Finally, our ML methane plume detection work is published in RSE! This took a while so we already have some newer, better results we hope to share very soon. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Catching up on pubs: as a follow-on to our Euclid work, we showed that diffusion models can simulate galaxies quickly and accurately for Roman weak lensing measurements. Hopefully we can continue this work with newer conditional methods and recently released catalogs. doi.org/10.3847/1538...

Couple months late but still wanted to share, Team 2404 earned its first blue banner since its rookie year in 2008! Huge thanks to our alliance 7415 and 6995, couldn't have asked for a better first year in California Districts.

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

Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏@satellitesci.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is incredibly cool: NASA/CNES's SWOT satellite captured a live view of the leading edge of the tsunami formed by the 8.8 magnitude Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake! www.nasa.gov/missions/swo...

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

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

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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...

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...

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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...

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

Bluesky USGS Quakebot@usgs-quakebot.bsky.social · last yr.

M3.9 #earthquake detected 2 km ESE of North Hollywood, CA at 3/2/2025 10:13:45 PM PST This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

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.

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. complexly.store/collections/...

SciShow Postcard

SciShow is asking you for help to fund another year of 5-times-a-week, backed-by-research and designed-for-fun science videos. We’ve always relied on your support to keep SciShow going, and that’s tru...

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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.

Ben Stone@benstemon.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

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 🔭🪐

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...

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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.

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!

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...

From the ValorantCompetitive community on Reddit: Valorie Discord Bot: Introducing VCT Pick'Ems!

Explore this post and more from the ValorantCompetitive community

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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

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

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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...

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

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Our preprint on the Spectroscopic Transformer and all associated code and datasets are now available! SpecTf is a #deeplearning model specifically for imaging spectroscopy and #EMIT #remotesensing Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.04916 Code: github.com/emit-sds/Spe... Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

My friends (and amazing planetary scientists / geologists) Elena & Topher Amador-French lost their home last night in the Eaton Fire. They had to flee with minutes warning. If you’re able, please donate to them and their family. Venmo: Elena-Amador.

Please consider supporting our Habitable Worlds Observatory JPL colleagues displaced by the #EatonFire.

Grant Tremblay@granttremblay.com · 2y ago

It's five now. Jason Tumlinson and the HWO Folks have set up this one, which is now at $3K+ in donations and sending out money immediately. More funds for broader community are coming ... www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

Please consider supporting Fernando, one of our newest #FRC students that lost his home in the #EatonFire. gofund.me/68ff3a87

Donate to Help the Flores Family Recover from House Fire, organized by Paulina Flores

It's with a heavy heart that I announce my family's home burnt down in A… Paulina Flores needs your support for Help the Flores Family Recover from House Fire

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Standing by with bags packed tonight near downtown Pasadena. I'm so worried about my friends, coworkers, and students and devastated for our community. I hope to god everyone makes it through safely.

Policies have consequences. Methane emissions from the Permian region fell 26% in 2023. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Methane Emissions in Permian Basin Fall as Drillers Plug Leaks

Methane emissions in the largest US oil basin plunged 26% last year as companies tightened operations and deployed new technology to stop leaks of the potent greenhouse gas, according to a study by S&...

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