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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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In response to the White House memo on “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research,” NASA has released an updated draft of their plan for access to federal funded research: “NASA’s Public Access Plan: Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research.”

Do you have comments/thoughts? Submit them to the request for information in the Federal Register by August 17, 2023.

Draft: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_ocs_public_access_plan_may_2023.pdf

RFI: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/18/2023-10643/request-for-information-nasa-public-access-plan-for-increasing-access-to-the-results-of

crawfordsm,
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NASA has gone beyond the requirements of the OSTP memo to not only include full open access to data and publications at the time of publication, but also scientific software developed as part of the project and needed to validate the scientific results

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@williamgunn DoE should be updating their public access plan as well so look for their announcement. I know NSF and NIH have both put out their plans.

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I have been impressed with the free bus system around Alberquerque. As a visitor, it being free makes it really easy to use and it is really convenient to get to the airport from downtown.

crawfordsm, to space
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The Optical Constants database (OCdb) is a new data repository developed to provide published, peer-reviewed, optical constants of organic refractory materials and ices relevant to planetary and astrophysical environments to the scientific community for the analysis and interpretation of observational data.

https://ocdb.smce.nasa.gov

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In Tony Beasley’s talk, he tracks the history of Open Skies back to 1959 and the start of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The best ideas, regardless of where they come from, produces the best science.

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Tracy Chen shares the Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature. A great resource for how to share your scientific information including sharing the name, source code and citation practices, open methodology, accessibility, data availability statement, DOIs, and peer review.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJS..260....5C/abstract

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The US National Science Foundation () just released the draft update to its policy, as requested by the ().
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-06/NSF23104.pdf

I'm digesting it now but wanted it to share first.

Tho released today, it's dated Feb 23, 2023.

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@petersuber like the other policies, that is likely the date it was submitted to the OSTP for comment prior to public release of the draft.

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Call for Community Input into the Definition of the Roman Space Telescope’s Core Community Surveys

Due: June 16

https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_community_input.html

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Talking about the Year of Open Science, @ChelleGentemann shares the federal definition of Open Science:

Open Science is the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity.

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For this at , we are about to start the ‘The What and Why of Open Science’ session in Room 220 at 10 am MT. We will be taking about a Year of Open Science, NASA and NSF’s Open Science plans, and how the AAS supports Open Science.

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Really informative talk by Leinani Lozi on the Future of TMT in Hawi’i. She highlights the importance of genuine dialogue and engaging with those that you are not reaching.

Being stuck in an affinity bias meant only reaching those who were already interested in astronomy. As they have reach out further they were able to uncover underlying issue and develop more meaningful ways to engage with the community.

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Leanne Guy on the Vera Rubin Observatory: ‘The LSST is one giant open source software project.’ It includes over 1.5 million lines of code made available on GitHub with well develop documentation and open discussions on discourse.

https://github.com/lsst

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Great talk by @danscolnic on the history and current state of measurements of the Hubble constant.

One of the great things is that they've made all their data available on GitHub: https://github.com/PantheonPlusSH0ES

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attn: MUD developers

last year, a grad school classmate of mine died at the age of 38. every student and professor who met Geoff Hollis learned that he was a brilliant scholar, a sharp thinker, and a superb university lecturer.

but only a handful of his friends knew that geoff was also one hell of a coder. he spent nights as a grad student building his own MUD engine in C - from scratch, with a built-in custom scripting language - just for the fun of it.

nakedMUD enjoyed several years of regular development and usage from mud designers, before jeff had to shelve it due to his teaching responsibilities.

when he died, his university server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it. i've got the most recent version of nakedMUD (3.8.1), but i'd like to preserve v1.0 to v3.8 in his memory.

if you happen to have filenames in the format nakedmudv1.0.tar.tgz sitting around on old drives, i'd love to hear from you. i'm building a little source shrine for geoff, so nakedMUD can live on in memory of a kind, gentle soul.

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@vga256 I’m not sure about the details, but you might also want to check Software Heritage for what they may have:

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=Nakedmud&with_visit=true&with_content=true

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Post run around Albuquerque, I stopped by a brewery for some hydration and they are having a pride party on their sky deck.

I did not come prepared for this level of fabulousness.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

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@codysocrazy my first time here and I’ve never been to Sante Fe so I don’t have a comparison.

This was a surprise as I was noticing how quiet some parts of ABQ were during my run.

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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

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

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Starting my journey to American Astronomical Society summer meeting - we have an Open Science 101 Ethos workshop (Saturday) and then an Open Science themed meeting within a meeting (sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday) .

There will also be a Transform to Open Science booth this week so stop by and say hello!

https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/transform-to-open-science

https://zenodo.org/record/5225076/files/Tops_logo%402x.png?download=1

tsdgeos, to random Catalan
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Dear @crawfordsm can you do something to stop all those annoying NASA emails asking open source projects to "Please list the country or list of countries where most contributions originate from."?

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@tsdgeos we are working on improving our open source processes, and this issue is on my radar. Feel free to send details to Steven.m.Crawford@nasa.gov. Not sure if there is much I can do at the moment, but we are working to improve.

crawfordsm, to space
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I highly recommend this episode of the Down to Earth podcast on Data Sovereignty with Dr. Sativa Cruz, Applied Scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Reseach Institute at NASA Ames Research Center and member of the NASA Indigenous Peoples Initiative.

Really great and informative discussion about an important topic and how it relates to open science.

https://grssieee.podbean.com/e/s4e03-down-to-earth-navigating-data-sovereignty-in-open-science/

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Join us on May 11 at 1 PM ET for a Community Forum on open science, brought to you by NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative. We're excited to bring together experts from NASA and CERN to discuss the transformative impact of open science on fostering greater international collaboration and accelerating scientific progress. Register now to secure your spot! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUN5UNBaK0KLtrMs0f0wIViF27b61QGZo5XI-IcQABwTRbHg/viewform

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Enroute to DC this morning for the May meeting of the National Academies Committee on Radio Frequency.

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@karenlmasters Commuting by train is the best way to go DC! (Waves from the MARC train from Baltimore on my into the office as the Amtrak goes flying past)

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    crawfordsm, (edited )
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    @vicgrinberg it is probably a little dated and I don’t think it goes too much into details about stars as I pull it off the shelf for a quick look at the contents. It does have an intro to how the stars formed though the book is likely to be a little dated with all the advances in the last twenty years.

    See my other toot for some more recommendations. All three touch on stars and Emily’s is probably the one that is most general astronomy with fun stories about observing.

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    @vicgrinberg oh that’s a really interesting way to frame the question! I’m tagging @sarahkendrew as she might have some good suggestions.

    A two page briefing paper/ blog post on the state of astronomy with links to recent books that expand on the topics would be a useful resource!

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