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crawfordsm

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Astronomer wandering through time and space. Working on #OpenScience and likely to post about #Earth and #Space science especially #astronomy, #OpenSourceSoftware, and #NASA. And hiking with our dog

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dstndstn, to random
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I'm struggling to understand the outputs of the Hyper-SuprimeCam SSP's data expansion pipeline!

The catalogs have 246 flag bits and a baffling number of measurements. I feel like less would be more!

coadd image:
116M ./pdr3_wide/deepCoadd-results/HSC-G/9570/0,8/calexp-HSC-G-9570-0,8.fits

catalog:
146M ./pdr3_wide/deepCoadd-results/HSC-G/9570/0,8/meas-HSC-G-9570-0,8.fits

crawfordsm,
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@dstndstn the catalog is bigger than the images?

Extracting more information than in the observation seems like an interesting decision.

It makes me feel like there is a basic principle of information being violated or that you should just ne doing inference on the image rather than creating a catalog.

crawfordsm,
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@dstndstn Ah being designed for the time domain/ multiple images would then make a little more sense for the size of it.

If including cutouts in the data, I can see where it can blow up in size.

It’s still an interesting choice - I’d be curious for the design constraints that led to it. I could also see depending on the use case that you might just drop 99% of the catalog.

HeidiSeibold, to random
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So many things came out of the Open Science Retreat this year! 🤩

A bot that shares learning resources, a guidance document for staff assessment, and speculative fiction are just a few examples.

Read this week's newsletter post to dive in 💌

https://buff.ly/3WT7Gsb

crawfordsm,
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@HeidiSeibold What good timing - I just had someone ask about examples for staff assessment.

crawfordsm, to space
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Articlehighlight Baltimore and Maryland contributions on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) missiom that launched in February.

It will uses colors to study vegetation in the oceans and on land; and polarimeters to study aerosols to track the ocean-atmosphere interaction

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/science-medicine/astronomy/maryland-baltimore-county-nasa-atmosphere-ocean-TNFOWBRZVNHT7B7FED6G5YV45Y/

crawfordsm, to space
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Four new proposals for Earth Science missions have been selected for the next step!

The proposals study gases in the troposphere and mesosphere, measure ocean surface currents and winds, observe the structure of ecosystems and glaciers, and monitor greenhouse gases.

Of these, two will be selected after further design work with an aim to launch in 2030 or 2032 - this is one of the first steps in a long process!

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/new-proposals-to-help-nasa-advance-knowledge-of-our-changing-climate/

crawfordsm, to random
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Great first day at the Software for the Science Mission Directorate workshop. Over 180 people taking about software and software policy! Such a great feeling seeing everyone’s excitement and passion around software.

I was feeling pretty stressed leading into the meeting so I’m pretty happy with the first day.

I can’t wait to share the public links to the talks.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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Is there a web accessibility checker service out there that gives me actionable advice instead of trying to sell me consulting or webinars? Le Sigh. Any hints welcome.

UPDATE: https://wave.webaim.org did exactly what I was looking for. It showed me the issues right where they are and told me what to do. It is now almost done :) Thx to @josephdickson for the tip!

crawfordsm,
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@jwildeboer In the USA, Section 508 compliance tools can be useful for accessibility.

Here are a few lists of tools:
https://www.section508.gov/tools/

Here is an open source tester and organization with other tools:
https://github.com/Section508Coordinators/TrustedTester5.1

Note I haven’t tried these myself but was just reading about them yesterday.

asmartbear, to random
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Like an overtaxed server, a team at 90% utilization completely breaks down when one person stumbles.

There’s a damage cascade you might not be accounting for.

https://longform.asmartbear.com/utilization?utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=asmartbear_mastodon&utm_medium=social

crawfordsm,
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@asmartbear I had a great manager who’s philosophy was ‘less is more’ and I learned a lot from thinking about that though it has not always been easy to apply in other situations.

crawfordsm, to random
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Sometimes I really like my job:

Great visit to JPL to talk all things Open Science!

Two days full of conversations with the scientist and engineers about ways to make their scientific work more accessible, inclusive, and reproducible.

It was great to make so many new connections and interesting to hear about the challenges as well.

A color map of Mars terrain made from pastels and the first observations from the Mariner 4 mission. The map has yellow center right area, followed by white, then orange, red, brown gradients in indicating color as measured from data from the observations.
A replica of the Mars Perseverance rover. There is large black tires, white body, and mast with a camera on top. It is sitting on red brown rocks.
Mission Control room at JPL. There are rows of desks and computer screens. Above them is a set of large screens showing the Earth along with what missions the deep Space network is communicating with.

crawfordsm,
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Although my favorite joke that I made was that they made the code used to make the color by numbers map from Mariner 4 Open Source!

Video with more details: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/20284/coloring-the-mariner-4-image-data/

crawfordsm, to random
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NASA’s Science Discovey Engine is increasing access to environmental justice data

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/new-resource-speeds-access-environmental-justice-data

rmounce, to random
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At least 117 publications in @joss mentioning the string "National Science Foundation"

...now obviously there's a bit of further work to do, to distinguish between the Swiss National Science Foundation and the U.S National Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka but it's clear to me that there's a lot of funded research in JOSS.

crawfordsm,
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@rmounce I’d be interested in that report and sharing it.

It might be an interesting topic to share at the ReSA Funders forum (are you a part of that?)

luis_in_brief, to random
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Love/hate this conference because we just had a brief, in-talk, sidetrack to discuss, and collectively groan over, WITH LGPL-3.0-only.

crawfordsm,
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@luis_in_brief I’ve been on both sides of this question and I’d be really curious in the answer!

My best answer is build lots of trust.

crawfordsm, to animals
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Since my dog having fun was such a big hit yesterday, here are two dogs having fun on a hike.

crawfordsm, to animals
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I’m generally bad at social media so here is a picture of my dog having fun

crawfordsm, (edited ) to space
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I love when we run data challenges with NASA data as it is always amazing to see what diverse, innovative, and creative teams will do!

The Pale Blue Dot challenge saw teams from around the world create visualizations to address the Sustainable Development Goals. There is an entire gallery of results and they used a wide range of data from NASA Earth Observatories.

Also see the link for all the amazing partners that made this happen!

https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/pale-blue-dot-visualization-challenge-winners-announced

alexisbushnell, to KindActions
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We made it to Friday , so I'm asking you to share the kindness you've seen this week.
From carrying someone's bags to supporting someone through a crisis, I'd love to hear about it.

If you're happy for your story to be shared on Time for Kindness, please say so. But don't be afraid to share if you aren't - let's celebrate kindness in all shapes and sizes.

crawfordsm,
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@alexisbushnell People sharing eclipse glasses and handing them out for free in public spaces so others could enjoy the eclipse.

crawfordsm, to random
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Very interesting to listen to a talk on the Brain Imaging Data Structure by @yarikoptic

It is interesting to see the similarities and differences with the needs from other fields.

Though, I do enjoy that urge by researchers in any field to rename files from their default instrument produced names to something more human readable.

https://bids-specification.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

crawfordsm, to random
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Happy 2024 eclipse day to those in North America!

If you aren’t sure what to do or if you can see it, NASA has you covered:

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

kellylepo, to random
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Off to Indianapolis for the eclipse! Let's hope for clear skies so I can finally see totality.

crawfordsm,
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@AstroMikeHudson @kellylepo hopefully it at least ends up being a mix of sun and moon!

crawfordsm, to ai
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The Earth Science Division is looking for a scientist to oversee a more advanced approach to modeling in Earth Science for human impacts of changes in the Earth system.

This includes leveraging rapidly changing computational environment, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Risk-Based Climate Modeling or Digital Twinning.

Closed today April 3rd

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/782448600

crawfordsm, to space
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Is it a good time to mention that NASA has an open solicitation to support sustainability for scientific open source software?

We are also having a town hall on Tuesday, April 2 at 2 pm ET to talk about it.

See details here:

https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=910CC61E-4616-9958-C26F-F8D9BC5AB8D9&path=open

#OpenScience #NASA #OpenSource #opensourcesoftware

crawfordsm,
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@dburke sorry I didn’t see this until now - the URL was at the link in the solicitation, but you are right that you had to hunt for it a little bit.

It will all be posted o. The website if you missed it.

crawfordsm,
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@dburke please feel free to send us an email!

crawfordsm, to jupyter
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Congratulations to the to the White House Year of Open Science Recognition winners!

These are some amazing projects that highlight the benefits of making science and technology accessible for everyone.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2024/03/21/white-house-office-of-science-technology-policy-announces-year-of-open-science-recognition-challenge-winners/

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