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Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings: As the Bureau of Meteorology pulls back on its international obligations, increasing automation and a lack of experienced staff has made forecasts less reliable. By Rick Morton.
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Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s forecast failings
Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Dr Andrew Johnson turned up to Senate estimates last month without his right-hand man, Peter Stone, many of the bureau’s other executives and, apparently, his briefing notes. Johnson, who is also the director of meteorology, appointed to the now $533,000 a year job in 2016 by former environment minister Josh Frydenberg, claimed not to be able to answer basic questions about BoM processes. At one stage, he even attempted to prevent his chief operating offi…

I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…

The anonymous Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* spoke of contemplative practice as "a naked, blind feeling of being."
The Buddhists, especially in #Zen, speak similarly of practicing "thusness" or "suchness."
Tonight that came to expression for me as:
the way things are is what does the practice
.
(I'll be away on a Zen retreat…

The Joint ALMA Observatory is hiring a Systems Engineer! If you're the successful applicant, you will be collaborating with both operational and development system engineering tasks.
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Job opportunity: Systems Engineer- Grade 15 at Alma Observatory
The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) is seeking an experienced engineer to become a System Engineer in the Engineering Service Group, part of the ALMA Department of Engineering (ADE). The selected candidate will contribute to the success of the exciting new period for the observatory, in which the regular stable operation must be efficiently combined with changes introduced by extension of capabilities, obsolescence upgrades, and new systems related to the ALMA 2030 initiatives. The selected candid…

I am increasingly feeling like this has to be a bad dream.
The entire #GOP has been falling in line behind #Trump and openly promising increasingly unhinged anti-American behaviors as a group both now in reaction to the convictions and in their fever dream future of a “trifecta" in January.
The…

Overwhelmed Software Developers
Lisa-Marie Michels, Aleksandra Petkova, Marcel Richter, Andreas Farley, Daniel Graziotin, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04057

Overwhelmed Software Developers
We have conducted a qualitative psychology study to explore the experience of feeling overwhelmed in the realm of software development. Through the candid confessions of two participants who have recently faced overwhelming challenges, we have identified seven distinct categories: communication-induced, disturbance-related, organizational, variety, technical, temporal, and positive overwhelm. While most types of overwhelm tend to deteriorate productivity and increase stress levels, developers s…

Chemical Abundances of Early Quiescent Galaxies: New Observations and Modelling Impacts
Marziye Jafariyazani, Andrew B. Newman, Bahram Mobasher, Sirio Belli, Richard S. Ellis, Andreas L. Faisst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03549

Chemical Abundances of Early Quiescent Galaxies: New Observations and Modelling Impacts
Recent stellar chemical abundance measurements of a handful of $z\sim2$ quiescent galaxies have suggested these galaxies exhibit a remarkably strong $α$-enhancement compared to their local and intermediate redshift counterparts. This apparent chemical evolution following quenching suggests that even the innermost regions of massive early-type galaxies may have experienced substantial mixing of stars in mergers, challenging a purely inside-out growth model. However, larger samples are needed to…

Chemical Abundances of Early Quiescent Galaxies: New Observations and Modelling Impacts
Marziye Jafariyazani, Andrew B. Newman, Bahram Mobasher, Sirio Belli, Richard S. Ellis, Andreas L. Faisst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03549

Chemical Abundances of Early Quiescent Galaxies: New Observations and Modelling Impacts
Recent stellar chemical abundance measurements of a handful of $z\sim2$ quiescent galaxies have suggested these galaxies exhibit a remarkably strong $α$-enhancement compared to their local and intermediate redshift counterparts. This apparent chemical evolution following quenching suggests that even the innermost regions of massive early-type galaxies may have experienced substantial mixing of stars in mergers, challenging a purely inside-out growth model. However, larger samples are needed to…

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
Justin Kruger, Soon S. Hwang, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06748

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results
This paper presents initial flight results for distributed optical angles-only navigation of a swarm of small spacecraft, conducted during the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment (StarFOX). StarFOX is a core payload of the NASA Starling mission, which consists of four CubeSats launched in 2023. Prior angles-only flight demonstrations have only featured one observer and target and have relied upon a-priori target orbit knowledge for initialization, translational maneuvers to resolve tar…

"You should be able to justify deceit as indispensable to get something important, of public significance, that you would never get without the lie."
Why Alito’s 'comments justify the deception it took to get them': ethics expert - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alito-comments/

Alito’s 'comments justify the deception it took to get them': ethics expert
When documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor spoke with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife Martha Ann Alito during the annual Supreme Court Historical Society dinner last week, the pair did not know Windsor is actually a liberal journalist. Audio obtained by the "Gonzo for Democracy" docum...