Professor of Planetary Computing at the University of Cambridge @cst.cam.ac.uk, where I co-lead the @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk and work on computing for global biodiversity and climate change with @conservation.cam.ac.uk. Homepage at https://anil.recoil.orghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.orghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mkqnrjyuz22lTropical forests deserve a higher base price for carbon credits, and credible ex-post evaluations are one path to help get there. Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com on learning lessons from past REDD+ over-crediting. 🧪🌍🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71552-330 Apr 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqnrjyuz22lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mjxaememes2hIn order to dispel persistent rumours that Hamed Haddadi and I are the same person, we used the selfie sofa in Christ's College Cambridge to provide evidence to the contrary. Also, my other weeknotes anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w1620 Apr 2026 19:48 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxaememes2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mjreehgess2g"Arming our children -- and ourselves -- with the ability to spot bunk and think critically about claims has become an essential survival skill [...]". Great piece today on how evidence and RCTs quietly improved all of our lives https://www.ft.com/content/9b8eebc6-ed76-41cf-bc46-a1ef84613218 h/t @hetanshah.bsky.social18 Apr 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjreehgess2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mjlzvcn7yk2wDelighted to win Paper of the Year last night for "Functional Networking for Millions of Docker Containers" at the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame Awards last night! Read about the other nominees and winners over at https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/celebrating-culture-innovation-our-hall-fame-awards and find the paper at https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-docker-icfp16 Apr 2026 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlzvcn7yk2whttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mji6c2wqts2nI was in Chennai today for the launch of FP Launchpad, a new centre at IIT Madras dedicated to crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. Having a well-funded, long-horizon centre of excellence in India is a big step forward! https://anil.recoil.org/notes/fpl-launch14 Apr 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji6c2wqts2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3miyjh2hrys2nThe Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat! My musings on the implications of the Mythos preview, and that we need to shake up how we approach building software beyond formal specification https://anil.recoil.org/notes/internet-immune-system08 Apr 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyjh2hrys2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mitfujpps22e.plan-26-14: Tracking AI screen time and escaping to pen and paper anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w14 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w1406 Apr 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitfujpps22ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mimam2jmbk2aHere's my proposal for voluntary disclosure of AI tool usage in published OCaml code. Are any other language ecosystems doing this? I'd love to hear about them if so! https://anil.recoil.org/notes/opam-ai-disclosure03 Apr 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimam2jmbk2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3migshbehq22iThis is such an ingenious Apr 1st PR from Stephen Dolan I feel like it's the exact opposite of AI slop https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/1470101 Apr 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3migshbehq22ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3midwruy74k2gReally like this dashboard from the @rogue-scholar.bsky.social that shows metadata quality for blog feeds with DOIs https://rogue-scholar.org/communities/anil/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest31 Mar 2026 10:11 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3midwruy74k2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mib6ccjuic2e.plan-26-13: Oxidised hackery, standardised embeddings, and simmering on syndication anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w13 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w1330 Mar 2026 07:47 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mib6ccjuic2ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mi6togrykk2ris there an html microformat way of signaling that a particular part of a page has been LLM-generated? I've got some sites like thicket.dev that are summary sites and want to signal explicitly that they're not of human provenance https://thicket.dev29 Mar 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi6togrykk2rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mi2zxcmugs2dFriday fun getting TESSERA to support the new Zarr v3 geo-embeddings convention. Instead of islands of Zarr arrays, we now have a "MegaZarr!" that provides a unified store across years, coordinates and 128 dimensions. Try it for yourself at tze.geotessera.org and https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-embeddings-convention 🌍27 Mar 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2zxcmugs2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mi2x55rmkc22I had to look up freshwater snails being deadly killers! https://theworld.org/stories/2016/08/05/heres-why-snails-are-one-worlds-deadliest-creatures [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2026 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2x55rmkc22https://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mh4ycmqtks24.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins at DEFRA anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w11 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w1115 Mar 2026 22:24 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh4ycmqtks24