Elizabeth S
@techisdead.bsky.social
I build stuff with computers and maths, and help people to do the same, to protect the stuff that's real. Cat herder and systems engineer at Symbolix. Posts might include Linux, data, environment, geekiness and whimsy.
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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.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
#open-science
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
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...
upstream.force11.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
#open-science
upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...
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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:>
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:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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:>
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:>
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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...
"Land doesn't vote, people do."
#rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...
May 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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...
"Land doesn't vote, people do."
#rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...
Oh Antony Green. Bless
May 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Oh Antony Green. Bless
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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
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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
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May 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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
See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more.
#rstats
April 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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
See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more.
#rstats
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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.
April 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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.
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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)
For those interested, it's visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere.
(Credit: ESO/VISTa VMC / Video by Universal-Sci)
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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)
For those interested, it's visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere.
(Credit: ESO/VISTa VMC / Video by Universal-Sci)
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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
https://forum.safeguar.de/t/noaa-all-services-urgent/569
If you can contribute, please consider doing so.
#noaa #safeguardingresearch #data #weather
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....
forum.safeguar.de
April 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
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"...
April 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
No AWS, I do not want to take a few minutes to tell you about my "billing and cost management journey"...
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photoshopping muppets onto the cover of national geographic: thread
March 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
photoshopping muppets onto the cover of national geographic: thread
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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 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅
By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...
#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅
March 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅
By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...
#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅
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![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.’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hgyzg2hn6zxpqokmp5c2xrdo/bafkreiblno22b5pdc5fsi3pgruc5ov7epwmvsjisc3tp4tpoihtdcqokeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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...
github.blog/changelog/20...
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)
github.blog
January 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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...
github.blog/changelog/20...
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📦 [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
🔒 […]
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
🔒 […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📦 [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
🔒 […]
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
🔒 […]
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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
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
We need to stop lumping all “AI” stuff together. Algorithmic analysis of large data sets is not the same thing as a plagiarism generator, even if they function similarly! Don’t tell me ChatGPT is great, actually, because scientists are using somewhat similar technology in a completely different way!
December 6, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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
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
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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.
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.
OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model
OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model
OpenAI has launched a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform — and it’s very, very expensive. Confirming leaks this morning, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pro, a new $200-per-month subscription tier that provides unlimited access to…
tcrn.ch
December 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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.
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.
March 31, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Looks like it's not in Debian/Ubuntu. But if you are you on Arch, fedora, macOS read this carefully.
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📢📊 We are glad to announce the release of the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas from #CopernicusClimate.
This new resource allows users to explore, analyse & visualise past & future climate change information in support of policymaking, research and many more.
▶️https://bit.ly/3I7KihG
This new resource allows users to explore, analyse & visualise past & future climate change information in support of policymaking, research and many more.
▶️https://bit.ly/3I7KihG
February 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM
📢📊 We are glad to announce the release of the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas from #CopernicusClimate.
This new resource allows users to explore, analyse & visualise past & future climate change information in support of policymaking, research and many more.
▶️https://bit.ly/3I7KihG
This new resource allows users to explore, analyse & visualise past & future climate change information in support of policymaking, research and many more.
▶️https://bit.ly/3I7KihG