Jon Blower

Associate Director of Digital Ocean at @NOCnews. Not the DJ of the same name. Views my own.

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@HMRCcustomers Thanks - must admit I was hoping not to have to go through the pain of contacting HMRC by phone again 😀

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@HMRCcustomers I have a new company car and I've been advised to notify HMRC to update my tax code. I've tried the online system but I didn't know how to answer some of the questions. It's a salary sacrifice arrangement.

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@HMRCcustomers Yes, I've found the form and I can see where to input the P11D value. But I'm not sure how to answer the questions about how I have paid for it. I pay through monthly salary sacrifice and haven't paid any lump sum.

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@HMRCcustomers Hi Martin, my employer says they'll submit the P11D in July, meaning the tax code would be adjusted the following April. They suggested that I call HMRC to advise of the P11D so the tax code can be adjusted straight away.

[Open Geospatial: OGC @opengeospatial]

Excited to announce that CoverageJSON v1.0 has been adopted as an official OGC Community Standard. CoverageJSON enables the development of interactive visualizations that display and manipulate spatio-temporal data within a web browser. https://t.co/xCWqcNxleH

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@rabernat @opengeospatial @pygeoapi I would use EDR (https://t.co/NF2QPHjL5V) as it's specifically designed for this kind of use case

[Royal Meteorological Society @RMetS]

Workshop: Recent Advances in Data Assimilation (DA) for Ocean Prediction and Reanalysis.

This workshop will focus on oceanic DA (which is much more observationally sparse than the atmosphere)

Thurs 20 July 2023
11:00 - 17:00
University of Reading

Info: https://t.co/b0N96zeE2c

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@HCBloomfield19 @EngineeringNCL Huge congrats Hannah! Sounds very exciting

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

It’s not too late to help us build our exciting and ambitious Digital Ocean programme! Just a couple more days to apply.

[National Oceanography Centre @NOCnews]

Last chance to apply! ⏲️

We are currently looking to fill 8 positions in our newly formed Research Software Engineer (RSE) team within the Digital Ocean programme.

Applications close this Sunday (30th October).

Learn more and apply here 👉 https://t.co/qMRzeATOEd

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

How true. Similarly, the appendix of a PhD thesis is where the real blood, sweat and tears often live

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@debbiejkite19 @spatialanalysis Hm, what would that be called - a Transparent Orthographic projection maybe? Need to get the @GdalOrg team working on this!

[National Oceanography Centre @NOCnews]

Applications are now open for up to 8 Research Software Engineer positions in our newly formed Research Software Engineer (RSE) team within the Digital Ocean programme.

Find out more and apply here 👉 https://t.co/iGEqQiAtaK

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

Today marks the end of the sartorial summer, when the shorts go back in the drawer

[Dr Doug McNeall @dougmcneall]

If you want to see the climate change briefing given by @uksciencechief to MPs yesterday (inc. @metoffice chief scientist Stephen Belcher), it’s here https://t.co/KQet1FRrml

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

Today is my last official day at @env_analytics and @UniofReading, after over 19 years. Thanks to all my wonderful friends and colleagues - I've been very lucky to work with you all. I made sure to take some pics of the amazing @GardenHarris as souvenirs

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@David_A_Ham @bnlawrence Yes, although beware weirdness in common third-party data structures, e.g.:

[0] is Truthy
numpy.array([0]) is Falsy
[0] == numpy.array([0]) is not True but is Truthy

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@bnlawrence Yeah, and precision plays a role too of course:

>>> 1==0.9999999999999999
False
>>> 1==0.99999999999999999
True

[Jon Blower @Jon_Blower]

@DrRParker @env_analytics Hi Rob, thanks for your message! This visualisation is custom-built using @d3js_org

[Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @PriestleyCentre]

📢 New job opportunities!

Research Fellow in Climate Analytics - two positions available.

Working as part of the exciting UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment - @ukcgfi

Full details: https://t.co/QVygiNCTwq

Deadline 1 April 2022

#AcademicJob #Postdoc

[Remi Tailleux @RemiTailleux]

University of Reading is launching a new MSc in Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence.
https://t.co/LoOaMINzwZ
Tackle some of the world’s most important issues, and study at the forefront of an exciting and growing industry! Please retweet!