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Getting NASA to adjust its policies and culture around open science is a Herculean task. But if anyone can do it, it's Chelle! Hard for me to imagine a better person to be in charge of this initiative, and super excited to see where TOPS goes under her capable leadership!

There is a tiny bug moving around INSIDE my monitor and it is driving me absolutely insane.

At #ESA2022 and want to chat about future #remotesensing missions like NASA Surface Biology and Geology ? Come to our Inspire session at 3:30 in rm 520A - The Future is Hyperspectral. With talks from me, Hamed Gholizadeh Cibele Amaral Shan Kothari Dana Chadwick Jon Ocon Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares and Alexey Shiklomanov 🌈🌳

Hot take: WhatsApp is objectively better than texting and we should use it all the time, not just when we happen to be abroad.

Interested in STAC? Have experience with forecasting data? Join the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Cloud Computing Cluster Monday 8/22 discourse.pangeo.io/t/join-us-mond… to learn more about the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) from @cboettig and shape the conversation about cloud-native forecasting data.

Are there any good examples of using R-nimble in an R package? Bonus points if the NIMBLE model and functions are pre-compiled (or at least cached across calls) so you don't have to recompile everything every time.

Sting, age 70: <Accurately belts out Roxanne *as an encore* to a full-length concert, while running around the stage with his bass.> Me, age 30: Sorry I'm a bit quiet, folks. Just coming off another Zoom meeting where I had to talk, so I'm beat.

We're hiring a scientific programmer to support a variety of exciting projects NASA Goddard! If you're into cloud-native geospatial, model-data fusion, interactive visualization, high-performance computing, remote sensing, or Earth Science, come join us! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…

Scientists, in general, publish too much. It's hard to keep with literature, and most papers exaggerate the importance of their results. That's why, as a selfless act of service to the scientific community, I never publish anything. You're welcome.

Data science tweeps: What is the current state-of-the-art for storing tabular data along with metadata (e.g., units, factor levels, descriptions) in a machine readable way without an RDMS? I know there's csvy (csvy.org), but any new developments in this space?

Releasing Skyplane, a new open-source tool to move huge datasets between clouds. Skyplane is: 1. 🔥 Blazing fast (110x faster) 2. 🤑 Cheap (4x cheaper) 3. 🌐 Universal (AWS, Azure and GCP) Read more: medium.com/@paras_jain/sk… github.com/skyplane-proje… skyplane.org 1/

Homeowner pro-tip: Know the locations of every GFCI outlet (with the "reset" and "test" buttons) in your house! Spilled water on an outlet this morning. Knocked out power to multiple rooms. Resolved by resetting a "hidden" GFCI outlet lurking uselessly behind a door...

Idea for reducing time spent in meetings: Instead of scheduling shorter meetings that start on the hour (e.g., 3:00-3:45) -- which almost always run the full hour anyway -- what if we make meetings start on the :15 (e.g., 3:15-4:00)? Might try this and report back. Thoughts?

The 2i2c team is hiring a cloud infrastructure engineer 🎉 This role will join our Cloud Infrastructure team to run community-centric infrastructure for interactive computing in research and education. A quick 🧵 with more info: 2i2c.org/jobs/2022/open…

Real-life Catch-22: You can only access your work email over VPN. How do you get notifications about a VPN outage? Over work email.

I wrote up a little blog post with some reflections on academia from my new perspective as a startup founder. What do you think? Is this a useful framework? rabernat.medium.com/responsibility…

This is an amazing panel -- some of the smartest people in cloud native geospatial / open science space, all in one room!

Whenever I see presentations from Pangeo or carbonplan , I wonder what I'm even doing with my life... Such amazing talent in those orgs, producing amazing work enabling new science, and all of it not only open source but developed with robust open community engagement.

I've been thinking about HDF in the cloud and I'd like to start a survey on the different access patterns to better understand them. Improving access performance is critical for science in the cloud. github.com/nsidc/earthacc… cc Openscapes @[email protected] Pangeo #openscience

Gzip uses DEFLATE compression, developed in 1989 as a combination of algorithms developed in 1978 and 1952, respectively. Maybe I'm getting old, but I get a kick out of seeing wisdom of the ancients outperforming newfangled hype...