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lavergnetho

@lavergnetho@fediscience.org

"The climate we experience in the future depends on our decisions now" - IPCC (2021)

Scientist MET Norway (#Oslo) : #satellite & #seaice for #osisaf, #esa, #copernicus, #CIMR.

Trying to be better at #OpenScience. Opinions my own.

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jon , to random
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Pro tip to find a way around Trafikverket-SJ timetable chaos in Sweden

A search is part of the parameters in the URL on SJ's website - like this https://www.sj.se/en/kop-resa/valj-resa/Hamburg%20Hbf/Stockholm%20Central/2024-05-26

So you can just bookmark it, and check it each morning, to then - finally about a fortnight before you depart find it will indeed run…

lavergnetho ,
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@jon I have a similar search-URL at SJ, around those dates. SJ should at least prioritize us, those who check every morning, in the queue for buying the tickets 😭.

But really? Just 15 days ahead? That's the planning of my whole family-trip to France hanging thin on getting a ticket for that train 😢.

The cheap airplane tickets are being sold while I wait for SJ to announce its night trains.

lavergnetho , to random
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#SilentSunday #Holmen #Sandvika #Norway

lavergnetho , to random
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R.I.P. Sylvain Luc, le grand Sylvain Luc 😢 🎼.

The great French virtuoso just passed away, aged 58.

lavergnetho , to random
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So excited/humbled to have #ESA and my partner institutes in #Oslo this week to discuss #CIMR LEVEL-2 products!

#CIMR is an upcoming #Sentinel satellite that will help us monitor the #Earth and its #Climate in the polar regions.

We are at the start of an exciting 4-year activity, the #L2PAD, to prepare #OpenSource algorithms and products for this satellite. Can't wait to meet the team, it will be the first time I meet some of them in person.

lavergnetho OP ,
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Here ⤵️ is a short video made by #ESA about the new satellite!

https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2024/02/What_does_a_warming_Arctic_mean_for_the_future

lavergnetho OP ,
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@anlomedad Thanks for the questions!

Historically, satellites (the platform without the instrument) were expensive to build and fly. There was thus a tendency to fit many instruments on one satellite. Meteorology satellites still have this model. It sounds resonable on paper, but also has drawbacks. For example, if the launch or satellite fails, we loose many instruments. Also, it requires trade-offs (e.g. one instruments gets in the way for another, you cannot choose an optimum orbit,...)

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lavergnetho OP ,
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@anlomedad

Nowadays, satellites are more and more specialized. One instrument per satellite.

For CIMR there was no choice: the CIMR antenna is so big, that any additional sensor would have been in the way. In many cases it makes sense, as you can dimension the satellite to be just what's needed.

So yes, this can mean more cluttering of the orbits, and more space debris. CIMR is so big that ESA schedules a controlled re-entry after her job is dine, after about 7-8 years, I think.

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lavergnetho OP ,
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@anlomedad

But in tbe end one CIMR is a just a drop compared to those big private constellations. I do not know what's the status for regulating those.

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lavergnetho , to random
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I have ace colleagues, part 243:

My colleague Luke (LukeDataManager) has a Youtube channel where he helps people prepare :

His most recent series is about , , , etc...

Give him a follow (on Youtube) and a retoot (here)? https://youtube.com/@LukeDataManager?si=VMU9ehIPE8eyRaCt

toothFAIRy , to random
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Interesting read: How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.15081

(from https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/111996460961824995)

I'd love to do something like this for the @turingway - when I suddenly get loads of time on my hands.

Maybe this summer? 😂 😬

lavergnetho ,
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@toothFAIRy Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I particularly liked the discussion in "4.2.Tension between Different Mindsets"

(...) professional software engineers believe it is important to follow SE best practices and utilize automated workflows, such as continuous Integration and continuous Delivery (CI/CD), to reduce maintenance burden. As a result, they often explain to scientists that their code submission does not meet the code quality standard and needs refactoring. (...)

lavergnetho ,
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@toothFAIRy indeed. And also the part where SEs didn't find their contribution to be as obvious to communicate or highlight as those of the scientists (who can present at conferences or write papers).

I am starting on an #OSS project with both scientists and SEs and I am sure the initial discussions will be "interesting" 😅🫣.

lavergnetho , to random
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Is #OpenSource / #OpenScience -mentoring a thing?

One does not contribute to the development of the research or the software itself, but one helps others that don't know how this is done with the Open'ing aspects.

Of course, I know that there are several online resources for learning, but what beats a mentor who dedicates some if his/her time?

#IWantYouToBeMyOpenSourceMentor 😅

@pyOpenSci @scientific_python @turingway ?

lavergnetho OP ,
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👀

lavergnetho OP ,
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Well I guess it is fair, yes. Beginners will first contribute to existing projects, learn by doing under the mentoring of the project maintainer, and off they go.

But that can be intimidating. And in our case, the team and I need to get started on a brand new own #OSS project, and the learning curve is steep.

Hence the need for mentoring, if that's a thing.

lavergnetho OP ,
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And thank you pointing me at #outreachy. It does not apply for me, but it seems like a great project.

lavergnetho OP ,
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Thanks Adam! The @osgeo mentorship programme, albeit way too ambitious for me at this stage already has some good description of what they are looking for in #OSS, including actual community contribution (guidelines, governance, ...)

I am aware mentorship like consultancy has a cost, and I am not against the idea.

lavergnetho OP ,
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@meejah Interesting. There might be a niche to exploit there for research scientists working in bigger institutions.

For bigger projects, we have to write grant proposals (to the EU, to Space Agencies,...) to carry out our research, and these often involve several institutes. We sometimes take in board partners to do project management or communication. So why not a partner/consultant for the #OpenScience or #OSS aspects...

jon , to random
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IF you want a flight ban that's MEANINGFUL, do this

  • 4 hours by train, not 2.5 hours

  • apply to ALL flights, inc. transfers and private jets

  • turn connecting flights into connecting trains with guaranteed passenger rights in case of delay

Anything LESS than that and it's gesture politics

lavergnetho ,
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@jon @WhiteCatTamer I had no idea that CDG was the reference TGV station and not Paris Montparnasse. It does only make sort-of sense for connecting flights. But who would take the train to CDG to get to Paris?

brohrer , to random
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I’m late to the game but ruff is a super slick replacement for flake8 and black.

https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

lavergnetho ,
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@jesper @brohrer Would you also recommend it for people with no/little experience with linters and code formatters? Is ruff good for new users as well?

lavergnetho ,
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@jesper @brohrer Thanks. Pre-commit hooks is what we'll need. I also read that editors like VSCode can auto-correct or flag wrongly-formatted code before it is even committed.

lavergnetho , to random
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I read through your packaging tutorial, @pyOpenSci. I think it can be a great resource for me and the project team as we develop our satellite processing modules.

https://www.pyopensci.org/python-package-guide/

Do you have a git(hub/lab) template repo implementing this packaging approach?

lavergnetho OP ,
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@pyOpenSci Awesome! I'll take a good look when it's time to start coding.

peterdutoit , to random
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Are the emissions created for leisure travel ethical?

Tourism accounts for 8-10% of global emissions. The CO2 emissions from tourism activities will last in the atmosphere for 300 to 1,000 years.

Until such time as we have decarbonised the entire supply chain are these emissions ethical?

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateLiteracy #Tourism

https://news.westernu.ca/2023/08/climate-change-human-deaths/

lavergnetho ,
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@peterdutoit I had to check, bc I found "8-10%" to be high.

But it is apparently the correct order of magnitude 😭. That includes food, transport, infrastructure... and it is for the wealthier.

lavergnetho , to random
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#ESA, the European #Space Agency, made a cool video about the #CIMR satellite.

#CIMR is the #Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer. It will fly as one of the future @CopernicusEU #Sentinels from early 2029. It will be a game-changer for observing #SeaIce and the #polar oceans.

I have been heavily involved in the preparations for this satellite. I'll be happy to answer questions you might have about the video. Just ask them below 👇. #CIMRL2PAD

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/02/What_does_a_warming_Arctic_mean_for_the_future

lavergnetho OP ,
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Hei @expertenkommision_cyberunfall

I know what you mean 😐 .

First, the satellite is designed to help the people and economic activities in the Arctic regions. It will help day-to-day services like weather forecasting (including winds, temperature, waves, sea ice, etc...). Safety at sea.

CIMR can also measure climate change, and this can bring anxiety. But it is important to monitor if our actions have an effect (evidence-based policies). When they have, this might bring hope?

lavergnetho OP ,
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@ohagolle @CopernicusEU

True that ! 😂

lavergnetho , to random
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I dag markerer den internasjonale dagen for kvinner og jenter innen forskning 👩‍🏫🎉.

På Meteorologisk institutt jobber det 56 kvinnelige forskere. Vi har snakket med fem av dem 👇
-> https://www.met.no/nyhetsarkiv/gratulerer-med-dagen-alle-kvinner-som-forsker

Brad_Rosenheim , to random

#introduction
Hi everyone! I just transferred over from climatejustice.rocks, which was set up during the massive influx of users in Nov. 2022, but is going to stop functioning at the end of this year. I'm a #professor in #Florida, United States, who studies marine records of #ClimateChange and the #carbon cycle. I post about these studies, about related studies, and a lot about equity issues. I am also a citizen. I am #antifascist, and I believe that our #ClimateEmergency is caused by and will not be solved by #capitalism. I apologize in advance if you just wanted to hear about science - I cannot disentangle climate issues from justice issues, and I don't believe anyone who thinks they can!

lavergnetho ,
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@Brad_Rosenheim "Person of precision, but one who knows when to sacrifice precision for accuracy." 😂

lavergnetho ,
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@Brad_Rosenheim I see. I realize there was a precise (?) idea behind this sentence. Good for you (and your students)!

My "reaction" was from the view point of the layman for whom the two words mean exactly the same thing. Reading this sentence is then... puzzling.

natematias , to random
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Measurement is hard folks, and anyone saying otherwise (or not saying anything at all) is just trying to sell you something.

(brought to you by ongoing deep dives into air quality sensor accuracy & calibration)

http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/criteria-pollutants/field

lavergnetho ,
@lavergnetho@fediscience.org avatar

@natematias Yes. But sometimes you do your utmost to tell your users how hard measurement is, you provide calibration and uncertainties, and they just ignore you and call your data "the truth". More often than not, users are not ready for the truth, namely the measurement uncertainties.

FosdemResearch , to random
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Jim Madge tells us about @turingway , an open guide for data science. And a community!

https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html

lavergnetho ,
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@FosdemResearch @turingway That's good advice.

Keiko_geo , to random
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Great tools for science aren’t necessarily great for dataset production

lavergnetho ,
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@Keiko_geo What do you have in mind? Computational #notebooks vs #scripts? Interpreted vs compiled programming languages?

Ruth_Mottram , to random
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Ooh, look who I found! The folks @osi_saf are here on mastodon, sharing data for all to see. A definite for interested

https://mastodon.social/@osi_saf/111816548841751250

lavergnetho ,
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@Ruth_Mottram @osi_saf Cheer, Ruth. And have a nice week-end.

SigneAaboe , to random
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Antarctic sea-ice extent went from 9th to 3rd lowest in January. Now just a stone's throw from being record-low.

lavergnetho ,
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☝️ @osi_saf

Keiko_geo , to random
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I wonder if more people are using mastodon by now?

lavergnetho ,
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@hareldan @Keiko_geo A couple of institutions / projects I am interacting with #IRL opened #Mastodon accounts early 2024, so that's something!

lavergnetho , to random
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"Europa satser på mer bruk av kunstig intelligens i værvarslingen"

Medlemslandene i det europeiske meteorologisenteret @ECMWF starter et felles prosjekt for å intensivere utvikling, testing og implementering av maskinlæring () i værvarslingstjenesten.

https://www.met.no/nyhetsarkiv/europa-satser-pa-mer-bruk-av-kunstig-intelligens-i-vaervarslingen

epentz , to random

ROR is the default organization identifier for ORCID and ROR IDs in ORCID are growing quickly @ResearchOrgs

lavergnetho ,
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I am a senior scientist at 001N36P86 😅
https://ror.org/001n36p86

@epentz @ResearchOrgs

Ruth_Mottram , to random
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Final reminder from very long-suffering H2020 project manager - for a report I was asked for in October with a deadline in November, it is he patiently points out, nearly Februrary.

A trawl through my inbox revealed no fewer than 13 different reminders. I must be an absolute nightmare to manage sometimes.

#MeaCulpa
#AcademicChatter

rolls sleeves up
Gets to work.

lavergnetho ,
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@Ruth_Mottram Go Ruth!

lavergnetho , to random
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Want to make a difference with , , ?

’s Working Group I Technical Support Unit is looking for a Data Scientist to develop the long-term curation of open-source software for use in WGI AR7.

3 years. Outside Paris, France.

Applications close 👉 4 February 2024
https://bit.ly/WGIDtaVc

(Re-posting from the other site)

lavergnetho , to random
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"Slik hjelper satellittene oss"

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/kE5P6X/slik-hjelper-satellittene-oss

lavergnetho , to random
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I wish take-away could use less plastic.

lavergnetho , to random
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Today I finally gave Mermaid.js a try, with it's online diagram editor and the direct inclusion in MarkDown.

What a life-changer for my documentation !

https://mermaid.live/

lavergnetho OP ,
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Unfortunately I already ran into my first "bummer" with Mermaid.

The diagrams render nicely in the HTML version of the @ProjectJupyter #JupyterBook, but we did not get the export to PDF (via HTML and pyppeteer) to work 😩 .

lavergnetho OP ,
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The fastest "solution" is to use mermaid.live to save a .png of the diagram, and include the .png itself in the .

Works for HTML and exports nicely to PDF, but it slightly defeats the point of using for programmable diagrams...

pdebuyl , to random
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Blog post: "NASA TOPS Open Science 101 review"

http://pdebuyl.be/blog/2024/nasa-tops-open-science-101-review.html

CC
@ChelleGentemann @crawfordsm

lavergnetho ,
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@pdebuyl @ChelleGentemann @crawfordsm

Thanks for sharing your experience with taking the Open Science 101 curriculum. I took it as well and fully share your recommendation that many scientists should take it.

I learned most about licensing, preprints, and about the usefulness of the Open Science and Data Management Plan. And yes, I am a little proud of my course certificate 😉.

lavergnetho ,
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@pdebuyl @ChelleGentemann @crawfordsm

I believe this course can make the difference for me, between talking and making .

lavergnetho , to random
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How come the account of the Climate Change Service () only has 373 followers 😵 .

Surely there must be more people in here wanting authoritative information from this key European service?

Follow @CopernicusECMWF and boost them, maybe ?

lavergnetho OP ,
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@anlomedad

I don't think @CopernicusECMWF gave up for good. But indeed this is worrying. I am sure they have a lot to do on the other sites.

What do you reckon, @OceanTerra ?

lavergnetho OP ,
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@OceanTerra @anlomedad @CopernicusECMWF @m_parrington That would be great! Have nice week-end.

neuSoM , to random
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We, the Aktionsbündnis neue Soziale Medien (New Social Media Action Alliance) today appealed to in Germany to shut down their #X (formerly ) accounts as soon as possible.

Signatures for the appeal, written as an open letter, are now being collected on the platform 📝
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/open-letter-to-the-german-rectors-conference-hrk-on-the-use-of-social-media

The appeal points out that the presence on X/Twitter does not do justice to the universities' remit to provide information because of the and political agitation practised there. At the same time, presences should be established on and other services in the , whose decentralised and moderated design is much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable coexistence.

lavergnetho ,
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@neuSoM inspiring! We must do the same in .

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