2’s northern leg is pure improvisation

“I love jazz, but not in a policy development sense.” Delightfully acidic column by Jen Williams on the scrapping of HS2 and the government's new list of 'illustrative' transport projects to replace it: www.ft.com/content/2161...

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