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Which will in turn need to be supported by proper long term funding commitments - an astonishing amount of climate science is only carried out within short-term projects. It's hard to do the kind of strategic long-term development we need within a 4 year project
fediscience.org/@hausfath/1134…
hausfath - This needs to be matched by a commitment by the roughly 30 labs around the world that maintain the models of the earth’s climate system to update their simulations each year to reflect the latest data.

Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath@fediscience.org)

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Philipp Birken
Philipp Birken
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Europe in particular is spectacularly bad at supporting scientific software development and maintenance. This is a prime example of it. There should be (at leat) one european climate model that is considered Infrastructure and funded accordingly and in a long term way.

The US national labs are luckily different, but the election is again proof that relying on them is problematic.

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Ruth Mottram
Ruth Mottram
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@philippbirken Absolutely agree with this - I wonder if it is because we have become so reliant on EU funding? Because it allows national government to slip out of the long-term funding commitment and Horizon money is always project based.
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Philipp Birken
Philipp Birken
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The whole notion of software as infrastructure still needs to be developed, both in government and academia. Academia needs to adjust criteria for promotion so as to no longer disincentivize software maintenance and development. There needs to be a middle infrastructure layer between email and running an HPC center that is about software development. At the university, national and EU level.

The Research Software Engineering "movement" in the UK is great. More of that!

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Ralf Stubner
Ralf Stubner
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@philippbirken Interestingly enough, treating some software as infrastructure is also relevant outside of academia. I recently listened to this podcast from @hagen and @tante on the topic:

pca.st/episode/c2765039-dfaa-4…


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