Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Whenever there is a weather or climate disaster, people ask how arre it was and whether the odds have changed duie to anthropogenic global warming. Answers used to range from “everything has changed” to “we have always had these events”. We can now give a scientifically defensible answer within a week or so. This is accomplished by doing as much of the work as possible ahead of time and using a template to automatise the process as much as possible. This is illustrated by the real-time attribution we did for the extreme precipitation that caused flooding in France and Germany at the end of May.
