asterisk labs

Interdisciplinary research lab making the most of open data.

The UK’s first worker-owned co-operative research laboratory.

[Robin Cole @robmarkcole]

New Podcast and YouTube episode - BetaEarth: Open Embeddings of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 with a Little Help of AlphaEarth with @mikonvergence

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

🥳 Welcome onboard Paul Borne--Pons!

Paul is joining us for a few months before starting his PhD on the topic of massively multi-modal 3D cloud observations. 😶‍🌫️

Paul will work on improving the efficiency of our cloud top height estimation in Clouds Decoded using DNN emulation!

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

⏯️ You can now watch the fireside chat we hosted last Friday with @CloudAppSoc:

https://t.co/Z9hcHIPkQf

[Cloud Appreciation Society @CloudAppSoc]

Today from 16:00 - 17:00 BST - Gavin Pretor-Pinney and @EdGrys of @imperialcollege will take part in an online "fireside chat" focused on Clouds & Climate.

Hosted by @asterisk_labs - sign up here: https://t.co/KeKVLvQWSi

[Cloud Appreciation Society @CloudAppSoc]

Tomorrow from 16:00 - 17:00 BST - Gavin Pretor-Pinney and @EdGrys of @imperialcollege will take part in an online "fireside chat" focused on Clouds & Climate.

Hosted by @asterisk_labs - sign up here: https://t.co/KeKVLvQWSi

Image: Lan Bentsen (Member 49,113)

[Cloud Appreciation Society @CloudAppSoc]

Friday 19 Sep - 16:00 - 17:00 BST - Gavin Pretor-Pinney and @EdGrys of @imperialcollege will take part in an online "fireside chat" focused on Clouds & Climate.

Hosted by @asterisk_labs - book your place: https://t.co/KeKVLvQWSi

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

A visually stunning crash course on clouds and their importance in climate from Gavin Pretor-Pinney (the founding member of the @CloudAppSoc) featured in @nytimes:

https://t.co/w9Y7N2oeQk

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Check out this extraordinary talk covering asterisk and clouds decoded delivered by our own Jacqueline Campbell 🥰

[Schmidt Science Fellows @SchmidtFellows]

Inspiring moments from our 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Summit with @Caltech "Clouds are the most critical unknown in our climate models." From train driver to 2020 Fellow, Jacqueline Campbell @asterisk_labs is decoding clouds to fight climate change https://t.co/Zar4e2YHBE

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

🌎 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁: If you are coming from a different discipline and have a clear vision of how you could grow Asterisk with us, especially with ideas for how to fund new research projects, we are ready to consider.

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[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Asterisk Labs is expanding its team of climate and Earth observation scientists. You could help us build an alternative to the usual routes for doing research, prioritising positive societal impact, and democratic worker control!

https://t.co/ud3dplvBb1

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[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

☁️ 𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁: working primarily on the Clouds Decoded project, funded by @ARIA_research Skills and knowledge in atmospheric sciences, cloud processes and/or radiative transfer.

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[Mikolaj Czerkawski @mikonvergence]

It's almost time! TerraBytes starts tomorrow at
@icmlconf 2025 in Vancouver #ICML2025

📍 08:30 West Meeting Room 111-112

🗞️ Papers are now accessible on the workshop website below the programme: https://t.co/0LFRhy2MBV

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

📢 Join the conversation:

@asterisk_labs has been contracted by the European Space Agency @esa to draft a dedicated expert report on AI for Copernicus and is gathering stakeholder feedback.

More info:
https://t.co/ZjFrVGEbsF

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

@maryxw @eric_is_weird We have already connected (and indeed enjoyed connecting) before - thank you @maryxw!

[Mikolaj Czerkawski @mikonvergence]

⚠️ Nearly 40 billion (39,820,373,479) new embeddings of Major TOM Copernicus data now released!

More details: https://t.co/iNdSaXvZ2y

Data available on @huggingface and @creodias

Joint work with @CloudFerro, @asterisk_labs and @esa

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Tomorrow at @EuroGeosciences: 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐬 presenting 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝 🌫️

(28 April at 12:20) Join us for early results, validation and future perspective for studying clouds in Sentinel-2 data!

https://t.co/AqXlpVr6Zj

funded by @ARIA_research

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

You can now find us on instagram and enjoy some breathtaking images of clouds from space 😶‍🌫️

🎞️🛰️ https://t.co/vIiNPH2ok8

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Our team at asterisk labs is co-organising TerraBytes - a one-of-a-kind workshop focused on the challenges of building global models and datasets for EO. 🟢🟡🔵

[Mikolaj Czerkawski @mikonvergence]

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗕𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

We are now accepting submissions to 🌍💿𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗕𝘆𝘁𝗲𝘀!

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼: https://t.co/0LFRhy2eMn

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹: https://t.co/clwExHvI8k

@icmlconf
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[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Special thanks to our amazing line-up of speakers, Anne Crean, Head of Science and Innovation at @PhysicsNews, @SarahBohndiek & @GemmaBale, Programme Directors from @ARIA_research, and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Member 001 of the @CloudAppSoc.

[asterisk labs @asterisk_labs]

Asterisk Labs has officially launched! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us last night at the Institute of Physics.

Asterisk is getting off the ground now, so stay tuned!