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We’re back with the October recap of the ESCS Community Forum and it’s a lengthy one! It has been a lively month on the forum, with more engagement and posts from our members. From resources to job openings and helpful discussions on Green DiSC, here is a recap of what’s been going on.

As always, if you have exciting news to share or have a pressing question on sustainable computing, the ESCS Community Forum is the place to go. And if you have any suggestions to make our newsletter better, we’d love to hear it.


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October Recap of the ESCS Community Forum

News & Resources 📰

  • Transparency in climate impacts and preventing green washing. Andy Turner contributes the book Climate of Truth in a thread on the ESCS Forum, discussing how organisations like oil companies, commercial cloud companies, and governments can report with more honesty and fight greenwashing.
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  • How EU policymakers can deal with the environmental impacts of data centre expansion. ECOS report and infographic published in early September provides explainers on data centres, summarising the environmental and social issues stemming from the rise of data centre expansion, and highlights areas that EU policy should focus on to address the issues.
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  • Green Software and Sustainable AI resources. Building Green Software by Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman is now free and accessible online under a CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license. Access the e-book here. And Sustainable AI: Tools for Moving Toward Green AI by Raghavendra Selvan, also from the same publisher, was released just last month.
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  • Solutions for AI-related water use. This OECD article by Shaolei Ren and Amy Luers discusses direct vs indirect usage, consumption vs withdrawal, and strategies for minimising water usage.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities 📣

  • New RSE role for sustainable computing in Cambridge! Apply before 25 Nov 2025. The Green Algorithms Initiative and the Lannelongue Group are recruiting for a Research Software Engineer in the University of Cambridge. Find out more about the opening here.
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  • PhD position in sustainable computing - efficiency and sufficiency of exascale computing. Kelly Widdicks, Adrian Friday, Carolynne Lord, and Kirsty Pringle are advertising for a role to investigate how exascale computing can drive environmental science forward responsibly - exploring energy use, carbon efficiency, and the idea of “sufficiency” in digital research. Learn more about the opening here.
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Upcoming Events 🎟️

  • Call for participants! Online co-design workshops to improve the design of carbon calculators. Researchers from the University of Cambridge, Lancaster University, and Université Paris-Saclay will be running two co-design workshops in December 2025 to improve the design of carbon calculators for computing activities, such as the Green Algorithms calculator. They are looking for participants with an interest in the topic who have used the Green Algorithms calculator or other carbon reporting tools. The workshops will be conducted online, and no design experience is required. More information and sign-up here.
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  • Upcoming NetDRIVE Community Meeting in April 2026. NetDRIVE is holding its next community meeting titled “Creating a New Reality: A Sustainable Digital Transformation” on 22 and 23 April 2026 in Oxford. Learn more here.
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  • SC4RC 2026 - the first interdisciplinary conference on environmentally sustainable research computing. SC4RC 2026 is happening in Geneva, Switzerland on 4-8 May 2026 and abstract submissions are open now, while registrations open this month. Learn more on the website and through this link.
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  • Drop in sessions to answer any questions about Green DiSC! Is your team working on Green DiSC or are planning to start soon? Do you have questions about the scheme or the criteria? The Green DiSC team is now holding drop-in sessions every last Wednesday of the month (alternating 10am and 3pm GMT/BST so that most people can join) through a Teams link. Check the post to learn more.
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Q&A Discussions 💬

Want to connect with others working on sustainable computing? Engage with the community! 🗒️

We have a growing community on the ESCS Forum and it’s a great place to connect with others. Whether your new to the space or have been in this domain for years, you can ask questions, share your own learnings and helpful resources, and learn from others. Our Community Manager, Anica, highlights new posts in this monthly newsletter. Yours might get featured in the next one!

🌱 What is this newsletter? This aims to be a round up of interesting news and developments in the sustainable computing space. Whenever we come across an interesting news item or publication on the topic, we will post it on the forum so that everyone can jump in and discuss it. Of course anyone’s welcome to post as well! At the end of each month, we will send out this monthly digest of the articles shared and of the discussions that happened on the forum.

🌱 Who is behind the forum and this monthly digest? This project is led by Loïc Lannelongue at the University of Cambridge and supported by the Wellcome Trust (among others). Anica Araneta is in charge of day-to-day community management. Any questions about that? Just get in touch!

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