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Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes

Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

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oh wow. insert meme "Is it all fortran?".."always was"

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

A thorough review of the risks facing open science and a resilience framework distilled and applied to each. Long but really thought-provoking stuff

#open-science

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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

As one of the many many community people who donated to Climate 200 this makes me so grumpy.

Once again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation.
"Land doesn't vote, people do."

#rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...

Oh Antony Green. Bless

100%

I like how they let the ABC panel go a little rogue on election night.

Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare

Sorry it took us a while Pacific neighbours.

All three gone!

#AusPol #BinNight

Canada, we’re with you!
TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA!
#auspol

Screenshot of the top parts of pages 5 and 6 of 'Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition' at https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gsir-te/

The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package.

See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more.

#rstats

A low-angle shot shows a person with a backpack walking towards another person working at a multi-monitor desk in a modern office. A "Delve" logo glows on the wall behind the seated individual. The image is a screenshot of a tweet by "Karun Kaushik" about their "founding AI engineer" being on their "3rd all nighter," implying a demanding work environment.

This isn't the flex you think it is; it's poor management for sure. You don't want engineers pushing changes while suffering from sleep deprivation psychosis.

A mind-blowingly detailed view of the Small Magellanic Cloud—a dwarf galaxy orbiting our much larger Milky Way.

For those interested, it's visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere.

(Credit: ESO/VISTa VMC / Video by Universal-Sci)

NOAA all services (URGENT) Services for NOAA will be going offline as soon as tomorrow night. (april 4th) Things affected to include: Claimed: research.noaa.gov epic.noaa.gov adp.noaa.gov ci.noaa.gov oeab.noaa.gov orta.research.noaa.gov testbeds.noaa.gov qosao.noaa.gov oss.research.noaa.gov eeo.oar.noaa.gov globalocean.noaa.gov cpo.noaa.gov seagrant.noaa.gov researchprojects.noaa.gov pier.seagrant.noaa.gov drought.gov noaa’s internet proving groundviz.pmel.noaa.gov global systems laboratory’s DESI 3....

We (@SafeguardingResearch) need urgent help with archiving websites & datasets from NOAA:
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569

If you can contribute, please consider doing so.

#NOAA #SafeguardingResearch #Data #Weather

No AWS, I do not want to take a few minutes to tell you about my "billing and cost management journey"...

Beaker on fire next to another fire in space

photoshopping muppets onto the cover of national geographic: thread

Yarp.

Yeah. Dad was a civil /systems engineer working on cyclone/floods etc. He was going to "global warming" conferences in the 80s. Was a real and known consideration in cyclone building standards. I will never understand how the misinformation won.

I will have my tea towel bingo card ready.

What appears to be a massive flock of birds in red, purple and blue colours in a pale blue sky. Each "bird" represents a bird species, and their colour represents their conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Around one third of species appear to be near threatened, endangered or extinct

This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock!

By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards

www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...

#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅

Screenshot of an email announcement on the GDAL-dev mailing list. The subject reads: ‘[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.10.2 “Gulf of Mexico” is released.’ The email, written by Even Rouault, announces the release of GDAL/OGR 3.10.2, a bug-fix version, with download links for the source files in different formats. A humorous note suggests choosing a geodetic datum wisely. The email ends with a link to the sender’s website, spatialys.com, and the sign-off: ‘My software is free, but my time generally not.’

$DEITY bless the #GDAL crew #gis lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gd...

Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview) · GitHub Changelog Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview)

If anyone familiar with both Debian/Ubuntu package building (I can help) and #Rstats package building wants to reach out to make #r2u go from amd64-only to also including arm64 please reach out.

github.blog/changelog/20...

📦 [A package a day - data access 90]

Today's data access package is rebird

R Client for the eBird Database of Bird Observations
🙏 Maintained by Sebastian Pardo
📝 https://docs.ropensci.org/rebird/

Check out this article: Introduction to the {rebird} package
🔒 […]

Something very important is that the environmental impact of these two different applications is very different.

Companies consciously blend, confuse and muddle the two so that the extreme destructiveness of one can be justified using the nice public relations sheen of the other

Got great feedback from Julia R about the workshop! She loved it.

In my slide deck on AI I have a list of ethical problems and risks.

One of them is that AI companies are unsustainable financially and we're going to see enshittification, probably in the form of raised prices and ads.

I say specifically 'don't get attached, its a bubble'

So yeah.

Looks like it's not in Debian/Ubuntu. But if you are you on Arch, fedora, macOS read this carefully.