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  1. Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    Quick take: <p>The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized
    #observation #guidelines #assessment #optical

  2. Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    Quick take: <p>The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized
    #observation #guidelines #assessment #optical

  3. #Germany: Avian #influenza: New #risk #assessment by the FLI, dgs-magazin.de/aktuelles/news/

    ''The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) has updated its risk assessment for avian influenza #outbreaks based on reports from March 2026. A high risk remains for introductions into #poultry farms.''

  4. A recent study shows that the same paper can appear nearly twice as “impactful” in Scopus compared to Web of Science - not because it is cited more, but because each database defines the benchmark differently.

    :doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101

    This leads to a strange situation: the same researcher can be both “above average” and “below average” at the same time - like a kind of scientometric Schrödinger’s cat. 🙂

    #research #impact #assessment #metric #citation

  5. A quotation from Emerson

    Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #assessment #goodness #integrity #label #liberty #mind #nonconformist #questioning #righteousness #sacred #self #validation #orthodoxy

  6. ‏هيئة البث عن مسؤول إسرائيلي: تقديراتنا تشير إلى عدم تقديم #طهران تنازلات في #المفاوضات. التلفزيون الإيراني: #الأمريكيون ما زالوا يصرون على #مطالب #مفرطة خلال #التفاوض.

    The Israeli official told #broadcasting authority: Our #assessment indicates that #Tehran is not willing to make #concessions in the #negotiations. Iranian TV: The #Americans continue to insist on #excessive demands during the #talks.

  7. ‏هيئة البث عن مسؤول إسرائيلي: تقديراتنا تشير إلى عدم تقديم #طهران تنازلات في #المفاوضات. التلفزيون الإيراني: #الأمريكيون ما زالوا يصرون على #مطالب #مفرطة خلال #التفاوض.

    The Israeli official told #broadcasting authority: Our #assessment indicates that #Tehran is not willing to make #concessions in the #negotiations. Iranian TV: The #Americans continue to insist on #excessive demands during the #talks.

  8. ‏هيئة البث عن مسؤول إسرائيلي: تقديراتنا تشير إلى عدم تقديم #طهران تنازلات في #المفاوضات. التلفزيون الإيراني: #الأمريكيون ما زالوا يصرون على #مطالب #مفرطة خلال #التفاوض.

    The Israeli official told #broadcasting authority: Our #assessment indicates that #Tehran is not willing to make #concessions in the #negotiations. Iranian TV: The #Americans continue to insist on #excessive demands during the #talks.

  9. A quotation from Joseph Addison

       If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. In a word, the man in a high post is never regarded with an indifferent eye, but always considered as a friend or an enemy. For this reason persons in great stations have seldom their true characters drawn till several years after their deaths. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunity of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.
       It is therefore the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons, and to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age into factions.

    Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
    Essay (1711-06-26), The Spectator, No. 101

    More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/83215…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #josephaddision #assessment #biography #condemnation #criticism #critics #factions #flattery #greatman #greatperson #greatness #history #loyalists #perspective #posterity #praise #divisiveness

  10. USGS CoNED (TopoBathy) WebMap Viewer & (Open) Data Downloader
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    topotools.cr.usgs.gov/topobath <-- shared Viewer webmap & download selector
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    usgs.gov/coastal-changes-and-i <-- shared USGS CoNED overview/entry page
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    [I used to shore dive in the Straits Of Juan de Fucca, Washington State side, and Crescent Lake - so I chose that area as a CoNED example to explore; good memories, including of the 18 Wheeler Burger with pie & coffee in Joyce, WA on drizzly days]
    ,
    @USGS

  11. Challenges In Comparing National Forest Statistics - Canada As A Case Study
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    📑 pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/abs/10.55 <-- shared paper
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    H/T Michael Wulder |Senior Research Scientist at Natural Resources Canada
    “Canada is a forest nation. Its forests are spatially extensive, ecologically diverse, and of global importance. While national level forest statistics are used for international reporting and comparison, they often fail to reflect the distinctive structure and stewardship context of Canada’s forest estate, which includes millions of hectares of remote, unmanaged forests alongside actively managed zones governed by provincial and territorial stewardship frameworks...”
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    #forest #Canada #national #geostatistics #forestestate #remote #unmanaged #contrast #managed #harvesting #naturalresources #resource #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GIS #spatial #mapping #assessment #value #metrics #stewardship #management #monitoring #statistics #health #foresthealth #science
    #NRCAN #NRCANScience #NaturalResourcesCanada

  12. Marking Over

    Well, that wasn’t too painful. I’ve completed my marking duties. The fact that it has been pouring with rain most of the day made it easy to concentrate on this task. I was going to have a break for lunch, but I decided to keep on going until I was finished, though I did have to take a break for a telecon this afternoon. I also had to dash out to the shops, primarily to replenish my stock of food for the garden birds but also to get some groceries for myself. Having skipped lunch I bought myself something nice for supper.

    Looking at the departmental database I see that I appear to be the first member of staff to have finished and uploaded all their Semester 1 examination marking. Normally I’m just happy if I’m not the last!

    It feels good to have finished this task. It’s definitely a weight off my mind. I wouldn’t want to leave any loose ends when Trumpageddon comes.

    I can’t say anything about the results of course but the change I made to continuous assessment, from take-home assignments to class tests, does not seem to have had a negative effect on either group of students I have been teaching. The opposite may indeed have been the case, as the class tests perhaps provide better preparation for the final assessment than the previous method. I think some other lecturers might make a similar switch in future. Anyway, I definitely plan to do something similar for my Semester 2 module on Particle Physics.

    Now I have a couple of weeks before teaching resumes so I can get on with other things. For the rest of this week my priority is to finish revising a paper that I hoped to do before Christmas. I’ll see how that goes before deciding what to do next.

    I’ll also have to prepare teaching for Semester 2. That shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’ve taught both modules before, but I do have to give some thought as to precisely how I’m going to word the instructions on the use of AI for my Computational Physics module. That can wait a little while, though, as it mainly affects the mini-project to be done towards the end of the Semester. In the meantime I’ll be thinking about other things…

    #assessment #Examinations #GenAI #Marking #teaching

  13. Marking Over

    Well, that wasn’t too painful. I’ve completed my marking duties. The fact that it has been pouring with rain most of the day made it easy to concentrate on this task. I was going to have a break for lunch, but I decided to keep on going until I was finished, though I did have to take a break for a telecon this afternoon. I also had to dash out to the shops, primarily to replenish my stock of food for the garden birds but also to get some groceries for myself. Having skipped lunch I bought myself something nice for supper.

    Looking at the departmental database I see that I appear to be the first member of staff to have finished and uploaded all their Semester 1 examination marking. Normally I’m just happy if I’m not the last!

    It feels good to have finished this task. It’s definitely a weight off my mind. I can’t say anything about the results of course but the change I made to continuous assessment, from take-home assignments to class tests, does not seem to have had a negative effect on either group of students I have been teaching. The opposite may indeed have been the case, as the class tests perhaps provide better preparation for the final assessment than the previous method. I think some other lecturers might make a similar switch in future. Anyway, I definitely plan to do something similar for my Semester 2 module on Particle Physics.

    Now I have a couple of weeks before teaching resumes so I can get on with other things. For the rest of this week my priority is to finish revising a paper that I hoped to do before Christmas. I’ll see how that goes before deciding what to do next.

    I’ll also have to prepare teaching for Semester 2. That shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’ve taught both modules before, but I do have to give some thought as to precisely how I’m going to word the instructions on the use of AI for my Computational Physics module. That can wait a little while, though, as it mainly affects the mini-project to be done towards the end of the Semester. In the meantime I’ll be thinking about other things…

    #assessment #Examinations #GenAI #Marking #teaching

  14. 🧩📚 How can we #evaluate poetic interpretations produced by #LLMs in a way that aligns with #LiteraryStudies?
    The authors propose a #workflow grounded in reference #interpretations and argumentative structures from literary scholarship, enabling the #assessment of LLM-generated readings.

  15. "Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics."
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    PS: It's important to add that article-level metrics are preferable anyway. This is true whether we use citation metrics to measure impact or misuse them to measure quality.

    #Assessment #COARA #DORA #JIF

  16. "Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics."
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    PS: It's important to add that article-level metrics are preferable anyway. This is true whether we use citation metrics to measure impact or misuse them to measure quality.

    #Assessment #COARA #DORA #JIF

  17. "Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics."
    journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

    PS: It's important to add that article-level metrics are preferable anyway. This is true whether we use citation metrics to measure impact or misuse them to measure quality.

    #Assessment #COARA #DORA #JIF