Pablo Saavedra Garfias

@dunklewolke.bsky.social

Scientist / Research Polar 🌨️. Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics. Rostock University. 🇩🇪 #JuliaLang 👨🏽‍💻🎾☕. https://pablosaa.github.io

Such unfortunate news. Pluto.jl has so much potential and mainly gives a lot of enjoyment coding with it to share with people who aren't #JuliaLang programmers for quick start and use of tools out of the box. Hopping its development continuous somehow!

I'm quitting as Pluto.jl maintainer 👋

After an incredible journey, I’m stopping as core maintainer of Pluto.jl. I am proud of what I have achieved. I have happy memories and I feel excited about whatever I will do next! In this post I wan...

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You analysed 14 years of Multi-Sensor synergistic ground-based+satellite data to infer trends of Arctic clouds linked to sea ice... The @egu.eu Editor after 3 months stalling the reviewing process: "I don't think the study has a significant contribution to the scientific literature" 🤦🏾‍♂️🧪 #AcademicSky

"Tough peer-review process equals highly cited papers?"🤔... But only if published in @natcomms.nature.com 😆 Not clear what's the relationship since high cited papers tend to correlate with authors/institutions fame. It might be interesting to see if applies to all disciplines equally 🧪 #AcademicSky

Tough peer-review process? Your paper might end up being more highly cited

An AI-led analysis of publicly available peer-review reports links requests for major revisions with papers that end up having high impact.

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Physically-based forecast works even within a changing climate, #AI based however fails to forecast extreme events, since they weren't training for that. Testing #AI before using it operationally is an excellent initiative. Is there any discussion about it at #EGU26? @atmsciences.bsky.social 🧪🎢🥼❄️🌊⛈️

Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?

More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.

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Although very informative & worthy to know tips, it seems another hustle that journals try to pass to reviewers. Journals have way enough profits to afford slaughter job & ensure that the paper ain't plagiarism, mill, #AI generated, etc. before invite scientists to peer review. 🧪 #AcademicSky 🔭🎢❄️🥼

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

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Years before Galileo made his observations of the 🌙 and Jupiter's moons, he intensively studied the work of Claudius Ptolemy, until Ptolemy's own mathematical logic brought Galileo to "the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of the Universe". A fascinating discovery if confirmed. 🔭 🧪 🎢

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

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The "enshittification" driven by the toxic academic culture of "publish or perish". With publishers getting ↗️ profits -alike the music & movie industry- at the expense of degradation in scholars integrity ↘️: clear trend! Why are we doing this damage to #science? How to revert it? 🧪⚛️🎢 #AcademicSky

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

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"Great science happens in great teams". True! but evaluation & recognition still done individually. Papers written equally by all authors are rare, only leader author takes a big chunk of the work. Whatever ideas this committee will come out shouldn't be more work load for scientists. 🧪 #AcademicSky

Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that

Europe must reform the ways in which science is evaluated. To boost innovation, it must improve research culture.

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Although I agree with the top 2 of this list, I find it a crime that the film "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book wasn't event mentioned. And what about "Arrival"?? A bit disappointed of fellow physicists 😛 #AcademicSky 🧪 🥼❄️ 🔭 🎢 ⚛️

The sci-fi films that physicists love to watch — from Interstellar to Spider-Man

Nature surveyed scientists about their favourite cinematic moments to celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.

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The glacier retreat allowed to find his rests lost in 1959; this's the story of @bas.ac.uk #Meteorologist Dennis "Tink" Bell. Ironically global warming is helping to acknowledge those who gave their lives to Polar exploration whose early research allows us a better understanding of the #Climate 🧪❄️🎢

UK scientist's remains found on Antarctic glacier 66 years later

DNA testing confirms human remains recovered from an Antarctic glacier are those of a British meteorologist who fell down a crevasse during an expedition in 1959.

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Science needs to stay objective & factual, this @nature.com article #TimPalmer presents a compelling argument on why basic climate research is paramount. Avoid extremes of misleading arguments by political parties/ immoderate conclusion by @wwattribution.bsky.social like people is detrimental. 🧪 ❄️🎢🥼

Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research

Predictions of global warming are uncertain. That’s why we need to keep finding out how the climate system works.

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Good that the issues with peer-review (PR) are trying to be tackled. However, schemes like distributed PR or journals requiring authors to take care of PR process before submitting are just passing the hurdle to authors while journals' APC contine to increase! How to understand that? #AcademicSky 🧪

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system

Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

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Physicist John Archibald Wheeler was born #OTD in 1911. A titan of 20th century science, he introduced the S-Matrix; developed (with Bohr) the first general theory of fission; coined "worm hole" and popularized “black hole”; and trained Feynman, Everett, Thorne, and many others. 🧪 ⚛️

Portrait of Wheeler in his twenties. He is wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and tie. Wheeler is looking to the side of the camera.An older wheeler standing in front of a chalkboard. His hands are clasped. The diagram behind him shows a direct path from point A to point B labeled “classical,” and a wave emanating from A and passing to B labeled “quantum.”Wheeler walking with Einstein, Tomonaga, and a fourth person, through the woods near the Institute for Advanced Study.

Unlike many press coverage only focusing in fine tuning modeling results to support #AMOC collapse, this @nature.com article highlights scientist different hypothesis & theories on what could happen with the #AMOC in the future climate. Main point, we need observations, #science is lead by data. 🧪❄️🌊

Is a monster web of ocean currents headed for collapse? The race is on to find out

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to capture crucial data about the planet’s future.

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Most of the hard work is done in the lab, but the inspiration, ideas for research and breakthroughs come from unexpected places and moments. That's why scientific in-person conferences are still places where great #science is forged. <happy|birthday> #quantum #mechanics #iTeachMath #iTeachPhysics

Happy birthday quantum mechanics! I got a ticket to the ultimate physics party

Nature reporter joins hundreds of physicists on a remote island to celebrate Heisenberg’s enlightening trip there 100 years ago.

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