Victor Venema @VictorVenema@fediscience.org
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- https://www2.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/venema/
- Grassroots Review Journals
- https://grassroots.is
- Variable Variability (blog)
- https://variable-variability.blogspot.com
- Open Science Feed
- https://fediscience.org/@OpenScienceFeed
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I work on statistical homogenization methods and the accuracy of climate trends. #StatisticalHomogenization #Scientist #ClimateScientist #Climatology
As well as on a new open post-publication peer review system that is independent of scientific journals. @GrassrootsReview #PeerReview #OpenPeerReview #GrassrootsJournals
Member of @TranslateScience. #TranslateScience #Translation #OpenAccess
Admin of FediScience.
Joined Jul 2020
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Do I know any mathematicians who use British Sign Language?
I'd like to put together an event with some training on basic BSL for maths, and maybe one or two talks about doing maths while Deaf/deaf.
I have a budget.
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new blog post: My proposal to do a book about FOSS/ethical alternative social media: https://fossacademic.tech/2022/01/06/Goal2.html
NOTE! Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog post (unless you switch to DM).
If Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones run in the Republican presidential primary:
4 people think Trump would win
1 voted for Tucker and
1 voted for Alex Jones.
As long as the US "news" and social media system does not change, people are frustrated by having nearly no political influence (because the donors have nearly all power), the candidate most willing to blame everything on the Democrats has the best cards.
I like making interesting predictions. So I go with Tucker or Jones.
NASA-GISS director Gavin Schmidt on #DontLookUp https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2022/01/dont-look-up/
"The scene where Dr. Mindy indulges in some righteous twittering when arguing with idiots is very real. ...
One thing that I thought was funny, but not real, was the implication that all #climate science communicators are at all times just a moment away from screaming that “we’re all #doomed!” and it’s only the niceties of polite society that prevent us from telling everyone what we ‘really’ think."
Seconded.
The Republican presidential primary is ramping up with regular concealed (?) attacks on Trump by Tucker Carlson and now an open war started by Alex Jones.
If all three run (and maybe more), who of them would get most primary delegates?
Review by Mark Boslough: Hollywood Finally Listened to Scientists https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/hollywood-finally-listened-to-scientists/
"Sadly, I’d never seen another movie with a scientist character that came close to the authenticity of Contact’s [Jodie Foster character Eleanor (“Ellie”) Arroway] again. Until now. Don’t Look Up nailed it. ...
It was obvious to me while watching the film that [Amy Mainzer] advice went far beyond astronomy and that she’d schooled the filmmakers on how scientists think and what words they use."
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Top 10 #OpenScience posts 2021 #1: Wikipedia has a new project: WikiExperiments. It aims to get more videos of scientific experiments in Wikipedia.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/08/wikiexperiments-nourishing-open-science-and-open-education-with-new-recordings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/rsujjr/top_10_openscience_posts_2021_1_wikipedia_has_a/?utm_source=ifttt
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Looks like I'm going to Münich for my next post-doc. If anyone has any Germany-related tips, lmk!
(boosts welcome)
Record snowfall and heavy rains lash west coast from Oregon to southern California https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/27/record-snowfall-heavy-rains-blanketed-west-coast
The German national TV news (Tagesschau) mentioned that the Central Sierra Nevada Snow Lab had a power failure. 🤡
This kind of problems makes observations of extremes more uncertain than normal weather conditions. Add to that that they are rare, this makes seeing changes in extremes really hard.
* They likely have people there who can make manual measurements to fill the gap.
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Debacle with #log4j #security vulnerabilities led to new awareness by many corps and institutions that are exploiting #opensource / #freesoftware that these projects actually need their help and support. #Funding and #donations but also contributions to code, filing bug reports, do security audits.
#FOSS has eaten the world. And that's thanks to countless volunteers' tireless work. Let's all show our gratitude in #2022 and onwards.
Great article by @VictorVenema
https://variable-variability.blogspot.com/2021/12/german-sovereign-tech-fund-will-fund.html
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Ich hatte Euch ja für Weihnachten noch eine Lieferung #eBooks in Aussicht gestellt. Sie ging gerade online. Sind zwar nur 8 weitere Bücher – aber alle 4 Teile von Sir Isaac Newton's "Mathematische Principien der Naturlehre" sind dabei (und ich hoffe, sie werden als nützlich empfunden – habe selten so viel Zeit in einzelne eBooks gesteckt wie in diese 😄).
Wie immer also viel Spaß beim Stöbern & Schmökern – Account-frei & ohne Tracking!
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As follow up on the story that China wants to write more scientific articles in Chinese: does anyone here know someone in China (at the Chinese Academy of Sciences?) who we could write to to lobby for translating these articles?
Victor Venema
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Hello it’s my #introduction. I’m new on Mastodon. I’m a hydrogeologist based in Indonesia, working at Institut Teknologi Bandung. I also support #openscience and make #sketchnote. :) here’s a Christmas present for all of you. My sketchnote from the book #TeachLikeFinland.
@dasaptaerwin That is a nice Christmas present! Great to see you have. Welcome to the free internet. 🤓
If you write a post with the hashtags "introduction" and "introductions" (this anarchist bunch never agreed on which one is the right one), I will boost (repost) it.
Happy to help you in any way to find your way around.
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The New Books Network is a great way to keep track of new academic publications
This is a set of podcast channels on specific academic topics with authors of works that don't otherwise see much if any exposure in the lay press.
I've been a fan for several years. A random endorsement just because it's an underappreciated gem.
#Podcasts #NewBooksNetwork #Books #Academia #BookReviews #Recommendations
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The ECMWF has a few dozen jobs in #Bonn, #Reading and #Bologna for computer scientists, computer engineers and atmospheric scientists for #DestinationEarth.
The ECMWF makes the best long term weather predictions in the world because they are so good at combining observations with modelling. Now they move this into realm of climate on a big scale.
https://jobs.ecmwf.int
Am I too cynical to read this paper as: The pharmaceutical industry used to target* influential peopled based on their publication record. Our study finds that the influential people on Twitter are mostly a different group, which we should also target.
* Target with diners, holidays, brochures, visits and media access for the ones whose message is commercially helpful
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Media Use by Global Diabetes Researchers https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40290-021-00408-6
#Live right now.
A live "Climate Change Chat" with astrophysicist, Dr. Ken Rice.
Rice will talk about physics and his experiences running his #ClimateChange blog "...and Then There's Physics."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7RoklE2Fo
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=OA7RoklE2Fo
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Do you miss a tool like #Matlab|s #Simulink but #opensource #freesoftware and 
#python-based?
Well, I hacked something together years ago and called it "pyblocksim".
Today I revived the project and added a first very rough automatic visualization of the code-defined block diagrams.
If you are concerned with #controltheory or #systemstheory this might be useful.
Application here is how to continuously approximate a hysteresis element with a tanh-function. 🤓
Zeke Hausfather: Assessing Changes in US Daily Temperature Records using Homogenized Data
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=OvXpb5ksH60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXpb5ksH60
The way weather services observed the weather has changed over the generations. For example, when manual observations have been replaced by automatic measurements. Such changes should not be confused for climatic changes and I work on removing them.
A colleague did this for daily temperature in the USA, which is used to study changes in weather extremes.
- Academic Homepage
- https://www2.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/venema/
- Grassroots Review Journals
- https://grassroots.is
- Variable Variability (blog)
- https://variable-variability.blogspot.com
- Open Science Feed
- https://fediscience.org/@OpenScienceFeed
Admin
I work on statistical homogenization methods and the accuracy of climate trends. #StatisticalHomogenization #Scientist #ClimateScientist #Climatology
As well as on a new open post-publication peer review system that is independent of scientific journals. @GrassrootsReview #PeerReview #OpenPeerReview #GrassrootsJournals
Member of @TranslateScience. #TranslateScience #Translation #OpenAccess
Admin of FediScience.
Joined Jul 2020
