My friends in NYC got tickets thanks to your reminder, thanks Jon :)

Following up on this, here's an even cooler animation of the SWOT overpass!
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15466...

An intern on SWOT showed me a preliminary version of this earlier this week, even cooler to see it plotted against the NOAA tsunami forecast model!

AlphaEarth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring

Excited to try this out! Earth foundation models have frankly been hit-or-miss, but this seems promising.

deepmind.google/discover/blo...

SpecTf: Transformers enable data-driven imaging spectroscopy cloud detection | PNAS Current and upcoming generations of visible-shortwave infrared (VSWIR) imaging spectrometers promise unprecedented capacity to quantify Earth syste...

Our EMIT cloud mask work is published in PNAS! This is my first major first-author publication ☁️🌎🛰️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just in time, we're releasing an improved model to be used for our new data product: github.com/emit-sds/Spe...

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

Congratulations to @columbiaseas.bsky.social and Columbia Space Initiative (SEDS) on a successful launch and recovery of the first US student-led LOX hybrid rocket!!

As a board member of the founding class it's incredible to see how far we've come 🚀🚀

www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/c...

I was just looking for something like this for a motivated high school student, is the AAS copy equivalent to the free copy up on prappleizer.github.io by the same author?

National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

Breaking News: The Trump administration dismissed all the scientists working on the government’s premiere report on the effects of climate change in the U.S.

Top Left: YouTube thumbnail for the video "The Race to Win Staten Island", but the colors are inverted: the land is blue and the ocean is orange. Top Right: "Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant", a square crop in the center is mirrored horizontally. Bottom Left: "Is Pluto a planet?", the entire thumbnail has gaussian noise added, resulting in a grainy image. Bottom Right: "Death to Pennies", the thumbnail has noise added, as well as a small square flipped horizontally on the left.

CGP Grey has taken "thumbnail optimization" very literally by applying common deep learning augmentation techniques to his older videos' thumbnails: color inversion, tile flipping, gaussian noise... It's certainly working, I myself absentmindedly clicked on one.

Caption: "DDPM-generated Euclid-like galaxies" Content: a grid of black-and-white images of galaxies generated by a diffusion model.

New preprint! We use generative diffusion models to quickly produce realistic #Euclid -like galaxies, a step towards addressing challenges in calibrating and validating weak lensing analyses. 🔭🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07183

About 30 students and mentors of First Robotics Competition Team 2404 standing around their competition robot, about 2ft across and 3ft tall.

We got so busy I forgot to follow up, our team did amazing and we were recognized with the Rising All-Star Award! I'm very proud of everything we accomplished despite the challenges, from our first swerve year to the wildfires. #firstrobotics #frc

Day 1, here we go! #FRC2404 #FRC #AVR

So excited to get our first complete swerve, vision, and kinematics stack working!!! I'm very impressed by how easy it was to build with the wpilib and photonvision APIs. Yes, the camera is mounted upside down. Shoutout to 980 for letting us use their field on weekends 🤖 #FRC #robotics

Whoa, this one hit hard and quick in Pasadena, not the rumble I'm used to. I thought a car hit the apartment building or something

About that Giant Asteroid... YouTube video by hankschannel

Re: Asteroid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbJ...

there's a lot of things going on in the world right now (from asteroids to... more existential threats), but we're working really hard on getting some papers out ASAP just in case, and our FRC team is building a kick-ass robot, so I just have to keep going.

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Feeling like supporting accurate, compelling science content that reaches an audience beyond the manufactured binaries of our fucked up world?

Today is the last day you can get a SciShow Postcard.
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

The IAC confirms the existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of HD 20794, a nearby Sun-like star. T...

I'm very proud of presenting today the first article of my PhD student Nicola Nari, the confirmation of the existence of a Super-Earth in the habitable zone of the nearby Sun-like star 82 Eridani (HD 20794), originally proposed by Michael Cretignier a few years ago 🔭🪐

You fuckers are sleeping on Jupiter’s moons. I don’t want to ever hear one more person whine about Pluto if they can’t tell me a single fact about the in-every-way-superior Ganymede.

Screenshot of a web portal visualizing airborne instrument imagery of the Eaton Fire. JPL located on the upper left. Burned areas cover the right half, and is outlined in red.

High-resolution airborne AVIRIS-3 L1b radiance is publicly available for the #LAwildfire via Earthdata, and visualized on MMGIS. Incredible imagery of burn extent. #remotesensing 🌎🛰️

popo.jpl.nasa.gov/mmgis-aviris...
www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/alerts-...

LAUNCH at 0703 UTC Jan 16 of New Glenn from Canaveral,
with successful parking orbit insertion of stage 2. Stage 1 made its reentry burn but did not successfully complete landing on the barge. Stage 2 is due to restart to go to higher orbit. Congrats Blue Origin!

Fun fact: this project is how I, a "data scientist", learned SQL. Never took a databases course in college. Oops!

From the ValorantCompetitive community on Reddit: Valorie Discord Bot: Introducing VCT Pick'Ems! Explore this post and more from the ValorantCompetitive community

Valorie's been my side project for about a year now, it's a #Discord bot that sends notifications for #Valorant #VCT #Esports. I just added a Pick'Ems feature so you can compete with your friends, check it out!

www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCo...

This is incredible, I can only speculate that it got a circular mask to fill/replace and it went to "Bitcoin" for whatever reason. How many Bitcoin stock images are they training on???

Donate to Help the Judd Family Rebuild After Eaton Fire, organized by Jon Mihaly The Judd family lost everything on January 8th, 2025 in the Eaton Fire that d… Jon Mihaly needs your support for Help the Judd Family Rebuild After Eaton Fire

Many of you know Michele Judd—the former director of the @caltech.edu Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS). She’s supported lots of studies that have changed planetary science. She and her family lost their home in Altadena this week in Eaton fires this week. Consider donating. gofund.me/0ce9bbd9

Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

via Director Laurie Leshin: #Caltech #JPL has established a Disaster Relief Fund to support our colleagues and students affected by the #EatonFire and #LAfires. Over 150 JPLers have lost their homes so far. Please consider contributing.

caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

Three visualizations of an AVIRIS-NG scene. a) An RGB scene with clouds in the left and middle. b) A falsecolor scene that highlights the presence of clouds. c) A cloud mask overlaid in red over the RGB. It masks most, if not all, clouds present in the scene.

Finally, we think we have the beginnings of an instrument agnostic model for imaging spectroscopy. Here's SpecTf trained only on #EMIT, an orbital instrument, detecting clouds on #AVIRIS-NG, an airborne instrument with a different spectral grid. Exciting!

A plot with "wavelength (nm)" on the x-axis and "Attention Score" on the y-axis. A higher attention score indicates that the model thought the wavelength was more important for the cloud detection task. Some wavelengths are annotated: O2-A, H2O, and CO2. These are known absorption spectrums that SpecTf has learned from the data alone.

SpecTf's attention weights are interpretable - the model learned O2-A, H2O, and CO2 absorptions, all physically relevant for cloud detection. Look at how smooth these features are! Treating the spectra as a sequence instead of image channels or independent features is critical.