mekkaokereke, 4 months ago to random

They're talking about grade inflation at the Ivies again. And OK, fair. Everyone gets an A. But can we also talk about educator inflation? Educator inflation is a good thing! By educator inflation I mean: the typical educator at a top tier university today, is miles better at educating, than the typical educator at that same institution 50 years ago.

The field of education is not static. There are constant advances in how material is presented, and how students are supported.

crawfordsm, 10 months ago to space

Every time I see Roborto Di Cosmo’s slide, I have to toot it - these examples from the Apollo code show just how important it is to comment your code.

Text:

Astronaut: Please crank the silly thing around

PROCEED: See if he is lying

#NASA #OpenScience #opensource #opensourcesoftware #CERNNASA #SoftwareHeritage

crawfordsm, 11 months ago to space

In more happy news, NASA has just updated their policy on releasing software to make it easier to release their software as open source.

This is really into the policy weeds, but it makes it easier to release scientific software, develop software openly, and contribute to existing open source projects.

https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?t=NPR&c=2210&s=1E

#OpenSourceSoftware #NASA #OpenScience

crawfordsm, 5 months ago to Astro

The new Science Explorer (SciX) launches today! This provides search over publications related to Earth and Space Science. It builds on the Astrophysics Data Service to expand similar services of discovery to Earth, Planetary, Heliophysics and Space-based biological and physics sciences.

#OpenScience #Astrodon #EarthData #PlanetaryScience #climatechange #Heliophysics #AGU

https://scixplorer.org/

crawfordsm, 1 month ago to random

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/

#eclipse

crawfordsm, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

The first White House listening session on Open Science for Early Career Researchers was this week but there are more coming up!

Register here for a chance to share your thoughts with the Office of Science and Technology policy on Open Science as part of a Year of Open Science

#openscience

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/events-webinars/

crawfordsm, 1 month ago to space

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, 5 months ago to space

Pale Blue Dot Data Challenge

Use space-generated data to improve quality of life! Participants will leverage Earth observation data and visualization techniques to combat hunger, increase access to clean water, and address climate change. Competition on behalf of NASA and UNVIE in collaboration with UNOOSA.

Prize a 10 day trip to Space Studies Program that includes Space Camp. Prize is open to both US and international participants!

#NASA #UNVIE #NASATOPS #Earth #ClimateChange

crawfordsm, 8 months ago to space

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is recognizing open science! This includes NASA, NSF, NOAA, DOE, NIST, NIH and many more agencies!

Submit your open science story in one of following categories: open science for communities, advance education, advance global solutions, advance innovations, advance interdisciplinary collaboration, or enabling technology for open science.

#OpenScience #NASA

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=ostp-year-of-open-science-recognition-challenge

crawfordsm, 8 months ago to random

Essential open source software for science solicitation is open again with support from CZI, Kavli, and Welcome trust.

Letters of intent due October 17.

https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/essential-open-source-software-for-science/

crawfordsm, 1 month ago to animals

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

#dogsofmastodon

crawfordsm, 8 months ago to python

What are your favorite introductions or tutorials to programming for scientists?

This could be for a specific language or version control or to the command line.

#OpenScience #OpenSourceSoftware
#python
#RStats

crawfordsm, 4 months ago to Astro

A nice article about the transformative work in South Africa over the last 20 years to make the astronomy community more inclusive and representative.

I taught at NASSP for 10 years. It was one of the best things I’ve ever done and so lucky for my engagement with the amazing students (now scientists).

I think it has been a successful 20 years of effort, though as mentioned, plenty more work to be done!

#OpenScience #astrodon #SouthAfrica

https://www-timeslive-co-za.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/sunday-times-daily/news/2024-01-15-20-years-ago-sa-had-40-qualified-astronomers-all-white-how-its-opened-space-science-and-developed-skills-since-then/

crawfordsm, 4 months ago to Astro

This opinion piece is written by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin on future space based astronomy observatories.

There is a lot more nuance (like funding profiles) but I think it does inspire some interesting discussion points and thought.

#Astrodon

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/bolder-than-webb-youll-never-know-unless-you-go/

crawfordsm, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to space

NASA's Transform to Open Science has released their Open Science 101 curriculum! The curriculum introduces the skills and tools to better understand how to make your science more accessible, inclusive, and reproducible. There is an online course and will be opportunities for in-person and virtual trainings.

Those completing the course will receive the NASA TOPS Open Science badge linked to their ORCID accounts.

#OpenScience #NASA #NASATOPS

Learn more at:
https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/

crawfordsm, 7 months ago to random

This is a really interesting article and podcast episode on "When Diversity meets feedback" by Erin Meyer. There are a lot of great points about how to give feedback across age, gender, and cultures.

One of the most interesting points was that giving feedback, especially unsolicited, may trigger the "flight or fight" response. This can even happen if you ask - people rarely so no, but that still can trigger the response!

Article: https://hbr.org/2023/09/when-diversity-meets-feedback
PodCast: https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/10/getting-feedback-right-on-diverse-teams?ab=HP-hero-latest-text-1

crawfordsm, 9 months ago to random

When discussion an example of an LLM generated manuscript with incorrect information accepted to a predatory journal, I mentioned that the internet could potentially become useless if it was filled with incorrect but plausible generated information.

I think I really shocked the group when I added ‘In my opinion, this could happen as soon as the next six months.’

This highlights the importance in high quality trusted sources of information, transparency, and reproducibility.

#OpenScience

crawfordsm, 9 months ago to space

Working together with IBM, NASA has released an open-source geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model for Earth observation data. This is based on Landsat Sentinel-2 data set and has a range of potential applications.

If you want to see what is potentially possible, I would suggest checking out some of the demos at the end of the article.

#NASA #IBM #OpenScience #AI #EarthData

Article: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/impact-ibm-hls-foundation-model

Hugging Face Community: https://huggingface.co/ibm-nasa-geospatial

crawfordsm, 5 months ago to random

The Center for Open Science will be hosting a Year of Open Science culminating conference from March 21-22.

#OpenScience

https://www.cos.io/blog/year-of-open-science-culminating-conference

crawfordsm, 7 months ago to animals

#SilentSunday #DogsOfMastodon

crawfordsm, 7 months ago to random

Great talk by Caprice Phillips on #BlackInAstro at the #dotAstro meeting.

The new website has profiles of many of the members of the #BlackInAstro community- check out all the great stuff there are doing in Astronomy!

https://www.blackinastro.com

crawfordsm, 9 months ago to random

A common question I get onn #OpenScience is ‘if I share my code, what if someone misuses it?’

This is usually combined with ‘I don’t have time to document my code to explain what it is doing.’

What are your thoughts on how to have a conversation around this concern?

crawfordsm, 5 months ago to random

With Halley's Comet and the Challenger Disaster, the first few months of 1986 were an incredible formative time for those interested in space. Most of my vivid, early memories date from that year and I would guess it is probably pretty similar to others in the space field that are of a similar age.

crawfordsm, 9 months ago to space

NASA TOPS will be hosting a community forum on “Unveiling the Power of Open Science for Indigenous Communities,” on Thursday, August 10 at 1 pm.

On the panel will be Nikki Tully (NASA’s Indigenous People Initiative), Thomas Moore (Servir Amazonia), and Sierra Brown (Million Concept and TOPST PI).

For more information and to register:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/transformtoopenscience/2023/07/24/unveiling-the-power-of-open-science-for-indigenous-communities/

#OpenScience #NASATOPS #nasa #WorldIndigenousPeoplesDay

crawfordsm, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to space

The discovery of a super massive black hole from when the Universe was only ~450 million years old is pretty amazing.

The observations from JWST and the Chandra X-ray observatory were both required to see this.

The NASA press release also includes links to Open Access versions of the papers including the preprint and the AAS. This is part of SMD’s policy on making science more accessible including in our press releases.

#OpenScience #NASA #Astrodon

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-telescopes-discover-record-breaking-black-hole/