Call for abstracts for a new #EGU22 @EGU_BG session on New Approaches to Modelling the 🌍 system by integrating Earth Observation 🛰️ and ML 💻. Hopefully live in Vienna! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/… Organised with Alex Winkler, Maria Piles, Pierre Gentine and Markus Reichstein

PLEASE RETWEET! We are hiring!!! The Maths & Stats Department are looking for a Professor of Statistics. Apply at maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resource… External applicants choose the appropriate button and enter 013441 for the vacancy ID.

Starting tomorrow, Texas A&M will be handing out free at-home COVID-19 test kits for students, faculty, and staff. Students, faculty, and staff are eligible to pick up two test kits per week: tx.ag/FreeTestKits

The Department of Statistics at UIUC currently has an open search for Instructors, Lecturer, Teaching Track Professors, and Clinical Track Professors. Click the link to learn more! #Statistics #STEMeducation #DataScience #Illinois tinyurl.com/yckny39m

I developed a tutorial on Google Colab for using #Python (esp. Xarray) for geospatial / climate data analysis🧵 1️⃣/5 🔗 Link to the code: colab.research.google.com/drive/1B7gFBSr… 🔗 An article I wrote explaining the details: linkedin.com/pulse/python-c…

*We WILL Fix Climate Change* The situation is serious but we ARE making progress and doom scenarios are less probable. I agree with *every sentence* of this superb Kurzgesagt video! So I've made a summary thread. 🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdj…

The widely used SSPs in climate policy analysis do not span the full range of the UN population projections (grey shading, black median). The SSPs span the lower end of the UN range. Nearly all scenarios assessed in AR6 are based on SSP2... #ScenariosForum 1/

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope first image. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. nasa.gov/image-feature/…

Seven TAMU Physics & Astronomy astronomers are principal or co-principal investigators on projects with #JWST during its first year in space! These #TAMU astronomers' programs are spending thousands of hours studying galaxies, supernovae, and more with NASA Webb Telescope: tx.ag/JWSTastr

So, Stable Diffusion works in two steps. Step 1: Use an encoder to compress an image "x" into a lower-dimensional, latent-space representation "z(x)" Step 2: run diffusion and denoising on z(x), rather than x. Diagram below! 6/15