We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder
PS: Very grateful to geeks.
#SUSE publishes a #legal-aware #LLM to fuel #dev collaboration
Based on #Qwen3-4B
Designed for #license detection
Open weights, #opendata, open #validation
It’s a win for the #opensource world! #openSUSE #AI https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/
Climate denial by erasure
Good point: When the #Trump admin takes down #climate #data, lays off climate scientists, cuts climate research funding, and terminates climate grants, that "isn’t climate denial in the traditional sense. The days of loudly debating the science have mostly given way to a campaign to withhold the raw information itself. 'I don’t know if we’re living in climate denial anymore,' said #LeahAronowsky, a science historian at Columbia Climate School. 'We have this new front of denial by erasure.' "
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/why-the-federal-government-is-making-climate-data-disappear
#Cejourla en 2017, les #Archivesnationales adoptent le principe de la réutilisation libre et gratuite des informations publiques produites ou reçues.
Au quotidien, il faut toujours et sans cesse prendre son bâton de pèlerin, faire de la pédagogie, expliquer et combattre 
les vieilles habitudes de mettre du DR et du © sans réfléchir...
Mais c'est quand même super cool d'avoir cette étendue des possibles...
Among local governments, St. Louis city is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests.
For a third straight year, the city took more than 100 days to answer the Post-Dispatch's annual request for payroll data.
St. Louis County needed just 8.
I just posted a new 'climate viz of the month' blog, which highlights a simple method of visualizing regional temperature departures: https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/
Map showing Land Cover of South America (2020)
From the vast Amazon 
to the Andes 
and farmlands 
— this map reveals how land is used across the continent.
Data:
@mapbiomas
@gebcobathymetry
There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!
When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6127
This integrates the functionality that @ZeLonewolf’s browser extension provided directly into the OSM website.
h/t: @mxn
#PaulKrugman on the cutbacks at #NOAA and National Weather Service (#NWS).
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/for-maga-ignorance-is-strength
"Weather forecasting and the research that supports it…are what economists call “public goods.” That is, they’re things provided by the government because they’re valuable to everyone but can’t easily be monetized, because there’s no good way to limit access to paying customers. I say no 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 way advisedly. Republicans have long sought to restrict access to National Weather Service data to private companies like AccuWeather, which in turn would provide forecasts only to paying customers. And they may succeed. But this would be obvious profiteering, creating artificial middlemen for access to information generated at taxpayer expense. And it would at best support forecasting, not the research that makes forecasting better."
h/t @lschiff
"Data manipulation within the US Federal Government."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext
"A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled #gender was renamed #sex, and the words were also switched in the dataset title and description…Before March 5, the dataset had not been modified since it was published in 2022. As of May 1, the dataset change log, in which modifications should be tracked, is empty. The switch from gender to sex also occurred in other public health datasets, including US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (#CDC) datasets tracking global adult tobacco consumption, stroke mortality data from 2015 to 2017, and a survey of nutrition, physical activity, and obesity…The agencies involved have not issued any statements confirming or explaining these changes."
PS: If these agencies think the label change ("gender" → "sex") is significant, then they are deliberately misrepresenting the data. If they think the terms are synonymous, then why are they bothering?
The LIGO Virgo KAGRA study of #GW231123 was posted to the arXiv today, and is free to read
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219
Data are available from the GW Open Science Center
https://gwosc.org/eventapi/html/O4_Discovery_Papers/GW231123_135430/v1/
#Arctic climate rankings are in for June 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/. While sea ice remained low, it was an unusually cool month temperature-wise. This was especially notable north of 75°N latitude.
Tarot Freecell, my very first #glamhack project, coded during the first Swiss Open Cultural Data #Hackathon 10 years ago at the Swiss National Library in Berne. Still quite a challenge to play.
Wieviele Parkplätze für Autos gibt es in 
Wien eigentlich? Und wo sind sie? Niemand weiß es! Obwohl das essentielle Planungsgrundlagen sind.
Im 7. Bezirk lassen wir eine solche Parkraumbilanz seit 2012 erheben, mit der letzten Aktualisierung Ende 2024 [1].
Mit dem 5. und 8. Bezirk folgen jetzt weitere Bezirke, welche eine solche Bilanz [2][3] erstellen haben lassen und heuer inkl. Kosten auch auf @datagvat veröffentlicht wurden.
[1]: https://data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/137b577d-059b-4fd1-ad88-f864046631f6
[2]: https://data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/c1d31088-9b1d-47bd-9460-ae61e7cd80ce
[3]: https://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrup/content/titleinfo/5067547
vs 
-A pantry showdown I had to see for myself.
I always wondered: are beans really the unsung superfood? Or does rice dominate?
So I dug into the USDA nutrient data & crunched the numbers.
All values are per 100g dry (for long-term storage).
Beans win on fat, fiber, sodium (
), and total sugars.
Rice leads in protein, iron, calcium, and carbs.
#Nutrition #FoodData #DryGoods
#USDA #DataViz #OpenData
#FoodSecurity #InfoGraphic #FediverseFood
Does anyone know where I can find data files representing the Paris light rail network (métro and RER) as a graph in the mathematical sense, i.e. a list of nodes with one node per station (with its name), along with a list of edges? I haven't found anything like this on the Open Data web sites of the RATP or Île-de-France Mobilités: it looks like they have data on lines and stops, but not a graph of stations. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places? @Alon @bovine3dom #OpenData #Paris
Hackathon: Data Under Threat / Data Rescueing (Aug 7) in #München
The LMU Open Science Center (@lmu_osc) runs a hackathon to support the #SciOp #SafeguardingResearch initiative: Rescuing research data that is deleted by the Trump administration.
Bonus: @lavaeolus will give an ignition talk!
Thursday, 2025-08-07, 16 – 19 (only in-person)
Details and signup: https://github.com/lmu-osc/safeguar.de-hackathon
Become a data rescuer by turning your own laptop into a Research Data Rescue Node, scraping at-risk data sets, and breathing new life into your old HDD as part of a global, decentralised network.
#LMUMünchen #OpenScience #OpenData #DataRescue
CC @SafeguardingResearch @bitsUndBaeumeAuxMuc
Update. Another good example of reusing older #data for a new purpose. Aerial mapping photos of Antarctica taken by the Navy in the 1960s, and then lost, help reconstruct the collapse of glaciers.
* primary source
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59293-1
* summary
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-turned-dusty-navy-photos-into-a-climate-time-bomb/
@govdirectory and #AletheiaFact are pioneering efforts in open data and fact-checking with the help of Wikidata. Find out more in The Register's latest feature: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/wikidata_foss_democracy/ #OpenData #FOSS
"Landen en bedrijven houden zelf bij hoeveel CO2 en andere broeikasgassen ze uitstoten. De Tango-satellieten controleren in hoeverre die opgegeven cijfers kloppen."
En het mooiste: de gegevens van Tango zijn vrij en gratis beschikbaar!
#Milieu #BroeiKasGas #OpenData
https://nos.nl/artikel/2574259-nederlandse-co2-meetsatellieten-gaan-landen-op-de-vingers-kijken
