Great news! I really hope that our other great publishers follow suit. nature.com/articles/d4158… Well done to everyone with the copdess.org/enabling-fair-… project.

Presenting some of our leading work in standards/ interoperability and using the data to an engaged geotechnical industry audience @OGC /@BuildingSMART workshop in Paris. With added snow! British Geological Survey

The new project in British Geological Survey transportation is coming along nicely...😉

Well, it would be rude not to... and I am properly off duty after EC proposal editing two nights in a row... I am. Are you? EPOS British Geological Survey

Very productive OneGeology Strategic Steering Group meeting. Leading representatives from 5 Continents. Some great ideas for the future. Now to refine them into an action plan... British Geological Survey

Back at my alma mater talking about the amazing work that British Geological Survey are doing in data and data science with EPCC and their data science MSc students. Thanks for hosting me and arranging the sunshine!

Mickael Beaufils giving our Open Geospatial: OGC W3C (@[email protected]) paper about the joint GeoScience DWG and what it can offer to the coordination of standards for geoscience data #EGU2019

Excellent prospects for the EGU townhall in -2.62 NOW! Don’t beam me up yet Scottie! #egu2019 EGU_ESSI

Come and talk to us about the next 10 years of OneGeology and see our poster X1.22 until 1015 this morning... #EGU2019 British Geological Survey

And for my next trick I will be Patrick Bell, talking about the EPOS Integrated Core Service portal #EGU2019 British Geological Survey 1045 in 0.96

Great day talking about our #geoclimate research to climate scientists at the #ECCA2019 conference in Lisbon with Jim White British Geological Survey.

Proud to soon be chairing the 1st virtual OneGeology Operational Group meeting of Principal Members across 8 timezones representing 189 member geoscience organisations around the globe from our head office in Nottingham, UK. British Geological Survey #BGSDigital

This evening I shall be playing with massive jet engines. This is the closest I’m likely to get to a Concorde...

Just 18 tickets left for #FOSS4GUK! Conference in Edinburgh next Thu/Fri on open source geospatial software such as #qgis, #postgis, #geoserver.uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2019/

OneGeology is @ #FEM2019Levi to give a talk on our Global Mineral Resource services ambitions.

Happy Cappuccino Day! The antidote to looming deadlines throughout the world...

I’ve voted. Have you! #EPOS #britgeosurvey

FAIR play in geoscience data | Nature Geoscience Great news and it seems the tide may have turned! Congratulations to all involved! ⁦Nature Geoscience⁩ #copdess #fairdata Next the data stewardship... ⁦EPOS⁩ ⁦British Geological Survey⁩ nature.com/articles/s4156…

After 20 years this is my last day employed by BGS. I have been fortunate to lead a national data centre and work with some amazing people and on projects at the highest levels of digital geoscience across the world. I’m looking forward to exciting opportunities in 2020.

Happy New Year everyone! Come and join me over on Matt Harrison if you want to find out about my new adventures.